sinovels Chapter 35: Spider x Argument
Chapter 35: Spider x Argument
Kuroro drove away from the airport and took out his phone.He waited there until after watching Kurapika's plane take off and confirming that the boy was on his way to Zaban City, he decided what to do next.Instead of going back to the hotel, Kuroro drove out of the small town and dialed the number "6" on the "speed dial" line of the phone.The spider leader put the phone by his ear with his right hand, and held the steering wheel steadily with his left hand.After three rings, the phone was connected: "Commander?" ----- The voice of the person who answered the phone was a little trembling, he didn't sound sure ----- very good.
"Do you think there will be no consequences for your wanton actions?" Kuroro asked calmly.
"No." The man on the other end of the phone replied, "I'm ready to accept what you think is appropriate." The man's voice was calm now, and he had expected today.The head of the brigade was satisfied.
"Where are you?" the spider leader asked his men.
"I'm in Merenke."
"I guessed it," Kuroro said. "Fly over here and meet me at Xanthe. You have three hours."
"I understand the leader, I will arrive on time." Then the phone was hung up.
Kuroro sighed softly, and then dialed the number "5" on "Speed Dial".
"Captain." Marge answered the phone after ringing four times.
"Marge, I need you to do something, are you free now?"
"No problem," she said. "What do you need?"
"I met Six at Xanthe, he disobeyed my orders. I need you to monitor Six after I finish talking with him, can you make it?"
"I might be there around midnight," March said, "but I can't promise you that. I'm leaving now."
"Very good." Kuroro said and hung up the phone. He threw the phone casually on the passenger seat, holding the steering wheel tightly with both hands.He had a lot of things to think about, and he knew something like this was bound to happen, but Kuroro didn't expect this guy to complicate things.He thought back to what had happened after capturing Kurapika 6 weeks ago, there were so many coincidences that the Spider Chief believed they weren't all coincidences.Everything was going well, and what happened at Merenke may have been the catalyst for Kurapika and his relationship to become what it is now, but Kuroro still doesn't let anyone go against his will easily.He is not sure what to do now, but he wants to hear Number 6's explanation, and the spider leader decides to make a conclusion after listening to Number 6's statement.
It takes exactly 2 hours to get to Xanthe from the highway, but Kuroro took a little over an hour to get to that town.Or maybe it's a good thing Kuruta boy isn't around, and if the cops catch up from behind, he can kill them as he pleases.But Kurapika is bound to resent this, so Kuroro is forced to slow down so as not to attract the attention of the police.With no teenagers around to argue against the potential for a murder, the Spider leader has no qualms about driving speed.When he arrived in Xanthe, he found an old, dilapidated and vacant house. After Kuroro sent a message to the two spiders who would come to meet and told them the address, he bought a cup of coffee at a coffee shop in the city.The spider leader returned to the abandoned house 1 minutes before the appointed time.Ten minutes later, the man heard footsteps in the courtyard, closed the book and placed it on the fallen rubble where he was sitting.Kuroro didn't have to wait long.
"Captain," greeted the young man, who looked determined rather than scared, much to Kuroro's pride.It represents the courage of its young members to face the consequences of their actions.
"Warrior," Kuroro replied, "You know why I called you here."
"I know." The knight said with certainty.
"So?" Kuroro was very patient, and the knight looked around, obviously looking for the figure of the young Kuruta. "He's not here," the leader of the spider said calmly, "You can say what you want without worrying about it."
The knight widened his eyes, obviously he wanted to ask his leader something, but then he seemed to remember his current position.The knight shrugged. "I hate him." He said quietly, "I don't want him with us any more than he wants to be in the brigade."
"Because of Wojin?" Kuroro guessed.
The knight nodded: "I know that death is inevitable for this job, and Nakuruta has the ability to join us, but..." The knight paused and Kuroro was taken aback.
