Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

When the night is as dark as a thick fog.

I walked out of 537 Rue Don Quixote and wandered alone through the chaotic alleyways.

Ding ding—

The distant church bells tolled, signaling the arrival of midnight.

That voice sounded so much like home.

'Wait... I almost forgot...'

With trembling hands, I took out my phone and sent a message to a number:

No need to prepare a seat for me.

After thinking about it, I added an inconspicuous period to the end of that sentence.

This will help ease my guilt.

what?

You're asking whose number this is?

I looked up abruptly, wondering if someone was quietly asking me something from the shadow in the corner.

"That's the number for the funeral home, which used to be called the crematorium..."

I muttered to myself.

The message was successfully sent; New Delhi's signal strength was indeed stronger than Meteor Street's.

The funeral home quickly replied with a message:

[Sir, your reserved bed was automatically cancelled yesterday. A resident of Baique suffered a sudden heart attack and used the privilege of early cremation. If needed, please participate in the lottery again...]

Oh, someone cut in line for cremation.

not bad.

So I canceled my appointment to go directly to the underworld.

The wind howled like a ghost, tugging at the hem of my linen clothes and my disheveled hair.

In the alley, I tidied my hair, looking disheveled, and followed the heavy footsteps.

My name is Ruby, and I am 43 or maybe 44 years old, I don't remember.

Anyway, I come from Meteor City on the other side of the ocean, a place nobody cares about.

When I was 23, I made a mistake there, so I went to the seaside alone, curled up in a wooden barrel, and drifted across the ocean to get here.

New Delhi is a good place, where people are divided into different classes, and the untouchables only need to obey the orders of the superiors.

Do you know why I said that?

The children of Meteor City have no parents, only adoptive parents and adoptees. I have been listening to my adoptive father since I was a child.

He said that everyone comes into the world to cleanse themselves of sin.

Humans are undoubtedly born with original sin, and only by accepting fate can they cleanse themselves of their sins.

Therefore, I never reject fate, and I always like to ask others for permission before doing anything.

You see, it was someone else who allowed me to do this, not something I wanted to do.

Subjectivity is poison.

Every day in the Aiyiyi family, I feel right at home; all I have to do is listen to the eldest sister.

Then, for some reason, one day the young master extended an invitation to me:

"Join us and let's completely destroy this cesspool of a world."

That day, the church bells rang six times.

I agreed to her request.

Actually, I'm not really interested in destroying the world, though of course, I'd be happy to let it be destroyed.

Many people think that because my past was tragic and I was in pain, I must be full of hatred for the world, but that's not actually the case.

I'm miserable right now too.

But I still love this world, or perhaps I don't really care.

The pain seemed endless, radiating from my entire body. The doctor said it was some kind of terminal illness, but I can't read and I've forgotten.

But it doesn't matter, it's fate's arrangement—

I accept!

……

Ruby looked up, her eyes filled with exhaustion.

Not long ago, my adoptive father from my hometown made a long-distance call across the ocean.

During the phone call, he described the current situation in his hometown and the deaths of several of his siblings.

In Meteor City, death is a normal occurrence, so it shouldn't be such a big deal.

Apart from the deceased elder who was skilled at turning people into bombs, almost everyone assumed that once they left Meteor City, their lives were in the hands of fate.

But the two compatriots who died that day both died on Meteor City's territory.

Meteor City today is no longer the junkyard it once was, where anyone could freely enter and play hunting games.

Under the threat of the Phantom Troupe, the elders finally had a chance to catch their breath and develop their own armed forces.

So, while both are cases of a companion dying, the elders don't react to the death of a knight, but they do respond to the death of Machi.

'Regardless, just as I'm about to be killed by pain, I somehow manage to make amends for the mistakes I made back then…'

Ruby was trembling all over, her face flushed an unnatural red, and the weariness in her eyes was replaced by an unusual fervor.

Just as that hunter, the one he was meant to avenge the elder, appeared before him, Ruby truly felt as if fate was knocking at his door!

