"Lord Hokage, are you planning to revive Karura?"
Chiyo asked with a curious look on her face.
Minato gently shook his head. Although the revival technique was not difficult, it was by no means something that could be used whenever they pleased.
At the very least, while Rengoku was not here, it would not be appropriate for them to handle this matter.
Minato paused for a moment, then explained, "The reason I brought this up is only to give Gaara some emotional support."
After hearing this, Chiyo nodded thoughtfully, and she could not help but sigh inwardly. Compared to Sunagakure, Konohagakure truly felt more humane.
At that moment, the door to the room was pushed open, and Deidara walked in together with Orochimaru.
Seeing this, Minato naturally smiled and greeted Orochimaru, "Lord Orochimaru, you're here."
However, Orochimaru only gave a slight nod in response. He did not exchange pleasantries with Minato, but instead turned his gaze directly toward Sasori.
Right after that, he took out a thick stack of documents from his hand and handed them to Sasori, speaking at the same time, "Rengoku once mentioned that you are the most outstanding puppet designer in the entire ninja world."
"There are some related materials here. Take a look first. In the future, you may be responsible for this line of work."
Hearing this, Sasori was briefly stunned, and a trace of confusion appeared on his face.
After all, before this, he had never had any interaction with Rengoku. He truly could not understand why the other party would recognize him like this.
But Rengoku was publicly acknowledged as the ceiling of combat power in the ninja world. To receive recognition from such a strong figure naturally made Sasori feel a little pleased inside.
However, Rengoku was not here at the moment, so he had no way to ask about the details.
As for Orochimaru's straightforward style of getting straight to business without any delay, Sasori actually appreciated it.
In fact, he was eager to find out why Konoha had invited him here, so he did not hesitate to take the documents from Orochimaru's hand.
"I'll take a look first."
As he spoke, Sasori quickly flipped open the file.
The first thing that came into view was information about a chakra energy storage device. To be precise, it was basically a chakra version of a battery.
What followed were all kinds of civilian facilities and various types of engineering equipment, and so on.
Sasori only needed to glance over them briefly to understand.
For him, handling this kind of matter was extremely easy. Compared to the complex and delicate puppets he usually crafted with great care, these tasks were far simpler.
As long as the chakra flow paths were set in advance, achieving automated operation would not be difficult.
[Low-Temperature Multi-Effect Seawater Desalination Equipment]
[Solar Distillation Seawater Desalination Equipment]
When Sasori saw the names of these two devices, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly flipped through the pages.
'They really are devices for desalinating seawater. Konoha already has this kind of technology? If they are now researching and manufacturing them on a large scale, are they preparing to deal with Sunagakure?'
"The Land of Lightning also has many similar devices. We've basically purchased all of them back already. You can refer to them."
When he heard this, Sasori was a little surprised at first. After all, these items could easily be bought on the outside market. Why would Konoha need to spend money and effort developing them on their own?
But when he thought about the fierce economic war recently launched by the Raikage's side, he immediately understood.
"Mm, I understand. In that case, I'll start working on it today," Sasori replied decisively, confidence clear in his eyes.
At this time, Deidara, who had been silent all along, suddenly seemed to come back to his senses. He looked at Sasori with confusion and asked anxiously, "Brother Sasori, what exactly are they asking you to do? Don't tell me… you're not planning to leave?"
Sasori nodded slightly and said calmly, "That's right. I've accepted Konoha's recruitment. From this moment on, I'm a member of Konoha."
Then he paused briefly and added, "For the next period of time, I'll be staying here in Konoha."
After hearing this, Deidara was completely stunned.
"Th-This… what's going on? Brother Sasori, you're staying, then what am I supposed to do?"
Looking at Deidara's shocked and helpless expression, Sasori said with some resignation:
"The reason I'm staying naturally has its unavoidable reasons."
"As for you, you can go find Konan and ask her to arrange a new partner for you."
Hearing this answer, the hopeful look on Deidara's face instantly dimmed. He slumped down like a deflated balloon.
"But, Brother Sasori, only you truly understand my art! Without you, who else can understand those exquisite works of mine?"
During their last mission, Deidara had risked his life to save Sasori. And after spending day and night together for the past half year, Sasori was already very familiar with Deidara's personality.
At this moment, he put away the smile on his face and seriously warned him, "Stop running around everywhere. Focus on improving yourself. Otherwise, you might get killed by accident, and then you won't even have the chance to show your art."
Right now, Deidara poured all his energy and passion into pursuing art.
As for fighting, to him it was merely a byproduct of his artistic expression.
At Deidara's current age, he was in the key stage of rapid growth and improvement.
If such precious golden time were wasted, it would truly be a pity.
At this moment, a trace of distress showed on Deidara's face. There was no other reason. He truly enjoyed spending time with Sasori.
Yet what Brother Sasori said did seem to make sense.
Seeing his hesitation, Sasori could guess what Deidara was thinking.
"Have you forgotten the goal you've always wanted to achieve?"
"To perfectly fuse Dust Release with clay explosions?"
"If you can't do it, then when you hold the grandest art exhibition in the entire ninja world in the future, won't you be missing many works powerful enough to truly shock people?"
Deidara had long told Sasori about his grand ambition to hold the largest art exhibition in the whole ninja world.
Although Sasori himself had little interest in such events, it was a good thing for someone young like Deidara to have dreams.
Sure enough, after bringing up this reason, Deidara was persuaded.
He sighed with a conflicted expression and said helplessly, "Alright then. I'll head back to Iwagakure first."
Deidara had the goal of fusing Dust Release with clay bombs, but he needed to find a suitable person to assist him.
After all, Dust Release was an extremely dangerous ninjutsu. If he tried blindly on his own, he might not even know how he died.
And Onoki, who had immersed himself in researching Dust Release for decades, was undoubtedly the best candidate to guide him.
At this time, Sasori said with a smile, "Anyway, you can fly. After this busy period is over, we can meet again."
Deidara could not help feeling a little surprised, and he thought to himself, 'What's with Brother Sasori today? He looks like he's in a really good mood.'
But hearing Sasori say that made him feel a bit better.
"Alright then, Brother Sasori, I'm heading out!"
After saying that, Deidara left the meeting room directly without even turning his head back, not even greeting the others present.
Minato did not mind. He simply called over a member of the Uchiha clan at the door and instructed him to lead Deidara out.
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