Noah could clearly hear what Neji Hyuga and the others were saying, but he chose to ignore it.
Obviously, their Jonin instructor, Might Guy, had probably heard it from Kakashi, right?
Noah did not care about that sort of thing at all. Whoever wanted to talk could talk. Besides, under normal circumstances, they probably would not run into each other anyway.
However, while they were whispering among themselves, Kabuto Yakushi, the future final boss, suddenly appeared.
Noah gave the guy a careful once-over and found that he was genuinely good at hiding himself. The Chakra in his body was not particularly abundant, but it had still reached Jonin level.
And he was an exceptionally capable spy. If they truly fought, even Kakashi would probably have to get serious to deal with him.
Kabuto Yakushi's story actually taught a lesson: the ones who truly laughed last were often old schemers like him, people who knew how to lie low.
Of course, while serving as a positive example, he also became a negative one.
Later on, he got too full of himself and thought he had everything under control. In the end, he was dealt with by Itachi Uchiha, whom he had personally brought back with Impure World Reincarnation.
Watching the guy put on a full display of his excellent acting skills, even sacrificing a pair of glasses as he pretended to have been caught off guard by several Sound Village idiots, Noah felt that he really knew how to endure.
With Noah's temper, he would have torn those idiots apart long ago.
Meanwhile, the Sound Village Genin were still looking smug, unaware that before the assessment requiring actual combat had even begun, those fools had already exposed their secret techniques to a whole crowd of competitors.
What puzzled Noah, though, was