Hunter x Hunter 272

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[insert text: Knuckle in pain!!]
Potclean: It's time! // Now adding interest!
Knuckle: (No... // Only ten seconds?! // Is that all?! No way!! // How much longer am I going to have to stay here and endure... // ...upon this choking bed of needles that makes me want to run away right now...?!)

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Hunter x Hunter
#272: Miscalculation
Knuckle: (What kind of joke is this?!! // This is no joke...!!!)

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Knuckle: (I can't stand this!!!!)

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[Text: The thing that stopped Knuckle's wild dash... // ...was Meleoron's first tap.]

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Knuckle: (No way... just another ten seconds!! // But... could that have just saved me?!)
[Text: Meleoron was not thinking of Knuckle, however... // ...he had simply reached his own limit.]

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Knuckle: (......... // Oh, crap.........!! // He just nicked me with the edge of a single claw...)
Potclean: oh, my!
Knuckle: (...yet he paid off all the interest, and plenty of that attack I put all my strength into...!!)
[Text: Yupi did not notice that he had hit anything, and nor did he notice Potclean's pronouncement...]
Knuckle: (Shoot's putting his life on the line to give me this chance......! // And yet I, even though I'm not hurt in the slightest, managed to do such a stupid thing!!)
[Text: ...nor even Knuckle's cry.]
Knuckle: DAMMIIIIT! // (You've gotta calm yourself down, idiot!! // You're gonna ruin everything at this rate!)

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Knuckle: This distance ought to be good... // It's not so close we'll get noticed, but not too far for us to move back in!! // As long as Shoot's fighting for us out there... // Even if he does notice Potclean for a moment, it shouldn't be a problem!! // Take a huge breath, all right, Meleoron?!!
Meleoron: God's Accomplice... // Release!!

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Yupi: ?! // (What the hell is this thing?! // When did he... no. // I couldn't possibly have missed him!! // He must have appeared just now!! // Did I take an attack?! No... I couldn't have...!! // Some kind of delayed effect...? It must have been back then...!! / Did I somehow fulfil the conditions for it to activate while I was attacking?! // That number... what does it mean?! A countdown?! Is it a bomb?! // No... the number isn't going up or down... // ? // ? // Ugh, this pisses me off!!)

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Yupi: (But I guess all I have to do is take out the source!!!)
Shoot: (Something's coming!! // I've gotta run!!!)
[Text: One reason... // ...why Yupi, even confident as he was in his sheer overwhelming power, had not managed to actually defeat Shoot... // ...could, perhaps, be seen as a clear difference in true ability.]

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Shoot: (So fast!! // I can't get away...!!!) // .........
Yupi: (One skewered lump of meat... // ...coming right up!!!)

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Yupi: (He attacked himself for extra acceleration... // ...... // Eh, whatever.)
[Text: His confidence that "I can win this whenever"... // ...only served to encourage Yupi, never one to plan ahead, to relax prematurely.]
Shoot: (That was close!)
[Text: Yupi's assessment was essentially accurate. // Accurate, in that this was indeed a fight that would be sure to go to Yupi in the end. // If we are to say that he made a miscalculation... // ...then that miscalculation lay in his failure to realise that Shoot, for his part, was thinking "That's fine".

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Shoot: (I can still do this!! // I can...)
[Text: Even so, softly but surely,]
Shoot: (...still fly...!!!! // I can......)
[Text: Shoot was fast reaching his limit.]

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Knuckle: DAMMIT, YUPIIIIIII!!! / TRY LOOKIN' OVER HERE, DUMBASS!!!

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[Text: After managing to calm down, Knuckle had reached a conclusion.]
Meleoron: (Knuckle.........)
[Text: The decision to show himself.]
Knuckle: (Outright telling him that there's another enemy out here?! // Sounds great!!!)

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Knuckle: (That way, Yupi'll be nice and distracted... / ...and Shoot will be able to survive!!!!) // COME AND GET IT!!!
Yupi: ......I see. // So this thing's yours, huh?
[Text: Knuckle's assessment was essentially accurate. // If we are to say that he made a miscalculation......]
[side text: Battle!!!]
[bottom text: Next issue, Knuckle and Yupi...!! Meanwhile, what will Gon find waiting for him?!]