Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 418: The Abandoned Princess and the Pursuing Vicious Monster
The downpour finally stopped at some point, like the end of a war drum, and the air was filled with the smell of dampness.

Xiutaina slightly adjusted his crooked suit.

However, after thinking about it, he took off the suit that was soaked with water and threw it on the ground.

After the thrilling experience just now, he realized that he didn't need any more burdens and weights during his escape.

When everyone saw his actions, they roughly guessed what he was thinking.

No one raised any objections, and no one asked Xiaodi to use the "bulgy fish" to help him keep this valuable suit.

"Taking off the tie and suit" is a symbol of the growing strength of Xiutaina.

Everyone was happy to see him become braver, which would be very helpful for the next action.

Seeing that Xiutaina was slightly injured, Tokalinu reluctantly helped him treat and bandage the wound.

Xiutaina hurriedly thanked him politely, and then noticed that everyone's eyes were focused on him.

He adjusted his glasses on his nose somewhat awkwardly, and then asked the same question that Tokalinu had asked before.

"How did you get here? I looked through the list of members of the Hunter Association's exploration team, and I also met all the members on BW1, but I never saw you."

After Tokalinu bandaged Shutaina's wound, he crossed his arms and looked over in confusion.

Biscuit was responsible for covering up the lie: "This is because we were not on the list, nor were we on the top four floors of BW1, but on the bottom floor."

Tokalinu first narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, then he raised his hand and pounded his palm as if he suddenly realized something.

Without Bisgi saying much, she came up with a series of plans in her mind.

"I see. This must be the 'special mission' that President Netero assigned to you! That's why your names didn't appear on the list!"

"President Netero and some of the core members of the Hunter Association's exploration team concealed your existence in order to make you a 'secret arrow' to be shot when necessary."

"I was wondering why President Netero didn't take you three with him. I thought you were the leaders of the next exploration team. It turns out you were on the ship the whole time!"

Biscuit snapped his fingers and gave Tokalinu a thumbs up: "Yes, that's what you said!"

Then, she suddenly turned her head and winked at Germann with her right eye, her expression full of complacency as if to say "I told you so".

The situation is urgent right now. Even if there are many loopholes, Tokalineu and Xiutaina cannot get to the bottom of it and will help fill the loopholes.

Do you really have to anger your savior?
"Mr. Xiutaina," Germann suddenly said, "We just checked. BW1 is mostly destroyed, and several ships in the inner dock have also been destroyed."

"Does V6 and the International Passenger Flight Permit Office have any emergency plans for situations like this?"

"Yes." When talking about matters related to his major, Xiutaina became much more serious.

"We left a group of people at the gas station."

"If they don't hear from us within a month and a half, they will use the small airships that pass by to inform V6 and the International Ferry Permit Office that they have lost contact with us."

"V6 and the International Navigation Permit Office will hold an emergency meeting to discuss and decide whether to send reinforcements and search fleets to the imaginary continent."

Everyone present must know that the land under their feet is not the Dark Continent, but the imaginary Dark Continent, so Xiutaina doesn't have to hide it.

Jin nodded as he listened: "It will take about three weeks to sail from the Six Continents to the refueling station, and about five weeks to sail from the refueling station to the imaginary continent..."

"Adding to the possible delays in the meeting between V6 and the International Navigation Permit Office, it may take half a year for the next reinforcement fleet to arrive here."

Such speculation gave Xiutaina a chill.

However, as he worked in the system of the International Passenger Flight Permit Office, he knew that this situation was indeed likely to happen.

Is the original V5 willing to send out another team when the losses are still unknown?
Are the major forces remaining in the Kajin Empire still willing to let their king survive?

After all, this is a great opportunity for them to come to power.

These are all unknowns. Half a year is not a conservative number and can even be considered an optimistic estimate.

German didn't want to make Xiutaina lose confidence before the future became clear.

He clapped his black-gloved hands together, making a dull puffing sound.

"In short, let's go find other survivors first, and then think about the next plan after gathering more members."
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1:38 am.

A young woman, covered in filth and with long, tangled black hair, crouched behind the bushes. She carefully opened a small hole and looked out with rapid breathing.

In front of the bushes, there were two people standing, their bodies covered with scars.

They were facing off against a monster that looked extremely ferocious and ugly at first sight.

The two men told the young woman to hide here and not make any sound no matter what she saw.

Her name is Oit, and she is the eighth princess of King Nasby of Kajin. She was born in a humble family, but now she has a high status.

At least on the surface, no one dared to neglect her or mention her past.

However, shortly after the chaos, Oit soon discovered that she, the king's eighth wife, had been abandoned.

A riot broke out around them. Many monsters suddenly broke into the halls and rooms on the BW1 yacht. The situation got out of control and screams were heard one after another.

But none of the soldiers of the Kakin royal family paid any attention to her. Some were busy shooting at the monsters in vain with their guns, while others simply fled in panic.

