Chapter 26 : Razor

Razor let Killua retrieve the ball first, he quickly made a pass to Goreinu who said a few words before hitting the ball with all his might.

The ball hit the beast of nen number 4 before falling to the ground eliminating it.

"Yes! That's one down!"

"Good!"

The team rejoiced, then Goreinu threw the ball back and hit another Razor nen, the ball fell to the ground eliminating a second opponent.

"Okay, that's two down!"

"Oh, this is easy.'

Razor smiles as he looks at Goreinu as the two dumb nen next to him stand ready.

"I am ready to defeat you now."

"Heh, that's funny, show us what you've got!"

Goreinu, whose confidence in victory has been bolstered by his two successive eliminations, throws the ball to Razor while reinforcing it with nen.

Razor caught the ball easily without even batting an eyelid.

"He stopped it with one hand?"

Goreinu was surprised by Razor's glib gesture, but before he reacted, Razor launched the counterattack, throwing the ball at an incredibly fast and destructive speed with nen.

Goreinu, sensing the danger, suddenly disappears and his beast of nen exchanges his place with him.

The head of his beast of nen was immediately destroyed before the body of the beast fell to the ground, Goreinu further away had his head down and a shocked expression.

"He swapped places with his beast of nen, interesting, it gives me ideas for improvement for my Evil."

James thought pensively about Goreinu's technique while his teammates understood the danger that Razor represented.

Killua asked if it was Goreinu or his beast of nen who was being eliminated.

"The exchange was performed with Nen, so it broke no rules. However, Back must be used to bring Goreinu inside the court."

The game resumed.

Razor, who quickly picked up the ball, threw a second pass to his nen beast, who made a pass, the nen beasts and Razor made extremely fast passes that stunned everyone before Razor threw the ball to Tsezgerra.

"Tsezgerra! Behind you!"

Tsezguerra concentrated his nen on his back as the ball hit him, he fell to the ground feeling incredible pain.

The ball that was about to fall to the ground was picked up by James at breakneck speed preventing the elimination of Tsezgerra.

"Hey, patch him up."

"Are you okay?"

Two of Razor's teammates holding medical kits came to Tsezgerra.

"I-I'm fine... Don't touch me."

"If a player is unable to continue

playing, they're disqualified."

"They won't be allowed to play in or outside the court, so keep that in mind."

Hearing the referee's words, Tsezgerra slowly got up off the floor, left the field and sat down in a corner of the room.

James holding the ball let his aura slowly emanate from his body and then concentrated it into the ball.

"What a dense aura, I was right, he's probably the strongest in the group."

Razor murmured with a slightly more serious facial expression.

James threw the ball and concentrated his aura without his hand.

The aura in his hand changed from black to scarlet red before his nen exploded out of his body.

Feeling the sense of violence contained in James' aura, the hearts of everyone present leapt into their chests.

Razor became completely serious with his aura exploding out of his body.

James hit the ball in the air with such violence and force that the ball reinforced by his nen became deformed.

*Bam* *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

Everyone heard a succession of explosions, a few seconds later they saw that all the nen belonging to Razor were crushed to the ground and in front of Razor there was a large hole in the ground where the ball was.

"What just happened?"

"I didn't see anything, all I heard were noises. I didn't even see the ball for a second."

Biscuit looked seriously at James thinking about what had just happened, Killua and others nearby were in a cold sweat.

Only Gon was happy.

"Incredible Mr. James, there is only one person left and victory is ours."

"My control of my nen at this speed and at such strange trajectories is not yet perfected, otherwise I could have killed him with this attack, the enhancement has made my control to decrease, I will have to train."

James scratched his hair as he looked at the ball that hadn't hit Razor.

Razor looks at the hole in front of him and suddenly smiles.

James' attack is so powerful and fast that those further away can only hear the sound of the ball hitting his nen beast, but being closest to the attack he had seen the ball change trajectory several times after hitting each of his nen beasts in just a few seconds.

However, the ball missed him at the last moment and crashed to the ground in front of him.

The aura around Razor quickly changed, exploding even louder to the point of creating drafts throughout the room. Tsezgerra's companions, Gon, Killua and all the others were watching Razor and instinctively using the Ren to protect themselves from the aura emanating from him.

"Ging sorry but I can't hold back this time, I've met an opponent too interesting not to face him with all my strength."

Razor opened his eyes as his smile widened.

Razor, he was a murderer who committed countless murders and was captured his strength and power was such that the hunter's association could only appeal to a high level hunter, Ging.

When Razor was a child, he was a victim of physical and verbal abuse. He was rarely called by his first name and was instead referred to as "slowpoke", "good for nothing", "loser" and "idiot", among other insults. 

He was sentenced to death, but Ging hired him and took him to Greed Island, asking him for help in creating the game.

Razor thought Ging was crazy, getting excited like a child about the game and asking him not to hold back when his son came to the island.

Ging then put a hand on his shoulder and respectfully called his name, making Razor feel like it was the first time and his respect and affection for his captor grew.

He has been on the island for at least 13 years.

A once dangerous man who could only be apprehended by a top hunter like Ging Freecss spent thirteen years training every day on Greed Island, stopping only to perform his duties as an administrator.

His power could not be underestimated.

James's aura also exploded against Razor's aura.

Razor slowly picked up the ball from the ground and threw it into the air.

The game was just beginning.