Chapter 97 The Trouble

In order to address the spreading phenomenon of Swamp People as soon as possible, the Hunter Association mobilized all available manpower.

Since the Detana restaurant incident was related to the Swamp people, Pyon, who was the closest Zodiac Twelve's member to Spice City, was assigned to the scene to investigate.

On the other hand, a separate team led by Cheadle was tasked with conducting an in-depth investigation into a known Swamp People, which is the family of three.

In addition to Cheadle, there are two other members of the Zodiac Twelve in the team, which is the Single-Star Treasure Hunter, Kanzai and the Double-Star Problem Hunter, Saccho Kobayakawa.

"This is so annoying, how can there be such a disgusting ability?"

Kanzai's eyes blazed with anger as he exclaimed: "If it's hard to find, fine, but why can't we just eliminate them once we find them?"

"Kanzai, during the meeting, everyone was required to read Swamp Man, right?"

Saccho looked at Kanzai who was losing his temper and asked, "You haven't read it yet, have you?"

"…"

Kanzai glanced at Saccho and stopped talking.

Saccho raised his eyebrows slightly.

Cheadle, who was traveling with them, raised her hand as if making an invitation and sighed softly: "Asking Kanzai to read Swamp Man is undoubtedly putting him in a difficult position."

"That's true. Kanzai can't even memorize simple idioms. Asking him to read Swamp Man is indeed challenging for him."

Saccho thought for a moment and agreed.

When Kanzai heard this, veins popped out on his forehead and he retorted loudly: "I just don't understand idioms. It's not like I don't understand anything. Besides, it's just reading a book, what's so difficult about it?"

"What we want to say is that you understand things only superficially."

Saccho shook his head slightly, while pessimistically thinking in his heart: 'Kanzai's flaw is being stupid. It is not a disease, but it seems that it cannot be cured.'

Upon hearing Saccho's correction, Kanzai first looked enlightened, then looked at Saccho in confusion.

"Hey, why do I feel like you are mocking me?"

"Obviously, it's an illusion."

Saccho said calmly.

Kanzai stared at Saccho for a moment, unable to figure out what was going on. Then, he thought of something and wondered: "Wasn't I talking about Nen Ability? Why bring books into this?"

"…"

"…"

Cheadle and Saccho was speechless upon hearing this.

After a while…

Cheadle explained helplessly: "If you've read Swamp Man, you can roughly understand the principle of this ability. In addition, Nen can be removed, isn't this common sense? So, we can't rule out the possibility that Swamp People can return to their original state."

At this point, Cheadle glanced at Kanzai's head.

"Huh? What's wrong? Is my hair messy?"

Noticing the angle of Cheadle's gaze, Kanzai touched the tiger-stripe-styled hedgehog hair that he was proud of with some confusion.

"Nothing."

Cheadle withdrew her gaze and said calmly: "In short, I can understand your character as an Enhancer who wants to solve all problems with your fists, but I still recommend that you read Swamp Man patiently."

"I won't read it, it's too troublesome."

Kanzai shook his head.

In fact, he has opened the book Swamp Man before and tried to understand its content, but...

There were too many things he couldn't comprehend, and it felt like bulk of principles forcibly crammed into his head, making him dizzy and uncomfortable.

So, he had to give up.

Saccho looked at Kanzai and sighed: "Sometimes, I envy you, Kanzai."

"Huh? What do you envy me for?"

"I envy you for not using your brain most of the time. If everyone were like you, my 'All Troubles Fly Away' psychological counseling center would probably go out of business."

"You stinky donkey, do you want to fight?!"

"It's so nice not to have to worry."

"You stinky donkey, if you don't want to be bothered by troubles, lend me the two swords on your waist and let me help you cut off your troubles!!"

Kanzai first glanced at the two swords on Saccho's waist, and then glared at Saccho angrily.

As a Double-Star Problem Hunter, Saccho could only shake his head with a kind of envy and chose not to say nothing more.

