Ging glanced at the two Zodiacs but didn't bother responding. Instead, he turned to Kanzai and said flatly: "Since I'm here, it means I got the notice."
"Huh?"
Kanzai was startled and frowned, "I was the one assigned to notify you this time, but your number's the same as before… I couldn't reach it no..."
"Oh, that's normal."
Ging interrupted Kanzai calmly.
Kanzai's eyes widened and he said, "That's normal?! If you end up dead in some godforsaken corner one day, no one would even know."
"I blacklisted your number. Of course it wouldn't go through."
Ging leisurely walked to his designated seat.
When Kanzai heard Ging's words, veins on his forehead suddenly popped up, and he said through gritted his teeth, "You bastard..."
Ging ignored Kanzai's reaction and sat down on the dusty chair, then folded his arms.
Cheadle, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly asked: "If Kanzai couldn't reach you, then how did you get notified?"
"Moses asked me to come."
Ging glanced at Cheadle and told her the reason very straightforwardly.
This time he suddenly came to attend the meeting is not only for Moses's appointment as the Monkey of the Zodiacs, but also because he needed to help Moses refine some kind of 'attribute chart'.
Otherwise, he would've just mailed a doll with his portrait glued to it instead of showing up in person.
Hearing Ging's words, everyone in the room reacted slightly.
Even Pariston, who had been smiling all the time, couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly at the mention of Moses's name.
Come to think of it…
Before this meeting started, Pariston had considered reaching out to Moses, who was staying at the Hunter Association's Headquarters.
But whether by coincidence or design, Pariston simply couldn't 'run into' Moses no matter what he tried.
After a few failed attempts, he gave up and decided to wait until the meeting.
"It seems that you are very familiar with the 'protagonist' of this meeting, Ging."
Pariston stood with his hands clasped in front of his chest, looking at Ging, who had just sat down, with a gentle smile.
"It's okay."
Ging didn't even look at Pariston and brushed him off with a casual remark.
Without waiting for Pariston to say anything else, he looked at Cheadle opposite him and said casually, "Hey, hurry up and call Moses over so we can end this meeting quickly."
"First, I'm not 'hey'. Second, there are still thirty-nine seconds before the meeting officially starts. I believe Moses will be here within the time limit. Third, if you want to end the meeting quickly, you should be asking for the Chairman, not Moses."
Cheadle raised her white-gloved hand and stared at Ging with cold eyes.
Facing Cheadle's unfriendly gaze, Ging nodded and said seriously: "Then you should hurry up and call the Chairman over."
"…"
Cheadle's eyes twitched, and she resisted the urge to pry open Ging's skull.
Tap, tap-
Just then, two footsteps of varying degrees of heaviness were heard outside the meeting room.
When everyone in the meeting room heard the footsteps, they subconsciously looked towards the closed door.
Creak-
The door to the meeting room was pushed open.
Beans walked into the meeting room with a laptop under his arm.
Moses followed behind him and as soon as he entered the meeting room, he glanced at everyone present.
After seeing that Ging had arrived, he shared the same thought as Ging, wanting to get this meeting end as quickly as possible.
Compared to officially securing his position in the Zodiacs, Moses was far more interested in finalizing his 'attribute chart'.
That was why he'd asked Ging to come to the Hunter Association's Headquarters in the first place.
After all, Ging is one of the top five Nen Users in the world and can provide the best reference value to Moses.
"Beanie, bring out the old man. Let's just go through the motions and not waste too much time."
With that in mind, Moses withdrew his gaze and turned to Beans.
"Uh…"
Beans smiled bitterly and nodded, then trotted to Netero's seat, placed the laptop he brought on the table, and then flipped up the screen.
Everyone present looked at the screen following Beans's actions, and saw the aged Netero appear on the screen.
"Chairman…"
Seeing Netero on the screen, Ginta and several Zodiacs' members, couldn't hide their concern.
Beans quickly explained: "As you can see, the Chairman will attend the meeting remotely."
"Doesn't matter how. Let's just get started."
Ging seemed oblivious of the others' concern and worry for Netero, and ruined the mood with his impatience.
Naturally, his behavior drew waves of killing intent.
But he didn't care at all and calmly ignored the murderous glares directed at him.
"Hohoho, let's skip the opening remarks then."
Netero's voice came through the laptop.
Nominating someone to hold a position in the Zodiacs requires the approval of the other Zodiacs' members.
Most of the time, decisions were made via majority vote.
But the final say rested with Netero.
If Netero had been in good health, he would've probably deliberately dragged things out just to mess with Moses.
But now...
Netero didn't have the energy to cause trouble and just wanted to go through the motions and then finalize the matter.
Then-
The meeting concluded at lightning speed.
Before Moses could even sit down, he was officially appointed as the Monkey of the Hunter Association's Zodiacs.
The moment the meeting ended, Moses, who was closest to the meeting room's door, turned around and left without hesitation.
Before leaving, he shot Ging a look.
Ging understood immediately. He stood up and used an Emission-type movement technique to flash through the meeting room's door that had not yet closed and appeared outside.
Watching Moses and Ging vanish in the blink of an eye, the remaining members exchanged glances.
Only Pariston kept his eyes slightly narrowed and stared with interest at the slowly closing double doors of the meeting room.
…
On the corridor of the Hunter Association's Headquarters.
Ging glanced at Moses's profile and asked, "So, about that… 'attribute chart' thing?"
"Mm."
Moses nodded.
Ging pressed further. "How do we do it?"
"Let's have a fight."
Moses said it like it was the most natural thing in the world.
The most efficient way to test his current stats was through actual combat.
Netero was temporarily out of commission and cannot be used as a combat target, so the only option is to look for Ging, who is one of the world's top five Nen Users.
"Fine. When do we start?"
Ging agreed and continued to ask.
Moses raised his hand to his chin and said, "We can start at any time, but we need a place that can handle us going all out."
"You dragged me here in a hurry, and you didn't even have a location ready?"
Ging rolled his eyes, and was too exhausted to complain further.
"Follow me. I know a good location."
"That's great."
Moses's eyes lit up when he heard that, but he didn't realize that Ging had said 'location' rather than 'place'.
A moment later, Ging led Moses to the Hunter Association's archives.
The person in charge was a heavyset man wearing thick black-framed glasses.
"Lushi, I'm borrowing your PC."
Ging strolled in casually and waved at the fat man sitting behind the desk near the entrance.
The fat man named Lushi didn't even look up, and just waved a hand dismissively.
Ging smiled when he saw this, then took Moses deeper into the archives and soon came to an area with a row of computers.
"I remember the 'channel' was set up on this one..."
Ging walked over to one of the computers, bent down and turned on the computer.
While waiting for the computer to start up, Ging took out a USB flash drive engraved with the letters, 'Pe', from his inner pocket.
Moses didn't know what Ging wanted to do. He first looked around the bookshelves with many documents, then looked at Ging, and raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this the place you are talking about?"
"No, it's in 'another world'."
Ging smirked mysteriously.
"…"