"What?! A battle at this level, and they haven't even used twenty percent of their strength?!"
Sakura cried out in shock. If she went up against them, she would be killed instantly, without so much as a scrap left!
After fighting for a while, Lin Guang and Sasori stopped in unspoken agreement and both retreated some distance.
"What's wrong? Running out of stamina already?"
Sasori teased.
As a puppet master, he had only needed to operate the mechanisms just now, barely expending any chakra or stamina.
"Like you said earlier, that was just a warm-up!"
Lin Guang smiled too. This level of combat still did not warrant using his Mangekyō Sharingan.
But since Sasori had said that, he would have to resort to more forceful measures!
"Ice Flame!"
Lin Guang closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he had activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.
A large mass of blue flames landed on Hiruko. Fueled by the puppet's wood and machine oil, the blaze swelled in an instant.
But the longer the flames burned, the more ice formed on Hiruko.
Sasori tried to make Hiruko shatter the ice, but ultimately, Hiruko did not have that much strength.
Lin Guang's move forced Sasori to abandon Hiruko, or even his actual body would be frozen inside the puppet.
"I never expected you to force me to abandon my prized creation, Hiruko."
The voice that came from Sasori's actual body was completely different from Hiruko's, clear and pleasant to the ear.
"I never expected Lord Scorpion, who kept himself tucked inside such an ugly puppet, to be such a handsome man, either. You must be thirty-four or thirty-five, right? Time really hasn't done you any harm!"
Lin Guang said.
Sasori had short red hair and a very handsome face.
"But you've ruined the puppet