With no luggage to pack, Kakuzu and Hidan immediately set off.
Setting out from Amegakure to the Land of Lightning requires traveling a long distance. They had to hurry.
After all, opportunities are fleeting.
If Kumogakure sensed their goal and hid the Jinchuriki, capturing the Tailed Beast would become difficult.
Kumogakure's strength was considerable.
Kakuzu and Hidan alone couldn't handle it.
"How's business today?"
Takumi was strolling in the morning and specifically chose a time when no one was around to check on Sasori.
Sasori just glanced at him, then continued fiddling with some puppets in the room.
"What are you planning to do?"
Takumi looked curiously.
Mainly, he didn't see any offensive weapons on these puppets.
They felt more like tools than puppets.
Because they were completely non-humanoid.
Puppets imitate the human body, mainly to cooperate with performing technique, simulating the human body's Chakra Pathway.
But the thing in front of him was simpler in design.
The outer shell was a cube, without things like heads or arms.
However, it had many brushes underneath.
"Cleaning up stray hair is troublesome."
Sasori explained simply. He believed Takumi, also a puppeteer, would understand.
"Oh~ I see."
Takumi suddenly realized.
This was essentially a semi-automatic sweeper.
As for why it was semi-automatic, because it had no power source; it needed Sasori's control to move.
However, the Shinobi World did have electricity. Since the shape could be made, if a power source was installed, it would become a fully automatic sweeper.
"Hey, why not think about it differently."
Takumi shared his idea.
Sasori's hands paused for a moment, then he continued working.
Although he didn't speak, Takumi could tell from his actions that Sasori had taken his words to heart.
Because Sasori was already reserving a space inside the box to place a power source.
"To be honest, applying puppetry to daily life is actually not a bad choice."
Takumi said thoughtfully. "If Sunagakure developed a large number of people-friendly daily life puppets, like your sweeper, or dishwashers, etc., as long as they could be easily used by civilians, Sunagakure's finances would definitely look much better."
"Unfortunately, the Shinobi World has never been peaceful. Puppeteers only think about enhancing combat power, never about applying puppetry to daily life. It's truly a pity."
Looking at the puppet Sasori was making, he did feel it was a shame.
Although the Shinobi World also had many household items,
And things like computers and air conditioners weren't absent,
But convenient life tools weren't that many.
Even now, farmers still relied on manpower for rice transplanting, not mechanical power.
He believed that with the ingenuity of puppeteers, creating corresponding puppets wasn't that difficult.
"Perhaps it's because there's a lack of someone like you."
Sasori said calmly.
He looked up and glanced at Takumi, then focused on his work again. "Your way of thinking is different, fundamentally distinct from other Shinobi. It's like you're not someone living in this era."
"Is that so?"
Takumi broke out in a sweat. Although he knew what Sasori meant, hearing this sentence made him couldn't help but feel alarmed.
It was as if his secret of being a Transmigrator was exposed.
Although it wasn't.
What Sasori meant was that he didn't seem like someone living in this war-torn Shinobi World.
He wasn't wrong.
The world Takumi lived in wasn't like this one.
Although the world he lived in wasn't without war, the country he was in was very peaceful, a reassuring nation.
Growing up in that kind of environment, his thinking was definitely different from people in the Shinobi World.
Even after the end of the Third Great Shinobi War, the Shinobi World had regained rare peace.
But this peace was relative to the five great nations.
For Shinobi of other small countries, survival conditions were always their biggest problem.
The large nations had a huge number of Shinobi, many elites, far beyond what small nations could resist.
The peaceful daily life for the large nations was a dream hoped for by the small nations.
Unfortunately,
In the Shinobi World, weakness meant being bullied.
Even someone like Orochimaru could easily control a country and create a Shinobi Village.
The strength of top-tier Shinobi allowed them to walk unopposed in the Shinobi World.
"It's not bad to research more of these things."
Takumi stood up, not planning to stay longer, afraid Sasori might see through something.
"Remember to draw up designs for the finished works. I can help you submit them to Sunagakure, considered as some repayment from you to Sunagakure."
"After all, you were once a Shinobi of Sunagakure."
He turned and left, hurrying away before anyone else discovered him at Sasori's place.
Otherwise, if seen, he would probably be pestered into cutting hair personally again.
He now deeply regretted making that promise.
It made him afraid to casually appear at Sasori's place.
He's afraid of being blocked. Once blocked, people would come upon hearing the news and immediately clog the streets. He wouldn't be able to go anywhere all day, completely unable to leave.
Leaving Sasori's barber shop, Takumi felt a bit bored.
Mainly because there was no sense of crisis recently.
Danzo was secretly scheming something, with no movement at all.
But even if there was movement, Takumi wasn't worried.
As long as Kotoamatsukami was ineffective against him, with just Danzo and his disgusting arm, he posed no threat.
Orochimaru too, with that body of his, probably couldn't hold on much longer. He might have already switched to a backup body.
Of course, nothing was certain yet; Takumi didn't know the specific situation.
As for the Akatsuki, aside from their full team visit to Konoha a few days ago, Takumi hadn't noticed any movement from them.
He didn't know what they were up to.
But since their plan had started, they would definitely be searching for Jinchuriki everywhere.
Shukaku, the One-Tail, had already been captured. Logically, the Two-Tails would be next.
But the Two-Tails would definitely be strictly guarded inside Kumogakure.
After all, after what Takumi did last time, no matter how Yugito answered, she would definitely be kept in the village by the Fourth Raikage and not allowed out.
But it was the Akatsuki; they probably had some method he didn't know about to lure the Jinchuriki out.
'Better check the situation.'
Takumi thought it over and still felt uneasy.
Yugito was, after all, one of his women.
Although they hadn't had deep intimate contact, he could feel that Yugito's feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change.
He certainly wouldn't allow his woman to be killed by the Akatsuki.
'System, begin targeted simulation, confirm Yugito's situation.'