Temporary Test

"The test must reflect your true abilities. Cheating is strictly forbidden."

As she spoke, Inoue Lingyue turned and introduced the Hyuga Clan ninja standing behind her.

"This is the proctor for this examination, Hyuga Shen."

"The Byakugan can observe the flow of chakra, and he will use it to monitor the examination room throughout the entire test."

Inoue Lingyue swept her stern gaze across the class, lingering especially on the children of bloodline-limit clans.

"So, don't bring trouble upon yourselves. If anyone is caught cheating, they will be expelled immediately."

"Do you understand?"

"Yes, ma'am!"

The students answered in unison.

Inoue Lingyue nodded and continued, "Now pass the test papers around. The test will begin in five minutes."

"Before then, you may look through the papers, but you are not allowed to write."

The test papers were passed from the front to the back, one sheet at a time.

"Teacher, did you make a mistake? We haven't even started learning this course yet."

Some students in the front rows who had received their papers began questioning it when they saw the completely unfamiliar questions.

"Yeah, teacher, did you hand out the wrong papers?"

Inoue Lingyue took a test paper and glanced over it.

"The papers are correct. Fill them in if you understand them; hand in a blank paper if you don't."

"But the teacher still hopes that you will do your best. Just remember: absolutely, absolutely no cheating."

She emphasized it again and again.

Hyuga Seisen took a test paper and scanned it. Sure enough, it covered material the school had not yet taught.

1. In which of the following situations is the Mystical Palm Technique prohibited? ()

A. Ruptured internal organs

B. Abrasions to the epidermis

C. Chakra exhaustion shock

D. Festering wounds with pus

2. The core chakra nature of medical ninjutsu is () Release.

3. In a squad, a medical ninja's foremost survival principle is ()

4. Briefly explain the importance of "chakra control" to a medical ninja, and list two basic training methods.

There were multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, and short-answer questions.

There were also application questions, practical questions, ethical questions...

Good grief, it was all from the course Medical Ninja Overview.

Some of it was even beyond the syllabus. If he had not been a transmigrator, he might not have known the answers even after reading the book.

The test began.

It was completely different from their usual classes.

The commoner students in the class initially tried to make an effort.

But once they saw that the test paper was entirely beyond their range of knowledge,

they almost all simply gave up, completely resigned themselves, and waited for the test to end.

The children of the great clans, meanwhile, were the complete opposite of how they usually acted in class.

Those who normally loafed around were now scratching their heads in frustration, all wearing expressions of agony.

Their knowledge was several levels beyond that of the commoners.

They vaguely sensed that this test carried the meaning of a selection process.

So each of them tried their best to answer the questions.

Unfortunately, ever since the books had been handed out, they had never read them.

They could only rely on the shallow, fragmented knowledge they had picked up from their clans to guess a few answers.

Inoue Lingyue surveyed the expressions on the students' faces and thought to herself, Just as expected!

After several futile attempts, nearly all the students simply put down their pens and began playing with the erasers on their desks.

The occasional student who tried to write could only furrow their brows, pausing repeatedly after every stroke, utterly at a loss.

What surprised her most,

however, was the pair of Hyuga desk mates.

The two of them kept writing without pause, as though they had truly studied the material before.

That made her see them in a new light.

Before long, Hyuga Seisen had finished his test paper.

Thanks to having finished reading the medical overview course in advance, along with some medical knowledge from a later era,

he completed the paper with ease.

He stretched, then turned to find that most of his classmates had already given up.

What surprised him instead was that Hyuga Ayane beside him was writing away furiously.

He quietly sat and waited for the test to end.

Hyuga Shen, who was proctoring from the front, saw the two members of his clan.

Yet he secretly shook his head.

Although the grades had not yet come out,

in his view, the fact that the two of them wrote so smoothly meant they had put quite a bit of effort into this medical course.

They would have been better off spending that time on Gentle Fist.

What a waste of the Byakugan's talent.

Time passed bit by bit, and the test period came to an end.

Inoue Lingyue ordered the students to stop writing.

She then collected the test papers one by one and organized them.

Then she dismissed the class!

The moment Inoue Lingyue stepped out of the classroom, the class began exchanging greetings about the test.

"How did you do?"

"Not well. I couldn't understand it. I picked C for all the multiple-choice questions and left everything else blank."

"Same here. I have no idea why they suddenly gave us such difficult questions."

"Yeah, whatever. The teacher said it was fine to hand in a blank paper anyway."

"..."

As soon as class ended, the students began whispering among themselves, discussing the test they had just taken.

Hyuga Seisen was quite curious as well, and he looked at Hyuga Ayane.

"I saw you answering pretty smoothly."

"What, have you studied this stuff before?"

Hyuga Ayane tore open a packet of dried fish and squeezed one into her mouth.

She chewed away happily, her eyes curving into crescents from how delicious she found it.

Hearing Hyuga Seisen's question, she answered through a mouthful of food, "No. Some time ago, I saw you holding this book and reading it so intently."

"I got curious and started reading it too. I found it pretty interesting once I did."

As she spoke, she handed Hyuga Seisen a book.

He looked at it and saw that it was indeed the Medical Ninja Overview he had read before.

"That is quite a coincidence." Hyuga Seisen smiled.

"It is."

Hyuga Ayane squeezed another small fish from the package and held it out to Hyuga Seisen.

"Here, have one!"

"Thanks!"

Hyuga Seisen ate the dried fish, but his mind was deep in thought.

After Nawaki and Dan Kato died, Tsunade had devoted herself to ensuring that every squad would be equipped with a medical ninja.

Although that measure had not been fully realized even by the time she became Hokage,

the fundamental reason was that medical ninjas were too difficult to train.

They demanded exceptionally high talent and learning ability.

And after finally managing to train one, once they went to the front lines,

they could easily be killed if they were not careful.

Still, the village had always been training medical ninjas.

Rin and Sakura, for example, were medical ninjas trained from their classes.

With war approaching, Tian Lu had also told him yesterday that the village would be vigorously training medical ninjas.

Then today's sudden test was very likely some kind of selection.

"Here, have another little fish!"

This time, Hyuga Ayane directly held a dried fish up to Hyuga Seisen's mouth.

Seeing this, Hyuga Seisen gently took it between his teeth. "Thanks!"

Uchiha Tsukasa, who sat by the classroom window, watched Hyuga Seisen and Hyuga Ayane feeding each other fish and poked Uchiha Shinichi beside him.

"Brother Shinichi, look. That pretty boy is chatting happily with that big eater again."

Uchiha Shinichi wore a somewhat strange expression as he shook his head.

"Though I don't want him bothering Little Red, I think that pretty boy's taste is terrible."

"No matter how you look at her, that big eater can't compare to Little Red."

Uchiha Tsukasa nodded as well.

"I think so too. She's way too fat, and fat in a different way from everyone else."