Out of courtesy, Gelman spoke a few words to nearly every Zoldyck Family member present.
Shizuku, Kurapika, Gon, and Leorio quietly waited in the back.
The first person to speak with Gelman was, of course, Maha, who was about the same age as Chairman Netero.
He was much shorter and frailer than Chairman Netero, with a chestnut-shaped head. He looked quite kind and gentle.
Smiling, he asked about Gelman's relationship with Chairman Netero, then offered a few words of encouragement along the lines of "the future is yours."
Afterward, Maha patted Gelman on the back of his hand like an ordinary old man and let him move on.
Gelman knew, however, that Maha was no "ordinary old man." He was still working as an assassin, though he took on fewer jobs these days.
By comparison, Zeno, his grandson—the "Active for Life" who killed once a day—was far more "diligent."
If Gelman hadn't appeared and disrupted the future as it was meant to unfold, Maha would have formed a three-man team with Illumi and Kalluto to accept Chrollo's commission to assassinate the Ten Dons.
No, it would have been more accurate to call it a frontal assault—a forceful slaughter of the Ten Dons. The Zoldyck Family simply liked to call such jobs "assassinations."
It was like the Phantom Troupe, who used to call themselves a "band of thieves." In reality, they mostly just took what they wanted by force.
Next came Zeno and Silva. At the end of the Chimera Ant Extermination War, they had invited Gelman to visit the Zoldyck Family whenever he had time.
They hadn't expected him to vanish without a word for several months, then suddenly show up on their doorstep. Both men smiled, though they wondered what he was after.
Father and son exchanged a glance,