Gelman ignored Xiyou's joking around. He stayed fully alert, ready to deal with an attack from any direction—including a stab in the back from Xiyou.
Even now, he still couldn't completely trust Xiyou.
Xiyou pursed his lips but didn't immediately abandon Gelman and Kurapika. He decided to wait and see how things played out.
But the next moment, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse for Gelman's side.
From behind them—the rear of the train, in the direction it was traveling—came a series of explosions, booming one after another. The carriage shuddered several times.
Explosions?
Gelman didn't look back. He continued to face the four people in front of him warily.
Illumi pointed at himself, then toward the rear of the train outside the carriage.
"I took Hisoka's No. 4 spot. Chrollo found some bomb-obsessed lunatic somewhere, along with two lackeys, to take your No. 8 spot. That should make up the numbers for now."
"We agreed that I'd control multiple people and search for you, carriage by carriage, starting from the front of the train... Of course, Uvogin took a faster approach... Those three lunatics started searching from the back."
"But it looks like they found a more convenient method too... Maybe they aren't looking for you at all. They might just be having fun."
A bomb-obsessed lunatic?
Anyone Chrollo recruited into the Phantom Troupe wouldn't be an ordinary person. He had to be some bloodthirsty Nen user who fit the descriptions of "bombs" and a "trio."
Once Illumi mentioned it, Gelman had an idea who it might be.
He wasn't certain, though. At this point in time, that person should theoretically still be lying low on Greed Island, pretending to be a good person.
Of course, leaving Greed Island and returning to the real world shouldn't