Chapter 27: A Match Without the Person Themselves

The third exam might be short, so it isn't particularly meaningful, but it is a chat session.

Halftime: A match without the person themselves.

A few hours ago, I was trapped in a small room filled with books, a water dispenser, pots and pans, and even an old sofa.

"Ah. If it were Sora instead of an old man, I wouldn't be trapped in a place like this."

Tonpa defiantly ignored Killua's mutterings for the umpteenth time, but Leorio twisted his face as if to say, "Is that old man really me?" Because he knew he was the biggest war criminal for stopping time, he apologized loudly, "Ah, yes! Sorry!"

Faced with their never-ending repetitive exchange, Gon gave a wry smile, and Kurapika was dumbfounded.

"But I really wish Sora were here. I haven't talked to Sora much yet, so if I had time like this, it would be a good opportunity to talk to him."

Gon gave a wry smile, looked up at the ceiling, and said these words.

Rather than blaming his own mistakes on Leorio, it was more of an opportunity, but his purity was precious; yet in Leorio's eyes, this was more painful than being scolded.

"First of all, if Sora were here, wouldn't this situation not have happened?"

As for Killua, if Sora replaced Tonpa, he believed Sora could immediately defeat the opponent he had given up on, so he meant that he had already won three matches in a row, but Gon had a different meaning. I accepted it and gave a wry smile again.

"Ah. In front of a woman, Leorio really wouldn't choose 'man' for that bet."

"If it were me choosing, I would kill Leorio on the spot."

Faced with Gon's words, Kurapika said with a serious face. Then he continued: "Or rather, Leorio. Even if you see Sora again, don't talk to her. Don't get within a five-meter radius."

"Even if you don't tell me, I don't want a woman among my friends! Or rather, what is 5 meters, 5 meters!!"

Although Kurapika's serious statement made him shudder, Leorio protested against the seemingly unreasonable order, while Kurapika had a bit of a headache over Sora's image, which was also severely misunderstood.

"... I only found out last night, but Sora isn't as good at dirty jokes and dirty talk as you imagine."

"On the contrary, this kind of reverse harassment is the result of me being too weak and walking diagonally upward to avoid it. Rather than being saddened by others, it's more like self-defense and self-destruction, so I hurry to end the topic."

"............ You're too much."

For Sora, this was a side he didn't want others to know and wanted to hide, but Kurapika thought it would be bad if it were hidden because the misunderstanding would expand. He didn't pay attention.

"Why did you go in that direction?" Gon tilted his head, really strange, and Kurapika thought about how far to go.

"She was born and raised in a special family like Killua's. In the family environment or family business, most things were corrected, but there was no opportunity to correct such sensitive topics, and as a result, it seems it continued to twist in a strange direction."

"I will keep the details confidential. If you are curious about this, it might be okay to ask him directly, because he doesn't care about anything.... Once you understand her house, you will find that Sora grew up miraculously."

"What kind of house!?"

For the time being, I only taught him the basics, and when I spoke my honest opinion, Gon just blurted out some rude words.

It was rude, but Kurapika didn't get involved because he understood that feeling. Even Kurapika couldn't imagine that if he hadn't heard it himself, that strange-looking woman could miraculously come from a decent-looking house.

"Well, no matter how you look at it, his house is crazier than mine. To be honest, when I heard about this, I was really shocked."

"Killua, how much do you draw!?"

As if answering Gon's question, Kurapika's words made Killua glance over, and when he agreed, not only Gon but even Leorio was shocked.

The two looked at Kurapika expecting a negative word, "No, it's not just the assassin clan...", but Kurapika just answered with an indifferent look.

"... Ah, of course. Even as the child of her heir, she is nothing more than a 'succession machine that inherited research passed down through generations'."

With Kurapika's words, even Tonpa was speechless, except for Killua, who had already talked to Sora a few times, so Kurapika didn't say anything.

