A Luo slipped away while the Spiders weren't paying attention, then sprinted straight toward downtown Yorknew City.
Hisoka wouldn't let the Spiders retreat just like that. Her most urgent task was to tell Kurapika what was happening.
Of course.
A Luo had also considered that Hisoka might have already messaged Kurapika.
But just to be safe, and because she needed to contact the protagonists as soon as possible anyway, she took out her phone.
Yet the instant she turned it on, something suddenly occurred to her.
Could Shalnark have tampered with her phone?
Unwilling to dismiss the possibility even if her suspicion proved wrong, A Luo found a phone booth, fished out a Jenny coin, and called Kurapika and Gon.
Kurapika's voice came through the receiver.
"Hello, who is this?"
Pressing a hand over her wound, A Luo said to Kurapika:
"Kurapika, it's me. A Luo."
The other end went silent. A second later, the boy cried out in delighted surprise.
"A Luo! You're okay? You escaped?"
A Luo nodded, then remembered he couldn't see her and gave a soft murmur of agreement.
Only after scanning her surroundings warily did she speak to Kurapika and the others:
"I'm a little hurt, but for now, at least, I'm out of the Spiders' clutches."
After a moment's hesitation, she quietly asked Kurapika:
"Did Hisoka message you and tell you the Spiders aren't actually dead, and that those bodies were just fakes they made?"
Kurapika gave a subdued "Yeah."
Then he hurriedly asked after her, concern in his voice.
"Forget about that for now. You're hurt, A Luo? Where are you? Gon and I can come get you."
A Luo was just about to give her location when her heart suddenly lurched. An intense sense of foreboding made her swallow the words on