Breaking Rules | HunterXHunter Fanfiction

I. Breaking Point

The girl with unholy, abyssal eyes

Adam narrowed his eyes, unease creeping through him like an icy current as he stared at the beaten girl sprawled on the floor.

Something was wrong —terribly, inexplicably wrong.

The girl lay completely still, her chest barely rising.

For Adam, this should have been the moment of triumph —all he needed to do was finish her off and the match would be his. Yet, there was this unsettling sensation crawling up his spine. A primal fear whispered warnings he couldn’t understand, but it was there, unmistakable, like ice trailing over his skin and a shiver prickling at the back of his neck.

Something was off. The creeping unease slithered into his gut, but he forced himself to smother it with a mask of bravado.

"Hey, girl! Dead already?" he called out, his voice carrying a forced smirk to cover his own growing fear. "Come on, get up! I’m not done with you yet!"

But he got no response. And it bothered him more. No. It scared him more.

"Tch! You're no fun at all." He gaped, trying to convince himself that he had the situation under control, trying hard to convince himself that he won.

Then suddenly, he heard a raspy giggle coming from the seemingly lifeless girl on the ground. She mumbled something but did not hear it.

Instead, he heard a voice in the back of his mind screaming —Run!

End the match now! Run!

Summoning every ounce of courage, Adam shoved the looming fear aside and closed the distance between them. His trembling hands seized the girl by the collar, hoisting her limp form into the air. Her body hung lifelessly, a ragdoll in his grasp, and her head arched back at an unnatural angle, facing the ceiling.

"W-what's so funny?" he asked, half irritated, half terrified.

But again, no one answered him.

The girl's silence made him very uncomfortable. So he wasted no time grabbing her bruised neck again, this time with the intent to snap it. To end it.

"Any last words?" he asked, gambling the last courage he could find.

A stupid mistake.

"Die!"

The girl's head snapped forward with a sickening crack, her eyes snapping open to reveal twin voids of pitch-black darkness. Those empty, soulless pits seemed to swallow the light, locking Adam in their gaze as if dragging him into an abyss. A suffocating wave of killing intent erupted from her, saturating the air with raw malice. It slithered around the arena like invisible chains, binding everything in place. Her presence transformed —no longer human, but something out of this world.

"You brought this upon yourself." Stretching evil eyes locked into her prey, her voice void of any emotions.

Adam immediately released his grip and staggered backward, his breath hitching as his gaze locked onto the girl's unholy, abyssal eyes. A wave of suffocating dread washed over him, paralyzing his limbs. The air thickened, each gasp burning his lungs. His surroundings dissolved into a void of pitch -black darkness, swallowing the battlefield entirely.