No one knows Hokage better than me

"The fifth round begins"

As Moonlight Gale announced the start of the competition, candidate Jasmine took an offensive stance.

Nara Shikamaru had no motivation. He looked at his opponent with dead eyes and secretly complained: Why are my opponents always women?

Jasmine and Shikamaru were ninjas at the same time. She, Shishao Shimura and Katagiri An formed the sixteenth class, guided by jounin Shibamoto Sugiura.

As the only Konoha ninja to reach the finals, Jasmine did not rely on luck, but on her own strong strength.

Before taking action, she asked politely: "Shikamaru, are you ready?"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, feeling very conflicted: he was a man and couldn't hit a woman. But as a man, he cannot lose to a woman.

This is troublesome, trying to win the game without hitting the woman unless the opponent throws in the towel himself.

But the Jasmine in front of her looked eager to try, and she didn't look like giving up at all.

"Oh, it's really troublesome. It seems I have to take action." Shikamaru reluctantly took out two kunai from his ninja bag.

Seeing that her opponent was ready, Jasmine smiled slightly and said, "Then, I'll start to attack."

As she spoke, Jasmine gathered the chakra in her body together and then transformed them into flower petals: "Flower Escape Secret Technique Snow Dance"

But I saw countless white jasmine petals flying in the wind, and then falling like snowflakes.

They shine brightly in the sun, and are surprisingly beautiful and breathtaking.

For the audience, this gorgeous ninjutsu is the most ornamental, but Shikamaru, who has experienced exercises with Jasmine at the same time, knows that hidden behind these beauties is a fatal danger.

Those petals are like sharp blades. Although they won't cut your throat with blood, they are still very scary.

Shikamaru held the kunai and dodged around in the examination room. Fortunately, he was the first to escape, so even though his opponent's attack was fierce, he only suffered a little scratch.

Jasmine saw that Shikamaru had been running away, and she gave a friendly reminder: "You can't win the game by running away like this."

Shikamaru sighed, he didn't want to win the game at all. In his eyes, he is just a supporting role, at best used to fill the scene, how can he get any limelight?

But men can't say "no", at least when it comes to women, Shikamaru will not lose his dignity because he is afraid of trouble.

At this moment, Ino in the stands was very conflicted. She had been good friends with Jasmine and Sakura since they were in the ninja school, so she naturally hoped that Jasmine could win the competition.

But Shikamaru was a teammate in the same group, and she didn't want to see Shikamaru lose.

So Ino, whose palms and backs were full of flesh and couldn't make a choice, had no choice but to leave the result to the goddess of luck.

That way, no matter who wins or loses, she won't feel bad.

Sakura, who was sitting next to Ino, guessed the former's thoughts. She had also imagined that if Jasmine and Sasuke were fighting now, who would she prefer to win?

One is her best friend and the other is her teammate's boyfriend. Sakura knew she couldn't make a choice, so she chose to remain silent and did not cheer for Jasmine.

The petals had all fallen to the ground, and Shikamaru stopped panting.

Although her opponent and she were newcomers at the same time, Jasmine was not ready to give in.

As soon as "Snow Dance" ended, she quickly formed another seal: "Flower Escape Secret Technique Vortex"

The jasmine petals on the ground rise again, forming a vortex in the whirlwind caused by chakra and attacking the opponent.

In order to prevent the opponent from escaping further, Jasmine deliberately controlled the petals to block both sides of the opponent.

Shikamaru rolled his eyes: "It seems that I have been completely underestimated."

Since there is no way to escape, we have to find a way to win this game.

Thinking about it, Shikamaru threw a kunai with a detonating charm attached to the swirling petals.

The vortex was a moving cutter. If he didn't use the detonating talisman to disperse the airflow in the center, he thought he would definitely be seriously injured.

With a loud bang, the detonating talisman blew up a lot of mud, and the impact airflow swept the smoke and dust several meters into the air.

The audience thought that Shikamaru was cornered and had to use the detonating charm to fight back

After all, after the petals in the vortex are hardened and sharpened by chakra, their deterrent power is no less than that of a blade.

The impact of the explosion can indeed break the opponent's moves, but it will also cause the petals to fly everywhere, and may even hurt one's own vital points. A smart person will never make such a dangerous move.

The audience was right, but they didn't understand Shikamaru.

Just like how he used the wall to stun the female ninja of Otogakure in the preliminaries, Shikamaru is very good at using the terrain, and it's the same this time.

The moment he threw the explosive talisman, he used his escape talent to dodge behind the tree.

After the explosion scattered the petals, he took the opportunity to jump to the tree again.

Although it is filled with smoke and dust, the view from a high place is somewhat better than that of a person standing on the ground.

As a result, Shikamaru locked his opponent's position and took the opportunity to perform the "Shadow Imitation Technique".

Jasmine had seen the secret skills of the Nara clan. When she saw the shadow sticking out of the smoke, she immediately took a few steps back to avoid the shadow's capture.

