Three Inches of Humanity, Death of the External Brain

C3: Mountain-Piercing Dragon King!

Deidara's newly developed Explosion Release art processed Explosive Clay into a Dragon King capable of drilling through mountains and shattering the earth, meant to destroy enemies hiding underground!

After successfully developing it, Deidara eagerly set out to test his art.

He had originally intended to carry out the blast outside Feather Emperor City, but the sensible Kurotsuchi worried it would disturb the residents. She said that if Deidara insisted on going through with it, she would report him to the Feather Emperor.

Left with no choice, Deidara rode his giant bird through the night in search of a suitable blasting site.

Since spring had only just begun and the weather had yet to warm, the icy wind caused the lumbar vertebrae he had injured long ago in Konoha's Death Forest to flare up again. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he decided to get back at Konoha.

Thus, he chose a small valley only a few miles outside Ye Gucheng, the main city of one of Konoha's dependent nations, as the site of his blast.

With an earth-shattering boom, the mountains collapsed and the ground split apart.

Konoha ninja alerted by the explosion rushed to the site and arrested Deidara on charges of being caught in the act of bombing.

Even when captured, the criminal was still cheering for art, showing not the slightest remorse.

Because Deidara had a special status, and because it was a special time, Konoha intended to give him some ideological education before sending him back to Feather Emperor City.

But no one could have imagined it!

Beneath the small valley where Deidara carried out the blast was precisely where Kabuto Yakushi had originally installed the External Brain!

Back then, he had taken a risky step. Rather