Hunter x Hunter 265

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[side text: The life of the man who stands at the summit of the Hunter Organisation... revealed!!!]
[sFX: whistle]
[sFX: illegible symbols]

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Hunter x Hunter
#265: Break-in (5)
[insert text: President Netero's path to the top!!]
[Text: Netero, 46 years old. Winter.]

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[Text: Feeling that his body and his martial arts had approached a limit, he worried until he could worry no more, and reached a conclusion. // The conclusion that he eventually reached was... // GRATITUDE. // His deep debt of gratitude to the martial arts skills that had brought him this far... // He resolved to pay back that debt to what extent he could in his own way. // Ten thousand every day. // The Righteous Punches of Gratitude!!]

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[Text: Preparation, // worship, // prayer, // readying, // and the thrust. // To complete this cycle once initially took him five to six seconds. // On the first day, it took him over eighteen hours to complete the full ten thousand.]

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[Text: After completing that, he would collapse immediately and sleep. // And once he awoke, it was back to the cycle of punching. // After two years of living like this, // He noticed something terrible. // He had finished the day's ten thousand punches, // yet the sun had not set.]

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[Text: As he passed the age of fifty, // he underwent a true metamorphosis. // Those ten thousand Punches of Gratitude... // ...could be completed in a single hour!! // As such... // He spent more of his time praying.]

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[Text: When Netero descended from the mountain, // His fist...]

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[Text: ...was faster than... // ...sound itself.]
Dudes: (I must have... imagined it... // For a moment... he vanished... // The sound... came after the punch...) // Master......?
Master: Ka... // ...Kannon-sama has.........!!
[TN: Kannon is the Buddhist deity of mercy]

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Netero: Now, then... // Shall we battle for your sign?
[TN: Referring to the tradition in which one can take the dojo's sign for oneself as a sign of victory if one defeats its master.]
Master: My sign... // I lay it at your feet. // I beg of you... // Take me as your apprentice......!!
[Text: A monster... // was born.]
Netero: Okay. // If you'll let me have something to eat.
[Text: This all happened over sixty years ago.]

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Pitou: (At this rate, I'll be blown far away from here...) // PUFU!! // (He doesn't hear me... // All his attention is on protecting the King...)

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Pitou: (Doctor Price!!!)
[Text: Originally, this ability had no use whatsoever outside of healing. // "Doctor Price" cannot move from the position to which she is initially summoned, and Pitou, who created her, is connected to her by a tail, and so his radius of movement is limited to a twenty metre radius.]
Pitou: Nnnngh...

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[Text: But that limitation... // ...is exactly what Pitou needed in this predicament.]
Pitou: I've stopped......!!
[Text: About 100 metres above the ground, Pitou deactivated the ability, and descended towards a point approximately 500 metres from the palace.]
Pitou: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Faster...!!
[Text: Right in the middle of this fall, which to Pitou seemed to take an eternity,]

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[Text: The dragon rain... // ...pierced the palace.]
Pitou: (Your Majesty......!!!)

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[TN: Damn, this manga-ka knows how to create awesome manga. Just the way he's covering the actual entrance of the invaders... and those two double spreads... just wow.]
[insert text: And in that instant, the "Dragon Dive" hits!!!]