Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

Dia turned around, half-squatted down, and then felt a creature as light as a feather jump onto his back.

Two white arms reached over his shoulders and wrapped around his neck. Mu Muze carefully rested his face against his back.

Pokson silently opened the umbrella—only covering Mumu Ze, not protecting Diya from the rain.

Miss Poker has her little temper too.

"Dia... um... what do you like to eat?"

Mumu asked cautiously, like a socially awkward homebody who was being reserved on a blind date.

"All meat and chocolate-flavored desserts."

Dia responded patiently.

"Oh, then I'll ask Poker to make more later..."

Thanks to the culinary skills he learned at military school, Poksen is now in charge of Mumu Ze's three meals a day.

Mumu Ze continued to ask questions in a rustling voice, and Diya answered them one by one.

Suddenly Dia asked:

"Aren't you curious about who broke into the royal palace tonight?"

"It's you, Diya."

Mumu Ze casually rested her head on his shoulder:

"Besides you, who else has such great ability?"

She knew it from the very beginning.

After all, no one knew better than her whether Dia had left the tea party.

Therefore, when the conflict occurred, she never said anything like that Dia wasn't the intruder; instead, she was anxious to pull him away directly.

Because she knew in her heart that Dia would definitely not stand up to scrutiny.

"...Aren't you curious about what I'm going to do?"

"I'm not curious. My father said that his safety is no one's concern."

Mumu Ze has great confidence in Naspi's resolve.

As she spoke, her voice gradually lowered, becoming a murmur:

"What I care about is the questions others ask you."

"I don't want to see you embarrassed and nervous. When I noticed how rude those people were to you, I felt really bad, like something was stuck in my chest!"

Dia suddenly felt a warm sensation, as if some kind of hot liquid had dripped onto his face.

He glanced back and saw Mu Muze gritting his teeth and shedding tears.

"I swear, one day, no one in this country will dare to threaten you like that again. When I become king, I will give everything to you..."

Diya withdrew one hand and gently wiped away her tears, feeling a mix of emotions in her heart for some reason.

He turned around and said in a muffled voice:

"No need for that. If you have it, I have it too, right?"

"Of course, the whole world knows you're mine."

Mumu Ze pressed his face against Diya's right ear with lingering affection, his breath wafting out as he spoke, enveloping Diya's face:

So, don't leave, don't leave me in a hell without you...

Poxon, who had been holding the umbrella the whole time, turned his face away, unwilling to watch any longer.

Diya quietly hugged Mumu Ze's legs a little tighter behind her, feeling a rare sense of conflict in her heart.

From any perspective, Mu Muze is not helpful to him. From a profit perspective, getting too close to Mu Muze is undoubtedly a losing proposition.

But human emotions cannot be quantified.

Dia isn't the type of person who only treats others well when they're of use to him.

He was happy to coax Mumu Ze like a child, even though it was all meaningless.

As for the reason...

Perhaps it's because of this dark and twisted world.

Only she would still act like an ordinary girl facing someone she likes, awkwardly finding all sorts of strange topics and smiling cautiously.

She might feel so bad that she wants to cry if you are threatened, she might grit her teeth if you are treated rudely, and she might hand over everything to you without hesitation.

She's a rare and wonderful girl.

In a neurotic world, even a simple romantic relationship is a luxury.

The short walk from outside the palace to inside felt like an eternity…

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In the middle of New Delhi, at a gang's hideout.

"Understood, Elder. If we find any trace of the target, I will do everything in my power to avenge the deaths of my brothers and sisters!"

A resolute glint flashed in the eyes of a middle-aged man with a face full of scars as he spoke softly into the phone.

People from Meteor City will never lack the courage to face death, even when facing an invincible enemy.

Chapter 364 Usurpation of the Country × The Murderer Is Someone Else

"...That concludes my account of what I saw and heard last night."

Chao Yin, expressionless, saluted his two superiors and said:

"Based on my judgment, that hunter was the only person that night who was capable of infiltrating the royal palace."

"You mean, all by himself, in such a short time, he bypassed all the surveillance inside the Three Princes' Palace, bypassed the three patrol teams in the inner city, bypassed the checkpoints outside the King's Palace, slipped into the palace, silently killed a royal guard, quietly broke into the royal hall and caused a ruckus, and then returned the way he came right under everyone's noses, without even getting his clothes dirty?"

