Naruto: If I ask you to practice gentle fist, will you drive a Gundam?

On the evening of the fifth day of the second exam, led by Neji, twenty-four Konoha Genin walked into the tower with great momentum, and everyone had a confident smile on their face.

After meeting their team leader and exchanging a few words, all the ninjas came to the hall in the tower.

This is an extremely spacious place with a circular podium in the front, on which stands the Sandaime Hokage and a group of team leaders. They are all instructors of the teams that have passed the exam, including Maki from the Sand Village, Chang Ponytail from the Sound Ninja, and an unknown Jonin from the Takigakure Village.

In addition to this, there are a large number of special jonin of Konoha. The teams they are responsible for were supposed to be eliminated in the Forest of Death, but due to the butterfly effect caused by Neji's strategy, the original plot was disrupted, allowing a large number of ninjas who were supposed to be eliminated to successfully pass the exam and come here.

That is to say, there are now 11 ninja teams gathered in the hall:

Konoha Team 8, Sunagakure Team 1, Sound Team 1, Takigakure Team 1.

"Wow! We're finally here!" Naruto said excitedly.

"Huh, this is getting more and more interesting!"

Sasuke covered the back of his neck, looking somewhat excited but also somewhat ferocious.

"Sasuke..."

Behind Sasuke, Sakura looked worried.

The Otonin Jonin who noticed Sasuke's detailed movements had a strange smile on his face, and this detail did not escape Neji's observation.

Neji knew that the Otonin Jonin was Orochimaru.

But now Neji has no thoughts about Orochimaru, on the contrary, their interests are the same.

Because Orochimaru will get rid of the Sandaime Hokage, and as a staunch defender of the corrupt order of Konoha Village, the Sandaime Hokage is also a thorn in Neji's side.

Although Neji can now remove the caged bird by himself, the relationship between the branch family and the main family still needs a reason to shake up;

The independence and rise of the branch family also requires an opportunity to achieve.

The death of the Sandaime was the best opportunity.

Most villagers probably have a relatively good impression of the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen, but for Neji, who was born in the Hyuga branch family, even if they can't say they hate him, they at least have no good impression of him.

Fundamentally speaking, although the Hyuga family's thousand-year tradition has nothing to do with the Konoha high-level officials and is a tradition that existed before joining the Konoha Village, the fact that this rotten and dilapidated tradition can be maintained in the Konoha Village is definitely inseparable from the support of the Konoha high-level officials.

Just think about it, how could a democratic and free country tolerate the existence of slave plantations? The same principle applies.

Secondly, the death of Neji’s father, Hyuga Hizashi, is closely related to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Although Neji is a time traveler and his father-son relationship with Hizashi may not be that deep, a leader who uses the lives of his own people to apologize for diplomatic problems is definitely a leader who is not worthy of trust.

With such leadership, it is understandable that Konoha remained poor and weak.

On the surface, Konoha's economy has developed rapidly in recent years, but that is all due to convenient transportation. If you stand in the right place, even a pig can take off.

It's time to renew Konoha's leadership.

Soon, everyone gathered, and the candidates lined up neatly in front of the podium according to their respective teams, facing the Hokage and a group of jonin and examiners.

After the Sandaime Hokage gave an insignificant speech, a familiar sickly person appeared again.

"Ahem, Sandaime-sama, please forgive my impoliteness. Let me explain what is going on."

Everyone looked towards the source of the cough, and saw it was Moonlight Gale who looked exhausted all the time.

"Before the third exam begins, there will be a preliminary round."

"Qualifying round?"

"Teacher, what does the preliminaries mean?"

"Yeah! Why can't we just go straight to the third exam!"

The candidates expressed doubts and dissatisfaction.

"Ahem, why are we holding the preliminaries... Ahem." Moonlight Gale spoke while coughing, seeming weaker than before.

"To put it simply, the second exam was too easy. There are still 33 ninjas left, which is too many."

Upon hearing this, many candidates were indignant and even wanted to curse, but the Konoha ninjas who followed Neji were all calm, thinking that what he said was true, and they passed the exam without doing anything.

"And the third exam is very important. As Hokage has said before, there will be many heads of state and celebrities from the political and business circles coming to watch the exam. As a result, time is limited, so there is this preliminary round."

Moonlight Gale pointed to the large screen behind him as he spoke and continued:

"The next step will be a one-on-one individual match. You can voluntarily withdraw from the match. The names of the two opponents will be randomly displayed on this screen."

Upon hearing the news, the Konoha ninjas who had been following Neji began to talk about it.

"Individual competition... I'm a little unsure."

"Humph, we are the sixth team that cleared the Death Forest without any injuries!"

"No buddy, how come you don't care about me?"

"Even if Captain Neji isn't here, can't we do it on our own?"

"Well, if you put it that way, our Class 9 doesn't seem so bad!"

"That's right! We are one class older than the captain and his group!"

"That's right! Even the nine new students this year passed the exam successfully, so we seniors can definitely do it too!"

Because of the second exam and Neji's conciliatory policy, many Konoha ninjas attached themselves to Neji's team too early. They had not yet experienced the cruelty of the ninja world and thought they were very good. Some of them even began to compare themselves with the Twelve Ninjas of Konoha.

In response, Neji didn't say much. After all, he would soon use these cannon fodders as stepping stones, so there was no need to have too much friendship with them.

As for the Twelve Young Warriors, although their friendship has grown stronger over the past few days, they are still a little worried about this one-on-one exam.

But fortunately, Ningci also took precautions in advance:

If we fight each other in the future, we must try our best and leave no regrets. This is the greatest respect for our companions.

Therefore, everyone's emotions are relatively stable now, and many people are eager to try.