[Hunter] Flowers and Hymns

It was just dawn when Veronica left the hospital.She let out a long breath in the cool air, turned around, and smiled slightly at Xiaojie and Qiya.

"Let's part here."

"...Veronica?"

"I want revenge on the man who killed my sister." Veronica said calmly, "I want blood for blood."

Veronica said the last four words very softly, but it made Xiaojie and Qiya feel a chill creeping up their spines.The amber eyes turned around and curved into a soft arc.

—Spiders are people too.

--so what?

——What kind of person the perpetrator is is meaningless to the victim.Who is he, what kind of past he has, what was he thinking when he killed Cosette...all this means nothing to Veronica.

Veronica was clearly smiling, but her eyes were as dark as a swamp.

"So, don't follow me any more."

"Why, Veronica?" Xiaojie looked at her stubbornly, "Aren't we companions?"

"Because I'm a companion..." Veronica held the cross on her chest until her knuckles turned white, "I can't let you see me like that."

"No matter what it looks like, Veronica is Veronica!" Looking at Veronica with bright eyes, Xiaojie took a step forward, "I will follow no matter what! If you want me to leave like this ,I can not do it!"

"...No." Veronica pursed her lips tightly, "Don't follow me any more."

"I won't get out of the way." Xiaojie stopped in front of Veronica, "Let me watch Veronica do this kind of thing alone, I can't do it!"

The muscles in the corners of Veronica's eyes twitched unconsciously.

——Only by facing this stubbornness directly can you feel the helplessness of Hanzo and Kanalia...

"It's really... there's nothing I can do about you." Veronica took a step back slightly, and sighed helplessly.

Xiaojie showed a bright smile, but before he stopped laughing, Veronica suddenly threw a dust on his face, Xiaojie was caught off guard and didn't have time to hold his breath, his eyes widened and he fainted before he could say a word past.

Qi Ya was dumbfounded.

"There is no other way." Veronica said with a sigh.

Qi Ya suddenly felt that he was still too young.

Look at Veronica, she can't be persuaded and just put it down, how crisp and neat it is.

"Are you going to stop me too?" Veronica looked at Qi Ya and smiled.

Qi Ya put one hand in his pocket and turned to avoid her gaze.

"up to you."

"Thank you, Chiya."

Veronica put down the box, and suddenly reached out and hugged Qi Ya.The girl's soft chest touched his chest, and Qi Ya froze for a moment.She didn't notice it.

"Sorry." She murmured in his ear, "It's better not to get involved in the next plan."

Her eyes dimmed.

"Because it's time for the beast."

Crazy beasts... time to kill each other.

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at the same time.

In the temporary base of the Phantom Brigade.

"Has Falish not come yet?"

Kuroro closed the book in his hand and asked.

"It's strange, although that girl often clicks to arrive, she has never been so late." Nobunaga said while rubbing his chin.

"Isn't she already here?" Xia Ke raised his phone, "Before she sent a text message asking me if I want to go to the Harvest Festival."

Maggie frowned and said, "I have a bad feeling."

Kuroro looked at Maggie with dark eyes, and asked, "Is that your intuition, Maggie?"

Maggie nodded.Kuroro pondered for a moment, then spoke to the knight.

"Where did the Harvest Festival that Falish said she would attend start?"

"Well...let me see...Marianna Square."

As soon as the knight uttered these words, he froze for a moment.Thanks to the unknown killer, they would have a bad feeling about Mariana now.Xia Ke quickly boarded the webpage and began to search for nearby information.Looking at it, the veins on the back of his hand suddenly popped up!

"...Leader, look at this."

The knight handed the phone to Kuroro, and when the black characters reflected in the black pupils, Kuroro's expression moved slightly.

[Human bombing in Marianne Square!The identity of the deceased is unknown! 】

The bloody equipment in the photos at the scene made Kuroro's eyes sink.

"Falish was killed."

He declared expressionlessly.

"what?"

"Who did it?"

"...Asshole!"

