Huh? So this problem could be solved like this!
After painfully sacrificing two teammates, Ranwu finally discovered the solution approach of "self-sacrifice."
At this point, five questions on Ranwu's paper already had perfect answers—the five questions with standard answers had all been solved normally by her.
With this level of theoretical knowledge, she should have ranked among the top five in the entire classroom—
But the remaining five questions gave Ranwu quite a headache. If this had been at the Ninja Academy, she would already have suspected the teacher had made a mistake!
It was then that Ranwu finally noticed the possibility of "self-sacrifice."
Once she saw through that layer, Ranwu solved the remaining five questions as well.
The hardest part of these five questions was actually thinking of "self-sacrifice."
Because the entire test never mentioned that "you" could be sacrificed, anyone without a genuine willingness to sacrifice themselves would never think of it.
But once she thought of it, solving them was about as difficult as the other five questions.
Ranwu quickly finished all ten questions: five without casualties, and five involving self-sacrifice.
Minato had been a step faster than Ranwu and had already finished all ten questions. However—
The five perfect solutions went without saying. After that came one self-sacrifice solution and four teammate-sacrifice solutions.
Minato had easily discovered the point about "self-sacrifice," but he only chose the one with the best cost-effectiveness. After answering that, he turned the other four into "half-point" answers.
Afterward, Minato and Ranwu began worrying about Akaseki—
These perfect answers were a little too difficult!
Only one was relatively simple enough that Akaseki might be able to solve it. As for the others—those could only be left to a sudden flash of inspiration from Akaseki.
Sure enough, Akaseki was struggling now.
Akaseki's level