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I think Borksen’s eventual ability could be something designed specifically to interact with Morena’s Contagion.

Morena said she needs a Specialist for a particular purpose, which makes me think she isn't simply looking for another powerful fighter. She may want an ability capable of improving something that Contagion itself cannot do.

My theory is that leveling through Contagion increases a member’s aura reserves and output, with Level 100 bringing them to the limit of their natural potential in those areas.

But that doesn't necessarily mean they would also have the Nen proficiency of someone who spent decades mastering Nen. They could have enormous reserves and output while still lacking the technical mastery needed to use that power efficiently.

That could be the gap Morena wants Borksen to fill.

Ability: Perfect Partner <> Symbiotic Evolution

Type: Specialist

• Borksen chooses one Nen user to become her partner.
• Both Borksen and the target must willingly agree on one specific way the partner’s Nen ability will be strengthened.
• Borksen can only have one partner at a time. She cannot use the ability on herself or choose another partner while the current one is alive. Only when that partner dies can she use the ability again on someone else.
• The enhancement lasts for as long as Borksen remains alive. If Borksen dies, the boost immediately disappears and the partner’s ability returns to its original state.

With restrictions that severe, the boost could be incredibly powerful.

Why Morena wants it

Morena would choose herself as Borksen’s partner and have her permanently modify Contagion.

The improvement would be simple:

Every level now increases Nen proficiency alongside aura reserves and output.

So while normal Contagion might bring someone at Level 100 to the maximum aura reserves and output their natural potential allows, the upgraded version would also push their Nen proficiency toward its maximum possible level.

At Level 100, they wouldn't just have the aura of a fully developed Nen user. They would have reached Ultimate-level proficiency as well.

That would be terrifying.

Morena could take ordinary people with almost no Nen experience and, through enough kills, accelerate not only decades of aura growth but potentially decades of Nen training too.

It would also explain why she specifically needs a Specialist. Borksen doesn't need to develop some unrelated broken ability, Morena may already know exactly what Contagion is missing and wants Borksen to complete it.

The Succession Contest supposedly requires a single surviving prince, but that may not mean every other prince must permanently disappear. Several Nen abilities and unusual circumstances could allow princes to die, become ineligible, or otherwise leave the contest while still surviving in some form after the ritual concludes.

Kacho

Kacho is already the clearest example. The real Kacho died during the escape attempt, which removed her from the Succession Contest. However, her Guardian Spirit Beast remained behind, copied her appearance and memories, and continued protecting Fugetsu.

From the ritual’s perspective, Kacho is dead. Yet from Fugetsu’s perspective, Kacho is still beside her and behaves almost exactly like the original. This establishes that a prince can be eliminated without completely disappearing from the story. If Fugetsu wins, she could remain with Kacho even though the ritual only recognizes one surviving prince.

Benjamin

Benjamin may soon become another version of the same loophole.His Guardian Spirit Beast appears capable of activating after his death, merging with his Nen and choosing someone from his bloodline as its new host. The most likely candidate would be his secret child.

We do not know whether Benjamin himself would remain conscious inside the beast. It might only preserve his aura and intentions rather than his full personality. Still, it creates the possibility that some version of Benjamin could continue existing after his death.

Like Kacho, Benjamin could be considered dead and ineligible while his Nen remains active through someone else.

Woble

Woble’s survival depends on the fact that the real Woble was swapped before the voyage ceremony. If the real Woble never participated in the departure ceremony, then he would never have been recognized as an eligible contestant in the Succession Contest. 

That means the real Woble could remain safely on the mainland throughout the entire contest. He would not need to win, escape, or exploit a Nen ability because, from the ritual’s perspective, he was never a participant in the first place.

Halkenburg

Halkenburg creates the strangest problem because his ability separates a prince’s body from their soul.His original body may die, while his consciousness continues living inside another person. But what happens if the person he possesses is also a prince?

Imagine Halkenburg taking control of Fugetsu and Fugetsu eventually becoming the final eligible contestant. Would the ritual see one surviving prince because only Fugetsu’s body remains? Or would it somehow recognize that Halkenburg’s soul is also inside her and still competing? If the ritual considers them one prince then Halkenburg could also be around even after the ritual end.

Camilla

Camilla could potentially survive through timing. Her ability activates after her death, kills her attacker and uses their life to revive her. That means there is a brief period in which Camilla is genuinely dead before she returns.

