The fake team from Konoha left the classroom, followed by the unstable ones, who sadly assessed their own chances of passing, thinning the number of participants.
Hoshi just shrugged her shoulders and marveled at the organizers' ideas - the skillful play on the herd feeling and psychological pressure, along with the complexity of the task at first glance, with the suggestion of an easy way out of the situation, worked just fine on the unaccustomed to such genin.
Even she felt a worm of doubt for a moment, but quickly suppressed it, because, thanks to the bribery of three chunins, she and the girls were able to get information about how the exam usually takes place.
Of course, the conditions and methods of pressure varied from exam to exam depending on the village and the chief examiner, but the essence remained the same.
And logically, among the crowd of examinees there must be people who had the answers to all the questions - who else would they cheat from? It took Hoshi only a minute to find two of them, but what to do about it?
The team would pass the lower threshold, but it would be nice to be in the lead and demonstrate the results of Ryo-sensei's training, but at the same time, too much attention could make the second stage a bit more difficult. She didn't want to embarrass herself by trying to "discreetly" copy answers like her neighbors.
The girl realized that in the current situation any attempt would not pass the gaze of the examiners and would definitely deprive her of a score. Or, to act brazenly and decisively, using the conditions for her own benefit?
But while Hoshi was pondering and evaluating her options, the red-haired kunoichi jumped up from her seat and without the slightest hesitation took a couple of steps forward, towards the genin. Before the examiners could react, she brought her fist down forcefully on the back of the unsuspecting shinobi's head and snatched the answer sheet from him.
At the same second, Hoshi jumped up from her seat and dashed over to the guy sitting across the desk who wasn't a participant, bringing her kunai down on the back of his head and grabbing the answers as well.
There was a stunned silence for a moment, allowing the kunoichi to return to her seat.
- Was it possible to do that too? - A surprised and delighted voice rang out, literally serving as a trigger.
The genin jumped up and down, drawing their weapons or clenching their fists, but the near-fight that had almost begun was not to be.
- Halt!!! - roared the chief examiner and put the entire ChI class at full power, making almost all the genin freeze and turn pale.
Actually, except for the perpetrators of the commotion and a few others like Minato and the clan team from Kumogakure. Hoshi nonchalantly pointed out that Ryo-sensei sometimes spiked a lot harder at the most unexpected times to get used to it and develop resistance.
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