Chapter 884: Passing the Assessment, Saitama's Challenge!

"Please perform your fastest left-right lateral jumps within thirty seconds; this item tests your agility, sense of balance, and bodily coordination — ready, timing starts!"

As the voice of the staff member responsible for the lateral jump test fell, the participating examinees arranged in C Group each began jumping left and right at the fastest speed they could muster.

"Bang bang bang————"

But unlike the other examinees' unremarkable lateral jumps, Saitama's side directly produced a pile-driving-like commotion.

His figure within the designated lateral jump zone was like a phantom; every step he landed deepened the footprint on the spot he stepped.

"Ah, this————"

The staff member at the side gaped, the paper and pen originally prepared to record the exam results also dropping directly onto the ground.

"Is this really something a human can do?"

The other players waiting to take the exam also wore a look of having seen a ghost.

"Not human, and there's another one."

Just then, someone pointed at the other lateral jump exam area and spoke.

Hearing this, everyone looked over, only to see another examinee who was quiet and still, yet had transformed into two people within the lateral jump exam zone.

"Is this twins cheating?"

"No, the counter next to them is increasing rapidly; the other party is clearly still lateral jumping. This should be because the other party's lateral jump speed is too fast, leaving afterimages on our retinas, making it look like there are two exactly identical people."

"Uh, then between these two guys, who's more impressive?"

Saitama seemed to have heard the onlookers' words, and subconsciously looked toward Broly's direction; Broly also side-glanced toward Saitama's direction. The two both saw the rapidly increasing numbers on the lateral jump counters beside each other.

【I actually jumped fewer times than him?!】

Upon discovering his count was not as good as Broly's, Saitama's original idea of just jumping casually disappeared.

The next moment, the pile-driving sound suddenly grew louder; Saitama used the Serious Series — Serious Left-Right Lateral Jumps.

Broly looked at that side of Saitama's; the lateral jump counter's numbers suddenly surged, and his brow couldn't help but twitch.

He wasn't a competitive person, but since the other party obviously wanted to go head-to-head with him, he also wouldn't be weak against them.

Broly likewise sped up his steps, making the two residual images that originally looked motionless also perform obvious lateral jumping movements.

30s of time passed quickly; after the staff member called time, the two figures stopped simultaneously.

"Wait, how come my counting table is all zeros, how come his counting table is also zero!"

After comparing the numbers on the two counting tables, Saitama asked the staff member at the side with some bewilderment.

"You two jumped too many times, directly exceeding the upper limit the counting table can record, so it directly returned to zero."

The staff member wiped sweat, explaining the situation: exceeding 100,000 lateral jumps in 30s, these two's lateral jump frequency was even more terrifying than an electric toothbrush's vibration frequency.

"Then who hit zero first?"

"Uh, sorry, I wasn't paying attention just now."

"Hey, how about we compete once more?"

Saitama looked at Broly and said.

"I don't care."

Broly shrugged his shoulders.

"Uh, you two, there are still other people who need to test."

The staff member stepped forward, hurriedly dissuading the two.

"Then fine, anyway there are still other events."

Saitama didn't intend to cause trouble for others, and didn't refuse or insist.

"Ah, this, do we still test?"

"What's there to test? I heard before that those who can pass the hero selection are monster-level figures even among ordinary people, but nobody told me they'd actually be this kind of monster."

"Forget it, forget it. Disasters that only heroes can resolve mean the enemies causing the disasters are equally exaggerated guys. And we ordinary people, even if we luckily pass the hero exam, when facing danger we'd probably just be seeking death; better to go home and work normally————"

Broly and Saitama previously did weightlifting, brushing off some examinees; and now lateral jumps, brushed off some more.

"Next is running!"

When the starting pistol sounded, the other players had only just stepped off; two figures were already circling laps on the track, looking like a continuous string of phantoms.

"How many laps did you run?"

"Don't know, how many laps did you run?"

"Didn't count."

"Then shall we continue competing in the next event?"

Shot put event: two lead balls directly pierced through the venue's ceiling; since both disappeared at the sky horizon, no one knew whose result was better.

Standing long jump event: Broly jumped to the thirty-meter-high ceiling, then promptly unloaded force and stopped.

While at the side, with a bang, a hollow appeared.

"Hey, are you still coming back to take the exam?"

Broly peered into the hollow at the side, looked at Saitama who had shot toward the clouds, and asked with some curiosity.

Fortunately, one minute later, Saitama still fell back down from the clouds.

Whack-a-mole machine, punching power testing machine————

After all physical test items were finished, only the two of them remained among C Group's examinees.

As for the other examinees, they had already been struck to the point of directly giving up on the hero exam.

Physical test passed; next is the written exam.

And the written exam content is: the choices the examinee makes when encountering various hero dilemmas.