The value that one's child is nothing more than an heir is not unique to Sora's family, but the natural and basic value of the "Magician" in Sora's world. I didn't have it.

"Seriously, what kind of house is this..."

"Think about it, is there any difference between Kurapika's and Sora's eyes other than color?"

Leorio was still terrified by Sora's overly special house. Unlike Leorio, Gon quickly turned from a topic that made him feel sick to a simple question.

However, since this question was nothing but "about Sora," Kurapika said puzzledly: "First of all, other than the 'color change,' what do you and her eyes have in common?" I answered. I tilted my head in confusion.

"Hmm? That's right. Just like Kurapika, my face turns blue when I'm angry, so I thought we were the same tribe, just different colors."

Hearing this, Killua, who was as curious as Kurapika, agreed.

Of course, if you look at Kurapika's battle with the jailer a few hours ago, and Sora's confrontation with Hisoka in the first test, their eyes seem to be "the same except for the color."

However, Leorio and Tonpa said: "Well, he also changes the color of his eyes."

Aside from Tonpa, Gon and Kurapika rushed in, thinking that Leorio would have seen it during the first exam, and remembered that Hisoka's fist had blown away the memory of that time.

"It will change, as the name suggests, Sora will turn into a beautiful sky blue!" Gon's eyes sparkled, as if he were reporting to his parents about the rainbow and snowflake he saw for the first time, perhaps he had started to forget that he was about to be killed.

Kurapika smiled vaguely and answered that he didn't know if the bowl was a big bowl or a broken child.

"Her eyes and mine are really two different things."

"Sora's eyes also change with emotions, but the emotion doesn't have much to do with the change condition itself. It seems that the more you look at it with your eyes, the brighter it becomes. The reason it changes color due to anger is probably because you are glaring at the other person in anger, and you can't help but feel power in your eyes."

"They say it's harder to hide the color change than it is to hide it in my eyes. Wearing colored contact lenses is meaningless."

Kurapika's "colored contact lenses are meaningless," Gon asked, "Why?"

Only Killua, when putting in contact lenses, would see the 'lines' and 'dots' of the contact points in his own field of vision and think of it as an obstacle, and was a bit jealous of Kurapika, who had heard about Sora's "Deadly Evil Eye."

"I see. Sora's eyes are as beautiful as Kurapika's, so I thought they were from the same family."

"It's a pity, we are not only from the same clan, but Sora's eyes are also acquired later, so even if I and the Kurta are a clan whose eyes turn blue like the Kurta, it wouldn't have anything to do with Sora. Sora and I are acquaintances. It's just a coincidence."

Kurapika gave a wry smile at Gon's constant misunderstandings, but he seemed a little happy.

Sora told Killua about the "Deadly Evil Eye," but he didn't hear that it was acquired. The only thing I was told was to imagine and capture "death," and I thought it was something I was born with.

Since it was about her, I knew very well that the reason I didn't say it was because "it's meaningless to say it" and "I forgot," but even so, I was still jealous of Kurapika, who knew? Sora did better than me, which is frustrating.

"... Think about it, how did Killua meet Sora?"

Perhaps sensing that Killua was in a bad mood, Leorio, who could read the air when calm, changed the subject.

Killua realized what he was saying. I had a topic that I thought I could beat Kurapika a little bit.

"... For me, it was also a coincidence. We happened to be on the airship together for the Hunter Exam, and all sorts of things happened there. But he is an interesting person, so I came with him."

"... However, even if I hadn't taken the exam, maybe I would have met him someday."

A chance encounter. This is the same as with Kurapika.

However, even if Killua missed this opportunity, he would definitely meet Sora.

"What does that mean?"

The "I don't like this" vaguely revealed in Kurapika's voice and expression as he asked was not Killua's imagination.

Killua said with a sense of superiority.

"That guy seems to be a candidate for my wife."

"... Teeth?"

Tonpa also widened his eyes, and the four of them spoke in unison.