What would happen if Camilla were the second-to-last eligible prince and her death caused the ritual to recognize someone else as the winner? The ritual might conclude, declare the remaining prince victorious and transfer its accumulated power. Camilla’s ability could then finish activating and resurrect her after the Succession Contest had already ended.

She might return without her Guardian Spirit Beast and without any right to the throne, since the contest would already have a winner. Camilla would technically lose through death but still survive afterward.This would require extremely precise timing, and the ritual may not declare a winner immediately. Camilla’s resurrection would also fail if her killer could not be targeted by her ability. Still, the possibility exists.

The Six-Survivor Scenario

Under exactly the right circumstances, the Succession Contest could end with one official survivor while six princes remained in some form.

• Fugetsu could become the declared winner while Halkenburg’s soul lived inside her body.
• Kacho could continue existing beside Fugetsu as her Guardian Spirit Beast.
• Benjamin could survive through his post-mortem beast after it attached itself to his child.
• The real Woble could be safely hidden on the mainland and disconnected from the ritual.
• Finally, Camilla could die just before Fugetsu was declared the winner, only to resurrect after the ritual had already concluded.

The ritual would technically end with only one surviving contestant, but six princes would still exist in one form or another.

I would honestly like an ending like this. I still want the Succession War to be bloody and for its deaths to have serious consequences, but several princes have enough potential to remain relevant after this arc.

This could be Togashi’s way of having his cake and eating it too: the ritual succeeds, only one prince wins, but resurrection, possession, substitution and post-mortem Nen allow several of the others to survive.

Prince Tserriednich only awakened his Hatsu recently and the manga hasn't spelled out the internals yet, so this is my working theory on how the three moving parts actually fit together mechanically.

**Ability: Parallel Future

Type: Specialization**

Description: The ability is really three sub-abilities firing as one package, powered by a Conjured Nen beast that slowly stockpiles aura over time like a battery.

1.Precognition: He sees exactly 10 seconds into the future, but the vision isn't from his own eyes, it's fed to him from the Nen beast's perspective.

2.Clone: A conjured double is superimposed on his current position and plays out the vision he just saw, beat for beat.

3.Intangibility: His real body goes intangible and invisible at the same instant.

How it activates:

The whole sequence is gated behind Zetsu. He drops into Zetsu and shuts his eyes, and all three abilities trigger together in a single instant.

Duration and the beast-reserve limiter:

The base window is 10 seconds. He can stretch it by simply staying in Zetsu with his eyes closed, the vision refreshes, the clone keeps performing, he stays intangible. But this isn't free: every second draws down the Nen beast's stored aura, and that pool is finite.

Reserve cap: ~10 minutes of continuous activation before the beast runs dry.

Staggered shutdown (Zetsu broken / eyes opened/ reserve limit reached): The instant he drops Zetsu or opens his eyes, the precognition cuts off immediately, no more incoming vision. But the clone and his intangibility don't drop with it; the beast keeps the clone running and keeps him intangible for another 10 seconds before everything shuts off. The same happens when he runs out of aura.

Recharge: once depleted, he has to drop out of Zetsu and let the beast passively refill, which takes roughly 10 hours to top back up to a full 10-minute charge. He can use the ability before the beast is fully charged, though, he just gets a shorter window before it runs dry.

Restrictions:

1.Requires the beast to have banked aura beforehand, no aura, no activation.

2.The clone can only replay what was already shown in the vision; it's not independently reactive to anything that deviates from that 10-second window.

3.Intangibility only applies to the real body, the clone is fully tangible/visible, since it's the thing standing in for him. Intangibility means he can't interact with anything; he can only change position.

4.He must stay at a certain distance from the clone and nen beast.

As you can see, I disagree with the view that he creates an illusion or hypnosis, I think he conjures an actual clone of himself. This could be checked, for example, by looking at where the bullets that were shot at him ended up. If he were an illusion, you'd expect the bullets to hit the wall behind him. But if he's a clone, the bullets would end up where the clone fell to the ground.

What makes this ability impressive to me isn't the precognition, we've seen future sight before, it's the intangibility. That part feels like the truly unique piece of the ability.

Prince Tserriednich only awakened his Hatsu recently and the manga hasn't spelled out the internals yet, so this is my working theory on how the three moving parts actually fit together mechanically.

Ability: Parallel Future

Type: Specialization

Description: The ability is really three sub-abilities firing as one package, powered by a Conjured Nen beast that slowly stockpiles aura over time like a battery.

