Chapter 309: Father and Son x Ryo VS Silva
"What is wrong, Young Master?"
The old butler's eyes were sharp, acutely noticing Ryo's expression.
The boy stared fixedly at the photo of the ant leg. Slowly returning to his senses, he said softly, "It is nothing."
What is meant to come will always come, and it cannot be avoided even if one tries. It is just that... with Kite's current strength, if he encountered the ants, Neferpitou might not even need to make a move. Any random elite Squadron Leader would be beyond his ability to handle. Moreover,
When it comes to growth speed, the Chimera Ants could continuously accumulate the excellent genes of humans or Nen users through devouring... Chimera Ants are undoubtedly much, much stronger than humans.
His thoughts fluttering, Ryo scooped up a spoonful of steamed egg custard and put it into his mouth, asking calmly, "Time and location."
"The other party did not specify an exact date, but the location has been confirmed as... the NGL Autonomous Republic."
Ryo's eyes flashed.
Indeed, there was no place more suitable for breeding ants than the NGL Republic.
Leaving aside the fact that the country was known as a "nature reserve that is the hardest to enter," located at the western end of the Mitene Union in the Balsa Islands, with its borders completely surrounded by the vast ocean and relatively isolated.
Just the fact that the country's principle was to protect nature, actively abandoning mechanical civilization and reverting to an agricultural one, invisibly provided the ants with a relatively abundant resource pasture. As for who was being "pastured," one could easily imagine.
The faces of Beyond and Pariston involuntarily surfaced in Ryo's mind. He heard that the latter had participated in the Hunter Exam again, easily passed, and officially became a member of the Hunter Association. Furthermore... because his performance was too outstanding, he was listed by the upper echelons of the Hunter Association as a key observation target for the Zodiacs.
Ryo turned his head and glanced out the window again. He wondered if that old man leisurely enjoying his breakfast knew about this news.
"I understand. We will talk about it after he sets the time."
"After all, I do not have the time to play around with them right now..."
At 6:00 AM, the red sun leaped over the horizon, shooting out tens of thousands of rays of morning light.
As the grandfather clock in the corner chimed,
The boy finished his breakfast and stood up tall. With a casual stretch of his hands, specks of light gathered. On his left and right, one white and one red longsword slowly emerged, firmly grasped in the palms of his hands!
A single glance revealed the long-silent Snow Walk and the brilliantly blazing Eclipse!
Two sharp sword cries pierced the sky!
Ryo backhandedly sheathed the two swords at his waist and paced out of the room... At the same time,
A fist wind howled, its momentum like a dragon!
In the second-floor bedroom, the massive floor-to-ceiling window adjacent to the hallway was abruptly pulled open, and a burly man suddenly leaped down from it!
He cast a single glance at Ryo and said, "Deep within Kukuroo Mountain, by that clear spring, I will be waiting for you!"
Suddenly, a humming sound... Fist intent and sword intent clashed. Just like when Ryo first met Netero, as the two silently locked eyes, Nen aura oscillated. Without even activating Ren, a single clash instantly extended into—
Listening to the Heart's Fist and Listening to the Heart's Sword!
"Ho ho ho..." Netero laughed with his hands on his hips...
Zeno was cutting his steak. In his anxiety, his knife slipped, scratching a shallow white mark on the plate...
In the dim little room on the first floor of the ancient castle, an old man seemed to be dozing and sleeping soundly. The TV beside him was broadcasting a show called The Stubborn Son and My Resentful Father, in which a father and son were choking each other, rolling back and forth in the living room... Maha tilted his head, seemingly awakened by the commotion, and mumbled, "At least they know to fight in the mountains and not wreck the house..."
His ears suddenly grew larger and longer, with purplish-black Nen aura faintly circulating upon them...
As Listening to the Heart's Fist and Listening to the Heart's Sword intertwined and clashed, ripples slowly spilled into the surroundings... After seeing Silva take a deep look at Ryo, turn around, and sweep towards the depths of Kukuroo Mountain,
In the second-floor bedroom, Kikyo, holding Killua, pushed open the door and walked out... At the right moment, she saw Illumi following Silva toward the mountains. Behind them were Netero and Zeno, who had methodically finished their breakfast. As the woman's electronic eyes flashed, she looked complexly toward Ryo's bedroom...
The young boy, with his beautiful silver hair trailing glazed golden light at the tips, gazed in the direction Silva had vanished, and unhurriedly walked out of the bedroom.
The bedroom door opened.
