Chapter 16 : Confrontation

Pakunoda finally arrived at the designated place.

After verification by Melody, Kurapika set two conditions for Pakunoda and Chrollo.

The first rule for Chrollo is that he is forbidden to use Nen, and the second is that he may not contact any member of the Troop.

Kurapika stated that his top priority is to recover Gon and Killua.

To ensure that he complies with these conditions, he will use his chain of judgment on him.

Once Pakunoda accepted the conditions, Kurapika put the chain on Chrollo.

He then gave Pakunoda's conditions; the first is that she must release Gon and Killua unharmed, before midnight and without artifice.

Secondly, she must not say a single word about him.

Pakunoda has accepted this and Kurapika has put the chain on him.

Kurapika told her to bring back Gon and Killua to exchange hostages.

Pakunoda accepted and she returned to their hiding place.

In the Troop's hiding place, Phinks insisted that Pakunoda tell him the location of the user of the chain and that he would not let her go until he told her.

However, Pakunoda refused and said she would take the children alone, which made Phinks angry.

Machi told her to leave, and that she would stop them if necessary.

This created a minor conflict that resulted in Pakunoda leaving with Gon and Killua for the exchange site.

Kurapika watched as Pakunoda and the boys go back to his place until he suddenly saw Hisoka.

He phoned Kurapika and asked to allow him to go inside the airship along with the hostages. He claimed that his target is the boss and that he wanted to fight him. As the airships land, both parties meet.

After verifying that Gon and Killua are not being manipulated, they begin the exchange. Kurapika and the others leave immediately after that, however, the spiders are still there.

Hisoka challenged Chrollo to a duel, but Chrollo said it wasn't worth the fight because he can't use his Nen right now.

Hisoka was therefore shocked and decided to leave immediately saying that he is not interested in broken toys.

But before he left he suddenly turned around with a big smile on his face and felt a strong aura approaching.

He saw James walking slowly towards him and Chrollo.

"So you were the famous thief who gave them so much trouble, you seem to have improved a lot." He said looking at James with a smile.

James took off the top of his jacket and walked towards Hisoka as his aura exploded out of his body.

"I've been looking forward to our confrontation." Said James as his muscles tightened and he took the pose of a boxer.

Chrollo meanwhile walked away, while Hisoka with a big smile that could not hide his joy took up a fighting position.

"You know I never turn down an opponent, but could you spare Chrollo during our fight, although I don't like broken toys, it's not impossible to fix it."

"If you survive our fight, I will let him live." Said James, taking a deep breath.

Hisoka's aura also exploded out of his body giving off an evil air, he rushed towards James who without waiting rushed towards Hisoka as well.

James concentrated more than 2000 aura units in his fists and threw a dozen punches towards Hisoka.

'Fist Release: 10 Punches'

Swirling nen fists attacked Hisoka who jumped into the air twisting his body at 180° degree avoiding the ten fists of Nen before landing a meter away from James with his fists covered with a pink aura launching a counterattack toward James, who in response opened his palms and caused a ball of Nen to appear swirling in each palm before throwing them to Hisoka, who was close to him.

Hisoka dodged one of James' balls, opened his hands and created a layer of pink nen that enveloped the second nen ball and deviated its trajectory, but suddenly the nen ball he had dodged changed direction and hit him in the back and exploded along with the ball he had deflected, tearing his outfit and forcing him back several meters with some scratches on his skin.

He stooped to the ground for a moment and did not stop towards James, who had banged his palms together.

Hisoka, who was about five meters away from him, felt a pleasant warm air current and then he was thrown backwards after a shock wave, but he smiled at that moment.

When James saw this smile, he had a bad feeling, his superhuman senses noticed changes in the air to his right, and the next moment a stone thrown at an extraordinary speed that split the air hit him on his right cheek.

But the hit of the stone didn't do him any damage - the only problem was the aura line that was then attached to his cheek by this blow.