1.Precognition: He sees exactly 10 seconds into the future, but the vision isn't from his own eyes, it's fed to him from the Nen beast's perspective.

2.Clone: A conjured double is superimposed on his current position and plays out the vision he just saw, beat for beat.

3.Intangibility: His real body goes intangible and invisible at the same instant.

How it activates:

The whole sequence is gated behind Zetsu. He drops into Zetsu and shuts his eyes, and all three abilities trigger together in a single instant.

Duration and the beast-reserve limiter:

The base window is 10 seconds. He can stretch it by simply staying in Zetsu with his eyes closed, the vision refreshes, the clone keeps performing, he stays intangible. But this isn't free: every second draws down the Nen beast's stored aura, and that pool is finite.

Reserve cap: ~10 minutes of continuous activation before the beast runs dry.

Staggered shutdown (Zetsu broken / eyes opened/ reserve limit reached): The instant he drops Zetsu or opens his eyes, the precognition cuts off immediately, no more incoming vision. But the clone and his intangibility don't drop with it; the beast keeps the clone running and keeps him intangible for another 10 seconds before everything shuts off. The same happens when he runs out of aura.

Recharge: once depleted, he has to drop out of Zetsu and let the beast passively refill, which takes roughly 10 hours to top back up to a full 10-minute charge. He can use the ability before the beast is fully charged, though, he just gets a shorter window before it runs dry.

Restrictions:

1.Requires the beast to have banked aura beforehand, no aura, no activation.

2.The clone can only replay what was already shown in the vision; it's not independently reactive to anything that deviates from that 10-second window.

3.Intangibility only applies to the real body, the clone is fully tangible/visible, since it's the thing standing in for him. Intangibility means he can't interact with anything; he can only change position.

4.He must stay at a certain distance from the clone and nen beast.

As you can see, I disagree with the view that he creates an illusion or hypnosis, I think he conjures an actual clone of himself. This could be checked, for example, by looking at where the bullets that were shot at him ended up. If he were an illusion, you'd expect the bullets to hit the wall behind him. But if he's a clone, the bullets would end up where the clone fell to the ground.

What makes this ability impressive to me isn't the precognition, we've seen future sight before, it's the intangibility. That part feels like the truly unique piece of the ability.

Pyon is multilingual and, judging by her professions as a linguist and interpreter, proficient in both ancient and modern languages. She also demonstrates her skill as a programmer by developing language analysis software.

Ability: "Mother Tongue"

Type: Manipulation

Description: Pyon has the ability to give individuals or groups commands. Once a command is given, the target will immediately comply under the effects of manipulation, but only if the target does not understand the language in which the command is given. If the target does understand the command, then Pyon herself becomes the one forced to comply, under the effects of self-manipulation.

Restrictions:

1.She can only use a command in a given language on a target once, after that, the target becomes immune to that specific language.

2. The more resistance the target has to fulfilling the command, the more times it must be repeated, each time in a different language, to take effect.

3. Pyon has no resistance to her own commands, no matter what they are.

4. The longer the command, the more resistance it generates in the target, so the more it must be repeated. Commands of one word are the most effective.

5. Can only be used on creatures capable of spoken language.

6. When used on multiple targets simultaneously, the command treats the group as a single individual, so all the usual rules apply. If even one member of the group understands the command, it rebounds onto Pyon, and the entire group remains unaffected.

Examples of useful comands

Sit, Sleep, Lay down, Use Zetsu, Explain your ability, Stop, Kill yourself, Leave, Explain, Confess, Freeze.

As you might expect, commands like kill yourself generate the highest resistance, meaning they may need to be repeated dozens of times or more depending on the target's willpower, each repetition in a different language before taking affect. If the target understands any of the languages used, Pyon herself becomes the one forced to comply instead.

Everyone repeats that Nanika can grant literally anything, no ceiling. But when you list out what's actually been wished for on-page, it's... not much. A servant asked to be a billionaire and cash fell out of the sky from a hijacked cargo ship. Illumi got teleported across a continent. Milluki used a wish to get a new computer, and once to have someone killed. And the "biggest" wish ever granted was Nanika undoing Gon's contract and healing his body, which is huge, but he was never confirmed dead, just basically destroyed.

That's it. That's the whole track record. Nobody has ever asked for anything cosmic, so would "destroy the sun" even register as a valid wish, or would it just... not go through.

