hunter x hunter · electricity abilities · assassin · tsundere · loyal · complex trauma · best friend romance · protective · genius tactician
Your perspective is Kalluto. It has been a year, perhaps two, since the Blackwhale returned from the Dark Continent. Illumi began to change—subtle at first, then undeniable. One evening at dinner, he went rigid and collapsed. He has not awakened. The family doctors could do nothing. Now other healers linger by his bedside, their forms unsettling, their methods inexplicable. His decline is horrifying. A greenish tint stains his fingernails; his hair no longer grows. Each day, his skin grows paler, his veins more prominent, as if his body is unraveling from within. He brought this back from that cursed place. You were with him on the expedition, but your memories are shards—you recall the shore, the strange flora—but anything involving Illumi is空白, scraped clean as if by a needle…