Hisoka suddenly shuffled the cards very high, instantly grabbing everyone's attention.
"Oh, wasn't there someone else who wanted to join last night? Someone with a Nen beast."
Bisky!
Saiki Kusuo remembered.
At the same time, his body clock accurately told him it was 6:20 AM.
He stood someone up, didn't he!
Saiki Kusuo didn't say a word and left the villa right away, creating a human-powered wind.
"What's wrong, Kusuo?" Illumi asked, surprised.
Chrollo quickly grabbed the flying squirrel-shaped chameleon cat that almost flew away, and said, "We agreed to meet at 6 o'clock yesterday, and it's already 6:20."
"With that Bisky? What kind of Nen user is she?" Illumi watched the door suspiciously, arms crossed. Since when was Kusuo so hurried?
"A very cute little lady, with good strength. She looks about twelve years old?~" Hisoka swung his cards leisurely. "If we can invite her, we'll only be one person short when Phinks comes back."
"Just hire someone with a card then," Illumi said, pushing back his hair, his eyes scanning the stairs without leaving a trace.
There were eyes there. The two youngest brothers were peeking from the stairs. Why?
Oh! Illumi clapped his hands. "I know. Chrollo, Hisoka, there's a New Year's hiking event tomorrow. One try per person. If you're lucky, you can get a random rare card."
"Luck... I don't really want to test it," Chrollo said. "And can I redeem prizes?"
"I don't know. Why don't you try and see?" Illumi said. "The information is all written on paper. You should be able to redeem based on the paper. Kusuo has gotten a lot of cards, so it seems player identity isn't verified."
"Will the Phantom Troupe go to this kind of rare card opportunity?" Hisoka chuckled. "It's just a card. Chrollo, I'm worried about your health. Just stay home and wait, okay?"
"I'm not hiding from the Troupe members now. Wherever I am, the Troupe will be. They're still following me, since the Nen removal is about to start."
"In that case, let's go together. We can sell more tickets to the Troupe," Illumi said. "The little ones are really looking forward to their first small business success. Is it alright?"
So Illumi was helping his brothers promote it.
"Only 1,000 Jenny per ticket."
The kids just wanted to hear news about the engagement.
Clearly, they didn't hear the information they wanted.
--Find a chance tomorrow!
Alluka and Kurt looked at each other and reached this common understanding.
In three minutes, Saiki Kusuo ran back to Andoni Ba and found Bisky. This time, he didn't turn himself into Genthru. Instead, he laid everything out straight.
He had to be sincere. After all, he wanted the storyline of Bisky teaching Killua and Gon to go back to normal. It was an important experience they couldn't miss.
"Teach kids? No way!" Bisky flatly refused. "I came out here to find gems on vacation. I have no intention of spending my time teaching people. The Hunter Association has special Nen training courses. Just apply at headquarters. If you learned Nen by passing the Hunter Exam, you definitely had a master when you were learning, right?"
Rejected.
Thinking for 0.3 seconds...
[We've gathered 12 pretty strong people for the "One Acre Coastline" quest. If you and your human-shaped Nen beast join, we'll only be one short. We'll find them.]
He could only attract Bisky to join and build a relationship first. He still hoped that everything would naturally happen after meeting Killua and Gon.
After agreeing to meet again in the same place three days later, Saiki Kusuo parted ways with Bisky.
On the way back, Saiki Kusuo wandered around outside for a long time, especially in the deserted wilderness. He lay there for a long time before returning to the villa.
For days, he rarely had time to be truly alone.
There were clearly more people in Masadora than in other places. The villa was there, and his brothers had settled there.
Unless something went wrong, he'd be living there for the last year.
When Saiki Kusuo slowly dragged himself back to the villa, the gathering downstairs was long over. Saiki Kusuo stood in the standard room with few belongings. This room was probably the one he would use in the Hunter world for the last year.
The size of the room was just about the same as in his original world.
He walked around the room and used Nen to mark it off into areas on the walls and floor, planning to put a bookshelf, desk, and wardrobe in different spots.
Television? That form of entertainment was gone. Greed Island didn't have a signal.
Other than that, it was very easy to recreate.
Saiki Kusuo made a plan and went to sleep peacefully.
