Chapter 174: Bargaining chip × the Ninth Prince × belly
Knowing that his ability to control living creatures had been exposed, Joey naturally would not keep leaving insects in the princes' bedrooms.
Instead, he had left cameras or listening devices in several important princes' bedrooms.
The eavesdropping ladybug he had previously sent to the Eighth Prince's Room had lost contact. There were two possible explanations: either it had been caught, or it had been affected by the Eighth Prince's Nen Beast.
After all, no one knew whether that creepy thing could affect insects.
But the Eighth Prince's Room was important, because the Eighth Prince was bait.
This was not only because the Eighth Prince and Joey already had some bad blood, but also because the Eighth Prince's Nen Ability was one Joey remembered most clearly.
It was not that he envied the Eighth Prince. It was simply that, starting with the appearance of [Outsider], the Hunter x Hunter manga had officially become something close to an illustrated novel.
There had been lengthy passages of text before, but starting with Foreigner, the sheer amount of text was enough to give anyone accustomed to reading manga a headache.
Still, the battle of wits involving Foreigner had left a deep impression on Joey.
[Outsider]
A Conjuration ability. After the user designated a target and activated Nen, they would begin nurturing a "Foreigner" inside their body.
The more accurate the user's analysis and understanding of the target's ability, the easier it would be to nurture a [Predator] that surpassed that ability-its natural enemy.
Since its power depended on how accurately the user predicted a target's unknown ability, it had little effect against simple attacks such as Enhancement and Emission.
However, Joey felt that this ability should have some effect on his [Weather Report], too.