Hunter x Hunter - Unlimited Abilities

It had been two days since Arin learned he was a manipulator.

As he was thinking, he was still sitting at the same coffee shop he was in two days ago. Two days ago he was a manipulator, and he had a specialist ability that was naturally created by the system for him.

Two days of disciplined aura training, physical workouts, and long hours spent in silent meditation. Yet his Nen Points had remained unmoved at 5.0.

He brought the cup to his lips and took a slow sip, the bitterness grounding him.

Then he let the thoughts unfurl.

Manipulators.

And the more he studied the category, the more he realized it is best to focus on subclasses and go on from there.

Arin had jotted them down the previous night in his notebook:

Soliciting Type: Users who offer choices or requests to the target. Control is given, not taken.

Coercive Type: Forcing the target into action, often with a trigger or rule that overrides resistance.

Pseudo-Coercive Type: Illusions of choice. The user manipulates the environment or perspective so the target thinks they are choosing, when really they are being led.

Diffusive Induction Type: Slow influence. Gradual mental or emotional change over time, like a toxin that seeps into thought.

He had stared at that list for hours.

"What if one ability can change its method of control based on the target?"

That had stuck with him all morning.

What if he didn't create one rigid ability but a dual-state power, two versions of the same foundation, each activating under specific conditions or triggers?

Like a machine that shifts gears depending on the terrain.

"A nen ability that works on Nen users and ordinary people with varying degrees of rules."

"Manipulating an ordinary individual or a human being should be much easier than an on-user."

"Hmmm."

He closed his eyes.

Think. What do you want this first ability to do?

The answer came quietly, clearly.

Protect and Influence.

He needed something practical for combat.

Something that protected him and disabled his opponent.

Whether the target was stronger or faster, the ability had to equalize the battlefield.

"According to my wishes, a coercive-type Nen ability with two sets of activation conditions for ordinary people and Nen users is the best."

He envisioned the basic framework.

"Ordinary Individuals."

"Two or three conditions needed to be met, and after the conditions are met, the target individual would be feeling goodwill and loyalty towards himself," he thought.

"For nen users, four conditions needed to be met for the same effect."

Arin thought and then remembered Shalnark.

"Shalnark uses his phone to control people, Nen users or ordinary ones; as long as he sticks the antenna to his target, the ability 'Black Voice' activates."

Arin then asked himself.

"If I were to use direct force, things may be different..."

But it would only work if he added the right rules and limitations.

"If I could get something personal from my target, forcefully or willingly... that would be great."

"I am a killer at heart," he said to himself and then nodded.

"Blood," he thought.

"If I set the condition of 'The target must spill blood via his actions,' and he pricks them with a needle..." 

"I suppose that would work on ordinary people..."

"But if I cause a drop of blood to be spilled against a Nen user, I can only do that while fighting. I am sure a nen user would notice something is wrong and may deduce it is activation condition of my nen ability."

Arin leaned back.

It was a good start.

He just needed to refine the aura mechanics and start training the conditions into his body until the process became second nature.

But he wasn't ready to create it yet. He still had only 5.0 Nen Points.

He finished his coffee and closed the notebook.

"I just need more points," he whispered.

And once that first ability was real, Arin would no longer be just a thinker.

He'd be a force in motion.

"It seems like I will need to use Ancient Custom to create my ability..."

Arin told himself.

He had been thinking about Morena Prudo as he thought about "Ancient Custom."

Specifically, about her Contagion ability.

It wasn't the ability itself that fascinated him; it was the structure.

In Morena's case, the rule was chilling but elegant: those infected by her ability gained power the more people they killed.

It was crude and terrifying, but it worked because it obeyed Nen's deeper logic. Nen rewards commitment and reverence to binding rules.

The stricter and riskier the condition, the more power Nen returned in exchange.

"Sacrificing other people's lives to gain more power is an exchange that the power system of the Nen accepted and worked," he said to himself.

"It suits me," he muttered.

"I don't need a random gimmick."