"Sorry to bother you."
Botobai politely excused himself and left.
Luke watched as Botobai walked away.
At this moment, Botobai's back exuded a sense of desolation.
"This is the feeling of helplessness..."
Luke sighed softly at Botobai's retreating figure.
Botobai had evidently realized the problem and who the real culprit could be.
But if it were indeed V5... He was powerless and could do nothing.
After all, the Hunter Association was founded by V5.
And for professional hunters within the association, taking investigative action against V5 would be tantamount to defying the heavens.
Realizing this, Botobai left decisively, knowing that investigating in this direction would be tantamount to ending it altogether.
"But as for me, such a matter cannot just end here."
Luke's fingers lightly tapped on his desk.
"Thinking that you can have the Phantom Troupe take the blame for you, that's a bit too presumptuous, isn't it?"
"Do you really think that if you just impose your crimes on the Phantom Troupe, no one will come to investigate?"
We accept anything you leave here, but don't try to take anything from us; this phrase was not said in vain.
The word, anything, here also represents innocence.
Although the Phantom Troupe is already essentially a group of black-hearted crows, not every black mark should be dumped on them.
"Unfortunately, the Kurta Clan, in the end, could not escape such a fate."
If there was any slight regret, it was that the Kurta Clan ended up this way.
Moreover, the culprits responsible for this entire massacre, from the clan elders to Kurapika and Pairo, each bore undeniable responsibility.
Twelve-year-old Kurapika, who had never seen the outside world, was full of curiosity and often wanted to explore it.
Another reason for wanting to leave the village was Pairo's sick eyes and leg.
Kurapika wanted to find a treatment for his friend outside the village.
Especially after saving Sheila and reading the book she gave him, Kurapika's desire to see the outside world grew even stronger.
The clan elder was helpless at Kurapika's insistence and eventually decided to let him take a test.
Kurapika passed the universal language test for the outside world with a perfect score.
Then came the second test, the village excursion test, designed to ensure the eyes did not turn scarlet.
After Kurapika and Pairo passed this test, Kurapika earned the right to leave the village permanently.
However… there was actually a problem in the village excursion portion of the second test.
The elder of the clan hired two outside thugs to deliberately bully and provoke Kurapika and Pairo.
Kurapika could endure it initially.
But when the thugs targeted Pairo and even harmed his sick leg, his anger surged uncontrollably, and his eyes turned scarlet.
This display revealed the change in his eyes to the surrounding villagers.
At that moment, his identity was exposed.
Later, when Kurapika subdued the two thugs, he learned from them that they had not come to provoke him on their own; they had been hired by the clan elder to test them.
Thus, Kurapika realized he had failed the second test.
Originally, he intended to return and accept the clan elder's punishment.
But on the way back, his friend Pairo gave him a potion to reverse the change in the color of his eyes.
Kurapika, desperate to pass the test and see the outside world, could not resist the temptation.
He applied the potion to his eyes and returned to the clan location, thereby passing the elder's test and gaining the permanent right to leave.
Then... Six months later, the entire Kurta Clan was slaughtered, leaving only Kurapika alive.
To avenge the 128 members of his clan and recover all the Scarlet Eyes, Kurapika resolutely embarked on a path of revenge.
As for clues, there was only the single phrase seemingly left by the Phantom Troupe.
It could be said that in the Kurta Clan's massacre, all three, Kurapika, Pairo, and the clan elder, bore unavoidable responsibility.
If Kurapika had resisted the temptation to leave and reported truthfully to the elder, this outcome could have been avoided.
If the elder had known about the eye transformation, he would have implemented precautionary measures, leading the clan members away from the exposed location.
As for the elder himself, hiring the two thugs to intentionally increase the test's difficulty was a reckless act.
Even if the test could have been assessed safely, he failed to follow up on the actual events and results.
He simply observed Kurapika's return, which was utterly unconvincing and clearly a careless act.
It was treating the lives of the entire clan as a joke!
And Pairo, giving Kurapika the eye drop, acted solely for Kurapika's opportunity to leave, disregarding the safety of the entire clan and even endangering himself, ultimately losing his life.
All three paid the price for their failures.
The clan elder lost the clan, Pairo lost his life, and Kurapika remained alone, living daily in vengeance.
"So, when it comes to matters of life, you can never rely on luck; you absolutely cannot be careless."
Luke thought, shaking his head inwardly.
"This phrase also goes to those V5 executives who pinned the blame for the Kurta Clan massacre on the Phantom Troupe."
Luke's eyes glittered: "Since you dared do a little, don't blame me for doing much more..."
Yes, dealing with those high-ranking, idle, long-entrenched officials, Luke had his own methods.
Assassination would be the quickest and simplest approach, but also the most brutal, with lasting repercussions.
For those high-ranking officials, having reached such positions, they naturally valued their lives greatly.
Preserving one's life prolongs one's tenure and power.
Therefore, directly assassinating them would likely trigger strong resistance and opposition from all members of the V5.
Even the originally uncooperative members of the V5 would unite when personal safety is threatened, choosing to eliminate any potential threat.
No doubt, they would act decisively to crush these threats.
So, for such people, the most agonizing way to punish them is…
"To strip them of everything they hold."
Luke's gaze calmly swept over the desk, where the House Robot had categorized and summarized the accumulated black marks and criminal evidence of the current V5 officials.
Each item could seriously impact their political careers and futures, even possibly removing them from office entirely.
"Find a hidden, undetectable way to send these materials to their rivals."
Luke casually arranged their fate.
The best way to deal with them didn't require Luke's personal action.
Those on the political path have always had rivals disagreeing with them.