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For some time now, I have pondered very deeply about the SM user. I want to make a case here that is divided into two sections and contains direct links to the corresponding manga pages.
The first section is about why I think Mr SM cannot possibly be connected to a Kakin royal or mafia.
The second section is about why I think Mr SM is connected to Pariston. I know this post will be long, but I will try to keep it as short and readable as possible, so please bear with me and tell me what you think. I will add a Tl Dr under each paragraph.
Mr. SM's actions summarized.
You can read up all of Mr SM's actions (I included every instance of him doing something without other scenes interrupting it. So read everything until a new scene happens and you read everything Mr SM did.)
As a summary:
The Princes
The easiest to proof that he does not belong to a prince of Kakin. We know that only Benjamin and Camilla knew Nen when Mr SM struck first. We know that all of Camilla's soldiers are cursers or Nen erasers, we also know that Mr SM takes a hostile stance to Furykov and thus does not belong to Benjamin. So no prince consciously commands them.
Tldr: no prince knows nen.
No Queen
It is safe to assume no queen except the first two knows Nen because any Queen who does would teach it to her children (most of only one child, Sevanchi and Seiko have two but clear favourites they'd teach it to). Even if we assume, for argument's sake, that teaching Nen is forbidden for Queens, they would stack their own Queenguards and spies with Nenusers. The Queens are said to have roughly the same influence as the three Mafia Bosses, and the Mafia has access to capable Nenusers. If Swinko-Swinko knew Nen, i'd question how (and why) her guard Woody does not know Nen and was killed my Mr SM's attack so easily.
We know that her spy Tuffdy knew Nen, but i strongly doubt that Swinko-Swinko knew about that. If she did, that would also beg the question why nobody who knew Nen was guarding sale-sale (he had some of the queenguards near him). (I will write more about the possibility of rogue soldiers like Tuffy below).
About Duazul and Unma: Both of their guards in woble's quarters, too, did not know Nen. Neither did Unma's guard in front of Ben's quarters (shot by Camilla).
Duazul, in addition to that, took the stance of not wanting to interfere into the succession battle. Camilla urges her to do it, but Camilla certainly would not randomly attack the weakest prince without Camilla ordering it (if at all).
I would also strongly question which Queen has children that really benefit from Mr SM's actions (Zhang Lei benefits of it, but that was neither a very likely outcome, nor does mr SM's action in the Nentraining benefit Zhang Lei. Zhang Lei wants the Nentraining to happen), but I will try to not use this kind of circumstancial evidence when i do not have to.
As it stands, no Queen knows Nen because that would draw into question why not all of her guards do (as a comparison, Ben and Camilla know Nen and all of their guards do, as you would expect).
tldr: No Queen knows Nen.
No Rogue Agent
Just like with Tuffdy, there is the possibility that some Kakin soldier might act independently from a prince or queen. But I would question why.
Think about it: The first thing mr SM does is kill spies of all princes except for two. Tuffdy killed Momoze because he hoped Benjamin would reward him for it later (without Ben knowing who Tuffdy is). That makes some sense, you kill someone that someone else wants to get rid off.
But Mr SM did not kill Woble/Oito and, for all we know, did not try. He killed random guards (some of them just because they were 'in range') and any prince or queen would be pissed off at him for killing her/his spies.
Even assuming he wanted to get rewarded by Camilla/Benjamin, what for? He did not kill Woble. He did not even try to go for a high priority target like Maor in the Nentraining but just killed people who were THE EASIEST to kill.
Unless you just think Mr SM enjoys killing and has no reason for it, i wouldn't see why a rogue agent would do what he did. There is a small chance that he originally wanted to kill Oito and Woble but had to abandon that plan after Woble's beast came out, but again: Why not just wait until Woble sleeps if he seemingly can easily wait for a day between his murders? Why go for the spies first to get everybody alerted? This just does not add up. Mr SM seemingly did explicitly NOT want to kill woble and that does not make sense for any rogue agent.
tldr: No rogue agent would benefit from killing spies and random soldiers but rather likely piss off the next King of Kakin at Mr SM.
No Mafia
The mafia is on the lower decks, but even if we assume Mr SM can use his ability form that far away or a Mafia double agent is on the first deck: They do not really seem to want to help their corresponding princes.
