As soon as the meal is over, Neffi grabs the snake clinging to Auren's neck and says her goodbyes to the Zoldycks, while Silva and Zeno lead Auren and an excited Milluki to one of their training chambers, which Auren would call a torture chamber without even thinking twice.
Seeing a St. Andrew's Cross, Auren can't help but be astounded. Regardless, he grabs a bunch of ropes and rips off Milluki's clothes, the fat man yelling, "What are you doing?! Stop undressing me!"
"I wish there was another way," Auren genuinely replies, his eyes twitching as he glares at his patient, preparing to yell. "Trust me, just shut up."
"What... what are you gonna do?" Milluki asks, suddenly scared.
"I said shut up. I'm just gonna... butcher you," Auren says, grabbing a piece of wood, suspiciously placed there, and pressing it into Milluki's mouth between his teeth. He then ties a rope around his mouth, gagging him and preventing the cork from falling out.
"As I said... this will hurt like hell. There is no use in using meds or something to numb the pain, as their effects will quickly be gone once I start," Auren explains casually.
"Do you want to stay and make sure your son remains fine alive?" Auren asks Silva.
"If you... let me," Silva replies. "Though you enjoy my full trust."
"I can't deny my own curiosity as well," Zeno states. "How will you accomplish making him less fat? I really can't imagine."
So he does care about him after all. Maybe this can be a way... for Milluki and Silva to improve their relationship... not that it's any of my business. Zeno as well. He's unexpectedly kind. At least... for an assassin. I have one more gift... if he makes it through this torture.
Morphing his hand into a claw, something he's relearned and almost perfected over the last few weeks, taught personally by Zeno, Auren adds additional Aura to sharpen his nails, using Shu, which he can now do without even thinking about it.
He then carefully grabs onto Milluki's stomach, making sure to study where the fat starts and where the organs begin.
I only have a limited amount of Aura... and I need to leave some for Heavy Rain. No need to fully reconstruct new organs... I can simply repair the old ones; that takes less Aura.
Then, he ruthlessly cuts off a huge chunk of flesh, a giant flab of meat plopping onto the ground, blood and fat dripping from it as a squishy fish dropped onto land.
Immediately, Milluki's body spasms in pain as a terrified, muffled sound escapes his gagged mouth, fully conveying his extreme, unfiltered agony.
Using a touch of Azure Restoration, Auren simply numbs the pain, but does not quite heal the injuries yet.
"Sorry... this is just the start..." Auren says, shrugging. "It will all be worth it... just hold on."
Step by step, Auren cuts fat from Milluki's body. Not just from his stomach, but from his legs, especially his thighs, his back, his sides, his arms, hands, face, shoulders, and even his ass, which Auren does not touch directly but simply cuts down to size with his Claw. He then squeezes his body, with copious amounts of blood, meat, muscles, and fat falling onto the ground, almost like squeezing juice out of a fruit, every once in a while using Azure Restoration to keep him alive.
Fainting, then waking up again from a fresh cut, Milluki experiences pain and agony that even Auren can respect.
This will toughen you up. Maybe you'll learn something. It's a little punishment for what you did to Killua in the past. You never experienced pain like that yourself, right?
Finally, with his body completely torn and cut apart, bleeding all over, a majority of his skin cut away, and a disgusting smell hanging around him as beneath his feet lie not only flesh, skin, blood, and fat, but also piss, Auren finally gets serious.
Using Azure Restoration, Auren carefully restores his body, his Hatsu of course not simply recreating Milluki's old obese body, but instead creating perfect, brand-new body parts, with his DNA providing the key and blueprints for them. Auren, however, noticeably does not restore his legs yet.
Experiencing real relief, Milluki looks like he has entered heaven as Auren's Hatsu 'revives' him and finally soothes his pain.
Too bad... my experiment is not quite over.
Having purposely left out his legs, Auren uses his claws to cut and rip out his leg bones one by one, until his legs are almost completely gone, with just a bit of flesh and some muscle remaining.
Using Azure Restoration again, he carefully creates not only new skin and flesh, but also completely new bones, just a tad larger than the old ones, which were slightly affected by his weight and unhealthy habits, affecting his growth period to a certain extent.
Just a few centimeters; I guess I was wrong about increasing his height in any meaningful way. Well, it's something at least.
Also restoring every single organ affected by Milluki's obesity, and some of the other bones in his body, Auren does not hold back and really goes all out in order to 'help' Milluki.