Even just standing in front of that person made him incredibly scared.

Perhaps his companions were right to call him Timid Ruby.

He muttered to himself:

"Come... [The Book of Revelation]..."

A viscous "qi" flowed from Ruby's hands, quickly gathering in mid-air and instantly transforming into an ancient parchment scroll!

At the same time, Ruby's entire body's [Entanglement] suddenly weakened.

In just a few seconds, the "qi" covering Ruby's body became negligible!

This is Ruby's [Conjuration] ability, [Apocalypse], which she awakened after leveling up to level 20 following joining Melena's team!

Its essence is a materialized map. When Ruby summons the Book of Revelation, all humans within a 50-meter radius around the map will appear as dots.

There are three types of dots: blue dots, red dots, and green dots.

A red dot indicates that the person harbors murderous intent, a green dot represents that the person harbors goodwill, and a blue dot means that the person has no intention of killing.

This is an ability that Ruby awakens because he subconsciously wants to avoid an "evil fate".

But fate is like a rolling stone.

When it falls from the mountain and rolls tirelessly down to earth, no one can but accept the arrangement of fate and cannot resist.

Ruby always knew that fate existed, that God existed, and that God existed.

Melena's fate is death, while the fate of those evil Kakin people may not be death, but rather growing stronger.

But he was happy to see all of this.

He was a staunch supporter of Melena, and therefore desperately hoped that she would be driven to her doom by fate, which aligned with his own path.

'By submitting to fate, one can attain happiness; the enlightened will see through fate and overcome their innate fears…'

Ruby has never been a daring person.

If he hadn't always believed in fate, he wouldn't have had the courage to stand in that alley and hunt down that invincible enemy.

What? You're saying that even if he caught up with that person, he couldn't kill him?

This leads to the second power of the Book of Revelation, which is called the Suffering.

'My sins have separated me from God; my evil has caused him to hide his face from me…'

Ruby recited passages from the Book of Isaiah, his already weak breath growing even thinner, almost only slightly stronger than [Absolute].

At the same time, his demeanor was like that of a docile lamb, no longer posing any threat whatsoever.

[Revelation - The Sufferer] will grant him a strange [Aura of Goodwill] in exchange for 98% of his [Manifest Aura].

Under this aura of goodwill, he will appear to pose no threat, and those who harbor ill will towards him will unconsciously lessen their malice.

At the same time, in the Book of Revelation, the original dots will sprout arrows, which will point to the person to whom the dot's malice or goodwill is directed.

In this way, he can see who is hostile to him, and thus avoid strong malice and confront weak malice.

Fate cannot be escaped, but it can be deceived… Strong malice can be replaced by weak malice; both face an evil fate, yet the outcomes are vastly different.

Countless times, Ruby has used this ability to find a sufficiently weak evil before the arrival of a powerful evil, thus avoiding death.

This is what he has always felt most guilty about—he could have accepted his fate, but he didn't have the courage to face it.

But this time was different; he really had the courage!

'The effect of [The Victim] will last until I first inflict malice on anyone. At that time, [The Victim] will automatically dissipate, while simultaneously amplifying the malice towards me from everyone around me. Therefore, I only have one chance to act…'

Ruby silently adjusted the bomb in his arms, which he had found by chance on a dying officer.

Kakin's military capabilities are not bad, but its research on explosives lags behind the world's leading countries.

Therefore, compared to V5, which treats advanced weapons of mass destruction as a dangerous threat and guards against them with utmost vigilance, Kakin is not so strict in guarding against these outdated bombs.

The royal army merely sent the officer who lost the bomb to the gallows and then massacred a small village near the location where the bomb was lost.

Ruby himself didn't know what the bomb could do, but he always carried it with him, and after it exploded, he wouldn't have any chance of surviving.

At the same time, due to the weakening of his [manifested energy], his [entanglement] at this moment is almost equivalent to that of a terminally ill patient on the verge of death. If he encounters an excessively strong [malice], he is probably no better off than an ordinary person encountering a Nen user.