Nawaki was deeply conflicted. Even though it seemed utterly unreliable for a dead person to return to the world of the living, and there might even be some other conspiracy involved.
But he was still a child. Hesitation was only natural. Even so, he answered with a bit of resolve, "No!"
As a ninja, no matter how young they were, they possessed a certain ability to judge right from wrong. They knew they could not casually agree to anything, especially matters involving the taboo of life and death.
"What if you could see your sister?" Lin Ke shamelessly played the family card.
Nawaki shut down completely. Literally—he refused to communicate with him at all. The last message he conveyed was that he did not want to be used to threaten his sister.
It was a childish response. Refusing to interact and communicate might keep him from being exploited, but it also meant completely losing every opportunity.
Lin Ke shook his head. He was not worried about being unable to command the dead he summoned. If he injected an excessive amount of chakra all at once, he could pull the summoned dead back into the world of the living in a translucent state.
Once he became stronger and gained a higher status, he could first pull the ninja he contacted back into the world in a translucent state and have a chat with them. He could appeal to their emotions and reason with them, then bring them out through Rashomon to serve as muscle.
His main reason for chatting with Nawaki when he had nothing better to do was to build a good relationship with Tsunade. It was not as though he truly valued that brat's combat ability. He had died the day after reaching the battlefield, so what combat ability