Odin had not stopped Netero because, after thinking back over the events of the story, he had noticed something he had never considered before.
Throughout the Chimera Ant arc, despite the long span of time and the threat of the Chimera Ants, Meruem, and the Three Royal Guards, Netero seemed to have intended to resolve the entire incident with only three people from beginning to end.
As for Knuckle and the others, along with Gon and Killua, they had only joined because they wanted to go.
Even Zeno had only been invited to unleash a Dragon Dive.
There was no way Netero lacked the money to hire Zeno to fight.
Clearly, the reason he had acted that way was that he knew someone had deliberately caused the Chimera Ant incident-and he even knew who that person was.
Who could it be? Such a difficult guess.
Wouldn't you agree, Pariston?
Everyone knew that Netero's son, Beyond, had always wanted to visit the Dark Continent, but Netero had barred him from doing so.
As long as Netero lived, Beyond was absolutely forbidden from going to the Dark Continent.
Yet Beyond desperately wanted to go, so his only option was to deal with Netero.
Beyond could not act himself, so he had others infiltrate the Hunter Association and stir up trouble.
Pariston was one of them, and he was also the one who regularly posed challenges for Netero.
"So that's how you play," Odin said with a sigh.
Yes, that was how they played: staking hundreds of thousands of lives, along with their own, on a game where either your plan failed or I died.
Once again, Odin witnessed just how little ordinary lives mattered in a world of supernatural powers.
It was no different from a world torn apart by war.
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