Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 1: Germain wakes up in front of the bell tower

Ah, ah, ah——

The crow's restless and hoarse cry woke the black-haired young man from his hazy sleep. He sat up sleepily, yawned, and looked around blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings.

When he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise.

Where is this? Why am I here?
He raised his head, looking upward through the messy branches, and saw a gray full moon hanging in the night sky.

Ah... I understand. Is it because I played Bloodborne all night that my dream became like this?
Bloodborne has done so much harm to people, this must be a conspiracy by Hidetaka Miyazaki.

Not only that, it was a lucid dream... I really shouldn't have stayed up all night.

"German, Chrollo wants to see you, come with me."

Suddenly, a cold female voice came from the shadows of the dilapidated courtyard.

Ok? !

The dark-haired young man was startled by the sudden sound, and then he noticed a petite female silhouette in the shadows.

When he heard what the woman said, he pointed at himself blankly.

"You...are you calling me?"

German? Or another translation name - Geman, isn't that the name of the first hunter in history holding a scythe?

The young woman sighed as if she had no choice.

"I saw you dozing off just now...Are you still asleep now? Is there someone else here named 'German'?"

The petite girl walked out from the shadows, revealing her pink, messy ponytail, and stared at Germain with cold eyes.

"I had a feeling that you and I would not get along very well. I didn't expect it to come true so soon."

She turned around and walked straight towards a long-abandoned clock tower without caring about German's reaction.

German watched the young woman walk further and further away, and suddenly he felt a chill and his hair stood on end.

He stretched out his thumb and index finger and twisted his arm hard, feeling real pain.

This doesn't seem to be a dream.

Yes, I have come to another world, not a lucid dream, nor a dream in Bloodborne.

After the first few seconds of surprise, German regained his composure.

He is a person who has to deal with emergencies every day, and this is his professional quality.

In short, the top priority now should be to follow the development of the situation and not to reveal one's true colors.

This is not a game. We only have one life. You have to think carefully about your choices.

He slowly stood up from the stone bench where he was sitting and followed the young woman at a leisurely pace.

With fair skin and brisk steps, I look as young as ever.

As he passed by the floodlit glass window, he took another look at his own appearance.

He was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, handsome, especially his eyes, which were as pure and black as agate, and as deep and vast as the universe.

He wore a triangular black hat on his head and an old, quaint black coat.

The initial image is good.

After his thoughts were opened, fragments of incomplete memories flooded into his mind, piecing together German's past.

The good news is that this is indeed not a blood curse.

The bad news is, this is the world of Hunter x Hunter.

A world where you might take your wife out of town, eat hotpot, sing songs, and then be slaughtered for no apparent reason.

The boundary between justice and evil here is very thin, and this world cannot be viewed from the perspective of modern earthlings.

The original Germain was a person who did evil for his own benefit.

He was born in Meteor Street. Both his parents died when he was young, so he made a living by stealing and robbing.

People often joke that "Gotham City is a city of simple folks, while Arkham is a city of talented people". Meteor Street is also worthy of the phrase "a city of talented people".

Because the living environment here is so harsh, there are many people who believe in the law of the jungle, and raising poisonous insects has spawned a group of extreme villains.

German is one of them.

When he was a teenager, in order to survive, he was forced to awaken "Nen" - a kind of thought that can give birth to and use the life energy "Qi" in the world view of Hunter x Hunter.

Later, Germann's mind gradually advanced to "mind ability" - "materialization hunter badge".

The Hunter Badge looks like a palm-sized, rusty, broken fragment, and its function is very simple.

Germann uses the materialized instrument to participate in the process of killing a life in a short period of time and absorb the remaining "grudge" of this life.

As long as the accumulated "amount of resentment" reaches a certain level, it can condense into a "resentment gift".

Theoretically speaking, the higher the "quality of resentment", the higher the quality of the condensed resentment gift.

Germann, who had awakened his Nen ability, used his hunter badge to slit the throat of a price-monopolizing vendor in Meteor Street.

The resentment of the vendors who died after bleeding profusely was condensed into a "meat saw" - a very handy, transformable killing weapon.

With the help of a meat saw, German rose from the bloody Meteor Street, and successfully walked into the outside world and became a professional killer.

Afterwards, he used the meat saw to chop the gangster boss who had always despised and exploited him into pieces.

The gang boss's resentment was condensed into a "short-barreled musket" - a musket that can function as a shotgun.

With a meat saw, a musket and a clean and efficient way of doing things, German became famous among professional killers.

Not long ago, he also killed the middleman who had worked with him for many years but had evil thoughts and wanted to keep all the money for himself.

The resentment of the middleman condensed into a "lantern" - a purple light source that almost never goes out, and also has the ability to teleport to a certain location.

However, when the original body saw the only teleportation location, he permanently refused to use the device.

These are the three instruments of resentment that the original German obtained through the hunter badge.

In this way, German now has an intuitive view.

This ability of mind is probably the setting of Bloodborne, reflected in the world of Hunter x Hunter.

After solving the question of "who am I", the subsequent questions of "where am I" and "what should I do" also become clear.

The key figure is the pink-haired young woman who is taking Germain to the dilapidated clock tower.

Her name is Machi.

Machi's story begins between 1986 and 1987.

At that time, German was still in Meteor Street and had just awakened his mind.

Also in Meteor Street, several people with a common will had already come together to form an organization called the "Phantom Troupe" and restored order in Meteor Street.

The Phantom Troupe is a group of extremely united evildoers.

Machi is one of the original members of the Phantom Troupe.

The leader of the Phantom Troupe is the "Kuroro" she just mentioned.

They walked out of Meteor Street earlier than German and went on a killing spree in the outside world, robbing, stealing, killing, and committing all kinds of evil.

In 1994, when German was a well-known professional killer in the world outside Meteor Street, the Phantom Troupe had already committed even more horrific crimes.

It is said that in order to obtain the "scarlet eyes of the Kuruta people", which is "one of the seven beauties in the world", they did not hesitate to torture and kill the Kuruta people and then dig out their eyes intact.

This organization composed of a group of extreme murderers and robbers reached its peak in 1996.

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　　The novel contains some elements of Bloodborne and Darkest Dungeon, but it is mainly based on the worldview of Hunter x Hunter, which has been modified. It has a single female protagonist and fewer emotional scenes. The current plan is to complete the story in the middle and late stages.

(End of this chapter)