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Hisoka gives his aura the combined properties of rubber and gum: it is elastic, adhesive, resistant and capable of contracting on command with increasing force depending on its stretch. He can emit it from his hands or feet, fix it by contact or from a distance, attract a target, reflect projectiles, propel himself, run on walls, immobilize an opponent or close a wound. Separated from its body, it breaks beyond ten meters. Concealed with In, it forms almost imperceptible traps. After her death, Hisoka programmed it to compress his heart and lungs, then uses it as a prosthesis to replace his lost limbs.

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Hisoka applies his aura to a flat, smooth surface, such as paper, fabric or even a prosthesis made of Bungee Gum, in order to materialize the visual appearance of more than a thousand textures. The illusion is visible to non-Nen users and no longer leaves a detectable aura once active. However, it does not change the feel of the original surface, so contact can reveal the fake. Hisoka uses it to falsify texts, hide his injuries, and visually reconstruct his face and limbs.

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When Kurapika's eyes turn scarlet, he gains 100% proficiency in all Nen categories at the cost of one hour of his lifespan per second. Chapter 369 sets the ceiling: continuous use is capped at three hours, and going past it costs a black-out three times as long as the time spent — nine hours after the roughly three-hour count of chapter 368. Whoever is sharing the borrowed ability at the time, Oito in this case, goes down with him. Kurapika suspects the strength of the stolen ability may itself move the allotted time.

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Kurapika's chain with conditions on targets. Violating them causes death.

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Chains that can bind and immobilize a target. Strength varies based on conditions.

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Chain that can locate a specific target with precision.

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Benjamin's powerful aura manipulation allows him to enhance his physical abilities significantly.

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Bill significantly accelerates the growth of a living being by bringing his palms together. On a seed immersed in a glass of water, Erigeron makes it germinate in a few moments. The ability can also enhance a person's Nen abilities, but its effects remain weak on untrained or inexperienced individuals.

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Symbiotic-like ability allowing Kurton to transform his body into a boat or car capable of carrying up to five passengers, using their aura as fuel. Given his Nen type and the resemblance to Tsubone's ability, this transformation is most likely Materialization.

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Sayird projects a sphere of aura onto an insect or other small living being in order to capture it and take control of it. The largest creature that can be handled is the size of a hamster. It perceives everything the animal sees and hears, while retaining the ability to distinguish the aura. Fast-moving animals are difficult to reach and insects can die from their many predators. Little Eye does not work on living beings materialized by aura, consumes very little aura and remains active if the user loses consciousness. The ability was stolen by Kurapika, passed on to Queen Oito, and then made available to Sayird after she used it.

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Mizaistom uses three cards to restrict a person's actions. The blue card admits her into the court, the yellow card places her under his control and the red card expels her. With the yellow card, he first shows the card and issues a warning. If the target ignores it, he turns the card over and announces “Restraint”: a rectangular parallelepiped confines him and prevents him from moving, without preventing him from speaking. The effect is brief, but can be reapplied as many times as necessary and used against multiple targets simultaneously.

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Beyond placed a powerful curse on many of his children. His mark is only visible with Gyo. She awakens children to Nen from birth and transforms them into cursed sacrifices of varying power. When a sacrifice dies, the curse kills the target chosen when it was placed. According to Longhi, it would be powerful enough to kill a prince despite its guardian Spirit Beast, even at great distances. One exorcist called Longhi's mark the most powerful curse he had ever observed. According to Queen Unma, Beyond can cause the death of her children at any time in order to trigger the curse.

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When a Nen user who swore loyalty to Benjamin dies, the First Prince inherits his ability. The deceased must have graduated from the Kakin Royal Military Academy and belonged to Benjamin's private army. The power manifests itself in the form of four stars in the right palm. An active ability continues under Benjamin's control after the death of its owner, even if he had lost control of it or if it had been stolen. The maximum number of inheritable abilities remains unknown and the power has similarities to Specialization.

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After Benjamin dies, his Nen merges with his Guardian Spirit Beast and passes to one of his blood relatives. Benjamin and the Beast then alternate the choice of a new host whenever the current host dies. The first chooser remains determined by the ability. The fusion removes Benjamin from the Succession Contest but is intended to preserve Benjamin Baton and let him guide later rulers through his bloodline. Chapter 417 explains the mechanism but does not activate it.

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Ability inherited from Vincent. Its original user was attempting to activate it from his left palm in order to break the guard of a Nen user capable of stopping bullets with his aura. It does not appear to require direct contact with the target, but its precise functioning remains unknown.

