"Shinji, are you sure you can continue this exam?" Kurapika looked at Shinji and asked, he just saw his heart stop so he doesn't know if Shinji can continue.
"Right Shinji at least take some rest." Leorio persuaded Shinji to change his opinion.
"Guys don't worry, I'm really fine now!" Shinji starts doing some random movements to show them he is alright.
hearing Shinji's words, plus their desire to win this Hunter exam, they finally start running to follow the examiner.
"But which way should we go?" Kurapika and Leorio didn't know where to go, under the effect of the thick fog, nothing can be seen, just aimlessly running will let them to a dead end.
"Don't worry guys, I have a solution!" Shinji said confidently, after resetting he returned to his peak physical state, all the exhaustion and negative effects went away.
"Really?" both of them looked at Shinji with surprise.
"Don't you remember? I can transform into a half-leopard, in that state, my senses will be augmented, and I will use it to locate the applicants."
"Right! How we forget that Shinji-san is a magical beast, I'm sure with his sharp senses must be able to help us find the way." Kurapika said excitedly.
"Then what are you waiting for? let's go Shinji!" Leorio also becomes excited.
'They think I'm a Magical beast? Well, they saved me from wasting brain cells on finding an explanation.'
Shinji Then transformed into a hybrid form of his Leopard devil fruit ability. he didn't want to take off his bandages and clothes because if he do so he will need to find an explanation about why his injuries disappeared. after all, the Ajin 'Reset' will return him to the perfect state, which means all the injuries he received will heal as long as he wasn't born with them.
the scars on his body were acquired during fights, so they were automatically repaired with his reset.
for now, he will hide this information until they learn Nen, and attribute the healing to it.
His nose starts sniffing the air, and his ears listened carefully to all the noise that is produced by the steps and breathing of applicants.
After a few moments, he really discovered something.
"Guys from here, follow me, remember to stay close to me in case any monster attacks you"
"Ok, let's go."
Both of them nodded, then they started following Shinji.
A few minutes later.
When the trio was running, suddenly, Shinji felt something wrong.
Shinji stood in front of Kurapika and Leorio in case something happened.
"Why did you stop, Shinji?" Leorio looked at Shinji and was confused about this sudden stop.
"Did you notice something weird, Shinji-san?" Kurapika immediately took his fighting stance, ready to respond to any attack.
Shinji didn't respond, he took a big stone and then throw it hard on the ground a few meters in front of them.
The moment the big stone touched what it seems to be the ground, it got submerged.
"Huh?" both Leorio and Kurapika were Surprised by this scene. But the real surprise is still coming.
Just after the big stone got completely submerged, something they never expected came from the underground.
A huge green frog suddenly appeared, it turns out the place where the stone fell was the frog's open mouth.
"Nani!!" Seeing such a huge frog, Leorio was shocked.
'I wonder how much SP this frog is worthy!' Shinji looked at the huge frog with greed and swallowed his saliva.
"Kurapika, Leorio, leave it to me!" afraid that someone will snatch his prey, Shinji took the initiative, with his fast speed, he quickly appeared on top of the frog.
The leopard devil fruit augmented his physical abilities a lot, but the main attribute of this enhancement is speed. after all, leopards are known for their speeds that can reach almost 60 km/h.
Shinji who appeared on the top of the head of the huge frog, Waved his Sharp Claws into the latter's eyes.
*Scream*
The pitiful frog screamed hard, the pain from his eyes made him crazier, he started hitting randomly anything with his long tongue.
"Sorry, but if we were weak I'm afraid that you won't spare us! So die!" no matter how pitiful the frog looks like, Shinji who understood the cruelty of the jungle wasn't affected.
He appeared below its stomach, using his sharp claw, he pierced its stomach then he run to the end while his sharp claw remained inside creating a long wound on its belly.
Blood kept falling like rain, but even so, the huge frog's vitality is extremely tenacious.
Under the watchful eyes of Kurapika and Leorio, Shinji staged a brutal scene of turning the huge frog into minced meat.
The slow frog had no chance in front of the agile Shinji, it was a completely one-side slaughter!
It wasn't until Shinji received the notification from the inheritance boundary that he earned Soul points he stopped.
Shinji stood on the top of the corps of the frog and summoned his status, the interface that he only could see appeared in front of him he ignored everything and focused on the number of Soul Points.
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Soul Points: 85
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'Eighty points!' without counting the 5 SP he left before, he earned from sacrificing the soul of this monster 80 SP.
Although he knows before this huge monster must be worth a lot of SP but he never expected it will be this huge.
'If I could kill a few more of these monsters…' Shinji become existed because of this thought.
"Kurapika…do you think one day Shinji will tear me apart just like that monster!" Leorio felt terrified from this brutal scene, he swears he will never curse or anger Shinji in the future anymore.
"I think it's impossible...probably?" Kurapika replied hesitantly.
"Probably!" hearing Kurapika's words Leorio screamed in fright, he must hurry and fund a chance to clean his grudges with Shinji, or else he won't dare to stay next to him in the future.
