Taking Stock of the Akatsuki's Shady Business! The Boss Has Run Away

The sky screen descends upon the myriad worlds, revealing a ranking of the most unscrupulous organizations across the multiverse!

From late-paycheck tier and empty-promises tier, to everyone-working-24/7 tier and overwork-to-death tier, then on to planetary-colonization tier and civilization-exploitation tier... all the way up to treating the universe as disposable material!

The Ninja World's number-one mercenary group, the Akatsuki: the most unscrupulous startup in history!

Charges include: no KPIs, no social insurance, endless empty promises, unpaid wages, and a founder who ran off. Its core project was an outright scam!

Nagato is dumbfounded, and Obito breaks down: "Our grand ideal has become an illegal fundraising scheme in your eyes?"

But the Akatsuki is only an appetizer on the list of unscrupulous companies!

The Gotei 13: a thousand-year-old zombie corporation rife with nepotism!

The World Government: a monopoly that exploits its member nations and runs the largest workplace gaslighting operation in history!

S.H.I.E.L.D., CP9, the Phantom Troupe... none of them can escape!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.