Nobunaga took a step angrily, looked at Kuroro, his eyeballs bulged out of anger, covered with scarlet bloodshot.

"Head, this is a provocation! Order!"

Several members of the martial arts faction could no longer bear it.Kuroro slowly raised his eyes, his eyes were like a dark swamp.The ultimate intent of the thief appeared in his hands, the pages of the book flicked, and stopped on a certain page in the blink of an eye. The pink-haired girl in the photo was smiling like a flower.

"Nobunaga." He asked in a low voice, "When was your date of birth?"

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Veronica sat quietly on an unoccupied bench in the park, holding a small makeup mirror in one hand, and took out a red lipstick in the other hand, and applied the blood-like crimson layer by layer to the bloodless one. lip.She painted so meticulously, even the tiniest details were wiped properly, and she took a very light sip at the end, and smiled crimsonly at the woman in the mirror.That smile is so coquettish, but the eyes are dead.

It seems to go back to a long time ago.Cosette held her mother's lipstick in her small hand, and carefully wiped it on her lips.She was really too young at that time, imitating the movements she saw on TV, and from time to time wiped the lip line. After painting, even Cosette herself was not satisfied with it, and looked at Veronica anxiously. .

And Veronica lovingly tapped Cosette's bud-like lips, and her fingertips seemed to be stroking rose petals, which was extremely soft to the touch.

There was no need to say anything more, a bright smile appeared on Cosette's face again.She reached out to wrap her arms around Veronica's neck, and kissed Veronica's mouth heavily. Veronica looked at the crimson that accidentally touched her lips and smiled helplessly. She took the lipstick, held her chin, and carefully applied it evenly. Cosette's big eyes were only her figure. After applying it, Veronica smiled at her small self in her pupils.

"All right."

Cosette excitedly went to look in the mirror, held her face and looked left and right for a long time, finally she turned around and asked her with a smile.

"Does it look good, Veronica?"

"Of course it's pretty." Veronica smiled slightly, "Cosette is the cutest girl in the world."

The memories calmed down in Veronica's mind, but tiny cracks spread across the mirror, cutting the face of the woman in the mirror to pieces.

Veronica looked at her broken face in the mirror, and laughed out of a daze.

"Is it nice, Cosette?"

she asked with a smile.

Of course the mirror couldn't answer her.

So when the fine cracks were covered to the limit of endurance, the small cosmetic mirror finally exploded with a "snap".

The sound startled Kurapika who had already walked behind her.

The distorted smile still remained at the corner of her mouth, Veronica's voice had calmed down, she opened her hand, and let the broken lens fall from her hand, spilling on the ground like silver snow.

"Since you are here, do you intend to cooperate with me again?"

However, before Kurapika could answer, she gave another short laugh.

"Of course, it doesn't matter. As long as you are here to kill the brigade, that's enough for me."

Kurapika was silent for a moment, before speaking.

"What exactly are your plans?"

"So far, I've killed three spiders." Veronica looked at the red nail polish on her fingertips, the blood red was reflected in her amber pupils, "Flare Lev, Feitan, Farah Lixi. Ah, you don’t need to remember these names, you just need to remember that the three of them belong to the combatants of the brigade. Before the battle, I will probably try to kill a spider. My ability you I have seen it, and killing one is already my limit."

She took out the sketchbook from the wooden box, and before handing it to Kurapika, Veronica raised her eyes, under the shadow of her long eyelashes, her amber eyes stared at him quietly, for a moment, she burst into a smile.

"Before that, let me confirm... how many spiders can you kill at most at one time?"

"Three if it's a combatant. Four if it's not just a combatant."

"So--"

Veronica opened her sketchbook and handed it to Kurapika.The short-haired girl on the paper is wearing big glasses, with a dull expression, wearing a black sweater and jeans, with an inverted cross hanging on her chest.

"Little drop. The ability is a pop-eyed goldfish, which can absorb anything according to her command, and can also spit it out, but the limitation is that it cannot absorb living things. This ability cannot absorb a whole living person, but it can absorb human blood and corpses .If the blood is absorbed by her, you can block the wound with thoughts."

