Not only her, but her two younger siblings—Marayam and Woble—couldn't escape this fate either.
So, she didn't resist her mother's arrangements at all.
There was no need to. Compared to death, what was this?
She had already accepted it. She was prepared to savor the few remaining moments she had. Her heart was at peace.
But her mother, who doted on Marayam, seemed blind to the reality. She was desperately hiring more guards, hoping to protect him.
Did she real...
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Chain Abilities:
Thumb's Chain: Holy Chain – Healing. Instantly heals the user or others, but drastically reduces defense during the process.
Ring Finger's Chain: Dowsing Chain – Guidance. Tracks targets without limit, detects lies, and follows them unerringly.
Little Finger's Chain: Chain of Judgment – Constraint. Pierces the opponent's heart and binds them to a set of conditions. Violation results in...
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"Why do you say that?"
"They're all learning Nen. Even though I started at the same time as Siper, she developed her ability before me. Hanzo had his figured out ages ago… I'm the slowest."
Kaizen fell silent for a moment.
"Do you know why I arranged things differently for you and Siper?"
"...I don't."
Ponzu shook her head.
"Because your talent surpasses hers."
Kaizen continued, "I want you on my team. Your ability is valuable. With Siper, it was mo...
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A golden fireball blazed in Natsu's hands.
Even from a distance, the heat radiating off it was intense.
"Go!"
Natsu hurled the flame toward the ground.
The fireball struck and exploded instantly, fire spreading in all directions.
The entire area was engulfed in flames.
The twisting vines were incinerated.
Kaizen could almost hear countless wailing voices echoing through the inferno.
Time passed.
The fire finally died down.
A figure s...
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Knowing Ponzu, there was a high probability this young man was a survivor from her village.
As soon as Kaizen realized this, he immediately stopped attacking.
Instead, he signaled for Natsu and Uchiha Sasuke to keep restricting the young man's movement.
Kaizen wanted to get some information out of him first.
"You know Ponzu?"
"You're from her village?"
"What happened there?"
However, the moment Ponzu's name was mentioned, the young man's expression tw...
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The communication between the woman and Gogus was complete.
Kaizen had a thought.
Uchiha Sasuke's figure vanished without a trace.
The three of them—Kaizen, Siper, and Ponzu—made their way down the mountain.
Gogus' team arrived one after another, but only Gogus himself entered the village. The rest of his team set up a small logistics base outside.
Siper, who had just awakened her Nen, was still in an excited state, eager to find a chance to test out her abil...
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Boom!
With a light punch, Sayird was knocked to the ground.
Ronnel had precisely controlled his aura to dislocate Sayird's limbs. His arms and legs collapsed under him as he hit the ground, completely immobilized.
Even so, he still muttered through clenched teeth:
"Because I was free… so he asked me~"
"Looks like I really fell for it this time."
Ronnel watched Sayird's transformation unfold. Beside him, Bill—clearly irritated—called for help ...
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Another guard, Sayird, was about to speak, trying to express the strange unease building inside him, when—
"Excuse me, are you free now?"
"Excuse me, are you free now?"
The puppet bear's voice echoed in his mind like a skipping record.
"I... I'm not free. Just disappear!"
Sayird muttered, face twisted in discomfort.
A chilling thought crossed his mind—he might've triggered someone's ability.
"What's wrong?"
His odd behavior caught the attent...
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Ronnel watched the show with interest, while Kurapika looked stunned—completely taken off guard. The hairs on the backs of the three Association guards stood on end, horror washing over them like a cold wave.
Suddenly, bizarre spirit beasts, grotesque in form and movement, phased straight through the wall and filled the room.
There were at least seven or eight of them. In an instant, the small hall was packed.
It looked just like one of those ghost parade scenes in a horro...
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"How about we set up a rotating shift to monitor him? The extra person can handle auxiliary duties for the Royal Army. According to this plan, let's make our proposal to Mizaistom Nana~"
While several of them were deep in discussion, none noticed the subtle twitch of Beyond's brow as he flipped through his book.
...
On the third tier, in the central medical bay, Cheadle Yorkshire was busy working alongside a medical Hunter.
Also on the third tier, inside the Political ...
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Kaizen quickly turned toward the laptop screen at the sound.
