Isaac Netero Quotes

Quoted as a triumphant last word, and it is a confession. Netero has lost. Meruem beat him comprehensively, removed an arm and a leg to break the pattern the old man's technique depends on, and then offered him respect, which is more than Netero has offered anybody. So the malice being described is not humanity's in the abstract. It is his own: a man who walked into this fight with a miniature nuclear device sewn inside his chest, having decided in advance that if the King could not be beaten he would be poisoned by a corpse. The line is usually heard as a species issuing a threat. It is one man admitting what he brought, to an opponent who has behaved better than he has throughout, and Hunter x Hunter never lets him off it.

Grant the obvious objection: this is a cheap comeback dressed as philosophy, and the Hundred-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva really does need both hands, so Meruem's read was correct and the reply is a bluff. The bluff is the answer. Meruem has spent the fight solving Netero as a mechanism, working out that the technique requires the palms to be brought together and removing the limb that brings them, which is how the King approaches every problem he meets. What he cannot model is a man who will go on performing an action after it has stopped producing an effect. Netero prays one-armed, the Zero Hand follows, and the fight turns on a King who assumed that something which no longer works would stop being done.