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Furykov conjures a hand-held console whose menus decipher a Nen ability he stays near, then fabricate equipment against it. Deciphering advances with cumulative co-presence and survives interruption; fabrication takes about as long but resets if he leaves the room or is interrupted. The console reports the days remaining, raises an immediate alert for any concealed Nen attack aimed at him and lists the other affected users, showing a question mark for any aura signature it cannot read. The only durations given are about ten days for a prince's Guardian Spirit Beast, 365 days to decode Beyond Netero's sacrificial curse and 700 days to counter it.

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Musse creates three owl-shaped Nen beasts for intelligence gathering. One eavesdrops through barriers and another attaches by touch to transmit a target's words and actions; after prolonged observation, the user may review earlier footage. Benjamin inherits the ability after Musse's death.

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Ability inherited from Shikaku used to acquire another Nen user's ability in the form of a card. The user brings their hands together, produces a flash of lightning, then forms an aura rectangle with their fingers, the color of which darkens during preparation. Its only known use failed against Halkenburg's arrow, capable of penetrating all defenses.

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Yushohi lends Stand By Me to Chiyamasi before Benjamin's soldiers prepare to breach room 1009. Chapter 414 establishes the transfer but does not reveal the ability's combat effect, duration, natural Nen category or complete conditions.

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When Tserriednich closes his eyes and activates Zetsu, he instantly receives a vision of the next ten seconds. If he holds Zetsu, real time resumes while his vision constantly stays ten seconds ahead; he simultaneously perceives the prediction and the present and can move again. When he ends the precognition, everyone in the vision except him perceives the next ten seconds exactly as predicted, even though he actually changes his actions due to his knowledge of the future. The possible connection to his personal Nen Beast and the effect on those absent from the vision remain unknown.

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Halkenburg brings together the aura of the bearers of the pinion of his Guardian Beast who share the same will. This aura forms around the group an armor deemed invincible, while his own aura takes the form of an arc. The arrow passes through walls, abilities, and all defenses to the target, then swaps its soul with that of a randomly chosen marked bearer, including Halkenburg. The allied consciousness primarily takes control of the opposing body; the other remains asleep until the first sleeps or its body dies. If the allied wielder's body dies first, the target's soul returns to their body and takes priority. Halkenburg must probably agree to risk his life with each shot.

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Symbiotic and initially formless Guardian Beast, activated by the death of the first of the twins Kacho and Fugetsu. She takes on the deceased's appearance, personality, memories, and apparent consciousness, then stays with the survivor to protect her until she dies. In Kacho's form, she is visible to all, indistinguishable from the original, capable of interacting with Magical Worm and crossing material obstacles. The host being dead, its existence is supported by post-mortem Nen.

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Fugetsu's Guardian Beast materializes a Start Door opening onto a dimensional tunnel, then a trapdoor allowing you to emerge in another location. The door disappears as soon as it is closed, but Fugetsu can turn back as long as it does not come out entirely. Once out, a Return Door appears and initially led to a destination chosen and then opened by Kacho. The power normally only worked once a night and exhausted Fugetsu. After Kacho's death, Fugetsu appears to be able to open the return route on her own and repeat the routes, but this development could be caused by an enemy trap that causes her to become exhausted.

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Through her saliva, Morena can infect up to twenty-two people and track their location, condition, points, and level. A kill grants one level for an ordinary person, ten for a Nen user, and fifty for a prince. The quantity and flow of aura increases with each level; at level 20, the recruit manifests a unique ability, and at level 100 he in turn becomes Member Zero capable of creating his community. To infect a new target, Morena must play her negotiation game to a final answer Yes, kiss him and make him witness a murder committed by her or an ally. Before the three conditions, the target remains level zero. Cheating or abandoning the game can trigger a Manipulation limiting the answer to Yes or No. The effects persist until Morena or the target dies, or until the game is completed.

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Counterattack ability that activates after Camilla's death. An immense feline Nen Beast appears behind his murderer, crushes him between its paws and absorbs his life energy, destroying his body. The energy is concentrated into the glowing tip of its tail and then poured into Camilla's mouth, fully healing her wounds and resurrecting her. Post-mortem Nen makes the ability extremely powerful, but it does not protect Camilla from non-lethal injury and remains useless if the opponent refuses to kill her directly. It could work against several murderers. It is unknown whether Camilla must die in Zetsu or if she is only using it to facilitate her own death.

