"All of Konoha's elite forces were wiped out. You can't deny that, can you, Chiyo?"
"Mm."
Chiyo nodded in acknowledgment.
Although there were not many intelligence clues to go on, Konoha's elite force had indeed been ambushed by Iwagakure. The elite unit they had painstakingly assembled had been wiped out in a single blow.
Seeing Chiyo calm down, Kitsuchi continued:
"While I was leading our people in surrounding and killing Konoha's new-generation talents—Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Hatake Sakumo, and the others—a guy named Jingyi Hyuga appeared. He released dozens of puppets made from ninja corpses from a sealing scroll."
"These puppets were very powerful. They caused our village considerable losses."
Chiyo kicked the corpse at her feet. "Was this puppet one of them too?"
"Yes."
Kitsuchi lowered his folded arms and gestured as he spoke.
"What was interesting was that this Konoha ninja, Jingyi Hyuga, wasn't controlling the puppets. Every puppet could move freely. After we suffered considerable casualties to kill them all, something terrifying happened. The puppets lit up with blue light, then all exploded. Their power far surpassed that of Explosive Tag."
Remembering that scene, Kitsuchi wished he could drag Jingyi back and flay him alive.
It was difficult for Konoha to form an elite force, but Iwagakure was no different. Yet a single wave of Jingyi's self-destructing puppets had blown up plenty of their people.
"That's impossible!! How could puppets fight without anyone controlling them? Let alone self-destruct!!"
Chiyo did not believe him at all.
Sunagakure was the authority when it came to puppets, and she herself was a puppet master. But could she make puppets fight on their own without controlling them?
No.
Unless they were puppets with only a single function. But according to Kitsuchi, the enemy's puppets fought just like normal people. That story would not