Temporary Test

"The test must accurately 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 exam, Hyuga Shin."

"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 families.

"So don't make trouble for yourselves. If anyone is caught cheating, you will be expelled immediately."

"Do you understand?"

"We understand."

The students answered in unison.

Inoue Lingyue nodded and continued,

"Pass out the test papers now. The exam will begin in five minutes."

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

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

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

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

"Yeah, Teacher. Were the wrong papers handed out?"

Inoue Lingyue took a test paper and glanced over it.

"The papers are correct. Fill them out if you understand them. If you don't, you may hand in a blank paper."

"But I still hope you'll do your best. Just remember, absolutely, absolutely no cheating."

She emphasized it repeatedly.

Hyuga Qingchuan 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 skin

C. Chakra exhaustion shock

D. Festering wounds with pus

2. The core chakra nature of Medical Ninjutsu is () Release.

3. Within 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, all of it was from Overview of Medical Ninja.

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

The exam began.

It was completely different from their usual classes.

At first, the commoner students in the class tried their best.

But when they saw that the test paper was entirely beyond their scope of knowledge,

they almost all simply gave up, completely resigning themselves as they waited for the exam to end.

The children of the great clans, meanwhile, were the complete opposite of how they behaved during regular classes.

The ones who usually lazed around were now scratching their heads, their faces twisted in agony.

Their knowledge was several levels beyond that of the commoners.

They vaguely sensed that this test carried an element of selection.

So they all tried their best to solve the questions.

Unfortunately, since the books had been distributed, they had never looked at them.

They could only rely on the little fragmented knowledge they had picked up from their clans and guess at a few answers.

Inoue Lingyue surveyed the expressions on the students' faces and thought to herself,

Just as I expected!

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

The occasional student who wanted to write frowned deeply, pausing after every stroke with no idea where to begin.

What surprised her the most,

was the pair of Hyuga desk mates.

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

That made her see them in a new light.

Before long, Hyuga Qingchuan finished his paper.

Thanks to having finished reading the medical overview course in advance, along with some hygiene knowledge from his previous life,

he completed the test smoothly.

He stretched, then turned and noticed that many of his classmates had basically given up.

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

He sat quietly and waited for the exam to end.

Hyuga Shin, who was proctoring from the front, looked at the two members of his clan.

Yet he secretly shook his head.

Although the results had not come out yet,

in his view, the fact that the two clan members wrote so smoothly meant they had spent quite a bit of effort on medical studies.

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

What a waste of their Byakugan talent.

Time slowly passed, and the exam period came to an end.

Inoue Lingyue ordered the students to stop writing.

She then collected the papers one by one and, after organizing them,

announced that class was dismissed!

The moment Inoue Lingyue left the classroom, the class began asking one another about the exam.

"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, forget it. 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 Qingchuan was also quite curious, so he looked at Hyuga Ayane.

"I saw that you answered 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 happily, her eyes curving into crescents from how delicious she found it.

Hearing Hyuga Qingchuan's question, she answered indistinctly,

"No. A while ago, I saw you holding this book and reading it really intently."

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

As she spoke, she handed Hyuga Qingchuan a book.

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

"That's quite a coincidence." Hyuga Qingchuan smiled.

"It really is."

Hyuga Ayane squeezed another little fish from the package and offered it to Hyuga Qingchuan.

"Have one!"

"Thanks!"

Hyuga Qingri ate dried fish while thinking.

After Nawaki and Dan Katō died, Tsunade had always been committed to ensuring that every squad had a medical ninja.

Although she had not fully managed to implement that measure even after becoming Hokage,

the root cause was that medical ninjas were too difficult to train.

They required exceptionally high talent and learning ability.

And after finally training one,

they could easily get killed once they went to the front lines.

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 intended to vigorously train medical ninjas.

That meant today's temporary test was very likely some sort of selection.

"Have another little fish!"

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

Seeing that, Hyuga Qingchuan gently took it between his teeth. "Thanks!"

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

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

Uchiha Shinichi's expression turned somewhat strange, and he shook his head.

"Although I don't want him bothering Xiaohong, I think that pretty boy has terrible taste."

"No matter how you look at it, that big eater can't compare to Xiaohong."

Uchiha Tsukasa nodded as well.

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