>>5813247>>5813261>>5813265>>5813267>>5813340>>5813604>>5814038>>5814366Now that everything on the field was sufficiently swinging in your favor, you decide that right this instant would be the perfect time to extract the old woman from whatever situation she found herself in.
Unfortunately, the moment you begin slowly jogging towards her you realize how obviously doomed to failure you were.
First, you were having a hard time moving with any kind of agility without struggling due to your chakra depletion. Sprinting past the wolves faster than they could react would be outright impossible.
Second, the idea that the wolves wouldn’t instantly attack you was questionable at best. They were ‘allied’ against the centipedes, but they were still wild animals that were protecting one of their own. There was a precisely 1% chance they were going to let you past without savagely attempting to rip your throat out. There was simply no way for you to communicate to them that you were friendly.
Third, when they did inevitably attack you, there was nothing you could do about it. You were too physically weak and low on chakra to mount a meaningful defense beyond protecting your neck. If the three wolves decided to savage you there wouldn’t be a damn thing you could do about it other than scream and hope someone else comes for you.
Fourth, even if you do get to the old woman, you may not have the physical strength or agility to grab her and sprint away with her, because your body was ice cold and depleted of energy.
Fifth, even if you could get run past the wolves, not be attacked or at least not be hurt, and you could pick up the old lady and make your escape at all, it may not even be wise to move her if she were hurt. If she had a broken hip or neck you could deal untold physical damage, exacerbating her injuries if you expect to just throw her over your shoulder and start leaping away.
Basically, trying to dash past the wolves was a monstrously poor decision with absolutely no realistic chance of working, at least with the condition you were in. If you had enough chakra to spam water bullets like you normally could, three wolves would be a piece of cake, not even worth stressing about. Under normal circumstances you most likely could have handled this entire scenario solo. However, these were not normal circumstances because you were not operating at even a tenth of your full capabilities right now.
What you were contemplating doing was to naively walk into a vicious maiming with no realistic chance of success. All based on an incorrect notion that the wolves would be heckin’ friendly doggos who would be able to comprehend that you weren’t hostile.
You catch the feral gleam in one of their eyes as it whips its head back and forth, ripping a centipede to shreds. You realize just how bad things will go for you if you dare just try and run past them, because any one of those three wolves would treat your throat in much the same way.
