Killer in Hunter x Hunter

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POV of the Devil

Diavolo jumped to the floor directly into the throne room, whereupon a royal guard, who he realised was named Poof, immediately threw himself at him.

'So what is this freak going to undertake against me?'

Diavolo watched his opponent carefully and waited for him to do something to gauge his strength a bit. He saw the phalanges of the fingers on Poof's hand change, becoming long and blade-sharp claws.

Pouf finally got close enough distance to engage in close combat. He attempted to deliver a swift claw strike to the Devolo's throat, but the Devolo had no problem dodging it by simply stepping aside slightly.

'Is that it?'

Poof once again made several strikes, trying to hit vital places such as the head, throat, chest, and stomach. However, all of his attacks were in vain. Diavolo saw his every move and had no problem evading all the attacks.

- Not bad,' Poof said to the Devil, 'You're fast enough to evade my attacks. But why don't you attack? You must want to analyse me to.....

'You got it, [King Crimson].'

Time was erased.

Poof continued to throw his punches without even realising it, but they were no longer of any use at all as they were still passing through Diavolo.

'And he's far from being an idiot. Trying to psychologically pressure me with his talk so that I lose concentration and make a mistake. But I won't allow that to happen. Perhaps that's not all he's capable of, so we need to eliminate him as soon as possible.'

Before acting, Diavolo looked in the direction where the King sat.

'Amazing. There's a battle going on and this King is still sitting on his throne watching the fight with interest. He probably wants to assess my strength, and if he deems me worthy, he will fight me himself.'

Diavolo looked around once more to make sure he was sure nothing would get in his way, then walked behind Poofu's back and swung in for a strike.

'I'll do it quickly, in one blow.'

Time resumed its course.

Though not with all his strength, but still strong enough, Diavolo threw a punch that should have pierced Pufu's back, destroyed his solar plexus, and gone all the way through. But that was not the case. He struck his enemy, but he didn't get a punch, instead he just flew a few metres away and didn't even fall down, although there was a slight crunching sound.

- What was that just now? - Poof asked himself, clutching his back, indicating that he had felt the impact, -How did you do that?

The devil was a little shocked by this turn of events.

'Damn! These creatures are pretty tough. My [King Crimson]'s blows can pierce through people like paper and cut through butter like a knife, but this freak withstood everything perfectly. We need to think of something else.'

This time, Diavolo decided to attack first. He threw himself at his enemy, and barely had time to even swing before [King Crimson] struck him in the jaw, stomach, chest, and again in the jaw. However, even despite such blows, the royal guard was still on his feet.

'In speed, I'm noticeably superior to him, but his durability causes problems. I need to use more strength.'

- What's going on here?! - Suddenly, a voice was heard from somewhere outside.

Everyone looked to the side. Two more creatures ran into the throne room, which Diavolo thought were probably also royal guards.

One of them looked like a girl and had feline features in the form of ears and tail. The other was generally unknown, but his skin was a dark red colour, he would be at least two metres tall and had powerful muscles.

'This is my chance!'

For just a moment Poof pulled away to look in the direction of the incoming reinforcements, and Diavolo decided to take advantage of it. He instantly went behind his enemy's back, preemptively stabbing him in the temple to slightly stun him, grabbed and extended his arm, and then [King Crimson] raised his arm up and struck.

Royal Guardian Poof lost his right arm.

'I did it! I had to use more force and hit a more fragile place like the arm and it worked.'

Even though the wound was so severe, Poof did not scream in pain, but from the look on his face he could still feel it, though not very much.

The royal guards who arrived to help rushed to attack.

'Damn, it's not going to be easy to fight three at once.'

Diavolo gave another blow to Poof's head to prevent the two opponents from attacking at the same time, as at this time, the cat had already run close enough to attack. It was obvious that she was much more skilled in head-to-head combat than her one-armed partner. She was not only using her claws, but also her feet at regular intervals, and her movements were much more confident.

'And she's a more serious opponent. But compared to me, Diavolo is still an ordinary bug!'

The difference in speed was still great. Diavolo had no problem dodging all of the enemy's attacks.

Arm, leg, knee, elbow, head, torso, legs. The cat tried to hit all sorts of places in all sorts of ways, but never once hit.

At this time, a red guardian joined the battle. In order not to be distracted by the two opponents at once, Diavolo threw one punch to the cat's face, which sent it flying backwards, and then switched to the red one.

The red freak didn't show anything unusual - he tried to land a few punches with his fists.

'Is that all he can do? How stupid.'

Diavolo landed two powerful blows to the head, but the man seemed to feel almost nothing and continued attacking.

'This one seems to be the toughest one here.'

After an unsuccessful attempt to inflict damage from the front, Diavolo decided to go behind his back and strike there, hoping to find a vulnerable area. However, as soon as he dodged another strike and began to go behind his back, he noticed that multiple eyes began to appear all over his enemy's body, followed by new arms growing out.

'What the fuck is that?!'

Out of surprise, Diavolo almost missed the blow that the enemy's new arms were about to strike at him.

