Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

"But you don't need to worry too much. Ninety-nine percent of the ghosts and spirits you encounter in this world are illusions."

Kenzaki's eyes gradually lost their focus as he looked at the figure that had silently sat down next to Kin.

The figure was soaking wet, head bowed, silent, hair clinging to face, dripping water.

It slightly raised its head, its cold gaze secretly shining out as it stared at the terrified Kenzaki.

Hallucination...?

Kenzaki shifted his hand slightly.

pat.

She looked down and noticed a puddle of water had appeared beside her.

The fire dwindled until it vanished completely into the endless darkness, along with Jin's figure...

……

Beep—beep—

In the dimly lit room, only the cold green light emanating from the screens of electronic instruments and the mechanical beeping sounds could be heard.

Dia squinted and scanned the room. The room was sparsely furnished, with only dozens of high-tech cryogenic chambers that stood upright and resembled coffins.

His gaze fell on an inconspicuous corner, where a figure had appeared out of nowhere.

The figure was facing the wall, squatting silently with its head bowed, trembling occasionally.

"who are you?"

Diya quietly gathered her strength, remaining constantly on guard, ready to flee at the slightest sign of trouble.

How could there be someone in this room that looks like it's been closed for years?

Dia thought of the ghosts lurking in corners in some ghost stories, and suddenly became alert:

"King once said that 99% of the ghosts in this world are illusions, and the remaining 1% are incredibly terrifying real ghosts. Could this one be that 1%?"

"Ho..."

The figure gradually turned its head, and its face immediately came into Dia's view.

It was a face as withered as rotten wood, its eyes had been gouged out, not a single hair could be seen, and its muscles had atrophied to the point that it looked like a piece of salted pork that had been dried for 180 days.

"Ah... Kakin has a new king again..."

It struggled to produce an unpleasant sound with its dry vocal cords, its words seemingly tinged with pity and sarcasm.

Upon hearing this, Dia looked it over and suddenly realized that its appearance seemed somewhat familiar, but she couldn't quite place it. So she asked:

"who are you?"

"I...I am your grandfather..."

The withered figure chuckled.

Diya felt a little itchy on her fist and wanted to rub it with something.

But he quickly dismissed the idea, because he finally remembered where he had seen the face of the person in front of him before.

It was in the first hall, where he had just infiltrated the royal palace, that he saw the colossal statues of past kings!

The features of the person before him were exactly the same as those of the former king, the Babylonian king and father of Naspi Huikro!

It just doesn't look quite the same without that signature beard.

"King of Babylon? You're not dead?"

Dia asked tentatively, the person in front of him exceeding his expectations.

The former king of Kakin was still alive? And he even mistook him for the new king?

All these unusual circumstances forced Dia to take them seriously.

“You don’t know yet… Nasby lied to you… Heh heh… just like I lied to him to become king.”

The Babylonian king seemed perfectly sane, only slightly slow in speech. He raised a withered finger and pointed to the row of cryogenic chambers:

"I'm not dead, everyone's alive..."

Everyone?

Diya was taken aback and looked at the cryogenic chambers.

There was a small glass bay window on the hatch, but it was blocked by fog, so the situation inside could not be seen.

Dia walked to one of the cryogenic chambers, wiped the condensation off the bay window, and looked inside—

What came into view was a pair of wide-open, shriveled eyes, belonging to another withered body.

Upon seeing Diya's gaze, her eyes, which resembled deflated fish bubbles, flickered slightly, but then fell still again.

Looking at the familiar features of the withered human figure before her, Dia kept comparing them with the portraits of past kings she had just seen.

After a long pause, he said incredulously:

"King Gatlinlin?"

The last female king in Kakin's history who abdicated seventy years ago!

As if it had heard a familiar name, the humanoid eyeball in front of it struggled to move again, but in the end it was all in vain and fell into dead silence.

"Oh...it was my mother...she lied to me..."

The King of Babylon murmured:

“My mother is stronger than me… She has perseverance; she hasn’t gouged out her eyes yet… What are you waiting for, Mother…”

King Gatzlinlin remained silent in the face of Babylon's question, simply staring intently at Dia outside the bay window.

Completely bewildered, Dia momentarily forgot that her purpose in coming here was to seize the national treasury, and hurriedly asked the King of Babylon:

"King of Babylon, what do you mean by being deceived? How are you still alive?"

If he remembered correctly, King Gatzlinlin was over sixty years old before she abdicated. If she were still alive, she would be over 130 years old.

You're older than Chairman Binetero, what did you eat?

Dia was somewhat anxious. He had a vague feeling that King Kakin's ascension to the throne was probably not a good thing.

Then wouldn't his previous plan to make Mu Muze the king have been pushing her into a fire pit?

"King Kakin...is responsible for the future of hundreds of millions of people...and bears the fate of his dead brothers and sisters..."

"The first King Kakin... designed the ritual of the 'Egg in a Pot'... The second king introduced the 'Meditating Buddha' ritual, thus perfecting the ceremony..."

"This is the Royal History you've been studying... but the actual history differs... it's missing a crucial point, which is..."

The Babylonian king stood there, choked, unable to utter a word. Dia watched him stammer for a long time, as if he'd choked on something, and wanted nothing more than to slap him.

"Speak, and stop laying eggs!"

Upon hearing this, the King of Babylon seemed to come to his senses and slowly said:

"Don't get angry... don't get angry... you won't be able to bear it, that endless pain..."

"What pain? What pain?"

Dia stepped forward and shook him, also sending some ripples over to avoid killing him.

This was quite something. The instant the Dia Ripple was inputted, the Babylonian king's empty eye sockets visibly widened, as if he were extremely shocked:

"What, what did you do! The curse... the pain was delayed?!"

Upon hearing this, Diya decisively sent some more ripples and said:

"Tell me quickly, what's going on? Tell me now, or I won't give it to you!"

"Wait... I'll talk, I'll talk..."

The Babylonian king struggled to raise his hand and remove the red tongue from his face.

Dia impatiently pulled the long red tongue away, about to throw it aside.

Suddenly he paused, looked at the tongue in his hand, and looked up.

A bizarre creature with a monkey-like face, a vertically split mouth, wide-open eyes, and a terrifying spider-like body was clumsily perched on the wall, silently watching him.

Chapter 360 Killing Beast × Naspi's Wrath

"Gurgle..."

The beast shook its head and awkwardly leaned closer, seemingly trying to see Dia's face clearly and ask him why he was pulling out his tongue.

Its entire body is covered with huge, unidentified organs resembling pacifiers, giving a strong reproductive implication and perhaps reflecting Naspi's own intense desires.

When did it appear there?

Dia's eyes narrowed, and she decisively activated time stop:

'【The World】!'

The world instantly turned black and white. Without the slightest hesitation, Dia turned and ran towards the door.

Naspi's Nen Beast has arrived, so how far away can he himself be?

There was no time to continue questioning the Babylonian king or to try to sneak into the treasury.

If he doesn't run now, he'll have to figure out how to break out of the palace, or even the capital, or even the Kakin Empire!

If possible, he still wanted to avoid bloodshed, considering it a way to accumulate some merit.

The 4-second pause has elapsed.

"Gurgle!"

The terrifying-looking beast tossed its head, looking at the human in front of it with a puzzled expression. The human who had just been there had vanished in the blink of an eye!

In the blink of an eye, it saw the hole that Dia had cut out in the corner of the room.

In an instant, it instinctively felt that it had been deceived!

A surge of anger rushed to his heart, and the Nen Beast roared furiously. The pacifier-shaped organs on its body burst open, and the entire Nen Beast scrambled out of the hole!