Chapter 428 The Second Exam
After all the eliminated candidates have left the venue.
A figure appeared silently beside Toshio Utsumi and patted him gently on the shoulder.
The person who came was none other than Kono, his former partner in the Flying Unit.
Just now, when Toshio Utsumi was talking about the importance of intelligence, he, the examiner of the second exam who arrived early, heard everything outside the door. He then came out to comfort his former teammate.
But in fact, Toshio Utsumi was also a jonin from Kirigakure after all, so he didn’t need Kono’s comfort for such a small matter. Instead, he slapped his hand away with a look of disgust.
Kono didn’t care about it at all and just said it jokingly.
"72 people? Well done!"
Upon hearing this, Toshio Utsumi rolled his eyes and walked away.
Seeing this, Kono shook his head and laughed, then he tapped the blackboard with his knuckles, signaling all the candidates to look at him, and then he spoke.
"My name is Kono, and I’m the examiner for the second round of the Joint Chunin Exam."
"Next, candidates who have passed the first exam, please follow me."
After saying that, he walked directly out of the examination room.
Seeing this, the candidates looked at each other in confusion at first, then quickly stood up and hurriedly followed.
On the coast, a row of Chunins in charge of supervising the second exam had been waiting there for a long time.
However, the candidates who had just arrived here were all a little confused when they saw the empty beach and the endless sea in front of them.
"The second exam isn’t just a free-for-all brawl here, is it?"
Just as the candidates were confused, the leader Kono stopped and took a large stack of documents from a Chunin.
Kono turned around and looked at all the examinees, shaking the pile of documents in his hand and said with a smile.
"Before I announce the rules for the second exam, I have one small matter to trouble you all."
"Considering the danger of the second exam, you will need to sign this life and death agreement first."
As soon as the words fell, the entire beach fell silent.
Kono’s seemingly gentle smile looked like a devil in the eyes of the candidates.
Due to the Great Ninja War in the past few years, the various ninja villages have not held a joint Chunin Examination for a long time.
Most of the Genin present were taking part in such an exam for the first time.
Most people didn’t expect that a mere exam to be promoted to Chunin would be life-threatening.
Fortunately, those years of war had toughened them. While not all had seen combat, they carried more grit than ninjas from peacetime.
So even though these people all had heavy expressions on their faces, no one was so blind as to stand up and oppose this rule.
However, Kono, holding a large stack of life and death statements, still looked at the candidates with a smile and spoke in a bewitching tone.
"If you have any concerns, you can apply to withdraw from this exam at any time before signing~"
But as soon as he said this, the still silent candidates suddenly became rebellious.
One of them, a purple-haired girl from Konoha, strode straight out of the team.
The girl’s two teammates were about to speak to stop her, but she had already stood in front of Kono, stretched out her right hand, and spoke in a cold tone.
Kono looked at the girl’s eyes, which were like a pool of dead water, and there was a strange look in his eyes.
’Desperate, yet oddly impulsive? What a strange kid.’
But the other party is a Konoha ninja after all, and Kono doesn’t have the leisure to care about the psychological problems of a Genin.
He just handed over three life and death notices and ignored them.
With Mitarashi Anko taking the lead, other Genin also signed the life and death forms one after another.
After all the documents were collected, Kono spoke again and explained the rules of the second exam.
"The second test is simple: capture the flag!"
"Fifty kilometers away from the beach, there is a small island that was arranged in advance."
As he spoke, Kono pointed at the empty sea in the distance.
"Three different colored flags have been placed on that island in advance."
"What you have to do is to rush to that island as soon as the exam begins, collect three flags of different colors, and successfully return here within five days. Then you can pass the exam."
Hearing this, all the candidates were stunned.
Unexpectedly, the content of the second round of the exam was surprisingly simple?
Some candidates from Kirigakure were even thinking about whether they should kill all other opponents directly on the sea.
However, it is obvious that even though Kirigakure is the organizer, it is impossible for it to favor its own candidates so blatantly.
While these people were thinking about it, Kono continued to speak with a smile.
"By the way, fighting is prohibited on the way to the island. Attacks can only be launched after landing on the island. And once you land on the island, you are prohibited from leaving the island before collecting three different flags."
As soon as these words were spoken, all the examinees who were not from Kirigakure breathed a sigh of relief.
But in private, Kabuto and his teammates looked at each other and each of them smiled meaningfully.
’How could these guys who don’t often travel on the sea know that traveling on the sea is different from traveling on ordinary water?’
’Also, although fighting is prohibited during the journey, if we get to the island first, we can not only start looking for the flag earlier, but also set traps in advance and gain the upper hand.’
’Even though we can’t fight at sea, if we land on the island first, those guys on the sea will be...’
’No, the examiner said that there should be no fighting on the way to the island, but what about on the way back?’
Kabuto’s mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about the advantages he could gain within the rules one by one.
However, this time, he did not ask questions directly like he did in the first exam.
Once he asks some questions, he will be reminding other competitors too.
While Kabuto was thinking, Kono’s story finally came to an end.
"In addition, in this exam, if any team member loses the ability to move, they will be judged as having failed."
"Please keep all the above rules in mind. There will be special invigilators observing the entire exam. Please do not try to break the rules."
After saying this, Kono looked around at all the candidates, seeing how they were all ready to take the exam, and smiled.
"A kind reminder to everyone, there may not be enough tricolor flags on the island for every member of the team~"
"Well then, the second round of the Joint Chunin Exam officially begins!"
(End of this Chapter)