Triton shot him a pleading look.
The two people behind him were the only glimmers of hope he had left.
Kite, the disciple of Ging, the Boar.
Shoto, the disciple of Morel, the Monkey.
If even they couldn't defeat the enormous spherical monster before them, Triton had no chance at all.
Kite pressed down on his blue cap to stop the sea breeze from blowing it off his head and revealing his silver-white hair.
Ignoring the urgency in Triton's eyes, he calmly turned to Shoto beside him.
"If I remember correctly, this should be the Guardian Spirit Beast of Salé-salé, the late eighth prince of the Kakin Royal Family."
Less than half an hour after BW1 set sail, murders had begun to occur one after another.
In less than two weeks, two Kakin princes had died. One of them was the eighth prince.
The pleasure-loving eighth prince had awakened his Guardian Spirit Beast while he was still alive.
But since he couldn't use Nen, he had never noticed it.
Guardian Spirit Beasts were monsters created by the Egg in the Pot Ritual, a tradition passed down through generations of the Kakin Royal Family.
Only those who took part in the Succession War and offered at least a drop of blood to the Pot of Poisons could create a Guardian Spirit Beast.
Guardian Spirit Beasts were similar to Nen Beasts, but they were also different.
They didn't attack one another, nor would they attack anyone who had a Guardian Spirit Beast. They would even defy a host who wanted to kill himself and stop him from dying.
In other words, just as their name suggested, Guardian Spirit Beasts were monsters that would protect their princes at any cost, each possessing all kinds of strange protective abilities.
The eighth prince's Guardian Spirit