Child of Chaos - OLD VERSION - REWRITE is up

by Curiosity44

My OLD version of this story. Check out the REWRITE The Chaotic Traveler.

6. Second World Part 1

Chapter 4: Hunter X Hunter Part 1.

Stepping out of the door of light, I found myself in a dark alleyway with the sounds of a busy city in the background.

I looked around but there was nothing really interesting about my arrival location.

'So I'm here, Zaban city.'

It only took a minute to get out of the alleyway and onto the street's to catch sight of busy streets.

I couldn't help but smile at the sight, there was a special feel to middle easter bazaar type busy streets, and this place had that.

"*Meow.*"

I chuckled at Shadow's imperious tail pointing from my shoulder.

She was looking around in just as much curiosity as me.

I spent an hour walking around randomly while blending in before I decided to make a logical move.

'Let's find a library.'

Asking for directions, I found a library easily enough.

I had to pay an entrance fee, but the man at the front easily let me in after I threw down a couple bronze Knut's to distract him while hitting him with a Confundus charm.

He accepted the bronze coins like it was normal currency and let me in.

'I need books on geography, economy, and history.'

I couple a dozen books easily enough, and after a full year of almost daily grinding of memorizing books, it didn't even take me an hour to memorize all the content.

Then I sat in a chair under a disillusionment charm and meditated for an hour, rapidly going through all the info in the books, and boom.

I had all the info I needed.

Just so you know, magical books need a shit ton of attention to detail so you can pick apart the bullshit and nonsense from the valuable info.

Wizards and witches loved, absolutely loved, to go on and on about nonsense and posture.

80% of some books were complete trash, but that last 20% was valuable and worth the pain.

But these books were just general information, and it was easy to skim through and get everything I needed.

The world of Hunter X Hunter has 6 continents and about 250 countries in total.

And despite that number, they only have around 2 billion humans.

Why is that? The answer is this world is fucking brutal.

Magical creatures, vicious beasts, terrifying danger zones, and really dark and fucked up humans are the main reason.

Really, even this city is famous for being the location of a serial killer who managed to finish off over 240 people before being taken down by a hunter after the bounty.

This world is truly one of survival of the fittest.

And one thing I remember from canon, is that the entire 'known world' with all 6 continents, is actually just a lake in the dark continent, which is known as the 'Unknown world'.

There were 5 attempts by humans in recorded history to enter the unknown world, and each one ended in tragedy while often bringing calamities back upon the 'Known world'.

In the end, it was decided to leave it alone and try not to think about it by the majority of the human world.

As for humanity, they are actually quite advanced in weird ways.

They don't have airplanes, but they blimps that are just as fast as an airplane.

They have buildings over a thousand feet high.

And the list goes on.

It's definitely not the most technologically advanced world out there, but it has done a great job with the year only being 1999 and constantly having life threatening dangers everywhere.

The currency of the world is called 'Jenny' and its equivalent to Japanese yen in value. With 1 USD equaling 100 Yen or Jenny.

A can of soda would go for 150 Jenny, or 1.50 USD.

See how it works? Good.

There are all kinds of crazy beasts, magical and natural, as well as fauna, flora, and minerals that would dazzle any researcher back on Earth.

And the people who stand at the top of this world are the Hunters.

The Hunter Association was currently led by Isaac Netero, the strongest human in the world, and one funny old man.

The guy took up the post as the 13th chairman at the age of fifty, and he's over 110 years old now. And even still, no one fucks with the guy. He could fall from a few thousand feet and make it look badass as he walks away casually from a crater he made.

The Hunter Association is a non-governmental organization responsible for the testing and licensing of "Hunters"; individuals who have proven themselves through the rigorous exam to be elite members of humanity.

With the passing of the Hunter Exam, an applicant is rewarded with a license to go almost anywhere in the world and do almost anything, thus declaring them Hunters. Typically, Hunters devote themselves to tracking down priceless items, mystical places, and the unseen wonders of the world.

Out of the entire population of over 2 billion, there are only ever around 700 hunters at a time.

And not all of them are even human.

To the hunter association, it matters not if you human, evil, righteous, an assassin, or a monk.

Anyone can be a hunter if they pass the exam.

And the exam often has hundreds of deaths every time.

People everywhere flock to try and become a hunter, like moths to a flame.

The association has connections in almost every corner of the world, and becoming a hunter gets you access to their information network and recourses, for a price of course.

This world is as brutal as it is beautiful.

And then you have the supernatural ability of Nen.

It's not only hunters that have Nen, but every real hunter has it.

There should be around one to two thousand in the world with access to at least the basics of Nen.

To become a full time hunter, you have to learn the basics of Nen. The actual exam is only to see if you qualify to be a hunter, and only then are you offered a chance to learn Nen.

The association does not control its members at all.

As Netero said in the anime, as long as you pass the exam, you could attempt to kill him, and he couldn't order you to stop.

He would probably break every bone in your body in seconds, but he couldn't order you to stop.

'I fucking love this place.'

This was like a fantasy world to me.

Change and chaos brings opportunity and progression, peace and order brings stagnation and corruption.

A balance is always needed, and a common enemy of humanity always helps.

Humans are not the top dog here.

Isn't that an interesting thought? Humans not standing at the top of the food chain.

But anyway, for all my words, I don't mean the world doesn't have peaceful areas.

Gon grew up on a laid back island with a happy and friendly town.

Shrugging at my thoughts, I got up and left the library.

'I should get some money, find someplace to stay for the night, and decide what to do moving forward.'

Finding a pawn shop was easy. Getting the scummy guy behind the counter to play fair was also easy with a Confundus charm, and considering he wasn't really evil, just scummy, I left him with silver for the price of gold, instead of leaving him with bronze.

It was a nice charitable move by me.

*nod* *nod*

Finding a hotel was also easy, the city would be the sight of the next hunter exam in a week, so hotels were everywhere welcoming people.

I chose one of the better ones and checked in easily.

'I find it amazing how much freedom this world has.'

I was over 12 years old physically, and even if I looked a bit older, like I was 13 or 14, no one bothered to question me when I forked over money.

'Then again, Gon and Killua traveled all around and never had issues like that.'

I chuckled at the thought and sat on my lavish hotel room bed while playing with Shadow in my lap.

'I think I should deal with that annoying feeling.'

Since I arrived in this world, a weird sensation was assaulting my senses, but I used my occlumency to suppress it.

Entering a trance, I stepped into my mind and looked at my memories.

'The feeling was always when I looked at others or vice versa….ah! Is this perception?'

Getting a feel for the sensation through my memory, I realized this was my new natural sense to perceive those around me like a sixth sense.

It's not like my eagle vision or something like Observation Haki.

It's like a weird feeling of looking at someone and knowing: 'This person is weaker than me.' Or 'I could take that guy.'

'How interesting.'

It's not really that big of a deal, but I'll be suppressing it for now and releasing it a little at a time so I can adjust.

As for the other talents I got, I don't really feel anything.

"Gol."

*Pop*

"Yes master?"

"Can you bring me some ingredients for a meal?"

"Right away master."

I walked over to the small kitchen in my hotel room and took the ingredients.

