Politics

The next day, once the results were announced, all of Sunagakure erupted.

Highest-scoring team: Konoha Supreme Three Brothers Team, 20 points.

All other teams: 0 points.

Highest individual score: Uchiha Mai. Everyone else: 0 points.

There might have been idiots among those qualified to take the Chunin Ninja Exams. But saying they were all idiots would have been far too much.

Thinking back to Uchiha Mai's series of moves while collecting the papers yesterday, everyone realized that he must have tampered with the test papers at the time.

Mei Terumi gritted her teeth in hatred. I gave you my whole heart, and you turned around and used my feelings against me.

Fine, use me if you wanted to—but couldn't you at least have changed my paper to give me a high score? Wouldn't it have been wonderful if both teams advanced together?

Bah, scumbag!

As Mei Terumi cursed Uchiha Mai in her heart, she completely forgot how delighted she had been yesterday when Mai said they could only score 20 points.

Perhaps double standards did not exist in this world. Or perhaps everyone had them.

Mizukage Yagura immediately stormed into the Kazekage's office and protested Uchiha Mai's inhuman conduct.

Together with dozens of examinees, he filed a real-name report accusing Uchiha Mai of cheating, demanding that his examination eligibility be revoked and that the test be held again.

The host village responded that clever cheating was permitted. If cheating meant losing one's examination eligibility, then not a single person would remain in this Chunin Ninja Exams.

Sunagakure then stated that Uchiha Mai's team would advance first, while another written test would be held tomorrow to select the remaining candidates.

Only then was Mizukage Yagura satisfied. Revoking Uchiha Mai's examination eligibility had merely been a pretense.

His real goal was to