King: If you lose to me,
i’ll take your left arm.
Komugi: Well, not to be rude, but instead of my left arm,
do you think that it’d be okay
if just bet the same thing that I usually bet when I play?
King: Usually? And what is that?
Komugi: I bet my life.
♪
King: Your life, huh?
I’m just beginning to realize it I was I who lacked resolve.
( Squelch )
So forgive me.
Morel: Then that means that this is it, huh,
our golden opportunity?
Knov: Yes...
our chance to infiltrate the palace.
♪
( Singing in Japanese )
( Thunder rumbling )
Narrator: Neferpitou has stopped using en
in order to heal the king’s injury,
while knov uses this opportunity
to infiltrate the palace.
( Knov panting )
Finally, I made it.
The stairs are still over a hundred meters away.
( Heart beating )
♪
Giant fruit on bizarre trees,
about 500 on each one...
And ten trees totals 5,000.
500,000 people were to be sorted each day,
with a 1% survival rate.
But after only one day, killua’s interference
brought the process to a grinding halt,
so it adds up.
These cocoons hold the selected humans.
they will become human nen weapons for the king’s use
and attack mankind as his pawns.
Neferpitou is probably a manipulator, and if so,
almost certainly intends to manipulate these soldiers
into invading the rest of the world,
as per the king’s will.
I can’t let that happen.
First, the farthest exit. Set.
Now I have to get closer.
The palace entrance looks dark.
No one’s there.
So far, so good.
Middle exit. Set.
Now for the near exit.
( Grunts )
i don’t see any guards anywhere.
I’d wager that there’s only a select few waiting inside.
If i’ve come this far, I can reach the inner palace.
The throne room is located
at the back center of the third floor.
We must delay any reinforcements,
even if only for a second.
The first floor is too far.
The central stairway, second floor,
that’s the best location.
The central staircase is beyond this courtyard.
Should I make one here just in case?
No, that would be no different from the one outside.
I have to at least get close
to the first floor’s central staircase,
preferably up the stairs on the second floor.
Chimera ant: Hmm? ( Gasps )
Knov: Scream.
Close.
( Panting )
( Nen whooshing )
Are there any others around?
If they saw me, it’s over...
I’ll have to retreat.
Nobody’s coming.
( Sighs )
So it was alone.
( Gasps )
♪
( Shuddering )
I can’t.
♪
I can’t move past this point.
If I do, they’ll kill me.
What is that aura? It’s like it’s full
of everything sinister in the world.
It’s not that I fear death,
not anymore. What I fear most...
Is that the ones lurking up there
would go to great lengths
to wring out any info I have on the king before killing me,
which they would do
in the cruelest way they could think of.
if i’m caught, I won’t be able to resist.
That’s what this thick aura’s telling me.
This is as far as I can go.
Morel: Huh?
♪
You look familiar.
Aren’t you that lion guy i saw on TV?
Leol: My name is leol, and don’t you forget it.
Morel: I was told that I should expect
to meet up with a wolf and a lobster.
Leol: I’m afraid that those two
are busy dealing with the grunts you created,
which means I can fight you one-on-one.
Morel: I do appreciate the personal attention.
( Thinking ) This guy’s just as strong as cheetu.
No, he’s a little stronger.
Leol: Now let’s get started.
Morel: Allowing knov to get into the palace
is my top priority...
So until that happens,
I need to focus on keeping the enemy’s attention.
( Leol scoffs )
That’s not gonna help.
♪
( Buzzer )
Marcos: Marcos here.
Bizeff: Have the meat?
marcos: Yes. It’s all as arranged.
( Buzzer )
Knov: Refrigerated trucks are entering the underground hangar.
Must be a food delivery.
if the information Marcos provided was accurate,
there are also women inside,
not for the king,
but for the lecherous director bizeff himself.
If our strategy worked, palm is among them.
bizeff: You can leave the fourth truck right there.
Marcos: Yes, sir.
and now if you would please excuse us.
Bizeff: Hmm.
( Chuckles )
( Whistling a tune )
( Chuckles )
Underground hangar area d.
My very own personal and private paradise.
