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CHAPTER 15
- INSTINCT -
"Maybe?" I stood up from the log. "Soo, done on your snacks? We still have an hour left for training. We need to get back to it."
"Mm-hm..." He nodded hopping off the log.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" Kikyo screamed stomping the heel of her geta clog on the stone floor. Her voiced echoed around the high-ceiling room decorated with ornaments made from bones of exotic creatures of different sorts.
"We discussed about this already..." Silluva calmly spoke back, drinking a mug of cold beer.
"THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DISCUSSED ABOUT! YOU TOLD ME YOU'LL JUST HAVE THAT PEASANT TRAIN HIM ONLY WHEN YOU'RE BUSY AND OUT ON A MISSION! YOU'RE JUST SITTING-"
Silluva glanced firmly at her with his fierce, green eyes.
"NO! You're not gonna give me THAT look again and let things go YOUR WAY! HAVE YOU REALIZED THE DANGERS OF HAVING A COMPLETELY UNIDENTIFIED STRANGER BEING AUTHORIZED OF THE FAMILY'S SECRETS! YOU GUYS JUST TAUGHT HIM HOW WE DO OUR BUSINESS AND EVEN HELD HIM RESPONSIBLE OF PASSING THE KNOWLEDGE TO OUR OWN SON! DO YOU CONSIDER WHAT HE MIGHT DO TO MY HIM!? WHAT IS HE TO YOU THAT YOU WERE-!"
"ENOUGH!" Silluva growled, loud enough to shock his hysterical wife and stop her from rambling. He slammed the beer mug on the desk nearby shattering it into pieces.
She remained speechless for some moments, staring back at his eyes, her fists twitching. "Fine!" She sat on one of the stools. "You're not even considering how this kind of stress affects mine and Mil's health..." She placed her hand on her abdomen and the other hand wiped the tears she stifled.
"Instead of bickering with me, shouldn't you pay more attention to your health? I'm doing my job as a father, and as the family's heir. Now do yours."
"YEAH! 'job as a father and the family's heir'! Sitting here drinking beer while petting your dogs and entrusting your son, THE POTENTIAL NEXT HEIR to a complete stranger! HE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE ATTACHED TO THAT PEASANT!"
"So...?"
"You and Dad are just... I don't even know what to say!" She stood up from her seat and lifted her kimono a little to allow her to step down and start moving.
Silluva watched Kikyo fled, muttering to herself as she walked out of the door. She walked past by Zeno who stared at her until she turned to a corner before he eventually made his way into Silluva's room.
"She still can't get over it huh? I thought you guys talked it over?" Zeno asked.
"She can ramble as much as she wants... I still have no plans on telling her about the real situation going on in here."
"They're outside... he's training Illumi pretty well..." Zeno let out a chuckle. "That kid sure's very talented. It only took him 5 days to master everything..."
"OR, he already have mastered everything LONG BEFORE... Of course, our blood runs inside him... "
"So far he hasn't done anything suspicious at the moment... other than falsifying lot of his personal information. Upon research, there isn't a single record about him found and it is pretty accurate to say he really was from the Meteor City. Regardless, he still appears to be hiding something. However, I was also thinking about another possibility. He could be his son too instead of yours traveling back here from the future..." Zeno took a seat and grabbed another glass to take a shot. "He's been in the Dark Continent for quite some time already, and this kid has zero identity... coincidence? who knows?"
"He could be dead by now. Nevertheless, we're still a 100% sure he's a Zoldyck regardless who's he from. Everything about him is a give-away. But I'm somewhat certain that he was mine..."
"Well..." Zeno shrugged. "You should've been there when I trained him last week haha! The nostalgia was very strong that moment! It reminded me when I was still training you back then... he was just exactly like you...!"
Silluva shook his head smirking as he grabbed the bottle and drank a mouthful.
"You should check him out sometimes... I'm starting to realize that maybe the reason we can never have Illumi to fit into the qualifications of being an heir was because, the heir isn't going to be Illumi but that kid..."
"I also thought about that..." Silluva nodded in agreement.
