I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Jingyang opened his box, took out the brand-new Elf phone, and started trying it out while pondering its features.

According to Kurapika himself in the manga, his Ring Finger Chain can only perform lie detection when he is face-to-face with the target.

However, after he activated his Scarlet Eyes and entered "Absolute Time" to enhance his Nen abilities, the Soul Chain on his ring finger seemed to be able to surpass his self-awareness, sense subtle changes that he couldn't normally show, and transmit them to the chain, thus achieving... even through a monitoring screen, even if he had only met the other party once, even if the other party had undergone deliberate training, he could still successfully detect lies.

The character 念 (niàn) has the radical for "heart" at the bottom. At least, that's how Jingyang sees it.

The school of martial arts led by Netero, the president of the Hunter Association, is simply called Shingen-ryu.

The subconscious mind doesn't lie, and people can't fool their own subconscious mind.

Xiao Di subconsciously believes that living people are naturally biological beings, so there is no possibility that she could pretend that living people are not biological beings in order to "deceive" her ability and suck living people into the "Bulging-Eyed Fish".

In the manga, Kurapika made a vow and restriction on his middle finger binding chain in order to deal with the Phantom Troupe: "The middle finger chain can only be used on the Phantom Troupe. If I use it on anyone else, I will die from having my heart pierced."

It's easy to see that the core of this oath, the determination of his identity as a member of the Phantom Troupe, is Kurapika's subconscious belief: "I believe he is a member of the Phantom Troupe." Because this is subconscious, there is absolutely no possibility of "I'm pretending you're a member of the Phantom Troupe, so I can use this ability on you."

Hence the saying: oaths and constraints are an extremely dangerous double-edged sword.

Without a firm will and profound awareness, it's best not to go down this evil path. If you were in Kurapika's shoes, and instead had to be a confused monster whose mind was constantly shifting between different ideas, changing two or three times a second, then making such a harsh vow would only lead to your own demise.

While Jingyang was still sitting on the edge of the bed playing with his new phone and daydreaming, Xiaodi had already turned on the vacuum cleaner.

"The 'bulging-eyed fish' sucks in all the dust in the room."

Chi Chi Chi!

The vacuum cleaner's large mouth opened wide, sucking up all the dust in the room and swallowing it into its seemingly bottomless mouth.

Jingyang clicked his tongue in amazement, "No wonder your room is cleaner than mine."

"If you can inhale everything, what about spitting it out?" he laughed. "It can't just be inhaling and not exhaling, can it?"

Little Drop said, "The 'Bulging-Eyed Fish' can spit out everything it inhaled last time."

Jingyang asked in confusion, "Can we only spit out what we vomited up last time?"

"correct."

Jingyang thought to himself, "This isn't right. I clearly saw you stretch out your little hand and say you wanted mineral water, and the vacuum cleaner would spit out a bottle of mineral water. Then you stretched out your little hand again and said you wanted bread, and the vacuum cleaner would spit out a bag of bread..."

However, it is also possible that the bread and mineral water that Xiao Di made the vacuum cleaner spit out were indeed the things that the bulging-eyed fish had sucked in "last time" before she set off into the forest, but she just spit them out one by one.

But there is another possibility...

Jingyang laughed and said, "I think that the 'Bulging-Eyed Fish' can probably spit out anything it inhales. But your memory isn't good, so you can only spit out what you inhaled last time."

Surprisingly, Xiao Di did not refute the comment that she had a "bad memory," saying, "Impossible, that's not true."

“That’s also possible,” she said.

Just as Kurapika doesn't fully understand his chain ability, the birth, development, and perfection of a person's Nen ability all have their own unique circumstances and processes. Jingyang also had the experience of exploring his own "Star" ability, and it's entirely possible that Shizuku doesn't have a thorough understanding of his "Bulging Eye Fish".

