"How strong am I?" Netero rasped with a hoarse laugh...
Perhaps it was due to old age, or perhaps it had been a long time since he last took action, but it seemed like no one had asked him this question for a long time.
The old man looked deeply at Roy,
Separated by a window, clearly so close yet as if an invisible force was dividing the young and the old into two different worlds...
Roy's gaze was intense, with two suns faintly burning in his pupils... The "Eye of Truth" that could discern the blood aura was activated, and in an instant, it focused on Netero... suddenly, the young man's gaze hardened, and he held his breath, as if staring into an endless abyss...
What kind of feeling was that, like an ant trying its hardest to look up, yet still unable to glimpse an elephant's outline,
Or like a frog at the bottom of a well, hindered by its cognitive limits, unaware of the vastness of the world,
As a stream of information flooded into his mind... "Netero Zoldyck... Rank unknown... Constitution unknown... Apparent/Potential Qi Amount unknown..."
The old man kept his hands in his pockets and said lightly, "Are you asking me? Or asking Him?"
Roy tried to remain calm, slowly withdrawing the suns in his eyes, and said frankly, "I am asking great-grandfather, as well as Him!"
Netero neither agreed nor disagreed, making a noncommittal sound, stepped forward, and the ground beneath him shrank to an extreme, transforming from a line into a dot, just like a span distant as a mile... A vast journey was within his measured steps, and suddenly the concept of "length" was lost....
"Tap...." At the instant the light sound of feet touching the floor was heard,
Netero was inside the house one moment ago, and the next second he had crossed windows and walls to stand in front of Roy,
Looking up at him, he said, "I am not as strong as Him, and I don't know how strong He is, but if you want to find out, I also have a punch here. Do you want to try it?"
Netero amiably pulled his right hand out from his pocket......
Roy gulped, his gaze lowering to this shriveled hand, wrapped in skin and bones, almost devoid of flesh, and after a long silence, he smiled broadly.....
"They say that before you learn to hit, you learn to take a hit,"
"You said it yourself, great-grandfather. Naturally, your grandson cannot refuse!"
Roy stood up straight with determination, a solemn look at Netero, "Please, teach me!"
Netero quietly watched the youth, an ancient epic filled those deeply aged eyes, flickering with a profound memory... if he recalled correctly, Jager, on the day he was beaten up, had also stood like the youth, a steely resolve, stubbornly locking eyes with him, even if... he ran into a wall, hitting his head bloody, he never backed down....
Slowly nodding, he said:
"Alright... alright... you bunch of brats each have your own reasoning,"
"This old man can't out-stubborn you all...."
The shriveled right hand slowly clenched into a fist,
Netero continued without more words, only slightly bending his elbow, gently sending his fist towards Roy's chest....
In an instant, the world changed... In his senses, Roy suddenly and fearfully realized... the clear sky, the vast sunlight—it was gone....
The ancient castle above, the white clouds above the castle, the blue sky beyond the clouds, were all covered by a massive fist, as if from nowhere!
"Boom crack!" With a burst of thunder, a continuous rumble erupted between heaven and earth!
Kurapika and Kurajing, who had just returned to the butler's villa with Tsubone, were digesting the previous battle in their room when they were suddenly startled, hurriedly running to the window, looking up at the sky.....
Within ten miles, winds and clouds gathered, thunder and lightning converged, all grasped by one giant fist, slowly pressing towards the ancient castle atop the mountain....
Kurapika's eyes bulged, and he sat on the floor with a thud, gasping for breath, unable to utter a single coherent syllable!
Beside him, Kurajing's mouth fell agape, the whole person stunned!
Soon, confused and panicked cries followed in the ears.... "What is that?!"
"Why did the sky turn dark?!"
"Who knows?!"
"Boom crack~" Just then, another clap of thunder rang out, causing the entire butler's villa to immediately stir!
On the top floor, in Tsubone's bedroom, the old butler hurried back, with two pink pigtails draped over her shoulders, holding Yu Yin in one arm and Canaria in the other, humming lullabies to the little ones frightened by the thunder, and her old eyes gazed out at the sky, murmuring in her heart, "Ancestor....."
Pupils filled entirely with the giant fist blocking out the sky!
"Hahaha... Is the old man planning to destroy this home with his own hands?"
In the training room on the first floor, having taken off his martial arts uniform and put on a different sports vest,
Netero was playing volleyball with Zeno to relieve his itchy hands, and at some moment,
The old man's Buddha ears twitched slightly; He caught Zeno's volley with one hand, and glanced out the window of the small dim room on the first floor....
Netero's casually attacking fist at Roy, small yet vast, vaguely had the potential to instantly crush the young man!
"Grandfather is serious this time." With white hair waving in the air,
Zeno flashed to Netero's side, looking up at the sky... A fist bigger than the sky, more imposing and fierce than Roy's nuclear slash in the dream realm!
It was as if they were not on the same level or dimension... leaving people almost... breathless!
"Silva!" In the garden, under that parasol, a woman holding a baby anxiously hid into a man's embrace,
Silva, with silver hair cascading down to his waist, put an arm around Killua's waist, casually taking Killua, looking silently towards the sky.....
The winds, thunder, sun, rain, all grasped in Netero's fist, slowly pressing towards Roy's chest,