Gourmet Hunter (HxH Fanfic)

The area of ​​Barney's mansion is like a castle. The interior structure is unclear, there are many rooms and a network of interconnected hallways, and its height ranged between three to four stories.

The Mafia's leaders did not bring any large-scale lighting equipment, so when the mansion's lights went out, even with their overwhelming numbers, it wouldn't be easy to flush out the remaining 'rats' quickly.

Over 300 men poured into the darkened mansion from multiple entrances, planning a thorough, room-by-room search to find the power source while eliminating any survivors.

Some people carried small flashlights, which were usually used in conjunction with pistols and came in handy at this time, but most people could only search in the dark, grouping into small teams of two or three and relying on faint moonlight to barely discern their surroundings.

There are no clouds tonight, and although it is a crescent moon, the light is still quite bright. The rooms and hallways near the windows are all illuminated by the moonlight. After Law got the dagger, he avoided the area illuminated by the moonlight and hid in the darkness.

There is less than half an hour left to unseal his ability. Until then, he had to prevent the enemy from approaching the monitoring room in the center of the mansion.

Law leaned against a corner in one of the hallways, his figure hidden in the darkness. Without light, he would definitely not be seen.

He gripped the dagger tightly, his eyes flashing coldly.

The enemy had no intention of leaving anyone alive from the beginning, which meant that his only option was to kill all the enemies.

'About four hundred...'

Law sighed softly. Since the enemy wanted their lives, he wouldn't show mercy. However, before his ability was unsealed, it would be very difficult for him to deal with more than four hundred people alone.

A killing intent unknown to the enemy quietly emerged in his heart, and Law began to act.

…

In the outer hallways, four Mafia's members moved cautiously as they covered each other and groped their way forward in the darkness.

Their footsteps were light and they listened to the sounds around them at all times. Although they assumed only a few people were left in the mansion, they didn't lower their guard.

Among the four people, one held a gun in one hand and a lighter in the other, providing a weak light source for the team so that they would be able to see things.

For ordinary people, prolonged exposure to darkness allowed their eyes to adjust slightly, but without any light source, their vision would still be reduced to amorphous shadows. Even with a lighter, it can only illuminate a few meters around them.

However, while the lighter can certainly light their way, it will also expose their location. This is the difference between a lighter and a flashlight.

From a safe distance, Law spotted the group using the lighter's dim flame as his beacon.

Currently, he can use Ren, though he can't use it at full power.

By focusing a small amount of Aura into his eyes, he will be able to pinpoint the enemy's position in the dark.

The enemies that entered the house were basically ordinary people. The Aura in their bodies was dissipating all the time, acting like markers for Law and guided him to their exact positions.

By leveraging his superior vision in this environment, Law's plan was simple: use the darkness to his advantage and launch a systematic hunt.

However, the number of people coming in is incalculable, and some of them usually carry lighters or even flashlights. If he wanted to take action, he has to deal with these people first.

Law planned to target the enemies who used lighters for lighting first, so as to tell the other party a message: people who use lighters will die faster.

When the enemy realizes that they would easily expose their position with a lighter, Law would shift focus to those using flashlights.

…

The four Mafia's members didn't know that someone lurking in the dark had been targeting them. When they turned a corner, a breeze suddenly came out of nowhere and blew out the flame on the lighter.

"Huh?"

Without the flame, darkness immediately swallowed their surroundings.

The sudden loss of light made the four men freeze instinctively. At this time, they felt another breeze passing over their bodies.

Before they could think about it, they felt a chill on their necks and their sight tilted unnaturally upward, as though they were floating.

Law held the dagger and crossed over the bodies of the four men. As he passed by them, he chopped off their heads as quickly as possible.

The sound of blood gushing from their severed necks echoed in the dark, followed shortly by the heavy thuds of their bodies hitting the ground. These sudden noises broke the eerie silence, drawing the attention of nearby enemies.

Before initiating his ambush, Law had crouched low to ensure his body stayed below the typical firing height of their guns. In this way, even if his attack failed and the enemy had the chance to shoot, his positioning would minimize the risk of being hit by stray bullets.

The dagger that Law picked up from the mansion was already sharp enough, but with a thin layer of Aura coating the blade, the resistance when beheading them was very light, like slicing through tofu.

After taking care of the four men, Law didn't retreat immediately. Instead, he waited for the next batch of prey to come over after hearing the noise.

Although his limited vision prevented the enemies from seeing the four heads flying up, ripples still spread in their heart.

"There's something over there. Let's check it out."

A team not far from here came towards the sound. This team did not have flashlights and also used lighters for lighting, but they took the initiative to turn off the lighters before coming over.

In the long, pitch-black hallway, using a lighter was akin to painting a target on themselves, practically inviting the enemy to shoot at them.

There were seven people in this team, and they acted very cautiously. Four of them walked in front and three walked behind, moving towards the location of the fallen bodies step by step.

When Law, who is hiding in the shadow, saw this, he easily saw the other party's plan, 'The four people at the front were baits, while the three people behind were the true threat.'

After determining their positions, Law disappeared into the darkness.

"I smell blood. Stay sharp." One of them, who smelled the blood first, had a slightly solemn expression and moved even more cautiously.

The fact that the previous team had been wiped out without firing a single shot told him their foe was no ordinary adversary.

The four people walking at the front pointed their guns forward and would immediately open fire as soon as they heard any movement, regardless of whether it was friend or foe.

Soon, the team of seven approached the location of the corpses, and the person walking in front even stepped on into the puddle of blood.

"It's blood, lots of it." The man who stepped on the blood immediately spoke out to warn, and then kept shooting forward without hesitation.

Ratatatatat…

The muzzle flashes lit up the corridor like strobe lights, briefly illuminating the corridor ahead.

This action not only allows them to see the four headless corpses and the pool of blood on the ground, but also allows them to see the empty corridor ahead, and even alert the others entering the mansion.

If they are lucky, they might even be able to hit the enemy hiding in the dark.

Law, who had already got behind the team, frowned slightly when he saw one of them shooting recklessly. It also reminded them that the other side weren't sheep waiting for slaughter, but instead cautious and capable killers.

If he hadn't flanked them, the man's shooting would have ruined his ambush.

'The eleventh.'

Law calmed down a little, and before he took any action, he silently counted the number in his mind, already marking the seven people before him for death.

He crept up on the three in the rear, and identified the optimal trajectory. He then rushed forward, and with a wave of his arm, the dagger slashed across the necks of the three people like lightning, easily chopping off their heads.

After passing over the three people, Law quickly approached the four people at the front at a silent but slightly faster pace.

The three headless corpses that were beheaded by Law slowly fell to the ground at this time.

Thud.

The sound of the corpses falling to the ground startled the four people walking in front. When they turned around suddenly, they felt a breeze brushing against their skin, and a doubt suddenly arose in their heads.

'I clearly want to pull the trigger, but why doesn't the gun in my hand move at all?'

With this inexplicable doubt, four heads rose into the sky.

…

After Law cut off the heads of the four men, he leaped forward with all his might, stepped over the pool of blood in front of him, trying his best to avoid getting too much blood on his body.

After leaving eleven corpses here, the slight discomfort Law felt when he first beheaded the enemy had disappeared.

This hunt that began in the dark night might claim hundreds of lives before dawn. But in exchange, it would grant Law invaluable experience, tempering Law's heart to be as hard as steel when killing people in the future.

The gunshots in the mansion died down as the bodies fell to the ground.

An invisible aura of death enveloped the entire mansion at this time.

At this moment, none of the intruders realized that they had turned from hunters to prey.