We all got outside of the car we were forced into. I couldn't tell Avira to clear up some space by popping back into my head, but they wouldn't allow me to communicate with him.

Each member of the troupe kept a close eye on each of us. The lucky person to keep an eye on me was Machi. I could tell she was the most keen of them all.

Pakunoda kept an eye on Avira.

I shot a glare at Avira, but Machi pushed me and told me to keep walking into the building.

"So tell us, boy, why were you four following us?" Pakunoda asked Gon.

"We just-" Killua tried to answer for Gon.

"Speak when spoken to." Nobunaga shoved Killua forward.

"We- We just wanted reward money!"

"Yeah, the whole mafia put a bounty on your heads." Killua spoke.

"Oh? Is that so." Phinks said.

"What would you need money for?" Machi asked me.

I actually didn't know the reason why the two boys wanted so much money in the first place.

"He can tell you." I tilted my head towards Gon.

"None of your business!" Gon stuck his tongue out at the troupe members.

"Gon!" I yelled at him, trying to help him keep his cool.

"Don't speak unless spoken to, you kids are all the same." Phinks pushed me the same way Nobunaga pushed Killua.

Machi puts small nen threads all over my body to keep me in place and not run off.

"If you make a wrong move, your body will be cut into a million tiny pieces." Machi threatens.

We make it into a room filled with more troupe members. The girl Avira put a tracker on was there as well as the two men she was with at the time.

I looked around the room more and to the upper left corner of the room was...

"Huh?!" I say in unison with Gon.

"Hmm, do you two know someone here?" Nobunaga asks.

Hisoka looks away, trying to play dumb. We might be able to play it off like it was the girl Gon arm-wrestled that we recognized.

"Oh!" Killua pointed at Shizuku.

"Hm, so I know you?" She asks.

"You arm wrestled the black-haired kid a few days ago." The short man said to her.

"I did?"

"Yeah, and you lost." The big man said to Shizuku.

"I don't believe you."

"It was because you were using your right hand." The big man, who's name was Franklin tried to reason with her.

"Franklin, once somethings out of her head it's out of there for good."

"Oh, right, guess it was a mistake."

"That's what I thought." Shizuku said going bak to reading a book she had in her hands.

"Is that true boy?" Nobunaga asked Gon.

"Yeah!" Gon says, looking him straight in the eye with determination. Shizuku ignored the conversation going on below.

I looked up at Hisoka again.

I'm going to spam him once I get out of here. I'm glad I have his number on hand.

The broken rocks everywhere accumulated a lot of dust. I try to hold in my sneezes making me look strange.

"Are you good?" Avira asks me, forgetting about the consequences.

I nod trying not to draw so much attention, I don't think any of the members were paying attention.

"You're pretty strong kid." Nobunaga says to Gon as he swings his arm and almost crushes Gon's hand.

"Gon!" Killua yells, trying to get to Gin at the same time.

Hisoka comes down from his rock and raises a card to Killua's neck, warning him not to move. If Killua makes a wrong move, even if Hisoka likes him, he won't hesitate to kill Killua.

Killua has fear in his eyes, if he dies under my watch, I don't think Illumi will be too happy about that.

I shoot a glare at Killua, telling him to calm down, at least for now, while he's till has the chance.

"You know I'm not the strongest troupe member here, but the strongest's name was Uvogin."

Tears started streaming down Nobunaga's face.

"He was killed by the chain-user," Nobunaga continues.

"I already told you, I don't know who the chain-user is!" Gon yells,"So you can cry those types of tears? You can cry for your friends? But, you kill so many people, yet you can still feel?!" Gon slams Nobunaga's hand to the rock and beats him at the arm-wrestling.

I didn't get too excited, though. Feitan came up behind Gon and pinned him down against the rock.

"You should watch yourself." Feitan warns, still pinning him down.

I look over towards Avira. He was clenching his teeth. He wanted to do something about Feitan, but he didn't want to cause c=any trouble for Killua or Gon.

These people kill without hesitation, without worrying about the consequences, that's how powerful they are.

"Feitan, don't do what I think you're going to do." Nobunaga protested his actions.

"What do you think I'm going to do?" Feitan asks.

"Well, you're going to break his arm, aren't you?"

"No, I'm going to start with a finger, maybe peel off a nail." Feitan continues.

Torture, a standard tactic for people who enjoy seeing people in pain, or getting information.

"Stop." Nobunaga protests.

"Why should I?"

