Saiki Kusuke narrowed his eyes slightly: "Then, try hard to get me back to normal, before that I won't help you activate it, the ability stopper."
White Saiki Kusuo closed his eyes.
He had more than three years of experience controlling abilities like this, and he was sure that what turned Kusuke into a child was not the ability to turn things back, but a kind of shape change done to another person. This could actually be done.
Turning back into an adult directly seems impossible, are there other ways? Wait, Kusuke likes cats so much, what if I turned him into a cat...
"What are you thinking about? You look like you want to turn me into a cat. I like being a person in charge of cats." Saiki Kusuke pulled the chain in his hand, making White Saiki Kusuo look up.
"Sometimes I want to treat you like a younger brother, at least a person with powers. I should like you more than monkeys. But Kusuo is really a thousand, ten thousand times cuter. If it were Kusuo, he would work very hard to make sure his powers didn't affect other people, and even if they did, he would feel guilty and worry about everyone affected."
"So cute, my dear brother. People with powers should really be Kusuo. If Kusuo's powers don't come back naturally... how about I take you apart?" Little Kusuke picked up a wrench and waved it over White Saiki Kusuo's head.
White Saiki Kusuo was slightly stunned, then suddenly looked nervous, with surprise still in his eyes.
"What's wrong, you look like you've seen a scary scene?"
White Saiki Kusuo's reply was to raise his hand and easily snap the chain connecting them.
Saiki Kusuke: ?!
The next moment, White Saiki Kusuo had disappeared from the spot.
Yes, he saw it coming.
His figure appeared in the sky above the arena, then crashed into the wall of the arena.
His fall easily made a hole in the wall, and the bricks fell down hitting the ground, right into the Number 0 area where Saiki Kusuo and the others were.
Around the edge of the area, a golden "circle" had been formed, and the chess piece had just landed last, a perfect win against Chrollo.
The crowd's eyes had just left the chessboard when they noticed the circle, and Saiki Kusuo had just learned from everyone's attention that something unusual had happened in the area.
Before Saiki Kusuo had a chance to investigate, another movement from the roof caught everyone's attention.
Not being able to see is still a bit of a problem. What on earth is happening?
White Saiki Kusuo, who couldn't freely control his teleport, was still falling freely, using his mind power to hold up the falling pieces of the wall, giving the people below a chance to escape.
More important than that was the circle at his feet, the circle that marked off the entire Number 0 area.
A power like space came from the bottom of the circle, a kind of ability that had never been felt before...
Teleport? Probably, but where would a teleport that needs to charge up take people?
White Saiki Kusuo fell straight to the ground; he didn't know where it would lead. He only knew that in his prediction, the original Saiki Kusuo would disappear from this world.
If the original Saiki Kusuo hadn't gotten his powers back yet, this ability could only be the result of his own subconscious.
Was he really that bad, did he have a thought in his dark heart to make the original Saiki Kusuo disappear...
Really?
"Boom!"
White Saiki Kusuo landed, and the Number 0 area beneath his feet instantly exploded into countless stones! The arena shook like an earthquake, bricks and tiles fell down, cracks spread, and the ground quickly collapsed!
However, everything was stopped before it was completely destroyed, and then, a slow recovery began.
The power of recovery was seen by everyone, and countless eyes focused on the white-haired person in the center of Number 0 area.
"Who is that person in the area? He looks so unfamiliar..."
"How can it be? That's... white-haired Kusuo! How can he exist?"
"Who is this amazing person, and why have I never heard of him..."
White Saiki Kusuo looked gloomy, touching the ground with his bare hands as if there was something there.
"What is he doing? He's not going to kill us all, is he?"
"Wait, what's wrong with the creatures in the judge's seat over there?"
Just a little bit, a little bit more and he could have grabbed the original Saiki Kusuo.
The judge in the air saw White Saiki Kusuo up close, and it became more emotional and moved, sending the clearest front-line situation to its kind, a high-definition video of White Saiki Kusuo!
[We, our king, our god is back!]
The other people in the area also disappeared. Where did the original Saiki Kusuo go?
"woooooooo!! Kami-sama!!"
"Kami! Kami!"
"God!"
