Tserriednich's Awakening
Theta agrees to teach the Fourth Prince Nen, planning to throttle the pace. Tserriednich learns in days what takes others years, survives her point-blank bullet through a Zetsu-borne vision of the future, and turns his teacher's deception into a leash around her neck. By day twelve he is closing on sub-second Zetsu — and martial law has just named him a terrorist.
- crosses thread Special Martial Law
- Theta decides to teach Tserriednich — her way
Theta and Salkov are the only Nen users among the Fourth Prince's guards. Theta resolves to handle his instruction personally, planning to throttle the growth of a man whose potential for evil she already knows firsthand.
InvolvedTheta · Salkov · Tserriednich Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich) - Tserriednich's two-week ultimatum
The Fourth Prince orders his attending guards to kill everyone in the class if they cannot learn Nen within two weeks. Kurapika's school acquires a countdown it does not know about.
InvolvedTserriednich Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich) - Silent Majority takes Myuhan
Tserriednich's guard Myuhan becomes the snake ability's next victim. Danjin reports it to the Fourth Prince, who theorizes the Nen classes themselves might be Kurapika's manipulation condition — and demands proof of innocence when the course ends.
InvolvedTserriednich Hui Guo RouLocationRoyal Quarters Block - Tserriednich is a Specialist
Water divination returns the rarest result. Theta privately re-plans her timeline — Zetsu in eleven more days — while her student outpaces every estimate she makes.
InvolvedTserriednich Hui Guo Rou · ThetaLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich) - Tserriednich washes his hands of Morena
On the phone, the Fourth Prince confirms his family's mafia arm has slipped his leash — Morena has been below decks since boarding — and tells the caller to do as they please. Behind him, Theta watches a second, self-made Specialist beast coalesce beside his Guardian Spirit Beast.
InvolvedTserriednich Hui Guo Rou · Theta · Morena PrudoLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich) - Theta shoots her student through the head
Mid-Zetsu-lesson, with the beast temporarily absent, Theta puts a bullet through Tserriednich's skull — and the corpse vanishes. He materializes behind her, alive, praising the 'training.' Whatever he did during Zetsu, her one clean chance is gone.
InvolvedTheta · Tserriednich Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich) - The beast's warning: two lies left
Tserriednich's Guardian Spirit Beast nicks Theta's cheek — a first warning for deception. A second lie brands her face; a third brings 'a punishment worse than death.' Salkov begs her to stop; she cannot.
InvolvedTheta · Salkov · Tserriednich Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich) - Ten seconds ahead: the Zetsu vision
The shooting replayed from the prince's side: full Zetsu grants Tserriednich a vision ten seconds into the future, during which the world sees only his past self. He toyed with Theta, watched her draw in the vision, and simply stepped aside. He resolves to compress Zetsu entry below one second and 'dominate the succession — and the world.'
InvolvedTserriednich Hui Guo Rou · ThetaLocationRoom 1004 (Tserriednich)
- Theta: contain — or end — the monster she is arming, and survive
- Tserriednich: master Zetsu entry under one second and dominate the contest
- What exactly is the second, self-made beast beside his Guardian?
- Can Theta survive a third lie?
- How will he answer being named a bio-terrorist by Benjamin?
- relatedThe Succession Contest
- relatedMorena's Contagion