"Jenny Turtle, use the water gun!"
"Strange Seed, get out of the way and use the Seed Machine Gun!"
"Charmander, attack with your tail!"
A unique battle is taking place in the puppetry classroom.
It turned out that after a brief introduction, Hideki began to control three pocket puppet beasts to engage in a fierce melee on the platform for demonstration.
And their fighting methods are also unique.
A blue puppet turtle named Jenny. It can shrink its body into its shell to reduce the damage it takes. When it gets a chance, it will stick its head out and attack the enemy with a water gun, mainly focusing on a defensive counterattack.
The green garlic turtle named Strange Seed dances with two vine whips to perfection, and it spits out seed bullets from its mouth from time to time, which can be said to be both offensive and defensive.
The red lizard named Charmander is a bit misleading, because it can't breathe fire at all, and can only use its exceptional agility to deal with the other two...
The young ninjas had only heard of puppetry before, but had never had the chance to see puppets fighting.
Not to mention that what is being performed on the stage now is a battle between puppets, which rarely happens even in the ninja world.
So at this moment, without exception, they all had their mouths slightly open, staring intently at the dazzling fight on the stage, afraid of missing any details.
The only thing that made them feel a little distracted was that Mr. Kimura was supposed to be controlling the puppet beasts with chakra lines, so why did he still give them instructions in a serious manner...
However, with the teacher's exquisite control skills, the three puppet beasts with simple structures seemed to be really alive, making his verbal instructions seem less inconsistent.
Before long, the three puppet beasts seemed to have run out of ammunition, so they all started to attack at the same time, and the three of them collided fiercely on the platform!
Bang!
After the huge collision sound, the "click-click-click" sound of the mechanism changing rang again.
The three puppet beasts died together, and at the same time turned back into wooden balls and fell back onto the platform...
After a brief silence, thunderous applause suddenly broke out in the warehouse.
The little ninjas clapped excitedly to express their enjoyment of this pocket puppet beast brawl.
To be honest, the black cat on Mr. Kimura's shoulder was so lifelike that it was difficult for them to associate it with puppetry.
The three puppet beasts in front of them, with clearly visible mechanical structures, were more in line with their imagination of puppets.
So after seeing such a wonderful puppet-beast battle, their understanding of puppetry really began to change.
It turns out that puppets don't have to be as weird and strange as we heard before, they can also look as cute as this.
And puppetry is not necessarily a treacherous means of attacking enemies in the dark, but can be used to display a gorgeous way of fighting through superb techniques and sophisticated mechanisms!
The students who originally stayed to attend the class just to see the cute puppet cats a few more times could not help but be tempted.
However, many boys still felt a little regretful and couldn't help but whisper:
"Why can't that red puppet beast, which is called Charmander, breathe fire?"
"Obviously, the other two have special abilities..."
At this moment, Xiu Shu hooked his right hand, and the three puppet balls flew back into his sleeves.
Hearing everyone's complaints, he couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.
It's easy for you little brats to say that.
It is not difficult to make a puppet spit fire, but if the firepower is too small, it is just a decoration. If the firepower is too large, will you pay for the replacement of the burned materials?
The school does not provide much funding for training courses. For the sake of his wallet, Xiu Shu had to let Charmander suffer.
Anyway, Charmanders aren't dragons, so it's not surprising that Charmander can't breathe fire...
After complaining in his heart, Hideki cleared his throat first, and after everyone calmed down, he said:
"After the demonstration just now, everyone should have a basic understanding of this pocket puppet beast."
"But everyone must be very curious, how did this little puppet beast become a teaching tool and can also help you practice?"
The little ninjas looked at each other in surprise when they heard this.
To be honest, after the wonderful puppet show just now, they had completely forgotten about the teaching aids.
However, after hearing the teacher's reminder, they also began to become curious about this question, so they all nodded in agreement...
Seeing this, Hideki began to explain:
"The principle is actually very simple."
"First of all, everyone should know that learning chakra line manipulation can be simply divided into three steps."
"The first step is to steadily and continuously transfer chakra to the outside of the body, which is called output in short."
"The second step is to condense these chakras into lines as much as possible and keep them in place. This is called shaping."
"The third step is to control the puppet through chakra lines while maintaining the first two steps. This is called manipulation."
"As I've said before, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to do all three steps at once right now."
"So we might as well break down the process of learning chakra lines into three stages."
"In the next first stage, we only need to focus on how to output chakra steadily."
"The shaping and manipulation work will be assisted by an additional teaching aid."
Having said that, Xiu Shu shook his sleeves again and took out another strange thing.
