Hidan was astonished. He genuinely hadn't expected this!
Not long after he had joined the Akatsuki, he had already earned such a fearsome reputation!
Just a few words had been enough to scare the mighty Tailed Beastless into kneeling and begging for mercy.
Looks like I'm still too scary. Maybe I should smile more from now on?
Thinking this, Hidan lowered the enormous scythe in his hand and walked toward Kisame.
"Hm?" At that moment, Sasori of the Red Sands, who had been watching from the sidelines, widened his mechanical eyes!
Because of the angle, from where he stood, it looked as if Kisame was kneeling to Hidan!
"Strange... Since when has Kisame been such a coward?"
"Could it be... Hidan has some kind of evidence against him?"
The more he watched, the more confused he became. What kind of evidence could make a reckless, arrogant brute like Kisame kneel to someone else?
Shuffling footsteps.
Before long, Hidan reached Kisame and smiled smugly.
"Alright, alright, get up already. I'm not that mean, actually—hey, what the hell?!"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt himself go weightless again!
His body once more traced an arc through the air as he was tossed back into the rubble where he had landed before!
"Hm?" Sasori's eyes widened instantly. "What was that?"
He could hardly believe his eyes.
Kisame had just been kneeling. How had he gone straight to attacking?
Unless...
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Sasori turned his gaze slightly toward the direction Kisame was facing!
A terrifying possibility surfaced in his mind!
Could it be that things weren't at all as he had imagined?
The person Kisame was kneeling to was... the two Leaf shinobi?!
At the thought, his puppet let out a series of sinister creaks!
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