Connections bought with money could, of course, be conquered by a higher bid.
That was also why a realist like Director Yamada placed greater faith in emotional "bonds" when it came to crucial positions where lives and deaths had to be entrusted...
What was more, given the companies' actual circumstances, they felt no psychological burden whatsoever about turning against their temporary employer, the Rock Ninja~
—These shrewd merchants understood better than anyone the difference between one full meal and being fed for life.
Just as Mekiya Ruri had analyzed, if they could swallow up the two major sectors of ninja tool processing and construction materials, who would care about the paltry profits offered by the Rock Ninja?
As for the opinions of the two victims, the Kikonai Family and the Tomari Family...
What human rights did traitors who sold out their village's sovereignty and colluded with enemy spies deserve?
Official authority and channels of public opinion were now all in Lord Kazekage's hands! So long as the Executive Committee endorsed the actions of the three families—Kitami, Yamabe, and Rausu—who cared who the real traitors had been?
Admittedly, such an interest-first strategy was indeed far too cruel to the innocent people who had not originally participated in the rebellion...
Director Yamada, remotely directing matters from behind the scenes, also deeply sympathized with the citizens of the Land of Wind who had suffered this undeserved calamity.
But as he had said before, once the scope of this struggle expanded from a particular conspiracy or a particular individual to the entire chakra shinobi system, innocence and guilt ceased to hold any distinction for a decision-maker of Director Yamada's level...
To avoid being consumed by the mark left behind by Kaguya!
To become a god who walked the earth in the new era!
Yamada