I wanted to test this Gourmet Talent.

Minutes later, I was surprised to see me cooking like a pro.

I had always enjoyed cooking and learned a bit from Sil over the last year, but now, it's not so much that I have the 'magic' touch, Ha, but that my mind naturally comes up with the better way to heat this, cut that, spice this, and creative ideas for recipes filled my mind.

"*Whistle*, damn this is cool. It feels like I was born to be a chef right now."

Despite my over the moon feeling, I was only making a simple egg omelet…

But hey, Shadow was clinging to me with her claws out, threatening my health if I didn't feed her some of what's in the pan.

"Ok ok, wait at the table girl."

"*Meow.*"

I had made this dish many times before, but now the flavor was enhanced way more than before.

'I can get used to this. I might be Sil out of a job though…'

Speaking of my house elves, I called them out.

"Gol, Sil, Bron."

*Pop* *pop* *pop*

"Yes master?"

"Yes sir?"

"Reporting for duty sir!"

"At ease….fucking hell Bron… guys I have a mission for you."

Seeing them nod their heads, I went on.

"I want you guys to explore this world a bit, find new spices, foods, and things you think could be of benefit to us. And have fun while you do it.

For the most part, I'll be busy and around others this year, so I want you guys to keep yourselves busy.

Of course, my warehouse is our home, and you can enter it whenever you want to rest.

I'll still call on you when I need you, but unless you see that I'm alone, always stay invisible and don't be seen by others.

Remember that there are many dangerous people and monsters in this world that will likely see through your invisibility, so be extra cautious and flee at the first sign of trouble.

Can I count on you three?"

Gol bowed his head, Sil bowed from the waist, and Bron was jumping up and down in excitement.

"Oh and Sil, check in on Bron every now and then ok? Keep him out of trouble."

Sil sighed but nodded with a tired face.

"Yes sir."

I chuckled at him and gave them all a head pat and thanks before sending them off.

'I'm sure they will have some fun adventures.'

After dealing with my elves, I decided to make my own plan.

"Why don't I just follow canon for now? I'm sure it will be fun to stick with Gon and Killua for a while, those two might be kids, but they are surprisingly mature and extremely skilled. I could learn a lot from hanging out with them.

Yeah, let's do that.

That means I'm aiming for the hunter exam in a week, so maybe I should try and activate my Nen for now."

I put my blissfully sleeping cat who passed out in a food coma on my pillow and sat cross legged on the bed.

'How does one activate Nen again? You have to open your Aura Nodes through consistent meditation or all at once from someone else forcing their aura into you.

But do I need to follow the normal rules?'

Activating my eagle vision, I looked down at myself and my eyes widened at the sight.

'Hm, so these are aura nodes.'

Unlike before when I looked at myself, now I can see trails of inactive nerves flowing through my body, just under my skin.

These nerves have no blood or anything flowing through them, they are a grey dull inactive color.

'From the anime, Wing had just needed to 'Shock' Gon and Killua into awakening all their nodes at one time. So perhaps I just need to 'Shock' myself.'

I thought on all the spells I know of.

!

'Wait, could it really be that simple?'

My magic works based on imagination, and most of my spells can succeed or fail based on my intended target.

Raising my right hand, I focused my spell into my finger, and then with my eyes activated, I tapped my finger on my left forearm.

'The unlocking charm.'

A first year spell meant to unlock what was locked.

It was limited by having to actually 'know' and be able to 'see' what you wanted to unlock, and even then, if the lock was magical, you had to overpower the magic in the lock.

But right here, on my own body, my own magical resistance wasn't activated against my own magic, and with a simple touch, the nodes cracked open with a light *crack* sound.

It felt warm.

But that was just the start.

Like a chain reaction, the unlocked node lit up with my own aura, or the energy of my own life force, and started rushing like high pressured water in pipes to all my other nodes.

My hand, wrist, elbow, upper arm, shoulder, it kept going, picking up speed, and in less than a minute, my whole body had their nodes turned on.

'Hot!'

I grunted in pain and quickly threw up a silencing charm around me, so as not to wake my cat.

It felt like fire was traveling around me, and then all at once, a white gas like substance started flowing off my body like steam.

'My aura.'

After activating my Nen, I had to immediately use Ten to start reigning in my aura before too much escaped from me like a broken faucet.

If I lost to much of my aura, I could pass out and possibly get severely injured from the result.

Taking a deep breath and ignoring the pain, I calmed my mind and focused.

Thankfully, my pain threshold was much higher than this.

'Calm, let the aura flow, let it flow through my body. Down my arms, to the tips of my fingers, into my chest, down into my legs and feet.

*Inhale* *Exhale*… *Inhale* *Exhale*

Now, slow the flow, bring it back in.'

It only took me a few minutes before I opened my eyes to see that even without my eagle vision, it looked like I was wearing a second skin of white energy.

'So this is Nen?'

It was a weird feeling, calming, and uplifting, empowering and exciting.

'Hm, I think that's enough for the moment.'

The idea behind Ten is that it doesn't actually improve your physically qualities, but it is the general state all Nen users stay in.

It takes a while of meditation and focus, but eventually you learn how to keep it on as a second nature, even while you sleep.

Ten helps protect you from malicious Nen of others.

Do you know what Conqueror's Haki is?

Well projecting negative emotions through Tento others is kind of like that on a much weaker scale. And when you use Ren, that aspect is enhanced from 1 to 10. You can actually kill people by projecting negative emotions through Ren to those who don't have Ten to protect themselves.

Hisoka and Illumi had scared the crap out of Gon and Killua just by projected their Ten, let along their Ren.

The two kids were scared shitless and couldn't even take a step forward in their fear.

It's a psychological attack from those with Nen to those without it.

Not to say it's a perfect attack, but it's one way to attack and especially to intimidate or frighten.

Focusing my mind, I put my emotion into my Ten and I felt it take shape behind me, like a stand from JoJo but without any real power, a white glowing Tiger manifested behind me.

It looked almost like a Patronus.

I could only hold it for a few seconds before I was breathing hard and exhausted.

'*Huff* this shit is *huff* hard.'

Building up your aura requires daily effort and meditation. It a slow grind but one that never truly ends.

Falling backwards on my bed, I smiled and let myself start drifting off to sleep.

'Ha, day one and I got Nen, fuck you world.'

*Line Break*

The week flew by as I got used to this world and trained in my Nen.

I worked on daily meditation for both my Ten and reading through books and practicing spells in my room.

I also had to decide on something important.

How did I want to be viewed in this world?

Magical creatures existed, and many of them coexisted with humans, so should I just say I have magic?

'Nah, that's too simple and lacks chaos.'

But then the idea hit me.

I'm initiating plan: 'hiding in plain sight.'

I'll pull a Hisoka move.

On January 7th, I stood atop the tallest building in the city, and surveyed the landscape.

'I really do like high places.'

While laughing at that thought, I kept using my eagle vision to scan the city for the building I was looking for.

One I recalled from the anime.

'Ah, there it is.'

With a combination of Disillusionment charm, Featherweight charm, and Levitation charm, I glided across the city through the air.

I discovered how to achieve flight, even if it's quite slow.

