Just as Cordis was telling Gon and Killua to get some proper sleep.
The car suddenly stopped.
Cordis looked outside.
A man in a police uniform walked up to the window and knocked twice.
Chrollo rolled down the window, took some identification out of his breast pocket, and handed it to the officer.
After taking Chrollo's identification and examining it carefully, the officer found nothing amiss.
Then he glanced curiously at Neon in the passenger seat.
Neon was wearing an enormous hat that hid her entire face. The sight of her blue hair struck the officer as strangely familiar.
But he could not remember where he had seen it before.
In the end, he let them through.
Cordis rested his head against Chrollo's seat, looking bewildered as the car continued along the highway.
"Chrollo, where are we going?" At his question, Chrollo caught sight of Cordis's bored expression in the rearview mirror and smiled.
"The first auction has already started. We're on our way to the venue now."
"The other members of the Spider will be there soon, too."
Cordis was thrilled to hear they were going to an auction. There were bound to be beautiful gems worth a fortune there.
But when he heard that the other members of the Spider were coming too, the excitement blazing inside him was instantly extinguished.
With his head draped over the back of Chrollo's seat, Cordis looked deeply troubled.
"Chrollo, can I skip it?"
"No."
Chrollo glanced at Cordis, whose head was resting beside him and whose face plainly showed his displeasure, and smiled.
"You have to go."
"But..."
Cordis spent ages trying to come up with an objection, but got nowhere. An inexplicable anger began to burn inside him.
I shouldn't have asked Chrollo in the first place.
Cordis could never