Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

【The World】!!

The world in Diya's eyes suddenly stopped, lost its color, and billions of tons of water droplets hung in the air, forming a cold, huge, and oppressive curtain.

The baseball stopped abruptly in mid-air.

Is that person a ranged attacker, throwing ranged weapons?

The golden Stand, [The World], appeared out of thin air and casually punched the baseball that was suspended in mid-air.

Dia charged forward with complete focus, the baseball not slowing him down in the slightest.

Outside of the time stop, Hebrahim saw Dia rushing forward headlong, completely ignoring the attacks coming at him, with only one thought in his mind—

'At this distance, with my ball speed and the power of the [Magic Ball], he's doomed! I won!'

But before a smile could bloom on Heibula's face, a figure suddenly appeared on his left side, freezing his expression completely.

The sight of Dia's expressionless face and those cold eyes made Heibula's pupils shrink sharply!

What happened? How did he get here? Where's my ball?

Diya, however, did not intend to give him time to react. Twisting her waist and hips, with strange breathing, golden ripples frantically gathered in her left fist.

Without hesitation, Dia unleashed this ultimate punch!

[Mountain blowing colored ripples running fast]!

This most powerful punch during the Ripple Strike tore through the air and was slammed by Dia into Hebra's waist!

In the blink of an eye, Hebrew only had time to swing his left hand to block on his left side.

boom!

Heibula instantly felt as if he had been struck by a giant iron hammer. His whole body hunched over, like a boiled shrimp, and he was lifted into the air.

The unbelievable pain made Hebrahim open his mouth wide, but he couldn't make a sound.

Dia lowered his shoulder and his right arm, like a swirling storm, shattered the raindrops it carried. A fierce uppercut slammed out from below, aimed directly at Heibula, who was still in mid-air with no energy left!

Take advantage of your weakness to kill you!

Sensing the approaching death, Heibula's adrenaline surged, his brain raced, and in that critical moment, he roared inwardly:

"[Magic Ball] Come back here!!!"

Just then, the baseball, which had just been thrown by Hebra and was still flying in mid-air, seemed to have hit an invisible wall and was flying towards Dia at a speed far exceeding what it had just taken!

Dia didn't expect the baseball to return, and the return speed was even faster than the initial velocity of the ball!

The baseball, accompanied by a fierce wind, tore through the rain and narrowly grazed Dia's fist, causing his seemingly certain punch to miss!

'No! He's not from the Expansion Department!'

Dia suddenly realized that his judgment was wrong. The fact that the enemy did not materialize a weapon immediately when they met led him to misjudge the other party.

The act of directly throwing out projectiles is also similar to the Emission System.

However, it takes a great deal of skill for the release system to make the baseball move in that trajectory.

Although the Emission type is right next to the Manipulation type, it is not its own type. Judging from the speed and strength of the enemy in front of him, his Nen probably cannot perform such maneuvers.

There are two explanations—he is a materialization-type ability user, and that's a baseball with special abilities!

Or perhaps he's a manipulator, simply controlling the baseball.

Dia prefers the former, because if it's a manipulation system, why not manipulate an iron ball or some other ball, but instead use a cloth baseball?

So he materialized the baseball in advance, making others mistakenly believe that it was a real baseball!

But in reality, it is a weapon with special abilities that has been materialized.

When the enemy dodges his pitch and is thus distracted, he manipulates the baseball to launch a sneak attack from behind!

'Kurapika used a similar approach in the manga; I never expected a wanted criminal to employ such tactics.'

It can't be that he conjured that baseball and then didn't know how to deactivate it, and just kept it indefinitely, right?

Dia's powerful punch missed, his balance was broken, and he realized that the best opportunity to finish off the opponent had passed.

The baseball only grazed his fist; his right fist wasn't seriously injured.

Diya forced himself to stop, took a few steps forward, and barely regained his balance.

Even so, he believes that even a Nen user would be unable to withstand such a punch from that lightning strike!

Chapter 5 Defeat × Farewell

Hei Bu La, who was sent flying like a baseball, fell to the ground, propped himself up with his right hand, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

'His left ribs and left arm are almost completely broken...'

He felt as if his internal organs had been displaced by the impact.

If that second punch had landed, his heart would probably have exploded on the spot!

Heibula, who was almost seriously injured in one blow, did not think about retaliating. His fighting spirit was almost crushed in the first encounter.

