Hunter X Hunter: Grounded

Chapter 62



Title: Don't mess with me...




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As Sub walks past Killua and Gon, he notices that the former is scared of just his presence. 'That says something about his instincts, they are superb. I didn't even release my Nen or anything like that, but he was still able to detect the difference in power between us.'



He passes Netero and the old man does a peace sign towards him. Sub ignores that, he knows that Netero is just going to mess with the kids. He is a devious old man.



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After walking away, Sub sees Karla covered in bandages coming towards him. "Hey~ Sub, I just talked to Menchi. She will make the most delicious food in the world. So how about you join me for dinner?"


"Will Menchi be joining us?" Asks Sub, immediately killing intent leaks from Karla, thinking that Sub must have something for Menchi. Sub smiles at this and this pats her on the head. "Bahahaha, I am just joking around. I just came here to check something."


"Hey~ don't treat me like a kid~" Complains Karla, but this just makes Sub ruffle her hair even more and makes it disorderly. She pouts at that.


Sub on the other hand is entertained by this. "Anyway, I checked the thing I wanted, we can go back whenever you want. Or would you like to stay here to eat some of the food Menchi made for us?" 



"Hnmm…" Karla contemplates this. She doesn't like Sub and Menchi being too close. But she also knows that his desire to chase after women is almost zero, Sub would rather spend his time training than doing something that he considers a 'waste' of time. "Okay, we should enjoy some things."


He smiles at this, usually, Karla would just follow Sub along as he made decisions for both of them. But lately, he has decided to have Karla make her own decisions, and develop herself more than just a 'Follow Sub around' mindset. 


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But once dinner comes around, Karla looks at Netero at the same table as her and Sub. She looks at the old man with annoyance in her eyes.


"Yohohoho~ hope I am not interrupting." Says Natero, seemingly oblivious to the stares Karla is sending him.


"Nah, don't worry. You are not interrupting." Says Sub, a smile on his face. "But I gotta say, you have gotten weaker, old man."


"C'mon now Sub, I am just an old man. You have also grown stronger." Says  Netero with a smile on his face while stealing glances at Menchi's bosom as she stands to the side of the room. 


'Heh, this old man. He is something else.' Thinks Sub as he looks at the old man eating the food with a satisfied look on his face. 'I wonder if I could beat him at full power?' He contemplates, it's not that he isn't confident in his power, but the problem is Netero's speed. The man has long since surpassed the speed of sound. He is the type of man who can throw hundreds of hits in a second, that is the type of speed that Sub doubts whether his regeneration can keep up with. Unlike Meruem, he doesn't have the resilience that the King has with his exoskeleton. At least that is Sub's prediction since he hasn't met Meruem yet.


'I heal quite fast, but not sound of speed fast.' Concludes Sub, leaving in the back of his mind the question if he could win against fully-powered Netero.


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After the whole dinner fiasco, Sub uses his En for a split second, sensing where everyone in the ship is, and it scares almost all of the other Nen users who sense this too.


So as Sub is walking along the hallway, he isn't surprised to see Hisoka there, as if waiting for him. He can see that the corridor after Hisoka is fully covered in Bungee Gum, meaning that if Sub walks any further, he will be trapped within the sticky substance. Also, the Nen is hidden with In so it can't be seen by the average Nen user unless they use Gyo to concentrate Nen in their eyes.



"That is quite a good move." Comments Sub casually while looking at Hisoka. 


"Was that your En that I sensed before?" Asks Hisoka with an euphoric look on his face.


Sub shrugs at that. "Nah, I don't even know what you are talking about. I am just your average and every day Nen user."


"Oh, is that so?~" Hums Hisoka, a smirk on his face making it apparent that he has seen through Sub's bad excuse. The latter though doesn't mind this, and he doesn't care if Hisoka knows about it either.


"Yep, so you can let me pass now." Says Sub nonchalantly.



"Hm~ should I do that or not?" Wonders Hisoka out loudly.


But his thought process is interrupted as Sub intervenes. "I wasn't asking for your permission… only informing you of my decision."



Hisoka smirks at this and gets up. "Ah, then how about-"


BAAAM!!!


The clown doesn't get a chance to answer as Sub punches him in the face, caving his face in, smashing his head into the wall behind him, breaking the wall behind him, and having half of Hisoka's body through the wall.


"Sheesh, you were just droning on." Complains Sub as he sees that the Bungee Gum trapping the hallway gets canceled. He then looks at Hisoka's body and says. "Next time be smarter in choosing your opponents."



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As Sub walks away, Hisoka's downed body straightened and he sits down, and he gets out of the hole. His face is twisted and deformed, one of his eyes is out of the socket, his nose is to his cheek, his mouth is twisted and spewing blood.


*cough* He coughs out a glob of blood and lies back on the wall. 

'If I didn't concentrate 100% of the Nen in my body to my head. I would have died…' Contemplates Hisoka. 'My head would have popped like a balloon. But still, that guy, he almost killed me even with my guard up.'



He tries to set his jaw back in place but it hurts like her just by touching it. 'Better get Illumi to use his needles to release the pressure on the face. Welp, now I at least know that I shouldn't fight him till I am at his level.'


Hisoka wasn't discouraged at this at all, instead, he wanted to fight Sub again in the future, when they were more even in power.


That is when some creaking sounds come and Illumi in disguise appears from behind one of the corners. "I told you that fighting him isn't a good idea."




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Sub walks past the corridor and yawns slightly, not caring about the situation that just transpired. He has his hands in his pockets and looks around as if searching for something in the airship. He does find it soon, it is the exam proctor which Hisoka will fight in Trick Tower, this is the man Hisoka scarred during his previous Hunter's Exam.


The man is in his room sleeping, but Sub enters the room and put off his finder a small fleshy centipede appears. He just goes close and puts it in the man's ear. 


The man opens his eyes widely and is immediately on full-on alert. But he is stopped by Sub as he easily knocks him out.


'This should make things a little more fun. I wonder if Hisoka will die now.' Ponders Sub, leaving the man behind as his body convulses uncontrollably. 'Well, it doesn't matter since either way I win.'




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