Unity!
An hour later, Seventh Training Ground.
"I'm glad you could arrive on time."
Lin Ke stood on a rock, trying to make his slightly regrettable height seem more imposing. He didn't know why, but the more he tried to exercise, the slower he seemed to grow. Due to his age, standing with many transmigrator peers who were already 1.8 meters tall at a few years old, the nine-year-old him was only about 1.3 meters tall with shoes on.
One meter three! He was slightly concerned about it. (Very concerned.) Xia looked full of dissatisfaction and anger. At eleven years old, she wasn't old enough to hide her emotions in front of her peers, even after undergoing ninja training.
However, after the little friction just now, she didn't dare to provoke him actively.
Yuan Wei took the initiative to speak, "Lin Ke, what exactly do you want us here for?"
He no longer had the initial excitement of becoming a Genin. The conflict that had just occurred was enough to cool down his overheated brain.
"Regardless of whether we have any friendship or anything like that," Lin Ke said, seeing that the two were ready, he organized his words slightly, "Since we've been assigned to the same team, we're teammates from now on, teammates who need to carry out missions together."
"Trust is essential."
The two remained silent. Yes, having undergone mental training and a lot of ninja common sense training, as long as they weren't a certain dead last who never attended cultural classes, they generally knew what they had to do.
After graduating from the Ninja Academy, they were no longer students or children, but ninjas.
"I hope we can achieve unified command before the Jonin's guidance test," Lin Ke continued, "So, let's use strength to decide who among us is the leader, do you have any objections?"
They still defaulted.
Ninjas have always believed that might makes right.
"Are you ready?" A rare smile appeared on Lin Ke's small face.
"Swoosh!" X2 Xia and Yuan Wei rushed up from the left and right. Being the same age and in the same class, they had participated in joint combat exercises before and were relatively more familiar and had better tacit understanding.
My path as a ninja begins with beating up kids.
Lin Ke smiled, gathering Chakra at the soles of his feet, and used the Body Flicker Technique—
"Thump!" X2 He appeared like a flash of light behind the two where they intersected, pressing one hand on each of their heads and directly smashing them into the ground. *One Tiger Kills Two Lambs!*
He didn't even need to use the Substitution Jutsu to deal with them.
In the distance, Nara Yan Shui, who had been watching the whole process, smiled. It was a great thing that his team had a genius with leadership abilities.
Jonin weren't idle every day. To become a supervising Jonin, one must not hold a village position or be in special organizations like the Anbu. Leading Genin wasn't a good task, it was a waste of time and seriously delayed their speed of accepting missions to earn money.
The village's only requirement for supervising Jonin was to bring out a Chunin. Once someone in the student team was promoted to Chunin, the supervising Jonin was considered relieved.
At least they didn't have to continue being babysitters.
Therefore, supervising Jonin all had their own set of methods to screen subordinates. Those who were screened out were Ninja Academy students who had no hope of being promoted to Chunin in a short period of time, needing several years or even decades to slowly grind. It was better to directly screen them out and let them return to the Ninja Academy to study again.
Most of the screening tests were the bell-snatching test passed down from the Third Hokage (after all, it could comprehensively test the abilities of subordinates, and no Jonin would think that three Genin could snatch the bells). A few would have different methods.
But they all led to the same goal, which was to kick the Genin with little potential back to school for retraining.
Therefore, as long as a team could graduate smoothly and pass the supervising Jonin's test, someone would basically be promoted to Chunin in a few months to a year under the recommendation of the supervising Jonin. The team would disband, return the team number to the Ninja Academy, and wait for the next batch of students to inherit it.
Of course, there were a few exceptions, but most supervising Jonin certainly wouldn't be happy to be babysitters.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Genin who graduated from the Ninja Academy seemed to have a natural advantage in promotion, so they flocked to enter the Ninja Academy even more.
In reality, teams that couldn't qualify for Chunin in a short period of time wouldn't be recognized by the supervising Jonin. The high rate of two-thirds of graduates repeating their studies wasn't a joke.
The superficial conclusion was purely a survivor bias.
Nara Yan Shui was a typical Nara clan member, meticulous, good at shadow techniques, and very capable. Similarly, he also had a headache for troublesome people or things.
He was really happy to be able to lead a subordinate who was qualified in both strength and intelligence this year.
As for the other two?
Hangers-on.
If Lin Ke wasn't there, both the reckless Yuan Wei, who lacked strength, and the arrogant Xia, in his opinion, had personality flaws and should be sent back to the Ninja Academy for retraining.
There was no need to continue observing next.
Nara Yan Shui left with a smile using the Body Flicker Technique.
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The next day, morning, Seventh Training Ground.
[Very good]
When Nara Yan Shui arrived, he quietly observed the appearance of his three subordinates.
Lin Ke stood in front as calmly as ever, his Forehead Protector tied to his left arm.
Yuan Wei sat on the wooden stake on the right, with several bandages on his cheek, looking a little eager to try.
Xia had a black eye and sat on the left, with a straight face and no expression, but the look in her eyes towards Lin Ke lacked the hostility and anger of yesterday.
"Good morning," Nara Yan Shui greeted, earning three uneven responses.
Then, without further ado, he raised the bell in his hand and said in a relaxed tone:
"Well then, as usual, you can try to snatch the bell in my hand."
He didn't say anything about being sent back to the Ninja Academy if they didn't pass the test. The real test had already begun yesterday. With a subordinate who could be promoted to Chunin, Team Seven had already passed. Today's test was more about understanding the abilities of his subordinates.
As a superior, a direct superior with the power to send his subordinates to their deaths, he must be familiar with their abilities in order to carry out appropriate training and intervention in subsequent missions.
"Don't treat me as a training instructor. Treat snatching the bell as a formal mission that requires risking your life."
Nara Yan Shui gave a reminder, hung the bell on his waist (probably for convenience), and said, "Now—"
"Begin."
"Whoosh~" Lin Ke disappeared from the spot, flickering to a distant rock. Yuan Wei and Xia retreated a distance, firmly blocking in front of him.
[They're already studying coordinated formations?]
Nara Yan Shui didn't take the initiative to attack. He was very curious about Ice Release. Or rather, many Jonin who had heard about it were very curious about Lin Ke.
[Let me see...]
[The power of Ice Release!]
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