I'm Really Not A Nen Exorcist (HxH Fanfic)

'The condition for implanting such an ability was likely to inflict damage on the target, in this case, Pitou.'

Pouf's thoughts turned, and he thought of Pitou's foot that had been cut off half a month ago.

'That injury must have been inflicted by this very human.'

'If my guess is correct, then another condition for activating the 'coordinate' ability must be distance!'

With just limited information, this most intelligent of the Royal Guards deduced the possible effects of the ability Moses might have applied to Pitou.

From initially having no sense of direction to suddenly moving with purpose.

The change in this short period of time was the basis for Pouf to deduce that 'distance' was the key condition for activating the coordinate ability.

As for why Moses would take the initiative to find Pitou who was in the nest after obtaining the 'location information'…

Pouf's judgment was:

The intruder believed that Pitou would rush to the Queen's side to protect her when the nest was under attack.

In other words, Moses intended to use Pitou's reaction to locate the Queen.

In an extremely short time, Pouf processed all the information and arrived at the most basic speculation and judgment.

With that, the targeted countermeasures naturally formed in Pouf's mind.

'Then…'

'Let your next reaction prove my speculation.'

Pouf slowly spread his arms, raised his chin slightly, and revealed a slightly intoxicated expression.

Under his control, the clone sent to notify Pitou conveyed the inferred information in the simplest way, and provided a countermeasure.

Pouf wanted Pitou to move in the opposite direction of the Queen's location.

As long as this countermeasure is implemented, it will be possible to determine whether his speculation is true based on Moses's reaction.

If Moses had indeed implanted a coordinate-like ability on Pitou...

Then having Pitou move away from the Queen would not only mislead Moses but also draw him into a pre-prepared trap.

Most importantly...

No matter the outcome of the strategy's execution.

Pouf could adjust his plans at any time based on the surveillance provided by his countless clones.

This,

is an invincible position!

However, compared to Pouf's desire to control the situation, Pitou was more concerned with the Queen's safety.

"I can't move away from her Majesty. It would only make me uneasy."

Pitou rejected Pouf's strategy, turned slightly sideways, and looked at the ground diagonally below, as if her gaze could penetrate the layers of walls and see Moses rushing toward them.

"I'll first restrict his movement, then kill him!"

Pitou stated her plan.

What she said made Pouf, who had integrated more human genes, to feel a hint of displeasure.

However, Pouf had no intention of belittling Pitou, who was nothing in his eyes, nor did he try to change her approach with a commanding tone.

In this race against time, he simply said: "My main body is already guarding her Majesty."

Just this one sentence easily dispelled Pitou's worries.

So, after a brief hesitation, Pitou finally carried out Pouf's plan and headed in a direction away from the Queen.

Pouf's clone watched as Pitou departed, while relying on another clone to keep an eye on Moses's movements.

Just as he had guessed, Pitou's change of direction also caused Moses to alter his path.

'The next step is to deal with the remaining special humans...'

Pouf shifted some of his attention to Morel and the others, who were attacking the nest.

…

Inside the nest's passageway.

Moses moved quickly through the corridor, and soon ran out of it and came to a spacious open area.

'It should take about four more minutes...'

Counting an approximate time in his mind, Moses immediately identified the direction and ran off.

The conclusion drawn by Pouf based on the small amount of information can be said to be both correct and incorrect.

Correct in that-

Moses had indeed implanted an ability on Pitou, and the implantation required inflicting damage as a condition, and the ability would only be triggered, or more precisely, reactivated, within a specific distance.

Pouf's miscalculation stemmed from-

Although he possesses combat wisdom that even Morel would have to admit is inferior to him in the original work, he is unable to conceive of more possibilities due to his limited 'cognitive scope'.

Therefore, in his judgment on this matter, he failed to reserve multiple contingency hypotheses, but rather hastily concluded that Moses had only implanted a positioning ability on Pitou.

However…

Moses's Kyoka Suigetsu does have the 'positioning' characteristic.

That impossibly precise slash he'd delivered to Pitou wasn't merely a demonstration of skill, but also the result of the coordinate-locking effect brought by Kyoka Suigetsu.

This was how Moses had managed to strike the exact same wound twice under those circumstances.

From the perspective of the ability mechanism, the condition for the tendrils implantation of Kyoka Suigetsu is to cause substantial damage to the target, and after which the tendrils would continue to grow using the target's Manifested Aura as nutrients.

In other words, the 'roots' of the tendrils are anchored in the target's wounds.

Based on this premise, once the target's wounds are healed before the ability is activated, the 'roots' of the tendrils would be blocked, causing the Kyoka Suigetsu ability to fail.

In other words, when Pitou used Doctor Blythe to heal her own injuries, she should have blocked the ability and existence of Kyoka Suigetsu.

That's the theory.

However, only by entering Zetsu, which is the limitation set by Moses, can Kyoka Suigetsu be eliminated, which also strangled this logical conclusion in its cradle.

What should have been a troublesome restriction for the user instead demonstrated unexpectedly positive effects.

Such was the profundity of Nen Abilities.

At the same time, due to some inherent mechanisms of the Nen Ability itself, Moses can only ensure the normal growth of the tendrils by keeping a specific distance from it.

If this distance is exceeded, the tendrils will fall into a dormant state.

Thus, when Moses entered the nest, the tendrils on Pitou's body immediately ended its dormant state and restarted the countdown.

'About three minutes left...'

Entering a spacious cavern, Moses roughly estimated the time when Kyoka Suigetsu would be activated.

If all proceeded smoothly, this contingency prepared over half a month ago would become the decisive trump card to strangle the Chimera Ant King in its cradle!

And at this very moment-

Following the guidance of the tendrils, Moses encountered Pitou for the second time within the expansive cavern.

Pitou saw Moses.

And Moses saw the black tendrils creeping upward from Pitou's feet.