__________ POV Ashton__________
By the time I reached Gon's room, I could already feel his aura slipping away.
He's on his last breath before I even got near him... I guess that speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the health care system in this country.
Or Gon is just fated to die. Which would be regrettable, I still want to see Gon's reaction to this whole situation.
I still need to at least try to heal him. So I rushed into his room, completely ignoring the doctors and nurses.
I quickly used 'Doctor Blythe' But one of them wouldn't work fast enough to keep his heart beating. So I materialised three of them.
All to keep his body functioning. One was in charge of making his heartbeat, one was in charge of making sure his lungs delivered oxygen to his brain properly.
And the other was for regular maintenance and in case anything unexpected happened.
With this setup, I can technically keep him alive. Even if he runs out of vitality completely, I can just keep him alive forcefully, till Killua gets here.
It's still quite annoying that I can't move whilst using Doctor Blythe. I guess I'll have to modify some things about this technique.
I'll have time for that later though. Right now I need to concentrate on controlling three of them at once. Which would be a lot harder if their motions weren't basically in a loop.
The only one that didn't have a set loop was the maintenance one. Who was just on standby for now.
And will likely be for a while. Because I can't really see how Gon's situation can go any worse. His organs are already failing after all. I'm only doing the necessary things to keep him alive.
Killua better get here in a few hours, because my interest and patience still have limits.
The doctors looked in awe. I don't really care about humans seeing Nen constructs. Thankfully one of the older ones knew better than to interfere whit issues when it came to Nen users.
He also advised the others to not disturb me in any way. And just like that, I was set. To wait for around two hours that is.
Killua, the little rat bastard, finally decided to show up. Only for him to freeze in fear when seeing the image of three creepy dolls dissecting his friend.
I guess it doesn't look fine. But he did calm down after seeing them all attached to my back. I was facing the door as I looked at him.
"Your phone call was really convincing. I was sooo moved by it that I decided to help you." I said with a fake smile.
He didn't seem to want to respond at first. But the person beside him was quite curious.
"Big Bro! Who's the creepy guy?" Now that's just rude. She'd truly be in trouble if she wasn't such a cute child. She wore traditional clothing, her hairstyle reminds me of tribal ware.
And she was even smaller than Killua. Question is, why is someone so nice hanging out with an assassin? Wait, she did call him Big Bro.
So... Another Zoldyck? Really? Oh, whatever! I guess I'll meet their whole family before ever getting to visit them...
"His name is Ashton... He is helping your Big Brother." Said Killua, trying to keep his nervousness outside of the girl's perception.
"Don't call me creepy, please! I didn't even do anything yet!" At least call me that after I do something creepy, you'll have plenty of opportunities anyway...
The little girl nodded, she had a sweet innocent smile on her face. She gasped and looked quite excited when seeing Doctor Blythe.
I guess they are just big dolls to her. Although it's a bit strange that she's completely ignoring the dying Gon on the table.
Well, she's also a Zoldyck I guess...
"Ashton... you look older?" Said Killua, looking a bit confused.
"Gee thanks, kid. Really appreciate the sass. So do you have a way to help your friend or are you just wasting my time?" Killua looked a bit shocked when I mentioned this.
I guess he hoped I wouldn't think too much on why exactly I was asked to keep a dying man alive? He doesn't know me well enough it seems.
Not that I blame him, we didn't really spend all that much time together. And some of it was spent with him trying to kill me... So yeah. He's truly a Zoldyck huh.
_________ POV Narration__________
In truth. To say that Killua had expected Ashton to actually help Gon was beyond stupid. He didn't even consider that the scientist would show up.
Still, he was very desperate when he made that call, and he knew that the man before him was still technically a doctor.
Morel told him to try and contact Ashton, saying he should be able to at least use his connections to help the two.
It was how he had gotten the number in the first place.
But he was not expecting this type of help. Ashton, the man Gon tried to kill. Helping personally and waiting for him in this place.
Even if he masked his voice and tried to hire him. He wasn't expecting him to show up himself. But how exactly could a 12-year-old child fool an old fox that lived for centuries?
At this point, Killua was regretting taking Morel's suggestion about asking Ashton for help. But it was far too late to go back now.
He was now scared for the safety of both Gon and his little sister, Alluka. Especially since he was going to now see Nanika.
And he knew the type of Greed Nanika was able to instil in others. The wish-granting second face of his innocent and cute little sister.
Nanika was by no means malevolent. But it liked the concept of equivalent exchange a bit too much... At least that's what Killua believed.
He wasn't outright wrong either.
Still, it's still left to see how Nanika was going to affect the old scientist. The young white-haired assassin could only clench his fist and hope for the best.
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