Except for special circumstances, if the professional hunters of the Hunter Association want to get a 'Star'…
The promotion condition from a Pro Hunter to Single-Star Hunter is to achieve outstanding achievements and contributions in a specific field.
The condition for promotion from Single-Star to Double-Star is to personally teach a Pro Hunter who can earn Single-Star title.
The conditions for promotion from Double-Star to Triple-Star are is to achieve outstanding achievements and contributions in multiple fields, which can also be understood as a top-tier complex Pro Hunter.
In the Hunter Association, the number of complex Pro Hunter who attain Triple-Star is very limited.
Similarly, among Nen Users, there are also only a few people with complex Nen Abilities that possess multiple abilities.
Saccho is one complex Nen User.
The Counseling Room.
This is one of Saccho's abilities.
He can materialize a door leading to a counseling room on the wall outside a semi-enclosed space.
Opening the door reveals the interior of the counseling room, complete with hypnotherapy chairs, cathartic equipment, sand tables and other tools used for psychological counseling.
Being a qualified counseling room, it has many characteristics, such as quiet soundproofing, bright comfort, easy access, and strong privacy.
After activating his ability, Saccho can only bring one person into the counseling room at a time.
Also due to the counseling room's strict requirement for maintaining silence, after Saccho takes someone into the counseling room, the door cannot be touched by any external force, not even a light knock on the door.
If this rule is violated, the ability effects of 'The Counseling Room' will be interrupted immediately.
In the room next to the monitoring room, Saccho materialized the door leading to 'The Counseling Room', and successfully brought Little Dina, a girl from the family of three, into the counseling room.
Cheadle and Kanzai stood outside the door of the counseling room, waiting for the results.
Inside the counseling room…
"Little Dina, sit there."
Saccho pointed to the hypnotherapy chair, and when he spoke, his voice seemed to have a suggestive magic that could make people subconsciously obey.
Little Dina, who had been curiously examining the sand table in the counseling room, obediently sat on the hypnotherapy chair upon hearing Saccho's words.
"Close your eyes and imagine yourself lying in a golden rice field, with a gentle breeze coming from a distance, gently brushing against your cheeks..."
Saccho's tone was full of tenderness, as if it contained an invisible Nen force that gently merged into Little Dina's mind.
Little Dina closed her eyes and her body showed she is in a very relaxed state.
This indicated that the hypnotic ability of Saccho's Nen Ability was taking effect.
Saccho raised his hand, and the sand table near the door instantly moved to his side.
"Little Dina, I want to ask you a question, okay..."
The extremely gentle voice echoed in Little Dina's ears.
Little Dina, whose consciousness was immersed in imagination, slowly nodded.
"You don't need to say it, just think of the answer in your mind... let your thoughts drift with the breeze towards those golden and plump rice…"
After necessary preparations were made…
Saccho directly asked questions related to the airship.
Then-
The sand in the sand table beside him suddenly began to flow, as if it had its own consciousness, and slowly creating a series of images.
Saccho stared at the changes in the sand table, and his mind instantly received clearer images.
About twenty minutes later…
Saccho took Little Dina out of the counseling room, and then hypnotized Little Dina's parents.
After the final result comes out, Saccho retracted his ability.
"How is it?"
Kanzai couldn't wait to ask.
Saccho waved and a videotape was materialized.
"See for yourselves."
"Okay."
Rather than having Saccho explain verbally, Kanzai preferred to understand the situation by watching the videotape.
He took the videotape from Saccho's hand and immediately asked: "Where are the video player and the TV?"
"…"
Saccho looked at Kanzai and said slowly: "They are in the adjacent monitoring room."
"I thought you could use your Nen to conjure them."
Kanzai understood and muttered with some disappointment. Without caring about Saccho's reaction, he dashed out of the room and went to the adjacent monitoring room.
Saccho looked at the open door, shaking his head in sigh.
'How can I waste my 'Nen capacity' on this kind of thing when we can obviously use real-world video players and TVs?'
"Saccho, I won't watch the video."
Cheadle also glanced at the open door, then turned to Saccho and said, "I just want to know what you've discovered."
"That woman was also a loyal fan of Swamp Man. She had attended Davidson's signing event and had physical contact with him at the signing event."
Saccho recounted slowly: " Apart from that, there are no memories related to 'transformation', and the same goes for the man and child. This is in line with the characteristics of the Manipulator Nen Ability."
"Another signing event... Except for a few Swamp People who have been identified through surveillance, among our investigation targets, the people with the highest priority are those who have participated in Swamp Man's signing event."
Cheadle supported her chin with her thumb and spoke in a deep voice: "It's just that we still don't have a proper method to distinguish between normal humans and Swamp People yet, so the results are minimal. In the end, through other means and methods, we only confirmed '8' Swamp People, and I believe they are likely the first batch of Swamp People."
