(Oemitsu POV)
"*Cough*. *Cough*. I didn't thought that creating a clone and regenerating it, would drain me this much." I said while breathing a little heavily.
We are, currently, on top of a building that has a clear view of the Phantom Troupe's hideout. Menchi was observing me while I recomposed myself, before she asked. "Was it really necessary to send a clone inside it? After all, you just revealed your Nen ability to them."
"Fufufufufufu. Creating and manipulating strings is not my Nen ability." I told her before I got up and fixed my clothes.
I could see that she became really surprised that the strings were not my Nen ability.
"If that isn't your Nen ability, then how can you create and control them? No, better. What is your Nen ability then?" She asked while crossing her arms and placing her finger on her lips.
"Stop trying to guess it. It is a secret." I told her with a sneer on my face.
"Hmm. So you don't trust me then." She shaked her head.
My smile widened. "You are quick to catch things. Try to place yourself in my situation. Now, tell me, would you really tell your Nen ability, and potencially its weakness, to someone that you don't know well or you don't fully trust?" I asked her while looking at her eyes.
"Hmm. If you place it like that, I can't help but agree. What a cheeky brat." She shaked her head once more.
"But, Menchi, don't misunderstand me. I do have a small amount of trust on you and on Ponzu. However, it is not enough for me to tell everything, or at least, a few things about me." I shrugged.
"But you already told your plans to everyone. If I really wanted to betray you, I could simply try to make your plans fail by telling what you want to do with the Spiders or by telling that you have a spy inside their group." She said with a cheeky smile.
"Menchi. You can't misunderstand the small amount of trust that I have in you, as mercy." When I said that, my previous sneer, became a bloodthirsty smile as I slightly moved my left hand's fingers and made a few strings encircle her neck, wrists, heels and stomach. "So if you have that kind of ideas inside your head, I advise you to take them out of it, or else, I will lose a family member." Then, I made the strings touch her skin, just to her to feel that I could take her down without much effort.
I saw her cheeky smile crumble as it turned into an problematic one. "A cheeky brat indeed but rest assured, I will not betray you. It was just a hypothesis." After she said that, the strings did not retreat since I was looking deeply inside her eyes. "C'mon! Do you truly believe that I would betray you?" She asked.
"Nah. It is just that I have to make sure that none of my family members won't ever betray me." I removed the strings from her body parts before I bowed and said. "Please forgive me." I asked for forgiveness because I threatened to kill someone from inside the family, it was the least I could do.
"Its ok. Besides, I'm really glad that you are that cautious, it means that you will not accept anyone inside your family." She said that while she massaged her neck.
I scratched my cheek while I remembered my conversations that I had with Nyalathotep and Vergo about recruiting people. I'm glad that Menchi did not saw my embarassed smile.
"Ehem! Returning to the plans talk. Even if you really did that, It would not be the end of the world. I could always make more plans to counter your actions." I told her.
"Hmm. That is true. But one thing that I don't understand is that, If you revealed your plans to us, why would you hide your abilities?" She asked.
"Again, don't misunderstand things. My plans are one thing, however, if I tell you my Nen ability, since it is something that is set in a stone, I cannot change it. Meaning that you would be able to counter me without me having any way to defend myself." I made a skull symbol using my strings. "Meaning, death."
"So, what I just need to do is prove myself then?" She seemed to be asking herself.
"You really are quick." I nodded.
"Then, I will show you how much of a valuable asset I am." She said that while she leaned in, showing all off really developed assets.
I walked at her direction and also leaned in while looking at her eyes. "I don't doubt you capabilities. I just doubt your loyalty." I said that before I passed by her.
*Pah*.
Not before I slapped her ass, though. "But you need to prove yourself." I said.
"Huff. To think that you are a pervert." She shaked her head.
I ignored her because my head was in chaos.
(Kyaaaaaa! Menchi, this slut, has awakened my Mitsu-kun's carnal desires! I can't wait to be pound-.) I began to also ignore what Nyarlathotep was saying.
Then, I went near Ponzu, who was looking at me with a weird gaze.
"Ponzu, are you sure that the bees are protecting our hideout?" I asked her.
"... oh... Y-yes, yes. If someone dares to get inside the hideout, I will notify you all immediately." She said.
'Why was she lost in thoughts, though?' I slightly shaked my head before I nodded at her words. "Good. We cannot afford to lose Neon. She is our trump card and if she is kidnapped or killed, you will be the one held responsible for it. You may be in the family for only a year but you will still be punished for failing in a task." I warned her.