Even assuming, hypothetically, that the "Bullet-Eyed Fish" can only expel what it previously inhaled, Nen abilities aren't static. In the manga, Chrollo, in order to deal with Hisoka, evolved his book "The Thief's Secret," which allows him to steal others' Nen abilities, into a bookmark. Who can you complain to about that?

Jingyang laughed and said, "You remember that anything that has been sucked up by the bulging-eyed fish can be released again. As long as you keep thinking like this, maybe the bulging-eyed fish will respond to your idea and change in this direction."

"Mm." Xiao Di nodded, then dispersed the vacuum cleaner in her hand into a puff of air and put it back in.

Jingyang sighed, "You answer every question I ask about details that concern ability. It feels like I'm bullying you!"

Xiao Di asked doubtfully, "You're the boss? The first rule of the Akatsuki is: listen to the boss."

Jingyang didn't speak for a moment, but simply nodded.

After a while, he jumped out of bed, went to the open window, and looked outside.

"What's wrong?" Little Drop asked.

“We’ll have to wait a bit.” Jingyang turned around and sat down at the table. “Let’s arm wrestle again.”

Chapter 44 Farewell, Departure

"Okay." Xiao Di sat down opposite her and stretched out her left arm.

Jingyang laughed, looking at her left hand in the pose, "Is your dominant hand your left hand? Then why did you use your right hand at the amusement park last time?"

Xiao Di said, "Because you stretched out your right hand, I just went along with it..."

“Then I’ll use my left hand this time.” Jingyang looked around. “Do you have any lipstick?”

"I don't use lipstick. What about lip balm?"

"No, we need to use something that can leave a noticeable mark."

Jingyang wandered around Xiaodi's room and finally found a ballpoint pen.

He took out the pen refill, flicked his finger, and broke the refill in half, leaving a pentagram pattern in the ink on his left palm.

Under Xiao Di's curious gaze the whole time, Jing Yang leisurely returned to the table, stretched out his left hand and firmly grasped Xiao Di's left hand.

“We can start anytime,” Jingyang said with a smile.

"..." Xiao Di's glasses slipped down halfway down her nose, and she glanced in surprise at her motionless left hand. At this moment, she couldn't even control her body at all, as if she had become a prisoner trapped in her flesh, only able to see the outside world through her eyes.

Jingyang suddenly said, "Loss to me."

As he finished speaking, Xiao Di found that she could sense her body again, just like emerging from the sea and seeing the light of day once more.

But the body doesn't completely obey its commands.

The back of my left hand involuntarily and slowly fell onto the left side of the table...

Jingyang won easily.

After losing, Xiao Di regained her freedom.

She raised her left hand in surprise and looked at her palm, where there was the ink mark of the pentagram that Jing Yang had just drawn on his own palm, as well as a rose-gold pentagram mark that had appeared on the pen at some unknown time.

Xiao Di suddenly realized and said, "No matter which hand I used that day, I couldn't have won against you."

Jingyang slapped the star on her left palm. The star vanished without a trace.

“My abilities are no worse than your bulging-eyed fish, are they?” Jing Yang said with a smile.

At the same time, several birds flew in through the open window. Among them, a gray rock tit swooped down in front of Jingyang and kept chirping, always full of energy.

However, Little Drop still doesn't remember ever seeing these birds.

“I am a manipulator. The mark on your hand just now was the mark for performing the manipulation.” Jingyang manipulated the rock sparrow, controlling it to fly to Xiaodi’s shoulder. “I think you have already experienced what it was like when I was manipulating you. So, at certain times, you can treat these birds as me.”

“Oh…” Little Drop nodded thoughtfully, then opened her left hand and said to the Rock Sparrow on her shoulder, “Take it to me.”

The rock sparrow spread its wings and leaped, landing in Little Drop's palm.

"Do a somersault," said Little Drop.

Jingyang watched Yan Que as if controlling a game character, and made it do a somersault in Xiao Di's palm.

“Fly around my hand once,” Little Drop said again.

