Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 18 The 286th Hunter Exam Begins

German didn't want to waste time with him, so he reached into his black robe, used the "Hunter Badge" to materialize a musket, and pretended to take it out from his arms.

He exposed the barrel of his musket and aimed at Dongba.

Dongba originally reached into his shoulder bag, intending to take out a drink containing a strong diarrhea powder, and use a coaxing approach to get the black-haired young man in front of him to drink it.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, he saw a black gun muzzle aimed at him.

His face turned pale as he retracted his hands, then raised them up, trembling with fear and sweating profusely: "You...what are you doing? I'm just trying to say hello to you..."

"You'd better give up your idea."

German retracted the gun, his eyes and expression were calm, and it didn't seem like he was threatening Dongba at all.

"I'm not a very good shot, so I'm used to using a shotgun. When a shotgun hits a person, it leaves a very horrible wound."

Dongba swallowed his saliva, continued to hold his hands up, laughed, and backed away repeatedly.

"I understand, I understand..."

After walking some distance away, he put down his hands, muttered something, and walked away quickly.

Many candidates present noticed the commotion here, and some of them knew that Dongba, the "newcomer killer", was waiting to laugh at the newcomers.

Unexpectedly, an old hand was taken back before he could even start to harm the newcomer.

This guy is not easy to mess with.

Everyone subconsciously labeled German as such and stopped smiling.

At this moment, German suddenly felt a murderous aura like a needle, coming from behind him without any concealment.

He turned his head and saw a familiar figure standing against a gray-white tombstone not far away.

This guy... is here too.

It was Hisoka, who was also a member of the Phantom Troupe.

It's no surprise that Hisoka is here.

In the original timeline, he took part in this hunter exam, as well as the next year's hunter exam, and obtained a hunter license after the next year's exam.

He is also regarded as "someone not to be messed with" by people around him.

The reason was that someone didn't like his makeup and came to provoke him by saying he was a sissy, and then his left ear and several fingers were cut off by a playing card.

The provocateur had completely lost his nerve at this point and fled in panic, not even planning on taking the Hunter Exam.

Hisoka tilted his face, glanced sideways with his peach blossom eyes, and revealed a meaningful smile.

He greedily stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, and the playing cards in his hand turned from "4 of Hearts" to "8 of Hearts".

Then, with his lips slightly parted, he said something wordlessly to German.

However, Germain couldn't read lips, so he chose to ignore him.

Hisoka had no intention of coming over to talk. He just chuckled a few times, closed his eyes, and continued to play with his card tricks on his fingertips.

After waiting for another hour and a half, the scheduled time for the hunter exam finally arrived.

A total of 353 candidates attended the exam this time, and one of them withdrew from the exam early.

The bean-faced man disappeared without anyone noticing, probably because he finished his mission and left.

The candidates waited for a while and found that no one paid attention to them, and gradually some of them became anxious.

They looked around and shouted things like "Is anyone there?" and "Where is the examiner?"

Germain showed no sign of being in a hurry.

He sat cross-legged on the red brick road, took out a piece of beef jerky from his backpack, and started to bite it, looking like he didn't care if he continued to wait. Everyone was stunned when they saw him finish one piece of beef jerky and then eat another one, and gradually they all felt a little hungry.

Could he have done it on purpose?
Finally, the sound of slow and steady footsteps was heard, and a man walked out of the mist in the cemetery.

The man had short black hair and stubble on his chin. He was holding a small cloth bag in his hand and wearing wooden clogs.

The candidates all looked at the person who suddenly appeared.

He glanced at everyone and said casually:

"Sorry, I'm late. I'm the examiner of the first round of the Hunter Exam, Izenabi."

Izenabi? Germain bit his beef jerky with his back teeth while looking at the examiner. Based on his image, he gradually matched the man with the one in his memory.

Gon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio are the protagonists of Hunter x Hunter. After they embarked on the "Hunter's Path", they all met their own teachers who taught them "Nen".

Among them, Kurapika’s teacher should be the examiner Izenabi in front of him.

Many candidates showed angry looks on their faces when they heard Izenabi's annoying tone.

Izenabi, however, didn't care. He threw the bag at his feet and said to himself, "Then, I declare that the 286th Hunter Examination officially begins."

Many of the 352 candidates were very angry about Izenabi's lateness, but he was the examiner after all and had the ability to decide whether they could enter the next level, so they could only suppress their temper at this moment.

"Without further delay, let's start explaining the rules of the first exam."

Izenabi reached into his arms, took out a hard card, held it high above his head, and showed it to everyone.

It was a mostly pure white card, with only the Hunter Association's double X logo printed on the front.

"I placed 360 such cards in Yanisha City in advance. The locations where they were placed were random, and the difficulty of obtaining them was random."

"As long as you get one and return here to give it to me, you will pass the first test."

Many candidates' eyelids twitched after hearing this. Yanisa is a very large city, not to mention the many tall buildings standing there.

It looked as if Izenabi had no intention of giving any clues at all. It would be troublesome to search without any clues.

Unexpectedly, instead of giving any clues, Izenabi added: "The time limit is 360 minutes, or 6 hours, and every minute, one card will be collected by our people."

Not only is there a time limit, but as the time limit approaches, there will be fewer and fewer cards to search for, is that what you mean?

German was still sitting cross-legged on the ground, eating a sandwich cookie he had taken out of his backpack while thinking.

Izenabi couldn't help but glance at him, then looked away.

"Incidentally."

Izenabi held up a finger.

"The time calculation for the first exam started twenty minutes ago, which means there are only 340 minutes and 340 cards left."

what? !

Many candidates were shocked.

It started twenty minutes ago, and Izenabi was twenty minutes late. Doesn't this mean that twenty minutes were wasted? Did Izenabi do it on purpose?
There are 340 cards left, and there are 352 candidates present, so it is inevitable that someone will be eliminated.

Some candidates turned around and left, looking for the cards immediately.

But most of the candidates stayed here and surrounded Izenabi in dissatisfaction.

"What do you mean by 'just a casual mention'? Wasn't the time wasted because of your lateness?"

"How can an examiner set such a rule? It's totally unfair!"

"We demand a recalculation of time! From now on!"

(End of this chapter)