Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

"Who are you?! Where is the real Saqiu?"

"Cough cough..."

"Saqiu" coughed up a mouthful of blood, staring blankly at Dia in front of him, muttering to himself:

"Monster, you monster..."

"No wonder they're all afraid of you... cough cough..."

As he spoke, the imposter's breath began to drop rapidly, as if he were about to run out of energy.

Diya frowned, pointed a finger at his brow, and tried to infuse a little energy into him.

Keep him alive for now, at least until he explains his whole story before you kill him!

However, unexpectedly...

As soon as Diya transferred a bit of her ripples over, a sizzling sound suddenly erupted at the point where her finger met the skin of the imposter Saqiu between her eyebrows!

Like a red-hot branding iron applied to the skin, a plume of black smoke instantly rose from the imposter Saqiu's brow!

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The imposter Saqiu let out a blood-curdling scream, and her already faint breath vanished instantly.

Immediately, he shrank like a deflated balloon, turning into a flat human skin!

"Um!?"

Diya was startled by the commotion and looked at the human skin in her hand with suspicion.

What is this thing?

Before anyone could react, a burst of black spiritual energy rose from the human skin almost simultaneously!

Snore snore—

As the black aura dissipated into the air, the appearance of the human skin instantly changed, transforming into a completely unfamiliar form!

Not only that.

The clothes worn on the human skin also changed, becoming a completely unfamiliar style!

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone stared in horror at Dia and the human skin in his hand.

In their eyes, this is how everything just happened—

Dia suddenly appeared, grabbed the suspected imposter Saqiu without saying a word, and said something that sounded like she was very angry.

Then, with a single finger, he turned that Saqiu into a human skin!

Such a terrifying ability.

It didn't even take half a second, which was chilling!

"He has this trick up his sleeve? Who wouldn't be scared in his place? No wonder the twelve zodiac signs don't dare to rebel against him."

"Exactly, he even disposed of the body on the side. Who knew how skilled he was before? It's terrifying..."

The gossipy people in the crowd started talking again.

I ignored those guys who were making wild guesses.

Dia simply frowned and tossed aside the human skin in her hand.

He knew better than anyone that he wanted to keep that imposter alive, so why was that guy reacting so strongly?

Are these imposters afraid of ripples?

Thinking of this, Dia raised her head and looked straight at the sidelines.

There, a furtive figure was silently keeping a low profile, intending to slip away quietly while everyone's attention was drawn to Dia!

Without a doubt, that was the imposter Pjorn who had been completely bewildered by Potter's punches and kicks.

"!"

The moment Dia's gaze locked onto him, the imposter Pyon froze, then knelt down with a mournful face, begging for mercy and crying out:

"Grandpa! It was my fault. I've been drifting for three hundred years, and I just couldn't take it anymore..."

"what?"

Dia looked at the imposter who suddenly knelt down with some strangeness. This guy was kowtowing in Pjorn's guise, which felt odd.

Seeing this, others such as Kangzai and Mizaston decisively abandoned their previous fantasies about the possibility of their companions being resurrected.

This shameless behavior couldn't possibly be Pyon himself, not even if he were resurrected.

The counterfeiters are still crying and wailing:

"Can I be your slave? I can do anything, just don't kill me! I'm useful, I'm really useful!"

That shrill voice was exactly the same as Pjorn's when he was alive, making one's head ache.

'So noisy...'

Dia covered her ears, her head aching, and decisively commanded:

"Everyone else, get out. Twelve Branches and Pokson, stay here. Kang Zaiyinda, you guys lift her up!"

……

Snapped!

"Confess and you will be treated leniently; resist and you will be treated severely."

Dia slammed his hand on the table, and everyone's eyes turned to the imposter Pjorn, scrutinizing this strange-behaving fellow.

Milzaston silently pulled out the blue [Upper Court] card, chanted for a moment, and said:

"Answer all the following questions truthfully, or you know what will happen!"

"I understand! I understand!"

Fake Pyon nodded vigorously, saying ingratiatingly:

“I’m incredibly honest, really.”

