Hiding in the sand, splitting into many places, starting with Arkham

The main reason they could fight to a draw like this was because the little boy puppet had slightly superior performance, pursued extreme agility, and had too much of a speed advantage, which allowed him to maintain a stalemate.

Creating a puppet like this at the age of nine, is this the value of being the second-best puppet master in the history of the ninja world?

However, if this is all there is to it, it's not enough.

Shimizu manipulated the Fatty, taking heavy steps towards Sasori, while a row of bullet holes popped up on his shoulder, shooting out poisonous needles at Sasori.

Sasori waved his left hand, and the Salamander quickly blocked in front, opening its shield.

Shimizu didn't mind, both sides were very clear that poisonous needles, kunai, and other methods were common ranged attack methods for puppet masters, but unless you were an Uchiha with Sharingan who could play tricks with ninja tools, these things couldn't cause effective damage to non-living puppets.

He was just forcing Sasori to use the Salamander for defense, temporarily unable to fully concentrate on operating the Black Ant, so that the little boy could hold it back with his speed advantage.

Then...

"Black Secret Technique · Pneumatic Fist!"

The air valve inside the Fatty puppet's left arm opened, converting the ultra-high pressure of compressed air into mechanical energy, and with the blessing of chakra, a punch was thrown.

The Black Ant was blown away in an instant, hitting the wall and dropping small pieces of debris.

That was because the Black Ant tried to fight the Pneumatic Fist with its six sharp-pointed arms, but was shattered into pieces by the punch.

Sasori's heart sank.

He had seen the terrifying brute strength of Shimizu's puppet before, but he still underestimated it.

The Black Ant, made of new materials, was unable to compete head-on.

Sasori took the initiative to change his strategy, once again using chakra threads to manipulate the Black Ant against the little boy, while starting to retreat rapidly, always keeping the Salamander in the path between himself and the Fatty puppet.

So far, the only weakness of the Fatty puppet was its speed.

Although its flexibility was acceptable, its speed was inevitably affected due to its large size.

Although it was much faster than an ordinary person running at full speed, it was still slightly insufficient compared to ninjas who regarded speed as a basic skill.

"I've observed that when you used that ninjutsu to unleash brute force with your puppet during previous missions, you had to wait a while each time before using it again. It seems that this move consumes a lot of chakra. If I keep exhausting you like this, do you think you will still win?"

A smile appeared on Sasori's delicate face as he looked at Shimizu.

"You can try. See if my chakra runs out first, or if the Black Ant can't hold on."

Shimizu's expression was calm, but he was secretly delighted that Sasori had guessed wrong.

The biggest consumption of chakra when launching the Pneumatic Fist was using chakra threads to operate the air pump to compress the gas into the air cylinder.

Although the chakra consumption was not small, in fact, under a reasonable mechanical structure, the chakra consumption was not as large as Sasori thought.

The biggest reason limiting the Fatty puppet's ability to launch the Pneumatic Fist was still in terms of hardware. The speed at which the air pump compressed the air and the air pressure that the air cylinder could withstand were limited by the materials.

If the Pneumatic Fist was used frequently regardless of the consequences, it would damage the air pump, making it unusable, which was equivalent to exchanging the puppet's durability for a short burst of power.

Unless he encountered a very dangerous situation, Shimizu would not do this.

"Black Secret Technique · Machine Separation Manipulation."

The Fatty puppet instantly split into more than a dozen individuals and flew out, quickly reassembling in front of Shimizu.

Without Shimizu's own weight, the Fatty puppet's speed increased rapidly, rushing towards Sasori like a tank.

"Boom!"

The powerful Pneumatic Fist slammed into the shield on the surface of the Salamander, smashing a shallow pit.

Sasori scrambled to pull away, and dodged the senbon shot from the Fatty puppet's shoulder.

To make matters worse, the Black Ant's threat to the little boy had been greatly reduced after being severely damaged by the Fatty puppet, and it was about to give out.

Sasori decisively pulled the Black Ant back to his side at the cost of having two arms cut off.

The sound of mechanical twisting rang out, and the Black Ant actively detached its remaining four limbs, opened its abdomen, and ejected slender tubes.

Shimizu, vaguely guessing what Sasori was about to do, also began to retreat, and reached out to use chakra threads to pull the little boy back to his side as quickly as possible.

As Shimizu expected, a large cloud of green poisonous smoke billowed out of the tubes.

Shimizu used chakra threads to activate the switch on the little boy's mechanical arm, then quickly released the chakra threads and formed hand seals.

Three slender blades quickly popped out of the mechanical arm and began to rotate, blowing air.

Shimizu's ninjutsu was also completed.

"Wind Release · Gale Palm!"

Although it was only a relatively basic C-rank Wind Release ninjutsu, and its power was not great, a strong wind still surged up, not only blowing all the poisonous smoke back, but its strong wind pressure also prompted Sasori to hide behind the Salamander to avoid injury.

But that billowing poisonous smoke was not so easy to dodge.

There is no mistake in the first release of the content!

"Cough! Cough cough!"

The Salamander's limbs suddenly slumped to the ground, motionless, and Sasori lay on the ground, coughing loudly, foaming at the mouth.

"Um... are you okay?"

Shimizu used Wind Release again to blow away the poisonous smoke, and asked Sasori.

"Antidote... antidote in the ninja tool bag..."

Sasori's face was pale, and he said with difficulty.

"This is just a nerve toxin made from the juice of the green ground cactus mixed with a volatilizer. The effect is to paralyze the body and cause muscle spasms."

Sasori wiped the foam from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and said lightly.

"Then... do other people have the antidote?"

Sasori sneered and said:

"I made this poison myself. Although it's not very toxic, I added something to the volatilizer. It's not so easy for ordinary people to detoxify this poison..."

"You two brats! What are you doing releasing poison in the base for no reason! If this wasn't the puppet unit, you two would be immediately locked up in the Anbu prison on charges of murdering villagers and threatening the safety of the village!"

A voice like a copper gong came from the edge of the training ground. Suna no Sayama, with a muscular build like a bro, bare-chested, wearing a gas mask, walked towards here fiercely.

"Antidote!"

A palm as big as a fan reached out to Shimizu and Sasori.