Oit's few guards sacrificed their lives to buy her precious time to escape.

She knew in her heart why, for she was not yet pregnant, and had not yet borne King Naseby a child.

Maybe the king, princess and princes of the Kakin royal family have all left here safely, leaving her all alone.

There was no way she would have escaped.

Because even her status as the eighth princess did not allow her to get a seat on the crowded lifeboat.

In the face of life and death, all beings are equal.

However, she soon felt lucky that she was not on that lifeboat.

Because a monster also appeared in the "lake in the boat", the lifeboat quickly overturned, and all the passengers fell to the bottom of the lake while screaming, and soon the boat became a pool of blood.

If she hadn't run into these two professional hunters, she would have definitely died.

These two professional hunters have been trying their best to save people, but in the end they could not withstand the overwhelming attack of monsters.

Oit was the last person the two rescued.

Due to the urgency of the situation and the flickering lights, they did not notice that the woman they rescued was the eighth princess of King Kajin until they were away from the wreckage of BW1.

The Eighth Princess could see the confusion in the two men's eyes. She probably didn't understand why a princess was left here without anyone to take care of her.

Oit had nothing to say about this. He just silently followed the royal etiquette, bowed to them and thanked them, then followed them all the way.

Unfortunately, Oit ran until his legs were weak and he was out of breath, but he heard bad news from the two people.

Two monsters were chasing them and they couldn't get rid of them.

The two professional hunters decided to fight back and strike back at the enemy.

Oit couldn't run anymore, so he followed their instructions and hid in the bushes.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, and one of the monsters was defeated by two professional hunters.

However, the other monster crawled on the corpse of that monster for a while, and somehow became more ferocious.

The murderous aura alone made Oit tremble all over and his hands and feet became cold.

She wanted to turn around and run away, but she didn't even have the strength to stand up.

The ferocious monster beat the two professional hunters back step by step, and they were bleeding profusely. It seemed that they were on the verge of collapse.

Oit could do nothing but clench his fists, kneel in the mud, and pray silently.

The situation of the two professional hunters was indeed very bad.

Izenabi, wearing a simple martial arts uniform, a black belt around his waist, and wooden clogs on his feet, wiped the blood off his arm and gasped for breath.

He looked at the three or four meter tall monster in front of him, and from the monster's swollen human face, he could vaguely recognize its identity before it was a monster.

The predecessor of this monster was Zaklo, a member of the Xiuwu family, one of the three major mafia families in Kakin. He was a telepath who could manipulate blood.

Izenabi recognized him because many riots and assassinations on BW1 pointed to this member, but the evidence was always insufficient. After the chaos, when Zaklo appeared in front of Izenabi again, he and his female partner Lynch had both transformed into monsters.

The two monsters targeted Izenabi and his men and chased them relentlessly.

In the past, although Zaklo and Lynch were quite difficult enemies in Izenabi's eyes, they were not to the point where he had to avoid fighting.

However, after transforming into monsters, they became even more powerful.

After several exchanges, Izenabi was caught off guard and was injured.

Izenabi couldn't help but be secretly surprised: this was simply a replica of last year's Chimera Ant invasion, except that they were even more brutal than those Chimera Ants.

After realizing that it was impossible to completely get rid of these two monsters, Izenabi and another professional hunter decided to fight back on the spot.

They didn't actually defeat the female monster "quite smoothly" as Princess Oit saw. In fact, the whole process was quite thrilling.

Princess Oit is not a Nen user after all.

From her perspective, the battle only lasted two or three minutes, so it was natural for her to feel that Izena had it easy compared to the others.

The situation was completely the opposite. They each paid a certain price to kill a monster.

Now, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

The monster in front of him actually absorbed the resentment of the other fallen monster, making it even more powerful.

After that, the fleshy tube that stretched out from its back pierced several humans, several unknown beasts and the female monster it met on the road.

Gulping sounds were heard, and Izenabi saw a large amount of dark red liquid flowing from the corpses along the flesh pipes and into the monster in front of him.

Every time it moves, it carries these corpses with it and will never give up until it has drained them dry.

This monster, like its original form, is still obsessed with and manipulates blood and needs more "blood packs".

Izenabi quickly realized that those "blood bags" were its weakness, and used his mind ability to strike back.

"Hadoken": Releases the energy in the form of waves, with power as amazing as a cannonball.

However, after he smashed a few "blood bags", the bloodthirsty monster reacted.

Not only did it deliberately avoid Izenabi's "Hadoken", but it also grabbed several living creatures it met on the way and replenished its "blood packs".

In addition, as long as it enters the range of the bloodthirsty monster's ability, the blood flowing from Izenabi's wound will be used to become a sharp knife to stab Izenabi.

Izenabi was already quite tired, but he still tried his best to regulate his breathing.

If breathing is disordered, it will greatly affect his brain thinking.

In a confrontation like this, if you lose focus for just a moment, everything will be over.

