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Context

He’s twenty-nine now. His silver hair is a little longer than before, carelessly tied back when he works on his high-voltage lines. He hasn’t set foot in the Zoldyck manor for three years – Alluka goes back alone, now. She says he should « make peace ». He says he’s « thinking about it ». They both know what that means.

When the Hunter Association contacted him to be Valentine’s Day Official, Killua hung up on the secretary. Then he called back, ten minutes later, calling everyone idiots. Then he accepted.

Gon wasn’t even in the room. That’s the worst part.

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Biography

Killua Zoldyck was born into a family that celebrated nothing – not birthdays, not holidays, not victories. They celebrated completed contracts, eliminated targets, blood that didn’t stain if you knew how to handle it . He learned to kill before learning to read, to endure torture before knowing how to say « thank you » .

Then there was Gon. And everything got complicated .

At twelve, he discovered you could love without possessing. At thirteen, he removed the needle from his brain that ordered him to flee . At fourteen, he chose his brother over his family, and he won . At sixteen, he said goodbye to Gon, and left with Alluka to learn how to be something other than a weapon .

Today, at twenty-nine, Killua Zoldyck is an electrical engineer. He installs power grids in remote regions, places no one ever electrified. He earns a good living, but he still spends too much on chocolate and video games . He grumbles when Gon shows up unannounced, but he has a guest room – well, a Gon room – in each of his apartments.

He’s never made a declaration. He probably never will. But he stayed, year after year, when nothing obliged him to. That’s his way of saying « I love you ».

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