Corpse Disposal Squad.
A subordinate institution of Konoha's Medical Department. Nominally on the same level as the Medical Emergency Team and Beast Taming Convalescent Team within the Medical Department, yet even the veterinarians of the Beast Taming Convalescent Team ranked above the ninja of the Corpse Disposal Squad.
At Konoha Hospital, the Corpse Disposal Department was a dead-end posting. Those assigned... or, more accurately, demoted to this department were either people with no hope of promotion, people who had offended someone they should not have, or simply fringe figures who had lost in high-level political struggles—not even Medical Ninja.
It should not have been this way.
After all, a ninja's body could reveal the secrets of each hidden village's unique techniques, their Chakra nature, and traces of special medicinal compounds they had used, making it highly valuable for intelligence gathering.
In theory, the Corpse Disposal Squad should have held a very high status. However, after the Anbu took away the department's authority and transferred its outstanding personnel, the department had ended up in its current state.
It could be said that the real Corpse Disposal Squad was now established within the Anbu, while the Corpse Disposal Squad under the Medical Department had become a place much like Stillwater Prison, able only to deal with heaps of worthless corpses all day.
At that moment, upon hearing that Hyuga Yu, whose medical skills rivaled those of an immortal, had been transferred to this department, the Medical Ninja present all changed expression. Once they processed it, they looked at Hyuga Yu with considerable pity.
As the saying went, the tallest tree in the forest was the first to be broken by the wind.
That kid must have displeased Director Furobuki because of last night's operation.
Furobuki stared at Hyuga Yu with an indifferent