"Kinkaku and Ginkaku's men?"
So it was them. That made sense.
Ever since the brothers Kinkaku and Ginkaku had died in that battle, their forces had utterly collapsed.
First, Black Zetsu had purged those who stayed behind. Then the Shadow Organization had recruited them through (very) legitimate means and brought them into the fold one by one.
But a few stragglers fiercely loyal to their old bosses might still have escaped alive.
The only surprise was how wealthy they were. They had actually scraped together enough to hire Kakuzu. Who knew how many kidneys they had sold?
Still, this works out nicely. After all those twists and turns, they've delivered Kakuzu straight into my wolf's den... no, into my excellent organization that treats its people wonderfully.
Congratulations to Kakuzu on finding his own personal paradise. A boss like me, who doesn't eye his employees' wallets and generously throws money around instead, is absolutely unprecedented in the Shinobi World-and there'll hardly ever be another.
Our Shadow Organization is nothing like that heartless Akatsuki! We don't take our people's money to buy Explosive Tags~
As for why Watanabe Ichiro had money?
All he could say was that, stripped of its function as currency, money was merely paper, and a single point in the system Shop could buy heaps and heaps of it.
As for inflation and all that, he only needed to keep things stable within the Shadow Organization and prevent an internal collapse.
Mass-producing currency, dumping it abroad, disrupting other countries' markets, and smashing their economies to pieces-after seeing enough of these methods of exporting a crisis, he naturally learned how to use them.
Besides, wasn't this also part of his plan to gain control over other countries?
Without shedding a drop of blood, the Shadow Organization had taken over Kinkaku