"Hello, Gotoh. This is A Luo. I'd like to speak to Illumi."
A Luo's call must have caught Gotoh completely off guard. A sharp clink came through the receiver, as though a coin had slipped from the usually accommodating butler's hand.
"A Luo? You're not dead?"
Well!
Even without the sound of the falling coin, A Luo could hear just how shocked the butler was from the disbelief in his voice.
"Who told you I was dead?"
A Luo asked with interest.
Gotoh fell silent for a moment, then returned to his usual stiff manner, speaking flatly in his unchanging monotone:
"Master Illumi is not at home. If you wish, I can inform him that you called."
"As it happens, the assignment you previously hired Master Illumi for was provisionally canceled after something happened to you, the client. The Jenny you paid has already been refunded to the original account. Please confirm receipt."
A Luo: "..."
I knew it would turn out like this.
"So Illumi didn't stay in the NGL Autonomous Region and kill the Chimera Ant I asked him to kill, as the assignment required?"
Judging by the story's progress at this point...
Killua and Gon should have already cleared the game and found Kite!
They might even have entered NGL by now.
She had no idea how far the Ant Queen had developed, or whether there was still time to avert this tragedy.
Gotoh's silence gave A Luo her answer.
The Zoldyck Family was in business. Once news of a client's death got out, the assignment was effectively void. Besides, when she had sent Illumi to NGL, the Ant Queen probably hadn't even reached its shores yet.
Naturally, he wouldn't waste too much time on this assignment. The Zoldyck Family had plenty to do.
"Never mind, Gotoh.