A single head, a wisp of fading resentment, a sticky note carrying a peculiar ability.
With only the above three points, it was still insufficient to complete a resurrection of the dead.
Back then, Stargie had a well-preserved corpse, which provided the condition for resurrection. But Pairo only had a head.
However, Law now possessed the flute version of the Dark Sonata. Adding this condition, perhaps Pairo could be resurrected.
This attempt to break the world's rules filled Law's chest with an indescribable excitement.
It felt like breaking conventions, like doing what others couldn't, akin to reaching a level others couldn't touch.
After Ellie placed the soul sticky note on Pairo's head, Law prepared to find suitable targets. Unexpectedly, someone delivered themselves to his doorstep.
They were members of the Hedgehog Peaches gang. The cause was Law 'glaring' three gang members into unconsciousness at the bar, leading to revenge.
Although unsure of the method Law used to ambush the gang members, the Hedgehog Peaches gang was known for holding grudges. They came with murderous intent.
Law, of course, didn't hold back. He had Kuro kill the Hedgehog Peaches members who came for revenge, leaving only a few alive as material for [Phenomenon Exchange] and disposing of the bodies.
As for how to handle the aftermath, he didn't need to worry at all. His Double-Star Hunter License could define this as legitimate self-defense, turning it into a trivial matter.
In the suite's living room, three Hedgehog Peaches gang members were bound tightly, gagged with towels, struggling and continuously making muffled sounds.
They had personally witnessed their companions being killed by the black cat summoned by this person, even having the bodies and blood swallowed clean.
Such a shocking phenomenon filled them with terror, only wanting to escape this place.
"Master... resurrecting Pairo, something like that, can it really be done?"
Kurapika's expression was quite conflicted, hoping Law could do it but unwilling to experience disappointment again.
"I can't guarantee it, but the possibility isn't low."
While speaking, Law had Kuro transform into a flute.
With Stargie's precedent, Law believed the resurrection probability was high. But Kurapika and Ging didn't know Stargie's identity.
So even though Law spoke of resurrecting the dead, they wouldn't directly believe it.
Even Ellie found it hard to imagine how Law would resurrect the dead with just a head. Without a complete body, the prerequisite for resurrection was lacking.
Aside from Stargie, everyone present harbored doubts.
Law didn't intend to waste words explaining. Practice was the only truth.
Just in case, before playing the flute piece, Law had Ging and the others leave the room and told them not to eavesdrop.
After Ging and the others left the room, Law directly played the flute.
The melodious flute sounds transitioned from soft to intense, then shifted abruptly.
The flute sounds transformed into invisible sound waves, linking the Hedgehog Peaches gang members and the resentment on Pairo's head.
[Phenomenon Exchange]
One of the Hedgehog Peaches gang members abruptly vanished into thin air.
As if a person in a painting was erased by an eraser, not a single trace remained… truly vanished into thin air.
At the moment that member disappeared, Pairo's headless body almost simultaneously materialized out of nowhere.
While continuously playing the Sonata, Law observed the results of the Phenomenon Exchange.
Seeing that Pairo's newly materialized body was actually wearing clothes, a glint of something strange flashed in Law's eyes.
The clothes weren't the exchanged person's clothes but the Kurta Clan's ethnic attire.
Not just the clothing phenomenon, even the lifeless hair and facial skin had returned to normal.
From these details, it could be seen that the essence of [Phenomenon Exchange] even accounted for external objects like clothing, swapping the gang member's flashy clothes for the attire Pairo wore in life.
Moreover, the exchanged gang member's head was erased, indicating the essence contained within the head was also replaced.
'This is the upper limit contained within the Dark Sonata, similar to Nanika inside Alluka. And both originate from the Dark Continent.'
Law played the final note, then slowly lowered the flute, again feeling a sense of awe toward the Dark Continent.
"You... m-monster!"
The remaining two Hedgehog Peaches members, unaffected by the Dark Sonata, looked at Law with extreme terror.
If not tightly bound, they would have fled in panic long ago.
Law glanced at the two reserve materials. Since he succeeded on the first try, there was no need to keep them.
Thinking this, Law casually tossed the black flute towards them.
The flute transformed back into Kuro mid-air, who dispatched them with two swipes of his claws.
"Heh."
Kuro happily licked his claws. Tonight's slaughter darkened many more book pages.
'This was good. Very good.'
'No matter what, I couldn't let that white dog thing in the book surface.'
'Law's Nen Beast? Having just me, his father, is enough!'
Afterward, Law called Ging and the others back in.
Entering the room, Kurapika's first sight was Pairo's body restored to its original state, causing him to freeze.
Past memories churned up again, causing the loneliness he'd always felt to ferment completely.
He couldn't hold back, standing there dumbfounded, his eyes like breached levees, tears flowing silently.
Even if Pairo couldn't be resurrected, just having a complete corpse would provide solace to his heart.
Ging and Ellie looked at Pairo's body in astonishment. Before leaving, it was just a head. They never expected Law to actually do it.
However, their observational skills weren't weak. Not to mention the body's compatibility being almost 100%, even the head's condition had changed.
It wasn't the head soaked in preservative fluid for years but resembled a corpse that had just died minutes ago.
To use an inappropriate term at the moment… fresh.
'How did Law do it?'
Ging and Ellie looked at Law almost simultaneously.
They felt Law always managed to do incredible things, often giving them a unique, unparalleled feeling.
Stargie quietly looked at Pairo's corpse, her expression slightly complex.
She sensed a trace of a similar Aura from this corpse, yet with differences.
Yes, something was different.
She didn't know how to describe this difference that complicated her feelings.
It was like two seedlings of the same species, but when planted, one was vibrant and lively, the other showed signs of withering.
"Basically, no issues."
Looking at the resentment and the soul sticky note's Nen intertwined on Pairo's corpse, Law's thoughts grew active.
To put it bluntly, he had mastered the means of resurrecting the dead… an insurance policy for venturing into the Dark Continent.
However, among the several conditions, the hardest was the post-mortem resentment.
One could say resentment equals soul, also the spiritual medium for Nen communication.
Without resentment, resurrection was impossible.
But was leaving behind a resentment an easy thing to do?
Among the enemies Law had encountered so far, few had successfully left behind resentments.