[After finishing the super-large puppet, you have also turned five.]
[You start trying to control more puppets.]
[You first gradually increase the number.]
[Eleven, no pressure.]
[Twelve, still easy.]
[You keep increasing until twenty, which puts a little pressure on you, but much less than you expected.]
[So, you start boldly increasing the number.]
[You quickly reach fifty puppets.]
[At this number, you feel you have reached your current limit.]
[You don't push yourself and maintain the number at fifty.]
[Then, after some practice to get proficient, you secretly leave the village and head for the main battlefield.]
'Hey, only five years old, in such a hurry to go to the battlefield? Doesn't quite match my personality?'
Takumi immediately frowned.
He had always waited until he had sufficient strength before fighting.
Unless it was absolutely necessary.
[Although you know the battlefield is dangerous, you really want to test the power of these puppets.]
[Moreover, you have prepared well. You only plan to find a few Shinobi on the edge of the battlefield to test, not go deep into the battlefield.]
[However, although your plan is good, things don't go as expected.]
[You disguise the puppets you control as Sunagakure's Shinobi. The giant puppet is disguised as a tracked puppet vehicle, making you look like a transport unit.]
[Soon after you leave the territory of the Land of Wind, Shinobi immediately come out to attack you.]
[A Shinobi Team capable of attacking the enemy's rear must be the elite of elites.]
[You had anticipated this, but you never imagined your attacker would be this man.]
[A flash of white light, and your two foremost puppets are destroyed.]
[You can no longer control those two puppets, but by means of this you see the attacker's face.]
[Seeing him, your face can no longer remain calm.]
[Because he is Konoha's White Fang, Hatake Sakumo.]
'Good grief, trouble, right?'
Takumi was a bit worried.
After all, a man's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Sakumo was a hero of Konoha back in the day.
With his swordsmanship, everyone who saw his sword died.
That was enough to prove his strength.
How could little Takumi, not yet fully grown, possibly defeat him?
[The one who will kill your parents in the future.]
[But now, you encounter him before your parents do. For you, this is a tremendous crisis.]
[But at the same time, it's also a tremendous opportunity for you.]
[Sakumo lacks intelligence on you, while you have some understanding of him.]
[If you seize the opportunity well, you might have a chance to kill him.]
["Puppets?" Hatake Sakumo widens the distance, frowning deeply.]
[He doesn't act rashly, while you control your puppets to swarm forward.]
[You know that these ordinary puppets naturally cannot pose any threat to Sakumo.]
[But your real killing moves are all hidden in the carefully made large puppets.]
'After all, it took a year to make those puppets.'
Although Takumi had watched the production process, he still wanted to see how those weapons performed in actual combat.
["I must find the puppeteer. Someone who can control so many puppets absolutely cannot be left alive." Sakumo's killing intent suddenly rises.]
[He knows that someone capable of manipulating so many puppets is definitely a genius puppeteer.]
[As an enemy, he must kill anyone who could threaten the village.]
[And you control those ordinary puppets to charge to their deaths, waiting for the moment Sakumo rushes towards you.]
["Found you!" After destroying over a dozen puppets, Sakumo finally follows the Chakra Threads to find your hidden location.]
[His figure turns into a flash of white light, instantly charging towards you.]
[The Chakra Short Sword in his hand is extremely sharp, instantly piercing the sturdy outer shell of the super-large puppet.]
["What?!" Sakumo shows a shocked expression. He didn't expect there to be another puppet inside the puppet.]
[You don't miss this golden opportunity.]
[Various mechanisms are immediately triggered. Countless senbon and kunai rain down towards Sakumo.]
[Sakumo Hatake turns into a puff of smoke, instantly disappearing from the spot, using the Body Replacement Technique to avoid most of the attacks.]
[But he doesn't avoid them all.]
["Damn it!" Sakumo knows what it means to fight a puppeteer. He immediately takes out the antidote provided by the village.]
[But this is a special poison made specifically for you by your grandmother Chiyo. Without Tsunade or other Medical-nin present, ordinary antidotes are almost ineffective.]
[This battle has already been decided.]
'Ending like this, unexpectedly.'
Takumi was a bit disappointed. He had thought there would be a fight lasting hundreds of rounds.
But he quickly realized this wasn't realistic.
After all, little Takumi controlled a limited number of puppets. Without relying on poison, he had no chance of defeating Sakumo.
Konoha's White Fang was just too fast.
If it weren't for that moment of surprise, and little Takumi, having prepared, triggered all the mechanisms simultaneously, he wouldn't have been able to touch Sakumo at all.
If even this attack couldn't injure him, little Takumi would have had to think about how to escape.
[Although poisoned, Sakumo hasn't completely lost his combat ability yet.]
[You immediately control the ordinary puppets that haven't been destroyed yet, making them swarm forward to entangle Sakumo.]
[You worry that if Sakumo escapes, he might find Tsunade to treat the poison.]
[You also worry about your presence on the battlefield being exposed.]
[Moreover, if you can kill Sakumo, you will have your first super-strong puppet.]
[All the puppets you've made are for the purpose of capturing those famous Shinobi of the world.]
[Capturing Sakumo would be a perfect start for you.]
'If he could control all the famous Shinobi of the world and turn them all into puppets...'
Just imagining it, Takumi felt that scene was too beautiful.
Highlighted in one word: Invincible!
[Because of excessively rapid movement, the toxin spreads quickly through Sakumo's body.]
[Under the influence of the poison, he can't even properly perform Ninjutsu.]
[Finally, the world-famous Konoha's White Fang falls in this obscure corner.]
[You gasp heavily, looking at the outside through the crack in front of you.]
[Sakumo's thrust just now actually pierced through the shells of four puppets, only a little bit away from injuring you hidden in the innermost one.]
[At that moment, for the first time, you felt so close to death.]
[But it was all worth it. You obtained Sakumo's corpse.]
[Just thinking about turning Sakumo into a puppet and using him to attack Konoha's forces fills your mind with countless ideas.]
[But you need to act before Konoha deduces Sakumo's disappearance or death, otherwise, if Konoha reacts, you'll be walking into a trap.]
[After careful consideration, you ultimately decide not to take advantage of the situation immediately.]
[Because you just felt the threat of death, and now you only want to return to Sunagakure, your base, and continue building even sturdier, safer puppets.]
[At the same time, you want to turn Sakumo into a powerful puppet that completely retains his strength.]
[This will be a major trump card in your hand.]
[After simply cleaning up the battlefield, destroying the damaged puppets, you then take Sakumo's corpse and quickly return to Sunagakure.]
[When you return to Sunagakure, anxious people are waiting for you.]
[Your parents, your grandmother, and the Third Kazekage are all worried about your disappearance.]