Finally, after a couple of hours of Auren's experiments, his Aura is almost fully drained, Milluki is no longer conscious, and bubbles of foam are forming around his mouth.
I need to save some Aura to keep up Heavy Rain... but this should... be about it.
Finally, Auren no longer needs to use up any more of his Aura, as he sees a completely different-looking, slim, even athletic young man, almost as tall as Auren himself, in front of him. His skin is almost snow-white, resembling that of a Vampire, having never experienced the sun even once.
His skin is not only fair and without blemishes, as if he were reborn, but his weight can only be described as "normal," making it absurd to call him fat.
Slapping his completely white cheeks to wake him up, Milluki suddenly opens his eyes.
"I slept so well..." he says, yawning. "Huh? Where am I?"
"We are finished. Did I promise too much? Probably hurt like a bitch," Auren guesses, grinning.
"... It wasn't a dream?" Milluki says, looking down at his body and the ground, which are covered by a tremendous amount of blood, fat, skin, and bones, resembling a second-rate horror movie. Upon remembering what happened, his face grows even paler than it already is. "I... help! HELP! MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!"
"Calm down, idiot," Auren says, freeing him so he can move again. "I'm already done. Look in a damn mirror first before you panic over something that's already over.... You made it."
"Huh?" Milluki wonders as he walks a few steps. "This feels weird. I'm so light... and fast! Where is a mirror? I don't see one...."
"Auren..." Zeno says, genuinely looking disturbed. "Some things are just too unnatural. While I am... quite impressed and incredibly grateful, I can't help but call into question your human morals. Are you even human?"
"That's stupid, Dad," Silva says, gesturing towards the confused Milluki, trying to figure out his new body and grabbing a few of his torn-apart clothes to cover his private parts. "It was... a beautiful and perfect technique. I've never seen something this impressive before. Just look at him. Most importantly, it also taught my formerly fat son a valuable lesson." He then raises his voice, "Milluki. If you gain weight ever again... you'll know what awaits you... and next time he won't be kind like this time, but will really let you suffer."
Growing even paler, his skin almost translucent, Milluki nods enthusiastically. "I know! I know! I'll never eat again! I swear! I'll even train!"
"He got the body for it now," Auren reasons. "At least what his body would have been if he cared about himself. Might want to teach him for real. Even learning proper Nen... is now possible. In fact, haven't you noticed yet?"
Both Zeno's and Silva's eyes suddenly glow with Aura as they immediately use Gyo.
"He... awakened?! He opened his Aura Nodes?!" Zeno asks, astounded by the change. "A forceful awakening? But he already has his Aura under control.
"He is definitely using Ten," Silva points out. "How did you do it?"
"How what?" Milluki asks, not realizing what is happening.
"It's a reaction of his body. I had a couple of hours to teach it, after all. Even if Milluki has no clue, he won't ever forget Ten, though teaching him like that definitely hurts his training speed if he ever becomes serious about learning Nen. This crutch would waste more time than it saves in the long run. But for someone with a formerly below-average physique... he'd have needed years to even get to a point where he could think about learning Nen, so I took the liberty of going down this path. I believe you can teach him the rest, right?"
Auren then uses Limitless Water to clean Milluki violently, dousing him in watery Aura and washing away the remaining filth from his 'reborn' body.
"Let's go," Auren says, the three Zoldycks still completely surprised by the sudden change.
Walking out of the chamber and all the way into the living room, Kikyo can't help but immediately scream in pure excitement, screeching like a five-year-old girl as she sees her almost naked son. "KYAAAAAAAAA! Milluki?! My Milluki?! You look so handsome!"
Touching her son with affection, which she seemingly hasn't done in many years, Kikyo leaves Milluki unable to comprehend what is happening.
Having heard the scream, Illumi appears again, even his poker face crumbling as he sees his formerly obese brother.
"This is... against nature," he states, looking somewhat dissatisfied with the changes in his brother.
Kalluto, holding onto his mom's dress, also looks completely baffled, but instead of staring at Milluki, he is looking at Auren.
"Well... consider that a goodbye present for being such generous hosts... and an apology for wrecking your estate," Auren says, rubbing his head. "I'm tired, and I'll head to bed now."
Nodding, unable to find the right words, the Zoldycks watch him walk away, only for Auren to suddenly hear Milluki scream in shock.
"I'm fucking handsome! Vanni, I'll have you model for meeee— Ouch! Don't hit me, please!"
"Still the same..." Zeno mutters, his disappointment returning rather swiftly.
Experiment successful... with that... we'll get some sleep and then leave.
There is no time to waste!
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