Several hours later...
At the Root Training Base.
Shimura Danzō narrowed his eyes as he looked at the scene before him.
At present,
the training ground was littered with corpses.
Someone had sent an anonymous letter to Konoha.
After receiving the intelligence, Konoha dispatched more than a dozen ninja.
Once they arrived, they rescued the boys and girls who had been lured here.
That was also how Shimura Danzō learned that something had gone wrong with their base.
Not long after...
his subordinates had the results of their investigation.
"Lord Danzou... everyone is dead. Even Lord Ryoma failed to escape the killer..."
His subordinate's tone was filled with shock.
They still did not know what the killer was.
Even one of the strongest members of Root had been murdered.
"I understand..."
Shimura Danzō waved his hand, dismissing his subordinate.
"Orochimaru, what do you think?"
"Heh heh heh..."
Orochimaru had come along as well, standing at his side.
It was also Orochimaru who had identified the remains of Aburame Ryoma through various methods.
It was already difficult enough to find any trace that he had ever existed.
Hyuga Sho's Fire Release explosion had directly roasted Aburame Ryoma's insect-swarm body into ashes.
If he had possessed an ordinary human body,
he would not have suffered such severe damage.
His body, made of split insects, had instead made him even more vulnerable to Fire Release.
After all, roasting insects to death was much easier than burning a person alive.
"It should... have been Sho-kun's doing."
Orochimaru's deduction closely matched Shimura Danzō's own thoughts.
He had dared to charge straight into the Root base and kill everyone.
With such audacity, who else could it have been but Hyuga Sho?
However,
Hyuga Sho's ability to kill Aburame Ryoma had still exceeded Shimura Danzō's expectations.
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