Alluka slapped his head: "Ah! I almost forgot!"
"Brother, brother, we met a bum Ryu!"
"Bum Ryu asked us a lot of questions."
"Answering questions must get good cards!"
"If it's Brother Kusuo, he must know… much more than us."
Saiki Kusuo didn't expect that his lazy life would still be great in his younger brothers' eyes.
"Brother Kusuo!"
"Help us answer them…"
This kind of game must be boring for him. With Chrollo's luck, it's hard not to suspect that he'll be dead in a blink of an eye.
But with three pairs of eyes staring at him, Saiki Kusuo gave in a little.
[Okay, fine. But in exchange, Milluki has to stay and protect the mission target.]
"Huh? Isn't Mr. Chrollo going with us?" Alluka asked.
Think about his legs, Alluka.
Alluka turned around and saw Chrollo who had just bandaged his leg. He covered his mouth and carefully spat out words from between his fingers: "I'm sorry Mr. Chrollo… I forgot about your leg injury."
"It's okay, you guys go play. This kid doesn't need to stay here." Chrollo said generously. "As for the matter of bumping into me, you have already given me these bandages, so we are even."
Actually, he just thinks he doesn't need these kids' help.
[No, Milluki must stay.] He is also a Nen user anyway, which can greatly increase the safety of a crippled ordinary person.
Chrollo shrugged, feeling indifferent.
However, they won't be gone for too long. Alluka and Kurt were leading the way, and Saiki Kusuo followed behind and left.
Chrollo sat in his seat and began to think about things, while Milluki stood behind him nervously.
The Zoldyck children rarely interact with people from the outside world. If a family member does something wrong, just let the other party whip them.
But when something happens with an outsider, Milluki really doesn't know what to do. Is a C-grade card really enough to pay it back?
Milluki pays great attention to the fairness of transactions.
His Nen is trading. He can weigh and price things. In order to practice this ability, many pricing scenes in the family are specially arranged for him.
So he knows better than anyone else that the transaction is unfair.
The result of an unfair transaction is likely to be that the other party feels resentment. Even if they don't mind it on the surface, they will plant a seed of unfairness in their hearts, affecting the future.
No way!
Milluki believes in transactions too much, he gritted his teeth and stood in front of Chrollo.
"Um, Mr. Chrollo!"
Chrollo leaned back in his chair, supporting his face with one hand.
At this moment, the Nen focused on this black-haired child.
One meter fifty-six in height, his face is a little round, but not too much, and his big eyes are very like the Zoldyck family.
But, are the Zoldyck family so indecisive?
Chrollo, who spends more time with Illumi and Saiki Kusuo, has a bit of a stereotype.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"I still think it's a bit unfair to you. I hope you can make a deal with me and ask for 1-2 more conditions! As compensation for hurting you just now!"
The child is sincere, but in Chrollo's eyes, this deal is meaningless and he is too lazy to do it.
"Didn't I say? Giving me that card is enough to even it out." Chrollo really doesn't feel any resentment in his heart. Those injuries have already been restored, but this is Saiki Kusuo's secret and he better not reveal it to others.
Even the Zoldyck family, during the hunter exam, wasn't Saiki Kusuo hiding it?
"But…" Milluki took a deep breath and said his speculation all along, "You are an older brother's friend, right!"
Chrollo: ?
"Just like Big Brother Illumi and that… Hisoka, having a friend with similar strength. The family only allows finding strong people…" Milluki pinched his hands in front of his chest, trying to look at the other person's eyes to express sincerity, but was a little scared because of the pressure just now.
Friends… He also wants to find friends, but it's very difficult! So if something happens to his family members' friends because of him, especially someone introverted like Brother Kusuo, who won't be able to find a few friends in his life! He would feel guilty for the rest of his life!
"So! Mr. Chrollo, you will forgive me because of your relationship with my brother, but I don't want to use your friendship with Brother Kusuo because of me! It's like, uh, consuming! Sometimes the person involved doesn't feel it, but… Ah, did I express myself clearly! I hope you can accept my apology! Don't forgive me because of my brother, please!"