Tsubone adjusted the glasses on the bridge of her nose and suddenly said, "Young Master,"
Ryo halted his steps and looked back. He saw the old butler smile kindly, place her right hand over her chest, and bow respectfully to him, saying, "Please do your best."
Ryo froze slightly, immediately hearing a panel notification—
[Detected one pending believer]
[Note: Tsubone]
The boy raised his hand, summoning a cool breeze that gently lifted the old butler up.
He said nothing, merely giving her a slight smile. In the next glance, he leaped up, instantly merging into the morning glow, rapidly sweeping towards the depths of Kukuroo Mountain...
Tsubone listened to the howling wind. Leaning against the window and gazing into the distance, she watched the tens of thousands of morning rays illuminate the earth, the red sun leaping out and shining in the firmament. The old butler swung her two pink pigtails, gripped the windowsill, and murmured, "How beautiful."
Just as beautiful as the day the Master defeated Master Zeno...
She then cleaned up the messy dining cart, pushing it with a rumbling sound as she followed Ryo's departure...
Who told her to agree to Kurajin's request last night, to take the two siblings to watch the battle?
Tsubone quickened her pace, looking far into the sky. Ryo roamed within the morning glow, occasionally stepping on illusory small swords for leverage, floating ethereally until he vanished from sight in the blink of an eye.
Tsubone returned to the butler's villa, casually handing binoculars to Kurajin and Kurapika each, and led them towards the depths of Kukuroo Mountain.
Kurajin was in front, and Kurapika was behind. The boy, his smooth blond hair draped over his back, held the binoculars and asked suspiciously, "It is just watching a fight, do we really need to bring binoculars?"
While he was pondering, he felt the back of his collar being lifted, taking his entire body into the air and leaping onto a large tree, startling him.
"We watch from here,"
"It is too dangerous to be any closer."
Tsubone grabbed Kurajin with one hand and Kurapika with the other, looking down from a high vantage point...
Deep within the dense forest of Kukuroo Mountain, there was a rare open clearing.
On the ground, a spring was faintly bubbling, spitting out a column of water, adding a clear pool to this small open area...
Kurapika narrowed his eyes, only able to see a hazy, rippling silhouette in the distance. Obediently, he raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus to look.
By the clear pool, aside from him, his sister, and Tsubone, there were two other groups standing on different large trees...
Kurapika turned the lens barrel. With another look, two pairs of old eyes abruptly entered his vision, as if looking right back at him through the lens barrel, immediately discovering him... Kurapika was startled in his heart. It is that old man!
He hurriedly swept his gaze past Netero and Zeno...
"Ho ho ho... this child's mind is truly sharp," Netero, bringing Beans with him, flew up a large tree. He casually swept a glance at Zeno beside him and said, "Since when did your family take a liking to the Scarlet Eyes?"
Zeno's white hair swayed. Standing on the treetop with his hands behind his back, he leisurely withdrew his gaze from Kurapika and stated calmly, "You should ask Ryo that."
"He has arrived!"
Hum! Listening to the Heart's Fist and Listening to the Heart's Sword broke apart!
Two silhouettes emerged like ghosts from a cluster of mountain forests.
One faced the red sun, stepping out from the morning glow, strolling forward.
Simultaneously,
They slowly landed on the clear pool.
Two pairs of feet settled steadily on the pool's water, like floating duckweed...
A gust of mountain wind blew, rustling their silver hair to sway with the wind...
Silva and Ryo faced each other in silence, separated by a distance of a hundred meters, staring at one another.
Boom! Suddenly, two majestic auras of Ren erupted from their bodies simultaneously!
In a single instant, the tranquil clear pool wrinkled with ripples, surging and shaking violently!
Before fists and swords were drawn, the Ren clashed first!
Kurapika held the binoculars, adjusting the angle, barely avoiding Netero's gaze. Taking another look at the clear pool, he stared at this scene in astonishment. Two doubts instantly surfaced in his mind...
First, why could they stand on the water's surface without sinking... Second, why was that clear pool suddenly "wailing"?! Yes, "wailing!"
The boy intuitively felt that the clear pool seemed unable to bear the heavy burden and was wailing, also... begging for mercy!
No one knows a brother better than his sister. Kurajin had known Kurapika's quiet, bottled-up nature since they were young.
Her younger brother always liked to keep things to himself, looking burdened with worries all day long. Little did he know, anyone who understood him could tell at a glance... the boy's current unrest!
Standing right next to Tsubone beside Kurapika, the young girl took a deep breath and said, "That is the Nen I told you about yesterday."
"Only by relying on It can one stand steadily on the water's surface and cause the water to overflow and fluctuate."
