After saying this, Shinichi spoke a few more words, then issued them a formal invitation to witness the event before leaving Konoha Prison.
All that remained were the silent Kirigakure prisoners, each with different thoughts on their mind.
Mei Terumi's mind in particular was a complete mess. She did not even know when or how she had returned to her cell.
Although Shinichi had told Konoha that he was "teaching a class" and carrying out ideological reform, he had not chosen to lecture these Kirigakure prisoners from on high. Instead, he had adopted a conversational format of questions and answers.
After all, the two sides had been fighting to the death on the battlefield not long ago. If he had immediately stood at a podium and tried to educate them with grand principles—
These Kirigakure prisoners would have developed intense resistance from the very beginning.
No matter how reasonable Shinichi's words were, they would have found them utterly repulsive.
Who the hell did you, Higashino Shinichi, think you were?
I lost, so I lost. Kill me or torture me as you please, but who are you to educate me?
Shinichi had always used different methods of communication for different kinds of people.
With Konoha ninja, he could slip his own ideas into the Will of Fire. With those who trusted him completely, he could directly explain his ideals—or his own agenda.
But for ninja from other villages, especially those from nations currently at war with Konoha, whether it was the Will of Fire or Shinichi's own ideas, their effectiveness would be greatly diminished. They might even produce the opposite effect.
After all, he was neither some universally recognized "leader of ninja" in the Shinobi World nor some international "ideological mentor."
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The four words "Higashino Shinichi" did not yet carry