"Kuro, can you digest it?"
Yuu asked softly as he slowly walked out of the dust cloud, looking relatively unharmed.
Although facing Hisoka's attack just now, Yuu didn't use the "Limitless Technique" for defense. Instead, he relied solely on concentrating Cursed Energy at the point of impact, greatly strengthening the defense of his arm.
So, in the end, only a sizable fist imprint was left, without damaging the bones.
At this moment, Kuro on Yuu's shoulder was still chewing vigorously on the pale pink Nen projected by Hisoka... After swallowing it, Kuro consumed the 'Nen pills' accumulated in its body to accelerate digestion.
Soon, it spat out two pale pink Nen pills of the same color as Hisoka's Nen.
"To be able to eat my 'Nen'... what a troublesome ability."
Hisoka noticed that the Nen he projected onto Yuu's face was bitten off by the black cat, forcing him to cancel his Nen ability—
[Bungee Gum]
This was his most commonly used means of attack. Through his own cultivation, he changed his aura into properties similar to bubble gum, possessing both free expansion/contraction and stickiness.
Logically speaking, after sticking to an opponent or target, detachment depended solely on Hisoka's will; the opponent basically couldn't remove it.
But right now... the black cat on Yuu's shoulder had the ability to destroy his 'Nen'.
Hisoka rarely felt a situation was somewhat tricky.
"However, for that cat to possess such a strong ability, there must be restrictions."
Just as Hisoka expected, in order for Kuro to digest Hisoka's extremely sticky 'Nen' in a very short time, Yuu consumed two Nen pills to enhance Kuro's 'digestive ability'.
In return, he got two brand-new pale pink Nen pills in his hand.
Yuu didn't give Hisoka time to react. While charging forward again, he crushed a pink Nen pill in his hand and projected the emerging pale pink Nen towards Hisoka's body.
It successfully stuck to Hisoka's shoulder.
"Hmm?"
Hisoka uttered a puzzled sound, immediately judging that the move used by the opponent was exactly the same as his own [Bungee Gum].
Seeing this, even Netero couldn't help but marvel.
"A Nen ability that can copy other people's moves... that's really rare.
"But it seems that only the 'Nen' swallowed by that black cat can be replicated."
"And it looks... much weaker than the 'Nen' released by the Nen user himself."
Yuu couldn't change this point either. After all, the Nen pills spat out by the black cat now contained a fixed 'aura volume' of '100 points'.
But for a thread-like strand of Nen, it was more than enough.
Yuu pulled the Nen in his hand violently, using the immovable Hisoka as leverage to launch himself towards the opponent.
"Hehe... trying to engage me in close combat."
Hisoka clenched his fist, preparing to swing at the flying boy.
However, just as Yuu was only one or two meters away and could deliver his fist to the opponent's face in the next moment.
Yuu suddenly let go of the tightly gripped pink Nen in his hand, and instead grabbed a handful of black and white Nen pills from the black cat's mouth.
About seven or eight of them, thrown together at Hisoka's incoming fist.
Colors he hadn't seen before... Hisoka was puzzled, but didn't retract his fist in time.
The moment his fist touched one of the black and white Nen pills, a bad feeling surged in his heart.
Hisoka retreated hurriedly, but the black Nen pill close at hand had already exploded, triggering several other Nen pills nearby.
"Bang!!!"
It was originally just a small-scale explosion, but the simultaneous explosions overlapping created even greater power.
Even though Hisoka retreated immediately and strengthened the defense of the 'Nen' on his body.
His palm was still bloodied by the impact.
At this moment, not only Hisoka himself was a little surprised.
Even the examiners on the side were amazed by this unique Nen ability.
Bisky spoke up: "The boy's main means of attack is to rely on that black cat to swallow others' 'Nen ability' during battle, and then replicate 'pill-like objects' with the same properties for counterattack."
"But in actual combat, this ability alone isn't very useful, because that black cat obviously needs to swallow someone else's 'Nen' to generate that kind of 'pill-like object', and there are obviously restrictions."
In Bisky's view, the help of such an ability for actual combat was really weak.
Because before the battle starts, no one can predict the opponent's Nen ability in advance. If encountering a 'Nen ability' that cannot be swallowed, such as some Enhancer abilities, that black cat would not be able to exert any advantage at all.
