Hunter x Hunter 281

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Hunter x Hunter
#281: Kanmuru
[star: Running for a straight ten weeks starting today!!]
[bigText: IT'S BACK!!!]
[insertTextLeft: Burn, Gon! That fist will avenge your friend!]

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[blah blah blah recap]

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[side text: Strike! Strike! Strike!]
Knuckle: (Lightning...?! // He's frozen up completely!! // Now's my chance!!) // GUAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! // (As long as you're not puffed up, I can hit you...)

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Knuckle: ...ALL I LIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!!!
Yupi: .........

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[no text just - well, it's a page with no text. In a Hunter x Hunter chapter that's basically a godsend.]

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Knuckle: (I did it!! I did it!! I did it!! / Ugh!!! This is too much!!! / I was seriously almost dead for a moment there!! // I even saw a field of flowers!! // First things first - I have to get Shoot to a hospital!! // Hah!! Eight shots should've taken him out!! // Hahahahahah!
Yupi: (What... // ...just happened...? // My ploy was perfect... // So what happened? That's obvious. // There was an attack from somewhere else... // ...that I didn't see coming!!)

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[no text - wait, AGAIN?! *rejoices*]

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Yupi: (Is that even possible?! // I was hit by all that electricity from (probably) straight above me, and I didn't even notice until the moment it hit me...?!! // It was like that before, too... // This annoying little creature just appeared on me out of nowhere... // Without the slightest warning...)

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Yupi: (He's... from the stairs, before... // Him...!!)
Killua: Sorry, but...
Yupi: ?
Killua: Just so you know, everything I am about to do to you... // ...is merely my way of venting my anger.

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Yupi: !!! // (He vani - )

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[no text - THAT'S THREE F***ING TIMES! *watches the killua carnage*]

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Yupi: Ngh...
Killua: "Kanmuru".
[TN: Yeah, yeah, I know it's been said before, but I still don't know where the damn technique name comes from. Anyone? The kanji, for the record, read "Godspeed".]
[Text: Without even time to scream...]

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[Text: ...or indeed the slightest chance to transform, Yupi's freedom was stolen... // ...by the sheer level of that first blow. // Killua's "Kanmuru" involves sending a surge of electricity into his own body... // ...producing movement transcending even the limits of potential. // Fundamentally, Killua divides this into two elements.]

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[Text: "Raikou Sekka", the ability to move his body according to his own will,]
[TN: "Raikou" = "lightning", "Sekka" = "flint fire"]
[Text: and "Shippuu Jinrai", the ability to sense his opponent's movements and have his body react automatically.]
[TN: "Shippuu" = "hurricane", "Jinrai" = "thunderclap"]
[Text: His catching of the dart in his previous fight... // ...was a perfect example of the latter. // He had programmed his body in advance to react to any fluctuations in the enemy's aura indicating malicious intent. // And these attacks, transcending all limits, bypassing the brain and functioning purely on reflex... // ...outstripped the movements of his opponent's body... // ...with ease.]

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Yupi: (What the hell... // ...is going on?! // In terms of sheer, overall power... not a single one of these guys... // ...has even a tenth of what I do. // So why is it... // ...I can't do a single thing...?!!)

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Killua: Shippuu Jinrai!
Yupi: (It's so deep... this aura thing...)
[Text: The change that occurred here in Yupi's mind...]
Yupi: (Shit...)
[Text: ...led him towards a near-unbelievable decision...]
Yupi: (This is getting kinda interesting...
Killua: ?
Yupi: (Back before I let off that blast... // ...I would never have considered enjoying a close-quarters fight...)
[Text: But that is yet to come.]

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Killua: ! // (Crap... I've used it all up.)
Yupi: WAIT!!! // You're not gettin' away!! // You're staying and fighting me to the end! // Until you die!

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Yupi: (He's gone?!! // ......This is it!! Just as though he was never here... // ...he's completely vanished from this place! // There must be!! // There's gotta be at least one guy among them... // ...with the power to appear... // ...and disappear at will!!)

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Knuckle: ......... // (No...... // With his body in that state... where could he have......?! // Shoot!!!)

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Morau: (......!! // Wait... what if... // ...it's not that this guy "didn't" respond to Yupi's intrusion... // ...but that he actually "couldn't"...?! // The inside of a chrysalis is all mixed up, and doesn't even have animal form... // If in the process of transforming he has actually left himself completely defenseless... // ...then this is my chance......!!) // ...... // (Would he do that...? At a moment like this... // ...would he make such a literally fatal mistake...?!)

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Morau: (Impossible!! This must be some kind of trap!! // It has to be a trap!! ............But the problem is... // Is this a trap that activates if I attack...... // ...or is my failure to attack itself... itself the real trap?! // Which is it?!)
[side text: His doubt deepens into bewilderment...]
Pufu?: (Your confusion is the result of your excellence...)
Morau: (But that's all there is to it... // Should I attack? // Or not?!)
[insert text: Which...?!]