"You don't have to worry. My Nen ability allows me to manipulate all type of bugs. From bees, ants and even spiders. So that place is really hard to get in without being detected by me. If a single one of them get bit by any of my bugs, they will die. The poison that the insects have. Affect even Nen users and if they get bit by my killer bees, they will explode." She said this with a blissful smile, it seems that she really like her ability.
"Even if your ability is that strong, you are pulling that stunt on the Spiders, so make sure that everything is safe and you have to make sure of something." Before I could continue, Menchi asked. "Make sure of what?"
"That the Spiders are inside the city and that they are not going to escape from it." Vergo answered in my place.
I nodded. "If they dispersed, I would have a really hard time in hunting them and I would probably just give up, since finding them would be hard on its own and I would still have to fight them. I'm lucky that I managed to take two of their members down, if I didnt, Chrollo wouldn't be blinded by grief and would probably just leave the city." I told them.
'Unlike in the series, Chrollo never got Neon's ability, so he had no reason to stay, if I did not kill Shalnark and Kortopi, he would just dissipate like smoke. He was certainly blinded by grief and sadness, or else, he would have thought that fighting an opponent without knowing any of his abilities or having information about him, is just dumb and a waste of time.' While I was thinking of this, my phone vibrated.
[The members are heading out, Chrollo found out where Kurapika is staying...] This message was from Hisoka, he was warning me.
'Well, this is no suprise since I was the one that spread the information on the Hunter's Website. Kurapika knows that he is serving as bait. His job is to get the hell out of there, run away and not get caught. Hopefully he will be useful. Hmm. Apparently, Chrollo left with Machi, Nobunaga, Pakunoda, Phinks and Feitan, leaving Franklin, Shizuku, Bonolenov and Hisoka behind.' I summarized Hisoka's lengthy message in my mind before spoke to them. "Everyone, the time where you will have to prove yourselves has arrived. While Chrollo is after Kurapika, we will attack their main base, our job is simple, kill two members, kidnap one and leave one alive. Hisoka. Whatever happens we must not kill Hidoka, he is an important piece in the game. Do you understand?" I asked.
"Yes!" They answered.
"Menchi, prove yourself." I smiled at her.
To which she shaked her head before everyone dashed into the Phantom Troupe's hideout, entered inside it and spread out. After a few seconds of wandering, I ended up in a hallway with Bonolenov right in front of me.
None of us exchanged a single word, we simply dashed at each other and engaged on a hand to hand combat. Bonolenov used a boxing stance to fight me while I dodged all of his attacks and counter-attacked them perfectly, each time he retracted his hands, I attacked him while aiming at his vitals, if he drops his guard for a second he dies.
I used my hand as a spear and tried to hit a vital at any cost since I had to finish this fight quickly. Bonolenov, in response, was also trying to hit me at any cost. Feeling that it was becoming dangerous by the seconds, I attached strings at my fingertips and tried to slice him in half.
I failed to finish the fight in this attack, instead, I created 5 huge wounds on him since he was not expecting the string attack and ended up in a bad position.
After he backed away, he took of his bandages and showed the holes in his body. "Battle Cantabile: The Prologue." And said this.
Suddenly, a battle gear appeared on his body along with a spear. Then he started to dance togethet whit his spear.
'I will not need to use my Nen ability to fight him. While my abilitu strong, it also has a lot of weaknesses. I only want to use it as a last resort.' I made a gun with my fingers and said. "String bullets." And Shot many high-speed string bullets.
*Cling*. *Cling*. *Cling*. *Cling*.
But Bonolenov blocked all of them. So I had to dash at him and attack with a kick. "Athlette!" At the tip of my right shoe, there was many strings attached to it, there were many strings attached to it, enhancing the strength of the kick by many times.
Yet again, he defended it with his spear, however, this time, he could not contain the full power of the attack and flew into a wall. His body fell on the ground like a puppet that had it's strings cut.
I walked until I was near him and said. "Get up. Stop playing dead." To which he answered by doing what I told.
"You are stronger than I expected, but you will die here. Shadow War Fencing: Jupiter!" He called his attack.
Above him, a gigantic ball with the appearance of the planet Jupiter appeared.
"Oh. Now that is a surprise. I didn't thought that you could charge it that quick." Then, the gigantic ball descended towards me.