Yamada Soji never took risks?
To White Fang, who had followed the director deep behind enemy lines on numerous occasions, that statement sounded strange no matter how he looked at it.
Come to think of it, back then, Yamada had only just graduated from the Ninja Academy—not even a chunin—yet he had dared to raise his blade against the famed demigod of the Shinobi World! That ruthlessness and decisiveness even carried a hint of gambling to them. How could they possibly be associated with words like steady and cautious...
Yet precisely because Sakumo had worked alongside Director Yamada longer than most, when Inoue Li suddenly reached that conclusion, he found nothing inappropriate about it.
—On those terrifying battlefields where they coordinated their actions and sometimes had to entrust their lives to one another, Director Yamada had always performed with effortless ease. Even a mission as unfathomably difficult as assassinating the Third Kazekage alone had been completed by him as neatly and cleanly as a butcher carving an ox!
Setting aside the accident caused by his bloodline illness flaring up after capturing the One-Tail, Soji had rarely even been injured throughout his string of S-rank missions...
This boy always seemed to have planned everything with prophetic foresight before committing to actual combat!
Perhaps from his perspective, those ingenious moves that caught ordinary people by surprise were merely obvious standard plays on a chessboard...
Before the overwhelming gap in intelligence, even veteran commanders renowned for years often appeared incredibly clumsy beside Director Yamada. Even famous schemers found it difficult to gain any advantage before him!
Since that's the case, why am I troubling myself over nothing here?
White Fang recalled the "shelf life" of lies that Soji had once mentioned to him. Having gained a deeper understanding of it, he could not