The battle in the sky continued.
Sasori stood on a Flying Ray, controlling numerous Human Puppets as he fought Deidara.
As for the Third Kazekage, Sasori had dismissed his summoning and returned him to the scroll the instant Orochimaru fled.
To everyone else, however, the legendary strongest Kazekage had simply vanished without a trace.
"Damn you! I'll show you my explosive art, you bastard!"
Unable to break through Sasori's airtight defenses, Deidara finally lost his composure completely.
"C2: Dragon!"
This time, he threw out two lumps of clay, which transformed into two dragons. Together with the one beneath his feet, the three dragons charged at their enemy from the front, left, and right.
As they flew toward him, the dragons opened their mouths and spat out swarms of white grasshoppers, which bounded toward Sasori.
At the mention of art, Sasori chuckled.
In his mind, only that man was a true artist!
He swept the threads in his hands, and over a hundred puppets began moving with the precision of a finely tuned machine.
They unleashed a barrage of ninjutsu, easily detonating Deidara's explosive clay before it could reach him.
Using the smoke from the explosions as cover, Deidara rapidly gained altitude, then plunged down from above.
"You dare mock my explosive art? Die!"
Roaring, he pushed off the dragon and leaped into the air, while the dragon beneath him crashed toward Sasori alongside the other two.
"Art as fleeting as fireworks? How childish."
Sasori offered his blunt assessment.
Then he summoned the Third Kazekage puppet again. Countless grains of iron sand poured out, forming a massive sphere around Sasori.
Boom!
Crimson flames exploded in the sky like a blazing sun.
Deidara laughed wildly. "That's what you get for looking down on my explosive art!"
But a few seconds later, his