The three of them soon arrived at a monitoring room adjacent to the interrogation room.

Through the transparent glass on the monitoring room's wall, they could clearly see the family of three inside the interrogation room.

Although it was called an interrogation room, the room was arranged as a common reception area.

However, since the family of three was 'invited' so suddenly, even though the interrogation room looked no different from a reception room, the two parents still felt somewhat restrained and restless.

"At the moment, everything seems normal."

In front of the control console in the monitoring room, a man wearing a hat looked back at Cheadle, Kanzai and Saccho who had just entered.

Kanzai, without any patience, said: "Can it be anything other than normal? It's precisely because everything is too normal that we find it troublesome."

"…"

The man in the hat looked at Kanzai and preliminarily categorized him as the type with a quick temper, so he decisively ignored him and turned to Cheadle and Saccho.

Cheadle's gaze passed through the glass and landed on the little girl in the interrogation room who looked to be only six years old at most.

"Saccho, let's get started."

"Um."

Saccho followed Cheadle's gaze and also looked at the little girl inside the interrogation room, and calmly said: "Then let's start with the child."

"Saccho, can't you set up a spectator seat in your 'The Counseling Room'?"

Withdrawing her gaze, Cheadle turned to Saccho, and said: "Being alone in a room with Swamp People poses some risks."

"Can't do it."

Saccho shook his head towards Cheadle and explained: "Although I just want to use the 'hypnosis stage' of The Counseling Room to extract the most genuine memories, once the ability is activated, it must meet the 'one-on-one' condition."

Hearing this, Kanzai inappropriately chiming in: "Then, if you unfortunately transformed into a Swamp People, we won't be able to tell, right?"

"You can rest assured about this. No outsiders can be present during the psychological consultation, but the recording of the psychological consultation process will be kept. If I am transformed into a Swamp People, you can confirm it through the recording."

Saccho calmly explained: "At the same time, there's no need to worry about the possibility of me tampering with or deleting the recording. I might even take the initiative to take out the video after coming out."

"???"

Kanzai looked incredulous when he heard this.

Seeing Kanzai's reaction, Cheadle sighed helplessly.

There is nothing wrong with the results deduced by Saccho.

From the perspective of Nen, when a normal person transforms into a Swamp People, since the soul, memories, and body are all preserved, there is essentially no difference between the two.

It's just that inside the Swamp People, there is Manipulator Nen Ability switch buried, which only activates under certain conditions.

When the Swamp People trigger the ability activation conditions, the Swamp People will be controlled by the Manipulator Nen Ability, and then manipulated to transform others into new Swamp People.

If Saccho is transformed into a Swamp People, as long as he does not trigger the ability conditions to be manipulated, he will still be Twelve Zodiac's Saccho, and he will still continue to dedicate himself to solving the Swamp Man incident in that capacity.

That's why Saccho mentioned that he wouldn't tamper with the recording and would even willingly provide it.

This is the tricky thing about the Swamp Man phenomenon aside from its spreading ability...

As for Kanzai's straightforward and punch-first-thinking, in this situation, it's equivalent to beating up his teammates and killing Saccho, who is working together to solve the Swamp Man incident, with one punch.

It's like—

A Manipulator randomly controlled a passerby with a gun, and then asked the passerby with a gun who no longer had any consciousness to commit a crime.

After the crime is over, the Manipulator will remove their ability, and the controlled passerby will return to normal.

Due to the characteristics of Manipulator Nen Ability, the passerby, who was controlled, would have no idea what they did.

Then, Kanzai jumped out, knowing well that the passer-by was controlled by a Manipulator, but he still attributes the crime on the passerby, and directly sentences them to death.

That's why Cheadle suggested that Kanzai read Swamp Man, so that there would be no obstacles in their communication.

However, from this example of Manipulator Nen Ability, one can see the potential dangers and uncontrollability of the widespread use of Nen Abilities.