With a flutter of its wings, the rock sparrow nimbly circled around Little Drop's hand before landing back in her palm.

“Xiao Di, you smiled again.” Jing Yang looked at Xiao Di’s face.

"Really?" Little Di asked, a little puzzled. She raised her hand to touch the corner of her mouth and looked at the little gray bird in her palm. "Maybe I just find it interesting."

“Let’s try your bulging-eyed fish again and explore its limits,” Jing Yang said eagerly. “It’s convenient and easy to use because it can absorb and extract at will, like a four-dimensional pocket. The only inconvenience is that it can’t absorb living things. This should be the core limitation of the bulging-eyed fish, belonging to its underlying logic, and it’s probably not easy to modify…”

"Okay." Little Drop waved her hand again, conjuring a vacuum cleaner with a wide-open mouth.

……

And so, the morning passed quickly as the two of them tested and communicated.

It wasn't until Menqi called that they realized it was well past lunchtime and that they should be practicing with Menqi in the suburbs right now.

"Xiao Di, I've been waiting for you guys for ages, where are you?" Men Qi complained on the phone.

Jingyang held the new phone in his hand, thinking that he still needed to get a SIM card.

"Is Jingyang with you?" Menqi asked doubtfully over the phone. "Xiaodi, you're always so clueless. Don't let Jingyang, that guy with a head full of bad ideas, fool you."

"No," Xiao Di said, looking at Jing Yang.

Jingyang said into her phone, "If you talk badly about people behind their backs, be careful your cooking won't taste good! It's here."

After hanging up the phone, Jingyang took Xiaodi straight to the outskirts...

Another simple and unpretentious afternoon of meditation.

First, we went through the basic exercises together, such as entanglement, severance, practice, and condensation. Then, we alternately opened the "firm" stance, prolonging the total duration of the hold and increasing the total amount of mental energy through the constant wear and tear and the growth of Qi.

With Menchi's green seasoning providing miraculous energy replenishment, the three of them kept going until dusk. Jingyang successfully extended "Jian" to over 105 minutes, Xiaodi to 122 minutes, and Menchi to over 7 minutes.

Jingyang 6329, Xiaodi 7349, Menqi 455.

The satisfaction derived from these small, incremental gains is something that can only be understood through personal experience.

Jingyang let out a long breath.

With my current overall strength, even someone like Garo could be easily defeated by them with one hand.

On the ground nearby, Menqi and Xiaodi were both exhausted and quietly eating the last of their biscuits with green seasoning to regain their strength.

……

As night fell, Jingyang lay on his bed in the small hotel, gazing at the moonlight outside the window.

Given the privileges granted by a hunter's license, even if the Twilight Tiger is an endangered protected animal, it's probably not impossible to adopt it.

But his hunter's license was a stolen, unlicensed one.

Street-side internet cafes and small hotels are unlikely to be connected to the Hunter Association's system to verify his identity, but adopting a Twilight Tiger would probably require contacting various official agencies, which would likely be able to obtain the real identity of the professional hunter corresponding to the Hunter Association's Hunter License...

Blanchett's company is responsible for the protected area on this island, but it is not the owner of these Moon Tigers. If you want to adopt one, you may have to communicate with the officials of Kakin or Ochima, or even have a three-way dispute with Blanchett and others.

Although the conversation with Arantelle Blanchett was quite pleasant, it didn't seem to have reached the point where I could ask her to make things easy for me. While Menchi had a legitimate hunter's license and wasn't afraid of being checked, she was still a newbie with ambitions to become a gourmet hunter. Asking her to adopt Takeji the Moon Tiger for me was a bit of a difficult question to ask.

Moreover, with my current limited strength, isn't it a bit too flamboyant and ostentatious to be running around like a endangered tiger?

It would be great if the little 'bulging-eyed fish' could suck up living things...

Jingyang rubbed his hair and went to sleep.