Sasori fled back to Shikkotsu Forest as if his life depended on it, only to run straight into the newly awakened Ye Ning and Tsunade.
Seeing Sasori looking panicked, completely unlike his usual calm self, Ye Ning raised an eyebrow in puzzlement.
"Sasori? What's wrong with you? I was just about to ask Katsuyu where you'd gone."
After leaving the enthusiastic Shika behind, Sasori gasped for breath, then steadied his strange emotions and took Iburama's corpse out of a scroll.
The moment Tsunade saw Iburama's corpse, she let out a soft gasp, shock showing in her eyes.
"Iburama?"
Curious about Tsunade's reaction, Ye Ning considered the matter for a moment.
"A missing-nin from Kumogakure? Tsunade, you know him?"
"Yeah. I've seen his file before. He was a powerful elite jonin from Kumogakure, known as a beast because of his Taijutsu prowess. I never thought he'd become a missing-nin too, or that Sasori would bring him back as material."
After spending so much time with Sasori, Tsunade naturally knew what kind of experiments he was conducting.
Although she was somewhat uncomfortable with them, the subjects of the Human Puppet experiments were all missing-nin or criminals. And since Ye Ning had always supported Sasori, Tsunade had turned a blind eye to his Human Puppet research.
She hadn't expected Sasori to go out and come back with Iburama.
Noticing the burning excitement in Sasori's eyes, Ye Ning asked curiously,
"From the look on your face, he seems like a pretty good test subject?"
"His strength far surpasses that of all my previous subjects. And he possesses the Kekkei Genkai Storm Release. Turning him into a Human Puppet should raise my strength by several levels."
Sasori kept rubbing Iburama's corpse, without a trace of disgust in his eyes.
Only once he turned him into