In the face of Shisui's god-like Susanoo and Yasaka Magatama's overwhelming power, Sasori of the Red Sand's painstakingly developed Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets completely lost its greatest advantage in numbers.
Every swing of the red energy giant's arm, every throw of a Magatama, was like a natural disaster, easily tearing apart large swathes of intricate Puppets like toys, crushing them into dust! The Puppets' poisoned weapons and tricky attacks were nothing but laughable child's play in the face of Susanoo's absolute defense and terrifying power.
The battle had lost all suspense.
When the last Puppet was smashed into pieces by Susanoo's giant hand, the entire desert battlefield finally returned to a temporary silence, leaving only the whistling wind and the lingering smell of burning.
Looking around, the sand was densely covered with fragmented Puppet remains of various kinds, like a giant junkyard.
Shisui, seeing that all the Puppets had been completely destroyed, finally let out a long sigh of relief. The Mangekyo Sharingan pattern in his eyes slowly faded, and the towering red Susanoo also vanished into thin air like a phantom.
The immense exertion brought on a strong sense of fatigue, and he couldn't help but let out heavy gasps.
However, amidst the wreckage of the Puppets, an extremely bizarre object was quietly moving—two dark red cylindrical objects, about the thickness of an adult's arm, whose surfaces were surprisingly covered with strange, constantly pulsing fleshy tissue resembling heart muscle!
It was using some damaged Puppet parts as cover, silently attempting to burrow deeper into the sand, trying to escape from the area!
This was Sasori of the Red Sand's core body! His last hope of escape!
"Oh oh! Found it! Can't let you get away just like that, un!"
Deidara had been waiting for this moment! With quick eyes and hands, he precisely grabbed the strange core attempting to escape, completely cutting off Sasori's last escape route!
Sasori's core vibrated with a dull, angry tremor in Deidara's hand.
Deidara showed no politeness whatsoever. Without hesitation, he shoved Sasori's bizarre core body into a specially prepared lump of his explosive clay!
The clay quickly wriggled and wrapped around it, trapping the core tightly inside, leaving only a small part of the pulsating "heart" exposed, rendering it completely immobile.
"Alright, behave!" Deidara proudly shook Sasori, wrapped in clay, in his hand. "This is my special enhanced explosive clay. I advise you to be obedient and come back with us willingly."
He flashed a malicious grin, adding, his tone filled with undisguised menace.
"If you dare to be disobedient, or try to get more than a certain distance away from me... Hmph, then I'll just have to turn you into my masterpiece! Un!"
After Deidara had completely packaged Sasori's bizarre core with the special clay, he went to the back. Shisui was sitting on the ground, exhausted, adjusting his breathing, while Haku was supporting Zabuza, who had overused his Chakra.
Deidara's hands delved into his ninja tool pouch again, and the peculiar organs in his hands quickly secreted and spat out a large amount of explosive clay. Before long, another massive C2 Dragon was swiftly created, crouching on the sand, waiting to carry everyone.
The mission objective had been achieved... although the process was a bit intense. Now it was time to return to the organization's base.
However, they did not notice that in the shadow of a weathered rock pillar in the far distance, two extremely strange figures were quietly observing everything.
At the top of the rock pillar, only a half-black, half-white head was exposed; it was Zetsu. He whispered in his hoarse and eerie voice.
"The target... was once again snatched by the [Jin] Organization. And those eyes... the enemy having such power is truly unsettling."
Beside him, a mysterious Masked Man wearing an orange spiral-patterned one-eyed mask and a black Akatsuki Organization robe with red clouds—Uchiha Obito—responded in a altered, deep, and indifferent voice.
"It doesn't matter, he's just a rogue ninja, not irreplaceable. The next target should already be decided, right?"
Zetsu's plant-like leaves swayed slightly as he replied, "Hmm... I recently found out that the Sky Ninja Village, which was destroyed by Konoha many years ago, seems to have remnants still active in the shadows, and they possess some interesting techniques."
"Also, Orochimaru, one of the Sannin, seems to be secretly investigating information about our [Akatsuki]. Should we eliminate him?"
Obito was silent for a moment, the single eye under his mask flickering with a thoughtful light. "...No, don't act for now. It's not too late to decide after I meet that guy in person."
He paused, then asked another more crucial question. "So, regarding the leader of the [Jin] Organization, that [Menma]... have you found out that guy's true identity?"
Zetsu's voice carried a hint of helplessness and frustration. "No... I can't find anything. That person possesses the Flying Thunder God Technique, and their movements are erratic, making it impossible to track their routes or base locations... At this stage, it's probably not the time to openly engage with that lunatic."
Obito's brow furrowed slightly under his mask, not immediately responding to Zetsu's conclusion. His gaze remained fixed on the distant C2 clay dragon carrying Shisui and the others, slowly ascending and moving away. A doubt lingered in his heart, unable to dissipate:
Uchiha Shisui used a dojutsu of Susanoo's caliber... but it seems his consumption was far less than expected... Although the [Jin] Organization acquired the legacy left by Danzo, none of them should know how to conduct such research... Could it be... they found some other way... to replenish Mangekyo Sharingan Ocular Power, or even slow down blindness?
This thought caused a subtle unease in Obito. He finally slowly raised his hand, pressing it against his spiral mask. His entire figure began to twist and blur, as if being sucked into another dimension, silently disappearing completely from the spot.
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