I ran as fast as I could to the auction site. The entire area around the building were full of corpses and destructive, broken down cars.
All of these corpses were from the supposedly best mafia members out there.
It was a bit pathetic that they wasted their lives out here. I felt bad that they died though. Too many lives has been wasted all because we are out here to steal some treasures.
I eventually made my way inside the building without attracting attention from the guards.
I got behind the stage in the auction room just as Hisoka and Machi killed a random man.
"Aoi? What are you doing here?" Machi asked
"Well, the two kids escaped" I said, looking at Hisoka. "And Chrollo told me to come here and assist you guys"
"I see, well, lets bring the items to Shizuka and Kortopi so that they can work on making copies" Machi said
"Alright" I said as the three of us dragged the items to Shizuka and Kortopi.
"Ladies and Gentleman! Sorry for the wait! Let's start the auction!" yelled the announcer for the auctions.
I looked at Shalnark to see that he is the one controlling the man.
"Aoi?" Shalnark said, surprised to see me along with everyone else.
I explained to them that Gon and Killua managed to escape from my watch.
"Hmph. Well I guess they really are useless" Nobunaga said
"We don't have to worry about them anymore." Franklin said
"Come on, give me the next item" Pakunoda said
She was dressed in a beautiful gown. She was disguised to bring the fake items Kortopi are cloning for the audience to bid on.
"They're coming" Kortopi said
As he and Shizuka continued to make fake items for the auction. I peeked through and curtain to look into the audience. There were so many of them. All here just for these treasures.
"Oi. Aoi" Nobunaga said as he walked up to me.
"Yes Nobunaga?" I asked
"Go to the rooftop. You're needed up there." He said
"Huh? I am?"
"Yeah. Go already"
"Okay, I'll be back"
With that, I climbed through the air vents and made my way to the rooftop. When I got there, I noticed Chrollo, sitting there with bruises all over him.
"Boss!?" I shouted as I ran to him.
"Don't worry about me Aoi. These are just minor injuries." He said
"What did you want me up here for?" I asked
"I want you to do me a favor" He said
"What kind of favor?"
"I need you to use your Hunter's license, and hack into their computer systems. Don't worry about the people guarding in there. They've been taken care of a while ago. I need you to erase any trace of information on each of us." Chrollo said
"Everything?" I asked
"Everything. No trace of existence on us" He said
"Okay. I'll do it" I said
With that, I went through the same air vent and crawled to the computer room.
As soon and I got there, I noticed that there were two corpses, cards all over their face and bodies.
"How sad" I said to myself.
The person who did this is no other than Hisoka. I can't believe he can still kill so cold-heartedly. It's disgusting.
I gently moved the dead bodies so that I can have better access to the computers.
Once I hacked into the system, I searched up our information. The Hunter association had information about our date of birth, blood type, age, everything. They even had information on what we do for a living and our bounties.
One by one, I erased every single information on us. My job is to make sure we are erased out of existence. When my information came up, I looked at my bounty.
2 million dollars on Aoi's whereabouts. Must be ALIVE.
The word 'alive' was emphasized. Why does someone want to know about my whereabouts?
Unless it's Kurapika's bounty out there for me.
"And now! Our final item for the day!" I hear this through the security cameras. "This item is very rare for others to obtain because this clan was assassinated years ago"
My eyes shifted to a different screen on this system.
"The scarlet eyes! Bids will start at 100 million!"
Oh. My. God.
The scarlet eyes is one of the items we're stealing. That's unbelievable.
"I must get it back" I whispered to myself
I need to get those eyes and give them to Kurapika. He deserve to get them back. Even if it means I have to steal them from the group. Which will be extremely difficult to do.
I pulled up the camera screen from the auction room to get a better view of the bidding.
The numbers were going higher and higher until I heard a bid from a very familiar voice.
"500 million!"
My eyes immediately glued to the screen. I zoomed the video in to take a closer look at the person's face.
I feel like my mind is playing games on me. That voice. That face I see on the screen.
It's Kurapika.
"1.2 billion!"
Kurapika is there, right now, in that room.
"1.7 billion!"
Kurapika is here...
"2 billion!"
Kurapika...is here...
"2.5 billion!"
I missed you Kurapika. I'm sorry about everything.
"2.9 billion!"
Wait! He's bidding on a fake pair of scarlet eyes that Kortopi made!
"I need to tell him!" I said as I bolted up from my seat and turned around.
I was about to run out of the room but someone was there, blocking the door.
It was a small, stocky girl. She was bald at the top but straight hair around half her head. Her teeth was as if she was a rodent or something. She was holding a flute as well.
