Facing the black snake's audacious words, Seisuke could only sigh. Snakes from Ryūchi Cave were mostly like this. He decided to let it go. Without the black snake, he really might not be able to escape.
But now that the black snake was going to face off against the Third Kazekage and Sasori, he felt a bit nervous.
"Hold your breath," the black snake suddenly said.
Seisuke immediately obeyed. The black snake took a deep breath, swelling its body significantly. Then, a large amount of purple poisonous fog spewed out from its mouth. In an instant, the area within a few hundred meters was filled with the black snake's poisonous fog.
Covering his mouth and nose, Sasori stood in the air on a platform made of iron sand, looking down at the extremely low - visibility poisonous fog below. He controlled the Third Kazekage to attack with iron sand.
"Over there!"
The black snake's huge figure was particularly conspicuous in the poisonous fog. The iron sand condensed into various large polygons and crashed down from the sky.
However, the black snake had already sensed his attack and easily dodged. In the poisonous fog, it said, "Hold on tight. Whether we can knock him down depends on you!"
Then it swung its tail, throwing Seisuke off.
Breaking through the encirclement of the poisonous fog, Seisuke gasped for breath and flew towards Sasori at high speed. Even though his body was pierced, his expression remained unchanged. After all, he felt no pain.
"Leo Kick!"
Flames blazed on his leg as he descended like a shooting star!
"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Wall!"
An iron sand wall intercepted Seisuke's kick. "Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
The main body jumped away, and the shadow clones shouted in unison, "Art is an explosion!"
Boom!!
The iron sand wall was shattered by the explosions of the shadow clones, revealing Sasori's indifferent face inside.
"Mirror Fire Flowers!"
Seisuke waved his hand, creating a sea of fire that engulfed Sasori. Soon after, two figures flew out of the sea of fire.
One was the human puppet of the Third Kazekage, and the other was Sasori, who had wrapped himself in iron sand.
The iron sand on his body and in the sky that was devoured by the flames scattered and fell onto the sandy ground, turning into ordinary sand.
He could no longer control it.
"What is this..."
"High - temperature demagnetization," Seisuke said with a smile. "When the temperature reaches a certain level, magnetism disappears. So..."
He pointed at Sasori and said, "In the face of this fire, your Magnet Release is no match."
If Sasori hadn't been quick enough, he would have been injured by the previous attack.
"Is that so?"
Sasori rarely laughed. "Your flames still consume chakra. How much do you have left? Iron Sand Rain!"
The iron sand condensed into thin needles again. In the huge flame,the iron sand turned into non - magnetic iron grains. Behind him, the black snake's huge body charged forward, opening its big mouth wide, ready to swallow Sasori in one gulp.
However, an iron sand cube appeared, prying open its mouth. The black snake shook its head, spitting out the iron sand in its mouth. "Brat! You're courting death!"
It opened its mouth and spat out a large amount of venom, which landed on the iron sand, instantly corroding a big hole.
"Troublesome!"
Sasori frowned. With this summoned beast around, the difficulty of capturing Seisuke had increased significantly.
"What's your name?"
He suddenly asked.
"Asakawa Seisuke. Sasori, your grandmother is in the middle of a war."
"Oh? You recognize me? But what does my grandmother's war have to do with me? I only do what I want."
"Tsk, your voice sounds so strange. If your parents were alive, would you have grown into a useless person like Merlin? I can't get over how odd your voice is."
Seisuke jumped back onto the black snake's head, deciding to flee. Sasori was strong enough to kill the so - called "strongest Kazekage," the Third Kazekage. At most, he and the black snake wouldn't be killed, considering his own abilities were quite overpowered. But his chakra had been greatly consumed due to summoning the black snake and maintaining his elementalization. If they dragged on, he would die.
"Black snake, retreat! Return to Ryūchi Cave."
"The summoning time isn't up yet, and I'm going to eat this kid."
The black snake was unhappy. It didn't come here just to help someone escape. But Seisuke wouldn't listen to it. He released the summoning technique and entered Ryūchi Cave with the black snake.
"Gone? It doesn't matter. Asakawa Seisuke, your body will be mine."
Putting away the human puppet, Sasori didn't care that Seisuke knew he had assassinated the Third Kazekage. After all, he had already done it. Unless Chiyo - baasan and Ebizo came after him together, the other Sunagakure ninjas weren't worthy of his fear.
He returned to the oasis to finish the work he had left unfinished.
In Ryūchi Cave
The black snake and Seisuke appeared by the water pool. The black snake threw Seisuke off its head and angrily said, "Do you think I'll lose?"
"Of course not. But time is running out, and I don't have much chakra left. So it's better to retreat for now. We can deal with it later. That guy is not easy to deal with."
Seisuke plopped down and said, "That guy is a genius among puppet masters. He even killed the Third Kazekage. I don't want to fight him head - on for the time being. What bad luck do I have? Why did I run into such a monster?"
Had he been too unlucky recently?
"I don't care. Only the chakra of the strong is interesting to devour. Humph! This is the last time."
The black snake snorted, clearly very displeased, and then dived into the water pool.
Seisuke also needed to return to the base camp to report this news to Orochimaru.
He found a snake to swallow him. On the other side, the white snake on Orochimaru's table raised its head. Seeing this, Orochimaru immediately summoned the snake that had swallowed Seisuke through the blood contract.
Seisuke crawled out of the snake's mouth, covered in slime.
Orochimaru said, "It seems you've encountered a powerful enemy. Otherwise, you wouldn't have used the reverse summoning technique to come here from Ryūchi Cave."
As he cleaned the slime off his body, Seisuke said, "My opponent was Chiyo's grandson. And, Teacher Orochimaru, I know who killed the Third Kazekage."
Hearing this, Orochimaru narrowed his eyes. "You don't mean to say that Chiyo's grandson assassinated the Third Kazekage, do you?"
"Yes. Not only that, but the Third Kazekage was made into a human puppet by Chiyo's grandson, Sasori, while still retaining his kekkei genkai. He can use Magnet Release: Iron Sand. I ran back because I accidentally ran into him."
"A puppet that retains its kekkei genkai... This is truly ironic. The Third Kazekage, who could nullify puppets, was turned into a puppet. Fate really likes to play tricks."
Orochimaru laughed mockingly and then said with satisfaction, "Well done, Seisuke - kun. This information of yours is very important to Konoha. Your team has been fighting for so long, and it's time to go back to the village and rest."
Hearing that he could rest, Seisuke's eyes lit up. He had been through so much in the war. Finally, he could have a good rest.
Compared to the front - line battlefield, the peaceful village was like paradise on earth.