Sudden Change
Chapter 138: A Night of Shocking Changes
"Drip, drip..."
Blood flowed as the ninja, throat pierced by Sasori's tail, stared wide-eyed, quickly losing his life.
Scattered ninja corpses littered the ground, some with gaping head wounds, others with exposed chests, and still others with faces turning blue.
Not a single good material...
Sasori disgustedly flung the ninja from his tail, the corpse landing with a thud, before turning his gaze towards the distant buildings.
His childhood spent waiting at home had instilled in him a deep aversion to waiting or being kept waiting.
That Deidara... hasn't finished yet? He stood still, a hint of impatience in his eyes.
"Boom!"
The wooden structure exploded violently, flames soaring into the sky. Explosions followed one after another, turning the entire Daimyo's Residence into a sea of fire in a matter of moments.
"Hahahahahaha!"
Deidara's unrestrained laughter echoed through the night sky as he approached, riding atop a Clay Owl used for nighttime reconnaissance, his face filled with exhilaration. "Sasori, my man, how about we just level this place? What do you say? Hmm..."
Normally, the leader wouldn't allow him to create explosions everywhere as freely as he did before joining the Akatsuki Organization. This time, with the restrictions on his attacks lifted, he had been excited for quite a while, but he hadn't expected it to be resolved so easily.
Not satisfying at all.
"Whatever." Sasori glanced at the Daimyo's Residence, which had been almost completely flattened, and vanished in a whoosh.
With the mission complete, he couldn't be bothered with anything else. The trashy materials from this small country weren't worthy of being added to his collection.
"Guji~ Guji"
The corners of Deidara's mouth stretched high, looking extremely excited. The mouths in his palms began to chew clay incessantly, and the owl beneath him gradually ascended.
"Gonna make a big one, hmm..." High in the sky, his cloak fluttered wildly in the wind.
Countless clay bombs fell continuously along his flight path.
"Katsu!" he shouted, and the districts near the Daimyo's Residence were instantly engulfed in flames. Watching the brilliant explosions and the ensuing fire spreading beneath him, a flush of excitement rose on his face.
Sensing the amount of Chakra remaining, he began to create and scatter clay bombs again, reveling, "This is art!"
"Katsu!"—"Boom!"
The room shook in the midst of the massive explosions. Lin Ke quickly opened his eyes, got up, opened the window, and ran to the highest point of the hotel.
This is... The area where the nobles resided had already turned into a sea of fire, and the explosions were still approaching.
He quickly locked onto an extremely powerful Chakra signature in the sky.
"There's a ninja, attacking this city..." Gaara appeared with a Sand Body Flicker. He looked up, the scale of the scene immense, with fire everywhere, the night sky burned as bright as day. With his eyesight, he could clearly see the ninja in the sky constantly scattering strange things and creating explosions.
Akatsuki's Azure Dragon, the explosion artist Deidara.
Lin Ke thought of the name in his mind, watching the figure gradually approach overhead, and formed hand seals—
Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall! An arc-shaped earthen wall rose up, enveloping the entire hotel.
"Thud!" A muffled sound came from the flowing earthen wall, sending mud flying, but it failed to penetrate the Earth Flow Wall.
I really hate this guy's eyes.
Gaara watched Deidara, who had stopped to observe after failing to hit anything, and felt a sense of aversion for some reason.
It's like... the me from before. He quickly realized that the desire for destruction in those eyes was very similar to his own in the past, but a new question arose.
What was he like now?
He felt a little lost.
"We need to leave here immediately." Lin Ke looked at Deidara, who hadn't lingered and had left directly, and said to his three subordinates with a serious expression.
The Land of Rivers was being destroyed. The new central government had barely warmed its seat and declared its unification before being blown to pieces. This small country...
What was even more troublesome was that the Akatsuki Organization members usually acted in pairs. With Deidara's appearance, Sasori of the Red Sand must be nearby, and he still had a spy who originally belonged to them by his side.
From the manga, Yura, the Sand Ninja Village Jonin controlled by the Mind Control Sand Manipulation Technique, could be sensed and have the technique released and orders given from afar by Sasori of the Red Sand while he was in the desert, even during a meeting in the Sand Ninja Village.
Yakushi Kabuto's jutsu inside his head should have been undone by Orochimaru, but he can still act as a double agent, I'm afraid it's not as simple as just undoing it.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Lin Ke and his three subordinates sped through the city, not trying to put out the fire or interfere with Deidara bombing in the sky, rushing in a straight line out of the city, with Yakushi Kabuto being carried like cargo by the shadow.
Since they chose a place to stay close to the edge of the city during the day, they quickly left the Capital and entered the wilderness.
"Chirp!" The sound of air being torn apart rang out.
"Puff!" Senbon with a dark luster pierced into the sand, losing their force after penetrating the sand, and fell to the ground.
The four stopped.
"Sasori-sama, long time no see." Yakushi Kabuto, who was being carried by the shadow, looked up and said with a smile, "It's been more than two years, right?"
Wearing a black robe with red clouds, Hiruko observed the group, his tone slightly joyful, "Jinchuriki, and Konoha Village's Lin Ke..."
"Kabuto, you really brought me a great gift." The tail behind him swayed and stretched out.
Sasori?
Kankuro, controlling Crow to stand in front of him, felt a little uneasy when he heard this title.
"Thump!" In a muffled sound, Hiruko's tail nailed a shadow that was trying to sneak attack to the ground, and then a group of shadows swarmed up.
"Crack~ Pop!"
Hiruko's mouth opened, and countless Senbon spewed out, piercing through the bodies of several shadows in front of him. As it spun, overwhelming Senbon and Kunai shot out, and shadows that couldn't dodge fell in pieces.
"Bang!"
Kunai with Exploding Tags attached failed to attack the five people on the opposite side in the chaos. A solid and indestructible Rashomon rose, blocking all the attacks. Even a dozen Kunai with Exploding Tags couldn't leave any traces on it.
"Squeak~" In a gloomy atmosphere, the door opened, and Maki and Uchiha Fugaku walked out.
As expected, it's the jutsu in the intelligence that can summon the dead... such a ninja must become my most valuable collection.
Sasori looked at the Three-Tomoe Sharingan opened by the middle-aged Uchiha on the opposite side, and a little excitement rose in his ancient well-like heart.
What leader wants to capture the brat alive... for him, only art is the most important. How could he miss such a top-quality material because of the leader's order.
He looked at Maki and Uchiha Fugaku, who were vaguely surrounding and blocking his pursuit of the five escaping people, and his prosthetic arm shot out.
You can't escape.
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