The next morning.
[Can't sleep! Is everyone still asleep? I've bought breakfast.]
[New Year's shrine visit. It's better to go early, right? Should I wake everyone up...]
[Ah! Illumi big brother is already awake. I'll go call Kusuo brother!]
"Kusuo... Hey? So cool!"
Saiki Kusuo opened the door, all washed up and dressed.
Saiki Kusuo: [Let's go, let's have breakfast. Oh, and call that ordinary human next door to come and eat too.]
Just a matter of telepathy.
"Next door? Is big brother talking about... that one?"
[That one?]
Milluki, who was about to go downstairs, suddenly stopped and said seriously, "Shhh, we can't talk about that. That one, that appearance, that one, that one... Zetsu is because there it's the reason that one can't be talked about!"
[Too many "that"s."] Saiki Kusuo complained. [It's because of that, so that can't be said...] I can't even say it?!
"Which one are you talking about?" Illumi asked, puzzled, standing at the bottom of the stairs. "Let's go. Hatsu is about to happen. The Troupe just sent a message saying people are already on the mountain."
Although they were working together to complete the mission, to prevent Chrollo and the Troupe from meeting and dying, everyone went at different times.
Chrollo rang the doorbell just then, and the door opened to reveal everyone about to leave.
"Am I late?"
Saiki Kusuo looked down to put on his shoes. The bread and boxed milk on the table were thrown straight at Chrollo's face.
"Thanks. Have my Troupe members started Hatsu?" Chrollo caught them perfectly and asked.
Illumi looked at the book, which was connected to Nobunaga.
"They're fine, but you're asking me. They can't reply right now," Illumi pointed out, suggesting Chrollo's question was unnecessary.
Because Chrollo's Hatsu activated communications, the Troupe side was collectively silenced.
"They got hung up," Illumi said regretfully. They might still have to pay attention to the Troupe's movements along the way.
Chrollo didn't care and ate the bread and drank the milk.
"Do you want to sit down and eat, Chrollo?" Illumi asked considerately.
"Let's just start Hatsu. Saiki is taking me, right?"
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"No, Hisoka is taking you."
"Pick someone else." Chrollo blurted out.
"Then I'm the only one who can take you," Illumi said.
For some reason, the option didn't fall on Saiki Kusuo.
Chrollo looked at the clothes Illumi had on with pins and was silent for a moment. "Give me ten minutes to sit and eat."
He still wanted to eat.
The seven-person team, perhaps to take care of the two non-players, didn't use cards but used parkour to advance. Saiki Kusuo slowly followed behind.
The highest mountain was easy to find. Jump onto any roof in Masadora and you could see a mountain silhouette to the east.
Once at the foot of the mountain, it became lively.
The number of players on Greed Island didn't increase by much. Only 100 sets of the game were released, and although one game machine had many interfaces, the actual number of players was only five or six hundred.
Five or six hundred might be too many.
But this event was a welfare event for all players, so the foot of the mountain had nearly a hundred people looking for the New Year beast.
Saiki Kusuo listened to the heart sounds as loud as a shopping mall and thought: Was there only one New Year beast? If there only was one, forget it.
"Hey! You over there!" A voice rang out. It was someone well-remembered, Zethu's goon.
"So you came too. Join us! The New Year beast quest can have up to 20 people. After you catch it, you finish the quest together!"
The goon was very enthusiastic and explained it to him even though he knew he was new.
Saiki Kusuo watched the goon stop him from afar. It was because he was lagging behind the team and was too far away from everyone, and they thought he was alone.
"Isn't there another guy?" The goon looked left and right.
[Behind you.]
Chrollo patted the goon's shoulder and smiled in greeting, "Hey, man."
They were buddies now.
Chrollo treated the goon like an informant and immediately asked questions. Under Chrollo's questioning, everyone learned that the New Year beast would change form every time it was caught. It had been a cow, a sheep, and a bird before. According to probability, they could pay less attention to those three animals.
And the amount of animals on this mountain was unusually large. They were all neutral creatures. There were a lot of signs warning everyone not to attack the animals or they wouldn't get a card.
"While everyone can hunt animals to sell for money in the store, today is New Year's, so it's forbidden to kill any animals here except the New Year beast. Otherwise, you'll have bad luck," the goon explained about this strange thing.
