"If necessary, I'll use ninjutsu to let Lord Kazekage see the scene you want to see!"
After a moment of silence, as though he had long been prepared, the Third Hokage pulled out a transparent crystal ball roughly twenty centimeters in diameter.
Seeing the Third Hokage's actions, Rasa was briefly stunned.
However, Soji's Ice Mask showed a look of understanding.
"Telescopic Technique, huh?"
Soji silently thought to himself.
Soji strongly suspected that the Third Hokage's original intention in creating the Telescopic Technique definitely hadn't been to monitor Konoha!
As for what its true purpose was, Jiraiya's behavior made that obvious enough.
Unfortunately, the Third Hokage, that old bastard, had never passed this ninjutsu on to Jiraiya.
Indeed, as long as he wished to and wasn't being interfered with, the Third Hokage could use the Telescopic Technique to broadcast scenes from the Forest of Death over a long distance.
That was far more extensive than what the dozens of surveillance feeds in this room could show.
However, since the examinees had yet to officially enter the Forest of Death, the Third Hokage did not immediately use the Telescopic Technique.
And so, the three Kage chatted in fits and starts.
Having been Mizukage for so long, Soji was thoroughly familiar with this sort of thing. They probed each other, stalled for time, and avoided directly stating their true purposes.
While they chatted, the examinees at the gathering point on the edge of the Forest of Death had mostly assembled.
After Anko Mitarashi finished the last skewer of Three Color Dumplings right on time, the second stage of the Chunin Exams officially began.
First, Anko Mitarashi, the Chief Proctor of the second stage, had every examinee sign a life-and-death waiver.
That alone made some of the examinees' scalps tingle.
Because it meant people