Hanse sighs "When we visited a few months earlier, we couldn't find a single clue."

Nick Cue, of Kazsule team members interjects "This must be information only available at certain times. Maybe an event that only occurs at this time frame?"

Amana thinks out loud "Razor and the fourteen devils... It's possible that the event was triggered by the number of players here."

I nod "Kind of like an instance you need a certain amount of people to enter it before you can start..."

Amana nods "There are fifteen pirates and it just so happens that there are sixteen of us."

Kazsule responds "So the event won't start until you have a party of fifteen or more?"

Souheil interjects "But how would a game character know that?"

I think in my head.

Could be a number-

Killua breaks my train of thought "Oh, Accompany!"

Amana nods "Yes, a group of fifteen or more must reach Soufrabi with Accompany. That's probably the trigger for this event."

Goreinu sighs "Brutal..."

Killua turns around to Goreinu "Huh?"

Goreinu responds "Oh, nothing."

Kazule speaks up "Let's go to the pirate's base!"

We make our way to the pirate base.

Time Skip

All the pirates look up at us, giving us the feelings and looks of some unpleasant pirates.

One of the pirates responds annoyed at us "Who are you guys? We booked this place for the night. Get lost!"

Kazsule interjects "We're here to talk. Would you please leave this city?"

The pirates laugh at Kazsule as I whisper in Killua's ear "Worse negotiation ever..."

Killua hushes me as one of the pirates responds "Been a long time since I heard those words."

The giant pirate stands up, dumping alcohol on the floor to light up a small ring.

The pirate stands in a sumo stance, looking over us "Then no need for talk. Use force to make us leave. I don't care how many of you attack at once. If you can move me from this ring, I'll take you to see our boss."

Zeho from Hanse's team steps up "We just have to move you out of the ring? If it's brawn you want, I'm your man."

Hanse runs towards the giant pirate, grabbing onto him, failing to move him even an inch.

The pirate slams shut his arms around him, lifting him up in a bear hug manner "You're pretty strong..."

The pirate moves him over to the ring, holding him over the fire as Zeho screams in agony from being lit of fire "Stop it! I lose... let me go!"

Gon kicks the pirate in the face, making him let go of Zeho.

As Zeho drops to the floor, Gon yells "He admitted defeat. Why didn't you let him go?"

The pirate chuckles slightly "I explained the rules. You lose if you step outside the ring. Anything else, including admitting defeat, is totally meaningless. You kicked me, then stepped outside the ring of fire. You've lost."

Gon freaks out "Oh! Crap! Hold on! Give me another try!"

I object "Sorry Gon. Rules are rules..."

Killua steps up, taking the challenge on.

He taps Gon on the shoulder "Don't bother, Gon... You're probably looking to use your new technique. But you shouldn't reveal it in front of all these people. Just let me handle this."

Killua walks around the ring to the table, grabbing a bottle of the counter. The pirate responds "What's this? You gonna pair up now?"

Killua turns around "I'll be using this."

The pirate retorts "Don't tell me?"

Killua flicks off the lid, moving quickly over to the pirates side, dumping the contents of the bottle on his face. He creates a small static shock between his fingers, lighting his face on fire.

The pirate screams in agony, running out the ring. He rolls on the floor, slamming into a wall.

Killua grins, turning around "There, I win."

The pirate gets up "D-Damn little brat!"

The pirate runs towards Killua. Command! "Stop! Or I will kill you..." I glare at the pirate, stopping him with my ability.

Before I can say anything he gets kicked in the face by another pirate, yelling at him "You made up the rules... Bopobo! Don't get upset."

Bopobo groans "Yeah, my bad..."

The pirate turns to Killua "Come with me. I'll take you to the boss."

The pirate leads the way through the building into a giant sports room.

Killua exclaims "Eh, so your boss is in here?"

The pirate yells "Boss, we have visitors."

Razor continues to lift weights, responding without turning around to face us "Who are these guys?"

The pirate responds "They want to chase us out of town."

Razor responds calmly "Chase us out? Ah..."

He drops his weights on the floor, turning around "Let's have a contest. If you win, we'll leave the island. However, we choose the contest. How does that sound?"

Goreinu questions the pirate's boss "What happens if we lose?"

Razor responds "Nothing. You'll just have to leave."

