The Satori Leader Appears!

Benteng Village.

"This is Benteng Village. Let's go grab something to eat first."

Roy looked at the village before him, his expression indifferent.

It was as if Roy had already forgotten that they had encountered members of the Satori Organization in the previous village.

The three of them spoke as they walked directly into a restaurant.

"You three are ninja lords, aren't you?"

"Are you out on a mission this time?"

"The ninja lords of Konoha have always been protecting us all. You don't need to pay for this meal."

"Consider it my gratitude to Konoha."

After the dishes were served, a middle-aged man looked at Roy and his two companions with a face full of admiration.

Although the three of them did not look very old, they were wearing Konoha forehead protectors.

One had to know that within the borders of the Land of Fire, the value of a Konoha forehead protector was quite high.

"That won't be necessary; we will pay for the meal."

"By the way, Boss, we would like to rest here for a day. Do you have any recommendations for an inn?"

After Roy declined, he asked directly.

"We have accommodations right here."

"If the ninja lords find it satisfactory, you are welcome to stay with us."

The boss remained very enthusiastic.

In his eyes, ninja were their guardian deities.

The fact that he could continue to run his restaurant here was inseparable from these ninja lords.

"Then we'll trouble you, Boss. Just prepare one room for us."

After Roy finished speaking, he began to eat.

The boss nodded and then retreated to prepare the room.

"Brother Roy, the situation here is a bit different from the intelligence we gathered!"

"According to the reports, they shouldn't have such great goodwill toward our ninja."

Itachi said, looking somewhat puzzled.

Benteng Village was a village that had never requested aid from Konoha, so why was it like this...

"There are other ninja acting under the guise of our Konoha identity."

"However, it's in a positive way."

"What exactly is the Satori Organization trying to do?"

Roy was also feeling a bit confused.

"Brother Roy, why did we kill the members of the Satori Organization?"

At this moment, Itachi finally asked his question.

Hearing Itachi's words, Roy turned around and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Itachi, sometimes I even doubt whether you are a ninja."

"Do you think the things the Satori Organization has done pose no threat to the village?"

"Or are you saying that you don't count the clansmen of our Uchiha who were abducted during the several Great Ninja Wars as being on their heads?"

Roy felt a bit helpless.

The current Itachi's thinking was still a bit too simple.

Focusing on one thing to do can indeed improve efficiency significantly.

But it can also make one's thinking rigid.

"Then, Brother Roy, what exactly does the Satori Organization want to do?"

Itachi asked again.

"They want to have a force that can balance the ninja world."

"To make the major ninja villages less inclined toward war."

"It's just that their power is too weak to achieve a stalemate for the time being."

At some unknown moment, a person appeared at their table.

At the same time, he wore a smile on his face and spoke softly.

Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the investigation of the Satori Organization.

Before Roy could react, a system notification chimed in his ears.

"Hmm?"

Roy raised his head and looked at the person before him.

Although the man seemed somewhat familiar, he couldn't place him at all.

Itachi gripped the kunai in his hand immediately, watching the man before him with a guarded expression.

As for Izumi, she was still momentarily out of the loop.

"My apologies, that was abrupt of me."

"I am the leader of the Satori Organization; you may refer to me as Satori."

The man wore a smile, as if he were simply introducing himself to an ordinary friend.

"A ninja from Konoha?"

Roy narrowed his eyes, studying the Satori before him.

Combining this with the intelligence he had previously gathered, it was highly likely that this Satori had once been a Konoha ninja.

Moreover, this Satori did not appear to be young.

"Young man, you have quite the intuition."

"You guessed correctly, yet I cannot seem to read you."

"Uchiha Roy, why is your attitude toward the Satori Organization so hostile?"

Satori stared at Roy, his pair of scarlet pupils beginning to rotate.

"Sharingan!"

Upon seeing the man's eyes, Itachi stood up immediately.

The aura around him turned somewhat violent.

It must be known that Itachi had awakened his Mangekyō under Roy's ocular technique, back when Danzo had seized Uchiha Shisui's eyes.

The person before them was clearly not a member of the Uchiha clan, as Itachi had no knowledge of his existence.

Therefore, his eyes had likely been stolen from an Uchiha clansman.

In the ninja world, such a situation was equivalent to a blood feud.

"Itachi, sit down."

Seeing that Itachi had the urge to strike, Roy commanded in a low voice.

"The things you just mentioned—is that what the Satori Organization is doing?"

"In that case, let me tell you what I intend to do."

"I don't hold much malice toward the Satori Organization, but since you attacked me first, I was forced to retaliate."

Roy stated bluntly.

Of course, he did not mention the system's requirements.

"Do not worry; those you killed were merely members who could not resist temptation and betrayed the Satori Organization."

"Even if you hadn't killed them, I would have purged them myself."

"There is someone in the shadows attempting to control the entire ninja world to achieve an unknown goal."

"Those members were precisely the ones bewitched by this mysterious existence."

Satori said slowly.

The reason he could sit here and converse with Roy and the others was simply that he did not care in the slightest about the deaths of those Satori Organization members.

Otherwise, he would have already attacked the three of them.

"This mysterious existence—is it a black, blob-like creature?"

Upon hearing about this mysterious existence, Roy immediately thought of Black Zetsu.

Thinking back to the Satori before him, Roy suddenly felt a bit confused.

Who on earth was this guy?

"I am not certain for the time being, as I have not engaged him directly."

"However, what I can tell you is that this fellow also possesses the Sharingan!"

"His strength may even be above mine."

Satori said with a calm expression.

"He also possesses the Sharingan?"

"Could it be..."

Roy had basically confirmed who the other party was.

Uchiha Madara!

That was much as Roy had guessed: Uchiha Madara, Black Zetsu.

The target of the Satori Organization was actually these two fellows.

It had to be said, the Satori before him was definitely someone with a very high vantage point.

At the same time, it knew quite a few secrets of the ninja world and had even made contact with Uchiha Madara.

"Then, the reason you have come to find us now is because..."

Roy had a rough guess.

However, he was still unclear about the Satori's objective.

The plot seemed to be starting to develop in a strange direction.

As for what would happen next, even Roy was not entirely sure.