After Mei Terumi left, Uchiha Yue, recovering alone in the cave, could not help but feel a strange emotion stirring within him.
However, Uchiha Yue had always possessed firm willpower. His thoughts were only somewhat chaotic during the short time after Mei Terumi had left. By the time another group of Kirigakure ninja tracked his whereabouts to the front of that cave, Uchiha Yue, using Purple Eye to observe their movements, had once again become Kirigakure's butcher—the Asura who had nearly driven Kirigakure into despair.
Moreover, with the extraordinary insight of Purple Eye, Uchiha Yue, having once again become Asura, soon evaded the searches of the surrounding Kirigakure ninja. Just as he had told Mei Terumi, he did not kill another Kirigakure ninja. Only after all the Kirigakure ninja searching for him had vanished from Purple Eye's range did Uchiha Yue slowly leave the cave where he had been recovering and move elsewhere to continue recuperating.
As for why Uchiha Yue had stopped slaughtering Kirigakure ninja, one reason was that he did not wish to fight them and risk attracting a true Kage-level expert. The other reason was something he had to admit, whether he wanted to or not. He feared that, while fighting those Kirigakure ninja, Purple Eye might not detect things in time and he would kill Mei Terumi, who was now a Kirigakure Anbu.
If Uchiha Yue truly killed Mei Terumi, he would probably regret it deeply.
Unfortunately, Uchiha Yue, who wanted nothing more than to avenge his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, was simply unwilling to admit it.
Yet even if he did not want to admit it, when Uchiha Yue searched his own heart, he had to acknowledge that he had gone soft.
When it came to Mei Terumi, Uchiha Yue, the Asura of the Shinobi World,