Over here, the people from the Troupe were already standing in the square outside the palace. Looking around, there was a sea of people.
All around them were mafia bosses milling about, raising their glasses and chatting with each other to build relationships.
The social structure of the mafia was on full display in this scene.
The heads of small forces were currying favor with the leaders of large groups. Different classes had different social circles.
This was a grand open-air banquet, filled with tables of food and drink.
In the center, musicians were playing instruments such as pianos, and a large number of waiters and waitresses were walking among the mafia bosses, serving them attentively.
But... After only watching for a while, the members of the Troupe discovered that there was no sign of the Ten Elders.
"The Ten Elders don't easily show their faces in public. They should be inside one of these palaces." Shalnark said after returning from a circle.
The group of them were standing relatively scattered. Otherwise, if they gathered together, they would be too conspicuous.
"Everyone spread out and look for the target locations first."
Chrollo ordered.
"Is it okay to kill anyone?"
Feitan asked coldly.
"Whatever."
Chrollo replied.
Because... He had already seen that someone had keenly set their sights on them.
It was a sloppy-looking man wearing red-rimmed glasses and flip-flops. He was dozens of meters away from him, and through the figures walking back and forth, the two of them's eyes met in mid-air.
Standing next to the man was a deformed guy... He didn't look like a normal human.
"Shadow Beast."
Chrollo guessed the other party's identity.
He raised a faint smile.
Immediately after, without saying a word, he took the initiative to move closer to the Shadow Beast.
The other members of the Troupe also noticed the Shadow Beast.
"As expected, they have some ability. They found us so quickly..."
Shalnark followed closely behind.
If they wanted to know where the Ten Elders were hiding, grabbing a Shadow Beast and questioning them would make it clear... It would save a lot of time.
All around them were influential figures in the mafia. After the Shadow Beast had discovered them, he hadn't made a sound... Once they took action, and it turned into a battlefield, it would definitely create large-scale chaos.
A fierce battle would also spare the mafia leaders. With so many people... Even if only a part of them died, it would be no different from a heavy blow to the entire underworld.
The Shadow Beast was luring him... Chrollo understood, and he was happy to comply with the other party's wishes.
They would find a place alone, and settle things.
Chrollo and the five of them passed through the crowd, and followed the Shadow Beast's pace. The other partners went to carry out other plans.
"Two people are missing!"
Owl and Earthworm didn't turn back. After he and Chrollo had noticed each other, they had tacitly changed the location.
He had thought that the Troupe would start a massacre, but he hadn't expected them to be so calm.
"Aren't you going to tell them the truth?"
Earthworm turned his head, and glanced at the few Spiders who were stuck to their butts, and asked Owl.
"Tell them? You're still considered good... You know which side to stand on. Even if the Ten Elders don't die at the hands of the Troupe, they're destined not to survive tonight."
Owl said lightly, "Don't they want to kill the Spiders? We'll satisfy them then..."
"You've also noticed it, right? These guys' auras... They're not ordinary."
"I just think that they seem very confident... Even after being exposed, they didn't panic at all. Is it that they don't take us seriously?"
Earthworm told the truth.
Owl didn't answer.
A few minutes later, the two groups of people leisurely circled around to the back garden of the palace. There were relatively few people here.
On the way, Owl had already used the walkie-talkie to call Rabid Dog and the others over, and they had gathered one step ahead.
Under the dim and gloomy night, with a rustling of footsteps, Owl and Earthworm passed through a small path, and arrived at their destination.
This garden was also the only quiet place in the currently festive and lively palace... Rabid Dog and the six of them saw the two of them appear, and looked over one after another.
"What do you mean? You suddenly called us over? And to this kind of place?"
"The fish have taken the bait... The big guys!"
Owl pushed up his glasses, raised his thumb, and pointed behind him.
"Oh?"
The Shadow Beasts showed interested expressions.
"I'll leave it to you guys... Earthworm and I will go catch others."
After Owl finished instructing, he and Earthworm turned into a blur of shadows, and flashed away.
Then, before Rabid Dog and the others could come back to their senses, the skin on their bodies seemed to be stimulated by some kind of aura, and goosebumps rose. Their entire bodies instinctively entered a battle state, and burst out with Nen.
"Huh? Did those two guys just run away?"
"It seems that... The remaining guys aren't weak either. There are only six of them... Aren't there ten Shadow Beasts?"
"They think that they can settle us with just six people, huh... This... It's even more arrogant than us..."
"The other four probably went to notify the Ten Elders, right? But... There's no problem. With Feitan and the others there, they probably won't be able to run away."
Along with a series of relaxed conversations, a few black shadows appeared in the vision of the group of Shadow Beasts, and gradually revealed their faces.