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Chrollo materializes a book in which he steals and retains the Nen abilities of others. He must see the ability in action, interview its owner and get answers, have the victim touch the blanket's imprint, all in less than an hour. The victim then loses his power. To use it, Chrollo opens the book to the correct page and holds it in his right hand. An ability normally disappears upon the death of its creator, unless post-mortem Nen maintains it. Skill Hunter can be improved; Chrollo believes he must steal a national treasure such as a Kakin Regalia to obtain the upgrade needed for his next target.

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Bookmark specific to Bandit's Secret. Placed on a page, it maintains the corresponding ability even if the book is closed and thus frees both of Chrollo's hands. With the book open on another page, it allows you to use two stolen abilities simultaneously. This extension imposes additional conditions that are still unknown.

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Stolen ability summoning skeletal fish that only survive in a completely enclosed room. They devour human flesh without causing pain or bleeding; the victim remains conscious even after a fatal injury, the effects of which only become apparent when the fish disappear.

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Materialized fabric, stolen from Owl, whose size varies at will. Any enveloped object or individual is miniaturized to fit in the palm, then returns to normal size once released, unharmed in the process.

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Unnamed stolen ability to teleport a person against their will. Chrollo used it without moving and without seeing the target or its destination to keep Nobunaga away from Hisoka. Its exact type is unknown, but the Emission is probable.

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Two symbols appear on the hands: a positive sun on the left and a negative moon on the right. Chrollo marks his targets by contact; when the two signs touch, they explode. Three to five seconds of charging produces an explosion capable of killing surrounding people. The Meteor City Elder's post-mortem Nen maintains power in Skill Hunter and retains the marks until they explode, even with a closed book.

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A materialized buffer animates an inert object with a head and imposes a simple vocal command on it. It does not work on real corpses, in accordance with the original creator's beliefs, but controls the body copies produced by Gallery Fake. Decapitation negates the effect; more than two hundred puppets can be ordered simultaneously.

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The right hand gives the affected person the appearance of Chrollo, while the left gives them the appearance of their target. A touch of the two hands instantly exchanges their shapes. Only appearance changes, never abilities or personality, and the marks remaining on his palms can betray Chrollo.

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Materialized telephone allowing you to search for an “ideal partner” according to specific criteria. After entry, it provides a 6 to 20 digit number then guides the user to the target and indicates in particular whether it is nearby. Daily calls are limited and retrying may require a delay or change of zone. Chrollo uses it at Tier 3 to find a user with the ability he wants to steal.

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Ancient ability stolen from Neon Nostrade, capable of predicting in the form of poems the events of the coming weeks based on a person's name, date of birth and blood type. The user cannot predict his own future. She disappeared from Skill Hunter before the Black Whale's journey, suggesting Neon's death.

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Ancient ability borrowed from Kortopi: the right hand creates an exact copy of an object touched by the left. Living beings become inert copies, without reproducing their powers, and disappear after twenty-four hours. Chrollo could track every copy with En and created over two hundred against Hisoka. Power presumably disappeared after Kortopi's death.

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Old ability borrowed from Shalnark. An antenna planted in a target allows it to be controlled entirely by means of a special telephone and to transmit voice orders. Chrollo kept a second antenna as a threat and feint. The ability presumably disappeared after Shalnark's death.

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The user conjures up a masked puppet that only they and a possessed person can see, then chooses a victim from ten people within range. Four materialized snakes, covered with several mouths and visible to all, pierce the target and suck its blood. A snake takes forty-four seconds to empty a body; the four together only require eleven. Their eyes on the puppet's chest light up during the attack. The ability appears visually guided and uses Manipulation. If the puppet is unexpectedly deactivated without having killed anyone, the curse turns against its user. Snakes disappear as soon as Nen is deactivated.

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Bonolenov dances and plays a melody by passing air through the holes in his body. Prologue materializes around him a warrior's outfit as well as a long spear, which he wields at high speed to pierce his target.

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After performing the required dance and melody, Bonolenov materializes around himself a gigantic sphere having the appearance of Jupiter. It pursues the target at very high speed as long as it remains within hearing range of the music, then crushes it under its mass.

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Bonolenov can take on the appearance of a person with whom he has spoken. It maintains this form for a period of up to the time spent with the model; staying near an unconscious target also seems to count. The transformation has no known size limit, although a large difference in size could reduce its duration. On the Black Whale, he successively imitates Hisoka, Zakuro, Lynch and Owl with enough precision to fool those close to him.

