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Shikamaru, carrying Naruto who was so scared his legs had gone soft, saw this and jumped out through the window Hinata had smashed.

"Ah, that hurts."

Naruto, who landed face-first, covered his nose. "What are you doing?"

"I don't mind if you blame me, but those things are about to crawl out."

Shikamaru pointed at the puppet corpses that were starting to climb out of the classroom.

Naruto's legs went soft again.

"I've already seen the upperclassmen, we should regroup with them first."

Kiba Inuzuka's nose twitched. He could still breathe through his nose, but he couldn't smell anything.

The small white dog on his head was also constantly sticking out its tongue to lick its own nose.

"Alright."

The classmates who jumped out of the window agreed.

"Miss, are you alright?"

Neji, who had discovered Hinata with his Byakugan, ran over and asked.

"I'm fine, what about you guys?"

"I'm fine, but many of my classmates were captured."

Neji looked towards the rooftop of the school building.

His Byakugan saw that those classmates, after being dragged down by arms that emerged from beneath their feet, reappeared on the rooftop already unconscious.

"We encountered some puppet corpses, senior, what about you?"

Suddenly, a voice rang out, startling everyone who was talking.

Turning their heads, they saw Shino Aburame wearing sunglasses with a calm expression.

"Why did you suddenly speak up? You scared me!"

Ino Yamanaka was greatly startled.

But the one who reacted the most was Naruto. He was now clinging to Shikamaru's legs, coiled up on him like an octopus.

"Aren't you ashamed?" Sasuke said speechlessly.

"We encountered some puppet corpses too. It looks like we're facing the same thing."

"Senior, do you know what the abilities of those puppet corpses are?"

"It looks like you haven't fought them directly, which is good. Because these puppet corpses are very troublesome."

"Not only are they incredibly strong, but Ninjutsu is also difficult to kill them with. Most importantly, as long as you come into contact with them, you'll become weak and unable to exert any strength. If there are no classmates to help you, it'll be dangerous!"

"How are we supposed to fight this!!!"

"It's alright," Neji said, looking at Sakura who had cried out in alarm. "As long as you don't touch them directly, even if there's just a layer of cloth between you and the puppet corpse, you won't be affected by its power."

Everyone heard this and breathed a sigh of relief.

This was at least good news.

However, at the same time, the only method they currently had to deal with the puppet corpses was Taijutsu.

Shikamaru looked at Sasuke. He might be able to use Ninjutsu one more time, but just one use against an unknown number of puppet corpses seemed very ineffective.

"Miss, those puppet corpses should be coming out soon. Please don't stray too far from me from now on."

"No..."

"I'm going to act alone from now on."

Hinata's words greatly startled Neji.

"Miss... Alright, please be careful."

Hinata walked towards the school building.

"Wait, wait, wait... Hinata, where are you going?"

Naruto stretched out his hands to block Hinata's path.

"I'm going to confirm a guess of mine. Naruto, you stay here... Brother, please protect Naruto for me." Hinata turned and said to Neji.

Hinata suddenly thought that with Naruto's personality, he wouldn't foolishly follow her, would he? "I'm leaving, you... don't be rash," she specifically warned Naruto.

"I..."

Before Naruto could finish speaking, Hinata had already left, and was now nearing the main entrance of the school building.

"Do you know what Hyuga-san is going to do?"

Kiba Inuzuka asked Neji.

"She's probably going to save the classmates on the rooftop. What a bother..."

"What! Weren't the classmates on the rooftop already out of the game?"

"You never know," Shino Aburame pushed up his glasses. "This test didn't state any rules. No one told us we couldn't save classmates who were already out. In the end, who knows if those classmates are truly out or not."

Naruto clenched his fists, then rushed towards the school building without looking back!

"Hey, Naruto! What are you doing?!"

"I'm going to help Hinata..."

You're just going to be a nuisance if you go, Sakura thought frantically.

"I'll go chase him back."

Sasuke went after Naruto.

"I'm going too."

Hinata finally asked Neji to protect Naruto, telling him not to stray too far from him.

"If it weren't for Hyuga-san, I would have fainted and been eliminated by now, so I'm going to help Hyuga-san."

"Woof woof!" Kiba Inuzuka's small white dog agreed with his sentiment.

"What are you doing now?"

Shikamaru watched Shino Aburame also heading towards the school building.

Shino Aburame pushed up his glasses. "I just want to go to the safest place."

"You guys... had better follow me."

"The safest place? What do you mean?"

Everyone looked at Shikamaru, as he was the smartest among them.

"This is such a pain. Because Hyuga-san is there, the school building has become the safest place." If it were just puppet corpses appearing...

Shikamaru silently added in his mind.

Shikamaru looked at the people around him, wondering if he should just stay on the training grounds and get a passing score.

But he forgot, if he really just aimed for a passing score, his dad would probably beat him half to death.

"Shikamaru, let's go help Hinata-san."

Choji put down his potato chips.

"Fine..." Shikamaru looked at his friend. Since he agreed, there was no reason for him to refuse.

As a member of the Ino-Shika-Cho formation, Ino Yamanaka naturally followed Shikamaru and Choji.

"I..."

Sakura looked at everyone running towards the school building, then at the other classmates discussing how to resist the puppet corpses. She was incredibly conflicted.

"Aren't you going to chase after them?"

At this moment, a girl with a bun hairstyle wearing a qipao patted Sakura's shoulder.

"Don't be scared, Sakura-san. The best way to eliminate fear is to face it!"

Rock Lee, with his thick eyebrows, watermelon-head hairstyle, and green outfit, gave a thumbs-up, revealing his pearly white teeth.

Whether it was Sakura's imagination or not, she thought she saw Rock Lee's teeth flash.

Watching the two people running towards the school building, Sakura finally chased after them.

It wasn't that she was awakened by Rock Lee's "chicken soup for the soul," but rather because she felt Shino Aburame was right: the safest place was wherever Hinata was.

This point had been proven by Uchiha Sasuke's incredibly miserable daily life to all the teachers and students at the ninja academy over the Three Years since they enrolled!

Hinata: "..."

Hinata, who had already reached the second floor of the school building, was speechless. So, I only told Naruto not to follow, and that made you guys follow? Speaking of which, she wasn't surprised that Naruto followed. If Naruto had obediently stayed put, she would have suspected he was possessed.

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