"Naruto, apologize to the examiner!"
After stopping Naruto and Anko from fighting, Hao Shuai glared at Naruto and ordered him to apologize.
Naruto felt a pang of bitterness under Hao Shuai's glare, but could only obediently walk over to Anko and say, "I'm sorry. I apologize for what I did just now."
"Don't let it happen again!" For Hao Shuai's sake, Anko decided to forgive him.
Once he saw that the matter was settled, Hao Shuai shifted his attention to one of the examinees watching the commotion nearby.
She was a woman wearing a conical hat. She stood about 1.7 meters tall and wore a beige, knee-length robe over purple pants. A thick purple rope was wrapped around her waist.
She looked utterly ordinary, but she had caught Hao Shuai's attention because he sensed a bone-chilling killing intent radiating from her.
Having followed the story closely, Hao Shuai knew she had to be Orochimaru—Snake Uncle. No, he was Snake Aunt now.
But with so many people around, this wasn't the time for a private conversation. He would have to wait until they entered the Forest of Death to have a nice long chat with Snake Aunt.
The commotion soon died down, and Anko finally got to work as the chief examiner, explaining the second exam.
"The Forest of Death is roughly circular. The tower at its center is your destination, and the distance from any section of the perimeter fence to the tower is ten kilometers."
"For the next five days—a hundred and twenty hours—you'll compete for scrolls in this vast forest."
"In a moment, each team will be given a scroll. It'll be either a Heaven Scroll or an Earth Scroll."
"Your task is to obtain both scrolls and reach the central tower within five days. Only then will