As evening fell, the Uchiha-Akimichi Joint Squad finished resting and prepared to resume their journey under the stars.
Just then, Ranwu gave Akaseki a suspicious look.
"Is there something on my face?" Akaseki asked, puzzled.
"No, nothing..." Ranwu said, unable to resist glancing at Hizashi again.
Hizashi: ?
His Byakugan held nothing but confusion.
Ranwu had keenly noticed something...
Why did Akaseki keep trying to suppress a look of sheer pleasure while he rested?
Had he really dreamed about those Byakugan twins giving him extra time again?
Akaseki really was enjoying himself. He was still savoring it as they traveled.
When Hong Yan left the exam hall, that teacher surnamed Li tried to join forces with the parents of the other children who had missed the exam and pin the blame on him. After all, why had he been the only one who hadn't fallen for it?
Ignoring what Chen Qingqing had said earlier, they kept stirring things up outside, making it sound as though Hong Yan had tricked everyone before taking the exam himself. But...
Hong Yan had recorded everything.
In front of the reporters' cameras and the livestreams of ordinary onlookers, Hong Yan played the recordings of himself "informing Teacher Li" and "
Teacher Li ordering Hong Yan to stop attending classes after falling for the scam." Everyone turned their anger back on the school and the teacher.
Seeing Teacher Li collapse again with a strangled squawk, Hong Yan slipped away from the crowd without claiming any credit and went back to memorizing... the answers for the next exam!
After another stretch of traveling day and night, Akaseki hastily took a bite of a Military Ration Pill, then eagerly prepared to activate Kai Chi.
"Akaseki, are you... all right?" Minato couldn't help asking.
"Don't worry. I'm in great