"Shikaku, your son is really smart. Looks like he'll be able to take over for you someday!"
Bai Ye heard every word Shikamaru said.
He couldn't help marveling. Shikamaru really was one of the smartest people in the anime.
He figured out why I set things up this way so quickly?!
Naruto and the other two hadn't even seen what he was aiming for.
Naruto and Sasuke were one thing...
After all, those two were about equally intelligent-which wasn't very intelligent at all.
In the anime, their approach mostly boiled down to brute force solving everything.
But surely Neji's battle sense should have let him see through Bai Ye's intentions?
Then Bai Ye reconsidered. When it came to intelligence, Neji might not actually be much smarter than Naruto or Sasuke.
After all, he was someone who could get along with Rock Lee.
He probably wasn't especially smart either. Maybe, like Sasuke, he was simply aloof and quiet.
That was why he seemed smarter than everyone else.
As for Shikaku, he had been perfectly fine with what he heard at first.
After all, the Nara Clan had always been famous for its intelligence.
But as Bai Ye went on, Shikaku Nara realized something was off.
Wait!
What do you mean by that?!
What do you mean, my son can take over for me?!
So Bai Ye means that once I finish here and retire, my son will replace me?!
Hold on!
Since when did our Nara Clan become beasts of burden?!
Is Bai Ye planning to make my family handle the Hokage's work forever?!
This guy...
Shikaku Nara stared at Bai Ye with a gloomy look, thinking about how his wife urged him to come home every day.
Yet there was nothing he could do.
He could only explain that Bai