Seeing Zabuza react so strongly, Tetsuya tried to comfort him.
"Come on, don't be so down. You're not just here to make up the numbers. You can help me with odd jobs too. After all, we're going to unite the entire Shinobi World someday. When that happens, there'll be plenty of work to do. You'll probably have your hands full."
"Wait, what did you say?"
For a moment, Zabuza thought he had misheard.
"I said you'll probably have your hands full."
"No, the part before that."
"Oh, I said we're going to unite the entire Shinobi World someday."
"Unite the entire Shinobi World! You actually want to unite the entire Shinobi World!"
Tetsuya spread his hands and asked in return.
"What's wrong with unification? One written language, one standard for roads and vehicles, one united world. The entire Shinobi World would operate under the same policies and the same system.
When a region suffers a natural disaster, we could mobilize resources from across the Shinobi World to help.
Places short on water could draw supplies from regions where water is abundant.
Places rich in produce could send food to barren areas..."
Tetsuya described the benefits of unification to Zabuza, growing more excited and impassioned as he spoke.
He felt as though he had stepped into a little tavern, standing on a raised platform before a room packed with listeners.
"The unification of the Shinobi World is inevitable! I'm willing to be its pioneer. Once I achieve unification, more will follow in my footsteps, pressing onward, one after another, to carry out this great undertaking.
If I fall, and those who oppose me brand me a tyrant, I believe those who come after me will clear my name!
I will become the first to accomplish what no one has ever done,