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[box: Without a thought to the possible consequences, // Pufu ignored the King's orders and rushed directly to the throne room on the third floor.]
Pufu: YOUR MAJESTYYYYYYY!!!

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Hunter x Hunter
#264 - Break In (4)
Pufu: It's a "Dragon Dive"!!!
[TN: The kanji for "Dragon Dive" are much more satisfying than the broken English... they read "ryuuseigun", a word that generally means "meteor swarm", but here the "ryuu" ("falling") of "ryuusei" (meteor, literally "falling star"), is replaced with a different "ryuu" meaning "dragon" to give the literal meaning of "dragon star swarm".]
[insert text: The dragons, covering the breadth of the sky, swoop down upon the ants on the ground below!!]

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[box: As such, // although Pitou had sighted the enemy in advance, his precaution of deactivating his En in order to prepare for battle backfired.]
Pitou: Where did they...?! // ......
[box: The two intruders concealed their presence and hid themselves behind the glittering shower of dragons; Pitou lost sight of them completely.]

281
[box: ...However, // having witnessed a threat to the King with his own eyes, Pitou honed his six senses to their utmost limits... // ...and simply hurled himself towards where he knew the intruders must be.]

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[box: Far more dangerous than the countless dragons raining down through the sky... // ...that human!!!]

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Pitou: (Terpsichore!)
[box: This is the En ability that Pitou activates when he needs to fight at full strength.]

285
[box: It takes a mere tenth of a second for Pitou to go from activating this ability straight into an attack.]
Netero: Ho ho... // I had anticipated any number of forms of attack and defence...
[box: And yet what Pitou heard during that tiny interval...]
Netero: But you've made a bad move... / Little ant.

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Zeno: It's certainly true. // Impossible, you say? // No, it's true. // It's something like the so-called "revolving lantern"... // You know when a person is about to die, time becomes incredibly slow, and their own life spins before their eyes? / It's a little like that.

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Zeno: Well, it's distinctly easier to measure the authenticity of this phenomenon. // In this case, one hears not one's own thoughts, but the thoughts of one's opponent. // In other words, you can end up hearing information that you don't actually know yourself. // Both parties can bear witness to that. // In one martial art, the phenomenon is known as "Shinteki Kenchou".
[TN: Literally, by the kanji, "Mental Fist-Hearing"]
Zeno: At the moment when two incredibly powerful opponents clash, the flow of time can seem disrupted. // The secret to the old guy's power? // Well, there are many different aspects to it... // But firstly, his Nen is terribly subtle. / Nobody can read his next move from the flow of his aura.

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Zeno: He doesn't just look old... Mentally, you could almost call him on a level with a plant. // Back when I was only a baby, that guy was already an old man. / He's the only man alive who has fought with my own grandfather. // Oh, he's certainly a frend... Hmm... Well, we've been there for each other through good and bad. // But there's no way you could call us equals! The guy's reduced me to tears any number of times...!! // Hm? Ah, yes... // The secret to his power... // Well... yes, I suppose... // If we're talking about combat here... // Hyakushiki Kannon. // That's the nastiest thing he's got up his sleeve.
[TN: Hyakushiki = "100 Styles", "Kannon" is the name of a Buddhist deity.]

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[box: Netero's movements are all executed in a supremely fluid and gentle fashion - that is what Pitou observed, but... // Nay. // There can be no doubting that everything was accomplished in the fraction of a second between the activation of Pitou's En ability and the start of his attack. // Because of this, Pitou could not possibly have perceived Netero's movements... // ...without compressing his own sense of time near-infinitely, to the point where time, for him, ceased to move at all.]
[TN: Dear Lord, that was a bitch to translate. I hope I've actually got it right. (And frankly, that goes for *all* of this crazy exposition, not just that last part ~_~)]

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Box: [in other words, what truly occurred...]

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Pitou: ?! // (How did the attack get down there...?! It wasn't...!! // What the...?!)

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Netero: I would be grateful if you would disappear to a place far from here.
Pitou: ......

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[Text: Day of the tournament, 12 o'clock midnight // The attacking party invades the palace!]
[insert text: There is no turning back... they fight to the death!]