Archives... Intelligence Extraction Room... Code Department...
This... I hadn't expected that although the Hokage Building didn't look particularly large in layout, it had quite a few twists and turns, and it held a truly staggering amount of things.
There were even branches of the same departments outside. Was that the cunning rabbit's three burrows?
Led by the Anbu, Chiba spent nearly an entire afternoon learning about Konoha's secret departments, as well as some of the public-facing departments under his authority. He also made a round of the Defense Force.
He discovered that Konoha's secret organizations were not merely what had been shown in the original work. Every secret organization had one or two branches. Aside from those in the Hokage Building, there were branches in various places outside the building that Chiba had never expected, with no distinction between main and secondary offices.
However, while there was no distinction between primary and secondary offices, there was a distinction between real and fake. Sometimes, the branch in the Hokage Building was the place that actually handled affairs, while the other was merely a facade meant to confuse enemies.
For other departments, it might be the opposite. The one in the Hokage Building was the facade, while the one elsewhere was the real workplace. The false and the real varied from department to department, greatly increasing the difficulty of infiltration.
After all, real or fake, every department lived up to the word "secret." Personnel entering and leaving were subjected to strict screening. Even the Anbu guiding him was rigorously questioned and verified at every department, whether it was real or fake.
As he learned more about the secret departments, Chiba gained an overall understanding of Konoha's intelligence and political systems. Although the one-village, one-Kage system placed everything in the Hokage's hands, the