Chapter 190: [Ko · Zanka no Tachi] x Three-Sword Style Great Swordsman
"Wave-Particle Duality": Emphasizes that microscopic particles making up matter possess both "particle" and "wave" properties. Connected to "String Theory," it can be understood as... the most basic unit of all matter is actually segments of "energy strings"...
In other words, this world, and everything encompassed by it, is based on an "entangled state" of "materiality" and "energy," a combination of "virtual" and "real." It can be integer dimensions like "one-dimensional," "two-dimensional," "three-dimensional," or... 1.5... 2.5... 3.5... dimensional rifts sandwiched between these integer dimensions!
And the "Rare Beast"—[Feicha's Parrot], triggered and recorded by the [Magical Beast Encyclopedia], seems to live in these dimensional rifts. Who knows which corner Ging dug up such a rare creature from... Maybe just like Feicha back then, he stumbled into a "dimensional journey" in a daze...
[Note: Feicha's Parrot]
[Aura Output: A (4584144/10,000,000)]
[Potential Aura: S (74154314/100,000,000)]
[Rank: S]
[Racial Nen Ability: Parrot Mimicry (Note: Can instantly imitate opponent's actions through sight and sound)... Comprehension Ability S+]
No wonder... Ging always has to take a hit from his opponent first. Like after Netero's death, when he appeared at the Hunter Association for the chairman election, he was knocked flying by Leorio's uppercut from under the table. Later, teaming up with Pariston to betray Beyond, he imitated Leorio's Nen ability [Remote Punch]...
By condensing a "radar"-like wave in his hand and touching the ground to detect enemy movements while simultaneously condensing directional Nen bullets to blast the opponent... Ging's so-called "Strike Immunity" and "Imitation"...
Very likely all relied on a "Phantom Parrot" suddenly popping out from his shoulder!
Chirp— The parrot cried softly. Its beady eyes swiveled, clearly replicating the Nen bullet Razor fired earlier, then transmitting it to Ging via a "Mental Corridor" constructed by "Nen Connection."
The man adjusted his hood. Looking at Razor, he flicked his finger just the same. A Nen bullet almost identical to Razor's whistled through the air. Razor tilted his head to dodge, and the bullet blasted through the [Black Curtain], exploding outside!
Just from the tremors transmitted through the ground, one could clearly feel the power of the Nen bullet!
"Imitation? Is this your ability?" Razor's sideburns were slightly singed by the overflowing energy of the passing bullet. He narrowed his slitted eyes, a sharp glint escaping from the gap...
Ging stroked [Feicha's Parrot]. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Roy, radiating heat, crossing his blades again to block a punch from Ginta in [Ram-Horned Demon] form!
Bang! Sword wind and fist aura collided and intertwined. As both took a step back simultaneously, a howling wind erupted...
Ging rolled up his sleeves, smiling at Razor. "Let's make this quick. I'm in a hurry."
"Why the rush?" Razor crossed his arms, glancing at [Feicha's Parrot]. The summoning parrot seemed to have discovered something rare, stretching its neck to look towards Roy... A moment later, it flapped its wings and flew high, landing on Roy's head...
A mocking smile curled Razor's lips. "So, even you know... you can't control your own Nen beast."
Ging frowned. Through the "Mental Corridor," he called to [Feicha's Parrot], "Sakura, come back."
The parrot folded its wings, looked back at Ging, pointed its beak down, and chirped softly, "Chirp~"
Roy, locked in combat with Ginta, seeking openings, felt a thought and glanced up in surprise. Following "Sakura," the Golden Crow spread its wings, emerging from Roy's body. Nestling next to [Feicha's Parrot], it poked its head out, curiously examining the other... just as Sakura was examining it...
Ging: "..."
His thoughts fluctuated, instantly receiving the mental voice from [Feicha's Parrot]: "Look what I found, Ging! It's one of my kind!"
"A kin of the same rank as me!"
[Note: Goldie: Three-Legged Golden Crow]
[Rank: S+]
The fat chicken usually lazing on the boy's head turned out to be... a rare beast of the same kind as the one roaming the "Virtual-Real" rift.
Ging looked at Goldie on Roy's head with surprise. Whoosh, another Nen bullet attacked. It was Razor, seizing the brief opening while [Feicha's Parrot] was away, attacking aggressively!