I just make myself light, and then use the Levitation charm on my shoes, gloves, and shirt, and boom, I've achieved simple flight.

Warning: not advised in combat, you will probably die.

I came to a stop at the building I aimed for and activated my aura sight.

Beneath the building in question, I saw a congregation of aura's and a few of them were yellow.

'This is the place.'

Still invisible, I walked in to the restaurant, ignored the guy I'm supposed to give a password to, walked into the elevator disguised as a private room, and hit the button.

The room shook and started descending.

I saw a camera in the corner of the ceiling, and with a fun idea, I cast a glamour charm on myself.

*Ding*

The elevator came to the end, and the doors opened, allowing me to step out in all my gloriousness.

I was immediately approached by a three foot tall jelly green jellybean looking man in a suit.

"Welcome to the hunter exa….huh? Didn't you already come in?"

I smiled cheerily at the little man.

"No, I don't believe so~."

The man looked creeped out but still nodded.

"R-right, well, welcome to the 287th hunter exam. Your number is #69. Please patiently wait for the test to begin."

He didn't stick around after finishing his words, but I just smiled cheerily.

Walking inside, the smile didn't leave my face even as people started backing away from me and clearing a path.

'Hm, I've discovered a new aura color, purple means fear.'

I found a nice spot to sit and pulled out a deck of cards, slowly shuffling and minding my own business.

It didn't surprise me when a few moments later, I had someone standing in front of me with interest.

"My, my, and who might you be?"

I looked up to meet my guest with their exact same face.

"Me? Why I'm Hisoka. And you?"

Hisoka's face just smiled wider.

"I believe I am also called Hisoka." (Hisoka)

"Is that so? Then perhaps I'm Hisoka 2.0?" (Jin)

"Would that mean I'm Hisoka 1.0?"

"Hm, I think so, yeah, your 1.0 and I'm 2.0."

"Does 2.0 make you better or worse?"

"Perhaps it's equal?"

"Hmmm…."

The air grew tense as both of our Ten was unconsciously released, making everyone else back away as if a storm were approaching.

A tortured insane malevolent purple skull appeared from Hisoka's Ten while a ferocious tiger appeared from mine.

Both were illusory reactions to our Ten but to everyone around, it looked like a violent clash was seconds away, and some force was pushing down on them, making them very afraid of the two titans in front of them clashing.

Hisoka surprisingly didn't step it up to Ren, most likely because those around us would start dying.

And then like a bubble being popped, I held up the cards.

"Wanna play?"

"Oh~! Sounds fun."

And that's how I became friends with Hisoka.

Everyone fell on their face and the world ended soon after.

*Line Break*

Hours flew by while I waited for the exam to start as more people arrived.

"*Sigh*."

"I agree, waiting can be boring."

But at least I was entertained. Hisoka seemed to understand my sighs instinctively, the guy was scary smart.

We talked and played card games for these hours, and if you ever tried to get to know the guy, outside of his creepy stalker attitude he likes to show when he see's something he wants to fight, he is pretty interesting.

The reason I took on the illusion of Hisoka's appearance with a glamour charm was for fun, and I was quite confident in being able to run away even if I couldn't subdue him.

The glamour charm is like the transformation jutsu from Naruto. It doesn't change my physical form but creates an illusion around me. Its only really usable by those who use occlumency, because you need to be very detailed in its set up, or the charm will fail.

My Nen was in its baby steps, but don't look down on charms and magic, I make the most of it unlike Harry Potter wizards with half a brain.

Or maybe I should say a 1/4th of a brain.

Besides, you can't kill a person before the exam starts or you risk being disqualified. Hisoka did that last year, earning him a scary reputation among applicants, but he wouldn't want to risk it again.

Anyway, the reason I became friends with him, was his aura.

Whereas people might be a mix of one or two colors, he was like a rainbow, his aura constantly shifted between emotions when he looked at me.

It was chaotic and fun.

For the most part, it stays green, but there is a strong presence of red in there, meaning he is friendly but is still interested in fighting me. The colors can change on a whim and I immediately adapt to deal with him like I'm dealing with a wild dragon. He is honestly great training for learning how to handle my new perception.

Hisoka can be summed up with three things.

One, he loves to fight strong opponents and crush them.

Two, he loves any potential he can find, and tries to 'grow' them, or wait for them to grow enough to fight him.

His love for Gon in canon was not actually pedophilia like many think, he just loved the potential he saw and got a hard on for wanting to crush it at its peak.

I don't think he even thinks about sex, he's probably asexual.

And three, he likes to act like a magician in a jokers outfit, making his Nen abilities look like magic tricks.

Oh and he likes candy and has a surprising amount of info of clichés from anime.

But he does have an insane bloodlust and if he doesn't fight it, he can turn into an insane killing machine.

So that led to now, where I was playing a game of Go Fish, while we ate from a bowl of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Jelly Beans, and my bewitched tea set kept making and pouring us tea.

It was a surreal sight to anyone that looked at us, especially because there were two Hisoka's playing cards while a floating tea pot and two tea cups kept refilling our cups.

When I told Hisoka about the beans, he looked like a kid at Christmas, and he was happy to share some tea, the guy had class and refinement.

Only a neanderthal rejects good tea.

"Got any twos? Bleh, grass really? *Sip*." (Jin)

"Go fish, hm, peaches, nice. *Sip*." (Hisoka)

"Got any fours? Oh~ cinnamon. *Sip*." (Hisoka)

"*Passes two fours*, Ew, tomato? *Sip*." (Jin)

"Got any eights? *Urk* S-sulpher? *Siiippp*. (Jin)

"Haha *passes two eights*, oh my, bubblegum, my favorite. *Sip*. (Hisoka)

"Why do you keep getting all the good ones!? *Sip*" (Jin)

"I guess version 1.0 has better luck." (Hisoka)

"Bah, some people get all the luck." (Jin)

"Do you think we should deal with our stalker?" (Hisoka)

Internally, I laughed really hard at Hisoka asking that question.

"Hm, I think I know what they are after." (Jin)

Hisoka raised an eye brow in interest.

"Oh? Do tell." (Hisoka)

I just picked up a jelly bean, and under Hisoka's watchful eye, I flicked it upward to the right.

A black shadow flashed through, and the jellybean vanished.

"The hell?! Was that glue!" (?)

"Oh! Now I see." (Hisoka)

Hisoka followed my example and flicked one to another side.

"Yay! Marshmallow." (?)

For the next fifteen minutes, Hisoka and I entertained ourselves by flicked jelly beans at weird angles, and watching every single one be caught, followed by exclamations of suffering or joy.

Eventually it got old and we both stopped at some unspoken agreement, but that just caused our new friend to come to us.

"Hey, why did you stop? That was fun."

I chuckled and lifted my tea cup.

"It is tea time, and it got old. *Sip*" (Jin)

Hisoka nodded sagely and sipped his own tea.

"Indeed. *Sip*." (Hisoka)

We got annoyed looks from our guest, a short white haired boy.

"Eh, that's boring."

I waved my hand in front of the jelly bean bowl and it vanished under a disillusionment charm.

Hisoka eyed the spot interestingly.

