"It's over. Ice Cocoon!"
As her words fell, Rose abruptly clenched her outstretched hand.
At the same time, Sasori shouted to Deidara, "Deidara!"
Deidara instantly understood what Sasori meant and detonated the explosive clay inside Shin's body.
"Now! Black Secret Technique! Ibuse!"
A black salamander appeared beneath Shin's feet, enclosing both him and Rose's ice cocoon around him.
At the instant of the explosion, Sai's feelings for his older brother Shin still drove him to take a step forward despite himself.
With a muffled boom, a moderately sized crater appeared in the ground. The salamander puppet and a small portion of the ice spiders were blown to pieces.
Because he had taken that step forward, Sai was knocked to the ground by the blast's shock wave, and a sketchbook and a brush fell out.
Seeing this, Deidara said discontentedly, "You actually enclosed the bomb in a defensive puppet you'd hidden beforehand. And to think Sasori's Puppet Technique would lose to a woman. I never expected that."
Sasori had nothing to say in his defense. Having his puppets forcibly taken from him twice was enough to prove that his strength was indeed inferior to hers.
Even Orochimaru Kabuto, who was controlling everything from behind the scenes, had not expected to encounter someone like this right at the outset.
"This Rose joined Kirigakure half a year ago and quickly became the right-hand woman of the Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi. She even earned the title Thousand-Thread Ice Princess. Yet someone like her had never revealed herself before joining Kirigakure. How strange."
Meanwhile, watching Rose's abilities, Deidara suddenly remembered how, when he had gone to Kirigakure to capture Isobu, he had also been asked to search Kirigakure for traces of Lin Guang.
As it turned out, he had been discovered shortly after entering Kirigakure