"Who are you?" I asked, being cautious of her
"Your heartbeat was very calm before, but then it went rapid as if you were showing fear" She said
"What do you want? Why are you here?" I asked
"I'm a music hunter. I came here because I heard your heartbeat from afar. Do not worry though, I do not wish to harm you. Spider member"
"Music Hunter? And how are you sure I'm a member of the Spiders?" I questioned
"The way your heart beats. It beats different than a normal person. Yours beat in a calm, yet rapid pace." She said
"Okay music hunter, what do you want with me?" I asked
"I noticed you staring at a screenshot of Kurapika" She said
My eyes widened. How does this girl know Kurapika?
"I-I don't know what you're talking about" I said
"Your heart has been beating rapidly ever since I said his name. That means you have a connection with him. You must be Aoi then. The girl he mentioned" She said while smiling at me.
Kurapika talked about me? To her? Just who is she?
"Who are you? Why is he talking about me?"
"I'm a bodyguard of the Norstrad family as well as Kurapika. He didn't really say much about you. But he mentioned that he was searching for a girl from the Phantom Troupe. That girl, is you" She said as she put her flute away.
"So, are you friends with him?"
"Indeed I am." She smiled
"Oh, I see."
What can I do? What can I say? This girl found me, is she going to tell Kurapika?
"I won't do anything" She said. "I just wanted to meet you. That's all."
With that, the music hunter disappeared. I walked up to the door and looked around. She was nowhere in sight.
I was confused. Did she really come here just to see me?
Whatever.
I shrugged it off and ran towards the auction room.
"Aoi, what took you so long?" Shalnark asked
"Sorry, Chrollo asked me to do something for him." I said
"Did you complete that task?" Pakunoda asked
"Yeah. It's been taken care of" I said
"Aoi turn, Aoi turn" Kortopi said
"Huh? Turn on what?" I asked
"We're making copies of ourselves to fool the mafia that we're dead" Shizuka said
I looked around and saw that there were copies of everyone else.
"Let's go Aoi. We have to go back to our hideout before reinforcements come." Machi said
So we're going to fool all the mafia and Hunter's association huh?
That must be why Chrollo wanted me to erase everyone's information. Leave us with no trace of existence. Sadly, I don't remember if I erased mine. My information might still be up there. Who knows...
"Aoi? You okay?" Paku asked
"Yeah. Can I request to not make a copy of myself?" I asked
"Hm? Why not?" Nobunaga asked
"Because..." I didn't know how to answer that.
The only reason why I didn't want this for me is because of Kurapika. It would be obvious to him that we are doing this as a decoy.
"Because, I have a feeling that seeing my copy of the dead body would lead into suspicions that we are faking it." I said with as much confidence as I could.
"That's bullcrap. Who would care about your body?" Feitan said
"Hey. That's not nice to her" Franklin said
"Whatever" He retorted
"What is your idea Aoi?" Bonolenov asked
"Nothing. I just, don't want a copy of myself. That's all" I said
"If Aoi doesn't want it, then respect her wishes" Chrollo said, appearing behind me
"Okay. I guess that's it. We have all the treasures here Boss" Shalnark said
"Excellent. Let us go home" Chrollo said
He took out his book of skills and flipped to a random page.
There, he gained a skill from one of the ten shadow beast members and had a cloak out.
Chrollo used the cloak, wrapped it around all the treasures and they disappeared.
"Where did it all go?" I asked
"Inside this piece of cloth" Chrollo said. "It'll make things easier to carry, now that I have this skill"
"If only Uvogin was here. This victory is for him" Nobunaga said
"It's about time we got these treasures" Machi said
"Alright everyone, time to go home and celebrate" Chrollo said as we all left the building.
I discreetly hear the reinforcements arrive at building and screams of 'They're dead! They're finally dead!'.
I took out my cellphone and looked at a message I had.
My phone showed me a missed call from an unknown number.
Along with that, there was a text message that read: I'm happy you're alive Aoi.
Who wrote that message?
Leorio?
Gon?
Killua?
Kurapika?
It could be anyone.
But I do hope this message is from Kurapika though.
All I want is for his forgiveness.
Maybe that music hunter will speak to him about my encounter with her.
Maybe Gon and Killua already spoke to Kurapika and they somehow found my cellphone number.
Whatever the case may be, we got our treasures. Hopefully, we're done for the time being.
Today is a victory for the Phantom Troupe. Even though we sadly lost Uvo.
I do hope we won't have to cause any more trouble for a while.
Let us have a break.