The little ninjas looked at it curiously and saw that it was a flat wooden block the size of a palm. There seemed to be a wooden pole and several buttons on it, and a thin rope extended from the back.
"The handle. I call this teaching aid a handle."
Xiu Shu suppressed his evil thoughts and said seriously,
"Don't be fooled by its plain appearance. In fact, its technical content and value are higher than the pocket puppet beast just mentioned."
"And the most valuable part is this handle cable, because it contains a lot of chakra conducting materials..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of some of the children from the ninja clan suddenly lit up, as if they vaguely understood some of Hideki's ideas.
However, in order to take care of other students, Hideki still had to continue explaining:
"As everyone knows, most things in the ninja world are difficult to be injected and transmitted with chakra, and a small number of special examples are the so-called chakra conduction materials."
"The most famous one is naturally the chakra metal that is often used to make high-level ninja tools."
Because the teacher had introduced the effects of chakra metal in other classes, the little ninja who came from a civilian background also began to think about it.
"It seems that everyone already knows the secret."
Hideki ignored Obito who was still confused and said with a smile,
"The handle line mixed with a large amount of chakra conducting materials can be regarded as a tangible chakra line, which is enough to undertake the work of shaping."
"The handle I invented has a built-in mechanical device and a simple seal rune formula, which can be used to control the puppet beast through the joystick and buttons."
"And this also means that in the first stage we will use the power of the handle cord and the handle to control this pocket puppet beast to practice how to output chakra steadily."
"And so on. In the second stage we will remove the handle line and learn how to shape the chakra into a line."
"In the third stage, we will completely remove the handle and learn how to control the puppet directly through the chakra line."
In order to demonstrate the actual effect, Hideki made Charmander transform and then connected it to the handle cable.
Then, under his control with the handle, Charmander began to perform basic movements like walking, jumping, biting, grabbing, etc.
Although his movements were obviously much more stiff than when he directly used chakra lines to control it.
But it is precisely because of this that the little ninjas have the illusion that they can do it too, and they can't wait to try it themselves and make them look different.
After Hideki's detailed explanation, all the little ninjas finally understood and were moved.
This Mr. Kimura, he seems to really want to teach us...
Everyone couldn't help but think so.
They have always believed that learning ninjutsu depends on understanding and hard work, and have never seen a teacher's hands-on teaching method that almost feeds the students.
It is not difficult to see that the most important parts of the teaching aids are the handle and the handle string. The puppet beast itself can actually be made into a simpler appearance.
Mr. Kimura made it so interesting and fun to make the practice process more interesting.
How could they not be moved by such thoughtful consideration and putting themselves in their shoes?
"Teacher, I want to learn puppetry!"
At this moment, the little ninjas were finally convinced and shouted from the bottom of their souls.
Do you want to learn puppetry?
You have the body of a gluttonous puppet beast, you are despicable!
Hideki muttered in his heart, but on the surface he showed a warm smile:
"As a puppetry teacher, I welcome this..."
From this scene of deep affection between teacher and student, it is hard to imagine that these children were just angry about being tricked into attending the class...
Then Xiu Shu clapped his hands again and said,
"Since this is the first class, I won't go into too much detail."
"——And even if I wanted to continue, you probably wouldn't be able to listen right now..."
The little ninjas seemed to realize what Hideki wanted to say and looked at him expectantly.
Xiu Shu also followed the public opinion, shook his head and smiled, saying:
"Then for the rest of the time, everyone can take turns to experience this pocket puppet beast..."
However, before he could finish, the cheers from the little ninjas drowned out his words...
…
Happy times are always fleeting.
When the bell rang for the elective course, all the students sighed, especially the poor kids who hadn't gotten a chance to try it out yet.
But under Hideki's amusing and repeated urging, the little ninjas had no choice but to leave reluctantly.
The moment we walked out of the warehouse, we all felt as if we were in another world.
Because in this short elective course, their three perspectives have been greatly impacted.
They never expected that they, who were merely tricked into the classroom, would become fascinated by the magical art of puppetry.
Of course, to be precise, it's that interesting pocket puppet monster.
Especially the children who had the chance to try out the Pokémon just now, they couldn't let it go, and even set the great ambition of becoming a Pokémon master...
After watching the children leave, Xiu Shu finally relaxed completely and couldn't help yawning.
Due to the tight time schedule, he worked all night to make the pocket puppet beast and handle for the demonstration.
But judging from the excited smiles on the children's faces when they left, his efforts were not in vain.
After packing up, Xiu Shu prepared to go back to the office for a good sleep.
But at this moment, a ninja dressed as an Anbu suddenly appeared at the door and interrupted his plan of recovery with a sentence:
"Kimura Hideki, the Hokage wants to see you."