Konoha: The seal art teacher of the ninja school

Chapter 174 End of Semester
February [-]th, early morning.

Xia Yan got up early today, and walked slowly to the ninja school after breakfast.

The early cherry blossoms on both sides of the road have quietly bloomed, and the falling cherry petals are flying with the wind. The faint fragrance of the flowers is refreshing, as if sending off the students who are about to leave the ninja school...

After passing the graduation exams for the sixth graders, in the blink of an eye today is the last day for other students to take the final exams.

As an elective course, Xia Yan's sealing exam was also held on this day.

Thinking that after the students finished their exams, he would be able to take a two-month long vacation, Xia Yan was in a good mood.

And speaking of it, Xia Yan did have the foresight to divide all the students into one class.

So compared to other elective teachers who required one paper for each grade, he was much more relaxed, and solved it with one paper.

Although when it came time to correct the papers, he, who had the largest number of courses, would still have some troubles.

Fortunately, as the only teacher with a teaching assistant, this is not a big problem for him.

As the saying goes, if you have something to do as a teaching assistant, it's okay... cough cough.

However, as a full-time Sealing Technique teacher, he couldn't do anything to others in the matter of invigilating the exam.

Since collecting intelligence and hiding intelligence are important skills of ninjas, every time it comes to the final exam, the little ninjas will try to learn and use these skills in the exam...

Therefore, every final exam is a battlefield for students and invigilators to compete in cheating and anti-cheating technologies.

Fortunately, Xia Yan doesn't have to worry too much about this issue.

Because this semester, under the incentives such as exciting cards and various story projections, most students have a solid grasp of this course, and they can easily pass the exam without cheating at all.

——Of course, what's more important is that after these students have gone through the previous midterm exams, they already know that under the supervision of Teacher Xia Yan, there is no possibility of them cheating at all.

After all, Xia Yan has special proctoring skills...

In fact, it is not too difficult to do this.

Xia Yan also attended the ninja school, and he has long been familiar with everyone's cheating methods.

In addition to the cheat sheets that he often used in his previous life, there is also a ninja characteristic, relying on various ninja methods to obtain answers.

The former Xia Yan didn't care much at all, because unlike the previous sealing technique course, which made students memorize by rote, he paid more attention to the various uses of runes.

Therefore, most of the exam questions he gave were practical questions that made Jiu Xinnai want to die, and doing cheat sheets in advance was of little use at all.

As for the second way of cheating, Xia Yan also has a way to deal with it.

After all, the ninja methods that everyone uses basically need to use Chakra.

And Xia Yan, who is proficient in sealing techniques, happens to be an expert in playing with Chakra.

Originally, he also planned to completely block the possibility of them cheating by sealing everyone's Chakra.

But after thinking about it later, he still found it too troublesome, so he thought of a way to simply limit their use of chakra.

That is the talisman seal that was often used to control the prisoners in the wars between ninja villages in the past.

Because of the endless methods of ninjas, it is difficult to keep the captives in check with simple ropes and chains.

And the number of sealing ninjas who can completely seal the captive Chakra is extremely rare, so sometimes everyone will use a special detonator to limit the captives.

The biggest feature of this kind of detonator is that when it is attached to a person, it can simply detect the flow of chakra in the human body. Once it exceeds a certain threshold or is damaged, it will directly detonate!

Therefore, captives who are affixed with this detonating talisman cannot use Chakra to get out of trouble as they like.

And Xia Yan's way to deal with it was actually to paste this kind of talisman on the students before the exam.

——Of course, he still didn't keep the function of the detonating talisman so hard, but changed the trigger effect to project a golden exclamation mark on the cheater's head.

And it lasted for a week...

At the beginning, some unbelieving students tried their own methods, but after a week of being paid special attention by all the teachers in class every day, they immediately decided to change their minds and never dared to cheat under the proctor of Teacher Xia Yan again.

In the morning, at the door of the classroom dedicated to the sealing technique, the students stretched out their hands helplessly and were pasted with a talisman by Teacher Xia Yan before entering the classroom.

After everyone sat in the classroom, Xia Yan changed a thick stack of test papers on the podium, and said to everyone with a smile:

"Then let's get ready for the exam."

"By the way, I have made a lot of improvements to this anti-cheating talisman. If you are interested, you can try to see if you can crack it."

"If it can be cracked, it will be a bonus..."

"..."

The little ninjas all looked at Teacher Xia Yan with speechless expressions.

Teacher Xia Yan did not follow the usual path.

The other teachers are trying to prevent everyone from cheating, but Teacher Xia Yan actually encourages them to cheat, and there are bonus points for successful cheating...

However, this bonus question does not seem to be very attractive.

After the exam started, Xia Yan sat behind the podium, leisurely took out a book "Night Work Building X" written by a certain medical ninja, and tasted it, studying the structure of the human body in depth.

But the little ninjas had no intention of cheating at all.

While this anti-cheat talisman will only detect their chakra flow, it shouldn't be able to stop them from cheating through primitive methods.

But Teacher Xia Yan's defenseless appearance made them dare not act rashly.