'That freak, really... He can change his body at will, like growing new limbs. Shit! On top of being tough enough as it is, now this.'

Deciding that it was futile to continue fighting such an enemy like this, he decided to move away. Looking around a bit, he noticed that the other guards were coming at him from different directions. Poof, Cat and Red were going to attack simultaneously from three sides in such a way that Diavolo would have no way to escape from such an attack. However...

Time had been erased.

Diavolo moved sideways away from the guards who would soon, without realising it themselves, collide forehead to forehead.

'They are really causing trouble. My [King Crimson]'s strength and speed is beyond competition, but their strength and stamina are great for them. Also, there are three of them for crying out loud. If the battle was one-on-one, any one of them I could destroy. And the main thing is, I have to fight them. I came here for the arrow, but they won't let me find it and get it. And where exactly is the arrow? It's somewhere in the palace and pretty close, I can feel it.'

Time resumed its course.

The guards bumped into each other and collapsed to the floor, but immediately recovered and were about to rush back into the attack, but suddenly....

- Enough! - A loud voice came from the side that belonged to the King.

Everyone stopped abruptly and looked towards the throne where the King was sitting.

- What? - Poof was surprised.

The King got up from his throne and walked with a steady gait towards the Devil.

- But King, - Poof continued to say, - We have not yet shown all that we are capable of. You don't need to...

- I've seen enough. Watching you get beaten up is no longer of interest to me. But I'd like to take part myself...' The King had a slight grin on his face, and then he turned to Diavolo, 'I'm interested in you. There's a strange creature fighting on your side that you can't see without Nan's concentration in your eyes. It's very strong and fast, and its main ability... I haven't quite figured out what it is yet, but I don't think it will last long. I don't know what your purpose in my palace is, but it must be something important. However, I will find that out too,' He turned to his guards again, 'I forbid you to interfere in this fight. I want to fight this man personally.

Poof wanted to object to the King's decision, but quickly realised that it was not a good idea and just silently stepped aside so as not to interfere with the fight, followed by the other guards.

The King got into a fighting stance.

'So fighting against the King himself? Well, I don't mind. Except there's only one real king here, and that's me!'

- You miserable little bug,' Diavolo addressed the King contemptuously, 'You think you're the pinnacle of evolution, you think you're a king. But you are nothing but a pathetic parody of a human being, and the real king here is only me!

In response, the King only once again threw a slight grin and then released his aura, which was so monstrous that even the guards who were standing on the sidelines became a little uneasy, and Diavolo's knees trembled a little.

'What is this monstrous aura? What kind of pressure is it exerting... And he really is the truest monster. But why are my knees trembling? Is it because of his aura? No... Not at all... It's because of insecurity. For a few moments, I lost confidence in myself and my strength, but now I realise that I can win. I am the Devil! I am the king of kings! I am the Emperor!'

Having regained his confidence, Diavolo smirked and leisurely walked towards his opponent, but the latter made a powerful dash and attacked at great speed.

Diavolo decided to attack first. When the king came within two metres [King Crimson] gave him a powerful blow to the face, but he didn't react to it and started attacking Diavolo. He tried to blow his head off with his tail, but Devolo had no trouble evading the attack and finally managed to hit him in the tail, though it didn't work. Now the King began to strike quickly with a series of blows combining his hands and tail, and Diavolo in turn continued to evade all blows periodically trying to hit back, and then he began to strike a full series of blows, not giving the King anything to do. He threw two punches to the stomach, a powerful uppercut, a punch to the temple, and several times tried to cut off the tail, but all this did not bring much result. The king held all the blows perfectly, it seemed that his body was stronger than any diamond.

'He's even stronger than his guards. Damn! But it's okay, I was able to chop off the arm of one guard, which means they're not immortal and can be hurt. You just have to put all the force you can into the blow.'

The king began to make the move even more active. He tried to roll to the Devil's feet to get behind him, or to destroy his legs altogether, but as soon as he did so and got close enough, [King Crimson], with all his strength, struck him in the face.

The King's head thudded to the floor, and the floor itself was turned into a pile of rubble within a few metres of the impact, and moreover, cracks began to spread rapidly throughout the throne room, some of which even spread to the walls.

The guards that were standing to the side were shocked by this, but they still didn't dare to disobey the order and continued to stand there watching the battle.

'And he was counting on something with such an action? How stupid.'

The king didn't move. Diavolo decided to finally remove his hand from his face, but suddenly, the King's hand abruptly grabbed [King Crimson]'s hand.

- What?! - Said Diavolo out loud in surprise.

To get out of the grip Diavolo erased time for just a moment then abruptly jumped away.

'What was that just now? No, it wasn't my imagination, he really did grab Stand's hand. But how? Does he possess the Stand as well? No, that's impossible, it's something else... Hmm, I think I've figured it out. You can see the Stands if you concentrate Nan in your eyes, so it's possible that if you do the same with some other part of your body, you can touch them. But as I realise Nan's level would have to be quite high for that to happen.'

