The Daily Life of Saiki Kusuo in Zoldyck

They agreed to meet again at the same place three days later, and then Kusuo Saiki and Bisaki parted ways.

On the way back, Kusuo Saiki wandered around for a long time, especially in the deserted areas of the wilderness, where he lay for a long time before returning to the villa.

For many days now, he has rarely had a real time to be alone.

There were noticeably more people in Masadora than in other places; the villas were there, and the brothers had settled there as well.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I'll be spending my last year living there starting today.

By the time Kusuo Saiki slowly made his way back to the villa, the gathering downstairs had already ended. Kusuo Saiki stood in the standard room with few belongings, a room that was probably the last room he used during his last year living in the Hunter world.

The size of the room was also about the same as in the original world.

He walked around the room and used his mind to divide it into several areas on the walls and floor, intending to place bookshelves, desks, and wardrobes in them respectively.

A television? That entertainment option is gone; there's no signal on Greed Island.

Apart from that, everything else is easy to reproduce.

Kusuo Saiki made his plan and went to sleep peacefully.

"Nan... Oh? What a coincidence!"

Kusuo Saiki opened the door, finished washing up, and dressed neatly.

It's basically a matter of telepathy.

"Next door? Brother, are you talking about...that?"

Milluki, who was following closely behind and about to go down the stairs, suddenly stopped and said seriously, "Shh, that can't be said! That, that look, that... that's definitely what caused that unspeakable thing!"

Kusuo Saiki complained, "I can't even say this?!"

"Who are you talking about?" Illumi stood at the bottom of the stairwell, looking at me with a puzzled expression. "Let's go, it's time to set off. The Phantom Troupe just sent word that there are already people on the mountain."

Although they were going to complete the mission together, in order to prevent Kuroro from encountering the Phantom Troupe and dying, everyone staggered their time with the Phantom Troupe.

Kuroro rang the doorbell at that moment, and when the door opened, he saw a group of people about to leave.

"Am I late?"

As Kusuo Saiki bent down to put on his shoes, the biscuits and carton of milk on the table were thrown directly at Kuroro's face.

"Thank you. Have my team members set off yet?" Kuroro caught up perfectly and asked.

Illumi looked at the book, and Nobunaga was connected to it.

“They’re alright, but since you’re asking me, they can’t answer now,” Illumi pointed out that Kuroro’s question was unnecessary.

Because Kuroro initiated the exchange, the Phantom Troupe has now collectively fallen silent.

"They've been eliminated." Illumi lamented that the intelligence had been lost; they might still have to keep an eye on the Phantom Troupe's movements on the road.

Kuroro ate the biscuit and drank the milk without a care.

"Would you like to sit down to eat, Chrollo?" Illumi asked considerately.

"Let's just set off, since Qi Mu is taking me anyway?"

"No, Hisoka will take you."

"Change it," Kuroro blurted out almost immediately.

“Then I’ll have to take you,” Illumi said.

For some reason, the option fell to Kusuo Saiki.

Kuroro looked at Illumi's clothes with the large studs on them, paused for a moment, and said, "Give me ten minutes to sit down and eat."

Do you still want to eat?

The group of seven, perhaps to accommodate the two non-players, did not use cards but instead used parkour to move forward, with Kusuo Saiki slowly following at the back.

The highest mountain is easy to find; just jump onto any rooftop of Masadora and you'll see the silhouette of a mountain to the east.

When we reached the foot of the mountain, we found the place unusually lively.

The number of players for Greed Island increased very little. Only 100 copies of the game were ever released. Although each console had many entry points, the actual number of players was only five or six hundred.

Five or six hundred people might be an exaggeration.

However, this event is a benefit event for all players, so unusually, nearly a hundred people gathered at the foot of the mountain to search for the Nian Beast.

As Saiki Kusuo listened to the cacophony of voices in the crowd, he thought: Is there only one Nian beast? If there is only one, then forget it.

"Hey! Over there!" A voice suddenly came from someone I recognized—Zeziraz's underling.

"You've come too! Join us! The Nian Beast quest allows for teams of up to 20 people to capture it and complete the quest together!"

He was a very enthusiastic young man who took the initiative to explain things to me even though he knew I was a newbie.

Kusuo Saiki, who was stopped by his underling, looked into the distance because he was lagging behind the group and was being mistaken for someone who had come alone.

"Is the other guy not here?" the younger brother asked, looking around.

Kuroro patted his underling on the shoulder and greeted him with a smile, "Hey buddy, how are you?"

That's how we became buddies.

Kuroro treated his underlings like intelligence agents, immediately launching into a barrage of questions. Under Kuroro's questioning, everyone quickly learned that the Nian Beast would transform into a different form each time it was captured; previously it had appeared as a cow, a sheep, and a bird, and based on probability, they could pay less attention to these three animals.

