"If you want your power back, you can make a wish to Alluka. Alluka has the ability to grant any wish." As he spoke, Roy pointed at Alluka.
In any case, every connection between him and Ilo had already been severed.
Even if Ilo failed to satisfy Alluka's demands and had to pay the price, Roy would no longer be implicated.
Following Roy's gesture, Ilo looked toward Alluka. Even though he felt that something was off and highly suspicious, the loss of his power had thrown his heart into panic.
"Hey, can you do it for me? Can you restore all of my power?!"
"Ilo wants to make a wish to me too? Okay~"
Just as delight appeared on Ilo's face, Alluka stretched out both hands and said with a smile:
"Then, can you give me your life?"
"My life? Give it to you?" Ilo froze for a moment, then flew into a rage. "Quit joking around and restore my power already."
So the price being asked was his life? Roy pondered for a moment. Judging from the might of that beam just now, he had thought the request would be even harsher.
Those were success points. Because they increased the probability of success, it was the same as lowering the difficulty of the wish, which in turn lowered the difficulty of Alluka's demands.
"Then can you give me the lives of your family members?"
"Family? I don't have any family!"
"Then can you give me the life of a friend, or someone close to you?"
"Are you done yet?! I said restore my powe—"
Roy's brow twitched, and he raised an arm. Before Ilo could finish speaking, a strange power instantly took hold of his body, and at the same time Roy used Dende's Healing Technique on Ilo.
Roy wanted to test what kind of effect that would produce.
But when Roy activated the healing technique, Ilo was not wrapped in even the slightest healing light. Instead, just as that bizarre force was about to crush him into a lump of flesh, it suddenly stopped.
Ilo's whole body seemed to have been put on pause. His figure, already compressed into a somewhat flattened shape by the strange force, froze there in a bizarre stillness. Then his body actually began to turn transparent.
In the end, Roy simply watched in silence as Ilo vanished from the room.
"Gone…?"
Roy thought quietly for a moment, then picked up his mobile phone.
Beep… beep… click! "…Hello?"
It was Shalnark's voice. Roy's expression shifted. He had originally thought that, because of Shalnark's extensive contact with Ilo, Shalnark might have been dragged into this as well. But now it seemed he was still alive.
"Shalnark, it's me."
"So it's Roy-sama. What is it? I already passed along the latest information on some S-Class criminals to you, Roy-sama."
"Mm, I know. I wanted to ask how Ilo's recent work has been going."
"Ilo? Roy-sama, who is Ilo?" A clearly startled voice came from the other end of the line. "Is that a relative of yours, Roy-sama? The name sounds a lot like yours."
"Mm?"
Hearing Shalnark's voice, Roy was stunned as well. Shalnark had already lost all awareness of Ilo's existence.
"Didn't I have all of you helping Ilo in the underworld?"
"What are you talking about, Roy-sama? The one managing the underworld is one of your Four Bodies Technique clones, isn't it? Oh! I get it. Roy-sama, are you saying that clone's name is Ilo? It really does sound pretty good~"
"To erase a person from this world without leaving behind even the slightest trace… Just as expected of something born from the Dark Continent."
…
And so, Ilo quietly exited the stage of the Hunter world without causing the slightest ripple.
In truth, if Roy had not used the healing technique with its Nen exorcism effect at the very last moment, then not only the "All Villains" organization, including Shalnark, but also the mafia families that had taken their side, would likely have died in an instant.
And if Roy had not made a wish to sever every connection he had with Ilo, then perhaps even parts of Roy's own memories would have been erased as well.
That was the price brought by Alluka's terrifying, utterly unreasonable wish-granting ability.
But no matter what, Roy had still achieved his goal. He had come to the Zoldyck family to make a wish, caused a massive disturbance, yet when he left, he did so in complete silence.
When Zeno, Silva, and the others were finally able to move again and arrived at the sealed princess room, they found that aside from Alluka, no one else was there.
"…So he really left?" Zeno swept the area with a quick glance, then withdrew his gaze.
At that moment, Alluka noticed Silva and the others as well, immediately put down the toy in hand, and happily trotted over.
"Dad, Grandpa, can you play with me?"
"Mm? Is that one of the ability's demands?" Zeno raised a brow. "Just 'play with me' as the demand? Then either the other person made an extremely simple wish, or they were slaughtered by Alluka's demands and the difficulty has returned to level 1."
"But I don't smell any blood." Silva spoke in a serious tone while sitting down on the floor and beginning to play with Alluka.
"So this should just be a normal, simple request, and not the ability activating." The speaker sounded somewhat puzzled.
"Still, the fact that Alluka can make ordinary requests means that even if the difficulty of those demands hasn't fully returned to level 1, it can't be very high. Although this matter appears to be over, suspicious points are hidden everywhere. We still have to stay on guard. Zeno, later have the servants check whether any place has suffered a large-scale chain of related deaths."
"Understood, Grandpa."
…
While the Zoldyck family was left shrouded in suspicion, Roy also went to Shalnark's side.
After personally confirming that Shalnark had not been implicated and was still alive and well, Roy was slightly relieved.
Then Roy left one Four Bodies Technique clone there to hold the fort, flashed away with Instant Transmission, and left.
Next, after Roy poured Ilo's power into his own body, because it was source power rather than some secondary fragment, Roy's strength increased by geometric leaps in an instant.
And he had also successfully obtained Ilo's Nen ability: [Successful Killer Codex].
(End of Chapter)
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