Chapter 255: Keeping a Witness × Investigating × Barka
"He seemed to recognize me. Don't we need to take him with us?" After they had run some distance, Momoze, whom Joey was carrying along with the wind, suddenly spoke.
Joey gave her a surprised look. He hadn't expected Momoze to be so observant.
But thinking of the ability her Nen Beast had developed, Joey made another connection. Perhaps it was precisely Momoze's meticulous, observant nature that had led her Guardian Nen Beast to develop an ability like the Big-Eyed Monster.
"I know, but he's only a minor player. Leaving him there might bring us greater benefits." Kurapika supplied the reason before Joey could speak.
And that was exactly what Joey had been thinking.
Joey had recognized the man in the screening room the moment he saw him.
Barka Ed was a wealthy merchant from the Kakin Empire, as well as a merchant with some connections to the Kakin Mafia organization, the Gasha-A Family, whom Joey had deliberately befriended while mingling with Kakin's merchants disguised as DIO.
It was precisely because Joey knew this about him that he had ultimately chosen to stay his hand.
Otherwise, when he dropped down, he might have used Weather Report's Ability to knock the man unconscious or kill him in passing.
Kurapika had probably thought of this too, which was why he had said that.
It was both an explanation for Momoze and Kurapika's statement of his own understanding, though there was absolute confidence behind it.
Conjurers really do notice every little detail.
After that inward grumble, Joey openly told Kurapika everything he knew and had been thinking.
After all, the two of them had been on the same side since boarding the ship, and by now, there was no possibility of them going their