Chapter 893: J-City Champion Crowned, Deep Sea Tribe Attacks!

The normal procedure of a beauty pageant isn't simply having contestants walk a lap on stage in pretty outfits; on the contrary, it also involves talent performances by the contestants.

Of course, before the talent round, beautiful appearance is the most basic entry ticket; Broly's sponsored beauty pageant, since it was prepared to gather more people, did not set up a so-called preliminary screening, therefore, elimination began the moment contestants appeared.

First round, all contestants would walk a lap on the beauty pageant stage like a runway walk; the live audience and judges each hold one vote, and can vote for them.

After all contestants finish walking, calculate the vote count on each contestant and derive the average; contestants with votes below the average are directly eliminated.

"Those with poor first-impression votes based on appearance have no need to have their inner selves understood; as expected, the Aesthetic Warrior's beauty pageant, the competition is this fierce————"

The audience watched as contestants were directly eliminated just because their votes were below average, merely having walked a runway lap without even a talent performance; some contestants cried, and although there was some sympathy for them, a competition is a competition.

【This is a pure contest of looks; even though many contestants' looks are above normal people, there are simply too many look-monsters present————】

Vivian looked at her own vote count ranking only 5th, and couldn't help thinking; she was able to become a somewhat famous popular idol, so naturally her looks weren't low, but here she couldn't get 1st place.

【Next is the talent performance————】

Vivian's vote count ranked 5th in round 1, so in round 2 she instead appeared 5th from last.

Of course, each contestant only has 2 minutes of performance time, so the beauty pageant proceeds quite fast.

When it neared noon, it was the turn of the final few headliners; Vivian soon stepped onto the beauty pageant stage again.

And the item she would perform was not singing and dancing rap fitting her popular idol identity, nor a skit or mime performance, but rather————

"What Miss Vivian will perform is————, Spartan Death Combat?!"

The host even stuttered a bit when announcing the performance item name, doubting he had read it wrong.

What normal family's person participating in a beauty pageant would perform this thing?

"Miss Vivian, did you fill this out wrong?"

"No mistake, this is what I want to perform, is there a problem?"

"No, please begin your performance."

On stage, this blonde beauty struck a stance and started throwing punches.

Not to mention, she actually punched with decent form.

And an idol beauty in kelp swimwear boxing also gave the audience, who had just seen many contestants sing and dance rap, a refreshing feeling.

Even Broly, who was a special judge and somewhat bored, perked up slightly and seriously watched the girl's combat technique on stage.

The allotted performance time, two minutes passed quickly; when Vivian stopped, her forehead and body were already sweating, clearly she had exerted force in her punches.

After the contestant finished performing, it was the judges' turn to comment; the first judge, a glasses-wearing Judge A, picked up the microphone first to ask: "Miss Vivian, your combat performance was indeed refreshing, but I have a doubt I'd like to ask you."

"Judge Teacher, please ask."

"Your registration occupation column says popular idol; I wonder, as a popular idol, why did you choose this kind of combat performance? Shouldn't you have chosen singing and dancing Rap which you're more skilled at?"

"Because many previous contestants already performed singing and dancing Rap; if I continued to perform singing and dancing Rap, even if I'm confident I'd perform stronger than other contestants, for the audience present aesthetic fatigue would be unavoidable; therefore, I chose to perform combat————"

If it were the previous Vivian who hadn't made up her mind, she might have given an answer more fitting her popular idol rhetoric, but having already treated this beauty pageant as possibly her last memory left in this world, she chose to speak her true heart.

"This world is not safe."

"Hm?"

"And in this unsafe world wanting to be an idol, I feel appearance, singing, dancing, acting and other capabilities are not the most important."

", then what do you think is most important?"

Another Judge B teacher pursued the question.

"Strength, I feel strength is most important!"

Vivian answered without hesitation; she clenched her fist, clearly a popular idol beauty with gentle features, but at this moment, under the sunlight overhead, her face and body seemed to have gained some Araki-like angular edges.

"I merely displayed my own strongest side without reservation to the audience and my fans present; this is the reason I chose Spartan Death Combat as my performance item!"

Vivian's resounding words echoed through the whole venue via the microphone, making the lively beauty pageant scene fall instantly silent.

"Sweet Mask————"

Someone murmured, but it was from Vivian on stage that they saw the shadow of today's superstar idol, also an active hero, Sweet Mask.

"Miss Vivian, your performance and answer reminded me of the current top idol."

"You mean Sweet Mask?"

"Yes, are you imitating Sweet Mask?"

"Not imitation, but emulation; Sweet Mask is also my idol, I want to emulate him, walk the same path as him."

