“Why don’t you wear shoes?”
“I lived bare footed for so long that the first time I wore shoes, I was so uncomfortable I immediately discarded them and never put those evil things again.”
“Yeah! I never saw her wearing anything past her tights and I’ve known her for three years.”
“Heh, should I also throw my shoes?”
“Yes! You should!/No! You don’t!”
They were bickering back and forth like kids going on a school outing, ignoring the panting and borderline dying examinees.
Suddenly they looked back to see Leorio had stopped and was about to give up.
“Let’s hurry up, he won’t make it.”
Gon and Velena ignored killua and stayed rooted waiting for Leorio, neither of them said anything Gon was simply waiting for his friend and Velena didn’t mind waiting for someone close to Gon.
They didn’t need to wait for long.
“SCREW IT!!”
Suddenly, a gust of wind ruffled their clothes as Leorio dashed past them screaming.
“I WILL BECOME A HUNTER! DAMN IT!!!!”
They exchanged a grin and Gon used some cool moves with his fishing rod to snatch the discarded suit case, before running after Leorio again.
“Hey Gon, Can I use your fishing rod?”
“Only if I use your skateboard.”
Velena turned toward them.
“Can I also use them?”
Without hesitation she was suddenly presented with a fishing rod and a skateboard by two blushing teens.
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“YAHOOOO!!!”
Gon and Killua were wide eyed looking at Velena skate right and left, even using the sailing and hooking the fishing rod to a pipe on the other side to jump everywhere, they could only look in disbelief and envy until they found themselves before a long staircase.
“Hey Gon, want to race?”
“Yeah why not!”
Suddenly they had to catch their respective items thrown to them by a grinning loli.
“The losers pay for dinner!”
With that she didn’t wait for them and started running ahead.
““Hey wait!!!””
They raced up the stairs laughing and bickering to the dismay of the other participants.
It wasn’t long before they catch up with a Leorio screaming about money for some reason, flanked with a handsome blonde with grey eyes who posed looking at her Brilliant purple eyes stiffening for a moment before relaxing. She didn’t miss his flinch but didn’t give it too much thought.
“Kurapika we are going on ahead.”
“Ossan, catch you later!”
“I’m not old! I’m a teenager like you guys!!”
At this the four of them nearly faceplanted and Velena couldn’t help a smartass retort.
“One of the seven world mysteries!!”
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“OY!!!!”
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“Hey killua, Velena why do you want to be hunters?”
“I don’t really want to be hunter, I just heard the hunter exam was difficult, so I thought it would be fun but this is a disappointment.”
Velena wanted to sigh at Killua but refrained, she felt a little like a hypocrite.
“What about you Gon?”
“Me? Well my father is a hunter so I want to become hunter like him?”
“What kind of hunter?”
Asked Velena.
Gon gave her a happy and innocent smile.
“I don’t know, I was raised by my aunt Mito and only knows my father through pictures.”
Velena didn’t realize she was looking at him longer than needed, when she caught herself she looked away with a blush. Thankfully Gon was looking ahead caught in his dreams.
“I wanted to know why he choose to be a hunter over being with me.”
She can’t help the smile on her face, he was something else to not have a speck of anger toward his father for abandoning him.
“What about you Velena?”
It took her a moment to register the question.
“I...I don’t really need to pass the hunter exam, if I had a reason it would be like Killua, just for fun.”
Killua already knows why she is here, it was only Gon who was giving her a wide questioning gaze.
“I created a new website for the hunters with the help of Milluky, Killua’s elder brother, because it was revolutionary, they offered me a three star hunter card but I wanted to take the exam like everyone else, so here I am.”
While saying that she showed the application with her phone.
“Cool! can I see it?”
It was difficult to say no while looking at those shiny eyes.
“Later Gon I see the exit!”
Saved by Killua, with a dash they started the race again.
Looking at their back, Velena gained an impish smirk. She didn’t forget to apply Zetsu as she passed by them only releasing it when near the examiner who in his surprise lifted his left hand while turning trying to smack what he perceived as a threat. It wasn’t difficult for her to evade not forgetting to give him an “I am sorry” smile on the way, she need to stop this habit she always forget how edgy Nen users are, god knows she is perhaps the only living being able to infuriate the forever frozen Illumi.
“Goal!!”
Cried Gon and Killua together jumping past the still bemused Satotz adding to his amusement.
“Yay!! I’m first!”
“No I was first!!”
“Of course I was first!”
“Are you blind!!”
Gon turned toward Satotz.
“Ne! Who was first?”
“Yeah! tell us!”
Satotz pointed his finger behind them.
“She was first.”
Slowly they turned around only to see a grinning Velena.
“You owe me dinner.”
“Gah!!”
Killua rubbed his head in frustration.
“Hahaha!!!”
Gon didn’t care he was simply enjoying himself.
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“Hunter website NG, or HxW2 like everyone calls it is a super advanced platform only accessible to hunters and a very limited number of non-hunter like me and Killua’s family.”
