This puppeteer is a bit... well...

Chapter 207 How Did He Know? (Please Subscribe, Please Vote)

This isn't a cave; the vast open space offers a more conducive environment for skillful execution, allowing the same ninjutsu to be used in entirely different ways.

A dense barrage of iron pellets rained down, blocking an area hundreds of meters in diameter, leaving no way to escape.

Pain was using ninjutsu at that moment and had no time to defend himself; he was doomed.

Scorpion mentally drew a conclusion to the outcome of this battle.

However, faced with this dense attack, Pain simply closed his eyes slowly, opening them just as the iron sand bullets approached, and shouted, "Shinra Tensei!"

Gravity instantly transforms into repulsion.

The unparalleled shockwave slammed into the Iron Sand and the Red Sand Scorpion, sending them flying back at several times the speed they had come from. The Red Sand Scorpion even disintegrated in mid-air, breaking into countless mechanical parts: forearms, calves, thighs, waist, abdomen, chest, gears, shafts... scattered all over the ground.

Payne paused for a moment, then regained his composure.

He had already shown mercy. If Sasori of the Red Sand died so easily, then he wouldn't deserve to join the Akatsuki.

As soon as Pain had this thought, he saw the scattered parts tremble, and then, as if controlled by someone, they flew towards the center, assembling one by one like assembling a robot, and were restored to Sasori's body.

In the sunlight, his gleaming body already revealed his identity to others.

This is a puppet.

Sasori shook his neck, straightened his head, and looked at Pain. "To be able to switch to another ninjutsu without hand seals while using a ninjutsu, it seems that your claim of fighting the Third Kazekage was not an exaggeration."

Pain glanced at him indifferently, ignored him, and said to himself, "I misjudged you too. I didn't expect you to be a puppet. It seems that you do indeed have the strength that meets the Akatsuki's requirements, just as Zetsu said."

"No, you're not mistaken."

"Um?"

"The ninja named Sasori of the Red Sand is no longer human, but a true puppet!" Sasori said, pressing his chest. "No warmth, no heartbeat, no flesh and blood. Through soul transfer technology, my body has been completely transformed into a machine. Now, I have even lost human emotions. I am a true puppet."

"A puppet..." Pain looked at the puppet standing in the distance, a complex expression flashing across his face, but he quickly regained his composure. "Puppet or human, as long as they meet Akatsuki's requirements, that's enough. Sasori of the Red Sand, I'll ask you one more time, do you want to join Akatsuki?"

"Hmph~"

Scorpion's lips curled up slightly; despite being a puppet, he wore a human smile.

"If you want me to join, you'd better beat me first!"

"Then there's nothing we can do!"

Payne let out a slow sigh of relief, then stood still.

?

A question mark flashed behind the scorpion's head.

Suddenly, my body tensed up, and my hands and I were bound by something unseen and hung up.

A green lizard appears on the cliff behind.

It opened its mouth wide, extended its long tongue, and tightly bound the Red Sand Scorpion.

"A summoning beast!"

Scorpion suddenly realized, and with a flick of his right finger, the Third Kazekage puppet unleashed its arm blades and flew towards the lizard.

Suddenly, a giant descended from the sky and sat the Third Kazekage puppet on the ground.

Scorpion stared wide-eyed at the giant who had suddenly appeared.

Before he could even react, another long-haired man suddenly appeared in front of him, grabbed his head and gently pulled it out, stopping when he had pulled half of the blue soul out.

"Should we continue fighting now?" Payne asked calmly.

Scorpion glanced at the sweating giant and the long-haired man, then turned his gaze to Payne. "You actually had someone set up an ambush? You think you can get me to join you with that little skill?"

"They are all one."

As Payne spoke calmly, three more people appeared in Scorpion's line of sight.

"Let me give you a full introduction. I am the Deva Path, and they are the Human Path, Hell Path, Hungry Ghost Path, Animal Path, and Asura Path. We are the six of us together to form the complete Pain. If you don't understand, you can think of them as clones."