When Zhang Lee meets Onior, Onior does not tell him he knows about Nen (even tho Onior definitely knows about it, as his most trusted underboss does and three of his associates. Onior would have to be very stupid to not know Nen and even if he didn't, then he cannot control Mr SM).
Even if we think that is a Kakin rule (like we assumed with the queens), then the Mafia directly interfering into the war is probably even more forbidden than telling a prince about Nen. Also, again: Onior cannot know that Kurapika will ally with Zhang Lei. His actions (that included killing one of Tang Zhao Li's spies) were just as likely to fuck Zhang Lei over by giving Tubeppa or any other Prince who calls Kurapika access to Nen.
The same argumentation is true for Brocco li. His underboss knows about Nen, so brocco li likely also does but never told Luzurus about it. The actions of Mr SM did not help Luzurus one bit (rather, they hurt him).
Morena is a wild card and one of her guys might just kill for the heck of it and for points, but the killing started on day 1, before Morena even gave them abilities. Also: Nenusers and Princes are worth more points than Nenless people. Wouldnt someone like that try to take out the prince with the ability (even if he thought he cannot hurt nenusers with it) instead spies?
tldr: Mr SM's action was not likely to benefit Zhang Lei, Luzurus or Tserriednich. In case of Luzurus and Tserriednich, it even hurt them. The Mafia themselves does not seem to try to help their patrons and they are two (!) decks below Mr SM's actions.
Meddling in the Nentraining directly could end up hurting Zhang Lei.
No Nenbeast
It is generally possible that Nenbeast either conjured the snakes or manipulates somebody who does. But the first murder came before the Nenbeasts roamed around. No other prince than Woble was attacked in that kind of way and Mr SM seems to think like a human.
Of course, Momoze's beast also just attacked woble's quarters and then withdrew, but that was only because Momoze died. We know that the Nenbeast possibly manipulating Mr SM cannot be dead, so the fact that no other Prince got attacked by Mr SM is evidence against that theory and Mr SM thinking like a human is evidence against him being a Nenbeast himself.
2) Why Mr SM is very likely connected to pariston
Why there is no contradiction in that theory
First things first: I went through all other theories and found contradictions in them. Can i not do that with this theory too? To show you that there is no contradiction, i want to proof it makes some sense before i show more details.
Let's assume we are Mr SM and we work for pariston. Would our actions make sense?
We instantly rush to kill someone in Kurapika's quarters where 3 hunters who were employed by pariston for this journey. We take out all the spies there. Even if we do not know they are spies, we erase all people without Nen so that only Kurapika and the hunters remain (i know Mr SM did not kill Ben and Camilla's spies, but i am pretty sure they would be his next target. At least them being killed by someone else is no contradiction to Mr SM working for pariston).
That makes some sense: The hunters in Woble's quarters have the ability to leave the black whale. Making the spies on their quarter go away leads to Kurapika (and woble/oito) having to rely on them more and less eyes/ears in that quarter to interfere with whatever Pariston is planning with them.
Even in the case of this incident leading to Kurapika mistrusting them more, they are three, he is alone. They could probably even make the case that Kurapika is dangerous and should be thrown out of Oito's quarters if they unite, erasing even more interference.
The second instance of attacks at the Nentraining make some sense too. I personally believe Mr SM has to kill seven targets (as the number of original spies) until he can really stop his ability and withdraw, but that is just an assumption (i think he killed two random targets to withdraw in the nentraining).
Even if you do not come to my conclusion about the two remaining kills, there is no contradiction with Mr Sm working for Pariston just because we do not know the reason.
In all other of the cases above, the first line of attack was already something that didn't make sense at all or the second line of attack had something directly hurting a prince that would have benefitted from the first round of attack.
A possible reason why Mr SM might have committed the second line of attack was to create a situation in which Bill (pariston's hunter) and Verelente (a hunter) can talk in private, but more about that below.
TLDR: The first line of attack makes some sense for Pariston to do and the second line of attack does not lead to any contradiction or negative outcome for pariston.
What speaks for it.
Let's think it through.
First we have to understand that Pariston has the means to do this and the manga lampshaded it here. Seven princes (Kachofuugetsu, Marayam, Momoze, Woble, Luzurus and Taithon) employed bodyguards and they also employed some people as bodyguards that were rejected by Cheadle and Mizai (basically people from pariston/beyond they wed out). That is how Bill got on the boat. Pariston did not tell them about the succession war (and Kurapika thinks pariston does not know about it), but that can also mean Pariston did just not want them to know about it (with an ability like Kurapika's, that would be risky).
