Wing led Killua and Gon back to the temporary apartment he'd rented.
It was still an apartment, but an enormous one. The central living room had been remodeled into a training arena.
Other than the tatami mats by the window, it was empty and spacious.
Wing sat cross‑legged on the floor, Zushi beside him.
Gon and Killua settled down.
"How much do you know about Nen?"
Killua and Gon shared a look.
"Gon, you explain," Killua said.
"Sure." Gon nodded. "We've only heard a little from Ron.
"Back on the airship to Heaven's Arena, Killua met an attacker and saw her open her aura nodes on her own, so he asked Ron.
Ron told us that was Nen, and he also said several Hunter‑Exam candidates had been Nen users even before they passed.
"He warned us that the gap between Nen users and non‑Nen users is huge—but he didn't teach us himself.
"He said the Hunter Association had arranged a teacher for us."
Killua added, "Once cousin Ron brought up Nen, I realized I've met lots of Nen users already—my family's full of them, and so are the fighters on the 200th floor.
"I used to wonder why, no matter how hard I trained, other people could show powers I couldn't understand. Now I finally know."
Gon's eyes blazed. "Teacher Wing, if we learn Nen, can we become really strong?"
Wing paused. "Nen… well, it's a kind of power.
"Master it and you gain an extra strength ordinary people don't have.
"But it's also extremely dangerous. If it spreads the wrong way, it can cause great harm. Before I teach you formally, you'll go through some preparatory training. From today on, come straight here after your matches!"
Ron returned to his own floor.
Near dusk, Shizuku and the other two finally came back.
Sally and Ruco looked delighted when they saw him.
"Shizuku, Sally, Ruco," Ron greeted, sizing them up. "Wash up—dinner's almost ready."
The dining hall was broad, separated slightly from the kitchen.
Several Heaven's Arena chefs—hired privately by Ron—were busy cooking. Because he'd pulled public‑hall chefs for his own meal, he had to pay extra, but the cost meant nothing to him.
Everyone sat around a round table. Ron looked over them and felt a twinge of emotion.
Without realizing it, his team had grown to this size, and each face stirred old memories.
There was Nina, whom he'd met in Heaven's Arena. Because of Nina, Ron had been attacked by Kyler and had tangled with the Underworld Mafia's Seven Deadly Sins. That led him to Aurean, one of the Mafia's three major cities, where he toppled their No. 2 experimental base and released countless test subjects.
He'd even met one of them, Elita, during the Hunter Exam.
Ron had run into Shizuku in Meteor City while recruiting a personal butler. Once he recognized her identity, he took her without hesitation. For someone from Meteor City to join the Phantom Troupe proved her immense talent, and her ability—Blinky—was excellent.
Spatial abilities are rare among Nen users. Thanks to Sumas, Ron himself effectively had such a power, yet Shizuku's skill was still extremely useful.
Ron had pictured a scene:
Others wound an enemy, opening gashes.
Then Shizuku used Blinky Fish on those wounds, drawing out the foe's blood. In the source story she'd drained a Chimera Ant squadron leader dry that way. If she teamed up with Akame, the match would be perfect.
Shizuku lacked raw offense, and Akame's sword required close distance.
Combined, they'd be devastating—Shizuku extracts the blood, Akame swings Muramasa through it, the instant‑kill effect triggers, and the target dies on the spot.
"Shizuku's Nen‑user rating has reached B now, enough to join top‑tier fights," Ron thought. In the Nen world, support‑type users don't need sky‑high rankings—their powers are that special.
Look at the Chimera Ant arc: facing the royal guards, the Chameleon Ant, Killua, Knuckle, Shoot—they all shone.
The Chameleon Ant and Shoot's powers were support tools; Knuckle's, truth be told, was support too, much like Lampent's Pain Split.
"Nina's the same way.
"Misty will be even better once she hits A rank.
"Sally and Ruco, though…"
Right now Sally was only C rank, and that was her ceiling.
Ruco, after mastering the basics and training under Sally, had reached D.
"The two of them can only harass from range," Ron mused. "But it's not that they're slow—any normal team would be glad to have them. The real issue is that I'm improving far faster than they have."
He looked around the table—at Nina, Shizuku, Miste, Sally, Ruco, White Bear padding in behind Nina—and felt a quiet satisfaction.
Without anyone realizing it, this little team had become something formidable.