"This is impossible! Where did they get such audacity?" Danzō retorted in disbelief. "And with such a massive plan, how could Root and the major shinobi villages have failed to notice anything at all?"
"How could the major shinobi villages possibly waste their attention on ordinary people? Besides, the members of this organization are all elites among ordinary people, so concealing information is very easy. The Anbu only discovered this secret by chance!" Nawaki explained calmly.
Nawaki had not made this up. He had long suspected the existence of this mysterious organization. After becoming Anbu Minister and beginning to establish regional branches, he had deliberately dispatched Anbu agents to investigate. Sure enough, they uncovered quite a bit of intelligence, and many Anbu agents had even successfully infiltrated the organization.
"Since you already knew, why did you only speak up now?" Danzō demanded angrily.
"What would it have changed if I had said it?" Nawaki shot back. "Would we have killed them all, like Leader Danzō? That would accomplish nothing except prematurely ignite the conflict between ordinary people and the shinobi class!
"Just as I said earlier, ordinary people could still survive without shinobi—perhaps even better! So, in the eyes of many ordinary people, shinobi are the source of disaster!
"Once the conflict between both sides erupts, it will become a war between two classes. Not only will countless people die, but the shinobi will not necessarily stand a good chance of winning!
"The only solution is for the shinobi class to completely integrate into the civilization of the entire Shinobi World, while increasing the number of shinobi until shinobi become the mainstream of humanity!"
"No wonder you wanted to establish so many shinobi academies and shinobi villages, along with Orochimaru's Research Department!" Danzō said with sudden realization. "I originally thought