"Just a while ago, that kid told Illumi an interesting story though about him running away from home because he's tired of being told of how he should live his life. He said his elder brother was a strong assassin and he was the one who trained him to be an assassin too. Im not gonna take those words lightly. That kid was probably talking about his current life as an heir and he didnt want to inherit the family business thus he ran away. And the elder brother he was talking about who trained and restrained him every time was Illumi. It pretty much coincides about our decision of having Illumi trained very well so he can train his younger siblings..."
"We can heed those as a warning. But he has the blood of an assassin. We can just set that aside for the future and instead think about the current situation. We must not let him know what we knew."
"Indeed..." Zeno nodded. "So far, our idea of assigning him to train Illumi personally had us earn further information about him. We have to discover yet the true motives of his venture in our time period. As expected it was working well. Other than unraveling his true identity, it's also about observing Illumi's peculiar and intricate behaviour and getting to know further the child's mysterious subconscious better..."
"They can get attached both to each other and gain each other's trust. That's how it would work..."
Its 5:00 pm...
The setting sun's rays painted the whole chamber, orange. I glanced to the huge glass window before looking back at him. The sound of rubbing metal filled the whole room.
It's finally time for me to conduct Pain Tolerance Training to him. And I was told to train him today on Electrocutions. It's on the sked Gramps gave me for this week.
I raised my head a little to have a clearer view of the expression on his face. He was staring back at me blankly while being shackled again, ready for torture.
All of the sudden, thoughts came rushing through my head...
"What's the matter?" He uttered in his deep, stoic monotone.
He slowly approached me and bent down to my level. His eyes locked onto mine, staring right through my soul.
"Hurry up and kill me now... or I'll kill your friend..."
I quivered in fear... to run? To Kill him? Or Save Gon?
"You're much more concerned at the moment about defeating me than saving your own friend. By that skills of yours, you know you can't defeat me..."
"I'm offering a deal Kil", He stretched an arm towards me. "My death in exchange of saving Gon by wishing for it on your own..."
I sobbed in fear and anger as tears started to stream down my face. He gave me back a wicked grin, full of malice and evil.
"Choose..."
"Kill...?"
I was awakened from my thoughts the moment he spoke again in that squeaky, little voice. I froze for a moment as sweat started to trickle down my forehead. I had this strange flashbacks of him again. My heart is racing and my hands were trembling as I slowly picked the chains up connected to the shackles that bound his wrists.
"N-nothing bocchama..." I fumbled with the chains in my hands.
This is it... This is the only time I can finally do this and hurt him with my own bare hands without guilt... I can finally get back at him for all of those things he did to me... No matter how I purposely miss every chance I had to kill him, it felt like opportunity itself is already begging me to take it. No matter how I told myself to just quit it as it's already pointless, I'm being tempted to do so. It's right in my hands right now! I just had to exceed the suggested voltage Gramps told me and he's done for good. I can say it's an accident and that I cannot control my power and the one to be held responsible is Dad for entrusting such great task to a newbie like me. I'm not gonna get blamed for it and would get away with it neatly! And if I'd die for killing him, at least he died first! And I killed him with my own hands...!
But would this really end up with zero guilt? I had thoughts racing through my head. Rather a sullen, brooding riot. For some reason a huge part of me is holding back.
I felt a different kind of fear. Not the kind of fear I have always felt whenever Im being faced to a similar situation. It's not him or anyone I am fearing right now...
But rather myself...
and I am currently battling with myself in my mind.
I must stop myself from killing him...
I can't...
I musn't...
END OF CHAPTER 15
NOTES :
Just in case you're confused about who Zeno and Silluva were talking about when they said :
"He could be his son too instead of yours traveling back here from the future... He's been in the Dark Continent for quite some time already, and this kid has zero identity... coincidence? who knows?"
"He could be dead by now."
They were referring to Zigg Zoldyck.
References for flashbacks (respectively):
-Hunter X Hunter - Movie ver. Phantom Rouge (2013)
-Episode 20 (2011 ver.), Episode 30 (1999 ver.)
-Episode 143 (2011 ver.)
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