Afterward.
Fuyou patted Nagato on the shoulder earnestly yet approvingly. Then he had everyone quickly clean up the battlefield before carrying the restrained fellow and the puppet back.
Not long after.
After they returned.
"So this guy might be the one who killed the Third Kazekage and started the Third Ninja World War?" Yahiko froze, lowering his head to look at the human puppet lying on the ground. A trace of shock flashed through his eyes as he muttered, "I thought... it was just some unusual puppet. I never expected it to be... the Third Kazekage?!"
When they had first seen that puppet using Magnet Release, it had already seemed rather suspicious. After all, the Third Kazekage's death had caused an enormous uproar, and the culprit was suspected to be Konoha.
At this moment.
A Sunagakure shinobi had appeared before them while controlling a ninja with the Magnet Release Bloodline Limit. It would have been strange if they had not found that suspicious!
After all, that was Magnet Release!
A Kekkei Genkai!
Was that something ordinary people could learn?
He hesitated inwardly. "If it isn't..."
Before he could finish.
"It certainly isn't an ordinary puppet."
At that moment.
Kana sighed helplessly and said, "After a simple examination, it's highly likely... just as Fuyou guessed earlier."
How should she put it?
It was astounding!
But also... terrifying!
After she spoke.
Everyone looked at each other.
None of them had expected that the Third Kazekage, who was suspected of having been assassinated by Konoha, had actually died at the hands of a youth from his own shinobi village.
For a moment.
The atmosphere fell silent.
It was as if they had all been frightened senseless and had yet to recover.
After all.
That was the Third Kazekage!
The Kage of one of