The Sand Ninja had been brought down, and Soji was on the battlefield. He couldn't afford to waste too much time on the dead.
So he took a few seconds to suppress his complicated emotions, then hurried over to the Konoha Ninja who had been stabbed in a vital spot and checked on him.
"It's Senior Yasuda... He's already gone."
The boy checked his comrade's pulse and heartbeat. Once he confirmed there were no signs of life, he immediately turned to the little fatty lying not far away.
Unlike Yasuda, who had already gone cold, Akimichi Todo, who had spent less time in contact with Muscle Man, wasn't in any mortal danger.
Aside from the weakness caused by excessive chakra consumption and the loss of life energy, his most serious injuries were bruising on his upper arm and scrapes around his elbow joint.
With Soji's level of the Mystical Palm Technique, he could completely heal these minor injuries in just over ten minutes.
But compared to physical pain, the emotional shock was far more difficult to recover from.
This wasn't Team Five's first battle since reaching the front lines, but unlike their previous encounter with the Waterfall Ninja, when the situation had been almost entirely one-sided, this direct clash with the Sand Ninja had been far more intense.
As someone who had lived two lives, Soji had anticipated this...
After all, setting aside a few exceptionally powerful individuals, the core strength of the Five Great Shinobi Villages was generally on par. Once a large-scale conflict broke out between them, death and sacrifice were all but inevitable.
But when someone like Todo, a young Ninshu practitioner who had only just stepped onto the battlefield, faced the same reality, it left him with an immense psychological burden.
...There was no denying that