You are really the most annoying person on here, your comments are not helpful, constructive, and only serve to put down the OP every time you post.

Their overall life total being reduced doesn't matter as their levels have been raised by at least 10, raising their power and stats beyond what is obtainable for the missions level, and for the level cap at that. Given that this is a critical mission, as it is the only one where shimenawa is obtainable from, it is one that players need to have 3 starred in order to efficiently awaken their characters. There is good reason that there are many posts across the forum about the difficulty of this mission, especially when the people who beat it are 85 with over 40k power.

Players complaining that this mission was completed with 35-38k power pre 2.0 and now requires over 40 k is a reasonable complaint. It is also reasonable for players to complain about the ninja exam and the increased difficulty after certain character nerfs, creating an imbalance between the top ranking players who had already cleared those levels and the players below them who hadn't.

Anyways, my point if you aren't going to offer up any help or real constructive advice for the OP, please refrain from posting.

Thank you, that was helpful, I will try that when I get my power up.