【Sey】Companion

"So, although the desire to try to kill Yilu has always existed, it is still not as exciting as him living by my side..."

As Hisoka left, the tiny wound on Illumi's right shoulder shrank as if it had healed itself.

"The healing skills of beating the enemy are also amazing~" Hisoka looked at the gradually shrinking scars fascinatedly, and praised.

Rule No. 1 of getting along with Hisoka: All good things should be kept safely away.

"It's just constricting the capillaries nearby." Illumi explained, standing up, "I'm going to take another shower." He said annoyedly, looking at the large bloodstains on the bath towel from his chest to his waist.

Hisoka leaned on the head of the bed, watching Illumi walk towards the small bathroom in the corner of the single room.Using Ning's words, one can see that the transparent line of thoughts extending from the five fingers of Hisoka's left hand finally sank into Illumi's chest.It's as if this intangible thing connects the two as one.

"How long will it take for the heart to heal?" he asked.

"About an hour?" Illumi's voice and the sound of water flowing from the shower came out.

"In that case, there will be enough time before they get up." Hisoka nodded and turned his head to look at the porthole.There is the only light source in the entire closed and dark space.

'So, after I left, they all went into the lounge, too?Well, that's right, if you are in such a mess, it will take time to deal with it. Illumi thought as he wiped his hair with the corner of the towel that wasn't stained with blood. "Hisoka is a person who values ​​privacy..." Thinking of this, his facial expression became weird, "Uh...that means, he values ​​privacy other than his body.Therefore, he must not want to reveal my personal relationship in front of Kuroro.And it's the same for me - Kuroro doesn't need to know.More importantly, if he is about to duel with Kuroro, Hisoka will not reveal his skills to the guy who can steal the ability - although Kuroro can't use Ning now, but with him, it may not be I can't feel the line between Hisoka and me, not to mention that the nemesis master will definitely find out.So it would be the best thing to be able to get rid of my flexible love before the plane reaches Eurubian. '

Although showing a disgusted expression, Illumi still had to put on a shirt and slacks stained with dried blood. 'The first thing I do when I land is definitely to buy replacement clothes. ' He walked out of the bathroom frowning.

The living room returned to a state of silence.

What was different from before was that Hisoka had already occupied the window position slightly in front of Illumi, and in the dim light, he was boringly laying out the card tower.

Illumi stepped forward, watched Hisoka's work for a while, and then, when the card tower was close to the top floor, stretched out his fingers and pushed lightly.

The cards fell down with a rustle and scattered all over the bed.

"Yilu is too much~" Hisoka accused, although his facial features were a bit tangled, but he didn't take it too seriously, but he also clearly expressed his displeasure at being meddled in the middle of his game.

"Draw a joker card." Facing the accusation, Illumi sat down opposite Hisoka, where the card tower used to be, "Now, there are two people here."

What he said seemed to make sense.After all, there are two boring people in the room now, and Hisoka seems to be eating alone to play alone, but this can't explain why he knocked down the card tower when it was close to the top.

'So, that's just, his personal bad taste. ' thought Hisoka. 'This hobby is really disgusting~'

However, wanting to kill each other for no reason before may not be a good habit.

"However, drawing ghost cards with Yilu is much more interesting than the card tower~~?" Thinking of this, Hisoka's smile stretched a little more.

Hisoka is a very good player at drawing cards.

However, his card skills did not come from countless actual combat experiences, but because he was good at analyzing opponents very accurately in the process of playing cards.

But, to be honest, since he started to be good at calculating people with precision, no one played with him, for various reasons-such as cherishing life or something.

And that was a long time ago.

In other words, for a long time, Hisoka had only one poker partner, and that was Illumi Puncher.

'I don't need any other poker buddies anyway. Hisoka thought, 'Isn't it fun enough with Illu? '

Some people say that if there are no four people in the drawing of joker cards, it will be boring to death.

That's because they really don't understand the fun of playing with two people.

Anyway, as far as this game is concerned, it is much more interesting to play with two people than Hisoka alone.

Illumi wasn't afraid of Hisoka.

And he is not afraid to play this kind of game directly related to psychological strategies with Hisoka.

Because whether it is the control of facial expressions or the matter of calculation, he thinks that he will not lose to Hisoka.

However, judging from the tens of thousands of draws in the past, Illumi still loses more than wins.

Therefore, apart from those strategic losses, Illumi believes that it is a matter of luck.

'The poker still looks like someone more familiar. He firmly thought so, "After all, Hisoka plays these things every day, and it is only natural that poker will have feelings for him." '

Until one day, he discovered that Hisoka had an illusion called frivolity.

And the advantage of playing joke cards in a healing state is that if Hisoka really uses his mind to play tricks like frivolous illusions, Illumi will feel it.

Therefore, he can use Ning all the time in the process of playing cards without having to work so hard.

"It hasn't changed at all~" Hisoka said as Illumi randomly inserted the clown he had drawn into the deck of cards in his hand, and then silently reversed the order of the cards.From the beginning to the end, Illumi's facial expression and heartbeat were the same as usual, there was no change at all.Theoretically speaking, shouldn't one react slightly when one gets a different card?

