No matter how brilliant a performance was, there would always come a moment when the curtain fell.
At Konoha Duel Arena, with the Ninja Association established and Senya and the Five Kage finishing their announcements, the spectators departed like a receding tide.
No one lingered because of it. They knew that what came next would be the greatest wave and opportunity of this era...
After the competition ended, ninjas from every village and region all left, preparing to return to their own villages.
Only those who had successfully stepped onto the duel arena remained in Konoha, waiting for the examiners to announce the final list of those promoted to chunin.
Three days later, at ten in the morning, the twenty-five contestants gathered once more before the notice board outside the Hokage Building, all waiting for the list to be posted.
Senya strolled unhurriedly from home to a spot near the notice board. From afar, he saw the genin standing around in small groups.
No, perhaps it was more appropriate to call them chunin now.
After all, the results were already out. They simply did not know them yet.
"Yo~ You all got here pretty early, huh?"
Senya's words made their taut nerves go "biu."
Everyone instinctively took two steps back. After all, this man was now publicly recognized as the strongest in the Shinobi World.
He had single-handedly sent the former Shinobi World's Asura back to the Pure Land. There were even rumors that he had defeated the Fourth Raikage in a one-on-one fight when he was only sixteen or seventeen...
As for how that rumor had spread, one had to mention the stories Killer B, A's dear little brother, had shared with those old men and women in Konoha Square.
From Hokage Tsunade and Senya's assistant already living together,