"Hey! Where's Asaka?"
The Institution that had been observing ΑΩ are now coming to realize that he doesn't need to have seen them to exercise his ability.
But he also seems to have become socialized well enough to talk to them about stuff if not forced to use his ability.
The Organization that snatched Asaka is rapidly coming to that same realization [that whether he has seen you or not is irrelevant] …and dealing with it somewhat less well.
Since they hadn't bought into the 'socialization' method of threat mitigation to begin with, and thought they'd assembled a team that could take him down...having their kill squad die with ΑΩ never having laid eyes upon them kinda makes them panic.
Whether any of them will survive to inform their higher ups of what's gone down will depend upon their attitude; if they can't grasp "live and let live" but rather continue trying to take him down none of the folks giving orders will survive to report to anyone else.
It's sad.
All they need do is release Asaka, whom they've already determined didn't have the information they sought.
Do that, unharmed, and she and ΑΩ will go their way and not disturb anyone.
Of course, that's the whole thing.
Folks messing with other folks because they can coming up against someone who they can't mess with and only becoming aware of that after the fact.
If they weren't arrogant, thinking they could bend the world to their will, they'd have gotten along fine.
To paraphrase Robert A. Heinlein, "A ΑΩ society is a polite society."
