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"Hello, it's me. What's going on?"

After Su Moyu left, Dasone called Kurapika who was in charge of monitoring on the rooftop.

"There is nothing unusual."

Melody put down the telescope in her hand and nodded to Kurapika.

"Everything is fine, Captain...Okay, I'll contact you in time if there's anything."

After Kurapika hung up the phone, Melody leaned against the fence, looking at the building where the auction was held in the distance, and sighed softly.

"The security here is really thorough. Except for the organizer's guards, no strangers are allowed to approach within a 500-meter radius.

Kurapika also walked to the railing and looked at the densely packed guards outside the building in the distance, and said affirmatively

"If this is not done, there will definitely be many desperate criminals coming to cause trouble. After all, an auction placed in such a conspicuous position is like telling criminals all over the world that there is a lot of illegal wealth to plunder."

"yes……"

Both sides were silent for a while, and then asked at the same time

"Can I ask you a question? ×2

There was another period of silence

"Ladies first, what do you want to ask?"

Finally, it was Kurapika who spoke first, breaking the silence.

Melody adjusted the hat on his head that was tilted by the evening wind, looked at the boy in ethnic minority costumes, and asked

"What does the fiery red eyes have to do with you?"

Kurapika's middle finger on his right hand twitched violently.

"Why are you asking this?"

Kurapika kept his composure. He asked casually.

"No reason, just pure curiosity.

Melody reached out and touched her heart, and continued

"When we watched the slides, your heart beat very fast. The rhythm of your heartbeat was like the endless anger that had been suppressed for a long time but could not burst out."

"……It seems that I can't deceive you anymore."

Kurapika closed his eyes, sighed, and finally revealed the secret of his identity.

"In fact, I am a member of the Kuruta tribe, and I may be the last one in this world."

He opened his eyes again and looked at Melody, his face was normal.

"Normally, our eyes are brown, but they turn red when we are excited, so in order to avoid being noticed, I wear black contact lenses."

"My compatriots' eyes were taken away by someone. No matter what, I must take them all back and return them to my compatriots."

After a brief pause, Kurapika asked

"So, what are you going to do? Are you going to tell Dazonie?"

At the same time, he was also observing Melody's every move. If he found that the other party showed signs of wanting to tell the secret, then... the chain on his middle finger began to slowly wriggle.

"……No, forget it.……"

Melody was also looking at Kurapika. She held onto the railing and turned around, exposing her back to Kurapika without reservation.

"I don't want to die."

This time it was Kurapika's turn to be stunned.

"Can you even feel this?"

"The sound of a heartbeat can tell a person's thoughts. When you said this, your heartbeat was steady, but also cold. That is the rhythm of enlightenment possessed by a determined person."

"He told me that the content was, 'If you tell anyone, I won't blame you, but I will kill you to silence you.’"

Kurapika didn't say anything, which was considered as tacit agreement with Melody's statement.

"Then, it's my turn."

In order to ease the slightly tense atmosphere between the two, Kurapika took the initiative to skip the topic about his own people's eyes.

"Your appearance has changed so much in just over ten days. What have you been through?"

"Why are you asking this?"

Melody asked back.

"……Just curious."

Kurapika said, imitating Melody's previous answer.

"Even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it, and I promised others to keep it a secret, so you don't want to know about it. However, I can tell you why I became like that. Do you want to hear it?"

Melody asked again.

"If you are willing to tell me, I can probably guess whether something is true or false by looking at your eyes."

"Well, I am also a professional hunter, a music hunter. I am looking for a sheet music."

"Legend has it that it is a solo piece created by the devil. There are four pieces in total, played by piano, violin, flute, and harp respectively. Once a human plays or listens to it, a terrible disaster will happen to him."

"The name of this score is therefore called the Dark Sonata."

"I was listening to a flute solo at the time. After just one movement, my body became like this. The friend who was playing the flute was already dead.……"

At this point, Melody suddenly shuddered and hugged her body with both hands, as if she recalled the painful experience when she first listened to the music score.

"His whole body was like a clay sculpture that had been smashed and then glued together again... He had promised that he would never play, so the person who knew the music score taught him a movement. Then one day, we got drunk and took advantage of the alcohol.……"

"I traded my healthy body for my mind ability, but I have always wanted to return to my original appearance. I am willing to pay any price for this."

At this point, Melody took out a small folding round mirror from her bosom and opened it. Looking at her normal appearance in the mirror, she smiled with relief.

"I am very glad that I can take this job, so I got a precious opportunity, and I really grasped it firmly. Although I don’t know what price I will pay in the future, I am really happy."

"However, I don't want anyone else to follow in my footsteps, so I'm going to find the sheet music of Dark Sonata and destroy it completely."

"I chose this job because it would allow me to get in touch with the underground auctions in Youkexin City. Any strange and bizarre things could be auctioned here, and maybe I could find out about this music score. After all, collectors like to show off their precious collections."

"The flaming eyes... one of the seven greatest beauties in the world. Those who can obtain it will certainly not remain unknown, but will show off in their so-called collecting circles. So I think, Kurapika, you are probably like me, wanting to find the whereabouts of the eyes of your tribe through the auction in Youkexin City, right? So it seems that you and I are actually the same kind of people."

Kurapika pursed his lips. Through Melody's eyes, he was sure that the other party had no signs of lying at all.

His expression also changed from cautious and alert at the beginning to slowly relaxed now.

Perhaps because of the"exchange" of their respective secrets, the relationship between the two people has also been invisibly brought closer.

Melody glanced at the watch and then set her sights on the building in the distance.

"The time has come, the underground auction is about to begin, I hope everything goes well for Fei Jie and the others."