Incident report · Chapter 352

Troublesome

Voyage day unrecorded

Chrollo finishes the syllabus: Order Stamp drives beheading puppets on simple commands, Gallery Fake — Kortopi's page — copies bodies to feed it, and Convert Hands swaps faces. Then the fine print: The Sun and Moon belonged to a man now dead, so its Nen has intensified past removal; the marks persist until they explode. Chrollo asks if Hisoka still wants to continue. He does, happily, and the fight moves into the stands.

Voyage recorder
Event sequence
  1. Nen revealCanonical
    Order Stamp, Gallery Fake, Convert Hands

    Chrollo completes the lecture: Order Stamp drives simple-command puppets, Gallery Fake (Kortopi's ability) copies bodies to puppet, and Convert Hands swaps appearances. The trap inside the tutorial: The Sun and Moon outlives its dead owner, so its marks are permanent — and, as Hisoka will learn too late, they protect marked copies from vanishing.

    Consequences (1)
    • Chrollo's kill-chain is assembled in the open, daring Hisoka to solve it
  2. Nen revealCanonical
    The last borrowed ability: Convert Hands

    Chrollo shows the fifth stolen tool — Convert Hands, an arrow on each palm: his right hand makes a target look like Chrollo, while his left makes Chrollo look like the target; touching with both swaps their appearances. Double Face lets him keep one ability active while opening another page, allowing the five-tool plan to operate as a sequence rather than all at once.

    Consequences (1)
    • Hisoka can no longer trust that any face in the arena is really Chrollo's
Differential analysis
What changed in this chapter?
New knowledge
  • Post-mortem Nen can override other abilities' restrictions — a dead owner's page never leaves Chrollo's book
New abilities
  • Order Stamp: vocal-command control of 'puppets' — including Gallery Fake copies of corpses
  • Convert Hands: appearance-swapping palm marks
New threats
  • Chrollo's kill-chain needs the audience itself as raw material