The kid was trying to figure out how I did the magic trick.

"Oi! Where did the candy go?"

"Was it ever really here?" (Jin)

Hisoka jumped on the train.

"Hm~, perhaps it was just his imagination?" (Hisoka)

We spent a bit teasing the kid, who was 100% Killua.

But eventually the joke was up when Hisoka picked up a jelly bean from the invisible bowl.

'I think that proves Nen can see through disillusionment charms.'

Killua caught on and went after the bowl, but I just levitated it side to side, making him keep missing the invisible bowl.

When I saw his aura start to gradually turn red while he considered murdering us, I just laughed and tossed him a box of chocolate.

Killua was famous for his obsession with sweets, and instantly calmed down in half a second.

"Thanks man, what are you anyway?"

I puffed up my chest.

"Why, I'm a wizard!"

Killua just stared at me with blank eyes before turning to Hisoka.

"And you?"

Hisoka copied my movement.

"Why, I'm a magician!"

Killua turned around.

"And I'm going over there."

Hisoka and I chuckled.

I watched as more people arrived, and eventually the group of Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio arrived, signaling the exam would be starting soon.

"Well, this has been fun Hisoka, let's stay in touch."

Hisoka's aura randomly started turning red so I tossed the bag of jelly beans at him, making him stay green.

"You can keep those."

Hisoka pouted but still handed over a piece of paper with his number.

"Fine, this has been very entertaining. I do wonder what I would find under that illusion."

"You would find a wizard of course."

"Haha indeed. Goodbye for now Hisoka 2.0."

"Goodbye Hisoka 1.0."

I walked away into the crowd with a wave and used a Lumos maxima to blind everyone while I turned invisible, erased the glamour, took out my cat, and moved to another side of the room.

And just like that, Hisoka 2.0 was never here.

As for my badge number, I never showed it to Hisoka.

The far wall of the room shook before rising up and showing a man in a suit with no visible mouth standing at the entrance to a massive tunnel.

"Welcome to the 287th hunter exam, I will be the first phase exam instructor, please follow me to the second phase."

No one got a chance to ask what he meant before he turned around and started walking into the tunnel, making all 405 examinees have to follow.

The walk became a speed walk, and that speed walk became a jog before that jog became real running.

The first exam had begun, and it was to run a marathon in an underground tunnel with no knowledge of the destination in time or distance.

It was interesting seeing people drop out one after the other, while I just stayed invisible and rode a broom while shadow was on my shoulder and pointing to random people.

Her point meant: "Shoot that guy."

And as it was the command of the holy fluff, I took out a desert eagle from its holster on my waist and took aim.

Getting a gun in this world was quite simple.

I just asked Gol to find me one.

He came back in two hours after finding a drug deal going on and took one of the crates of weapons.

That crate held eight desert eagles in it.

And I'm happy it had that much because from testing, I discovered that shooting magic bullets does in fact damage the gun slowly.

You see, magic works by imagination but still has a few rules in there like you can't create something from nothing.

A water summoning spell for example just takes oxygen out of the air and uses your mana as the price to fill in the missing parts, making water.

Anyway, I used occlumency to change my view on spells, making them go from flashy lights with various speeds to being in the form of bullets that have a consistent speed.

I can just point my finger and shoot a bullet off the end.

But here is where imagination plays a big role.

If I use a gun, even without a clip in it, and shoot the bullet out of the guns barrel after clicking the trigger, my mind makes the bullets fly faster and harder because of the solid image of a real gun shooting.

And then, using an actual gun is much more accurate than using my finger.

It's just easier to aim this way.

But when I use the gun, just like with the water summoning charm, making fills in the blanks, and lets the gun do its role, making me need less magic per bullet, but the firing pin gets damaged, and the barrel deforms slightly.

Still, if I needed to, I could shoot bullets out of my fingers, palm, mouth, or anywhere really.

It's just about being efficient and the mental image.

You have to truly believe it for it to work, not just a surface thought.

That's why even if you learned wandless magic, you would still use your hand to cast magic.

It's just an ingrained mental image.

So now I have half a dozen desert eagles, considering two broke in testing, that I can use to shoot spells in the form of bullets.

I would give each gun around fifty shots before they break down.

Oh, and I can put a silence charm on the gun since my mind automatically believes there should be a *bang* sound when you fire a gun.

Point. Shoot. Knockback Jinx. "Ah! Was I shot?!"

Point. Shoot. Ice Jinx. "Ah! My nuts are cold!"

Point. Shoot. Dancing feet charm. "Wtf is this?!"

Point. Shoot. Tickling charm. "Ahahaha!"

Point. Shoot. Slowing charm. "WWhhhhyyyyyy aammmmm iiii."

Point. Shoot. Confundus charm. "Huh? Where am I?"

Point. Shoot. Cheering charm. "Haha! Isn't this fun!"

Mass chaos was engulfing the crowds as various people were being hit with various harmless charms while not understanding where and how it was happening.

I did sense a few gazes on me and followed them to see Satoz, the examiner, Illumi disguised as gillitak, and Hisoka.

I just waved their way, getting a chuckle from Satoz, a blank sideways stare from Illumi, and a cheery wave from Hisoka. Even if the guy couldn't see through my glamor charm with Nen, he knew who I was now.

Flying on a broom and having a cat while causing random chaos down below kinda fits the image of a wizard.

But who cares?

Shadow was having a blast and kept searching for new targets.

Point.

'Oh? She chose Leorio? Haha let's give him a boost.'

I was at the point in the race where Leorio was losing steam and wanted to give up, so I sent a Bravery charm his way.

The force of the bullet knocked him over, making Gon and as a result Killua stop to look at him.

"RAA! I WILL BECOME A HUNTER!" (Leorio)

Like a bull chasing the color red, Leorio got a second wind and took off running, leaving behind a dust trail while the kids laughed and followed him. Gon was even nice enough to grab Leorio's briefcase.

'*Whistle* damn he's got some speed on him.'

The marathon went on.

5km, 10km, 20km, 40km, 60km, 70km.

More and more people dropped out, and the people running were all mixed up with some trailing behind Satoz and others way in the back.

Shadow eventually got bored and went back to sleeping on my shoulder.

At the 70km point, the tunnel reached an endless staircase, and Satoz was literally skipping up it at eight stairs a step.

The guy was a beast.

The stairs went on for a full 10km, with plenty of people dropping out while climbing.

Satoz stopped at the top of the stairs, where it opened up into a wild marshland covered in thick fog.

While floating above everyone invisible to everyone but a few, I watched entertained while laying down with Shadow on my chest as the scene from canon repeated itself.

People trickled out of the tunnel until a gate came down and closed on one guy who tried to struggle past.

Then a magical beast monkey, called a Man-Faced Ape, appeared copying the face of some random guy and proclaiming that Satoz was an imposter.

Everyone panicked, unsure of what to do, and then Hisoka threw Nen infused cards at the monkey and the examiner.

The monkey died; the examiner caught them.

Problem was solved.

Only thing is, the guy threw cards at me to!

Sure I avoided it and shot a bullet back at him, but that just made him happier as we both dodged.

'If it weren't for my perception I would have been caught off guard there.'

