Chapter 184: Old friend × You call this persuasion?
When Shukurinov gave his answer, his entire demeanor changed.
His hand instantly reached for the gun at his waist. As he turned, a bullet shot from the muzzle toward someone behind him.
Everything happened in an instant.
However, the person he attacked did not die on the spot, but staggered several steps backward.
At that same moment, Shukurinov kept firing.
The entire room instantly descended into chaos.
But both Joey and Kurapika were somewhat surprised by whom Shukurinov was attacking.
The man was not a Prince's Personal Guard, but a Guard Soldier from the Thirteenth Prince-and, like them, someone from the Hunter Association: Bellerente!
Shukurinov had clearly been controlled by the Twelfth Prince's Nen Beast.
That was apparent from what he kept shouting as he fired: "It asked me! This is all because it asked me! As long as I do what it asked, it'll definitely show me its big treasure!"
Although Shukurinov's failure to hold out at this point was somewhat beyond Joey and Kurapika's expectations.
What mattered more was whom he had attacked first.
Why?!
For the Twelfth Prince's Nen Beast to make that judgment, Bellerente must once have targeted the Twelfth Prince.
But why?
As a Hunter from the Hunter Association, Bellerente's objective should have been the same as most Association Hunters': to protect the Princes' lives and keep Kakin's Succession War deadlocked as much as possible, allowing them to reach the New Continent safely.
But if he harbored malice toward a Prince and had considered assassination, then he very likely had another mission.
He was not simply a Hunter!
He was a pawn Kakin had planted within the Hunter Association.
But whose pawn was he?
It could not be the Thirteenth Prince, who was already dead, so