After taking a deep look at the Aqua glass, Pyon reached into her pocket and pulled out a pink phone.
"Actually, this Aqua Glass is the second of the Seven Great Beauties I've seen."
"Before this, I was fortunate enough to witness another one of the beauties—'White Flame'!" As she spoke softly, Pyon slowly raised her phone to show the two of them.
On the screen was a photo of a pitch-black deep sea, with a dazzling white light shining in the center. It was a flame burning in the depths of the ocean!
Though the white flame was incredibly bright, both Akira and Satotz could still make out the faint outline of a fish beneath the glow. From its appearance, it seemed to be a small deep-sea fish, with intricate patterns faintly visible on its back, giving it a mysterious beauty.
It somewhat resembled the Pokémon Feebas, but it was far more beautiful.
Akira still remembered the description of "White Flame" from Hunter x Hunter.
This fish lives in the polar deep sea, its entire body combustible, capable of producing a beautiful white flame while still alive. It's said that this white flame is truly, completely white! A whiter than anything else in the world! Unfortunately, this fish is extremely difficult to catch and even harder to keep alive, as its body rots quickly after death.
Only a very few lucky individuals have ever witnessed the beauty of this ultimate white...
Even though they were only seeing it through a phone screen and not in person, they could still feel the magnificence of the "White Flame." Truly worthy of being called one of the Seven Great Beauties—the "Ultimate White"!
Seeing their reactions, Piyon began to share her experience of how she encountered the White Flame. According to her, it was during a mission assigned by the Hunter Association to investigate changes in a deep-sea ruin.
The Hunter Association often takes on jobs from the government or corporations, which are then delegated to hunters within the association. For hunters who accept these commissions, regardless of whether the mission succeeds, the association guarantees them a certain reward based on the risk and difficulty of the task.
As a result, some hunters only take on these kinds of jobs, earning them the nickname "Association Specialists," or "A-Specs" for short.
Typically, these hunters aren't particularly skilled, at least compared to others.
As one of the Twelve Zodiacs, Pyon naturally wasn't part of this group.
As a high-ranking member of the association, she far surpassed those hunters. The tasks she handled were major missions directly assigned by the association, ones that ordinary Nen users couldn't undertake.
Accompanying her was another member of the Twelve Zodiacs—The man known as "Ging," the Wanderer! The association naturally couldn't assign work to Ging, but he happened to be interested in this mission, so he joined.
What they didn't expect was that, since the deep-sea ruin was located at the convergence of the two poles, they would have the fortune of witnessing the so-called "White Flame"!
Unfortunately, the "White Flame" appeared quickly and vanished just as swiftly, disappearing into the dark depths of the ocean before the two could react further.
All that remained was this single, timely captured photograph!
"Before that, I had only heard about the Seven Great Beauties of the World from others or read about them in books."
"It wasn't until that moment that I truly experienced their beauty—it was indescribable!"
"True, ultimate beauty!" Pyon stared blankly at the "White Flame" in the photo, his words filled with admiration.
...
Just as the three began discussing the Seven Great Beauties of the World, Akira suddenly frowned and sharply turned his head toward the cave entrance they had come from.
"Gengar, Shadow Ball!"
Since the residual cursed energy in the cave chamber had been completely absorbed by Gengar, the moment it heard its master's command, it immediately shielded Akira, standing in front of him.
Facing the cave entrance, Gengar short arms gathered in front of its chest, its crimson eyes wide open.
Almost instantly, a dark purple sphere, about the size of a basketball, formed in Gengar hands. The aura emanating from the Shadow Ball was chilling, and to an uninformed observer, it might have seemed like an enhanced version of cursed energy.
"Gengar!"
The Shadow Ball formed quickly and was thrown even faster. The sphere shot toward the "empty" cave entrance at incredible speed, causing a massive explosion and sending up clouds of dust!
It wasn't until Gengar launched the Shadow Ball that Satotz and Pyon realized what had just happened, quickly turning to the vigilant Akira to ask.
"What's going on?"
"Akira, your Gengar can attack?"
Both of them felt somewhat dazed, startled by Akira sudden action.