Hunter x Hunter: The Ubiquitous Dragon Life

Chapter 5: Leave! return! parting! (Down)

Celluloid, who had taken a nap on the bench in the park, found that it was already 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon when she got up. She patted her shriveled stomach. She decided to go eat something first, and then visit the city by the way. There is still more than a day before returning to Scarri, and before that, it can only be spent in the city.

After eating, Celluloid walked aimlessly, and soon came to a lively place, such as the commercial center of the city, there were suddenly more shops on the roadside, and the flow of people also increased sharply. Going to a shop full of people's backs, row upon row, and the crowd rubbing shoulders makes Cellulu feel like returning to her hometown. The city where she lived a long time ago was so lively, it was always crowded when walking on the street. Human, but in the next second, the colorful hair on the street made her feel that familiar feeling instantly disappeared.

Although a long time has passed, the hometown has not become blurred from Celluloid's memory, perhaps because most of the worlds experienced afterward are too bizarre, and there are too many differences with the hometown, or because after all that is Cellulo's hometown, the clearest memory for her will always be the first nearly 30 years.

To understand a world, if it is said that books, documents and the like give Celluloid a rational understanding and deep understanding of the world, then everything that one sees is a more intuitive and perceptive way for Celluloid to understand the world. , clothing, tools, facilities, people's demeanor, everything that the eyes can see will always unconsciously melt into some unspoken rules of this world, culture, economy, technology, politics, social forms, customs, etc. Even if there are deviations, a general framework can still be drawn.

It didn't feel particularly great when I was in Scari, because it was a place like a medieval European town, but now looking at the city, Celluloid realized that this world was closer to her original world than any previous world. The world, and for this kind of world similar to her hometown, Celluloid always has a greater sense of identity, because the overall social structure and form will be relatively similar, and it is easier for Celluloid to adapt to such a world.

"Would you like to buy some souvenirs back home?" Cellulu thought excitedly while looking at the various products in the store, but she rejected the idea in the next second.

"Well, no, it's too far away from Scarri. No matter how you look at it, it's not a distance that you can go back and forth in two days. Buying it back will make aunt suspicious."

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The next night, Cellulu was resting on a bench in the park. She could go back in a few hours. Thinking of the long-distance jump she was about to start, she felt a pain. If she transforms the space autonomously, whether it is used for teleportation with a short moving distance or long-distance jumping with a relatively long spatial distance, there will be a strong physical discomfort during and after use. , people will be quite tired, so unless necessary, Celluloid basically will not use the ability. If it weren't for the fact that she didn't want Aunt Nakali to worry, she just said she would return in two days, and it wouldn't be so painful now.

With a sigh, the figure of Aunt Nakari suddenly flashed in her mind, and then she felt a strong panic, and she couldn't help but change her face, she had something to say about the people she was close to and loved. The precognition sense can be detected before others have an accident. If the distance is close, you can also know the specific situation of the danger encountered by the other party, and the other party's emotional fluctuations can be received by Cellulu. It felt like it was an omen that Aunt Nakari was about to have an accident.

Anxious Cellulu stood up quickly, her mind full of thoughts now to inform Aunt Nakali and make her aware of the danger.

She looked around looking for Cellulu, where the public phone was located, and when she suddenly saw a phone booth at the intersection ahead, she immediately ran over there.

The result of being too anxious and inattentive is that when she noticed it, Celluloid realized that she was about to bump into a person walking opposite her. Celluloid, who had no time to brake and change direction, had to close her eyes and let her go. rushed forward.

Seeing the girl who looked panicked and bumped into her headless, the other party just turned to one side gently and avoided it.

Unexpectedly, Celluloid bumped into people's feelings. She took a few steps forward and stumbled before stabilizing her figure. She blinked, a little inexplicable, but she immediately regained her senses, turned around, and shouted loudly. The man who was about to leave.

"Wait a minute, sir."

The opponent's neck turned a strange angle of almost 180 degrees, and he looked back at Celluloid, with a "click, click" sound from his mouth.

