Knuckle and Shoot both underestimated Killua and Gon, mainly because their appearance and age were too deceptive.
They thought that these two little brats were just playing around or that the Chairman didn't take them seriously.
And this also made Knuckle very upset.
"I let you attack me at will, but the price is that if I don't move a step, you will give me the wooden tile and leave!"
Even though he was angry, Knuckle still spoke with a cold face but a warm heart: "This condition is a bargain for you!"
"This condition is already a bargain for you!!"
"You two little brats want to challenge me? Come back in 300 years!!"
Gon listened seriously while Killua, standing beside him, couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Challenge you? Weren't you the one who issued the challenge to us…?"
He muttered in his heart: "Wasn't it you who suggested the duel?"
"Don't look down on me!!"
Gon stiffened his neck and became stubborn: "If I really attack you, if you don't dodge, I might kill you directly!"
"Huh?!!"
Knuckle seemed to have heard the best joke, and he couldn't help but laugh: "You can try it!!"
"If I try, you will die!"
"You are talking nonsense!"
Knuckle shouted at the top of his lungs: "If I take even one step back, I'm not a man!!"
"Enough!!"
Seeing that Gon was about to argue further, Knuckle cut him off.
"If you think you're not my opponent, you might as well admit it right now."
Knuckle waved his hand dismissively, pretending to be disgusted.
"Don't try to argue with me on the surface while secretly recovering your energy or preparing for a surprise attack."
"I wasn't!!"
Feeling wronged, Gon immediately refuted loudly.
Since Knuckle had already said this much, Gon no longer argued.
"If that's what you think, then I'll give you what you want!!"
He took a step forward with a blazing fire in his eyes: "Just like you said until you move your feet, I won't stop attacking!!"
"Of course!!"
Knuckle crossed his arms, looking extremely proud.
Not only him but even Shoot, who was hiding in the dark, didn't think it was wrong.
At least on the surface, the gap between Gon and Killua and them was really big.
However…
They had forgotten what their master, Morel, had once taught them, no matter who the opponent is, never let your guard down against a Nen user.
Just like in martial arts novels, when wandering the world, besides old men, the ones who they should be wary of are children.
If a child is traveling the world alone, they must have real skills; otherwise, they would have been wiped out long ago.
The world of Nen users was no different.
Unfortunately, Knuckle and Shoot failed to recognize this.
On the contrary, Gon, as the opponent, was fully prepared.
Especially after he heard what Knuckle said.
If that's the case...
Killua's expression was one of pure amusement mixed with some sympathy and schadenfreude. It was as if he was watching someone who didn't know their limits, completely unaware of the disaster about to befall them.
But Gon didn't care about that.
Once he got serious, he would fully commit to what the opponent said.
Just like now, Knuckle had told him to go all out.
So Gon took it seriously and slowly stepped back to create a space.
"Rock, Paper…"
Right from the start, he used his ultimate move, unleashing an immense surge of aura.
Under Knuckle's shocked gaze, the energy gathered in Gon's fist, forming a powerful Nen wave!!
"Hey, hey, hey, how come this kid's aura rises so much in an instant and becomes so strong?!!"
Watching this scene, Knuckle's eye twitches uncontrollably.
Even though his instincts screamed that something was wrong, he still maintained his tough facade: "Come at me all you want! If I step back, I lose!"
But the increasingly bloodshot eyes betrayed his true state of mind.
"This is bad… With this amount of aura… He's definitely not just an ordinary kid!!"
Even if Knuckle was slow to react, he now realized how dire the situation was.
He wasn't stupid; he immediately understood why Chairman Netero had sent these two kids to compete with them.
It wasn't that Chairman Netero underestimated them; it was that these two brats actually had the strength to challenge them head-on!!
Knuckle's mind was in complete turmoil: "This is bad!! That move isn't something I can easily block!!"
"I'll have to use Ko, but… where should I guard?!"
Using 'Ko' to defend meant concentrating all his aura on one spot to block an incoming attack.
But Knuckle had been so overconfident with his words that he had backed himself into a corner.
Now, he wasn't sure if he could take Gon's attack head-on. Let alone the fact that he had no idea where Gon would strike!!
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