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"Poor Mother. Poor Marayam. Those who aren't fit to be king are so overcome by fear..."

— Momoze Hui Guo Rou in "Withdraw"

Momoze Hui Guo Rou (モモゼ=ホイコーロ, Momoze Hoikōro) was the Twelfth Prince of the Kakin Empire and the only daughter of her father's seventh wife, Sevanti. Momoze had one biological younger brother, Marayam.[1]

Appearance[]

Momoze was a young girl with delicate features and long, lustrous hair worn in an elaborate ponytail.[1] During the festival before Black Whale departure, Momoze wore a refined long-sleeved A-line dress with a black shirt, and for the royal banquet, she was seen wearing a tiara and gown with juliet sleeves, and a refined necklace similar to what her eldest sister wore in the same event.[2][3]

Personality[]

Momoze projected the image of a calm and gentle girl. She did not appear to resent her mother's harsh words towards her or to fear for her own safety. She pitied her mother and brother Marayam for lacking the ability to become Kings.[4]

Plot[]

Succession Contest arc[]

Momoze waves

Momoze during the eve festival

Momoze is first seen among Kakin's fourteen princes, seen sewing in her first appearance. She is one of six princes to put up listings on Kakin's website. Hanzo applies to her listing and is hired to become her bodyguard for the trip to the Dark Continent.[5]

During the eve (of the voyage) festival, Momoze stands with her siblings and Beyond on stage and waves to the crowd.[2] Kakin's Royal Family is flown into the Black Whale shortly after. Momoze is next seen attending a banquet taking place that same day in the Black Whale, dressed in a light-colored dress, speaking to other attendees and standing near her younger brother Marayam.[3]

Chap 360 - Several Nen beasts entering the room

Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast entering Room 1014

On the first day of the voyage, Momoze attends a lunch banquet with her siblings, wearing opera gloves and extravagant jewelry. Unbeknownst to her, her Guardian Spirit Beast attacks Prince Woble's bodyguards, taking control of one to kill three before being restrained and arrested.[6][note 1]

After Momoze and Marayam return from the ceremony, their mother, Queen Sevanti, goes to Room 1012, bringing Marayam with her. Sevanti has all but six guards from Momoze's team who have moved to Marayam's escort, citing the importance of guarding Marayam. Hanzo watches Momoze as she knits in a rocking chair within earshot of her mother. One of Momoze's bodyguards mentions that their contract is with Momoze, and Momoze's servants express hesitation at the servants being moved too. Still, they all defer to Sevanti and comply after Momoze reassures them not to worry about her. Momoze allows two of her remaining guards to rest, but they thank her for her kindness and decline. Momoze accepts and thanks them in turn. She wonders why she feels tired while pitying her mother and brother, judging their fear as a sign that Marayam is not fit to be king. Unbeknownst to her, Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast sits behind her back, the source of her fatigue.[4]

Chap 366 - Momoze's GSB fading away

Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast fading away

A few hours later, at roughly 4 p.m. that day, Momoze lies fast asleep in her bed. Outside Room 1012's master bedroom, four of her remaining bodyguards stand watch. Her six bodyguards each silently keep watch for opportunities to assassinate her, hoping to do so in a manner that leaves proof of their perpetration without getting caught. As Momoze sleeps, her Guardian Spirit Beast silently fades away.[7]

Chap 368 - Momoze death

Momoze suffocated to death

Later that day, one of Momoze's guards makes his way into her room and strangles her. By chance, Oito sees the act happening through a cockroach she controls with Little Eye and informs her guards. Babimyna uses his authority as 1st Prince Benjamin's soldier so Room 1014 can contact Room 1012, but Room 1014's occupants are too late to prevent Momoze's death. Kakin's military removed Momoze's body. After hearing that four of the six guards had matching testimonies (the remaining two being on break), Sevanti reported the guards to Nasubi for collusion, and the six guards were taken into custody to face a court-martial.[8]

In Room 1014, Sakata takes Kurapika aside to ask why Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast failed to protect her. From her unusual sleep schedule, Kurapika (correctly) guesses that one of the beasts that attacked Room 1014 was Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast, expending a considerable amount of her aura, allowing Bill to speculate that the criminal was familiar with Nen.[8]

Chap 368 - Hanzo blame

Hanzo blaming himself for Momoze's death

Around the same time, Hanzo, in Room 1013's break room, learns of the death of his former employer and feels anger and regret at not being there to stop it. Biscuit tries to console him, but he ignores her consolation and uses her as a sounding board to identify that the culprit used a doppelgänger and was one of the two guards on break. Confident that the culprit will strike again, Hanzo prepares to stop him before he strikes again and swears to make him pay.[8]

