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2019
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What the Mist village did was genius, not only did they create unrest in the Leaf by posting dead bodies and blowing up saruitobi's statue head but they also limited the movement of Danzo hence stopping his plans in motion, they also created a rift against him and Saruitobi. But the cherry on the cake is that Both Danzo and Saruitobi can't say who provoked the leaf and did it since they started the conflict because if they do every village would be wary of them and the most and aokiji can have a reason to do a second great ninja war against them which the leaf can't afford to take. Good job author.
He can sense their aura or presence not their facial impressions
Think of the shatter fruit like the snow fruit and the quake fruit like the ice fruit. No matter how strong the shatter fruit is, it would always be below the quake since it's the devolved or lesser version of that fruit.
I agree this is not intelligent in the MC's perspective but at least he is an honest man, Most people have their dumb moments and for him mentioning alchemy he can just pass it off as a lost technique in the past or a 'family legacy' but we would have to know more about his family. Author did he transmigrate to this world or reincarnate.
Except this situation is not normal, This event may be an event but like what gypher said the instructors would not be interfering and people can possibly die in this exam as well, so I think it makes sense that their bond needs to increase if they want to properly coordinate against harder Grimm. So in my book, A life or death situation can improve or break a bond with another person.