Takara examined the Greed Pot that contained Chomei for a while, surprised that the experiment was both a success and a failure at the same time.
"What did you make him see?" he asked the puppet beside him.
Lala, a living puppet that employed genjutsu through singing and induced sleep.
"Just what he wanted most," the puppet with long blonde hair and half of her face bandaged replied, tilting her head slightly to the right.
The reason his attempt to extract a biju without killing its jinchuriki was a success is because during the process, Fu unknowingly adopted a mental state of "consent" to extract the creature, which indirectly caused Takara's technique to successfully break the emulsion of the two chakras and focus solely on Chomei's.
At the same time, it was a failure because Takara knew that the other jinchurikis would not accept going through the same thing, especially when it is a well-known fact that they will die if they lose the tailed beast inside them.
Friendship with the conscious chakra mass could also be one of the reasons.
And if there is even the slightest resistance, the technique will not work, and although he will manage to extract the biju, he will kill its jinchuriki in the process like with the rest of the techniques.
Not that he cares, but it takes away the point of using such a delicate and precise technique.
"Still, it's no wonder Kakuzu left this place," Takara said, storing the pot with the rest and looking back, where the villagers were still asleep in their houses due to the wide-area genjutsu — "To think they would accept a chunin as their leader just because his father was the one who previously held that position, I wonder what the hell they managed to convince Hashirama back then to give them a tailed beast."
He was also intrigued as to why no one decided to claim it for themselves.
Although the number of jonins in Takigakure was lamentably low, any of them would do a better job assuming leadership. Especially because, in addition, the child whose name he didn't remember due to his irrelevance, was a complete coward until he defeated a third-rate filler villain with Naruto and company's help.
Naturally, Takara took advantage to take all the Hero's Water in the village, which barely resulted in two liters of the liquid separated into two identical pumpkins, as well as cutting down the tree that once was part of the Ten-Tails.
It took a couple of days using a large number of puppets and much more chakra to dismantle such a giant, he also took some cuttings to cultivate, but since Lala's genjutsu reached where her song's sound did, and there was no one returning to the village, it wasn't a problem to leave everyone asleep during this time.
When they wake up, they'll just feel very hungry and have to go to the bathroom.
As for how they react to the disappearance of the giant tree that had been there since the village's foundation, which provided the only thing keeping enemies at bay, along with the disappearance of their tailed beast...
What did it have to do with him?
He was never there in the first place.
"The positive part is that the tree had an absurd amount of vitality," Takara changed rooms and arrived at one where there was a spherical container containing an overwhelming amount of vitality, almost in a liquid state, visible to the naked eye.
It was a surprise, a huge and pleasant surprise that was only discovered when he started cutting the first pieces of wood.
Combining this vitality with Karin's healing chakra, Takara would be able to completely replenish any side effects that might occur after drinking the Hero's Water.
However, it remains a last resort of the kind he would only use if he were desperate.
Now he had to think about other things first, like carrying out the experiments he had temporarily suppressed in his mind.
"In fact, even a living Fu who apparently remains the same will only buy me time, I guess it won't be too much," Takara reflected as he took out a map and carefully checked it, mentally calculating the distances.
No matter how he looked at it, the difficult part would be when the villages would be on guard to protect their jinchurikis.
He didn't think that with Naruto's disappearance (along with his lack of recovery news) and Fu's current "normal" condition, they wouldn't take precautions. Especially if they are people like Onoki, it could trigger his persecutory paranoia or fan the flames of ambition.
"If I could locate and take care of Roshi, I would only be missing the other three jinchurikis who obediently stay in their villages and... Gaara."
Takara could only hope that taking the Shukaku's rebirth egg would show him possibilities he didn't know, otherwise, he could only mentally apologize to Temari.
Because he didn't believe Gaara would be willing to go through the same process as Fu, either for lack of confidence in whether he would still be alive after the technique, because he would try to reconcile with the biju, or because he would interrogate him about what he would do with the creature.
He thought about dealing with Han first, but that would only make Onoki more attentive to Roshi.
The key point would be to quickly deal with Roshi to prevent him from making a fuss with his strength and magma, managing to keep the element of surprise to deal with Han.
This would leave only the tailed beasts of Kumogakure and Gaara.
"Let's try to locate Roshi, if successful, I'll try to take him down. If not..."
Going after Han or returning to Sunagakure would be the question.
"In any case, I need to try those ideas and review the puppets," Takara concluded as he turned around — "Whether it's Han with his steam or Roshi with his magma, I need to take measures to counter high temperatures."
He needed to think of some character he could sculpt, and above all, he needed them to have a high affinity. Otherwise, he wouldn't waste the vitality, no matter how much he had at his disposal at the moment.
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