Disclaimer: I sadly don't own Boku no Hero Academia and Hunter X Hunter. They rightfully belong to Hirokoshi Kohei and Togashi Yoshihiro respectively.

Author's Note: Work has been very stressful so this is a bit unexpected but I somehow manage to update this chapter in a pretty fast time by my standard. Someone told me the last two chapters were way too short so I tried to make this one longer. Please do enjoy the story, folks.


Chapter 3: A Rising Villain.

"Is it a deal then?" Pariston asked with his usual smile, his right hand stretched out for a handshake to seal their deal.

Tomura scoffed. He took a glance at Ging who was leaning against the far wall, eyes closed and not saying anything.

He turned around, intending to get out from that room as soon as possible and to stay as far away as possible from these two men.

"Good luck!" Pariston called out cheerfully.

So annoying.


"Why should we do it?" Nobunaga asked while crossing his arms stubbornly.

Feitan and Phinks starred quietly at him, not saying anything, waiting for his answer.

Tomura smiled.

The answer to that question was very simple.

"For my sake. And all of yours."


"So, you are the one called Shigaraki Tomura."

Hisoka chuckled and licked his lips, wetting them.

"You, too, are an appetizing one."

Tomura shuddered, feeling crept out for the first time in his life.

"... Stay the fuck away from me."


-Her Villain-

A Rising Villain.


"From the start, that power is different than all the other powers out there... Existing to fight against an unspeakable evil... A passing of a sacred torch... An inheritance of will... A succession of an accumulation of hope! Cursed to fight for all eternity in an unending battle, until all be said and done, they would always meet again for sure... They will never be alone..."

Don Freecs, Journey to The New World, West Edition.


"NO! STOP IT!" The queen screamed in shock before running to them.

Tomura snapped open his eyes.

"STOP HIM!"

This idiot woman...

"Prince Momoze is going to be killed! You have to stop him, quick!"

Shigaraki resisted the urge to scratch his neck.

Kurapika immediately tried to cover for her mistake.

"Please calm down, queen Oito. You are in your bedroom right now. You are exhausted and must have just been having a nightmare."

That Bhavimaina guy was watching, dammit.

After the whole fiasco with the Vincent guy and answering the call from the three princes, they were left with a bodyguard from the first prince and three bodyguards from their meeting with the third prince.

Bhavimaina. Slacker. Sakata. Hashitou.

Through luck, they managed to find a cockroach and took advantage of the situation with Maor.

Was she trying to announce to the entire occupants of the room that she could use nen now or something? Someone needed to shut her up or he would do it himself.

The queen slapped Kurapika's hand away.

"This is no time for petty strategies! If you won't help then I'll go myself." She said determinedly.

"Very well, we will check on him immediately. Bill! Get in touch with room 1012 and confirm the status of prince Momoze!" Kurapika said, trying to placate the queen.

"The operator will only connect a private officer of one of the higher princes. I will act as the intermediary for you." Bhavimaina unexpectedly offered.

The prince was already dead when they managed to get in touch. The queen looked devastated. She slowly sat on her bed and cried.

Tomura didn't understand. What's there to cry about? She should have a celebration. One less enemy to deal with.

"We could have stopped it... We might have been able to save him..."

What the fuck?

Tomura gave up trying to understand and started listening to Bill's conversation with Kurapika.

"It seems the cause of death was asphyxiation. As per their usual arrangement, the guards were stationed outside of the room while the prince slept. Apart from the two guards who were on break, the four guards all testify to the fact that no one entered the prince's room. Queen Sevanchi is pleading her case to the king, believing that the six bodyguards involved all conspired together. The six of them are being detained and are set to be in court."

"May I have a word?" Sakata politely asked.

"You said that each of the princes has a guardian beast attached to them."

"That's right." Kurapika confirmed.

"In that case, why didn't prince Momoze's spirit beast protect her?"

"The hint probably lies in prince Momoze's sleeping hours."

"What do you mean?"

"The prince retired much earlier than usual. She was probably extremely worn out for some reason."

"I see! The guardian beasts are parasitic! Which means they act by feeding on their host's aura as energy!"

"Exactly."

"If one of the two nen beats attacked our guards belonged to prince Momoze then that act should have consumed a large amount of aura. As a result, it ran out of energy and the culprit took advantage of that."

"The murderer is a person who is well versed in nen, then. But after this, there will an even stronger demand for information on nen. It would be to our tremendous advantage if we could use learning nen as an incentive to form alliances, including with prince Tserriednich."

Kurapika seemed to be deep in thought when Bhavimaina came forward.

"Your majesty, may I please have a word?"