He cheerily smiled back, and I shook my head.

'Guys crazy in a fun way.'

There were 368 examinees left.

The exam continued as Satoz told us to follow him through the deadly marshland full of dense fog. It was nicknamed the 'Swindlers Swamp' for a very good reason.

Beasts, magical, mutant, or otherwise bizarre, inhabited this place.

Flying ravens mimicked Satoz's voice and drew groups of people off trail to their death.

Hypnosis Butterflies would bewitch people with their dust, putting them to sleep and then laying larvae on the victim's body.

Those things were annoying with all the dust, but my mind was safe from such weak attacks.

I did make a hobby of shooting them whenever I saw them though. Dust in the face isn't cool man.

On the ground you had Noggin Lugging Tortoise's, truck sized man eating turtles with strawberry shaped poles on its shell that can be confused for other humans in the thick fog.

Frog-In-Waiting's, large carnivorous species of frogs, that camouflages itself beneath the ground and waits with its mouth open. When potential prey walks over their hiding spot their mouths snap-close swallowing their prey instantly.

Claymore mushrooms that explode on contact and leave spores to grow on the corpses of its victim's.

This place was a true minefield of dangerous and vicious beasts wanting to prey on anything that comes their way.

Screams of terror resounded throughout the marshland as people met their inevitable end.

It's quite weird how accepting I was of all this death, but honestly, I have my shit together.

In my mind, I accept that all worlds are truly a survival of the fittest. If I personally wanted to save someone, I would do it, but playing hero? Fuck that shit.

Death just isn't the same to me after I actually died.

I don't want to die, but I'm not adverse to taking life.

Does that make me a hypocrite? Perhaps, but who cares.

I'm gonna live my life the way I want to, I don't have time or interest in moral dilemmas.

Why flying around and shooting any flying creature that tried to approach, I observed various people dying in various ways until I froze as I saw a certain herd of beasts.

'Oh? Well this will make my life easier.'

I took aim at the giant van sized carnivorous pigs, the Great Stamps, and shot a single bullet, right between three of them.

*Boom!*

*RAAA!*

All three in my range got flipped over by the Bombarda charm and I followed up by shooting a string of three bullets one after the other, one for each giant pig.

One limit I have is I can't put more than three spells in a chain.

It's something I'm working on but its slow going.

Each bullet was a stunner charm, or stupefy if you want to be technical.

It's a spell that knocks the target unconscious without any lasting damage.

But to my surprise, the pigs didn't go down with one hit.

'Damn, these things have too much fat on them.'

When there was too much fat or a thick enough hide, magic lost a lot of its effect, not to mention these aren't normal animals.

One major point of Harry Potter world magic, is that POWER is not in their dictionary. They use finesse to an art form, but compared to many other worlds, they are depressingly weak power wise.

And I can only use charms, any type of curse doesn't work for me as it leans toward dark arts.

Still, I just had to hit the pigs with another two shots each to make them go down.

'*phew* fat bastards. Just wait for me to cut you up and eat you.'

Great Stamps were quite the delicacy. Their meat was top quality stuff.

Using a severing charm, or three, I slit the throat on of the pigs.

The severing charm can be changed into bullet form, but rather than cut, it would pierce.

That's why I have to change the 'bullet' into a blade of compressed air after I pull the trigger to make it cut.

"Gol."

*Pop*

"Yes master?"

"Take thes…"

I raised an eyebrow when I took a look at him.

Gol had changed his butlers uniform for a Hawaiian shirt, and he was holding an open coconut with a straw in it.

"Ah, was I um… interrupting?"

Gol coughed and vanished his coconut.

"*Cough* not at all master, what did you need?"

I just pointed to the two stunned pigs without their throats cut.

"Can you take these two to the butchering area in the kitchen and carve them up before storing the meat? Then go back to whatever you were doing."

"Right away master."

Gol snapped his fingers and the pigs vanished, being moved to my warehouse before he to left.

'Haha, even a house elf needs some vacation time once in a while.'

After he left, I levitated the pig whose throat I cut and waited a bit for the blood to drain out.

A few other beasts approached at the smell of blood, but I just stunned them and left them there. Not my problem.

Once blood stopped coming out, I stored it in my moleskin pouch as its easier to remove stuff from.

'I really need to figure out a direct way to use my inventory without having to use the iPhone, this thing is really annoying me.'

Flying back up, it wasn't hard to find the final destination from my vantage point.

The location of the second exam was a building with a large, gated courtyard. It stood out like a sore thumb amongst all the trees and the fog didn't approach.

The building sat on the edge of the marshlands fog.

It was a 20km run across the marshland, making the first exam 100km in total.

For those who can't or are too lazy to do the mental math, that's over 62 miles.

Knowing I had to be visible for the next exam, I came down and leaned against a tree while being visible.

'Seems I'm still a bit early. Only forty or so people are here.'

Satoz came over while people were still trickling in.

"That's an interesting ability young man."

I stretched out my hand and he shook it good naturedly.

"Thanks, there are many benefits to being a wizard."

Satoz chuckled at that.

"Specialists truly are different from the rest. This exam has so many gems. I wish you the best of luck."

With a polite nod, he went back to standing in front of the gate to the building where the second exam will be held.

While I waited I meditated silently and kept thinking on my iPhone inventory issue.

'I know Zelretch said I should make the warehouse my own but how do I do that? Maybe I can do something with my Hatsu?

But how?'

By the time I thought up and rejected the 28th idea, Satoz rung a bell and spoke up.

"The first exam has come to a close. 220 examinees have fallen behind or died, leaving the 145 remaining applicants here to continue to the second phase.

I wish you all the best of luck."

With that brief message, he turned about face and walked back into the fog like he was going for a stroll.

'Then again, the 100km here was pretty much a stroll for him.'

If I haven't mentioned it yet, people in this world can achieve superhuman physical abilities just by training.

Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio took three weeks of training to push open two, two-ton doors.

That's four tons total and they pushed that open after only three weeks of training.

Crazy right?

My guess is that this is due to Nen.

First off, Nen is a highly kept secret from the world. The information is kept secret by organizations like the Hunter Association and various groups and higher ups.

Whenever something strange happens in the world, the general populace think it's some kind of mutant or magical occurrence.

Second, there is the potential to use it.

Even if the vast majority don't have the potential to use Nen, and their aura nodes are closed, I assume some of their aura can leak through cracks and allow them to grow beyond the normal human limit.

There was a recorded state of many people unconsciously being in a half awakened state.

But this takes grueling training and effort in difficulty rather the amount of time necessary.

Say you did a push up for example.

That push up wouldn't be more effective here than back on earth.

But if you did 1000 pushups?

You would grow incredibly fast compared to earth where you would just hurt yourself.

It would burn and it would suck, but you would improve rapidly.

It's amazing how little effort people are willing to put into growing strong when being a superhuman is within reach.

I say it's a mix of them not knowing, and not caring enough to try.

'I'm curious how fast you can grow physically WITH your Nen activated?'

My thoughts were interrupted by a shout.

"Oi! Get your collective asses in here!"

Everyone snapped out of where they were staring at where Satoz had left and walked into the now open gated courtyard.

