Ch37 - [The rules of the competition] Just who was the man next to Sirius?!

In front of the screen, the audience held bated breaths, an unknown emotion surfacing in their hearts as they waited in unison for the back figure to turn around and face the screen. However–

Only a hand remained in view.

White and clean, slender with clearly defined joints.

Like an exquisite work of art, emitting a noble and pampered feel. Just by stopping in front of the screen gave people a feeling of delight in their eyes.

The hand was indeed very beautiful……

But why give it a sudden close-up?

The audience watching the live stream on their personal comps couldn’t help but want to pick their nose and then flick at the head of the cameraman– why did you suddenly cut the view while they’re busy appreciating the back view of a beauty!

The next second, the camera zoomed out. Admiral Sirius’s profile face appeared on screen. Meanwhile, that hand was currently paused in front of the Admiral.

The audience: “……”

This angle…… With the Admiral-daren as a point of reference, they could determine that this hand and the previous back figure previously must belong to the same person, no doubt about it.

Immediately afterwards, the audience shockingly observed: their idol extremely naturally grabbed the other’s extended hand.

The high definition camera faithfully recorded the entire process. The owner of the hand pulled the Admiral up from his seat. Their Admiral didn’t resist at all and walked hand in hand with them to another seat.

“…….”

“???”

“!!!”

The audience felt a surge in their hearts.

What did they just see?

This hand… led their Admiral away, so easily and without any difficulties at all?

Not only this, when the two people settled into their new seats, Admiral Sirius even graciously started peeling grapes for the owner of the hand! Could it be, other than Diya and Andrew, the Admiral still had another secretive, but extremely close, mysterious friend?

……

No. They didn’t really understand very well how the aristocrats of the Imperial Capital interacted.

–What did peeling grapes mean?

Seeing their idol chatting warmly with the person beside him, countless people simultaneously had the same thought: Need a front view, need a close up! Cameraman-bro, please mess up!

However, the cameramen-bros couldn’t actually satisfy their wishes.

When they saw the mess of live comments, the broadcast crew of the Hunting Festival’s opening ceremony felt extremely wronged.

They had already risked violating a command from their superior and released a back view in trepidation. And they even gave a close up to the hand. If they revealed anymore…… they might collectively lose their jobs.

The meaning of the hand was extremely deep and profound– This was the first time the Honored Prince Nalun and the Admiral-daren joined hands in public.

The two have been in opposition for many years. The hand holding this time was extremely likely to become a signal of their reconciliation. It had an extremely high news value and represented something very proper and serious.

As for the frivolous ‘licking licking licking’ comments, they were practically outrageous! Really too inappropriate!

The entire comment screen started getting covered by “Front view front view front view……”

Therefore, the cameraman surrendered.

He released a front view.

“……”

Rage! No one wanted to see Princess Shasha’s face, alright?!

With heavy faces, the audience watching attentively to the live stream stretched all of their fingers, exercised their wrists, and got ready to drown the camera team with denouncements.

At this time, Princess Shasha was rushing towards their Admiral……’s side aggressively. No one cared what she said. They only saw the Princess pausing briefly, almost like she was listening to the other person talk.

Not long afterwards, she ran off shaking in anger.

From her expression, she seemed to be a bit indignant as well.

The audience roared.

“The little princess was defeated?”

“What just happened?”

“Where did this great god come from, to piss off our little Princess, the lady of the century and the center of the universe?”

“Not simple at all.”

“……. The cameraman is not simple at all.”

“The first day of the holiday is already very thrilling.”

“Strangely satisfied.”

“…….”

If the background music wasn’t still playing the song for the Hunting Festival’s opening ceremony, this was practically a private conference to discuss the Admiral.

After that, the cameraman started to turn the view onto other people.

With the Hunting Festival about to start, everyone sat into their seats. Under the eyes of millions, the Emperor slowly walked towards the center of the podium. According to tradition, he should be reading praises while holding the Scepter, commemorating the forebears and then announcing the official start of the seven days long Hunting Festival.

However this year, his majesty’s Scepter disappeared.

Although this wasn’t some secret anymore, seeing the Emperor’s empty hand, everyone still felt a wave of disappointment.

As a result, they detested the troublemaking Insectoids even more.

After the Emperor finished his speech, he sat back in his personal seat on stage. Sitting together with him were the already retired, nationally treasured, elders. One of which was the Honored Prince Sr.

His deep gaze penetrated through the crowd and landed directly on his son. His aura was particularly terrifying.

Especially the moment when his young son held hands with the Monte kid, the strength of the Honored Prince Sr. ‘s aura reached the pinnacle.

After the Emperor left the stage, the live broadcast ended. The following gaming segment was purely for the entertainment of the aristocrats and celebrities. After the activity ended, Marshall would find someone to write a short, but thrilling news article. One of the television stations would also release edited videos of what happened.

What’s terrifying was that… up to the very last minute of the live broadcast, the cameramen still refused to release the front view of that mysterious person.

The audiences not present at the scene were all furious. Although it was like this in previous years, people really suffered this year.

They practically wanted to throw their personal comps in frustration!

What kind of trash cameramen? Such suspense and poor concealment, are you trying to kill us with anxiety!

