- Ryo-sensei, look at this interesting thing," Asani turned to me, showing me the tail, which was separated from the body, and the mechanism inside it, previously hidden by the wooden armor.
Taking it in my hands, I examined the rather simple construction of a pair of stoppers, two springs, and a short blade, the latter made of chakra-conducting metal, albeit of frankly shoddy quality. Nothing else resembling a trigger mechanism was found in it.
- How does it work? - Hoshi asked, also interested in getting closer.
- If I'm not mistaken, then on the chakra coming from the seal, - after a slight hesitation, answered her and immediately tried to test his assumption in practice.
By applying chakra to the spring under the blade, I managed to make it forcefully pop out of the tail, compressing the second spring, which was located opposite, differing in smaller size and activating the stopper. And when chakra was applied to the second spring, one stopper came off, the blade retracted, and the second one snapped into place.
A simple but effective design. The properties of the spring are interesting, since weapon chakra-conducting steel doesn't behave like that, so it means that the blacksmiths in Suna were able to process it properly for the needs of their shinobi. It's interesting to know, but of no practical interest - I can make such a mechanism purely on seals alone if I need to.
Putting aside the tail, I returned to the half-disassembled torso frame and the untouched head, where a surprise awaited us - besides a small senbon thrower installed in the mouth, there was a real flamethrower, oily viscous liquid to which was fed from a barrel in the torso. It was powered by seals.
Apparently it was the doll's secret weapon, capable of causing trouble for the jonin as well, if not vigilant enough. Realizing what could await her in the event of a direct battle with a genin from Suna, Hoshi's face fell a bit and hopefully learned an appropriate lesson.
- And the senbon are coated with poison," Asani announced after she had disconnected the thrower's ammunition box and scrutinized the finger-long steel needles.
- Standard practice of shinobi from Sunagakure no Sato," I shrugged at that, "during the war with them, it was the use of various poisonous substances that caused the most damage to our forces, not direct confrontations. By the way, Senju Tsunade's reputation had risen to such a high level by making antidotes to them.
Actually, that was the end of the puppet's surprises. Its paws were equipped with rather sharp metal claws, and an explosive seal was attached to the barrel, obviously for self-destruction near the enemy, but only just. Although, what else did I expect from a genin's handiwork?
- Ryo-sensei, how do you control all this? With seals? Or chakra threads? - Asani was naturally puzzled after looking at the lizard's interior.
The basic principle was known to the students, as well as to everyone who had read the Academy's textbooks about elemental countries with great villages, but the specific implementation was not known to me.
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