Hunter x Hunter Chapter 403 Discussion

this time it has much faster pace, yay!

also it's the tenth day!! and we see some islands ahead of the ship!! we can assume is the fake dark continent where they refuel and leave the ppl to continue to the real dc 😱

Kampos said:
wildhood said:
As nice as it is to see Kurapika get screentime, I hope we see more of Hisoka soon, and what he's up to. And more Phantom Troupe stuff.

what's worse is that at least one chapter will be wasted on Gon 😭

Gon couldn't be more removed  from  this arc why would he show up

I am convinced that Halkenburg is the son of Beyond and Unma, the first queen of Kakin, biological mother of Benjamin and Halkenburg and "mother" of "Tserriednich", has been working with him since Nasubi inherited the throne of Kakin, but why? In chapter 402, it is revealed by the Kaiser that the justice department discovered that Unma made a kind of deal with Queen Duazul, the second queen of Kakin, to protect Halkenburg from assassination attempts by her older brothers. However, why did she only do this with Halkenburg, but not with Tserriednich? And why does she have this favoritism with the ninth prince and not with Benjamin, the first prince of Kakin?



- First of all, Tserriednich is not her son, but Duazul's, and probably the deal she made with Duazul resulted in the exchange of the order of succession with Tserriednich, so originally the unpronounceable is the ninth while Halkenburg is the fourth!



- Secondly, it wouldn't make sense for the 1st queen not to favor Benjamin, he is the GENERAL of Kakin's army, instead of Halkenburg, Halk has many supporters in the kingdom, but nothing exceptional compared to the other older princes.



In this perspective, Benjamin has more influence and strength than his biological brother, unless... BEYOND is helping him because HE IS HIS SON. This information gives more legitimacy to this theory:



* In the initial chapters of this arc it is said that Beyond helped Nasubi win the war of succession, so, within Kakin, Beyond is the second with the most influence, only behind Nasubi himself.



* According to Longhi's assumption, Beyond infiltrated his children with curse marks to help those he is supporting.



* Each curse is directed at a prince, we can deduce this from this speech by Longhi "Beyond didn't know how many princes he would have in the succession, so with each birth of a prince he made several children with these marks".



* The rental families are people who share the same political views as Beyond and most of them are high-ranking members of the Kakin kingdom.



* For Beyond to recruit so many people without Nasubi noticing his plan, he would have to have someone with a lot of influence to help him (that's where Unma comes in, helping to recruit all these people).



* Even though Halkenburg doesn't have any exceptional background (his history is only being the 2nd place in the archery world championship and having a degree in physics from the most prestigious university in the world of HxH), for some reason, he has many supporters in the army and justice branch of the Kakin kingdom (I suspect that, don't I? lol). For those who don't know, the most powerful princes all have an external force supporting them: Benjamin (Kakin royal army), Tserriednich (Heil-Ly Mafia), Luzurus (Cha-R Mafia) and Zhang Lei (Xi-Yu Mafia).



* In the chapter.  350, Halkenburg posted on Facebook that Tserriednich is the only one of his brothers who sympathizes with him (perhaps Tserriednich knows about the dirty dealings that Duazul and Unma did because they have connections with the Mafia. Morena must know about this too and there is a high chance that all her hatred for Tse and Kakin is because even though she is Nasubi's biological daughter she was excluded from the royal court while Tse, a child of the Heil-Ly family, is there in the royal dispute).



Something that reinforces this was in this chapter,403.On the page where Unma appears, behind her there is a room where there is a maid in front of a crib with a mobile, as if there was a baby there. So why the hell is there a baby in Unma's room? Because it is Beyond's son who the curse is aimed at killing Prince Wobble! The timing matches perfectly with Wobble's birth, it can't be a coincidence. So, what would be the justification for Unma having a baby in her office other than the reason she is working with Beyond? The baby is not hers,otherwise he would have to be in the succession war too (or maybe this is actually Benjamin's secret that Kaiser also mentioned, this child could be Benjamin's son).And this leads to another point: who Beyond asked to see in chapter 401 could have been Unma and it must have a lot to do with this child!

on hindsight, Halkenburg's face looks exactly like the first queen



we still don't know if Halkenburg collapsed because he took control of Balsamiko Might or missed the arrow, it is left ambiguous



Can't wait for what Kurapika's next move

I have to activate my new to be really focus when I read a chapter of h x h

Lolos1453 said:
Kampos said:
wildhood said:
As nice as it is to see Kurapika get screentime, I hope we see more of Hisoka soon, and what he's up to. And more Phantom Troupe stuff.

what's worse is that at least one chapter will be wasted on Gon 😭

Gon couldn't be more removed  from  this arc why would he show up

I think he appeared in one of the sketches Togashi posted on twitter

Good chapter.



Pieces continue to move!



Balsalmico is now under Halkenburg's power, possessed by him. He is clearly under stress from using it but if he does die he will probably move a really big piece right before he does.



I was just thinking it would be cool if Halkenburg won the succession war but it looks like now that isn't going to happen.



No surprise Tsereid didn't want to read the letter, Marayam couldn't read it because I'm pretty sure his room is still in that alternate dimension lol???



Now Kurapika wants to go public with the letter at the next Nen class and Zhang Lei wants to talk to Kurapika more.

wildhood said:
As nice as it is to see Kurapika get screentime, I hope we see more of Hisoka soon, and what he's up to. And more Phantom Troupe stuff.

agreed. i can’t say i care about who wins the succession war



keen to see hisoka, ging, leorio, troupe etc