"Little Athea, long time no see."

On the Hunters' Guild's airship, at ten o'clock in the morning, the door to Athea's room was pushed open.

Well, this is not actually her room, and it is not an outsider who pushes the door open, but the owner of this room.

"Oh, President, do you finally remember to go back to sleep?" Althea looked out the window at the sky, it was already the next morning. "It's not good for the elderly to stay up late."

"Oh, roar, roar, it's rare for the old man to have such fun with children, and it doesn't matter if he stays up late once in a while." Nitro, the president of the Hunters' Guild, grabbed his beard and walked in. "Besides, old people are always willful, aren't they?"

"But......" said Nitro as he walked over to the table and sat down, "what should you call the old man?" ”

Althea sighed and said resignedly, "Master." ”

"No, no, no, it's not this." Nitro smiled kindly and kindly, "It's what you called when you had to ask me to accept you as an apprentice, what is your name?" Oops, the old man is a little old and can't remember clearly. ”

Althea: ......

Althea sighed again, resigned herself and said with some shame, "Master, Father......"

That's right, when she was a child, she was lucky enough to meet the president of the Hunter Guild and the strongest telepathic of mankind, Nitro, because of a temporary mission in the Guild. Then she begged the other party to take her as a disciple...... The past is really unbearable, so it's okay not to mention it, but this old man has a dark belly, and he has to listen to her call 'Master and Father' every once in a while.

"Good boy, oh roar roar~" Nitro's old face immediately burst into laughter.

Althea: ......

"I'm twenty-eight, not a kid."

It's really a shame to call 'Master Father' or something, and Aithea tries to justify herself.

"Even if you are eighty-two, you are still a child in the eyes of the old man."

Nitro stroked his beard and slowly pressed back the little apprentice's lame reason.

Althea: ......

Okay, who made this old man really old.

The president of the Hunter Association, the supreme person in charge of the hunter test, even at the age of one hundred and twenty, even if his strength has been weakened by half from his peak, he is still the world's top telekinesis, which shows how strong his strength is.

Although Althea has been in this world for ten years, it is no longer what it used to be, but she is not guaranteed to win against her master, President Nitro.

Because that old man is not only strong, but also black-bellied...... This more than 100 years of combat experience is not comparable to that of a fledgling child like her.

Although the hunter world relies on strength to speak, combat experience is also a very important part of strength, and it is not enough to have a strong telekinesis.

This is something that Althea has known since early on, and it can be said that she is actually very talented in this area.

Back then, she was able to impress President Nitro, who was already 110 years old, to make an exception to accept apprentices, not really because of the cute sentence 'Master Father', but because of her understanding of power.

I think that the ability to read is always just a help, and the strength of the person himself is the real strength. Hunters should not overly pursue and rely on telekinesis, that would be very dangerous. ’

Of course, a large part of it is because she has the super dangerous ability to eat herself, so she can see through the essence without being confused by all kinds of dazzling mental abilities.

Ability is very easy to use, like a shortcut, you don't need to work hard to exercise, you don't need to practice hard all the time, and you don't need to repeat those boring basic exercises, you can make an ordinary person instantly become omnipotent. If you just develop your abilities and ignore your own cultivation, you will one day harm yourself.

In any case, it was because of her words that Nitro decided to accept this closed disciple.

And he was not wrong, although Althea was lazy, she worked hard, and in just ten years, she had successfully become a very powerful hunter.

This is actually not a contradiction, because the lazier person is, when she is determined to do something, will work hard to achieve maximum efficiency, because she does not want to do any more useless work.

In other words, if you want to do it, you have to do your best to be worthy of the precious time and energy she has put in.

"So your old man stayed up late to play with other children, and let me wait here all night." Unable to say anything about the old man, Althea decided to strike first.

"Oops, I thought little Aithea you slept all night." Nitro chuckled.

"I'm going to fall asleep." Althea corrected.

"Okay, okay, it's the old man's fault. But who made my little apprentice want to play with the old man more and more since he grew up. Nitro shook his head and sighed with a sad look on his face.

Every time I play with you, every time I am cheated by you, I am stupid to play with you bad old man.

Aithea scolded in her heart, and said happily on her face, "Birds always have to leave the nest when they grow up, isn't this what your old man said, Master." ”

Nitro touched his head and smiled, pretending not to hear, and directly changed the topic, "How about this hunter test, are there a lot of good seedlings?" Especially those two little dolls, oh roar roar roar~"

Althea: ......

