Kamizuki Yu did not spare Gaara another glance.
Those eyes that had just shown confusion needed time for it to ferment.
He merely left behind his silhouette, which stretched beneath the moonlight before dissolving into nothing and vanishing from where he stood.
"Captain!"
An ANBU flickered into place beside his leader, his voice carrying uncontrollable shock.
"Should we pursue him?"
The ANBU captain raised a hand, stopping his subordinate's impulse.
His palm was still slick with sweat.
Pursue him?
With what? They could not even catch a trace of the other party's movement.
He glanced below.
Gaara was still sitting where he was, clutching that teddy bear without moving.
Yet the killing intent that had frozen the entire area showed faint, disjointed fluctuations.
Like a machine on the verge of collapse, its internal gears had already begun to slip out of order.
"Seal off the scene. Report every single thing that happened tonight to Lord Kazekage."
"Yes!"
The ANBU captain cast one final look in the direction where that man had vanished, then turned and left.
Sunagakure was destined to have a sleepless night.
Kamizuki Yu reappeared upon the boundless yellow sands.
He paid no attention to the commotion rising from the village behind him.
To him, Rasa's response was like a system administrator discovering that a server had been breached and only knowing how to frantically yank out the network cable.
Low-level and ineffective.
He needed to find the true root of the problem.
Or rather, a more suitable "sign-in location" to obtain the "administrator privileges" needed to completely fix this BUG.
That ancient intelligence map from Amegakure overlapped in his mind with his newly acquired Magnet Release perception, constructing a three-dimensional directional coordinate.
He avoided Sunagakure's patrol range and headed deeper into the more desolate, more deathly