Heh...
I never thought mighty Konoha would use a written test to select chunin. Seriously... can they really be trusted?
Was it really right for us to seek allies like this? I really don't know what the clan head was thinking!
Tch! Boring!
When he heard the announcement that the examination had begun, Hada Ryuhiko's lips twitched slightly. With intense disdain, he flipped over the test paper covering his desk, utterly contemptuous of this examination.
"Clack, clack, clack... Clack, clack, clack... Clackclackclackclackclack..."
Just then, as he flipped over the paper, a series of sounds came from beside him, as though a shaking chair and chattering teeth had become intertwined.
Anna?
Instinctively, he turned to look beside him.
What—?! The instant his gaze settled, Hada Ryuhiko's expression changed drastically, his eyes widening in horror.
At that moment, Hada Anna, his childhood friend seated beside him who had already opened her paper, was clutching her head in both hands. Her entire body and teeth were trembling, and her face looked like that of a hamster terrified beyond measure.
It was as if the test paper before her were some savage beast or monstrous flood.
And Hada Ryuhiko knew very well what this meant—what it meant when his childhood friend wore such an expression.
C-could there be something terrifying hidden in this test paper? Anna looks like she's seen a ghost! As he watched, Hada Ryuhiko could not help swallowing. Anna was the most fearless girl in the village, braver than a lion on the plains—no, braver than all the lions in every pride on the plains put together.
He had never seen his childhood friend this frightened, except for that time when that idiot, Kazuha, suddenly wanted to tell some ghost story.
But even then, his childhood friend had not looked like