Chapter 192: Joey and the Ninth Prince × Basho's Discovery
At six in the morning on the tenth day of the voyage, the Ninth Prince and his Personal Guards were all still awake.
Before them sat Smith Lee, a Personal Guard who had regained consciousness, bound to a chair.
Smith Lee slowly opened his eyes. When he saw the Ninth Prince before him, he even stammered slightly.
"P-Prince Halkenburg!"
"What are your affiliation and identification number?" Halkenburg sat opposite him and asked with complete seriousness.
Several Personal Guards dressed in black stood ready nearby, seemingly prepared to subdue Smith Lee at the slightest unusual movement.
Smith Lee's expression stiffened slightly. Quickly grasping the situation, he opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing, because he could not answer!
"It seems he isn't Smith Lee. Then are you Shikaku?" Halkenburg asked again, only this time his tone was certain.
Then he looked up at the others beside him. "Dispose of him. He's no use anymore."
His voice was cold, but it held a trace of sorrow.
Without hesitation, one of the Personal Guards aimed at Smith Lee in the chair-or, more accurately, Shikaku in a different body-and pulled the trigger.
"Smith Lee's sacrifice has paved our way forward, allowing us to understand the effects of the ability more clearly." Halkenburg stood and walked to the whiteboard in the room.
He wrote rapidly on the whiteboard, erasing as he went. "My Nen Beast's ability is the power to unite everyone. That power becomes incomparably powerful armor and arrows. The armor protects us, while the arrows pierce our enemies!
"And my own aura becomes a crossbow and imbues the arrows with will!
"The essence of war is using force to change an enemy nation's system and will, while the essence of combat is using