Granny Chiyo withdrew the threads from her mouth.
While controlling the Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets, she crouched down and spoke to Hidan's severed head:
"I know your life force is extraordinarily tenacious."
"Even if your body were thrown somewhere with abundant resources, it could grow new tissue."
"But let me ask you this: if I scattered your head and body tissue across different countries, would you still have any hope of recovering?"
Hidan did not answer. He merely stared fixedly at Granny Chiyo with venomous eyes.
Granny Chiyo paid it no mind and instead continued with a smile:
"Oh! I forgot to tell you. Your body tissue will be thrown into barren places with no resources at all!"
This time, a clear change came over Hidan's expression.
He had roamed the Shinobi World with utter arrogance for years and had never feared anything.
This time, however, he was truly afraid.
That was because Granny Chiyo's words had struck at his precise weakness.
His body did indeed possess powerful self-healing abilities.
Given the right conditions and enough time, he could return to perfect health even if only his head remained.
However, every time Hidan healed himself, certain conditions had to be met.
The foremost condition was that the environment in which he healed had to contain sufficient resources.
What Granny Chiyo had described cut off precisely that most crucial condition for his "self-healing."
Throwing Hidan's body tissue straight into barren places without any resources really could kill him.
Only when one's life was truly threatened did one understand what fear tasted like.
At that moment, Hidan truly tasted that crushing despair.
His stubbornness kept him from opening his mouth to beg Granny Chiyo for mercy.
His lips, meanwhile, had turned pale with fear.
Those pale lips even kept trembling.
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