If he remembered correctly, this kid was fulfilling a promise between himself and his father: if he wanted to leave this small island, he first had to fish the new King of the Swamp out of the swamp pool.
Of course, Uchiha Hiko believed the kid could do it.
But it was hard to say what stage of growth he had reached by now.
From the way the villagers spoke, Gon clearly was not doing this for the first time.
Just thinking about it left Uchiha Hiko speechless. Why the hell would anyone come up with this kind of training?
Back on Earth, the strongest fighters had all received plenty of guidance at Gon's age. Son Goku had his grandfather, Krillin had the Shaolin Temple, and Tien Shinhan had Tsuru-sen'nin. All of them had martial arts at their command.
Although Uchiha Hiko had once foreseen that six or seven was the ideal age to begin training, little Gon was probably far older than that—already in his teens, perhaps.
And with no one to guide him, he could only figure everything out on his own. It was hard to imagine that, although he would eventually learn some skills from people who were somewhat capable, he would probably still lag far behind the others when it was all tallied up.
Take Killua, who was the same age. If not for the fact that his natural talent was inferior to little Gon's, his martial arts alone would have put him far ahead of Gon.
If Uchiha Hiko ever met Ging Freecss in the future, he would definitely call him a huge idiot.
The man was obsessed with adventuring and exploring the mysteries of the universe, yet he expected his son Gon to grow stronger relying on the tiny bit of connections he had