"This..."
For a moment, Sasori was stunned by Araki's invitation.
A puppeteer from Sunagakure, going to Kirigakure to open a laboratory and study the corpses of Konoha ninja?
That was truly a path he had never imagined.
This... was simply... wonderful!
Sasori had long had enough of the restrictive research environment in Sunagakure.
Ever since his grandmother Chiyo had rejected his idea of Human Puppets, she seemed determined to keep him from going astray. She personally supervised and inspected every batch of puppet materials he purchased.
And every so often, she would suddenly barge into his Puppet Workshop to see what he was doing.
It annoyed Sasori to no end.
If that had been all, it would have been fine. He was already used to conducting research in secret anyway.
But the most troublesome part was that, to stop Sasori from buying corpses from the Bounty Station for research, Chiyo also kept a close watch on his finances.
And ninja corpses at the Bounty Station were not cheap.
The corpse of an ordinary jonin cost at least several million. If such a large sum of money vanished without explanation, Chiyo would definitely grow suspicious.
Thus, under such intense pressure, he, a proud puppet artist, had actually been forced to learn how to falsify accounts.
Whenever Sasori thought of that, tears filled his eyes.
Forced by life itself—what a depressing situation.
But Araki's proposal was like opening the door to a New World for him!
That was right. Since Sunagakure kept such a tight leash on him, he could just go somewhere else to conduct his research.
And when he thought of Konoha's many different Kekkei Genkai...
His former enemies were now fit only to become his research materials.
With that double dose of joy, Sasori felt as though sweet rain