Holder of Magia Erebea Starting in HxH

The next day.

"The Third Phase will take place on this tower called Trick Tower," said the green creature in a suit after everyone descended from the hot air balloon. "To succeed in the Third Phase, you must reach the end of the tower within 72 hours."

With these words, the hot air balloon's doors closed, and it flew into the sky, leaving the Applicants without any further explanations.

"What should we do, Touta-kun? Should we jump down?" asked Kuroumaru, pointing down, as they were immortals, and even if they died from the fall, they would revive after some time.

If this had been before meeting Touta, it would have been impossible for Kuroumaru to think of doing such a reckless thing, despite being immortal. But after meeting Touta and seeing how reckless he was in their fight, to the point where he was willing to let Touta decapitate him to land a finishing blow, Kuroumaru decided to learn from him.

"Are you serious? If you jump from here, you will die!" screamed Leorio in terror, glaring at Kuroumaru like an idiot.

"This is incredibly reckless," commented Kurapika. Although he had seen how Kuroumaru could walk on air, he could only think that this was reckless, especially since he hadn't seen Touta walking on air like Kuroumaru.

"Although jumping from here has a certain appeal, I'll refrain," said Touta, pressing one of his feet on a slightly opened floorboard. "This path seems more interesting."

"Hidden door!!" shouted Leorio in surprise, as he hadn't expected hidden doors.

"That's right, I just saw a girl enter one of these doors," Touta nodded and pointed beside Kuroumaru. "By the way, Kuroumaru, that tile is also a hidden door."

"Then I'll go first, guys," Touta said, not hesitating to step on the hidden door and let himself fall.

"Then I'll go too," said Kuroumaru, without hesitation, stepping on the hidden door Touta pointed out and letting himself fall as well.

"They've gone..." Leorio muttered in astonishment, as he hadn't expected them to leave like this without even waiting for him.

"Don't just stand there, let's go find doors too," said Kurapika, pulling Leorio toward Gon and Killua to tell them about this as well.

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Once the hidden door opened, Touta fell into a stone room, empty except for a girl with pink hair and a table with clocks.

It took Touta only a moment to examine the room, and he quickly flipped in the air and landed easily on the ground.

"Hmm..." As soon as he landed, he heard something moving in the ceiling, causing both him and the girl to look up curiously. "Kuroumaru!!"

Touta couldn't help but smile upon seeing his partner, as he had gotten used to having Kuroumaru by his side in the past few days.

"Touta-kun, it seems the doors lead to the same room," Kuroumaru smiled, happy to be with Touta as well.

"You've arrived," the girl nodded as she saw Kuroumaru and Touta. "My name is Komacine Machi, and from what I saw, we need to use these clocks to vote and move down the tower."

"Konoe Touta," Touta smiled and introduced himself to Machi. "You can call me Touta, Machi-chan."

"Tokisaka Kuroumaru, nice to meet you, Komacine-dono," Kuroumaru nodded lightly to Machi, as unlike Touta, he wasn't good at interacting with others easily.

"Nice to meet you too," said Machi, maintaining a stiff expression, not commenting on Touta's way of addressing her. "Now, take the clocks and let's begin, as there should be three people to proceed."

Upon hearing Machi, the two picked up the clocks from the stone table and read the text displayed above the clocks before wearing them.

The moment they wore the clocks, the words on the screen changed.

[Do you want to proceed?]

[O / X]

The tower depended on the majority's decision, as to answer "Yes," they had to press O, and to answer "No," they had to press X. The choice with the most votes would be executed.

"The answer is obvious," Touta said sarcastically, pressing O, and the others followed his lead.

[O 3 / X 0]

Once they answered, a door opened on one of the walls, allowing them to exit the room.

"It seems like just a simple test," commented Touta as they walked down the path, finding a crossroads that forced them to choose which direction to go. "So, which direction do you want to go?"

"Left/Right," both answered at the same time, as Kuroumaru wanted to go right, while Machi pointed to the left.

"Sorry, Kuroumaru, but it's obvious that there are stronger people to the left," Touta smiled apologetically, agreeing with Machi, as despite knowing that Kuroumaru wanted to do this for him, Touta wanted to fight the strong, not the weak.

"I see..." Kuroumaru nodded. Although he was a little sad, he didn't say anything, as it was clearly Touta's decision.

[O 3 / X 0]

After the vote, the left door opened, and everyone walked down the corridor, where arrows quickly began to shoot at them from the walls, in addition to the floor suddenly opening with many iron spikes, clearly aimed at their lives.

Although there was a high possibility that other Applicants would die from these traps, the strength of everyone here could not be compared to that of regular Applicants. They were able to walk through the path without any problems.

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