Crash!
Shattered glass wrapped around the bundled object that had smashed through the window, streaking countless transparent trails through the air as it flew inside.
Thud! Thud!
Just then, the bundled round object suddenly unfurled in midair, and two kunai shot into the classroom ceiling at forty-five-degree angles.
Rustle!
In an instant, the bundle that had opened in midair dropped down from above, becoming a curtain secured by the two kunai embedded in the ceiling.
It happened to block Ibiki Morino, who had turned around in astonishment.
Clatter, clatter!
At that very moment, the shattered glass scattered across the floor.
"You lot! This isn't the time to be celebrating!"
At that moment, a shapely young woman was already standing before the curtain. Amid the sound of rolling glass, her loud voice rang out.
"I'm the examiner for the second test, Anko Mitarashi!"
Then, in an impassioned tone, she announced her name.
"Now, let's go! On to the next round! Follow me!"
Matching the impact of her entrance, the young woman spoke in the tone of a delinquent girl, clenching her fist as she declared the beginning of the second stage of the Chunin Exams.
Silence—! Yet her spirited declaration was met only with silence from every examinee.
And with subtly blank expressions on every examinee's face.
All the examinees stared at the young woman and the curtain bearing the words "Second Test Examiner Anko Mitarashi," their faces showing that they had yet to process what was happening.
Uh...
In an instant, her shapely body froze on the spot, and her formerly spirited expression stiffened as well.
"Read the room."
In that awkward silence, after quite a while, Ibiki Morino poked half his body out from behind the curtain and spoke in a low voice.
Was it an illusion? Though he