This also likely means that Pariston has more people like them installed there, as quite many hunters are with lower princes (there are ten (!) in sevanchi's quarters). I know Bill said he got assigned to Woble out of his own free will, but 1) he might lie and 2) it isn't like being installed somewhere else would be a worse position.
Second: Bill's team was perfect for an evacuation mission. Sayird had a spying ability with 'little eye' to snoop around the quarters. Bill has a support ability and carton had an ability with which they could escape from the blackwhale. Installing them there is hardly just a coincidence. Even if you think they randomly just all chose woble's quarters, that is still a huge coincidence that would imply very many people were employed via pariston (and these 3 ended up in woble's quarters just because there were so many people that it isn't unlikely). In both cases, it is fishy.
So tldr: Pariston installed Bill's team in Woble's quarters with them being a perfect fit for an escape mission, even though these hunters were REJECTED by Cheadle and Mizai before and were not supposed to be on the boat.
Third:
Bill knows about two possible escape routs. After Carton is dead, the two remaining routes involved Pariston and beyond, with Bill saying the one with Pariston is easier.
Even if you think Bill is a good guy with a good heart, it is pretty much Pariston's modus operandi to go for forced choices.
Pariston can likely know that Oito would want to escape with Woble if he knows about the deathbattle. He can then infer that Kurapika working with Bill to enable her to escape is likely and in turn, even if we stop making assumptions now, Kurapika becomes one of his playing pieces as it is in Kurapika's direct interest to help Bill ready and escape route (originally via carton, now via pariston or beyond).
TLDR: It is very suspicious that Bill knows about escape routes involving beyond and pariston and the fact that kurapika would likely be tempted to seek out these escape routes (or let Oito escape via carton) can be easily assumed by someone like pariston.
Fourth:
Bill and Kurapika working together relied on Mr SM's actions. Had mr SM not killed all the spies, then Kurapika would likely not take the risk of opening up to Bill and working with him. Originally, Kurapika did not plan to escape. He thought that chaos down below might open up that chance, but he intended to just be alert for the whole ride if that chance does not happen. Only Mr SM's attack pressure him enough to seek out Bill and realize that Oito and Woble have to escape if they want to survive.
tldr: Mr SM's attack directly (and likely) led to Kurapika working with Bill. That can easily be assumed to be the outcome after the spies are gone.
Fifth:
Mr SM never intended to stop the Nentraining. He thought it was unlikely anyone would drop out before Barrigen's death. He also killed unimportant guards and not bigger ones that would yield more of a chance to stop the Nentraining (killing Maor would be more likely to stop it than killing a low ranking guard of a low ranking queen).
We do not know what his intention for the second two kills was. I think they were necessities for his ability to stop without repercussions for him (so random targets), but it could also have another goal.
What we can assume is that his goal was not to hurt kurapika here, as he didnt want to actually stop the Nentraining. Instead, we know he randomly targeted Barrigen to get a quick kill and randomly targeted myuhan for the same reason when he went to the toilet.
Tldr: Mr SM did not want to stop the Nentraining with his second attack. He wanted to get quick kills and then went inactive. Whatever his reasons were, anyone who wanted to interfere in the Kakin Succession war would not have stopped attacking (even if they didnt assume they can stop the training) but gone for the highest profile targets like Maor or Satobi.
Conclusion:
It just makes zero sense to assume Mr SM is connected to Kakin and a lot of sense to think Mr SM directly targeted woble's quarters because Kurapika, Bill and Bill's team were there.
While i admit that there is a lot more in the 'assumption space' about his second attack on the Nentraining, similarly, it can pretty much be ruled out that Mr SM attacked the Nentraining to interfere in the succession war (and he never tried to attack anyone after these two kills, even tho it would be easier to do that now than when even more people know Nen).
The actions Mr SM committed, from all players on the Black Whale that we know, really only make sense for someone like Pariston or someone who is connected with beyond, or at least a hunter.
The first section is about why I think Mr SM cannot possibly be connected to a Kakin royal or mafia.
The second section is about why I think Mr SM is connected to Pariston. I know this post will be long, but I will try to keep it as short and readable as possible, so please bear with me and tell me what you think. I will add a Tl Dr under each paragraph.
