"I can't say I know him too well..."
Lan looked at Majtani, who was flexing his muscles and posing on the stone platform.
"Like this guy, I don't know his past."
There is only little information about Majtani, whether it is from Google, Wikipedia, or even the official Hunter X Hunter website.
Lan only remembers that he is a prisoner.
He is a repeat offender of fraud and extortion and was sentenced to 108 years in prison.
He looks scary, but the scars on his face are actually caused by failed plastic surgery.
He installed steel on his right hand, and the number of people he has killed on his chest is marked, showing 19 people.
"So far, I have killed nineteen people..."
On the stone platform, Majtani pointed to his left chest.
"But the number nineteen is not good; it always makes me feel unhappy."
He clenched his palms hard, making a crisp bone sound: "But now, I am excited."
"Finally, the twentieth person came to die on his own initiative!!"
"Tsk, is this a serial killer?!"
Leorio spat: "Kurapika, if you can't beat him, just give up!!"
"Anyway, we are still here!!"
Kurapika, on the stone platform, ignored him.
"I only know how to play with my life, and I am interested in excitement."
"I can't get excited unless I fight to the death!!"
"I don't play a painless game, and I don't accept a duel that stops at the right time!!"
Majtani smiled cruelly and clawed up to the sky: "I want blood! Your internal organs! And your painful expression!!"
On the stone platform at the cliff, Gon's head tilted further.
Killua didn't even look at the other person.
Only Leorio was a little nervous and observed the hidden stone platform.
"No problem."
Kurapika nodded without hesitating: "You decide on how to compete."
"I will duel in the way you decide."
Majtani: "Oh…? You are such a brave boy!!"
He thought the other party would hesitate, but the result was so decisive that some unexpected things could not be revealed on the surface.
"Then... Let's have a game where the game will never stop unless the opponent surrenders or dies!"
He shook his neck and continued to make a creaking sound: "But I want to warn you, even if you surrender halfway, don't expect me to stop attacking you!!"
Kurapika still looked calm: "I understand."
Huh?!!
Majtani's right eye glared slightly at Kurapika.
"Is this guy a fool?! Didn't he understand what I said at all? Or is he so slow that he didn't feel anything when he saw my terrifying appearance?"
Swish!!
Across from him, Kurapika had taken off his clothes.
It can be said that he takes off his clothes every time he has to fight solo, just like Shiryu in Saint Seiya.
"Let's get started."
Kurapika waited calmly.
Majtani: "Oh! You're brave!!"
"But, there is one thing I forgot to say."
He raised his finger and shook it: "No weapons are allowed; we can only use our fists and feet to determine the winner!"
"Although I'm like an examiner in this round, I am also a prisoner; I cannot carry weapons!"
"Okay, I understand."
Kurapika had no objection and threw aside the two swords he was carrying.
"Anything else? If not, we can start."
Hmm???
"He really has weapons."
Majtani looked at the two swords on the ground.
'But, he doesn't seem to rely on them very much…'
'Is he confident in himself?'
'No, that shouldn't be the case!!
'Maybe it's because he has no way to retreat?'
'Heh, it seems that he lost his judgment after seeing me like this!'
Fortunately, he had prepared a special move to deal with such a slow guy.
"Hey, would Kurapika be okay?"
Leorio was still worrying uselessly: "In my opinion, this guy looks very difficult to deal with."
Gon straightened his tilted head and looked at Killua: "What do you think, Killua?"
"I don't feel anything."
Killua was very relaxed. In his opinion, the opponent was full of flaws.
Let alone killing, I'm afraid the opponent doesn't even have the courage to hit people.
He's just bragging.
"Really? I also think there's nothing to worry about."
Seeing that he was not the only one who felt this way, Gon confirmed his judgment even more: "The more I look at him, the less scary he feels!"
Leorio was worried and reminded:
"Kurapika, you have to strike first!!"
"If you attack head-on, it might be disadvantageous to you... Eh?!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Majtani leaping towards Kurapika.
"Let me show you how scary I am!!"
He jumped high, swung his right fist, and smashed down at Kurapika from top to bottom!
Boom!
With one blow, gravel flew.
Kurapika dodged in time, and Majtani's right hand smashed directly into the floor.
And on the ground, a big hole was created.
"Break the floor with one strike?!"
Leorio continued to yell with his eyes wide open.
At the stone platform, Majtani slowly raised his right fist.
And as if inadvertently, he turned around and revealed the tattoo on his back.
It was a spider tattoo with twelve legs!!
"That's..."
Leorio recognized it at a glance: "That's the mark of the Phantom Troupe!!"
Gon's eyes widened as he heard it: "That's the group that killed all of Kurapika's clansmen?!"
"That's right, that's Kurapika's enemy, the notorious murderer group in the world, the Phantom Troupe!!"
Leorio nodded solemnly: "I didn't expect this guy to be one of them…"
"He's not a member of the Phantom Troupe."
Lan, on the side, suddenly spoke up.
"Eh? He's not?"
Leorio was stunned and looked over in confusion: "But the spider tattoo on his back..."
"Members of the Phantom Troupe will have their own numbers printed on their tattoos."
Lan explained simply: "And no one of the troupe is imprisoned as a prisoner."
"Once they fail, the end result is death, and then new people will replace them."
"Every one of them has strong strength. This guy is far from the real Phantom Troupe in terms of momentum and style."
"Is that so…"
Leorio pointed at the spider tattoo on the other party and asked subconsciously: "But the tattoo on his back…"
Then, his body suddenly stiffened.
He also thought of a possibility or a fact.
"The other party is probably a fraud criminal, right?"
Gon said it bluntly: "Just like the guy before who wanted to use defective candles to compete with me!"
Leorio: It's so embarrassing to be tricked by two consecutive fraud prisoners!
"But Lan, you know the Phantom Troupe so well."
Killua put his hands behind his head, looked at Lan, and said jokingly, "Are you a member of the Phantom Troupe?"
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