A young girl had appeared in the footage—alive.
The exclamation just now had come from Gogus.
"Finally found a living one."
"I didn't expect any survivors here."
Gogus's excitement was understandable—an actual survivor could reveal what had happened to the village. It was a vital lead for his research.
Ponzu hurried over, staring at the screen.
But the girl's eyes were empty.
Even ...
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Kaizen looked at Ponzu and Siper.
"Good thing I accepted Chairman Netero's commission."
"Good thing I sought out Ponzu and Siper early, too."
"Once Ponzu and Siper fully develop their Nen abilities, my Observer's Will will reach exactly 100% completion—no more, no less."
"It's best to get it all done in one go. If we wait another year, too many things will be delayed..."
"And that would be a huge waste of my time."
Kaizen paused, his eyes darkening slight...
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After Gogus recovered a bit of his strength, he began trying to deal with his own condition.
He pulled out a sharp dagger.
Pfft!
The blade sliced easily through the leaf-like growths on his body.
The cut was close to the skin.
A stream of fluid oozed from the wound.
Red.
It resembled blood, but wasn't quite the same.A mixture of other substances flowed with it.
Gogus leaned in to observe carefully.
"The wound bleeds a mix of paras...
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Kaizen watched as Uchiha Sasuke leapt lightly into the air, moving up the tree trunk as if he were walking on flat ground.
Before long, Sasuke reached the hole in the trunk.
Ponzu's eyes widened sharply.
What the camera showed was shocking — the ground was littered with the corpses of bees, including the queen bee herself. An unusually thick and oppressive aura gathered there, far stronger than anything they'd encountered elsewhere.
As Uchiha Sasuke appeared, the aur...
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Final refueling and inspection of the ship were underway at the sea boundary.
In a warm and theatrical tone, the hostess made her announcement.
"We'll soon be passing through uncharted sea zones before arriving at the New World. Out there, the sky is even more terrifying than the ocean—storms, tornadoes, and violent climate shifts are all common."
"There's also fierce competition among airborne creatures, each fighting for its own territory. Due to the risks of the air rou...
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Kurapika bowed slightly to Queen Oito before stepping out of the room to take the call.
"Ashton? What's going on?"
"I can't help you right now," came Mizaistom's tired and slightly frustrated voice on the other end.
"Right now, I have to focus on the third and fourth floors where most of the civilian passengers are. The rate of incidents is way faster than we anticipated."
"Forgery and smuggling of ferry tickets, robberies, ethnic clashes, drunken brawls—there's no e...
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"That's right, Your Highness! We're doing this from the bottom of our hearts!"
Seeing Ronnel approaching step by step, the group began to panic.
They didn't know exactly what those capsule tubes were, but in a situation like this, anything pulled out by a guy like him couldn't be anything good.
So they scrambled to declare their loyalty, showering Queen Oito with desperate vows and panicked flattery.
But...
Queen Oito didn't react at all. She simply stared at the...
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"No, no!"
The group quickly refused in unison, shaking their heads like rattles.
"If such an order were given, even the Queen could end up in prison!"
"Prison?"
"Just because the succession war has started doesn't mean it's a free-for-all with no legal consequences," Ronnel explained to the slightly puzzled Kurapika.
"Didn't the Kakin Empire officially sanction the succession war?" one of the three Hunter Association specialists asked.
Ronnel nodded. "They ...
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"Gogus-san, don't worry. Those things won't run away. Before anything else, we need to understand exactly what they are. That's important," Kaizen said calmly.
"After all, my friend's grandma is still there."
"I heard you mention bugs?" Gogus asked, eyeing Kaizen carefully.
Kaizen met his gaze without backing down.
The situation was delicate. Kaizen and the others didn't have a clear grasp of what was happening in the village. Charging in blindly wasn't an option — t...
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Ponzu's voice came through the phone.
But in front of them, the old woman lying there was clearly dead.
Kaizen quickly gave Sasuke Uchiha a command.
"Check if she's still alive."
Uchiha Sasuke stepped forward. A faint flow of aura extended from his hand and swept over the old woman.
The next moment, Sasuke turned to the wireless camera and shook his head.
She was dead.
In other words, Ponzu's grandmother was already gone.
