"Who goes there?"
Anrokuzan, having been mocked, flew into a rage. "My Puppetry Technique is unmatched under heaven!"
With a sweep of both hands, aside from the five puppets currently besieging the Sunagakure ninja, he actually summoned five new puppets as well, sending them to surround Sasori of the Red Sands.
"What?!"
The move instantly stunned Shaliu and the others.
"Controlling ten puppets at once... In all of Sunagakure, only Elder Chiyo has reached that level! Who is this guy?!"
Compared with their rather pathetic reaction, Sasori was far calmer.
Facing the puppets closing in on him, he did not take out his own Human Puppets to meet the enemy. Instead, he spread his hand and flung out a handful of chakra threads.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Invisible to the naked eye, the chakra threads connected to the joints of two of the puppets. Sasori lightly flicked his fingers, and with ease, he changed the puppets' movements.
"I noticed it from the start,"
Sasori said as he manipulated the stolen puppets to fight fiercely against the remaining ones, "Anrokuzan, your control over your puppets is atrocious."
Under his control, those two puppets easily used far more agile movements to slaughter the other three puppets until they were utterly routed.
"The number of puppets one can control at the same time is indeed an important measure of a puppeteer's strength, but abandoning fine control in pursuit of superficial numbers... That is putting the cart before the horse."
"That's impossible!"
Seeing his puppets so easily taken over by someone else, Anrokuzan also flung out chakra threads again and again, trying to seize them back. But unfortunately, on the path of the puppeteer, the gap between him and Sasori of the Red Sands was almost like that between mud and cloud.
"Damn it, don't