"Cheers everyone!" Shalnark shouted as we all raised our beer and drank together.
"Well, we finally got the loot we needed" Machi said
"It was actually more troublesome than I imagined" Pakunoda said
"Congratulations everyone on a successful win on obtaining the loot" Chrollo said. "Let us raise our beer once more for our lost fellow, Uvogin"
"To Uvo" I said
We all clink beer cans once more and chugged the rest of the content.
After out little celebration, we all stood around Chrollo to await for his next insturctions.
"What do we do now Boss?" Phinks asked
"Tonight, we take our loot and we leave this place. It's over." Chrollo said
"Not yet" Nobunaga said
"What do you mean 'not yet'?" Machi asked
"It's not over until we find that chain-user guy" He said
"Do not make this a personal issue for you Nobunaga" Chrollo said
"I don't care. I'm making this personal to me." Nobunaga responded
"Be reasonable Nobunaga, Boss is speaking to you" Franklin said
"Are you making it an order for me not to go? Chrollo Lucifer?"
We all looked at Nobunaga, no one has ever said Boss's full name before. Let alone when we are being rebellious towards him.
Chrollo himself stared at Nobunaga for a long time while Nobunaga glared at him.
"Do you think Boss is angry?" I whispered to Shalnark
"Who knows, but Nobunaga may be in trouble" Shalnark whispered back
"This is boring" Hisoka said with a sigh.
Then, Chrollo his skills book out from his pocket.
"Answer a question for me Nobunaga" Chrollo said as he flipped through pages of the book
"Huh?" Nobunaga said, confused
"When's your birthday?" Chrollo asked
"September 8th, 1970"
"Blood type?"
"B"
"Full name?"
"Hazama Nobunaga! You know that already!"
With that, Chrollo used a skill from the book and started writing. His eyes were blank and I saw a small ghost around his left hand, controlling it as he wrote something down.
This took him about three minutes to write before Chrollo handed a different sheet of paper to me.
"This skill you all just witnessed, I stole it from a young lady from the Nostrad family." Chrollo said
"What does that skill do?" I asked
"It's the skill to write predictions that are 100% accurate through poetry. The paper I just handed out, that was my predictions written by her." Chrollo said
I looked at the paper and read the poem out loud for everyone to hear:
Part of a flower will be lost
The rest of the petals will cry
Each petal will wither, one by one
They will fall for the eyes that cry for blood
Although one loves those eyes.
However, the spider won't stop making it's web
It may continue, even if it lost it's limbs
"She knew nothing about Uvogin, but there he is, mentioned in my prediction. She is also the one responsible for telling the mafia about our plans for the auctions. Which is why we failed the first time." Chrollo said
"So then, did you just write up Nobunaga's predictions?" Franklin asked
"What did his say Boss?" Shizuku asked
"Ask him yourself" Chrollo said as he handed Nobunaga his paper
Nobunaga took the time to read it, then he had a confused look.
"I don't really understand it. But all I can get out of it, is that four of us are going to die within the next few weeks." Nobunaga said
"Does it say who?" Phinks asked
"I'm one of them. I don't know who the rest are, but it has the same line about the spider's limbs" Nobunaga said
"I can write all of your predictions right now. I need all of you to write your full name, date of birth and blood type on the sheet of papers" Chrollo said as he passed the papers around.
I stared at my blank paper.
I'm a bit nervous to write down my information. I sort of, don't want to know my prediction. It might reveal something to the whole group if they read it.
"What's wrong Aoi?" Paku asked
"It's nothing" I said with a faint smile
I started scribbling on my paper.
Name: Aoi
Date of Birth: July 27
Blood Type: B
After we all wrote our information, we handed the papers to Chrollo.
He wrote our predictions, one by one. After returning the papers to us, I didn't look at it right away.
Instead, I stuffed it inside my pocket. I'm not ready to read it yet.
I started thinking.
Am I going to be one of the four that dies?
Is my prediction going to talk about Kurapika?
If so, I know for sure someone is going to read my prediction out loud.
They might know about who the true chain-user through these predictions.
Chrollo's prediction already mentioned about Kurapika, and me. Good thing no one pointed that out. Yet.
"These predictions may help us find loopholes around our fate. We can probably avoid the threats that are upon us" Chrollo said
"My prediction said that I'm going to die" Paku said
"Me too" Shalnark said
"Me also" Shizuka said
My heart felt like it twisted into knots. If we didn't read about these predictions, they would've seriously died. I don't even think I can handle their deaths if it ever happened. I don't even know how I was able to cope Uvo's death. But for Nobunaga, he's still taking it hard.
"Hisoka, let me see your prediction. You've been quiet the entire time" Paku said as he walked up to Hisoka.
Hisoka glared at Paku.
Does his prediction talk about Kurapika?
"If I were you, I wouldn't read this out loud" Hisoka said
"I insist, give it to me" She said
"Here" He tossed the paper to Paku as she read it.
Her face looked like as if she was surprised to read something.
"Look at this" She said as she three the paper to Franklin.
Franklin read it and had a shocked look on his face too. Then Shalnark took it.
"Aoi, read it" He said as he gave me the paper to read out loud.
A friend with red eyes will come to visit
You sell him secrets about the flower petals
You even tell him things about July
Since he cares about that month the most
You will eventually be alone with the one you desire
For the main petal is the one you seek
But remember, you are also a petal
My eyes went wide. Hisoka's prediction talks about me in it. I know the first half of the poem talks about Kurapika and I but I don't understand the bottom half.
"Sell secrets huh?" Shizuka asked
"So the flower petals refer to us then" Franklin said
"Hisoka, did you sell out information to the chain-user about Uvogin then!?" Nobunaga shouted as he took his sword out
That's why Uvo died. Hisoka tells Kurapika information about our group. I just didn't think that Uvo would die out of all of us.
