Tobirama opened the Intelligence Scroll sent from the Land of Demons and read its contents word by word. When he learned that Kazemori Masaki had resolved everything, he let out a small sigh of relief and rolled the scroll shut.
He had never expected a seemingly ordinary mission to conceal so many complications. It had nearly grown beyond what they had anticipated. Fortunately, the enemy had not been particularly powerful, nor had any shinobi village been plotting behind the scenes, and the matter had ended there.
However, Kazemori Masaki had detailed the dangers posed by the Evil God Worshippers in the Intelligence Scroll and requested a meeting to discuss how to eradicate them. Tobirama had initially paid little attention to such a civilian organization, but once he learned that the Evil God Worshippers in the Land of Demons were actually ninja from Yugakure Ninja Village, he began taking the matter seriously.
"The Evil God Worshippers operating in the Land of Hot Water—do you know about them?" Tobirama summoned Shimura Danzō and asked him about them.
Although Danzo did not independently control Root, his abilities were particularly well suited to this kind of covert work. Tobirama had therefore made him the captain of a special unit within the Anbu, responsible for investigating certain conspiracies both at home and abroad. Naturally, that included the Land of Hot Water.
"The Evil God Worshippers?" Shimura Danzō thought back for a moment. "Ah, I know of them. They appeared in the intelligence gathered by the Anbu, but since they hadn't taken any action against the Land of Fire and were only a civilian organization, we took no measures against them."
"Start gathering information on them immediately," Tobirama ordered upon hearing this.
"Yes," Shimura Danzō replied before asking in puzzlement, "Teacher, why are we investigating this