600 chapters!!! So so many ;)
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"You only learned the basics?"
Leorio furrowed his brows and said, "But isn't Nen just about opening your aura nodes, releasing your internal life energy, and then using it to wrap around your body?"
"No, that's just Ten," Killua replied. "Among the Four Basic Principles, that's only Ten. Looks like you've actually learned even less than we have."
Leorio went silent for a mont.
"Then what is real Nen like?"
Killua said, "We don't know that much either. We've only learned the Four Basic Principles and one major, and among them, just Ten and Zetsu, and then Gyo. We haven't even reached Hatsu."
"The Four Basic Principles?"
Killua continued, "The Ten you know, then Ren and Zetsu, and finally Hatsu. Gon and I haven't started learning Hatsu yet."
"Alright..." Leorio had thought that once he'd opened his aura nodes, he'd beco a true Nen user, just like Ron or Hisoka. But now, he realized he was still far from that level.
"Looks like I still have a lot to learn."
"By the way, Gon, Killua—why did you two co here?"
Killua looked toward Gon. Gon hesitated for a mont.
"For a Greed Island ga console."
"This ti, when I went back to Whale Island, Aunt Mito gave sothing left by my dad. She was told to give it to only after I beca a Hunter. Inside was a mory card for Greed Island."
"That's why we ca here. We heard this year's auction might have one of the consoles. There are only 100 in total ever made. We've tried every other thod, but nothing worked. This auction is our only chance."
"So we ca."
Leorio raised an eyebrow.
"A console? Only a hundred units? That rare?"
"It's not just rare. It's outrageously expensive," Killua said. "Even when it was first released, it sold for almost six Billion Jenny. For this auction, the starting bid is already 8 billion."
"The final selling price will definitely be higher."
Leorio's eyes widened.
"Eight billion?!"
That figure was beyond what Leorio had imagined. In his mind, no matter how rare, it was just a ga console. Maybe a hundred thousand, at most.
He hadn't expected the unit wasn't just tens of thousands—but billions.
It took him a while to process that number.
Even after seeing friends die and committing himself to chasing wealth, Leorio had co to understand one thing—there were no incurable diseases, only cures too expensive for most to afford.
He deeply understood the value of money. He had seen enormous wealth before, but eight billion Jenny still shook him.
"That kind of money... how many lives could it save if spent on dical treatnt?"
"....And all that just for a ga? Is it really worth it?"
It made him a little sad that people would pour fortunes into entertainnt while patients died waiting for treatnt.
He looked at Gon.
"Gon, how's your preparation coming along?"
Gon shook his head and said, "The money Killua and I earned at Heaven's Arena doesn't even total one billion yet. We're still way off."
He didn't have much concept of money—he just knew that 200 million was very far from eight billion.
However, for Leorio even that figure made him gasp. It only reinforced his belief.
"Becoming a Hunter really was the right choice. Only then can you make serious money."
Killua added, "Gon and I are planning to make so money here at the market. People from all over the world gather here, along with their goods. So are treasures buried under dust."
"If we can identify them, we could buy low and resell high—earning dozens, even hundreds of tis the cost."
He paused.
"Actually, we don't even have much of the 200 million left. Just a few million Jenny now."
"We got scamd during a transaction and lost most of it."
Leorio: "........."
After a mont, Leorio raised a finger.
"I've got an idea—maybe sothing we can try."
"What is it?"
"Like this..."
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The next day, Leorio brought Gon and Killua to the market's central area.
His plan was simple: they'd use the money they had left to buy a gem, then offer that gem as a prize in an arm-wrestling challenge with Gon.
Gon, looking like a kid, would lure people in with his appearance. One match, ten thousand Jenny.
In short, it was like a carnival ring toss ga.
Gon was much stronger than an average adult, and they could use that to turn a profit.
With the gem on display, Leorio shouted to attract attention.
Gon sat at the table while Killua stood beside him.
"One round, ten thousand jeni. To reach eight billion—or more precisely to be safe we need around 10 billion Jenny—how long would this take?"
"There's no way they'll make it in ti. And once word gets around about how the ga works, it won't attract many more players."
"The final auction price definitely won't stop at eight billion."
Killua sighed.
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Elsewhere, at the Zoldyck estate...
The matter of Greed Island weighed heavily on Milluki. Back when he didn't have the mory card, he hadn't cared much. But now that he had it, he couldn't stop thinking about it.
Even though Ron had already told him it was impossible to access the ga that way, Milluki couldn't resist trying.
"Ron, are you in Yorknew?"
Aboard the airship, he called Ron.
"Yeah," Ron answered.
"I've arrived in Yorknew too."
Milluki said, "I'm planning to bid on one of the Greed Island consoles. How much do you think I should prepare?"
"I've got double the starting price ready. Think that's enough?"
Ron shook his head.
"Hard to say."
He rembered that in the original plot, a tycoon nad Battera had gone to any length to collect every Greed Island console.
His goal was to obtain an in-ga item called Angel's Breath, hoping it would cure his lover's terminal illness.
The price for a single Greed Island unit had eventually been driven up to over 30 billion Jenny. If Milluki had only prepared 16 billion or so, it definitely wouldn't be enough.
"We'll talk more when you arrive."
"Alright."
At that mont, the Nostrad family's motorcade had also just entered Yorknew.
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