After so many years, her master's ability to change the topic is still so blunt, and there is no improvement at all.

But Aithea still replied, "Yes, do you mean Forty-four Sisoka and Thirty-One Jitaraku, these two are indeed very powerful. ”

I forgot to mention that this 301 Settala Ku is the fake identity of Ilmi Beater Disguise, which is the secret of her previous dealings with Killua.

But the other party is also a talent, a handsome guy with long hair who is obviously good-looking, he has to be a strange man with nails in his face, doesn't it mean that killers should be disguised into public faces?! It's good that he made an ugly one that is eye-catching and profound, and it can only be said that this may be the self-confidence of the First Assassination Family.

It's just that when Aithea finished speaking, she suddenly found that her cheap master's expression was a little strange.

"What's wrong, am I wrong?" She tilted her head and asked a question.

"Ahem, ahem...... Nitro raised his hand to a glass of water from the table and took a sip, "I mean ninety-nine and that four-zero-five." ”

No. 99 Killua Beater, No. 405 Jay Fulix.

Althea instantly called up the information of the two in her mind, Killua was naturally the one she met last night, and No. 405 Xiaojie was the poor little boy in green who hit No. 44 Hisoka with a fishing rod and then helped the other party take pictures.

Coincidentally, both of them are just twelve years old this year, and they have become good friends and friends in the hunter test.

So Nitro was referring to these two men, not to Sisoka and Ilfan, as she understood them.

The corners of Aithea's mouth, who finally knew why her master's expression was so strange, twitched, and defended her own oolong, "You said it, even if you are eighty-two years old, you are still a child in your eyes. ”

The implication is that Sisoka and Ilmi are only in their twenties, aren't they also little dolls, and she has no problem understanding it!

"Uh, well, those two are really good, too." Nitro feigned composure and took another sip of water, "But I'm still looking forward to these two little dolls who haven't learned yet, and want to see what their future holds." If you want to see what the future of the new generation of hunters will look like, just thinking about it makes the old man's blood boil. ”

"So that's why you didn't come home all night?

Althea had probably guessed that her master should have played a game of ball grabbing with Killua and Xiaojie last night. She remembered that when she met Killua herself, there was a 'bang' sound of a ball falling to the ground in a room not far behind the other party, and Master had also played this game with her, so combined with so many details, she instantly thought of what happened.

"By the way, do you already think those two boys will pass the hunter test without any problems?" Althea asked again.

Nitro: "Absolutely. ”

Althea: "And then. ”

Nitro: "Are you interested in them?" ”

Althea: "You mean ......"

"That's right, little Athea. A gleam flashed in Nitro's eyes, which were still shining, "Time flies so fast, and you're already qualified to be a leader." ”

Althea was surprised for a moment, then replied solemnly, "I see, Master. ”

"Oh, roar, roar, roar~ It's not early, it seems to be almost there." Nitro said, looking out the window.

Aithea also subconsciously followed the other party's line of sight into the distance, and the site of the third test was the towering trap tower that stood in the sky for some time.

"Then I won't disturb your rest, old man."

Althea glanced at the time and turned to leave, and just as the door was about to be closed, Nitro's voice came from behind her again.

"By the way, the old man always forgets things when he gets old, is your ability still easy to control?"

"Well, don't worry, I can handle it."

"Don't carry it on your shoulder, little Athea."

"I know~ Old man, you're so verbose~"

……

Seventy-two hours later, on the ground floor of the Trap Tower Prison, the third test ended.

As a result, a total of 25 candidates successfully reached the bottom level through the layers of tests within the specified time and passed the test.

In the meeting room on the airship of the Hunters' Association, the assistant examiners gathered again.

Examiner Ma Shihe: "Have you all watched the video of the trap tower test?" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the atmosphere in the entire conference room suddenly became solemn. Without him, several people died in this test, not only the candidates, but also the examiners.

Yes, it's an examiner, but it's not strictly an examiner.

Because that person is the examiner who was seriously injured by the forty-fourth last year, and this year is an avenger. Lieber, the examiner of this test, sympathized with his plight and gave him a chance to take revenge on the other party inside the trap tower.

