The next day, Training Ground 3.
Tejima Shinichi, Kobayashi Ken, and Sato Yu arrived on time.
To their surprise, Yamato was already waiting there with his back to them.
Hearing their footsteps, Yamato turned around, a gentle smile on his face.
He wasted no words and pulled three scrolls from his robes, spreading them out before them.
"These are the Chunin Exam Application Forms. I've already signed them. Now, you need to make your own choice: whether to press your fingerprints on them!"
Kobayashi Ken and Sato Yu's gazes were instantly drawn to the scrolls, and their breathing grew a little quicker.
For Genin, the Chunin Exam was a crucial step toward a bigger stage, but it also meant greater risks.
Yamato looked at the two somewhat nervous team members.
"Two and a half months ago, when I said I wanted you to take the Chunin Exam, perhaps even you yourselves weren't confident. But over this period, I've seen all your hard work and progress."
"Ken, you can now reliably perform the C-rank Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, and your Taijutsu and Shuriken accuracy have improved significantly. Yu, the same goes for you. You've mastered Wind Release: Great Breakthrough quite well, and you're becoming increasingly proficient with it."
"More importantly, you've preliminarily mastered the techniques for jointly performing Combined Ninjutsu. Though with your current amount of Chakra, you may only be able to sustain one or two uses of the Wind Fire Prairie Fire combination, that coordination and explosive power are enough to turn the tide at a critical moment, or even make Chunin who underestimate you suffer badly."
"Combined with the Taijutsu training I've tailored to strengthen your weaknesses, you now have the ability to hold your own and protect yourselves against ordinary Chunin, even if you cannot defeat