Hearing his question, Mizutani Shizuko cried even harder.
From her broken, halting account, Qian learned that Furukawa had stayed behind alone to cover the retreat of the entire team, and in the end, he had been killed by two Hidden Rock jonin working together.
As for Ryosuke—
He had sacrificed himself purely to protect Mizutani Shizuko.
While the two of them were retreating, their luck had been bad, and they had run into a squad of Hidden Rock chunin.
To protect Mizutani Shizuko, Ryosuke had fought back with everything he had, but the gap in strength was not something that so-called desperation could easily erase.
In the end, the two of them were no match for the four enemies, and Ryosuke died on the spot.
After that, if a Leaf Village Jonin had not happened to pass by and pulled Mizutani Shizuko out, she probably would have died as well.
Qian glanced over Mizutani Shizuko, only then noticing that she did indeed have quite a few injuries on her body.
Just from those wounds, it was not hard to tell how critical the situation had been at the time.
At that moment, Qian found himself wondering whether things would have been better if he had not carried out the mission to infiltrate the Rock Ninja stronghold and had instead stayed by their side.
After thinking for a while, Qian had his answer—judging purely by the result, it definitely would have been better.
With his current strength, he could not say he would definitely have been able to save Furukawa. That would have been too difficult, since the enemies had been two genuine Jonin.
But saving Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko would have been more than manageable. A mere four Hidden Rock chunin were not his match, even if they joined forces.