Pulling off the hood, a young face was revealed, along with a pair of green eyes.
Sasori of the Red Sand!
Kakuzu!
After appearing, Kakuzu glanced at Qifeng, then looked at Sasori, his tone slightly heavy as he said, "This is the mission you wanted me to help with? The Third Mizukage and Three-Tails from Kirigakure?"
Puppet Sasori said calmly, "What? Are you afraid?"
"Afraid," Kakuzu admitted directly. "That Spear of Judgment from Konoha made it very clear. The opponent is ostensibly the Third Mizukage, but in reality, it's Uchiha Madara. He's not an easy opponent to deal with. If we're going to fight him... I need more money!"
Indeed, in Kakuzu's eyes, nothing was more important than money.
Puppet Sasori replied, "Next time, I can help you complete a mission for free. The conditions I promised you before remain unchanged. The bounty for the Third Mizukage will also be all yours."
"Since that's the case, there's nothing to hesitate about. Besides, there's also the Spear of Judgment from Konoha here. Dealing with a Three-Tails shouldn't be a problem," Kakuzu said, taking off his clothes, directly revealing the dense patterns on his body, and the masks of the Earth Grudge Fear.
Back then, he failed to assassinate Hashirama Senju of Konoha, which led to his current state.
Now, he really wanted to try and see if he could kill Uchiha Madara, who was as famous as Hashirama Senju!
Chapter 183: Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms
Kakuzu, Sasori of the Red Sand.
Uchiha Madara looked at the two people who suddenly appeared. His attention had been focused on controlling the Third Mizukage and the Three-Tails, and he hadn't noticed the two hiding in Kusagakure.
Most importantly, he couldn't understand why a rising star from Konoha would be connected to these two rogue ninja?
Judging from the current situation, the three of them were clearly on the same side.
If he were in his prime, Uchiha Madara wouldn't have paid any attention to these three people. Not to mention three, he wouldn't have cared even if there were more.
Or rather, in his prime, no one in the entire ninja world, except for Hashirama Senju, was worthy of his attention.
But now.
The body wasn't his own, and the remaining power was limited. He needed to conserve some to deal with unexpected situations.
The three people in front of him made him feel somewhat棘手.
Of course, it was only somewhat棘手.
Who was he?
He was Uchiha Madara! A person as famous as Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi. The word "retreat" didn't exist in his dictionary.
On the other side.
Qifeng and Puppet Sasori naturally had nothing to say. They were originally the same person, and this was an arrangement he had made after learning that he was going to Kusagakure for a mission.
He contacted Kakuzu under Sasori's identity and invited him to participate in this anticipated battle with great benefits.
However, Kakuzu seemed to still have some reservations about him.
It didn't matter.
As long as Kakuzu was there, he was a natural threat. Even if he only used Earth Grudge Fear to release a few ninjutsu from behind, it would be enough.
The main combat power was still Qifeng and Puppet Sasori.
Of course, Qifeng and Puppet Sasori still had to put on some superficial act.
Puppet Sasori coldly glanced at Qifeng and said indifferently, "Spear of Judgment, I hope you can abide by the conditions you promised me."
Qifeng chuckled lightly, "You are a rogue ninja from Sunagakure, and one of our enemies in Konoha is Sunagakure. The enemy of my enemy can be my friend. Of course, I will not fail to fulfill any of my promises to you. I hope you don't slack off.
And don't die, either. No matter what, the opponent is Uchiha Madara. Even if he's old now, he's still a terrifying existence who can control the Third Mizukage and the Three-Tails at the same time."
"Hmph." Puppet Sasori snorted and took out a scroll from his ninja pouch with the character "Red" written on it.
"You should take care of yourself. If you die, Kakuzu and I wouldn't mind helping you collect your corpse. The value of your head in the underground bounty world is not cheap."
Hearing this, Kakuzu glanced at Qifeng intentionally or unintentionally, seemingly a little tempted.
Uchiha Madara didn't interrupt their exchange.
Because he could see from Qifeng's conversation that the three of them were clearly only temporary partners and not stable.
He narrowed his eyes, and his pupils flickered.
"Here it comes." Qifeng stopped "bickering" with Puppet Sasori.
As for the so-called conditions, he didn't actually know what they were. He just made up a few sentences to make it sound more reasonable.
"Water Release! Great Waterfall Technique!"
Rumble—
Once again, a monstrous torrent of water swept towards the three of them.
Because of the help of the Three-Tails, even though this was inland, the power of the Water Release performed by the Third Mizukage was no less powerful than in the Land of Water, and even stronger.
Tear—
Puppet Sasori was the first to move, directly tearing open the seal on the scroll in his hand. With a flick of his wrist, a large amount of smoke rose, and puppets with dull expressions appeared.
"Red Secret Technique! Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms!"
This time, it was a genuine Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms, not the half-finished product with only a dozen puppets that Qifeng had encountered when he first met Sasori.
A full hundred puppets, controlled by the chakra threads extending from the body opened in Puppet Sasori's chest, densely floated in mid-air.
The outbreak of the Third Shinobi World War greatly increased the mortality rate of ninjas throughout the ninja world. A portion of them were salvaged by Qifeng from the battlefield, and some were salvaged or killed by Puppet Sasori himself in Amegakure.
In total, with day and night production, he finally gathered a full hundred puppets.
This was also the upper limit that Puppet Sasori could currently control. Any more, and the precision of controlling the puppets would be limited. Even now, he couldn't perform very precise control over each puppet.
But it was enough.
You had to know that at least thirty of these hundred puppets were made from the corpses of jonin, including some elite jonin, such as the previous puppet disciple, Puppet Yekura, and later the Big Fool among the Kaguya Three Idiots, and even the Seven Ninja Swordsmen who died at Qifeng's hands.
However, he made some adjustments to the appearance of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and the swords were temporarily not handed over to the puppets.
The rest were at least elite chunin and special jonin.
Even so, it was definitely a force to be reckoned with.
