Hunter x Hunter 266

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Hunter x Hunter
#266 "Worst-Case Scenario"
[insert text: Uninvited, they rush in to fight on enemy turf!!]
[box: The moment Killua penetrated into the palace...]
Killua: (I knew it!!)
[box: ...is what he thought. // He couldn't sense Pitou's En in the slightest, and standing right before him was Yupi, who should not have been on the first floor... an impossible scene. // Even confronted with this, a situation that had never come up in discussion, Killua's experience allowed him to retain his composure.

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Yupi: (Who the hell are these guys? // Where did they appear from?!)
[box: To Yupi, too, this was an "impossible scene"... // But Yupi simply stopped thinking immediately.]

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[YupiBox: I AM A SHIELD]
[box: Grotesque...]
[YupiBox: WITH THIS BODY]
[box: The only one of the Royal Guards to have been based in form upon beasts rather than humans...]
[YupiBox: I PROTECT THE KING]
[box: The reasoning behind this: unlike the other two Guards, he has no concern for himself; this selflessness gives him his strength.]

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[box: Upon witnessing Yupi's transformation and his barbaric grin, Shoot stopped in his tracks. // However... // This was not because the sight affected his good judgement.]

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[box: "If I get any closer than this, Yupi will attack." // "I have to avoid even the tiniest possibility that he will chance to hit Knuckle, who should be up ahead." That was his reasoning. // But at the very moment he brought out his flying hands and cage, to further draw Yupi's attention to himself... // It arrived.]

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[no text, just Dragon Dive]

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Killua: (This is Grandpa's "Dragon Dive"...?!! // The old guy's friend...!!)
[box: Killua, the only one to grasp the situation, simply froze for a moment. // The others, who didn't know what was going on, were affected worse than him. // Only two people there...]

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[box: ...Gon... // ...and Yupi... // ...were focused completely upon the enemy.]

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Moraou: (What the?!! // He's charging in...?!)
Killua: (Your opponent isn't Yupi, you know?! // No, wait...!!) // ...... // (Of course!!)
[box: After a moment's delay, Killua too... // And a few seconds later still, the others grasped the situation.]
Killua: (Damn him... in a situation like this............!! // Such speed!! Of all the points to notice...!!)

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Killua: (In the worst-case scenario... // ...What happens if Meleoron and Knuckle are hit by one of these raining dragons and die instantly without taking a single breath? // Would the technique be deactivated? // Or since Nen can become even stronger after death, would they just rot away like that, still undetectable by anyone? // The answer is, "I don't know." // If the second possibility is the correct one, there is no way to know right now whether they are safe or not. // In which case... // The worst-case scenario... // Somebody would have to take on Yupi in their stead!)

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Shoot: (But by all rights, that should have been myduty...!! // Gon...!!)
Morau: (Shoot, you haven't done anything wrong!! // Even I was slower than Killua to grasp the situation...! // Shoot!! Don't blame yourself!! You need to clear your mind!! // If Gon and Killua are taking Yupi, then you have to go after Pitou!!!)
[box: But in Shoot's head at that moment... // ...an entirely different emotion was gushing forth. // To the point where he felt like crying and screaming out loud... // He was moved!!!!
Shoot: (Gon...!!!)

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Shoot: (I wish I could just scream it out to the entire world...!! // "THIS IS GON!!" // He may be a heck of a lot younger than me... // ...but he saved my life!! // I always used to run, afraid, when danger or opportunity appeared before me... // I hid myself away in my cage where it was safe, hiding even my own words, doing everything I could to avoid being hurt... // I hated myself back then.)
[box: It's true that Shoot always...]
Shoot: (But I couldn't manage to change. // Nakama... that was just a word that other people used.)
[box: ...used to shrink back when faced with opportunity.]
Shoot: (I couldn't understand the things that stronger people tried to tell me... but then!! Even so!! // Even though you were so much weaker than me... // You broke me out of that cage!!

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Shoot: (We need to come out of this alive!!)
[box: But even he himself never truly realised what he was capable of...]
Shoot: (So that I can thank you properly!!!)
[box: ...thanks to his unique ability to think and develop in the face of adversity.]
Morau: (All right!!!!)

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[no text]

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Knuckle: HAKOWARE!!!
Everyone: (Knuckle and Meleoron... // ...are alive!!!)

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Pufu: YOUR MAJESTY!!! // YOUR MAJESTYYYYY / YYYYY!
[box: Amidst the dreadful quaking and the thunderous roar of the collapsing main staircase...]
Pufu: Ahh...

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[box: In a throneroom without its King... // Pufu allowed himself a soft smile.]
[insert text: Where is the King...?!]