Chrollo was rarely surprised. It turns out that Illumi and Hisoka are friends? No, it's hard to say for sure. This child is already treating himself and Saiki Kusuo as friends, so he may not be able to recognize the relationship between Illumi and Hisoka.
"What you said surprised me… But, I'm not friends with Saiki. He will help me because of this deal. The friends you long for, we spiders…"
Chrollo stared at the child formally and explained a lot to him.
In order to prove that he really didn't think Milluki should pay him any more compensation for his mistake, Milluki also used his trading ability on Chrollo.
It was a materialized scale, completely close to balance.
"Really!" Milluki was pleasantly surprised, and then he was also surprised that a person like Chrollo could take such a big fall and not pursue anything. The only explanation he could think of was, "Mr. Chrollo! You are such a generous and good person!"
Chrollo chuckled twice, goosebumps were about to break out.
They are thieves, but they are praised as good people. Is this a derogatory term in a particular situation?
"I'm going to buy something!" Milluki said happily, "Mr. Chrollo, do you eat desserts? Do you want coffee?"
"I want both. Coffee with milk and sugar." Chrollo won't refuse on this.
The coffee shop is next door. Milluki went in, and Chrollo was still sitting in his chair.
He resumed his thinking just now. Before he could fully get into it, a cracking sound came from one of the chair's legs. He realized the chair was unstable, reached out to hold the table, but the table fell down first.
It turns out that in the tumble just now, it wasn't just people who were injured.
Just as Chrollo was about to fall, a hand grabbed the chair and supported the chair with only two legs left in its original position.
"Need help? Mr. Chrollo"
A very cold voice came, and Chrollo looked up. The outline of a white sun hat blocked the sun above his head.
Long black hair hung down like a curtain. The person had a fair, doll-like face and empty black eyes. Chrollo looked up at the person like this. If it weren't daytime, he would definitely think he was seeing a female ghost.
It's not his prejudice, it's just that Illumi really looks like a female ghost.
"Thank you." Chrollo said, "I really need help. Please help me stand up a little. I can hop over to another chair."
"Oh." Illumi responded, supporting Chrollo's arm and pulling him up.
Illumi helped Chrollo up. He was slightly taller than Chrollo. At this moment, he lowered his head and whispered in Chrollo's ear.
"Friends with our Kusuo?"
This voice, almost blowing on his neck, might be a game between young lovers in a romance novel, or flirting between mature men and women in a road novel, but this came from Illumi.
It was so cold, as if he was going to be killed.
Chrollo touched his neck and showed a meaningful smile.
A straight body is not afraid of a crooked shadow. Although he doesn't understand how friends have become a dangerous word for the Zoldycks: "If you have been listening to our conversation, I just explained it to Milluki."
"Um… I only heard Milluki yelling that you and Kusuo are friends."
"He also told me that you and Hisoka are friends. Don't worry too much about a child's judgment, right?"
Illumi's eyes widened slightly: "I will correct my relationship with Hisoka. It seems that taking Milluki to find Hisoka made him misunderstand. However, if my younger brother thinks you two are friends, it means there is something wrong with your relationship."
What double standards, Illumi.
Chrollo looked at Illumi, who was two years younger than him, pointing at him with his finger, with self-consistent logic.
There is also a natural sense of superiority, no, it should be said a parental attribute, which makes him rightfully come out and manage this matter.
"Actually, I saw you before Milluki and the other two appeared. Ah, I wanted to come out and chat with you directly."
Chrollo: You were completely eavesdropping next to us.
"But an accident happened, so I watched for a while."
Chrollo: It's hard to say you are innocent, since you have been watching until now.
"Before Milluki and the others arrived, you were chatting, right? You chatted for a long time, and Kusuo even helped you hold an umbrella."
Illumi's pupils widened a little, as if he was even more certain of his guess.
Chrollo had successfully hopped to a good chair and sat down, but once he sat down, it seemed that he could not escape Illumi's "interrogation".
