Hunter x Hunter: The Strongest Zoldyck

"What exactly are you?"

As Roy slowly lowered his right foot, he looked over with a surprised expression.

In the dimly lit and deep corridor, the corridor lights hanging from the ceiling flickered.

Under the flickering light, a figure that could barely be made out as human suddenly stood up.

Instead of bending over and straightening up like a normal person, they stood up stiffly, defying the principles of physics.

"Sizzle..."

Light green saliva dripped continuously from its mouth, corroding black marks on the deck.

If this saliva were to flow onto a person's body, it would surely burn a large hole.

"roar!"

A roar even louder than before erupted from its enormous, cascading maw.

Visible sound waves swept across the passage in front of it.

"Buzz..."

After the invisible shockwave subsided, Roy, who had been standing in front of it, had vanished.

"That was close..."

Loy, who was clinging to the ceiling like a spider, glanced with lingering fear at the passageway, which looked like it had been plowed by a knife and was covered with dents, and sighed.

"Crack!"

With a sudden, powerful fall, Roy plummeted to the ground.

"What kind of kung fu is that, the Lion's Roar?"

His voice was neither loud nor soft, carrying a hint of casual mockery, as if he were asking what they were having for dinner.

The monster did not answer.

Its eyes, like those of a deep-sea fish, bulging straight out and rolling back, were staring intently at Roy.

Stare at his throat, carotid artery, left chest, heart...

There was no malice, no madness in those eyes, only a cold, calculated, scrutinizing gaze of a predator.

Its gaze swept over Roy's entire body, searching for the spot that could deliver a fatal blow, the spot that could completely render its prey powerless.

Looking for Roy...

The way he looked when he died!

Roy felt the chill in that gaze.

It was like a cold tongue, licking from his ankles to the back of his neck, lingering, caressing, and tasting every vulnerable spot on his body.

It sent a chill down his spine.

"Nice eyes..."

Roy tilted his head, the mocking smile on his lips deepening.

"But I don't like it..."

"Click..."

Flip your wrist; your knuckles crack.

Roy began to concentrate.

He wanted to kill the creature in front of him...

call......!

As Roy made that thought, the terrifying monster suddenly unleashed a fierce whip kick.

It was like a giant black axe cleaving down on Roy's skull.

"Bang!....."

His knee struck the floor with a sharp crack.

Roy instinctively reached out to block, but was forced to his knees by the immense force.

Before he could react, an even more domineering black shadow slashed down on his head. In an instant, he only had time to turn his head to the side.

"Click..."

His left shoulder was hit by the monster, and his bone fractured instantly.

Then, in a flash, a long black whip, carrying a strong wind, stabbed towards his throat with a sinister and venomous intent.

Under this relentless barrage of attacks, Roy had nowhere to dodge. Once the blow aimed at his throat landed, he would surely die.

In a flash, without thinking, Roy instinctively used his broken left arm to shield himself.

"Sizzle..."

A sound like tearing silk rang out as the monster's black whip pierced Roy's arm, its barbed tip gleaming brightly just 1 millimeter from the tip of Roy's nose.

It was still twisting and struggling.

Only then did Roy see clearly what was in front of him.

This is a tongue, about the thickness of an adult's thumb, completely black, with a sticky layer of constantly secreting slippery mucus on its surface.

Is this... a tongue?

In a flash, Roy spread his five fingers on his free right hand, palm slightly concave, fingertips pointing forward, and lowered his wrist, then viciously plucked at the black tongue.

"Pfft........"

The skin of the grotesque tongue broke.

Instantly, his fingers sank into the inside of his tongue.

Next, Roy's wrist bone moved first, and with a twist of his wrist, his forearm rotated instantly, and his five fingers tightened inward.

The shoulder blades compressed like springs, gathering all the strength in the body... a grab! A flick!

"Sizzle...!"

A sound like tearing cloth followed.

The black, grotesque tongue suddenly burst open half a meter from its tip, and a clump of grayish-green paste spilled out along with a small section of the tongue, dripping onto the floor with a hissing, corrosive sound.

"howl.......!!!"

The monster cried out in pain.

A fierce glint flashed in Roy's eyes, and he plowed forward with his left foot like a plow.

"squeak.......!!!"

The hard ground seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force, producing a piercing scraping sound!

With that ear-piercing screech, Roy shot forward like an arrow released from a bow!

Sink your waist! Tuck in your stomach!

At the climax of this extreme sprint, Roy's right arm suddenly bent up like a powerful bowstring.

In an instant, his elbow strike, imbued with the combined force of his entire body and comparable to a siege hammer, aimed directly at the vital spot of the monster with the face of Fica.

Zoldyck Assassination Techniques... Seven Snakes Modified... Dragon Claw Hand! Heart-Piercing Elbow!

Roy unleashed two secret techniques on the monster.

"thump!"

The monster knelt down, its waist and abdomen bent inward from the elbow strike, like a shrimp thrown into boiling water... its back arched and its ribs protruding.

The entire body was folded into an exaggerated arc, with the upper and lower body almost touching.

Then, Roy pressed his advantage, extending his right arm and turning his elbow into a claw, aiming to grab the monster's Adam's apple.

"Snap...!"

A section of the monster's throat was ripped out by Roy, naked and bloody.

"Does it hurt?"

With his right hand gripping the throat of a stick insect-like creature, Roy looked down at the Fica-like monster with a single glance.

But the monster was no longer able to speak.

The entire head, resembling a lizard and an octopus, hung diagonally on the head like a tattered rag.

"Oh, I forgot you seem to have lost your ability to speak."

With a casual toss, Roy turned away indifferently, not glancing at it again.

Just then...

The monster, which had been silent, suddenly twitched, and its tilted head straightened up again.

And then, facing Roy's back, it suddenly bit down hard, its bloody mouth opening wide, sending up a gust of foul air.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time..."

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Roy spun around and uttered a sentence while simultaneously delivering a flying kick to the monster's temple with a whoosh of wind.

"Crack!"

The monster's neck bone was broken by that kick!

His head rolled off the ground like a gourd.

"Pah, you're quite scary."

Roy licked his gums and spat out a mouthful of blood at the headless body kneeling in front of him.

...........

Under the blue and white flags on the second deck, the red-haired boy Fika sat upright.

Bolt, with his black hair and black eyes, had one hand resting on his head.

At the same time, light blue Nen energy was also flowing into Fika's body.

"Fika, the Nen I'm about to inject will forcefully open all the pores in your body like water crashing against a dam, causing energy to gush out. You must learn to stabilize it with 'Entangle' before all the energy is lost..."

"otherwise....."

Bolt paused for a moment at this point.

"Otherwise... what?"

Fica then asked a follow-up question.

"You'll die!"

Bolt calmly uttered two words.