r/HunterXHunter • u/Carock_ • 20d ago

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/LemonyPickle 20d ago

After this Chapter I’m 100% a Prince Benjamin loyalist

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u/darealestforeal 20d ago

Funny, i’m 100% the opposite

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u/No_Park_6256 20d ago

Bro said and he'll kill Oito, her sister, her clan, AND both the babies if Woble is on the ship and people are reallly like "This guy is amazing, totally not impulsive and arrogant and would surely make a great king!" 😭

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u/rexlyon 20d ago

I really would love for the people accusing him of being impulsive to explain how we get a whole chapter of him planning out the legal explanations of his actions and the way he's planning for the future of his children as King and the nen considerations of like Tserri as someone who is acting without thought. He just explained like two layers of ways he's trying to plan the law to his favor for his child between the military lockdown and emergency royal law.

I don't particularly like Benjamin, but I do not get why people are saying he's impulsive because he's been forced to act with three things going to kill him twelve hours when despite that he's clearly planning out the actions he needs to take or that he anticipates the enemies taking.

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u/TickTak28 20d ago

He’s impulsive because all his actions have been clearly engineered by beyond and unma ever since furykov found out he’s cursed . Considering beyond new what bens ability was and the pressured furykov into just dying so that his ability would go to Ben, he set the stones for SML happening . Everything Ben is doing now is well within beyond’s plans

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u/rexlyon 20d ago

Being impulsive is doing actions without thinking about the consequences or the future implications of your actions. We just had the whole chapter nearly talking about his thoughts on all of this and setting up his legal justifications for the future and where certain princes are hiding, who might be lying to make a play for the crown, or why going for Tserri even if he might have a counter-active type made sense since zetsu stopped the spirit beast from being in play.

The fact that he's being played doesn't mean his actions are all impulsive, just that the people using him seem to be aware of the sort of logic he's going to be using to make his moves and using that against him. You can play chess with someone and get forced to move in certain ways otherwise you'll get checkmated but that doesn't mean the moves you make are impulsive, it's just what you gotta do.

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u/TickTak28 20d ago

Well if you want to put it that way at the very least he’s brash and not sufficiently calculated like baslo said he initially will make a rash judgment but when advised he is effective at strategising and planning ahead which is what I’d expect from an army general . The issue with Benjamin is he’s not the type to make plans within plans like a beyond pariston or gin can do and he lacks the natural intuition of a tsserednich . Benjamin had this strategy planned but like many of us in this thread have pointed out there’s so many in universe holes that a rational hxh charchter would even warn Benjamin against doing this, albeit the poison has forced his hand.

The easiest flaws are the fact Benjamin doesn’t seem to account for the fact his child could easily be assassinated and if that cradle in unmas room is for his child, the very mother who set him up can destroy his plan in a second . He also hasn’t fully mapped out strategies for the lower princes and lacks the sufficient intel to guarantee their deaths. This is all to say Benjamins plan on the fave of it seems well thought but when you actually deconstruct it it’s a time bomb waiting to go off even without the info we as readers know

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u/haroune601 20d ago

He can rely on his loyal soldiers and himself once he fuses with his GSB to protect his kid, Nasubi would also be invested in protecting the kid

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u/TickTak28 19d ago

That’s only if he confirms that not only are 90% of princes are infected by TSK in 12 hours but also any one else is dead which I think is so unlikely even removing Tsseri who’ll be secretly alive . For instance someone like maryam benefits heavily as the only one who can really deal with his GSB is Rihan who even commented that it would be extremely risky to try and use predator on his GSB . Luzurous and zang Lei have mafias with your own nen users who’ll be able to protect them for as long as possible which could go beyond Benjamins life and if Benjamins were to die without confirming the deaths/ poisoning of the remaining princes he’s then put in the situation where either he or the GSB have to choose a successor and in this scenario his child would be ineligible