Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-151.67.74.159-20180222143921

At debut, he was 17 yrs old. Chronologically, he's currently 19 yrs old. But biologically, he's 24 yrs old, after having lost 5 yrs of his lifespan following the 12 hr usage of Emperor's Time at the start of the Black Whale voyage.

While contemplating using Little Eye on Marayam's hamster at the next dinner banquet, he deduced that waiting 24 hrs means losing 10 yrs of lifespan. We know by the time Kurapika passed out, he's been in Emperor Time for 3 hours already. Further, he deduced that the general rule is that he blacks out 3:1 the quantity of time of usage.

The math checks out: 12 hrs = 24 hrs/2 (so 10/2 lost yrs, or 5 yrs)

60*30/365= roughly 5 yrs

Since this is a removal of his lifespan, we have to deduce this means that he is instantly being pushed closer to his time of death, rather than his time of death being pushed closer to his current age, simply because biological aging works forwards... not backwards. This means that Kurapika is right now literally 24 yrs old. Though who knows, there have been plenty of moments in Hunter x Hunter that have defied the asymmetry of time (e.g Gon's transformation, Neon's ability).

But I think we should update Kurapika's page to also keep up with his actual BIOLOGICAL age after each Emperor Time's usage, and parallel it with his chronological age. 