"You are saying that Yoshida has harbored resentment over this affront since Kuroda -sensei emerged from the Tir and pledged himself to the Chairman's service. That is more than twenty years ago. There would be no Nagato Combine if that was so. Yoshida -kai would never have joined. He would have reviled the Honjowara-gumi as a clan of kawa - ruhito , untouchables, utterly despicable subhuman refuse. He would have begun a war with the sole purpose of eliminating every last member of the Honjowara- gumi !"