"Well, that's right."
"Yossie, decide! Let's move toward the official Hunter x Hunter exam venue like this!"
"Hmm!"
With that, the trio confidently walked along the dark path.
Roy, however, smiled faintly. Suddenly, he shivered as he felt something. He turned to see No. 18 staring at him with a straight face.
A very bad premonition crept into Roy's mind.
"Now, you tell me, what would you do if our son and daughter were captured by bad guys at the same time in the future?"
Roy: "…"
Sure enough. He had anticipated this.
What could he even do?! Who knows the correct answer to this question?!
That wicked old woman must have been thinking about this on purpose!
If a husband and wife were taking the Hunter x Hunter exam together, wouldn't this just ruin family harmony?!
Roy's heart filled with countless grudges against the old woman outside the door.
No. 18 stared at him with burning eyes. "So, which one would you choose to save?"
Ahead, Kurapika and Leorio had already stopped walking. When the eighteenth asked the question, they exchanged meaningful glances and nodded knowingly.
Gon, ignorant of all this, just looked confused, a question mark floating above his head.
Roy's mind was sweating. This was indeed a trap-filled, difficult question.
Then No. 18 spoke again: "Okay, let's change the question…"
Roy breathed a sigh of relief.
"If both I and the child were captured by bad guys at the same time, which would you choose to save?"
Roy: "…Ahem!"
He coughed, realizing he had to give a proper answer to avoid upsetting No. 18.
He said seriously: "This will never happen! If bad guys try to take you, they'll have to step over my corpse first. I'll fight for you until my last breath! No one will take you unless I'm dead!"
These words were full of determination.
No. 18's lips curved into a beautiful smile as she chuckled. "Stupid~"
She clearly liked the answer.
Roy saw it and breathed a faint sigh of relief.
In front, Kurapika and Leorio glanced at each other again, then immediately turned their heads as if nothing had happened.
Gon: "…???"
The next part was much simpler. Gon and the others practiced their Nen ability along the way. Naturally, the keen-sensed fierce fox family detected them immediately.
Soon, without the original story's assessments, the group was deemed qualified to reach the final venue.
During this journey, Gon earned the fierce fox family's friendship by easily recognizing the male and female members.
"Okay, next we'll take you to Saba City to prepare for departure," said the fierce fox husband.
"And there are four of you. My daughter and son are too thin to support the weight of an adult, so it will take two trips. Who will stay and wait first?"
"No need," Roy interrupted. He then activated his "golden finger."
A burst of golden light flashed from his symbolic fingers and touched a point on his forehead. The glow dimmed slightly, and Roy began to fly steadily.
"Huh?" The fierce fox husband's eyes widened.
Not just him—every fierce fox present stared in shock. Even Gon's mouth opened in surprise.
"So Roy… your ability is to fly?!"
"My 'nen ability' isn't just for recording information~"
Roy shook his slightly glowing fingers and smiled faintly.
Gon and the others immediately understood. They stared at Roy in awe as he hovered above them.
The fierce fox husband gazed at Roy seriously. "I've been an examiner for decades. I've seen many people with Nen ability and strange Nen powers, but I've never seen the ability to fly."
"It's nothing~. Flying is rare, but not impossible."
"Huh?" The fierce fox family froze. Then, in the next second, their eyes widened in disbelief.
They saw No. 18, silent until now, shrug her shoulders. Slowly, her feet left the ground, and she floated in midair—she was flying!
The fierce fox family was speechless. Gon and the others shouted in excitement.
"Wow! Eighteen can fly too!"
Gon's eyes sparkled like stars. He had completely become a little fan.
Kurapika and Leorio didn't speak, but their burning gazes revealed that their hearts were anything but calm.
Nen ability was truly a magical power!
"Let's go."
Even the fierce foxes looked sincerely envious of Roy and No. 18's ability to fly without wings.