"I was right. Now I know these two aren't easy to deal with!" Uchiha Itachi recalled the earlier joke and smiled at Mirai.
"No, are you really demon eyes?" Mirai said in disbelief, his eyes wide.
No one appeared on the fifth day. Just when everyone thought no one else would show up, less than thirty minutes before the end of the second exam, the final group arrived from Sharen Village to Shinagawa Changshi. There were finally twelve people who had passed the second exam.
"The protagonist usually appears during the finale. That ragged, scar-covered man clearly isn't willing to play the pig to eat the tiger. He doesn't seem easy to deal with!" Uchiha Qi watched Changshi Shinagawa, who was about to catch up with Shinkawa, and whispered like a demon into Mirai's ear.
Mirai looked at Uchiha Itachi and was speechless at his serious nonsense. Changshi Shinagawa could tell at a glance that he had truly nearly missed it. He had probably only passed the second exam by luck. Uchiha Itachi even wanted to fool him a second time.
Mirai felt rather embarrassed that day. Uchiha Itachi gave a wry smile and said, "Don't you think the information I gave you at the beginning was correct?"
"That's because Elder Itachi's mouth is poisonous. You'd better not talk so much!" Mirai had already grown used to Uchiha Itachi and spoke very casually whenever he talked to him.
As soon as Mirai said that, he remembered that Uchiha Itachi's summoning beast later on was a crow. That truly was a crow's mouth. He could not help looking back at the panicked Changshi Shinkawa.
He did not know whether it was an illusion. After Uchiha Itachi spoke, Changshi Shinkawa became difficult to read under Mirai's gaze, as though he really had