Hunter x Hunter 270

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[side text: Dance!!!]
Pufu: (What a situation... Separated from the King at such a crucial moment... // Can I truly call myself a Royal Guard? // I do not even know the King's location... // Can I truly call myself a Royal Guard? // Nay... // I am no longer... // worthy of that title!!! // That is all there is to it......)
[Text: Pufu's loyalty...]

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[Text: ...was powerful to the point of fragility. // His absolute idealism would permit no modification.]
Pufu: (Former Royal Guard Pufu... // Now, Pufu... // Worthless Pufu... // You fool... // You failed Guard, Pufu... // Where shall you go now? // Don't you have any idea? // If the King isn't in the next place you look... // ...that makes you a worse-than-worthless piece of trash, you know? // No...... Worthless Pufu... // You just don't want to admit it, do you?!! // You don't want him to be with that girl!!!!)
[Text: And this applied not only to himself... // ...but extended also to the King.]
Pufu: (The mere possibility that the absolute King could be worried about a common human, and take it upon himself to visit the room of that mere human...)

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Pufu: (That is unacceptable!)
[Text: This feeling, almost a kind of fanaticism...]
Pufu: And yet... // (The King may well indeed be there... // I daresay it is likely that before I even came here... // ...I had already realised that this was the case. // The reason why I am truly unworthy of the title of Royal Guard is not that I knew not where the King would be... // ...but that I knew full well, and yet failed to be there by his side. // Now... // Pufu, traitor, lower than trash...)

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Pufu: (From now on, you are no more than a worm! // You should expect nothing of yourself! // As such, you should likewise expect nothing from the King! // And so simply for the King's sake...! // For the King's sake!! // For the King's sake!!! // For the King's sake!!!! // For the King's sake!!!!!)
[Text: ...by a few seconds after he had arrived in the throne room...]
Pufu: (I shall go... // To the King's side.)
[Text: ...had robbed Pufu of his capacity for rational thought.]

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Hunter x Hunter
#270: Spiritual Message

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Morau: Yo... // ...Hey, are you ignoring me?!! // (Heading off to find the King without payingme the slightest heed, huh...?) // Bad luck, I'm afraid... // I've got you surrounded.

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Pufu: ...... // What can I do... // ...to make you let me go......?
Morau: We~~ll... // I'm afraid I can't do that.
Pufu: Spiritual Message // Is that so.

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[Text: As the bodies of the two soldiers who had lost all semblance of command began to topple to the ground...]
Killua: (Dammit! What... // What am I doing...?!)
[Text: Killua and Ikarugo saw one another... // Their eyes met.]

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Ikarugo: Killua...

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Ikarugo: I owe you one!!

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[Text: As Killua came to his senses, a tumult of emotions began to swirl chaotically within his head... // ...but Ikarugo's voice swept that all away. // By the time the two ants' bodies hit the floor with a thump... // Killua was facing onward once more.]

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[Text: Positioned at either end of the corridor containing the elevator to the lower levels were rooms intended for the use of servants. // Currently, they were being used by the soldier ants. // Ikarugo ran straight past the two fallen ants... // ...and just as he reached the elevator itself... // As though breathing in unison... // ...the doors at both ends began to open.]

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Gon: (That's Morau's "Smoke Jail"... // The technique he said he'd use to keep Pufu from going to the King's side!! // And considering that it's enshrouding the entire third floor of the tower in smoke... // That means the King and Pitou can't be up there!! // Where are they?!)

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[no text just king]

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[still no text just awesome king]

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[side text: Seething!!!]
[bottom text: Starting from next issue, this series will be on hiatus. We hope you understand. We will let you know as soon as the continuation is scheduled.]