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Underground Auction × Annihilation × Machinegun (地下競売(アングラ)×全滅×マシンガン), Angura × Zenmetsu × Mashingan) is the 52nd episode of the original Hunter × Hunter anime. It first aired on January 13th, 2001.

Overview[]

Chrollo Lucilfer, the Phantom Troupe boss, gives orders to kill everyone at the underground auction. Franklin fires Nen bullets from his machine gun fingers, and Shizuku cleans up the massacre with her Nen vacuum. Melody and Kurapika talk openly to each other on a roof. The Mafia sends the Shadow Beasts to deal with Phantom Troupe.

Synopsis[]

Leorio, Killua, and Gon take a break from trying to earn money for the Yorknew City auction. While eating, the boys talk about how much money they've made thus far, and Killua realizes they won't have nearly enough time left to make the money they need at the rate they're going just from Gon arm-wrestling people. Still, Leorio is confident that Gon can do it, and they continue to take contestants.

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Neon asleep in her hotel room

At the Hotel Beitacle, Neon is asleep after wearing herself down from her outburst. Dalzollene speaks to Light on the phone and tells him that she was really upset about not being able to participate in the auction herself, and will likely be even more upset if she misses the auction completely. Light tells him to secure the first item she wanted from the auction to tide her over, while Light makes his way to Yorknew City to meet them.

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Kurapika and Melody guarding the auction

Dalzollene briefly calls Melody and Kurapika, who are on the lookout outside the ongoing auction, to check up on them. After, during a lull in Melody and Kurapika's conversation, Melody asks Kurapika about his connection to the Scarlet Eyes, since she noticed his heartbeat increase when he saw a photo of them when they were being assigned their mission. He briefly explains his background as a member of the Kurta Clan and his mission to avenge his brethren. Melody assures him that she won't tell Dalzollene about his motives or background as she does not want to be killed, as she claims Kurapika seems like the type to kill her if he absolutely had to. In return, Kurapika asks Melody about her motives for taking the job, and she explains her quest for the Sonata of Darkness and her intention to destroy it. When Kurapika tells her that the sonata sounds like an urban myth, she pulls up her sleeve to show him the damage done to her arm due to her listening to one movement of the flute solo. The sight of it briefly horrifies Kurapika, and Melody claims her friend who died from playing it looked like her arm all over his body. She also claims she looked quite different in general before hearing it.

At street level, as the auction is about to begin, a car containing Shizuku, Shalnark, and Uvogin cut off a couple of cars of men outside the auction building. When the men get out to question them, the Spiders kill them. Inside, Baise, Tocino, and Ivlenkov talk amongst a crowd of wealthy, important families. Ivlenkov notices that a few of the notable people he was expecting to see haven't shown up yet, noting how strange it is since they come every year.

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Franklin standing with Feitan on stage

When the auction is set to start, Feitan stands on the auction stage, initially seeming like he is there to host the event, but quickly informs the room of bidders that he is there to kill them. Franklin appears behind him and uses his Double Machine Gun ability to shoot down everyone in the room. Tocino attempts to use his own Nen ability to shield himself, Baise, and Ivlenkov, but Franklin's Nen bullets go right through his Nen people and pierce Tocino, who coughs up a large amount of blood.

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Baise about to be struck by Blinky

Tocino insists that Baise and Ivlenkov leave the building to warn the others. As they burst through the auction room doors, Ivlenkov is struck by Shizuku's Blinky and falls over dead. Baise attempts to keep running away, but Shizuku catches up to her and kills her with Blinky as well. Shizuku joins Feitan and Franklin in the auction room, and she uses Blinky to clean up all of the corpses. One man, still alive on the floor, threatens their families, who he claims will be tracked down by the Mafia Community, and Franklin shoots him until he dies.

Outside, Kurapika and Melody see a bunch of armed men pull up to the auction building, so they call Dalzollene. He instructs them to head to the auction, and when there, Kurapika and Melody tell Dalzollene that it seems like everyone somehow disappeared. Dalzollene tells them to look for any clues that Tocino and Ivlenkov may have tried to leave behind, so Kurapika uses his Dowsing Chain to search the area. It leads him and Melody to a nearby planter, where Kurapika finds a piece of Baise's jewelry covered in blood.

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Owl after clearing out the vault

A group of Mafia Community security finds the vault completely empty at the auction vault. They put a price on the head of the leader of the group who did it, who is currently unknown to them, to the members of the Mafia Community. Kurapika is certain that the only group who could pull off a heist like this is the Phantom Troupe. Kurapika and Melody are instructed to meet with Squala, who arrives in a car to pick them up on the street.


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Uvogin eager to take on the Shadow Beasts

Uvogin tells Chrollo on the phone that the vault was apparently empty when they arrived, and the items had been relocated as if the robbery was expected. Uvogin suspects that there is a Judas among their group. Still, Chrollo is adamant that there isn't, as he can't image what that person would gain from betraying them. Chrollo also thinks their arrival wasn't expected at all, but someone high up in the Mafia Community was being cautious for some reason. Despite not being able to find out where the goods were moved to, Uvogin tells Chrollo that one of the Shadow Beasts, Owl, was tasked with moving all of the items by one of the Ten Dons. Uvogin, eager to fight the Shadow Beasts, asks for permission to take them on, and Chrollo allows it.

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