The King rose to his feet, a small crack visible on his helmet and a couple of abrasions on his face. A slight smirk appeared on Diavolo's face from such a sight.

'I knew it! If you put all the force you can into a punch, it'll do the trick.'

- Excellent punch,' Said the King, 'This creature... What strength, what power, what speed. It's magnificent. I wish I had something like that for myself.

Diavolo decided not to wait for his opponent to attack and started to act first, but as soon as he was walking towards his enemy he made a powerful leap forward, which quickly shortened the distance and tried to strike.

'Another useless action.'

As soon as the enemy was close enough, Diavolo struck a blow that threw the King backwards, but he recovered instantly and made another leap, not towards Diavolo, but towards the wall, from which he immediately pushed off and tried to strike. However, the Devil reacted without any problems and gave another blow, after which the King recovered quickly and continued to do the same.

He was jumping from wall to wall, on different trajectories and from different angles, pushing off and trying to strike, and after Diavolo once again struck him he jumped back onto the walls of the throne room and continued to do the same.

'What are his tactics? What is he counting on?'

The king continued to attack and with that he kept receiving blows that even shook the air a bit.

Once again jumping at his enemy he was once again hit, this time in the face, however now he didn't jump back at the wall. He grabbed both of [King Crimson]'s arms and with a quick swipe of his tail he ripped off Diavolo's leg and before he knew it the other leg and then his arm were gone.

'Ha ha, so that's it. It turns out I lost focus for a moment and he took advantage of that by ripping off my legs and arms. Not bad, now I see what his tactics were. He must have somehow managed to get close to me by calculating a huge number of combinations. He's got a lot of intelligence. But no matter how much intelligence he has and no matter how he calculates his moves, against the foresight of [Epitaph], everything is useless! [King Crimson]!'

Time was erased.

Time had been wiped out the moment the King had come close enough to be punched in the face and then grabbed hold of Stand's arms, but now everything had changed. Diavolo moved out of the path of King's attack and he ended up punching the air and landing on the floor. Diavolo went behind his back and lifted Stand's arm up for a punch.

Time resumed its course.

Like a battle axe, [King Crimson] King's hand hit him in the shoulder, and from such power he collapsed on one knee, and moreover, Stand's hand made a wound, though not very deep, but several centimetres deep, and the floor beneath them gave many cracks and almost shattered.

- Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha,' laughed Diavolo mockingly, 'How's that King? At the beginning of the battle, I couldn't even scratch you, and now I've inflicted a wound several centimetres deep on you. At this rate, your head will soon burst like a watermelon. How about that? - Even though he couldn't see the King's face, he could feel and understand that he was offended by the fact that his enemy had made him bow down to him, - So, now you realise who the real king is? It's me! I'm the king of kings and emperor, and you're just a bug! A pathetic parody of a human being, as I said earlier. And now...

The devil was about to continue the battle, but suddenly, like a bolt of lightning, the ceiling was pierced by a multitude of projectiles that looked like lightning, but were shaped like an arrow. They flew straight down and there were a huge number of them, enough to turn the entire throne room, and most likely the entire palace into a sieve.

Everyone was shocked by this without exception.

- What the hell?! - The royal guards asked themselves.

'What the hell is this! Is someone attacking the palace?'

Part of the throne room wall was instantly destroyed, revealing a view of the street. Immediately, several lightning bolts struck directly at the royal throne, shattering it to pieces, causing Diavolo to be shocked.

Among the many stone shards from the throne that were flying in all directions, in one of them, there was something that gave off a golden lustre, something that beckoned to him, something that possessed immense power.

'It can't be!... That's it, the arrow!'

In one of the many shards was the very arrow that Diavolo had come here for.

Unbeknownst to him, the stone shard with the arrow flew straight into the ruined wall at great speed, and flew somewhere far beyond the palace grounds.

'Oh, boy...'

- So that's it,' the King, who seemed to have forgotten how he had been insulted, suddenly spoke up, 'I saw her too. So you came here for that arrow sticking out of that stone? It must be very valuable and important. I will take it for myself,' He turned to his guards, 'You saw that arrow. Bring it to me.

- Yes! - All the king's guards answered at the same time and rushed towards the arrow.

- Stop right there! - Shouted Diavolo, but the guards paid no attention to him and had already jumped into the street through the permission wall.

'Oh shit!'

He was about to rush in pursuit when the King threw himself at him, which he barely managed to fight off.

Then, to add to the reigning chaos, something else pierced the ceiling from above. Everyone looked up. It was no longer lightning, but a man, who even in such a bacchanalia could be seen.

It was a rather muscular old man, dressed in a gymnastics outfit of a t-shirt and shorts.

'What on earth is this? Shit, it's all distracting me. I need to get the arrow as soon as possible! [King...'

It was hard to notice absolutely everything in such chaos, and Diavolo was no exception. No sooner had he erased time than a piece of the ceiling fell on him in the form of a huge rock, hitting him in the head and almost completely crushing him.

- I... Shouldn't...

Diavolo lost consciousness.