Cellulu was first taken aback by his actions, then she stared at the other party's terrifying punk-style heavy metal dress with a black line on her face, and glanced up and down the people in front of her, all covered with heads and faces. Nails, listening to the strange clicking sound of the person in front of her, couldn't help but be speechless for a second, but then she concealed her judgmental thoughts, just bowed earnestly, and apologized.

"I'm sorry, sir, I was in a hurry just now. I didn't look at the road. I'm sorry I almost bumped into you."

The other party just clicked and clicked a few more times at her, then turned back and left.

"What a strange person, but a person who doesn't care."

Looking at the peculiar back of the other party, Cellulu sighed, and then tilted her head slightly in confusion.

"Well? But why does his outfit look like I've seen it somewhere before, um~, is it a sense of sight? But why do you have so much sense of sight in this world?"

Celluloid, who couldn't figure it out, immediately remembered Aunt Nakari in the next second.

"Ah, now is not the time to think about that."

She turned around and continued running towards the phone booth she saw earlier, but after what happened just now, Cellulo's mind was calmed down a little. No matter how panicked she was now, it wouldn't help. Nothing happened.

The sound of the phone beeping~~~~~beep~~~~~ echoed in her ears, and each beep made Cellulu feel more nervous, and her ominous premonition that no one answered the phone for a long time continued to deepen.

Suddenly, a burst of heart palpitations came, and Selulu's heart shook violently, clutching her chest, her face paled.

Hanging up the phone, not caring whether it would cause suspicion, Cellulu immediately telepathically called to Nakali.

[Aunt Nakari, it's me, Cellulo, can you hear me? Aunt Nakally! 】

There is no response, is the power too weak? Cellulu, who had increased her telepathic power, continued to call out to Nakali, but she still did not respond when she exerted her power to the extreme.

"Damn, is it too far away to be teleported? What should I do? Is Aunt Nakali's life in danger from the feeling just now?"

Cellulu anxiously picked up the phone again, and this time she dialed the number at the Scari Police Station.

"Come on, go to the Nakali Hotel on the mountain, something happened there, go quickly!"

"Hello, who are you? Can you explain the situation in more detail?"

The other party completely ignored Cellulu's anxious mood, and just asked back casually.

"You don't care who I am, hurry up to the Nakari Hotel on the mountain, there is danger there, hurry up, it will be too late." Cellulu, who was irritated and urged, after a lot of speech, finally When you get a reply from the other party, you will go there immediately.

After hanging up the phone call from the police station, Cellulu started redialing the hotel's phone, and the other side was always unanswered. She is just dialing that number mechanically now, holding a faint glimmer of hope.

After feeling a 'smack' in her heart, Cellulu stopped the dialing hand and stood there blankly. She no longer needed to call. Just now, she sensed that Aunt Nakari was dead. And her induction never missed.

Standing blankly on the street, Celluloid's heart is full of sadness. Although parting will definitely come, parting without warning is always unbearable. Lulu is used to it.

The first person I met in this world has now left her forever, the gentle, kind, and sincere Nakari who cares about her, she has never been seen again, and has become a part of her past memory, forever. Disappeared, Cellulu thought sadly.

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It was already late at night when she came back to her senses. Cellullu, who had calmed down a little, looked at the time. It was two o'clock in the morning, and the two-day limit had passed. She meditated on Scari, and she didn't want to delay for a second. Launched a long jump.

In the compressed and distorted space, Cellulu only felt that her whole body was twisting along with her. Her body, hands and feet seemed to be non-existent. A strong sense of dizziness and vomiting invaded her, which seemed to be a long and short time. , One second before she could not bear to vomit, the distorted and deformed space disappeared, she appeared instantly, and fell down in a grove.

The moment she touched the ground, Celluloid vomited uncontrollably. Her entire body was now in a state of extreme imbalance, and her brain could not sense the existence of any organ in her body, as if she was floating in the air.

