Killer in Hunter x Hunter

Chapter 22: Evening of Battle. Man in the Mirror's new power



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Illuso's POV

- What makes you think he's alone? - Said Illuso and pulled the girl and the bandaged guy into the looking glass.

The two members of Genya Ryodan, who were about to attack Formaggio just seconds ago, were now in the looking glass trying to figure out what had just happened.

- W-what just happened? Who are you? What did you just do?! - With obvious incomprehension of what was happening, the girl turned to Illuso.

Illuso stood a few metres away from them and smiled smugly.

- What, surprised? Why don't you take a closer look and draw your own conclusions? - He answered them.

The girl and the boy started to look around. They noticed that everything around them was different. All the objects around them were as if 'reflected', there was no life around except for themselves.

- Is that... is that... is that...

- Yes, you guessed it. You've entered the world of the mirror. My world... Here I am king and god. Here I am invincible. There is no life here except the life I allow in, like you. In a sense, you could call it 'the realm of the dead'. Such is the ability of my Man in the Mirror. Basically, you don't stand a chance.

- Aren't you a little overconfident? Don't underestimate us! - Shouted the girl and rushed into the attack together with the guy.

- Hmph, how reckless... Man in the Mirror!

His stand materialised near Illuso and gave a few quick blows to the approaching enemies, causing them to fly backwards.

- You've had a lot of bad luck with your opponent. Very badly...

Suddenly, the space around him began to distort. The walls, the ceiling, everything began to turn into mirrors and fly apart. Now there was only infinite space around, which was a bit like space, and in this space as if in weightlessness a huge number of mirrors were floating.

The boy and girl were dumbfounded by what was happening, and Illuso continued to smile smugly.

- This is the new ability of my Man in the Mirror. It distorts and destroys the surrounding reality, causing it to turn into an endless space with a bunch of mirrors. Amazing, isn't it? Now you can't even hit me.

- Don't get cocky! - Shouted the girl and threw herself into the attack.

She ran up close and tried to make a direct kick with her foot. But as soon as the kick almost reached its target, a mirror appeared in front of her leg. To the girl's surprise her foot did not break the mirror, but instead she fell into it as if into water, and came out of another mirror that was behind her, and hit her directly in the head, from which she almost lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground.

- What the...' she said, trying to get up and move away from the impact.

- It's another one of my new abilities. These mirrors cannot be broken or destroyed because they are part of this reality. Any attack you try to launch against me will be redirected by these mirrors flying around. You could say that they act as small portals.

Meanwhile, Illuso noticed that the guy who was with her had taken off his bandages. Underneath his bandages was a rather ugly body that was 'decorated' with many holes of varying thickness.

'What the fuck is that! Holes? Is he a masochist?'

He barely had time to remove the bandages before he immediately began to do some sort of dance, while making noises that came from the holes in his body. Illuso wasn't particularly pleased to hear these sounds, so he covered his ears. When he finished his dance he was wearing some incomprehensible clothes, like some warrior from an ancient tribe in Africa. Along with the clothes, he materialised a small two-handed spear, which he tried to kill Illuso with, lunging at him at the same instant.

- I told you all this was useless! - Illuso told him, and just as he tried to strike, one of the many mirrors that surrounded Illuso got in the way of the spear and redirected its attack straight into the girl's stomach, causing her to collapse to the ground and cough up blood while holding her stomach.

However, the 'a-hole' was not confused and began to dance a new dance.

'Damn, I think it's time to call it a day.'

Illuso decided to finish them off quickly. Man in the Mirror struck one of the mirrors and redirected it straight at the girl, punching her in the chest.

At that moment, the 'a-hole' finished his dance. After the dance was over, a huge sphere materialised near him, resembling a small Jupiter. The sphere began to rapidly approach Illuso.

'Oh shit! What to do!!! I won't be able to redirect such a large attack! It's too much for me! Shit!'

- Man in the Mirror! Take it out of my reality! Bring it back to the real world! - After those words, the mirrors around him began to shine with a bright light. In the blink of an eye, the giant ball was sucked into the mirrors, and it disappeared from this reality.

'Damn it, I had to do it. There was no other way out. I wouldn't have been able to redirect such a large attack. I can only hope the others weren't hurt by it.'

Illuso threw a glance in the direction of that guy. He seemed to be a little confused, but he was also about to dance a new dance.

- No way, I won't let you! - Shouted Illuso, after which Man in the Mirror started throwing a hail of blows at the mirrors, which in turn were redirected directly at his opponent, who was surrounded by mirrors on all sides.

After a few dozen blows Man in the Mirror struck a decisive blow that punctured his chest.

- Ha, now there will be one more hole. - Illuso threw to him as he fell dead.

The space around him began to return to normal. Touching the mirror he carried in his pocket just in case, he stepped out of the mirror world and back into the real world.

Everything around him was destroyed. On the face of it the consequences of having to throw that huge ball into the real world.

Illuso fell to his knees. He was exhausted and breathing heavily.

'Whew! Gee... That's a kicker. I hope the others survived it. It's a good thing it didn't last long, because not only is being in the looking glass world quite energy-consuming, but this new ability also uses up a lot of energy... And I've only used it a couple of times before. Eh, it's a hard life for the 'experts', but with such a power, few people can compete with me.'

After finding the strength to get to his feet, Illuso wanted to go and look round the surviving part of the building, but as soon as he had taken a few steps he was confronted by Formaggio, who had a slightly shocked look on his face.

- Apparently you've made it, congratulations. What about the arm? - Illuso turned to him as he saw him holding his arm.

- Well, it's... It doesn't matter. You tell me how it happened that the whole place turned into this... It's lucky that the building didn't collapse. It's got something to do with the people you pulled into the mirror, right?

- I'll tell you later.

Suddenly there was a phone call from Formaggio's pocket. He answered it and spoke on the phone for almost twenty seconds. When he finished, he turned to Illuso.

- Let's get out of here. Risotto called and told us to get out of this building.

- I agree. It's not like it's gonna collapse again.

Formaggio and Illuso headed for the second exit of the building, which was located on the opposite, undestroyed side of the skyscraper. Along the way, they were joined by Pesci, Prosciutto, and Kurapika.

- Where's Risotto, do you know? - Formaggio asked Prosciutto.

- He said he would join us later. For now, he has something to check.

Together they all headed in the direction where there was a street where Gyaccio was supposed to be patrolling.


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