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NO, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T UNDERSTAND
THE SUCCESSION WAR HAS BEEN PURE TIME-FUCKERY

HALKENBURG AND BENJAMIN ALREADY FOUGHT OFF-SCREEN DURING THE CARD GAME, TIME HAS BEEN SKIPPED FORWARD.
NEXT TIME WE SEE BENJAMIN, HE HAS ALREADY BEEN INFECTED, HALKENBURG'S WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN (DEAD?)
CHROLLO ALREADY FOUND HIS TARGET
MELODY ALREADY SUCCEEDED/FAILED HER PLAN
KURAPIKA MIGHT HAVE GONE INTO ACTION ALREADY, MIGHT HAVE JERKED OFF MORE IN LAZYTOWN

MULTIPLE PRINCES ARE ALREADY DEAD, WE WILL GET THE EXPLANATIONS IN THE NEXT BATCH. I kept wondering why the heck the Succession War felt all over, it's because TIME GETS SKIPPED CONSISTENTLY! We see an event A, and then, say, we will see an event C, which will not be what we expected (event B), but it will be the characters already progressing after event B happened. It's as if actions/confrontations are being skipped.

> A: Character says he plans to kill somebody, for example --> (B: Character went through with his plan, the outcome is unknown to the audience) --> C: We see the character's thoughts, after event B already happened, planning their next step