The Human Puppet protecting Sasori was none other than Suikazan Fuguki, one of the former Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and the first wielder of the Executioner Blade Samehada, who had once died at Kisame Hoshigaki's hands!
Suikazan Fuguki had not been especially powerful in life, but he possessed one quality that surpassed all other shinobi: an enormous body that even Konoha's Akimichi clan lacked.
That quality meant that after Sasori turned him into a Human Puppet, he could not only use the chakra he had possessed in life, but also house more puppet mechanisms within his body.
Through Suikazan Fuguki's mechanical prosthetic eye, Sasori stared at Konan in midair. "Little girl, you just said my puppet art lacked innovation, didn't you?"
For convenience, let us refer to Sasori, who was protected by the Suikazan Fuguki Human Puppet, as "Fugu Scorpion"!
Konan replied blandly, "No."
Fugu Scorpion sneered. "Oh? You don't even dare admit what you just said?"
"Rustle, rustle, rustle...!" Countless fluttering sheets of paper swirled around Konan's sacred, immaculate white form!
"I never said... that thing of yours qualified as art."
"What did you say!?"
Amid Fugu Scorpion's furious roar, Konan raised her palm wrapped in white ribbons. The circling paper curled into paper spears and crashed down...!!!
BOOMMMMM...!!!
In an instant... Fugu Scorpion's foothold was riddled with holes!
Yet every paper spear that struck Fugu Scorpion bent without exception.
Sasori smugly thought, By the time I found this guy's corpse, it had decayed beyond recognition. I went to great lengths to strip off his skin and forge his outer armor from the strongest alloy steel in the Shinobi World. Without exaggeration, his defense is dozens of times greater than Hiruko's!
Fugu Scorpion mocked, "The little girl talks tough, but her attacks are soft and weak. That