God knows if there are any traps for this aspect in Mr. Xia Yan's improvement of this talisman.

After all, they have been with Mr. Xia Yan for a semester, and they already know that under his smiling appearance, there is a wicked heart.

Sure enough, the hearts of those who play the sealing technique are dirty.

Even the reputation of the white devil has spread from the card world to the students, and it has gradually become a way for them to call Teacher Xia Yan behind their backs.

Judging from Teacher Xia Yan's usual style, there must be countless big pits waiting for them.

They don't want to have summer vacation anymore, with a big exclamation mark on their heads.

Therefore, everyone had to obediently complete the test papers alone, and then was gnashed their teeth in anger by Xiao Ming in various application questions.

And Xia Yan raised his head from time to time, seeing the distressed appearance of the little ninjas scratching their ears and cheeks, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

……

In the end, the seal test ended without any wind or waves, which even made Xia Yan a little regretful.

Because in addition to the exclamation point, he also added a lot of cheating signs, such as a golden question mark, a red blood bar, a mark with only five combat power, and a green hat...

Unexpectedly, it was completely useless.

After completing the invigilation, Xia Yan did not hand over all the correction work to Jiu Xinnai because of time constraints, and he also marked the papers himself.

After correcting the papers and counting the students' grades, Xia Yan finally showed a relaxed smile.

"It seems that there should be no problem with my internship and conversion."

Kushina on the side couldn't help rolling her eyes when she heard it.

Now the reform of the school is only halfway through, not to mention the conversion of the internship, I am afraid that Xia Yan wants to leave, and Master Biwako will not let him go.

In the next two days, Xia Yan was busy finishing the work for this semester.

Explaining the test papers to the students, assigning homework for the holidays, and discussing with the principal of Lake Biwa the content of the curriculum reform for the next semester, as well as the specific regulations for the cooperation between the pub and the school.

On the morning of February [-]th, on the playground of the Ninja School.

The Third Hokage stood on a high platform, giving a graduation speech to the newly promoted ninja who was wearing a brand new forehead protector, instilling a strong will of fire.

Students of other grades who participated in the ceremony suffered splash damage from the sidelines.

Although it is the graduation ceremony now, Xia Yan, who is watching the ceremony, always feels that it is no different from the opening ceremony back then.

Even the position where he is standing now is exactly the same as before.

It's just that beside him now, there is a silly-looking Jiu Xinnai.

What's more, the game he now uses to pass the time has also changed from minesweeping to playing backgammon built into the communication bracelet with Kushina.

"Damn it, I lost again. I always feel like there's something tricky about this game..."

Kushina said with a face of reluctance, as if she had completely forgotten that the graduation ceremony was still going on.

Sure enough, she was quickly frightened by Lake Biwa's murderous eyes and dared not make a sound, so she could only glance at the innocent Xia Yan complainingly.

After letting Jiu Xinna use the man-machine to hone his skills, Xia Yan scanned the queue of graduates with a somewhat complicated mood.

Even though he has been in the ninja world for so long, he still can't accept it calmly. These children who were only going to junior high school in his previous life will have to run around for their livelihood from today, and even go to the battlefield in the near future.

Fortunately, under Xia Yan's intervention, their connection with the school was not completely severed.

Almost all graduates do not hesitate to choose one or two electives to continue their studies after knowing that they can continue to study specific courses in school.

Of course, the most popular one is Xia Yan's sealing class.

Many students who didn't sign up because they thought they could only study for one year will naturally not miss this opportunity now.

It's just that in the next semester, these graduates may have to learn the sealing technique with the first-year freshmen...

Thinking of that scene, Xia Yan felt a little funny.

At the same time, because they will not leave the school completely after graduation, the mood of this year's graduates is particularly stable, and there is no scene of saying goodbye like previous students.

This has disappointed many teachers.

The only thing that is a little abrupt is that among these children, there is a particularly short figure that makes the people around them respectful and far away.

Xia Yan saw that Kakashi had the same serious face as when he started school again, with a look of bitterness and hatred, and he knew that the previous battle between him and Obito had not relieved his knot.

Of course, this may also have something to do with the fact that he has been practicing radio gymnastics with Akai in tights for the past few days...

No matter what, with his current state of mind, I'm afraid he won't be able to get along well with the teachers and friends who will be off from Ninja class in the future.

After the graduation ceremony, most of the students couldn't help cheering, celebrating the arrival of the holiday.

They even started chattering about their holiday arrangements.

And those graduates looked at them with complicated expressions, as if they saw their former selves and felt a little envious.

Perhaps their previous graduates also saw them in the same way.

Although they will return to school in the future, the feeling is actually different.

In any case, their lives have turned a whole new page.

Their identities have also changed from ninja school students to real Konoha ninjas.

They became more and more aware of this, no matter whether they were confused or determined, they unconsciously stretched their hands behind their heads and tied the straps on their foreheads even tighter...

And Xia Yan also watched the change of mentality of this group of students, and ended his first semester as a sealing art teacher...

(End of this chapter)