My name was Illumi, and I was the eldest son of the Zoldyck Family.
The first time I saw that little girl was at Heavens Arena.
Dad had dumped Killua there to train. I made time to check on him, and spotted the little girl in the spectator stands at a glance.
She seemed very afraid of me.
She also seemed to know Killua.
I thought it over and decided to get to the bottom of it that night.
I paid the little girl a visit that evening.
Then, to my own surprise, I actually let this little girl named A Luo off the hook.
I knew perfectly well that her clumsy lies were things she had made up to fool me, yet I silently accepted every one of them.
For some reason, whenever she spoke, I felt a strange sense of familiarity. That familiarity alone kept me from erasing the little girl's existence with a simple, brutal act of murder.
I wanted to know why she felt familiar to me.
Yet over the next two years or so, after spending time with her on several occasions, I seemed to grow increasingly accustomed to having the little girl around. Whenever I finished a job, I wanted to go see her.
But when I went looking for her again, I discovered that something had happened to her family.
The signs of fighting, the bloodstains, and the lingering traces left by Nen users all suggested that the family's chances of survival were slim.
She was just an insignificant little girl. If she was dead, so be it!
During that time, I took on more and more jobs and earned a great deal of Jenny, but I did not seem very happy.
The next time I saw the little girl...
Was several years