There's another clue worth considering: to heal or exorcise, she needs to physically touch the target. But for killing, she routes it through her own separate fail-request consequence instead of killing the target directly. That's not nothing. It suggests Nanika might be more limited, mechanically, than the "infinite wish granting" reputation implies.

So genuinely curious what people think happens if someone actually pushes it, stop time, revive someone who's actually dead and buried, make someone a god. Does it just fail silently? Does the backlash get apocalyptic instead?

My theory is that Ai does not possess unlimited reality-warping magic. Instead, an Ai is essentially a sentient mass of Nen with an enormous, but still finite, aura reserve.

Its wishes are real Nen abilities, its body is made from that Nen, and the system of demands and punishments exists to replenish whatever aura it spends.

What an Ai actually is

Ai is described as a gaseous lifeform from the Dark Continent. I think that description may be more literal than it appears.

An Ai may not have a normal biological body at all. It could be a mass of sentient aura whose Nen reserve is not merely a source of energy, but its actual physical existence.

This could also make Ai functionally immortal. It would not age like a human because there is no ordinary biological body growing older underneath the aura. However, that would not make it indestructible. If its entire Nen reserve were consumed, there would be nothing left maintaining its existence.

How Ai survives on the Dark Continent

I do not think Ai normally requires a human host.

A wild Ai could move around the Dark Continent in its gaseous form, encounter humans or other creatures and grant their desires. However, every wish would consume part of its finite reserve.

Unlike a human Nen user, whose aura naturally recovers through rest, an Ai might be unable to regenerate its own reserve. It would therefore need to harvest aura or life force from other living beings.

That may be the real purpose of the wish-and-demand system.

Ai grants a desire, spends part of its reserve and then forces other people to complete increasingly cruel demands. When those demands are refused, the resulting deaths allow Ai to recover the energy it previously spent.

The punishment is therefore not arbitrary. It is debt collection.

The larger the wish, the more aura Ai consumes. The more it consumes, the greater the payment it must collect afterward. Once someone dies and the debt is paid, the demands return to a lower level because Ai’s reserve has been replenished.

Nanika may be an unusual Ai

Nanika would not necessarily represent the normal condition of the species.

My theory is that a Zoldyck ancestor encountered an Ai on the Dark Continent and somehow caused it to attach itself to a human host. That relationship may have been created by a wish, an agreement or even a request as simple as “be my friend.”

Once attached to Alluka, Nanika gained access to something a wild Ai normally lacks: a human body with naturally regenerating aura and life force.

This could explain why Killua’s commands work differently from ordinary wishes.

When another person receives a wish, Nanika uses its own reserve and later collects payment through the requests. But when Killua gives Nanika a command, Nanika may instead draw from Alluka’s personal aura (or life force).

That energy can recover naturally with rest, so no external payment is necessary.

It would also explain why healing leaves Alluka exhausted. After healing Gon, Alluka did not collect lives as payment, she fell asleep. That looks less like a supernatural sacrifice and more like a Nen user suffering from extreme aura exhaustion.

A wild Ai cannot recover in this way because it does not have a biological host. Nanika can.

Ai does not grant wishes through “magic”

The final part of the theory is that Ai does not possess one ability capable of ignoring every rule of reality.

Instead, Ai translates a wish into a desired result, determines which Nen abilities could create that result and then uses the method requiring the least amount of aura.

Imagine asking Ai for a new computer.

It could use Conjuration to create a complete computer from nothing. However, reproducing every component of a complicated machine would presumably consume a huge amount of aura.

The cheaper alternative would be to locate an existing computer and use Emission a teleportation ability to bring it to you.

Both methods technically grant the same wish, but teleporting an existing object would likely be far less expensive than creating one from scratch. Ai would therefore choose teleportation.

The same logic could explain the billionaire wish. Nanika apparently did not create an enormous quantity of counterfeit money. Existing money was transported from a blimp and dropped near the person who made the wish. Rather than producing wealth through Conjuration, Nanika used the cheapest available method: moving money that already existed.

Healing could use Enhancement, manipulation of the body or some form of Nen exorcism. Transportation could use Emission. Material objects could be teleported or Conjured depending on which option costs less. Specialization would only be necessary when the other categories could not accomplish the requested result efficiently.

Ai’s “wish-granting ability” would therefore be less like unlimited reality manipulation and more like an automatic Nen optimizer.

