About five minutes later, the phone rang.
Chrollo answered.
Illumi's voice came through. "We can take the job on the Ten Dons, but the price needs to go up. Odin, though-we won't take him."
"Why?"
"The family assessed him. The target's danger level is too high," Illumi said. "If we took it, the price would have to be at least a hundred times higher."
Chrollo fell silent for a few seconds.
"A hundred times?"
"Yes," Illumi said. "And we wouldn't guarantee success."
"Then just take the Ten Dons job." Chrollo hung up.
He stared at his phone without a word.
Pakunoda was rather surprised. A job the Zoldyck Family refused to take-that was rare.
Outside the window, the night was deep. The city lights glittered in the distance like a glowing sea.
No one spoke again inside the Phantom Troupe's temporary hideout.
Meanwhile, at the Nostrade Family's base.
Odin sat on the sofa, raising his eyebrows in surprise.
He had kept his Nen · Observation Haki active the whole time, but narrowed its range to the fan-shaped area between himself and the abandoned building complex.
That reduced the consumption of his Nen · Observation Haki by eighty percent, allowing him to keep it active continuously.
He had heard the entire conversation at the abandoned complex.
"They won't take it?" he murmured. "The Zoldyck Family already knows about me?"
Odin was a little surprised. Chrollo knowing his name hadn't surprised him.
But the Zoldyck Family having an idea of his strength certainly did.
Killua probably wouldn't have gone out of his way to tell his family about him. In that case, the likeliest explanation was that the Zoldyck Family had access to special intelligence and knew about Odin's impressive feat of fighting two combat-oriented members of the Spider while simultaneously keeping