"Six Paths, Pain, Six Paths Pain... I never thought there was such a terrifying guy in the world."

Sasori of the Red Sand took a deep breath.

After all, he was an unprecedented puppeteer. Although he didn't understand the specific details, he roughly understood what Pain's situation was.

Although I was ambushed without knowing what was going on, the fact that the other party was able to launch a sneak attack is a testament to their skill, and I accept my defeat wholeheartedly.

Upon hearing this, the human Dao released his right hand, and the giant lizard also put the scorpion back on the ground and released its tongue.

Sasori stretched his body, and after confirming that his puppet form was functioning properly, he looked at Pain and asked, "So, what will I be doing after joining the organization?"

"Our priority is to recruit ten members, and you're currently the third!" With that, Pain handed over a ring inscribed with the character "Jade," continuing, "Sasori of the Red Sand, from this day forward, you are a member of our Akatsuki organization, codenamed 'Jade Maiden.'"

"Jade Maiden..." Scorpion muttered the code name as he took the ring, examined it on his hand, and then casually put it on. "I understand. So, do the organization's other seven members have targets?"

"There's only one for now!" Pain handed the intelligence scroll Black Zetsu had given him to Sasori, saying, "This guy has lived for nearly a hundred years. Are you confident you can bring him in?"

Scorpion opened the scroll and, upon seeing the information on it, his eyes widened slightly.

He has been active as a ninja since the Warring States period, and still possesses the physical vitality of a young man... He is undoubtedly a monster.

The Akatsuki already has Pain, who could easily defeat him and kill the Third Kazekage, and they still want to summon such monsters? What exactly is this organization planning to do?

Thinking of this, Scorpion quickly looked up at Payne, "Should the remaining members also be recruited using this standard?"

"That's right!"

Upon receiving the answer, even without a physical body, Scorpion couldn't help but gasp in shock.

Nine members are at least at the Kage level, and there's a leader who can easily defeat a Kage level member... This kind of organization is terrifying.

(Ryuji Ayaki, now I finally understand why a genius like you would arrange for me to infiltrate this organization as a spy.)

Sasori of the Red Sand possesses unprecedented talent as a puppeteer, surpassing even the puppeteer's founder, Monzaemon.

Such a scorpion is undoubtedly arrogant.

He was even more jealous, envious, and admired Ryuji, who possessed talents comparable to or even surpassing his own.

Therefore, for the past six months, he has been unable to understand why, with Ryuji's talent and strength, and with the support of Sunagakure, he would still be afraid of an obscure organization and make him, a great sinner, a spy.

But he understands now.

If this organization can truly gather ten members of this caliber, then none of the five great ninja villages can be underestimated.

No, it's not simply a matter of strength.

If an organization needs so many experts, then its ambitions must be quite significant.

Perhaps this is what Ryuji is worried about.

As for whether the Akatsuki can gather ten such members, Ryuji's concern suggests that they will definitely be able to.

only--

"How did he know?"

Scorpion was somewhat curious.

Although it is possible to predict the future by reasoning through clues.

But the Akatsuki organization came without any prior indication, and it cannot be explained by reasoning alone.

(Is it a ninjutsu that allows you to foresee the future, or do you have intelligence channels that I don't know about?)

In an instant, the already tall figure in his eyes became even taller and more mysterious, even surpassing Payne, who had just left a deep impression on him.

First of all, the subspace of the explosive tags in the previous chapter is a secondary setting. There is no explanation in the original work, nor is there any explanation of the communication principle of the multiplicative explosive tags and the explosive blade. This is just a secondary setting to avoid the collapse of the power levels.

Otherwise, if one could easily summon and detonate explosive tags indefinitely, the protagonist's skills would make creating a large number of cannons with unlimited explosive tags a piece of cake.

Also, there will be another chapter later, please give me some monthly votes.

(End of this chapter)