When I had finished the last of the calculations, I checked the results once more for errors, and folded the scroll and put it aside, stretching and stretching my shoulders and neck with pleasure. Despite the fact that the time was already past three in the morning, I could say that the reduced sleep time in favor of work was not wasted - after several painstaking months of parsing the function of Edo tensei, I managed not only to isolate the part responsible for the soul call, but also to rework it in the right direction!
This was even easier than the main task of Tobirama's jutsu, because now the object was not a soul that was inexplicably located somewhere and had to be reached with the help of remains, but was here, in a living body.
A much easier task both in cost and execution. Of course, it's a shame I couldn't get my hands on that Kato Dan technique where he left the body with his soul on his own (if the rumors are true), which would have made my task much easier, but it wasn't bad as it was.
Still, the second hokage was a very smart man and had a decent grasp of even fuinjutsu, even if not on the level of a pure-blooded Uzumaki.
The fact that I was able to decipher his technique, even with the earlier version with the author's notes in the margins and the final version, was a great achievement, because Senju was much more experienced in fuinjutsu than I was, if we compare the general achievements in this field and the elements of seals used in this technique. At least for now. I still have a long way to go.
Preparing for practical testing will take some time, as will refining, if necessary, Kanpeki Ningyo no jutsu (perfect doll technique), as I've decided to call my technique. After all, what is it but a puppet under the control of a copy of my consciousness.
A living, breathing and moving puppet, indistinguishable from a human, the perfect puppet. It's just a pity that the body preparation can't be incorporated into the technique itself - it's too complicated to translate into hand seals with my little experience in this field.
After all, Shiki Fujin (Dead Demon Seal technique) was worked on by real masters and geniuses, which is far from me. Even so, being able to have eyes outside the village has so many pluses that the difficulty of preparation can simply be disregarded.
And now the main question - to go to rest or to test the modified seal on pulling out souls... Looking at the wall clock, specially installed in the basement, so as not to lose a sense of time at work, I sighed and took out of the closet a large sheet of paper, rolled into a tube, unfolded it on the floor and pressed on the corners of small stone cubes specifically for this purpose.
After all, there were only three hours of sleep left, so there was no point in going to bed now, especially since I couldn't sleep when such an important project was nearing its logical conclusion. Still, the technique of the perfect doll will allow me to get not only eyes outside the village, but will also give me the opportunity to influence those events that previously remained beyond my capabilities. And if I'm very lucky, the puppets will have all of my abilities, moving up on the usefulness scale of all available clone techniques.
Huh, I can fish in the murky waters of Kiri just as the clans are being destroyed, monitor the situation in Ame, though I can hardly interfere, given the level of players involved in the Rain Country, I can even try to whistle the most poorly guarded jinchuriki of the elemental countries.
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