After the shadow stretched to the limit, Jasmine used stones to draw a line as a mark.

She thought that as long as she stayed behind this line, the shadow would not be able to touch her.

When the smoke dispersed, Shikamaru retracted his shadow, showing a helpless expression.

Although Ji Zhixing didn't know Jasmine, the latter's movements gave him a very familiar feeling, as if he had seen her somewhere.

Just when he was wondering, Ji Zhixing suddenly heard a woman's voice coming from behind him: "Our daughter is really outstanding."

"Yes, I originally asked her to become a ninja just to strengthen her body. I didn't expect that she would be so talented. It seems that our family will soon become famous." A middle-aged man said without restraint.

The woman shushed: "Keep your voice down. It won't be too late to say this when Jasmine becomes successful."

The woman's words were clearly filled with joy, but she was still smart enough to know that poisoned milk was a no-no.

Hearing this, Ji Zhixing shrugged self-deprecatingly. How could he have seen the daughter of an ordinary family in Konoha? It seemed that he was overthinking it.

Continuing to look towards the examination room, Shikamaru was squatting on the tree and refused to come down, and Jasmine couldn't cross the line she had drawn.

If you attack with petals again, your opponent will definitely hide behind the tree.

And an exam only lasts half an hour, so delaying it like this is not an option.

Thinking about it, Jasmine gathered a large amount of chakra, transformed into jasmine petals, and then condensed into a sharp spear about three meters long.

"Flower Escape Secret Art Spear Dance"

With a drink, the flower gun suspended in mid-air stabbed out, roaring towards the opponent.

Shikamaru moved quickly and jumped down from the branch. As a result, those people hugged the thick tree and were penetrated directly through a hole thicker than Choji's waist.

Then the flower gun continued forward until it pierced several cracks in the reinforced wall, and then scattered into jasmine petals.

Shikamaru was shocked on the spot. If he had been slower, he would have been penetrated.

It seems that I can't delay it any longer. If my opponent stabs me with a flower spear again, I will definitely not be able to hide while standing under the tree.

"Shikamaru, you can't dodge the next move. If you don't want to get hurt, it's best to admit defeat now." Jasmine didn't want to hurt her companions.

Shikamaru sighed, it really bothered him to be looked down upon by a woman.

I have no choice but to show my true ability.

Thinking about it, Shikamaru took out a scroll from his ninja tool bag, opened it and spread it on the ground, then squatted down and used the "Shadow Imitation Technique".

Seeing the shadow approaching her, Jasmine was not nervous.

On the contrary, she stood very calmly behind the horizontal line, quickly gathering chakra and preparing to end the battle with the next move.

However, when the shadow approached the horizontal line, Jasmine discovered something unusual: the shadow actually exceeded the horizontal line.

"Not good" Jasmine was secretly shocked.

She quickly dodged left and right until she was forced to the west side of the examination room.

The shadow stretched desperately, but could not move forward one centimeter, so Shikamaru had no choice but to withdraw.

"it's over"

Jasmine glanced at the examiner, indicating that the opponent could stop the competition at any time.

Moonlight Hayate coughed a few times, then Shikamaru pulled out a wire from his hand and tied it to the kunai, then injected chakra into the kunai and nailed it to the scroll on the ground.

Jasmine didn't know what her opponent was doing. Anyway, she would use the next move to end the battle.

Thinking about it, Jasmine quickly formed a seal, but at this moment, her body suddenly seemed to be shocked by electricity, and she was so paralyzed that she could not move at all.

The corner of Shikamaru's mouth raised slightly, and Jasmine realized what happened.

It turned out that at the beginning of the game, Shikamaru was not running away randomly to avoid the petal attack. Instead, he chose a suitable place to insert two kunai connected to the wire, so that the middle wire was attached to the ground, making it difficult to detect.

After that, he deliberately made so many moves to mislead Jasmine and forced the latter to the west side of the examination room, making her think that she would never be caught by the shadows there again.

Little did they know, the wire connecting the two kunai was at Jasmine's feet.

Then, Shikamaru took out the scroll that sealed the thunder attribute ninjutsu that he had prepared before the exam and spread it on the ground.

Secondly, tie the wire hidden on the ground inside the examination room wall and connected to the two pre-inserted kunai to the chakra-infused kunai to form a closed circuit.

Finally, when the lightning was transmitted to the human body with relatively high resistance through iron wires and kunai, Jasmine was completely paralyzed and knocked down.

The audience couldn't see the iron wire under the inner wall of the examination room, and they were all stunned when they saw the female ninja who had the chance to win suddenly fall to the ground.

Only Gekko Hayate who knew the whole process, after confirming that Jasmine lost the ability to continue fighting, solemnly announced: "The winner of the fifth round is Nara Shikamaru."

There was sparse applause from the audience, not because they looked down on Shikamaru, but because they didn't understand the game at all.

However, after the sensible people told the truth, they all showed expressions of shock and admiration, and applauded without hesitation.