"If you play with Yilu, it seems that you can only rely on luck."

'It's not luck. Illumi thought to himself, unfolded the sorted cards in his hand, handed them forward, and waited for Hisoka to draw them.In the past 370 double draw games, when Illumi has six cards in his hand, there is a 60.00% probability of seven or more, and Hisoka will draw from the three cards on his left. 'It's analysis. '

And this time, it is obviously within seven of the 60.00%.

"Ah." Hisoka sighed softly, and looked at the familiar cards that returned to his hand in a blink of an eye, "What a bad luck." He muttered to himself, switching the cards in his hand, "Ilu doesn't seem to agree with what I just said." He straightened out the cards again, and said casually.

Although Illumi's expression didn't change, and he didn't open his mouth to refute, but he could feel his disdain for luck.

"He's been calculating very hard." Illumi said, throwing away both the Jack of Clubs he drew from Hisoka's hand and his own Jack of Diamonds.

"Calculations?" Hisoka tilted his head, "That's a lot of calculation." As soon as he heard the beginning, he naturally guessed the whole content, "And my behavior is completely random~ ~"

"Even Hisoka, there are traces to follow." Illumi said disapprovingly, "Although it is more chaotic than my younger brothers."

"It seems that Yilu's skills are all summed up from his younger brothers." Seeing the clown in his hand being taken away again, Hisoka narrowed his eyes with a smile.Seeing the state of Illumi getting along with his brother, it's hard to imagine that they also play the game of drawing cards.

During the hunter exam, out of boredom, Illumi occasionally mentioned the basic training of beating the enemy Hakka in the chat.Hisoka had been firmly convinced since the last game of the hunter exam that torture and other games were more suitable for Illumi and his brothers.

Illumi looked at the cards in his hand for a moment in bewilderment. "Well, it's even more unpredictable than them," he said. "As expected, it belongs to the transformation department. Except for Qiya, our generation is all operating department, and Qiya is indeed more troublesome than Miji and Kurt."

When there are five cards, the probability in the middle is 25%, and the left and right ends are 22% each.

"It's really unimaginable," Hisoka threw away the eleven of spades after drawing the ten of hearts, "you play the scene of drawing a joker card."

"Kiya wasn't what he is now when he was very young—of course, he's still cute now." Illumi looked at the dwindling cards in his hand, and couldn't help feeling a little depressed, "But at that time..."

Those godless black eyes unconsciously glanced to the upper left.

The new moon was just in the middle of the sky at this time, and the bright silver light was reflected in the deep eyes, as if those eyes were also shining.

When Mi Ji was born, Illumi was practicing outside; when Kurt was born, he was already busy with heavy commissions.Only Qi Ya, when he was just born, Illumi saw the baby in the swaddle.

He deeply doubted, how could such a fragile life survive?

This world is scary.

Raising him safely and educating him to be a qualified head of the family seems like an impossible task.And this is exactly Illumi's responsibility as the eldest son and elder brother.

From when Qi Ya was a baby, to walking unsteadily, to entering the torture room to receive electric shocks, to competing in the Sky Arena, to following his brother to complete the commission, to leaving the house, almost every step, if he is willing to look back, would be difficult. You can find the footprints that Illumi followed closely.

Illumi once firmly believed that until he was confirmed qualified, the barrier that melted into the blood would always firmly protect the child in it from harm.

but it is not the truth.

"He took the needle out," Illumi said.

"Ok?"

Hisoka felt a heavy blow.The blood pumped from that heart sliced ​​through the arteries with force that seemed to burst through the body.

' So, the wound on the chest is just giving them a gap to escape. His fingers fluttered among the opponent's only three cards left, and Hisoka did not choose the one he should draw for a long time. 'That is actually a knife drawn from the inside out. '

Seeing Hisoka put his finger on the clown, hesitated and moved it away, Illumi sighed secretly. "It was when I went to the Sky Arena to practice alone when he was six years old that I inserted him in the head."

Hisoka glanced at Illumi.

And this is obviously not a look of appreciation.

People in the transformation department, because of their ever-changing personalities that they can't even control, especially hate living under restraint and manipulation, and being driven to do things that have nothing to do with their interests-of course, their interests change too quickly. The crux of the reasons.Even if they initially enjoy doing what they are asked to do, that liking is quickly replaced by new hobbies.At this time, the restraint will appear to be very obtrusive, and one can't wait to get rid of it immediately.

Therefore, whether it is the manipulation itself, or Illumi's unwise behavior of trying to manipulate a typical transformation system, Hisoka does not agree with it.

"It's just to let him avoid it immediately when he realizes the danger." Illumi explained, "Ki Ya is a very special child. Because of his high talent, he has been favored since he was born. No matter at any time, he is It is the focus of sight. Therefore, all the time, he has obtained all things too smoothly, and has been living in an environment where he is valued too much by his surroundings. Everything he owns is far beyond what it should be, so, such The experience made him grow up too innocent, and he didn't understand the dark side of the world at all. Always being so arrogant and underestimating the enemy, careless and negligent, will inevitably lead to death."

