After a night, the Death Forest in the early morning still had the same gloomy atmosphere, but fortunately, it was not as cold and terrifying as it was late at night.
In the past day, they didn't know how many of the nearly 300 contestants in the Ninja Trial were eliminated. They didn't know how much they had grown in these short 20 hours.
They are all ninjas or future ninjas. Sooner or later, they will have to go through this step. What awaits them in the future will be much more rigorous than this. After all, no matter what, this is just a trial. Even if they fail, they will only lose the qualification, but if it is a real mission or war, they will lose the most precious life.
"Are you two not sleeping anymore?" Miyazaki Satoshi was the first of the three to wake up. Being a little older, he was also a little more alert than Akasaka Yu and Takenouchi Rin. Besides, in a place like this, no one can sleep well, right?
In front of the extinguished bonfire, Minato and Kushina turned around. Minato picked up a wild fruit that had been prepared and threw it to him.
"We have eaten all the animals we caught yesterday, and now we can only eat this," Minato said. Miyazaki Satoshi heard this and laughed awkwardly.
Kushina's cooking skills were really good, so they actually ate several roasted rabbits.
After receiving the wild fruit, Miyazaki Satoshi looked at Minato and said, "Minato, thank you."
"Thank you for what?" Minato replied with a faint smile.
Miyazaki Satoshi stretched out his hand and scratched his head, saying, "I know that for you and Kushina, the three of us are actually a burden.
The words you said before were all to comfort us, right? You two are both geniuses, but you are different from the geniuses I have met before."
Hiashi, who appeared in front of everyone last night, is actually a classmate of Miyazaki Satoshi, but the two look like strangers. That's because, usually in class, Miyazaki Satoshi can't get a word in with him.
This kind of genius from a big clan seems to be born to give people a sense of distance. But he had never felt this at all with Minato, who was equally or even more outstanding.
This was the first time that Kushina heard someone praise her as a genius, and she couldn't help but feel a little happy. Minato smiled again when he heard this.
"Miyazaki-senpai, thank you for your praise, but what I said before was not to comfort you." Minato covered the extinguished bonfire with mud and said again, "I said before I came in that this ninjutsu trial is inherently disadvantageous for the students of our ninja school. If we want to pass, we must stick together.
Besides, everyone here is a partner in Konoha, not a burden!"
His eyes and words were full of sincerity, so that Miyazaki Satoshi could not feel the slightest falsehood.
"Good morning." At this time, Takenouchi Rin also woke up and greeted everyone. Kushina walked towards her with a few wild fruits in her hand, and then the two of them started eating while chatting and laughing. After a day yesterday, the two had become quite good friends.
Kushina looked very happy. After all, she had been in Konoha for more than a year, and her only real friends were Minato and Mikoto.
After that, Miyazaki Satoshi also woke up Akasaka Yu, and the five of them had a simple breakfast and left. The second day of the Ninja Trial began. Compared with the first day, Minato and others would meet fewer and fewer teams on the second day.
Most of them were groups of students from the Ninja School who had been eliminated. They were almost all gathered together. With the strength of the individual, under the rule that even if they were eliminated, they could not withdraw, it was difficult for a person to survive in the Death Forest, so they had to unite.
However, Minato and his team did not communicate too frequently with these eliminated students. Their actions were almost all to hide their whereabouts. The reason was the same as on the first day. At this time, it was to avoid unnecessary struggles.
However, during this period, the five people also encountered two Genin who wanted to take them down, but the result was that they were eliminated by Minato and Kushina.
Although the number of contestants they met was decreasing, the number of man-made traps in the Death Forest was increasing, but those traps, without exception, could not be hidden from Minato's eyes.
During his one-year training with Master Jiraiya, a large part of his training was to defend against attacks from any place and direction. For Minato, who had adapted to Jiraiya's methods, these traps set by Genin were not worth mentioning.
So the second day of the Ninja Trial was much more stable than the first day, but until now, they still had not found any information about Mikoto's whereabouts.
It was already late at night on the third day, but Minato and the others were still dormant on the tree trunk, hiding their bodies. Because there were only a few hours left before the end of the Ninja Trial, but until now, they had no idea how many of the three hundred people had not been eliminated.
But they thought there must be more than ten people, because there were already five people here in Minato's team. So, everyone should be searching closely in the Death Forest to eliminate the few remaining contestants.
But those who can survive until now are either strong or have extremely superb hiding skills. According to the rules, as long as the ten people who survived at the end can pass, there must be some people hiding themselves to avoid direct confrontation. But even if the Death Forest is so big, it is difficult not to be found.
So all night, the five people hid themselves, and a few hours passed without encountering any enemies.
"Did we qualify?" Miyazaki muttered to himself. Minato shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I don't think that by now, the people who survived plus the five of us are only ten people." Senior Nawaki and his teammates.
Uchiha Yoruki, Mikoto, and Hyuga Hiashi and his brother Hizashi, are not so easy to be eliminated. What's more, among the Genin, it is hard to guarantee that there are still some powerful characters.
Just when the five people could not get any information and did not know whether they were qualified, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them.
"The trial is over, all of you come out."
The figure was so fast that even Minato could only see his appearance clearly. A handsome man with white hair and a short sword behind him. Hatake Sakumo!
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