Kazsule grins "Okay, let's do this!"

Razor smiles "The theme of this battle is sports. Each of these members will challenge you to a match in their best sport. One win per person! The first side to eight wins will be the victor."

One of the pirates steps up "I'm up first... I'll go with boxing."

Razor grins "Well? who's up?"

Montreux steps up "I've got this."

As they get into the ring, Montreux puts on some gloves while Razor speaks "There's one special rule. You may use any item created by Nen."

Kazsule freaks retorting "What?"

Hanse interjects "You can't call that boxing!"

The boxing pirate responds "Don't worry, I'll only use my fists. That rule's for your benefit. Wanna tag out?"

As Montreux warms up for the fight, he responds "No, I'll do it."

Razor starts the fight.

As the fight begins, Montreux speaks up "I know what's going on here... There's a reason you chose boxing!"

Montreux throws his Aura at the boxer. The boxer barely dodges the attack as Montreux grins, continuing on "You're also an Emitter, right? We're fighting at close range, within a finite space. This is the ideal situation for an Emitter. However..."

Montreux sends a endless volley of aura in the pirates direction "You made one mistake! Not anticipating that my power could be stronger than yours!"

Manheim on Asta's team responds amazed "Wow! He can't dodge that fury!"

The pirate boxer gets knocked down after those endless hits as Hanse smiles "Yes, he's down! Too easy!"

Gon retorts "No, it was a simultaneous hit."

I nod, thinking.

This is going to be harder than it looks while that guy was busy throwing his life aura away like free candy... he left himself wide open for a free knuckle sandwich to the face...

I turn to Killua, thinking as he nods back, letting me know that he knows as well "His ability allows him to teleport his fist to a different location."

As the boxing pirate gets up grinning, Montreux drops to the floor.

Kazsule is left stunned "What just happened?"

Hanse freaks out as well "Why?"

Killua retorts "He used teleportation."

Hanse retorts "Teleportation?"

I nod as Killua responds "Of his fist, with a short uppercut. His goal was to land a knockout counter strike. It was obvious."

I nod "As long as you watching for it."

Razor grins as he makes his way over to Montreux, checking him out "Seems he's out cold... that's one win for us."

The pirate holding a soccer ball speaks up next "I'll go with juggling soccer balls."

Gon responds "Then I'm up..."

Killua retorts "Wait, Gon."

Killua calls over Biscuit as all four of us huddle together. Killua whispers between us "Gon, you're the worse one for this. We need to lose as quickly as possible. The quicker we lose the faster we can leave to find better team mates to pull this off."

Gon frowns as Biscuit nods "Indeed, that would be wise."

Biscuit speaks up as she walks towards the soccer pirate "Okay, I'm up next!" The pirate retorts "A little girl? Now I'll have to take care not to injure you."

Biscuit retorts "Injure me with juggling?"

The pirate grins at Biscuit "We're allowed to attack using Nen. Provided you don't touch the ball with your hands." Biscuit responds "I understand."

The pirate continues to explain "Moving anywhere inside the building is allowed. Whoever drops their ball first loses."

Biscuit retorts quickly "Right! Got it!"

The pirate smiles "Okay, let's get started."

Razor announces "Ready... Go!"

They drop the ball as Biscuit moves her foot to a position, allowing the ball to hit her foot, rolling off to the side.

The group is left stunned "What?"

Biscuit smiles, retorting calm "That was harder than I expected... I lose."

Killua speaks up "I'm up next, then. You wanna go, big guy?"

Bopobo retorts "You bet! Prepare yourself, brat!"

Razor gets ready to start the next fight as Killua stands in the ring. Bopobo gets ready to slam into Killua at a moment's notice "Ready, begin!"

Bopobo runs towards Killua in an attempt to crush him "I'll crush you!"

Just as Bopobo is about to grab him, Killua jumps backwards, landing outside the ring, leaving Bopobo fuming and pissed off.

Killua responds calmly "Oh, sorry about that... I stepped outside the ring."

I go next losing in the next match as Gon goes straight after me losing his.

That left 3 matches to lose before we could set our plan in motion. Goreinu is the last match for the day losing in basket ball.

Razor speaks up "That's eight wins. We're the victors."