Vivian did not deny this point.

"I see, however, Miss Vivian, pardon my bluntness, although your combat performance just now was very good, does a gap still exist if you want to become a hero?"

Vivian fell silent; these years on the path to becoming stronger she had invested a lot, learning karate, women's self-defense, Spartan combat, martial arts training, wilderness survival and other skills quite a bit, but wanting to pass the Professional Hero assessment, she also clearly knew she fundamentally couldn't pass; this was also the reason she decided to participate in body modification with huge death risk.

"Of course, I myself am not a hero, so I'm not qualified to evaluate your combat performance just now; however, our beauty pageant has a professional, and moreover S-Class Rank 3 Flashy Flash Broly present, so we still ask Mr. Broly to give a more professional evaluation of Miss Vivian's performance just now."

The beauty pageant camera turned to Broly's side; Broly didn't expect there was still his business, but also didn't show timidity before the camera, picked up the microphone and started commenting.

"Miss Vivian's strength, distance to becoming a true hero, indeed still has a not short distance; combat technique seems proficient, but actually has many shortcomings————"

Broly commented on the combat performance just now; Vivian gradually lowered her head, in her heart there was unwillingness but also acceptance; the strength she had always pursued, in a true hero's eyes, really was just like children playing house.

"However, even though her combat technique has many flaws, physical quality isn't strong enough either, but, I still want to praise her effort."

"?"

Vivian raised her head, looking somewhat startled toward the special judge seats.

"Your combat technique should be regularly practiced, right? Not last-minute cramming, randomly learning some flowery fists and embroidered legs, then coming up to perform, right?"

"Yes, I spend one hour every day practicing combat technique; just, don't know how you knew?"

"Of course I could tell; casually practicing and seriously practicing people, the feel when they strike is different.

Perhaps, due to talent, your combat technique has many shortcomings.

But your footwork is solid, your thrown punches and kicks are steady and powerful; this instead proves your own effort————"

In Broly's view, Vivian's combat technique is not high-level, but this is from his own level's angle; Broly naturally wouldn't use his own level to demand things of an ordinary girl, so he did not stint his praise for the girl on stage.

At this moment, Vivian stared blankly at Broly on the special judges' seat; the other party had not acknowledged her strength, but had acknowledged her effort. This recognition made Vivian inexplicably somewhat moved, and suddenly she felt like crying.

"Alright, now, please have Mr. Broly give Participant Vivian a score."

Seeing that the time was about up, the host interjected to continue pushing the process forward.

"The sweat left by those who work hard should not receive only low scores."

Broly raised the sign with 9 points.

"One point less is to encourage you to keep striving and continue maintaining your drive to work hard in the future."

After Broly raised his sign, the other judges looked at each other and began scoring Participant Vivian.

And since this Major Donor Broly had already played a nine, it also kept the other judges' scores from being low.

With the votes from the audience at the Crime Scene, Vivian's results soon came out.

"Congratulations to Participant Vivian for temporarily taking First Place; I don't know if the remaining participants have anything more eye-catching—"

Before the host finished speaking, a commotion appeared at the Coast.

"Ah, there's an octopus monster!"

Looking toward the sound, at some point, a group of seafood monsters were landing on the coastline, led by a strange creature with a grayish-brown human body but an octopus head.

"Humans, listen well if you don't want your clan to perish; we are the Emissaries of the Deep Sea—"

"Hand over the surface world for our Deep Sea Clan to rule—"

"You humans, just serve as food for our clan—"

As soon as the words fell, an energy beam pierced its octopus head; its huge body shook twice, and with a boom it fell onto the beach.

"Ah, the octopus leader is dead, damn humans, you actually sneak attacked us, do you think—"

Hiss, another energy beam pierced the sea monster with the lobster head that was speaking.

The sudden invasion of the Deep Sea Clan did not cause any commotion.

The energy beam at Broly's fingertips eliminated more than half of the landed Deep Sea Clan in an instant.

"Damn land-dwellers, you actually killed so many of our clan; remember this, this corps of ours is just the vanguard. Later, when the main force of our Deep Sea Clan arrives, it will be your time of death!"

The remaining Deep Sea Clan, after leaving harsh words, ran back into the sea as if fleeing, afraid that if they ran slow, they would be headshot by that mysterious beam again.

"Is this the strength of the newly promoted S-Class Rank 3—"

The heroes who had originally run over prepared to fight, looking at the Deep Sea Clan corpses all over the beach, completely had no more doubts about Broly being promoted by the Association to S-Class Hero.

