Sasori stood on a treetop, a calm look on his face as he opened a scroll. With a "poof," a puff of white smoke suddenly appeared in front of the scroll.
As the smoke cleared, some lifelike puppets jumped out of the scroll.
Each puppet looked almost exactly like a real person, but was only the size of an adult's hand.
There were hundreds of these puppets, each very detailed, with different facial expressions and even different clothes.
These were puppets Sasori used for practice, each made to be as close as possible to the puppets Hatake Satoru created.
To be fair, the puppets Hatake Satoru made could use abilities converted from his cursed energy.
And Hatake Satoru had plenty of cursed energy, so making something with high attack power like Karna wouldn't tire him out much.
Although he tried to recreate Hatake Satoru's abilities as much as possible in the external design,
Sasori fundamentally couldn't do many things.
For example, these small puppets actually had mechanisms inside and were the same as traditional puppets.
They had no Chakra and no ability to convert and use energy on their own.
Sasori's human puppets could keep their original Chakra and let them have some abilities they had when alive.
But creating something from nothing to control puppets like that was something Sasori couldn't do.
He could only control these puppets to move.
Actually, he could skillfully control those hundreds of human puppets before, and he can still control them now.
It's just that he doesn't need to open his chest cavity. He can use his body as a huge center.
Besides using his hands to control dozens of puppets at the same time, he can also use his body as a center to control other puppets.
The principle is the same as his chest cavity, except that he evenly distributes the Chakra that was limited to that one location around his body.
This creates that effect.
After a long time, the core inside his chest cavity is basically gone. In a sense, he has become the perfect living puppet.
"Block all the deer, block their gaze."
Sasori's voice wasn't loud; it was more light and airy.
Except when arguing with Hatake Satoru, he always spoke in this calm way.
The puppets quickly spread out and soon disappeared into the dense forest.
Each puppet was connected to a very thin and faint Chakra thread, intricately interwoven in the forest.
Sasori couldn't track Hatake Satoru's exact location. In fact, no one could track Hatake Satoru's location in real time.
So he could only expand the search area and block the gaze of all the deer in the forest as much as possible.
Even though Hatake Satoru would wear a mask, his appearing and disappearing and his speed might make him recognizable.
Also, he was going to find Hidan, and if his identity was discovered, it wouldn't be good.
Hatake Satoru was like he found a cheat in the air: he didn't land; he just dashed to the other side.
Hidan's location wasn't too hard to find, since a certain flat area had collapsed in this location, with rocks everywhere, which was pretty obvious.
But it was a little difficult to get directly to that location. Hatake Satoru was teleporting awkwardly, because Hidan was underground, and he couldn't search for him from the treetops.
"Next time, if he's hung somewhere to dry, it'll be easier for me to find him."
Hatake Satoru raised an eyebrow with a sigh.
Soon, he found the exact location and dropped straight down from the air.
As he fell, he pulled off the mask he had clipped to his waist. A thin red string floated away in the wind as Hatake Satoru pulled it off.
Hatake Satoru didn't seem to notice. He took off his sunglasses and put on the mask.
He tied the string behind his head, securing the mask to his face.
Hatake Satoru's mask was a fox with narrow eyes. Under the mask, Hatake Satoru's face always gave off an indescribable sense of mystery.
The fox's narrow eyes emphasized Hatake Satoru's arrogance and cunning, hiding his usual gentle appearance.
There was an inexplicable compatibility between him and the fox.
As Hatake Satoru tied the string behind his head, his feet landed on the ground.
With a "thud," although it was very light—so light that someone nearby wouldn't necessarily be able to hear it—
the sound seemed to spread uncontrollably throughout the forest, and the nearby trees and plants rustled.
It was like a gust of wind had just blown by.
It was a very light sound, but it seemed to cause a very noticeable reaction in this location.
It was the kind of feeling that only happens in extremely quiet places.
Hatake Satoru's pupils contracted slightly, and he looked around.
This feeling was very special, very subtle—the kind of feeling that only a sixth sense could detect.
Fortunately, the deer in the forest within his sensing range were still quiet and didn't have any special reaction.
Hatake Satoru looked around suspiciously, then knelt on the ground and placed his hands on the ground.
The ground was very uneven, and the surrounding trees and plants all had traces of explosions from explosive tags.
But Hatake Satoru couldn't sense Hidan's exact location under the rocks, because Hidan had been blown to pieces, and the pit was very deep.
Not only was the pit very deep, but there were also a lot of rocks below.
If he had to remove the stones one by one, the people noticing Hozuki Mangetsu outside would probably capture him, and they would all be trapped in this forest.
This was a wide area to work with. Hatake Satoru usually used Blue on individual targets, but this location was a very large area.
If he didn't want to attract too much attention, Hatake Satoru would have just blasted a hole in this area, which would have been much easier.
But the identities of the people here were a bit complicated, and if any of them were discovered, it would be a big deal.
Hozuki Mangetsu was a former Mizukage, and Hatake Satoru was a Konoha diplomat. The fact that these two came to rescue Hidan would be a very difficult story to explain.
Plus, Sasori's identity couldn't be scrutinized. This was really risking a lot for a reward.
---
Read 30 advanced chapters on my patreon
patreon.com/GustinaKamiya
---