Brrrrr…
The Phantom Troupe is dead.
Just like that.
Brrrrr…
What was he even supposed to do now?
What about his revenge?
He just killed one of them.
How should he now avenge his parents? Or his best friend, Pairo?
Brrrrr…
They were dead, just like that. He had seen their corpses himself.
With every ring of his phone, he got emptier and emptier.
What is even the point of his life now?
The Eyes of his People were collectibles for the rich. Maybe he should hunt them down? The world would be a better place. Killing all of the
"Kurapika?" A warm, worried voice asked from the other side of the phone. Gon, he will know what to do. Even with his simple, straightforward mind, he was always strangely insightful.
"Yes…" His own monotone voice came barely out of his throat, but he collected enough strength after hearing his friend's voice, "You said you wanted to help to stop the Troupe. There is no longer a need for that. The spider is dead!"
"What!?" He shouted over the phone before repeating to someone what he just said.
Was that Killua? That's good that they are together. His family killed the spider. The Zoldycks are really strong. None of the other Assassins managed that, most of them dead.
"What about Harry? Is he with you?" Asked Gon, "We can't reach him!"
Harry. He forgot about him.
The younger boy didn't return or leave a message.
He also hunted the Spider, but no one found his body. Other assassins are also still missing; maybe he is dead.
Is that really possible?
Even after learning Nen, his instincts told him he was strong. Like really strong.
Kurapika had never seen him releasing his full aura; he was always so relaxed. The Boy hadn't felt any weaker than that physically strongest Spider he had killed.
Could the Spider really have killed him?
"I don't know…"
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Beeep… beeep… beeep… click.
'I am not getting through. He must have turned his phone off.the battle-hungry murder Clown mused as he stared at the screen of his phone, which had just aborted connecting. 'Oh, well… And I was going to cheer him up ♥.
Hisoka sat right in the temporary Phantom Troupe base in Yorknew City on the ledge of his preferred spot at the window, staring out of it while playing with his phone on the tip of his finger.
The other Spiders were celebrating their successful heist after having faked their deaths in front of the Mafia with one of their members Nen abilities.
Not only had they stolen all the goods meant for the underground auction, but they had even sold fake copies created with Kortopi's Nen Ability Gallery Fake. An ability able to create a copy for 24 hours of anything that wasn't alive.
"Connection Issues?" An unfamiliar voice that shouldn't be here asked from below him, shocking Hisoka, as he should have sensed if someone approached him.
Whirling his head around, preparing himself for combat in just a moment, Hisoka stared into the emerald green eyes he had actually seen before. Prey that he had lost, a boy even more intriguing than Gon.
"Eh, don't look at me like that, Hisoka. I am not into Killer Clowns! Do I have to fear for my virginity?" Harry Potter asked while being not only stared down by Hisoka but also all the other members of the Spider who had noticed him after he had spoken up.
They were also ready for combat. Clearly, they had not expected someone unknown suddenly being in their hideout.
This is bad.
'First Gon and Killua, now Harry. Why does my prey have to bring themselves to certain death…? Hisoka thought a bit annoyed. It was no fun if they got themselves killed by the Spider. He wanted to fight them one on one once they had grown to an excited opponent.
"Scary," Harry said as he turned towards the other Spiders, who were all battle-ready and warily observing him.
Only one person remained sitting calmly, "Good, you are here."
Chrollo Lucilfer is now back without a headband covering the cross-shaped tattoo on his forehead, wearing a dark purple high-collar coat with St. Peter's Cross on the back.
"You know him, Boss?" Machi asked as she had a needle in her hand; her Nen ability allows her to create and control Nen-strings.
"Yes, he is our new member. I fought him at the auction." Chrollo said as he looked calmly at Harry while the other members relaxed, besides Hisoka, who still looked at him with hunger.
"Hisoka I am really not into killer clowns or men." Harry said as he took a bit of distance from the deranged clown, "Also now we are both members of the Troupe. We can't any longer fight with each other. Too bad."
That was one of the internal rules of the Phantom Troupe: members weren't allowed to fight each other. Any conflict gets solved through a coin toss.
"He doesn't look like much." Phinks said, a blond-haired and very serious-looking member with piercing eyes"How do we know he is trustworthy?"
"How about you introduce yourself first?" Chrollo said towards Harry.