This... doesn't look like a knight.The young spider was always smiling, friendly and happy no matter what happened.Kuroro obviously needs to rethink some things. "Are you and Wojin...?" He hesitated to ask the question, since the idea of two of the band members being together was something Kuroro was unlikely to ignore.
The knight shook his head. "We didn't, we didn't, it's just..." He hesitated, "I really like him."
Kuroro nodded, accepting the answer. "I didn't see that," he admitted. "I thought Nobunaga would be a problem. After all, he and Wojin have the closest friendship, but you don't seem to have any deep communication with any member of the brigade."
"I used to be like this for a long time," Xia Ke nodded in agreement, "I mean, I like every member of the band, but we all have a chance to die someday in the future, so it seems best not to care too much choice." He licked his lips slowly, obviously considering his words: "I respect you, Captain, but it's... different from his words." The knight paused, and they quietly exchanged words. After looking at each other for a while, Kuroro didn't want to speak for the time being and risked making the knight shut up.Finally the chivalrous man went on to say, "I never thought that that tall, slow-witted fool would make me so angry, but I thought ----- it was stupid, but I never thought he would be killed, he It's very powerful." The knight lowered his head, and there was an atmosphere of silence between the two of them again, as the minutes passed, Kurolo knew that the knight hadn't finished speaking.After a while, the young spider continued: "He calls me a lot, annoys me, asks me out, flirts with me like he doesn't know what he's doing, that idiot." He bit his lower lip, Obviously suppressing the pain in his heart, Kuroro had never seen the other person not smiling before today, and this surprised him.
Xia Ke said, "I don't know how he did it, but at first, I actually found him annoying." He shrugged sadly.
Kuroro watched him quietly, but this time the knight did not speak again.The spider leader recalled what he had just been told - well, this was something he didn't expect, so it seems that the actions of the vigilante were justified, but in any case, disobedience is impossible without punishment . "It made me understand something," Kuroro said, not sounding unkind. "But as a knight I know, your actions really caught me by surprise." The leader spider's voice became cold: "You violated my wishes, and you can't avoid paying any consequences."
"I know, leader." The knight nodded, "I know you have the ability to survive no matter what happens, I just hope that the Kuruta tribe will die, and then the leader will find another person who can replace Wojin. He looked around again: "I can ask -----"
"No." Kurolo said, interrupting the knight: "You can't. I'm thinking about what to do with you, and until I make a decision, you have to treat yourself as a prisoner. If you want I will kill you if you leave, am I clear?"
The knight lowered his head and nodded: "Understood, leader."
The fingers of Kuroro's hands touched lightly, and then he raised his thumb and pressed it to his lips, half of covering up the contemplative arc emerging from the corner of his lips that he could feel even himself.He needs to think carefully about everything.On the one hand, the knight betrayed him. Although he never gave orders to the members not to let Kurapika fall into danger, he did hint to the members not to do so.On the other hand, for the first time, the knight acted on his own feelings, he had never tried against himself before, and now the knight did it and was ready to accept any punishment.Then there is the experience between him and Wo Jin, which is what Kuroro needs to consider.
"Okay." Kuroro said after considering all the variables, clasping his hands together: "This is my decision ----- since this is the first time you have disobeyed orders, and you have always obeyed in the past, No betrayal, and a relationship with Wojin that I didn't realize, I won't kill you. But you will be under surveillance until further notice, Madge is coming here. You have to act with her until I don’t think it’s necessary. If you leave her side without other members watching you, I will regard you as a traitor and kill you immediately. Do you accept this punishment?”
The knight did not hesitate: "I accept." He said: "If the leader thinks I deserve death, I will accept it too."
"That's why I chose not to kill you," Kuroro said. "Another question; you were separated from us in Erestor, am I right?"
"Yes," the knight replied, "I heard there was a robbery in Quedlin, but when I got there, you guys had already left. I caught up after the robbery at Merenke and the museum."
