Kite: Have a bad feeling.
It’s like i’m missing something.
♪
There’s a gnawing anxiety that won’t go away.
♪
( Singing in Japanese )
♪
Narrator: Kite, gon, and killua
have taken care of hagya’s subordinates.
Now they continue their harrowing journey,
and as they head deeper and deeper
into the heart of the ngl,
hoping beyond hope to finally locate
the chimera ants’ nest within the queen’s castle,
they are completely unaware
that one of the king’s three royal guards is about to awaken.
( Fluid sloshes )
( Hagya scoffs )
It’s magic.
I just wonder what kind of magic they use.
Hina: Oh, my gosh!
They were all split right in half!
Flutter: It is quite impressive.
By the look of this one,
he was crushed by a rock or some other hard object.
Hagya: Surprising, since baro’s the one with an iron shell.
So this is what rares are capable of.
Hina: Are you getting worried now?
Hagya: Come on. I have the king of the jungle’s blood
flowing in my veins.
It’ll take more than a few humans to scare me.
Hina: You’ve got a point there.
( Sighs ) That’s a relief. I was starting to think
I was going to have to miss out on the yummy feast tonight.
Hagya: These must be extremely rare humans indeed.
We’ll tear them limb from limb,
and then we’ll fill up our bellies with their flesh!
♪
Kite: We’re being followed.
( Boys gasp )
Kite: Not from there.
There are quite a few of them.
( Wings buzzing )
Flutter: Listen up.
Your primary objective is to distract the enemy
while attacking from a safe distance.
Don’t get too close.
The second platoon will take the right
while the third platoon pincers them from the left.
My first platoon will trap them,
preventing retreat to the rear. Now go!
♪
Killua: Gon and I didn’t even notice they were here.
Kite: They’re coming from the left and right.
Keep your guard up.
( Wings buzzing )
Killua: Ah, damn it!
Gon: The trees are getting in the way!
Killua: Yeah, I know.
Gon: Shouldn’t we get out of the forest?
Kite: I think it’s a trap.
Flutter: Good. Keep up the chase.
Lord hagya, everything is going according to plan.
( Both laugh )
Hagya: Nice work, flutter.
( Growls )
( Hina gasps )
Hagya: As soon as the platoons drive our prey into range,
one strike from my fangs will finish them off.
Hina: Yeah, okay, but something doesn’t feel right.
- Hagya: Eh? - Hina: Well,
you ordered flutter to chase down the prey
while you hid in the grass to ambush them.
That’s pretty lame, don’t you think?
- Hagya: Huh? - Hina: I mean,
aren’t you the king of the jungle?
A king should face his prey, not hide.
You should just jump right out at them
and go "chomp chomp! Rooowr!"
And then you laugh all evil.
That’d be a whole lot cooler. Am I right?
Hagya: You forget that this is how the king of the jungle hunts
in the animal kingdom,
so shut up, and watch!
Hina: Yeah, yeah. I guess it doesn’t matter much
either way as long as I still get to eat the rares.
( Meat squishing )
Pig ant: A rare, huh? What the hell is that?
Peggy: I’ll explain the details later.
Its number is four-dash-nine-three-three.
It was caught and brought in by zazan’s squad.
Pig ant: Four-dash-nine-three-three?
Sorry. Doesn’t ring a bell,
but it’s probably been offered to the queen already.
Thing is her appetite
has been getting much more ravenous lately.
She’s gonna give birth to an incredible king.
Don’t see it. Must already be inside the queen’s belly.
Peggy: Are you sure?
Pig ant: Well, it isn’t here,
and I can’t think of any other place that it would be.
Peggy: Is it possible it escaped?
Rammot: Creatures that have been injected with our venom
are rendered immobile for well over a month,
so there’s no way it could move freely
in just three short days.
Peggy: You can’t be certain when it concerns the rares.
They definitely aren’t like the humans we’re familiar with,
and I would have thought that you, of all people,
would be aware of that.
Rammot: Well, i’m not the same creature
that I was before.
I’ll see them again, and when I do,
I swear i’m going to rip them apart,
crush them, and eat them.
♪
Pokkle: The antidote I hid in my molar came in handy,
but I can barely drag myself across the ground.
Probably best to just lay low here for the time being.
Still, what the hell’s going on?
How can a chimera ant use nen?
Peggy: Would you mind checking once more?
Pig ant: Come on. Cut me a little slack.
I’m already drowning in a bunch of work as it is.
Didn’t you hear what I just said?
The queen has a huge appetite right now.
Peggy: Yes, I heard you, and I am fully aware of that.
Pig ant: I don’t know anything about all this "rare" stuff,
but why are you so obsessed with this human?
Peggy: I’d like to ask it some questions.
Look at rammot.
Can’t you see the light that’s surrounding his body?
Pig ant: A light, huh?
No, I don’t see anything.
Peggy: I see. Then it’s true
that not everyone is able to identify this power.
Rammot: That means that it’s a gift.
Mm, yes.
This gift is my destiny bestowed upon by the heavens,
the power of a chosen few.
If I can just figure out how to master this power,
I can become the king,
and I will rule!
( Chorus vocalizing )
Flutter: Retreat! Retreat!
Both: Hmm?
Hagya: What’s wrong, flutter?
- ( Rumble ) - ( Both gasp )
( Chorus vocalizing )
Hagya: Wait. What is that?
( Hina yelps )
( Footsteps )
( Hagya gasping )
( Hina squeals )
He’s so handsome!
Hagya: We’re heading back right now.
Hina: Eh? But the feast!
( Hagya sighs )
( Growls )
Kite: He must have understood
that he was completely outclassed
and backed down calmly and immediately,
so he’s more than likely a squadron leader.
