Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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"..."

Shinnosuke's series of rhetorical questions silenced Hiruzen Sarutobi twice.

"A genius is able to bring out his original talent precisely because he has a personality."

“I can’t force him to stop, as that would likely crush his will to move forward.”

Then, Shinnosuke talked about how he had carried out so many missions but had never heard his father praise him. Now, however, his father was praising a stranger, an orphan, and a genin. He finally asked the question that had been hidden in his heart.

"Father, am I your son, or is Shirahoshi your son?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi: "..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi fell silent for the third time.

Do you know how many Jonin positions there are in total?

—How many people have you seen become Jonin at the age of sixteen?

—Have you ever seen a newly graduated genin who can arrange for several jonin to accompany him every time he goes on a mid-level mission (rank B)?

—Have you ever seen a ninja yell at the Hokage in his office?

—Have you seen...?

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The farcical father-son incident in the office went completely unnoticed by Shirahoshi when he returned home. For him, the important thing was figuring out his performance the next day...

"The matter of the five attributes is currently only known to the three of them..." This was something that Shirahoshi had asked the three of them to keep secret, so that it would be even cooler to reveal it after becoming a Chunin and making a name for themselves—at the time, this earned her two eye rolls from Mikoto and Nono, who secretly wished that Shirahoshi would never become a Chunin.

"Then, let's begin training."

Bai Xing arrived at the corner of the living room, where a custom-made black-framed full-length mirror stood: the mirror perfectly reflected Bai Xing's slender figure and handsome face.

The black-haired boy formed a hand seal with one hand:

"Transformation Technique!"

......

Chapter 21, the first half of the Chunin Exam – the Illusion Test

The July heat showed no signs of abating. The scorching sun beat down on the front of a tall building, below which stood countless genin students preparing to enter the examination hall.

—Fifty-four genin, eighteen genin squads.

Of these, only three genin classes that graduated this year participated in the Chunin Exams; the rest were students who graduated two years ago or earlier.

"Yo. Six-year genin, you're here again."

"Yo, a second-year genin, you've arrived too."

Hey! You bastard!

In a shady spot in front of the conference building stood a black-haired boy who often practiced his mouth skills by holding a senbon in his mouth, and a girl with black curly hair and red eyes.

At that moment, the black-haired boy with a senbon in his mouth hugged Shirahoshi's shoulder as he approached, and the two of them kept mocking each other.

"You two really like to fool around. Don't mess up your coordination during the exam later."

Bai Xing glanced at the black-haired, red-eyed girl with her arms crossed, "Miss Xi Ri Liu Yun, you can rest assured, I will definitely cooperate with you."

"Hmph. You should use this time to read more books instead of having me use illusion magic to help you cheat." Xi Ri Liu Yun blushed slightly, avoiding looking directly into Bai Xing's bright black eyes.

Bai Xing scratched his head, not caring about Xi Ri Liu Yun's shyness—he had seen this kind of thing too many times and was already used to it.

Shiranui Kumo is not as tall as Shirahoshi. Even if Shirahoshi bends down a little, you can still hug Shirahoshi's shoulder. The two are like good buddies.

"Speaking of which, Shirahoshi, aren't you going to say hello to your disciples?" Shiranui Kumoko glanced at the three people waving to Shirahoshi in the crowd. "But you're really lucky, aren't you? You've managed to get two such adorable disciples."

As for Matt Day

He naturally ignored it.

—That's the real genin who's been around for ten thousand years.

It's still somewhat admirable that they had the courage to participate in the Chunin Exams this time.

“They’re all very talented kids. I’d better not say hello, lest someone accuse me of giving them preferential treatment or cheating.” As Shirahoshi spoke, her expression turned serious. “This time, I’m determined to pass the Chunin Exams!”

Shiranui Kumokazu, Yuhi Ryuun: "..."

Anyone who didn't know better would think you were going to participate in an S-rank mission or a Jonin exam.

Sunset Clouds rolled her eyes. "So, did you read any books yesterday?"

"No." Bai Xing shook her head. "You know me, I've almost forgotten all the knowledge I had back in school!"

"..." Xi Ri Liu Yun said that this was the first time he had seen someone so self-righteous without having memorized anything.

"Did you tell your students about memorizing the text?"

"also not."

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"Two of them will definitely pass, and the Uchiha Sharingan's hypnotic genjutsu is no worse than your Yuhi clan's. You just need to use genjutsu to cheat on Dai."

"You're basically giving them preferential treatment," Shiranui Kumoka retorted from the side.

"This is different."

......

Time flew by, and soon it was time for the examination hall doors to open. The setup of the conference building had been basically checked.

Next, the candidates will be led to the examination hall.

However, it should be noted that an illusion trap has been set up on the way to the examination venue. This is a D-level barrier illusion spell.

In the original story, the genjutsu test in the ninja exams was child's play.

