Chapter 160: Intelligence gathering × Nen Beast changes × Strategy
Cracks appeared across the Many-Legged Snake's body, and it rapidly disintegrated, leaving only ashes that swiftly dispersed into the air.
The entire process was incredibly fast!
Yet the moment it disappeared, the huge hamster-or rather, the Snorlax-like creature-that had been sitting behind the Twelfth Prince turned to look toward the wall.
Joey did not notice this, because as the Many-Legged Snake disappeared, the Wormhole-Type Nen Beast on the ceiling and the few remaining Jellyfish and Musical Note Nen Beasts scattered around began disappearing as though something had provoked them.
Joey hesitated briefly, then recalled Killer Queen and canceled Mirage.
Kurapika, a short distance away, and the six people in the chairs all looked toward him at once.
From their perspective, they had not seen the Many-Legged Snake disappear, because Joey had bent the light in front of all their eyes.
As a result, everything before them had turned into a bizarre scene assembled from entirely different images.
After his battle with Zigg, he had mastered this degree of light refraction to conceal his identity by creating ice crystals and distorting atmospheric density.
The effect seemed good now. From a distance, Joey gave Kurapika a slight nod.
Kurapika put his pistol away. The room had now returned to complete calm, and all the outside Nen Beasts had vanished without a trace.
Only the Twelfth Prince's Nen Beast remained, sitting peacefully behind her.
At the same time, ladybugs flew into the room one after another and landed on Joey's clothes.
Each ladybug was a listening device. Joey had brought those devices inside by transforming them into flying insects and hiding them on his body.
He had sent these ladybugs out earlier, on his way back to the prince's room.
Now that they