♪
Hagya: My fangs and my claws...
I used to think
they were the center of the entire universe.
All I had to do was brandish them,
and in a blink of an eye,
I could end a creature’s life and satisfy my hunger.
There was no greater bliss than that.
However, that wasn’t the case.
There was always someone greater,
and I didn’t stand at the top of the food chain.
I learned this at the cost of my life,
but it made me even stronger.
♪
As we are now, we have no chance of defeating them.
But we’ve gained a new weapon, the ability to learn.
Kite: We’re going to follow them.
( Boys gasp )
Kite: Their nest must be close to here,
so wherever they’re going, the queen is bound to be there.
♪
( Rammot gasping )
( Peggy gasps )
What is that?
Some--something is coming our way.
( Rammot gasps )
Royal guard: That was an interesting story.
You mentioned something about gifts?
Do you mind...
If I join you?
( Rammot gasping )
That’s o-one of the queen’s elite royal guards!
If I can just figure out how to master this power,
I can become the king,
and I will rule!
It was a dream, a brief and foolish one at that.
( Royal guard chuckles )
♪
Rammot: They’re on a whole different level...
A predestined status, one that cannot be altered!
( Gasping )
Royal guard: It’s okay. Just relax.
Let’s go talk over there.
( Rammot gasps ) Y-yes, sir!
My power does not exist for my benefit.
It is for me to be of service to them
as well as the king they serve!
My power is for serving them!
♪
( Pokkle shudders )
Impossible!
What is this aura?
It--it’s so ominous.
Royal guard: Oh, and by the way...
Rammot: Huh?
Royal guard: Why is there a live human
hiding underneath that pile of bones?
( Pokkle gasps )
Peggy: Ah...
( Heart beating )
( Pokkle gasping )
( Rammot growls )
Royal guard: Mm. Meow I get it.
Peggy: May I ask what you’re researching?
Royal guard: I’m reading about those rares
you mentioned earlier.
Peggy: I have attempted to study them many times myself,
but little is written about them.
Royal guard: Asking one of them is faster
than flipping through some dusty, old books.
That’s why you were looking for one of them
in the first place. Isn’t that right?
Peggy: Yes, that was indeed the cause of our search.
Royal guard: Oh, here we go.
Yes, right here. Let’s see.
"New memories are stored in the hippocampus,
"while old memories are kept in the cerebral cortex.
In order to invoke those memories"...
Hmm. Meow I get it.
( Peggy grunts )
Royal guard: You, come over here.
( Chuckles )
♪
Pokkle: Hatsu is a technique for manipulating aura at will.
To summarize the categories of nen users, they are...
Enhancers...
Transmuters...
Conjurers...
Emitters...
Manipulators...
And lastly specialists,
for a total of six categories.
C-categories.
Royal guard: Meow. Meow.
( Squishing )
Pokkle: Every nen user belongs to one of these subtypes.
( Royal guard grunts )
Pokkle: You want--
you want to increase the amount of your aura
as well as the speed of its flow.
Basic training is spent on increasing the amount of aura
and quickening its flow,
and the outcomes of battle using nen abilities
are--are swayed significantly by--
by--
( squishing )
By--by these--
these two s-skills.
Royal guard: Meow I see.
Pokkle: Besides the basics of nen,
such as zetsu and ren,
an individual’s abilit--
an individual’s abilities are...
Deeply influenced by his own--
his own idiosyncrasies.
If your subtype and preference are luckily the same...
Your ability may be more powerful.
Royal guard: Hmm.
Tell me, how do you identify which nen subtype you belong to?
( Squishing )
Pokkle: Water divination is--
is the simplest
and most commonly used method to identify...
Royal guard: Water divination?
Go ahead, rammot. Give it a try.
Rammot: Yes, sir.
♪
( Rammot gasps )
( Peggy gasps )
Royal guard: The water is overflowing,
so that must make you an enhancer, huh?
Rammot: An enhancer?
Peggy: More importantly, it confirms
that rammot is a nen user. Isn’t that right?
Royal guard: It seems so.
Oh, yeah.
Didn’t you say that you fought with a rare
before all this happened?
Rammot: Yes. I did.
Royal guard: I think the impact from its attacks
must have opened up your aura nodes.
That, in turn, released your aura.
Rammot: Nodes?
Royal guard: Apparently they’re small holes
all over your body.
It seems that if they’re sealed,
your aura can’t be released.
Peggy: I see. In fact,
Colt presented the same theory not long ago,
that rammot’s change was triggered
by his fight with the rares.
It would appear that he was correct.
So then, if rammot has indeed become a nen user,
do you think we can use him to open everyone’s nodes?
Royal guard: Yes, I believe that we can.
Hmph.
Now i’d like to give this a try.
( Nen flowing )
( Both gasp )
( Royal guard laughs ) The leaf withered away.
Peggy: Impossible.
One of us was actually born possessing nen ability
without having to fight a rare to obtain it.
Forgive me, commander,
but that makes you a specialist, correct?
It means you don’t belong to any of the other categories?
Royal guard: It’s neferpitou.
- Rammot: Huh? - Peggy: Eh?
Neferpitou: That is the name the queen bestowed upon me.
From now on, you can call me neferpitou.
Both: Yes, sir!
Neferpitou: I don’t need that anymore.
Go and feed him to the queen.
Both: Of course!
( Neferpitou humming )
♪
Narrator: Even from birth,
neferpitou already possessed incredible power.
This revelation, while celebrated by the chimera ants,
casts a dark shadow
over the fates of gon and his friends.
♪
( Singing in Japanese )