“Fourth question! What is a five-letter word for a country without beef?”
“The answer was ‘SoGogiMuGuk’! Beef 無 Country! Hahahaha!”
As the questions continued, the expressions of the passengers gradually darkened.
Those who started off quite successfully began to get questions wrong as the game went on.
And in this game, once you get a question wrong, you’re out.
This meant that as the end approached, there were hardly any players left.
Honestly, Egoistic had expected that by the eighth quiz, there wouldn’t be a single person remaining.
Yet, astonishingly, there were still three.
A little boy who had apparently read a lot of joke books since he was young, as he kept getting each question right.
A high school girl chewing bubble gum, looking completely relaxed, as if totally unbothered by the tension.
And a middle-aged man who seemed like he would have thrown around a lot of dad jokes during company dinners in his younger days.
The eyes of the other passengers were intensely focused on these three—
They were their last hope, watching with an earnestness that was almost suffocating in this tense situation.
The balding middle-aged man was breaking into a cold sweat, glancing around nervously.
Unaware of the gravity of the situation, the oblivious child was unaffected, eagerly waiting for the next question, possibly thinking this was all just a game. Only the mother sitting next to him looked on with an anxious expression.
And then there was the high school girl, nonchalantly leaning her chin on her hand, gazing at the video in front of her while wearing a red baseball jacket. Why she was alone on the plane in her uniform at this hour was anyone’s guess.
At the same time, someone on the ground was peering up at the sky where they were flying.
“[…Stardust. Have you arrived?]”
“Yes, I have arrived. For now.”
Hero Association Jeju Branch.
In a deep basement of that building, Stardust was responding to the transmission.
“Ugh, uck. Uweeek.”
“…Kim Ja-hyun, are you okay?”
“Do I look okay to you- Uweeek.”
The sickly person next to him was Kim Ja-hyun. Hero name, Shadow Walker.
One of the three A-class heroes in South Korea, he is—the strongest among them in certain situations, no less.
Shadow Walker. A hero who is purely stronger at night.
Limited to nighttime, he can merge into and move between shadows effortlessly.
Unlike Egoistic, who would likely suffer a heart attack after traveling more than 100km, or Teleporter, who would creep just 100 meters at a time, complaining after a single gunshot wound, Shadow Walker is different.
As long as his current location is sufficiently dark, and the destination he wishes to travel to is also adequately shadowed,
theoretically, he could move to the opposite side of the Earth. Although, since it’s daytime on the opposite side, that wouldn’t be possible.
And most importantly, at night, half of his body essentially becomes a shadow, making him invulnerable.
So, he doesn’t die. Be it physical attacks or biochemical attacks, he’s virtually invincible.
Furthermore, he can absorb opponents into his shadow and transport them anywhere.
Truly the king of the night.
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