"You can jump my ass!" Sasori cursed, immediately manipulating his mechanical puppet-like legs as he crawled over.
His leg strength was astonishing. Every step crushed a chunk of loose rock on the cliff to pieces.
The sight made Ye Liang shudder.
"Perform, Hiruko!" Sasori continued controlling the puppet around him to attack. This puppet had been made by turning a living person into a puppet, so it closely resembled a human body. However, it had an extra triangular barb behind it like a scorpion's tail.
That was where his title came from!
"Bang! Bang!"
Explosions rang out continuously across the mountain wall.
Under Sasori's assault, huge chunks of rock were shattered by his scorpion tail. In only moments, dozens of meters of the mountain wall had collapsed, an utterly terrifying sight.
"Hey! Did you start out in demolition?"
Ye Liang dodged Sasori's attack once again.
To him, such simple physical attacks could never harm him.
But Sasori's refusal to communicate left him rather helpless.
That was right, Ye Liang had never intended to fight Sasori at all.
If something could be settled with words, why use fists? In his previous life, Sasori had been a deeply tragic person. His parents had been killed by Konoha ninja, and he had been raised by his grandmother.
As everyone knew, people raised by their grandmothers were often very lonely. They tended to be withdrawn, and even a little insecure!
Sasori was exactly that kind of person.
How could an insecure person not become psychologically twisted? Put another way, the original Akatsuki seemed to have been made up entirely of troubled youths like this.
Ye Liang formed a seal with one hand and flashed onto Sasori's back. After using a Leaf Hurricane to break Sasori's tail, he drove both hands straight into the poisonous