The creatures in the judge's seat suddenly lost control and could no longer pretend. As soon as the first one had a bad thought, everyone with their minds linked together scrambled towards the White Saiki Kusuo in the center of the area.
——"Shut up, you...!"
White Saiki Kusuo turned his head, and a mass of dark creatures was about to overwhelm him.
Hey, if I move even slightly now, you'll all disappear...
[White Saiki Kusuo is overwhelmed]
...
Saiki Kusuo felt a moment of falling.
Then he landed, as if the feeling of falling had never happened.
But then he noticed that there were many more people with heat around him.
Illumi and Chrollo were both beside him, watching the surroundings warily, when something wobbled and fell to the ground.
"Thump!"
[What was that sound?] Saiki Kusuo tilted his head towards the sound.
"Oh, it's nothing, Hisoka's statue fell over. Why did this thing come too?" Illumi said calmly.
Hisoka!!
[Protect the statue!]
"Huh? Why? It's just a statue." Illumi asked, confused.
Chrollo was carefully looking around. At this point, he hooked the arm of Hisoka's statue with his foot, kicked Hisoka up, and straightened him up with his hand.
[How is Hisoka, is he okay?] Saiki Kusuo asked nervously.
"It's okay, his arms and legs aren't broken."
[You only look at his arms and legs? What about his fingers, his nose!]
"Don't worry, this stone is pretty hard."
Illumi watched Shalnark and Chrollo's interaction: [Why is Shalnark so concerned about a statue? Could it be...]
Crap, it's a little strange to care too much about Hisoka's statue as a member of the Troupe.
[Could it be that this very realistic Hisoka is specifically made by them? The Troupe controlled Hisoka by some means, preventing him from participating in the competition, and used this statue to replace his identity, perfectly tricking him out of his points.]
It sounded logical, but making an exact replica of the statue was somewhat crazy.
Illumi wanted to investigate, and Saiki Kusuo thought about what could distract him.
"More important than this statue is another point, where are we?" Chrollo said. [Do you know?]
I can't see around me, how would I know where we are? With so many people, it's just some city in the world.
"Why are the words in these stores so strange? Hmm... not completely strange, there are some similarities. What's even stranger is that the people around here speak the same pronunciation as the Hunter language. Why?"
Saiki Kusuo: ...
No way, the words changed, but the sound didn't change much.
At this time, he noticed the unusual content of some of the voices around him, and that more and more people seemed to be gathering here.
Illumi and Chrollo noticed it too, of course.
The hesitant gazes of the people around them, the measuring looks, some people holding phones, some people clearly using their phones to report something.
Both of them had used touch-screen phones, and the ones in the hands of these people were also clearly touch-screen phones.
Illumi: [According to the selling price, only people with high status or the newly rich can afford this luxurious thing, but there are so many here?]
Chrollo: [Who are they contacting? Dark life form doesn't need to contact. Are these people from the rarely seen Kakin Kingdom? But I can't feel any danger or power in their bodies, are they just ordinary chess pieces?]
The voices of the crowd that Saiki Kusuo heard:
[Ah!!! Heaven! Earth!! How much good karma did I accumulate in my last life to see such a miracle!!!]
[Is that Danjiao! A live Danjiao, isn't it! It looks so much alike! I got up too fast and saw the real person walking out of the anime!!]
[Illumi, oh my God, Illumi, brother! Can I kneel, this brother is so majestic, can I kneel!!]
[Correct height!! Did these two grow to the height of brother and leader! The makeup is so good too, so natural! You put so much effort into it!!]
[Oh my God, that Hisoka, a Hisoka statue, what's going on? Did two perfectionists sculpt a statue exactly like Hisoka-dono because they couldn't find a cosplayer who could play Hisoka! So perfect! I can't do this, it's worth dying here today!]
[Forget about work, come over here quickly!! Even if Hisoka-dono is a statue, take a taxi and crawl here!!!]
...
Voices like these became more and more numerous, and closer and closer.
[Wait, who is that wearing a hat, a private Shalnark?]
Sorry, a private person with powers.
Saiki Kusuo had to face the truth. This world definitely knew about Hunter x Hunter.
