"Chrollo Was Left All Alone"
Xiyou froze again. He realized that he had gained a new understanding of Chairman Netero.
And he didn't even find it strange. This was exactly the sort of thing that Chairman Netero would do.
As expected of Isaac Netero.
At the same time, as he looked at the tall man before him, he felt something similar.
As expected of Beyond Netero.
Beyond raised his head and looked at the sky beyond the courtyard, watching the clouds, some curled up and others spread out. Then he slowly held up three fingers.
"From here on, there are only three things I want you to do."
"First, the Black Whale 1 has already been secretly completed. I need the Kakin Empire to invest more in the Dark Continent. We need to be fully prepared."
"Second, I'm going to use Gelman, Ging, Biscuit, and the others as pawns to negotiate with the old man and demand that he remove my 'shackles.'"
"Of course, the chances of the second thing succeeding aren't high, so I need you to take care of the third thing."
"Third, I want Pariston and his 'Expeditionary Force' to get to work. Assign the Twelve Zodiacs some missions that will take at least a year or so to complete, and send them as far away as possible."
Beyond gave a sinister smile.
He thought again of what Ging had said that day, and of Gelman's calm face.
"You'll get ahead of me no matter what? Heh... Those two brats can get ahead of me all they want. But the winner on the Dark Continent is whoever survives there to the very end."
As Xiyou listened to Beyond's orders, his expression changed several times.
He could feel the suffocating pressure of the storm that would arrive in