Chapter 73: Damn, My Big Wife Is Still the Most Considerate
Huh… this…
What the hell—this is literally elementary school material?!
As someone born and raised with the pride of Kyushu blood,
problems like this were basically "just use your hands" level, right?
They started doing these in first or second grade!
Naruto quickly scanned the remaining questions.
The hardest ones were just middle-school physics problems,
plus some of the most basic mathematical function calculations.
Aren't ninjas supposed to be all geniuses?
They speak so nicely,
know all kinds of ninjutsu,
so doing these simple questions should just take a brain, right?
Sure enough—they really didn't!
Their daily focus was on training ninjutsu
and applying it.
Who had the spare time to study this stuff?
This was also why the current technological level developed so slowly.
Aside from Naruto and a very few others,
the examinees around him
all had faces as ugly as (Sima Yi's) — grim and bitter.
What the hell is this?!
They couldn't understand a single thing.
Everything Ibiki said about the rules was nonsense.
Catch the ones who don't cheat!
Cheating gets a pass—as long as it's not blatant.
Of course,
cheating had levels.
If someone cheated in an extremely clumsy way,
just deduct two points and call it even.
Anyone who didn't cheat at all—get the hell out.
This written test's questions
were extremely difficult for ninjas.
That's why—besides the real examinees—
there were also some fake students mixed in.
They wrote down the correct answers
so others had something to copy.
If there wasn't even anything to copy—that would be way too embarrassing, right?
If half the students got eliminated in the first written test,
the higher-ups would definitely hold Ibiki accountable.
He wasn't willing to take that blame.
As time ticked by minute by minute,
some people who hadn't done anything
were kicked out of the classroom.
One after another, a few more ninja suffered the same fate as the first guy.
Ibiki glared at them expressionlessly.
Some were scared out of their wits.
Others forced themselves to meet Ibiki's gaze,
proving they hadn't cheated!
They were irreconcilable with cheaters!
The next second, Konoha proctors came over
and dragged the idiot out the door.
The smarter examinees had already realized something was wrong.
The key to this exam was extremely strong mental fortitude!
Under the enormous pressure of the proctors watching,
knowingly break the rules—commit the crime on purpose.
Just cheat and be done with it!
Tap tap tap…
The sound of pencils tapping on desks
rang out nonstop.
Akamaru, perched on top of Kiba Inuzuka's head, narrowed his eyes.
He looked left and right.
"Woof woof!"
Akamaru barked twice.
Kiba Inuzuka—who had mastered Dog Language Level 18—instantly understood.
His eyes lit up. He smiled and whispered:
"Good job, Akamaru!"
Using a dog to cheat—truly the way of the dog.
The importance of mastering a foreign language!
In terms of written exams,
Sakura Haruno could be considered top-tier academic material.
Of course—
only compared to other ninjas.
If she ran into high-school-level questions,
she'd probably wilt too.
"These questions should be a piece of cake for Naruto-kun too, right?"
"Sigh… I was hoping to let him copy my paper."
Sakura sighed softly.
Buzz—
A black fly buzzed through the air.
It landed on one of the examinees' desks.
The fly looked around for a while,
then was shooed away by the ninja.
In the next instant it flew back to Aburame Shino's finger.
"Alright—tell me the answers now!"
The fly took off again,
circling above the paper on Shino's desk.
Clearly,
Aburame Shino had also mastered a foreign language.
It just happened to be body language.
"N-Naruto-kun…"
Hinata—who was sitting right next to him—blushed deeply and called out softly.
She quietly pushed her covered exam paper toward him.
"If… if you don't mind… you can copy mine…"
After saying that, she immediately shut her little mouth.
Her head was already spinning.
Clearly she was running low on brainpower.
Every time she was near Naruto, this happened.
She couldn't describe the feeling in her heart.
It was just… sweet.
Naruto blinked.
"Damn—my big wife is still the most considerate!"
Hinata had already finished her paper.
When she looked up, she suddenly realized Naruto's paper was completely blank.
Instinctively she thought he didn't know how to do it.
So she pushed her answers over for him to copy.
Honestly—
Naruto wasn't incapable. He just felt that these "historically hardest questions in ninja history"
were an insult to his intelligence.
In his previous life he had completed nine years of compulsory education,
gone on to high school, and gotten into a top university.
Asking a near-top-university student to do elementary school problems—wasn't that just bullying an honest man?
So Naruto hadn't written anything.
He was just zoning out.
But he never expected
his big wife would so considerately push her answers over for him to copy.
Naruto grinned and muttered to himself:
"Indeed—one wife is enough!"
In that moment,
Naruto suddenly discovered the meaning of life.
That's right—one wife is enough.
This was an excellent idea.
But girlfriends?
He could have plenty of those.
Ex-girlfriend, ex-ex-girlfriend, ex-ex-ex-girlfriend…
current girlfriend, future girlfriend, etc.!
Naruto smiled warmly at the shy Hinata.
"Hinata—thank you. I actually know all these questions."
Feeling Naruto's familiar, reassuring aura,
Hinata's small body trembled slightly. She let out a tiny mosquito-like "mm."
At the same time her heart was filled with shock.
Naruto-kun said he knows them all?
No way… right?
Then why is his paper completely blank?
Is this… lying with a straight face?
While Hinata's thoughts were drifting,
Naruto knew—if he didn't show off a little in front of her,
this girl
would probably never realize her husband was actually a super-genius scholar of the ninja world.
He picked up his pencil.
Tap tap tap…
The pencil flew across the page without pause.
Even though the speed was fast, the handwriting was neat and beautiful.
Pleasant to look at.
No choice—
he had practiced a lot when he was young.
Hinata blinked her big adorable eyes, dumbfounded as she took it all in.
Naruto-kun really… really knows how to do them.
He wasn't lying to me.
That was the first thought that popped into Hinata's mind!
But maybe it was just a boy thing.
Wanting to save face.
Not wanting to accept help from a girl.
This involved pride, after all.
Thinking of this,
Hinata felt deep regret. She shouldn't have been so direct with Naruto.
She should have been more subtle about letting him copy her paper.
But now it was too late—nothing she said would help.
Hinata finally mustered up tremendous courage.
She wanted to see for herself whether Naruto was just writing nonsense.
So the little girl leaned over with great bravery.
In the next instant—
she froze in place.
Everything Naruto wrote… was the standard correct answer!
And the handwriting was extremely neat.
After a long while, little Hinata finally came back to her senses.
"So… everything Naruto-kun said… was true…"
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