At this very moment, in this pitch-black alternate dimension, the enthusiasm of almost every shinobi had been completely stirred up!
After all, the rewards given by the Lord of the Myriad Worlds were simply too generous!
Whether it was the Mangekyo Sharingan or the ninjutsu that the Fourth Raikage had called the pinnacle of Lightning Release, either one was enough to make any shinobi green with envy!
Therefore, the moment the Lord of the Myriad Worlds finished speaking, the shinobi began throwing out guesses one after another.
The members of the Akatsuki were no exception.
Kisame looked at Uchiha Itachi and teased, “Hey, I’m saying, the eighth biggest show-off should be Itachi, right? After all, if the younger brother is a show-off, there’s no reason the older brother can’t be one too!”
After witnessing his beloved younger brother’s growth in the two videos, Uchiha Itachi was in a good mood.
Hearing this, he didn’t get angry.
Instead, in his usual indifferent tone, he quietly redirected the suspicion elsewhere.
“It won’t be me. I think Kakuzu is more likely.”
Kakuzu immediately shouted in displeasure, “Hey, hey! I’m so low-key. What does this have to do with me?! I think it’s Sasori!”
Sasori didn’t want to argue with them and said, “Me? How could it be me? I’m a hundred percent sure it’s Deidara!”
Upon hearing this, Deidara was just about to loudly object.
Just then, the voice of the Lord of the Myriad Worlds rang out!
“Bingo! Congratulations to Sasori of the Red Sand from the Akatsuki for guessing correctly!”
“The eighth biggest show-off is indeed Deidara!”
“As your reward, you can choose two of the 298 human puppets you possess and have them reincarnated as living people!”
Sasori was currently hidden inside his puppet Hiruko.
Upon hearing this, he was initially startled.
Only he knew the exact number of puppets he possessed.
How could this Lord of the Myriad Worlds casually reveal it?
But immediately afterward, when he realized exactly what the Lord of the Myriad Worlds was saying,
Sasori trembled violently, an expression of disbelief appearing in his eyes.
He raised his head and looked toward the pitch-black space above him.
His voice trembled as he asked, “Really? You can really turn my human puppets back into living people?”
The voice of the Lord of the Myriad Worlds was exceptionally gentle.
“Of course. But only two.”
Sasori could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart and summoned the two human puppets he cherished the most!
Two loud “Bang! Bang!” sounds rang out behind him as clouds of smoke billowed forth.
When the smoke dispersed, two seemingly ordinary human puppets, one man and one woman, appeared.
In the distance, where the people of the Hidden Sand Village had gathered, almost everyone’s attention had already turned toward the Akatsuki the moment the Lord of the Myriad Worlds announced that Sasori had guessed correctly.
Chiyo was no exception.
And when she saw the two human puppets Sasori had summoned, her entire body trembled violently.
“My son! My daughter-in-law!”
These two human puppets were none other than her son and daughter-in-law, who had been killed by the White Fang of Konoha during the Second Shinobi World War!
Chiyo stared at Sasori of the Red Sand, hidden inside Hiruko, her lips trembling as she murmured, “Sasori of the Red Sand… Sasori of the Red Sand? Could it be… my missing grandson?”
The voice of the Lord of the Myriad Worlds asked with a hint of amusement, “Are these the two human puppets?”
Sasori hurriedly replied, “Yes! These are the ones!”
The two human puppets he had summoned were none other than his parents!
If his parents hadn’t been killed by the White Fang of Konoha when he was young, he could have lived a very happy life.
If this “Lord of the Myriad Worlds” could really bring his parents back to life…
Just thinking about it made Sasori incredibly excited.
The voice of the Lord of the Myriad Worlds rang out.
“All right. Once we’ve finished watching the video, I’ll reincarnate these two human puppets.”
Immediately afterward, the video began playing once again above the pitch-black alternate dimension!
“[Counting Down the Ten Biggest Show-Offs in the Shinobi World]”
“Number Eight: Deidara!”
“Character Evaluation: Art is explosion—the kind of existence willing to use his life to show off!”
The next moment, the video began playing.
The video was very short, containing only a single scene.
Deidara’s entire body had transformed into black threads.
At the center of his chest was a black sphere.
In the video, Deidara spread his arms wide, his face filled with fanaticism as he shouted, “All right, fight! Rejoice! Despair!”
“Cry out!”
“My art…”
Immediately afterward, all the black threads converged into the black sphere on his chest.
Every shinobi watching the video could sense the terrifying aura of destruction contained within that black sphere!
Suddenly!
The black sphere erupted with millions of rays of light!
Boom!
An explosion powerful enough to seemingly destroy the heavens and earth erupted violently!
The forest, the birds, everything was swallowed by the massive explosion!
The explosion expanded, then expanded again, and continued spreading farther and farther.
Until finally, it transformed into a five-pointed-star-shaped formation that seemed to span the heavens and earth.
And Deidara’s voice rang out from within the explosion!
“My art… is explosion!”
The video abruptly ended.
Every shinobi was left utterly shaken by the scene, their hearts unable to calm down for a long time.
They looked at one another, and they had no choice but to admit that using his own life to create such a massive explosion, Deidara truly deserved to be called the eighth biggest show-off!
After watching the video, Deidara was even more excited than everyone else.
“Such a beautiful explosion! It’s truly beautiful!”
“If I could devote my life to an explosion like that, then I definitely wouldn’t have lived in vain!”
The other members of the Akatsuki looked at Deidara with confused expressions, completely unable to understand his way of thinking.
But the voice of the Lord of the Myriad Worlds rang out once again.
“All right, Sasori of the Red Sand, I’ll reincarnate these two human puppets for you now.”
“This will take some time.”
“In the meantime, everyone can guess who ranks seventh among the Ten Biggest Show-Offs. Here’s a little hint: the farther we go, the more generous the rewards for correct guesses will be!”