♪
Well, come on out.
No reason to be worried.
( Chuckles )
Starting today, you will work here.
You will each have rooms,
and you will be provided with all the necessities.
In what spare time you have,
you may do as you like, as long as you don’t try to escape.
( Women murmuring )
You have but one job while you’re here,
and that is to carry out all of my orders.
When you are summoned,
you must drop everything and come to see me at once.
Women: Yes, director, sir.
Bizeff: Excellent.
♪
You there...
( Woman gasps )
Bizeff: Come with me.
Woman: Sir.
Bizeff: And as for the rest of you ladies,
you can go wait in your rooms.
Women: Right.
Woman: We made the cut.
We made it!
Woman #2: Oh, we must have caught his fancy.
( Women laughing )
Palm: I have to find a way out of here.
i must see the king and his royal guards myself.
Narrator: Once palm has seen a person
up close and with her own eyes,
she can observe them with her crystal ball at any time.
With this ability, the hunters will be able
to check on the king and the royal guards,
enabling them to make crucial decisions,
all without second-guessing themselves.
Palm: Just one exit.
I’ll have to manipulate bizeff.
My mission is absolutely crucial
for increasing our chances of defeating the king.
What matters most right now isn’t that I succeed,
but if I fail and am caught, I must end my life quickly.
( Knov panting )
I should be safe this far away.
Palm, don’t get in over your head.
I managed to plant the exits,
so even if your mission doesn’t succeed,
we can still execute the plan.
If you get caught, it’s over.
That--( Teeth chattering )
That--that vicious aura...
( Crying ) One glance
was all it took to break my spirit.
( Sobbing )
♪
Gon, killua, you’ve seen it.
You’ve seen their aura, too.
You were probably even closer.
You may have even touched it.
And yet...
( Sobbing )
How can you still face them?
How?
how could you bring yourself to fight them?
Is it to save your friends or to protect humanity?
Tell me, how can you fight?
Palm! ( Sobbing )
Please, don’t push your luck.
Please, i’m begging you.
If they catch you, it’s all over!
Palm!
I can’t go back there ever again.
Bizeff: Huh?
Palm: I hope you don’t mind.
i brought you something cold to drink.
Bizeff: Hmm?
( Palm gasps )
( Bizeff chuckles )
You’re dismissed.
Go and wait in your room for a while.
Woman: Yes, sir.
( Ice clinking )
♪
( Leol laughs )
Not knowing your way around cost you.
It’s almost too perfect that, after all that running,
you ended up in an underground chapel.
- ( Morel chuckles ) - Leol: In case of emergency,
this place is also used as a bomb shelter,
the perfect location for your painfully violent death.
Sorry, but you’ll have to say your own prayers.
You see, i’m an atheist.
( Morel chuckles )
That’s pretty optimistic of you.
Now let’s see which of us is really cornered.
Leol: Hmm?
♪
Hmm.
Cheetu tipped me off.
He says you mold that smoke into all sorts of stuff.
Morel: So he led me here knowing full well?
( Chuckles ) Works for me.
If he believes that everything is going his way,
he won’t hesitate to put his own abilities on display.
but i’ve seen some flexible abilities in my time,
and not a single one of them
could hold a candle to my deep purple.
I feel tingly.
I love it,
the moment an opponent showcases their abilities.
It’s addictive.
Still, it might make more sense
to attack before he reveals what he can do,
but, no, that’s not how a man fights.
( Leol sighs )
Morel: Hey, now.
What the hell are you doing?
you’re limiting one of your senses on purpose?
Leol: Have you ever heard of a rock band
called black planet? Check out their second album.
That one is the coolest.
The 12 songs on it form a story,
so at the end, it’s almost like reading a really awesome book.
When you finish it, you feel great.
Morel: Yeah, I know.
Leol: And the best part of all
is that the album’s exactly 60 minutes long.
It’s a classic.
Morel: Yeah, I hate to say it, but you’re right.
Leol: All right. Begin rental!
♪
Morel: This is bad.
I have a hard time fighting someone
with the same tastes as mine.
( Singing in Japanese )