Mr. SM's actions summarized.
You can read up all of Mr SM's actions (I included every instance of him doing something without other scenes interrupting it. So read everything until a new scene happens and you read everything Mr SM did.)
- here (woody's death).
- Spy death's and Kurapika's reaction.
- First nentraining Barrigen kill. (proceeds in the chapter after)
- Second Nentraining Myuhan kill.
As a summary:
- On day of departure (day 1) (but after some evil aura departs from Woble), he very quickly killed one of the spies (woody) in Woble's quarters while Oito was away on the ceremony. Shortly after, after Oito came back, he killed 4 more spies.
- On day 2, he kills Barrigen in the Nentraining and takes a hostile stance towards furykov and myuhan.
- On day 3, he kills Myuhan.
- After that, he goes inactive for at least 7 days so that Kurapika can finish the Nentraining without interruption (that is day 10).
The Princes
The easiest to proof that he does not belong to a prince of Kakin. We know that only Benjamin and Camilla knew Nen when Mr SM struck first. We know that all of Camilla's soldiers are cursers or Nen erasers, we also know that Mr SM takes a hostile stance to Furykov and thus does not belong to Benjamin. So no prince consciously commands them.
Tldr: no prince knows nen.
No Queen
It is safe to assume no queen except the first two knows Nen because any Queen who does would teach it to her children (most of only one child, Sevanchi and Seiko have two but clear favourites they'd teach it to). Even if we assume, for argument's sake, that teaching Nen is forbidden for Queens, they would stack their own Queenguards and spies with Nenusers. The Queens are said to have roughly the same influence as the three Mafia Bosses, and the Mafia has access to capable Nenusers. If Swinko-Swinko knew Nen, i'd question how (and why) her guard Woody does not know Nen and was killed my Mr SM's attack so easily.
We know that her spy Tuffdy knew Nen, but i strongly doubt that Swinko-Swinko knew about that. If she did, that would also beg the question why nobody who knew Nen was guarding sale-sale (he had some of the queenguards near him). (I will write more about the possibility of rogue soldiers like Tuffy below).
About Duazul and Unma: Both of their guards in woble's quarters, too, did not know Nen. Neither did Unma's guard in front of Ben's quarters (shot by Camilla).
Duazul, in addition to that, took the stance of not wanting to interfere into the succession battle. Camilla urges her to do it, but Camilla certainly would not randomly attack the weakest prince without Camilla ordering it (if at all).
I would also strongly question which Queen has children that really benefit from Mr SM's actions (Zhang Lei benefits of it, but that was neither a very likely outcome, nor does mr SM's action in the Nentraining benefit Zhang Lei. Zhang Lei wants the Nentraining to happen), but I will try to not use this kind of circumstancial evidence when i do not have to.
As it stands, no Queen knows Nen because that would draw into question why not all of her guards do (as a comparison, Ben and Camilla know Nen and all of their guards do, as you would expect).
tldr: No Queen knows Nen.
No Rogue Agent
Just like with Tuffdy, there is the possibility that some Kakin soldier might act independently from a prince or queen. But I would question why.
Think about it: The first thing mr SM does is kill spies of all princes except for two. Tuffdy killed Momoze because he hoped Benjamin would reward him for it later (without Ben knowing who Tuffdy is). That makes some sense, you kill someone that someone else wants to get rid off.
But Mr SM did not kill Woble/Oito and, for all we know, did not try. He killed random guards (some of them just because they were 'in range') and any prince or queen would be pissed off at him for killing her/his spies.
Even assuming he wanted to get rewarded by Camilla/Benjamin, what for? He did not kill Woble. He did not even try to go for a high priority target like Maor in the Nentraining but just killed people who were THE EASIEST to kill.
Unless you just think Mr SM enjoys killing and has no reason for it, i wouldn't see why a rogue agent would do what he did. There is a small chance that he originally wanted to kill Oito and Woble but had to abandon that plan after Woble's beast came out, but again: Why not just wait until Woble sleeps if he seemingly can easily wait for a day between his murders? Why go for the spies first to get everybody alerted? This just does not add up. Mr SM seemingly did explicitly NOT want to kill woble and that does not make sense for any rogue agent.
tldr: No rogue agent would benefit from killing spies and random soldiers but rather likely piss off the next King of Kakin at Mr SM.