Even if a power he didn't recognize appeared, it should be related to what he was thinking. He could assume that this shouldn't be another parallel world, but the place he was always thinking about coming back to, the place he was afraid he couldn't come back to because his power couldn't recover.
His original world.
If that was the case.
[I'll use a needle to control someone and find out some information.] Illumi raised the needle in his hand.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Saiki Kusuo almost rushed up and grabbed Illumi's hand!
"Snap."
A subtle sound of bone fracture, Illumi and Saiki Kusuo fell into silence.
Illumi: [Even with protection from mind power, it still fractured.]
Chrollo slowly took a step back, and even wanted to step back behind Hisoka.
Chrollo: [Hisoka is more likely to be the one with a million accidents...]
[Hey.]
"Why did you stop me? Shalnark." Illumi pressed down on his broken wrist bone, asking.
Normally, they would have started fighting at this time of course, but what kind of person was Illumi? He treated such a big thing like a bone fracture as if he had just scratched his hand, very calmly.
Saiki Kusuo put his hands behind his back, facing Illumi's questions. He thought of 825 explanations for a moment, but really, what kind of explanation could make him put down his wariness of the people around him after this? At least he absolutely couldn't use an operation like stabbing a needle into someone's brain. Ordinary people would definitely die.
"Illumi," Chrollo suddenly said, "Actually, this Hisoka is Hisoka himself."
What kind of way to change the subject.
Illumi turned his head in surprise: "Really?"
"Yeah, you think this is too real too, right? This is Hisoka, turned into stone."
"I see, no wonder you want to protect him. But why did Shalnark grab my wrist and break it?"
See, he got pulled back right away.
When he didn't know what to do, Saiki Kusuo noticed the sound behind him and turned his head.
"T-that! Brother!" A very enthusiastic person, clearly in an agitated state and with a body temperature that was redder than normal, said from behind.
Illumi heard the warm greeting of "Brother" and turned his head, but saw a monkey: [? Who is this?]
"Brother, I, can I have your autograph?"
Getting your autograph will kill you, stay away from me!
Saiki Kusuo stepped forward and blocked him.
While Illumi was still confused, Chrollo looked at Saiki Kusuo's strange behavior and guessed that Saiki Kusuo didn't want them to harm or touch these people.
Why did he want to protect these people? Because these people are ordinary people from the Kakin Kingdom? Was it because of the identity of the Kakin Kingdom, or the identity of ordinary people? Or, were these people just NPCs disguised as dark living things? That's not what he originally thought but now, these dark living creatures' obsession with humans has been completely exposed.
Since that's the case, Illumi should know as soon as possible.
Chrollo was tapping on the side, it was Morse code.
[Illumi, keep your distance, dark living things.]——What Chrollo was tapping.
[These people are dark living things, keep your distance and observe first. Shalnark is blocking us, there may be a rule prohibiting contact.]——Illumi understood it.
[Illumi, keep your distance... are you jealous? Ah!! So it's Head-Illu!!! How can this not work? How can the leader and troupe member not work? Ahhhhhh I'm shipping it so hard. This Head-Illu real!!!]——This was a Hunter fanatic who understood Morse code.
Saiki Kusuo spread his arms in front to block, this action was to block Illumi, those around him also understood the meaning of keeping their distance.
Everyone had great respect for people who did such realistic cosplays. Since the cosers didn't want them to get too close... they totally understood! They would of course shout outside the ""circle""!
"Leader! You're really so handsome!!" Someone shouted out their true thoughts.
The word "Leader" stunned Chrollo. He looked at the person again and couldn't recognize who they might be.
Which member of the troupe's transformation ability was it? It wasn't Bonolenov, right?
"Idiot! Crap! Didn't you see what brother and Shalnark were doing? What kind of interaction!" Someone next to him immediately scolded. [Although I don't understand it, every move is very handsome! You interrupted it!]
You don't need to criticize them so much for just saying something. Saiki Kusuo was sweating now.
The popularity of Hunter x Hunter in Japan doesn't need to be said. It's basically known by everyone.
More and more people gathered around. Those who weren't that enthusiastic watched from afar, and correspondingly, the true fanatics gathered around.