Kuroro nodded, pleased that his plan had worked to some extent, at least he could keep the knight from following for a while -- but he couldn't guess it was the knight at that time.Kuroro leaned over and put his arms on his knees and said, "Now we've got a deal, I need your help."
The knight looked very happy suddenly, and Kuroro saw him put his hand to his lips, pretending to be contemplative as a cover. "No problem," said the young spider, "anything is fine."
"There are five pairs of fire eyes in this area, and I want them. We'll look for them in this town first--just you and me. Marge will come tonight or tomorrow morning. When she arrives we'll Rendezvous, and then you go and get the other two pairs, and I'll go get the last pair, and then come back here to gather."
"Do we still need to collect eyes?" the knight asked, his brow furrowed slightly.
Kuroro suddenly understood what he was referring to, and the spider leader shook his head. "Kurapika's not dead," he said, "or we'll catch him."
The knight's lips drew a thin, unhappy arc: "Where is he?"
"I sent him away." Kuroro said, "I won't tell you where he is----I don't think I need to tell you my reason." The knight nodded, and the spider leader continued : "I don't think I need to remind again, I am serious about letting him join the brigade, which means you will cooperate with him, and I don't want your feelings to win over the battle. But, because now I feel , I will keep him away from you until you can control yourself."
The knight swallowed his saliva and nodded. "I can..." He hesitated and paused: "You don't have to answer if you don't want to answer, but I want to ask you something."
"You can ask," Kuroro said.
"You know he might fight back if he gets a chance." After Kuroro nodded, the knight continued: "Why did you still choose to let him go after knowing that he might use this opportunity to escape?"
"Because if he doesn't come back, I know I can find him and kill him," Kuroro replied easily.
"But leader, will you do this?" the knight asked.
Kuroro frowned slightly, not quite sure what the other party was asking him: "What will I do?"
"Kill him," said the knight. "Are you really going to kill him if he doesn't come back?"
Kurolo stopped.At first he wanted to gently take the question away.Will he kill Kurapika after his betrayal?Of course he would, and the idea that he wouldn't is just ridiculous.But then, Kuroro realized, he really hoped that wouldn't happen. "I wouldn't want to kill him if I could," Kuroro replied honestly, "but if necessary, I would."
Xia Ke nodded slowly: "Okay." He said.He seemed to be thinking, so Kurolo asked the knight to think for a while, and he needed time to think too.And for a long time, they didn't speak, each lost in their thoughts.Finally, the knight spoke again: "The last question, similarly, if the leader doesn't want to answer it, you don't have to answer it. I'm not challenging your authority."
"Ask," Kuroro said.
"Did you sleep with him?"
Kuroro quietly observed the knight for a while, thinking about how to answer. "That's a strange question," he said finally. "Before I answer, I want to know what made you ask that."
The hero thought for a moment. "I think it was at Merenke," he said after a minute or two, "I don't know how I'm going to explain it, but your behavior around him, Commander, is... well, borderline protective and possessive between desires. I'm not sure there's any logic in saying that."
Kuroro thought about what the knight said, and analyzed the difference between his behavior and when he was facing the knight and Madge. "I didn't sleep with him," he said finally, "but if it's going to tie him up -- a method I've been thinking about and have been thinking about for a while."
"Okay," said the knight, to Kuroro's surprise.He expected that the knight would be unhappy about this, but if it was true, the knight would obviously hide his thoughts. "Sounds like a reasonable plan," said the young spider.Kuroro looked at him quietly, making him move his body uncomfortably. "It is," said the Spider Chief.
"Captain, you said I needed to control my emotions, and I will. I won't let you down again. I still hate him, and I probably always will, but I won't let it control me."
Once again, Kuroro felt a strange sense of pride in the young spider before him.He's happy to work with the vigilantes, he's happy that he may or may not need to kill the vigilantes, but he doesn't believe in them yet, but hopefully time will allow him to do so in the future.
TBC