"Bang—!!!"
The deafening boom still echoed through the classroom, shaking dust down from the rafters with a soft patter.
Splintered wood chips, mixed with test papers torn in half, slowly spiraled through the air as they fell.
A broken table leg rolled all the way to the podium and stopped at Ibiki Morino's feet.
The entire examination room fell deathly silent.
You could hear a pin drop.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
The examinees from the smaller hidden villages all stood there with their mouths hanging open, their eyes bulging like bells.
They stared blankly at the blond boy standing amid the wreckage, his face screaming, "If you don't like it, fight me."
Their minds went completely blank.
What... what kind of move was that?
He did not like the questions, so he kicked the table apart?!
Was this guy here for the Chūnin Exams, or was he here to demolish the building?
Even the Konoha 12 in the first row, who had been pretending to work seriously on their tests, could no longer keep it together.
Kiba Inuzuka's pencil dropped to the floor with a clatter.
Shikamaru Nara even forgot to say "what a drag." For the first time, his sleepy face showed an expression called shock.
"Th-That's way too arrogant..."
Covering her mouth, Ino whispered to Chōji beside her.
"Isn't he afraid they'll disqualify him on the spot?"
The dead silence lasted only a second.
Then the entire Leaf Village proctor team exploded.
"This is outrageous! Those Stone Village brats have completely lost it!"
One hot-tempered Leaf Village chūnin was so furious that his face turned green.
He slammed a hand onto the table, sprang to his feet, and pointed at Deidara's nose as he cursed.
"You dare destroy public property and disrespect the examiners in a Leaf Village examination