It sounds like a joke that a child who grew up beating the enemy's Hakka family was actually described by Illumi as "not understanding the darkness".

But Hisoka, who is good at directly knocking out opponents through the analysis of human weaknesses, fully understands what Illumi is referring to.

Whether it is unbearable physical torture, disgusting bloody scenes, or heinous killings, these are too superficial and superficial things.

They are nothing compared to real pain.

The darkest plunder of human beings is not in the body or life, but in the heart.

Therefore, the cruelest thing to do to a person is not to kill him, but to destroy him.

It's easy to destroy a kid like Killua who's grown up with love and respect—wrong or not.Deceiving his emotions, killing his hopes, belittling them, ignoring them, making him feel completely worthless.

Anything done to the extreme can kill him and make him die completely from the inside out.

And most of the time, the enemy doesn't need to be so thorough, as long as he shakes his heart and kills him when he is flustered, he can be easily finished.

Therefore, Illumi's worries are not unfounded.His younger brother, who was eager to break free from the so-called shackles, may have seen a lot of blood and blood, and he may also be extremely smart, but he is completely ignorant of the deadly threats brought about by human beings' intentional or unintentional darkness.

How simple he is.

"At that time, my manipulation skills were also very rough." With one hand on his chin and the other hand holding the poker, Illumi was stunned for a while, and then said. "Actually, I knew it would be discovered sooner or later. But it was the first time that Qi Ya left his family, and I began to accept the commission formally. I couldn't follow behind him all the time. And the outside world is too much for a simple Qi Ya. It was too dangerous, so I knew it was not good, but I did it anyway.”

"Hmm... Thinking about it, it's true, Qi Ya seems to always run fast when he meets me..." Hisoka thought silently. 'However, for this control freak, it was unexpected to realize his excesses. '

"If I hadn't been in such a hurry, I would have prepared a rosary that couldn't be taken out and left no trace." Illumi added annoyedly.

With a shake of his hand, he drew out an unplanned card.The familiar smile on the card now seems mocking. 'Well,' Hisoka combined the Joker with his only remaining card, 'it's not surprising at all. '

"If that's the case, let's start over." He said, not wanting to argue with Illumi how unacceptable this behavior of control was.

Because, that would be the same as arguing with Hisoka that his erratic behavior was wrong.

That's how it is.

Illumi glanced at Hisoka disapprovingly, as if starting to doubt his intelligence for him to say such a stupid thing. "Will you, who are also in the Department of Transformation, give people a second chance to manipulate?"

'Absolutely not. Hisoka knew with certainty, "After finding out, he would only kill the other party as soon as possible."Although that little guy is completely hopeless in trying to kill Yilu, at least he can take strict precautions to prevent being manipulated again. '

However, when his eyes flicked across the cards, the blood stain on Illumi's chest was glimpsed out of the corner of his eye, and Hisoka lowered his eyes.

'Maybe, it's not hopeless. ' He corrected his earlier thoughts.

"Since that kid has grown to the point where he can pull out the needle, this world should not be scary to him~" His voice was careless, and then he twisted the two cards in his hand. opened it, and handed it to Illumi. "It's your turn~~"

'This world, to him, is no different from you and me. '

It's just a matter of life and death.

"...You're right, Qi Ya has really grown up." Illumi said after lowering his head and thinking for a while. "It's just... In this case, even if he dies next door to me, I will miss the chance of rescue because I have no sense." He drew a card from Hisoka's hand. "It's kind of weird thinking about it."

A noise similar to trembling was mixed in the heartbeat and passed along the line of thought to Hisoka's fingertips.

Letting out a breath slowly, Illumi threw away the paired Aces in his hands, "There is no way...to protect Kiya anymore," he said.

Although it is a heavy burden that makes it impossible to breathe, once you put it down, you will still feel lost...even a deeper sadness than loss.

Is it because of a loss of control?

Didn't complete the assigned task?

Or...worry?

Or, Illumi knows well that because of this irreparable rift, the relationship between him and Qi Ya will collapse predictably in the future?

Unlike Hisoka's fruit, Illumi has a very limited number of targets, each of which has an irreplaceable meaning of existence.

When I habitually raised my hand to draw again, I suddenly found that there was only one card left in the opponent's hand, but my own was already empty.

"It looks like I won this round." After a moment of bewilderment, Illumi said.

'He also said that people's desire for war and sexual desire are inseparable. In fact, Yilu is the pervert who cannot separate control and love. '

Behind the terrible and unforgivable control is the deep and unspeakable love.

How sad this truth is.

"Ah~ It's really bad luck~~" Hisoka smiled, picked up the pile of cards on the bed between the two, and put them together with the one in his hand.The two identical Aces of Hearts disappeared into the messy suits in the blink of an eye.

"Play another round?"

Illumi was right.Hisoka did occasionally use frivolity to cheat when drawing joker cards.

How often, usually, depends on his mood.