Intuition X Copy

Hissss-

Such an astonishing sight.

Gon and the other two, who had witnessed it firsthand, all gasped in shock.

Leorio in particular rubbed his eyes hard, thinking Baishi had performed some kind of magic trick. He reached into the round hole and felt around, sensing how smooth the inside was. Then he jabbed forcefully at the ground beside it, grimacing before a look of shock crossed his face.

"If that hit someone, wouldn't it punch a bloody hole right through them?!"

"Only [Nen] can withstand damage from [Nen]." Baishi looked at Gon and said with a smile, "Well? Do you understand now why Hisoka is so strong?"

"Yeah..." Gon instinctively started to nod, but abruptly changed course. "Hey... Mr. Baishi, you still haven't explained [Ten] clearly."

"..."

Seeing that the weighting task hadn't been marked complete, Baishi raised an eyebrow and vigorously rubbed Gon's spiky hair. Smiling through clenched teeth, he said, "Just call me Baishi... I haven't earned the title of mister."

"Put it this way: the foundation of [Nen] is [Aura], and [Aura] is formed by combining and transforming willpower and life energy. The basic technique of wrapping and binding [Aura] around yourself to keep it from leaking away is called [Ten]!"

"And while using [Ten], Nen users can constantly use [Aura] to nourish and strengthen their bodies! So... against ordinary people like you who haven't awakened, even Hisoka's physical body alone is far stronger than yours!!"

"Now... do you understand?!"

Gulp!

Feeling the five fingers on his head slowly tightening, Gon swallowed and hurriedly nodded. "I understand! I really understand this time!"

Ding!

[Temporary Weighting Task complete!]

[Restriction - Forced Equivalence: Advent Emulation x1 (blue)]

Oh?

A [blue]-grade Advent Emulation...

So far, the only Advent Emulation grades that had appeared were [blue] and [purple]. Were those the only grades?

The question surfaced in Baishi's mind, but before he could give it much thought, a familiar stream of cold information poured out of the wheel in his consciousness, projecting a stone panel on which lines of mechanical text appeared.

[Note: Advent Emulation Analysis permissions have been forcibly subject to Restriction by world rules. Forcibly retrieving remaining information... error, error... forced localization...]

[Ding! Advent Emulation grades are classified as white, green, blue, purple, gold, red... according to talent... aptitude... Nen Abilities and other qualifications and powers that set one apart from ordinary people...]

[Note: Advent Emulation Talisman uses obtained... contact with or possession of the target's bodily tissue is required... in-depth Analysis of the relevant Advent Emulation grades is available...]

[Ding! You are touching Gon, a person of extremely high weighting in this world. Perform Analysis?]

Hmm~~~

Baishi glanced at his right hand resting on Gon's head. His expression remained unchanged, but a flicker of interest passed through his eyes as he chose Analysis without hesitation!

Ding!

[Analysis subject: Gon Freecss]

[Nen category: Enhancement (unawakened)]

[Nen Ability: unknown]

[Talents analyzed: Exceptional Physique (green), Wild Instinct (blue), Pure Resilience (blue), Dynamic Copy (blue), Enhancement Vessel (purple)]

[Exceptional Physique (green): possesses basic physical abilities far beyond those of ordinary people, including outstanding endurance, physical recovery speed, and motor skills...]

[Wild Instinct (blue): possesses beastlike comprehensive perception of dangers, malice, and advanced disguises in natural environments, with a high probability of triggering an instinctive warning...]

[Pure Resilience (blue): mental traits are tenacious and extremely difficult to destroy. When enduring immense pain or pressure, or facing an absolute disadvantage, willpower never collapses, and basic movement and thought can always be maintained...]

[Dynamic Copy (blue): can quickly observe, instinctively analyze and reproduce physical movements and techniques for exerting force, and put what is learned to use...]

[Advent Emulation uses: 1 blue]

[Note: higher-grade Advent Emulation uses can directly emulate talents and abilities of the same grade or any grade below it...]

[Note: due to forced restrictions imposed by the world, the Advent Emulation grade does not match. Unable to analyze Enhancement Vessel (purple)...]

