"Now that annoying fellow is gone, can my little cutie tell me about that boss you mentioned? ♣"
A Luo: "..."
Do ordinary people living in this godforsaken place have no rights at all?!
Or maybe Chrollo was right. Only the strong had the right to control their own destinies.
Faced with Hisoka's persistent questions, A Luo frowned. As though she could no longer stand the suffocatingly thick stench of blood, she asked him:
"Can we talk about the boss somewhere else?"
Hisoka shook the blood off his hands and smiled at A Luo.
"My little cutie, you're rather demanding! ♥"
Despite his complaints, Hisoka still did as A Luo requested, immediately stepping forward and sweeping her into his arms.
Then, amid blaring alarms, he bounded away, eventually arriving at a villa in the mountains.
As for A Luo?
The girl kept her face firmly buried against his chest the whole way, terrified that someone might catch a glimpse of it.
There was no helping it. These big shots all loved chasing thrills.
When they caused trouble, their only concern was that they might not be brazen enough. They never gave a damn about the rules of normal society. Even becoming Class A fugitives wanted by countries around the world was merely another page in their glorious résumés.
But she couldn't do that!
A Luo was still hoping that one day, once she escaped these freaks, she could start a beautiful new life with her ready-made mother!
If being forced to participate in their crimes meant she would someday be treated like a wanted fugitive, just like the Phantom Troupe... or, worse, get arrested and thrown into prison, innocently suffering behind bars...
Wouldn't she die of sheer injustice?!
What Lola didn't know, however, was that the surveillance cameras had captured her face perfectly clearly the moment Hisoka first brought her into the restaurant.
And so, at that very moment, she had already been listed as a major suspect in the dine-and-dash murders at the Western restaurant.
From the moment she got mixed up with these dangerous characters from the story, returning to an ordinary life had ceased to be possible.
Of course, A Luo simply hadn't realized that yet.
Looking at the enormous, Ancient Castle-like house before her, A Luo's mouth fell open in amazement!
"Hisoka, is this your house?"
Hisoka gave an "Mm-hmm."
Then he set A Luo down, walked to the entrance of the huge villa, and pushed open the Ancient Castle's doors.
Seeing this, Lola thought, I've never stayed in an Ancient Castle in this life—no, not even in my previous life!
Good at processing her feelings and possessed of a distinctly Ah Q-like mentality, A Luo had already quietly worked through her earlier negative emotions.
Realizing she would actually get to stay in an Ancient Castle with Hisoka, A Luo temporarily forgot all that unpleasantness and excitedly followed him into the magnificent house.
But the instant A Luo stepped inside, her expression froze.
The lavish Ancient Castle interior, filled with antiques and old paintings, was covered in a thick layer of dust.
Their footsteps even left a long trail of prints behind them.
"Hisoka, how long has it been since anyone lived here? The rich people I see on TV hire butlers or servants to clean their Ancient Castles even when they aren't staying in them! Why isn't there a single person here?"
Hisoka stretched and headed upstairs, paying no attention to A Luo's questions.
A Luo: "..."
Is this really Hisoka's house? Don't tell me he just picked some random abandoned Ancient Castle!
And it's so dirty!
How can Hisoka stand staying somewhere like this? Can he really sleep in a room covered in dust?
A moment later, Hisoka gave A Luo the answers to those questions.
The bastard yawned hugely, apparently no longer in any hurry to hear about the boss. Before entering an upstairs bedroom, he looked down at A Luo in the downstairs hall and instructed her:
"Little cutie, I'm sleepy, so I'll take a nap first. But when I wake up... I want to sit in a clean house and hear you tell me all about that 'boss' of yours. Otherwise, I'll show you just how terrifying I can be when I wake up cranky! ♥"
He deliberately stressed the word "clean."
Having said that, he extended his index finger and pointed at A Luo's head from afar, then shut the bedroom door and fell silent!
A Luo gazed helplessly at the enormous house before her, inwardly lamenting that she was doomed to a life of toil.
Every day, I'm either a cook or a maid... I've fucking had enough!
Just as she was about to make a run for it, A Luo suddenly realized that Hisoka's gesture of pointing at her head seemed a little odd. Could it be...?
A moment later, after using Gyo to see the lump of red Nen with its long trailing tail attached to her forehead, A Luo hung her head and abandoned all thoughts of escape.
I knew that bastard Hisoka wouldn't go to sleep without taking precautions!
There was nothing she could do!
Hisoka's two Nen abilities were "Texture Surprise" and "Bungee Gum."
One could alter the surface of objects, making it easy for him to deceive people's eyes.
The other had sticky and elastic properties, making it easy for him to toy with people in the palm of his hand.
At that moment, the lump of stuff on A Luo's head, stretching all the way into the room upstairs, was probably the Nen Hisoka had stuck to her when he pointed at her head from afar before closing the door.
Fuck your Bungee Gum!
You goddamn perverted fruit farmer!
After cursing him out, A Luo could only resign herself to her fate, find an apron, put it on, and start cleaning.
But the girl simply couldn't accept it, so she muttered bitter curses at the freak upstairs as she slogged through the work.
I'm not even one of those little fruits you've got your eye on!
Do you really have to keep such a close watch on me, you bastard?!
As far as Lola was concerned, Hisoka was a freak from every angle. Just take his Nen abilities!
How the hell did he come up with abilities like these?
They weren't even finishing moves, yet in Hisoka's hands, they became incredibly troublesome and practical!
Besides, knowing his abilities was no help at all.
With all his impossible-to-guard-against tricks, combined with that nasty Transmutation disposition that made lying as easy as drinking water, one careless moment was enough to land you in the malicious magician's trap and leave you utterly screwed!
Four hours later, a girl lay sprawled in the finally spotless hall, utterly exhausted.
She had never lived in a large house before and really hadn't known any better.
Now that she had cleaned one herself and learned what a large house was like, A Luo couldn't help warning herself that even if she became rich someday, she must never buy a house this big.
A house this size was certainly comfortable to live in, but cleaning it could genuinely work a person to death!
Still, A Luo had never experienced a rich person's life.
Judging others by her own circumstances, A Luo had no idea that people who could afford houses this large generally didn't clean them themselves. They had butlers and Filipina maids. Rich people only needed to spend money, then enjoy life.
Why would rich people ever huff and puff through cleaning a house like she did, wearing themselves out until they couldn't even straighten their backs?
They simply used their money superpowers!
Just as A Luo finally finished tidying the house, sat down, and poured herself a glass of water...
The upstairs door creaked open.
A moment later, Hisoka emerged, swaying his hips, with a star and a teardrop painted on his face in clown makeup. He smiled at Lola in greeting:
"I'm so happy to see you again~ ♣ My little cutie."
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