So who—or what—was ...
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"If you stay sick long enough, you eventually die."
"So the villagers locked the little girl away in a separate log cabin."
"But over time, as she grew up, the infection spread more easily. Eventually, no one dared to go near the cabin. I don't even know if that girl's still alive."
"There are still a few people left in the village. Plant-like things have started growing out of their bodies, like tree leaves. Normally, it doesn't bother them, but if they get close to a fire,...
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The three — Hanzo, Siper, and Ponzu — were all stunned when they saw the scene unfold.
None of them saw where Kaizen had gotten the laptop from.
It was as if it had just appeared out of thin air.
Kaizen didn't explain.
After they developed their abilities, they would naturally understand.
He opened his email.
"A killer organization called Dark Night is preparing to assassinate a nobleman named Karoo," the message read.
"Tucker's mission is to prot...
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Gulu~
Faced with the black barrel of a pistol, the seven guards collectively swallowed hard.
They looked at each other, silent, before finally raising their hands in unison, understanding the situation perfectly.
One of them, still unwilling to give in, asked with a defiant tone:
"What proof do you have that your chains are legit?!"
"You can always try them out~"
Kurapika's calm, steady gaze shut the man right up. He broke into a cold sweat and sto...
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In a situation under third-party surveillance, an ordinary assassination is nearly impossible.
But not if the assassin is someone who has mastered Nen.
Especially now, with every prince having undergone the egg-in-the-pot ceremony and possessing a guardian spirit beast, the complexity has skyrocketed.
"Even with all that," Kurapika thought, "there are still plenty of loopholes to exploit. Once Nen is in play, anything's possible."
What they lacked was intel—accurate,...
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He had half a mind to evacuate after two months of eating and drinking on the Black Whale and fantasizing about the so-called "New Continent."
Dragging himself to the meeting like this—he felt dazed, annoyed, and not the least bit excited.
The smile on his face felt forced, a little fake, and full of reluctance. Ronnel could tell.
While the other princes waved to the masses with gentlemanly smiles...
"No matter what, I'm the one who'll profit in the end!"
"Stup...
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Although the Queens were all theoretically equal, she knew that wasn't the case in reality.
Just like in ancient China—where there were head wives, common wives, concubines, and so on—the Kakin Empire, despite advertising fairness, still operated within a strict hierarchy.
There was only one queen. Everyone else was just a Queen, and even among Queens, there was a pecking order.
As the lowest-ranking Queen, she was surrounded by countless spies planted by higher-ranked r...
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Hanzo stared at the postscript explaining Nen to him, looking a bit puzzled.
A guy who failed the Hunter Exam was now teaching him—a guy who passed?
Could this Nen really be that powerful?
Is this why Kaizen and the others are so strong?
Even Alita, who barely made her presence known, was shockingly strong.
Hanzo already thought Hisoka, Kaizen, and Illumi were all stronger than him. Still, this... was something else entirely.
"Alright, I...
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Kaizen wasn't exactly satisfied with the results—but he wasn't completely disappointed either.
Ponzu's potential could reach a B-grade overall, which honestly surprised Kaizen a little.
But if her postscript rating was only C-grade, then it felt a bit underwhelming.
After all, Sally was already a C-grade Nen user.
That meant, even if Siper worked extremely hard and reached the same level, she'd still only be on par with Sally.
Unless... there was something uniq...
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Ponzu and Siper exchanged glances and nodded in unison.
"I understand."
"Alright, then I'll help you open your Aura Nodes now."
Kaizen sat cross-legged across from them, his presence calm and focused.
One tall, one short—Siper and Ponzu sat before him in simple, white practice clothes better suited for training. Despite the matching outfits, their auras couldn't be more different.
Ponzu was petite and reserved. Siper, with a more solid and powerful frame, exude...
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After I finished speaking, I took off my coat.
On the surface, Zebro looked like a harmless old man—but the moment he removed his coat, Gon, Leorio, and Kurapika could clearly see the solid muscle layered beneath his clothes.
Zebro raised one hand and pressed it against the door.
In the next instant, all his strength was channeled into his arm.
Crack!
The massive door creaked open, just a sliver at first.
Then that sliver widened.
Zebro cal...
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