Even if they hadn't fought the Deep Sea Clan, the Deep Sea Clan had been beaten away, but just from these Deep Sea Clan members' huge physiques, one could tell they were absolutely difficult to deal with.

A-Class Hero Stinger also poked the body of a dead Deep Sea Clan member with his weapon, and from the sticky feeling on his hand, he directly determined that these guys were not simple.

"What are you standing there for? Aren't there still four participants in the beauty pageant? Continue for me—"

After casually wiping out some small fry, Broly urged the dazed host to continue hosting the beauty pageant at the Crime Scene.

"Super Flash~"

The crowd that had become rowdy because of the Deep Sea Clan fell silent after Broly's energy beam shot out and instantly killed the Deep Sea Clan, as if a pause button had been pressed; and after Broly urged them, it was as if the play button had been pressed again. Compared to the continuation of the beauty pageant, these audience members were more interested in Broly's performance as a hero. Someone shouted a line like that, and the whole venue began shouting Broly's latest nickname.

"Flashy Flash!"

"Flashy Flash!"

Vivian, amidst the waves of shouting, once again deeply experienced the ordinary people's fervor and worship for powerful heroes.

It was a situation where even beauty could be suppressed. The beauty pageant was successfully held, and Vivian won First Place.

However, she was certain that if she could vote for a judge, the champion should be the newly promoted S-Class Hero Rank 3, Super Flash, on the special judges' seat.

"If I could become his disciple—"

Vivian held the champion prize money and suddenly had such a thought, but before she could approach Broly, this special judge, Broly, after promoting his own kelp product, directly ran to the beach to collect the Deep Sea Clan corpses as loot, then picked up Mosquito Girl and flew straight into the sky and left.

", there are sea monsters attacking J-City?"

"Yes, I've already wiped out the vanguard, but according to the words left by the fleeing sea monsters, they should have follow-up corps—"

"coming over. As for why I called, I want you to prepare evacuation warnings for J-City."

"Flashy Flash, is that an enemy even you cannot solve?"

"Not exactly. It's just that I have some urgent matters to handle on this side and no time to stay in J-City waiting for those seafood monsters to invade."

"Um, may I ask what urgent matters you need to handle?"

"This is my private matter."

"Sorry, um, Headquarters has already received your report. We will prepare evacuation warnings for J-City in advance."

On the Tower, Broly hung up the phone.

"Broly, what urgent matters do you have to handle?"

Mosquito Girl asked him curiously.

"I don't have any urgent matters."

"Ah, then you—oh, I understand. You want to use those sea monsters to make the citizens of a city evacuate, thereby achieving the purpose of gathering them for you to look at."

Mosquito Girl was very smart; halfway through asking, she realized the reason her man said that.

"However, do those seafood monsters really have the strength to make everyone in this city evacuate?"

"There's a guy at the bottom of the sea whose breath is not much weaker than your previous self. I think it should be possible."

After Broly finished his call with the Hero Association Headquarters, about ten minutes later, J-City sounded the evacuation alarm.

"Do we need to evacuate too?"

"If even heroes evacuate, then who will protect the city?"

Among the people going to evacuate, active heroes were not included.

A-Class Hero Stinger, A-Class Hero Lightning Max, A-Class Hero Snake Bite Fist Snake, and several B-Class Heroes stayed at the edge of the coastline where the crowd had already been evacuated to, preparing to welcome the Deep Sea invaders about to attack J-City.

As for C-Class, they were persuaded to leave.

"Rest assured, although S-Class Hero Flashy Flash has left, aren't there still the three of us A-Class Heroes here.

And enemies that an S-Class Hero can easily solve, I reckon the few of us joining forces and expending some effort can also solve."

Looking at the several B-Class Heroes who were somewhat absent-minded, Snake spoke to comfort this group of people.

Of course, it wasn't just comfort, but he indeed thought this way.

Although Snake did not believe he could be better than the newly promoted S-Class Broly, the Deep Sea Clan were ultimately just little monsters that were instantly killed by the other party.

When it comes to fighting little monsters, he, as an A-Class Hero, still has a certain degree of confidence.

"Hmm, the S-Class Hero not being here might be a good thing, at least, if we protect J-City this time, the credit will belong to the few of us, who knows, our hero rankings might even be able to rise a bit."

Lightning Max also said a sentence.

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"You all, are you the ones who killed my vanguard troops?"

From the direction of the sea blew a patch of dark clouds, boom, lightning fell, the Deep Sea King who walked out from the sea looked at the several heroes on the coastline, and directly asked.

And behind it, were dense masses of Deep Sea Clan troops, these Deep Sea Clan members one by one had tall statures, just like little giants, their gazes carrying malice as they looked at Snake and the others.