I, who just wanted to be lazy, was forced to become the Hokage.

Chapter 444 The Artist's True Nature!

It's that same incredibly fast and terrifying chakra ball again!

Seeing the approaching [Spiral Shadow Bullet], Sasori of the Red Sand ignored his broken and shattered right shoulder.

He quickly lunged to the side, intending to dodge the dark shadow bullet with its obvious attack trajectory.

Unexpectedly, just as the dark projectile was about to pass the location of Sasori of the Red Sand, the round bullet suddenly exploded.

Nara Rinka's figure emerged from the shadow bullets, his legs lashing out like steel whips at the nearby rogue Sand Village ninja.

The Shadow Clone, which is transformed from the Spiral Shadow Bullet, is essentially a temporary entity made of Yin Release chakra, and many ninjutsu cannot be used.

However, some ninjutsu are not so rigid in their restrictions on the nature transformation of chakra, and can be considered "universal ninjutsu". As long as you have chakra, you can release them.

For example, the A-rank technique that Nara Rinka just used at this moment—

[Strange Power]!

The sudden kick created a powerful whirlwind within a small area.

The Red Sand Scorpion had nowhere to hide.

However, after transforming himself into a humanoid puppet, Sasori's true form can also be described as a weapon of endless transformation.

Since there's no way to dodge using traditional methods, let's try a new dodging method!

Faced with Nara Rinka's "monstrous strength," Sasori of the Red Sand remained cold and silently activated a special mechanism within his body.

Seeing that Nara Rinka's heavy kick was about to hit Sasori of the Red Sand and completely destroy his body.

Bang—whoosh!

Nara Rinka's legs made brief contact with Akasuna no Sasori's body, producing a dull thud.

Sasori's body split open, its parts flying everywhere like a shower of flowers.

One second Sasori was still in a complete human form, the next second he was reduced to a pile of broken parts.

Even that youthful and handsome head fell onto the sand, creating a small crater in the gravel.

It seems that Nara's intervention brought Sasori back to his "original form".

however.

Even though Nara Rinka had "defeated" the enemy, he did not let his guard down for a moment.

"This kind of technique, I'm afraid only a puppeteer could use."

"At the moment the enemy is struck, provide them with clear feedback, making them mistakenly believe their attack has been successful."

"But in reality, dismantling the humanoid puppet is merely a puppeteer's special self-preservation technique! A means to mislead the enemy!"

Nara Rinka landed on the ground, her [Lacquer Eyes] silently activating to detect the flow of chakra in the surrounding environment, and locking onto her target in a matter of moments—

That strange cylinder with a peculiar shape and the character "scorpion" painted on its surface!

According to Nara Rinka's "lacquer eye" observation, this cylinder contains a huge amount of chakra, and it is also constantly emitting chakra fluctuations, as if it wants to release chakra threads to connect to the puppet parts scattered on the ground.

However, upon "seeing" the dark shadow, he did not relax at all, but continued to observe the battlefield.

The strange cylinder immediately stopped moving.

Nara Rinkazu's lips curled slightly, and two black ropes suddenly emerged from his shadow, moving like serpents in the desert.

One of them coiled around the strange cylinder, while the other brought back the head of the Red Sand Scorpion.

Nara Rinkei placed the head of Sasori of the Red Sand on the cylindrical object with the character "scorpion" on it, creating an indescribably eerie scene.

"Not planning on a desperate fight, Sasori of the Red Sand?"

Nara Rinka looked at Sasori's head and asked leisurely.

"Although I took away the Third Kazekage and 'destroyed' your original body, you should still have a puppet army of nearly a hundred people in your hands."

"Your puppet troops left a deep impression on me during the battle with the metal puppet army from Loulan just now."

Tsunade, who mistakenly thought the battle was over, approached in a flash and heard Nara Ranka's words, which made her suspicious.

"Nara, who are you talking to?"

"Of course it's Sasori of the Red Sand."

Nara Rinka looked at the red-haired man and suddenly pulled out an explosive tag from his ninja tool bag.

"Are you still planning to play dead?"

"Then I'll just have to blow your head off first."

Sasori of the Red Sand remained silent.

Until Nara Rinka manipulated the shadow tentacles, intending to attach the explosive tag to the scorpion-shaped cylinder.

"Hmm, my brain is still too important. I guess I should just destroy this 'regeneration core'!"

"That's enough!"

Suddenly, strands of chakra emerged from the strangely shaped scorpion-shaped cylinder, connecting like tentacles to the red-haired head on top of it and manipulating it to speak.

A bald head, plus a bizarre cylinder, can actually speak.

Even Tsunade, who was used to seeing the world, was still taken aback.

Has the puppetry of Sunagakure developed to this level?!

"You're not pretending anymore?"

Nara Rinka retrieved the explosive tags and looked at Sasori's head with a mocking expression.

"I thought you were going to keep pretending to be dead."

"The Shadow of Darkness—"

Sasori of the Red Sand stared intently at Nara Rinka.

He was indeed planning to feign death to avoid fighting the other side.

Even though Sasori of the Red Sand was an S-rank rogue ninja from Sunagakure, he had a powerful record of assassinating the Third Kazekage and conquering a country.

However, he never felt confident that he could easily defeat the combined forces of the Dark Shadow and the Slug Princess.

Especially after witnessing Nara Ranke seize control of the Third Kazekage's puppet as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

Sasori of the Red Sand felt that he was probably going to be defeated by the Konoha ninja this time.

Puppet masters only have so many methods.

Puppet, mechanism, venom, scroll.

The various abilities displayed by the Dark Shadow, especially that unpredictable space-time ninjutsu, are too strong a counter to puppeteers!

If Nara Rinka hadn't brought Tsunade with him.

Sasori of the Red Sand may continue to put up a stubborn resistance.

For example, the use of large-scale poison gas...

But Nara Ranka brought Tsunade along, who is arguably the best medical ninja in the ninja world!

Then what's the point of fighting ghosts?

The puppet would be snatched away as soon as it was taken out; the mechanisms couldn't break through the black wall's defenses; venom couldn't do anything to the Slug Princess; and as for the scroll...

Sasori of the Red Sand did not believe that the Fourth Hokage of Konoha would give him the opportunity to use the scroll.

Therefore, Sasori of the Red Sand decided to feign death tactically.

In his original plan, the shadowy figure would not be able to detect his "feigned death".

The other party might notice something strange about the disintegration of his puppet, and thus collect all the parts of his puppet for further research...

As a result, Nara Ranka exposed his true colors!

Regenerating nucleus!

This is the true form of Sasori of the Red Sand.

Even a human puppet cannot completely detach itself from its physical body.

A ninja's chakra is created by combining physical and mental energy.

Sasori of the Red Sand was also unable to completely abandon his physical body.

That scorpion-shaped cylinder—the regeneration core—is the final body tissue of Sasori of the Red Sand.

Once Nara Rinka completely destroys the regenerative core.

Then Sasori of the Red Sand will immediately die.

"The Regeneration Core is a special secret technique that I developed alone. How did the Shadow of Darkness know about its existence? And how did it even reveal its real name?"

Sasori of the Red Sand was lost in thought.

If you can't beat them, then so be it.

Their own secrets were completely exposed by the enemy.

Are all the ninjas of Konoha monsters?

(End of this chapter)