Lying outside the woods, unable to move, when Cellulu could barely move her hands and feet and stood up, it was already past five in the morning. Thanks to the pain just now, she had completely calmed down, although she was still A little sentimental, but Celluloid had broken free from her grief.

It's not that Celluloid is ruthless and indifferent, but that people like her, if they couldn't control and adjust their emotions quickly, would have gone mad during the long time journey. Celluloid was used to it.

But what she needs to do now is to act in a play, a boring play where she comes home happily but hears bad news, packs up her mood, and adjusts her state. Cellulu walks out of the grove and walks towards the hotel. After seeing the door, she quickly adjusted her expression to look as if she had just returned from the past. After opening the door of the hotel, she shouted in a relaxed voice.

"I'm back, Aunt Nakali."

Although she felt disgusted at the moment, the cheerful smiling Cellulu, in order not to attract attention and to avoid suspicion, she had to put on this ignorant expression and voice, because she had just returned from abroad. It was obviously impossible to know the fact that Aunt Nakali had died.

A man came out of the corridor and nodded slightly to Cellulu.

"Hello, are you Miss Cellulu, Nakali's niece? I'm Wayne from the Scully District Police Station."

Although she felt that she was fake, Cellulo adjusted her expression to be puzzled and slightly blank, and asked.

"Eh~ Excuse me, why is the police officer here, where is my aunt? Where is she?"

The other party shook her head at her regretfully and spoke.

"Miss Cellulu, I must regret to tell you that there was a robbery burglary in the hotel last night. Nakali and two other tourists were both killed. Before the incident, witnesses saw two tall men. The man who has been here has been in and out, and now witnesses are comparing portraits at the police station, I believe there will be results soon."

After officially telling the whole story, Wayne paused and continued.

"I'm sorry that this happened, but please take care of your health, miss, and please, if possible, can you please help calculate the damage to the property? After the statistics are completed, report to us."

After hesitating for a moment, he added.

"Also, do you know that Nakali has other relatives besides you? Miss, you are underage after all, so it is very inconvenient to handle many things."

"How could it be? How could it be possible, it was fine to go out two days ago, you lied, I want to see Aunt Nakari."

After the initial disbelief, Cellullu had a collapsed expression on her face, and she immediately cried out.

"Oh~, please don't get excited. I know it's hard for you to accept this fact. I'll take you to see her first."

Softly comforting the little girl in front of him, Wayne was afraid that the other party would suddenly faint, but luckily he didn't. He led Cellulu to a door, pushed it open, turned his head, and said softly:

"Go in and see her."

Cellulu didn't want to act in front of Nakali, it was extremely disrespectful to her, so the moment she saw Nakali's corpse, all her expressions disappeared, and the excitement just now was completely invisible. With a shadow, she walked quickly into the room, turned her back to Wayne, and spoke calmly.

"Officer Wayne, can I stay here alone for a while?"

"Oh~, okay, of course, I'm just outside, you can call me if you have anything."

Surprised by the hysterical grief that the girl had shown just now, but now she is very calm, Wei En suddenly couldn't accept it, but on second thought, maybe the other party was too sad, so he suddenly became a little stupid.

He glanced at the little girl in front of him sympathetically, and it was understandable for his mood to become a little strange when he suddenly encountered such a great change. a sentence.

"Take care of yourself, don't be too sad, if you make yourself fall, Nakali won't be happy."

When she came out of the room again, Celluloid's face was still very calm, and Wayne was a little surprised. When things like this happen, children of this age usually cry a lot and can't accept the fact at all, but now Celluloid doesn't look like it. It is the manifestation of insanity caused by excessive grief, but the other party can calm down and carry out his work more smoothly.

"Miss Cellulu, the result of identifying the suspect just now has come out. The two witnesses are the Lincoln brothers who committed the house burglary and murder case in Frith. Presumably the other party came to the door to rob and kill due to lack of funds during the escape process. Well, we have reported the case to Frith, and issued a warrant to the neighboring towns and cities. We believe that the other party cannot escape. Today's work is almost over, so I will leave first. I'll visit again when I have other news."