However, the black and white Nen pills thrown by the boy later allowed Bisky to see the potential growth space of this ability.
"Interesting~"
Hisoka's killing intent began to leak uncontrollably. He casually used [Texture Surprise] to cover the scars on his palm again.
Looking at the boy not far away with a flush on his face, he praised:
"Your value is even better than I imagined... Although I really want to kill you right now, it would be a pity."
"Any other moves?"
"Show them as soon as possible before I can suppress my desire~"
Hearing this, Yuu didn't speak.
Instead, he calmly noticed the timer on the side and found that only a few minutes had passed.
It was the first time he lamented that time could be so slow.
Yuu simply counted the Nen pills stored in Kuro's body... there were thirteen left.
And those black Nen pills only had three or four left.
Counting the pink Nen pill obtained by swallowing Hisoka's 'Nen'.
Yuu began to calculate how to make his next move...
He calmly took out two ordinary 'Nen pills' and crushed them in his palm.
Immediately, 200 points of aura attached to Yuu's body, causing his somewhat declining momentum to rise to a high point again.
"Small balls capable of recovering 'aura'..."
Hisoka rarely developed a strong interest in other people's Nen abilities, beginning to wonder what kind of moves Yuu would use next.
Although a few minutes had passed, Hisoka's right hand, his dominant hand, and his arm had suffered considerable trauma left by Yuu.
But the posture he showed to outsiders was still a state of 'no injury'.
At this moment, Yuu had made up his mind to launch a fierce attack on Hisoka's scarred right hand next.
Immediately, he activated the state of 'Ren'!
The aura volume surged suddenly!
Seeing this, Bisky frowned and thought:
"There is still more than half of the time left..."
"Even if this boy has small balls that can recover 'Nen', activating 'Ren' is also a big challenge for physical stamina."
"Could his goal not be passing..."
"But defeating the opponent?"
The next moment.
Yuu, wrapped in an astonishing amount of aura, condensed 'Cursed Energy' invisible to others in the soles of his feet, revealing a power increase beyond everyone's cognition.
After all, two similar yet different forces overlapping.
Was not simple addition.
But multiplication.
Yuu stomped heavily and moved, and the ground within a range of several meters under his feet instantly cracked and scattered!
Accompanied by a loud noise, the power displayed by the boy was several times greater than before.
Driven by instinct, Hisoka suddenly condensed a highly elastic pink Nen between his palms to block the fierce straight punch that came instantly.
For a moment, Hisoka's injured right hand was in extreme pain under the tearing of this immense force.
The calmness in his eyes dissipated a lot, and he subconsciously activated 'Ren', bursting out a powerful aura.
Using this to enhance the strength in his hands.
Soon, Hisoka stopped Yuu's unusually fierce fist.
Something's wrong...
After receiving Yuu's move, Hisoka squinted at the rapidly retreating boy and began to savor it carefully.
The force of this punch just now increased by more than seven or eight times compared to before, even if the opponent was in the state of 'Ren'.
The increase was completely unreasonable.
"Is it because the two Nen pills he just crushed also have an 'amplification' effect... or did he deliberately accumulate power just now..."
Hisoka didn't figure it out for a while because the concept of 'Cursed Energy' didn't exist in his understanding.
At the same time.
Yuu was panting heavily, also marveling that Hisoka's strength just now exceeded his imagination.
"That guy Hisoka, his physical fitness is really exaggerated... sure enough, he's not trash that can be easily defeated."
"But more importantly... his attainments in Nen are far higher than mine."
Yuu recalled the original work, where Kurapika showed a similar situation in the battle with Uvogin.
When Uvogin used 'Nen' for defense, he could be unharmed even if he took a cannonball at close range.
But if forced into the state of 'Zetsu', without the protection of 'Nen'... even a beginner like Kurapika could easily inflict fatal wounds on his tempered body.
"Looks like it's going to be a tough fight next."
Yuu thought to himself, then launched several rounds of attacks again.
...
After a fierce exchange of fists and feet.
Looking at the time now.
Only a little over twenty minutes had passed, but in the minds of the examiners present, they all marveled at the abilities demonstrated by Yuu.
"Nen ability... can be played so creatively?"
...