Pakunoda
Pakunoda is a core member of the Phantom Troupe in HUNTER×HUNTER, holding member number nine. Hailing from Meteor City, she is one of the original founders of the group. Within the Troupe, she fulfills an essential intelligence and interrogation role thanks to her rare Specialist ability. Though she maintains a composed exterior, she harbors deep devotion toward the Troupe's leader, Chrollo Lucilfer, and her fellow members, ultimately making a tragic sacrifice to protect those she holds dear.
Overview
Pakunoda is a core member of the Phantom Troupe in HUNTER×HUNTER, holding member number nine. Hailing from Meteor City, she is one of the original founders of the group. Within the Troupe, she fulfills an essential intelligence and interrogation role thanks to her rare Specialist ability. Though she maintains a composed exterior, she harbors deep devotion toward the Troupe's leader, Chrollo Lucilfer, and her fellow members, ultimately making a tragic sacrifice to protect those she holds dear.
Appearance
Pakunoda is a tall woman with a glamorous figure. She wears a distinctive suit featuring a low-cut front opening. Her facial features are characterized by short hair, an aquiline nose, and long eyelashes.
Personality
Pakunoda presents a calm and stoic exterior, but underneath her cool demeanor lies a fiercely loyal and caring nature. Her devotion to Chrollo Lucilfer and her fellow founding members of the Phantom Troupe is unwavering. When forced to choose between adhering to the Troupe's rules and saving the life of her leader, her intense internal struggle highlights her deep warmth and willingness to sacrifice herself for her comrades.
Abilities
As a Specialist Nen user, Pakunoda can extract raw, unadulterated memories by physically touching a target and asking relevant questions. Because this targets the deep subconscious, lying or deliberate mental distractions cannot prevent it. Through her Memory Bomb ability, she can conjure a revolver to fire up to six memory-infused bullets at once, embedding these memories into others. If shot back into the memory's original owner, it erases that specific memory from their mind.
Background
Raised in Meteor City, Pakunoda was among the founding members of the Phantom Troupe. During the events in Yorknew City, she extracted crucial information about Kurapika from the memories of Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck. When leader Chrollo Lucilfer was taken hostage, she negotiated with Kurapika alone, accepting his lethal Judgment Chain around her heart under strict secrecy conditions. To convey the truth to her allies, she willingly triggered the chain by shooting six Memory Bombs containing her memories into Machi, Phinks, Feitan, Shalnark, Nobunaga, and Franklin before dying. She was later buried at the Troupe's hideout.
Relationships
Pakunoda maintained absolute loyalty and deep devotion toward Chrollo Lucilfer, the leader of the Phantom Troupe. She trusted her fellow members—Machi, Phinks, Feitan, Shalnark, Nobunaga, and Franklin—unconditionally, choosing them as the recipients of her final memories. She interrogated Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck during their capture and entered direct negotiations with Kurapika to secure her leader's release.
Trivia
A reversed cross marks her grave at the Phantom Troupe's former hideout in Yorknew City. While her Specialist abilities make her indispensable for intelligence gathering, her physical strength ranks near the bottom among the Phantom Troupe members.
