Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

The scent of death!

Dia's alarm bells blared, and her entire body rippled wildly—something was about to emerge!

"Uhh—!!"

The officer in front of him suddenly looked up and let out a shrill scream, and a scarlet light leaked from his face.

The slug in his mouth suddenly opened its eyes, crawled out of his mouth, and a terrifying evil thought erupted!

Then his body expanded rapidly like a balloon, as if it was about to burst at any moment!

At the critical moment!

'The World!'

'Time, stop!'

Dia roared inwardly and summoned her Stand, [The World], without hesitation.

But just before he could activate his ability, he saw a hand wearing a white glove blocking his way.

hum! !

The world suddenly lost its color, and Diya's spirit was stretched to its limit in the face of death. Her sense of time seemed to stop along with the external time.

Dia felt as if her whole body was being submerged in mercury, and every movement was incredibly slow!

'Did it just happen that I entered bullet time during time stop...?'

He looked up along the white glove and saw a figure in a white sterile suit fixed to his right, maintaining a sprinting posture.

From this angle, only the back of the head is visible, but Dia immediately recognized the person's identity—it was Kido!

In the instant before the threat of death loomed, Kido, whose reaction speed far surpassed that of Dia, decisively did two things.

She immediately activated her ability—[Dr. Yorkshire]—and summoned the sterile gown.

In that instant, instead of retreating to avoid the obvious explosion, she thought of her students—

'Dia! He doesn't have Nen!'

Realizing Dia's dangerous situation in an instant, Kido rushed towards Dia at an extremely fast speed!

At the same time, the energy in her body began to flow rapidly. The calm [Entanglement] exploded into a powerful [Refinement] in 0.1 seconds, and almost at the same moment, the exploded energy was gathered back into a heavy [Firmness]!

'We must withstand the frontal impact, or Dia will surely die...'

Qiduo gritted her teeth, feeling a pang of regret for bringing Dia here.

She didn't know what was happening to Dia behind her, but she knew that if Dia died here, it would undoubtedly be a crime she had committed!

In this feeling that time seemed to stand still forever, Dia remained calm, like an observer.

'Kita, is she here to protect me...?'

During the time stop, Dia suddenly lowered his heart and jumped backward in one smooth motion, smashing the chair behind him into pieces.

At the same time, without hesitation, he controlled [The World] to reach out and grab Qiduo by the back of the neck, causing her to fly backwards with him!

Within the 0.7 seconds that time stopped, the two flew out of the epicenter of the explosion in mid-air!

boom!!!

The terrifying red light instantly engulfed Judge Bell and the bailiffs who were unable to react in time, while Diaqi and the other person who jumped out of the core area of ​​the expanding red light escaped unharmed.

But the massive explosion that followed rapidly escalated within this small area, evolving into a devastating shockwave that slammed into Qiduo, who was standing in front of Dia!

Beyond the moment time stopped, Qiduo felt a sudden change in her vision; the red light that was originally within arm's reach suddenly shifted a great distance backward.

Then a terrifying impact struck her chest, causing her vision to go black as she was sent flying backward at an incredible speed.

'ripple!!'

Meanwhile, behind Qiduo, Dia had already raised her arms to protect herself and was fully activating the Ripple!

After Kido absorbed the first wave of impact, the remaining impacts and the aseptic-suited Kido flying backwards all crashed into him!

Dia flew backward at a terrifying speed, and then luckily crashed into the iron gate on the wall behind her, smashing it into a pile of scrap metal before flying into the dark and deep passage!

Boom boom boom—!!

All that could be heard was the dense cracks climbing up the walls of the room where the courtroom was located, and shockwaves swirling and colliding, creating round after round of roars.

The intense heat in the tiny space caused the surrounding walls to crack inch by inch, and the powerful air waves bombarded the hard stone walls, causing the small room to collapse in an instant.

Hundreds of millions of tons of earth and rocks poured down from above the room, completely burying the entrance to the passageway and the room itself...

Chapter Ten [Yorkshire Clerk] × Temporary Loan

"Cough cough, my back—"

Dia, who was propelled into the air by the shockwave and the force of the attack, felt as if she had been flying for at least 5 seconds before finally being pulled to the ground by gravity.

Holding Qiduo, Dia could only land hard on his back. Unable to absorb the impact with his body, he felt as if his back had been hit by an ice cream truck.

This made him let out a scream just like Spider-Man.

Fortunately, Qi Duo is petite and not heavy, otherwise he might have broken many bones.

