By the time the enormous cloud of dust dispersed.
Deidara's battered body was revealed, sprawled in a four-limbed spread.
Deidara's physical strength was clearly inferior to Hidan's, whose body had been strengthened through an Evil Cult Experiment.
He kept vomiting blood and chunks of flesh. Clearly, his internal organs had been damaged.
"How could this... happen... Damn it... My art... That look in your eyes, like you don't feel surprised at all... I won't forgive you..."
The next moment.
Deidara tremulously raised his arm and undid the restraints around his chest, revealing a huge mouth!
"Hehehe... hehehe..."
Deidara let out a strange laugh as he hovered on the brink of death.
"This is... my ultimate... art... I'm going to blow myself up! After I die, I'll become art... An unprecedented explosion..."
As the clay was swallowed.
Strange black patterns surfaced across Deidara's face.
It looked as if his entire network of meridians had been dyed black.
"My art will receive unprecedented praise! This time... I'll definitely make you die here! Explosion radius... ten kilometers! Even if you possess supersonic movement speed... you won't be able to escape this explosion! Hmm!"
As Deidara shouted.
His entire body began turning transparent.
He looked like a creature without bones or flesh.
A layer of transparent skin wrapped around his exterior.
And all the meridians throughout his body turned into black fuses.
Clearly, this power came at the cost of sacrificing his body.
"Cower! Despair! Scream! My art!"
Finally...
Deidara's hair and teeth also completely disappeared, turning into fuel for the explosion.
Behind the mouth on his chest, where the heart was...
The heart contracted all his meridians and transformed into a bomb!
The bomb possessed a pair of strange white eyes and a cartoonish, mischievous mouth.
Contract... contract...
Until every meridian had been