The difference is that Shizuku activates her Nen ability by issuing commands to Blinky.
Thus, she can ignore the method and process of absorbing objects.
Owl's Fun Fun Cloth, on the other hand, must be used personally and requires approaching the target and wrapping it.
Due to Blinky's characteristics, Shizuku mainly handles cleanup and transport. Before dealing with corpses, she will first ask the troupe members.
Shizuku is polite by nature, but innately forgetful. Mixed in with a crowd, she looks very much like an ordinary girl.
However, in terms of strength, she does not lose to the members of the Phantom Troupe at all.
Shizuku has a certain level of combat ability and can flexibly summon and dismiss Blinky during battle.
She can cause bleeding wounds on enemies' bodies, use it for close-range attacks, or suck all the blood out of her enemies.
She once single-handedly took down two members of the Shadow Beasts.
Because her Nen ability is quite rare, she was called an indispensable member of the troupe by Shalnark.
As for her personality, she is extremely forgetful, with short-term memory loss.
Sometimes she does not remember other people's names or what she herself has said; as long as she does not take something to heart, she will quickly forget it.
Her humble, cute, and airheaded appearance causes opponents to underestimate her combat ability.
Compared to other troupe members, Shizuku is actually more like a machine in her ruthlessness.
Even when she saw the fortune poem and learned that she would die the following week, she remained very calm.
Moreover, she trusts the leader very much and strictly abides by the troupe's rules.
She is indifferent to other matters, but this principle must be obeyed.
When internal disagreements arose within the troupe between saving companions and adhering to the rules, she would unhesitatingly choose the latter.
At this moment, when facing Franklin's invitation, Shizuku Murasaki thought about it briefly, then nodded.
"Sure."
She still looked at Franklin with her innocent, big eyes and said, "I'm willing to join you."
"Huh?! You agreed just like that?!!"
Bonolenov Ndongo, who was following behind Franklin, was full of astonishment.
"You're not going to ask about the specific conditions within our troupe, or what exactly you'll be doing?"
"What if we're bad people and just sell you off directly..."
At this point, Bonolenov Ndongo could not continue speaking.
It seemed like, maybe, probably, possibly... They really were bad people themselves.
"It doesn't matter."
Shizuku still wore that blank, cute expression. "If you're a good person, I'll follow you and be a good person."
"If you're bad people, then I'll follow you and be bad people together."
"Since I've joined this team, whatever you do, I'll do it along with you."
Shizuku spoke honestly, very much like a declaration of marry the chicken, follow the chicken; marry the dog, follow the dog.
Well, if she acted like this on certain social platforms, it would very likely provoke a siege by a group of sisters.
Bonolenov Ndongo: "..."
You really are the embodiment of going with the flow!!
"But whether you can truly join in the end still depends on our leader."
Bonolenov Ndongo could not help but add.
"Our leader's review is quite strict."
"If you want to truly become one of us, the leader won't make it that easy..."
"I approve."
Far away in the Vice-Chairman's office of the Hunter Association, Luke received Franklin's call and agreed immediately.
After understanding the situation clearly and knowing who the invited person was, Luke naturally had no reason to refuse Shizuku.
"For now, I won't meet her yet."
Luke said with a smile to Franklin on the other end of the phone. "You can take her to meet the other troupe members first."
"Just in time, Feitan, Phinks, and Uvogin are about to stir up some trouble again."
"You can take this Shizuku along to help them handle things a bit, do some cleanup, and wrap things up."
"Next time, when we have a group activity, we'll meet together."
After speaking, Franklin, on the other end of the phone, nodded after receiving the instructions.
"Understood."
Click.
The call ended.
Listening to the busy tone on the other end, Franklin raised his head and silently glanced at Bonolenov Ndongo.
The latter: "..."
He directly wrapped his face completely with bandages in frustration.
Fortunately, Franklin was not the type to talk too much or be bored with gossip, and Shizuku was clearly someone who would not care about such things.
Perhaps after some time, she would forget everything anyway.
This allowed Bonolenov Ndongo to temporarily save a bit of face.
And thus, Shizuku Murasaki officially joined the Phantom Troupe.
Moreover, under Luke's authorization, Franklin presided over the card-drawing ceremony on his behalf.
And the number she drew, representing her position, was the same as before, number 8.
It could be said that the members who originally belonged to the Phantom Troupe were gradually returning to their positions one after another.
As time passed, things were also slowly returning to the original established plot and fate...
Of course, compared to before, there were still very big differences now.
Mainly under Luke's influence, the Phantom Troupe had long since become something completely different from what it once was.
Moreover, even the composition of the members was greatly different from the original.
For example, the original no. 4 member, Omokage, had already been rejected and kept outside by Luke.
And Gon, who originally did not belong to the Phantom Troupe, was also, under Luke's influence, successfully brought in and became a member of the troupe.
Even Luke himself had replaced Chrollo and become the leader of the Phantom Troupe.
Many places in this world had also undergone a series of changes under Luke's influence.
But some things were still the same as before.
For example, when time slowly entered the year 1998, right at the very beginning of the year, a rather big problem was delivered to the Hunter Association.
And as the most important task at the very start of the year for the Hunter Association, nothing was more important than the new hunter exam that began every year on January 7.
By this year, 1998, it had already reached the 286th hunter exam.
According to common sense, it should have proceeded smoothly as well.