Chapter 45: BasexTroupe

Directly after I hear the unsettling call from Nicholas I yell, "Gon, Killua, we have to go see ya." Before grabbing Hanzo and explaining while we run what's happening.

"What was that call about and why are we rushing out of here at top speed?" Hanzo asks very confused but still managing to keep pace with me.

"Okay, the call was from Nicholas," I hand the phone over and replay the conversation I recorded as a message. As he hears the ominous words of warning Nicholas gives his face gets serious and darkens.

While we run I check on my strings and see that Nicholas, Evelyn, and a few of the other women are alive but everybody else who was in our hideout including Sebastian and the other men we left to protect the base. Seeing this I start running even faster.

"Hanzo we don't have time for leisure now 20 of our people are already dead. I'm going to make us a jet as soon as we get out of the city. I will be tired from how much aura I'm going to pump to make it go supersonic speeds so you need to be ready and at full to protect me while I regain my aura reserves when we get there.

When we get to the outskirts of the city I create the fastest jet I know of and we start our journey immediately. Over the next 5 hours, I watch as people die and their strings disappear one by one until finally only Nicholas and Evelyn are alive.

After about one hour I watch both of their strings disappear as they both die within 15 minutes of each other.

"Why is the jet slowing down Boss?" Hanzo asks confused feeling a drastic decrease in speed.

With a solemn heart and a stone-cold face, I explain to him, "Everybody who was originally in the base is now dead. There is no hope of saving anybody now so I might as well save some Aura to revenge them.

Almost 3 hours later we finally reached the outskirts of the small town our base was under.

"Hanzo use In to hide your presence if whoever did this is still here we don't want a fight at least not until I'm back to full capacity."

Hanzo looks down, shocked at the destruction. Where the town used to be, a gigantic crater reaches all the way down to the top portion of most of our underground passageways.

Danggit this must be the doing of either Silva or the Phantom Troupe

Hanzo is stunned by the sight but I jump down looking for the bodies I know will be here. It's most likely that all of our fighters sensed the serge in Aura from above and tried getting higher to find out what it was before being disintegrated by the blast.

Getting to the middle of our base I see a message on almost every wall. The message is carved into the walls on all sides of my base and it reads 'We'll accept anything you leave here, but don't ever take anything away from us.'

All I can assume from this is that the phantom troupe did it. The message is the motto of Meteor City but civilians even with Nen wouldn't have enough aura to do this much damage to my facility. It looks like Uvo's big bang impact went off right above where I am right now.

I jump into one of the passageways and Hanzo follows after a few seconds. Walking down the passage feels weird now. there's no roof on it anymore and light streams through the tunnels. Getting to the main room I see one of the most gruesome sights I've seen apart from some of Big Bro Tsuru's 'collection' of body parts.

In the middle of the room are the bodies of 12 people. Nicholas, Evelyn, and 10 of the logistics personnel. All of them have obviously gone through some form of torture bloody and 'used'. Walking up to one of the bodies, her clothes were cut off and blood splattered all over the ground. After torture, she was probably decapitated.

"Who did this?!" Hanzo says in a coarse almost whispery tone of rage.

"Most likely the Phantom Troupe," I reply.

She had her head cut off and they are all badly tortured so Feitan must have been here as well. "It's pretty crazy," I say quietly with a deranged smile spreading across my face.

"Yesterday everything was going great but today everyone is dead and we are almost back to step one. I'm going to kill those bastards!" I yell feeling my smile get even wider while my head starts to vibrate from the rage.

Looking at Nicholas, he is bloody from head to toe. His dead body with his eyes wide and a deep series of cuts on his body that spell out 'We'll accept anything you leave here, but don't ever take anything away from us.'

Walking closer I see dried blood on his bent backward fingers and toes all the nails ripped off. Feitan was definitely here he is the one who tortures starting with nails and moving on to the breaking of fingers, and then he moves to the rest of the bones.

Because of the contract Nicholas signed he indefinitely didn't tell them anything they wanted to hear about anything. He can't tell any of our business to anybody outside of the family, so they must have been very mad leaving empty-handed.

It's good that no business got out but I can't even imagine the pain he went through tortured for over 6 hours straight by one of if not the best torture and Interrogation experts in the world. His skin is torn and cut off in all types of places. His mouth is left open in a scream, black and blue eyelids and his bloodshot eyes are on the ground next to the rest of his body.

No ears, no eyes, and almost no skin, in total he looks like a person born with some type of 'congenital anomaly'. Examining Evelyn makes me want to go kill them even more. The one I've known the longest the worst tortured having to watch the rest of her friends tortured and killed in front of her while she was in pain before her own inevitable death.

The thought of what these 2 friends must have been through makes me quiver with rage and malice. I just stand there looking at their corpses for minutes maybe hours trying to calm down and decide what I'm going to do.

"The first step of action is, REVENGE."

"I will take revenge on those assholes for killing them! I will destroy them," I yell loud enough for anyone in the crater to hear me.

I stand and wait just thinking about how many ways I'm going to torture the Troupe for this transgression against me. Oh, so many ways I will torture them once I find those idiots, but the first way will be to torture them mentally killing their 'family'