That night, Oto brought over books on the Puppet Technique.
The Uchiha Clan placed little value on the Puppet Technique. In fact, all of Konoha held much the same attitude.
Although puppets theoretically possessed considerable combat power, difficulties with maintenance and other issues kept them from performing particularly well in war.
The only reason the Uchiha owned these books was that they had taken them as spoils of war.
The Uchiha disdained the Puppet Technique, but their clan library could not go without books on it. That was part of a great clan's depth and heritage.
Oto Uchiha shared that view, dismissing the Puppet Technique entirely. After all, even the strongest puppet she had seen in the shinobi world, the Third Kazekage human puppet, fell far short of Susanoo.
Of course, her disdain aside, Oto still brought the relevant books and found several puppets as well.
To Oto, Zou Hyuga must have had some deeper purpose in doing this.
Zou Hyuga had no idea what Oto was thinking. Otherwise, he would certainly have argued on the spot that the finest puppeteer in the shinobi world did not come from Sunagakure, nor was he Sasori of the Red Sands.
He lived in Amegakure and possessed six special puppets.
Unless Sasori of the Red Sands turned Hiruko into a puppet, which was not impossible either.
Rubbing his chin, Zou Hyuga inexplicably asked, "Oto, you didn't bring all these puppets here expecting me to pay for them, did you? I don't have any money."
This time, Oto Uchiha chose violence.
Over the next few days, Zou Hyuga stayed home studying and researching the Puppet Technique, attempting to transmit chakra through Chakra Threads.
Within the Land of Rain.
After several days of travel, the Akatsuki members who had withdrawn from the Forest of