"You..."
Kakashi frowned slightly as he looked at Tang Ping, whose body was nearly dyed red with blood and still radiated residual warmth.
They were teammates, after all. Of course he was worried.
"I'm fine!"
With a casual wave, Tang Ping sat down and quickly began recovering.
His battle with Baki had ended quickly, seemingly decided within just a few exchanges.
But it had consumed quite a bit of Chakra and stamina.
And even with the Healing Elixir, recovering from his injuries would come at a price.
Trading wounds for victory!
That was precisely why he had been able to defeat Baki so quickly.
Baki had never expected him to be so resolute, charging forward directly through ninjutsu. Otherwise, defeating him would not have been so easy.
The advantage of having once been a nobody was finally showing itself.
Very few people knew much about him.
The matchups for the Four Strongest Tournament had also been drawn.
Kakashi's expression turned grave.
He was facing Gang Tu, while Tang Ping would face the last "lucky one" who had merely made up the numbers.
I finally got lucky for once!
Tang Ping silently sighed when he saw the matchup.
He had previously faced two powerful Sunagakure fighters in succession, Juan and Baki, with the latter being widely recognized as the face of Sunagakure.
Even now, plenty of people still could not accept that result.
Being matched against a contestant from a small shinobi village who was also heavily exhausted and seriously injured, rather than Gang Tu or Kakashi, truly counted as good luck.
It could only be said that this time probably was not rigged.
They were already in the Four Strongest Tournament. A clash between strong opponents was inevitable, so there was indeed no need to deliberately keep them apart.
But