Chapter 131: Gambit × Ruthlessness × Support
This was clearly Ed's move, but with enough Nen and some understanding of Enhancement and Emission abilities, releasing this kind of shock wave by clapping one's hands together was not particularly difficult.
But Gerat's use of this ability suggested another possibility to Joey about how Gerat had killed Ed earlier.
Could Gerat's abilities also include stealing his opponent's abilities?
No, if he held firm to the conclusion that Gerat's abilities were Conjuration and Manipulation, then Gerat should have some means of gaining control over someone else's abilities.
In other words, Gerat could now control the abilities of Ed, whom he had already killed!
Then what conditions did he have to meet to accomplish that?
As the severed hand and Heartbreaker Attack's Chariot were sent flying by the shock wave, Joey's gaze had already swept over Ed's corpse.
In that short time, the corpse had rapidly shriveled into something like an old, desiccated body, as though all the moisture inside had been drained away!
Blood!
Did Gerat gain the ability to control a victim's abilities by manipulating their blood after killing them?
Very likely!
After all, the easiest detail for Joey to overlook when Gerat killed Ed was the blood that would inevitably have coated Gerat's fist when he pulled it out.
But did Gerat think Ed's ability alone could deliver a killing blow to him? Joey frowned.
There had to be something else he had overlooked: combined with Gerat's own ability, Ed's ability should produce an effect sufficient to secure victory.
Joey's gaze fell to the stump where Ed's powerful blow had broken his hand, which he had then torn off himself.
Blood, manipulation!
Looking at the bloody mess of his stump, Joey felt a tingling numbness from the wound, along with thin