"How dare you sell out Uvogin!" Nobunaga screamed
He was about to strike at Hisoka until Franklin and Shalnark got in his way.
"Move it" He said
"Calm down Nobunaga" Shalnark said
"Let's hear what Hisoka has to say first" Franklin said
I walked up to Hisoka and stood next to him. I gave him back his paper.
"Explain yourself Hisoka!" Nobunaga shouted. "Is it true you've been giving information about us last week!?"
"Well, I can't tell you that. All I could say is that the first two sentences are true" Hisoka said
"Why can't you tell us!?" Nobunaga screamed
"I wish I could. But it's against my rules. I'm not allowed to tell anyone. Except for one" Hisoka said, smirking at me.
"Please don't fight Nobunaga. Violence isn't going to solve anything" I said
Nobunaga glared at Hisoka for a couple of seconds before putting his sword away.
"Yeah, you're right. It's pointless to fight" He said. "NOT!"
In an instant, Nobunaga moved past Shalnark and Franklin and made his way towards us. He was just about to fight Hisoka until he transported to a different spot in the room.
"W-What the!?" Nobunaga said
"How did he get over there?" I asked
"Nobunaga" Chrollo said. "Shut. Up."
"Woah, did Boss do that?" Phinks asked
"I guess so. I don't know what skill that was though" Machi said
"What a relief" I said, sighing that it was over.
"Hisoka" Chrollo said. "I'm going to ask you a series of questions. If you cannot respond, just say 'I can't say'. Got that?"
Hisoka nodded his head.
"What are the secrets you told this person?"
"Our nen abilities"
"All of us?"
"No, about 7 or 8 of us"
"Who?"
"Shalnark, Uvogin, Machi, Franklin, mine, Shizuku, yours and Aoi's"
"So eight of us?"
"Yes"
"What's the nen type of this guy?"
"I can't say"
"What does the guy look like?"
"I can't say"
"What's the relationship between you and this person?"
"I can't say"
"And you only discovered Kortopi's abilities yesterday. Am I right?"
"Yes"
"Okay. I understand" Chrollo said, finishing his series of questions
"Understand what?" Nobunaga asked
"This person Hisoka has been speaking, is most likely the chain-user. This person probably has two abilities. One is to use the chains to capture a person and the other one is something that is preventing Hisoka from answering certain questions" Chrollo said
"What would the other ability be?" Machi asked
"It would be something called 'Sword of the law' it imposes certain rules on a specific person. That means, there is a weapon hidden somewhere inside Hisoka, and it can harm the person if they break a rule." Chrollo said.
"That could probably be why Hisoka can't answer certain questions. So, if the chain user manipulates with a chain, could he materialize with the sword?" Shalnark said, thinking
"Possibly." Machi said
"So, Boss, what do we do? We stay here or we leave the city?" Franklin asked
Chrollo looked at all of us before making his decision.
"We stay" He said
"Good, I get to have my revenge then" Nobunaga said
"We will split up into groups to retrieve more information. Whether it is about the chain-user or the young lady whose skills I stole" Chrollo said
"Hm? Why the young lady?" Feitan asked
"She may be connected with the chain-user as well" Chrollo said.
"How?" Paku asked
"She is from the Nostrad family. She is known for collecting body parts. This means the chain-user was her bodyguard for a specific reason. Can anyone think?" Chrollo asked
"I got it!" Phinks said. "Those scarlet eyes"
"That's right! Her family did travel to Yorknew City just to obtain those eyes" Shalnark said
So that was why Kurapika bidded on those eyes. The girl he guards wanted those.
"We have the real one here though" I said. "I remember someone bidded on the fake copy."
"That is true. Maybe we can track their location and find out where the chain-user is" Shizuka said
"Kortopi, can you see where the fake ones are located?" Paku asked
"Yes. I use Nen. Let me see" Kortopi said
"Here they are" Machi said as she took out the eyes for Kortopi to exam.
Kortopi examined the item with his nen.
"I felt it, it's at the Takuru beach hotel" Kortopi said
"Good. I'm going" Nobunaga said "That bastard's mine!"
"Wait Nobunaga" Chrollo said
"What?" Nobunaga asked
"We're not going out individually. Now that we have a clue about the chain-user. We're going in groups" Chrollo said
"Alright, as long as I get my kill" Nobunaga said
"Bonolenov, Hisoka and Franklin, you stay here" Chrollo said. "The rest of us are going to that hotel"
"All together? Or separated?" I asked
"Separated. First group is Pakunoda, Machi and Shizuka, Nobunaga, Aoi, Kortopi and I. Second group, Feitan, Phinks and Shalnark." Chrollo instructed
"Wait Boss. Before we go, I have a concern" Machi said
"What would that be?" Chrollo asked
"Those two kids we kidnapped earlier" Machi said
"Oh? The ones you mentioned before." He said
"Oh yeah! I wanted to recruit them to our group!" Nobunaga said, excited
"Really? Did they accept the offer?" Chrollo asked
"Not really. Who knows, maybe we'll bump into them again" Nobunaga said
"Well that wasn't what I wanted to say, but I have this intuition that they may be connected with the chain-user." Machi said
"I see. If we do, we'll interrogate them once again" Chrollo said. "Let's go to Takuru beach hotel"
With that, Chrollo put his big furry jacket on and we headed out into Yorknew City.
Kurapika, I will most likely see you in a few hours.
I hope my friends managed to group up.
We may bump into each other, I pray that none of us gets hurt, or get killed.
Hopefully, those predictions we had are wrong.
I still didn't get a chance to read mine yet.
Maybe I'll read it when I'm alone.