N-No work?
Th-This... wasn't it said we were to start work as soon as possible?
Wasn't it said there were important arrangements for the very first day? How come... we weren't working on the first day?
What were they supposed to do if they weren't working? At those words, the teachers, whose eyes had been gleaming just moments ago, all widened their eyes. All ten of them were utterly dumbfounded.
They had thought this young genius would reveal some plan or something from which they could learn. They had never expected him to say something like this. They simply could not understand why, on the very day work was scheduled to begin—a date announced several days ago—they would be doing nothing at all. Nor could they figure out what this young genius intended to do.
At that moment, their minds seemed to have crashed.
No work? This...
Was this really reliable?
Upon hearing those words, and recalling Chiba's earlier undignified landing, the students' lofty image of him completely crumbled. The anticipation on their faces had now turned into suspicion.
What kind of nonsense had this guy come up with now?
While the teachers were dumbfounded and the students full of doubt, Kakashi, standing to Chiba's right, felt no suspicion at all. Instead, a single thought crossed his mind.
He believed Chiba must have thought of something, which was why he had said that.
After all, although Chiba had not participated much in the practical preparations for the expansion plan—that was, the Ninja Engineering Corps and its mission—the proposal alone showed how seriously Chiba took this matter. He was not being perfunctory, nor was he simply dumping everything on Kakashi.
It was just that he was conducting some sort of research and putting most of his energy into that.
Kakashi understood