The basket ball pirate yells "Get out. And we can do as we please in this city."

We leave as Bopobo yells "Damn it, you brat! Come back here! We need to fight again!"

I chuckle a bit, whispering to Killua "You really pissed him off..."

Killua retorts "Not really, his just a sore loser..."

I grin as we make our way out of the building.

Time Skip

All fifteen of us are stare at the building as Goreinu speaks out loud "When you saw we couldn't win with this line-up, you decided to lose deliberately and gather information, huh?"

Kazsule interjects "But once a party has lost, they can't make another attempt." Nick Cue retorts "But it's okay if we simply switch out one member. It was a worthwhile risk."

Asta speaks out "You can count us out. We've accomplished our original objective, keeping the Bombers from completing the game. It will be impossible for them to assemble a team of fifteen. You should probably give up on this contest. If you end up obtaining the card, you'll just become a target."

As soon as Kazsule's, Yabibi's and Hanse's team leaves Goreinu speaks up "They don't get it..."

I grin, speaking calmly to Goreinu "What a bunch of sore losers... this card is not only hard to get! But, it's worth the struggle to obtain."

Goreinu nods "It makes sense to obtain this card quickly."

Killua interjects "To avoid potential internal conflict."

Goreinu nods "Exactly."

Gon is left stunned as Killua grins slyly "You need at least fifteen people to participate. Even if you use Clone, you can only obtain three copies of Patch of Shore. This event was designed to incite in fighting."

Gon and Biscuit is left stunned as I continue off Killua's comment "What's 15 divided by 3? One big fight..."

Killua nods "Exactly!" K

illua turns to Goreinu "That's what you meant when you said brutal just before we started this. I had to think about that, since I didn't understand right away."

Goreinu responds calmly "Assuming that us five are capable of winning, we still need three more up to the task. And ideally, they'd already be in a party of eleven. Do you have any leads?"

Gon summons his book "Book! Looking at the names on my list, Chrollo's probably the strongest."

Killua retorts "But Kurapika said he's definitely a fake."

Gon frowns at Killua "Who is it, then?"

I reply for Killua "It has to most likely be a member of the Troupe. Someone who already knows his name."

Gon retorts "Why would a member of the Troupe be here?"

Killua thinks "Maybe to beat the game?"

Gon interjects "But wouldn't they have use their own name?"

Killua sighs "That's true."

Goreinu responds "We can use Sight Vision."

I looked confused at him "Sight Vision?"

Goreinu responds "If this person isn't here to beat the game, they won't bother to collect cards."

Gon nods "Oh, that's right."

Goreinu hands Gon the card as he uses it.

I look over the cards "Nothing in restricted. However, six cards in free slots... I wonder which."

Killua retorts "This guy's not even trying."

Gon responds "His only cards are for food and water."

Goreinu responds "That makes it easier to invite them."

Gon responds "But if it really is a member of the Troupe, we won't invite them. We'll just ask a few questions."

I shake my head at Gon "You want to play twenty questions with a Troupe member? What if it's Nobunaga?"

Gon freaks out as Killua interjects "Then there's no point bothering. Since it's definitely one of them."

Gon glares at Killua "Finding out who they are is important, but I'd rather learn why they're here!"

I retort "I'm sure they will g-."

Killua interrupts me "Are you an idiot?! You're gonna ask them why they're here? They aren't gonna tell you!"

I chuckle "Gon, his got you there!"

Gon retorts back "Yeah, I'm an idiot!"

I blink in confusion, replying back casually "He admitted it..."

Gon continues "I'm an idiot, so I'm still gonna ask!"

Killua retorts back "Then go right ahead!"

Gon retorts back "I sure will!"

Goreinu turns to Biscuit and I "Will they be okay?"

Biscuit smiles "This is perfectly normal for them."

I sigh "This is a daily routine for me..."

Goreinu responds "Do you fight this bad with your boyfriend?"

I respond calmly, half listening to his question "Of course! Just not as bad. It's only normal to have fighting in every relationship..."

I shut my mouth, turning to Goreinu "You heard nothing!"

Killua retorts "And you say I tell too many people! All you need is a neon sign attached to your head, pointing in my direction to give a more direct sign!..."

I sigh "You saw it didn't you..."

Goreinu scratches his chin "How could I not..."