Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 333 Everyone's darkness can be connected

When Germann walked into the house, he smelled a complex smell of smoke and dust, and then he saw an antique incense burner on the square table.

"Cough cough."

Someone was coughing behind a screen with strange patterns on it, and Germain walked around it.

"Cough cough, cough cough..."

The sound came from the balcony with the door open, and the warm sunlight outside was embedded in the dim shadows of the room like a strange geometry.

"German... ahem... come over here... come to the balcony... I'm sorry, it would be quite troublesome if I were to go over to you. It would be easier for you to come over here."

German took off his cocked hat and held it in his hand. When he walked to the balcony, he had to carefully avoid the piles of books stacked on the floor.

Some of the covers of these books are old, some are brand new, but the footers are slightly curled up.

On the balcony, German saw a skinny, disabled old man sitting in a wheelchair.

Strangely enough, this was the second person with a physical disability and in a wheelchair that German had seen in recent times.

Jaeger Zoldyck picked up the handkerchief with his skinny right fingers, covered his wrinkled mouth with it, coughed violently a few times, and then let go.

"I'm sorry to let you see me like this. You must be very disappointed, right? The man who could walk side by side with President Netero has now fallen into such an embarrassing situation..."

Jager waved his right hand in a self-deprecating manner, showing his body that had now lost his left arm and right leg.

Aging had gripped his throat, and when he spoke, there was a strange sound as if something was blocking his chest.

However, Germain noticed something strange.

Jaeger's severed limb was completely different from Kuroro's. There was no scar at the break, only a smooth, flat dark shadow.

If I had to make a metaphor, it's like the shadow effect presented in a still life sketch.

This is very abnormal.

"Sit down, Germain."

German sat down in the rocking chair diagonally opposite Jaeger's wheelchair.

This chair was obviously specially prepared for the guests, perhaps Netero, perhaps Maha, or perhaps other members of the Zoldyck family.

"Netero has been here more than once. He told me about you. I know enough about you, so let's skip the roundabout ways."

Jager looks older than Netero and Maha, but only his decisive tone and his bright eyes prove that he is still fighting against aging.

German did not judge a person by his appearance and underestimate the old man in front of him.

"You're right, let's be frank. Mr. Jaeger, I want to know something about you. President Netero specifically asked me to meet you, there must be a special reason."

Jager laughed heartily, revealing a mouth with only a few teeth left.

"When I heard that someone else, like us back then, evaded V5's scrutiny and explored the Dark Continent without leaving any written records, I became very interested in you."

"I told President Netero long ago that the rules you set up, like the V5 censorship, could not stop the determined fanatics. It turned out to be true."

"President Netero told me that you have done better than us because you have brought back two "hopes."

"Unfortunately, neither the 'Herb of All Diseases' nor the 'Alchemical Plant Metarion' can solve my current 'situation'."

"I mean, my body has indeed recovered a lot thanks to the 'herb that cures all diseases', but it still can't stop the general trend of aging, and its effect on me is getting smaller and smaller."

"And the reason why I age so quickly is the special features of my current body."

"You should have noticed something strange about me. To be precise, my left hand and right leg were not simply amputated, but taken away."

"Took away?" German had been listening quietly. This was the first time he interrupted Jager.

Jager nodded and swallowed hard, as if he was swallowing a large piece of bread without chewing it.

"Back then, Netero, Lin Nie and I broke into the territory of the "Mist-like Creature E" and tried to take away the "Three Original Waters."

"In the end, we not only failed, but also got entangled by the "Mist-like Creature E"."

"In order to escape and get out of danger, President Netero had no choice but to ask for help from one of the "Mist-like Creatures - E"."

"Now that I think about it, he had no choice but to do this under the circumstances. If it wasn't him, I would have done the same." "However, we underestimated the 'mist creature E'. Without understanding it, we had to pay a price for 'making a wish' to it."

"Although we did manage to escape, not long after, the 'Mist-like Creature E' permanently took away my left hand and right leg, as well as all the blood in my body..."

German sat up straight in the rocking chair with a hint of surprise, and his breathing became slightly faster.

It would have been fine if his left hand and right leg were gone, but all the blood in his body was gone. How did Jagger survive until now?
Jager knew what Germain wanted to know, and he quickly explained.

"But, as you can see, I am not dead. I returned alive from the Dark Continent. However, I can no longer continue my assassination career. I can only retire early."

"Although President Netero didn't say anything on the surface, he would come to see me whenever he had free time over the past few decades."

"Maybe he feels guilty about me deep down, even though I don't think it's his fault."

"I have never regretted it. The trip to the Dark Continent is the most legendary experience of my life. If I could do it again, I would still go."

"Of course, I soon discovered something strange about my body."

"I cut open my skin and blood vessels, but nothing like blood came out. There was only darkness like the cut, and the wounds healed quickly."

"The energy in my body is leaking out like a river bursting its banks, which forces me to control it all the time, but it only slows down my speed."

"My body has aged faster than President Netero and Lin Nie. As a Nen user, I shouldn't be like this."

"After a while, I found that my mind ability became stronger because of this."

"Finally, one day, I discovered the root cause of all the strange things."

"Unbeknownst to me, an uninvited guest was living inside my body."

"It is the 'Mist-like Creature E' that President Netero prayed for. It came back here with me."

"If it hadn't suddenly decided to come out and take a look at the outside world, I wouldn't have noticed its existence."

"My body became its hiding place, my blood vessels became its channels for movement, and the cuts on my left hand and right leg became its two gates for entry and exit."

“That’s when I knew my body had been transformed into a dark space for it to live in.”

“And I didn’t die because my blood, left hand, and right leg were in a strange state of being both on my body and not on my body.”

Germain couldn't help but ask: "Dark space...what is that?"

At this time, Jager coughed a few more times and had to cover his cough with a handkerchief.

After a while, he calmed down a little and figured out how to answer.

"President Netero and I were also very curious about this, so we read many books and conducted countless discussions on this topic, and finally came up with some guesses."

"We believe that all abilities related to 'space' in the world are actually connected to 'darkness'."

"Your 'teleportation lantern', your companion Xiaodi's 'bulgy fish', and professional hunter Nob's 'four-dimensional apartment' are actually all walking in the 'darkness'."

"It's the same with my broken arms and legs. They are connected to the 'darkness', but each of us has a different 'key' to open the 'dark space'."

"In theory, the 'dark space' used by several of us is actually the same one, and we are all connected to each other."

When Germain heard this, he couldn't help but think of the melody and the "Dark Sonata".

Her original description was also "In that instant, we were in endless darkness."

German, Xiaodi, Nob and Jager simply borrowed the "dark space" actively or passively.

And by listening to the melody of the "Dark Sonata", it is very likely that she has directly seen the owner of the "Dark Space", but she no longer has the memory of that horror.

"Mr. Jaeger, please continue talking about the "Mist-like Creature E."

"Well... at first, it did cause a panic in the family."

"But as time went by, it stayed inside my body obediently, and would occasionally poke its head out from the dark fracture of my left arm to observe the world."

“But that seems to be all.”

"It seemed safe, and we lived in peace for many years until I became weaker and weaker."

(End of this chapter)