Nen... superpower... Kurapika lowered his eyelids, carefully chewing on these words. Suddenly, he heard Tsubone, tall like a gorilla with her arms crossed, say from beside him, "Not all Nen users can stand steadily on the water's surface like the Master and the Young Master."
"That requires an extremely strong cognition and understanding of Nen..."
Kurajin nodded. She had to admit... Tsubone was right. Someone like her, for the time being, could not do it.
The young girl's beautiful blonde hair was tied into a high ponytail draped over the back of her head. With another glance, she raised her binoculars to look...
On the surging, rising and falling lake surface, one silver and one red Nen wave were faintly colliding and intertwining!
The young girl suddenly felt a sharp pain in her eyes, as if someone had abruptly struck her with a hammer. She stumbled and nearly lost her footing, almost falling off the tree trunk... Fortunately, Tsubone was quick-eyed and quick-handed, catching her so she could steady her posture.
"Remember to use Gyo to look... Your brother's aura nodes are not open, so he cannot see it clearly and will be fine, but you... are different..." The old butler's earnest teachings echoed in her ears.
Kurajin adjusted her breathing and responded gratefully, "Yes."
With a thought, she immediately opened her aura nodes, separating a stream of Nen aura to surge toward her eyes... Raising the binoculars to look again this time... She was shocked to discover that within the Ren surrounding Silva and Ryo, there were faintly cannonballs and sharp swords wreathed in flames spiraling! Even separated by a thousand meters,
Kurajin breathed heavily, still able to intuitively feel it...
The weight of those cannonballs,
The searing heat and sharpness of those swords... It made one nearly unable to open their eyes!
"Well... Silva has made some progress over these years after all..." By the clear pool, Netero flicked his large sleeve, sending the cannonballs and swords that had spread to their vicinity flying away.
Boom! Whoosh! The cannonballs exploded, and the sharp swords unsheathed, leaving a crater and a cleanly sliced cross-section on two large trees nearby...
It made the corner of the nearby Beans' eyes twitch involuntarily, and he quietly moved closer to Netero's side...
Zeno's white hair swayed. He watched all this silently with his hands behind his back and sneered, "Who do you think he is?"
"He is my son!"
In the world of Nen abilities, setting aside mechanics, all that remains are numerical values, and Silva... happens to be the one who superstitiously believes in numerical values! Zeno looked proudly at Silva's surging Nen aura carrying cannonballs towards the sky, saying profoundly, "He has anger in his heart. He never trusts anyone else, only himself and his own fists. Therefore,"
"As you can see, the stubbornness and unyielding nature within his Ren is not a single bit less than Ryo's..."
Netero chuckled, "That is why I say, your entire Zoldyck family is full of stubborn people!"
Assassins collect money; either they kill the enemy, or they turn around and kill the employer. In short... the mission must not fail... This is evident enough.
Zeno gave a mischievous chuckle, neither refuting nor admitting it. He leisurely narrowed his eyes, looking toward the lake's surface...
As the cannonballs and sharp swords collided...
Silva took a step forward with his right foot, making the first move. The man's beautiful silver hair cascaded down to his waist. His majestic, hawk-and-wolf-like eyes locked onto Ryo, and he said in a muffled voice, "If this were three years ago, I would never have thought that the one standing before me today would be you."
"And so?" Ryo also took a step forward with his right foot, holding his swords horizontally. The tips of the blades spat out sharp glints, making one dare not look directly at them.
Silva pulled his hands out of his pockets and said calmly, "So do not expect me to hold back like last time!"
The man's silver hair suddenly flew backward. In an instant, he increased his Nen aura output. Gripping two cannonballs made of Nen light spheres in his hands, he soared from the ground and violently hurled them at Ryo!
Suppressing his voice, he said chillingly, "Prepare to be killed by me, Ryo,"
"Even if you are my son!"
Whoosh! The Nen aura light spheres arrived in a flash, just like in the original story when Silva teamed up with Zeno to fiercely battle Chrollo, attempting to blow Chrollo up with two Nen blasts.
Facing these two terrifying Nen aura cannonballs...
Two great suns ignited within Ryo's pupils. Flinging his hands, he unleashed two flying slashes, crossing left and right.
Seeking the center point of the Nen aura cannonballs, they sliced head-on...
Only to hear—
Pfft!
The Nen blasts were split into two from the center, the cut surfaces as smooth as a mirror, exploding violently!
Boom!
Amidst the oscillating Nen aura,
The boy pointed his twin swords diagonally, sticking out his tongue to lick his lips, and said, "As you wish, Father!"
Then... his figure flashed...
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