"Written by Milton - Paradise Lost."
"A line I personally quite like."
In the gloomy corner of the second-floor room, a deep, magnetic male voice resounded. His tone was slow, carrying an inherent noble quality.
"Tap... tap..."
The sound of high heels treading on the wooden floor echoed. A tall figure appeared in the shadows.
"To meet a contemporary here, this is truly..."
The tall figure fully revealed itself: high heels, tight leather pants, a bare, muscular upper body, a black choker, purple lipstick, and pink eyelashes.
Purple hair and a half-and-half hairstyle.
"Your aura is much stronger now. Compared to three years ago, you're like a different person."
"You recognize me?"
Illumi heard this, lowered his gaze, and spoke. His tone was questioning, yet carried a certainty.
"No matter how a person's appearance changes, their aura remains the same."
The half-and-half man extended his tongue and licked a drop of blood from his fingertip. His gaze shifted to Greed, who stood beside Illumi, and said,
"For instance, this impatient gentleman here."
"He has the same thing in his eyes as that old man who used to be by your side."
Illumi's expression remained unchanged. He knew what the other party was referring to.
All the Nen Beasts of the Seven Deadly Sins had a peculiar trait: when entering combat, a rattlesnake mark would appear in their eyes.
A special symbol.
"You two know each other?"
Greed glanced at Illumi with a strange expression.
The half-and-half man before him, both in his demeanor and tone, gave off a particularly dangerous feeling.
Like a venomous scorpion lurking in the desert, poised to suddenly dart out and deliver a poisonous sting when humans rested and relaxed at night.
"No, we've only met before."
Illumi's face was expressionless. His gaze bypassed the half-and-half man and looked at the bed in the second-floor room.
There, an extremely faint aura lingered.
But in contrast to his faint life aura, the extreme negative emotions had transformed into a thick, dark green mist, mingling with the black aura in the room.
"I see, that was my rudeness. Allow me to introduce myself."
The half-and-half man, hearing Illumi's reply, seemed to realize something. He touched his forehead with his index finger and his chest with his middle finger, then lightly touched his lips, as if blowing a kiss to the trio.
His movements were gentle, and his tone was soft.
"Opus Dei — Selyu."
Illumi's expression hardened. This was the man who had passed the Hunter Exam in the same period as him, and had killed over 95% of the examinees during the test.
He was actually from Opus Dei.
The people within that organization were all ascetics who were extremely harsh on themselves.
"Hehehe, Father, can I eat him?"
At this moment, Gluttony looked at Selyu, drooling continuously from the corner of his mouth, appearing eager to devour him.
"Oh my oh my"
"This gentleman possesses a rare and ugly countenance."
Selyu looked at Gluttony, who was staring fixedly at him, like a predator in the forest eyeing its prey, afraid it would escape.
"A week ago, I had just punished someone with a similarly ugly face to yours."
But in Selyu's eyes, the other party was constantly exuding sin.
"Tch, so long-winded."
Greed shook his head, covered himself with his strongest shield, and charged towards Selyu with a whoosh. The sharp claws on his five fingertips "clanged" out like blades.
"Stop all your pretensions and fight me."
Greed suddenly appeared in front of Selyu, his mouth split in a sneer, his tone arrogant.
"Such a rude man..."
Selyu looked at the man who had suddenly appeared in front of him. He extended his tongue and licked the tip of his thumb, his tone slightly displeased.
"Fine, let me give you a taste..."
Selyu lowered his gaze. As his tongue licked his fingertip, his teeth bit into the skin of his fingertip, and a trickle of fresh blood flowed out.
"Pfft!"
The instant he bit his finger, Greed's sharp claws slashed across his chest. Five deep claw marks appeared, bleeding profusely.
However, Selyu didn't even frown at the pain he suffered. He clasped his left hand around his right, then extended his bitten finger and pressed it towards Greed.
"Swish!"
Greed's expression hardened. He lightly tapped his toes on the ground and took a step back.
"Tch, he looks strong, but he's weak when he acts," Greed mocked with an arrogant expression.