The paper turned another page, and it stopped at the page of the boy with a baby face. The young man was holding a little devil's phone in his hand, and his smile was very cheerful.

"Xiaker. The brain of the brigade is also the main source of intelligence investigation. A person with the ability to operate the mind can use the antenna to manipulate people. If he plugs in the antenna, he will become his puppet until the antenna falls or the puppet dies. If He uses the antenna to manipulate himself, and he will enter the automatic combat mode, during which he has no self-awareness, but the combat power is very strong."

The paper flipped through a few pages and stopped at a woman with cat eyes. The woman had a glamorous temperament and was wearing a short kimono.

"Maggie. A person with the ability to change minds can change qi into mind lines. The mind lines are very tough. In the battle of Youkexin in 1999, when you captured Wo Jin, you even tracked your minds on him. The thread is her masterpiece. Her mind thread can be used to strangle the enemy, and it can also be used as a puppet thread to move the corpse. Another use is to use the thread to suture wounds, even severed limbs can be perfectly stitched."

Veronica let go of her hand and let Kurapika look at the remaining members by himself.She held her cheek with her right hand, tapped her bright red fingertips on the corners of her eyes, and her lips were full of smiles.

"The mind ability of these three people will be more troublesome. It would be best if you can deal with it before the battle begins."

Kurapika suddenly grabbed her wrist.

"How did you know."

His voice dropped.

"The matter of You Kexin in 1999... and the reading ability of the members of the brigade. These things... how do you know?"

Veronica was taken aback.

Then, he laughed very lightly.

"Of course I know."

She held Kurapika's wrist back, her amber eyes stared at him quietly, for a moment, her brows and eyes curved.

"Would you believe me if I said I saw it in a book?"

The author has something to say: I should have never said that Veronica hasn't read the Hunter comics, right?

Pieces.

Thanks to the little angel Qing Yunge for drawing Veronica and Cosette for me!So beautiful! ! !Mehhhhhhhhhhh! ! !

BMG: SoundHorizon-"红色の风车", I personally think it is a song very suitable for Kurapika.

The lyrics are as follows:

The turning and rotating "Moulin Rouge" makes beautiful flowers bloom

The pulsating 'Bloody Pinwheel' (Moulin Rouge) wilts the beautiful flowers

(Ah...Ah...Ah...Ah...)

Glass carvings held in small hands...

If that gem is singing "happiness"...

What kind of claw marks were carved in the era by the atrocities of that night...

what wounds they left...

A boy who lamented that he was just a weakling played by fate...

One day, I will also long for "power"...

Is that... the "shield" that protects oneself with a powerful force?

Or... a "sword" that subdues everything with a stronger force?

What the hell happened... I don't understand at all...

Crying mad chords (Lune's Harmonie)...the smell of roasting corpses (Meat's Saveur)...

Who was it attacked by... I don't understand at all...

Only...knowing a little...it's dangerous here...

I'm like carrying the most important "treasure" (thing)

As if running away→hold your hand tightly...

Ah...the two who don't know anything are just running without stopping

The tyrannical people full of desire are chasing behind...

As if chasing stardust... Lurking in the darkness that hangs over the forest...

The two who don't know anything just hold their breath and tremble

Hugged together in hopeless terror—

Suddenly your body is dragged into the air →

Those eyes full of fear ← burning my back as I ran away...

(Ah...Ah...Ah...Ah...)

Having experienced crazy "seasons" (time)...the "time" of teenagers flows like this...

The turning and turning "Crimson Windmill" (Moulin Rouge) sends away the burning moment (time)

The throbbing "Bloody Windmill" (Moulin Rouge) ushers in a frozen moment (time)

Ah...if I could do it all over again...would make the little flowers bloom again...

I'm sorry... I won't run away next time... I want to wither with you...

(Moulin Rouge...)

(Ah...Ah...Ah...Ah...)

"Is Roman there?"

☆、September 2003, 9, Astasia