Just as he understood what he was saying, he was the first to speak.

"Eh? Sora is Killua's fiancée?"

"Impossible! First of all, I am not anyone's fiancée! My father likes her, he just wants her to be his son's wife!!"

Killua blushed and denied Gon's "fiancée" remark.

Because of the competition with Kurapika, he seemed not to quite understand what he was saying.

After Killua finished speaking, what did Kurapika, who had just said "Huh?", do?

Just as Leorio said, at first I was shocked by the "Killua's fiancée?" part.

I thought Sora would never participate in work like assassination, but she did not deny the murder itself. I couldn't stop imagining it.

"I don't know the specific situation either, but at first they seemed to be hostile at work, so I guess you like the fact that you survived by escaping from your brother and father?"

However, that unpleasant imagination was easily denied by Killua, and he breathed a sigh of relief again.

"Don't you know Killua very well? Or rather, until you met Sora on the airship, did you not know that Sora was that kind of person?"

"I didn't know until I got to the exam site, you know?

Even if it's called marriage, my brother and I have too big an age gap, I was almost treated as a marriage for my brother, finding a little story from my dad about wanting to marry my brother and sister-in-law and my mom. I didn't even know his face and name, because when I asked about him, he was at a level where he didn't even notice because I didn't use his surname.

When Gon understood the basic situation and asked, Killua replied with a slightly uninterested look on his face.

Indeed, I don't want to marry Sora, but I am very dissatisfied that I cannot be a candidate because they are older than me.

For some reason, I wanted to shout: "I am stronger than those two!"

"By the way, what kind of person is Killua's brother? Do you think you can get along with Sora?"

Gon did not notice that Killua was not "having fun," but asked him so naively that he seemed to have forgotten that all of Killua's family were Assassins.

Killua's venom was dispelled, and he replied with a weak face.

"Not really getting along, you seem to say 'Hello, die' every time you see Sora?"

"Hello die!?"

After being told that this was not a matter of getting along, everyone sang in unison. It was a meaningless line, but I don't like it because I know what happened.

"What on earth is he doing... ah, probably the same as usual."

"... Why don't I know who Killua's younger brother is?"

Leorio was confused by Killua's answer and raised a question, but he answered himself before he could finish saying it.

As for Kurapika, he struck an OTL pose and was depressed to the extreme on the spot, but Killua, who said this, only realized something was wrong when he tried to state his own answer.

"Yeah, maybe he didn't look at the situation like usual and said something stupid to his brother, but... think about it, why would you kill him?

For better or worse, he is in his own rhythm and doesn't care what others say at all. With your eldest brother's personality, I don't think you would chase him to kill you.

What did he actually do?"

Killua tilted his head, looking puzzled, but since the killing intent had reached the point of a "piercing needle," what was the difference between chasing and not chasing? I don't know if there is.

"I mean, why would you get along with a woman your son hates so much?"

Just as Leorio stepped back, he asked another fundamental question.

"Yeah. I have five brothers, and two older brothers. I'm talking about the eldest son, the second son seems to have a good relationship with him... However, he didn't start with Sora. It seems he thought he was a man and got along well, so he said, 'That's not a real wife.'"

When you hear this from your brother, what kind of woman are you? I thought, but I am sure I will meet you. At first, I thought you were a man."

Apparently, he misunderstood his brother alone, so when Killua corrected him, Gon was as naive and pure as ever.

"Ah, I have a good relationship with my other brother. Then, I hope my brother and Sora get along well!"

As for Gon, Killua likes Sora, and they get along like real siblings, so it would be good if they could really become siblings on the family register.

However, Killua hates being a "sister-in-law," that is, a "brother-in-law," because he really hopes Sora is his older sister, or Sora is his real family. I can't imagine how Gon feels as an only child.

Killua immediately shouted at his pure kindness.

"I'd rather marry him than marry him!"

