Chapter 375 Convincing
Taithon Good morning everyone!
Private guards Good morning, Prince Taithon!
Taithon Don't worry everyone. Love will prevail in the end! No matter the lonely nights, or the longing days, surely they will someday turn into lovely memories! This Is Love! The power of love! From the Taithon Canon, Book of Cana 2:4
Private guards Viva Prince Taithon! Long live Prince Taithon!
Guard guy Izu-san, wasn't that the lyrics from Nishina Cana's song, verbatim?
Izunavi I don't know Nishina Cana <= *Note, it is Togashi's version of Nishino Kana, a Japanese singer
Guard guy Seriously? Wow, you really are hopeless as always, Izu-san. "Darling" is really famous, you know? And "No Matter How" is such a touching song..."
Izunavi Never mind that. What do you think of this guy here and that thing there?
Guard guy Hmm, I don't feel anything bad from it. We're talking about the Nen Beast of a Prince who talks about the importance of love. I'd be surprised if it poses any harm. I wonder if its ability is some kind of Spirit Bomb...
Izunavi Your examples are so obscure
Guard guy No, seriously, you should at least read DB (Ragon Boh)!
Izunavi The hell is that weird abbreviation! ...Spirit Bomb, huh...
Prince Taithon's Guardian Spirit Beast => A heart mark with one large eye. It has four angelic wings and produces little "fairies." Its ability is Emission-type, which scatters and collects. Little eyeball tadpoles attaches itself to people who have received the Taithon Canon. The little Unowns then collect aura from its host in exchange with a feeling of happiness. The degree of happiness depends on how much one reads the Taithon Canon. However, heavy punishment will befall those who break the one single taboo of the Canon.
Prince Camilla's Guardian Spirit Beast => A coercive-type Manipulator. It can freely control a target who fulfils a certain condition.
Prince Tubeppa's Guardian Spirit Beast => A Transmuter. It is a symbiotic-type which needs a pertner ("fellow scientist") to activate its ability. The Beast can internally concoct various chemicals with different effects
Prince Luzurus's Guardian Spirit Beast => A Conjurer which has a semi-coercive Manipulation ability. It conjures the target's wish and entraps them. The ability activates when the target falls into the trap (fulfils his/her wish)
=Unit 1009=
Benjamin's Spy Guard (This is... dangerous! If we don't deal with this quickly it might pose a threat to Prince Benjamin! Individually, their aura is moderate, but the moment the private guards gather at Prince Halkenburg's side their power sharply rose!!)
Halkenburg Now, let us offer our silent prayers to Prince Momoze
An explosive amount of aura burst from among Halkenburg and the private guards around him
Benjamin's Spy Guard (Did their prayer do this...!? No, this is... because all of them acted with the same determination!! It appears to produce enormous aura from synchronization... A joint-type (mutual cooperation-type) with party form (collective behavior form)!!)
Prince Halkenburg's Guardian Spirit Beast =? Enhancer, joint-type. The more people branded with the feather mark gather by the Prince, the higher their individual potential becomes. When the group activates their ability with unity in determination, its power is top-tier, even among all the Nen abilities there are.
Benjamin's Spy Guard (Ho..ly... shit... How dreadful...!!)
Benjamin's Spy Guard, terrified at the overwhelming aura that floods the room, sends a signal to Benjamin with the wireless receiver in his ear
Benjamin's Spy Guard (Prince Benjamin should have noticed this as well!! If we are to kill them... do it now, while they don't even notice their own ability yet!! Please, give me the directive!!)
Benjamin's Spy Guard (But the problem is Prince Halkenburg's Guardian Beast! It seems to have noticed that I am a Nen user, and is constantly on alert... If I try to approach Prince Halkenburg with an obvious killing intent, who knows what counterattack it will unleash...! I predict that it will fire at me with its bristled feathers!)
Benjamin's Spy Guard (Speaking of which, Olsney, Queen Umma's guard who swapped with me, also received the mark from the Guardian Beast, along with the Prince and his private guards, but Olsney's mark disappeared within 10 minutes. From that, I can deduce that the mark does not affect people who are not loyal to Prince Halkenburg, which means that its ability is not a coercive- or semi-coercive-type Manipulation. But Olsney, just like the other private guards, had vague memories about the time he/she received the mark. It is likely that their memories were rewritten by a Manipulation attack. Therefore, I can deduce that even though Prince Halkenburg's Guardian Beast is an Enhancer, it is influenced by Prince Halkenburg's disposition and personality, allowing it to use Manipulation when attaching the marks!)
