74 Chapter 2 : Yorknew City

Yorknew City is a sprawling metropolis of the United States of Saherta, on the Yorbian Continent.

The city annually holds various auctions from the 1st to the 10th of September, including the world's largest auction: the Southernpiece Auction, in which the world's rarest and most valuable artifacts are accumulated in one place.

Aside from thousands of lawful auction houses, the city is also famous for its black market auctions which mostly deal with illegal goods. The Mafia Community's Underground Auction takes place here every year, in the Cemetery Building.

During the ten days of the auctions, tens of trillions of Jenny are exchanged in the official auctions alone. Yorknew's auctions are where one's dreams can come true-an item bought for 10 thousand can be sold for 100 million the next day.

But this city also has a dark face, the city's election and authority are mostly bribed and controlled by the Mafia Community. As a result, all enforcement forces in the city ranging from police to SWAT are literally dirty cops and Mafia henchmen.

Septembre 1th, 1999, Lingon Airport, 07h34

James got off the airship with the other passengers and left the airport several minutes later.

But when he tried to stop a cab, he remembered a problem.

"I don't have a penny."

Aside from his Hunter's license and the clothes he wore during the Hunter exam, he had nothing.

"Now how should I proceed, for once I have almost complete freedom."

The task that SW had given him had left James completely speechless.

[Task: None]

He had total freedom for 10 months, it would have been a really bad mission for any other traveler but for him this mission is the holy grail.

He could go back whenever he wanted as long as it wasn't at the time of an attack.

"I really have a lot of freedom of movement, so now it's time to find a good hotel."

But suddenly he stopped again.

"It's true, I don't have any money."

. . . . . .

"Thank you, sir, for choosing our bank. Here is the platinum card from our bank containing the 100 million you borrowed."

James left the bank in which he pawned his Hunter license while playing with the credit card in his hands.

The licence hunter provides the opportunity to use the licence as collateral for an interest-free loan of 100 million in any bank.

But it also offered other privileges that James didn't really want to give up, so he decided to get his license back after the auction.

It was already nine o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining brightly on the streets of the city as the locals went about their business, and James, enjoying walking down the street, finally stopped a cab in which he got into.

"Where do you want to go, sir?"

James took a pensive look for a moment and then pulled out a card he had bought after leaving the bank and looked at it for a moment before saying.

"In a tattoo parlor near Saloma Mall, please."

. . . .

"It's over, sir."

James looked at the two circles perfectly drawn in his palms and on his hands according to his directions, then nodded his head in satisfaction, paid the professional tattooist, then left the store and entered the cab waiting for him outside.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's nothing sir, where do you want to go next?"

The cab driver smiled happily because he had just found an excellent customer who had paid him five times the fare just to wait for him in front of a tattoo parlor.

"Take me to the Bull Market."

"Right away, sir, please fasten your seat belt."

The car started a few seconds later, and after a ten minute drive James arrived at the Bull Market, James paid the taximan and tipped him before walking the streets of the bull market.

The Bull Market acts like a silent auction, with some characteristics of a garage sale and a flea market bazaar.

A bidder has to write the amounts they are willing to pay on the tags attached to the auction items. Whoever writes down the highest bid within the time limit wins, but vendors will often sell before the time is up if they can reach an agreement with the buyers on the price.

James would occasionally look at items, but did not buy anything, he just walked around the market sometimes stopping in front of items, but finally not finding the people they were looking for, so he decided to use a different method.

'Mind Senses'

The world in his sight became red and blue, like a hovering eagle he watched the streets from a view of the sky within a radius of 150m around him.

(The field of his MS was thirty meters, after it improved forty-five meters, he can only use about 1/3 of his strength in his world, so 45m × 3 = 135 or 90%, 90%(135) + 10% (45/3) = 150m, his MS has a radius of 150m to 100%).

He continued on his walk, scanning the slightest alleyway.

"Come closer Mr. and Mrs., try your luck against our champion."

In one street, Leorio shouted loudly to get the crowd's attention as Gon arm-wrestled a man five times his size and fat, while Killua held a small open wooden chest containing a beautiful jewel.

Gon quickly won against the man who left with the frustration of having been defeated by a child, but it was then that Gon and Killua suddenly raised their surprised heads.

"Gon I just felt a brief moment that we were being watched."

"Yes, I also felt a presence."

Killua closed the chest in frustration, then Gon got up from his chair.

"Leorio, we have to leave." Said Killua stopping Leorio who was attracting the crowd.

"What's the matter, business is good, it's not time to pack up store."

Leorio's words immediately annoyed Killua, but before he could speak a familiar person approached.