Chapter 16

Sitting upon a crate, was a young man with black hair and grey eyes. He had a cross shaped tattoo placed on his forehead and a pair of orb shaped earrings. His body was clothed in a dark purple leather coupled with a fur trench coat that was unbuttoned, revealing his muscular body.

The man was Chrollo Lucifer, the leader of the phantom troupe. In his hand held a book called D hunter. He was reading it whilst listening to the report of the Nobunaga, member #1 of the phantom Troupe. His right arm had already been stitched up together by another member of their team, a pink haired girl named Machi Komacine.

"Hmmm, how interesting," he shut the book and stood up. He looked at the group to see them sitting on crates. The ones who did not were severely injured, those being: the short man, named Feitan Porter, who had to cover himself in bandages along with an IV bag, and the large, unruly man called Uvogin who had his face being treated by the previously mentioned Machi.

"So, you are telling me two other people escaped? And from what I understand, one of them is unbearably weak whilst the other has quite a high potential if he was able to injure you this seriously."

Nobunaga nodded and Chrollo just sighed at this sight. "Well, we can ignore them for now, they won't become a threat."

"Why?"

"It's simple, he won't risk the life of his sister. Think about it. If he did not care about her or his family, he would have joined us. But of course, we can eliminate them if the majority desires so, however, lets save that for later. It's just a matter on whether we are bored enough to chase after a kid."

He then picked up a tube which harboured a scarlet eye, "they sure are beautiful, huh?" He then placed them down, "well then, lets sell them, I don't have any use for pretty eyeballs."

He pulled out a scroll, "but to think this clan was hiding something this important, amazes me."

On the ancient scroll was a peculiar image of a pair of eyeballs that had a multitude of colours. It was named the eyes of insanity.

To simply put, its beauty was so overbearing, it causes shock to whoever look at them directly, instantly causing death to those who have weak will power. Even if they survive the first glance, they will slowly start losing their memories of themselves and become enslaved by the user of the eyes.

The only way to survive is to have scarlet eyes yourself.

However, what interested Chrollo the most was that the ability deactivates the moment they are gouged out, leaving a priceless treasure that the person themselves can implant on their body, allowing themselves to utilize this power.

However, the conditions of activating requires a juvenile younger than 3 to reach a vulnerable state that allows them to feel the emotions and pain of others, which often leads to the child turning insane themselves, causing themselves to end their own life. And when they do, it leads to the eyes deactivating forever.

"The children Nobunaga spoke of. Could they perhaps activate these eyes?" Chrollo thought.

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Her brother's embrace was warm, but it was tinted with the sense of desperation and sadness. It was not the reaction she was expecting. He was normally head strong and determined just like mum, but currently was an emotional wreck. So, she does the only thing she can do, hug him back.

Emotions went rampant through her body. She felt warmth, rage, happiness, sadness, vengeance but strongest of them all was guilt. Her brother's guilt was overbearing, nonetheless, she had accepted them all using her little body. She will accept her brother no matter what ever he becomes and believe in his words.

Her eyes were changing, it was slowly turning scarlet, but transformed once more. Colors of the rainbow stormed around her iris, creating a whirlpool pattern in her eyes. Each strand of line excluded a different vibrant color of the purest form – they had become the eyes of insanity.

Her eyelids had become heavy, making her slowly doze off to dreamland in her brother's arm.

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Under the ground, a mole with many limbs can be seen carrying two of the scarlet eyes. This was the nen beast created by Akira to scrape his eyes out before the phantom troupe could obtain them.

The nen beast itself was special, it was technically post-mortem nen created from Akira's desire of giving his eye to his son rather than the phantom troupe.

It cleared the dirt away in front of him and continued sniffing.

The mole continued to move around and had finally found the scent he was looking for, Akira's son and daughter: Taiyo and Miki.

It dug up to see them going on aboard a wooden ship, so he followed them. The nen beast covered itself with In and started waddling to his target, whilst holding two scarlet eyes covered in cloth.

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Taiyo held tight to his sister's hand; they were about to board on to the ship.

In the 4-day period, he had covered themselves with In and only removed it when it was necessary. For example, buying food and clothes.

Currently, He wore a simple white button t-shirt covered by a grey coat, brought a pair of leather shoes, sunglasses to cover his eyes and black trousers. He was also forced to buy a walking stick, as his vision has still yet to return. It seemed that, for now, he is blind.

His little sister wore a green and white polka dot dress which was reminiscences of her previous polka dot clothes that father used to create.

Though, to Taiyo, her sister's personality had drastically changed the most in these 4 days. She had become more mature and seemed to sense how others feeling. It was odd. Whenever he felt sad, she would always come up to him and reassure him that everything would be okay. It made him seem like a child. Wasn't it meant to be the other way around?

"Tickets." A young sailor asked, staring at the blind man in front of him. He then felt a tug on his trousers, and saw a little girl trying to offer him the tickets he asked for.

"Oh, thanks miss," he'd took them and checked to see if the were real, using a bar code scanning machine. "Well, it seems fine, you may enter."

The blind teenager nodded and entered the wooden ship with the little girl in his only hand. His walking stick was attached to his side just in case he would have to be alone without her presence.

Following behind the duo, was the mole. He waddled in and closely followed them behind.

The duo entered the boat, to be shown a large wooden interior. There were no beds or the like, just a wooden floor where they can lay their butts and rest.

A variation of people were sitting on the floor, some young, old, tall or short. Some looked at the teenager wearing sunglasses, whilst others kept to themselves.

Taiyo followed Miki and followed her. Whilst he was basically blind, he could actually see the flow of nen around people's bodies. Most of them had their nen slowly dripping out of their heads, but the very few minorities had their nen kept to themselves.

This ability to see nen still works even when his eyes are not scarlet, which he is guessing is due to the sharingan powers he wished for. However, what irked the most was the fact that using both of his supposedly mangekyo once, caused him to instantly lose majority of his sight.

He sighed and sat down when Miki sat as well.

He could only pray that the Mimbo republic is a safe environment -a place where the phantom troupe or any dangers would never reach.

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In the crowd of people who sat in the boat was an old man. He had bronze coloured skin and fading crimson hair. He was one of the few people who looked at the duo/

"Oh, you shouldn't have said that..." The old man heckled before vanishing in to the air.