Benjamin's Spy Guard (If Prince Halkenburg's Guardian Beast possesses the power that, although not quite as powerful as coercive- or semi-coercive-type Manipulation, allows it to delete or overwrite memories, it is also entirely possible that it has a counter-type ability that allows it to fabricate memories more powerfully! It might even be possible for it to use the risk of countering (having to move last) to overwrite my target into "Prince Benjamin!" Upon receiving the counter, I might not even have the self-awareness to doubt my own memories!)
Benjamin's Spy Guard (...No good! Right now it is not advisable to attack Prince Halkenburg. If I did it before I have fully figured out the Guardian Beast's ability, things might take a turn for the worst! I need at least one, no, two more people with me. Someone who can witness and testify as to the nature of Prince Halkenburg's Beast's attack!!
Benjamin This aura... Is it Halkenburg's?
Benjamin's Spy Guard ! Yes! It is a joint-type
Benjamin Can you kill him?
Benjamin's Spy Guard ...No. I need two more people... to secure information. I will explain it to you later...
Benjamin The assassin in 1013, the united power in 1009, and then the trash in 1004. It is getting distracting, huh?
Balsalmico The voyage has just begun. There might be more people like Prince Camilla here who will dig their own graves without us doing anything
Benjamin You are asking me to wait and see? That doesn't suit me...
Balsalmico And yet that would be the prudent thing to do
Private Guard from 1009 Prince, where are you going?
Halkenburg I will try to appeal to Father once more
Private Guard ! But meeting with the King outside of the banquet is prohibited...
Halkenburg If that will disqualify me I can't be any happier!
Private Guard Once the Succession Contest has been set in motion, there is no stopping it. The King has decreed so... If you protest any further you might even get arrested
Halkenburg speaks to his guard in tears
Halkenburg If I sit around here doing nothing while the Contest claims another victim... I might as well be killing them myself...! I can't bear it...!!
Private Guard ...
Benjamin's Spy Guard Prince Halkenburg is going to the King's. I will accompany him, as will three, no, five others
Benjamin/Balsalmico Understood
Halkenburg The rest of you, please perform your duties as usual
Private Guards Yessir!
=1011=
Fugetsu (Awesome! A door opened to Ka-chin's place just as I wished it! Is this my... magic spell!? The door disappeared when I returned, but... Once more! If I wish for it and the door appears again, then my magic is real!!)
Fugetsu (Please, o door that leads to Ka-chin's place. Please appear before me!!)
Fugetsu prays desperately, but nothing happens
Fugetsu (Why...!? Why can't I do it...!?)
1013=
Bisky Hanzo! It's time!
Hanzo ...
Bisky You have balls making me stay up all night! If you tell me that you failed I'll take 10 times the remuneration!
Hanzo I gave the guy his just desserts. But now we are facing a bigger problem...
Bisky ... Indeed, that does sound like Prince Marayam's Guardian Beast's doing...
Hanzo Yeah. Vergei seems to be majorly pissed off, but we are sending Verele to Kurapika's lecture, right? Then we can see if outside the door is a completely different place...
Bisky You're right. If this unit is isolated from the outside world then it is entirely possible that outside the door there might not even be a corridor
Hanzo I fear the worst, that Vergei will panic. He is already forming conspiracy theories about the Hunter Association. I want to calm him down if possible
Vergei We need not send Vereleinte anywhere! We already lost a precious ally because we believed in the sweet promise of some Nen lecture! In the first place, the goal to learn Nen was lost when Barigen was killed
Sevanti You're right...
Vergei The murderer has yet to be caught. To send another person there is like all risk, no return!
Hanzo and Bisky walk into the room
Vergei What do you want?
Bisky We will teach Nen to the workers here
Hanzo I want you to observe and decide whether or not Nen is real
Vergei ...You seem very confident. Are you saying that you can make me acknowledge the existence of Nen?
