Kurapika briefs the room: the voyage is a war of heirs, and the royal guards were the higher queens' spies all along. Parasitic Guardian Spirit Beasts crowd visibly into the suite — unknown even to the princes who host them — and Kurapika broadcasts their existence ship-wide under his real name. Then Momoze's beast puppets Sayird into killing Kurton and the last two royal guards.
- ConversationDay 1CanonicalKurapika briefs the room on the succession war
Kurapika tells everyone in Room 1014 what only the royal guards knew: the voyage is a war of heirs. The seven royal guards, he reveals, were chosen by the seven higher queens to spy on Oito — protection contingent on their clients' interests.
InvolvedKurapika · Bill · Sayird · Shimanu · Oito Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito) - DiscoveryDay 1CanonicalGuardian Spirit Beasts crowd into Room 1014
Multiple parasitic Nen beasts manifest in Woble's quarters, visible to Nen users and no one else. The princes themselves do not know the creatures exist.
InvolvedKurapika · Oito Hui Guo Rou · Woble Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito) - DecisionDay 1CanonicalKurapika's all-channels broadcast
Kurapika gives his name over the ship's emergency channels and announces that Nen beasts have appeared in his quarters — deliberately detonating the contest's secrecy to force every camp onto the same uncertain footing.
InvolvedKurapikaLocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito)▸Consequences (2)
- The surprise value of Benjamin's planned Nen assault is nullified
- Every camp now knows a Nen professional guards the Fourteenth
- DeathDay 1CanonicalA possessed Sayird kills three guards
Sayird, puppeted by a Guardian Spirit Beast, kills Kurton and the last two royal guards. Kurapika subdues him without killing — the enemy, whatever it is, can wear the detail's own people.
InvolvedSayird · Kurapika · Bill · Oito Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito)▸Consequences (1)
- Woble's escape plan dies with Kurton, whose ability could have carried five people off the ship
- The Guardian Spirit Beasts are parasitic and invisible to their hosts
- Kurapika's broadcast levels the intelligence field between camps
- The enemy can puppet members of the detail itself