While Izenabi was alertly watching the bloodthirsty monster's next move, he glanced at his companion not far away from the corner of his eye.

Kurapika, a handsome young man with medium-length blond hair, is using the "Materialization-Type Healing Thumb Chain" to heal himself.

At the same time, his pair of beautiful "fiery red eyes" had already been opened.

In fact, it was because Kurapika activated his "Red Eyes" that Izenabi and he were able to kill one of the monsters so quickly.

However, Izenabi knew that activating the "Red Eyes" was consuming Kurapika's vitality in exchange for improving his abilities in all aspects in a short period of time.

As the "Fire Eyes" continued, Kurapika's breathing became increasingly rapid and he was sweating profusely.

Wrinkles that only middle-aged and elderly people have appeared on that handsome face.

Izenabi knew very well that this would not work.

Even if he didn't die at the hands of the monster, Kurapika would be consumed to death by his own "flaming eyes".

For some reason, Izenabi found Kurapika pleasing to the eye from the first moment he saw him, as if they were familiar with each other.

Obviously, before this, the only connection between them was Kurapika's teacher Germain - Germain once passed the Hunter Exam under Izenabi.

During the two months of thrilling voyage, the two collaborated many times and soon became real friends.

Izenabi admired Kurapika's character and abilities and really wanted to snatch him away to be his disciple.

It’s a pity that he knew he couldn’t compete with German.

This time they worked together in the chaos, saving many lives and even accidentally saving Princess Oit.

But now, Izenabi knew that he couldn't waste any more time. If he continued, Kurapika would become a cripple even if he didn't die.

As if he sensed the thoughts in Izenabi's eyes, Kurapika straightened his waist, which was originally bent due to fatigue.

"Teacher Germain has warned me many times not to burn myself out for revenge, but to find a new direction in life after revenge..."

Of course, what German meant was not that revenge was not important, nor that the lives of the Kuruta people were not important.

What he meant was that Kurapika shouldn't be stuck in a spiral of revenge for his entire life and end up losing everything.

The Phantom Troupe and the Four Princes were not worthy of him doing this.

What we should really burn ourselves out for are other more important and noble things.

"I think now is the time... this method..."

Izenabi was surprised.

Because he saw that Kurapika was emitting an aura even more powerful than before, it was almost like... a last gasp of energy!
Scarlet evil spirit surged around Kurapika, and the silver chain raised its head like a python, wrapped around his neck, and spit out towards the bloodthirsty monster not far away!

With his "fiery red eyes" wide open, he recited the Kuruta tribe's prayer in a hoarse but somewhat gentle voice, which was also his suicide poem.

"There is the sun in the sky and green trees on the earth. Our bodies are born from the earth, and our souls come from the sky."

"The sun and the moonlight illuminate our limbs. The green land nourishes our bodies, and we give our bodies to the wind that blows across the earth."

"Thank God for the miracle and the land of Kuruta. May our hearts be safe and sound forever."

"I wish to share the joy and sorrow of all my compatriots. Please always praise the people of the Kuruta tribe."

"Let us take the red flaming eyes as proof."

They were already in a desperate situation, with no reinforcements coming in the short term.

Kurapika is very decisive. If he wants to survive, he has to fight for his life at all costs.

Just as he was about to take action, he felt a weight on his shoulder and turned his head in shock!

Who could appear next to me without making any noise?! I have activated my "Red Eyes", how could this happen?!

However, when he saw clearly the face of the black-robed man under the tricorn hat beside him, he was stunned and the scarlet evil spirit on his body quickly faded away.

"Why, why..."

Kurapika looked confused, not understanding why Mr. Germain was here.

However, if it was Teacher German, it would not be surprising if he suddenly appeared beside him like this.

Even the bloodthirsty beast that was originally roaring at them stopped, as if it sensed something terrifying approaching.

"Eat something." Germain took out the "Menqi's Nitolo Rice Ball" and handed it to Kurapika, who was still in a daze but instinctively reached out his hand, "Don't die."

The bloodthirsty beast let out a scream of fear, and German slowly raised a red bow, put a dark arrow on it, and aimed at it.

Germain raised his head, and his dark eyes clearly said to the beast: "Why don't you run away?"

The bloodthirsty beast reacted almost instantly, shaking its fleshy blood vessels and stacking all the blood bags in front of it to form a thick wall of flesh and blood.

However, with a loud bang, a big hole was pierced through the wall of flesh and blood!
The bloodthirsty beast was shocked to find that the dark arrow had not lost much of its power when it came out of the cave, and it flew in front of it in the blink of an eye.

boom--

The swollen human face and the entire beast's head exploded, as if they had been bitten by a heavenly dog.

None of the triple defenses it was proud of, namely blood bags, blood, and skin shell, could block this arrow!
The corpse of the bloodthirsty beast fell to the ground with a thud, splashing a mixture of blood, flesh and dirt.

There was silence.

(End of this chapter)