At that moment, Ronin suddenly thought of something else.
When he transmigrated, the manga had already been updated to Chapter 410, and Chapter 401 had revealed a crucial piece of information.
Beyond had left quite a few illegitimate children in Kakin. Among them, some had even infiltrated the ranks of Kakin's fourteen princes.
And the reason he had been able to do that lay in one important law issued by the Kakin royal family.
That law was the crime of "disrespect."
All behavior that showed contempt toward the royal family was forbidden. Violators would be executed. Before the modern era, even lower officials submitting criticism to the throne, or commoners directly looking at royalty, could be punished by death.
Even now, after democratization, all acts involving contraception, abortion, paternity testing, and other matters related to the royal family were still considered treasonous acts of disrespect that harmed the prosperity of the royal bloodline. Anyone involved would be executed immediately.
That law had given Beyond the opportunity to successfully place his child among the princes.
So who had given birth to Beyond's child? And which prince was that child?
Based on appearance, Ronin felt the most likely candidate was the Fourth Prince.
The First Prince and Ninth Prince looked almost exactly like Unma, while the Fourth Prince's appearance and talent were extremely similar to the two members of the Netero family.
But was it really that simple?
What if the Ninth Prince was actually Beyond's child—and was born between Beyond and First Queen Unma?
Things seemed to be getting more and more interesting.
Beyond's method of cuckolding someone right under their nose, then stuffing his own child into the family to compete for the inheritance, really was eye-opening.
And more than that, according to the manga's plot, in order to help his child win the Succession War, Beyond had also left behind other curse-bearing individuals in Kakin.
This guy had really found a whole new way to play with descendants.
If all of his plans succeeded, then this Succession War might allow the Hui Guo Rou family to unknowingly hand all of Kakin over to the Netero family.
You could call it a perfect decades-long operation to steal a nation.
But now Ronin had appeared.
If he could kill the Fourth Prince here, would that destroy Beyond's plan?
After all, judging by appearance and talent, Ronin still felt the Fourth Prince matched the Netero family's traits better.
No, that wasn't quite right either.
The Ninth Prince had also displayed astonishing talent, and the ability he awakened during the Succession War was quite special as well. He was definitely a highly gifted individual.
Ronin couldn't tell Kurapika about these future-like pieces of knowledge. He could only slowly reason through them on his own, and for a while, it made his scalp tingle.
The waters of Kakin really were deep and chaotic.
The matter of the Phantom Troupe was temporarily set aside.
According to Kurapika, even if they really did appear, it would still take some time to investigate them.
The assassination operations were temporarily halted.
Kakin had strengthened its defenses, and the princes had reduced their activities by quite a lot.
The whole city carried an air of refusing to rest until the culprit was caught, and the atmosphere became tense and oppressive.
Ronin, on the other hand, started taking Shizuku and Neon around to enjoy some of Kakin's specialty foods and scenery, while also buying quite a few things.
During that time, Ronin heard about another matter.
Kakin was searching for experts in biology, apparently because they wanted to investigate and catalogue certain creatures within their territory.
Ronin thought of Kite.
Kite had apparently taken on that mission before and discovered the Camping Tiger in Kakin.
Unfortunately, Ronin was not a biology expert, nor did he have experience tracking and investigating large creatures, so he didn't bother joining in.
This leisurely period lasted for more than a week.
Kakin not only dispatched large numbers of personnel to investigate the assassin's identity and whereabouts, but later even hired professional Hunters to help search.
But no matter how they investigated, they found no clues about the culprit. The assassin seemed to have vanished into thin air.
More than a month later, that tension finally faded, and the princes gradually resumed their activities.
Even so, it was clear that things were only relaxed on the surface while remaining tight underneath.
They were probably waiting for the assassin to appear again, but Ronin was also observing the new changes in the princes' entourages.
Many more Nen users had been added to the teams. Some were sent by the Royal Army, while others were professional Hunters.
When Ronin saw the people sent by the Royal Army, he immediately understood their abilities.
They were exactly the kind of people with targeted abilities he had discovered during the previous attacks.
As for the professional Hunter—
that was him.
That's right. Ronin simply took his Hunter License and applied for a position as a guard for the Third Prince.
The Third Prince was still alive.
However, he seemed to have no memory of dying. He only remembered that he had once been assassinated.
Also, before Ronin met the Third Prince, he was warned not to reveal anything about Nen to him.
And the person who warned him was that newly arrived Nen user with sensory-type abilities.
Ronin agreed seriously.
After all, he was currently using his official Hunter identity, so it wouldn't be good to do anything too outrageous.
But he already had an idea.
He wanted to make the Third Prince notice the existence of Nen under the enemy's tight security.
He wanted to see how they would respond if that happened.
The Fourth Prince's side did not hire professional Hunters, but the number of security personnel around him had increased even more.
That was probably because he had been the first target of assassination.
The one who tested this out was Ronin's shadow clone, though it wasn't there to assassinate anyone, nor was it using Deidara's identity.
There was no need to fight in order to make contact with the Fourth Prince.
All he had to do was openly enter the Fourth Prince's hotel and sit down in the lobby. When the time came, the Fourth Prince would naturally appear.
And since he made no effort to hide himself, he naturally became a key surveillance target for the hotel's security staff.
But that also meant the Fourth Prince's bodyguard team had long since known about his presence. So when he saw the sensory-type Nen user beside the Fourth Prince, the other party merely watched him for a short while before looking away.
There were clearly more Nen users in the team now.
Most importantly, Ronin saw someone with large areas of tattoos on his body. Although that person was only using Ten, he gave off a rather dangerous feeling.
Especially when the man looked at the shadow clone with that probing gaze, the clone felt his hair stand on end.
His eyes didn't look like they were looking at a person.
They looked more like they were looking at a product.
There was no respect for life in that gaze.
Only indifference and disdain.
Clearly, the Tonpa appearance Ronin had transformed into had completely failed to catch that man's interest.