Tenten stood steadily on the ground, looked toward Temari, and spoke a thank-you in a complicated tone, "Thank you."
Temari did not mind this, just smiled a little, "I think, this battle already has no need to continue on, right?"
Hearing this, Tenten clenched her fists.
Her strongest strike had already been unleashed, yet in the end she didn't even touch the opponent.
She now felt that the chakra in her body was already almost exhausted, but Temari, apart from a few wounds scratched out by her earlier, did not show the slightest sign of excessive chakra consumption.
'Does this girl have that much chakra?:
"Next ti… I will definitely win!", Tenten said unwillingly.
"I look forward to it," Temari walked to the front of Tenten, stretched out her own hand, and said with a smile, "Earlier I underestimated you, your performance today indeed was sowhat beyond my expectations."
Whether it was the entanglent at the start, or that big iron ball later on, it had undoubtedly brought her a certain amount of pressure.
If it hadn't been that she happened to restrain the opponent, perhaps who would win and who would lose really would not be certain.
"Next ti I won't lose again!", Tenten snorted lightly, grasped her hand, and said.
Temari smiled and said, "Then in the future, if there's a chance, let's fight again."
'This girl!'
Tenten's gaze condensed.
Between the gazes of the two girls, it was as if sparks were filling the air.
"You two… if you don't want to continue, one of you can admit defeat and step down," Shiranui Genma reminded, "Leave the field to the contestants for the next match."
"Ah? Sorry," The flas between Temari and Tenten were extinguished.
"I admit defeat!"
Tenten decisively admitted defeat, and after slightly bowing, ran off together with Temari.
"Don't you need to go for so treatnt?"
After leaving the arena, seeing Temari refuse the treatnt of the dical team, Tenten's expression was a bit puzzled.
Temari just gave her a aningful glance, smiled, and said, "I'll just have Aoba help treat it."
"?", Tenten's eyes widened.
She suddenly thought of sothing, and said in disbelief, "You helping at the end, could it be that you didn't want to get hurt, and then didn't want Aoba to help treat it?"
"You can understand it that way."
The corners of Temari's mouth hooked up, she quickened her walking speed, and ran toward where Aoba was.
"You!", The faint bit of goodwill Tenten had just managed to raise toward Temari instantly vanished without a trace.
When she returned to the spectator seats, Temari was already beside Aoba, receiving treatnt from him.
"Aoba, will my body leave scars?", The Sand Hidden Village is a rather cruel place, and Temari had been a genius of the Sand Hidden Village since she was young, naturally experiencing all sorts of battles from childhood to adulthood.
Having scars on her body was inevitable.
Scars were even seen as the dals of a ninja, but Temari did not think so now.
"No, with my level of dical ninjutsu, after the treatnt is finished, your skin might even be better than it originally was," Aoba said with a smile.
And not just the wounds on the hands. If Temari was also willing to let him see other wounds, Aoba guaranteed that he could also help her treat them perfectly.
"That's good then," Temari's smile was sweet. And the happier she smiled, the more annoyed Tenten beca.
Tenten, face full of killing intent, walked over.
"Tenten, that move just now was so cool!", Aoba was the first to notice her.
While helping Temari with treatnt, he also chatted with Tenten.
"What's the use of being cool, in the end I still lost. You don't need to comfort like that, I'm not that fragile."
Tenten's expression eased slightly, walked to Aoba's side. Of course, with Yakumo still in between them.
"I'm not comforting you, Tenten, when you were trading blows with Temari just now, you really were super cool."
Yakumo also held onto Tenten's arm, her eyes full of little stars.
"Re… really?", Tenten, being looked at like that, was a bit embarrassed.
"Of course it's true."
Aoba and the others chid in.
Although she lost, Tenten's performance was undoubtedly the most dazzling so far.
Tenten's originally killing-intent-filled expression completely relaxed.
The dissatisfaction she'd had in her heart also dissipated a lot.
To be honest, Tenten's current strength was already quite good.
It was clear that compared with the original story, she had improved more than just a little.
After all, in the original plot, Tenten could be said to have been suppressed by Temari the whole ti, and in the end couldn't even touch the opponent.
Now, being able to go back and forth, making Temari bring out her final technique.
The few people chatted a bit about so of the following matches.
Before long, Sakura and Ino also ca over.
At this ti, Ino also had a bitter face, her eyes carrying surprise.
She quietly leaned to Aoba's side, twisted his waist, and asked in a low voice, "Aoba, you knew beforehand, why didn't you tell earlier?"
"If I told you, wouldn't that be cheating?", Aoba said helplessly.
"…", Ino opened her mouth, thought about it, and felt that it indeed seed to be the case.
However, she was still a bit unhappy, toward Aoba, and also toward Sakura.
Such an important matter, and they actually didn't tell her.
Sakura even said sothing about worrying she'd dislike her after knowing she had a second personality or sothing.
Was she looking down on her?
Aoba, seeing Ino's sulking look, couldn't help but glance at Sakura.
Sakura just blinked innocently at her.
She had already explained to Ino, but Ino still had a bit of a mood.
What could she do?
Aoba also didn't know what to say, so he simply stealthily held Ino's hand, slowly comforting her.
And as the field was once again restored, Shiranui Genma also announced the participants of the next match.
The next two matches were still battles between Konoha and outside-village ninjas.
After all, Konoha was the host, and had the most people participating in the Chunin Exams, naturally having the most people advancing.
The next two were Shikamaru vs. Omoi, and Choji vs. Kurotsuchi.
It's worth ntioning that because Aoba had dealt with the Sound Ninja team in advance, Choji had not encountered Jirobo in the preliminaries.
Instead, he had faced another small character. So he had won.
However, in the third exam, he faced Kurotsuchi, the Tsuchikage's disciple.
Kurotsuchi directly used Earth Release: Golem Technique, creating a rock giant to brawl with Choji.
In the end, Choji still could not match Kurotsuchi and regrettably lost.
Shikamaru, just like in the original story, although after a series of calculations used the Shadow Secret Technique to control Omoi, because he lacked a winning move, in the end chose to surrender.
This drew a bout of complaints from Ino, but it did divert her attention sowhat.
Originally, Omoi had been planning to surrender, but under Samui's warning he went up to compete, and in the end ended up scaring himself quite a bit.
He accidentally won against Konoha's genius.
He even thought that Konoha had deliberately set a trap.
He thought that tomorrow would be the last day he'd see the sun.
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