Every player who had just entered Greed Island received a ring for summoning their Card Book at the starting point.
Under the game's rules, players could not obtain someone else's cards by stealing their ring.
When a player died, their ring and the cards in their Card Book vanished immediately.
In other words, players who wanted to steal someone else's cards had to resort to coercion, whether through threats or inducements.
Sometimes, when they encountered a player who refused to summon their Card Book even under threat of death, their only option was to kill them outright.
After all, they had already made an enemy. In such situations, most Nen users chose to eliminate the threat for good.
Moyu vaguely remembered these basic game rules.
That was why he had wondered before...
A mechanic like this, largely intended to prevent players from slaughtering one another, actually highlighted the advantages of Manipulators.
Normally, controlling a target was as good as getting every card they possessed.
Moyu carefully recalled the Greed Island arc.
Among the players who had appeared, there really seemed to have been no instances of Manipulator abilities being showcased or put to use.
He did not know whether the original author had deliberately avoided that issue or had some other reason...
In Moyu's view, at any rate, players who worked in groups could easily have built their strategy around a Manipulator.
Yet none of Greed Island's players seemed to have adopted that approach.
Now that Moyu was using Kyoka Suigetsu to control Varian, he found the results even better than he had expected.
He made Varian willingly take off his ring and hand it over, then accepted it and put it on his own finger.
"Book."
With the ring on, Moyu issued the command.
Nothing happened.
Doesn't work, huh...