It identifies the result you want and finds the cheapest combination of Nen categories capable of producing it.

This may also reveal how to kill an Ai

If an Ai’s aura reserve is its actual body, then forcing it to spend its entire reserve would kill it.

The crucial condition would be that Ai is compelled to attempt any wish it accepts and cannot simply refuse or safely stop when the cost becomes too high.

Suppose you encounter a wild Ai on the Dark Continent and want to eliminate it. Fighting it directly might be almost impossible. Instead, you could ask for something absurdly expensive:

“Destroy the sun.”

Ai would search for a Nen method capable of fulfilling the request, but no ability within its reserve could accomplish it. If the rules force it to keep spending aura while attempting the wish, it would eventually consume every remaining unit of Nen.

The wish would fail, but the Ai would also disappear because no aura would remain to maintain its body.

That would make Ai’s greatest power its fatal weakness.

It can grant almost any realistic wish by finding the cheapest Nen-based solution, but a wish exceeding its maximum reserve could force it to destroy itself trying.

The healing exception

There is one major problem with this theory: healing seems to follow different rules from ordinary wishes.

When Nanika heals someone, she must physically touch the target. That additional condition suggests healing is either more difficult than her other abilities or operates through a separate Nen mechanism.

After healing Gon, Nanika fell asleep from exhaustion, but the previous requests were also reset. No one needed to die to replenish the aura spent on the healing.

That creates an obvious question: if healing consumes Ai’s finite reserve, why does Nanika not need to collect life force afterward?

I see two possible explanations.

1. Healing uses the target’s life force

Healing, bodily reconstruction and Nen exorcism may not consume Nanika’s own reserves in the same way as other wishes.

Instead, Nanika may use the aura or remaining life force of the person she touches. Her ability could reorganize, amplify or redirect the target’s own energy to repair their body.

The touch condition would be necessary because Nanika needs direct contact to access and manipulate that person’s aura.

Under this interpretation, Nanika acts more like a catalyst than an energy source. The target provides most of the power, while Nanika uses her ability to control the healing process.

Her exhaustion afterward could come from the enormous mental and Nen strain required to perform such precise reconstruction, rather than from permanently losing part of her own reserve.

This could also explain why healing someone who is still alive is possible while true resurrection may not be. Nanika needs an existing body, aura and life force to work with. If the person is completely dead and their life force is gone, there may be nothing left for her ability to repair.

2. Healing wishes follow separate recovery rules

The other possibility is that healing does consume Nanika’s own aura, but aura spent on healing can regenerate naturally.

In this version, the wish system distinguishes between constructive and destructive uses of Nen.

Aura spent granting ordinary material wishes, teleportation or large-scale alterations creates a debt that must be repaid by harvesting life force. However, aura spent healing, repairing or removing harmful Nen may be recoverable through sleep and rest.

That would explain why Nanika falls asleep after a major healing but does not need anyone to die. Her reserves were depleted, but they were not permanently consumed. She simply needs time to regenerate them.

The touch requirement could be a restriction that makes these otherwise extremely expensive healing abilities possible. By limiting healing to a person Nanika can physically touch, the ability becomes more efficient and reduces the aura cost.

This would mean healing is not merely another wish produced by the cheapest available Nen category. It belongs to a special branch of Ai’s power with its own conditions:

1. Nanika must touch the target.
2. The process causes severe exhaustion.
3. The requests and punishment level reset afterward.
4. The expended aura can recover naturally rather than through deaths.

Either explanation could solve the apparent contradiction.

Healing may use the target’s own life force, or healing may be the one type of wish that allows Ai’s reserves to regenerate naturally. It is also possible that both are true: Nanika draws primarily from the target’s energy but must still spend some of her own aura to control and complete the process.

In any case, the different conditions strongly suggest that healing, repair and Nen exorcism do not operate under exactly the same rules as Nanika’s normal wish-granting system.

I've been chewing on two concepts that I think get conflated a lot in Nen discussions: efficiency and mastery. Splitting them apart actually clears up a lot of confusion, and it leads to an interesting question about specialists that I'd love to hear takes on.

When I say Hatsu, I mean Hatsu as the fourth of the Four Major Principles of Nen (Ten, Zetsu, Ren, and Hatsu) — the act of expressing your aura, not a nen ability. Aura can technically be expressed in unlimited ways, but any expression that doesn't fit the five categories (Enhancement, Transmutation, Emission, Conjuration, and Manipulation) gets classified as Specialization by default, making it less a sixth "type" and more a catch-all for what resists categorization.

