Aoi Ren stood calmly beside Sakura Haruno, facing off against Sasori of the Red Sand...
"How absolutely fascinating..." Sasori grinned, letting out a low, menacing chuckle. "Hehehe... you managed to fool all of us so perfectly."
"Aoi Ren... should I call you 'Void', or should I call you Konoha ANBU?" Sasori laughed eerily, the joints of his puppet body creaking and groaning.
"What... what is going on here?" Sakura's eyes widened in alarm, completely confused and helpless.
"To be honest, even I didn't expect things to go this smoothly." Aoi Ren smiled maliciously and extended a finger. Terrifying bolts of lightning erupted instantly, piercing straight through Sakura's defenseless body.
Gahk!
The lightning tore through her chest, and bright red blood gushed out immediately. Sakura stared blankly in shock. "Lord ANBU... why...?"
"What a fool you are, Sakura Haruno!" Aoi Ren smiled and crouched down. He drew the Kusanagi Sword and swiftly sliced across her throat, robbing her of the ability to speak.
Now she was nothing more than a severely injured woman, unable to make a sound...
"Now then... it's time we properly settled the score between us!"
Having dealt with Sakura, Aoi Ren walked toward Sasori with a grin. "Sage Mode: Dragon Pulse! Eight Gates Released Formation—Gate of View, Open!"
"What overwhelming chakra!" Sasori praised, though his confusion only grew deeper.
"You are neither with us, nor are you truly with Konoha. Who exactly are you?"
Hearing this, Aoi Ren grinned widely. "I'm not even from this world at all..."
"Madman..."
"Morning Peacock!"
With Aoi Ren attacking with full force, the Hiruko puppet didn't stand a chance. It was smashed to pieces by a single, devastating punch almost instantly.
"Third Kazekage!"
Sasori unleashed his strongest puppet, the Third Kazekage—representing the absolute pinnacle of traditional puppetry. However...
Against Aoi Ren, it couldn't even withstand three hits!
Boom!
Using nothing but raw physical strength, Aoi Ren shattered the Iron Sand construct with one blow, and followed up with a second punch that completely destroyed the puppet body made from the Kazekage's corpse.
"Ara ara..." Despite losing such important puppets, Sasori didn't seem upset at all. Instead, he smiled with genuine satisfaction.
"As expected... traditional puppetry is truly useless against someone of your caliber."
"In that case..."
"...I suppose I shall have to use myself!"
Sasori threw off his black Akatsuki cloak, revealing his true form. The ultimate puppeteer, who had transformed his own body into a puppet—Sasori of the Hundred Puppets!
"Truly a sight to behold, Sasori!"
Aoi Ren looked on with great interest. Seeing it live was far more shocking than watching it in an anime—the ultimate art of turning oneself into an immortal puppet!
In that sense, Deidara and Sasori really were the perfect duo when it came to art.
One pursued the art of explosive beauty, fleeting and brilliant for a single moment; while the other pursued the art of eternal stillness, unchanging and everlasting!
Unfortunately for Sasori, Aoi Ren possessed exactly the traits needed to defeat him. He had no chance of winning. Extreme stamina, and overwhelming brute force...
Downing a bottle of Energy Potion, Aoi Ren charged straight into the swarm of the Hundred Puppet Manipulation. In the end, it was just a hundred puppets.
Even if there were a thousand, or ten thousand—what difference would it make?
A true warrior crushes them all with his own fists, one by one!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
The sound of puppets exploding echoed continuously. No matter how Sasori tried to maneuver his creations to block or kill Aoi Ren, Aoi Ren simply smashed through everything with overwhelming speed and power.
He charged forward like a blazing star, scattering the puppets as if they were nothing but dry straw...
He burst through the wall of puppets and arrived directly in front of Sasori. Clenching his fist, he poured every ounce of his strength into a single, massive strike aimed straight at Sasori's chest!
CRACK!
Sasori's body shattered into pieces instantly. For any ordinary ninja, this would have meant certain death.
However...
Snap!
Aoi Ren reached out and firmly grabbed the small, glowing core marked with the character for 'Scorpion'. "Hey, hey... I can't let you get away with that, Sasori!"
"You are far too important a prize for me to lose on this mission!"
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