With this set of equipment, combined with his already top-tier martial arts skills, he was more than capable of dealing with weaker devils or puppets.
But if he truly had to face elite devil hunters ranked among the best in the world, or conceptual-level devils...
His chances of winning were currently infinitesimally close to zero.
Did he deliberately send me away to keep me from getting dragged into the coming battlefield...?
Horikita Manabu rubbed his chin.
Although they had only known each other for a few days, Aki Hayakawa usually looked cold and unapproachable.
But he truly was a good person with a gentle nature.
In this unfamiliar world filled with dangers, meeting a senior like him was indeed a stroke of good fortune.
Still, putting personal feelings aside.
When he learned that Yamada Albert had suddenly appeared in this world—and had appeared so abruptly at that...
Honestly, Horikita Manabu felt that things might develop beyond everyone's expectations.
He was not sure whether the flow of time in this world matched that of Advanced Nurturing.
But he remembered clearly.
Before the Uninhabited Island midterm exam began, Gantz had explicitly said that it would "drive the anomalous monsters out of this world."
If all the monsters have been driven away, then where will the later Black Sphere Exam find monsters to serve as the test?
Will it pull people in individually? Or could it be... cross-dimensional?
Horikita Manabu thought about it.
He believed that Yamada Albert's appearance was the trigger.
In other words, this department store was highly likely about to become a new examination ground for the Qualified Ones.
He simply could not yet determine whom Gantz had selected as its target.
What Horikita Manabu did not know was that, even as he silently speculated, on the other side, Denji