Chapter 8 : Litajo X Sound attack

James then stared intently at Hisoka as the next vote began.

Hisoka at the same time raised his finger in the air with a pensive look.

"Now!"

James focused his aura with difficulty towards his eyes and managed to see a cross-shaped. Illumi also looked up at Hisoka for a moment and then the next second all three voted almost simultaneously.

Everyone's time then decreased by five hours, Illumi then looked in the direction of James, although he had a stoic face James understood that he must have been slightly surprised to see him useful the nen, Hisoka also looked at James with appreciation and a slight perverse smile, like a predator enjoying a piece of meat in front of him.

"He managed to use the Gyô in barely two days after his awakening...Oooh I want so much to taste you my little apple, but you're far too green you're not ripe enough."

22 H 53 MN 16S (James)

32 H 53 MN 16S (Illumi)

19h H 53 MN 16S (Hisoka)

One of the two prisoners then slowly approached the group and kicked the prisoner who had died earlier, throwing his body backwards.

With a gesture he broke the handcuffs on his wrist and pointed his finger at James.

James then slowly moved forward and stood five meters away from his opponent.

This time it was a fairly tall woman with strange tattoos all over her body, she had long black hair and completely white eyes with no pupils making her look like a blind man.

Then she whispered in a weak voice:

"Our duel will be a match to the death, I'll bet all my points too."

"Are you ready?"

James nodded his head

The woman, though blind, rushed towards James, who put himself in fighting positions while staring at his opponent with a calm gaze.

"A skinny body, she's also blind, but we're in a strange world god only knows if it's not a genetic abnormality, her posture's pretty strange, she's in a starting posture favouring speed to defence, with a skinny body like hers if even one of my blows hits her she'll die or get hurt."

When James finished his analysis the woman was already barely a meter away from him, he lowered his center of gravity and threw an Uppercut containing all his strength, thanks to his speed his fist arrived in front of the woman's face in barely a second.

At the same time the woman's cheeks suddenly swelled and then a high-pitched, thunderous sound pierced through everyone's eardrums.

The shock wave sent James backwards as his ears bled, James covered his ears with pain as the whole room shook with the woman's screams.

Hisoka plugged his ears with his finger while the prisoner who had not yet participated watched the woman confront James with an indifferent expression.

He was a middle-aged, fairly muscular man of about 155cm without eyebrows or hair, with a lifeless, undisturbed look, he was relatively short but radiated a feeling that only accomplished fighters had.

"These tattoos, and that destructive scream, she from no doubt it's from the Sobu tribe of Mount Kuza, I've heard of this tribe where members voluntarily deny themselves a sense of sight to enhance their other senses to perfection, rumor has it that over generations, this tribe created fighting skills based on bat-inspired eco-localization."

The woman's name was Litajo, she had a deep love for nature and the animals living in the mountains of her tribe, she was convicted for the murder of a dozen poachers who had entered the forest belonging to her tribe and twenty policemen who later tried to arrest her.

She was later arrested by a bounty Hunter and sentenced to 189 years in prison.

James' vision began to blur, he staggered as he lost his balance.

"She used the sound waves, I didn't feel any form of nen from the woman and I highly doubt that hunter's association would send nen masters to fight a candidate, so what she just used is not a Hatsu."

She suddenly stopped her screams and rushed back to James, who was staggering.

Litajo then arrived in front of James quickly and without stopping joined her fingers together and using her hand as a knife, she launched a lightning attack in the direction of James' jugular.

"Since you don't use the Nen, I won't use it too."

But even before reaching James, the latter, who seemed dizzy, suddenly raised his right leg and before Litajo could even react, gave it a powerful kick.

*Creak*

"Agh!"

Litajo was thrown backwards, sounds of broken bones echoed.

she spat out a sip of blood as she rolled on the floor the next second she quickly got up and looked at James as she gasped.

James ran towards her without giving her time to readjust her posture.

"His attack rather destabilized me, because of my loss of balance I could only exert 40% of my attacking power in that kick otherwise she wouldn't have been able to get up."

Litajo's cheeks swelled again and she opened her mouth, but unlike last time, no sound escaped from her lips.

Jame without paying attention gave Litajo an Undercut, but as her fist was two centimeters away from his face he suddenly stopped, his nose and his ears started bleeding, he completely lost control of his body freezing him in place.

Litajo then hit him with two successive kicks pushing James backwards but at the point where she wanted to stab him with her hands, she also spat out a sip of blood allowing James, who at the same time regained his ability to move, to move backwards.

James then looked in the direction of Litajo with slight apprehension.

"She's also blind, so I guess she's using ecolocation, the technique she used first had a large field of action but was quite weak, the technique she just used however worked on me only when I was close to her, so her field of action is reduced but more powerful."

"This technique is great, during my SVT classes my teacher had already talked about bats being able to disturb the senses of their prey with ultrasounds, but I would never have think that a human could transcend the limitations of her body to the point of developing such a technique".

"But a spatial positioning technique replacing the sound-based view has one flaw."

James' body muscles tightened, he rushed towards Litajo at full speed, making as much noise as possible with each step, arriving barely a second in front her, at the same time Litajo's cheeks swelled, but James instead of the attacked her, suddenly changed its trajectory appearing on her right, Litajo also readjusted quickly her posture, but suddenly she received a powerful punch on her right cheek throwing her brutally towards a wall which she was hit before fainting.