Roy simultaneously unfolded his dual blades, feeling Ginta's fist, wrapped in Ko, smashing down at his face again. For a moment... it ironically seemed like Razor and Ginta were on the same side!
Whoosh! No time to worry about Ging... Wind pressure hit his face, blowing Roy's dark hair back, messing up a few stray feathers on Goldie and Sakura's foreheads. This time, the boy holding the blades exchanged another blow with Ginta!
Somehow, a stream of information suddenly appeared in his mind...
The information unfolded, detailing Ginta's punch just now, from "force generation method" to "force technique," including the Ko wrapped around the opponent's fist, larger than a sandbag...
Every detail was poured into Roy without omission. Notifications immediately surfaced in Roy's ears...
[Notification: "Nen Property Change" +100... +100... +100...]
[Application Technique [Ko] activated...]
[Note: [Ko]: Lv1 (15/100)]
In just an instant, Roy felt his understanding of "Nen" deepen significantly!
"My fire isn't hot enough, my magnetism isn't strong enough. My understanding of the sun has always been superficial, stuck on physical imagination. That's why my Bankai temperature isn't high enough..."
Chirp— [Feicha's Parrot] nuzzled Goldie affectionately, then flapped its wings and flew back to Ging's shoulder. The man punched away a Nen bullet aiming for his face with a fist also wrapped in Ko and shimmering with dark light. He and Razor seemed to sense something simultaneously, stopping their hands and turning to look at the boy, who had lowered his brow and was lost in thought...
Roy had an epiphany. The moment he activated Ko, he looked up at the sky. Two suns fwoosh ignited in his ink-black pupils, echoing the great sun overhead through the [Black Curtain]. The Ren radiating from his body suddenly retracted in this instant, all returning to the newly Conjured training blade in his right hand.
Three swords! Three-Sword Style? Everyone was astonished!
Ginta, transformed into the [Ram-Horned Demon], keenly felt a trace of panic. Looking down at the boy, he saw him holding a sword in each hand and clenching a cane sword in his mouth. What was even more eye-catching was... the one tightly gripped in his right hand suddenly became introverted and silent, turning from black to red, then starting to smoke...
Following the panic, Ginta instinctively felt uneasy. Gritting his teeth, he mustered all his strength, extending his arms, swinging them wide, and clapping his palms together with a sonic boom, aiming at Roy!
Suddenly... a soft murmur: "Bankai."
Then, an extremely thin black line cut through the sound waves, blooming quietly in everyone's vision...
"Overall Control." Elena, monitoring the entire battlefield via "God's Eye View," suddenly felt eye pain. She lowered her head reflexively, and the blue-light glasses on her high nose bridge fell to the ground with a clatter, gathering dust.
"What is that black line?! And that sword!" The black sword, emitting wisps of smoke, reflected in Elena's consciousness. Plain and unremarkable, yet dazzlingly eye-catching... Her emotions fluctuated and trembled. Taking a deep breath, she bent down to pick up her glasses, only then hearing the name of the sword.
Roy swung a casual slash, rolling up temperatures of ten thousand degrees. With the enhancement of Ko, this slash was nearly four thousand degrees hotter than before... It leisurely collided with Ginta's palms, instantly causing him to retract his hands in pain, spraying large amounts of black blood...
Thud thud thud... The Ram-Horned Demon retreated in horror, leaving a crater with every step, shaking the earth...
The boy stood like a pine on a rock, speaking softly to the training blade: "Sorry, it was indeed my fault. I forgot to name you two."
He raised the training blade in his right hand: "You are [Solar Eclipse]."
He glanced down at the cane sword in his mouth: "You are called [Waning Moon]."
The training blade and cane sword trembled, emitting two sharp "sword cries" that pierced the clouds!
Ging and Razor looked at each other. Surprisingly, they didn't attack each other again. They just turned their heads to watch the boy standing silently with his three swords, communing and merging with them. A thought appeared in their minds simultaneously... From today on, among the world's top powerhouses, there should be a place for this boy!
"I know an old man." Ging looked at the boy with burning eyes. "He said he likes to throw a punch of gratitude with great appreciation for martial arts. I think..."
"He must be thinking the same right now."
