Chapter 194: Mission Complete
Before Shisui's miracle-like Susanoo and Yasaka Magatama's overwhelming power, Sasori of the Red Sand's painstakingly cultivated Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets completely lost its greatest advantage—numbers.
That red energy giant's every swing, every thrown magatama, descended like natural disasters, easily tearing apart and crushing vast swaths of precision puppets into powder like toys! The puppets' poisoned weapons and cunning attacks became complete jokes before Susanoo's absolute defense and terrifying power.
The battle's outcome was no longer in doubt.
When the final puppet was smashed to fragments by Susanoo's massive palm, the entire desert battlefield finally returned to temporary silence, leaving only howling wind and pervasive burnt smells.
Looking around, the sand was densely covered with all kinds of broken puppet remains, like a massive junkyard.
Seeing all the puppets had been completely destroyed, Shisui finally released a long breath. The Mangekyo Sharingan pattern in his eyes slowly faded, and that towering red Susanoo dissipated into the air like a phantom.
The massive consumption made him feel intense exhaustion wash over him, unable to suppress heavy gasping breaths.
However, among this wreckage of puppets, an extremely bizarre thing was quietly moving—two dark red cylinders about the thickness of an adult's arm, their surfaces actually growing flesh tissue resembling heart muscle that pulsed faintly with eerie beats.
It was using some damaged puppet parts as cover, silently attempting to burrow into the deep sand, trying to escape!
This was Sasori of the Red Sand's core body. His last hope of escape.
"Ooh! Found you! Can't let you escape like that, yeah!"
Deidara had been waiting for this moment! With quick reflexes and perfect precision, he grabbed that bizarre core attempting to flee! Completely extinguishing Sasori's last escape route!
Sasori's core emitted dull, angry vibrations in Deidara's hand.
Deidara showed no mercy whatsoever. Without hesitation, he stuffed Sasori's bizarre body core into a ball of specially prepared explosive clay he'd readied earlier.
The clay rapidly squirmed and wrapped, trapping the core tightly inside, leaving only that pulsing "heart" portion slightly exposed, rendering it completely immobile.
"Alright, behave yourself!" Deidara smugly shook the clay-wrapped Sasori in his hand. "This is my specially enhanced explosive clay. I advise you to obediently listen and come back with us."
An unpleasant smile appeared on his face as he added, his tone filled with undisguised threat.
"If you dare misbehave or try to get beyond a certain distance from me... hmph, then I'll just have to turn you into my masterpiece, yeah!"
After Deidara thoroughly packaged Sasori's bizarre core with special clay, he came to the rear. Shisui sat exhausted on the ground adjusting his breathing while Haku supported Zabuza, whose chakra was severely depleted.
Deidara's hands once again reached into his ninja tool pouch. That peculiar mouth organ rapidly secreted and spat out large quantities of explosive clay. Before long, another massive C2 dragon was quickly created, crouching on the sand, waiting to carry everyone.
Mission objective achieved... though the process was a bit intense, now it was time to return to the organization's headquarters.
However, they didn't notice that in the shadow of an extremely distant weathered rock pillar, two extremely bizarre figures were quietly observing everything.
Atop the rock pillar, only a head that was half black and half white was exposed—it was Zetsu. He murmured in that hoarse, bizarre tone.
"The target... was snatched away one step ahead by the Ember organization again. And those eyes... having enemies with that power really is unsettling."
Beside him, a mysterious masked man wearing an orange spiral single-eye mask and draped in the Akatsuki organization's black robe with red clouds—Uchiha Obito—responded in his altered, low, indifferent voice.
"It doesn't matter. He's just a missing-nin, not irreplaceable. The next target should already be determined, right?"
Zetsu's plant-like leaves swayed slightly as he answered: "Mm... Recent investigations show that the Sky Village that was destroyed by Konoha years ago seems to still have remnants secretly active, and they possess some interesting technology."
"Additionally, one of the Three Sannin, Orochimaru, seems to be secretly inquiring about our Akatsuki. Should we eliminate him?"
Obito remained silent for a moment, the single eye beneath his mask flickering with contemplative light. "...No, don't act yet. Wait until after personally meeting that guy, then we can decide."
He paused, then asked another more crucial question. "Then, regarding the Ember organization's leader, Menma... have you discovered that person's true identity?"
Zetsu's voice carried a trace of helplessness and frustration. "No... can't discover it at all. That person has mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, with elusive whereabouts—completely impossible to track their movement routes or headquarters location... At this stage, I'm afraid it's not yet time for direct conflict with that madman."
Obito's brow furrowed slightly beneath his mask, not immediately responding to Zetsu's conclusion. His gaze remained locked on the distant C2 clay dragon slowly ascending with Shisui and the others, gradually departing. A question circled in his heart, unable to dissipate:
Uchiha Shisui used Susanoo, that level of ocular jutsu... yet looking at him, his consumption seemed far from reaching the expected degree... Though the Ember organization obtained that legacy Danzo left behind, none of them should understand how to conduct that kind of research...
Could it be... they'd found some other... method to replenish Mangekyo Sharingan eye power, or even delay blindness?
This thought made Obito feel a barely perceptible unease. He finally slowly raised his hand, pressing against his spiral mask. His entire figure began becoming distorted and blurred, as if being absorbed into another dimension, silently and completely disappearing from the spot.
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