The next day, at the Anbu headquarters.
"Captain... why hasn't he arrived yet?"
In the squad room shared by Yuhara and the others, Kizuna voiced this question.
The assembly time had already arrived, but their squad captain, Gojo, still had not shown up. It seemed rather strange.
Yuhara yawned and said in a seemingly casual tone, "Who knows? Maybe something happened. Perhaps we'll be getting a new captain soon."
Yuhara was wearing a completely different mask now, looking as though nothing had happened. He had not slept all night and was already feeling drowsy. Fortunately, the squad had no guard duty today, so he could slack off and rest for a while.
Actually, even if the squad had originally been assigned a mission, it should have been canceled by now. After all, their captain was gone, and the team was no longer complete.
During yesterday's incident, these two Anbu ninja had not been responsible for anything important. They had merely been inexperienced rookies who had been deceived. However, whether they needed an explanation was for their superiors to decide, and Yuhara had no place to comment.
Keeping one's mouth shut was the way Anbu ninja survived.
The Anbu probably did not have the time to assign Yuhara and the others a new captain for the moment, because thanks to the mess certain people had caused, the atmosphere within Konoha had become rather tense.
Shimura Danzō was making trouble for no reason.
From the perspective of Imperial Studies, many rulers liked to use Cruel Officials to do their dirty work. Once the work was finished, they would kill those officials to stabilize public sentiment. The ruler himself remained an unsullied white lotus from beginning to end, at most claiming to have been deceived by wicked villains.
In Konoha, Shimura Danzō was