Capítulo 60: Puppet Weakness

As a ninja, one must know itself and your enemy in order to emerge victorious in every battle. In the face of an ignorant ninja, you must first understand the other side's ability, in order to formulate the corresponding tactics based on their options.

In a battle, mastering the information of the opponent means mastering the victory.

Junrei's tactics to deal with these Sunagakure's Puppeteers have only been seen in manga. Whether it was Kankuro, Sasori of the Red Sand or Chiyo, they were all experts who excelled at manipulating Puppets.

Most Puppeteers were not good at close combat, but they use Chakra Threads to remotely control the Puppet to fight for them.

The strength of a Puppeteer can be judged by noticing the amount of Puppet, and the quality of Puppet that they are manipulating since that holds a great impact on said Puppeteer strength. A Puppet's whole body is a mechanism that can release the hidden weapon through different positions, which make the almost invincible.

And because a Puppet operates through the manipulation of the Puppeteer, it can make many difficult actions that the human body is not able to, so a Puppet's close combat ability is also excellent. A smart Puppeteer can completely suppress a ninja of the same rank by manipulating Puppet and relying on the hidden weapons.

Although the enemy this time was only composed of one Jonin with four Chunin, Junrei had no experience fighting Puppeteers, and even if he joined the battle now, it would have no effect except to add chaos to the already complicated situation.

Looking closely at the Puppeteer's attack routine, he quickly discovered a weakness in Puppeteer.

Puppeteers often needs a high degree of concentrated spiritual energy when manipulating Puppet attacks. So when they are manipulating Puppet, the main body rarely moves, and some simple attacks need to be deal with also by completely manipulating their Puppet to resist.

Recalling the battle between Sakura, Chiyo, and Sasori of the Red Sand in the Anime. Sasori was hit by Sakura several times, all while entangled in battle with Chiyo, and focusing most of his attention on manipulation. With someone concentrating on controlling Puppet, he would not be able to stay vigilant on his surroundings.

In addition, Sakura's [Chakra Enhanced Strength] also broke the Puppet of Sasori of the Red Sand several times.

Using the Anime battle as a reference, Junrei feels that if he uses [Chakra Enhanced Strength] with all his strength, he can almost crush a Puppet.

For Junrei's current Chakra Reserves, he can only use [Chakra Enhanced Strength] once, then he should only focus on one target, and that is, Aiko of the Sand Puppet.

After everything was calculated, he quietly approached the battlefield, preparing a sneak attack to reduce the number of enemies, helping Tsuru and Ito gain an advantage.

Yamazaki's corpse can be found on the other side while being covered by Chakra's fluctuations. The Sensor ability of these Hidden Sand Ninjas should rely on their Puppets or Chakra Threads. If he wants to approach the battlefield silently, he must avoid these things that will allow his opponents to sense him before he can get a good position.

Covering the aura of his whole body, Junrei approached the battlefield, taking out five shuriken from his tool pouch, and threw them at five careless Sand Ninjas.

"Pu!" "Pu!" "Pu!" Three sounds accompanied by three screams, and three careless Puppeteer were stabbed by Shuriken and their offensive was suddenly blocked.

Junrei sprang out of the forest, and moved towards a Puppeteer near him.

After landing, Junrei's underfoot Chakra erupted instantly, and his whole person stabbed forward, moving very quickly. A Kunai blade in his hand seemed to be like a normal knife under the reflection of the sunlight.

Sunagakure's Puppeteer troops are elites. Although, the Shuriken attack before disrupted their offensive, at the same time it exposed his position.

The Puppeteer avoided Junrei's attack with a single step, while giving him an elbow strike in his spare time.

His underfoot's Chakra exploded again quickly closing the distance, while the Kunai in his hand again prepared to launch another blow, drawing a deep visible wound on the Puppeteer's body.

Tsuru Uchiha and Ito also took the opportunity to kill a Puppeteer each at the same time, reducing the number of Sunagakure troops by 2. Now with Junrei here, is 3 vs 3, and Konoha has now grabbed absolute advantage in this battle.

Unfortunately, his sneak attack didn't killed the Puppeteer. Otherwise, if it was 3 vs 2, they can easily bury this group of Puppeteers.

At this time, their opponents had fully reacted, Junrei jumped towards Tsuru Uchiha and Ito's side, watching at his opponents.

"Junrei, good job!" Ito exclaimed.

"A Puppeteer's weakness is that they must focus on manipulating the Puppet. If they are suddenly attack, their offensive can be easily interrupted." Junrei said.

For an ordinary ninja, although a Puppeteer's offensive is terrifying, its shortcomings are equally obvious.

"Junrei, you step back, Aiko of the Sand can manipulate 4 Puppets, which is too much for you to handle" Ito whispered.

The death of several Puppeteer, although it reduced the number of people on the other side, Aiko can now take charge of the fallen Puppets and manipulate more, his strength has become even stronger now.

"Understood!" He slightly nod, then took out 2 bottles of antidote from this medical kit and gave them to Tsuru and Ito, whispering: "These 2 bottles of antidote you hold, is the latest product of my Master's Antidote, it can deal with most of the poison that Sunagakure uses."

"Good!" Tsuru Uchiha and Ito took the antidote and both stepped forward at the same time, blocking Junrei with their bodies.

Junrei disappeared in a flash, hiding in the woods again.

In fact, he did think that while Tsuru Uchiha was in a predicament, he could use poison to kill him, and then take the opportunity to steal his Sharingan.

But thinking carefully, right now is definitely not the best moment to steal an eye.

Those enemy Puppeteers glare is like a tiger watching his prey. If Tsuru were to die, he will not only not be able to grab the Sharingan, but he may even be killed by these Sand Ninjas.

And even if he stole the Sharingan now, he can't explain or be honourable about the transplant. Even with his current knowledge, it's impossible to study Sharingan.

So after much thought, he gave up the tempting idea of stealing this guy's eye.

Anyway, the Uchiha Clan will definitely be exterminated in the future. As long he can survive till that moment, he will have the opportunity to get a Sharinganto himself without much issue.

"Pieces of Sh*t!" Aiko is now completely enraged, 4 of his subordinates have died in a row. His famous Puppeteer team is now on the verge of extinction. And in his current situation, whether he can escape, is still unknown.

After all, the two ninjas on Konoha's side are both Jonin, and one of them is even an Uchiha.

Sharingan sight can not only see through the Puppet's attack route in advance, but also see through the Body Substitution Jutsu that he normally used with his Puppet, making many of his Puppeteer's tactics unable to be effective in this battle.

"The situation is not good for us, Captain Aiko, what should we do?" A Puppeteer asked in a low voice.

"We'll let them go this time and retreat" said Aiko while holding his anger back, and then keep a vigilant look at Tsuru and Ito, while leading his 2 only remaining subordinates to slowly retreat.

Tsuru and Ito glanced at each other, while nodding, but decided to do nothing.

From the morning of fighting until now, both Tsuru Uchiha and Ito's Chakra were nearly exhausted, and so if they continued to fight, only both sides suffer.