"Well, I think…a loyal reader, attending signing events, having a signed copy of Swamp Man, and having physical contact with Davidson."
Saccho's eyes showed a thoughtful expression as he speculated:
"These might be the conditions for the transformation of the first batch of Swamp People. Regardless of whether they are the first or second batch, they can only spread their abilities by 'personally ending the target's life'."
"Saccho, there must be more than just four conditions."
Cheadle shook her head and said solemnly:
"There are definitely at least two more triggering conditions that we don't know, otherwise, the number of black human-shaped scorch marks would have already become overwhelming. In the final analysis... any form of containment measures we implement won't be as effective as finding Davidson as soon as possible! "
Speaking of this, Cheadle felt fortunate once again.
Fortunately, there was Moses's timely reminder, otherwise, they would not have been able to take action so quickly.
Now, they have taken strong measures against those loyal readers who attended the signing events, hoping to obtain more information while suppressing the Swamp People's spreading ability as much as possible.
On the other hand, it is necessary to confirm as soon as possible whether Nen Exorcists can restore the Swamp People to their original state.
Although the Nen Exorcists who were previously invited to solve the problem of Nen Space do not have enough confidence to deal with Nen Space and Libra, they can probably be useful in the Swamp Man incident.
But it's just like she said.
Any response measures are not as effective as finding Davidson directly.
…
"So, you haven't found Davidson yet?"
In the apartment in Spice City, Moses looked at Pyon and asked doubtfully: "There are so many Pro Hunters in the Hunter Association, are there none of them who has Nen Ability to 'find people'?"
To fundamentally solve the spread of the Swamp Man phenomenon, there is no other way except to find the 'caster'.
Even though Moses can sense the aura of the Swamp People, he completely lacked the ability to stop the spreading phenomenon.
After all…
The area of the incident was not just a city or an island, but the entire world.
The range of Moses's aura sensing is very limited, so how can he possibly keep up with the speed at which the Swamp People are spreading around the world?
Such a large-scale vicious event involving the whole world can only be solved by colossal entities like the Hunter Association or V5.
Moses still has this bit of self-awareness.
He is not so narcissistic as to think that he will become a hero who can help the world overcome a catastrophic threat, and he also does not think that he will be a key figure in resolving the disaster.
But it couldn't be denied…
Assuming that no one else can detect the Swamp Man's unique aura, then he is the most special existence in this incident.
Although he had decided to hide this ability, Moses eventually agreed to Pyon's invitation and joined the emergency response team for the Swamp Man incident.
Then, he asked Pyon the most critical question.
Why hasn't they found Davidson yet?
Moses knows that there is a rare talent like Palm in the Hunter Association. Her Nen Ability, 'Merman Clairvoyance' is a precious Nen Ability that is extremely efficient at finding people.
'With her Nen Ability, finding Davidson shouldn't be difficult, right?'
'Could it be that Palm has not become a Pro Hunter at this point in time, or has she hadn't developed her Nen Ability 'Merman Clairvoyance'?'
'Now that I think about it, judging from Palm's normal appearance when she appeared in the original work, she should be in her early twenties.'
'And now, there are still six years before the plot begins, which means that Palm is probably still a girl between 15 and 19 years old.'
'Well, it was hard to imagine the possibility of Palm developing the Nen Ability 'Merman Clairvoyance' at this age.'
The sudden realization of this matter gave Moses a wake-up call.
Although he didn't know the circumstances that led to Palm developing the Nen Ability of 'Merman Clairvoyance', he could be more careful in the future. And perhaps, he could get ahead of Knov and recruit a rare talent like Palm with good potential as one of his own.
"Kester, are you okay?"
Pyon asked in annoyance, then picked up the phone again and answered Moses's question in a matter-of-fact tone:
"If the association really had someone with that kind of talent, this troublesome matter would have been resolved long ago, and I wouldn't have to come all the way here to investigate this nonsense!"
"So, considering the scale of the Hunter Association, they should have a deep understanding of the Swamp People by now, and have corresponding measures to effectively suppress the spread of the Swamp People, right?"
Moses didn't pay attention to Pyon's annoyed tone. He had originally assumed that the Hunter Association had talents like Palm, so he threw out a question that already had an answer.
Hearing this, Pyon curled her lips and said: "Most of the time, the Swamp People are just normal people, and we lack the ability to accurately distinguish them. It takes a lot of effort to find a Swamp People, so how can we possibly have effective means to suppress the spread?"
"Is that so?"
Moses groaned after hearing this, and then asked: "Then, at the very least, do you..."
"Wait a minute!"
Pyon suddenly put down her phone and said loudly: "I am the one who 'asked', right? How come it's you asking all the questions now?"
"It's okay for us to take turns asking a question."
Moses said calmly: "So, what do you want to ask?"
"Kester, why do the Swamp People that die at your hands suddenly turn into black swamp mud?"
"I don't know."
"???"