In future chapters it will be explained how the situation described in this chapter came about.
2 YEARS LATER...
Gon and Killua have grown up a bit but their looks aren't much different than they were 2 years ago.
They are located on a dirt road in the forest; it is night and there is a full moon with some clouds.
Gon and Killua are facing the same direction, with Gon in front and Killua in back.
Gon's expression is serious with blank stare; Killua is serious.
Gon clenches both fists, while Killua uses the Divine Speed ability. From the aura of Killua, in the form of electricity, a small lightning bolt starts and hits Gon's aura.
In front of the two, you can see the shadow of someone who is approaching.
Small electric shocks begin to appear around Gon's body, and all of a sudden Gon is surrounded by Killua's aura, as when he uses Divine Speed. Killua then gets on the defensive.
The shadow that was approaching slowly reveals what it hides.
You see blue shoes, white hair, a tail, paw-shaped hands and finally blood-red eyes; is Pitou. Gon clenches his fists and starts preparing two Jajanken.
Skill Descriptions
Gon and Killua improved the skills they already had, and learned some new techniques.
- Shared Divine Speed: Allows Killua to have an ally use Divine Speed. To use it, the ally must sync with Killua's aura and not be too far away. To maintain this synchronization you need a lot of training, moreover the ally must also endure electric shocks.
This ability also requires a high concentration on the part of Killua, for this reason only one of the 2 people subject to Divine Speed can make complex movements. It is mainly used to run fast in two or for clashes with only 1 opponent.
Sharing Divine Speed also involves a large consumption of electric charge in Killua.
- Double Jajanken: Allows Gon to simultaneously prepare 2 Jajanken in his punches.
Moving the aura of the body half to the right and half to the left reduces the charge time of the Jajanken, even if considered individually they are less powerful than the Jajanken loaded on a single punch.
Gon: Rock, paper,...
Pitou expands his Nen towards Gon and Killua for analysis, and notices that Gon is concentrating the aura in his 2 fists, making him vulnerable in the rest of the body, while Killua does not seem willing to attack.
Pitou crouches, withdraws the Nen inside his body, and leaps towards Gon, trying to hit him with his outstretched left arm, and claws joined.
Gon dodges the attack by shifting his body to the left and grabs Pitou's left arm with his right arm.
Pitou prepares to launch an attack with his right arm, but faster, Gon hits Pitou in the face with his left fist, causing her to lift up, and miss the blow with his right arm, which grazes Gon's head.
Gon: Rock!
Gon wants to knock her to the ground, but Pitou with his great agility manages to turn his pelvis and put one foot on the ground, which she then uses as a support to free herself from the grip.
Gon jumps back and starts preparing 2 Jajanken again.
Gon: Rock, paper,...
Pitou thinks: I didn't expect he to be so fast... let's see how far he can go.
Pitou throws himself at Gon again, but this time she tries to hit him sideways with his right arm and open hand.
Gon dodges the backward attack again, but Pitou has foreseen it, so she bends his right arm to deliver a surprise elbow from below.
Gon manages to cross his arms to parry, but is thrown very much in the air.
Pitou jumps, reaching higher than Gon, to hit him from above.
Deliver a blow with her left arm and open hand.
Gon uses his right arm to take Pitou's hand and squeeze it. Pitou takes advantage of it, and she too squeezes her left hand to block Gon's arm and, with her right arm, she wants to hit Gon from above on the neck, with her fingers together, thinking that in this way Gon will have no way to defend himself.
Gon: Scissors!
Gon with his left arm, creates a sword of Nen managing to parry with difficulty the attack of Pitou.
Pitou thinks: not bad, but...
Pitou strengthens his arm muscles a bit and uses them to send Gon to the ground very violently. Gon managed to avoid Pitou's claws and cushion the fall, thanks to his re-reads, but still suffered damage.
Meanwhile Pitou lands, Gon has already started loading 2 more Jajanken.
Gon: Rock, paper,...
It's bothering Pitou that Gon is able to dodge his blows, so this time he's going to hit Gon with a close repeating attack, and lunges at Gon.
Gon perceives this intention of Pitou, then turns around on himself creating an electrical circle that falls to the ground, and then returns to charge the 2 Jajanken.
Ability description
The technique used by Gon uses the En, and consists in creating an area around his body, containing the aura of Killua, which allows Gon to perceive the enemy attack at the exact moment it enters that area.
However, this ability only works if Gon doesn't leave the area.
Pitou arrives in front of Gon.
Gon: Scissors!
Gon creates two swords of Nen and starts exchanging fast repetitive blows with Pitou. Gon mainly aims to deflect Pitou's shots out of the electric area.
Pitou keeps hitting him faster and faster, then at one point she notices a distraction from Gon.
Pitou uses the distraction to hit Gon sideways with his left arm. Gon manages to parry the blow, but not deflect it.
While Gon is holding Pitou's left arm still, Pitou launches a right arm attack on Gon's legs.
Gon is forced to make a leap to avoid Pitou's blow, but in doing so he loses support.
Pitou gives a great force to his left arm to push Gon into the air, out of the electrical area, effectively managing to cancel that technique.
