After killing the leader, Keita Otake did not leave immediately.
Instead, he continued wandering through the base.
He needed to find the ordinary people who had been abducted.
Although he had no idea how to arrange for them after rescuing them, he could hardly leave them to die, could he?
Yet after searching the entire base, he had encountered plenty of people in black robes, but the only abducted civilians he found were the group he had already seen.
This organization surely had abducted ordinary people more than once or twice. There was no way this was their only batch.
He suspected that this was not the organization's only base.
Still, he would not keep going after them.
He had acted this time because he feared that killing one of their members would bring trouble down on his village.
After all, the subordinates this organization sent out to abduct civilians left trails that could be followed.
It would be easy to investigate where someone had disappeared.
But compared to the destruction of an entire base, the death of a single subordinate was insignificant.
He concealed his face and changed his physique, then released the civilians.
After spending some time erasing the traces he had left inside the base, he departed.
As for what would happen to the base after he left, that was beyond his control, and he had no desire to get involved.
Of course, all of that rested on one condition: it must not implicate him.
Finding the base had taken several hours, but returning to the village took less than one.
After returning to the village, he followed his usual habit of visiting his master's statue whenever something happened to tell her about it.
This time was no exception.
Hinata listened to her eldest disciple recount