Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 271: Man-Eating Chimera Ants
hurry up!

Hurry up!
Even faster!

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In the suffocating attack and defense, Meruem felt the same feeling as when he played chess with Komugi, that time seemed to slow down.

In this feeling, Meruem can think fully and take action.

He could even think about things that had nothing to do with the battle during this interval.

For example, his name, Meruem, is said to mean "the light that illuminates everything."

With such a name, one can imagine the expectations the queen ant has for him.

But this is not the most important thing.

Most importantly, Meruem no longer needs to hold back.

Xiaomu is a genius who is even more powerful than Meruem in military chess, but she is too fragile beyond that.

Especially since even as a human being, her physique is at a very poor level and she would break with a slight pinch.

Among the "Three Guardians", Neferpitou and Yupi had both survived being hit by Meruem.

But it was just one blow. If they really fought, they would not be a match for Meruem, and death would be the final outcome.

Moreover, as the "Three Guards", they would never do anything to offend Meruem, let alone launch a blasphemous attack on their "King".

This is caused by the structure of the Chimera Ants. The levels of their status and combat power are quite obvious and are by no means vague like those of humans.

Meruem was amazed by Netero's strength and even thought of recruiting this alien as his subordinate. His strong fighting will was also worthy of praise.

But, in the final analysis, Netero's "Hyakushiki Kannon" failed to pose much threat to Meruem from beginning to end.

This is one of the reasons why Meruem is willing to recruit Netero - Netero is much stronger than the "Three Guards", but much weaker than himself.

He could overpower Netero if he wanted to.

For him, it was hard to imagine how a person whose fighting ability was inferior to that of his subordinates could rule over them.

Only Germain in front of him almost meets all the conditions to "play" with Meruem.

A fighting force that is equal to and enough to threaten Meruem.

Strong will to fight.

Germain cut off his own retreat and killed two of the "Three Guards", Neferpitou and Yupi.

At this point, no one present would think that German was bluffing.

All these things gave Meruem enough reasons to kill Germain.

This made Meruem more relaxed.

The loss of his tail did not cause his fighting power to drop drastically. Instead, it was like breaking the chains on his body, making him more flexible.

As his blood boiled, Meruem was surprised to find that his breathing rhythm and that of Germain were surprisingly consistent, as if they were dancing together.

As they danced quickly, the stone pillars broke and collapsed one by one, and the ceiling and stone walls were affected as well.

Dark red blood dripped onto the ground or splashed out and disappeared into the dark shadows of the abandoned testing site.

One of Meruem's four fingers was deformed by Germain's hammer and bent at a 90-degree angle toward the back of his hand.

But he calmly snapped it back into place.

German's situation was not much better.

He gently wiped the blood from his nose with his fingers, but left a blood mark running diagonally upward on his face.

puff--

He spat a mouthful of blood on the ground, wandered between the dim shadows and the bright moonlight, and started a fight with Meruem with the entire abandoned testing ground as its depth.

As the fight intensifies and time passes, the fusion between German and the "Armor of Contempt" becomes closer.

The silver-white halo was constantly shaking and shining, like twinkling stars.

All of Germain's materialized weapons became his fists and feet. The collision with Meruem was as fierce as the process of forging and quenching metal.

And this fierceness produced brilliant sparks.

「Critical Hit」!
「Critical Hit」!
「Critical Hit」!
After the blow that tore off Meruem's tail, Germain delivered three more "critical hits" in a head-on confrontation with Meruem.

The result of the battle was three deep wounds visible to the naked eye on Meruem's chest.

A fist mark, a cut, and a whip mark are clearly visible!

However, Meruem did not panic at all.

Because he had already determined in the confrontation with German that these flashes of white light occurred with probability, and it was a low probability.

Meruem and Germain were both caught in the intense battle, caught in the world of the moment, and the number of exchanges was far beyond imagination.

Among such a huge number, there were only four "critical hits", which shows that the probability is really not high.

However, when low-probability unexpected factors are irrationally chained together, they become a more terrifying threat.

「Critical Hit」!
「Critical Hit」!
At this moment, both of Germann's attacks resulted in "critical hits".

Meruem had already prepared himself to be bombarded with "critical hits" from time to time, because he knew he couldn't stop it.

He was willing to accept some injuries, and he also caused considerable injuries to German.

Both sides are accumulating wounds, and it depends on who will give up first, lose patience, and make a wrong judgment.

However, a series of "critical hits" broke the balance.

Swah——

Meruem turned his head almost instinctively and avoided Germain's knife.

But his left ear, which had a long earlobe, was also cut off!

