18 The Student

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Ashton looked around as his En retreated into his body. The scientist seemed quite angry with the situation.

All of the Troupe members were on the ground, either in pain or knocked out.

The only reason he hadn't killed them already was due to his relationship with their previous leader.

They weren't friends by any means, but Chrollo learned how to use Nen from Ashton. It made Ashton somewhat reluctant to kill his student's friends.

Although he had all the rights to.

The light in his eyes slowly subsided as his crazed smile returned to its original cold smirk.

The Scarlet Eyes. An experiment that Ashton attempted on both his own body and several animals. It was a success. He now had the eyes of a Kurta clan member.

Of course, it wasn't as easy as just popping them in his eye sockets. Quite a few genetic modifications were in order to achieve these results.

His interest was attracted to the strange change in the aura that happened to the people of the Kurta clan whenever their eyes turned scarlet.

As for how he found out about this strange fact... It was pure luck, he passed by their clan and immediately realised the change.

It got him intrigued. But he couldn't experiment with live subjects and he didn't want to be the one to gather them.

So he managed to get in contact with an old acquaintance, who also happened to be the leader of a thief band.

He figured that they were already thieves, so they didn't lose all that much reputation.

The eyes also turned out to be extremely expensive on the Black Market. Something that further influenced the Troops choice to kill the entire clan and collect all of their eyes.

Ashton only needed around ten pairs to do his experiments leisurely. And that's all he told them to get.

He paid them a huge amount. But money is never an issue when most governments around the world fund your laboratory.

It seems that the money they were getting for a few pairs made them get greedy. Chrollo was smarter than to not deliver the eyes to his old teacher. He would've extorted more money out of just about anyone else.

But Ashton was basically a danger zone to Chrollo. Being in close proximity to him was extremely dangerous in the eyes of the student.

But the rest of the Phantom Troupe had no way of knowing such things. As Chrollo didn't want them to get involved further with this man.

Them choosing to accept a request of his was outside his expectations. Even worse, they were the ones that chose to exterminate the entire clan and steal all of their eyes.

And yet, they blamed Ashton for this revenge-driven survivor attacking and dealing this much damage to their group.

Suffice it to say, the old scientist was quite livid.

__________ POV Ashton__________

To think they have the gall to threaten me. Did Chrolly not tell them who I was when they were working for me?

That's the only way they'd be this disrespectful to me. But they are young, so it's excusable. I'll just judge their murderous intent as a misunderstanding.

Only this time. If they so much as look at me the wrong way again I will be throwing them in an active volcano.

It's been a while since I've done that to somebody. I think it was to discover how quickly a human sinks in lava?

It's not like I couldn't have read it in a book. But that person annoyed me greatly. And watching him suffer for a few seconds made me happy.

"I believe you people have some problems... Maybe you've made a misunderstanding of sorts?" My calm response was a drastic contrast to my angry outburst.

Feifei, the pink-haired girl, the little girl wearing a kimono and the guy with the katana were the only ones still awake. The others were knocked out by my En.

While my Scarlet Eyes are active I become a Specialist. And as a Specialist, I can infuse my En with a special effect that dominates the minds of those around me. I can either break someone mentally or just make them pass out.

It does have something to do with one Hatsu I created as a Specialist.

"I... I apologize on behalf of the Phantom Troupe..." Seeing such a short man bow in front of me feels weird. But at least he's learned his lesson.

"What happened to Chrolly? He wouldn't have done something this stupid..." My tone returned to its controlled coldness. As I carefully suppressed any residing anger.

Attempts on my life weren't exactly uncommon. I may not be a public figure, but governments know of my existence. Just about all of my 'supporters' tried sending assassins after me before giving up and starting to pay me.

Some still tried to discreetly get rid of me, probably to save some face. I guess they were quite unsuccessful? I am still alive and well.

Can't say the same about the people they sent after me. But I at least got to try a few exotic execution methods.

Oh, look at me getting lost in thought again. Happens a lot when you're used to spending time alone.

The short man in front of me had been talking for a while now.

"Hey... Can you shorten the story? I don't have all night." I don't want to admit that I wasn't listening to him.

He just nodded. " A survivor of the Kurta clan killed one of us and cursed our leader Chrollo. He's not able to communicate with us and he also can't use Nen." Oh, so that was it. I guess I can help my shitty student.

"Do you guys have his number or something?" I asked the 4 that were still awake.

"Are you willing to help our leader after today?!" Asked the surprised FeiFei.

Of course, I'll help that ungrateful idiot...

"Sure, just give me his number."

The katana guy handed me his phone, the contact was listed on the screen. I didn't use his phone to call Chrollo. I don't know how the condition applies, I will just use my own.

So I took it out and put his number in. I can't believe he changed numbers too. He really doesn't like me a lot huh?

The phone rang for around a minute. When he picked up, I was just greeted by silence.

I waited for a bit. But it seems he wanted me to start the conversation... Well, I can sure do that.

An unusual mischievous smile found its way to my face. "Chrolly, how you break my old heart... Not even properly greeting your old man..."

I could hear the vein on his forehead pop.

"Teacher... TEACHER!?"

Yep, he's just like I remember.

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