The Phantom Troupe?!
Rabid Dog stuck out his tongue, and licked his lips.
He revealed a bloodthirsty smile.
He hadn't expected that... The rumor that Owl had mentioned before was actually true!
Too great!
"Hahahaha... I know you. You and two others were undercover in the Fels family as guards before. One of them has already been killed by us!"
Rabid Dog and the others didn't show any weakness, and confronted the Troupe squad led by Chrollo.
He stared at Chrollo, and mocked arrogantly.
"There are three women among the five people... Although they seem to give me the feeling that they're quite powerful, they still look so weak..."
Leech looked at Machi, Shizuku, and Pakunoda, and said bluntly.
"Those guys, how they were able to get their current reputation... They had a lot of luck. If we had met them sooner, there might not have been so many things."
"It's not too late to make them realize their weakness now..."
The other Shadow Beasts also echoed.
Looking down on women?
Machi spread her hands, pulled on the threads between her palms, and walked forward slowly.
Seeing this, Shalnark... Knew that Machi was a little angry.
"Leave one alive."
Chrollo said.
In an instant, on the ground, eleven people moved at the same time, rushing towards each other, and instantly determined their respective attack targets.
Rabid Dog and the two of them vs. Chrollo.
The remaining four Shadow Beasts fought the members of the Troupe in a 1v1 battle.
...
Over here, while the Shadow Beasts and the Troupe were fighting, a drastic change was also taking place in the square.
On a huge electronic screen, Cheeko, as the new head of the Fels family, had just finished giving a speech, and had won thunderous applause.
The congratulations of the other Ten Elders also came from the speakers.
Recordings of some royal representatives were also flashing on the screen...
The crowd hadn't yet broken away from the atmosphere of thunderous applause.
Just like the situation outside the gate before, the mafia bosses first inexplicably started fighting each other.
The Fels family quickly sent members of the guard team to control the situation, but they hadn't expected that even the Nen ability users would be caught up in it, and would attack the mafia members indiscriminately like they had lost their minds, and start a massacre.
Tables and chairs were overturned, expensive alcohol was shattered on the ground, and the beautiful music came to an abrupt stop.
What replaced it were screams and shouts.
And in the center of the completely out-of-control, chaotic venue, Duane, No. 7 of the Troupe, the sickly-looking man... Was standing expressionlessly.
Even though the battle around him was intense, blood was splattering everywhere, and there were constant roars, no one attacked him, or rather... They hadn't noticed his existence.
After a while, another group of Nen ability users appeared. They weren't people from the Fels family.
They were the Nen ability user bodyguards who were attached to the Ten Elders, apart from the Shadow Beasts. The number of them added together was thirty or forty.
After Duane's cold gaze glanced at this group of newly influx Nen ability users, he took advantage of the swaying figures nearby, concealed himself, and walked away.
He hid in the shadows.
It wasn't difficult for him and Quoll to kill these mafia members and Nen ability users with weak strength.
Although there were many of them, it was perfect for his Nen ability to be used.
His Nen ability was called 'The Lonely Hypnotist'.
As the name suggested, it was a means of hypnosis.
The bigger the scene, and the more people there were, the more advantageous it was for him.
...
After confirming that the important figures were all present, Hisoka, Feitan, Kortopi, and Bonolenov began to enter the palaces and buildings one by one, looking for their targets, and cleaning up the small fry along the way.
Among them, Kortopi and Bonolenov were in a group, and Hisoka and Feitan were acting alone.
And Hisoka, under the guise of searching, directly contacted Illumi, and reunited with him.
He was very certain now that Chrollo had already dropped his guard against him.
After a long while, in a secret room with mechanisms, Hisoka saw a few people...
David and Fels Lily, Illumi's younger brother Kalluto... And Kurapika.
"Yo... You've already arrived."
After entering the room, Hisoka smiled evilly at Kurapika, "Not bad... Your eyes have become a little different after not seeing you for a while. It seems that... Oboro cares about you a lot."
Kurapika leaned against the corner of the wall, remained silent, and turned a deaf ear.
He was conserving his energy.
His mood was very complicated, both nervous and excited... He was nervous that the Phantom Troupe might sense something was wrong, and run away.
He was excited that he would soon be able to avenge his hatred!
"What's going on outside?"
Illumi asked.
There were surveillance devices in the secret room, but the scenes that could be seen weren't complete.
They could only observe that Duane and Quoll were fighting with the Ten Elders' private armed forces, which was a group of Nen ability users, in the square.
That Duane was hypnotizing some Nen ability users, and he himself was hiding, watching the enemies kill each other.
It was a very tricky Nen ability!