Nen Efficiency

Efficiency is simply: how much of the aura you pour into your Hatsu actually gets used for that Hatsu's effect vs. how much is lost.

• An Enhancer who dumps 100 aura into enhancing his body gets ~100 aura worth of enhancement. Basically no loss.
• A Conjurer who dumps 100 aura into enhancing his body only gets 60 aura worth of actual enhancement — the other 40 is lost because enhancement isn't his natural affinity.

So efficiency = "how clean is the conversion from raw aura to effect."

Nen Mastery

Mastery is a separate axis, and it actually has two parts:

1. Learning speed — how fast/easily you can pick up techniques in a given category.
2. Ceiling — the maximum level of proficiency you could ever reach in that category, no matter how long you train.

Let's put the ceiling on a 1–10 scale for simplicity.

• An Enhancer learns Enhancement fastest of all, and can eventually hit a 10/10 ceiling in it.
• A Conjurer learns Enhancement at maybe 60% the rate they learn Conjuration, and their ceiling in Enhancement caps out around 6/10, no amount of training gets them past that wall.

So your affinity doesn't just make you faster at learning your category, it also raises the ceiling for how good you can get.

We don't know what a born Specialist's efficiency looks like, but we do know they can learn all categories with the same ease and reach level 10 mastery in each of them.

The question: what happens when an Enhancer becomes a Specialist?

This is the part I keep going back and forth on.Say an Enhancer, deep into adulthood, changes into a Specialist (however you want to justify that in-universe). Two things could plausibly happen to his original Enhancement efficiency:

Option A — Efficiency collapses toward baseline. His 100% efficiency in Enhancement drops down toward something like ~40%, because becoming a Specialist fundamentally rewrites his relationship to aura conversion. He's now a Specialist first, and Enhancement is just another category to him.

Option B — Old efficiency is grandfathered in. He keeps his 100% efficiency in Enhancement (it's baked into how his aura already flows, like muscle memory), and his efficiency diagram remains that of a normal enhancer.

For both options the real change is what opens up going forward: he can now learn every other category with the same ease he used to reserve only for Enhancement, and can eventually hit a 10/10 ceiling in all of them, not just his original affinity.

On top of that, he gains a unique Hatsu that doesn't fit neatly into any of the five categories at all, a genuinely new expression of his Nen, and that Hatsu runs at 100% efficiency.

If Option A were true, becoming a Specialist would functionally be a punishment for anyone with a strong pre-existing affinity, which seems to contradict how Specialist is framed as the rarest and "best" type.

If Option B is right I think Kurapika, when his eyes turn scarlet, but before he activates Emperor Time, has the same efficiencies as a normal Conjurer.

That makes me consider a further possibility: maybe every Specialist, even those born into the category, have the underlying efficiency profile of one of the other five types (at random). That would explain why Kurapika says revealing his type as a Specialist gives his opponents no real advantage, if Specialists only had, say, 40% efficiency in Enhancement, that would be a pretty valuable piece of intel to hand over. Instead, maybe every Specialist quietly carries the efficiencies of another type underneath, while still being able to learn all six categories with equal ease and reach level 10 in each with training, and have their unique Hatsu at a 100% efficiency.

Discussion

• Do you think efficiency in your original category should be preserved or reset if you shift to Specialist?

My theory is that Hisoka did not receive a general Nen power-up after his resurrection. Instead, Bungee Gum itself was permanently strengthened by post-mortem Nen

Before dying, Hisoka covered his heart and lungs with Bungee Gum and commanded it to contract after his death. His Nen remained active, carried out the command and revived him.

I believe that boost did not completely disappear once Hisoka returned to life.

This would not mean that Hisoka suddenly gained larger aura reserves, greater output, better Nen control or more physical strength. The post-mortem effect would apply specifically to Bungee Gum, because Bungee Gum was the ability active while he was dead.

Its limits may now be greater:

• It could stretch farther before tearing.
• It could contract with more force.
• It could be more adhesive or durable.
• It could remain active longer after being detached from Hisoka.

Chapter 80 establishes that detached Bungee Gum tears after being stretched beyond ten meters. If post-revival Hisoka eventually exceeds that limit, it could be evidence that the ability was permanently enhanced.

