"I'll kill him!"
Deidara could barely tolerate Lin Guang's existence.
"Want to kill me? Dream on!"
Lin Guang pulled the small black steel rod out of his shoulder. Without the Rinnegan's suppression, his Mangekyō Sharingan began spinning again.
"Susanoo!"
A terrifying aura emanated from Lin Guang, and a gigantic skeletal arm emerged beside him and smashed toward Pain.
"Shinra Tensei!"
It was that Ninjutsu again, seemingly impossible to counter.
Even Lin Guang, who had activated Susanoo, was blasted away, and this time the force was even greater!
The Susanoo Lin Guang had just formed was shattered outright by that force, and his body hurtled backward several thousand meters, even beyond Sunagakure's boundaries.
"Take the One-Tail away! I can't stay here much longer. Hurry up, or if Lin Guang catches up with you, the mission to capture the One-Tail will probably fail."
Pain spoke to Deidara and Sasori.
As soon as he finished speaking, Pain vanished from Sunagakure.
"Understood, boss. Next time, we'd be better off killing that Uchiha Hikari first."
Deidara spoke to the empty air and activated his backup plan.
When Gaara's sand had mangled his arm earlier, he had mixed a large quantity of Clay Explosives into it.
That sand was precisely the sand inside the gourd that Gaara frequently tempered with chakra; otherwise, it could never have caught up with Deidara.
Now all that sand was in the gourd on Gaara's back, but Gaara had no idea.
"Explode!"
Deidara detonated the bombs. Lin Guang had yet to return and could not stop the clay from exploding.
"Oh no!"
Gaara sensed the chakra fluctuations inside the gourd, but it was already too late. A single blast from Deidara knocked him unconscious.
If he had not blocked that C3 Bomb for Sunagakure earlier, Gaara would certainly have had enough