Momoze

Momoze in her coffin

The next day, King Nasubi pays his respects to Momoze. He stands and looks at her coffin as Nugui offers his condolences. Nasubi tells him that her death is nothing to be sad about, that Momoze would become the foundation for the Tree of Kakin, and is shining even brighter than in life. Momoze lies in one of fourteen coffins arranged in a circle in a mysterious room with Nen-like inscriptions, with a fire lit next to the head of her coffin.[9]

In Room 1013 on the same day, during their shift guarding Marayam, Hanzo and Biscuit agree that Marayam's dragon-like Guardian Spirit Beast has gradually become fiercer and bulked up. Hanzo guesses that Momoze's death had accelerated the change, implying that Marayam was aware of her death despite not being told about it.[10]

372 - Hanzo snaps Tuffdy's neck

Hanzo strangling Tuffdy

At 10 a.m., the next pair of guards come to take over their duties, and Hanzo and Biscuit retire to Room 1013's break room. Hanzo entrusts his body to Biscuit to ensure no one interrupts his ability by talking to or touching his body and activates Hanzo Skill 4. He passes a sleeping guard and infiltrates Tuffdy's cell. Hanzo wakes Tuffdy up and tricks him into confessing to the murder and explaining his ability before strangling Tuffdy to avenge Momoze.[10]

Later, when Kurapika is explaining Manipulation to Yuhirai and Sakata, it's revealed that Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast was a pseudo-coercive type Manipulator, taking physical freedom from the target or driving them into a situation where they have no choice.[10]

On the morning of the third day, 9th Prince Halkenburg and his men have a moment of silence in Room 1009 for Momoze. This moment of silence generates a massive amount of aura, shocking Shikaku into contacting Benjamin about it. Halkenburg is moved to tears by Momoze's death and begins his daily attempts to visit Nasubi and stop the succession war before it takes another victim.[11]

In Camilla's confinement residence in the VVIP area on the ninth day, Sarahell addresses the other Have-Nots and has Nukuocon (formerly cursing 8th Prince Salé-salé) and Cavic (formerly cursing Momoze) investigate whether there are exorcists among the enemy.[12]

Momoze's Employees[]

Alive/Active
Deceased
Former/Arrested
Unknown

 Royalty  Personal Guards  Hunters  Provisional Hunters  Spies  Allies  Servants 

Royal Family
12th Prince 7th Queen
Momoze Hui Guo Rou SC Portrait
Momoze Hui Guo Rou
Prince Momoze's Employees
→13P →13P →13P →13P →13P
Momoze's Pro Hunter 1 SC Portrait
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Momoze's Pro Hunter 2 SC Portrait
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Momoze's Pro Hunter 3 SC Portrait
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Momoze's Pro Hunter 4 SC Portrait
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1Q→1P 2Q→ 3Q→ 4Q→ 5Q→
Unseen Character Portrait
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6Q→ 7Q Captain→13P →13P →13P →13P
Momoze's Servant 1 SC Portrait
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Momoze's Servant 2 SC Portrait
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Unseen Character Portrait
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Replacements
1P→
Legend of Symbols
Symbol Meaning Example Meaning
P prince 1P The 1st Prince.
Q queen 5Q The 5th Queen.
... sent by 1Q→ X is sent by the 1st Queen.
... sent to →14P X is sent to the 14th Prince.
...... reassigned to 2Q→14P X is reassigned by the 2nd Queen to the 14th Prince.
...... was assigned to one or more princes →8P→11P X was assigned to the 8th and 11th Princes.
in charge of a prince's curse 4P♰ The guard is in charge of the 4th Prince's curse.
formerly in charge of a prince's curse 12P♰ The guard is formerly in charge of the 12th Prince's curse.
* Information found in Togashi's notes from "Jump Ryu! Vol. 21" interview 1Q*→ The guard's affiliation is revealed in the notes.
Servant* The employee's position is revealed in the notes.
[name]* The employee's name is revealed in the notes.
? Placeholder
(might hold another position)
Captain? The employee might not be the captain or a personal guard.
? The employee might not be a personal guard.
2Q? The employee might have been sent by another queen.
Placeholder
(might have initially belonged to either Prince Momoze or Prince Marayam)
This particular issue arose when their mother Queen Sevanti sent all of Momoze's Hunters and servants to Marayam. Since we only got to see 4/5 of Momoze's Hunters and 2/3 of her servants by that time, we can't say for certain which prince the marked characters initially belonged to.


