"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~"
In some corner of the Land of Wind, where yellow sand filled the air and fierce winds howled, a figure resembling an old man was slowly making his way forward.
Behind him, a long trail dragged across the sand.
That was right—a drag mark!
It was clearly not the sort of footprint a normal person would leave behind after passing through.
Of course, judging by that figure, he was indeed no normal person.
After all, what normal person had a terrifying metal tail behind them?
Speaking of someone with a metal tail, the build of an old man, yet not human, the only fitting target was obviously a puppet.
And this puppet was Hiruko, considered upper-middle tier even among all puppets.
As for the person capable of creating the Hiruko puppet, there was currently only one: Sasori of the Akatsuki Organization!
The person now walking alone through the desert of the Land of Wind while controlling Hiruko was Sasori himself.
Ever since Nagato had ordered every member of the Akatsuki Organization to join the battle, they had all set out.
This could be called both a full-scale operation by the Akatsuki Organization and a series of individual actions.
Their goal was the same: to join this Fourth Shinobi World War.
Yet the fronts each of them headed toward were different.
The Akatsuki Organization had always operated in pairs, but this time, even Deidara was no longer following Sasori.
Because on such an enormous battlefield, if every member of the Akatsuki Organization gathered in one place, it would clearly be detrimental to the course of the war.
Take Disonas, for example. After separating from the other Akatsuki members, he had quietly hidden himself somewhere and was controlling the Impure World dead from behind the scenes as they fought.