Gen did not answer that they would not.
Sasuke waited a moment.
"Didn't you always used to know where things would go wrong ahead of time?"
"I knew some things before."
"What about now?"
"Now I'm no different from you."
He could only see clues that had already appeared.
He could only make limited judgments with incomplete evidence.
He might also mistake fear for fact, or experience for an infallible answer.
Sasuke frowned.
"Then after everything we've done, we'll still get things wrong?"
"Yes."
Gen did not offer guarantees based on the New Order, public records, or reviews by multiple people.
Shuo's case had already proved that procedures could work and still begin with a mistaken judgment.
The Recorder had interpreted the gaps in his memory as genjutsu.
The Konoha Military Police Force's tool inventories had also had flaws in the past.
The new Deliberative Group's first vote had even been invalidated because conflicts of interest had gone undeclared.
Rules would not automatically make everyone right.
What they could do was leave errors somewhere they could be found.
Sasuke asked again: what if the person raising questions was lying too?
"Wouldn't protecting him hurt the person being accused?"
Gen did not equate protection with believing every accusation.
When the Recorder offered his assessment of genjutsu, the Konoha Military Police Force protected his address and statement.
At the same time, they arranged for someone to accompany Shuo, limited questioning time, and examined evidence that did not depend on testimony.
Protecting someone's ability to speak did not mean deciding in advance that every word they said was true.
Protecting the accused did not mean first demanding that the person making the report prove they were entirely unbiased, either.
Boundaries for both sides could exist at once.
In the end, conclusions still had