"How can you say that? Our Qingguo is so beautiful. How can you say something like that? It's called charm. You people just don't understand."
"Pfft...! Qingcheng, you two sisters are both oddballs. One's fat and one's thin, and they're both so 'pretty.' If Fujima-kun would ever like either of you, I'll stay single for the rest of my life."
"You—you're bullying me! Sob, sob...!"
With Senju Fujima's arrival, the classroom instantly erupted. A moment ago, all you could hear was Irudi teaching, but now it sounded like a noisy marketplace.
"Tch, Senju Fujima, I'll definitely defeat you."
"I, Hyuga Tenkui, am the strongest of Konoha's younger generation. I'll prove that my mother was right."
At that moment, a girl with long, pale-purple hair and dressed in a cherry-blossom kimono wore a determined look in her pale, exquisite eyes.
She was the eldest daughter of the Hyuga Clan's Main Family. After Hyuga Tenin's death, his daughter had inherited the position of clan head.
"Everyone, quiet down."
"I've just been notified that your graduation exam is tomorrow."
"For various reasons, the older students in your year will be graduating early."
"So tomorrow will be your graduation day. I hope you'll do your best on the exam. Once you pass, you'll become real Konoha Ninja."
"After becoming ninja, you'll be able to take on missions and grow faster."
"The knowledge taught at school will only be useful if you practice and familiarize yourselves with it."
"Even if it's only the most basic theoretical knowledge..."
"Don't underestimate the basics."
"Take the Substitution Technique, for example. If you master it, you'll at least be able to protect yourselves from injury when you go to the battlefield or take on missions."
"That's all for today. Class dismissed!"
Irudi saw that no one was paying attention