ꜱᴛᴜᴄᴋ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ- ᴋɪʟʟᴜᴀ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ [OLD]

12- 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵 𝘹 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳

Gon clicked the game category as Killua told him to. He scrolled through the list until he found the game we were looking for. "There it is. Greed Island." Killua smiled.

"Price is 20 Million Jenny." The bartender spoke, his pixley smile never disappearing.

"20 Million?" Gon gasped.

"Guess they won't give out information for free." Killua sighed. "All right. Guess we gotta."

"Fucking paywalls." I sighed.

"I'm depositing 20 million." Gon nodded, frowning as he did so. A burst of some sort of red aura came out from the monitor, making me squint my eyes. We then (quite literally) Were redirected to the website. We were inside the bar.

"Then to enter the site...It looks like you actually have to be a Nen user." Killua noted, looking around the room.

"Okay, now listen very carefully." The bartender spoke up again. "Y'see, Greed Island is a game created by Nen users. It appears that there are multiple creators whose motives are unclear. They infused nen into all 100 copies of the game. Nen activates on startup, pulling the player into the game itself."

"Wait, inside the game?" Gon gasped.

"VR would've been less time-consuming." I sighed. "But, to each their own I suppose."

"Only Nen users can actually play it." The A.I. continued, pouring a purple liquid into a cup. "As long as the player stays alive in the game, the console will continue to run, even if the game is unplugged. It will stop if the player dies."

"What kind of SAO level shi-" I was cut off.

"There was one owner...who hired 50 Hunters to give it a shot." He shook up two liquids in the container. "And of the 50...not a single one ever came back." He poured the mixture he shook up into a cup with ice in it. "I heard that you can return if you find a save point." He handed the now-red beverage to Gon, who just turned to Killua.

"Is that true?" He asked.

"It's from the hunter website." Killua folded his arms over his chest. "It's gotta be accurate."

Gon tried to pick up the cup, but his hand just phased right through it.

"At the Yorknew city auction there are going to be seven units of Greed Island and every one of them will be available for purchase." The man behind the counter continued to explain. "Of course, the lowest starting bid will be 8.9 billion Jenny."

"8.9 billion?" Gon's mouth was agape, and even Killua, the rich one, seemed shocked.

"The price has sky rocketed!" The pale boy next to me exclaimed, throwing his head back. "That's 3 billion more than we'd pay for retail!"

"Getting one is ranked level G." The bartender ignored (or couldn't hear) Killua's outburst. "The game is considered a legend, but there are still plenty of units around. If you have enough money, it should be relatively easy to procure one."

"Hmm...A G-rank, huh?" Killua hummed. "That's lower than I thought."

"Well, It's still pretty high for a couple of newbies, at least in my opinion, so this should be a good way to just dip our toes in the water." I smiled, trying not to be so nervous. Suddenly, we were transported back to the Internet cafe.

"Still, the money's a big problem." Killua clenched his eyes shut.

"Hey. This auction..." Gon spoke up after his train of thought was seemingly broken. "Do you think that we can participate in it?"

"At 8.9 Billion?" Killua scoffed. "Come on, that's way out of our league!" 

"Well, let's not overwhelm ourselves. While it's expensive, that might not be our main problem here." I sighed.

"Hm? What do you mean?" Gon asked.

"Well, the auction might have an age limit. Like 18 and above are the only ages allowed to attend. Given that we're only 12, that could be an issue." I rationalized. "It wouldn't make sense to just raise the money and then find out we aren't able to go."

"So is there a certain website we can go to?" Killua asked.

"Mm..." I tried my hardest to think about it. "Lemme check." I made my way over to Gon's chair. He got up and allowed me to take his spot. I punched in the auction's website and found that the age requirement was only 10+. "What money do they think that they're getting from 10-year-olds?" I chuckled. "We can go."

"Thanks, Y/n." Killua patted my shoulder and smiled. I got out of the seat and let Gon sit there.

"Yeah, no problem!" I grinned. "But Killua, don't be so pessimistic about the money. I mean, I'm way out of your league too, but you still got me." I smirked.

"No, no, I'm the one who's out of your league." He teased back.

"Yeah, yeah, that's what you wanna think." I leaned in a little closer to him. "We all know the truth, fluffy." I giggled. "Anyway, what was your plan, Gon?" I turned to the black-haired boy.

"Well, maybe instead of buying stuff we could sell." He offered.

"Selling, huh?" Killua repeated. "That's it!" He snapped his fingers, his frown being replaced with a grin.

"We can go look for treasure and then auction off whatever we manage to find." Gon smiled.

"Yes!" Killua pumped his fist. "We can start with the 800 million we earned at Heaven's Arena and go from there." His cerulean eyes had a twinkle of mischief in them. Gon just nodded as Killua headed towards one of the other computers. "First off, we'll try the online flea markets and auction websites." He moved the laptop towards the desk that Gon and I were sitting at. "Now, let's see what we can dig up." He smirked, beginning to type. "We'll increase our funds and then get a copy of Greed Island!"

"Hey, wait!" I frowned. "Can't people scam us into just getting the objects and not paying us? There'd be no way to verify that the transaction actually goes through." I sighed. "Just like with our want ad, we could still get scammed. Then we'd be without anything to sell and broke."

"Well, yeah, but most of these deals should be in person." Killua looked up at me from his chair. "We'll be fine. Don't worry."