"White Secret Technique: Chikamatsu Ten Puppets!" Seeing the astonishment on Sōkyū Hatake's face, Chiyo felt a deeply satisfying pleasure.
She summoned the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu, masterpieces of Monzaemon, the forefather of puppeteers. These puppets, known as the "Ten Fingers," embodied the essence of the Puppet Technique and could be controlled with perfect ease.
Just as the name suggested, they could be operated with "one puppet per finger," and each was said to be a match for a thousand! They could also work together to unleash combination attacks and ninjutsu. In later years, these mere ten puppets would rival Sasori's Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets.
Chiyo had once conquered an entire city with this collection of puppets.
Now, each of Chiyo's ten fingers controlled one of the ten puppets, and every puppet held a weapon!
"You really do live up to your reputation as a Kage-level fighter." Sōkyū Hatake finally understood just how large the gap between him and a Kage-level fighter was.
Clearly, Orochimaru had been holding back against him before. No, not merely holding back-he had barely been trying!
"Why, thank you. But now, Sōkyū Hatake, you can go down there and tell your father exactly who killed you!" Chiyo said viciously, moving all ten fingers at once.
At once, the weapons in the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu's hands moved, every one of them attacking Sōkyū Hatake.
"Well, I'm not ready to die yet!" Sōkyū Hatake gave a cold smile, watching Chiyo with his arms folded across his chest.
"Really? That doesn't look like someone who doesn't want to die." Chiyo watched Sōkyū Hatake's movements. You've already made yourself ready to take an attack from my Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu. How is that not wanting to die?
But then something happened that Chiyo had not