Chain User and Assassination

__________ POV Ashton__________

Hah, I wonder how this will mess up Chrollo's plans.

He wanted me to get rid of this headache for the troupe too. But I really don't feel like doing any more work for him. I just need to wait and see when they decide to steal the treasure.

Now, I am walking towards the nicer room of the first tiers. Since I decided to take one of them for myself.

I mean, the room I have is probably nicer than that of most, since provisional hunters forming the expedition team get some nice treatment.

But I really feel like sleeping in a bed with a gold frame, and I don't feel like dragging out my own from my void space.

I randomly chose a room. Not really trying to find anyone specifically. Inside was a woman being strangled by what seemed to be a bodyguard.

She is wearing a long-sleeved dress with a black shirt underneath. Her hair is worn in an elaborate ponytail, her eyes are black. Overall, she looked to be quite the cute young lady.

The problem in this image is the brute strangling her to death. Well, I guess the image does have some charm? Maybe it would look better as an art piece though.

"Oh? What have I walked into." I said, shaking my head. The man reacted quickly, letting go of the poor girl's neck and turning around.

But I was a tad bit faster. By the time he was around, I had already gently twisted his neck at a perfect 180-degree angle.

I grabbed him by his shirt with two fingers and threw him out of the room. Now, I don't really know if I want to keep this room, but I don't want a corpse to stay in it if I can help it.

The girl on the bed looked at me, somewhat frightened by her circumstances and somewhat thankful for the fact that I just saved her skin.

She was holding her own neck and gasping for air. I patted her on the back a bit, maybe reassuringly. She looks a bit sad, maybe I'll steal another room or something.

"Well, this counts as a good first meeting in my books! My name is Ashton, a pleasure to meet you, miss." I've had worse first impressions with people.

"Thank you... Thank you..." Aaand she started crying... I guess something like this should've been expected.

Surprisingly, she was hugging me whilst crying. Maybe because I am the closest form of comfort she can find? Having someone strangle you to death can be a traumatic experience...

I kept patting her back, although I am also getting bored of just staying here, I guess showing some sympathy isn't going to kill me.

Even if deep down, I hardly know this person enough to care at all.

I mean, I'd probably care more about it if it happened to Machi, and I've wanted to kill her two out of the three times I met her.

The girl kept crying for a few minutes. Then she somewhat regained her composure.

"Well... It would be nice if you introduced yourself as well..." I said with a bit of a smile. She turned embarrassed for some reason.

"I-I thought you already knew who I was..." What? Why would I know that? Is she some type of self-important movie star? If so, I do regret not filming her get strangled...

She probably noticed my disdain, she quickly waved her hands around.

"N-not in that way! M-my name is Momoze Hui Guo Rou and I am the 12th princess of the Kakin empire... " Oh... That explains quite a few things.

I guess most of the people on this ship would know the princes of the Empire that made it. But I am not most people.

"I see... Wait, did I interrupt your assassination by chance? Well, I guess I did." I thought I had fixed my 'thinking out loud' problem...

I forgot about the whole Succession War after Chrollo told me, mainly because it really didn't interest me at all.

I mean, I guess it does now? I did just get involved in it.

"I-I guess you did..." She looked down a bit. Only now noticing that we were still basically hugging.

Someone quickly entered the room. And a chain quickly flew towards me.

I grabbed the little princess with one arm and stopped the chain with the other. It was pulled, in an attempt to bring me closer to the user, but I didn't even budge.

On the other side of the chain, I could see a blond young man looking coldly at me.

Well, I guess this is the chain user. The one hunting down the Troupe members on board.

You know, for a ship this big, You'd think it would take longer for me to meet this guy. But I guess he hangs around the first tier.

"That's rude... I was holding a conversation here..." I said in a displeased tone.

"Let go of the princess hooligan!" Well... I guess it does look strange. Especially since one of her bodyguards is dead at the door.

Me hugging her as she moves her arms around all frantically sure isn't a good image either. Even if those movements are mostly from embarrassment.

I slowly let her breathe as I let go of her. She looked at the chain user.

"You've got it all wrong! This man saved me..." She spoke with actual emotion. Is this a good moment to mention that her voice is quite nice to listen to? Well, as good as any I guess.

Heh, now it's the chain user's turn to be embarrassed. He looked around the room and bowed in apology.

"I'm sorry sir!" Oh, a polite kid. Now I want to kill him even less.

"No harm done! The name's Ashton by the way." Not like you could do any in the first place.

"I'm Kurapika..." He said whilst rubbing the back of his head.

The princess sighed, I guess this evening is a bit more eventful than she had hoped. I once again patted her back, comforting people really isn't my strong suit.

If this doesn't work then I usually just give up.

But she seemed to appreciate it, she leaned back on me as she closed her eyes a bit. Eventually falling asleep whilst leaning on my chest in a seated position.

Poor Kurapika seemed to feel like the third wheel in the situation.

"I-I'll go call for some people to investigate the culprit..." He said in a low voice as he left the room. I just nodded.

Oh well. I guess I do get to sleep in a nicer room? Although not really alone...

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