"Sure, I am Harry Potter, 15 years old." Which is technically the truth since he spent months in another world now. "I am a former bodyguard of the Nostrade family and faced Chrollo to kill him for the Mafia. Although I was more interested in seeing how strong he is."
And in absorbing some of his Nen abilities to gain more mastery over Nen. Especially helpful are the Indoor Fish, Nen Beasts, which are a completely different kind of Nen Ability that he hadn't had the chance to encounter yet. A sentient ability.
"Haah? Nostrade Family?" The samurai-looking guy with a sword on his waist exclaimed in anger, Nobunaga, some of the other members didn't look pleased either. "Do you know the Chain User?"
"Yes, I know him." Harry nodded, amused.
"Who is it? What does he look like?"
"I am not going to tell you." Harry smiled.
Suddenly there was a katana pointed at him. And some members released a scary aura. But Harry released a bit of his own Nen too. Not too much, just to show that he wasn't any weaker than them.
"As part of his recruitment, I and Harry agreed that he won't be telling us about the Chain User. But as long as we learn something from him without breaking the Rules of the Spider, it is fine." Chrollo said calmly while looking at a blonde-haired woman, "He is now a member of the Troupe. The rules also extend to him. No fighting between each other, Nobunaga."
The other members calmed down as they saw the tall and slender blonde-haired-haired womang a purple suit revealing a lot of her cleavage approachim, stretching her well-taken-care-of hand out, "Hello, nice to meet you.. I am Pakunoda."
She had an apathetic look on her face as Harry took her hand with a smile, "Nice to meet you, Pakunoda. Like already mentioned, I am Harry."
"So, Harry, who is the Chain User?" She asked him like he had expected.
Suddenly he felt someone enter his mind, breaking through the first level of his Occlumency defense, appearing inside the empty space of his mind, a good distance away from the Death Star in his mind.
"Where am I?" Pakunoda asked in slight panic, as she had never experienced something like that while using her Nen ability.
Her ability, psychometry, allowed her to pull up the purest subconscious memories out of her target minds. It even worked on objects, allowing her to read an object's past by simply touching it.
"Fascinating: An Ability to Read Minds." Harry said as he appeared beside her, "But you are far from mastering it yet. Someone like me, who has specifically trained their mind to defend against intrusion, is able to defend against it. Also, you need to touch your target, which is quite restrictive."
"What? That is impossible! I pull up the purest essence of your memories with my ability. What even is that thing?" She asked while pointing at the Death Star.
"You may do that with someone untrained. But it doesn't work on someone with full control over his mind. My memories are all in there. This is the next layer of my defense." Harry explained honestly. She had just bypassed the outermost layer of his Occlumency.
"How can I even train my ability? I never have encountered someone like you who could do something like this." She pointed out. In her mind she had already reached the peak of her ability.
"I see! You lack an Partner to train with!" Harry realized why she in the official data had only a Great Level of Mastery for her ability, the lowest level of Mastery possible. She never had someone to train with at a higher level. "I am open to offering my help. You can break through my defenses anytime."
"What would you even get from it?" She asked with suspicion.
"Hmm, I would be holding hands with a beautiful woman." He flirted while adding, "While I also get experience for my own defense. And I would be able to see how far your ability takes you."
Her Nen ability was different from Legilimency. It normally was a careful trickle through his defense; a Legilimens was carefully bypassing it while getting detected by him.
With Pakunoda it was different; she directly broke through his outer layer of defense. If he hadn't expected her attack, he wouldn't have noticed it. He only saw her because he was actively monitoring his defenses.
"I see."
"You know what?? How about I recruit you?" If she mastered her ability completely, no mind would be safe from her. This was an ability he wanted at his disposal. Also, she was hot.
"Are you already planning to betray the Spider?"
"Nope, right Chrollo didn't mention it yet. I am a temporary member. I will at some point leave and never be able to return. I am inviting you to join me!" Harry replied brightly. It was indeed something he had talked with Chrollo about.
"Why did you join the Spider in the first place?"
"To get some strong training partners to train my Nen and get my hands on a ton of resources and artifacts. So how about it? Do you want to join me if I leave?"
She shook her head. "I won't leave it. I am part of the Spider until my death."
"So after your death is fine?"
Pakunoda stared at him unblinkingly. "Sure."