When Odo and Veronica arrived, what they saw was the scene of Ronin erupting with power and hammering the magical-beast gorilla into the ground.
It was too shocking.
The last time Odo and Veronica had seen that magical-beast gorilla, the monster had easily pounded their captain at the time into the earth, reducing him to something like rotten mud.
That incident had made them clearly understand just how powerful the magical-beast gorilla was.
Even now, Odo believed he had grown stronger and possessed strength no weaker than that captain from back then.
But when facing the magical-beast gorilla, he would still feel fear from the bottom of his heart. He would even have to rely on special abilities and indirect tactics just to have a slight chance of fighting it without dying.
And yet now, such a powerful monster had been smashed straight into the ground from the front by a human.
So Regson and the others had been dealing with a monster like this before?
No wonder they died!
Facing this kind of human-shaped monster, Odo and Veronica both knew very clearly that if they went up against him, they would definitely die too.
"You actually caught up."
Ging's voice suddenly sounded from behind the two of them.
Clearly, the sight of Ronin brutally beating down the magical-beast gorilla had shocked them so much that they had failed to notice Ging approaching.
Almost without hesitation, Odo and Veronica made the same choice.
They both raised their hands and completely restrained their Nen.
"We surrender!"
Surrendering might let them live.
Resisting meant certain death.
That was the voice that appeared in both of their hearts the moment Ronin's gaze swept toward them.
Ging understood everything just by looking at their expressions. He did not say much. Instead, he simply tossed them the rope he had prepared in his backpack.
The two were efficient as well, tying each other up.
Ging was not afraid of them playing tricks. He brought them back to where the group was.
At that moment, however, the battle had not yet ended.
Because one arm was reaching out from the huge crater smashed into the ground. Although it was covered in blood, the powerful Nen radiating from it told everyone that the magical-beast gorilla that had been punched underground was not dead yet.
"You really can take a beating," Ronin said.
He had already exited the state of the sixth gate, the Gate of View. Even as an Enhancer, he could not maintain the Gate of View for long.
However, after leaving that state, his condition began improving rapidly. That was the explosive effect of an Enhancer's powerful healing ability.
Perhaps in only a few minutes, his own tremendous recovery would return him to peak condition.
That was the benefit of choosing self-healing as the main focus of his Enhancement.
If he actively entered a state of Zetsu, he could even raise that healing and recovery effect by another level.
The magical-beast gorilla that climbed out of the crater also had decent self-healing ability, but compared to Ronin, it was far inferior. After all this time, the wounds on its body still showed no sign of closing.
Of course, those charred and split-open injuries were indeed difficult to repair.
"You are strong!"
Clumsy words came from the gorilla's mouth. When its brutal eyes looked at Ronin now, there was an unmistakable wariness that had not been there before.
Ronin was not particularly surprised that the gorilla could speak.
From the moment it had shown the ability to use Nen, Ronin had already classified it as a magical beast.
And in Hunter x Hunter, the definition of magical beasts did indeed include the ability to speak.
"You're not bad either. But are you showing weakness now because you're planning to run?" Ronin's face carried a somewhat malicious smile.
It had come over and provoked him for no reason. Now that it realized it could not win, it wanted to run?
There was no such convenient thing in the world.
"What do you want?" the gorilla asked.
It admitted that it really did want to flee.
"Either submit, or die," Ronin said calmly, giving it two choices.
Anger appeared on the magical-beast gorilla's bloodstained face.
But after seeing Ronin's aura rising higher and higher, it very honestly chose to bend both knees and kneel directly on the ground.
It knows when to bend and when to stand tall, Ronin judged.
Then his figure flashed, appearing directly near the magical-beast gorilla. At the same time, he raised his hand and pressed it toward the gorilla's body.
In that instant, he could feel the gorilla instinctively wanting to counterattack.
But the moment its muscles tensed, it forcibly suppressed that impulse through sheer willpower.
Pain came from the area around its neck. The gorilla had no idea what Ronin had done to it.
But Ronin had already pulled back and retreated.
While researching sealing techniques, Ronin had also casually studied a type of ninjutsu known as cursed seals.
Whether it was the Tongue Eradication Seal, Orochimaru's cursed seal, or the Hyuga clan's Caged Bird Seal, he had studied them all.
Among them, the two marks he considered the most useful were Root's Tongue Eradication Seal and the Hyuga clan's Caged Bird Seal.
The former could forcibly silence a person and prevent them from leaking information.
The latter could directly control the life of the one branded with the mark.
As for Orochimaru's cursed seal, Ronin had discovered during his research that it seemed to require splitting off a fragment of one's soul and placing it on the target for the cursed seal to function.
Compared to planting that cursed seal on others, Ronin felt it might be more effective on himself.
Because the essence of Orochimaru's cursed seal was something Orochimaru had created based on Jugo's ability to sense natural energy and even unconsciously absorb it.
The physical transformation users underwent in the cursed seal state was similar to the mutation caused by absorbing too much natural energy.
So Ronin's idea was simple: use the power of the cursed seal to help himself master natural energy.
If he could truly do that, his strength would rise even further. It might even double.
After all, that was Sage Mode.
As for the seal he had planted on the magical-beast gorilla now, it was the Hyuga clan's Caged Bird Seal.
What surprised Ronin was that the Caged Bird Seal was not an ability that only worked on members of the Hyuga clan. It could also be planted on outsiders.
Its effect was even the same as when it was placed on a Hyuga clan member.
But after thinking about it carefully, that was not actually strange.
There were also quite a few branch family members in the Hyuga clan who had not worked hard to awaken the Byakugan.
But could one say those people would truly never awaken the Byakugan in their entire lives?
Clearly, that was uncertain.
So, to prevent the Byakugan from being stolen, placing the Caged Bird Seal on those who had not yet awakened their eyes was the safest approach.
And before awakening the Byakugan, a Hyuga clan member was no different from an ordinary person.
Of course, much of this was Ronin's speculation.
But now, when he saw the mark of the Caged Bird Seal appear on the magical-beast gorilla's forehead, he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with his guess.
So Ronin simply formed hand seals directly, first letting the magical-beast gorilla understand that its life was now in his hands.
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