Hearing Pakura's demand, Sasori merely chuckled twice, utterly unconcerned, before turning to her with a mocking look.
"Fifth Kazekage, haven't you already seen him? Sunagakure's Third Kazekage is standing right in front of you."
Pakura's gaze sharpened at his words. She looked at the Third Kazekage Puppet beside him, her face filled with disbelief.
"Th-this can't really be..."
"That's right."
Now in the mood to talk, Sasori twitched his fingers, moving the Fengyun Puppet beside him into the space between them, then continued.
"Fifth Kazekage, during those years I was missing, I invented a way to make puppets from corpses. Even after being turned into puppets, they retain the abilities they possessed in life."
At this point, Sasori also looked at the Kazekage puppet beside him, his voice full of satisfaction.
"This Third Kazekage Puppet is my most satisfying creation. Not only did it retain all his abilities, even his body has been perfectly preserved.
"Well? Haven't I opened up an entirely new path for Sunagakure's Puppet Technique?"
But Pakura paid Sasori no attention. Her eyes were fixed on the Third Kazekage Puppet nearby, her presence growing more intense as her chakra surged.
"Sasori, you heartless traitor! I'll kill you!"
How could Pakura fail to understand now? The Third Kazekage's disappearance back then had been entirely Sasori's doing.
Sunagakure had always been the weakest of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
And the situation back then had been so dire and tense that war between the Five Great Shinobi Villages could have broken out at any moment.
With his Magnet Release, the Third Kazekage had been truly powerful. At the time, he had been the pillar holding Sunagakure up.
Yet at that critical moment, the Third Kazekage had vanished without explanation, not only igniting a war across the Shinobi World, but