So, this world would never lack people who blindly followed the crowd.
And with old Luke fanning the flames, the storm surrounding the ending of Dragon Ball only grew more and more intense.
The other senior figures in the manga industry were also helping push things along.
They wished Dragon Ball would end sooner rather than later. As long as they published articles praising Dragon Ball with all their might and won the favor of the broad audience, then once Dragon Ball ended, it would definitely draw even more readers over to their own manga.
As a result, the entire market was filled with feelings of nostalgia, reluctance, and unwillingness to part with Dragon Ball.
Milluki took this chance to release weapons bearing the emblem of the "Red Ribbon Army," and their sales in the underground world skyrocketed to an eye-popping degree.
Old Luke and the others also released all kinds of limited-edition and commemorative Dragon Ball figures, and their sales figures remained high.
When one of Ging's companions saw this situation, he immediately put out the promotional slogan, "Personally authorized by Mr. Roy! A never-before-seen game genre! Praised without end!" It drew widespread attention.
It could be said that during this period, Dragon Ball was like an unimaginably enormous cake. Any product even slightly related to it sold explosively well.
Of course, anyone who wanted to sell Dragon Ball-related merchandise had to obtain authorization.
Without authorization?
Then, sorry, people from the underground world would come knocking at your door that very night.
After Android 18 finished spending some intimate time with Roy, she also threw herself into the sales work.
That was money, money, and more money!
The number in Roy's bank account was increasing every minute and every second at a geometric rate.
Seeing Android 18 and old Luke discuss things until their faces flushed with excitement, Roy could not help shaking his head.
He would just let them do as they pleased.
With a single Instant Transmission, Roy arrived at the Hunter Association, entering the office that had been specially prepared for him as the Monkey of the Zodiacs.
January of the year 2000 was about to arrive. The Hunter Exam was held every year on January 7, and Roy was the head examiner for this exam.
He called Milluki-nii and told him that he absolutely had to participate in this Hunter Exam.
Milluki-nii's network hacking skills were truly beyond question. However, because Milluki-nii did not have a Hunter License, infiltrating certain places still required quite a bit of effort.
But Roy believed that once he obtained a Hunter License, and with Dr. Gero's inherited knowledge on top of that, the entire Hunter world's networks would no longer be able to escape Milluki-nii's eyes!
After discussing matters related to the Hunter Exam with Netero, Roy also made a trip to Greed Island.
After meeting with Gon and the others, Roy discovered that Gon had already developed his own Jajanken.
So Roy taught Gon the Jan-Ken special move that he had manifested from his early Nen ability before.
The Jan-Ken special move was a martial art Son Goku often used when he was young.
It incorporated the hand gestures of rock-paper-scissors into the technique. First, he would clash fists with the enemy using one hand, then use his free hand to poke the opponent in the eyes, before slapping the opponent across the face and pushing them away.
While teaching Gon Jan-Ken, Roy also gave him a Patch of Forest card.
This game was already boring to Roy.
Right now, he was forming an idea.
Feeling the strength and Nen within his body grow stronger by the day, Roy once again had a bold thought.
He wanted to develop an eighth Nen ability!
Roy originally had six abilities of his own. Later, after absorbing Ilo's Nen ability, Successful Assassin, he now had seven Nen abilities.
Ordinary Nen users could generally only develop two or three Nen abilities, because they also had to spend a great deal of time refining and training those abilities, increasing their power.
For example, Gon's ability, Jajanken, had three moves: the Enhancement-Type fist, the Emission-Type palm, and the Transmutation-Type scissors.
However, once Gon incorporated the Jan-Ken Roy had taught him into his Jajanken ability, his strength would certainly rise to another level.
But Roy was different from ordinary people.
Leaving aside the fact that his strength meant he had no worries in this regard at all, his Specialization-Type Nen ability, Manga Realm, strictly speaking, contained both Specialization and Conjuration elements.
Over these past three months, through meditation, while increasing his S-Cells, Roy had also gradually formed a guess about the eighth branch of his Nen ability.
Of course, at present, this was only a concept.
As for how exactly to perfect it, Roy still needed to spend some time thinking.
Right now, reporters from newspapers and television stations, along with paparazzi, were all searching for Roy like mad.
As the author of Dragon Ball, Roy had to make at least a token appearance and accept an interview, giving the public some final words now that the series had ended, did he not?
Moreover, after Dragon Ball ended, Roy had sacrificed the three manga Sailor Moon, Fist of the North Star, and Gundam in order to maximize the value of the three items he would obtain after the ending!
With Dragon Ball's current influence, the things he obtained would definitely be extremely abundant!
Just like that, amid the commotion outside, time slowly passed, arriving at the new year.
January.
Milluki-nii was called over by Roy with a phone call to participate in this Hunter Exam.
On top of his original weapons, he had now developed many more powerful weapons with immense lethality and excellent concealment.
Previously, Milluki-nii had ridden the momentum of the "Red Ribbon Army" to build up his own golden reputation. Combined with Shalnark's promotion, Milluki-nii's business was now simply flourishing beyond belief.
Of course, while Milluki-nii was now riding high with success, V5 was facing all kinds of endlessly emerging weapons, as well as the unrest they caused in the underground world. They were being driven into a complete mess.
It was not as though they had never considered investigating the source of the weapons.
But even after they hired hacker Hunters from the Hunter Association, they still gained nothing.
What a joke.
In the shadows, Shalnark was providing cover. On the surface, Roy's status as one of the Zodiacs acted as a shield. And on top of that, there was Milluki-nii's Dr. Gero technology.
If V5 could actually find anything, that would be the truly strange thing.
The Zoldyck family saw all the changes taking place in the underground world.
With their understanding of Milluki, they quickly inferred that the person selling these new weapons in the underground world was Milluki!
Thus, after Zeno had a long discussion with Roy, he ultimately chose to remain silent.
(End of Chapter)
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