Ten thousand voices in Luo Ning's heart were constantly telling him that this was impossible!
But the corpse was so real.
It lay there quietly, blood still trickling from it—likely the result of internal organ rupture caused by a fall from a great height.
Luo Ning pushed aside the police line and walked toward the body step by step.
The nearby police officers immediately noticed the anomaly. When they tried to step forward to stop him, they were overcome with looks of terror before they could even get close.
A powerful killing intent, accompanied by Luo Ning's erupting Nen, spread wantonly in all directions.
It was unreserved malice.
Although he had only been with Kurapika for a few months, he truly regarded Kurapika as his younger brother.
He could feel Kurapika's reliance on him, and he could sense everything Kurapika had done for him during the development of his abilities.
Kurapika had given of himself sincerely.
He truly treated Luo Ning as his final clansman, his last partner, and his last family!
But now.
Luo Ning, the person closest to Kurapika, had failed to protect him, letting him die right before his eyes.
At this moment, a thought even surfaced in Luo Ning's mind: if he hadn't appeared, Kurapika clearly would have lived a better life!
At the very least, he wouldn't have died now.
Luo Ning performed the Palm Jutsu, pressing his hand against Kurapika's body, constantly trying to bring the corpse back to life.
But it was no use.
When his chakra invaded Kurapika's body, Luo Ning knew he was already dead.
And seeing Kurapika's missing eyes, Luo Ning was even more certain of who had killed him.
The Phantom Troupe!
It had to be them!
As if sensing something, Luo Ning suddenly looked up. At that exact moment, someone was falling toward him from high in the sky.
Stirring battle music echoed throughout the sky as the figure descended.
A massive Jupiter formed in the air, but it was met by a grim, red skeletal hand!
The eyes Luo Ning raised had, at some point, lost the concealment of his contact lenses. The tails of the tomoe in his Sharingan began to stretch, and the tomoe themselves expanded and merged to form a pitch-black circle.
Those new eyes felt like an abyss. Three orbs were released from the central pupil, and on the tails connecting the orbs to the center, there were numerous protrusions.
Those protrusions looked like individual people standing upon the tails of the tomoe!
And now, outside of Luo Ning's body, there existed a crimson arm and ribs wrapped in chakra!
It was the ultimate ocular jutsu of the Mangekyō Sharingan: Susanoo!
The giant arm instantly braced against the falling Jupiter, and violent power exploded between the two colliding forces.
A thunderous boom shattered all nearby glass. The ground cracked inch by inch, and nearby cars and people were sent flying by the impact.
But Luo Ning, protected within Susanoo, merely stared at the Jupiter above. Energy surged in his eyes, and black flames manifested upon the Jupiter!
The falling Bonolenov stepped onto the Jupiter.
But before he could add more weight to the sphere, the pitch-black flames spread across it, scorching toward him.
Bonolenov felt a chill in his heart; his intuition told him that the black flames were not to be trifled with.
But at that moment, three fire dragons suddenly burst out from the hotel above his head, lunging straight for him.
It was the shadow clone that had entered the hotel ahead of Luo Ning's main body!
The shadow clone hadn't reached the 18th floor; instead, it had stayed on the 15th floor, releasing a Fire Style jutsu to crash through the hotel windows and launch a surprise attack on Bonolenov.
However, as the fire dragons appeared, a large number of tables flew out from the shattered windows on the 18th floor, smashing down toward the dragons.
Furthermore, countless Nen bullets poured toward Luo Ning—who was encased in Susanoo—as a tall figure appeared below.
Appearing on the 18th floor were the figures of Kortopi, Chrollo, and Pakunoda.
Appearing below were Franklin and Isley.
Franklin unleashed a barrage of fire at the "suppressed" Luo Ning, while Isley circled around to Luo Ning's back, raising his revolver and pulling the trigger.
Large-caliber bullets streaked from the muzzle of his revolver, exploding the moment they drew near Luo Ning!
The booming Nen bullets also completely covered Luo Ning, and dust billowed from the explosions.
Above, Chrollo held [BANDIT'S SECRET]. As the pages flipped and stopped, a toy airplane appeared in his other hand.
Conjuration ability: [SUPER FORTRESS]!
The toy plane took to the sky, its bottom hatch opening to release a round bomb that flew precisely toward the 15th floor.
Boom!
The explosion occurred on the 15th floor just as the fire dragons drew close to Bonolenov.
A small mushroom cloud rose from the 15th-floor window. Below, Luo Ning felt a sudden surge of chakra within him, signifying that the shadow clone performing the Fire Style had been destroyed!
As for the attacks covering him, they failed to affect him at all while he was protected by Susanoo.
As the ultimate ocular jutsu of the Uchiha clan, even in its initial stage, Susanoo's defense was peerless.
The skeletal arm wrapped in red light suddenly exerted force, and the Jupiter covered in pitch-black flames shattered in mid-air.
Amidst the splashing flames, Luo Ning's Sharingan clearly captured Bonolenov's figure.
His ocular jutsu erupted again. Flames were born where Bonolenov was about to land, spreading across a wide area.
Bonolenov, whose body emitted a pleasant sound from his wind holes as he moved, wore a conjured battle suit and held a conjured double-headed spear.
The spear left his hand and pierced the ground. Bonolenov, his face hidden by a mask, balanced on one foot atop the butt of the spear.
Directly beneath his perch was a small sea of Amaterasu's black fire!
The flames scorched the spear, and in an instant, the weapon showed signs of melting. A stray spark of black fire even caught the corner of Bonolenov's fluttering clothes!
The fire spread from the hem, threatening to burn Bonolenov's body in an instant.
Just then, the tables falling from the sky crashed through the fire dragons that were dissipating following the clone's destruction.
With series of thuds, the tables struck Susanoo.
But Luo Ning didn't even care about the tables. What truly concerned him was the toy airplane above, which was reopening its bottom hatch!
He sensed danger from that plane, especially as he noticed that the landing Bonolenov wasn't charging at him, but was instead jumping away toward Franklin's position.
However, Luo Ning also noticed that the black fire was already showing signs of spreading across Bonolenov's entire body!
'Feel the power of Amaterasu! You piece of trash!'
Luo Ning withdrew his gaze, glancing at the melting marks on the 15th-floor window caused by the bomb. His heart stirred, and he formed hand seals with both hands simultaneously.
'A conjured airplane combined with high-temperature Transmutation explosions.'
While judging Chrollo's held abilities, the chakra in Luo Ning's body surged frantically toward his mouth. In the next second, the ninjutsu was unleashed. A massive volume of water spewed from Luo Ning's mouth, and in an instant, the entire area within dozens of meters—including the Adan Hotel—was encased in a "water prison"!
Water Style: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave!
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