A Fierce Fight With The Release Of Endless Dreams

In a large arena, two children were facing each other, one was quite sure of his victory and therefore wore an unamused face, which brought a very strong contrast to the other child.

"This fight goes to the KO, somebody surrenders, or somebody falls out of the arena! With that explanation, it will now begin!", Said the referee, who blew a whistle and took a few steps back, so as not to end up in the fight.

Illumi walked very slowly to Rex, which made Rex panic a bit, he simply didn't know what sort of tricks assassins could use, and with the threat from Illumi before the fight startet, that if he showed any sign of weakness, he wouldn't be worth living, he took extra precautions.

Rex went in a boxing position and used En, which radius is about as big as his own arm.

'Come to me, in this fight I am far superior to you, with EN I can sense and counter any of your attacks, no matter in which direction, and on top of that I have a greater range than you! Since you can't use weapons here, close combat is the only option you have, Illumi!'

Rex watched Illumi, who was still in front of him, the entire time and waited anxiously until he did something... But his Nen could tell him with the sixth sense that something was not right.

Then... He suddenly felt a murderous intent behind him.

Illumi's clawed hand flowed through his En, Rex bent over as fast as he could, jumped a big step forward and quickly turned around. "You were in front of me, weren't you? How could that be!"

"Wow, viewers! Did you see that? It looks like Illumi can teleport! Or was he just fast and no one caught on? Well, Rex was able to narrowly avoid it!"

"You have quite good reflexes, or is it something else? Well, earlier you asked me to show an assassination technique and since I couldn't demonstarte the last one, I decided to use Rhythm Echo, I'll give you a hint, clones."

'Echo Rhythm... Oh right! He tricked my brain by walking to me in the same monotonous and slow way, and this must have tricked my brain into thinking it could predict the next steps.... And this is how the illusion of an after image, Echo Rhytm, was created... But how did he...'

'I see', Rex thought, when suddenly a light flashed in his eyes.

Illumi seemed to have noticed this and the corners of his mouth seemed to rise up a little bit. "Yes, while you and everyone else here in the audience were focusing on the after image, I used another Assassin technique, Shadow Steps, to get to the back and run around the arena very quickly and quietly until I was behind you."

'Why is he explaining all this to me now?', thought Rex as he tried to hit Illumi's small body with his right fist as fast as a flash, but Illumi simply stepped to the left and grabbed Rex's long shirt with both his hands and pulled Rex forward with a snap.

This caused rex to lose his grip and fall forward.

But his hands supported him on the ground and he pushed himself up in the air to avoid being caught by Illumi, but before he could land on the ground Illumi ran to him and was ready to punch Rex.

But Rex blocked it with his left hand, and grabbed Illumi's elbow with his right hand. If he hadn't done that, he would have been outside the ring by now because of the huge force of the punch.

As he landed he tried to land a pair of kicks and punches on Illumi, but Illumi blocked them all, which frustrated Rex slightly, but Illumi couldn't help but feel a bit trapped, not only could Rex predict all the counters, but somehow use them to his advantage.

And since Illumi was hooked by Rex, he couldn't escape and just watch as Rex's kicks and fists were coming closer and closer to him, until they caught him and even harmed him a bit. Then a thought came to his mind. 'I could use Snake Awakening... But it might kill Rex...'

From an unexpected turn, Illumi seemingly gave up.

Suddenly Illumi was directing all of his murderous lust at Rex, this caused a cold shiver to come under Rex's spine, and he immediately let go and jumped to the edge of the arena.

"Wow audience! It seems like Rex has retreated after all the punching out and kicking! Was this a sign of kindness?"

"It's alright Rex", Illumi said, turning his back to Rex while nearing the edge of the arena. "I hate fighting someone who doesn't even make me give it my all."

"Does that mean you're giving up?", asked Rex.

"Pretty much yes, why?"

A smile formed on Rex face. "Well, I don't want to win a fight where my opponent simply surrenders, I have another trick I want to show you!"

