Greedy Wolf's astonishing growth had made the audience—and even the judges—see him in a new light again and again.
People began reassessing his strength.
At first, Greedy Wolf had been a fairly unremarkable contestant. He had never advanced through an elimination round by overwhelming his opponent. Every time, he had fought a brutal, evenly matched battle and clawed his way through blood and sweat.
Even among all the contestants who had reached the finals, Greedy Wolf had faced the hardest road.
Yet this contestant, whom few had favored at the start, was about to appear on the finals stage.
No one knew how far he could go in the Finals, and no one dared guess.
Anyone who questioned whether Greedy Wolf could make it further kept being proved wrong. But claiming he would go all the way—that his strength would eventually rise to match the top seeds—seemed unrealistic too.
After all, while his performances had earned the audience's respect, his bare-knuckle fighting style clearly had a lower ceiling than those of the top contestants.
If Greedy Wolf had not shown vitality beyond anything an ordinary person could possess, people might have suspected he was a regular human competing in a contest for Espers.
Gradually, people reached a conclusion: perhaps Greedy Wolf's Psychic Powers were his extraordinary resilience, or some strange ability that made him stronger whenever he took a beating.
Though people recognized Greedy Wolf's potential, he still was not among the contestants who drew the most attention. Compared with someone climbing steadily upward one step at a time, audiences were far more interested in geniuses who had stood at the top from the beginning.
Only a handful of people had taken a keen interest in Greedy Wolf.
Psykos was one of them.
Psykos watched recordings of Greedy Wolf's matches