Hm?!

Baishi frowned slightly.

Although none of Gon's talents were [gold] grade or above, the talents that had been analyzed were enough to show just how outstanding his aptitude was. And wasn't this apparently still the very beginning of the story?

Tsk, tsk, tsk! He could only say that Gon truly deserved to be one of the protagonists.

What a pity...

Glancing at [Enhancement Vessel (purple)], whose information couldn't be analyzed, Baishi couldn't help thinking it was a shame. He didn't need to guess to know that the aptitude Gon displayed in the original story had to be related to it.

Unfortunately, all he currently had was a blue Advent Emulation.

Damn world rules. It's just an ordinary cheat, and they still had to force restrictions onto it! Seriously, damn it... I'll have to find a way to get higher-equivalence Advent Emulation uses later...

"Are you okay, Mr. Bai... Baishi!"

Gon casually pushed Baishi's hand away and looked at him with some concern after he suddenly fell silent.

"I... I'm fine."

Coming back to his senses, Baishi shook his head slightly. His thoughts swept over Gon's Analysis information as it gradually disappeared from the stone panel in his consciousness. Clearly... just as the earlier notice had said, Analysis could only continue while he was touching or holding some of the other person's bodily tissue.

He only had one Advent Emulation use, and naturally, he wanted to get the most out of it. So, after hesitating for a moment, Baishi didn't choose to use it immediately.

"Could you give me a hair?"

Recalling the information on Gon's [Wild Instinct], Baishi hesitated, then looked at Gon and Kurapika with a rather "sincere" gaze and smiled. "In exchange, I can give you a little low-level information. Hmm... on the condition that only the two of you can ask questions."

Hair? x2

Kurapika gave Baishi a puzzled look, but immediately agreed when he heard that information was being offered in exchange.

Gon's response was even more direct. As though he had taken quite a liking to Baishi, he pulled out a finger-length black hair without hesitation and held it out. "Here you go..."

"Kurapika!"

"Gon!!"

Two very different voices called out at once to stop them.

"..." Kurapika remained calm and didn't stop holding out his hair.

To him, Baishi, who possessed so much information, was undoubtedly very important. If Baishi even had information about that matter, what was one hair worth?

"It's fine..." Seeing Leorio speak up to warn him, Gon grinned and shook his head. Then he turned toward Killua, who had suddenly appeared from the crowd, and immediately brightened.

"Killua! I'm so glad you're okay!"

Uh...

The unexpected words of concern left Killua, who had wanted to stop Gon, momentarily blank. By the time he recovered, Baishi had long since slipped the hair into his breast pocket with a smile. But Killua's mind was now filled with deep remorse and guilt, so he paid it no attention.

"I'm sorry, Gon. In the wetlands, I..."

Pat, pat, pat!

"The important thing is that you're okay!" Gon patted Killua on the shoulder and grinned, then pointed at Baishi and whispered, "Mr. Baishi is a really amazing information broker. He seems to know everything we want to know! He's really amazing..."

"But he doesn't seem to like being called mister, so watch out for that later. Don't, um... scare him off."

"Me... scare him off?" Killua raised a hand to compare his height with Baishi, who was at least 1.8 meters tall, and was rendered speechless. Then he sized Baishi up and down and asked suspiciously, "Hey! Is that [Nen] thing you were talking about real?"

"I've never heard of it in the assassination-ahem... underground black markets or online black markets."

"..."

Having confirmed that Gon's hair could also trigger the Analysis information, Baishi nodded to himself in satisfaction. He wasn't angry when he heard Killua's doubts, either. Smiling, he said, "I refuse to answer a rude brat's questions..."

With that, as veins bulged on Killua's forehead, Baishi suddenly turned around, ignoring whatever Killua said next, and focused on Kurapika, whose gaze was growing increasingly intense.

"It's your turn... you have one free question left. Are you sure you want to ask for information about [Nen]?"

Pop...

Veins bulged on Leorio's face.

"Shouldn't the three questions be one for each of us?"

"Why are you just ignoring me?!"

"Oh, is that so?"

Baishi turned his head, his gaze becoming utterly calm.