No Mafia
The mafia is on the lower decks, but even if we assume Mr SM can use his ability form that far away or a Mafia double agent is on the first deck: They do not really seem to want to help their corresponding princes.
When Zhang Lee meets Onior, Onior does not tell him he knows about Nen (even tho Onior definitely knows about it, as his most trusted underboss does and three of his associates. Onior would have to be very stupid to not know Nen and even if he didn't, then he cannot control Mr SM).
Even if we think that is a Kakin rule (like we assumed with the queens), then the Mafia directly interfering into the war is probably even more forbidden than telling a prince about Nen. Also, again: Onior cannot know that Kurapika will ally with Zhang Lei. His actions (that included killing one of Tang Zhao Li's spies) were just as likely to fuck Zhang Lei over by giving Tubeppa or any other Prince who calls Kurapika access to Nen.
The same argumentation is true for Brocco li. His underboss knows about Nen, so brocco li likely also does but never told Luzurus about it. The actions of Mr SM did not help Luzurus one bit (rather, they hurt him).
Morena is a wild card and one of her guys might just kill for the heck of it and for points, but the killing started on day 1, before Morena even gave them abilities. Also: Nenusers and Princes are worth more points than Nenless people. Wouldnt someone like that try to take out the prince with the ability (even if he thought he cannot hurt nenusers with it) instead spies?
tldr: Mr SM's action was not likely to benefit Zhang Lei, Luzurus or Tserriednich. In case of Luzurus and Tserriednich, it even hurt them. The Mafia themselves does not seem to try to help their patrons and they are two (!) decks below Mr SM's actions.
Meddling in the Nentraining directly could end up hurting Zhang Lei.
No Nenbeast
It is generally possible that Nenbeast either conjured the snakes or manipulates somebody who does. But the first murder came before the Nenbeasts roamed around. No other prince than Woble was attacked in that kind of way and Mr SM seems to think like a human.
Of course, Momoze's beast also just attacked woble's quarters and then withdrew, but that was only because Momoze died. We know that the Nenbeast possibly manipulating Mr SM cannot be dead, so the fact that no other Prince got attacked by Mr SM is evidence against that theory and Mr SM thinking like a human is evidence against him being a Nenbeast himself.
2) Why Mr SM is very likely connected to pariston
Why there is no contradiction in that theory
First things first: I went through all other theories and found contradictions in them. Can i not do that with this theory too? To show you that there is no contradiction, i want to proof it makes some sense before i show more details.
Let's assume we are Mr SM and we work for pariston. Would our actions make sense?
We instantly rush to kill someone in Kurapika's quarters where 3 hunters who were employed by pariston for this journey. We take out all the spies there. Even if we do not know they are spies, we erase all people without Nen so that only Kurapika and the hunters remain (i know Mr SM did not kill Ben and Camilla's spies, but i am pretty sure they would be his next target. At least them being killed by someone else is no contradiction to Mr SM working for pariston).
That makes some sense: The hunters in Woble's quarters have the ability to leave the black whale. Making the spies on their quarter go away leads to Kurapika (and woble/oito) having to rely on them more and less eyes/ears in that quarter to interfere with whatever Pariston is planning with them.
Even in the case of this incident leading to Kurapika mistrusting them more, they are three, he is alone. They could probably even make the case that Kurapika is dangerous and should be thrown out of Oito's quarters if they unite, erasing even more interference.
The second instance of attacks at the Nentraining make some sense too. I personally believe Mr SM has to kill seven targets (as the number of original spies) until he can really stop his ability and withdraw, but that is just an assumption (i think he killed two random targets to withdraw in the nentraining).
Even if you do not come to my conclusion about the two remaining kills, there is no contradiction with Mr Sm working for Pariston just because we do not know the reason.
In all other of the cases above, the first line of attack was already something that didn't make sense at all or the second line of attack had something directly hurting a prince that would have benefitted from the first round of attack.
A possible reason why Mr SM might have committed the second line of attack was to create a situation in which Bill (pariston's hunter) and Verelente (a hunter) can talk in private, but more about that below.
TLDR: The first line of attack makes some sense for Pariston to do and the second line of attack does not lead to any contradiction or negative outcome for pariston.
What speaks for it.
Let's think it through.
