Standing in the middle, Su Yu rolled his neck, loosened his wrists, then fixed his gaze on Sasori.
Noticing Su Yu's movements, even the emotionally detached Sasori could not help trembling inwardly.
Simple fear could not explain it. Any thinking being facing Su Yu at that moment would instinctively feel afraid.
This time, Su Yu did not use his extreme speed. He simply walked slowly up to Sasori, as though out for a stroll.
But Sasori made no attempt to evade him, because he knew that evasion was meaningless before this man.
Yet when he realized where Su Yu's gaze had landed, Sasori grew uneasy.
It was a natural physical response, like having someone holding a blood-dripping knife look at your throat or the left side of your chest.
And right now, Su Yu was looking at the core buried in Sasori's chest.
Sasori had turned himself into a puppet and no longer had a human's vital points, but in exchange, he had gained an absolute weakness: his puppet core.
Seeing Su Yu reach out, Sasori instinctively wanted to dodge, but the moment that thought arose, Su Yu's seemingly slow hand had already touched his core.
With a sharp crack, Su Yu easily removed Sasori's core.
Instantly, Sasori's body stopped moving altogether, like a robot whose power had been cut, becoming a true wooden puppet.
A gust of wind blew past, and the puppet toppled over.
Su Yu hefted the core in his hand, then picked a random direction and hurled it away.
With a whoosh, the core vanished into the horizon.
After flying through the air for several minutes, the core crashed to the ground.
It landed in a forest. Several hours later, a little deer discovered the strange cylinder and approached to investigate.
Just as the deer lowered