Chapter Summaries

Ian punished Silva for injuring Dreyn while accepting a family heirloom from Jorar. After recognizing the heirloom as the deadly Dark Sonata, Ian warned everyone away from it, leaving Jorar shaken by how narrowly he had avoided playing it.

• Ian told Silva he would spare his life but ordered Feitan to break the Silva doll’s fingers in accordance with Dreyn’s injuries, causing Silva’s fingers to break as well.
• Jorar gave Ian a parchment-wrapped family heirloom, and Ian unfolded it to reveal an old sheet of music.
• Ian recognized the music as the Dark Sonata, threw it away, and asked Jorar about its history and instrument.
• Ian explained that playing or listening to the score could cause mutation or death, and stopped Chrollo from touching it.
• Jorar realized he had narrowly avoided playing the dangerous music despite being a violinist.

Feitan finished torturing Silva, and Ian let the injured Zoldyck leave while warning him not to become an enemy again. As Silva prepared to go, Ian put on Ability Copy Gloves and offered him a handshake.

• Silva recognized that Ian’s account of the Dark Sonata pointed to the Dark Continent and wondered what the Sharku Clan concealed.
• Silva decided the Zoldyck Family should consider cooperating with Ian and avoid taking future assignments against him if cooperation failed.
• Feitan ended Silva’s punishment, and Ian allowed him to return to Kukuroo Mountain with a warning about their next encounter.
• Ian reflected that he needed to develop his own combat ability rather than rely on powerful items, though he recognized the practical value of the Ability Copy Gloves.
• Ian put on red rubber gloves and offered Silva a handshake, but Silva silently looked at Ian’s gloves and his own mangled hands.

After Silva left, Ian revealed that his gloves had copied the Zoldyck Family’s assassination techniques and taught his companions while the abilities lasted. He then ordered Jorar and Xia to help eliminate crime in Ejin City and offered Xia leadership of the city, promising his support.

• Ian explained that the Ability Copy Gloves temporarily copied abilities through a handshake and demonstrated Silva’s assassination techniques, including turning his fingers into a blade and disappearing into darkness.
• Ian told Chrollo, Feitan, Nobunaga, and the others to study and record the copied techniques before they faded.
• Ian told Jorar and Xia that he wanted gangs and abuses such as human trafficking and forced prostitution eliminated from Ejin City, and asked them to identify troublesome figures and help rebuild the city.
• Jorar hesitated over the political risks, but Xia declared that she could take on the task.
• Ian offered Xia leadership of the city and promised to arrange help in eradicating evil.

After Ian ordered a purge of Ejin City’s underworld, Chrollo and Feitan killed rival gang members while Jorar and Xia helped Ian seize control of the city government. The next day, new chief governor Kazan faced the press and angrily denounced Canal.

• Chrollo and Feitan burned a factory after killing members of a gang, and Chrollo warned Feitan that their frequent attacks had attracted the authorities’ attention.
• Governor Canal ordered Jorar to halt his actions and announced plans for a press conference, but Xia and Ian arrived and took control of the residence.
• Ian told Xia to interrogate Canal, announce Ejin City’s new policies, and keep Canal alive to serve as a warning to those who refused to cooperate.
• The following day, reporters questioned Kazan, the newly appointed chief governor, about Canal, his background, and his plans for the city.
• Kazan called Canal unfit to govern Ejin City, prompting reporters to eagerly photograph his outburst.

Kazan became Ejin City’s new Grand Leader and promised to eliminate crime, but he could not explain how until Ian stepped in to present a new Nen tool. Ian introduced the Justice Rope to reporters and asked Xia Ya to plant one of its seeds, beginning a public demonstration.

• Kazan denounced Canal’s corruption and promised to make Ejin City a city without crime.
• When a reporter asked how he would achieve this, Kazan faltered, and Ian appeared beside him to answer.
• Ian recognized the reporter as Xia Ya, whom he had helped escape the Kalie Gang, and invited her onto the stage.
• Ian explained that crime could strike before justice arrived and introduced the Justice Rope as a tool to prevent it.
• Ian gave Xia Ya a seed from a jar and asked her to plant it in the ground.