Major General Kafka crossed his arms and said with a troubled expression:

"Chao Yin, you'll be promoted to major general soon, right? You'll be the same rank as me soon. In peacetime, you've always believed in your abilities to get this far through military merit. But, what you're saying is indeed... um..."

He looked constipated.

"Besides..."

Major General Kafka looked at Chao Yin with a strange expression, but did not continue speaking.

If what Chao Yin said is true, then his courage to continue investigating is commendable.

After all, someone who can kill in the royal palace can certainly kill in the military...

"If they can't find anything now, that's fine. But if you manage to find something, they'll be cornered and might even turn on us, and we could all be beheaded and forced to serve King Naspi..."

Thinking about it that way...

Major General Kafka, who already found the investigation difficult and was inclined to procrastinate, had even less motivation to continue.

Another elderly officer, with gray hair and a stout build, interrupted Major General Kafka, his gaze sharp, and asked Chao Yindao:

"Can you determine how many Nen users were present at the time?"

Chao Yin was silent for a moment, then said decisively:

"It should be two people, Lieutenant General Hyun Pei!"

“I looked around the whole place, and only the hunter and the twelfth prince’s private soldiers had obvious ‘entanglements’. They might be in cahoots, working together to fabricate evidence.”

He didn't mention that the twelfth prince, Mumu Ze, would also recite it, because it would be meaningless; the royal army wouldn't bother to investigate a prince.

Even if he mentions Mumu Ze's name, he will be reprimanded for falsely accusing the prince.

Lieutenant General Xianpei shook his head in disappointment upon hearing this, and said:

"The numbers don't match up, and Corporal Pokson was vetted by the General Staff. Suspecting her of treason requires sufficient evidence, otherwise she will be attacked by the General Staff."

"Quantity? What quantity?"

Chao Yin was somewhat bewildered, not understanding what the lieutenant general was talking about.

Lieutenant General Hyun-pei tossed a stack of papers to Chao-yin while he was reading, and said:

"This is a prisoner profile that the General Staff made overnight. Don't bother looking at the psychological profile and personality analysis at the beginning; they're pure bullshit. The main thing is the ability analysis at the end."

"In terms of numbers, it is speculated that there are no more than two intruders. One of them should have some kind of ability, such as underground movement, flight, or any spatial ability. However, apart from flight, the other two abilities are rare. The fact that the 200-meter air defense line of the Royal Palace was not triggered suggests that it may have been flying at low altitude..."

"Furthermore, the opponent should possess some kind of high-speed movement ability and master-level swordsmanship, suggesting they possess a [divine weapon]-level blade. Considering their familiarity with the palace's terrain, if there isn't a mole within, they should also possess some kind of terrain monitoring ability..."

Lieutenant General Xianpei talked at length while smoking a cigarette, and Chaoyin's brows furrowed more and more as he listened.

"Based on the above, the criminal has demonstrated more than seven different abilities. Do you think it's possible for him to commit the crime alone?"

"There are also hybrid Nen users, right? Some Conjuration or Specialty users can achieve up to 7 abilities at their limit."

Chao Yin retorted.

Lieutenant General Hyun Pui shook his head and said:

"It's not as simple as 'composite type.' All composite Nen users either have extremely strict conditions or extremely high costs for switching between different abilities. Judging from the time frame, the former has been ruled out, and judging from the state of the hunter you suspect, the latter has also been ruled out."

"The further we analyze, the less suspicious he becomes."

Chao Yin remained silent for a moment.

His reason told him that Lieutenant General Hyun Pei's analysis was logical, but his intuition made him unwilling to give up his conjecture.

He asked, unwilling to give up:

"Could it be that our understanding of Nen abilities is insufficient? After all, that hunter came from the Hunter Association, and their research on Nen abilities is hundreds of years more in-depth than ours..."

"If this continues, it will never end. The military has been conducting systematic research on Nen abilities for over thirty years. By learning from various sources and capturing those lowly people, they have reached a fairly advanced level. They wouldn't make such a common-sense mistake."

At this point, Lieutenant General Hyun Pei's face showed a nostalgic expression, and he picked up a cigarette between his fingers and said:

"I really miss the days when I was with my old buddies in the Nen Research Unit. It was right after the Shinrinkan incident, and King Naspi was determined to reform. He realized that Kakin's understanding of the Nen system had huge gaps, so he ordered a secret in-depth study of Nen, especially the Enhancement type."

"We veterans all got to where we are today because of the contributions we made back then... Back then, I was the first to systematically research the method of awakening the mind of [Awakening from Strike], but unfortunately, the first successful test subject escaped."