♪
Referee: Round seven of the championship finals.
Get ready!
Go!
Both: Show me...
Rock! Jan Ken pon!
Referee: And the winner is killua!
Killua: Yes!
( Gon groans )
Referee: Very nice.
And now here’s your prize, the sword of truth.
( Both gasp )
Killua: Whoa. Hey, check it out, gon.
Card number 83. It goes in a specified slot.
Gon: All right! One card down.
Both: Score!
♪
( Singing in Japanese )
♪
Gon: The problem is, how are we gonna protect the card?
Killua: Well, we don’t have any defensive spell cards,
so we should probably get some.
- Man: Wait! - Both: Hmm?
Man: Yeah, you kids!
H-hand over the sword of truth right now.
Look, I don’t wanna have to rough you up,
so just do what I tell you.
Killua: No way, you idiot.
Man: Hey, hold on! Book!
Gon: Book!
Player: Ha! You’re bluffing, right?
I already know that you just started
playing the game a little while ago.
You’re both newbies,
so you haven’t obtained any defensive spells yet,
except for the sword of truth.
This is thief.
This spell card lets you steal one random card
from another player’s specified slots.
Take this! Thief on!
Attack killu--
eh?
Gon: Haven’t you trained at all, mister?
Nice try.
I won’t give it back the next time.
Killua: You must be an amateur.
This is a game for pro hunters.
I’m impressed that you even made it in.
( Player groans )
Killua: But at least we learned something.
An attack spell won’t kick in until you finish the chant.
Player: Yeah, but a strategy like that
only works on the very weakest players!
Player #2: Exactly.
( Both gasp )
Player #2: If you want a card,
you just take it from someone else.
Only fools actually participate in tournaments.
Understand, boys?
If not, you will.
Gon: They really piss me off!
Killua: Just forget it. Those guys were all pros.
At least they didn’t use brute force.
Gon: Damn it! Then i’ve really gotta start focusing hard
on building up my spell cards.
Killua: In that case, I say we should head out
to masadora, the city of magic.
Gon: Sounds like a plan.
( Girl giggles )
( Birds squawk )
♪
Player: That’s our hideout.
We’re gonna start off by assigning roles.
Everyone here right now
will be collecting spell cards for us.
You’ve probably heard there are 40 different spell cards.
We need you to obtain one, fortress.
This is one of the strongest defensive spells in existence,
and we could certainly use another one of those.
It will help us to protect angel’s breath.
Puhat: And what the hell is angel’s breath?
Player: It’s a super-rare card with an ss rank
that no one has ever been able to get their hands on.
Player #2: How can you be sure no one’s ever obtained it?
Player #3: There’s a spell card called list.
Casting it tells you the current conversion number of one card
as well as the number of people who have it.
Puhat: Yeah, okay.
Player #3: The card is incredibly difficult to obtain,
because you need to have all 40 spell cards
in your possession before you can trade for one.
Of course, spell cards are extremely useful in this game,
so players tend to use them up.
Player #1: But now, after a whole lot of searching
we’ve completed our collection of all 40 spell cards.
What we’d like to do is trade them in
for an angel’s breath card right now, but...
Player #2: If you did,
you’d have nothing to protect it with.
That’s why you need a copy of the fortress, correct?
Player #1: Exactly.
That said, in order for this plan to work,
what we want you to do is to make a complete list
of the 40 spell cards and commit them to memory.
Killua: Those four gargaider cards got us 120,000.
Gon: I know. They were pretty valuable.
We don’t need to worry about money now.
Hey, why don’t we buy some food and water?
Then we’ll head to masadora.
Killua: Sure, but first we need a map.
The one with information costs 650,000,
and the blank one’s only 20.
Which do you want?
Gon: The blank one!
That way, we get all the fun of filling it in ourselves.
Killua: You’re so positive, it’s painful.
Gain.
( Map beeping )
Wow, this doesn’t tell us anything.
Gon: Let’s ask for directions.
Shopkeeper: Head north for 80 kilometers.
After you pass by the mountain, you’ll get to a lake.
You’re gonna want to follow that lake north for a little while,
and it’ll take you right to masadora.
Killua: If we hurry, we can do, like, 80 kilometers a day.
Shopkeeper: Assuming that you survive, of course.
That mountain is practically crawling with bandits.
Even worse, after you pass the mountain,
you’ll encounter hordes of monsters.
Killua: There’s bandits?
Gon: And monsters?
Killua: Now it’s starting to sound like an rpg.
Gon: Let’s see what the monsters look like! Come on! Hurry!
All right! Move out!
Girl: Wait, please!
Um, i’m begging you!
Killua: For what?
I’d really like to join you if you don’t mind.
Killua: Uh, no way. Sorry.
( Girl gasps ) But may I ask why not?
Killua: You’d slow us down.
Girl: How dare you speak to me that way,
you little brat? I could take you out
with one hand tied behind my back if I wanted to.
That does it.
I was only planning to mess with them for a little while,
but now i’m going to completely ruin their lives!
