Sasori rode the Third Kazekage Puppet to a stop and watched the Konoha brat wearing the Shuten-dōji Mask and the Azure-Black Serpent disappear into the distance.
In the end, this jutsu was simply unreasonable. It was so fast that there was no time to react.
If he had still had his old body instead of this puppet body, he would probably have been gravely injured by now.
His gaze fell once more on the Iron Sand scattered across the desert.
"Even the chakra controlling the Iron Sand can be annihilated?"
"Konoha, Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure all have promising successors. Only Sunagakure is mired in infighting, with no one to carry on."
Sasori didn't have many spies in Sunagakure, but he had placed them in all the key positions. Reports about what was happening in the village reached him constantly.
For instance, some of Sunagakure's jōnin were currently rallying around Chiyo and intended to nominate her as the Fourth Kazekage.
Ridiculous!
If Chiyo became the Fourth Kazekage, she would attack Konoha with absolutely no restraint.
That simple-minded fool Rasa would be better.
"Should I chase him or not?"
"The Konoha brat is clearly exhausted and can't mold much chakra. If I catch up, I can capture him. And that Azure-Black Serpent feels strange to me. It could be worth studying."
Sasori of the Red Sands was caught in a dilemma unlike any he'd experienced before.
It took him ten minutes to finally make up his mind.
He would chase them.
There was no way the Konoha brat could use that terrifying jutsu a second time!
The Kazekage Puppet accelerated, pursuing Byakuya and Bone-Binding Princess under Sasori's control.
The Core of Regeneration in his left chest ceaselessly produced chakra for him.
Amid the sandstorm, the chakra that the boy and the snake