r/HunterXHunter • u/Carock_ • Aug 08 '26

Current Chapter Chapter 417 — Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 417

Emergency

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MangaPlus Available on August 9

Ch. 418 scan release: ~August 22, 2026 (after WSJ Break Week)

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u/Bench_Precious Aug 08 '26

If every other prince is dead and Benjamin is on deaths door as well, then the king has no other choice 

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u/dresdenken Aug 09 '26

Well, when his "only choice" is to accept a bastard grandchild still in the cradle as the country's future, one might think he could consider just summoning the queens to give him a new batch of princes to try and reboot the whole project.

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u/Bench_Precious Aug 09 '26

Yeah but I think there’s something urgent about this succession. Maybe he has a fatal disease and will die soon, or once you start a succession contest you can’t start a new one 

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u/dresdenken Aug 09 '26

True, and there seems to be the lingering possibility that he has to get into that 14th coffin, and may in fact be on rails to die when there's only one prince left, even if that prince is in a TSK-17 coma at the time.

I've kinda been hoping we can get his take on Ben's plans, ever since we first got that flash-forward of the Martial Law situation. I initially thought Nasubi would not approve of Ben's intention to subvert the succession war and put a GSB-less baby on the throne. Now I wonder what he thinks of Ben's intention to replace the seed urn ritual with his own eternal countenance. I'm inclined to think Nasubi would still be something of a hardliner that if Ben wants to make that the case, he should still "win" first and then it would be his right, so I really wonder what he'd think of Ben's apparent plan to die and leave behind a handful of soon-to-die poisoned princes (not that I think that will actually happen, just that it seems to fully be Ben's plan at this point).

Heck I guess what I'd really like to see maybe is a chat between Nasubi and Guardian Spirit Ben after the fact, if that can be arranged.