Inside we found rows and rows of outdoor professional kitchen islands. A full two hundred if I had to guess.

And sitting at the front, outside the building on the front porch while sitting in a lounge chair was our second exam examiner.

"It's about time you louts! Hm.. Satoz was to soft, there's over 140 of you still here. Well no matter, I'll be cutting down that number by at least a hundred."

There was a round of curses and raised tension but the woman at the front ignored it and stood up.

"Welcome to the second phase of the 287th hunter exam, I'll be your examiner today. My name is Menchi, and this here is my partner for this year's exam, Buhara."

She pointed behind her at the massive sumo wrestler sized man, or a man who ate a sumo wrestler, sitting back there with a friendly smile on his face.

"Hello, my name is Buhara."

I smiled at the sight of these two.

Despite Menchi's words, both of them had mellow green aura's, they were friendly and chill people, even if Menchi looks like she could fly into a rage at the drop of a hat.

'Can't hate on that body though.'

Menchi had green eyes and turquoise colored hair paired with an extremely fit looking feminine body. She ties the back of her hair into 5 top knots while her bangs frame her face and wears a bikini top with a mesh shirt worn over it, alongside daisy duke denim shorts. She also had a pair of sharp chef knives strapped on her lower back.

In short, she was smoking hot and wore just a bit more than a bikini.

In comparison, Buhara was a hulking figure with a large potbelly and an incredibly kind looking face.

It was a funny combo, like seeing Anko from Naruto stand next to a super friendly fat Hulk.

*Rumble*

A loud rumbling sound echoed around the area.

"Are you hungry Buhara?" (Menchi)

"I'm starving."

"Well let's get the second exam started."

She looked at everyone and cheerily announced.

"The second phase of the hunter exam will involve… cooking!"

There was silence for a moment before most of the crowd started speaking at once.

"C-cooking?!" (Random scrub)

"Wait a minute! Cooking?!" (Random scrub #2)

"Were here to take the hunter exam!" (Random scrub #3)

In the face of the protests, Menchi just smirked.

"That's right, your challenge for the second phase is to produce a dish that will satisfy our palate." (Menchi)

One guy responded the loudest.

"Why do we have to cook!" (Random scrub #4)

Menchi puffed out her chest in pride.

"That's because… we are gourmet hunters!"

There was a moment of silence before many in the crowd burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, man, what a letdown."

"Pft hahaha they're gourmet hunters…."

All kinds of comments were thrown out, while Buhara didn't look bothered and Menchi held in her temper but I could see her aura turning red.

Outside of the courtyard, while standing on a tree, Satoz observed the proceedings with a frown.

'Menchi and Buhara, *sigh*, maybe fifty… no, make that ten applicants will pass… hm.. maybe I should call this in just in case.' (Satoz)

Back in the courtyard.

"So, gourmet hunters, what are we supposed to make?" (Random scrub)

"Buhara." (Menchi)

Buhara stood up.

"The required ingredient is… pork!"

"Pork?" (Random scrub)

"As in pig?" (Random scrub)

"Any pig from the forests around here will do. You can use any additional ingredient you want, and you must use the kitchens prepared for you here in the courtyard.

And you only pass is we both find it delicious." (Buhara)

"And I would hurry up if I were you, once we are both full the exam ends." (Menchi)

There was collective muttering before Buhara slammed his giant hand on his giant stomach.

*Gong*

"The second phase begins…now!"

It took a second before a mad dash began as everyone started sprinting back into the forest in the search of a pig.

"Any pig will do? That was mean of you Buhara." (Menchi)

"Choosing the ingredient was my job." (Buhara)

"There is only one species of pig in this forest, right?"

"*Smirk* I hope they don't get themselves killed."

"*Pft!*" (Jin)

'Damn these guys are brutal. Looks like laughing at their profession pissed off even the kind hearted Buhara.'

My laugh attracted their attention to where I was sitting on a kitchen island.

"Oi! #69, shouldn't you be getting a move on? Or have you given up already?"

Menchi raised an eyebrow at me in question but I just smiled back and pointed to the side where I discreetly removed the Great Stamp I drained of blood.

"Is this the right one? I found a small group on the way here."

Menchi and Buhara stared in surprise before they shrugged it off and smiled like they were used to strange shit.

"Hoo, you know Nen already kid? The pigs fresh so by all means." (Menchi)

"Oh~ spatial abilities are rare, why did you take the pig with you?"

I lifted the pig with a levitation charm and began using my a concentrated severing charm on the tip of my finger to cut into the pig and carve it up.

My two spectators watched in interest as I responded.

"Nen? Spatial abilities? Sorry but I'm just a simple wizard. And I took the pig because I read that its meat is a delicacy, cooking has always been a hobby of mine and I couldn't let up on a delicious ingredient when it was right in front of me, I'm sure you two can understand that?"

They both smiled genuinely at my words.

Menchi jumped over to watch me work up close while Buhara sat down where he was.

"So you don't agree with the rest of them on their opinions of gourmet hunters?" (Menchi)

I shook my head while I worked.

"Not at all, I love food, and it's hard to imagine how people must have struggled to find all the incredible food and knowledge on food we have today.

Gourmet hunters are the pioneers who constantly strive to expand their own knowledge of ingredients and how to use them, and that trickles down into the rest of the world in various ways."

Menchi slapped my back almost making me slip on my work while Buhara gave me a thumbs up.

"What's your name kid?" (Menchi)

I smirked in pride while my cat on the kitchen table raised her own chest in pride as well.

"Names Jin Fluff."

Menchi blinked at that before laughing.

"*Pft* hahaha, fluff? Are you being legit?"

"*Hiss!*"

Shadow didn't take kindly to the perceived insult and Menchi smirked at her.

"I'm not dissing the fluff furball, I've just never heard that be someone's name before."

Shadow hissed a bit more before nodding imperiously.

"He cute cat you got there Jin, but why are you making such sloppy cuts?"

I smiled wryly as I worked.

The severing charm was never meant to be used in a steady stream like I'm doing, but I had no real experience with sharp objects.

"I've never really trained with weapons before, all my time was spent on magic and survival training, so I never had the chance."

Menchi raised an eyebrow at that.

"Your teacher called Nen magic?"

I smirked at her.

"My Nen is separate, I told you, I'm a wizard."

She just huffed good naturedly and turned around to walk back.

"Well Mr. Wizard, I'm waiting on my dish. Surprise me and I might give you some tips with how to improve as a chef."

Don't look down on her words, she's a bonafide super chef that would be at home in the world of Toriko.

Knowing I was the only one cooking, I made it flashy with my spells, taking out ingredients, levitating pieces while I worked and waved my hands as I sped up steps using magic.

I already knew what the test would be, so I read a few dozen cookbooks and went through their content, getting a steady supply of recipes to choose from.

I settled on Dongpo Rou (Chinese Red-cooked Pork Belly).

I cut out two pieces of meat, with one being three times as big considering the judge's and got to work.

Preparing the meat, the sauce and using my knowledge and gourmet talent instinct to guide me to work quickly.

With the beauty of fire making charms, softening charms, slowing charms, and my enhanced senses, I was able to fly through the work that would have taken hours in minutes.

