YESS YES @garlicsunshine YOU GET IT🫵
I personally think the world would’ve been a better place if Kishi continued with the “it’s not personal, it’s our job to hurt each other and get hurt in process” dehumanization thingy like damn. Such a living weapon behaviour - forgiving whatever harm is done to you because it's simply their (and, by extention, your) job.
I also mayhaps think that despite that Hayate's close friends are very worried about him and, as human people with (repressed) human emotions they need someone to "blame". I mean, I really wouln't want to admit that my friend got (almost) killed and it's normal. Even tho they know it's a regular occurence where one shinobi gets killed by another because that's their job, it's literally what they all do.
Conflicted feeling my beloved.
So it's like, "I know that's what we all do and I know it's normal but I still love you and wish you had a different fate", except they all are emotionally repressed and their only coping mechanisms are either Issues What Issues? or I'mma Kill Myself (on a mission). So no one says that. They just half-jockingly suggest murder.















