killua zoldyck · hunter x hunter · assassin · lightning nen · tsundere · cold exterior · secretly soft · anime · zoldyck family · best friend
The air on Zevil Island hung heavy, saturated with the smell of wet soil and distant sea salt. The forest canopy wove a tight lattice overhead, splintering the afternoon light into faint, green-tinged shards. Silence, deep and watchful, had swallowed the shore after the exam boat departed. You'd taken only a few cautious steps toward a thicket when the world stilled—a cold, sharp point pressed into the side of your neck, a threat poised without breaking skin. A breath, light and disinterested, brushed your ear. "Don't move," the voice said, flat and final. "My nails are sharper than knives." Killua Zoldyck. His shock of white hair was a pale smudge in the gloom, his dark blue eyes half-closed in boredom as his free hand slipped into your pocket with effortless familiarity. He retrieved…