Just who was the man next to Sirius?!

Some of the more resourceful netizens already ran off to Princess Shasha’s blog to leave comments. First they vigorously praised the Princess for her beauty and personality. Then, they hinted that she and the Admiral were extremely well-matched. After providing countless flattery, they finally asked the important question: Who was the one bullying you during the opening ceremony?

— There was no other choice here. The little Princess was weak to coaxing, not to coercion.

For the sake of finding the truth, going on a side account to speak duplicious words was completely worth it!

Everyone had a silent mutual understanding.

However, the little Princess seemed to have taken a huge blow from what happened during the opening ceremony. She didn’t reply even after a long while. Not in the mood to go online, naturally, she was completely unaware of the crowd’s ardent praises.

They waited for a very long time, but still didn’t see her reply.

Disappointing.

On the hunting grounds, there was harmony.

The crowd present at the hunting ground didn’t actually expect that a huge gossip was actually about to engulf everything in tumultuous waves.

The hosts of the hunting competition very quickly arrived on stage. It was a man and woman with familiar faces. They read the upcoming arrangements for the competition and started to draw ballots to separate the two teams.

Below the stage, Sirius quietly moved over to Nalun’s side: “You really didn’t do anything?”

Of course he did. Nalun said with a tone of certainty: “No.”

Sirius sighed: “If we get picked into the same team, we can advance and retreat together.”

Nalun thought to himself: But he’d have no motivation to win. After all, the purpose of his participation in the competition was to obtain the victory reward.

The ancestors of the Asha people were very apt at hunting. They lived on barren lands. Whenever it was too difficult to grow crops, hunting became their main source of food.

Despite all the great transformation and passing of thousands of years, the Asha people never forgot their origins.

It’s only that the method of celebration has changed.

With the animal protection laws, any killing for ‘entertainment’ was prohibited. The era of depending on ‘killing the most number of animals’ to obtain victory and glory has long passed.

Right now, the hunting game was more like an entertaining and friendly, mental and physical activity.

The competition separated the people into two groups, the hunter and the prey.

The participants would be randomly assigned, given an emblem to wear, and then thrown into the dense forest of Royal Hunting Grounds. Forces from the two sides would clash in battles of both intelligence and physical strength. The losing side would be assimilated into the winning group. Once the time limit was reached, the system would total up the number of each team. The side with more numbers would become the winner.

For example, if the final number of Hunters was 51 and the Prey was 49, then the Hunters would be the winners.

Participants who began the game as Hunters but end up assimilating into the enemy team to become Preys, can still come out as victors despite the individual results of their chaotic battles.

Therefore, until the last minute, it was impossible to determine the victors and the losers.

Even if you lost immediately at the start of the game and were imprinted with the enemy team’s mark, it’s still possible to win.

This was a group activity. Individual victories weren’t enough to affect the final verdict.

His highness, the Honored Prince, who couldn’t win against Sirius in terms of physical prowess, felt extremely pleased with the rules of this game.

The team distribution resulted very quickly.

Without any suspense at all, Nalun and Sirius’s names were separated.

Sirius was in the Hunter team. Nalun was in the Prey team.

Nalun smiled very faintly and then very quickly put it away. Feigning regret, he said: “Looks like we can’t be together this time.”

Sirius looked at him. Without too much disappointment in his eyes, he said: “No problem. Perhaps very quickly, you and I will get on the same team.”

Nalun: “……” No. Not going to happen.

“Ah, I’m also on the Prey team. How about we group up later?” A female voice suddenly interrupted the two people’s conversation.

Nalun turned around to look. He discovered the other person looked somewhat familiar– In a group of long haired, dress wearing women, this General’s daughter, who wore a ponytail and boots, looked extremely handsome and intimidating.

“Mona.” He remembered now. The person who secretly filmed him on LuoRi Volcano. A certain well-known female streamer, as well as, a potential marriage candidate suggested by his old dad.

Mona smiled, almost looking happy at the fact that Nalun remembered her. Then she cordially suggested to form a party.

The forest was very dense. No one knew where they would be dropped off and how many enemies would be lying in ambush. In this kind of situation, arranging ahead of time to meet up with a partner always made the battles much easier than fighting alone.

Nalun didn’t think too long before agreeing to her request.

“Fine, but I don’t want to see any strange photos appearing after the competition ends.” Some things, he had to make clear ahead of time.

If you have to know, back then when he traveled down the mountain to the little clinic, he didn’t meet anyone on the road. Originally, he thought no one noticed him. But no matter what, he never would have predicted that while he was completely unaware, Mona had pointed her live stream camera directly at him.

This was really a very terrifying woman!

The photo that Sirius had of Big Beard came from her!

Mona awkwardly waved her hand and pulled out a minicamera from her pocket, using action to express her cooperative intent.

“I’m really sorry about what happened last time.”

She didn’t actually know the deeper layer of truth here. She only thought that the Honored Prince had discovered the secret image she took on LuoRi Volcano of his back figure. She really wasn’t being very smart there, spreading his image around on a public website online without asking for his permission. Even though it was only a photo of his back figure, it could still be considered an offense.