While Gon is in the air
Pitou thinks: this speed is starting to be a nuisance...
Pitou takes a murderous look at Killua because she intends to attack him while Gon is in the air.
Killua sensing danger uses the Snake Awakens.
Skill Description
- Snake Awakens: In this state, Killua uses his arms like a whip, increasing their speed and strength. Strength increases by modifying his hands, whose nails become like claws. This ability is used with Assassin Mode.
- Assassin Mode: skill in which Killua only thinks about killing the opponent, and remains active until he kills him. In the 2 years of training he has learned to use it also in a defensive way, that is, he thinks about killing only those who attack him, and he stops after some time that no one attacks him.
Pitou charges towards Killua, and when he reaches him, he starts hitting him in bursts.
In this case both Killua and Pitou don't think about deflecting blows, rather about hurting the opponent, and dodging.
Both cause tears in each other's dress, but never cause injury.
Pitou thinks: he has less strength than Gon, but he is faster and more precise, also every time I try to hit him in the support points, he takes advantage of it to aim at my vital points, making me back off.
While Pitou thinks about these things, Killua notices a distraction and manages to cause a small wound to Pitou's neck, which immediately jumps back.
Killua's Assassin Mode prevented him from thinking about anything else, as Pitou did, allowing him to hit her at least 1 time.
Pitou observes Killua with a normal look, she noticed the wound on his neck, but she also understood that it is only superficial, as if nothing had happened.
Gon suddenly arrives behind Pitou, and kicks her from the right, Pitou raises his right arm to block and is thrown away.
From how it appears it seems that Pitou got hit on purpose to move to the side.
Gon: hei! I am your opponent!
Pitou realizes that Gon was angry about what she did, and that now he seems to want to get serious; Pitou returns to make the murderous smiling face.
Gon prepares 2 quick Jajanken and throws a blow to the ground, while Pitou was approaching him.
This raises some dust that Gon wants to use to hide his presence with In.
Pitou shrouded in dust stops and thinks
Pitou thinks: I understand, he wants to try a surprise attack.
Pitou tries to use his ears, but he hears nothing because Gon is extremely good at moving quietly, so he focuses the Nen on his eyes and sees a shape that moves.
Pitou thinks: well, I can perceive its presence, even if in a very slight way; I just need to wait for his attack to hit him by surprise.
Gon is moving around Pitou, but at some point he stops and begins to concentrate the aura in one point.
Pitou thinks: hm! concentrating the aura in that way makes it easy to understand where it is.
Multiple orbs of concentrated aura begin to appear, one after the other in a row, forming a circle around Pitou.
Pitou at this point gets alert.
Pitou thinks: I could expand my aura and attack him first, but he could find some stratagem to avoid the blow... better wait for his misstep when he attacks.
The auras remain stationary for a while, then one of them begins to move quickly towards Pitou, which however manages to dodge it easily and launch an attack, with which it cuts it in half.
Pitou thinks: I understand, he created various spheres of Nen, in order to make me believe that he is one of them...
The spheres of concentrated aura, one at a time, are shot towards Pitou, who, however, easily dodges them, even managing to cut them with her claws.
Pitou thinks: he wants to distract me when in reality his goal is...
Pitou senses a faint aura that very quickly approaches her from a direction other than Nen's spheres.
Pitou, with incredible agility and speed, strikes by surprise where Gon's slight aura is,
but at that moment she discovers that that too was a sphere of Nen, only much weaker.
At that point Pitou returns to the alert, and decides to change strategy by expanding her aura in the area where there is dust, but she realizes that Gon is not there.
Pitou thinks: what!? that he is underground!?
Pitou waits for a moments, but then a doubt arises.
Pitou fires two lightning-fast blows with her arms to clear the dust, and when the dust clears, she sees Gon preparing 1 Jajanken far away from her, surrounded by a thicker layer of Killua's aura.
Pitou surprise thinks: he increased the aura of his companion around his body, and aligned to make me believe that he himself was Killua, leaving me here to wait for his misstep, but he never intended to take!
Pitou's gaze now begins to get angry as well as murderous.
Pitou expands his Nen so that he always has Gon in sight and avoids such a thing from happening again.
Skill Description
- The expansion of Pitou's Nen allows her to keep the opponent under control, always knowing exactly where he is, but also reduces the Nen in her body, therefore her defenses.
She decides to use this technique in combat only when she is sure that the Nen left in her body is enough to protect her from enemy blows; it remains a risky technique and tends to never use it in this way.
- Gon has learned, in the 2 years of training, to use his Nen emission abilities to move the aura out of his body, although he can do it for a short time, and a short distance.
Gon is preparing a Jajanken with his right arm, and Pitou has now realized that during that move Gon does not attack, and is also very weak in the rest of his body, so she attacks him quickly enough trying to pierce him with her left arm.
Pitou thinks: attacking him on the left, he will have to dodge to his left, in this way I can hit him in the exposed part of the body.
Gon dodges Pitou's blow again, similar to how he did at the beginning.
