172 Deadliest family, huh

-A long time ago in the Real Universe

In one of the harshest nebulas in the universe, a tiny creature was roaming around, calling out in small roars for its parents that had just left it.

"roar, rooaaaar." The tiny creature wasn't even half a meter tall, it had obsidian scales covering its body and bright silver eyes. Whenever the tiny creature would roar, white sharp teeth could be seen.

Whilst staying in the nebula, the tiny creature began feeling the consequences of staying inside of it, the scales on it began cracking which made the tiny creature roar out in pain. "roooooaaar!"

But no matter how much the tiny creature cried out in pain, no one came to its rescue… The silver eyes of the tiny creature began to get watery as tears slithered down its face.

It had no idea why its parents just left, for every second the creature stayed in the nebula, the worse it became. Pain wasn't the only thing that the creature had to deal with, but it also had to hold in the mental suffering of being abandoned.

The tiny creature tried to flap its wings and fly, but for each flap of its wings, the scales cracked and the pain from that alone bad it roar out in pain over and over again.

Yet no matter how much pain the tiny creature was going through, it still tried to flap its wings to escape from this area which caused it so much pain.

But no matter how much time passed by, the tiny creature wasn't able to leave the nebula that seemed to draw the tiny creature back into the centre.

Hours quickly passed by, but for every second that passed by, the tiny creature would lose its stamina to go on. Blood was gushing out of the cracks between its scales, and the tiny creature was barely able to hold its consciousness aware, because it had a premonition if it relaxed for a single second, it would die.

Even so, the tiny creature was stuck in the nebula for another half a day… its movements were so slow and rigid, the silver eyes of the creature were hazy and misty due to all the tears it had shed.

"roar…" It let out a weak and hoarse roar before it stopped flapping its wings, the tiny creature wasn't able to go on any longer, it was too exhausted.

The tiny creature was able to feel pain all over its body, it closed its eyes and waited for its death… But for some reason the pain which had been there since the beginning, suddenly vanished. And what replaced the pain was something warm and comfortable, the tiny creature then heard a deep voice.

"Are you the one who was calling for help?" A male in his early twenties appeared near the tiny creature. But the moment he appeared near the tiny creature; his eyebrows raised slightly as he mumbled in a soft voice. "You have no idea where you are, do you, little outsider?"

"Even so, let's get out of here first before I decide what to do with you, little outsider." The young man spoke as he grabbed the tiny creature and hugged it before vanishing from the gigantic nebula.

-Back to the present in one of the Fake Universes

The mighty roar that came within of its Soul seemed much more powerful than anything it had met, perhaps at the same strength of Calypso or maybe stronger. But the roar didn't seem to hurt him, no, far from that, the loud roar seemed to rather make him happy. Without him knowing, his lips curved up to a gentle smile.

He could easily guess that the roar came from Andromeda, the 'pet' Calypso just spoke of. But Izan wasn't able to remember anything about Andromeda, he hadn't even felt Andromeda's presence till now it released its roar.

Whilst also being able to feel Andromeda's presence right now, Izan could tell that Andromeda couldn't come out of his Soul for some reason right now.

But what Izan and no one else knew, Andromeda has been the one since the beginning to protect Izan's shattered Soul after his death. If Andromeda didn't do that, the shattered Soul of Izan would have lost many of its pieces, perhaps not even a tenth of it would have remained over the passage of ten million years.

When Izan died in his first life, RU and Xuan Shang were about to protect Izan's Soul, but that alone would have caused one of them to complete exhaustion and perhaps even die of the result. But before any of them could do anything, Andromeda who was inside of Izan's Soul, tried its best to protect Izan's Soul, and that is what Andromeda did. It has been protecting Izan's Soul for ten million years, and it wouldn't take long before Izan's Soul was complete. At that time, Andromeda would once again come out of Izan's Soul.

-On the other side of the continent.

Perona was glaring at the assassin that had almost taken her life. Anger could be seen in her eyes as she commanded hundreds of ghosts to attack the assassin.

The assassin dodged many of the ghosts quite easily, but it also had to block many other ones. Whilst he did that, the assassin gazed at the ones who had surrounded the Ghost Girl who had been his target as he thought she would be the weakest target.

What the assassin first saw was a man he thought was dead; Hisoka. But his eyes went over everyone, and everyone he gazed at, were either as strong as himself or strong to the point of him not being able to see the end of their power.

Whilst the assassin did that, Hisoka also gazed at the assassin, a huge grin appeared on his face as he knew who it was at first glance. "Silva Zoldyck, I didn't think that your family would take a mission to kill us."

"His family?" Robin asked as she gave a short glance to Hisoka before she returned her gaze at the assassin who was now known as Silva Zoldyck. Robin was prepared to intervene at any moment if Silva came close to Perona.

"The Zoldyck family is considered to be, by far, the deadliest and most infamous group of assassins in the world. Silva Zoldyck is the current leader of the Family, and all of his children are monsters compared to even himself." Hisoka gave a short comment about the Zoldyck family to Robin as he had figured out quite early that Robin was a person who was seeking knowledge of the group he had just joined as she had asked him lots of question with the little time he had been with them.

Silva Zoldyck didn't say anything as he continued to dodge and block the ghosts, no matter how much he tried to find a way to kill the Ghost Girl or anyone else, he couldn't find a way to do that. As he did see that all of them were now keeping their eyes fully focused on him, other than the tiny red bird that was happily chirping out whilst flying near the Ghost Girl and the little girl with pink hair not too far away.