"Is there a problem? I didn't have the idea of becoming a Hunter before, so naturally I haven't taken the Hunter Exam."
"There's no problem, it's just..." Menchi recalled Akira two Nen beasts. Without deliberately concealing it, she could tell that each of them had at least the same level of strength as herself! Someone with such abilities hasn't taken the Hunter Exam yet? Was Akira introduced to Nen by another Nen user?
This was the reason for Menchi' surprise.
Akira seemed to understand the reason for Menchi surprise. He rubbed his nose, looking a bit embarrassed as he said.
"Actually, I naturally opened my aura nodes, and figured out Nen abilities on my own."
After hearing this, Menchi was even more stunned, feeling she hadn't been this surprised all year as she was today. However, thinking about how vast the world is, and that while rare, there are those born with Nen abilities, Menchi gradually came to terms with it.
Is Akira really normal? Impressive strength, teleportation ability, perceptive ability comparable to "En", spatial storage ability...
Then Menchi recalled something, smiling and blinking playfully.
"If you choose to take the next Hunter Exam, there will be a surprise!"
"Oh, is that so? Then I'll have to look forward to it." Akira pretended not to know that Menchi would be an examiner next year, and smiled back.
After eating and drinking their fill, the two retreated to their respective tents to rest, with a sky full of twinkling stars above them.
...
Three days later.
"I'm saying... isn't our luck a bit too bad?"
The two had been searching for three days without seeing any trace of the White Sand Scorpion. They even found a rare wild Yellow Pincer Ant nest, but their target still hadn't appeared.
Today, they were even approached by a group of uninvited guests...
In front of Akira and Menchi was a group of fierce-looking people. They were mostly wearing light armor made from animal fur, which wasn't heavy but offered considerable protection.
Beneath them were three-humped camels covered in iron armor, and they could faintly see several captured sand worms on their carts.
Sand bandits, huh...
Eyes narrowing, Akira pondered as he looked at the sand bandits before him, his face cold.
Sand bandits were a "local specialty" of the desert, especially numerous in the largest desert. Known for bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and running at the first sign of trouble, sand bandits were extremely disliked in this vast desert.
Akira pretty-boy face, Menchi youthful appearance, and Gardevoir, who looked like just a strange magical beast to those unfamiliar with Nen, made them perfect targets for the sand bandits! Moreover, the scale of these sand bandits wasn't small, roughly calculated to be at least twenty people.
Given how spread out sand bandits usually were in the Samok Desert, this could be considered a medium-sized group of sand bandits.
A one-eyed bandit standing in the front row looked at Menchi, licked his lips, and said with a lewd smile to a scarred-face man sitting on a camel nearby.
"Hehehe, Boss, that woman is too fine, how about letting me have her?" The one-eyed bandit words seemed to open the floodgates, and suddenly all the bandits were eagerly arguing, saying things like "I've claimed her" and such.
The scarred-face man glared fiercely at the one-eyed bandit and snorted coldly.
"You little punk! Someone of this caliber is obviously for me to enjoy personally! Don't even think about it!"
Under the bandits' undisguised conversation, their voices reached the ears of the "prey duo". Akira rubbed his temples, looking helplessly at Menchi, whose forehead veins were already bulging. Taking the water bottle from his waist and taking a big gulp, he spoke softly to the person beside him.
"So, do you want to handle this, or should I?"
Menchi took a deep breath, her sweet face revealing a "bloody" smile, her eyes gleaming with intense coldness. "I'll handle this!"
Menchi walked forward step by step, leaving a series of deep footprints in the fine yellow sand. Seeing Menchi approach alone, the sand bandits opposite burst into laughter, with only a few more vigilant ones holding their knives at the ready.
Menchi forcefully swung both hands behind her, and a massive aura surged from her palms. Almost instantly, a pair of giant knife and fork materialized from the aura behind Menchi.
The knife and fork emitted a silvery-white glow all over, with their tips giving off a sense of sharpness that seemed capable of piercing one's brow.
"What... what is this?!"
"Knife and fork? How did such huge knife and fork suddenly appear?"
"Idiot, run quickly!"
...
The clamor of the sand bandits didn't last long, because as soon as Menchi materialized the knife and fork, she controlled them to rapidly stab towards the sand bandits.
Menchi even felt that one pair of knife and fork wasn't enough, so every time she threw out a pair, she quickly materialized another pair. Each attack had the power comparable to a grenade!
"Boom boom boom!"
After a series of explosions that shook the sky, the sand bandits were completely routed, without even a single survivor...
Countless yellow sand splashed wildly after the explosions, drifting towards more distant places. The sand bandits who were mocking Menchi just a second ago could only go to hell to mock now, if there really is a hell.
This method of attack reminded Akira of Toriko from "Toriko", whose main attack method was to swing attacks using his hands as knife and fork.
It can only be said that these sand bandits were truly ignorant when it came to Menchi strength. She only needed to casually swing out a few attacks to wipe them out.