Madara, who had been rushing toward the Kumogakure squad, suddenly stopped and looked back, witnessing the scene.
"That kid did that?!"
"It must have been him. Aside from the Uchiha, few in the ninja world can control Fire Release at that level!"
"Now this is getting interesting."
A faint, intrigued smile curled at Madara's lips. He immediately stopped and watched the distant battle from afar.
At the same time, he became even more eager to see what Uchiha Shingen could accomplish against Sasori, who had been capable of killing the Third Kazekage!
"Still..."
"Sasori won't be that easy to deal with."
"If I'm not mistaken, he inherited Sunagakure's Human Puppet Technique."
"Using living humans as a base, preserving the Chakra within their bodies, then turning them into puppets."
"They can even wield some of the abilities they possessed in life."
"By now, Sasori should have had enough time to turn the Third Kazekage into a human puppet, shouldn't he?!"
As though answering Uchiha Madara's speculation.
Thick black smoke suddenly surged from the distant sea of flames, gathering in midair like clouds.
But upon closer inspection, one would find that it was not black smoke at all, but extremely fine yet incomparably tough iron sand.
The iron sand surrounded and protected a pitch-black sphere at its center.
Whoosh—!
The black sphere's shell gradually scattered apart, turning back into iron sand and gathering high in the sky like a layer of dark clouds that blocked out the sunlight.
Sasori, who had been hidden within the black sphere, reappeared on the battlefield. Beside him stood a special human puppet clad in a brown cloak.
The black iron sand was spilling from the human puppet's mouth.
"I knew it wouldn't be that simple!"
Uchiha Shingen's mouth twitched sharply. That last move had consumed nearly