"Hmm~ then you probably don't live inside the Land of Pottery, right?".
Hatake Satoru didn't seem to notice Han entering, who had reached out his hand. He looked up towards the other direction.
Earlier, when they entered the forest, they were in a hurry and didn't notice anything strange nearby.
Now that he took a look, there was indeed a chimney spewing black smoke some distance away.
The chimney wasn't very close to them.
But the explosion Deidara made should have been loud enough to be heard from there.
It's normal for an ordinary person to come from there, and Han entering showed up at about the same time.
Hatake Satoru thought for a moment, connecting the person's clothes and a series of reactions, and figured he was probably a potter from the Land of Pottery.
Han entering's raised hand paused in mid-air, his fingers curled up unnaturally, and then quickly dropped.
Why was he unconsciously trying to shake hands with people?
Han entering's eyes became all swirly, and his cheeks quickly flushed red, like a whole red tomato.
He was so busy looking at the person's face that he didn't pay attention to what he was doing.
Deidara and Sasori looked on with amusement; they were the ones being ignored.
Hatake Satoru's attitude of directly ignoring the other person's enthusiasm was even worse than theirs.
It was kind of funny.
Sasori's eyes fell on a white porcelain item hanging around Han entering's neck.
It was a flower-shaped pendant, with delicate patterns on the white pendant, reflecting milky-white light in the sunlight.
Whether it was the craftsmanship or the color, the one Han entering was wearing was different from those cheap and flashy porcelain pieces outside.
And the entire white ceramic item was clearly being carefully protected by its owner.
"Y-yes! I live over there!".
"Ah...! I was so busy talking to you that I only wanted to take a look. I still have things baking!".
Han entering looked at Hatake Satoru with stars in his eyes, but when he turned his head and saw the black smoke coming from the chimney, he immediately jumped up in a start.
He quickly ran towards the direction where the black smoke was rising.
"He really is like a gust of wind, yeah.".
Deidara tilted his head curiously, watching the girl's disappearing figure as she turned and ran back.
"Since she's a potter, she should know more about the clay around here. Let's go with her.".
Sasori said with some interest.
They had never seen that kind of porcelain pendant that Han entering was wearing before.
No one was wearing or selling that kind of white porcelain.
Han'nyu entering's appearance was too perfect, as if Hatake Satoru had timed it perfectly.
It was like... he deliberately caused the explosion here to attract Han entering over.
Sasori subtly raised his eyes and glanced at Hatake Satoru beside him. If it was this guy, it wouldn't be strange for him to do something like that.
It's all because this guy's abilities are too terrifying; he can't help but have some scary thoughts.
"Hey~ you said it before me!".
"That's what I was thinking too~! ".
Hatake Satoru casually raised his hand in agreement.
The two of them started walking in the direction Han entering left, talking to themselves.
Karna followed behind them, thoughtfully looked at Deidara, and tugged on his sleeve to follow.
"Hey? Hey? Why are we asking now?".
"You two probably don't even know where there's any clay, yeah!".
Deidara stumbled when Karna pulled him, and blinked blankly, complaining to the two people in front.
Sasori and Hatake Satoru paused slightly, and then continued forward as if nothing had happened.
"You're being way too obvious about feeling guilty...!".
Deidara cried out. In a sense, these two were incredibly unreliable!
How can you trick someone into coming and then start looking for things!
And why does this puppet move on its own? Those two don't seem to be controlling it at all.
It doesn't even feel like they're giving it any orders.
Deidara's gaze moved from Hatake Satoru to Karna.
This guy also felt very strange.
"Don't drag me; I can walk myself, yeah.".
Deidara couldn't help but mutter, but since he had already gotten on the pirate ship, what else could he do?
And Hatake Satoru seemed pretty reliable.
But that word didn't quite fit him.
"Hmm.".
Karna turned his head, let go of his hand, and nodded slightly.
His expression looked a lot softer than before, and even had a faint smile.
"You can talk!????!".
Deidara let out a scream behind the two of them.
He can talk and even has slight changes in expression. This guy isn't a puppet at all.
Could it be that Hatake Satoru sealed someone's soul inside and created a human puppet?
But even Sasori's human puppet wasn't this realistic.
In every sense, this thing looked too strange.
"You're being too loud.".
Sasori stumbled, startled by Deidara's scream, and angrily scolded Deidara.
Deidara was constantly trying to instill his artistic ideas in Karna on the way.
Karna only replied "hmm" or "okay," and his expression didn't change.
Deidara never stopped talking whenever he met someone who could talk about his art, and Karna was really good at being supportive. Sasori couldn't help but look back a few more times.
"Is that puppet able to understand what people are saying?".
When he and Hozuki Mangetsu were studying Karna before, Karna didn't seem to have this function.
And puppets shouldn't have independent thought or language abilities.
"Not really~ it's an automatic response.".
"I added it earlier. He can respond with simple words like 'hmm' or 'okay' based on the frequency of people's speech.".
"But real commands can only be given by me~".
Hatake Satoru said without turning his head. Sasori felt a subtle pity for Deidara.
Deidara's pursuit of art and Hidan's obsession with the Jashin Cult meant that whatever those two said, their partners would be annoyed.
Now he was actually reduced to muttering to a puppet.
How sad!?
As a few people continued to near Han entering's house, the sound of smashing became increasingly intense.
"Crash." A crisp sound interrupted Deidara and Karna's desire to chat.
Several people looked towards the furnace together, Han'nyu entering continuingly smashing porcelain.
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