"Senior brother."
"Lord Eiichiro Oda."
Once, the senior and junior brothers met eyes. It hadn't even been half a year,
since their parting at Sagiri yama. Upon seeing the boy again, Roy had grown almost taller than Tomioka Giyu.
Tomioka Giyu's cold gaze rarely showed a hint of a smile, directly saying: "Finally, it's my turn."
Roy responded with a smile: "Actually, even if senior brother doesn't say, I would still help you awaken."
"I believe it," said Tomioka Giyu. "Master was right, you are the sun, the nemesis of evil ghosts."
"Eiichiro Oda, kill Kibutsuji Muzan and bring peace to the world!"
The threads of causality link Tomioka Giyu, thicker and heavier than for Gyomei Himejima, Shinazugawa Sanemi, or those like Tokitou Muichirou and Tengen Uzui who have just opened their acupoints.
With Tomioka Giyu's words of expectation falling... the mist in Roy's heart rolled violently, with a "sizzle~," shattering the layer of window paper, allowing Roy to clear the mist, enlightenment arises, understanding everything clearly.
[Hint: [En] +10+30+45....]
[Current [En]: Level 1:(84/100)→Level 2:(78/1000)]
[Note: Strengthening [En], range increased by 200 (meters), "Listening to the hearts of all things" evolves to "Heart Beetle"]
["Heart Beetle": Through the bond relationships, the host can follow the "threads of causality" to transform into a "heart beetle" that forcibly burrows into others' hearts, glimpsing their past and future (Note: "Heart Beetle" will show a corner of others' future, the angle maintained for three seconds)]
Knowing the past, can peek into the future... the vicissitudes of life change, time flies, wherever the sunlight shines, there is [the Sun] to witness!
No matter past, present, or future....
Roy places a palm on Tomioka Giyu's chest, watching him open his acupoints, Nen flowing out, the person falling into a sacred and peaceful meditative state....
The spirit follows, flying to the beam, penetrating the roof, stepping on the wind swirl, donned in cloud clothing, finally merging with the sun at noon....
Hunter World.
Eleven at night.
The coastal town of Vibis on the western outskirts of the Yulubian continent formally enters the spectacular nightlife as usual.
"Beep~" a taxi passes by... followed by the driver's road rage, shouting angrily through the window....
In the seaside hotel where Ging, Roy, and Razor were staying....
Jinx, boredom making him yawn, snuggles beside Roy, nestles against a pillow corner, quietly burrows in,
Sensing something suddenly in the dark, his small eyes, the size of mung beans, rotate, his tiny pupils astonishingly emit one circle after another, and he falls directly next to Roy's pillow.
Strands, faintly visible, of "Nen Beetles" accompany the slumbering boy, turning over unconsciously, rolling outwards with [En]....
Not yet asleep, still meticulously studying "Water Breathing" under the soft lamp glow, Razor continually adjusts his posture and gains and losses, his brow furrows suddenly, quickly turning to look at the wall corner!
From the dim corner comes a worm, writhing along the floor, crawling toward him...
Razor raises his hand to release a Nen Bullet, the force precisely controlled, enough to destroy the worm without damaging the floor, making too much noise, yet...
"Bang~" the Nen Bullet pierced straight through the worm's body, shot directly onto the floor, leaving a bullet hole, neither shallow nor deep!
"Nen" can only be dealt with using "Nen"—this is common sense!
But... watching that worm ignore his Nen Bullet, still crawling steadily toward him, Razor abruptly stood up, raised his hand to fire another Nen Bullet, then "Bang... Bang... Bang...."
Bullets rain down like a torrent, drawing a straight line of bullet holes along the worm's path, yet....
Still did not harm it in the slightest!
Moreover... although the worm crawls slowly, it ignores Razor's desire to distance, steadily closing in on him....
Razor's pupils shrink, sharply smelling a scent of "rules"!
Someone is enforcing rules on him!
[Rules] are [settings], a series of rules specifically set by a "Nen user" through their own "Nenryoku" for "themselves" and "specific objects."
For example... Kurapika's treasure ability on the "Spiders"... the "wrath" of scarlet eyes triggering "special" mechanisms... different "Nen Beasts" distributed through the pot egg ceremony by the princes of Kakin, only imposing abilities and rules on the prince and others....
Razor watches the worm follow the threads of causality, unaffected by his will, burrowing into his heart, disappearing in a flash....
This top-tier "Emission" user, face darkening, suppresses his anger, sits back in the chair, instead borrowing the rules, calming his mind, getting ready to see what this worm wants to do!
If you want no one to know, don't do it yourself. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Roy unconsciously emits [En], transforming into "Heart Beetles," burrowing into Razor's heart along their threads of causality, simultaneously, as well as a second, third, even fourth heart beetle, crawling toward different directions.
One crawls to the sofa next to Roy, where Wutong rests to recover.
One passes through the wall, along the corridor, burrowing into room 7415, following the girl's fair calf upwards, crossing woodlands, climbing snow mountains, burrowing into Alena's heart... the sleeping girl's beautiful brows furrow, turning over, some crystalline streaks flow down as a silver line....
"Moan~" accompanied by the woman's sleep-talking...
The last heart beetle wriggles under the corridor wall light, moments later, bypasses the corner, enters room 7403... with a small nod, curls through the door gap,
In discussion with Ging about the Golden Crow, otherwise known as Jinx's status and abilities, Feitan's parrot "Chirp~" softly calls, poking its head to look through the door gap,
Ging, wearing just a nightshirt after taking off his cloak, turns to look back....
The milky-white "Heart Beetle" slowly yet swiftly shortens the distance with Ging along their threads of causality.
The man's eyebrow lifts in curiosity, showing interest.
Tilting his head, he speaks to the parrot on his shoulder: "Little Sakura, have you seen anything?"
"Will... Such a familiar feeling...." Feitan's parrot tilts its head, wings shake, flying to peck precisely at the heart beetle, only for its bird beak to pass through the heart beetle, causing Ging not far away, sitting cross-legged on the bed, to slightly move his gaze!
"You can't peck it." Ging squints at the parrot's phantom beak piercing through the floor and inexplicably pulling out, staring at the heart beetle in disbelief, explaining: "This worm isn't tangible or even Nen, but rather... a worm that carries someone's will or heart, dividing out through Nen powers and rules."
"Have you seen it before?" Feitan's parrot returns, flapping its wings, staring with small, bean-sized green eyes at the heart beetle, watching it climb onto the bed, step by step pressing toward Ging.
The man reflects light, recalling records from the ancestors in "Journal of the New Continent" about [God] [Disaster] [Servant] [Faith] and calmly says: "Never seen, but..."
"To find out what it really is and whose will it carries, give it a shot, you'll know."
Ging's gaze falls on the heart beetle, just quietly observing it, nestle up beside him, climb along his foot, clambering up his calf, knee, following upward, straight into his heart.....
On this typical night in Vibis,
He closes his eyes with Razor, seeing what Roy sees, focusing on capturing the heart beetle's actions,
Gradually... "the past" is revealed as the heart beetle burrows into their hearts, presenting images being swallowed into the heart beetle's mouth....
Demon Slayer World.
Just having opened Tomioka Giyu's acupoints, received a panel notification.... [Power Of Faith +1]...
Roy stands like an old pine on the wooden corridor, his mind filled with many more images to come...