[Hunter Doujin] Journey

【11】

"Well, I see.... Well, you don't need to apologize, Ed, after all, you said that for me... Well, I understand... You don't have to blame yourself so much... I will play it by ear Yes, take it easy, Ed."

After Xiaojie just answered Ed's call, his original smile became a little helpless.

From Ed's mouth, he knew Tres' thoughts, which he hadn't considered before.

"What should we do now?" Xiaojie looked at the huge French windows outside the hotel.

Suddenly there was a knock on his door, which interrupted his daze.

"coming."

He ran to open the door, and there was a strange boy standing outside the door.

"You are?" Before he could react, the boy walked around him and walked in.And when the two passed by, the smell on the boy reminded him.

"You were that person back then!" He looked at the boy warily.That's right, this boy was one of the few people who turned him into a girl at the time, and the man in black who told him in Fantasy City that he had 1 year left to live.

"It seems that your sense of smell is really keen." He turned sideways to look at Xiaojie, and then pointed to the doorway. "The next conversation we have, it's better to close the door."

After hearing what he said, Xiaojie closed the door with a serious face.

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Al Fried."

"Jay Freeze."

"I'm here this time to check with you on the direction you may need to go in the future."

"What do you mean?"

Boy, no, it should be said that Al conjured a saucer out of thin air from his hand.

"Come here and drop your blood on a saucer."

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"This disc allows me to read all your memories, but only within one hour. After six or 10 minutes, I will forget everything that happened during this time."

"...What do you want my memory for?"

"Of course it is based on your personality and experience to judge how to get close to the fourth prince. Without my assistance, you may not even know how to get in touch with him, so I advise you to accept it."

"...Okay." Intuitively, Xiaojie thought that Yaer hadn't lied to him, so she bit her thumb and dripped blood into the plate.

Soon he saw Yar's eyes closed and silent.After about 5 minutes, he opened his eyes and looked at Xiaojie.

"Okay, I know everything about you. The situation is not good for us now, not only the guy named Tres, but also your friend Qi Ya."

"What happened to Chiya?"

"You have to disconnect from him, completely." Yar said bluntly: "It's not just a separation."

Yaer stood up, walked towards Xiaojie and said, "You should know, he must have noticed something. But because of the existence of his sister, he didn't come to you directly. No, it's not just like that."

"Both of you are habitual, and you will leave space for each other not to disturb. If the complementarity in personality makes you friends, then this sense of mutual respect for distance is what makes you destined to separate."

"what are you talking about?"

"At first, I thought he was such a calm and rational person, but according to your memory, in the final battle with Peter, he may have lost you, so he could no longer be calm and calm in front of you, so he put All the panic and anxiety in my heart came out."

Yar looked at the plate in his hand and said: "Before this, he always built a high wall in front of you that is smart, strong, and calm, and he would not even take the initiative to reveal his inner thoughts and emotions to you. And he was in front of his sister There is no need to pretend to be the powerful self in front of you, you have also discovered his gentleness on the other side."

"..." Xiaojie didn't reply directly to Al, he actually knew that Qi Ya is a person with high self-esteem, so he always gave Qi Ya a certain amount of space, and never disturbed his heart too much, nor interfered, but--

"What's wrong with the difference between Kiya's tenderness and consideration for Alluka and his calmness towards his friend?"

"One of you is impulsive and the other rational, but the private space you leave for each other leaves no room for any emotional communication. It's like you were so angry and angry at the time, but he didn't understand that you always asked you to calm down, obviously he was yours Friends should know how special Kate is to you, but they don’t understand that your feelings that you have nowhere to release make you collapse, suffocate and despair. You collapse in front of him little by little, and even tell him each other without reservation. What a cruel person, why should he be patient, but he doesn’t know how to save you, he understands your call for help but doesn’t know what to do.”

"..."

"And when you face Jin afterwards, you can tell him all your thoughts, but do you treat Qiya like this? He also treats you in the same way. Maybe he will tell others his real concerns, but I won't tell you why."

"..."

"You care about each other, and the respect and self-esteem you give to each other will cause you to separate sooner or later. And even if you are friends and important companions to each other, that's all. I want you to completely disconnect from him, It’s because you’re still hesitating about whether you should let him know or not.”

"..." Xiaojie lowered his head.He is quite clear about this.

"But do you think that when Kiya knows you're in danger again, who will you choose between Alluka and you?"

"I didn't want Qi Ya to get involved!"

"After all, it's the first friend, so be afraid to face this situation, afraid that you will no longer be a special existence."

