Pupet Master in Konoha

That night, in the attic of the orphanage.

Hideki lay on his back in a large, intricately carved bed, staring dazedly at the slanted wooden ceiling, as though lost in thought.

In fact, after Matt Dai moved into the orphanage a few days ago, Hideki quickly followed suit.

Since his research required a lot of space and needed to avoid being discovered while working on his brainstorming techniques, Hideki set up his room in the attic of the top floor.

What Hideki was thinking about that night was, of course, the battle he had had earlier with Aburame Ryoma.

Although Minato had interrupted the fight, Hideki had still gathered plenty of useful information.

For example, the Aburame clan ninjas did indeed have countermeasures against the wind escape that restricted them.

Although Aburame Ryoma had seemed somewhat helpless in the face of the storm of air blades in the background, Aburame Shiguro had remained calm, even preparing to act. It appeared there was a way to resolve it...

But what truly terrified Hideki was the moment when Aburame Shiguro transformed into a parasitic insect and disappeared.

Because even he hadn't noticed when the other party replaced their main body with a clone created by the parasite.

What was even more terrifying was that Aburame Shiguro could use parasites...

You see, in the original work, the Aburame clan was only infested with a poisonous insect called "phosphorus."

Even so, it had enough power to make Obito pay the price with just one hand and nearly wiped out the entire ninja alliance.

If Shiguro Aburame could contain phosphorus and parasites, and even more poisonous insects, Hideki couldn't even imagine how difficult that person would be to deal with.

Of course, thinking optimistically, perhaps the opponent hadn't yet mastered the use of phosphorus worms and was instead using conventional parasitic worms.

But Hideki, always cautious, didn't dare to hold onto such optimistic thoughts and consider fighting someone who could potentially wield nanoinsects with venomous abilities...

"Oh, I still laugh at Minato for being such a perfectionist."

"In reality, I'm not much better myself."

Hideki sighed and began to think deeply.

Because he was familiar with the plot of the original work, Hideki's plan to become stronger was aimed at the gods in the final stages of the story—those who were too embarrassed to meet with anyone because they couldn't even pilot a Gundam, much less the Otsutsuki clan.

This was why Hideki had put a lot of effort into learning sealing techniques that went straight to the root of chakra. Recently, he had also begun studying how to improve his physical condition and work on compensating for his inherent deficiencies.

Even if he found some good materials in the Valley of the End, he still wanted to wait until the technology improved in the future to turn them into even more powerful puppets.

But now it seemed he was still being too ambitious.

You see, the reason he was able to eliminate the Flying Mantis today was that, when dismantling the trophy puppet earlier, he discovered it could be used to verify the air-blade cutting principle, so he took some time to modify it.

Without it, today's battle with Ryoma would not have been a defeat, but it would have exposed more information until Minato arrived.

Not to mention that Minato didn't always match up to Obito in the original work, and would definitely feel the same...

If this continued, Hideki feared he would fall into some small trap before he could handle those gods.

"Of course, you can't stop practicing to lay a solid foundation, but first, you need to find a way to improve your strength."

Hideki sat up and murmured slowly,

"And the direction of improvement must be capable of dealing with Aburame Shiguro's phosphorus insects..."

In fact, Hideki had already thought about this issue before, but unfortunately, there hadn't been a good solution at the time.

But after this period of hard study, Hideki believed he should be able to come up with a different approach...

To avoid a long night and many dreams, Hideki decisively got up and began making preparations.

He closed the door, drew the curtains, and activated the alarm.

He used the radar detection technique to make sure there were no suspicious people around and that no one was using detection ninjutsu to locate the area.

He used his spider sense to thoroughly search the room, making sure not to miss a single insect.

No, it's crucial to say that, being insects, none could be allowed to escape.

After confirming there was nothing abnormal, Hideki took six thinking hats from the storage scroll and first put on the blue hat, responsible for general command.

"The horned one, representing innovative thinking, seems increasingly indispensable..."

"Perhaps we should take the advice of the shadow clone and change the color."

"Next is the white hat, representing objective rationality and responsible for sorting information."

"Finally, for the plan to be foolproof, a black hat representing pessimistic negation..."

"Alright, the decision is yours!"

Hideki tossed the three hats into the air, then quickly formed a hand seal with his hands:

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

Bang, bang, bang!

Before the three puff balls of white smoke dissipated, a hand reached up from each one.

They all took a hat and placed it on their respective heads.

Then, the four of them immediately sat down on the ground in a four-corner formation, and Hideki raised the finger of his sword with his right hand in front of his chest and whispered:

"Brainstorming."

The runes on the hats began to glow, and the gem in the center started emitting lines of chakra to connect with one another.

At the same time, the three shadow clones leaned their heads back, their eyes rolling up, and they began a heated discussion about chakra.

The White Hat Hideki was responsible for organizing and providing all relevant information.

The Horned Hideki was tasked with being creative and proposing new ideas based on that information.

The Black Hat Hideki was responsible for finding flaws and critically rejecting the Horned's ideas.

Only ideas that passed their review would appear in the mind of Hideki, the Blue Hat, the main body.

It seemed that the topic this time was quite difficult, so Hideki waited nearly a minute before coming up with the first plan.

The little green Horned Hideki suggested: "As long as chakra control is raised to the next level, the spider detection technique should be able to completely intercept the nano-level phosphorus insects."

Little Black refuted: "While this method is feasible, it takes too much time, and the distant water cannot save the nearby fire."

Little Blue corrected: "As long as we use the brainstorming technique in battle, the main body can temporarily increase chakra control by using our power."

Little Black hesitated: "Although this is true, the shadow clone is too fragile, and a lot of chakra will escape once it breaks. The cost of failure is too high."

"And this may also expose the existence of the brainstorming abilities..."

"Forget it, it's up to the organism to decide if this plan is adopted."

After receiving this information, Hideki began thinking deeply.

At this stage, using the brainstorming technique directly in battle was too risky. It could only be used as a last resort.

However, figuring out how to avoid having the shadow clone get damaged and reducing the possibility of exposure so this tactic could be used at any time was also a very good topic.

After Hideki silently wrote down this idea, he immediately received a new plan...

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