Chapter 312: The person beneath the cloak × The descent × The discovery
Time.
About six minutes had passed since Joey left the deck and began bombarding the ship's interior together with Hisoka.
By then, the black aura at the dome had drawn ever closer to their heads. Near the windows overlooking the deck, they could even see the black aura pressing down outside.
Joey and the others had never had much time to spare.
"What's wrong? Haven't you been looking for me all this time? Now that I'm here, why aren't you coming over?" A pleasant voice with a feminine quality came from ahead. "You don't have much time left. Besides, even if you get rid of me, what good would it do under the circumstances?"
The cloaked figure raised a hand and pointed upward, the cloak slipping back to reveal her fair skin.
A woman?
Joey frowned slightly. It was not that he looked down on women, but her voice felt familiar.
He seemed to have heard it somewhere before, yet could not remember where, no matter how hard he tried.
"Who are you?" Joey had an answer in mind, though it was not an answer about her specific identity.
In his view, the thing standing before him could only be one of two things.
One was the eye representing the peeping power. The other was the last remaining organ: Brain!
Yet nothing about her looked remotely like a brain. Judging solely by her cloaked figure, she looked more like an ordinary human. Of course, there might be an unexpected twist when she removed her cloak.
But judging by their encounters along the way, the longer the organs had been awakened, the closer they came to their most primitive forms.
Examples included the blood that could no longer