Naruto's Review : First Viewer is Senju Tobirama?

"Don't, Sasori! You're a puppeteer! Your strength lies in your puppets, you better not go out there yourself!"

"Sasori, don't go! You're making it hard for me to handle!"

In the Hokage's office.

As the situation on the screen quickly worsened, Senju Hashirama felt like rushing into the screen and stepping in to fight for Sasori.

"Big brother, please control yourself a little."

Seeing his brother in such a frantic state, Senju Tobirama truly couldn't bear to watch.

Before his resurrection, Senju Hashirama was a bit naive and sometimes a little silly.

But he wasn't like this now. He was basically becoming a comedy character.

At this moment, Tobirama was wondering if he had messed up when cloning Hashirama's body, accidentally adding something extra to it.

Otherwise, how could his brother have turned out like this?

"Control myself? Why should I control myself?"

Senju Hashirama stood up, arms crossed, striking a pose similar to Uchiha Madara's, looking around at everyone present and saying, "We're all friends here, so you all wouldn't spread rumors about me, right?"

Hearing this, everyone quickly waved their hands, signaling that they wouldn't.

"Good to hear."

Seeing that everyone had caught on, Hashirama nodded, then threw his arm around Tobirama's shoulder and continued, "My foolish little brother, you see, what I'm doing right now actually has a professional term in the books. It's called releasing one's true nature, yes, releasing one's true nature."

"Your true nature is being a clown?"

"What's wrong with being a clown? I get to live happily every day with no worries~"

"Alright then, do whatever you want."

"Haha, my life, my rules! No one can interfere with my freedom."

At this moment, Senju Tobirama thought that it must be Uchiha Madara's cells that affected his older brother.

Just now, Senju Hashirama had made the same pose as Uchiha Madara and said that no one could interfere with his freedom.

Anyone who didn't know would probably think he was Uchiha Madara, not Senju Hashirama.

But that doesn't seem right. Uchiha Madara was such a proud and domineering person. He didn't seem like someone who would act like a fool.

Could it be that the combination of Hashirama's cells and Madara's cells turned his older brother into this?

Does that mean that Madara, who received Hashirama's cells, is actually a hidden fool too?

Hiss~

The thought of Uchiha Madara possibly telling cold jokes seriously in the future made Senju Tobirama shiver.

The "power" of combining two sets of cells is truly terrifying.

[Sasori's main body puppet is actually quite powerful. He first used Fire Style to spit fire and Water Style for high-pressure water jets, but was defeated by Sakura in a one-for-one exchange.]

[It doesn't matter if he was defeated, as long as Sasori's core isn't destroyed, he won't die immediately.]

[Since the Third Kazekage's puppet was destroyed and the sand iron failed, Chiyo could continue using the mechanical hands and her parents' puppets.]

[After recovering a bit of chakra, Chiyo brought out the white secret technique of the First Puppet Master, Monzaemon: Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu].

[Meanwhile, Sasori wasn't backing down and used his self-created red secret technique: the Hundred Puppet Performance.]

[Ten versus a hundred, the scene was chaotic.]

"Can Sasori control this many puppets at once?"

Watching Sasori's Hundred Puppet Performance on the screen, the Third Hokage seemed very surprised.

He could understand Chiyo controlling Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu, since humans have ten fingers, and it makes sense to control one puppet per finger.

It's difficult, but with Chiyo's ability, it shouldn't be a problem.

Sasori's case was ridiculous though.

A hundred puppets, even if they couldn't be controlled precisely, was still impressive.

"I can only say, Sasori truly deserves to be called a genius puppeteer. Just in terms of puppetry, he has already surpassed Chiyo, and maybe even surpassed the first generation puppeteer, Monzaemon."

"Surpassing is certain. People today may not be worse than those from the past. Just his puppetry skills alone are enough to put Sasori in the history books."

"Though, I wonder, with such a huge difference in the number of puppets, how did Chiyo and Sakura manage to defeat Sasori?"

Rubbing his chin, the Fifth Hokage, Jiraiya, made a judgment similar to Hashirama Senju, thinking Sasori had an absolute advantage.

No matter how you looked at it, Sasori's chances of winning were much higher than Chiyo and Sakura's.

"Didn't the light screen say it? Sasori was going easy."

Looking at Orochimaru, who was speaking, Jiraiya pointed to the light screen and replied, "You call that going easy during such an intense battle?"

"Then what else?"

Orochimaru shrugged and continued, "When Sasori controlled the third Kazekage puppet, he chose to use the clumsy sand iron geometric shapes instead of the more agile and effective sand iron rain. Isn't that going easy?"

"Well, what you're saying does make some sense."

Jiraiya thought about it and realized that Orochimaru was right.

Sasori had abandoned using the large-scale attack sand iron rain and instead used the awkward sand iron shapes, which led to Sakura, with her strength taught by Tsunade, easily overpowering them.

If you say it wasn't going easy, no one would believe it.

"So what about here? A hundred versus ten? You can't say he's still going easy, right?"

"Heh, with your wisdom, it's hard for me to explain."

"Orochimaru, I think you don't want any more research funding."

"Heh, you think such simple human wisdom can scare me?"

"Then what else?"

Orochimaru was silent for a moment, then finally showed a smile and replied, "You have great insight!"

"Stop talking so much, just get to the point."

"Alright, you see, even though Sasori now has a hundred puppets against ten, we all know that in a puppeteer battle, the number of puppets is an advantage, not the key to victory. In the end, what matters most is the puppeteer's control over their puppets."

"That's right, keep going."

"I don't know how Sasori controls these hundred puppets, but I do know that his control over them isn't as strong as Chiyo's. Plus, Chiyo has Sakura, who is strong, assisting her. Even if they can't win, they won't lose anytime soon."

And as Orochimaru said, the situation was just as he predicted.

On the screen, Chiyo was controlling the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu, holding off Sasori's hundred puppets.

[The Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu fought ten to one. Chiyo used three puppets to perform the Three Treasures Absorb and defeated several of Sasori's puppets. However, soon after, they were overwhelmed by Sasori's swarm tactics and were wiped out.]

[Then, Sasori became serious and focused his attacks, breaking through one by one the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu.]

[At this point, Chiyo handed one of her sealed puppets to Sakura, hoping to end the battle.]

[As expected, Sakura successfully threw the seal and trapped Sasori.]

[However, Sasori moved the core and narrowly escaped.]

[Sasori possessed a fallen puppet, raised his blade, and was about to finish Chiyo off, but Sakura blocked the attack with her body.]

Jiraiya: "So, this is what you meant when you said Sasori would hold back?"

Orochimaru: "Don't rush. Just keep watching, and you'll see."

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