Hey! Hold it right there!
I mean, please?
I’ll try really hard not to get in your way. I promise.
( Map beeping )
Shalnark: Okay. I have most of the information we need.
Shizuku: Then can you tell us what you’ve found?
Shalnark: Mm, of course. I’ll start with number one.
Shalnark: I tried a hundred different people in this city,
and they all gave the same response
when faced with an unusual question.
That’s typical behavior for non-playable characters.
Number two, book.
This copy is real,
and this one’s a copy kortopi made.
Gain.
Kortopi’s didn’t transform.
I believe that might indicate
that the game’s program didn’t recognize kortopi’s card.
And three, shizuku’s vacuum
seems to function normally in this world,
but it won’t work on any items
that have special abilities of any kind.
I think that’s because the game was programmed
to prevent nen abilities from being used to collect cards.
Kortopi: I see.
Shizuku: So?
Shalnark: However, these three points
indicate yet another possibility...
This game isn’t taking place in a virtual world,
it’s based somewhere in the real world.
Shizuku: But what do you mean?
Shalnark: You see, if any of the players
were to actually enter "greed island,"
then their souls would fully detach from their bodies
and enter the console, leaving their bodies behind.
Sending them in physically wouldn’t be necessary.
And while separating body and soul might be possible,
it would take a lot more
than standing in front of a console and using hatsu.
It would make a lot more sense if the players
were actually teleported somewhere else entirely.
Therefore the software operating the console
has nothing to do with playing the game.
Its job is to teleport players
who trigger it with hatsu to this island.
Shizuku: That stands to reason,
but I don’t think I get what it means.
Shalnark: The big reward for clearing the game,
you remember it?
Shizuku: Let’s see. What was it?
Kortopi: Of all the cards you’ve found for your specified slots,
you can choose three
and take them all back to the real world with you.
Shalnark: That’s right,
and that means that every one of these items
are available to be used outside of the island.
If this game does indeed take place in the real world,
then it should be possible to remove all of the treasure
without actually having to clear the game.
Kortopi: Understood.
Shalnark: Book.
So, at the moment,
we only know a little bit about a few select items.
It would be most beneficial to learn about all the cards.
To start, we need the spell card called eye of god.
And then we just need to find phinks and feitan.
( Phinks scoffs ) Another cheap map, huh?
Feitan: Still, he was carrying a lot of spell cards.
Phinks: Well, wanna split up for now?
Let’s meet back in masadora in a week.
We’ll see which one of us can kill more players,
make it a race.
Feitan: Okay, but be sure to take their cards first.
♪
Gon: So what do you think we should do about her?
Killua: Just ignore her.
We’ll have a chance to ditch her once the bandits show up.
Gon: But isn’t that kind of mean?
Killua: What are you talking about?
She passed, right?
So she’s got strong nen abilities.
She can escape if it gets rough.
She’s keeping up better than I thought she would.
Girl: Their stamina isn’t half bad,
well, for a couple of brats, anyway.
( Gasps )
( Both gasp )
Killua: You ready?
Gon: Mm-hmm.
Bandit: Please help us!
We beg you!
- ( Both gasp ) - ( Bandits coughing )
( Insects chirping )
( Boy panting )
Man: The disease is spreading. ( Coughs )
It starts with a mild fever,
but then it gets progressively worse and worse
until the afflicted finally dies. ( Coughs )
Elder: All we can do is use medicine
to keep the fever at bay. ( Coughs )
Sadly, the medicine only works for about a week.
( Coughs )
Man: It’s also incredibly expensive,
and now--( Coughs )
We’re completely out of money. ( Coughs )
We’re all sick. ( Coughs )
So we can’t even steal what we need
like we normally would. ( Coughing )
Gon: Could we catch it?
Killua: It’s probably just part of the game play.
Man: Help us!
My son only has two or three more days to live!
Elder: Would you be so kind as to give us some money?
Every little bit helps.
Gon: So this is part of the game, too, right?
Killua: Yeah. If we just give them the right amount of money,
then they’ll probably reward us
with some good items or some information.
Gon: So, uh, how much do you guys need?
Elder: 80,000 Jenny. ( Coughs )
Gon: But that’s all the money we have.
Killua: Yeah. It sounds like they know
everything about us, doesn’t it?
Girl: Excuse me,
but I have enough to cover the 80,000 Jenny.
Killua: Excuse me. We’re busy,
so shut up for a minute.
Girl: I’m gonna kill that brat.
Gon: Okay, we got it.
We’ll give you the 80,000 Jenny.
Elder: You really will?
Man: Thank you both so much!
You’ve just saved my poor son’s life.
Boy: I-i’m so cold, so very cold
( man gasps ) This is awful.
If his body gets even a little bit colder,
he’s going to die before we can get the medicine into him.
If only we had some children’s clothes for him.
Why don’t we have clothes?!
Gon: Um...
I guess I could give him what i’m wearing.
( Man gasps ) Can you, really?
Elder: You’re just like angels sent to us from heaven.
