Balsamilco Might

Benjamin's chief strategist and the quiet engine of the First Prince's campaign. Reads the war chapter by chapter, correctly deducing more about Kurapika's abilities from secondhand reports than most eyewitnesses manage.

Addendum ch.402Volunteered himself as assassin: loaded a vial of the failed bioweapon TSK-17 into a gas mechanism in his shoe and walked into the Tier 2 courthouse to erase Halkenburg at their trial.

Addendum ch.403Halkenburg shot first. The arrow swapped their minds; since then the body reporting 'mission progress' to Benjamin has been Halkenburg wearing Balsamilco. Balsamilco's own mind sleeps while the intruder holds priority.