Hisoka's favorite thing to do is to personally assess the ripeness of each apple and then enjoy the process of picking them by hand.
Now, this may be the first time he has felt such a strong murderous intent towards someone he has never met.
"…"
In the brief silence, Hisoka's eyes were filled with killing intent, and he exuded an aura that kept others at bay.
His murderous intent was not directed at the muscular man who greeted him.
But the muscular man was not far away from Hisoka, and he was inevitably caught in Hisoka's murderous aura.
Suddenly, the muscular man felt an overwhelming sense of danger coming at him like a tide.
'What's going on? Is he, is he the Roly-Poly Hisoka...'
In that instant, the muscular man almost doubted his own eyes.
Moreover, in the face of Hisoka's terrifying murderous aura, the muscular man was obviously unable to suppress the panic that emerged from his heart.
He had a feeling that if he continued to stay, he would suddenly suffocate.
Faced with such a sense of crisis, the muscular man had no time to delve into the strangeness of the Roly-Poly Hisoka before him and followed his instinct to flee.
Hisoka paid no attention to the fleeing muscular man, nor did he show any intention of restraining his aura.
He just took the footages of 'his battles' and went straight back to the private room arranged for 'himself' at the Heavens Arena.
The private room was spacious and clean.
Hisoka glanced around the room and could easily tell that there were no signs of someone 'living' in this room in a short period of time.
But this information could only explain so much.
Hisoka withdrew his gaze and walked over to the TV, inserting the videotape he held into the VCR beneath the TV.
After a few seconds, the TV screen began playing the footage of 3D Hisoka's matches on the ring.
Hisoka squatted halfway in front of the TV, watching the matches with slightly squinted eyes.
"Player Hisoka's attacks were ineffective and he was caught off guard by Dekas!"
"Oh! Player Hisoka has been knocked down by player Dekas!"
"Player Hisoka stands up again! But player Dekas has already scored 8 points, the situation is very unfavorable for player Hisoka!"
"Player Dekas attacks player Hisoka's lower body from the right. This was a very bold choice, but player Hisoka's reaction was a beat too slow, and player Dekas succeeded!"
"Oh, what a beautiful blow, player Dekas's leg sweep sends player Hisoka crashing to the ground."
"Currently, player Dekas has scored 9 points, and player Hisoka is seriously injured…"
"Huh? Player Hisoka is standing up again!!"
The audiences on the TV then erupted into cheers.
Countless spectators were moved by 3D Hisoka's indomitable will.
In front of the TV.
Hisoka watched the entire match in silence, then proceeded to play the remaining footages one by one.
It took about two hours for Hisoka to watch all the match footage.
In almost every match, 'he' basically loses because his opponent gets ten points.
In addition, 'he' on the arena was indeed like an indomitable figure, always able to stand up no matter how many times he was knocked down, and as a result, he was never KO'd in the match.
Perhaps, this is the fundamental reason why the impostor took on the title of 'Roly-Poly'.
What was frustrating was—
In several matches, Hisoka heard passionate calls of 'Roly-Poly' from the audience.
This meant that if he wanted to have a deeper exchange with Moses at the Heavens Arena, he would have to bear the title of 'Roly-Poly'.
"…"
Looking at the black screen, Hisoka fell into a long silence.
…
Yorknew City is located on the western coast of the United States of Sahelta.
It takes about six days to travel from the city where the Heavens Arena was located to Yorknew City.
For Moses, who often traveled between the Kakin Empire and the United States of Sahelta, this trip was quite long.
In this situation, the timeliness of tracking the target's whereabouts could not be guaranteed.
However, with Wright keeping an eye on Dis Mendeck, Moses wasn't too worried.
During the time before the airship arrived in Yorknew, Moses, in addition to confirming the target's movements with Wright frequently every day, also engaged in regular high-intensity training.
Time passed by.
Six days flew by in the blink of an eye, and the ship Moses was aboard landed at the Lingon Airport on the outskirts of Yorknew City.
After Moses stepped off the airship, he immediately sent a message to Wright to inform him of his arrival. Afterwards, he hailed a taxi outside the Lingon Airport to head towards Yorknew City.
It would take approximately ninety minutes by car Lingon Airport to Yorknew City.
Once in the taxi, Moses closed his eyes to rest his mind.
Yorknew City, a city that Moses is very familiar with and yet also very unfamiliar with.
He is familiar because Yorknew City was the stage where the Phantom Troupe made its official appearance in the original work. Just by thinking about it, various images from the 'future' immediately pass through his mind.
The underworld led by the Ten Dons,
The diverse forms of the Shadow Beasts,
Kurapika and Uvogin under the Blood Moon,
The requiem played by slaughter,
The confrontation between the Zoldyck Family's Silva and Zeno, and Chrollo,
Blood flowing like rivers and bodies lying everywhere under the cover of night.
This is the Yorknew City Moses was familiar with.
But it was unfamiliar because...
This is his first time coming to Yorknew City.
Ninety minutes later…
The taxi stopped on a bustling street in Yorknew City.
Getting out of the taxi, Moses looked ahead.
It is already night now.
Skyscrapers lined the streets, and the traffic was bustling.
Looking around, as far as the eye can see, the river-like flow of traffic stretches into the distance, complementing the brilliant lights of high-rise buildings under the cover of night.
The prosperous cityscape at night gave Moses a feeling of déjà vu.
It wasn't reminiscent of the modern metropolis of his past life, but rather reminded him of Nightless City, the equally prosperous and decadent city that never sleeps.
'Six years... I wonder how much would change.'
Looking at the night view of Yorknew City in front of him, Moses couldn't help but think of those scenes from the original work again.
With him as a butterfly...
The events of the Yorknew City's Southernpiece Auction six years later might not unfold as expected.
But Moses didn't care about these things.
When he first arrived, he just wanted to find Dis Mendeck as soon as possible.
"Location?"
Moses took out his phone and sent a text message to Wright.
Without waiting for a reply from Wright, Moses, holding his phone in hand, walked along the pedestrian path of the shopping street and slowly merged into the crowd of people passing by.
"Hmm?"
Moses glanced at the pedestrian path diagonally across from the corner of his eye, and a tall man's figure attracted his attention.
It was a man over two meters tall, standing out conspicuously among the crowd on the sidewalk.
This is also why Moses noticed this man.
Under normal circumstances, Moses would have only glanced at him once and looked away.
But the numerous scars on the man's face, as well as the iconic earlobes that hung down below his collar, made Moses couldn't help but take a few more glances.
'Franklin? Phantom Troupe?'
Moses's expression changed slightly, and he subconsciously stopped.
'What a coincidence?'
A sense of astonishment filled his heart.