HxH Cards x Stitches

Keep on Running

"Number 13. Your number badge, sir. Please keep it on for the duration of the exam." As soon as he arrived at the testing site for the Hunter Exam, a green bean came up to him, handing him a number card which Juzou promptly pinned to his chest.

Thirteen?

Juzou tilted his head in confusion upon realizing there were only 12 other applicants in the room with him. He sort of expected a lot more than this since the examiner who led him here seemed to look like he was in a rush.

He even thought he was already late.

After he passed the examiner's test, with the examiner having pretended to be a helpless citizen needing to be saved from being attacked by an armored bear, he was quickly led to the real testing location which happened to be hidden under a normal steak house.

He was quite lucky to have accidentally found the examiner or else he'd never have figured it out on his own. Investigation was never his forte.

Well, better early than late. He'd have to thank the examiner when he sees him next time. Fortunately, his test was quite easy. He only had to defeat the bear which was no problem for him who was used to fighting off ghouls.

But Juzou didn't know that armored bears' overall stats would increase by 10 times during mating season and even most Beast Hunters would have to avoid encountering them at that time.

Unfortunately, spring just happened to come much earlier than expected this year.

Unknown to him, the beast going crazy was not part of the examiner's plan and, Juzou saving him garnered the examiner's gratitude who eventually decided to lead Juzou straight to real exam's site without going through the other tests. Hence, the reason why Juzou arrived so early.

You could imagine the examiner's reaction after the armored bear was beheaded in just one move by a 'kid' who didn't even have access to nen when it would've taken atleast ten professional beast hunters to take it down normally.

Choosing to find a quiet corner to sit and act mysterious, Juzou hugged his bag to his chest, his Jason leaning on the wall as he quietly ate his lemon wafers.

In the background, a poor man suddenly clutched his stomach painfully after drinking a soda handed to him by a pudgy man, muttering something about needing to go to the bathroom.

As the poor man ran past Juzou, a soda can fell to the ground and rolled towards him. Absentmindedly, Juzou kicked the can away, grabbing a pair of headphones from his bag. It had light-up cat ears!

There were 8 hours left until the beginning of the exam. He'd have to wait for quite a while so, for the meantime, he'd find some way to keep himself entertained.

Like sharpening his 66 throwing knives while listening to chaotic music.

[I am in misery~
I save dick by giving it CPR~
REESE'S PUFFS, REESE'S PUFFS~]

"Eat em up, eat em up, eat em up, eat em up!"

Slowly, the other applicants began to inch away from the boy with strange music leaking from his headphones.

"Hey!"

Or maybe he could try to see if he could sketch all of the ghouls he encountered in the past. The one called Uta had some cool tattoos. There was also Haise who later became the one-eyed king. Maybe he could try drawing the two generations of Owls.

"Hey, kid!"

Perhaps he could try to help this pudgy man in front of him to find the person he was calling for. Might be the same guy who went looking for a bathroom.