"Oho, and that would be?"

Rex got into a slightly kneeling position and formed an X with his arms. "This is what we call REN!"

In an instant, Illumi felt the same strange murderous intent that he had once felt from his father.

He immediately jumped out of the arena and hid in the farthest place in the arena. 'What was that?!'

Illumi could only wonder as the commentator declared the winner of this fight.

"Wow what was that! It looks like Illumi has fled from Rex!"

"Ladies and gentlemen! Crab King Rex and Black Pupils Illumi have shown us a lot of their fighting skills and ability in this exciting and thrilling battle! But unfortunately all good things must come to an end! The winner is Rex, Illumi has left the arena!"

"Wohoo! Awesome fight!"

"You usually only experience something like this in the 200th floors!"

"Wow!"

After Rex continued to enjoy all the cheering, he jumped down from the arena, went up stairs and walked to a receptionist, where Illumi was also waiting for him.

"Here's the money! The amount is 50,000 Jenny!", The receptionist said as she handed Rex an enclosed envelope. "You can go to the 60th floor now!"

Illumi tapped him on the shoulder. "Are you going to ignore me right after I waited here for you? Come on, tell me, how did you do that?"

Rex pondered for a bit before coming to a decision. "Meet me on the 100th floor, you have your own room there, it's much better if we discuss it there."

"Alright."

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Rex and Illumi were currently in the same room on the 100th floor. It had taken Rex five victories and Illumi seven, but they managed to do it all in three days.

Rex sat on the bed, while Illumi stood to the side of the bed, but Rex still had to check something. "Tell me Illumi, what are you going to do after your father lets you out of Heavens Arena here?"

"I will probably continue training", Illumi replied quickly and without giving it a second thought.

"That's not what I mean", Rex said. "What are you going to do after you go through all that training and get strong?"

Illumi stared at Rex for a few seconds. "I'm going to accept and carry out Assassination orders.... What else?"

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"Pft!"

Rex couldn't help but laugh. "You really mean to tell me, that you only live so you can serve as a lapdog to people from continents far away? I'm sorry but such unwilling people can't learn Nen!"

"But that's what I was made for", Illumi said plainly.

"Made but not qualified for it! I can already see it in your eyes! Those big pupils only pretend what they want to become!"

Illumi walked towards the door. "You don't know what you are talking about, Rex."

"Yeah, go ahead... Remain a slave to your father, but I warn you... If you keep staying like this, you will forever be unhappy, looking for a meaning or goal in life, but never able to come to terms with it, say...

'What is it that you want to achieve in this life?'"

Illumi closed the door and continued walking to his own room.

But Rex's words just couldn't get out of his head.

No wonder, this is the first time that someone asked him about it.

It's also the first time he didn't talk to a member of his family or a butler about in-depth matters.

And even in his room, in the deep night in his bed, Illumi tried to ignore the question, but it seems that it awakened something deep inside him.

The longer he thought about it, the more he felt something new rising inside of him, and he himself felt vast amounts of emotions and feelings that sometimes struck him, but never so strongly that he couldn't sleep.

Suddenly there were many ambitions in his head, he could become the richest person in the world, or the strongest Zoldyck, or... Just do nothing and take a break!

He even imagined himself in each of these situations, this also gave him some kind of joy he never knew he could experience.

"What did he... Do to me?", Illumi thought to himself as he pondered about these new feelings and ambitions all night.

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Wow! This is the first time I've written a fight, and I don't think it was as fluid and badass as I hoped it would be. Please tell me what I can do better here... I mean... I don't want to write the later fights like an idiot.

And yes, Rex intentionally revealed Ren to Illumi, so that he would develop some kind curiosity in Rex (and not kill him in the middle of the night of course).

Yeah, Rex could easily win the fight, but he sealed a lot of Nen for the multiplier, and except for the En, which didn't even hurt Illumi, Rex didn't charge his fists and kicks with Nen, to prevent Illumi from suddenly becoming a Nen user, or maybe dying.