"The next contestants are the highly anticipated Kurogane Ikki, who participated in last year's Phoenix Star Martial Festival but was unfortunately defeated in the first round, and the top freshman—an opponent who never took risks and never let a winnable target escape, emerging from every match without a scratch, earning him the title of 'Hunter'—the second-year contestant Kirihara Shiya!"
"Match start!"
As the bell rang, the pretty boy standing opposite Kurogane Ikki instantly vanished without a trace. That was his ability, Hunter's Forest... put bluntly, it was just invisibility.
Though invisibility combined with long-range sniping... well, it was nothing special.
As an invisible arrow shot forth, Kurogane Ikki swung his sword and knocked it aside, then slashed back toward the direction it had come from. Unfortunately, he failed to hit anything. Fang Zheng raised an eyebrow at the sight.
At the same time, the commentator turned to Fang Zheng.
"Contestant Kasugano, what do you think of Contestant Kirihara's ability?"
After Fang Zheng's "poisoned milk" had connected several times, the commentary booth had received protests from contestants and their families. They felt that directly naming who would win or lose was too disrespectful to the competitors and demanded that Fang Zheng stop making such biased predictions.
Well, in reality, they were just afraid of getting cursed by his predictions.
"Oh, it's nothing special."
Yet Fang Zheng's response was as vicious as ever.
"A trash user with a trash ability. Nothing worth watching."
"Huh? But Contestant Kirihara..."
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, the commentator anxiously looked toward the arena. Ever since his first strike had missed, Kurogane Ikki seemed unable to locate his opponent again. Kirihara's ability apparently could even conceal the arrows themselves. After that, Kurogane Ikki could only struggle desperately to defend himself, and his limbs were already covered in wounds.