Mere words aren’t nearly sufficient...
Man: To express the depths of our gratitude!
Gon: Oh, no need to thank us.
Killua: Unless you’ve got items or info.
Both: Hmm?
Killua: We got nothing!
Gon: We gave all of our clothes away,
and now we’re totally broke, too!
Killua: Damn it! They’re messing with us.
Girl: I wonder what that was all about.
Gon: But as soon as we get past this mountain,
we’ll find lots of monsters, right?
Killua: Yeah. If we beat a few of ’em
and turn ’em into cards, we can sell them for cash!
Gon: And then we might finally get to start fighting!
Killua: Time to see what you’ve got.
Gon: You, too!
I wanna see what you’ve accomplished
in your secret training. I can’t wait!
♪
Gon: This area’s really rocky.
Killua: Let’s go for it!
Gon: Yeah!
( Both yell )
Gon: Whoa! There are tons of ’em!
( Cyclops grunts )
Killua: Gon’s attack didn’t do anything?
I guess punches aren’t gonna do it.
And there are so many.
To disable one with a single attack...
( Cyclops #2 roars )
Killua: Bingo! We go for the eye!
Book.
Gon, just aim for the eye!
Gon: I got it!
( Cyclops #1 roars )
( Strike lands )
( Cyclops roars )
( Strike lands )
( Cyclops roars )
( Strike lands )
( Cyclops roars )
Girl: Hmm. They’re moving around way too much,
but otherwise, not bad.
Killua: Mm, they were weaker than they looked.
Gon: Yeah, but after we left it alone for a minute,
the card reverted.
Killua: We can do this easy, gon.
Every one of these monsters comes with a built-in weakness.
Just gotta stay calm and think.
All right! Now let’s head for masadora.
Gon: Yeah!
♪
( Chuckles )
( Both scream )
( Both sigh )
- ( Gon grunts ) - Killua: Gon!
Gon: I’m okay. See? It didn’t even hurt.
This one’s pretty weak.
Killua: Yeah, but it’s really fast!
Let’s hurry up and catch it!
♪
Damn it!
( Gon grunts )
( Girl sighs ) Aim where it’s going to be.
If you watch closely,
you can learn an opponent’s pattern of motion.
Your eyes are sharp, but you aren’t using them properly.
Gon: It got away from us.
Killua: You know, if the rest of the monsters are this weak,
we’re gonna get to masadora in no time.
Girl: Ugh. Don’t be so stupid.
What if you encounter one that’s strong and fast?
( Hoofbeats )
Both: Hmm?
( Creature neighs )
Gon: Are those bubbles?
( Grunts )
Killua: It’s gone.
It’s loud, and it generates a shock wave,
but there’s no real damage.
Gon: The red ones don’t pop when you touch ’em.
Girl: Actually the white bubbles pop
when they make contact with a human’s aura.
The red ones pop when they make contact with anything else.
To catch that horse, you must identify which bubble is which
and then switch smoothly between zetsu and ten.
Unfortunately that’s still too difficult for them.
Still, these boys are--
they’re...
They’re just...
Wasting their potential!
They’re rough gemstones
that will shine with just a little polishing!
But at this rate, they’ll run into
stronger players or monsters, and it’ll be game over!
♪
( Armor sighs )
Gon: Now this one looks a lot tougher.
Girl: That’s it!
I’ve had enough.
Gyo!
- Gon: Huh? - Killua: Hmm?
Girl: Keep your eyes on it!
Use gyo! You know how, don’t ya?
See? The armor’s just a puppet!
Attacks aren’t going to work against it!
( Armor sighs )
Gon: Here it is!
( Creature squeals )
Gon: Look. I got the card.
Girl: So you guys can use gyo.
Then why didn’t you use it before, huh?
Killua: Uh, well, I...
Gon: Yeah.
Girl: You forgot, didn’t you?
Both: Huh?
Girl: Don’t just stand there! Gyo!
Tell me what you see.
Both: The number one.
Girl: Very good. Now listen up.
When I raise my finger, I want you to use gyo.
Then yell out whatever it is you see, all right?
The same applies if you sense anything suspicious.
Use gyo, got it?
Killua: And what makes you think you can order us around?
Gon: I see the number five!
Girl: Correct.
You, give me 200 push-ups.
Killua: Huh?!
Girl: It’s your punishment. Get to it!
Killua: Hey, what the hell?! Why should I?
Girl: Got a problem?
Killua: Yeah, you bet I do!
Just who do you think you are, huh?
Girl: I forgot. I should introduce myself.
See, i’m a pro hunter. The name is biscuit krueger,
and 40 years ago, I learned nen,
and now i’m going to use my knowledge and experience
to give you some much-needed coaching.
You should both be eternally grateful.
Gon: You learned nen 40 years ago?!
Killua: You’re just a hag!
♪
Narrator: As luck would have it,
the young girl following gon and killua
is actually a veteran professional hunter.
Biscuit: Hmph.
( Singing in Japanese )