After defecting, Sasori had wandered the desert alone, gathering materials for making puppets and amassing strength to take the first step in his revenge.
Heaven did not disappoint those with determination. He had succeeded—the Third Kazekage's corpse had already become part of his collection!
After the Third Kazekage disappeared, Sasori had kept watch over the subsequent developments. The war between Sunagakure and Konoha was also part of Sasori's plan for revenge!
He hated the Third Kazekage for starting the war, and he hated Chiyo for deceiving him! He also hated White Fang, who had taken his parents' lives, as well as the Konoha behind White Fang!
They were all targets of his revenge!
But to his disappointment, White Fang, who had fought Sunagakure during the Second Shinobi War, had not been sent to the front lines.
Still, it did not matter. In a few days, he could turn the Third Kazekage into a human puppet. What a magnificent work of art. Thinking of it made Sasori smile happily. Sasori was a handsome red-haired youth, with melancholy eyes—the pinnacle of pretty-boy looks in the ninja world...
Thinking of art, Sasori could not help taking a scroll from his ninja tool pouch. When he opened it, it showed a formidable humanoid puppet, with weapons and their functions marked across every part of its body. Sasori had looked at this drawing countless times. This was mechanical art that could rival his own human-puppet artistry!
"Uchiha Obito," Sasori murmured. Having lost his parents at a young age, Sasori had always been unbearably lonely. The appearance of this scroll gave him the feeling that he had found someone like himself.
He wanted to share his understanding of art with the other person and explore art's immortality together!
So he had come!
No one could have