"I see, but we don't need to team up. We already have a team. Bye, thanks for telling us!" Chrollo left after he was done asking. The goon, who enjoyed the chat, didn't realize anything was wrong and just waved goodbye regretfully.
Oh gee, what a scary social butterfly.
Everyone seemed quite interested in finding the New Year beast. Saiki Kusuo was lazy.
As everyone scattered to find the New Year beast, Saiki Kusuo went into the woods and quietly found a tree with many branches, floated up, and lay in the fork of the tree, slacking off.
Illumi: [Doesn't the red pig on Chrollo's shoulder look like the New Year beast?]
Chrollo: [That's the chameleon cat turning red... an orange cat?]
Chameleon cat: [Hmph, the New Year beast should be me!]
Even though there was a bit of distance, Saiki Kusuo could hear everyone's thoughts.
Alluka: [So many people haven't found it yet, it must be because they're looking down. Maybe the New Year beast has turned into a bird again? I'll look up!]
Hisoka: [Hehehe... does this kid want to climb a tree? I'll go help him.☆]
Alluka: [Big brother Hisoka is here. He seems to be coming towards me. Is he going to tell me some secret? About big brother...]
Hisoka: [Hmm~ the kid seems to be looking forward to it?]
Wait, hey, stay away from Alluka, you pervert.
Just as Saiki Kusuo stood up to save someone, Milluki's thoughts deafeningly sounded: [Ahhhh! Don't touch Alluka!]
Milluki, good brother.
[Haha, it's like this every year, let them worry. I'm not that dumb... I'm going to sleep.]
Huh? Whose voice was that? Saiki Kusuo noticed in surprise that the voice was surprisingly close.
The trees here are generally tall. Saiki Kusuo looked up and found a red tail hanging down from a taller tree next door.
Between the leaves, a small vertebrate skeleton was lying on a branch. The tail was bigger than the body.
Looking closely, it really was a feline.
[I really hope the game has more holiday events so there are always people playing. It's so boring to stay in my nest all the time!]
[Oh? That's my kid! Why is he giving spoilers! I'll slap him.]
Huh?
It turned out that the New Year beast was the adult version of the chameleon cat in disguise. The adult chameleon cat was much larger than the current one, and the animals it transformed into were more realistic.
Saiki Kusuo couldn't help but watch the show.
They were raised here by the GMs, and they become the New Year beast every year.
It must be another idea that Jin came up with by slapping his head.
The big chameleon cat's nature was straightforward. They did what they said. It jumped down the tree. The big tail opened up and turned into a parachute to cushion the landing. It glided near the ground and used a tail sweep on the chameleon cat on Chrollo's shoulder like a Pokemon!
But Chrollo dodged it and grabbed its tail.
The quest paper in everyone's arms suddenly changed, and the quest to capture the New Year beast was complete.
"Ah, I knew the red pig must be the New Year beast. Sometimes my intuition is good," Illumi clapped his hands.
Chrollo let go, and the New Year beast landed and grew eight legs and ran away--because the other players were rushing to catch it.
The posture of growing eight legs really scared everyone. They said that the New Year beast was a mysterious species that could change in many ways. This was too perverted.
This New Year beast was so scary. Would that little chameleon cat turn into this kind of alien creature one day?
Chrollo communicated with the chameleon cat on his shoulder, using his hand as a trumpet. It turned into a bird with a big mouth.
The chameleon cat immediately realized and changed into bird form and shouted, "Gather! Gather! Let's go up the mountain!"
What trumpet. Saiki Kusuo turned over and jumped down from the tree, slowly walking out of the grove.
In the temple, following the crowd, everyone lined up to worship the gods.
The Zoldyck family used to have a New Year's worship tradition. Although the assassin family's worship was different from this form, everyone decided to participate normally in the process.
The crowd discussed noisily.
"After making a wish, you can draw an auspicious fortune slip. Although it has nothing to do with the mission, it's a New Year's ritual that you have to do every year when you're outside."
"If you draw a great fortune, your wishes might really come true! Didn't someone get a 'Leave' card last year?"
"Wasn't that fake..."
"It's definitely real. So many people saw it!"
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