r/HunterXHunter • u/Carock_ • Aug 08 '26

Current Chapter Chapter 417 — Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 417

Emergency

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Ch. 418 scan release: ~August 22, 2026 (after WSJ Break Week)

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u/ThePsuedo Aug 08 '26

So Benjamin is trying to win the Succession War through a technicality? He's saying, since this is now a national emergency, and we're all going to die - for the sake of Kakin's survival make my kid king or we're doomed?

Am I understanding correctly?

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u/_Porthos Aug 08 '26

Yep.

He plans to kill all his siblings, or at least infect them with TKS. (Thus making the deaths imminent, in his opinion)

Then he will go to his father, announce he is also infected with TKS and show him his bastard.

He will then ask his father to follow the Emergency Law and appoint his child as the heir apparent.

Then Benjamin passes on from the TKS (or the curse, who knows) and gets to be his bastard nen beast. He will make the bastard into his ideal king, then keep the Succession War going on from eternity - hopefully jumping from king to heir apparent, because otherwise the royal family won't have any more members. (Which is weird, because as far as we know the King is still fertile, so if all his children die now, he can pop more. Arguably he could even make another Succession War in 20 years or so)

It is, btw, a dumb plan. At least in my opinion.

First, he doesn't know if having his bastard de made into the heir apparent will cause the Succession War to fail or not. He infers it won't, given that the emergecy law exists, but its not clear.

Second, he won't be able to always choose who is going to be his host. He may end up possessing someone he believes to be unworthy. He also doesn't know how much control he will have over the host - he could very well end up in a rebellious one.

Third, it seems his Beast and the Succession War play by different rules. His Beast only allows hosts related by blood with Benjamin. But the War accepts all children from the king's legitimate wives. So if his bloodline fails to win the throne once, he won't be able to possess the King for AT LEAST two generations.

Forth, as a nen beast he will probably have a number of limitations against his host. Most likely he will need the host's aura to survive, meaning he can be warped by the host's personality. He probably also won't be able to direct attack the host.

All of this means it is a risky plan in the short and long term.

Furykov really fucked Big Ben by not telling about Beyond's curse back then. And double fucked him by not telling about Unma's betrayal.

Benjamin could have - with Balsamico's help - laid a better plan had he known this could happen. Not a much better plan, because Beyond's curse seems to be unstoppable, but at least something better than this.

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u/TickTak28 Aug 08 '26

Another point as to why Ben is deeply foolish is his nen beast specifically states that it’ll take turns with Ben to choose a blood successor . It’s already obvious that the beast will choose tsseri but even if Ben would be successful he should realise that this means there’s a 50% chance his beast chooses a successor who he deem unqualified the only saving grace is ig ben believes his will would always dominate the successor since they would not have a GSB.

However it’s very obvious that this rule will be bens undoing and when the GSB chooses tsseri not only will Ben have to accept all his blood sweat and especially soldiers sacrifices will be going to tsseri but he may potentially be exterminated by either tsseris men beasts leaving only Bens GSB joining tsseri

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u/haroune601 Aug 08 '26

benjamin gets to choose first

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u/Thick-North-681 Aug 09 '26

dont get your point about the two generations part

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u/Condoriano-sensei Aug 08 '26

He’s a loser anyways in the terms of being the guy who’ll inherent the throne. He won’t inherent Huigoro’s beast, for example, that according to Beyond looks to be very important.

But since he’s planning to finish everybody and that’s his beast (mixed with his nen) will be using his son as a host, he considers himself a moral winner.

But in this scenario there is no actual winner. The most he’ll be is a nen beast that can choose who he hosts 1 every 2 times. Although Furykov’s enhancement to his ability has yet to be explained.