Ninja Craftsmen's Attack Methods

That night.

On a rooftop, two figures, one tall and one small, faced a hunched "freak."

"You want me to keep working for you?"

From inside Hiruko, Sasori spoke in a voice edged with amusement.

"Not for me. With me. If you want to take your Puppet Technique further, you may need my help," Long Ye said with complete confidence.

There were many ways to persuade Sasori of the Red Sands. The simplest was to buy him off.

Long Ye had something tempting enough: a Snake Cypress Seed.

He still had five of them. But buying someone's loyalty with possessions was never reliable. Someone else could offer something more valuable, and Sasori might switch sides.

So Long Ye had abandoned that approach and looked for a way to appeal to Sasori himself.

Sasori of the Red Sands had only one goal in life: to create the strongest puppet and surpass Monzaemon with his Puppet Technique.

Without waiting for an answer, Long Ye continued:

"You know it yourself. You might be able to destroy a nation, but killing a Kage Level ninja is another matter. If you want to make stronger puppets, you'll need to work with someone."

Sasori said nothing.

He clearly knew Long Ye was right.

Every Kage Level fighter had ways to stay alive. None would be easy to take down.

What made it harder still was that Sasori had to turn people into puppets while they were alive if he wanted to preserve their abilities.

His Hundred Machine Performance already gave him more than a hundred puppets. One more or less meant little. What he wanted was someone stronger than a Kazekage.

But the odds of capturing such a fighter alive and turning them into a puppet on his own were slim.

Mi Xiang stood quietly beside