188 Red Festival - Part 6

The match continued smoothly until the first-round playoff ended, leaving 128 participants left.

From many amazing matches, the Gold Class Hero - Rank 3, Wu Shen Lei's match left a deep impression on the spectators. He used his awakening ability to burn his opponent with lightning.

If not for Long Bin's timely intervention, Wu Shen Lei's opponent who was also a ranker might die.

Even though Wei Tian also almost killed his opponent, it could be said his match was boring. At least, it was not interesting at all compared to Musashi Hirata vs Arun Seth and Wu Shen Lei's match.

The second-round playoff would be held on the same day with 128 participants left. Thus the first day of the main event would be over with only 64 participants left.

The second-round playoff continued with all members of the Heero Academy winning all their matches.

Once again, Musashi Hirata eliminated a Crown Class Ranker from Moon City this time. Proving that winning against Arun Seth was not a fluke.

Aside from Musashi Hirata, Wu Shen Lei made another sensation by almost killing his opponent. He used the same trick and Long Bin had to intervene to save the other participant.

Thanks to this, Wu Shen Lei received a warning from Long Bin. The purpose behind the Fighter Anteriority was not to kill each other.

That was why killing was prohibited in the Fighter Anteriority.

Just like that, the first day of the main event ended at 4 p.m.

It was fast because the system was designed to match the top seed against the non-seeder. Eliminating most of the weak one, leaving the strong one to clash on the second day.

The conclusion of the first day of the main event was the fierce competition between heroes and the rankers.

Both sides almost killed each other each time they clashed.

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Heero and his group immediately left the arena as soon as the four members of his academy finished their matches.

On the way back, he accompanied the children to play around. The Hero League also held a Red Festival outside the arena.

The kids were playing around, but Heero was in a daze, thinking of something. His body was here, but his mind was wandering around.

Han Ying noticed the strangeness of her husband. She slowed her pace and poked her husband's cheek and asked, "What's wrong? Do you have something in your mind?"

It was rare to see her husband did not have any enthusiasm while accompanying the kids playing around.

Heero snapped out of his thoughts and shook his head, "Ah, I was thinking about the Legendary ranker guy who won by only gazing at his opponent! I am thinking about what that guy did to his opponent!"

Wei Tian, he was thinking about Wei Tian. It was a lie if Heero was not curious about Wei Tian after watching his performance.

From the two matches, he made his opponent tremble in fear and terror by only gazing at his opponent.

Han Ying knew who her husband talked about. Wei Tian also left a deep impression on her as he almost killed one participant.

"Maybe…" Han Ying paused before voicing his thought, "Maybe his awakening ability is kinda similar to hypnotism or something, invoking his opponent's fear or something…"

It was just a random thought of her, but her words made Heero remember something. About creatures that could invoke someone's fears deep inside the heart.

Nightmare, it was one of the specter species. Nightmare's special ability was similar to what Han Ying said. Nightmares were a bane of humans, they would invoke the deepest fear in your heart.

Heero shook his head upon this thought, Nightmare was the rarest one amongst the specter. Finding one normal specter on Earth was already hard, let alone Nightmare.

He nodded at his wife's conjecture. Then, he felt his lower clothes being pulled, Miao Miao, and the others had finished playing and shouted that they were hungry.

Miao Miao pulled him to a seafood restaurant. The other kids, Myung-Hee, Lan Lan, Tong Tong, and Meng Meng also we're also eager to eat seafood.

Seafood was the specialty of the south region of Star City as the south of Star City was close to the sea. Seafood Restaurant could not be found in the north of the outer region, that was why the kids were excited when Miao Miao pulled them to a seafood restaurant.

Two beautiful waitresses greeted the group with their beautiful smiles. They did not look down at the group despite wearing plain dress and clothes. As expected of a restaurant in the core region, the service was topnotch.

"Do you have a private room?" Heero asked with a polite smile.

From the entrance, he could see the hall was fully packed. Moreover, the hall was too noisy as there were too many people. It was understandable as these people were also the spectators who watched the Fighter Anteriority.

"I am sorry, Sir. The private room is full, " The waitress smiled apologetically.

"Mnn, then a table for…" Heero paused as he counted his group.

His two wives, four children, Butcher Wang, and his wife. It was nine in total, but Sun Zhou Yi said he and the others would catch up, added with his first disciple's two women.

As for Kang Dong-Woo and Xu Lingxun, the two boys were playing on their own.

"A table for fifteen people!" Heero continued.

"Huh?" The waitress was caught off guard as she already counted the group.

Heero also knew why the waitress puzzled, so he explained. Only then, the waitress nodded.

The group was guided to a big table, the four little girls were talking to themselves, excited as they were about to eat seafood.

Miao Miao explained about the rumored Emperor Crab that she ate once.

When they reached the table, Miao Miao immediately rushed one chair. Heero merely shook his head as a loving smile etched on his lips. His daughter was a little foodie.