Diya, barely managing to prop herself up, quickly activated the Ripple Breathing Technique to alleviate the pain in her body.

The force of such a violent explosion in such a confined space is more than double that of a normal explosion on the ground.

If it weren't for Qiduo using [Strength] to block most of the impact, Dia would probably be half-dead, if not dead.

After a long while, feeling himself catch his breath, he finally looked up and observed his surroundings.

He was in a passageway, not completely dark, with some fluorescent moss providing a faint light source.

The hole through which he flew in had completely collapsed, turning into a pile of rubble.

What also unsettled him was the unseen aura of malice emanating from the cracks in the piles of stones.

The malevolent aura made his eyes widen, and a thought flashed through his mind in an instant:

'We can't stay here any longer!'

So he grabbed Qiduo, put his arms around her neck, carried her on his back, and tried to walk deeper into the passage.

Only then did he realize that the sterile gown on Qiduo's body had been removed, indicating that she had fallen into an unconscious state.

"Wanla, sis, are you dead?!"

Diya sensed something was wrong. While grabbing the other person's hand and transmitting his own ripples into Qiduo's body, he gritted his teeth and walked into the passage.

Because she had blocked the impact of the bomb, he didn't know how long Qiduo would remain unconscious.

In the Hunter x Hunter world, bombs can sometimes be truly unreasonable. Even a powerful being like the Chimera Ant King could be killed on the spot by a single Rose, let alone Kido, who was already hastily preparing for defense.

Qiduo, who was only in a light coma, felt a heat entering her body in a half-dreaming, half-awake state, and all the cells in her body suddenly became active as if they had been activated.

A moment later, Qiduo felt her mind awaken from her sleep, and she abruptly opened her eyes:

Why am I swaying?

What she saw was that she was clinging to Dia's neck, and Dia was carrying her on his back!

Dia, who had been walking with her head down, seemed to sense something and turned her head to look—

A pair of large, bright green eyes were pressed against his face, staring at him incredulously.

Kido: ?

'She's alive!'

Seeing that Qiduo had finally woken up, Dia felt a huge weight lifted from her shoulders. She let out a long sigh and released her hand that had been holding Qiduo's.

If Qiduo can wake up, then resolving the current predicament will not be a problem.

As Dia released her grip, Qiduo naturally fell to the ground. Her hunter's instincts allowed her to maintain her balance almost immediately upon touching the ground.

This brought the stunned Qiduo back to her senses, and her clever mind regained control.

Her mind started racing instinctively.

When she noticed that Dia was still full of energy, she couldn't help but feel relieved.

Thankfully, he's not dead.

Then she quickly looked around and recalled everything that had just happened.

But excluding that memory of being carried on Dia's back like a child, she has made the decisive decision to seal that memory away forever.

The experienced Qiduo quickly regained her composure and immediately checked the injuries on her and Dia's bodies.

Fortunately, thanks to the presence of [Jian], she was not actually injured, only temporarily unconscious for a while. But what puzzled her was that Diya also did not have any major injuries.

'Was I covering it up securely enough?'

But this was not the time to dwell on that, because when she noticed the black aura surrounding them, she was startled.

'It's for reciting after death!'

The experienced Qiduo instantly identified the black Nen aura before her.

Knowing how terrifying this thing was, she grabbed Dia and pulled her back almost instantly upon recognizing it, activating [Dr. Yorkshire] again!

The pure white sterile gown reappeared on her body, and she breathed a sigh of relief after feeling that her death thoughts were blocked from her body.

But in an instant, she realized that something was wrong.

She turned her head and saw that Dia, who had no Nen at all, not even the basic [Entanglement], was still alive and kicking after being touched by the Nen of the Dead.

For the first time, a look of astonishment appeared on Qiduo's face:

"Dia, don't you feel unwell anywhere?"

At this moment, Dia thought she was asking if she was injured, so she took out the pre-prepared explanation about the ripples:

"Teacher Qiduo, do you remember the new discovery I mentioned on the phone? This is it."

As he spoke, he clenched his fists, and golden electricity coursed through his body. In Qiduo's eyes, those lingering thoughts of the dead, like maggots clinging to bones, were dispelled by that golden electricity as if snow were melting away!

"When I fell into the sea last time, I woke up and found that as long as I maintained a certain breathing pattern, I would generate this kind of energy. My body recovered much faster and had greater endurance under the influence of this energy than usual, but maintaining this energy required a lot of physical strength!"