Falsehood and truth

Battles fought with Nen.

Often, they were not straightforward clashes of fists, but contests of information.

And misleading an opponent could be the key to deciding victory or defeat.

Mantis and Baibo had both fallen victim to misinformation.

Their Nen techniques were far from weak, and their Nen abilities were geared toward combat, yet neither had managed to display his true strength in battle.

That was entirely because Moyu had used misinformation to end the fights with extraordinary efficiency.

As a result, neither Mantis nor Baibo had lasted even a minute against Moyu.

That was the nature of battles between Nen abilities.

One second, the opponents might appear evenly matched; the next, a decisive moment could bring the fight to an abrupt end.

Perhaps even as he died, Baibo never realized that Moyu had begun laying his next trap the moment he killed Mantis.

The ordinary, non-conjured long blade, the Shadow Armament covering his body, and every other application of his abilities had all been parts of the trap Moyu laid to secure victory.

In truth, after witnessing Moyu's strength, neither Mantis nor Baibo had underestimated him in battle. One had fought with everything he had, while the other had employed his ability with meticulous calculation.

Unfortunately—

The mental traps Moyu wove were like an enormous spiderweb, leaving them nowhere to escape once they were inevitably drawn into battle.

With Baibo's fall, only Ryan, still locked in fierce combat, remained of the Elimo Thieves Group's three-man team that had come to Mount Aragas in search of the Monka Expeditionary Force's treasure.

No matter how hard this Enhancer racked his brains, he probably could not understand how his teammates Mantis and Baibo had fallen to a young boy so quickly.

Crack!

Ryan snapped a Nen user's neck with his bare hands.