Many lives had been claimed during the Fourth Shinobi World War started by Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito. Faced with the power of abominations outside the category of people, the shinobi of the Five Great Countries had gathered all their power and stood together. Finally, the person manipulating Madara, Ootsutsuki Kaguya, had been defeated and the war ended.
As every village entered into a period of peaceful recovery from the war, the details of figuring out who had been killed in battle and who was missing in action had turned into an urgent matter. The war had been a fierce battle that even ripped apart the continent’s terrain. If someone’s corpse could be found, it was considered a stroke of luck.
Compared to the number of shinobi that were concluded to have died in battle, the number of shinobi that were unaccounted for was far larger.
The Five Great Shinobi Countries had lost roughly 10,000 shinobi…
10,000 shinobi were the victims of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Their enemies in the war could have wiped out the whole world. Many said it was a great stroke of fortune for them to have ended the war with ‘only this many lost’.
But that wasn’t how Shikamaru saw the matter.
Even one victim was one victim too many.