After all, becoming a Chunin now offers the opportunity to go to the front lines: as for the numbered Genin and clan Genin who have reached the Chunin level in terms of strength and the number of missions they have completed, they were all promoted to reserve Chunin at the start of the war and are now fighting 'happily' on the battlefield.

[Ninja ID: Graduated from the Ninja Academy]

[Prospective Chunin: Temporarily promoted, enjoying Chunin benefits for the time being. Official certification requires battle achievements; otherwise, it will be revoked after the war.]

Upon entering the stairwell, the illusion test officially began.

The conference building has four stairwell entrances: the entrances are named A, B, C and D. A team enters every three minutes. If a team from a later team encounters a team from a previous team, the team from the previous team is eliminated.

Meanwhile, Shirahoshi's team is at entrance C.

The illusion test was quite simple; it wasn't a particularly difficult illusion.

"I'm tired of seeing this." Bai Xing looked down at the corpse clinging to his leg in the stairwell, yawned, and continued walking upstairs. "Same as last year, fourth floor, room 404. Hurry up, stop playing around, this also counts as part of the assessment."

Shirahoshi turned to look at the stairs behind her. Shiranui Unma was teasing the female corpse on the stairs with a senbon needle. The female corpse stretched out her bloody right hand, as if trying to grab it—in reality, it had no physical form and was just an illusion.

"How boring." Yuhi Ryuun turned her head and saw Shiranui Kumo's childish behavior, then looked at the mature and handsome Shirahoshi, thinking to herself, "Why doesn't Shirahoshi want to join my team?" "Shirahoshi, how about this, if we fail again after this assessment... you join my team, okay? Uncle Shinku is quite nice to his students!"

Shirahoshi: "......"

He smelled the flag.

Looking at the awkward, swaying posture of the girl amidst the setting sun and drifting clouds, Shirahoshi said expressionlessly, "Sorry, I refuse."

"It's time to go. If the students behind us catch up and try to eliminate us maliciously, we can just fail the assessment and it'll be over."

"Hmph! I will definitely let you join my team!" Xi Ri Liu Yun clenched his fist.

Shiranui Kumo stopped playing with the illusions, carrying a senbon needle as he climbed the stairs. Watching the two figures go by, he thought to himself that Kumo had been thinking about Shirahoshi every day since the last Chunin Exams, causing almost all the genin who had joined the team this year to run away, making every mission riskier: infatuation is truly terrifying.

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Entrance B.

"Ahhhh-"

"So many corpses... Mikoto."

Inside the stairwell, Yakushi Nonou hugged Uchiha Mikoto's lower back, while Might Guy next to her couldn't help but cover his mouth, the distinct smell of blood making him want to vomit.

"It's just an illusion." Even without activating her Sharingan, Uchiha Mikoto, who has high resistance to illusions, can only see a blurry scene and can't smell anything. "Let's go, we can go up there."

"We also need to find out which classroom is the examination room."

Before entering, candidates will be informed that the examination room is a clean and tidy classroom.

Matt Day pinched his nose, listened to the screams of the corpses in the stairwell, and nodded with a pained expression. "We only have three minutes, let's hurry. If a team enters after we go through the entrance and reaches the classroom, we will fail the test."

"Waaaaah." Yakushi Nonou suddenly felt that being a genin wasn't so bad.

The three then followed the blood-stained stairs to the second floor, looked around, and found no classrooms further up.

Surveillance cameras were installed in the conference building and projected onto various projection screens in a room on the first floor of the conference building.

At this moment, many of the instructors leading the teams, including Hiruzen Sarutobi's shadow clones, Kurenai Yuhi, and Shinnosuke Sarutobi, as well as Jonin, Special Jonin, and even Chunin, were watching the scene unfold.

Chapter 22 Being a young lady isn't easy either~

Within numerous screens.

One scene showed the genin teams already inside the examination hall. Seeing her niece pass the exam, Yuhi Shinku nodded slightly, a smile playing on her lips.

But when he saw Bai Xing standing next to Liu Yun's niece, with that handsome face, he couldn't help but think to himself that Bai Xing was a menace.

Fortunately, his daughter is only one year old, so the age gap means she definitely won't be charmed by this guy in the future!

"Shirahoshi is still such a show-off." Sarutobi Shinnosuke, who was watching the Chunin Exams from backstage for the first time, crossed his arms and looked at the screen, saying with dissatisfaction.

Hiruzen Sarutobi glanced at Shinnosuke, but said nothing and silently observed the other examinees.

Click.

The door to the monitoring room was pushed open from the outside, and a Chunin in charge of the exam entered, carrying a list of participants for the Chunin Exams. "Report! All Genin have entered the exam room!"

"Very good. Thank you for your hard work today. Now get ready to invigilate."

"Yes!"

After responding to Hiruzen Sarutobi's words, the Chunin left again, while all the examinees on the screen had completed their tests and arrived at the fourth-floor exam room 404.