For a moment, the other examinees looked at Roy with nothing but envy and jealousy. Their eyes were practically red.
Without the examinees knowing it, everything they did on top of Trick Tower was being faithfully relayed to the Examiner.
"Hm?" Lippo took a bite of his daifuku and felt that the expressions on the examinees at the top of the tower were a little strange. They seemed to be carrying some kind of deep resentment...
At the top of the tower, with Roy's perception, he naturally knew someone was watching.
And just then, Roy moved. He walked straight to the edge of the tower.
"So he's thinking of going straight out from the outside of the tower? What a naive idea. Still, this works out nicely. We need an example to show those examinees the proper way to clear Trick Tower."
Lippo took another bite of his daifuku.
As for the battle between Roy and Netero, Beans had suppressed the news immediately.
So, aside from a very small number of people, nobody knew that during the second phase of the Hunter Exam, one examinee had fought the Chairman.
Obviously, Lippo was not among that small group.
Up on the tower, Gon and the others had also gathered around Roy.
Before they could say anything, Roy began explaining at just the right moment:
"Trick Tower is a prison specially used by the Hunter Association to hold all kinds of vicious criminals from society who, for one reason or another, were not sentenced to death."
"Inside Trick Tower are many traps designed to prevent criminals from escaping. If an ordinary person enters, they'll almost certainly die."
"And outside the tower, there are also many hidden flying magical beasts. Anyone who tries to escape from the outside will be attacked by those creatures."
"So that means we can only find a way down from inside the tower?" Kurapika analyzed.
Roy said, "Yes, and no."
"?" Everyone was puzzled.
"Didn't you remember one of the abilities I showed at Kiriko's place?" Roy said with a smile.
Everyone's eyes lit up.
"Flight!"
"Correct. With my speed, I can carry people straight down without wasting time inside the tower."
As he spoke, Roy leaped up and stopped in midair.
The examinees already knew Roy had the ability to fly, so they were no longer surprised. Now that he was using it again, and clearly intended to go straight to the bottom of the tower like this, they felt even more envious.
Plop!
The daifuku in Lippo's hand fell to the floor.
"A Nen user? Flight... No wonder those examinees had those expressions. Tch, that really is an ability worth envying."
Lippo picked up the pastry, dusted it off, and stuffed it back into his mouth.
He suddenly felt like he could understand the feelings of those examinees a little.
"I can carry four people at once, which is perfect," Roy said from the sky, stretching out both hands and both legs.
Android 18 was not about to cling to any man other than her own husband, so the boys could grab his legs instead.
Leorio had already done this once back in Zaban City, but for Kurapika, this was his first time.
The two of them each grabbed one of Roy's legs.
Leorio's hands trembled a little. He was afraid of heights.
"Hold on tight."
Roy carried Killua in his left hand and Gon in his right, with Leorio and Kurapika hanging onto his left and right legs, while Android 18 followed behind him. Then, with a single flash, before Kurapika and Leorio had even reacted, they had already arrived on the ground.
The many examinees still on top of the tower ground their teeth in envy.
The third phase, the Trick Tower test, had been cleared with ease~
...
At the bottom of Trick Tower, Roy, Android 18, and Gon's group of four walked in directly from outside.
They became the first few examinees to clear the phase.
"That guy is a monster!"
Having set an iron rule in their hearts never to make an enemy of Roy, the other examinees got used to it and began thinking about how to leave the top of the tower and reach the bottom.
And it had to be said, quite a few people were led astray by Roy's actions and started considering plans to descend to the bottom from the outside of Trick Tower...
A huge number of trapdoors had been prepared on the top of the tower, yet nobody stepped on them. Watching all of this, Examiner Lippo declared that he hated wild monkeys who used brute force to bulldoze their way through a stage...
That examinees would enter Trick Tower from its main entrance after coming in from outside was probably something Lippo, as the Examiner, had never imagined at the start, no matter how hard he tried.
So when Roy and the others entered the inside of Trick Tower from outside, the drinks, snacks, playing cards, and other things scattered on the floor had no time to be cleaned up. A messy bachelor-pad atmosphere rushed straight at Gon and the others and hit them full in the face.
"Examinee No. 99, Examinee No. 403, Examinee No. 404, Examinee No. 405, Examinee No. 406, and Examinee No. 407, please wait here for 72 hours. We will prepare sufficient daily necessities and food for you. Please proceed to the central hall at the bottom of Trick Tower."
Lippo pushed up his huge glasses and forcibly put on a solemn expression. But really, Mr. Examiner, your entire image had already been shattered by the potato chip bags all over the floor.
(End of Chapter)
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