Long Live The Hokage - Chapter 35

[Chapter 35 Selection]

At noon, in the patriarch’s hall.

Masahiko stood in front of the eleven children with a dark face.

Just drying the sheets with various wind and fire, and was about to take a nap, was called here by the patriarch.

Except for Nanako, who was named by Masahiko, the other ten people were recommended by each of the tribes.

Eight boys and two girls, the oldest is only 10 years old, and the youngest is just 6 years old.

The patriarch looked at Masahiko’s face and said, “Second uncle, are you dissatisfied with these children?”

Only then did Masahiko come back to his senses, looking at the nervous faces of these children, the youngest girl was about to squeeze out two tears.

“No dissatisfaction. It’s just that I have a unique selection method, and eleven people are a bit too many, I will eliminate a few.”

The patriarch heaved a sigh of relief, “No problem, they are also normal in the test.”

“In this case,” Masahiko turned to the eleven children, “There will be three assessments tomorrow, the first one is the physical strength assessment! Go back and prepare, and gather at the fourth practice ground tomorrow at midnight!”

The children responded one after another and went back to prepare, but Nanako hesitated and stayed.

“Grandpa Masahiko, my… talent is not very good, tomorrow…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay to test it, if it’s not good, you will be eliminated tomorrow. Go back and prepare…” Masahiko said with a smile, “Take out the momentum of you pouring me a bucket of water!”

Nanako blushed and walked out embarrassedly.

“Second uncle, isn’t it unfair for those young and three girls to be tested for physical strength?” Seeing Nanako going out, the patriarch asked suspiciously.

Masahiko rolled his eyes at him, “I have my own measure!”

“Go back to catch up on sleep, whoever disturbs me this time, I will fight with him!”

…

The next day, Masahiko came to the fourth practice ground.

Eleven children have been waiting here for a long time, and there are many adults and children around here.

“It turns out that so many people have paid attention to my apprenticeship, and finally I have become a well-respected elder…” Masahiko was delighted.

But when he walked in, his whole face darkened.

“That is the legendary Uzumaki Masahiko. When I was a child, my parents told me…”

“These children are handed over to him…”

“Shh, he is the second uncle of the patriarch, and now he is the first elder…”

“Start the assessment!” Masahiko shouted, not only shocked the eleven children, but also the adults who were watching.

Seeing that the surroundings were quiet, Masahiko nodded with satisfaction.

“The first assessment, physical strength assessment. The technique of shadow clones!” Masahiko said, and divided eleven clones.

“These avatars of mine will supervise your push-ups, you must do your best, the more you do, the better!”

There was an uproar all around.

“Sure enough, there is a gap in the age of these children, and there are two girls, how can this be fair.” There was a lot of discussion around.

Masahiko ignored these, watching these children do push-ups under the supervision of the shadow clone, and nodded with satisfaction.

But after two minutes, Masahiko had a headache.

The youngest girl, who had just turned six, only did 43 push-ups, and she couldn’t hold on any longer, and burst into tears.

Masahiko scratched his head and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him.

A young man and woman rushed out of the crowd, pushed Masahiko away, and comforted the little girl, who was probably the little girl’s parents.

After ten minutes, the 10-year-old boy who had done the most push-ups also stopped and did a total of 1,237 push-ups.

And the little girl finally stopped crying under the comfort of her parents.

Masahiko glanced around and saw that all the children were sitting and panting, and nodded slightly.

“Have an hour’s rest for the second half of the physical strength assessment.”

The young couple raised their heads hastily,

“Uncle Masahiko, my Yizi is still young, so the physical strength test…”

Before the two could finish speaking, Masahiko interrupted, “The second half of the assessment is still push-ups! The final result is to see the number of the second time more than the first time.”

The audience finally realized that it was a test of perseverance.

Several children who have done too much are full of remorse, and they hide their clumsiness when they know it…

“Take advantage of the rest period,” Masahiko continued, “Let’s conduct the second assessment.”

“The second item is the assessment of memory ability. Stare at my hand, remember the order of the seals, and arrange the scores in the order in which they were written down.”

“Yin-mao-si-wu-wei-you-yin-mao-si-wu-wei-you-yin-mao-si-wu-wei-you-xu-zi, seal art – seal of evil!” Short In just four seconds, Masahiko made 20 seals.

“Do you remember anything?” Masahiko asked casually, preparing to make a second seal.

“Woooo… I remember, woo, Grandpa Masahiko.” The little girl who was still sobbing replied.

Sure enough, although the little girl’s hand speed was not fast, she still succeeded in forming these twenty seals.

Masahiko nodded slightly, no wonder such a small child is recommended by someone, this kind of memory is very rare.

“Then let’s continue…”

The other children returned to normal, and it was not until the fourth time that someone answered one after another.

The last answer was Nanako with a blushing face. In front of these talented younger brothers and sisters, she felt very uncomfortable…

“Okay, almost an hour has passed, and the physical strength is almost recovered. We have completed the first assessment.”

Masahiko divided eleven shadow clones again and supervised these children to do push-ups.

The last winner was an eight-year-old boy who made 670 the first time and over 800 the second time… In addition to that, there were three other people with negative results, the boy who was in first place before, and 6 Year-old girl Yiko.

There is another one, who is glaring at Masahiko, it is Nanako.

She felt that Masahiko was really taking revenge on her bucket of water for making her so humiliating in front of everyone.

Masahiko smiled at everything.

There was also a discussion all around. The vortex people who were watching basically had no opinion on Masahiko’s two assessments, and they were all discussing what Masahiko’s third assessment would be.

“The third item should be tested in actual combat. Although the ages are different, the ninja still depends on the combat ability…”

“It should be Chakra’s ability to control…”

“It should be the basic three-body technique assessment…”

Masahiko looked at these discussions and shook his head slightly, his thoughts could not be guessed by these people.

“The third item is to test thinking ability! There are five questions in total. The more correct answers, the higher the ranking!”

“Question 1: There are two buckets, one can hold three jins of water, the other can hold five jins of water, the water can be used at will, how to get the exact four jins of water.”

“Second question:…”

“…”

“Question 5: There are ten birds on the tree, and one is killed with Kuwu. How many birds are there?”

What the hell is this?

Masahiko looked at the crowd around him with a dazed face, and almost laughed…

“Let’s see the logical thinking questions that make elementary school students suffer!”