Zhang Lei Hui Guo Rou

Zhang Lei Hui Guo Rou (チョウライ=ホイコーロ, Chōrai Hoikōro) is the Third Prince of the Kakin Empire and the son of his father's third wife, Tang Zhao Li.

Appearance


Zhang Lei is a short, bald man with squarish slanted eyes and bags under them. His appearance resembles that of a Chinese monk. He appears to have no eyebrows, with lines departing from the bridge of his nose arching over his eyes. Above each of them are three dark dots in a column, with the biggest at the base. He has a dark pencil mustache, a very square chin and elongated earlobes. Later, Zhang Lei's skin turned darker for reasons unknown.

Personality
In Tubeppa's opinion, he takes pleasure in luxury and excess.

Dark Continent Expedition arc
Zhang Lei participates to the ceremony on the eve of the beginning of the expedition and boards the ship, thinking he will win the succession war while saluting the cheering crowd. He also takes part to some formal event. Like the rest of his family, he resides in the 1st deck of the ship. During the party, his Sacred Beast is revealed.

Sometime during the ceremony, Zhang Lei asks his father about the conditions for becoming king. Nasubi answer his question by simply saying that the one sole survivor will be the official successor of the throne.

He finds out about what happened to Prince Woble's bodyguards and that only two of them are still alive. Zhang Lei finds it absurd that someone would go after the baby first of all princes. He concludes that whoever wiped them out would've killed their own as well in order to avoid any suspicion since the bodyguards that were assigned to the 14th prince all belonged to other queens. After that, one of his men informs him about the Nen beasts.

He later surmises that Prince Benjamin has sent the bodyguards to spy on all the other princes after Kurapika's announcement regarding the beasts. Zhang Lei thinks that is the best time to learn about the Nen beasts.

Abilities & Powers
Being one of the eldest princes, Zhang Lei possesses significant political influences and assets to help him winning the throne.

Nen


Like the rest of his siblings, Zhang Lei received an egg from which a Nen beast hatched to protect him. Since it is a parasitic-type ability, he has no control over it. The Nen beast is subjected to two rule-like instincts: it is unable to fight other Sacred Guardian Beasts as well as to directly attack the host of one. Its abilities are currently unknown.