You Really Do Love Piloting Giant Mechs

Boom!

As Sara cried out, Kazan's iron fist came down.

In an instant, countless puppets were smashed to pieces.

Rōran's central plaza was flattened along with them.

Sara stood frozen, her expression much like the puppets'.

She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Kazan's strength was a blessing. He could help Rōran through this crisis.

But the damage he caused seemed even worse than Anrokuzan's puppet army.

"It's no use! I've gained the power of the Ryumyaku. I'm immortal now!"

Anrokuzan's body had shattered. He should have died, but instead, he regenerated once more.

"Rapid regeneration?"

Kazan vaguely remembered that Anrokuzan had used the Ryumyaku's energy to turn himself into a puppet, gaining the ability to regenerate rapidly.

Anrokuzan wasn't content with that. He seemed determined to show the lofty Ghost of Konoha just how strong he had become.

Clack, clack, clack!

Countless puppets soared into the sky and swarmed Kazan.

Anrokuzan was supremely confident. With the Ryumyaku's power, he was nearly immortal. No matter how badly his body was shattered, it could quickly regenerate.

Rōran, meanwhile, was almost entirely surrounded by puppets, packed so densely they seemed endless.

With the Ryumyaku's help, he could control more puppets at once than even Sasori, surpassing the Performance of a Hundred Puppets.

"One person is controlling all of those?!"

Naruto stared too. He looked up at Kazan fighting the puppets in the air, his heart pounding.

"And that guy doesn't seem to stay dead!"

A Puppeteer's greatest weakness was the Puppeteer himself.

Kill the Puppeteer, and his puppets would lose control and become useless in battle.

Even a hundred sets of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets wouldn't help.

But thanks to the Ryumyaku, Anrokuzan had gained something close to immortality. Every injury healed rapidly. He had turned himself into a puppet, discarding