"I'm not as nasty as you said! I know very well that Alluka is someone Kira will spend his whole life protecting, so I can't let him know about this. I absolutely—don't let Kira get into danger. He's okay It’s easy to decide what to do, to have a goal, and I won’t interfere with him.”

"Well, that's my fault for blaming you. If that's the case, you can solve the problem with him today." Yar said, and took out a scroll from the backpack he was carrying behind him.Then fixed on the wall, this picture is a beautiful scenery. "Bring your phone and take a photo with me."

"What do you want to do again?"

"The background is the scenery outside the city of Dailes. If you take a photo with me and send it to Qiya, you will say that you have found a new friend, and you will travel around with your friends." Yar turned around and continued, "Dairies The city is different from other places, it is a place with poor signal, so he won’t feel strange if you don’t contact him for a long time afterwards.”

"...Is that so." Knowing Yaer's meaning, Xiaojie took out the mobile phone in his pocket. "I see."

Afterwards, Xiaojie and Yaer took a group photo in front of the scroll, and prepared to send it to Qiya.

"Don't send it now, it won't be too late after I change your hunter card swiping record to the vicinity of Dailes City."

"it is good."

"Another problem is Ed and Tres. I don't think Ed will betray you, and Tres doesn't know that you will become a woman approaching the fourth prince, so this matter is not urgently resolved."

"What are you going to do then?"

"Not what we're going to do, but I need to see what Tres does, huh." [Worst and best-case scenario is of course killing him. ] Yar thought so in his heart.

"Okay, time is running out, and then I have to tell you in detail about how to get close to the fourth prince. I will pretend to be a brother and sister with you, and then go to the first celebration when the kart boat docks on the other side Evening party. I tell you beforehand, their battle for the throne may be over when they land."

"Battle for the throne?" It was the first time Xiaojie knew this word.

"That's right, the last surviving of the fourteen princes will be the next king of Kardin." Yar sat on the sofa, pointed to Xiaojie and said, "Before Leorio told you that Kurapika was the guard. But I didn’t say that it should be that they didn’t tell him. But you must not have any contact with them after you go in, so as not to reveal your identity and affect the mission.”

"...I know that." [But if they're in danger--]

"If they are in danger, you can't help them. Don't forget that you can't read. What can you do?" After Yar read Xiaojie's memory, he knew exactly what he was thinking at the moment.

"Because you are very important in this incident, I decided to tell you about it. Although King Kading said that the last remaining prince will inherit the throne, in fact his plan is that all princes have to die .”

"what?"

"Aren't you looking for the longevity food of the Dark Continent? Since he has that kind of thing, he can naturally live on and become king, so there is no so-called inheritance relationship to worry about. And the corpses of the fourteen princes and the contract in the pot , the resentment after their death will drive the formation of something bigger to allow the king to pass through the Dark Continent smoothly."

"Is this kind of thing real?"

"It's absolutely true. Because only the last prince can win the throne, then the princes will fight each other until the last one is killed with the throne sacrificial ceremony. Then all the princes will become the king's precious force to march into the dark continent."

"How did you know such a thing?"

"I can read your memory. Naturally, there are other hunters who have the same ability. But maybe what they want is not blood, but just some skin tissue or hair. Okay, let's go back to the fourth prince." .”

"Okay, let's go back to the fourth prince. When he was in his position, he no longer disdained ordinary artworks, but pursued the art of life. But traditional animals can't meet this high demand for art. So he chooses some [young] [future] people, and destroys her at the best time. In fact, this thing is changed to a metaphor: for example, at the moment when a beautiful butterfly just breaks out of its cocoon and is about to spread its wings Let it fall apart, present forever at the moment when life blooms, and keep this life-suggesting thing in the frame, this is the art he pursues."

Al walked to the French window.

"Of course there is a shortcoming in what he is after, and even he himself is aware of it, that is, the person he finds [is not what he approves of], what he wants is [the more valuable person is destroyed], such a person remains It would be a pity for ordinary people to be in the picture frame, but this strong and indelible taste and life freeze are the extraordinary art he pursues. And you—”

Al pointed to Xiaojie.

"It will be his most qualified work so far. Although your cultural level is a bit unsatisfactory, your breath of life that cannot be concealed will definitely attract him. The reason why you turned into a woman to approach him is because he doesn't like the sun. Just stuff. Although there are men in the collection, they are all organ collections, and the skinned ones are all female victims."

"...Then, how can I survive from him being so perverted?" That's right, Xiaojie will also think about his own survival now.

"Oh, question him." Yar chuckled. "Make him want to kill you, but not so quickly."

Hearing Yaer's words, Xiaojie swallowed his saliva.

"But we'd better get on the ship before the battle for the throne is over. I've already contacted someone special about this, so there's no problem."