Tenzo took part in the Chunin Ninja Exams alone rather than as part of a team, because he simply couldn't find any teammates. But it didn't matter. He himself was a team of one, after all.
He passed the first exam with ease and entered the forest for the second. Tenzo seemed especially relaxed. For one thing, he wasn't dead set on becoming a Chunin. What difference would it make if he passed? And what difference would it make if he failed? For another, with his strength, there was no reason he wouldn't pass an exam like this.
But being relaxed didn't mean Tenzo intended to be harmless during the exam. On the contrary, he planned to follow the principle of "if people don't offend me, I might still offend them." He had once heard about a certain "Chunin Exam human-fruit cultivation incident."
While Tenzo was taking his exam, Yuhara and Kakashi Hatake were also in the forest. Their mission, however, was to maintain order and prevent accidents during the exam.
"Peacetime really is different from wartime. In just two or three years, the quality of the Genin feels completely different from before. I'm not saying the Genin are that much weaker or stronger than before. It's their condition..." Kakashi shook his head, seemingly unimpressed with Konoha's current Genin.
Kakashi might have been young, but he truly had the qualifications to talk like an old man. After all, he was a genuine veteran... Kakashi had been a veteran since the age of five...
"The tension brought by war is lethal. Never mind the Genin who have barely experienced war... some of them only just graduated from elementary school. In fact, even people like us have become somewhat lax after the war ended. An environment where people could die at any