From This Moment On, You Are My Puppet. The Only Answer You May Give Me Is [Yes].

"It really is a hundred-machine army!"

"Even those people in Sunagakure who specialize in fiddling with puppets couldn't reach this level, could they?"

Staring at the puppet battle formation that covered an entire region, Kiba was completely stunned.

And he was not the only one. The Akimichi Clan members who had followed along afterward...

"I was a failure. I barely noticed whether the sunlight was bright or not, because I had no time.

"My parents couldn't offer me any support, and my education was poor. Alone in the city, I searched for a future.

"I found many jobs, but none would hire me. Maybe nobody liked someone who wasn't good at talking, didn't enjoy socializing, and hadn't shown enough ability.

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"For three whole days, I ate only two loaves of bread. Hunger kept me awake at night. Fortunately, I had paid a month's rent in advance, so I could keep living in that dark basement instead of going outside to endure the unusually freezing winter wind.

"Finally, I found a job. I worked nights at a hospital, watching over the morgue.

"The hospital was even colder at night than I had imagined. The wall lamps in the corridors were not lit, and everything was dim. I could only rely on the faint light leaking from the rooms to see where I stepped.

"The smell there was terrible. Every so often, a dead person would be delivered stuffed inside a body bag, and we would help carry them into the morgue.

"It wasn't a good job, but at least it let me afford bread. I could also use