"Darling~ You've changed quite a bit in the month since I last saw you~"
As he spoke, Hisoka reached for Cordis's waist with practiced ease, but before he could touch it, Cordis grabbed his wandering hand and flung it away.
The buzz-cut man, who was just as bewildered as Gon and Killua, looked at the beauty before him and said, "Hello, I'm Grenu."
Then he cautiously leaned toward Gon and Killua and asked.
"Gon, Killua, is this the older brother you told me about?"
Gon and Killua were momentarily at a loss for words. "Well... he was still an older brother a month ago, at least."
In the end, Killua stepped forward and asked bluntly, "Cordis, it's only been a month. How did you end up like this?"
Cordis scratched his head sheepishly and explained the mishap from a month earlier. Gon and Killua exchanged a glance, then exclaimed in surprise.
"It was that Witch! She's such a strange Witch. She yelled at us too!"
Seeing the two launch into an endless tirade about that terrifying Witch, Cordis hurried to steer the conversation back before it drifted any further.
"What did you need me for?"
Cordis's question finally reminded Gon and Killua why they had come.
Both wanted to explain, and they seemed so eager that their words became a jumble. Cordis pricked up his ears and listened for quite a while before he could barely piece it together.
"So you want to clear the game, and now you need to go to [Soufrabi] and beat someone named Razor to get [One-Tsubo Seashore], right?"
Gon and Killua nodded earnestly.
With that, Cordis beckoned everyone to head toward [Soufrabi], asking Gon and Killua about their training over the past couple of days along the way.
Seeing how impressively they had improved,