The Horcrux implantation plan of using one chicken to hatch another's egg was about to draw to a close, and Director Yamada's tendrils immediately began reaching farther afield...
After laying the groundwork in two steps, Soji had finally used Inoue Reina's mouth to present the concept of the "Great Collective" to the young Hyuga jonin.
Haruhiko, brimming with rebellious spirit, had just been utterly engrossed in the grand plan of forming an aerial combat force. Now that he had suddenly encountered this novel concept, his processor was struggling to keep up.
And while he concentrated on thinking it over, Inoue Reina showed no intention of urging him.
—Although Director Yamada had not disclosed every detail of the "Great Collective" plan to her, Sister Inoue had caught a whiff of something unusual from all sorts of minor details, drawing on her years of experience as a broker...
Worldview determined methodology.
To Inoue Reina, the innovation and development of ninjutsu, seals, and every other technical capability ultimately came down to personnel management.
Thus, although she had just solemnly assured Hyuga Haruhiko that the plan to replace the "Caged Bird" with the "Great Collective" was aimed only at the unequal oppression between the main and branch families, and would not disrupt the Hyuga clan's internal governance system that had endured for a thousand years, Reina had personally witnessed how Director Yamada had gradually built the Residency Training Center into the emerging organization it was today. As someone involved in that history, she found this decentralized organizational structure strangely familiar no matter how she looked at it!
Whether it was the reforms of the Special Equipment Section and the Medical Technology Section, or the restructuring of authority across the two institutes, Director Yamada seemed to have always relied on this same behavioral logic to