Pitou prepares to attack him with his right arm in the bare back, this time making sure to hit him even if Gon should try to knock her to the ground, as he did at the beginning.
Gon extends his index finger, which contains much of the Nen concentrated at the tip.
Gon: Sting!
Gon hits the center of Pitou's left hand, which he knows is a sensitive spot for many felines, while also using Killua's electricity.
Ability Description
- Sting: is a new variant of Jajanken, in which Gon concentrates the aura in a single finger, to inflict greater damage in a precise point, and also with less consumption of aura. However, Gon must decide a little in advance to use the Sting instead of the other techniques, because it takes time to focus the aura in the finger.
However, it remains difficult to tell whether Gon will use Sting or another technique, because as he loads it his fingers are inside the fist.
- Gon and Killua agreed before the fight to get Killua to use electricity in just that kind of attack on Pitou's hand.
Gon's blow sends a very strong electrical impulse to Pitou's brain, which becomes stunned, blocking her attack.
Gon doesn't know how long it takes Pitou to recover from such a blow, so he quickly walks away and prepares another Jajanken with his right hand.
Gon: Rock, paper,...
When Pitou recovers, her animal instincts make her very angry, considering the type of blow.
Pitou instinctively gets on all fours, with his mouth growling a little, and attacks Gon, running in that position, and moving repeatedly to make his attack unpredictable.
Pitou makes a very fast leap towards Gon, hands together and fingers closed (covering the weak points).
Gon tries to dodge the blow to the left but is still smeared, receiving a fairly deep wound across his belly.
Pitou also reinforced more body parts that Gon could have hit from that angle with his right arm while she was jumping.
Gon removes his left hand from his fist, which has concentrated Nen, and grabs Pitou's tail while she was still flying.
Skill description
Gon, while charging the Jajanken, was also concentrating some Nen in his left hand, in front of the fist, without letting it be noticed.
Gon squeezes Pitou's tail with the Nen, almost crushing it, also using an electric discharge through Killua's aura.
Note that Pitou's tail does not have an exoskeleton like the rest of the body, which is why Pitou felt the damage a lot.
All this blocks the flight of Pitou, who finds herself extremely stunned, more than before.
Gon grabs the tail with both hands while Pitou is in the air, and begins spinning it like a top, using Divine Speed (Gon has trained to avoid getting stunned after this).
Gon then jumps up and slams her back very hard to the ground, causing a small "explosion" with the respective crater, and causing the blow to bounce Pitou a bit in the air.
Gon immediately goes under her and hits her in the back with a not very strong blow of Nen, with the sole purpose of sending her flying through the air.
As Pitou flies through the air, Gon sets about preparing a Jajanken and this time he seems to be using more aura than before (he also has more time to charge it).
Pitou doubly stunned both by the shock in the tail and by the spinning top, while she is falling she has time to recover, managing for a short time to turn with all 4 legs towards Gon.
When she is about to reach Gon she gives off an extremely murderous aura full of rage, more than any other time.
Gon: Rock, paper,...
Pitou builds up the muscles in his arms, opens them and joins his fingers, because she intends to use them like a very fast scissor to cut Gon in half as soon as she gets to the ground.
Gon: Rock!
Pitou figures out which move Gon is going to use, and in fact manages to easily dodge Gon's blow.
The moment Pitou should cut him, her instinct makes her stop for a moment, as if something worries her, but then she continues the attack anyway.
This brief interruption causes her to drop her aim but still manages to hit him in the legs, which are both cut off.
Pitou landed crouched, and smiles with an extremely satisfied look, then raises her head, but immediately changes expression becoming surprised and slightly angry.
In the distance she sees Gon with his hand open towards her, and realizes he has cut a figure made of Nen, which then disappears.
Skill Description
- Clone: Gon and Killua have learned a combined skill specifically for the fight against Pitou.
With this ability, Gon uses the emission to release a portion of his aura, which will serve to create the shell, while Killua uses her transmutation abilities to make that aura take the form of Gon.
When Gon creates the clone, he moves around using In, so that the enemy thinks he has remained in the clone's position.
Killua's precision makes the clone shell need little aura, but there are many flaws: the clone lasts very little, can't move, and isn't well defined.
In a normal context, an enemy would quickly understand that he is not Gon.
- Cheat: Gon in Jajanken says he will use one skill while using another one instead. It is not a real skill.
Gon cheated by saying "Rock" even though the move was "Paper", during which he let out the aura to create the Clone, moving back with the In.
All this was successful mainly because:
- the battlefield still had some dust raised since Pitou was thrown to the ground.
- Pitou wanted to hit Gon so badly that she didn't think of anything else.
Pitou thinks: instinctively I must have realized that this was a clone and perhaps also of Gon's displacement, and this stopped me for a moment...
Pitou gets up slowly, getting back on his feet.
The animal part of Pitou pushes her to want to play with her prey, having the awareness, however, that she always has an advantage; in this fight instead Pitou is starting to think that she is the one with whom Gon is playing (even if she has not received any real damage, compared to Gon).
This thought prompts her to make an exaggeratedly murderous, angry and a little excited expression.
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