Nobunaga starts to take out one of his swords.

"You guys, remember how conflicts are settled, there's no fighting amongst the members." Machi reminds the two in conflict.

"Yeah, I know." Nobunaga pulls out a coin from his pocket.

"Heads." Nobunaga calls out.

"Then, I'll be tails." Says Feitan.

"It's heads." Nobunaga tells Feitan.

Feitan lets go of Gon.

"You're lucky boy." Pakunoda says.

Gon sticks his tongue out at the troupe.

"One more thing before you leave."

"What is it," Avira asks him.

"I want you all to join the troupe."

"Huh?!" Everyone, including the troupe members say.

"No way!" Gon yells at him.

"Think about it."

"We already gave you our answer, now just let us go!" I yell at him too.

"No can do, I'm going to keep you here until the boss comes back so we can have a little chat."

I spring up into the air.

"Avira!" I yell to Avira from mid-air.

He pops into my head. After the training that Illumi gave me, I don't get dizzy anymore when he pops in and out of my head, even if he does it 100 times in a row, over and over again.

"Where did he go?" Shizuku says out loud.

She takes out a vacuum, made by nen, I thought.

'Shizuku, a member of the phantom troupe. Her ability resides in her vacuum most of the time, it can suck up anything that isn't alive'

"Wait, so that means..." I say out loud.

"The vacuum will suck up Avira!" Killua yells to me.

"Get out of here if she uses it!" Gon yells to me.

'What do I do?'

'I don't think she can get me if I'm in your head, the troupe members don't seem to know what's going on.' Avira responds to me.

Shizuku starts her vacuum.

"No!" I yell.

I feel a strange pull on my entire body, what was going on?

"She's trying to suck Avira out!"

"Huh, that boy?" Shizuku says confused.

"Don't move."

I suddenly feel the pull stop and I feel pain around my torso.

I've trained for torture.

Franklin is holding me down and Feitan runs up quickly and slashes my cheek.

"It could have been a lot worse." Feign says.

"You're lucky he didn't take you to another room to torture you." Machi says to me.

"Since Nobunaga won the coin toss, I can't defy his orders for now, but I can still keep you in place." Feitan says.

I feel the sting in my cheek.

With my tongue, I lick the blood from my cheek and feel it start healing.

"She's healing~" Hisoka points out.

"I can see that." Feitan says.

"So you can heal, which means torturing you overall will prove difficult." Machi sighs.

"We should let her go, she could prove troublesome. By the way, where did that boy go?" Pakunoda asks.

"I won't tell you."

Pakunoda walks over and touches my shoulder.

"Oh, I see."

"You read my mind!" I yell at her.

"So what if I did, I got the information I need."

"The boy's in her head, he's the ghost of her dead twin brother." Pakunoda tells everyone.

I scowl at her.

I'm glad she didn't look in my head to see why I was really there. If she knew I was affiliated with the Zoldyck's they might urge me on to join the troupe even more than before.

"He can also push and lift about 300 tons without budging, he's strong."

"Is that true?"

"I didn't come here to be a member of your troupe, okay? I came here for my own reasons!"

"You're hiding something."

I shouldn't have said the last thing.

"Other reasons?" Killua interrogates me as well.

"Yeah, to help out you and Gon for your goal of getting all that money, right?"

Killua looks at me like he thinks I'm suspicious.

"Should I take another look?" Pakunoda asks.

"Do what you want." Nobunaga says to her.

"Okay."

I look towards Hisoka, maybe he could help me out.

"Don't look towards me, I won't help you." Hisoka says.

"Why would she want you to help her?"

"I guess I'll find out." Pakunoda reaches her hand out to me.

'Not in front of them!'

I spoke to Pakunoda in her head.

"You're not the only one who can get into other people's heads." I say to her.

"Nobunaga, take the kids away." Pakunoda says to Nobunaga.

"I will."

Once they leave, Avira pops out of my head. Pakunoda touches my shoulder and gets the information she wants.

"She was paid to take care of the boys and give information to the Zoldyck's." Pakunoda answers everyone's questions.

"I also can't join your group because then they'd turn on me."

"I see."

"You could always join in secret, but you wouldn't be able to hide your tattoo easily." Feitan compromises.

"I don't have any interest in joining you guys." I say honestly.

"Come on (Y/n), we did our job, we can go back now if they allow." Avira says to me. Franklin lets go of me and we prepare to leave. I felt a wave of relief.

"Another thing, how do you know Hisoka?"

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