Minato seemed to have had the same thought. Before long, the three of them hurriedly met up with Minato and headed toward the border of the Land of Fire.
Along the way, Master Minato asked, "How did the mission go? Did you let any stragglers escape, or leave behind any details that weren't dealt with?"
Master Minato was still rather worried about the three youngsters, even though he had repeatedly reminded them before they set out.
People were not made of stone. What if one of the three had gone soft-hearted and couldn't bring themselves to finish someone off after hearing them beg for mercy?
Well, Uchiha Mai could be ruled out first. He was more ruthless than anyone during training. The main concern was Might Guy.
As Minato spoke, he deliberately glanced at Might Guy, making the elite Anbu ninja's skin crawl.
Could Teacher Minato already know that I destroyed the backup of the important intelligence?
"There was a small accident."
Uchiha Mai, the acting captain, answered, "All four targets were killed, and their bodies have been stored in the scroll.
However, we accidentally destroyed the intelligence station's backup records during the fight. We couldn't find any other backups afterward, so we were afraid we might have left behind important evidence. We simply burned the place down."
When ninjas failed to find anything important while searching corpses, they felt as uneasy as programmers who finished writing a program without finding any bugs.
We weren't programmers. We were merely carriers of bugs. How could there possibly be programmers who didn't write bugs?
"Burning it down was fine. Senior Sakumo never said we had to bring anything back." Minato nodded. The three youngsters were fairly reliable in their work.
Several hours later, the four arrived at the border between the Land