Illumi stretched out his hand, palm up, as if hoping that Chrollo could confess everything: "Tell me, what did you talk about?"
"Just some mission details, Illumi."
"Besides the mission details? Is it a secret I can't know? Well, you can tell me the topic direction. You seem to chat often. There must be a lot of time to chat together during this mission, and is it all closely related to the mission?"
Illumi didn't let Chrollo go, even to the point of being so aggressive that Chrollo felt strange.
"Ah, is it strange?" Illumi's ability to read expression is also very good. "Kusuo doesn't interact much with his family. I'm just curious, what kind of topic can make Kusuo chat with you for so long. You can treat it as me studying my younger brother's preferences."
"Is that so." Chrollo straightened his clothes, sat up straight, and no longer looked up at Illumi's eyes. He lowered his head to think. "If you want to learn interaction like this, I can give you some suggestions."
"——The answer is philosophy. Saiki is a knowledgeable person, although I don't know the specifics, he should have high achievements in some fields. When achievements in any field reach a certain level, a person's thinking will gradually approach the search for truth. I can feel that he loves research very much, right?"
…
Saiki Kusuo, who was a few streets away, had just finished answering the questions, twenty consecutive correct answers, and got an S-grade Chameleon Cat card. Alluka and Kurt were cheering.
Saiki Kusuo was worried that Chrollo would suddenly die, so he used his clairvoyance to take a look.
Unexpectedly, he saw Chrollo chatting with Illumi, and heard him talking about philosophy.
He couldn't listen after hearing a few sentences.
[What nonsense are you talking about.]
The voice was transmitted to Chrollo alone. Chrollo thought without showing any sign: [If I don't say something, Illumi won't let me go, right?]
Chrollo was also helpless: [I really don't think I have specifically chatted with you about anything other than mission matters. Is your Zoldyck family's education so strict?]
[I don't know, it wasn't like this before. Since Killua left home, Illumi's attention has been on the other younger brothers.]
Very miserable.
On one side, Illumi said after a brief thought: "Part of what you said is lying to me."
As expected, he was exposed. Chrollo didn't surrender: "There must be some hidden secrets, but not all of it is lying to you, right?"
He admitted it. Is this okay?
It's okay, because Illumi has already accepted and started thinking about it. In his opinion, this is more reasonable.
Saiki Kusuo walked back with his two younger brothers, and Milluki also walked out of the store carrying desserts and coffee.
When the younger brothers appeared, Chrollo stopped talking, and Illumi stopped pursuing the topic.
"…Big brother, would you like me to buy you another cup of coffee?" Milluki asked nervously.
"Yes, you can. Leave your book here, I'll take a look at your cards."
"Okay, big brother, no problem, big brother!"
Putting aside the questioning situation just now, Illumi's arrival seems to have another purpose.
He checked Kurt and Milluki's cards, and without caring that Chrollo was still here, he gathered them together to start a small Zoldyck planning meeting.
"You should pay attention to the following three types of cards later: Leave B-150, Compel F-130, Copy C-40. If you have the opportunity to get Archangel's Breath, you must get it, and contact me after you get it. Leaving is rare, it is a card in short supply on the market, save it first after you get it and don't sell it. Compel is a common card, very popular. But the cards have usage limits, and I plan to monopolize it. Copy should be helpful to challengers in the final stage of the game, although it is also a scarce card, get it if you can."
Illumi is already fully strategizing this game.
He doesn't seem to plan to clear the game, but since he's here, he'll make a fortune.
Chrollo heard it next to him and said nothing: [Monopoly is still a good method. Leaving and Copy seem to have other intentions. Does he really not want to clear the game?]
Saiki Kusuo ate a mouthful of the ice cream Milluki bought him.
He knew that Illumi really didn't want to. What's wrong with Illumi, he's just doing something that Killua will definitely come to him.
Leaving is a necessary card to log out of the game.
Copy is a high-probability necessary card to clear the game, because the rarer the card, the higher the difficulty to obtain, and the fewer the total number of the card, and Killua and Gon will definitely come to clear the game.
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