He nodded, Roland heard that correctly.

"Something like that. The ninjas in my world all operate in the secret world of Nabari. I do what the head of the clan tells me to...or I did, anyway. Now I'm trying to protect the Shinra Banshou. He's...my friend."

Yoite just nodded a little bit. "Primarily my role was to destroy the enemy, assassinations, basically." He'd killed a lot of people. He wasn't a very good person.