"Oh?"
Ye Chuan could clearly see that the king's Nen seemed to be undergoing subtle yet profoundly important changes because of this game, because of that blind girl's presence.
That utterly pure, savage will seemed to have been infused with a trace of an impurity called humanity.
And precisely because of this, the king's Nen was no longer quite so pure.
But it had become harder to predict, and more complete.
In his mind, Ye Chuan compared him to a perfect life-form from another world, likewise constructed from countless genes.
The Chimera Ant King Meruem, and Perfect Cell...
Cell had inherited the cells of all the Z Fighters, and his potential and capacity for growth might even have surpassed Meruem's.
But his heart was riddled with fatal flaws born of the desire for destruction instilled in him after his creation.
And Meruem, here before him...
Ye Chuan watched the king, who had sunk into deep thought over a mistaken move.
He was a blank slate.
A blank slate learning, thinking, and defining his very existence through his games with that blind girl.
"How interesting."
Ye Chuan decided not to disturb the king until he finished enjoying the last game of his life.
He did not choose to barge in immediately.
Instead, he sat quietly cross-legged outside the Throne Room.
Just then, Chairman Isaac Netero and the other members of the Chimera Ant extermination team, including Morel Mackernasey and Knov, finally arrived, late to the scene.
They looked at the king inside the throne chamber, quietly playing a board game with a blind human girl.
Then they looked at Ye Chuan outside, sitting quietly cross-legged with his eyes closed, looking as though he were merely waiting for a friend to get off work.
And at Shaiapouf, who had suffered a complete