Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

"Boss, have you heard about what happened at Lake Rusty a few days ago...?"

"Oh, that one? I heard it was a meteorite that fell in, nothing special..."

At this point, the boss paused, glanced around warily, and then whispered:

“Auntie, I know your son went missing in that city of St. Vera, but that city is gone, and there’s nothing left in that lake…”

"Oh, oh..."

The old woman responded softly, but it was unclear whether she had actually heard her.

Kunxi, who was standing nearby, heard everything clearly, and couldn't help but glance at the old woman.

She also has missing relatives...

"Grandma...I want to eat..."

The girl next to the old woman spoke blankly, her eyes fixed on the noodle stall.

"Child, this old lady didn't get any money. Let's have some water today..."

The old woman gently took her hand, her kind face full of remorse.

She then smiled and nodded to the noodle stall owner before turning to leave.

"Wait, you guys... I'll treat you to noodles, boss, two bowls of noodles, please!"

Kunxi couldn't help but call out to them. He really wanted to know what this old woman, who, like him, had been searching for her relatives for twenty-five years, had gone through.

The boss casually agreed and got to work.

The old woman was taken aback at first, then quickly went to Kunxi and thanked him profusely.

Kun pulled her to sit down at the noodle stall and asked the question he wanted to know:

“Grandma, are you also looking for relatives? Me too. My brother’s name is Kunla. He disappeared in St. Petersburg twenty-five years ago…”

Upon hearing this, the old woman understood the situation and a look of sympathy for her plight appeared on her face.

She moved her lips a few times and began to tell her story.

She used to be a high school math teacher in North Youngton, and she had an only son who was very successful.

"...His name is Touma. He's a very filial son. After graduating from university, he passed the civil service exam..."

The old woman seemed to be whispering, and her voice carried by the night breeze to Kunxi's ears.

After her son went missing, she, who had lost her husband years earlier, lost all her spirits and wandered all the way from North Yandon, thousands of miles away, to this place, hoping to find even a trace of her son's remains.

This search lasted for twenty-five years.

pat.

The owner brought out two bowls of noodles. The dirty girl's eyes lit up when she saw them. She grabbed the bowl and started wolfing down the noodles.

The old woman gently stroked her head, her cloudy eyes filled with tenderness:

"I found this child twenty-five years ago. He was probably abandoned because of that incident..."

Kun looked closely and found that she was not a little girl, but a woman around twenty-five or twenty-six years old.

It was just because she was so dirty and unkempt, and so thin due to malnutrition, that you couldn't even tell her real age...

"Two bowls of noodles, 30 nuns in total."

The boss couldn't help but speak up from the side.

"Oh……"

Kun subconsciously reached into his pocket, only to find it empty.

'Oh no, I haven't been paid for my manual labor this month, and I just used up the last bit of money I had for my vegan training...'

A bead of cold sweat appeared on Kun's forehead.

Seeing him freeze, the boss guessed what was wrong and sighed, saying:

"If you don't have any Jenny, two Federal coins will do. If you don't have any of those either... then forget it."

He didn't want to make things difficult for these suffering people, even though he himself wasn't much better off.

'A coin...that's it!'

When the boss mentioned the Federal Coin, Kunra suddenly remembered that a few days ago, that strange guy named Maori had given him a coin.

He searched his entire body and finally found the coin in his shirt pocket.

'But there was only one, and it was a strange coin with jasmine flowers on both sides…'

Can this be used?

Kunxi hesitated for a moment, then took out the coin and examined it carefully under the streetlight.

The strange coin lay in his hand, with the same design on both sides.

These are standard counterfeit bills; they're completely unusable.

Just as Kunxi was beginning to feel disappointed, the surface of the coin suddenly began to tremble like the surface of water.

With a "pop," another coin fell off the strange coin...

Now, one coin has become two coins.

Kunxi absentmindedly handed the two coins to the shopkeeper, without hearing what he said.

