The entrance to an oasis village somewhere in the Land of Wind.
The entire village had already been destroyed.
In the air.
Puppets clattered.
The red-haired youth controlling the Third Kazekage finally couldn't hold back any longer. After several years... he was attempting actual combat for the first time.
A long time had passed since the Third Kazekage had been assassinated.
Today.
It was also the first battle since this Human Puppet had been completed.
With a single puppet, he had wiped out an entire village.
This small village in the vast oases of the Land of Wind had been slaughtered so thoroughly that not a single survivor remained.
He had long since heard that Rogue Ninja were hiding here.
Sasori had come here casually.
He released his puppet, made a move, and annihilated them all.
There was also an unexpected bonus.
"You..."
Morino Ibiki's father lay on the ground, glaring furiously at Sasori.
A month ago, he had fled here and collapsed in the desert outside.
The locals had rescued him.
Although the people here were also citizens of the Land of Wind, they were peace-loving and disliked fighting.
They had saved Ibiki's father and allowed him to recuperate here.
A month had passed.
From the brink of death, he had gradually recovered his health.
Ibiki's father had thought he would soon be able to set out for Konoha...
when Sasori had suddenly appeared and destroyed everything.
"Sasori of the Red Sands...!"
Ibiki's father spat out that name.
The genius puppet master and rogue ninja of Sunagakure, Sasori of the Red Sands.
He never would have thought that Sasori had even turned the Third Kazekage into...
"Not a bad material..."
It was an unexpected bonus to encounter a Konoha Ninja here, especially one with decent strength.
Sasori was preparing