"Oh~ Is that so?"
Selyu touched the five bloody wounds on his chest with two fingers. He extended his tongue to lick them, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly as he deliberately asked,
"Then why did you withdraw when you had victory in your grasp?"
"Tch."
These words made Greed's lips twitch unhappily.
Just now, a sudden feeling surged in his heart: "I can't take this move," "I'll get hurt if I take it."
He felt very displeased.
He was a Nen beast; he felt no pain, and he shouldn't be afraid.
He had never felt this way since his birth.
"A special Nen ability?"
Illumi also stared intently at Selyu's movements. At that instant, he had the same feeling.
"This gentleman, you possess extremely keen danger foresight, but..."
"Swish swish swish...!!!"
Before Selyu could finish speaking, Illumi attacked. Shadows appeared from the floor behind Selyu, transforming into black spikes.
They struck at his vital points: heart, xiphoid process, liver, pancreas, and other crucial areas.
Selyu, who was speaking, reacted instantly. His waist, hips, and shoulders swiftly swayed.
"Swish swish swish...!!!"
As the black spikes were about to touch his body, Selyu's hips and waist rapidly twisted from side to side, "swishing" to avoid the four incoming black spikes.
Finally, he straightened his right leg, bent his left leg in a lunge, spread the five fingers of his right hand and held it at his right waist, and spread the five fingers of his left hand, extending his left arm straight upwards at a forty-five-degree angle.
He evaded Illumi's attack with an incredibly seductive yet aesthetically pleasing posture.
"Boom boom boom!!!"
Four black spikes protruded from Selyu's sides, instantly piercing through the roof above their heads. A little dust trickled down from the ceiling.
"Nice fight~!"
Selyu maintained his peculiar posture, praising Illumi's attack.
"However, interrupting others while they are speaking is an extremely impolite behavior."
Selyu retracted his left hand and placed it on the back of his head. He caressed his injured chest, his emotions completely unmoved, his tone still gentle as he said,
"However, since you have all made a move, I must also respond accordingly."
Selyu lowered his gaze, and the corners of his mouth curved upwards slightly. A small amount of aura surged from his body.
The aura was black, gathering at Selyu's bitten fingertip, then covering his entire palm. The aura on his palm burned like flames.
"Feel God's pain with me..."
Selyu pressed it against the wound on his chest, and a peculiar black pattern appeared on his chest.
"Different Hearts, Shared Body!"
Suddenly, just as Selyu fully activated his ability.
Illumi's eyes widened abruptly, his body shuddered, and his heart thumped. He felt as if he had been injured.
"Pfft~!"
Illumi's chest suddenly thrust forward, and a sound like flesh being torn by a sharp blade echoed. His footsteps involuntarily took a step forward. A large amount of fresh blood seeped through his white shirt, and five long bloodstains appeared on his chest.
"This is..."
Illumi's lips twitched, and a trace of blood ran down. He looked down at his chest.
His expression hardened. He reached out and with a "rip," violently tore open his shirt.
Indeed, five deep scratches appeared on his chest. Not only that, but the strange floral pattern also appeared on his chest.
"Oh my~ It seems this gentleman..."
Selyu looked at the wounds and floral pattern on Illumi's body, then at Greed's surprised face standing beside him, and finally returned his gaze to Illumi.
His demeanor was relaxed, and he smiled.
"You have an intricate connection with him."
"No, perhaps, you are fundamentally one in heart and body."
Selyu placed his right hand on his chest, his tone gentle.
"Damage sharing?"
Illumi took a deep breath. This minor injury couldn't affect him much; at most, it would only cause him some pain.
"This kind of ability must have something as a medium for activation."
His expression was grim. He narrowed his eyes, staring at Selyu, looking at the wound on his chest.
"Drip..."
Just then, an extremely faint sound of liquid dripping onto the ground was heard.
Illumi abruptly turned his head to look at Greed, and at the fresh blood dripping from the fingertips of Greed's lowered right hand onto the ground.
"Blood..."
Illumi's expression hardened. He looked at Selyu again. The other party had clearly noticed his change in expression and his eye movements.