If he hadn't been able to dodge the "critical hit" just now, he would have been hit between the eyebrows, shattering his eyeballs and denting his skull.

However, Meruem smiled.

It was a rather sinister smile, and made everyone who saw it realize that something had changed.

In the subsequent fight, instead of retreating, he became even more ferocious.

This unprecedented sense of crisis allowed Meruem to surpass himself and break through his limits, becoming a little stronger like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.

The scale tray that had originally tilted towards Germain suddenly tilted up again and tilted towards Meruem's side.

puff--

In an instant, red light shot up into the sky!
Germann's left wrist was chopped off swiftly and bloodily, spurting out and splashing on the stone pillars in the abandoned experimental field that had not yet collapsed.

He stretched out his right hand without hesitation and grabbed his left arm. With the lingering energy of his mind, the bleeding stopped and the arm was forcibly covered up by the transferred flesh and blood.

Cutting the wrist and stopping the bleeding, the whole process was done in one go, with almost no pause, as natural as if Germain and Meruem were acting in a play.

Shortly after his left wrist was separated from his body, the gauntlet of the "Armor of Contempt" disappeared from his left wrist, turning it into an ordinary severed hand.

Meruem grasped it and held it high in the night sky, as if to show his capture to others.

Then, four fingers used force with a crackling sound to squeeze the blood out of the broken wrist.

Pat pat pat——

The blood dripped into Meruem's open mouth, staining his lips red, and slid down the corners of his mouth, across his Adam's apple, across his shoulder blades, all the way to his open chest.

Then, Meruem stuffed Germain's severed wrist into his mouth.

His hard teeth tore through the flesh and sucked the finger bones and blood.

Meruem chewed the bone with a crunching sound, swallowed slowly, and soon finished eating all of Germain's left wrist.

He let out a breath of contentment.

Meruem's crown, which was like a hat, made his face completely dark. No expression could be seen, only his scarlet eyes were lit.

Finally, he had to raise his head slightly so that the moonlight could shine on his face.

But what was revealed was a smile so terrifying that it made people's hair stand on end.

That big smile that stretched from ear to ear contained so many emotions: hunger, greed, arrogance...

All desires were conveyed to Germain's body and mind through this smile.

No reservations.

Meruem pointed at Germain.

"Your meat is delicious... It is the most delicious flesh and blood I have ever eaten... Once you have tasted it, you will never forget the taste..."

"I want to eat you up, physically and mentally, completely."

The scarlet energy exploded, and this time it not only filled the entire underground test site, but also rushed up into the night sky from the gap above, like a long-dormant volcano erupting.

Meruem became stronger again, and by eating Germain's left wrist, he became even stronger.

The scales tilted more obviously towards Meruem.

This is his talent.

German was not frightened by the sight.

If his left wrist was eaten, then so be it, he would not surrender.

The silver halo, the shining rune veins on his chest, the highlighted special text, and the hovering materialized weapons all demonstrate his determination, fearlessness, focus, bravery, and excitement.

The battle will not end so easily and will continue day and night.

He had already accepted this kind of thing on the night he first came into this world.

No matter how bad the environment is, what kind of situation he is in, or how strong the opponent is, he will continue to fight until one of them falls.

bang——

The deathmatch begins again!

The two surging thoughts collided with each other at the same time!
Bang bang bang bang——

The oscillating gale destroyed one stone pillar after another and damaged one wall after another.

The underground testing ground, which could not bear the pressure, finally collapsed with a loud rumbling sound!

The moment Germain lost his left arm and Meruem devoured his flesh and blood, Netero did not interfere, but turned around and ran in another direction.

It was clear what I had to do.

The shadow-like "Hundred-style Guanyin" used its palm like a knife to pierce into the ground, digging out the black card box that had been buried under the soil beforehand and delivering it to Netero's hands.

Netero pursed his lips and held the black card box tightly.

When he turned around again, he saw the doomsday scene in this underground testing ground, which was like the collapse of heaven and earth.

Dust rolled, gravel flew everywhere, chaos engulfed everything, and the vision was completely unclear.

The two figures were still fighting to the death in the gradually collapsing underground testing ground, so absorbed in the battle that they seemed to have long forgotten the reason for the duel in the first place.

This is the evenly matched battle that Netero seeks.

"Hundred-style Guanyin" easily shook off all the falling rocks.

Seeing that he would be buried alive if he stayed here, Netero simply jumped up and flew into the air.

He stepped on the rubble falling from the sky, and in a flash he rushed out of the gap, came to the ground, and landed steadily.

Netero lowered his head, staring at the abyss-like gap that was widening.

The ground all around was collapsing into the abyss, as if there would never be an end.

(End of this chapter)