"Although I saw Shinji-san use his power before, but it wasn't as impact-full as this time, but such a race why I have never heard of it?" Kurapika looked at Shinji and tried hard to remember if he saw or heard about any Leopard-like magical beasts that could transform into humans, but no matter what he found nothing.
"Ok guys let's continue!" In a good mood, Shinji waved at the shocked Kurapika and Leorio to follow him.
….
Gon and Killua were following the examiner Satotz-san closely.
"I wonder if Brother Shinji and others are okay?" hearing the constant screams of applicants who got deceived by the creatures of the wetlands, Gon becomes worried about his friends.
Behind them, some applicants wearing uniformed blue fighting clothes are following Hisoka quietly, they looked at each other and nodded as if they reached some kind of agreement.
Hisoka who was in front of them was running with a smile on his face, obviously aware of the conspiracy behind him, but choose to act ignorantly.
As if feeling this tense atmosphere, Killua said to Gon.
"Gon…let's move up."
"Huh?…okay, we don't want to lose sight of the examiner." Obviously, Gon failed to read the atmosphere.
"I'm more concerned with increasing the distance between us and Hisoka. Staying too close to him is dangerous."
"I can smell it in the air."
"Smell?…" gon tried to see if there is any smell in the air but he shook his head.
"I don't think he smells."
….
Meanwhile, under the guidance of Shinji, they slowly start getting closer to the group, during this time, the three of them were attacked by a giant tortoise that had big strawberries growing on its shell.
The poor tortoise choose the wrong target, and in the end, it experienced the same fate as the previous giant Frog, which turned into Shinji's Soul Points, providing him with 100 sp!
Now he earned just from these two kills 185 SP!
If he wasn't afraid to lose the hunter exam, he would have already gone hunting for more monsters
"This way, I can hear the breath of several ones there." Kurapika and Leorio followed Shinji closely.
"It's great that we have Shinji or else we would be dead a long time ago," Leorio said as he praised Shinji.
Kurapika on the side nodded, with Shinji with them, any danger was solved easily.
"Hmm?" Suddenly Shinji stopped, leorio and kurapika who were following him bumped into his back.
"What's going on Shinji? Is there are any monsters again?" Leorio looked around carefully trying to spot the danger.
Shinji didn't respond, just now his instinct sent him a strong signal of danger, as if telling him to run away as fast as possible, something in front of them pose a huge threat to them.
His eyes shrink into a needle improving his vision, even under the cover of the thick fog he was able to spot several people surrounding one person.
Seeing the outline of that person, Shinji felt familiar.
'This perverted pose, this hairstyle…I can't be wrong…this must be Hisoka!'
…
" When I saw you last year, I knew you weren't hunter material." Said who seems to be the leader of the guys surrounding Hisoka. This poor man doesn't know that he is playing with fire.
"We will spare you if you promise to not take the hunter exam again." Another man next to him holding a spear said.
Hisoka stood there leisurely without caring about being 'surrounded'.
"Sure…I'm passing the exam this year, so I won't need to retake it."
The leader with his hands crossed on his chest looked at Hisoka as if looking at an idiot.
"Passing? Idiot! Look at this fog, it's impossible to determine which direction the main pack went!"
"Which means we have all failed the exam."
*chuckle*
Hisoka made a coquettish chuckle as he said:
"So that's why, having already failed you wish to play examiner." He looked at them and said with a provocative smile on his face.
"Hunters require prey."
"Why don't I play the examiner…"
"And judge whether you are hunter material?"
As he finished his words, he held a playing card in his right hand.
Feeling the provocation in his tone, they couldn't hold their temper anymore.
"Shut up!"
All of them attacked Hisoka from all directions at the same time.
If this attack were to fail on even a professional martial artist he wouldn't be able to defend himself for sure.
Just when they were only one step from reaching Hisoka, they froze in their place.
Hisoka Just waved his card at a lightning-like speed and cut their throats in a blink of an eye.
*thud**thud**thud**thud*
All of them fell to the ground dead.
The leader who was confident before looked at this scene with shock, his mouth opened wide, and his body starts shaking from fear.
"Now, then…" Hisoka looked t him, the moment his eye fell on the leader, the latter turned around to run, but his legs betrayed him.
Even so, he didn't give up, even if it meant crawling he wanted to run as far as possible from Hisoka.
Death is getting near, and he had no chance to resist.
Tears start falling from his eyes.
"H-H-He-Help!" he screamed, hopping that a hero will appear and save him, but unfortunately he wasn't a jade-like beauty, or else Shinji wouldn't mind playing the hero save the beauty scene.
He regretted it, why he is so stupid to think of offending Hisoka?
unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world.
*thud*
A flying card pierced his skull from behind ending his life instantly.
The trio of Shinji who happen to come across this scene were frozen in their place.
Seeing Hisoka killing these applicants like crushing some insignificant ants was something more shocking than when Shinji killed those monsters.
Hisoka walked to the corps and took his playing card from the skull, his eagle-like eyes turned in the direction of Shinji and others.
"Well?"
"Care to participate, in my little game of examiner ?"