He stood in front of the queen.

"Shouting out back then could only have been detrimental to you. Even still, why did you do it?"

"... Detrimental, you say? To all of you completely wrapped up in this survival game, I must seem ridiculous for not standing by idly while someone else's daughter get killed. I understand it all too well. I have nothing to say to you."

No one said a word against her after that.

Not long after that, both Kurapika and the queen passed out from the side effect of Kurapika's ability.

Then, not long after they woke up, they got this brilliant idea to give a nen lesson to the other bogyduards chosen by the other princes.

Tomura scowled and went out. The room became too crowded to his liking.

He wandered around aimlessly, ignoring his surrounding and mulling over the queen's words.

"... Detrimental, you say? To all of you completely wrapped up in this survival game, I must seem ridiculous for not standing by idly while someone else's daughter get killed. I understand it all too well. I have nothing to say to you."

"What's that even supposed to mean?" Tomura mumbled to himself.

While the former boss of the league of villain continued with his aimless walk, an important meeting was held on the fifth floor of the ship.

"We do not know which floor Hisoka is on. Our initial scouring of this fifth floor for anyone over 190 cm came up empty. We have found out that all the comings and goings on the third, fourth, and fifth floor are all controlled by the mafia. Here, the fifth floor, is the Cha-R family's. The fourth floor is the Xi-Yu family's. The third floor is the Heil-Ly family's. The passengers on the board have been used in all kinds of ways by the kingdom working manual labor on the ship, performing various services, being experimental test subjects, selling their organs, being contracted into post arrival obligations and all other manner of exploitation. The rest that slip through the cracks get gobbled up by the mafia."

"Illumi, please introduce yourself and then give us your thoughts on where you think Hisoka is and what he's doing." Chrollo said quietly.

"I wasn't told very many details since we are in the middle of a game of tag after all." Illumi responded honestly.

"Hello. I am Illumi. The oldest son of the Zoldyck family. My younger brothers are Killua and Kalluto. On Hisoka's request, I have joined the spiders. I had a give and take relationship with him previously but it seemed one of us was going to kill the other in the end. So now we are here to make that a reality. Hisoka had contracted me to kill himself. For our engagement ring, he gave me a prenuptial where if he dies, I still collect my reward. Both he and I are very serious about this. This is why I do not know his location." Illumi said calmly, ignoring the approaching members of the mafia with rose tattoo on them that started to surround him and the other Spiders.

"Sorry but this table's reserved. Move it." One of them called out.

"We are using it right now. You will have to go somewhere else." Chrollo responded evenly.

One of them readied his gun. A hand quietly stopped him.

"You are the Phantom Troupe, aren't you? You are pretty famous in these circles. Your rampaging through the York New city completely changed the influence of the mafia. In fact, thanks to all that, we secured tickets to the New Continent without even lifting a finger. So, in a way, we owe you. I don't want to fight with you but I can't allow you to make light of our business authority. If you just move along quietly, we will bring no harm your way. Surely you boarded this ship because you have business here, right? Let's work together."

There was a moment of complete silence before Chrollo decided to get up quietly without a fight, followed by the rest of the Spiders.

"We are looking for someone named Hisoka. He is over 190 cm tall. A man shrouded in an unpleasant, disgusting presence. He is our top priority."

"We can let you take a look at the royal army's passenger list but I wouldn't get your hopes up as there's plenty of irregular passengers just like us. I don't mind if you look around this floor but if you want to search the third or fourth floors, you will need a ticket to enter or leave. According to the rules, the royal army was distributed one ticket but in reality, shortly, after departure, the mafia picked up a few by the wayside. If you join our family, you get a free pass. How's it sound?"

Before the question could be answered, as one, the Spiders snapped their head upwards. The ceiling above the table that they just used suddenly started to crack before it completely turned into debris and a person fell down right on that table. All the members of the Mafia immediately pointed their gun on said person.

"Who the fuck are you?!" Sun-Bin snapped at the young man that just fell down from the ceiling.

The young man responded by groaning before slowly getting up.

"Is he one of yours?" The bald member of the mafia with a rose tattoo on the side of his head asked Chrollo.

"... No. I thought he was one of yours."

Tomura looked around before aggressively started to scratch his neck. "Ah, shit. Where the hell am I now?"


Author's Note: AND BAM! GUESS WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED, READERS! HOW DID TOMURA GET THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE? WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN NEXT? Anyway, that's all for now. Sorry if it is a bit sudden. Please don't forget to leave kudos and comment or review on your way out, readers. Thank you! See you in the next chapter! Bye! Oh, right! Here is a reply to those reviews that I can't reach via PM:

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