【When you encounter a mysterious being threatening multiple hostages, what should you do as a hero?

A. Recklessly sortie, ignoring hostage safety to deal with the mysterious being; B. Wait to save hostages, confirm hostage safety, then deal with the mysterious being; C. Fill in your own additional answer, but explain the reason for doing so.】

【I will settle the monster before it harms the hostages / one punch to blow up the monster, reason, I am very strong.

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Broly and Saitama's answers were similar, both being extremely confident in their own strength, focusing on breaking ten thousand difficulties with one force.

【When you encounter a monster stronger than you, and the other party is about to harm innocent people, what choice will you, as a hero, make?

A、Brave battle, even if death is not hesitated, B、Rational retreat, fleeing is shameful but heroes are human too, throwing away one's life for nothing is not worth advocating, C、Request support, risking danger to try to delay time, waiting for support from stronger heroes, D, please fill in an additional answer yourself————】

0000

The written test ended, walking out of the exam area, Broly encountered Saitama outside again.

「How did you do on the test? 」

Saitama walked over to start a conversation.

「Not bad, all were relatively simple multiple-choice questions. 」

Broly did not ignore Saitama, but seriously answered his question.

「Mm. 」

Saitama nodded deeply agreeing.

「By the way, the last question, how did you answer it? 」

「I personally believe that there should not exist anyone stronger than me in this world, so, I answered the last hypothetical question, it has no meaning at all. 」

「, you guy are really arrogant. 」

「Then how did you answer?

「My answer is, nowadays many monsters can be settled by me with one punch, making me feel no achievement in being a hero, if there are monsters stronger than me, I really want to meet them and exchange a few blows, to have a hot-blooded boiling battle! 」

Broly's mouth corner twitched: 「Your answer seems not much better than mine? 」

「No, much better than you, at least, I didn't say I am the strongest in the world. 」

「Then I am telling the truth, is there anything wrong with that? 」

There was still some time before the scores came out, the two walked together toward the changing room.

「Saitama Teacher, how did you do on the test? 」

In the changing room, Saitama had just finished changing clothes, Genos whose whole body except the head was mechanical walked over.

「Not bad, Genos how about you? 」

「This is naturally no problem at all. 」

「Hey, where are you going? 」

Saitama saw Broly who had finished changing clothes, passing from behind Genos, hurriedly shouted at him.

「Finished the test, naturally going out, otherwise still staying here? 」

Broly looked at him doubtfully.

「But, aren't the scores coming out soon? 」

「After the scores come out, an email will be sent to our registered mobile phones, rather than waiting for scores here, it's better to go out shopping」

「Ugh, that's true, then I'll go shopping too. 」

Saitama said, then followed Broly.

「, Saitama Teacher, wait for me. 」

Genos hurriedly found his locker, took out the clothes he had taken off and put them on, then also followed over.

「Genos, you just now wore nothing, isn't that equal to being a naked pervert? 」

Saitama looked at Genos walking to his side, suddenly thought of this, curiously asked it out.

「Saitama Teacher, my body is all mechanical structure, even if not wearing clothes, I won't be regarded as a pervert. 」

Genos answered seriously.

「By the way, you two going out shopping, do you necessarily have to follow me? 」

At the front door of X City Hero Association Branch, Broly stopped his steps, turned around to look at the two people still following behind him, then furrowed his eyebrows to speak.

「I have some things I want to say to you. 」

Saitama almost bumped into Broly's chest, hurriedly stopped his steps and answered.

「I want to thank Master Zhang for guiding me last time on grasping battle timing, as for Saitama Teacher following you, and I am following Saitama Teacher. 」

Genos also made an answer.

「No need to thank, after all, back then I guided you including your flaws, as for Saitama, if you have anything, just say it directly. 」

「I want to invite you, to have a real man's battle with me. 」

Saitama bluntly stated his purpose.

【The type of martial arts maniac?】

Broly thought in his heart, behind him a figure lunged toward him.

「You finally came out, Broly~」

Mosquito Girl hugged his waist, her head rubbed against his back.

「Sorry, I didn't expect the Hero Association's test to be so tedious, making you wait a long time. 」

Broly brought Mosquito Girl to the front.

「, you baldy and you scrap iron cyborg, why are you here? 」

After coming to the front, Mosquito Girl also saw Saitama and Genos, immediately changed her expression.

「Who are you calling a baldy, you guy wearing a strange fly hat!? 」

Saitama also changed his expression, although he was indeed a baldy, but what baldies hate most is others saying they are baldies, immediately he also launched a personal attack.

「Mosquito Girl!? 」

Genos's electronic eye scanned Mosquito Girl's face, and quickly matched the current Mosquito Girl with the previous one.

His mechanically constructed body flashed a light, directly entering a combat-ready state at any moment.

