Hunter X Hunter: Grounded

Chapter 72



Title: "Request"...




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"Princess Camilla, your father is currently meeting with a two-star Beast Hunter." A man in a  black suit reports to the princess who is just wearing a casual dress while sitting on a luxurious couch.


Camilla frowns at that, clenching her teeth. "Fu*k…"


Baaam!!!


She throws the furniture around once she hears of that. "An Emperor lowering himself to meet with a Hunter! You think that we are so weak!"



In her eyes, Nasubi (the emperor) talking to some Hunter that comes in unannounced and just enters the king's room… makes the royal family look weak. So weak that they have to bow to an organization member who is more of a "problem" solver organization for the V5.



"P -Princess… I don't think that this is a smart idea." Says the man, nervous to not offend the sociopathic princess in front of him.


"That is true." Says someone as he opens the door and it is a man with a very slight beard and tired-looking eyes.


"Tserriednich? What the hell do you want?" Asks Camilla, not at all pleased that her brother came to her room.


"That man, the one that father is meeting… he is… someone worthy of meeting father like this. He too must have seen the stature of that man." Tserriednich says that as a strange look appears in his eyes. A memory playing in his head. 'How many years ago was that.'



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*flashback*


Tserriednich is cutting up some corpses, making his perfect art. He had just cut up some stupid young women. 'Now they can at least be good for something. Those sluts.'



"Quite the gross hobby you have there."


'What?!! No one was supposed to be here!!' Panicky thinks Tserriednich. He looks behind him and sees a man just standing there casually by the window.


But he wasn't any man as he has grotesque bat-like wings coming out of his back. 


"B -Beautiful…" Tserriednich couldn't help it, those wings, they were the most beautiful thing that he had seen in this world.


Sub only looks at the man and raises his eyebrow questionably. "Huh? What a creepy guy. Welp, I came here to kill you so…"



"Hahahahaha!!" But contrary to his expectations, Tserriednich laughs like a madman. "Amazing!! Beautiful!! This is it!! This is perfection!!!"


Fwish!


Sub grabs him by the throat in an instant and starts choking the man. 


'Hahahahaha… I didn't even see him move!!' Thinks Tserriednich, his mind feeling like it has come to the brink of insanity as he looks at Sub's eyes. A chill runs down Tserriednich's spine, never before has he felt such excitement, it felt like he is seeing the face of the raper itself.



*flashback END*
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As Tserriednich recounts these feelings, his body shakes and he falls on his knees. "Bahahahahaha!!"



Camilla looks at this creeped out. "What the hell? Did he go insane or something?"




"Hahaha…" Tserriednich finally stops laughing as he covers his face with the palm of his hand. "When I looked at him, I saw all of humanity's evil trapped in that one body."



"Tch, stop speaking so metaphorically brother." Complains Camilla. "I never am one for your stupid metaphors."




'He probably saw the Hunter use some Nen ability and now Tserriednich thinks that it was some act of God. Never thought that he was the type to fall for those things. Usually, he is very logical.' Camilla tries to make sense of the situation. But she is sure for one thing, Sub threatened Tserriednich's life, and even if she considers this brother of hers as trash that shouldn't belong in the royal family, he is still royalty. She can't allow in her eyes a nameless Hunter to threaten a royal family member and get away with it.



Tserriednich frowns as his sister smirks. 'Camilla is acting strange… is she planning something?'



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At the same time, Sub and Nasubi are both sitting at a table drinking some wine. Karla just stands by the side, playing with some ancient relic that is considered Kakin Empire's national treasure.


"So, what do I have the honor of having you here?" Asks Nasubi while taking a sip of his sake. Not minding Karla playing around with a sword of his ancestor, since the sword didn't have any special abilities, it didn't matter to him.


"I heard that you are scheming something up." Says Sub, taking a look at the sake cup and twirling it around. He is not a drinker, not because of some fancy reason, he just doesn't like the taste of alcohol. In the end, Sub puts down the sake cup and looks Nasubi in the eye. "So, tell me what it is?"



Nasubi sighs at this. *sigh* "Just how far have your spies infiltrated my empire?"


He is a little discouraged, hearing that Sub knows his plans isn't good at all for Nasubi.



"That is for me to know and you to find out." Answers Sub with a knowing smirk on his face. 'Actually, there are none, they are overly cautious on these things so Karla's puppets can't get through. I can't get any spies too deep inside, but that doesn't mean that I can't fool you into telling me your secrets, my dumb little pet Emperor.'




"Well…" Nasubi seems conflicted at this on whether to tell Sub the truth or not. "...I am planning on establishing a base in the Dark Continent."



"Oh~" Sub acts surprised at this. "That is quite ambitious of you. What about the V5? Those guys are bound to not like it."



"Hehehe… I have my way to deal with them." Nasubi couldn't keep a smile to himself as he thought of the plan. His Nen Bast instinctively appearing.




"What an ugly creature." Says Sub as he looks straight at Nasubi's Nen Beast. It is a round creature with a small head, ten hands, and many things that represent female breasts. 







"Scram, you are making my eyes hurt just by looking at your ugly figure." Orders Sub as his Aura explodes out of his body. Due to the evil energy in it, the Nen beast retreats immediately.



'Terrifying Nen as always.' Nasubi's eyes shine with greed as he looks at Sub's power. 'If only I could have that power!'


Greedy thoughts inevitably appear in Nasubi's eyes as he feels jealous of Sub's power.


Of course, Sub could see what the emperor was thinking from a mile away. But he just didn't care about it. "Anyway, I came to ask you to give space to about 1000 of my men, for when you decide to go to the Dark Continent."



Nasubi's thoughts of greed are interrupted once he hears that. '1000 men? He could take over the ship with them… since this is Sub we are talking about, then every one of those men will be strong and have complex abilities. Also what an asśhole, making it seem like he is asking me, but actually the bâstard is giving me an order.'





"So, can that happen?" Asks Sub once more, a smirk making its way into his face. 'Yeah you fat fu*k, I am not asking you, I am just informing you of my decision.'


"Yes, of course, you can." Nasubi accepted. 'Not like I have a choice, you fu*king monster.'



Both of the men held such non-nice thoughts for each other, but in the end, they just smiled and shook hands upon their agreement.



Baam!



They both look to the side and see Karla has broken the national sword of the Kakin Empire. "Oops~ sorry, I broke the sword."


'FU*KING B*TCH!!!' Nasubi is enraged on the inside, but he keeps a smile on the outside. "Ah… no problem Karla… I can just have a replica built."



"Okay~" hums Karla, not at all guilty by what she has done. She just said sorry out of courtesy.



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Then both Karla and Sub walk out of the Emperor's building and that is when they meet Camilla with Tserriednich.





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A/N: We see that Nasubi (Kakin Emperor) has ulterior motives, even though he is part of Sub's crew and listens to his "requests"... which both know are actually the MC's orders, and Nasubi has to listen or else…