Meruem

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The chimera ant king, Meryem (メルエム, Meruemu?) is the most powerful offspring of the chimera ant queen. Shortly after his birth, Meryem leaves the hive and N.G.L. with his royal guards in search of a place to start his kingdom. He descends on the Republic of East Gorteau and takes over the country by killing its dictator, Ming Jol-ik. Meryem then uses Jol-ik's corpse as a puppet to order East Gorteau's entire population to gather simultaneously in the capital city for a national rally, in order to create a situation in which entire towns and villages could be secretly abducted for a "selection": the forcible awakening of Nen in order to create an army of super soldiers to conquer the world.[18] [19] [20] [21] The Hunters Association mobilizes an extermination team in response in order to raid the East Gorteau kingdom and assassinate Meryem, composed of Hunters Netero, Morel, Knov, Knuckle, Shoot, Palm, Killua, and Gon.

Meryem takes an interest in various board games, and gathered various champion-level players to his palace. Simply by reading the rule books, Meryem was able to master any game in under ten matches, simultaneously learning from his opponents while disrupting the "flow" of their play style. After defeating the best player for each game, Meryem proceeded to kill them, as they were of no further use to him. The final game Meryem learns is Gungi, a fictional shogi-like board game invented by East Gorteau. The world champion for the game is Komugi, a seemingly dimwitted blind girl; However, as Meryem played against her, he found himself unable to disrupt her flow, while at the same time, the challenge of playing against Meryem caused Komugi's skills to increase. Much to the shock of the royal guards, Meryem even starts show respect for Komugi and concern for Komugi's well being. In one instance Meryem rips his left arm off, as an apology to Komugi for asking her to bet her left arm on a game, to which she replied that she always bet her life. In another instance, after watching Komugi's nen suddenly awaken, and realizing she would grow exponentially stronger, but only in terms of Gungi, Meryem momentarily decides that his power of "violence" was the strongest type of strength, and ultimately Komugi's abilities are meaningless; Yet, moments after this decision, Meryem finds Komugi under attack by a large bird of prey, and is unable to bring himself to do anything except protect her, ultimately unable to understand his own emotions toward Komugi. This leaves Meryem in a contemplative state, wondering about the purpose for his existence in the world. While the Hunters' assault the castle, Komugi is gravely injured by a nen ability meant to cause confusion within the palace, and Meryem orders Neferpitou to save her life. During Meryem's confrotation with Netero, Meryem reveals that he finally realizes that he should use his power to save certain humans that were worth saving, but only those special few, because of this Netero comments that the king is actually a contradiction, as he wants to save the special few who only need protection from the king himself. After Netero's deadly suicide, Meryem is horribly injured, but starts to recover after his guards offer to feed them from their own selves. With this, they gain unconditional love

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