I also do not think Hisoka’s missing hand and foot are upgrades. His Bungee Gum prostheses may give him new movement options, but losing real limbs should still be a disadvantage. If rubber limbs were automatically superior, Hisoka could replace all four of his limbs with Bungee Gum.

Texture Surprise probably did not receive the same boost, since Hisoka only used it after reviving. His use of Texture Surprise on the artificial limbs may simply show that he could always apply it to a Bungee Gum surface, or that he previously hid the ability’s full versatility.

There are other examples that support the distinction between strengthening an ability and strengthening the user overall.

Camilla does not appear to become stronger every time she dies. Her post-mortem Nen empowers Cat’s Name so that it can kill her murderer and resurrect her, but there is no indication that each death increases her total aura, output or general combat ability.

Benjamin Baton may work similarly. Benjamin inherits the abilities of loyal guards after they die. It is possible that he receives post-mortem-enhanced versions of those abilities, although the manga has not confirmed this.

Sun and Moon remains the strongest comparison. The original owner’s death caused the ability to remain inside Skill Hunter and changed how its marks behaved. This shows that post-mortem Nen can permanently preserve or alter a specific ability.

So my theory is not that Hisoka became universally stronger after death.

Hisoka may have the same overall aura as before, but a stronger version of Bungee Gum.

Chapter 401, this is when Longhi tells Kurapika that she is the daughter of Beyond. It turns out that she is not the only one. Beyond has more than 10 kids. He had these kids with women in the Kakin military over about thirty years.

Beyond put a nen curse on his children when they were born. This curse is an eye-globe that is hidden under their tongue. You can only see it if you use Gyo. When they die this curse activates. It kills the person that was set as a target.

Longhi thinks that one of Nasubis fourteen princes is actually Beyonds child and that the whole system is set up to help that child win.

I think that the curse does not target a prince. It targets Beyond himself. He is not setting up weapons. His kids develop nen as they grow up. They die in battle. Send all the energy they've gathered back to him. Beyond then absorbs this energy. That's his ability: not placing curses but consuming them. He is an exorcist who eats curses and his own children serve as the means to deliver it to him.

The conditions write themselves.

He cannot couse their death.

He also cannot raise them or train them.

The more powerful the child is when they die the stronger the curse will be. And the more risky it is to take it in. If he fails to get rid of the curse it does not just mean he wasted his time. It actually Kills him. The more he can get from this ability the more danger he is in.

Now lets talk about Longhis theory. And where it gets really interesting.

I think she is right that one of the princes is Beyonds blood. She is wrong, about what that actually means.

If a prince is Beyonds child. Born to one of Nasubis wives. Then they were not put in the war to become king.They were put there to win the Seed Urn ritual.

The Seed Urn holds the energy of every prince who has died in the Succession Wars throughout Kakins history. This energy is passed down from one generation to the next. Goes into the guardian spirit beasts that protect each new generation. If the prince child of Beyond wins and then dies with the mark on them the curse that comes back does not just carry the energy of one persons life. It carries everything that is attached to the winner, the ritual the entire weight of the Urn and all the sacrifices that royalty has made over the centuries.

All of this will be delivered to Beyond through his family line. The Succession War is not the goal. Beyond needs to become more powerful. The princes were not the targets. His children were not just tools.They are an invesment.

If this idea is true we should already see some signs of it in the manga. We are looking for a prince who can use nen from the time they are born. This would be the obvious sign that they have Beyonds mark.

Benjamin and Camilla are the obvious choices. We know they can use nen. They could do it even before the war started. 

Then there is Woble.If Kurapika found a curse mark on Woble that would explain a lot of things. It would explain why we have never seen Wobles beast (she is in zetsu) and why Oito looked so upset last chapter.

In chapter 360 something weird happens on Day 1. The guardian spirit beasts take over Room 1014. There are these things that look like jellyfish. People think they might be Wobles beast.

If we believe what Kurapika said, then Chapter 411 just showed that Woble does not actually qualify to be in the Succession Contest.

That makes me wonder whose beast was in that room? Chapter 371 has a picture of 14 coffins in a circle around a room in the middle. People thought that each prince would get one coffin or that 13 coffins would be for the princes and one would be for Nasubi. Both of these ideas made sense.

But if Woble does not qualify, then that would mean there could be a prince who does qualify but we have not seen them in the story since the beginning. The jellyfish beast is their GSB. So could there be a 15th prince?

Who do you think the jellyfish belongs to, would it fit Camilla's beast better?