MessyLife
It's more important to help Kota pass then it is to pay attention to others. So my Choice is A. C is bad since it creates enemies and with less comppetion that increases the likelihood of running into unsavory characters(Garra,Orochimaru,Kabuto) so the more actually the better odds of surviving. With B we can't really find any good information here nor would shinji really find any good information. With A we can communicate with out teammates and make sure that they don't do any obvious cheating and provide answers . We could have Sayuri do this as well and we would have a guarantee pass to the next stage of the exam.
A. I'm voting A because everything else is seriously not worth it, and if Kota ends up quitting midway in order to not hold him, teammates, back, or because he can't handle the pressure from the exam it would not be pretty. Choosing B wouldn't amount to much other than showing you the techniques others have adapted to cheat on the test. Picking C would be plain out counterproductive. On top of losing meat shields and losing people who would potentially have the scroll he's looking for, he might end up using genjutsu on the WRONG type of person (Orochimaru and Kabuto) And D is just plain out useless for Shinji as while he isn't risking messing anything up, he losing out on covering his bases.
C target any none leaf team by using genjutsu on the weakest link of said team sabotage them use this on kabuto's team aswell he played games with us let's play games with him all none leaf teams have to go and so does kabuto. it's just business if we can get sayuri to help us with this well all the better while shinji cant Meta we can and this is one of those times I think we should we can possibly get rid of sand, grass (orochimaru), water, rain?, leaf (kabuto), and any other teams in the first round? we might be made chunin just for that if we arent caught
A 4 reasons 1. I don't really see the point in the other options, Sabotaging others may backfire since shinji don't even know anything about them in the first, Gathering information about others? sounds stupid and wasteful since many would be failing (unless he is in the room where Naruto is) 2. Shinji would still be gathering information around him but more moderately, since he would probably need to look around for the correct answers if he can't answer some, so I don't see the need to solely focusing on information gathering on others who may not even make it to the next round, it's useless information 3. Kota... yeah... I don't think he has the brains to answer them and if he fails then we fail as well... so nope 4. like shinji already understood that this is a information gathering test, I don't think Shinji is that simple-minded that he wouldn't try to gather info about the people he should be worried about, He has shown a lot in this chapter and preview onces how observant, smart and cautious he is ( thanks to our choices lol)