As I worked and put on a show for my audience, they were having their own conversation.

*POV Change*

"Buhara, this kid is such a cheat."

"Haha to have so many varied abilities, he must be a specialist. They are rare but they do pop up."

"That's not what I meant; I know he's a specialist, his Nen is quite weak when you sense it up close. Can't you see what he's doing right now?"

"Hm?"

"The kid doesn't move like has much experience and you heard his excuse for those sloppy cuts of meat, he has no skill with a knife, meaning he hasn't even spent long in a kitchen.

And yet, he's naturally completing each step to a complicated dish.

This kid has a natural talent for cooking, and it's a high one."

"Huh, your right, you think he will become a famous gourmet hunter one day?"

Menchi bit her thumbnail in thought while staring at Jin working.

"He's like an unpolished gem, so much covered talent. I don't know if he will last long enough to make it there in our world."

Buhara raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Perhaps but why does that bother you? It's a shame but whether he succeeds or not is his problem."

"*Sigh* Buhara, you know I'm a one star gourmet hunter right?"

"Of course, your famous for it."

"Thanks but do you know how many two star gourmet hunters there are?"

"Um.. I.. I don't really recall any."

Menchi nodded.

"I wouldn't expect you to. There have been less than five two star gourmet hunters since the founding of the Hunter Association. And even now, there are less than twenty active gourmet hunters.

But now I'm seeing a kid with some scary natural talent, I kind of want to uncover some of that hidden potential."

"You want to… mentor a new hunter…? Don't you know that's usually left for the lower rank hunters?"

Menchi waved her hand uncaringly.

"Who cares, and I'm not thinking of mentoring a new hunter to see if they have the potential for Nen, I'm thinking of mentoring a new hunter as a gourmet hunter, big difference."

Buhara shrugged.

"It's your call Menchi, it's not like there is a rule against it."

"Yup~ I'll do what I want either way, but let's see what the kid manages to make, oh, it looks like he's finishing up."

*POV Change*

Putting the final touches on my dishes, I levitated them next to me and smiled at my work.

'Good, no one ever passed this round in canon, let's see if I can do it.'

Making my show flashy was just for fun, and to live up to my wizard title.

As I walked up to the judges with my plates floating next to me and shadow on my head, Menchi couldn't help but comment.

"Damn, that's one useful ability Jin, those plates aren't shaking even a bit."

I smiled at the compliment.

"Thank you, any good wizard should be able to levitate things. But then again, it's easier with lighter things."

While I spoke, I placed the smaller dish in front of Menchi and placed the larger one in front of Buhara.

"I present to you, my take on Dongpo Rou with my own ingredients. I hope you both enjoy. Oh and Buhara, let me help you with that."

I pointed my gun at his dish and under his terrified eyes of seeing me about to ruin his food, I shot a bullet at his dish, causing it to grow five times as large.

I caught sign of his hand twitch as he was likely more than fast enough to stop the bullet with his bare hand, but he stopped for some reason.

As his dish grew, his eyes changed from terrified to overjoyed.

"I think I'm in love. If you don't take him Menchi, I will." (Buhara)

I raised an eyebrow at that while Menchi laughed.

"Well let's see how you did, your presentation could use some work, but that's also a result of your faulty prep work."

Buhara dug in with a smile while Menchi cut a small piece and tested it.

Buhara didn't even take a second bite before holding up a pass sign.

"Yummy!" (Buhara)

'One down.'

I looked at Menchi as she chewed and thought over it.

"Hm… the heat wasn't consistent, you softening the meat a bit too much, and you rushed a multi hour job a bit too much with whatever you did. I think you aimed a bit too high with your dish choice."

I was a bit depressed at her words.

'Eh whatever, failure is a part of life, let's go try again with another dish.'

Before I could walk off, to my surprise, Menchi held up the pass sign and smirked at my surprised look.

"You didn't let me finish kid. Your sauce was just shy of perfect, and you spiced and seasoned everything perfectly and evenly.

Considering the speed you made it in, the show you gave, and the dish presentation, I would say you passed."

I bowed my head in thanks.

"Thank you, I'll do my best to improve on it for next time."

Menchi smiled at that but held up a finger when I was walking away.

"It shames me to ask this but what veggies did you use for this dish?

I recognize the normal flavors, but they were enhanced and… different? They really were a big point of why I passed you."

I internally laughed at that question.

'Ha, magically altered vegetables for the win!'

"I'm not sure if you have heard of them."

Menchi puffed up her chest.

"Ha, nice try kid, I've been around a while longer than you."

I gave her a blank stare at that.

'Your 21 bitch.'

I wanted to ask if she just called herself old, but I saw Buhara shaking his head quickly behind her.

Letting it go, I pointed back to my work station and Menchi followed curiously.

For the next ten minutes or so, I began showing her some of the magically altered vegetables from the Harry Potter world.

Pungous Onion, Blackcurrant, Parsnip, Chomping Cabbage, Self-peeling Sprout, Tibetan Turnip, Purple Leeks.

With each one, she asked loads of questions and tasted them while gradually getting more excited.

"This is amazing Jin! I've never heard of any of these before! Where did you find them!?"

I took a step back at her enthusiasm.

"Um.. I found them?"

If anything she got more excited.

"You're not even a hunter yet and your already making achievements for gourmet hunters! That's it kid, your my mentee whether you pass this exam or not! I'm not letting such talent go to waste!"

I sweat dropped a bit and tried to speak up, but her intense stare was worse than the times when Shadow was looking at me when she wanted something.

"Um.. yeah.. sure."

"Good! Now pass this exam or your mentor will look bad."

And with that, she walked back to her lounge chair with a skip in her step as people started arriving back with their pigs.

I just looked at the back of Menchi, and definitely not checking out that fine ass, before turning to Shadow who watched the whole thing.

"Well, that happened."

"Meow."

"Yeah, it's not so bad."

"Meow."

"Yes, you can have fish for dinner."

"Meow."

"What do you mean good hooman? I'm the owner here girl."

"Meow."

"*Sigh*."

*Line Break*

Time flew by as I watched more people arrive with their pigs and begin to perform a horror show to any real chef by sticking a pole through each pig and roasting the whole thing over a flame.

They each fucking did the same exact thing.

I could see Menchi physically restraining herself from trying to stab people.

And speaking of Menchi, I thought over her offer.

'You know, I really could use a teacher, and Menchi is a real one star hunter who was considered a prodigy in the field.

There really isn't a down side considering I'm trying to grow stronger and more skilled.

I mean, what was my plan before this?

To stick next to Gon and Killua on their canon adventure?

That's not such a bad thing, their cool kids, but I only have so much time in this world.

Maybe sticking with Menchi is a better path to take.

Hm… I'll think about it over the rest of the exam.'

With nothing better to do, I just hung by the side and meditated silently, sinking into my mind with practiced ease while still keeping an ear on my surroundings.

After over a year of daily meditation for my occlumency, and now with Ten practice added in, I've become increasingly comfortable with just meditating to pass the time.

My Ten wrapped around me and flowed like water as my mind focused on reading through books.

