"Hmm, it's been a long time since I used this."
Razor stood at the tavern door, pulling a card from his shorts pocket. He held it upright in front of him and softly chanted.
"Use 'Rewind,' Greed Island City."
As his words fell, a spherical light shield enveloped Razor, transforming into a streak of light that shot into the sky and flew towards the distance.
At this time, Greed Island City.
Liszt, who was reading in his study, closed his book, rose, and walked to the second-floor balcony corridor of the castle. With his hands clasped behind his back, he looked towards the open ground outside the castle.
In the clearing, a Night Raven aircraft was slowly descending to the ground.
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, a sound of something cutting through the air rang out.
Liszt looked up into the sky, only to see a purple streak of light whistling from the horizon. When it flew over the castle, it suddenly plummeted, landing in the open ground outside the castle.
The purple light shield dissipated, revealing a burly figure. It was Razor, dressed in a white t-shirt and athletic shorts, one hand on his hip, his expression calm and composed.
"Click-clank~"
The hatch opened, and Alpha Squad members, dressed in power armor, stepped out. Twelve members stood on either side of the aircraft, awaiting orders.
"Hmm, uninvited guests."
Razor looked at the power armor on those people and the faint aura emanating from them, making his judgment.
"Boom..."
A dull thud sounded as Ahmed, clad in power armor, stepped out from the hatch. His heavy foot landed with a thud on the grass, and when he lifted it again, it left a deep footprint in the grass.
"Scan."
The first thing Ahmed did upon exiting the aircraft was to have the AI scan the two figures present.
"Beep beep..."
In the helmet display of the power armor, the AI was scanning Razor and Liszt's facial features, clothing, and postures, checking them one by one.
"Scan complete. Facial features match."
"One of the Greed Island game creators, Razor, released Nen ability user, ability is clones - [Razor and the Fourteen Devils]."
"One of the Greed Island game creators, Liszt, Nen ability unknown."
Long before heading to Greed Island, Illumi had already uploaded all the information he knew to the database. But apart from Razor, he only knew the names of the game creators; their Nen abilities were completely unknown to him.
"Nen intensity is very high, higher than mine." Ahmed frowned secretly, looking at the data continuously rising from Razor's body.
According to Illumi's improved classification of dangerous creatures, the Razor in front of him was clearly a world-class top-tier expert at S-rank.
If they were to fight...
Although the [Alpha] squad was the organization's elite force, the outcome was truly hard to predict.
...
At this time, Illumi, who was in a board meeting at Walton Industries, suddenly looked up, his expression freezing.
"Hmm, I forgot to remind Ahmed that there's a master called Razor on Greed Island."
"Never mind. Counting the time, they should have met by now."
"Razor will at most use [Eliminate] to drive them out. With his current temper, he wouldn't start by going on a killing spree."
Illumi rubbed his forehead. There were too many things going on. Even he couldn't remember or recall everything.
...
The scene returns to Greed Island.
"We are here to invite the creator of the game cards in this game to our organization for technical exchange."
"May I ask... who is the card creator?"
Ahmed, with what he believed to be a polite attitude, asked Razor and Liszt, who was standing on the castle's second floor.
But in the eyes of Razor and Liszt, Ahmed and this silent troop had no polite attitude whatsoever.
"Excuse me, no matter who or what organization you are."
On the second floor of the castle, Liszt said calmly. At the same time, he pulled out an [Eliminate] spell card from behind him and slowly held it up.
"This island prohibits any illegal intrusion. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave."
"Swish!"
But as soon as Liszt raised his arm, a beam of white light shot past his face with a sound of cutting through the air.
"Whoosh~"
A gentle breeze blew, carrying a wisp of smoke that drifted past Liszt's face.
Liszt maintained his posture of holding up the [Eliminate] spell card, his expression calm.
A small, finger-sized circular hole was burned into the golden curly hair behind his right ear, and a wisp of smoke dispersed with the wind.
But at this moment, Liszt's eyes darted to the right, his gaze focused on the spell card clamped between his index and middle fingers.
"Oh~?"
Below the castle, Razor's tightly shut eyes also opened slightly, his gaze fixed on the [Eliminate] card in Liszt's hand, a hint of surprise in his expression.
There, on the [Eliminate] spell card in Liszt's hand, was a black hole.
"A spell card created with Nen, and it was shot through with a firearm?"
Razor retracted his gaze, turned, and looked at the Alpha squad.
"Those weapons with exaggeratedly large barrels, it seems they're not just for show."
A power-armored soldier, who was slowly putting away his Gauss rifle, grew solemn.
"Hmm, what a pity for an Eliminate card."
Liszt tilted his head, put the [Eliminate] spell card back into his pocket, his tone regretful. Then his gaze shifted to the Alpha squad.
"You fired the moment I pulled out the spell card. It seems you've collected quite comprehensive data on this game."
Liszt clasped his hands behind his back again, still looking calmly at the Alpha squad, and said.
"Since that's the case, why not enjoy the game's rules here properly?"
"As long as you clear the game, as a reward, you can also get the information you want from me."
Razor also looked up at Liszt. Seeing his calm expression and tone, he suddenly thought of something. His solemn expression gradually relaxed, and his furrowed brows gently smoothed out.
"Hmm?"
On the other side, Ahmed acutely noticed Razor's relaxed expression.
Relaxing his guard at a time like this, does he have some hidden trump card?
"Beep beep beep..."
Suddenly, the energy detector in the power armor blared frequently.
"Warning!"
"Unknown energy approaching at high speed..."
A square virtual window popped up in the helmet display. In the square virtual window, a red dot representing unknown energy was approaching Greed Island City at an unimaginable speed.
"Commander..."
Among the Alpha squad, a soldier took a step forward, about to request orders, but Ahmed "swished" his palm up, signaling him to shut up.
At this moment, Razor also seemed to sense something, and the corners of his mouth slightly curved upwards.
Ahmed, on the other hand, slowly turned around, facing the direction of the unknown energy, and said in a heavy tone: "If I'm not mistaken, the person coming should be..."
"Swish!"
Before he finished speaking, a black shadow flashed past him.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
The speed was so fast that it kicked up a gust of wind, stirring up sand and stones on the ground.
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