Bisky Yup
Vergei You know what they call the skill to make people see what's not there? Magic tricks! Illusions! I understand that Nen is a mental technique that allows you to draw out your potential power and exert more strength than usual! But this preposterous superpower that you guys keep talking about has never existed to begin with!!
Bisky reveals her true form
Bisky This is my true form. Even I don't know exactly how this works
Vergei @#&%!
Bisky For many years I kept wishing, and gradually I changed until I arrived at my present form
Vergei ...
Bisky You are not mistaken when you said that the mind affects the body. But Nen is nowhere near as limited as you think
Hanzo (The most effective way to convince is an irrefutable visual proof! I could have shown my clone as well but then I would risk being suspected of Prince Momoze's assassination)
Hanzo Still, this is incredible...
Bisky I can't promise "two weeks for anyone" like Kurapika did, but I can easily increase the physical aptitude of a talented person by a factor of 2 or 3 times within one month
Vergei (U... unbelievable... How could... How could such a beautiful person exist...!!!)
Vergay (That viciously beautiful streamline from the trapezius to the deltoid!! The bulge in her femoral muscles that carries an air of both silence and violence!!)
Vergei ...
Hanzo (Looks like he is too shocked to say anything)
Bisky You can choose which of the workers here we should teach, so can we start ASAP?
Vergei N- No! Nononono! Me! Teach me Nen! Teach me Nen, pl- pronto!
Vergei I- I mean, if you teach me directly it will save you some trouble too, right? Regardless of whether you are telling the truth or not
Bisky It is as you say. Very well, I will change my shift to match with yours, Captain! Then we can kill two birds with one stone by protecting the Queen and the Prince by their side
Vergei ...Yeah... Ah, a-also... We will have Vereleinte go to 1014 as planned! D-don't get me wrong! It's not like I have accepted Nen or I want to check the situation outside or anything! It's just that I need to confirm the truth about Nen! And the movements of the other Princes!
Bisky I understand. Okay, it is a bit early but we might as well go check what's going on outside...
Vergei W-wait! I will follow you to the front door! D-don't get the wrong idea! It's not like I believe Kurapika's story or anything!
Bisky (Yes yes I know -_-)
Vereleinte opens the door and sticks half of his body out
Vergei How is it?
Vereleinte Hmm... Nothing seems to have changed from what the looks of it. It's not like there is an invisible wall either. Should we ask a Hunter from 1014 (a lower Prince's unit) to come up to the door of this room?
Vergei There should be no need for such pointless confirmation? As I thought, Kurapika is full of shit!
Vergei starts walking outside, but Bisky grabs his shoulder
Bisky When a space is sealed by Nen, there are three types of boundaries set between it and the rest of the world. One, exit and entry is impossible. Two, exit and entry is possible. Three, a one-way street. If the appearance outside does not change, it is usually option three. If you go out you most likely can't come back in
Vergei (Wh- what a powerful harmony between her fingers' flexor and protractor muscles!!)
Bisky Hey, you listening to me?
Vergei L-loud and clear! But there is already a flaw in your story! Didn't Vereleinte go out and come back in just fine!!
Bisky When it comes to defining "exit and entrance" with Nen, the most common is "the moment the entire body crosses the boundary"
Vereleinte Captain Vergei
Vergei Hm...?
Vereleinte I will try to confirm once more. May I go?
Vergei ...Very well. Go ahead...! But don't get me wr-
Bisky Shut up Captain. The proof is in the pudding. Seeing is believing
Vereleinte Okay, I have now completely exited the room. Can you see me?
Vergei Yes, just as normal
Vereleinte Well then, let me try returning to the room. I'll go slowly, okay?
The part of Vereleinte's body which crosses the door vanishes
Vergei !!!
Vereleinte How does it look like? Actually, the moment I left the room completely, everyone disappeared into thin air. It seems like the 1013 that I am looking at is no longer the 1013 over there
Vereleinte Hello? Can you hear me~~~? I will return now, okay? I don't think I'll make it back though...
Vergei ...
Bisky Three it is. This is most likely the Nen ability of Prince Marayam's Guardian Beast
Vergei ...Let us... begin immediately. Commence the Nen training for everyone...!!!
===End of Chapter===
Credits to VeraciousCake
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