Sai closed the scroll. He did not burn it. Instead, he walked to the surface, into the sunlight of the rebuilt Konoha, and handed it to the Hokage's office with a note:
"For the next generation. So they know what the darkness learned too late." naruto databook 4
The pattern was there, in every entry. The cold, objective truth of a man who had tried to erase his heart... and then, in the margins, the quiet, desperate corrections of a man who had found it again. Sai closed the scroll
He turned to the entry labeled
~~Termination~~. Redemption.
The ink was cold.