Your Nebulous Fate

Chapter 10

"Yasumi, applicant 166, is the fifteenth applicant to pass. Total time, thirty-three hours and fifty-five minutes."

You carefully covered your eyes from the brightness after emerging from that extremely dark tunnel. Blinking, you withdrew your hand and quickly analyzed who was already there.

Of course, the one directly opposite you was Hisoka who had smirked as you made eye contact him. There was around 14 people there, all who were resting or simply sitting against the wall- well except that one ninja guy who was doing a series of push-ups and crunches.

Your eye twitched, the only sign of your annoyance, at the sight of only one other females present, who was a rather stylish female marksman.

But you simply walked over to a empty section against the wall and took to relaxing your body. You hadn't sustained any injuries however the path you continued on, a trickster's tricks, was well-.. really tricky.

« 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒖𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕- 𝒕𝒆𝒏? 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝑨𝒌𝒂𝒌𝒊 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅, 𝒎𝒊𝒅-𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅, 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆.

𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅, 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒛𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎.

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒆.
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒙, 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒚𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏.