"Alright, stop pretending."
Moses walked to Ging's side again, then narrowed his eyes and said, "Let me study it carefully... how to properly deplete your HP."
"Can't we just be good friends?!"
Hearing Moses's words, Ging rolled his eyes in exasperation.
In response to Ging's words, Moses sneered coldly.
'If this really is a side-scrolling fighting game, then there must be a health bar or something... Let's try using Gyo first.'
With that thought, Moses raised his head and looked directly above Ging.
A player's ID would only hover directly above them, so even though Ging was lying on the ground, his ID was still floating about three meters in the air.
Maybe it was to avoid the ID interfering with the duel, or maybe for some other reason.
In any case, the player's ID was positioned quite high.
Moses looked up and stared at the white-text ID, then gathered his Aura into his eyes.
And then-
Moses saw a health bar appear next to the ID, and the value in the health bar was 11%.
'Still 11% HP left… So one more punch should be enough to zero it out.'
Seeing the health bar, Moses's eyes slowly moved down and landed on Ging's face. Then he sneered again and said with narrowed eyes:
"Pick a spot. I'll try to be gentle."
"…"
Ging was speechless.
After a moment-
The park plaza now had an unfortunate figure lying on the ground, with one side of his face swollen, and the other eye bruised and puffed up.
Just as Moses had predicted, the remaining 11% of health could be solved with just one punch.
So Moses gave Ging's eye a solid punch, eventually reducing Ging's health to zero, thus ending the [Ready Player One]'s game mode.
At the moment the game came to an end, the details of Ring Chimes also blurred and faded from his memory.
To Moses, it felt like waking up from a dream. He clearly remembered that he had a dream last night, but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't remember what the dream was.
Without paying too much attention to the feeling of memory loss, Moses glanced down at the shadowy figure lying on the ground, which nearly blended into the darkness.
That shadowy figure is naturally Ging.
It's just that Ging wasn't releasing any Aura, and his Aura Nodes were completely shut.
'It turns out that the punishment is forced Zetsu state.'
Having witnessed Ging's punishment firsthand, Moses shook his head slightly and finally understood why Ging had tried to manipulate him into using Nen Exorcism Ability.
Indeed-
For a Nen User, being forced into Zetsu was an absolute pain.
"How long does this last?"
Before leaving, Moses asked with genuine concern.
Ging sighed and replied, "One week."
"That's not too long. Just bear with it and it will pass. I'm leaving now."
Moses nodded when he heard this, then waved his hand and left without hesitation.
Ging struggled to prop himself up on his elbows, looked at Moses's retreating figure, and suddenly asked: "I can't make it, but I'm curious… What's your plan?"
"…"
Moses stopped walking upon hearing this and remained silent for a long time.
Finally, he glanced back at Ging and replied calmly, "Just let the old man do whatever he wants. What else can we do?"
"I see..."
Ging was slightly startled and then said nothing more.
Moses turned away and strode toward the park's entrance.
He wasn't planning to return to the hotel. Instead, he'd head straight to the Hunter Association's exclusive airport.
Ging watched Moses disappear into the distance before flopping back onto the ground with a sigh, staring at the night sky listlessly.
'Too damn sharp to leave any openings...'
Looking up at the night sky, Ging exhaled heavily.
Guiding Moses to use his Nen Exorcism Ability to remove the effect of [Ready Player One] is Ging's only chance to turn things around in that situation.
Because [Ready Player One] has a more special mechanism.
That is, all the injuries sustained during the game duel would revert to their original state upon victory.
Of course, the loser didn't get that privilege.
And the reason why Ging had tried to steer Moses toward forcibly ending [Ready Player One] was simple. Because once the game duel is interrupted by 'external means', both players would revert to their initial states without a winner being decided.
In other words-
Once Moses uses his Nen Exorcism Ability, Ging's body will be able to return to its original state in an instant, and he will still have a chance to play another game afterwards.
But Moses had pieced together the various mechanisms of [Ready Player One] from the slightest clues.
While part of this outcome was due to Ging's unwillingness to 'distort the facts', it still couldn't overshadow the sheer brilliance Moses had displayed in this duel.
In all of Ging's past battles, the only people who'd ever given him this much trouble were Netero. And now, there's an addition of Moses.
'Oh right, I didn't even take out his [Resurrection Coin]. Damn, I lost too badly this time.'
Ging suddenly thought of this and couldn't help but sigh again.
"I feel like I will lose sleep over this one..."
Looking at the dark night sky, Ging muttered to himself.
If Moses knew about Ging's final scheme, he would probably just feel exhausted.
Because facing a Nen user like Ging meant constantly second-guessing every possibility. Even if some hidden dangers are outrageous, they must be taken into consideration.
If it weren't for the fact that his Nen Exorcism chance is quite precious...
With the fact that there is no need to bear any price after exorcising Nen, given Moses's situation at the time, he probably wouldn't have thought too much about it and would have directly removed the effect of [Ready Player One].
At least from Ging's perspective, he believes that Moses's Nen Exorcism Ability is extremely powerful, so the probability of Moses choosing to exorcise his Nen Ability is very high.
Unfortunately, Ging didn't know that Moses's Nen Exorcism Ability had a usage limit.
It can only be said that sometimes, victory or defeat hinged on the tiniest details.
It was just like Ging didn't touch the random Nen Ability reward at the start had sealed his crushing defeat...
[You have defeated more than half of the Zodiacs with a near-perfect performance. Your Nen Exorcism chance +1.]
[Your Enhancement Affinity Correction Rate +12%]
[Your Memory Capacity +1]
Moses silently accepted the reward from Perception, though he wasn't particularly surprised.
After all, he'd taken down seven Zodiacs, including Ging, in under an hour.
If not for his already overwhelming combat prowess, he might've earned even greater rewards.
Moving swiftly through the night, Moses soon arrived at the Hunter Association's exclusive airport and saw the brightly lit airship parked on the tarmac.
After a while-
Moses boarded the airship and went straight to the outside of the room where Netero and others were.
Creak-
Moses stretched out his hand and pushed the door.
The moment it swung wide, eyes filled with surprise immediately focused on Moses.
Defeating seven Zodiacs in an hour...
That kind of result was nothing short of unbelievable.