But when he was less than a palm's length away from Kurama Mutsu, her figure, which had been walking forward on its own, suddenly faded like an illusion.
Akaboshi could only lunge at empty air.
Kurama Mutsu, who had vanished, seemed to have stepped out of a dream. At some unknown moment, she had already arrived beside Hinata.
She looked at Akaboshi in confusion. How stupid. He couldn't even see through such a simple Genjutsu, yet he made such a big deal out of it. What was he trying to do?
Hinata merely glanced at Akaboshi in response to his rather rude action.
Yet that single glance somehow carried such terrifying force that Akaboshi suddenly shuddered.
But that was all. Hinata had no intention of getting involved any further. The moment she took the meteorite from Kurama Mutsu's hand, the system had already notified her that the mission was complete.
At the same time, the meteorite vanished the instant she held it.
It had clearly been collected by the system. Of course, the others did not know that and only assumed Hinata had used some rare ninjutsu to store the meteorite away.
Having finished everything, Hinata was eager to claim her mission reward and truly had no time to linger here any longer.
So, in the next moment, she turned and left, saying to Naruto and the others, "Have fun, my friends."
At the same time, she thought, I've basically finished dealing with everything. It's about time to return to Konoha.
After all, she had been away for far too long this time.
With her mind made up, she did not plan to return to the Dawn Organization headquarters.
Instead, she planned to use the system rewards directly: two special character summons, plus the Reward Points she had received and