Hmm?
Sasori watched his attack get blocked, a flicker of surprise crossing his heart. But his gaze turned toward Gaara, who had remained silent atop a building in the distance.
This?
It seemed that, if nothing unexpected had happened,
Gaara had been the one to act, blocking the attack for the villagers.
"Heh. Was that you? Just wait until I take the Tailed Beast from inside you!" Sasori looked at Gaara ahead of him and prepared to control the Third Kazekage puppet to attack him.
But,
the moment his puppet moved, Grandma Chiyo stopped it. "Sasori, I'm your opponent!"
After saying that,
she controlled the two puppets, Father and Mother, to attack Sasori. For a time, Sasori's full attention was focused on Grandma Chiyo and the puppets fighting him.
At that moment,
the Father and Mother puppets were already close to being torn apart by the Third Kazekage puppet.
"Now's the time. His puppet can't come back to defend!"
As Sasori battled Grandma Chiyo, a ninja appeared behind him and tried to launch a sneak attack.
However, before he could reach Sasori, a long whip shot out from Sasori's abdomen and stabbed toward the attacking ninja.
Clearly,
they had not realized that Sasori, despite controlling puppets, still had another trick up his sleeve.
The spear-like tail pierced straight through the man's abdomen. At the same time, a spinning blade extended from Sasori's arm and directly dismembered the ambusher.
Only half of the man's body remained, still struggling. "Grandma Chiyo, I..."
Before he could finish,
he died on the spot.
"Another puppet?"
Grandma Chiyo narrowed her eyes at the sight. "Sasori, you turned even yourself into a puppet?"
She could tell that nearly all of Sasori's body had been modified, though one spot on his chest stood out sharply.
Chiyo knew