harleyscars Chapter 199 The Secret of Chikamatsu People
Chapter 199 The Secret of Chikamatsu People
Xie's parents were killed in the war, and of course more than one Xie, who lost his parents when he was just a few years old, was injured.
Chiyo endured the pain of a white-haired man giving away a black-haired man, and had to face his grandson who looked forward to his parents returning from the battlefield every day. He kept lying to him and used a pretentious tone to cover up his inner grief.
Who knows what kind of suffering she suffered in her heart during that time?
"Sister, is it really worth it?"
Ebizo on the side suddenly waved his ten fingers, and ten chakra lines quickly connected "father" and "mother", but were blocked by Chiyo's chakra arrogantly.
“Ebizo, you should understand me.
All these years, I have never given up looking for this child
I just wanted to show him another possibility of puppetry. "
After saying this to his biological brother, Chiyo turned to look at Xia and said:
"Maybe you are right. If there are no new breakthroughs in puppetry, there will be less and less room for it in the world of ninjas in the future.
But the future of puppetry should not go down an evil path. Our predecessors have pointed out the right path for us, but the price is too high.
Chikamatsu Ten People, Scorpion, when you were a boy, you were always wondering why those ten puppets had strength beyond the reach of ordinary mechanical puppets, right?"
Chiyo's words silenced Xie. He could ignore the blood relationship between himself and Chiyo, but in terms of puppetry, especially traditional puppetry, he had to admit that Chiyo still had a lot to learn.
For example, as Chiyo mentioned now, there are ten people in Chikamatsu.
When it comes to puppetry, there are two founders. One is the Second Kazekage Sammon, the great inventor of Sunagakure Village, and the other is the more legendary Monzaemon.
This man was a life-and-death friend of the first Kazekage Reito and the second Kazekage Samana. It can be said that he made a great contribution in the establishment of Sunagakure Village.
If it weren't for his status, given his talent, the position of the first Kazekage would probably not be that of the porcelain expert Lieduo.
Yes, Monzaemon's origins are even more bizarre.
He was born in a declining samurai family in the capital of the Land of Wind, and his family had been loyal to the daimyo for generations.
With the rise of the ninja class, the decline of samurai families is the general trend. Monzaemon's family did not choose to move to the Kingdom of Iron to protect the last piece of pure land for samurai, but chose to rely on the big tree of the Land of Wind. Eat and wait to die.
Monzaemon was a man of both civil and military skills. Not only was he one of the few samurai who could refine chakra, he also served the shogunate as a courtier in his youth.
In other words, he was sent to Reito, Shamon and others to imitate the "one country, one village" system of the Fire Country and Konoha. As a help in establishing Sunagakure Village, he was himself the daimyo's spy.
However, such a person with the nature of "supervising the army" relied on his personal charm and good strength to win the respect of everyone in Sunagakure Village at that time.
This person's talent is so amazing that it can be described as "cheating":
In terms of ninjutsu, in fact, the prototype of puppetry was already present on the ancient battlefields of the Warring States Period.
It's just that the puppet technique at that time only controlled the body of the person who had just died in the battle through chakra lines to fight regardless of whether it was the enemy or the enemy. It was good that it was weird and difficult to prevent, but the method was too despicable and had strong limitations. What if no one is dead at the beginning, or the dead body is torn apart?
Monzaemon, on the other hand, teamed up with Shamon to create a new model of making mechanical puppets that could be controlled with chakra lines to cooperate with ninjas in combat.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call him the ancestor of puppet masters together with Samana.
In the division of labor between the two, Shamen is more focused on the development of "techniques", such as "Machine Light Shield Sealing" and "Strike Blade Control".
Monzaemon, on the other hand, focused on the production of puppets.
After the death of the first Kazekage Raito, this puppet master felt that he had reached the age of forty, so he said goodbye to Samana, left Sunagakure Village, and traveled throughout the ninja world.
He traveled everywhere, discussing Buddhism with monks in temples, and drinking tea with nobles and ministers in the capitals of the five major countries.
Some people laughed at the puppet he carried with him, but he didn't mind. Instead, he smiled slightly and controlled the puppet to perform a play for the guests.
And this is the origin of the puppet show.
Until his old age, he returned to Sand Hidden Village, bringing with him his life's insights and said to the ascetic:
"I already understand where the future of puppetry lies."
Then, he made ten puppets in a few days without sleep.
These ten puppets became the later "Chikamatsu Ten People".
Monzaemon was also a ninja born in the same era as the "Ninja Gods" Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
His life may not be as powerful or exciting as the two previous ones, but he has also witnessed countless strong people.
If we look closely at the ten puppets of the Chikamatsu Ten People, we will find the history hidden in them:
There is a red-haired puppet with a beautiful face. Does it look like Uzumaki Mito, the most famous female ninja of the Uzumaki clan at that time?
There is a puppet with a thin body and a head shaped like an old monkey. Looking at this shape, there is a high probability that the prototype is Sarutobi Sasuke, the father of Hiruzen Sarutobi~
There is a puppet with two horns on its head, which reminds people of the golden-horned and silver-horned brothers holding the Six Paths Immortal's Noble Phantasm.
As for those three puppets who can unite to perform the combined ninja technique "Three Jewels Absorb", their Three Jewels "Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha" are the general outline of Buddhism.
Monzaemon integrated what he had learned throughout his life and the shadows of the strong men he had witnessed in the ninja world into his puppet.
Of course, what he integrated into the Chikamatsu Ten was not only a lifetime of knowledge and insights;
his own life.
After completing these ten works that he was most satisfied with, Monzaemon passed away with a smile on his face.
Samana looked at the body of his old friend in silence. From then on, he would not allow anyone to call himself the first generation puppet master.
There is only one true first-generation puppet master, Monzaemon-dono, and Chikamatsu is his last name.
“The first-generation puppet master integrated his own life into his most outstanding works, which gave the Chikamatsu Ten people a strength far beyond that of ordinary puppets.
Today I want to give it a try and put my life into these two puppets and see what happens.
Scorpio, your path has come so far, and there is nothing I can do to save you.
You are not afraid of death, I know that.
But you have become what you are today, and as a grandmother, I have an unshirkable responsibility.
All I can do now is prove to you that your path may not be the right one. "
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