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Shizuku materializes a vacuum cleaner capable of absorbing a seemingly unlimited amount of non-living matter. Blinky cannot suck up anything it considers alive or objects made of Nen, a useful restriction for detecting traps. Only the last swallowed object can be spat out and Shizuku does not know where the rest disappears. She usually has to announce out loud what she wants to aspirate. Blinky erases blood, corpses and traces of a crime, removes poisons or gas from an organism without sucking the victim, serves as a club in combat and can drain the blood of an opponent through an open wound.

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Franklin has severed his ten fingers at the level of the distal phalanges and fires aura bullets from their ends at a very high rate. Their speed and power make it possible to massacre several dozen people in a few seconds and to cross Nen constructions while maintaining lethal force. This mutilation was not technically necessary, but his belief that it would make the attack more effective constitutes a voluntary restriction which greatly increases the power of the projectiles.

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Phinks rotates his arm clockwise and with each rotation increases the amount of aura concentrated in his fist. The power builds up until the next blow: fifteen turns of his right arm were enough to pulverize the resistant body of a Chimera Ant in a single impact. However, he felt that around seven rounds would have been enough and admits to having difficulty calibrating his strikes precisely.

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Feitan wraps himself in a conjured armour with a pointed helmet and a wide cape, which packs away the damage he has already taken instead of healing it. Nothing is returned until the wrapping is opened: the more he was hurt before putting it on, the more the released form has to spend. He activates it himself, and only when a fight has gone badly enough to be worth it.

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The armour opens and Feitan becomes a small sun: a sphere of light whose heat carbonises everything around him, proportionally to the damage Pain Packer had packed away. Zazan's evolved body was reduced to ash and the ground itself was scorched in a wide radius. The burst does not discriminate — his own companions had to take cover — and it ends the fight rather than continuing it.

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Kalluto discreetly fixes confetti on a person then makes a paper doll in their image. It can then hear conversations held around the target and gather information remotely without being detected. Even the Brigade's Nen users didn't notice that they were being watched. This technique, or a related ability, also allowed him to locate the exorcist Abengane on Greed Island.

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Kalluto drops confetti then lifts it up and throws it at multiple angles with the movements of his fan. As soon as a fragment embeds itself in the target, it gathers the others into a swirling, snake-like current, which converges on that point and pierces the same area. He can repeat the assault with several marks until the body is torn to pieces.

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Machi transforms her aura into versatile wires that she can mask with In. They are used to control a target's movements like a puppet, track what they touch, set traps, capture, strangle or cut up an opponent. Short, they are extremely resistant and can lift a ton; their strength decreases with their length and when they no longer remain connected to his fingers. Machi also uses them as surgical sutures capable of closing a wound or quickly reattaching a severed limb by reconnecting the tissues with such precision that mobility returns immediately.

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Theta uses her Hatsu to emit a weak projectile of aura towards Tserriednich during her Zetsu exercise. The attack serves to test his ability to maintain complete closure of the aura nodes under pressure and does not appear designed to inflict significant damage. Theta's natural type remains unknown, but the effect likely uses Emission.

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Illumi infuses needles with aura to reshape faces or completely control a target. Deeply inserted needles turn victims into disposable puppets that obey complex orders until their bodies are exhausted.

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Melody projects aura through her flute. Her repertoire relieves fatigue, calms emotions and creates vivid sensory impressions; when she plays with all her heart, a broadcast performance can absorb an enormous audience's attention for up to three minutes.

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Biscuit summons the masseuse Cookie and transmutes a special lotion. Cookie's treatments relieve fatigue and ailments; Piano Massage makes thirty minutes of sleep provide recovery comparable to eight hours.

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Biscuit normally maintains a small youthful form but can return to her natural, massively muscular body. She dislikes the appearance, yet it releases her full physical strength.

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Hanzo projects a hovering double able to pass through matter while his consciousness leaves his sleeping body. He controls it precisely, but speech or touch directed at the body immediately cancels the projection.

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Rihan grows a counter-creature from his independent analysis of one target ability. Once summoned, the Predator is tailored to devour that ability, but performs poorly against simple attacks, multiple powers or information supplied by others; a success seals Rihan's Nen for 48 hours.

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Hinrigh changes an object he touches into a living animal while retaining its original function. Handcuffs become pigeons, cameras become cats and weapons become snakes; the transformation ends when its aura supply is exhausted.

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From a room with one closed door and impenetrable walls, Luini opens portals to places he has already visited and can return through a private transit space. If the anchor room's door is opened, that room is permanently reset and cannot be reused.

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Basho writes a haiku on paper and invokes its effect. Better poetry and seasonal language increase its power; demonstrated verses create fire, punish lies and produce protective light against weak spirits.

