Chapter 173: Identifying the Assassin × [Outsider]
Of the twenty-six people, those who had already been in the Twelfth Prince's Room could not be the killer.
That quickly eliminated eight people: Joey, Kurapika, and Hisoka, along with the First Prince's Guard Soldiers, the Third Prince's Guard Soldiers, and the Twelfth Prince himself.
Among them, Slaka, one of the Third Prince's Guard Soldiers, was someone Joey was watching closely.
That was because he knew Nen and was also a companion of the Seventh Prince's Guard Soldier who had come to learn Nen.
Through him, Joey intended to observe the Seventh Prince's Guard Soldier.
Or rather, only two people had truly held Joey's attention from beginning to end: the Seventh Prince's Guard Soldier and the Eighth Prince's Guard Soldier.
The former was because he paid more attention to the Seventh Prince, while the latter was the most likely assassin.
"Since we can confirm that the Third and Fourth Princes' Personal Guards don't know Nen, we can eliminate those two as suspects, even if the Fourth Prince's Guard Soldier is a little stupid."
"I understand the Third Prince, but how did you determine that the Fourth Prince's Guard Soldier definitely doesn't know Nen?"
As Joey explained, Kurapika raised his first question.
"Because the Fourth Prince has only just started learning Nen, and the person teaching him isn't one of his Personal Guards, but one of his Guard Soldiers." Joey quickly supplied the answer.
Although that answer involved a certain amount of cheating, that did not change the fact that it was correct.
As for determining that the Fourth Prince's Nen instructor belonged to the Hunter Association, that was easy too. Before coming here, Joey and Kurapika had obtained the list of Hunters the Association had recruited to serve the various princes.
They had