Chapter 422: The Clown
"Wow~ Is this the Sea Mist City? It's completely different from the village!"
On the bustling streets of Sea Mist City, Ringo Ameyuri looked around excitedly, exclaiming in admiration.
But her appearance like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden made Hozuki Mangetsu beside her shake his head and sigh continuously.
On the other hand, Nakamura Kabuto, who is the youngest among the three, acts like a little adult at this moment.
He pushed up his glasses and explained in a serious manner.
"As a commercial port city, Sea Mist City has a different positioning from the militarized town in the village."
"Besides, this place was just completed not long ago, the building is newer and the style is more avant-garde. All in all, the feeling is definitely very different."
"And ever since Kaito-san became the Mizukage, his motto has been eh eh eh~"
Just when Kabuto was about to continue explaining the relationship between urban development and ideology.
Suddenly he realized that his two teammates had run out without him noticing.
".Wait for me!"
Blue, who was picking dried fish in front of a store, vaguely heard Kabuto's shout and looked back in confusion.
But he found that the three little guys who had been following him had all disappeared.
"Quack? O.O?"
"Dear customer, that'll be 120 ryō in total."
The shopkeeper handed a large bag of dried fish that had been weighed to Blue and hesitantly told him the price.
However, Blue looked down at his entire body and saw that apart from the Kirigakure headband, he didn't even have a scrap of cloth on his body.
He doesn't know how the shopkeeper got the idea that he would have the money on him?
Blue looked back again, and sure enough, he still couldn't see the three little ones. He had no choice but to go back to the "secret space" to get some money for the emergency.
At this moment, Little Yoshi, who was following Blue, seemed to notice his embarrassment.
As if facing a formidable enemy, he shook his finger with a serious look.
"Togetoge-dui! (ー`ー)!"
Then, under the shocked gaze of the shop owner.
Several gold coins fell from the sky out of nowhere and landed on the ground with a ding-dong sound.
The marble floor at the entrance of the store was smashed so hard that it became dented and cracked.
Little Togepi ignored the gravel on the ground, excitedly picked up the gold coins on the ground and handed them to Blue.
Finally, the owner of the store handed over the bag of dried fish in his hand in a daze.
He looked at the gold coins in his hand, then at the broken marble floor, and the backs of the frog and the egg gradually moving away.
"This.."
Different from Blue who was having fun playing with little guys in the city.
Although Kaito also arrived in Sea Mist City early, he did not choose to go out for a stroll.
Part of the reason was that although Sea Mist City was completely completed and a bit more lively, it was not much different from the last time he came.
Secondly, he came here to ensure the smooth progress of the exam, and he also had important things to do.
Only then was the task of showing the little guys the world given to Blue.
Logically speaking, there is a long gap between the first two and last rounds of the Joint Chunin Exam.
The chiefs of each village, the nobles who came to watch the games, and the daimyo would only come during the last exam.
The early exams did not require him, the Mizukage, to show up.
However, since this was the first time that Kirigakure hosted the joint Chunin Exam, Kaito decided to lead the team personally to avoid any accidents during the exam.
At this moment, he was listening to Harusame's introduction in the examination hall.
"Mizukage-sama, all the ninja villages participating in this exam have arrived at Sea Mist City with their teams, including 54 from Kirigakure, 54 from Konohagakure, 42 from Sunagakure, and 12 from Amegakure. A total of 10 ninja villages and 192 candidates."
"According to your request, we have arranged separate accommodations for candidates from different ninja villages before the exam."
"As for the training ground, no ninja village has applied for it yet. We will probably have to wait until the second exam is over before the leaders of the remaining candidates apply to us."
While listening to Harusame's report, Kaito was flipping through the list of candidates taking the exam in his hand.
Kaito had no impression of most of the names, and the age of the Genin taking part in the exam was generally young.
He thinks it is because the war has just ended. During the war, each ninja village basically advanced the graduation age of the ninja academy.
Among them, most of the ninjas who graduated early and were sent to the battlefield either died directly on the battlefield due to their mediocre strength, while those who were talented had already been promoted to Chunin.
Therefore, they didn't see many of those Genin who had participated in many Chunin exams in this exam.
"Konoha doesn't seem to be doing anything tricky, does it?"
After closing the information in his hand, Kaito actually felt a little relieved.
Although he didn't care much about the ranking of the Kirigakure Genin in this exam, he was really afraid of seeing a name like 'Maruboshi Kosuke' on the list of Konoha candidates.
In that case, he would have to find an opportunity to kill him in private to prevent him from causing trouble during the exam.
"I trust Harusame-senpai's work. If there is no problem in the classroom, let's go to the island in the second game and take a look."
Just as Harusame was about to speak, there was a noise outside, and it seemed as if someone was arguing.
Kaito glanced at Harusame and found that he also didn't know what was going on. So he walked out of the examination room out of curiosity to see who dared to cause trouble here.
But when he came out, he unexpectedly found that there was someone he knew outside the examination room.
"Konan, are you the one leading the Amegakure team this time?"
Kaito's voice of greeting was not small, and everyone present turned their eyes over.
But before Konan could open her mouth with a hint of joy on her face, a discordant voice interrupted him.
"Sure enough! I said she must have acquaintances there! Otherwise why can they enter but we can't!!"
The person who spoke not only had a sharp voice, but also a very arrogant tone, as if he didn't take anyone present seriously.
This made the Mizukage Kaito a little unable to react for a while.
However, when Kaito noticed that this man had a forehead protector on his head, he shook his head speechlessly.
However, the person in front of him saw that no one spoke, and seemed to feel that he had hit a sore spot, and his words became even more arrogant.
"There is a secret behind the exam held by you, Kirigakure. I want to expose it."
"Shut up."
Kaito would naturally not allow this clown to continue shouting.
His eyes widened slightly, and the two words he spoke lightly were accompanied by an overwhelming mental pressure that instantly pressed down on the person who spoke.
Others only felt a breeze and a slight sense of intimidation, nothing else.
But the man rolled his eyes.
With a "bang", he fell straight to the ground.
After his body twitched slightly a few times, he foamed at the mouth and became motionless.
The three Genin following behind this person were also knocked to the ground by the aftermath of the 'Pressure' and sat on the ground, trembling.
(End of this chapter)