Hunter x Hunter: The Strongest Zoldyck

"prey?"

Loy, sitting in the room, slightly narrowed his silver-gray pupils, his primal instincts surging forth.

boom!

With a deafening roar, the old iron gate flew out, tearing through the sky and crashing straight into Saen.

Behind the iron gate, a figure moved with lightning speed, following closely behind.

It's hard to say whether the door will arrive first or Roy will arrive first.

In the blink of an eye, Saen found himself in an extremely dangerous situation.

"This is...interesting."

As the iron gate drew ever closer and that small, thin figure appeared.

Saen remained calm and composed, a faint smile appearing on his lips.

With a flick of the index finger and thumb of the right hand...

Snapped!

After a crisp snap of the fingers.

Suddenly, a pitch-black void appeared right in front of him.

The hollow, about half a person's height, was dark and deep, as if connected to the endless void.

The iron gate, which flew in, swept through the hole and was immediately swallowed up silently without causing a ripple or a sound.

Crack...Squeak...

No sooner said than done, in the blink of an eye, less than half a foot from the hole, Roy stomped his right foot!

As the soles of the feet made a screeching sound of friction against the ground due to high-speed inertia...

boom!

With an impact force comparable to a heavy truck traveling at full speed, it crashed down.

The ground, which was originally made of steel plates and steel bars, suddenly sank three feet, leaving a depression the size of a foot.

It was Roy who stepped on it.

The paddle steamer swayed slightly under such a violent impact.

"A person with telekinesis ability?"

At the critical moment, Roy abruptly stopped.

Cold, ruthless silver-gray eyes swept over the young man with brown hair in front of him.

"Hehe... What an impressive young man."

Buzzing.....

The void in the void constantly twisted and deformed.

Behind the emptiness, Saan looked at the scene created by Roy and praised it with great interest.

"However... it's still too..."

"It's gotten weaker..."

Before the echo of the weakling's voice had faded, Saen had already appeared beside Roy as if by teleportation.

Then... a flash of cold light!

A silver-white dagger suddenly appeared, stabbing towards Roy's heart with lightning speed, its ferocity and ruthlessness unparalleled.

Clearly, the owner of the dagger did not hold back just because Roy was only a teenager.

Click.....

The familiar sound of a severed finger rang out.

Roy muttered to himself:

"Second stage... liberation!"

As he murmured, time seemed to stand still, the air seemed to freeze, and the world in Roy's eyes slowed down.

The dagger, which was originally traveling at the speed of light, was split into frames as if time had stopped.

"Zoldyck Assassination Technique: Seven Snakes... Revised!"

"The Heart-Pulling Technique..."

In the still world, a pair of pale, veiny nails, long and thin, with flesh-colored tips, pierced the chest of the figure that had been divided into two parts, like sharp knives.

Click...

The moment Roy's fingertips touched the skin on Saen's chest, the world before his eyes suddenly shattered like a broken mirror.

Crack!

The azure blue aura suddenly erupted, bursting with a sound in the air.

Within a tenth of a second, something resembling an Anywhere Door suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared.

What is it?

Roy's pupils dilated, taking in everything that had just happened.

A void portal, the size of an adult and shaped like a door frame, suddenly appeared, swallowed Saen, and then vanished just as suddenly.

It was like magic.....

But Saen also disappeared along with it.

"Cough cough..."

A thousand meters away from Roy, in a dark section of a deck, a disheveled-looking Saen slowly emerged, coughing and panting.

"That was close..."

"So close, so very close..."

"What a terrifying boy."

After regaining his footing and calming his breathing, Saen sighed with lingering fear.

Are teenagers these days all this strong?

As he sighed, the boy's last image flashed in Saan's eyes.

That ghostly, shadow-like figure, and that stab that appeared out of nowhere.

It left a deep impression on him, one he would never forget.

That was yet another time he came so close to death.

If it weren't for the pre-set life-saving skill being activated, he probably wouldn't have made it back.

call.....

Exhaling a breath of stale air, Saen steadied his mind and carefully sensed his own thoughts.

A strange feeling told him that although his spiritual energy was still there, he had been forced into a state of absolute doom.

It's not available for use in the near future.

"The Gates of Death... How fitting for a coward's Nen ability."

Sensing his own state, Saen couldn't help but feel a bit self-deprecating as he mocked the Nen ability he had developed.

This is the third time that this Nen ability has saved his life.

But if he had a choice, he would rather die the first time.

He died on the day Kane died.

This is a secret and regret buried deep in his heart, a secret and regret that he cannot tell Bolt.

The gates of death... This is a trait he sees as cursed, a power of attachment.

This Nen ability allows him to pre-define an invisible "door mark" on himself or others.

Under certain conditions, this door seal will instantly materialize into a "Void Gate".

The target is devoured and moved to a pre-set safe location.

Its trigger condition is that the door seal will only activate when the target is under a fatal threat.

Moreover, this judgment is not subject to subjective will or control; it is based on the instinct of thought to perceive whether the impending attack is sufficient to pose a fatal threat, and thus initiates the attack.

This Nen ability seems magical and powerful, but at times, it is more like a curse from the Grim Reaper.

For example... when your partner is in a life-or-death crisis, you desert.

The extreme regret and guilt of watching your companion die helplessly and running away can drive a person to complete madness and depravity.

That's exactly what happened to Saen.

The fact that Saen developed this kind of thought perfectly reflects his personality.

He was not a warrior, but a survivor.

His Nen ability wasn't for winning, but for staying alive.

He was extremely cautious, extremely afraid...afraid of death!

"Heh... Kane, I'm still a coward."

Subconsciously, Saen smiled, a smile that was somewhat like crying and somewhat like laughing.

.........

In the passageway next to the captain's cabin on the second floor, the sound of breathing, like that of an old bellows, echoed within the bulkhead.

Huff... huff... huff...

Roy lay limp on the ground, breathing heavily and rapidly.

He felt pain and itching all over his body.

Pain is the pain of muscle tearing, itching is the itching of tissue regeneration and hemostasis.

His body was both being destroyed and being repaired.

Two distinct and complex sensations filled his entire body, causing him unbearable pain and itching.

Is that 40% of the world?

Amidst the complex sensations of pain and itching, Roy unconsciously recalled the feeling of the entire world standing still.

It was an incredibly magical feeling; at that moment, he felt like a god who controlled time!

In that world, he felt like he could do anything...