His mind was filled with the image of that man with unusually bright eyes and the magic trick he performed.

'One coin was placed on top of another coin...'

After a long silence, Kunxi gave a bitter laugh, his voice breaking in the cold night wind.

"Boss, from now on, when they come to eat noodles here, I'll cover the bill."

Kunxi suddenly stood up and said to the boss.

Upon hearing this, the old woman standing nearby immediately became anxious:

"This, this won't do, young man, you don't have much money either, you should ask your brother for help..."

"Grandma, I'm not looking anymore."

The old woman was stunned when Kunxi said that.

Under the golden light of the streetlights, Kun looked relieved and smiled, saying:

"I'll find a job at a weather station. The salary will definitely be enough to treat you all to a meal, don't worry. See you later..."

Then Kunxi bowed earnestly to the old woman and tidied the girl's hair, as if saying goodbye to a loved one.

Having done everything, he turned and waved, just as his brother had done when he left, disappearing into the night...

As a taboo in the city of Dalatlan, this event from twenty-five years ago has quietly influenced the course of history.

The most direct consequence was that, since then, the Ochima Federation's Secret Investigation Department has existed in name only.

The federal government no longer invests heavily in cultivating its own Nen users, but instead relies entirely on the Hunter Association.

So much so that 25 years later, when faced with the disaster of the Phantom City reappearing in the world, the Federation would only mindlessly entrust the Hunter Association with the task.

But this is normal. After all, more than a year later, even for a major event like the Chimera Ant incident, which was a genuine event that wiped out a nation, V5 directly entrusted the Hunter Association to handle it.

For a major power, it is only natural to entrust important matters to the army that possesses the truth, and to entrust minor matters to the Hunter Association that can do anything.

It can improve the completion rate of events and save expenses, so why not?

Later, the useless "Secret Investigation Department" was renamed "Special Council for Civil Affairs," becoming a powerless department with fewer and fewer visitors than ghosts.

More than a decade later, this obscure department welcomed a young civil servant named Ciyutuo, but that's another story.

And in the research on secret realms.

The research projects on hidden realms around the world have received a lot of investment because of this, although most of these studies have had little effect.

However, it also yielded many valuable conclusions, such as the spatial relationship between the secret realm and reality, and the boundless vacuum that separates them.

These valuable conclusions, twenty-five years later, greatly helped a temporary hunter named Dia.

As a result, the original "City of Angels," Dalatland, completely lost its future and became a single-core city in the Rust Belt.

With no money left, the citizens naturally had no resources to give alms to old women and young girls who had traveled thousands of miles to find their children.

Sterling, which shares the same origin, suffered an even worse fate. In the secret realm, hundreds of thousands of Sterling citizens died one after another over a period of twenty-five years, turning the city into a ghost town.

What a tragic couple!

The Kingdom of Fujiang, once famous for the "Four Thieves of Fujiang," has disappeared into history.

There was an expanding, newly powerful nation that, under the wise leadership of its king, annexed the weak kingdom of Fujiang.

That great power is now called the Kakin Empire...

Outside of time, in a secret realm where there are no living people left.

Space began to gradually collapse, and everything belonging to Sterling, the Four Thieves of Fujiang, and the Secret Investigation Department gradually disappeared into the boundless vacuum.

In an inconspicuous corner.

The artifact that caused all of this had long since had all its energy exhausted by Paris, turning into dust like a piece of junk.

Maybe in ten years, maybe in one night.

No one will remember any of this anymore; it all started on a beautiful, sunny morning.

The carefree Druha, along with his companions, barged into an inconspicuous villa.

They found a strange skeleton inside...

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Hunter Association Headquarters Building.

"President... so you really aren't going to apologize to Ms. Kita?"

"Doumian, whose side are you on?"

Chairman Netero feigned anger as he questioned the Bean Man's stance.

"I'm on the association's side. For the association to become better, President, you must maintain peaceful communication with the future Vice President, Ms. Kita..."