There was silence in the room for a few seconds.

It took Killua, who said this, so long to fully understand what he had said.

And the moment he understood, Killua's face turned red.

"!?"

"However, my brother is fat, nerdy, and reclusive, it's a pity to marry him!!"

Killua blushed, hesitated for a moment, and excused himself.

I know that if I say it, I will be misunderstood and teased, so I try not to say it, but Gon doesn't mean anything, let's make up for it.

To be honest, it is better to treat Sora as the eldest brother's daughter-in-law.

He is the most balanced in age, and he is so ruthless and inorganic that I always doubt whether he is a living person, even if he is my brother, but I am angry that he is at least better than Killua at this stage, but I admit it. There is.

Most importantly, my brother will kill me when he meets him, and Sora will naturally be afraid and not get involved, so I think it is unlikely, so even if he says, "I don't like it" at most. I just didn't expect it.

However, the second eldest brother is completely different.

Compared to the eldest brother, he might just be indifferent, but he wouldn't push himself too hard; if you just ask for his opinion, he will listen to you. If Sora were to be the wife's brother of his eldest brother, dissolute to the point of becoming fat and staying at home without working, and physically weak enough to be stabbed by his own self, Killua wondered why he couldn't do that. Leorio's pride erupted, but just as Killua had expected, Leorio grinned, and even Gon appeared unusually kind, insisting: "Yeah, I understand Killua. I understand."

Killua didn't understand anything at all and thought he had misunderstood the big picture, so Killua shouted: "That's why you're wrong!"

"Don't worry, Killua."

"One?"

Kurapika called out to Killua softly, and Killua was so embarrassed he was about to fly into a rage, shouting incoherent excuses.

Killua blushed, turned around and glared at Kurapika, but with a rare, brilliant smile, he said clearly.

"First of all, Sora has no wife in the Zoldyck family, so this worry is groundless."

Her appearance was very gorgeous, and her expression was a smile, but her eyes were not smiling at all.

Of course, Killua did not take his words literally.

Just as Kurapika thought, he took it as a declaration of war and said, "I won't do Sora to you and your family," then answered with a laugh.

"... Hahaha, this is a groundless worry. It's more likely that the sky will fall, so I can't rest easy. Even if Sora isn't interested in my brothers, I still have brothers, including myself."

"As expected of the Third Young Master, at your age, Sora is impossible."

"That is correct."

Leorio played dumb, wanting to lie down and sleep on the spot, but was provoked by Gon's own words.

As a result, the following words came out.

"Hm? Hmm... do Killua and Kurapika both want to marry Sora?"

""That's not true!!""

Gon's frank question and the exquisite unison of Killua and Kurapika caused Leorio's abdominal muscles to fall into a slumber.

Ignoring Leorio, who was laughing so loudly he could barely breathe, Killua and Kurapika didn't know where the Ken they had been fighting with just now had gone. "No!", but in Gon's view, the two's statements were just them not confessing in his absence, and they would eventually become even more confused.

"Cough, cough, cough... Gon, if it's like this, just ask, okay?"

"Tonpa! You!!"

"Shut your mouth!!"

Tonpa also clutched his stomach and offered a Suggestion to Gon amidst his laughter.

Unlike the simple Leorio and the overly simple Gon, the two had no chance to take advantage, and I stopped him, but it was too late.

Gon had a puzzled look on his face; although he had completely understood what kind of person Tonpa was, he still simply accepted the Suggestion and executed it.

"Hm? The other way around? Uh... don't you two want to marry Sora?"

""......................""

They said nothing, neither confirming nor denying, just looking at Gon.

Although he said nothing, his silence was so eloquent that it made Gon say in surprise.

"As expected, you both love Sora too much and don't want to give him to anyone."

Killua and Kurapika's faces flushed bright red, but the loud laughter of Leorio and Tonpa echoed in the small room.

Of course, after this, the two of them were also beaten up.