Abilities & Powers[]

Chap 361 - Momoze's Nen beast

Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast

According to 5th Prince Tubeppa, owing to Momoze's position as a younger prince, she had no real political influence or power despite being a member of Kakin's royal family.[13] She had an interest in knitting.[4]

Guardian Spirit Beast[]

Like the rest of her siblings, Momoze received an egg from which a Guardian Spirit Beast, a variety of Nen beast, hatched to protect her.[1] As a parasitic-type ability, she has no control over it, and it fades away as Momoze runs out of aura.[7] The Guardian Spirit Beast is made out of aura, thus only Nen users can see and hear it.[6] Momoze herself is unaware of its existence.[4] Like all Guardian Spirit Beasts, Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast is subjected to two rule-like instincts: it is unable to fight other Guardian Spirit Beasts as well as to directly attack the host of one.[13]

Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast
Type: Manipulation (Pseudo-Coercive)
Chap 360 - Several Nen beasts entering the room
Chap 360 - Momoze's mini beast
Momoze spider
Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast takes the appearance of a large and cartoonish mouse-like creature with triangular teeth, roughly double the height of an average person. It has two eye-like features aligned vertically on its forehead and a heart-shaped patch on its belly.[6][4]

Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast is a pseudo-coercive Manipulator. It can phase through walls and is sentient enough to ask questions and react to non-verbal responses like nods or pointing. It acts by asking targets if they are "free", though being a Nen beast, can only be noticed by Nen users.[6]

  • If they reply "no", a miniature replica of the Guardian Spirit Beast (only visible and audible to the target[6]) appears on their shoulder and keep pestering them until they reply affirmatively.[4]
  • If they reply "yes", the Guardian Spirit Beast takes control of their body by implanting a small, cartoon spider-like Nen beast in their ear. When Sayird was controlled by Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast, he was forced to kill those around him until he was forced into Zetsu.[4]
    • The spider-like Nen beast feeds off not Momoze's aura, but the target's. Should it be unable to do so, it leaves the host's body and frees them from control, and is capable of fleeing at high speed.[4]

Taking control of a single person puts enough strain on Momoze's stamina that she feels fatigued and goes to bed early.[7]

Manga Appearances[]

Succession Contest arc
340. Special Mission Absent
341. Threats Absent
342. Challenge Absent
343. Invitation Absent
344. Author Absent
345. Signature Absent
346. Options Absent
347. Inauguration Absent
348. Resolve Absent
349. Worm Toxin Debut
350. Prince Pictured
351. Battle to the Death Absent
352. Troublesome Absent
353. Cold-Blooded Absent
354. Heat Absent
355. Detonation Absent
356. Unfortunate: Part 1 Absent
357. Unfortunate: Part 2 Absent
358. Eve Appears
359. Departure Appears
360. Parasite Mentioned
361. Withdraw Appears
362. Resolve Absent
363. Nen Beast Absent
364. Speculation Absent
365. Choice Absent
366. To Each His Own Appears
367. Synchronization Absent
368. Foul Play Death
369. Limits Mentioned
370. Observation Absent
371. Mission Corpse
372. Disappearance Mentioned
373. Inheritance Absent
374. Ability Pictured
375. Persuasion Mentioned
376. Determination Absent
377. Scheme Absent
378. Balance Absent
379. Collaboration Absent
380. Alarm Absent
381. Predation Absent
382. Awakening Absent
383. Escape Absent
384. War Absent
385. Warning Absent
386. Hypothesis Absent
387. Recreation Absent
388. Reflection Absent
389. Curse Mentioned
390. Clash: Part 1 Absent
391. Clash: Part 2 Absent
392. Information Absent
393. Plea Absent
394. Hypothesis Absent
395. Founding: Part 1 Absent
396. Founding: Part 2 Absent
397. Founding: Part 3 Absent
398. Search Absent
399. Expulsion Absent
400. Secrecy Absent
401. Moonlight Absent
402. Letter Absent
403. Results Absent
404. Speculation Absent
405. Performance Absent

Trivia[]

  • Momoze is the first of King Nasubi's children to die in the Succession War, dying in the evening of the first day of the voyage.[8]
  • Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast is the most cartoon-like of all Guardian Spirit Beasts revealed thus far.

Translations around the World[]

Language Name
The Arab world Flag Arabic موموز هوي غو رو
France Flag French Momoze Hoicoro
South Korea Flag Korean 모모제 호이코오로 (Momoje Hoikolo)

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 33, Chapter 349
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 34, Chapter 358
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 34, Chapter 359
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 35, Chapter 361
  5. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 33, Chapter 350
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 34, Chapter 360
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 35, Chapter 366
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 35, Chapter 368
  9. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 36, Chapter 371
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 36, Chapter 372
  11. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 36, Chapter 375
  12. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 37, Chapter 389
  13. 13.0 13.1 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 35, Chapter 362

Notes

  1. It is unclear whether Momoze's Guardian Spirit Beast attacked Woble's bodyguards after she returned from the ceremony, or while she was there. Some points suggest it was after she returned, but nothing has been specified.

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