Standing amid a heap of mangled, bloody corpses, Hyuga Minato's face showed no unusual reaction.
His pale-blue gleaming eyes swept over the scene. He lowered his head slightly and pondered for a moment before looking up and murmuring softly.
"It looks like I should take the Main Branch's eyes as well. That should be enough power..."
As his voice slowly faded, his figure had already vanished from the scene.
Meanwhile, within the Land of Fire, two slender figures were racing through a lush forest along the road to Konoha.
"Hey, Sasuke, not that I'm saying anything, but have you really decided to follow that... um... that person's orders?"
The speaker was Fu Ryosuke, his freckled face turned toward Sasuke as he asked curiously.
In response, Sasuke, wearing a conical hat and wrapped in a black robe, merely glanced at him and replied coldly.
"Otherwise, do you think we're going to Konoha for sightseeing...?"
Shot down by Sasuke, Fu Ryosuke could only sigh helplessly.
His state of mind was rather strange at the moment. An ordinary person like him had somehow managed to survive the Hollow Spirit Empire's trials, and now he was even traveling alongside the legendary Uchiha Clan's genius.
Thinking about such a life gave him a little something to look forward to. After all, he could at least be considered somebody now.
But whenever he thought of that person he had met with Sasuke deep within Las Noches, he could not help but tremble.
After all, he had investigated the Hollow Spirit Empire before joining it, yet he had never heard of such a major figure within the empire.
But the pressure that person exuded was all too real. Fu Ryosuke would have believed it even if someone told him that person was the master of Las