"Senior Sasori, it looks like we've been discovered..."
"Without your puppets... why don't you stand behind me?"
"You protected me just now, so it's my turn to protect you!"
Deidara's mouth was released by Sasori.
In his eyes, Senior Sasori was now completely empty-handed, and the puppets he took pride in had just been utterly destroyed.
This was the perfect chance to show off... No! To perform!
Sasori gave Deidara a deeply depressing look, then said nothing.
Before Rasa arrived, Chiyo had already come as part of the first rescue team.
She had already saved quite a few civilians using Medical Ninjutsu.
While treating the wounded, she also surveyed the situation all around her.
As a ninja, gathering information at the scene was the top priority!
When she saw a red-haired boy in the distance, she froze slightly.
Then, after hurriedly treating several critically injured patients, she ran toward the red-haired man.
The closer she got, the more solemn her gaze became.
That aura around him...
As expected... he was her grandson from this world!
Sasori of the Red Sand!
That wanted criminal who had defected from the village at such a young age!
Chiyo's feelings were complicated.
In this world, Sasori had no parents. They had died in the war, and she had failed to fulfill her responsibility as his grandmother, leaving Sasori starved of love from childhood and twisting his heart.
She had once believed that, under the Shinobi Village System, Sasori would be better off than in the Empire, and that their family would be happier as well.
Yet reality had dealt her a heavy blow.
So... everything had merely been her own fantasy!
Chiyo looked at Sasori before her with a complicated expression.
Sasori looked at Chiyo without saying a word.
"Sasori..."
Chiyo spoke first.
Unfortunately,