[ Something about the mention of traitor has his expression flickering a bit. It feels... familiar. He recalls something about there having been... several traitors, and not just the culprit of week one and... Kurama...

But... who were the other two...? ]

The wars between fans would be pretty intense, too. [ it's just fiction, it's not real, this is all hypothetical at best ] Especially if something happened that resulted in the NPC protecting one or more of them at some point...