"A few have gone to look for the Ten Elders. Chrollo and the others are playing with the Shadow Beasts..."
Hisoka replied, crossed his arms, and also stared at the screen for a while, and looked at David, "Your Fels family's Nen ability users... It seems that you didn't arrange many of them. The scene just looks big."
"Most of the Nen ability users who died were people from the Ten Elders... Moreover, these mafia bosses are from all over the world. Most of the forces that aren't in our territory are all the Ten Elders' lackeys. Once the Ten Elders and these people are dead, the entire underworld will be reorganized, and at that time, it will also be easier for us to control the mafia on the six continents. Our Fels family will become the only king of the underworld!" David's calm voice revealed a sense of pride.
"What I'm curious about is... How exactly is he going to rush over here?"
Hisoka's words had a double meaning.
The person he was referring to was naturally Oboro.
Oboro was currently being entangled by the Zoldyck family.
Hisoka believed that Oboro would definitely appear, but in what way?
Perhaps, David and Lily knew something.
However, David and Lily didn't open their mouths in response to Hisoka's question.
"The Ten Elders have been found."
Suddenly, Illumi made a sound.
He zoomed in on a surveillance image, and saw that in the picture, along with a series of fierce gunshots and fighting, the door of a hall was suddenly knock away by a corpse. Then, Feitan, who was short in stature, leapt out.
Inside the hall, including Cheeko, who had just been announced as the head of the Fels family, there were a total of ten people... They were sitting at a round table, and the table was filled with rich wine and delicacies, but everyone had lost their appetite to enjoy them.
There were also a dozen or so Nen ability users acting as bodyguards in the room...
After Feitan had killed his way in, the Ten Elders suddenly began to question and scold Cheeko, who had a dazed expression... They were scolding him very harshly, and were basically asking how the Fels family was doing things.
Cheeko was sweating profusely, holding a phone, and constantly dialing numbers.
At the same time, the phone in David's pocket also rang, but the old man didn't answer it.
Then, Illumi, Kurapika, and Hisoka watched in the picture as Feitan pulled out the umbrella sword he carried with him, and without saying a word, directly rushed towards the group of Nen ability users who were blocking in front of the Ten Elders.
His figure was as elusive as a ghost, and his killing techniques were incredibly skilled and pure. In the face of the difference in strength, the Ten Elders' subordinates didn't have any resistance at all. As long as Feitan got close, in one face-to-face meeting, that slender sword blade would ruthlessly take their lives.
It felt like a seasoned wildcat had broken into a nest of mice... It was a one-sided massacre.
In just a few minutes, the hall was filled with corpses lying on the ground.
The Ten Elders seemed to want to say something, but you could tell that Feitan had a violent temper. With a sway of his body, the sword followed his body, and instantly chopped off all the heads of the Ten Elders, leaving only one person, Cheeko of the Fels family.
Feitan stood in front of Cheeko, holding the blood-dripping umbrella sword, with a cold look on his face.
Without any movement, the next second, Cheeko's legs were hit hard, and he knelt down with a thud.
He screamed.
Under the attention of Hisoka and the others, Feitan grabbed Cheeko's hair, as if he was asking something... But the latter was very tough. Even after Feitan slowly broke his arms, and he was inhumanely tortured, he didn't tell him any information.
This seemed to make Feitan a little disappointed.
However, after executing Cheeko, Feitan raised his head, and looked at the camera hanging on the wall, and made eye contact with the few people standing in the secret room from afar.
Immediately after, the picture on the screen went dark.
"Amazing..."
Illumi said with a tone of praise, and clapped his hands, but his face was still expressionless.
With his insight, he could naturally see that this little guy named Feitan had outstanding strength.
"What rank is he in the Troupe at this level?"
Illumi turned his head to face Hisoka.
"Including me, if I were to give an evaluation from my personal standpoint... He's about fourth." Hisoka said with a smile.
"So, you're in the top three?"
Illumi said.
"If we're just talking about hard power, actually... There are several people in the Troupe who aren't weaker than me, and the difference isn't too big, but... They're much weaker in other aspects. Therefore, from a comprehensive level, apart from Chrollo, who makes me relatively interested, the others... Are average."
Hisoka told the truth for once.
It wasn't arrogance... But because he had been influenced by Oboro, Hisoka's combat power was much higher than it had been during this period in the original story.
"Chrollo..."
A murmur came from behind him. Hisoka squinted over, and saw Kurapika's cold expression.
The chains on the boy's right hand were trembling slightly.
"Hehehe..."
Hisoka sensed something, and his gaze released a warning meaning, "In this game, you have your role, and I have my role... Don't take what's mine."
"..."
Kurapika kept his mouth shut.
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