"Stop talking nonsense. Who are you? Are you human or a monster? What do you mean by 'drifting for three hundred years'? Were all the things that happened on the ship these past few days done by you and that guy who impersonated Saqiu? Did you kill Saqiu and Pjorn? Why are you so afraid of me?"

Dia fired off a barrage of questions, her voice aggressive.

Seeing this, the fake Pyon dared not delay for a moment and hurriedly explained:

“My name is Scone, and the one you just killed was Tillacz. We were human in life, of course, and maybe we were even from the same hometown as you…”

"In life? You are...ghosts?"

Yinda suddenly exclaimed, her eyes widening like bells as she stared incredulously at the fake Piyan.

"How could there be ghosts! Yinda, don't make a fuss!"

As usual, Gu Gu scolded Yin Da for making a fuss, but when she turned to look in the direction of the fake Piyan, she was speechless.

If he's not a ghost, then how do you explain his mention of "before death"?

"It's like this..."

The fake-skinned Jon recounted in detail:

“Yuna, Tirakuz, and I were members of the ancient Ganyu Kingdom’s national expedition team three hundred years ago. We were ordered to follow Blackbeard Teach’s fleet along the Grand Line to the Dark Continent, but we got completely lost when we passed through the Ghost Sea, and everyone died.”

"After an unknown amount of time, I awoke from my daze and found myself transformed into a strange form, exactly like the legendary ghost. The other two who had the same experience as me were Yuena and Tilacus."

"Because we couldn't tell which way was which, we've been wandering this sea until now, and then your fleet came into our view..."

"Three hundred years ago... the Hunter Association hadn't even been established yet."

Gail said in surprise:

"How did you die back then? And... are we in the Ghost Sea now?"

"Of course it's gone now. That ancestor suddenly turned the course 90 degrees at the weakest point in the Ghost Sea, allowing the ship to escape the Ghost Sea in one go."

Scone pointed at Dia and chuckled:

"The Ghost Sea has the characteristic that 'the more you know about it, the more dangerous it becomes.' About eleven days ago, I saw you enter here unprepared and thought you were novices. I didn't expect you to escape. Back then, when all our seafaring masters gathered there, we were all wiped out..."

Scon's voice carried a hint of emotion.

"Eleven days ago, wasn't that May 4th?"

Dia suddenly realized why his diary had been a mess since May 4th – it was because he had entered the Ghost Sea that day!

"Wait, you just said there was a companion named Yue Na. Where is that person now? Has she also become one of the people around us, just like you?"

Diya suddenly asked, her gaze almost imperceptibly sweeping over the others around her.

It seems like it's missing a gold piece?

Upon hearing this, Scone honestly shook his head:

“I don’t know either. We can’t just transform into living people at will. It’s not an ability we were born with. In the past three hundred years, we’ve encountered three fleets of living people that have entered the Ghost Sea. After one accident, we discovered that as long as someone dies in the Ghost Sea, we can be resurrected for a period of time by using their corpse. During this period, we can have all of their abilities and memories.”

“After 50 days, we will return to our spirit form. If we are killed again within these 50 days, even though we have never encountered it before, we all feel that we will really die.”

“When that horse-faced man died at first, we all wanted to possess him, but Tirakutz was the strongest and he got it first. Then Yuena and I discussed it and each found someone who might die to keep watch over. She seemed to have gone to find the more slovenly man among you. I managed to catch him, but Yuena disappeared.”

"..."

The group looked at each other, feeling as if one layer of mist had not been cleared up before another layer of mist followed closely behind.

Putting aside where Kim is, his behavior lately has been rather strange.

Dia continued to ask:

“Go on, what happened on the ship these past few days, is it related to you? Why did you know Pjorn would die, and what about Saqiu and King? Why did you think they would die?”

"If you're referring to the mental confusion and hallucinations of the past few days, those are actually characteristics of the Ghost Sea."

Scone explained:

“I’ve said before that this is a sea area that becomes more dangerous the more you learn about it. The Grand Line you took only passed through the edge of the sea area. All the illusions and unusual things originated from the depths of the sea. I don’t know what’s there, but it’s highly likely that the abnormalities that happened to me and Yuena also came from there.”

"The only way to avoid getting lost in this illusion and mental confusion is not to understand this sea. Once you do, you're doomed."