First we have to understand that Pariston has the means to do this and the manga lampshaded it here. Seven princes (Kachofuugetsu, Marayam, Momoze, Woble, Luzurus and Taithon) employed bodyguards and they also employed some people as bodyguards that were rejected by Cheadle and Mizai (basically people from pariston/beyond they wed out). That is how Bill got on the boat. Pariston did not tell them about the succession war (and Kurapika thinks pariston does not know about it), but that can also mean Pariston did just not want them to know about it (with an ability like Kurapika's, that would be risky).
This also likely means that Pariston has more people like them installed there, as quite many hunters are with lower princes (there are ten (!) in sevanchi's quarters). I know Bill said he got assigned to Woble out of his own free will, but 1) he might lie and 2) it isn't like being installed somewhere else would be a worse position.
Second: Bill's team was perfect for an evacuation mission. Sayird had a spying ability with 'little eye' to snoop around the quarters. Bill has a support ability and carton had an ability with which they could escape from the blackwhale. Installing them there is hardly just a coincidence. Even if you think they randomly just all chose woble's quarters, that is still a huge coincidence that would imply very many people were employed via pariston (and these 3 ended up in woble's quarters just because there were so many people that it isn't unlikely). In both cases, it is fishy.
So tldr: Pariston installed Bill's team in Woble's quarters with them being a perfect fit for an escape mission, even though these hunters were REJECTED by Cheadle and Mizai before and were not supposed to be on the boat.
Third:
Bill knows about two possible escape routs. After Carton is dead, the two remaining routes involved Pariston and beyond, with Bill saying the one with Pariston is easier.
Even if you think Bill is a good guy with a good heart, it is pretty much Pariston's modus operandi to go for forced choices.
Pariston can likely know that Oito would want to escape with Woble if he knows about the deathbattle. He can then infer that Kurapika working with Bill to enable her to escape is likely and in turn, even if we stop making assumptions now, Kurapika becomes one of his playing pieces as it is in Kurapika's direct interest to help Bill ready and escape route (originally via carton, now via pariston or beyond).
TLDR: It is very suspicious that Bill knows about escape routes involving beyond and pariston and the fact that kurapika would likely be tempted to seek out these escape routes (or let Oito escape via carton) can be easily assumed by someone like pariston.
Fourth:
Bill and Kurapika working together relied on Mr SM's actions. Had mr SM not killed all the spies, then Kurapika would likely not take the risk of opening up to Bill and working with him. Originally, Kurapika did not plan to escape. He thought that chaos down below might open up that chance, but he intended to just be alert for the whole ride if that chance does not happen. Only Mr SM's attack pressure him enough to seek out Bill and realize that Oito and Woble have to escape if they want to survive.
tldr: Mr SM's attack directly (and likely) led to Kurapika working with Bill. That can easily be assumed to be the outcome after the spies are gone.
Fifth:
Mr SM never intended to stop the Nentraining. He thought it was unlikely anyone would drop out before Barrigen's death. He also killed unimportant guards and not bigger ones that would yield more of a chance to stop the Nentraining (killing Maor would be more likely to stop it than killing a low ranking guard of a low ranking queen).
We do not know what his intention for the second two kills was. I think they were necessities for his ability to stop without repercussions for him (so random targets), but it could also have another goal.
What we can assume is that his goal was not to hurt kurapika here, as he didnt want to actually stop the Nentraining. Instead, we know he randomly targeted Barrigen to get a quick kill and randomly targeted myuhan for the same reason when he went to the toilet.
Tldr: Mr SM did not want to stop the Nentraining with his second attack. He wanted to get quick kills and then went inactive. Whatever his reasons were, anyone who wanted to interfere in the Kakin Succession war would not have stopped attacking (even if they didnt assume they can stop the training) but gone for the highest profile targets like Maor or Satobi.
Conclusion:
It just makes zero sense to assume Mr SM is connected to Kakin and a lot of sense to think Mr SM directly targeted woble's quarters because Kurapika, Bill and Bill's team were there.
While i admit that there is a lot more in the 'assumption space' about his second attack on the Nentraining, similarly, it can pretty much be ruled out that Mr SM attacked the Nentraining to interfere in the succession war (and he never tried to attack anyone after these two kills, even tho it would be easier to do that now than when even more people know Nen).
The actions Mr SM committed, from all players on the Black Whale that we know, really only make sense for someone like Pariston or someone who is connected with beyond, or at least a hunter.
