Then Roy gave all the Spiders a unified new look, and had every one of them wear masks that covered their faces.
Since they could no longer use the Phantom Troupe's old group name, Roy gave them a new team name as well.
All Villains!!!
The name was simple, direct, and perfectly suited to their identities.
From this point on, the Spiders became history, so Kurapika naturally received the closure he needed as well.
Using Kortopi's Nen ability, Roy created fake corpses for every member of the Troupe and successfully fooled Kurapika's eyes.
Kurapika then stayed alone in his room and prayed for a long time. When they met again, he already seemed far more at ease.
Clearly, he had let go of the knot in his heart. From then on, his next objective became finding all of his clansmen's eyes.
Later, while reporting the situation, Kurapika was once again pushed by everyone into the position of leader.
The Boss of the Nostrade Family also arrived in Yorknew City today, and he was extremely satisfied with Kurapika, whether in terms of strength or leadership.
For Kurapika, who did not want to kill and yet still wanted revenge, this was practically the best possible ending.
As for how the Troupe members' corpses were to be handled, Roy handed everything over to Android 18.
This was what he had promised her before. She handed several fake corpses, including Ilo's, over to the underground organizers, and successfully swindled—ptui, obtained through completely proper means—the sky-high price of a full 16 billion Jenny!
On top of that, the Underground Auction goods the Phantom Troupe had gotten from Owl, leader of the Shadow Beasts, also fell into Roy's hands.
And naturally, once something landed in his hands, there was no way he would return it to those mafia people. He used Kortopi's Nen ability to make copies of everything, then returned the replicas to the mafia together with the fake corpses.
Of course, given how filthy the mafia were, there was no way they were going to let 16 billion Jenny fall into someone else's hands for nothing.
So Ilo, after changing his appearance, staged another one-man rampage in Yorknew City.
Most of the mafia members were taken out almost to the last, and he ruthlessly harvested another huge batch of success points.
The Ten Dons, seated at the very top of the mafia world, naturally refused to let the matter rest. And so—
Aboard a luxurious airship, a silver-haired old man set down the phone in his hand and said to the tall, equally silver-haired man beside him, "The mission has changed, Silva. Originally, those ten old men wanted us to deal with the Phantom Troupe, but it seems the Phantom Troupe was wiped out by someone else. And recently, another strange fellow has appeared and caused havoc in Yorknew."
"So our target has become that strange fellow instead?" Silva Zoldyck said in a deep voice. "But to change an assassination target so casually—isn't that a bit too disrespectful to the Zoldyck family?"
"Mm, I think so too. So the deposit they paid for assassinating the Phantom Troupe will not be refunded. And for this new assassination mission, I raised my original asking price fivefold," Zeno Zoldyck said casually.
"They agreed?"
"Do they dare not to?"
The Ten Dons of some mere mafia syndicate were not qualified to make it onto the Zoldyck family's difficult-target list!
"Come to think of it, could this job have something to do with Roy? I heard Roy also arrived in Yorknew City over the past two days," Silva said calmly as he analyzed the situation.
"If this job really does have something to do with Roy, that would actually save us a lot of trouble. Roy isn't the sort of person who refuses to listen to reason. Besides, maybe before we even reach our destination, this job will cancel itself automatically. It's been a long time since this old man had such an easy trip~~~"
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Yorknew City—
"Oh my, it seems my employer was killed~" Illumi stared at his mobile phone and tilted his head.
"This is troublesome. I even brought Kalluto out specifically to complete the mission, and Great-Grandpa came along as well."
"According to the Zoldyck family's rules, if the client dies, the job is automatically void. In that case, there's nothing to be done. The deposit wasn't small, but since I brought Kalluto and Great-Grandpa along, it still feels a bit unprofitable~"
While Illumi was worrying over this, beside him, Kalluto's small hand was clutching Mahā's jacket, and the two of them were watching Yorknew City ahead of them.
"Killua-nii should be there, right? And Milluki-nii has probably arrived by today too. I really want to see Killua-nii~"
As the fifth child of the Zoldyck family, Kalluto had been raised by Kikyo as though he were a daughter. On top of that, because of the intense expectations and hopes Kikyo always placed on Killua, Kalluto had been so constantly influenced by it that he had been thoroughly bent in the same direction, turning into a hardcore big-brother fanatic.
"Achoo—"
Killua, who was in the middle of training, sneezed. Then his whole body shivered, and goosebumps rose all over him.
The lightning formed from his aura nearly ended up shocking even himself.
"Who's thinking about me? And why does that thought feel cold?" Killua, whose eyes had already turned into catlike slits, wrapped his arms around himself, his teeth chattering slightly.
While Kalluto was missing Killua, Mahā was also looking toward the city in front of him.
"Hyuhohoho... things really have been lively these past two days. Looks like Roy isn't all that quiet at heart either~"
It had to be known that Roy arrived in Yorknew City on August 30th—that was yesterday.
And today was only August 31st, yet in just these two days, Yorknew City had already undergone earthshaking changes!
But that also showed just how efficient the Zoldyck family really was.
Almost from the very moment they received the assassination request, they had already begun preparing to set out.
After all, Kukuroo Mountain and Yorknew City were separated by two whole continents.
To be able to arrive within a single day was enough to show the Zoldyck family's efficiency in handling business. No wonder they had stood tall for so many years as the world's foremost family of assassins.
Inside Yorknew City, Roy naturally sensed Mahā's and Illumi's presences on the outskirts.
But he did not care at all. Chrollo Lucilfer had already been killed, so their contract to assassinate the Ten Dons would naturally be canceled.
(End of Chapter)
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