They left the hall.
"Vice Captain, why didn't we take that child with us too?!"
The Uchiha clansman carrying Kayo could not help asking.
Jian Yi fell silent for a moment.
"Because I saw resistance in that child's eyes. Don't worry. She'll come looking for us sooner or later; we just need to wait a little longer. After all, that child depends heavily on that man!"
"Yes, Vice Captain!"
Only then did Kayo Senju react. Her blank little face glanced faintly at the unfamiliar young man holding her.
She looked as though she had been frightened, but in truth, her little mind was already racing at high speed.
As a dolphin-type Cursed Child, she was not particularly capable in combat, but she possessed an IQ as high as 210.
Carefully recalling everything that had happened in the hall, a trace of emotion gradually appeared on her little face.
Because she had already guessed who these people were.
From their neat uniforms, their mannerisms unlike those of any civilian organization, and the faint fear in Seitenshi's eyes before they left—
There could only be one answer. These people must be the mysterious foreign force Seitenshi had mentioned.
Only that could reasonably explain everything.
At that thought, Kayo looked at the young man who was gently holding her.
"Big brother, where are you taking us? And Shogen... how is he?"
Hearing the girl's soft, sweet voice, the young man felt a pang of pity.
They had heard everything clearly from outside just now. That man had merely treated the girl before them as a tool.
Yet she was still so concerned about him. What kind of shitty bastard was that?
"You're worried about him?"
The young man did not want to tell her that the man had already been killed by the