What is a King without a CROWN!?
Not one of gold, or jewels—
But of pure, divine Nen!
A crown that shatters illusions, that peers through lies, that burns deceit with insight!
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👑 Let it be forged now: The Crown of Clarity — Kanseigan no Ōkan (冠聖眼の王冠)
A King sees not just the world… but the world beneath it.
He sees through trickery, falsehoods, lies of the heart and illusions of the soul.
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💡 Nen Ability: Crown of Clarity – Divine Disillusion
Category: Specialist (with conjuration-enhanced visuals)
Type: Passive/Triggered Nen Construct
Form: A spectral crown made of spinning lenses and orbiting prisms that forms above Kaen's head when activated.
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🧠 Functionality
1. Absolute Illusion Rejection
• Kaen can instantly detect Nen-based illusions, disguises, false auras, or memory manipulation.
• These effects become visible as "fractures" in the air—cracks in reality.
2. Clarity State – Kanseigan ("Crown-Eyed Insight")
• Kaen activates a Focused Mode that sharpens perception, akin to a hyper-enhanced En.
• During this state, even micro-expressions, heartbeat frequency, or aura misalignments are readable.
3. Counter-Phantom Layer
• By learning the structure of an illusion, Kaen can mentally "turn it off" like flipping a switch—
But only if he's seen its trick before, and if it was created by a Nen user he has studied.
4. Shared Vision with the Mind Palace
• Renzu and Mora can project decoded illusions into the Mind Palace in real time, creating a library of tricks—a vault of deception Kaen will never fall for twice.
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🎯 Limitation
• The Crown of Clarity requires intense Nen focus. When active, Kaen cannot use offensive constructs simultaneously.
• Extended use causes a "cognitive burn," temporarily blurring real-world stimuli if overused.
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👁️ Visual
When activated, the crown appears as a translucent golden ring of interlocking glass shards and prisms above Kaen's head.
Each shard reflects a different layer of truth—like he's seeing the world through divine refraction.
Those who lie in his presence feel naked.
Those who rely on illusion… tremble.
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Black Whale – Upper Tier Meeting Room
It smelled of polished guilt.
Too clean. Too staged.
Kaen sat alone at the table—his reflection sharp in the black marble surface.
Then the doors parted, and a boy with worried eyes and royal robes stepped inside.
Prince Marayam.
One of the younger princes. The one who sent the mercs that tried to slaughter Kaen's followers.
Yet here he was—alone, unarmed, and humble.
"Kaen-dono…" Marayam said softly. "I'm sorry. I didn't know what my guards were doing. They acted without orders."
Kaen didn't answer.
Instead, the Crown of Clarity shimmered into view—glass shards orbiting like stars around a golden ring.
And instantly—
The illusion fractured.
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💡 Through the Eyes of the Crown
To everyone else, Marayam looked calm, sincere.
But Kaen saw it:
• His heartbeat rhythm was staggered—a sign of rehearsed anxiety.
• His Nen aura twisted behind his left shoulder—someone else was puppeteering emotions.
• A false memory was layered over his recent timeline. Someone had rewritten what he believed he remembered.
Kaen smiled—just slightly.
"Tell me, Prince… who taught you to lie like a servant?"
Marayam froze.
"I—what?"
Kaen stood. His aura rippled like molten glass.
"You tried to kill me. And now you ask for an alliance.
That means you've seen something that scared you.
Tell me the truth—or your memory becomes my next ability."
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🧠 Inside the Mind Palace
Renzu worked at a massive mechanical map of the Black Whale, fed by Kaen's sensory memory.
"His mind has been tampered with," Renzu muttered. "Not wiped—overwritten. Carefully. Elegantly."
Mora hovered behind him, eyes wide.
"But who could rewrite memories like that?"
Kaen answered them through the Palace connection:
"Only someone who treats the mind like a library.
A Librarian of Lies."
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📚 Enter: Professor Saravak
As Kaen pressed Marayam, a name slipped free.
"It wasn't me," the prince muttered. "It was… Professor Saravak. The one my father hired to 'tune' my memory."
Kaen blinked.
Professor Saravak—former Nen researcher. Expelled from the Hunter Association.
His theory: "History is what the brain agrees to remember."
Mora gasped. "He used to work under Knov."
And now… he was somewhere aboard the ship.
Changing truths like rewriting books.
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🧨 Meanwhile – A Silent Attack
Back in Deck 6, a wall tore open.
A thin man in black stepped through, hands tucked into his sleeves.
"Target is awake," he whispered. "Engage Mental Seal Protocol."
His aura didn't scream violence.
It whispered extinction.
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🌪️ Kaen's Mind Is Attacked
Suddenly—
CRACK
Kaen felt it—not in his body, but in his Mind Palace.
One of the rooms—Mora's Tower—began to fade.
Memories inside her domain blurred. Visions twisted.
"I—I'm forgetting things—!"
A voice echoed inside Kaen's skull:
"Sleep now, boy. This throne is not yours."
Kaen dropped to a knee.
But the Crown of Clarity flared—its prisms catching the corrupting Nen like a spiderweb of light.
"No… not today."
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🔥 Crown of Clarity – Shatter Mirror Technique
Kaen raised both arms.
The crown exploded into spinning glass sigils—each one orbiting his head at supersonic speed.
"Shatter Mirror!"
Each sigil locked onto a fragment of the invading Nen.
They pulsed—then snapped them in half, revealing a glowing black thread—
A connection to the intruder's aura.
"There you are."
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⚔️ Kaen Teleports to the Infiltrator
"Memory Step—Execute."
Kaen vanished from the chamber.
And appeared directly in front of the attacker—his aura boiling with exposed rage.
The infiltrator blinked once. Then grinned.
"So the experiment has teeth."
Kaen didn't respond.
He simply raised his palm.
And pulled from the Mind Palace a new ability, built from imagination and necessity.
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💠 New Construct: Thronebreaker Pulse
A short-range Nen shockwave that severs external Nen connections trying to influence the user's mind.
He activated it—
BOOOOOOM
The infiltrator screamed—his connection to Saravak burning away like parchment.
Kaen stepped over him.
"Send Saravak a message: I will rewrite his history next."
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🩸 Ending Scene – Mora's Awakening
Back in the Mind Palace, Mora collapsed.
But her tower stopped flickering.
She looked up at Kaen's throne—and whispered:
"You didn't just protect us…
You used the illusion against itself."
Kaen stood beneath the Crown of Clarity.
Eyes sharp.
Heart harder.
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📚 TO BE CONTINUED in Chapter 40 – The Librarian of Lies