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Leorio strikes a nearby surface and sends aura through it in a line. At a selected point, a portal-like circle forms and an extended fist emerges to uppercut the target from a distance.

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Saiyu conjures a staff whose length he can change, using it both to restrain allies and to finish opponents disabled by his monkeys.

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Saiyu uses three Nen monkeys whose attacks remove sight, hearing and speech. Losing the three senses also disrupts the victim mentally and can prevent them from maintaining an active ability.

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Gel seemingly transforms one arm into a snake whose head bears four heart-shaped markings and a ribbon. The technique stopped Kanzai during a Zodiac confrontation, but its category, conditions and full capabilities have not been revealed.

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Cluck controls pigeons, and possibly other birds, with enough range and precision to deliver voting forms to more than six hundred Hunters. The complete conditions and limits of the technique remain unknown.

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Tokarine possesses a transport-oriented ability intended to move goods between expedition relay points. She states that it cannot teleport and has a much lower capacity than Knov's Hide and Seek, so several additional users would be needed for the mission.

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A curse shared by Camilla's Have-Nots. The user spends months or years thinking daily about a target while keeping a connected object and a dagger. To activate it, they burn the object, drink an infusion of its ashes and commit suicide with the dagger. The resulting post-mortem curse drains the target's aura and can kill them; proximity, eye contact, preparation time and resolve determine its speed and strength.

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Kurapika's cross-tipped thumb chain enhances natural healing. Emperor Time lets it repair severe injuries, including a shattered arm, within seconds.

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Kurapika implants a blade and chain around a target's heart, declares binding rules and kills the target if one is violated. He also uses it on himself to enforce Chain Jail's vow.

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During Emperor Time, a dolphin Nen Beast analyzes the ability held by Steal Chain. Kurapika can use it once or loan it to another person, whose aura nodes are opened when the borrowed ability is consumed.

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Longhi offers a voluntary contract with explicit terms, duration, rewards and penalties. Once both parties consent, Moonlight Act enforces the agreement through Manipulation.

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When Lynch punches a target after asking a question, an aura voice from the target's body answers truthfully even if their conscious mouth lies or stays silent.

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Zakuro manipulates blood released from an open wound. It can restrain targets or divide into eyed droplets that search independently for thirty to forty minutes before returning to normal blood.

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While Morena is present in the Heil-Ly hideout, Yokotani identifies unlawful intruders and conjures invincible guards. Their level rises with the crime; they cannot injure defendants but can expel them.

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Terebellum redirects damage received by a touched object or person into another touched target. Damage is transferred rather than erased and the exact living-target conditions remain limited.

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Voconte creates doors throughout the Heil-Ly base, connecting rooms into a controlled network and letting members reroute movement through the hideout.

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Padaille transforms parts of his body into weapons and tools he knows, keeping bodily control of them. Which tool answers is not his to choose: the arm becomes a hammer, a drill or an axe at random, and each does one thing to what it meets — the hammer drives it into the ground, the drill bores a hole through it, the axe cuts it in two.

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Camilla's Guardian Spirit Beast can completely control a target after unknown conditions are fulfilled. The exact trigger and behavior remain unrevealed.

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Zhang Lei's Guardian Spirit Beast produces a coin each day. Its value and stored aura grow with time, reset on transfer and are expected to grant abilities under long-term conditions that remain partly hypothetical.

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Tserriednich's Guardian Spirit Beast cuts a person who lies to him, infects the wound after a second lie and warns that a third will transform the liar into something inhuman.

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With a collaborative partner, Tubeppa's Guardian Spirit Beast synthesizes drugs and chemicals capable of producing many effects. Their exact range remains unknown.

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Eye-wogs attach to readers of Tyson's Book, collect their aura and return happiness proportional to how deeply they have absorbed its teachings. Breaking the doctrine's taboo brings punishment.

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Luzurus's Guardian Spirit Beast materializes a target's desire as bait. Satisfying that desire triggers a trap followed by pseudo-coercive Manipulation.

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Salé-salé's Guardian Spirit Beast emits smoke that gradually creates goodwill toward him. Converted people grow copies that spread the influence further, while holding one's breath prevents infection.

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A small beast repeatedly asks whether a target is free. Refusal prolongs the solicitation; agreement inserts a spider into the target's ear and takes control while feeding on the victim's aura.

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Marayam's Guardian Spirit Beast isolates room 1013 behind a spatial barrier. Occupants can leave, but outsiders and former occupants reach an empty duplicate and can no longer perceive those still inside.

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