After a brief report on the progress of the case, Wien finally comforted and said goodbye to Cellulu.

"Well, I see, thank you, I believe you will be able to catch the murderer. I'll trouble you today."

She replied to Wayne in a perfunctory way. Cellulu never cared about the murderer. When Nakali died, everything was over. If she died, everything would be destroyed. meaningless,

The living people seek revenge for the comfort of their own souls and to let their pains have an outlet, but the feelings of Celluloid are quite targeted, and liking Nakali does not mean that she hates killing Na Carly's murderer, she will neither love Wu Jiwu nor hate Wu Jiwu, she doesn't even want to share a little extra feeling with someone she doesn't care about, even if this person may be someone she cares about or someone she cares about. hated person.

A long time has made her very tolerant of world affairs. It also slowly dissipated most of the intense emotions in her, especially the negative ones, because even if she did nothing, in the end those things that made her unpleasant would disappear over time.

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Sending Wayne away, when Cellulu was sorting out her relics at night, she suddenly remembered that Chrollo, who had a strong ability, if he had been there, what happened at that time would not have happened. Lu hurriedly checked the hotel account for the two days before and after the incident, which showed that Chrollo had checked out and left in the early morning of the second day after she left, which was the day before the robber murder.

Closing the record book, Cellulu sighed when she thought of the look Chrollo looked at her.

"Even if he is, will he really make a move? Maybe he will look at it indifferently, or it's better not to think so naively."

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Since Nakali has no other relatives, all the affairs are placed on Cellulu. While cooperating with the police station in handling the follow-up work of the case, with the help of the neighbors in the town, she began to manage Nakali's affairs.

The gentle Nakali is the reason why she wants to stay here. Since the other party is no longer there, there is no need to stay here. Cellulu decided to leave this place after Nakali's "Seven Seven". small town.

After disposing of all Nakali's fortune and converting it into cash, Cellulu kept herself fifty thousand and entrusted all the rest to Aunt Yuli, a kind-hearted person , and used to help Nakali's family. Although she didn't have much contact with Cellulu, she believed that Nakali would not be wrong.

The other party refused to accept the asset. After all, it was a lot of money, but Cellulu finally persuaded the other party to accept it. She told the other party that she was going to travel far away, and she didn't know when she would be able to come back again. The tomb needs someone to take care of, this money is used as a care fee, I hope Aunt Yuli will take care of it, and if it is reasonable, Aunt Yuli will finally accept the money.

The day after 'Seven-Seven', Cellulo packed the items she was going to take away into a small bag, and then went to visit Nakali's grave with a bunch of flowers picked from the woods in front of the hotel, and gently placed the bouquet. In front of the tomb, Cellulu looked at the bright and bright Nakari who was still smiling in the posthumous photo, and after a few seconds of silence, she spoke in a low voice.

"Aunt Nakari, I don't think I will come to see you again for a long time. Goodbye will wait until the next time I come."

Every time Celluloid left a planet and went to live on the next planet, she would go on a tour, visit and inquire about those who left a deep mark in her life, and say goodbye to each other, even if it is often just Saying goodbye to a pile of tombstones,

Too many memories are also a burden. Painful memories are over, but sweet memories are more nostalgic and unwilling to let go because they are too beautiful.

Therefore, after taking this approach, Celluloid will completely dust off these memories after saying goodbye, bury them in the bottom of her heart, and never think of them again. This is also her way of protecting her heart from breaking down.

After speaking, Cellulu let out a sigh of relief,

Life in this world has only just begun. Celluloid, who has packed up her mood, decides to return to Rietta. After all, it is the most familiar city in this world besides Scari, and Rietta is similar to her hometown. It also made Cellulo feel quite nostalgic.

After thinking about the distance between Rietta and Scarri, Cellulu had to realize painfully that if she wanted to get to Rietta as soon as possible, using a long-distance jump was the quickest way. Celluloid, who was empowered, disappeared from the air in the next second.

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