Velena was explaining her creation to a star eyed Gon, a bored Killua, an intrigued Kurapika and finally dead tired Leorio. They were waiting for exam to continue beside the door.
“What is different from the former one?”
Asked Kurrpika, very interested.
“Oh! A lot of things but the most important is storage and instant delivery!”
Seeing the question mark above their head, Velena decided to play a prank.
“Gon give me leorio’s suit case.”
“Huh, why?”
“Here take it!”
Ignoring Leorio’s protest Gon gave it to her without hesitation. She tapped a few key words on her phone and the suit case vanished.
A pose, then...
“Give It Back!!!!”
The scream alerted every living being miles away. There was a tattered man dragging a limp ape and tension in the air but it was broken by an enraged Leorio.
Kurapika was closing his ears with a smile, Gon and Velena laughing while Killua restraining a raging Leorio with a cat like smirk on his face, they really were not caring about the surrounding tension, not even knowing that they had broke a self-proclaimed hunter examiner's speech.
Deciding it was enough, she typed again and gave it back to him. After making sure everything was ok it finally hit him, and he wasn’t the only one.
“Interspacial storage?!!”
All five cried in unison, and since Velena wasn’t one of the five they all turned toward a bald head standing behind them in ninja outfit. And then they looked around only to find everyone looking at them, some with greed.
They then looked at the tattered man and the Satotz faced ape feeling like they missed something.
“Ahem! I was Saying That he is an imposter?”
Repeated the guy feeling like all his momentum was destroyed and wanted to cry.
Only it seems someone was tired of his speech because a moment later he was pierced by cards while Satotz intercepted the ones aimed at him.
“I see, I see, it is confirmed then, a real hunter with the title we are aiming for could stop that kind of slow attack.”
Said a smirking Hisoka while playing with his card. He said slow, but only Velena, Satots and Illumi could see it without trouble.
“I shall take it as a compliment, however should you attack me for any other reason, you will be immediately discalified.”
“Yeees...”
Drawled Hissoka, not really caring.
“What happened exactly?”
Asked Leorio looking at the fleeing ape.
“I think they tried to fool us.”
Said Velana while picking a pebble. She draws back her arm and with an explosion sound, the pebble flew toward the ape, the shock wave shoved everyone in its trajectory throwing them aside impaling the ape reducing it to a shower of blood before impacting the ground making a dust mushroom.
Looking at the little girl everyone was showing fear and amazement, more fear for the likes of Tonpa or amazement for people like Kurapika and Hanzo.
The first exceptions where the excited Gon, Killua and Hisoka for without a doubt different reasons.
The other exceptions would be the indifferent Illumi because...Illumi and Satotz because not only he knows that she is in the right and had to frighten the greedy idiots looking at her like a piece of meat but he also knows about the little girl Velena and that she would pass no matter what she did, even if she killed an examiners, she would still pass.
The hunter association was not delusional, it is them that needed her, not the other way around.
HxW2 was more than a revolution, an application created by the joint effort of Velena and the Zoldicks, more specifically Milluky Zoldick. Using programing and Nen was the first ever software integrating Nen created, using Nen in hardware is not unheard of, Greed Island is a well-known example, there are also Nen users whos power is linked with technologie like Shalnark from the phantom troup, but an application spanning across every continent...
To make matter more amazing is how much useful is HxW2 especially for hunters.
It can link from anywhere, even places without signal.
It has an interdimensional storage, no need to say more on that point.
An online shop where people can buy and sell anything with an instant delivery, and by instant, it means the moment you purchase something you find it inside your storage space.
The most mundane or amazing depending on the point of view is that even if you lose your phone or computer, all you have to do is purchase a new one, redownload the app, login and everything is back like it was before.
This amazing, world changing creation was created by two kids, one of them barely past her first two digits.
And like that the hunter association was put on a tight spot, the Zoldicks wasn’t a problem, even if they had access, they could use it and have some privileges like an infinity free storage space for their members, they can’t use it to make problems for the hunters, the best of them came together to make sure of that. But Velena was another story, it was her Nen that was used to create it, she only need to infuse it and she could withdraw even from Netero’s storage, so it was a difficult decision, after all for hunters it was life-saving, like those who are stranded in the wild where they had to scale mountain with a lot of equipment and food having storage can save your life, or more importantly, being alone in the wild and acquiring health problems like poison and need immediate treatment, having access to immediate health care was even more of a reason... and there are a lot more, because being a hunter was a difficult and life-threatening job.
In the end the temptation was too great to pass, and Netero himself vouched for the girl after meeting her privately.
Overnight Velena became the most important person in the hunter association without even being a member, the ridicule was so great that they had to beg her to take the hunter card, Satotz didn’t know if he should laugh or cry, but somehow it all turned into a joke seeing a flustered little girl promising to take the exam face red from embarrassment.