Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 23: Hisoka's Conflict with the Examiner

After knocking for about ten more minutes, the man finally opened his eyes, casually threw the iron rod and tripod at his feet, put his strong hands on his waist, and looked around at everyone with scrutiny.

Everyone who was seen straightened up unconsciously, which made him very satisfied, until he saw Germain and Hisoka.

Hisoka was gently crushing a frog on the grass with his toes, neither stepping on it to death nor letting it go, looking like he wanted to play with it until the end of time.

German was eating the sandwich he had just brought from the restaurant. While chewing the meat and fried eggs, he calmly looked at the man with long blue hair.

These two guys are really troublesome just as Izenabi and Ian said... But it doesn’t matter, just wait and see how I can wear down your rebelliousness.

The man with long blue hair coughed a few times as he thought.

"I am Togari, the examiner of the third exam. I now declare that the remaining 52 candidates can continue to take the exam I am conducting."

Almost half of the candidates who were able to enter the third exam from the second exam were lost. This was undoubtedly due to the mansion full of traps and mechanisms behind them, as well as the games and fights between the candidates.

If this exam also allowed for "red names" like in the game, Hisoka would probably have become so red that no one would dare to look at him.

Just as Togari was about to continue speaking, someone stepped out to interrupt him. It was Hisoka.

"Examiner." Hisoka quickly forgot the name of the man in front of him. He was tired of playing with the frog on his toes, so he stomped on it and suddenly asked loudly, "How many Hunter Exams are there this year?"

Togari didn't like Hisoka in the first place, and he was interrupted right after he had just finished speaking. He felt even more unhappy and his tone became impatient.

"The number of Hunter Exams each year hovers between five and six, with occasional exceptions..."

“Is that so? I’m relieved then.” Hisoka interrupted Tokari again and spread his hands. “I was worried that this boring exam would go on endlessly.”

The mountains were already cold in the early morning, and when Hisoka said this, it was like a cold wind that lowered the temperature a few degrees.

"Boring?" Hu Shou was interrupted repeatedly, and when he heard such words, he couldn't help but frown and veins bulged on his forehead.

Hisoka nodded as a matter of course and said, "The first test is to find cards, the second test is to spend a night in a house full of tricks, what will the third one be?"

He took out a deck of playing cards and shuffled them. The cards flew around in a dazzling manner, like flowers that bloomed, withered, and bloomed again in an instant.

"Is your exam less interesting than my magic?"

Togari narrowed his eyes and emphasized, "The rules of the third exam are decided by me. If you are dissatisfied with anything, just quit the exam."

"Ah, you're threatening me with this again." Hisoka smiled and said helplessly, "I get it. If I can't satisfy the examiner, I won't pass the exam."

Seeing that Hisoka took a step back, Togari thought that Hisoka was afraid, snorted smugly, and continued to talk to the examinees:

"The reason why I woke you up at four in the morning is to see your 'nature'! I believe that as a hunter, if you are lazy, you will not be able to accomplish anything and you will be unqualified!"

"The content of the third test is also related to this! The fog rising from this mountain is enough to fill the church cemetery at the foot of the mountain. I need you to find the cave that releases the fog..."

Before Tokari finished speaking, he saw from the corner of his eye that Hisoka stretched exaggeratedly. At the same time, with his sharp hearing, he also heard a lazy yawn coming from the back of the crowd.

"Tsk."

Tokari, who was already on the verge of exploding, could no longer endure it. He considered this disrespectful behavior towards him as an examiner as a deliberate provocation, which made him furious. He pulled out two shiny knives from his pocket and said in a gloomy tone, "You two, stand up."

This sudden, tense situation left all the candidates dumbfounded, and they all looked at the two people that Togari was referring to, Hisoka and Germain.

Hisoka pointed his slender finger at himself and pretended to be surprised: "Are you looking for me?"

"Stand up." Togari just said coldly.

“There’s really nothing I can do…” Having said that, Hisoka walked out of the crowd with a smile on his face.

The crowd standing in front of German also took the initiative to make way for them, just like Moses parting the sea.

German had no idea how he had provoked Tokari. He threw his backpack, which no longer contained any snacks, onto the grass and walked out.

The two men stood in front of Tokari, forming a triangle. At this moment, which the other candidates could not see, they released their mental energy.

"Apologize to me for your disrespect." The knives in Togari's hands swung like snakes. "As candidates who want to become hunters, you are unqualified."

Germain blinked his dark eyes, Hisoka raised his lips, and neither of them made any movement.

Togari's face had become so dark that it blended into the early night.

"Really? I've heard that there are two troublemakers among the candidates, and it turns out to be true... I won't let you pass the exam. Before that, I need you to know the consequences of your actions."

"He said this." Hisoka turned his head to look at Germain beside him, deftly turning a playing card back and forth between his five fingers. "What do you think we should do?"

German still abided by what he said before, pretending not to know Hisoka in public, even though many people had noticed that they seemed to know each other.

"I didn't do anything to apologize for," German said. "If you mean the yawn just now, it was caused by getting up at four in the morning and not getting enough sleep. Technically, it was your fault."

Seeing that Germain was still unwilling to talk to him, Hisoka simply said to Tokari, "You said we were unqualified? What if the examiner's knowledge and ability are so poor that it affects his judgment? What should we do?"

These two sentences added fuel to the fire and finally completely enraged Togari.

He bowed slightly, ready to strike, and shouted, "Then I'll show you my knowledge and ability!"

He took a step forward, quickly closing the distance between the two of them, holding the knife in his right hand. The tip of the knife was originally aimed at Hisoka's throat, but at the last moment he turned to aim at Hisoka's arm.

As an examiner of the hunter exam, his last bit of restraint made him change his mind, and he decided to teach the two a lesson.

As Togari anticipated, under the cover of night, the knife in his right hand would stab into Hisoka's arm.

After pulling out the knife, he bent down with lightning speed and thrust the knife in his left hand into German's thigh.

When he stood up, the two men realized that they were injured and became panic-stricken.

After seeing this example of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, the other candidates will respect him more.

However, when he thought of this, something went wrong in the first step.

(End of this chapter)