Chapter 108: Pieces Of The Puzzle

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Yasuo let out a small smile as his eyes turned completely blank with a vertical eye appearing on the crow... It blinked... Yasuo opened his eyes, eyes shining in interest and fascination in what he saw, "Done."

"You're done?" Asked Zigg confused as all he saw is the young Zoldyck's eyes turning blank for a split second before returning to normal.

Though he would've seen more if he used 'Gyo' as Yasuo got used to using 'In' constantly as to hide the dark crow on his shoulder.

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"Don't mind the how, my ability is just that strange. I learned what I wanted to know so how about we continue, specifically about the ability you created..."

The young man casually avoided answering the question by asking a question of his own.

Zigg didn't mind though, he observed Yasuo enough across the years to know a general description of his personality and that he likes to keep what he deems important secret so he made his own assumptions and started explaining the ability.

The young Zoldyck listened carefully to the interesting ability, an ability almost impossible to create unless one is a specialist.

The category that can break what's deemed normal to Nen users but he didn't need such a thing and he can't as he is an enhancer so he had to take another rule... Transmutation.

By using transmutation, one of the categories closest to enhancement, he transmuted his Aura into something magical or illusionary to counter the consequences of having Nanika in the family especially since he can't do anything to her.

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In fact, he can't even talk to her nor can he talk to anyone to take her away as its useless.

The repercussions of Nanika's power from what Yasuo saw are just that dangerous, the more it's used the bigger the repercussions become and they will fall upon every one connected to Nanika so sending her away is useless specifically the ones connected to her host by blood and emotions. "And let me guess, the cost of using it is your life span?" Guessed Yasuo and his guess is correct as Zigg nodded directly after and asked, "So what is your solution?"

Yasuo thought about it for a bit, "Well, you didn't know how its power will work before you created the ability but I do, and as I'm sure you noticed with your ability, the repercussions happen only when her power is used, right?"

"Yes, small wishes don't have that much of an effect but the bigger ones are quite consuming especially a specific kind of wishes.

Years ago, a bit before you knew of Nanika's existence, I noticed strange activity in my ability so I headed to the source and that was the first time I saw Nanika so I continued to observe whenever she appears and there is something interesting I noticed."

"Against what anyone might think regarding her healing ability since such wishes don't make the next requests more difficult, it's actually the most costly as the time Killua wished for her to heal a bird is single-handedly surpasses the consumption of all the other wishes combined."

Yasuo narrowed his eyes with his smile widening as more and more pieces of the puzzle fell into place making the fascinating painting in his mind clearer and clearer.

"So healing anything has the biggest repercussions huh as in changing the fate of something is costly... Then why would Nanika's power be so supportive of such a thing as if that's its goal."

Zigg suddenly warned, "If you're thinking of just not using her power then forget it, just her existing has repercussions albeit small, it will still accumulate until... our family gets destroyed.

The only reason we're still here is because of me but when I die and I'm sure that won't take long, there won't be anything to stop our fate.

The best thing I can do with my ability is stall and you rarely using her power helped a lot. Now, it's up to you to find a solution else I will have to use my final card."

Yasuo stroked his earring with interest lighting up in his eyes, "Well, leave it to me. I have a few ideas so it shouldn't be a problem."

The old man in the room nodded coming to a conclusion, "So making a wish to stop the repercussion is impossible huh."

"Yes. Also, when you look at my fortune... What do you see?" Yasuo's eyes couldn't help but glitter in curiosity and interest anticipating the answer more than he ever anticipated anything else.

The oldest of Zoldycks narrowed his already narrow eyes answering in a steady tone as if already used to what he sees without questioning him on why it so.

"I can't... You don't have a fortune. If you do then I can't see it... This is weird considering how much I sacrificed to have this ability and how many vows I made to make the most out of my ability.

Even giving up on ever being able to create another ability and losing all the other abilities I had before... But well, I'm sure you won't tell me how so it doesn't matter."

A calm expression returned to the Devil's face not showing any further emotions as he stood up. "My methods might take a while so I'll have to depend on you in that time span and don't worry about your life span, I'm certain I can get more of what you already used to extend your life span before long."

Then Yasuo disappeared leaving a not surprised Zigg, not surprised that he knows he took Nitro rice, something special only available in the dark continent and what allowed him to remain alive to this day even with how much he sacrificed...

Yasuo did what he does best, research and thinking... Thinking of mysterious painting in his mind or it was vague and became less so as he collected more pieces of the puzzle making everything around him look more different as if he saw what none ever could.

It was like a human that gained the ability to see the entire color spectrum from the visible to the invisible and comprehended what he has begun to see.

And he did and is comprehending what he can see yet that didn't satiate his hunger, his undying hunger to know more and more... To try new things and push things to their absolute limit and beyond.

So he made full use of the next few months to use Paku's ability fully as even though he got the main information he needed from her ability, there is still another use for her ability, seeing the memories of objects far into the past something his 'Vision Eye' can't do as the consumption is significant for that.

From Paku's point of view, he never asked her to use her ability, he just left her in the house and never spoke to her which she found weird but didn't mind as she's already glad she's alive right now.

So he pushed her ability to its limit looking into the past of anything he deems interesting especially objects left from ancient civilizations though he only got memories fragments from inanimate objects and this is a weakness of her ability.

Lastly, the most interesting thing he did for the past months is testing the musical piece 'Sonata of darkness' and he did so by using Illumi's needle zombies though he made sure to let him know to keep them alive before sending them to him.

After which he orders them to play the song he already wrote down and of course, he asked Illumi to make sure they have at least basic knowledge in musical notes beforehand else they won't be able to play the notes he wrote.

Though before he wrote the notes, he used Vision eye to see if it's safe, after all, he doesn't know if there are any negative repercussions for that and the process was similar for all the following experiments except...

The experiments never happened as he only performed them in the future he sees, this is due to a simple reason.

If the entity behind such a curse is sentient and is alive and can sense when the musical piece is played then it will sense the obvious strange activity.

Its ability being used several times in a short span of time and if it can sense the place it was played in then it will know the song was played several times in the same location.

The same place which can attract it to him and that's not something he wants considering it could be extremely dangerous and beyond his current level of power.

This is a variable he considers when it comes to things from the dark continent. That's why he prepared so many counter methods against the five threats across the years, after all, he didn't get so many victims of the threats for nothing.

And so, a few months passed since the job at Yorknew city, a month of research and waiting until the time comes.

You see, a while ago, Yasuo went to Greed Island and brought something special. The queen of the chessboard with the goal of getting the queen, a specific special card, and time have come for the king to come for the queen...