'Should I learn to cook other dishes as well? Ah, I remembered that the fifth mother taught me that infusing Ki in cooking could improve the taste of the ingredient as well the dishes,'

'I could try it later…'

His thoughts were disturbed by a figure who rushed to Miao Miao and pulled her down from the chair.

The waitress was shocked by the sudden violence, even Han Ying and Hong Yu were stunned as they were not expecting this. As Miao Miao rushed first, no one was near her to catch her from falling.

"AHH!!!" Han Ying screamed in fright.

Of course, Heero would not let his daughter fell.

Whoosh!

He caught Miao Miao who was about to touch the floor. The little girl was shocked as well as it was too sudden. Her eyes enlarged in fear and tears swelling up.

Heero hugged his daughter and rubbed her back, calming the little girl, "It's okay! It's okay! Daddy's here…" he repeated those words and managed to stop the little girl from crying.

Miao Miao hugged Heero's neck tightly. She was still afraid of falling.

Meanwhile, a teenager occupied Miao Miao's seat. He sat there while swaying his right leg. Upon seeing Heero managed to catch Miao Miao, he clicked his tongue, "Tsk!"

The teenager had brown skin and black eyes, wearing branded outfits, and a limited-edition smartwatch on his left wrist.

"Leave! This is my table!" The boy arrogantly waved his hand to Heero, telling him and his group to leave.

The waitress had a troubled look at the sight of the teenager.

"I am sorry, Young Master Kahn, but this table belongs to this Sir!" The waitress smiled apologetically to the teenager and she seemed to recognize the teenager.

Meanwhile, Heero was taking a deep breath, trying to calm his fury.

'He's just a teenager, don't lower yourself to this boy's level! He's just a teenager…'

"You know me but you still want to give this table to him?" Young Master Kahn raised his voice overbearingly.

"But this Sir…"

"His group is only nine people while mine is eleven! Just get him a smaller table!" Young Master Kahn cut the waitress overbearingly.

As he said this, another ten teenagers came to the table. They stood behind Young Master Kahn.

This was the main reason Heero disliked associating with the people from the core region. They were overbearing and thinking they were above the others.

As for what the boy did to Miao Miao, Heero did not want to escalate this matter further. It was clear these boys were just a bunch of unreasonable rascals.

Just as he wanted to ask the waitress to get another table, a loud yet familiar voice resounded, "Hohoho… A loser still dares to disrespect my Master, are you asking for a beating!?"

Kang Dong-Woo appeared next to Heero with a smirk on his face as he gazed at Young Master Kahn.

The boy called Young Master Kahn's face turned ugly. In the Junior Event, he was beaten by Kang Dong-Woo.

Just as he wanted to flaunt his background, another group appeared behind Dong-Woo. He recognized this group, the famous Heero Academy.

Then he saw Sun Zhou Yi called a man he looked down with "Master". Looking at this, he realized that he offended a group he should not offend.

Kang Dong-Woo's face took a sudden change, he looked at Young Master Kahn with a fierce look, "Leave! Or do you want…"

Before Dong-Woo could finish his words, Young Master Kahn stood up and said, "Let's leave!"

'Sigh, it seems I have to raise my status as well to scare these kids,' Heero thought as he took a seat.

Miao Miao returned to the usual cheerful Miao Miao while holding the menu. She forgot what just happened as her eyes gleamed on the menu.

Just like that, the group was having a feast. However, Heero's mind was not into the food. He was thinking of something, the Shadow Fang.

The Fighter Anteriority would be over in three days, but there was no sign of the Shadow Fang would appear. He was concerned about this as this was his only chance to finish Shadow Fang to its root.

*** ***

The next day

Heero arrived in the same arena and the same seat right before the first match started. He scanned the crowd, his surroundings, trying to find suspicious people.

However, his efforts were in vain as there were too many people here. There was no way he could find the Shadow Fang except they made their move first.

As he was busy scanning the surrounding, the participants for the first match started on the screen.

The spectators exclaimed in surprise when they saw the name.

"Uwahhh!"

[Kang Seo-Yeon's (No.56) vs Musashi Hirata (No.147)]

Both were from the same faction, Heero Academy. It was a surprise to see both were matched as usually, the match would be Hero vs Ranker. This time, it was Hero vs Hero.

The two participants came out from the same gate. Both were bringing the same flag. They walked to the stage side by side.

They stood three minutes on the stage side by side while the flag fluttered on their shoulders.

After three minutes, Kang Seo-Yeon raised her hand and said, "I admit defeat!"

The spectators let out a sigh of disappointment. They thought they would witness a great fight, but they did not expect Kang Seo-Yeon would admit defeat.

After that, both returned to the waiting room. The third-round playoff continued to the second match.

"Uwaaahhhhh!!!!" The spectators exclaimed once again.

[Sun Zhou Yi (No.21) vs Bai Xin Yue (No.22)]