The terrifying ability to stop time undoubtedly brought Dia a huge victory!

'This guy... is too strong... I definitely can't beat him!'

The boy in front of him, who showed no signs of Nen fluctuations, was a formidable enemy he had never encountered before!

He is stronger than the hunter he killed by his sneak attack with the [Magic Ball].

That immense power, combined with that strange teleportation, would completely destroy him if it happened again!

Recalling that terrifying gaze, which resembled that of a man-eating tiger, Heibula made a decision immediately—to escape!

He runs away whenever trouble arises; that's the reason he's managed to avoid arrest all these years.

'【Magic Ball】Hold him back!'

Hebrah roared inwardly, "If only the [Magic Ball] could keep me occupied for 3 minutes... no, just 1 minute!"

Looking at the manhole cover in the distance, Heibula gritted his teeth and desperately propped himself up with one hand.

That place... just get to that place!!

Out of the corner of her eye, Dia saw Heibula limping away into the distance and instantly realized that he was trying to escape.

hum! !

The [Magic Ball] flashed with purple Nen energy that Dia couldn't see, sliced ​​through the air, spun around and emitted a piercing scream, and slammed into Dia, who had just regained her balance.

This time it was faster and more powerful than the last time; the baseball seemed to increase its speed and power with each bounce.

'No, we can't pursue it while it's covered in this thing; we have to destroy it!'

Dia knew that to kill the wanted criminal before he left, she had to deal with the dangerous baseball first.

He calmly calculated the cooldown time and distance in his mind, and red ripples gathered in his left hand.

Sometimes Dia could dodge the baseball's impact, and sometimes she couldn't. She could only block it with her hands, which hurt a lot but didn't cause much damage.

With about ten seconds left on the cooldown, Diya gritted her teeth and persevered.

Now! 【The World】!

The world in Dia's eyes suddenly turned gray and white, and the [magic ball] abruptly stopped in mid-air.

The time stop lasted only half a second, and Dia didn't hesitate to reach out her left hand and grab the baseball!

【Crimson Ripple Dash】!

High heat emanated from Dia's hand out of thin air, instantly igniting the leather baseball, its outer skin almost completely burned away in an instant!

Without making any other movement, Dia suddenly bent her knees, and the next moment—

boom!

Dia's entire body was like a spring that had been compressed to its limit, suddenly released, and she flew out in a blur, the concrete ground beneath her feet exploding with a bang!

Beyond time stop.

Heibula had already run a considerable distance, and seeing the manhole cover so close at hand, he was overjoyed.

'We're here! I survived! Once I've healed, I'll come back and slaughter them all...'

Boom!

A fist crackling with golden electricity suddenly struck his head from behind at an impossible distance, instantly shattering most of his skull!

'He solved my [Magic Ball]? Not even a minute? How did he do that?'

A flood of questions filled Hebrahim's chest, but he no longer had the chance to know the truth.

Snapped!

A corpse with half its head shattered fell to the ground. Behind the corpse was Dia, who had just withdrawn her fist.

The pitch-black night rain continued to pour down, washing over the corpses of the enemies before them.

When Dia saw the corpse, which was clearly dead, she finally felt relieved.

He was panting heavily with his head down, his hands still trembling from blocking the baseball's several impacts.

In the end, when his enemy delivered the final blow, he used the special technique bestowed upon him by Baron Zeppeli—the Spring Fist!

By dislocating and extending the joints, the effect of temporarily increasing arm length can be achieved.

He managed to kill the enemy from behind before the enemy could escape into the sewers.

Dia quickly felt her condition calm down.

He stood up straight, head held high, letting the heavy rain wash away the bloodstains on his body.

The victory just now undoubtedly had an element of luck. The opponent was clearly not a master of Nen. Although he had some fighting awareness and street fighting skills, he lost his courage immediately when faced with the completely incomprehensible ability to stop time.

If he hadn't been terrified and only thought about running away after being knocked away, but had instead used his abilities to struggle, he might not have died so quickly.

If he had been more adept at using his Nen abilities back then, and had been able to transform the ordinary [Entangle] into the more defensive [Steel], then his first time-stopping punch might not have caused such great damage.

Even during the initial sneak attack, if he had had the courage to seize the moment when Dia froze and launch an attack, the outcome would have been uncertain.