The missing person had no name.
At least, not on the list Root had handed over.
But having no name did not mean leaving no trace.
Che spent the entire night reorganizing all the recent acknowledgments.
The shops' supply chain.
The Old Training Ground.
The Records Room fire.
The Resettlement Zone complaint template.
Once the four threads were laid together, the gaps became glaring.
Before certain stages of a mission, an unnamed intermediary always appeared.
In certain supply movements, a transport confirmation was always missing.
In certain witness records, there was always a mention of an "unidentified person briefly stopping by."
Viewed separately, these things all looked like incomplete records.
But arranged into a timeline, they looked like the same person's shadow.
When Che handed the timeline to Gen, his eyes were bloodshot.
"He was there."
Gen took it.
There were no names on the timeline.
Only a designation.
Missing person A.
First suspected appearance: two days before the irregularities in the shops' supply chain.
Second suspected appearance: the night before the torn pages were discovered at the Old Training Ground.
Third suspected appearance: one day before the Records Room caught fire.
Fourth suspected appearance: the day the Resettlement Zone complaint template spread.
Uchiha Jun felt a chill as he read.
"One person?"
Che shook his head.
"Not sure. It could also be the same group of people. But the way the traces were handled was very similar."
That was even more frightening.
If it was one person, Root had a regular outside operative.
If it was a group, this method of purging outside operatives had already become an established system.
Fugaku delivered the timeline to the Hokage Building.
This time, he did not send only the conclusions.
He attached the original record numbers corresponding to every gap.
After reading