Water Divination

What is Water Divination?

Water Divination (mizumishiki) means floating a single leaf on a glass of water, holding your hand above it, pouring in your aura with Ren, and reading the change that appears in the water and the leaf to identify your own Nen type. Wing teaches it to Gon and Killua as a method handed down in the Shingen-ryu school, and Pokkle calls it the simplest and most common way to do it. It does not have to be water, and what floats on top does not have to be a leaf — those simply make the change easiest to see.

The six Nen types and how the water answers

Enhancement

The volume of water increases. The more practised the user, the harder it overflows.

Transmutation

The taste of the water changes. Nothing shows on the surface, so you only find out by drinking it.

Conjuration

Impurities appear in the water. Specks of something drift through what was clear a moment ago.

Emission

The colour of the water changes. The aura you poured in dyes the water itself.

Manipulation

What floats on the water moves. The leaf travels across the surface on its own.

Specialization

Something that fits none of the other five happens. The leaf withers, the water boils — it shows up differently for each person.

How this test works

Six questions about your personality give a reading of your aura’s temperament. They follow the aura personality analysis attributed to a certain magician — Enhancers are simple and single-minded, Transmuters are whimsical, and so on. After that it is your turn to perform Ren on the glass. When the aura is full, you see how the water answers. The result screen also shows the personality traits of your type and, based on the hexagonal chart, how efficiently you could learn the other five.