Gourmet Hunter (HxH Fanfic)

'The scent of blood is very faint...'

Law's eyes narrowed slightly as he took a few steps forward, positioning himself in the middle of the corridor. He calmly looked at the two people walking over.

Their appearances showed no abnormalities, but their walking patterns had noticeably changed. The hurried, almost militaristic pace from earlier was now replaced by a calm and deliberate stride. Even their physiques seemed slightly different.

If not for that barely perceptible scent of blood, Law might have dismissed it altogether.

Seeing Law blocking their path, the two employees stopped, then showed professional smiles and politely inquired, "Sir, is there something we can assist you with?"

Law didn't say anything. He glanced at the clothes of the two employees and didn't see any bloodstains.

Silence lingered as the two employees maintained their composed smiles, patiently awaiting Law's response.

"What happened to the original two?" Law suddenly asked.

The two employees looked puzzled after hearing this. After looking at each other, the male employee apologized, "I'm sorry, sir, but we don't understand what you mean."

Law took a few steps forward expressionlessly, closing the distance between him and the two employees to within one meter. Then, he said calmly, "The scent of blood."

Before his words fully landed, the facade shattered without warning.

The two employees kept their smiles intact, but each swiftly drew a dagger from behind their backs. Without hesitation, they lunged at Law with killing intent.

The man targeted Law's throat, intending to silence him instantly, while the went for his heart, intending to kill him instantly.

Just the mention of 'smell of blood' was enough to make the two of them abandon their disguises and launch a deadly attack without hesitation or further thought.

By this point, the answer to Law's question was clear. Their instantaneous aggression left no room for doubt.

Law's eyes turned cold, and before their daggers could reach him, he released a small amount of Aura from under his feet, and rushed forward, brushing past the two.

The dagger struck only air. The two fake employees reacted and spun around directly. However, when they were about to launch their next attack, they saw that Law was holding a beating red heart in each of his hands.

The two men's thoughts suddenly paused, unable to understand where the hearts in Law's hand came from, as their bodies remained unscathed.

"The owners of those uniforms... Did you kill them?" Law asked with a cold expression.

Too much talk often leads to mistakes, or it may be meaningless.

From any perspective, these two disguised assassins wouldn't answer such a pointless question.

They suddenly attacked Law again, employing the same left-and-right pincer tactic as before.

Their silence was their response.

Seeing this, Law sighed and clenched the hearts in his hands firmly.

The assassins' faces suddenly changed, and they let out sharp cries before collapsing onto the ground.

Five minutes later.

Law found two bodies in the room where cleaning tools were kept. They were only wearing underwear and the cause of death was a single stab to the heart.

Law stared at the corpse quietly, then after a moment, he slammed the door shut, carried the two deformed objects, and walked towards the open-air platform outside the airship.

It was a dark night, and high-altitude air is biting cold, with the wind that swept across the platform felt like icy blades. Therefore, there was no one on the open-air platform.

Law walked to the edge of the open-air platform and hung the deformed objects in his hand high in the air outside the platform.

"Mmhh... Mmph…"

The deformed objects suddenly stirred violently. Upon closer inspection, one could vaguely see features of human's limbs, head, and feet.

Law's hands then gripped two hearts embedded in the fleshy amalgamations.

These deformed objects were the two assassins. Law used God Hand to separate them into more than a dozen pieces and then compressed them into spheres.

"So, you guys can feel fear too."

Suppressing the simmering rage in his heart, Law sneered at their pathetic struggle. Then, without caring about the reactions of the two assassins, he directly severed their hearts from their bodies.

The two assassins, who were formed into deformed shapes by Law, fell straight down in the howling wind. As their mouths were sealed, they could only make muffled sounds and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.

Thump... Thump…

The two hearts in Law's hands continued to beat frantically, showing their owners' emotions at the moment.

Gripping the hearts tightly, Law turned and entered the airship again.

Even as he walked through the corridors, the hearts in his hands are still beating, indicating that the two assassins had not yet fallen to the ground and died.

"Go to hell and repent."

Law muttered coldly. Then, he suddenly threw the heart in his hand into the air.

After that, Law raised his right hand, and a white light appeared as the book of God Hand was conjured.

As he walked, Law opened the book in one hand, flicked it forward, and hit the two hearts that fell to the ground one after another with the book.

When the book closed, it absorbed the hearts in a fleeting moment. The precise synchronization of control and timing made the hearts vanish as though erased from existence.

From the side, it can be seen that Law's control over his Nen Ability is already quite strong.

"Die."

Law whispered, and withdrew his hand as he walked forward, the book in his grasp dissolving into specks of white light.

At the same time, the bodies of the two assassins falling at high speed suddenly convulsed, and they were no longer breathing.

By sealing the hearts within his book, Law needed only a thought to take away the lives of the two assassins.

Though he had taken lives once again, Law's emotions remained unperturbed.

He returned to the stairs and stood there in silence.

The anger that had arisen because of the two innocent employees slowly dissipated with the death of the assassins.

The two assassins Law killed were not Nen Users, but their techniques were very professional and they even prepared their disguises in advance. However, these two assassins did something they should not have done, which was also a low-level mistake.

That is… they killed the two employees.

Rather than incapacitating them or using drugs to render them unconscious, they opted for the crude method of stabbing their hearts with daggers.

Despite their sophisticated disguises, they committed a needless act of murder that dramatically increased the likelihood of them being exposed.

This is because... these two assassins have a bloodthirsty nature, so after Law said the three words 'scent of blood', they acted without hesitation.

This was what made Law angry, and it was also why he executed the two without mercy.

…

As time passed, more and more assassins revealed themselves.

Law didn't know what the situation was like in other areas, but he had stopped six waves of assassins.

By the time the airship neared the Lingon Airport outside Yorknew City, ten people had died at Law's hands.

Due to the airship's unique security measures, none of the assassins Law caught carried guns. Instead, they wielded daggers or short blades made from an unknown material.

Unlike the first two assassins, Law did not use his Nen Ability to kill the next eight assassins, and Law basically counterattacked passively.

Now, seven pages in the book have been filled, and except for Hisoka's page, the other six pages are all black.

…

The test was nearing its conclusion.

Unbeknownst to Law and others, a subtle yet ordinary design had been etched somewhere in the area where they were.

The pattern is a red ring with a dark circle in the middle, which looks very much like an eye.

In the room where Kenda and the eyebrowless burly man are.

"How are they performing, Martin?"

Kenda sat on the sofa, holding a wine glass in his hand. However, the cup was filled with steaming hot water instead of red wine.

The eyebrowless burly man called Martin said calmly: "Law's method is more sophisticated. The others only follow a simple two-step process: warn, then kill."

"What about their strength?" Kenda continued to ask.

Martin shook his head and said, "These assassins are too weak to test their true strength."

"I see..." Kenda took a sip of the water in the glass and said, "In 30 minutes, the airship will arrive at the Lingon Airport outside Yorknew City."

"Do you have any suggestions for the arrangements afterward?" Martin inquired.

Kenda chuckled lightly and said, "You're better at this sort of thing. My advice wouldn't be worth much, but I am curious to hear your thoughts."

Martin thought for a moment and replied, "Law will be responsible for the protection of the inner area."

"Oh?" Kenda was slightly surprised.

"His Nen Ability... is quite interesting."

Martin's mind replayed the scene of Law extracting the hearts of the two assassins.

Thirty minutes later, the airship landed.