The mountain is teeming with animals, all of which are neutral creatures. There are many signs around warning people not to attack the animals, as they will not be able to obtain cards.

"Although people can usually hunt animals to sell in stores for money, today is the New Year, and no animals here are allowed to be killed except for the Nian beast, otherwise bad luck will follow," the younger brother explained about this strange phenomenon.

"I see, but we don't need to team up, we already have one. Bye, thanks for telling us!" Kuroro asked and left. The little brother, who had been enjoying the conversation, didn't realize anything was amiss and just waved goodbye with regret.

Wow, what a terrifying social butterfly!

Everyone seemed quite interested in finding the Nian beast, but Kusuo Saiki was rather lazy.

While everyone scattered to search for the Nian beast, Kusuo Saiki entered the forest, quietly found a tree with many branches, floated up to it, and lay down among the branches to catch fish.

Even from a distance, Kusuo Saiki could hear what everyone was thinking when they spoke.

Wait, hey, hey, don't touch Alluka, you pervert.

Just as Saiki Kusuo was about to jump up to save the person, Milluki's inner voice boomed:

Mi Ji, dear brother.

Huh? Whose voice is that? Kusuo Saiki was surprised not because the voice was particularly special, but because it was unexpectedly close.

The trees here are generally tall. When Saiki Kusuo looked up, he noticed a red tail hanging down from an even taller tree next door.

Among the leaves, a small vertebrate skeleton lies on a branch, its tail larger than its body.

Upon closer inspection, it really is a feline.

It turns out that the Nian beast was actually an adult chameleon in disguise. The adult chameleon was much larger than it is now, and its transformation into various animals was more realistic.

Kusuo Saiki couldn't resist watching the show.

He was tamed here by the GMs and became the Nian beast once a year.

This is probably another idea that came to Jin on a whim.

The giant chameleon is straightforward and acts on its impulses. It jumped off the tree, its large tail spreading out to become a parachute for a soft landing, gliding close to the ground, and then, like a Pokémon, swatted the chameleon on Chrollo's shoulder with its tail!

But Kuroro dodged it and even grabbed his tail.

The task sheets in everyone's arms suddenly changed, indicating that the task of capturing the Nian beast was complete.

"Ah, I knew the red pig must be the Nian beast. Sometimes my intuition is right." Illumi clapped his hands.

Kuroro let go, and the Nian Beast landed, grew eight legs, and ran away—because the other players were rushing to capture it.

The sight of it growing eight legs really scared everyone. They said that the Nian beast was a mysterious creature that could transform in countless ways, which was just too bizarre.

This Nian beast is terrifying. Will that little chameleon cat ever turn into such a strange creature?

Kuroro communicated with the chameleon on his shoulder, making a megaphone shape with his hand, and he obtained a bird with a very large beak.

The chameleon immediately understood, transforming into its bird form and shouting, "Gather! Gather! Let's go up the mountain!"

What loudspeaker? Kusuo Saiki jumped down from the tree and slowly walked out of the grove.

Inside the temple, people lined up with the crowd to worship the gods.

The Zoldyck family also has a tradition of New Year's worship, although the worship of the assassin family is quite different from this one, everyone still decided to participate in the process as usual.

The crowd was making a noisy commotion.

"After making a wish, you can draw a fortune stick to determine whether it's auspicious or inauspicious. Although it has nothing to do with the mission, it's a New Year's ritual that we have to perform every year when we're away from home."

"May your wish to draw the Great Luck card really come true! Didn't someone get the Leaving card last year?"

"Isn't that fake...?"

"It's absolutely true, so many people saw it!"

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Kuroro was at the front of a long line:

"Please be patient and queue up! There were originally two places to make wishing slips, but one of them was damaged earlier! It hasn't been refreshed yet!"

"Huh? Who's being so violent!"

"I heard it's because they drew a bad luck number."

"Actually, nothing will actually happen whether you draw a lucky or unlucky one, it's not like it's a risk dice game."

Kuroro: "..."

Everyone turned their attention to the leader of the Phantom Troupe, Kuroro, who was holding a chameleon cat in one hand and teasing it.

"Maybe we shouldn't bother queuing~ People don't believe in this stuff anyway," Hisoka said listlessly.

Illumi looked at his brothers behind him and felt that the family activity was going well, so he wasn't impatient at all.

"Then you can go to the back and finish your task. It seems like the younger brothers don't want to stay with you."

"Xiao Yi~ Your words are so hurtful."

“It’s true, Milluki is very wary of you.” Illumi casually patted Milluki’s head.