It's a pity that the 'Four Knife Streams' who have been practicing hard for more than half a year after recovering from a serious injury could not help him succeed in revenge, but fell into a deeper abyss.

In the surveillance video, his best effort was to slash Candidate No. 44 in the shoulder, and then the flying head full of unwillingness and horror.

For those who want to kill him, Hisoka never shows mercy to his subordinates, and easily solves the opponent, but it leaves a heavy shadow in the hearts of the assistant examiners.

"So now it is determined that there will be a total of twenty-four candidates for the fourth test, let's see how the lottery will be drawn, shall we?" "I suggest dividing into two groups, day and night, that is, a minimum of forty-eight people, alternating between day and night. ”

"Wait, didn't you say that the Trap Tower passed twenty-five candidates?" Someone asked suddenly.

"Just received news from the association." "There was also one candidate who died of a serious injury, so now there are twenty-four. ”

"Okay, let's do what you say."

Five minutes later......

When the results of the lottery came out, several families were happy and some were sad.

"Hahaha, Lao Tzu finally has a red hand!!" Matos was surprised to hold up the paper he had drawn, on which was written 'Eighty, White', which meant to follow Candidate Eighty during the day. "I remember it was like a blonde beauty, hahaha, I knew that people couldn't be unlucky twice in a row."

As he spoke, he asked Aithea beside him excitedly, "What about you?" Who is it this time? ”

Althea sighed, and found that her lottery luck was really not good, and she was afraid of who would come. "Three-zero-one, white."

"Is it the one with the nails overgrown?" Matos wondered, "This person is nothing special, why do you have a bitter face, isn't it good?" ”

"Hey, that's ugly." Althea said. She won't say that the other party is actually the killer who beat the enemy Hakka, the one who once killed you.

Although the other party came to participate in the test because he needed a hunter's license for the next mission, and he would definitely not take the initiative to make trouble, Althea didn't want to be recognized by the other party at all that she and Matos were the people who were that night, otherwise, according to the personality of a normal person, you have to find out why the person she killed suddenly came back to life.

If that's the case, it's very troublesome.

"Damn, I'm number forty-four!" Someone suddenly wailed.

"Don't talk about it, man, I'm also number forty-four." The other also said with a sad face.

"Neither of us is much better...... "Neither of us is much better," he said, crying two more big men, "My brother and I are both ninety-nine." ”

Originally, everyone didn't care much about the child of No. 99, even if it was a child who beat the enemy Hakka, it was a twelve-year-old child who couldn't read. But after the twelve-year-old boy in the trap tower easily and freely took out the heart of the felons in the tower with his bare hands, everyone did not dare to take him lightly.

"That kid, that look is really terrifying, there is no normal person if you beat the enemy Hakka!"

"That's the one who only exists in the dark world."

"I'll trade with you." Aithea suddenly said in a loud voice, "How about changing from 301 to 99, from day to day?" ”

"Ah, why did you change it?" The other party asked puzzled.

"It's so ugly, I'm scared." Althea used that excuse again.

All:......

In the end, of course, Althea changed to the number she wanted.

[Aisia: Little Killua, I've got it done here, don't forget our agreement]

[Killua: Why are you talking as disgusting as Hisoka?] I know, I'll give it a try, but there's no guarantee that it will work. 】

Aithea, who was disgusted by the two brothers who were beaten up in a row: ......

Well, she reflected for a second, and blamed the guy called the magician for marinating her.

Wait a minute...... Listening to Killua, does that Forty-Four talk a lot like her cheap object??

Hey, it doesn't matter...... Because just then, her cheap partner messaged her again.

[Magician: Dear little hey, I was accidentally injured, it hurts so much~~/Poor Baba/Ask for comfort]

Althea immediately got goosebumps from disgust, she felt that the forty-four was definitely not as disgusting as the magician! No one is more disgusting than him!!

So she immediately replied: [Oops, baby, what's wrong with you? Is the Magician Rank Exam so dangerous? It's so pathetic...... Where's the injury? It doesn't hurt to kiss it, good ~~/kiss/kiss]

The other party quickly replied to the message: [Magician: Dear little baby, I'm so moved~~ I was accidentally scratched by a magic prop on my body/love/love]

[Oops: Great!] Take a picture and show me! 】

[Oops: ahem...... No...... I mean, show me the wound on your body, it's not serious, I'm so worried/worried/worried]

【Magician:-_-】