The New Hatsu

__________ POV Ashton__________

It's a bit regretful that I had to kill this guy. But he was starting to actually get on my nerves. And he also proved to be the perfect test subject for my new Hatsu.

And now for the 'Pièce de résistance'.

All of his blood started being sucked up by the horse that pulled him in. After all of the ride was cleaned. The puppet on top became lifelike.

It grew a mask on its empty white 'face'. A mask with features resembling that of the clown.

His eyes spoke of the agony and anguish he felt during his last moments. But he had a forced, completely unnatural smile. Can't have the entertainment show emotions can we now?

"Now, I want a little demonstration," I said with a smile on my face.

The puppet jumped from the horse and started prancing around. Throwing cards everywhere, then producing that same sticky nen to pull them back towards himself.

Yes... This Hatsu is capable of stealing a person's abilities and making a puppet with said abilities. It has limited slots, but I figured this guy should be strong enough to warrant one.

The new clown puppet jumped back onto its horse. Then the Merry-Go-Round vanished into thin air. Its cheerful carnival music disappearing along with it.

My former opponent's body slumped to the ground like a puppet that was cut from his strings. The same anguished look was plastered on his face.

This ability was surprisingly easy to create. Although it took form due to a variety of different Nen types. Actually, it took from anything other than Enhancement.

It does have a lot of conditions though. Like not being able to attack from too far away, which is why I needed to block the Clown's path.

Or not being able to directly kill anyone with the 'spitting weapons' move. Actually, the only time it's allowed to take a life is when it impales someone on its top spike.

It also needs to absorb quite a bit of the blood inside the victim's body from the moment it was impaled. If the person doesn't have enough blood, ability mimicking won't work.

I took his head and stored it into my void space. I do need to prove I killed the traitor after all.

Although, little Chrollo will likely believe me either way. I wonder if he wanted to do the killing himself or not... Oh well, that was never specified in our deal.

And I would've still killed him anyway. Testing a new Hatsu is more important to me than doing my student a favour.

Still, I guess it's time I go look for him again. I obviously won't do it myself, why else did I create Cell Splitter?

Finding him was a matter of minutes, again. He was still wondering about the ship's lowest tier. In different places this time, but still not hard to find.

This guy is likely doing this on purpose. Wanting me to approach him in public so that more people will see us together.

Therefore, he will be able to stick the blame on me. Or at least use me as a distraction to escape.

He will likely escape during the refill, the last stop before entering the Dark Continent's waters. At least that's what I imagine him doing.

But I still don't have enough insight into him to be able to tell his actual intentions. He shouldn't be planning to harm me though.

He likely knows that any accusation thrown against me is basically tantamount to nothing at all. Not only will I ignore it, even if I stole a national treasure, but they'd also likely forgive me anyway.

Only the empire in question might start sending assassins after me. But, well, I think most governments already do that, so what's the point?

I once again transferred my consciousness to the one closest to him. I approached him much in the same way I had done before.

This time he was able to notice me before I patted him on the back though.

"Teacher! It's great to see you again." Yeah, yeah, spare me the good student facade. You're as much of a scumbag as I am.

"Of course. Let's go somewhere more private." I told him with a simple smile. This casual interaction seems to be exactly what he was hoping for.

"Sure. Please follow me." And now he's acting subservient in public. Making it look like I'm his boss, or at least an important client.

His plans are becoming more and more clear, but it's not like a baby plotter would be able to cook up something that I can't think of.

We reached his room, on the way, he also called his other associates. Telling them to come to meet up at the usual spot. Or something along those lines.

"We should likely wait for everyone to show up before the big reveal." Chrollo just nodded.

After a few minutes of me making some tea and him silently observing me. The rest of the Phantom Troupe walked into the room.

They probably all gathered somewhere before heading here together.

"Greetings, how delightful to see you all still well," I said with a smile, as I took a sip of my tea. But I almost spit it out when I saw two people amongst them.

It seems that I cannot escape my curse, no matter what I do, I am bound to run into Zoldycks. Curse you, Silva, for having so many children.

I mean, I guess should've expected Kalluto. But what exactly is the Hospital Security Guard Illumi doing with a group of thieves?

"Well, I guess Silva doesn't know about you brats heading for the Dark Continent," I said, completely ignoring the presence of everyone else in the room.

There's no way in hell the Zoldyck family would want any of their offsprings on my Homeland.

I know that for a fact. Maha would likely jail anyone with that intention inside their compound, supervising them personally.

I could see Illumi cough a bit. As Kalluto covered his face with his paper fan. What? Am I embarrassing them in front of their new friends? Too bad.

"*Cough* Teacher... What exactly did you want to show us?" Chrollo reminded me that the rest of the Phantom Troupe still existed.

They all looked quite surprised to see me. Some were maybe afraid, like Machia and the Vacuum lady. But their pitiful attempt at fighting me barely even registered as aggression to me.

"Oh! Of course." My gaze lingered on the Zoldyck brothers, as they both avoided it like the plague. I guess me being basically a friend of their ancestor came into discussion eventually.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be so skittish to meet me again. Especially Illumi.

I 'gently' ripped space open and dragged out their traitors head, by the hair and everything.

I sighed as I heard a few gasps. I guess explanations are in order.

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