The Sin That Was Committed [Edited]

"And you want me to help you with this heist?"

"Yes."

There was a long pause as Illumi answered again. "So, let me get this straight, after I never saw you again for 14 years because I saw you die in the Heavens Arena, you show up and ask an Assassin to help with a theft?"

"Yes, but I didn't actually die... It was more that the person who fought the Snake guy wasn't actually me, but rather a Nen doll that looked exactly like me, controlled by a Nen user I paid. I knew I couldn't win that fight, so I ran away with the money real quick."

"You think I'm going to believe that?"

"Nen works wonders, I've told you several times-"

"Anyways, I've registered your coordinates and your voice, I'll be with you soon and see it for myself... Go alone to the north of the city, at the very edge, we will see each other soon, and I better see you alone, if you break any of these rules, you will feel consequences and if you are a imitator, you will feel consequences."

"Okay, bye bye."

Rex hung up and opened a second app. He was amazed when he saw the considerable amount of money, but that was not why he opened the application.

He entered a contact number and...

[You transferred 100,000,000.00- Jenny to ******]

Rex looked behind him with paranoia to see if people were still there, even though he knew they had all left on the helicopter a few minutes ago...

'Haha... Sorry'

He took out a red gem from his pocket and held it in front of the sun, so that it caused the sun to look red. 'Ah... This is the second time...

Never mind, it's for all our best.'

The magical energy that was in the crystal began to flow into Rex's hand, spreading throughout his body.

In a process that took hours, the intense red of the gem began to fade until the crystal turned completely white.

But strangely, in the end, nothing changed about him.

He stood up. 'I should probably get going.'

✹

In a park, on a bench, next to a water fountain Rex comfortably read a newspaper, hours have passed by now, so that at this very moment he could enjoy a beautiful sunrise.

Suddenly his sixth sense gave a warning signal, a person was watching him.

'Oh is he finally here?'

But his thoughts were quickly interrupted by a high velocity projectile.

He quickly leaned to the right to dodge.

*Boom*

With a loud noise, the projectile destroyed a wooden plank of the bench.

When he turned around, he saw that it was large, round head needle.

The people around looked at him in puzzlement.

"What was that explosion?"

"I'd better go..."

"Was that a gunshot?"

But Rex didn't let the chatter from the people break his concentration, his eyes were focused on the man atop the skyscraper.

Three more needles were shot at him, but he dodged each of them, and the last one he even caught with his index and middle finger.

Rex stood up from the bench. "Jump off the skyscraper and stand in front of me like a man!"

As of this moment, almost all the people had already fled from the park, and the person was also finally standing in front of him.

"You already know I'm Rex, so why are you shooting at me?"

Yes, the only reason Rex Millions paid Jenny for Illumi's phone number was so that the Zoldyck family, one of the butlers, or most likely Illumi himself, could give his recorded voice to a Nen user and check it for legitimacy.

Thus he would have, in principle, without large difficulties, a good partner for his mission ready... But this was not quite true.

Illumi is now standing in front of him, his pupils large, and the ends of his hair as sharp as poisonous needles. "I just need to check if you are worthy."

"And this set of needles was the test?", Rex was a bit puzzled at Illumi's approach.

"Wrong."

Suddenly, two needles were stuck in his head, each above his ears.

From the Anime experience, he braced himself for his face to change to the ugly one, but that didn't happen.

Instead, he felt Illumi's sinister purple aura strengthen... And this apparently had no end...

3...

4...

5...

More and more needles were stuck in his head, and with each needle, his aura strengthened.

'That's already 7... What's the limit? Did I accidentally make Illumi too strong?'

Suddenly, he stopped. "One and a half years... That's how long it took me to conquer the Arena, and that's how long you taught me Nen.... When I came out of the Arena, I trained until I almost dropped dead, just to catch up with you, in that time I achieved my Hatsu, but exactly one year after I left, I saw your fight against Snake Monarch.

I saw you die.

I saw how my naivety just let me down, at first I wanted to rebel against the job of assassination, like you told me thousands of times, but when I saw you fall... I came to a realization...

No matter what I do, everything ends with me standing next to a corpse...

And then, and then suddenly you returned... Why didn't you tell me? Your escape from the Heavens Arena."

Rex didn't really know how to explain his situation to Illumi.

"You know... Didn't we promise each other to be much stronger the next time we meet, right?"

"You were dead."

"What if I am dead? Everyone dies once... And besides, I'm standing here in front of you now, alive."

"And you couldn't have told me?"

"No one knows when they are going to die, no one can forewarn their friends of their death....

And, when my time will come and I die, don't go straight back on the track of your old self, as if my life never had any meaning, go on doing the thing that you think is correct for everyone.

Because I know you're changeable, because I know you once went from a cold-blooded Assassins to my best buddy... That's exactly why I invited you on my team."

"..."

"..."

Illumi thought a bit.

"I decline."

"Huh, wh-"

"Robberies are not for Assassins."

With his EN activated, Illumi turned and slowly walked away.

Rex took a deep breath. " Okay... If you want it that way, your mission will be to kill Beyond Netero, and for that I have to train you for 1 year."

"Killing is not for you, Rex."

"He's dangerous, he's endangering the lives of millions of people."

"So what? Why should I listen to you?"

Illumi kept walking away, getting Rex a bit frustrated. "You know... I'll transfer you billions Jenny."

Illumi's footsteps didn't stop.

"I had no choice, the Nen user who controlled the doll made me say nothing!"

Suddenly, Illumi turned around. "Rex... I hope you know that I can't stand liars, and I, as a trained assassin can reveal you as a liar relatively easily. I'm impressed that you can suppress most of your physical reactions like that, but I, as a first class assassin, can see the very little details."

Slowly, Rex lost his mind. "Well... Tell me what you want me to do, so you can join my team.

I'll do anything, no matter what it is."

Illumi didn't want any more business with Rex, he felt a tiny bit annoyed, and walked away again. "Tsk, die then."

But he didn't really think Rex would take it that seriously....

He looked right behind him as he saw blood staining his shoes. "Rex...?"

Rex was dead.

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Yo....

Because I was sick for one day... I have to write 3 tests... And two of them on Monday.

But anyways, I am so thankful for this 12 days writing break.... Because of it I had such a good idea... I hope I can also implement it well.

Well, in this chapter you can see that Rex is basically... A deadbeat father...

(Btw, I'm not gonna rewrite it, just a few minor edits on some paragraphs)