The object inside Sasori's chest was his true body. Everything else was created through the Puppet Technique.
Sasori's Puppet Technique had surpassed the limits of this era. To Yu, it was like the mechanical ascension of a science-fiction world.
But Sasori still needed his body to move. He hadn't transferred his consciousness into a puppet and achieved true mechanical ascension, becoming a new form of life.
Still, he wasn't far from that eternal state. All it would take was someone to guide him, or for him to suddenly figure it out one day, and he could take that final step.
That was why Yu had proposed capturing members of the Akatsuki Organization whenever possible, and killing them only in special circumstances.
People like Sasori were geniuses, capable of changing the entire world.
They had to stay alive to fulfill their greatest potential. Of course, that was only if they were under his control. Otherwise, even the most powerful abilities would be useless.
After all, anyone who opposed him had no value. Killing them was the best choice.
The instant Sasori opened the switch in his chest, hundreds of Chakra Threads shot out from the regeneration core inside him, connecting to every red-robed puppet.
This was the change Sasori had made to his Puppet Technique: he had turned his body into a regeneration core, freeing himself from the limitation of controlling puppets with his hands.
Each Chakra Thread could control one puppet. A puppeteer using their hands could control ten puppets at most at a time, which was already the pinnacle of the art.
But Sasori could control hundreds at once—dozens of times more than even the greatest puppeteer. That was the difference between him and ordinary puppeteers.
At Sasori's command, all the red-robed puppets launched their attack, charging forward like