"Fugaku, is it really okay to talk about your clan's ninjas like that?" Li's door was pulled open directly, and a man strode inside—it was Shinnosuke. There was a smile on his face now, making him quite different from before, but Li could sense that he had suffered hidden injuries, and fresh ones at that. "Captain Shinnosuke, have you made any big moves lately?"
Shinnosuke smiled faintly. "You could say that. During the last mission, you really gave me a shock. You actually mastered a forbidden technique of that level. But you need to understand: forbidden techniques are forbidden techniques. If you treat them as your source of power, the one who suffers the backlash in the end will only be yourself."
Li nodded lightly. "There was no other choice at the time. If I hadn't risked it all against them, let alone Guy and the others, even I might not have escaped. But speaking of which, how are those seven doing?"
Shinnosuke snorted. "One dead, six seriously injured."
Li's heart sank upon hearing that. He had originally hoped that his final strike might accidentally kill the ones who deserved to die, but they had all only been seriously injured? If they truly were all severely injured, then what had become of them now?
"Those guys were all incredibly stubborn. They refused treatment no matter what, but that was normal. According to Kirigakure's traditions, once they accepted charity from another village, they would never be trusted with important duties again. Three of them died," Shinnosuke said slowly.
"Oh?" Li paused. "Which ones died?"
Shinnosuke frowned. "Why are you so interested in that? Of the three who bore the brunt of your final blow, their injuries were the worst. They should have been Kushimaru Kuriarare, Munashi Jinpachi, and Jinin Akebino. Those