WTF is Conjuration? The Sequel

So, I thank everyone that checked out the first installment of this question. Some of you seemed to kinda figure what I was going for, while others were a bit rude. I expected that though, so it’s fine. Though, sorry if the format was weird, I’ve only posted a few things and most of it relatively recently. 😅 That and the way I framed it was to intentionally make people think I’m naive or just clueless.

I understand that Shizuku’s ability is just an incredibly strong, yet selective, vacuum and no evidence of a type other than Conjuration and Enhancement being used. Maybe Manipulation with the whole moving thing, but that has nothing to do with the actual function, so I digress.

People are saying that you can Enhance properties and functions of Conjured items. But the core of my real question is: how far does that go before hitting Manipulation or other things?

This time I’ll be using two main people as examples: First off is Kurapika. With Judgement Chain, I think we can all agree on Emission being used to phase through a body and that not being just Conjuration/Enhancement. Now, how about Steel Chain? It’s a syringe. It can be used to extract or inject something. Which is what it does, but kinda does it to an extreme.

Personally, when it comes to ‘extracting’ or ‘injecting’ things, I believe it is a facet of Emission. This would make sense with Lynch’s ability and Palm’s inexplicable divination. As she is really just extracting information from afar. However, Shizuku is still sucking physical things like a vacuum can, Kurapika is siphoning something immaterial. This makes me think that ability is more than just Conjuration.

This leads me to the other subject, Knuckle. He was more recently confirmed to be a Conjurer, rather than an Emitter. His ability revolves around paying interest in the form of Aura. Likely an Emitter ability as well, considering it’s ‘injecting’ Aura. But IRS is what I really want to talk about.

Assuming IRS is Conjured, how does it apply Zetsu on another? Let’s just say this ability is pure Conjuration and is because it’s based on Bankruptcy, that’s even more conceptual than Steel Chain or Dowsing Chain’s abilities. If you think both is ‘pure’ Conjuration, what is the limit of it? As long as there’s a vague connection, it’s still pure Conjuration? That would make it pretty broken with some mental gymnastics.

I think IRS and Chain Jail induces Zetsu with Manipulation rather than some form of Enhancement. What do you all think about how Conjuration works? And where do you believe ‘pure’ Conjuration start/ends with different abilities?