Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 596 Shikamaru's Failure

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In the central square of Kumogakure, many people were watching the live stream of Nara Shikamaru's large group of soldiers.

The travelogue writer was speechless: No, there are so many people...

Is it really not a foul?

This is clearly making it impossible for the other teams to compete...

……

Inside the Hokage meeting room:

"Isn't this really not an illegal team formation?" The Fourth Raikage looked at Yuya.

Yuya smiled slightly: "Shikamaru's choice is theoretically correct."

But that's only in theory.

The Fourth Raikage looked at Yua with some confusion: "What do you mean?"

Yuya: "The idea of integrating all the teams together is correct."

However, there is a prerequisite.

One condition is that everyone must obey one person.

The Fourth Raikage immediately realized: "That's right! Everyone has to listen to him! But why should they? He's not that strong, why should they listen to him?!"

The Fourth Raikage and Yua were right.

In the ninja world, strength reigns supreme. These children don't have many hidden agendas. Although they can't do anything too outrageous in front of the entire ninja world, that's precisely why they're even less likely to follow orders from others.

After all, if you always follow other people's orders...

So how can we highlight our strength?

Since this exam is being broadcast live to the entire ninja world, there's no reason for us to give up our chance to shine to others.

only……

This situation will not manifest itself when the number of people has not reached its limit.

The real problem lies with the seventh squad that Shikamaru encountered.

As is customary, Shikamaru took out the rules his team had obtained and handed them to the other party.

However, the other party made an excessive request:

"I need to know all the intelligence your six teams have gathered before I decide whether to join or not."

This person made this condition with the obvious intention of getting something for free.

Shikamaru, of course, could not agree to that.

After all, if we agree now, what will the other teams that joined before think?

Oh, he got six pieces of intelligence without even joining a team, so those of us who joined before have to give up the rules we got just to get the intelligence he has?!

That's definitely not fair.

So Shikamaru promptly refused.

"Sorry, if you don't want to join, then we can't give you the rules we've obtained for free."

However, the examinees from the so-called Star Ninja Village, wearing star icons, sneered: "Are you mistaken about something? I mean, you either hand it over voluntarily, or... we'll beat you up and then take the information from you~"

Shikamaru's expression changed drastically: "What?!"

The leader of the Star Ninja Village chuckled and immediately attacked Shikamaru.

Nara clan territory:

Nara Shikaku suddenly covered his forehead.

He then addressed the other Nara children in the courtyard who were also watching the live stream:

"Shikamaru's choice was correct, and the method he came up with is undoubtedly the best way to pass this second round."

However, he made a mistake: while the students from his own village were manageable, how could he guarantee that the students from other villages would obey him?

The people in this village know you well and are willing to follow you, but people from other villages won't be willing to follow your lead, since they haven't really met you many times.

As he spoke, Nara Shikaku began telling the children of the Nara clan about the events of the Warring States period.

Why did the Nara clan ally with the Akimichi and Yamanaka clans during the Sengoku period?

Naturally, it's because if there were only one Nara clan, it would be too difficult to protect their own people.

In that environment, if the Nara clan hadn't sought external help, they would have undoubtedly been doomed sooner or later.

In this second round of the Chunin Exams, Nara Shikaku only needed one glance to understand what Yua wanted to test the students in this second round of exams.

Therefore, Shikaku had already sensed something was wrong when he saw Shikamaru gathering the other teams.

It's not that this method is bad, it's just...

The team led by Shikamaru cannot be Shikamaru's team.

Because this squad's strength is indeed not among the strongest of all the squads.

Perhaps this team is decent in 1v1 battles.

However, within the context of the entire team, you can't suppress all the other teams at the same time.

The attack by the examinees from Hoshinin Village also proves this point.

After Shikamaru's team received the call to battle, the other teams did not take any action.

Even Aburame Shino's squad from the same village didn't offer any help.

It was only then that Shikamaru realized he had been too naive.

This is the second round of the Chunin Exams...

Theoretically speaking, he and the others in these teams were all competitors...

So why would they help?

Shikamaru realized at this point that it was undoubtedly too late.

The other squads, seeing Shikamaru's squad struggling against the Hoshigakure ninjas, were itching to join in.

In this second round of Chunin Exams, there were no hints from the official authorities, namely Konoha Village. In other words, the candidates had no clue how to pass the second round of exams.

But one thing is definitely true.

That means severely injuring all members of the opposing team, forcing them to withdraw from the exam.

This way, they will have one less competitor.

This indirectly lowered the difficulty of their exam.

Shikamaru had already thought of this, but there was nothing he could do about it.

What he could say was that he deduced that the final passing condition in this second round of the test was likely related to the number of rules collected, and if they formed a team, then they would definitely have the most rules.

In this way, they would be virtually invincible.

Shikamaru did express his own speculation.

but……

This is merely his speculation.

See if other people believe him or not.

Shikamaru was in despair. For the first time, he realized that there were times when even his intelligence was insufficient.

In the end, Shikamaru, along with Ino and Choji, slunk away, and the team he had assembled according to his own ideas disbanded.

Nara Shikaku watched the live stream with a sense of relief.

In that case, Shikamaru will probably be able to mature a bit.

Having a high IQ and being smart is not a bad thing.

However, becoming arrogant because of this is unacceptable.

If you really think that being smart can solve everything...