Naruto Uzumaki looked up at the glowing Artificial Sun in the sky and silently vowed to himself.
Just wait, Hinata. I'm coming to save you!
Only after seeing that Naruto had calmed down for the moment did Shikamaru Nara breathe a sigh of relief.
He had genuinely worried that Naruto would charge off to settle the score with Toneri right then, regardless of everything else. That would have meant serious trouble.
"All right, enough talk."
Shikamaru swept his gaze over everyone present and continued laying out the battle plan. "Based on the information we currently have, the interior of the Artificial Sun should be a relatively independent space."
"Of course, we currently know nothing about its internal structure."
"But we can be certain that our enemy, Otsutsuki Toneri, is inside, and Hinata and Hanabi are being held there too."
"So we have to break inside!"
Shikamaru paused briefly. "We don't have exact figures on the number or distribution of the puppets yet, but we can be certain there are a lot of them."
"Between the puppets Toneri brought when he attacked us earlier and those that rushed out of the Artificial Sun during our probing attacks, the total has already exceeded a hundred."
"The key point is that those were only the troops Toneri sent out on missions. They certainly weren't all the forces in his lair."
Tenten put her hands on her hips and frowned. "So there'll only be more puppets inside his lair, right?"
"Most likely."
Shikamaru nodded. "And we can't rule out the existence of puppets with special abilities."
"Toneri is a descendant of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. His puppet technology is completely different from the Puppet Technique we know. These puppets don't need Chakra Threads to control them. They can move and fight on their own."
"Judging