This brat... I praised him for nothing! Hearing Hada Ryuhiko's words that followed, Hada Ichiba's smile froze as a helpless, amused thought rose from deep within him, one that he did not send through telepathy.
That leap of logic...
Was completely off!
After his amused helplessness, Hada Ichiba could only smile again in resignation.
"Ryuhiko, Konoha is one of the foremost major nations and ninja villages, with an excellent international reputation. The International Chunin Exams are such an important examination—if Konoha cheated in such a crude way, do you think it could host, or rather, continue hosting, so many International Chunin Exams?"
After he smiled again, Hada Ichiba's voice once more rang in Hada Ryuhiko's and Hada Anna's minds.
"No!"
This time, Hada Anna, whose brain had previously still been frozen, reacted first and decisively sent those two words.
Anna...
Hearing that, Hada Ryuhiko's face immediately flushed red.
Clearly, he had overlooked a simple and obvious factor: Konoha's prestige, and how important that prestige was to Konoha.
If Konoha used such an obvious, crude, and simplistic method of cheating, then it would never have possessed the credibility to host the International Chunin Exams and gain recognition from every nation and ninja village.
Clearly, Konoha was not doing this to cheat for itself.
Even Anna understood that! So if it was not cheating, then why knowingly set questions that no other village had, questions based on different textbooks, and make them all incredibly difficult?
What was the purpose? This time, although Hada Ryuhiko blushed, he did not fly into an embarrassed rage. Instead, he added that condition into his reasoning and began thinking again.
"I know!"
Then, after thinking for a short while, a look of sudden realization flashed across his adorably feminine face. Light flashed in his eyes, and in