"Truly, such an excellent young man. It makes one want to spoil him."
Selyu's lips curved upward. He placed his right hand on his chest and said gently,
"In just a short moment, you analyzed my ability and the medium for activating it."
"Your talent is even more outstanding than during the Hunter Exam three years ago."
"Like fireworks blooming in the night... dazzling, magnificent."
Selyu praised Illumi without吝啬, then bowed slightly to him and said,
"As you've seen, my ability, 'Different Hearts, Shared Body,' is activated through blood as a medium."
"Which is damage sharing."
"No matter what kind of damage I suffer, you, as the 'marked target,' will also suffer the same degree of damage."
Selyu straightened his body, crossing his arms over his chest, completely disregarding the deep wounds on his chest. He licked the wound on his thumb and said slowly,
"I don't know why you are here."
"But, as you've seen, what the consequences will be if you try to harm me."
"My business has nothing to do with yours. If you leave now, I'll let bygones be bygones."
"Furthermore, the purpose of my current trip does not include killing Hunters or any other ordinary people."
"If you retreat, I won't report this incident to the Association~"
"Little brother~"
Selyu's tone was sincere.
Illumi was silent. Greed's face was grim. He didn't dare to make a move easily now. If he did, he would hurt his main body.
And if anything happened to his main body, he, as a Nen beast of the main body, probably wouldn't fare well either.
"Grrr... Greed, why aren't you attacking?"
Only Gluttony was still foolishly asking beside them. He looked at Selyu, who was bleeding from the chest, and his throat pulsed.
"Shut up!"
Greed's face was ferocious. This was the first time he had been so restrained. Why was there such a mutually destructive ability?
But in truth, Selyu hadn't fully explained his ability.
"Different Hearts, Shared Body," a Specialist Nen ability.
Through his own blood, he contaminates the target's body with his aura, marking the target, and then inflicting damage to the target.
At first glance, it sounded like a rather useless name.
But in reality, due to his own special reasons, the range limit of the ability was very loose.
The effect would vary depending on the difference in strength with the target and the severity of the damage sustained. Blood was not highly valued in the human body.
Therefore, he used blood as a medium, as a way to trace the "connection" between himself and the marked target.
Now, Illumi's body contained his blood.
Through the ability of "Different Hearts, Shared Body," Selyu and Illumi were "closely connected."
"However, my original target was the gentleman with the bloodshot eyes."
"I didn't expect it to work on you too. What a windfall."
Selyu licked his tongue excitedly. His initial target was Greed, but unexpectedly, the one affected was Illumi.
When Illumi and his two companions appeared here, he sensed them immediately.
And he found that among the three, although Greed was arrogant and the fat man was an imbecile.
But even with such a strange combination, it was very clearly centered around Illumi.
The situation, being one against three, was already extremely disadvantageous for him. His attack on Greed was only intended as a warning. He didn't believe he had the ability to face three Nen users whose strength was at least equal to his own.
But unexpectedly, Illumi, the leader of the trio, became the target. Now he had the upper hand.
"Have you considered it?"
Selyu ended his thoughts and looked at Illumi, asking.
"The effect is indeed powerful, but this kind of damage won't kill me, no matter how many times it comes."
"As long as I endure the pain and damage, the one who survives in the end might not be you."
Illumi's tone was cold. He had undergone extremely cruel and rigorous training from the Zoldyck family since childhood, so enduring injuries and pain was as common as eating and drinking for him.
"Really?"
"I introduced myself just now, didn't I? My identity."
Selyu's tone was gentle, but what he said made Illumi's heart tremble.
Opus Dei, Illumi had just mentioned, was an ascetic Catholic organization. After joining, they followed very strict disciplines: celibacy and gender segregation.
Asceticism meant tying an ascetic belt filled with spikes around one's thighs, then pulling it tight, tearing the flesh on one's thighs until it was mangled and bloody.
Not only that, but they also had to whip themselves for over two hours every day.
Opus Dei members subjected their bodies to severe abuse.
Their love for Jesus had reached a perverted degree.
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