My actions didn't go unnoticed as four pairs of eyes looked over.

Illumi took a look before shrugging and going back to figuring out how to cook. The confused super insane assassin just didn't understand how to make it work.

Buhara took a surprised look before smiling and focusing back on all the meat coming his way.

Menchi smirked at seeing such a smooth Nen flow even if it was still weak, it showed a high level of talent and dedication to see such a smooth flow. But Menchi was distracted by the fourth person who was looking my way.

Hisoka was practically oozing battle lust as he looked at me with a creepy smile. The guy got a glance at my talent and he is trying to mentally envision my limit without success.

His pure intent startled me out of my meditation, and I sent a friendly wave his way.

He got a handle on his desires and took a deep breath before sending one back.

'That guy has got both the most intense battle lust and the most self-control I've ever seen. The fact he can cage that in so long and not just slaughter everyone around him is remarkable.'

Should I be worried about him? Nah, not really.

He won't touch me till I mature or become a real challenge to him.

But I'm not like Gon, I'm not someone who has to be built up from scratch.

My magic makes me deadly in a lot of ways, maybe not so much in power, but to the unguarded, its deadly.

That first meeting with Hisoka was as much as us killing time, as it was us feeling each other out.

We became easy friends, but friends who would still kill each other if we so desired it.

Anyway, no one else reacted or noticed.

Nen is easily sensed by other Nen users, and there is no other user around.

Well, I did feel another gaze, but I recall the aura signature belonging to Satoz. I could see aura's with my eyes even with my eye lids closed.

As I continued my meditation, I watched as applicants one by one went up to get their dishes graded.

But it was sad that 144 people just repeated the same exact action, one after the other.

'The ingredients are crying you know?'

They all just roasted the meat and served it whole one after the other.

And Menchi couldn't let her professionalism go and actually graded them!

"Burnt, you should have…."

"Uncooked, you should have…."

"Too…."

"Way to…."

"DID YOU EVEN TURN ON THE FIRE FUCKFACE?!"

Buhara passed anyone who gave him meat but Menchi failed each and every one.

'Half that shit wasn't even fully cooked. Some of them didn't even remove the organs or drain the blood! They could kill people with food poisoning.'

Menchi was gradually losing her shit, and she literally flipped the table when Leorio thought he was smart by planting a small flag in his pig while serving.

Kurapika was the first to actually try to make a dish, but he…he…made a fucking multi layered sandwich with giant meat slices in place of bread.

'How the fuck did he even do that?'

Menchi took her first bite out of all 144 dishes before spitting to the side.

"Disgusting!"

All in all, out of 145 applicants, all failed aside from me.

"You all fail, try again next year." (Menchi)

Of course, there was an uproar of people complaining, but Menchi shut them up with logical answers.

Then a certain bald ninja decided to say, "All pork dishes are trivial", causing Menchi to fly into a rage and grab the dude by his collar and shaking him.

"Huuuuuu?! Say that again and I'll shove my arm up your ass and knock your fucking teeth out!

Come on you fucker! Say that again! Come on! Do it!"

She flew into a rage and shook the poor guy hard enough his head might have been ripped off if he was a normal human.

After ranting her heart out, she tossed him away and sat back in her chair.

Some fool even tried to rush her before Buhara knocked him on his ass to stop Menchi from using the blade in her hand from killing the moron.

She spoke up before anyone else tried to do something stupid.

"#69 is the only one who actually cooked his dish rather than roast the whole fucking thing, and he did it well. So we only have one hunter this year. Best of luck next time."

With that said, she tried to sneak off while everyone focused on me.

'This bitch!'

*Boom!*

Thankfully, I was saved from the fire I was just tossed in by the arrival of a meteor slamming down in the courtyard.

And the meteor walked out of the crater like a boss with its baggy clothing drifting in the wind.

The meteor's name was Netero, the 13th chairman of the Hunter Association.

After giving Menchi a talking to for being unfair, Menchi offered to redo her exam if Netero gave everyone a ride in the blimp he arrived in to the top of a nearby mountain.

Menchi told me I didn't have to do it since I already passed, but I denied the offer and said I would still do it.

I knew what it was, and it sounded like fun.

It only took an hour on the blimp to arrive at the top of a mountain with a massive crack split right through the middle.

Like someone took a blade and split the entire mountain right down the middle.

As everyone gathered at the edge and looked down, Menchi spoke up.

"Now everyone, what we have here is a spider eagles nest, and those clumps are their eggs."

Between the walls of the split mountain were lines of thick spider silk holding head sized eggs in groups of twenty to thirty eggs a batch.

"You can't mean for us to…?" (Random Scrub)

Menchi smirked and jumped over the edge.

"Yup!"

Following her example, while everyone else watched to see what she did, I jumped in as well.

"Are you crazy kid?!" (Leorio)

I just shouted up as I fell.

"Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat!"

90% of people present had no idea what I said but Netero chuckled.

"Fortune favors the bold huh? I like it." (Netero)

Those who heard him nodded but no one made a move to jump without seeing what Menchi does.

Menchi smirked over at me while we both hung from the web.

"You got balls kid, you sure you know what you're doing?"

I gave her a blank look.

"Oh, so the woman who threw me under the bus before cares now?"

She gave me a sheepish look and stuck her tongue out.

"No idea what you're talking about."

After that we were silent.

'I could just lift myself back up with magic, or even have just summoned the eggs while up there, but sometimes it's fun to just live in the moment. I also want to test my perception.'

We waited for a minute before the lightest breeze hit my cheek and I saw Menchi let go, so I followed her.

We both plummeted and grabbed an egg on the way down before an upward draft came from underneath us and threw us right back up to the top where we jumped from.

"Woohoo!" (Jin)

"Hahaha I'm gonna have fun with you kid." (Menchi)

The rest went like canon.

Only about half of the applicants jumped in, and of that half, only a little over forty survived.

And no one really cared.

They just brought out pots and started cooking eggs like it was no big deal.

Spider eagle eggs are also known as 'Dream Eggs', and they are one of the harder ingredients to gather in the wild.

And yes, it tasted like a dream.

I may or may not have went back to the edge when the applicants were busy and used the summoning charm to gather a couple dozen of these head sized eggs.

And Menchi might or might not have seen it and started twitching hard.

'Woman, I already past your test, let me gather food in peace.'

With a supply of eggs stored securely in my warehouse, I joined back with everyone as we boarded the blimp.

Menchi and Buhara said their goodbyes and wished me good luck. If that wish was phrased more of in a try not to die way, then I didn't say anything.

The blimp took off as the remaining 42 applicants stood before Netero as he spoke about how he was the one overseeing the exam from now on.

We were given about twelve hours to eat and rest before the blimp would arrive at the sight for the third phase.

Some went to eat, others to explore, and the rest to rest.

Considering I was feeling a bit tired, I found myself a room and sent a locking charm at the door before using my first months permission to enter my warehouse and sleep in my real bed.

'Ah~, I'm really glad I didn't use my warehouse time yet…*sigh*.. I really need to find a way to enter more often, living by Zelretch's rules is annoying, even if it makes sense.

…

Eh, sleep now, deal with it later. Zzzzz.'

Chapter end.