"Crunch, crunch! Crunch, crunch, crunch!"
The sound of potato chips being crushed between teeth had begun to softly echo through the indoor training ground at some point, bringing a faint sense of ease to the training ground, which had gradually fallen silent and grown tense as everyone focused on Hada Ichiba and his two companions.
"Choji, you can still eat at a time like this?"
In another corner, where the crunching sounds came from, a rather disheveled blonde girl looked at her teammate beside her, frowned, and could not help complaining.
She was Ino Yamanaka, the only girl on Konoha's Team 10 and one of the successors of the Ino-Shika-Cho unit.
"Choji, you'll draw attention doing that. It'll be pretty troublesome."
At the same time, Shikamaru Nara beside her spoke up as well.
Now, when everyone was tense because of that Hada Ichiba, the sudden presence of someone who was not tense at all and was still munching on potato chips would undoubtedly draw attention to them. It might even lead others to make unrealistic guesses about their strength.
They would attract unnecessary attention.
When that happened, the difficulty of the exam would probably skyrocket.
It would be more than troublesome!
It would be a super pain! Shikamaru Nara hated that kind of trouble most of all! "Crunch, crunch! Crunch, crunch! Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch!"
However, his words seemed to have had no effect. On the contrary, after hearing them, their teammate, Akimichi Choji, began stuffing potato chips into his mouth faster and faster, while the crunching grew increasingly frequent.
"Seriously, Choji, don't you understand what Shikamaru means?"
Hearing the increasingly hurried crunching, Ino Yamanaka lightly wiped away some dirt from her face and spoke helplessly.
This second stage of the Chunin Exams had undoubtedly made them