Reaching the pinnacle, extreme in emotion, extreme in sword... Razor didn't know who the old man Ging mentioned was, but since he had such enlightenment, he certainly wasn't a nobody. Ging: "His name is Netero."
Razor's eyes moved. As expected... Now with a thoughtful look, he watched Roy again. "My teammate's love for the sword might not be inferior to that strongest human..."
Shared glory? Ging smiled, not exposing Razor, and sighed with emotion. "To tell the truth, I think so too."
The man smiled and extended his right hand to Razor. "Welcome aboard."
Razor glanced at him. "Don't flatter yourself. You should know whose face I'm considering."
Smack~ Two large hands shook. Ging chuckled low in his throat, saying nothing...
Hiding in the [Black Curtain], constantly dodging Gotoh, Zari saw this scene, and his heart went cold!
Pew... pew... pew... The [Infinite Pistol] spat Nen bullets, almost forming a "Nen line," constantly chasing and sweeping him...
Zari fled in panic, intending to hold on until Ginta defeated the prison-breaking thief and came to support... seeing Ginta's hands lightly swept by [Zanka no Tachi], instantly shaving off two chunks of flesh... he opened his mouth soundlessly. The words "Request Support" were stuck in his stomach, unable to be shouted out!
Can't cause him trouble... At this time, absolutely cannot cause trouble for Ginta... If his mind is disturbed... he will definitely go mad... and if he goes mad...
As a member of the security team and one of the few who had been with Ginta the longest, Zari was Ginta's trusted close friend. Years ago... he had hunted some "poachers" with him and had the fortune to witness Ginta going mad. Back then... he didn't know what he encountered, only that his head felt heavy, and when he woke up, he had been lying in the hospital for ten full days...
As for those "poachers," they became his "ward mates"... "Vegetable ward mates"!
According to the doctor at the time, they would never wake up, as if... a piece of their brain had been eaten, permanent damage!
"ROAR!" Pain... pain... pain... so painful! The blade light carrying ten thousand degrees of heat acted like an eraser, wiping away a large chunk of flesh from Ginta's hands... Transformed into the [Ram-Horned Demon], he clearly felt the burning and stinging pain erupting like a tide... Ginta's clear yet slightly foolish black-and-white eyes uncontrollably began to turn red... Then he roared at the sky!
Spewing a cloud of black smoke from his mouth...
The substantive whispers of the [Ram-Horned Demon] drilled into every crack along with the black mist...
Everyone, including Ging, Razor, Gotoh, and Elena, felt their minds shake. Their hearts suddenly became irritable, wanting to go crazy, smash things, destroy everything... Their eyes vaguely showed signs of turning "blood red"!
Bang! Just then, Ging punched through the van beside him, shouting sternly, "Don't think nonsense! Guard your minds! This black mist... is negative emotion. It will erode human will, externally destroying the central nervous system. Don't be careless... especially..."
Ging narrowed his eyes at Roy. The gray mist was heavy, thickest where it enveloped the boy...
Under the shadow of Ginta's [Ram-Horned Demon], he looked frail and helpless, like a small boat recklessly venturing into the ocean, ready to be overturned by a wave at any moment...
The eyes facing away from Ging and Razor, in a place they couldn't see, remained bright, even adding some "strange" colors.
"Demon's whispers, trying to use negative emotions to erode the will?"
Roy looked up into Ginta's giant, bright red eyes. Not knowing if this was a method of the opponent's "Nen ability" or a backlash from [Nature] rooted in his body that couldn't be cleared, the corners of his mouth curled up. He actively cooperated with the opponent, letting the black mist pour into his heart, and simply closed his eyes...
Hazily... in Roy's unconscious domain, the black mist drifted and condensed. Looking closely, it took the form of Ginta with ram horns on his head and scarlet eyes... Truly like the [Ram-Horned Demon], only shrunk to normal human size. The moment he entered Roy's unconscious domain, he began to wantonly search for his "Spiritual Core," the origin of all his cognition and... Nen ability...
"Roar!" The ram horns rampaged... The demon possessed him, driving Ginta to lose his reason and search aimlessly...
The unconscious domain has no concept of time or space. Searching for a lifetime is searching; searching for a second is searching. Just like that, gradually... gradually... he found Roy's "Spiritual Core"...
That rising sun, overflowing with sunlight, nourishing all things, yet possessing the thunder and rain... The Sun!
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