"These two came to participate in the hero assessment."

Broly explained the two's situation to Mosquito Girl.

"Wrong, putting it that way, these two weren't heroes before either.

Wait, if they weren't heroes, they still came to hit me before.

Isn't that a dog catching mice, purely meddling in others' business?!"

Mosquito Girl looked at the two with some dissatisfaction.

"Alright, the mosquito swarm you controlled before still wanted to attack me, yet now this mosquito swarm manipulator is in my arms?"

"Mr. Broly, this is?"

Genos frowned and looked over, seemingly wanting to ask what the situation was.

"This is Mosquito Girl, the one who fought you before, the one who nearly beat you to death. After she was severely injured by a slap from Saitama, I picked her up and healed her injuries, and now, she is my woman.

Hmph, I don't care about your past grievances, but if you want to find trouble with Mosquito Girl afterwards, I will stand on her side, and I won't show you any mercy."

"Whether I find trouble with her depends on whether she does bad things. If she wants to continue stirring up a mosquito disaster to do bad things, then I will inevitably go stop her and eliminate her as much as possible, even if it means becoming enemies with you."

"If that's the case, then you don't need to worry about being abandoned by me. Mosquito Girl can't stir up a mosquito disaster now, and a wife follows her husband; I should count as a good person."

"Genos, no need to be so sword-drawn-bow-bent. I believe Broly is a good person."

Saitama still remembered that time with Vaccine Man, the strange raindrops falling from the sky; they should be this person's masterpiece.

"Since Saitama says it like that————"

Genos withdrew his hostility toward Mosquito Girl.

"Speaking of which, your mosquito transformation is really big. When I saw you before, you were still in the form of a super-large mosquito, but now you look more like a human."

Saitama looked at Mosquito Girl, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"Super-large mosquito? Who's a super-large mosquito! You baldy are the super-large mosquito, your whole family are super-large mosquitoes————"

Mosquito Girl cursed up a storm; Broly held her, not letting her run off to fight Saitama.

"Saitama, I accept your battle invitation. Set a time, let's spar a round."

Although Saitama hit Mosquito Girl before he and Mosquito Girl knew each other.

But since the other party actively invited a fight, Broly didn't mind standing in for Mosquito Girl to get back some face.

"Fine, then tomorrow nine o'clock, the uninhabited Wilderness Valley in the southern direction of Z-City."

After agreeing on a time and place for the fight with Saitama, Broly took Mosquito Girl on a date shopping.

An hour later, his phone received a text message from the Hero Association.

The text said he had already passed the hero assessment, telling him to go to the assessment branch to collect his hero certificate.

There was also attending an explanation meeting and such.

Broly rushed back.

The Hero Association branch after the assessment ended had become somewhat cold at this time.

Besides staff, the two thousand plus examinees who participated in the assessment could no longer be seen.

Of course, Saitama and Genos did come over; they were the ones who passed the assessment.

"Broly, you're here. Genos was rated as an S-Class Hero, I'm C-Class. Quick, look what rank hero you are!"

After Broly took the assessment results envelope from the staff, Saitama beside him urged impatiently.

Broly didn't hesitate much, directly pulling out the paper from the envelope. The clearly visible 73 points and the words 'C-Class Hero' made Saitama beside him clench his fist and excitedly shout a "YES".

"Although your score is two points higher than mine, you're also a C-Class Hero. Ahahaha, our written test scores really are the same as our physical test scores, half a catty eight taels————"

Saitama had a feeling of 'my path is not lonely'. Looking at Broly, his gaze became a few degrees more intimate, just like saying 【You brat didn't betray the (non-existent) poor student friendship between us】.

Afterwards, Broly attended the explanation meeting arranged by the Hero Association with the two. Mainly an A-Class Hero came to explain some precautions for being a hero in the future.

"After becoming heroes, your every word and deed will be exposed in the public view. Please pay more attention to your words and deeds in the future. Don't do things that lose your own identity and lose the Hero Association's face————"

"Broly, you want bubble gum?"

"Give me a piece."

"So boring, I want to go home and eat. This explanation meeting, who knows how much longer it'll go on."

Saitama complained a bit, handing Broly a piece of chewing gum he carried with him.

"Genos, you want some?"

"I'll pass.

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On the lectern, A-Class Hero Snake's forehead blue veins bulged. Facing these three rookies who just passed the hero assessment, they seemingly didn't put this hero senior in their eyes.

This situation made him extremely furious. Especially that baldy, not listening properly himself was one thing, but he even corrupted others.

That Broly brat who asked before if a C-Class Hero could also receive the Hero Association's first disaster information was now also chewing bubble gum along with him.

And seemingly competing with that baldy on who could blow a bigger bubble. This is truly intolerable!

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