Ian demonstrated the Justice Rope, a seed-grown biochemical machine that restrained reporters when they pretended to attack Xia Ya. After the press conference, Xia Ya accepted Ian’s invitation to the governor’s mansion banquet, while Ian sensed changes in the Justice Rope.

• Xia Ya planted and watered the Justice Rope seed, and a vine with an eye quickly grew from the ground.
• Ian invited reporters who had mocked the Justice Rope to pretend to attack Xia Ya, and the vine bound them tightly.
• The reporters praised the Justice Rope as an era-defining invention, and Kazan announced plans to promote it throughout Ejin City.
• After the press conference, Xia Ya stayed behind and accepted Ian’s invitation to the banquet at the grand governor’s mansion.
• Ian carefully sensed the changes in the Justice Rope.

Ian established the Justice Rope seeds as independent protectors and encouraged Kazan to accept the role of governor-general. As the banquet approached, Ian learned the royal capital had made no announcement, while an elite squad and two Nen users arrived outside Ejin City.

• The Justice Rope bound the reporters who had misbehaved, and Ian told them they would be released after several hours before leaving with Xia Ya.
• Kazan asked Ian to appoint someone else as governor-general, but Ian convinced him that his concern for Ejin City's people made him the right person for the job.
• Xia told Ian that the officials on his list had arrived before the banquet, and Ian ordered them to wait until eight while asking about news from the royal capital.
• Xia warned Ian that the royal capital might already have made secret arrangements, but Ian said he would handle whatever came and focus on controlling the banquet attendees.
• A fifty-person elite squad arrived outside Ejin City with a tattooed man and a long-haired woman; the man used his rings to boost the squad and then sped away with electricity.

Ian gathered Ejin City's upper class to demand that they cooperate with Grand Leader Kazan, threatening punishment for anyone acting against justice. When Xia exposed the crimes of chief adjudicating justice Moza Ennu, Ian ordered Feitan to drag him to the cauldron of oil, leaving the assembled nobles terrified.

• Ejin City's nobles and officials gathered outside the Grand Leader's residence and entered its transformed, torture-filled hall for Ian's banquet.
• Ian told the assembled elites to cooperate with Kazan and warned that those who acted against justice would face punishment.
• Moza Ennu challenged Ian's authority, and Ian ordered Xia to reveal his record of crimes.
• Xia accused Moza of abducting and molesting young girls, causing nine families' deaths, and arranging twenty-seven wrongful convictions.
• Ian ordered Feitan to put Moza in the cauldron of oil, and Feitan broke his limbs and dragged him away as Moza begged for mercy.

Ian ordered brutal punishments for corrupt nobles and officials at the banquet, then left the Grand Leader’s residence with Machi. A hidden shooter fired at Ian, but the Justice Rope intercepted the bullet.

• Feitan threw Moza into a boiling cauldron of oil, killing him as the guests watched in horror.
• Chrollo knocked down a young nobleman who tried to flee, and Xia identified his crimes; Ian ordered him tortured and had Canal brought out for punishment.
• Ian told Xia to spare officials guilty only of lesser corruption but to torture those responsible for rape and plunder.
• Ian left the residence with Machi, and a hidden attacker fired at him before the Justice Rope blocked the bullet.

Ian and the Phantom Troupe fought Ryuk, a Nen user whose spoken edicts unleashed powerful elemental attacks. After Ryuk drove them back with fire, Chrollo noticed a possible condition on his ability, and Ian realized an item he had obtained earlier might help.

• A sniper and a barrage of gunfire attacked Ian, but Justice Rope intercepted the bullets while Ian shielded Machi.
• Ryuk and an elite special operations squad confronted Ian and the others, and Franklin fought back with his Infinite Gatling Gun.
• Ryuk used his rock edict to armor his soldiers, then rushed the group and engulfed them in flames.
• Ian sprayed the group with Underground Gas and burrowed underground to evade Ryuk's fire, while Chrollo noticed Ryuk spoke before each use of his ability.
• Ian considered that an item he had obtained a few days earlier might give them a way to counter Ryuk.

Ian used the Word Chain Pen to interrupt Ryuk’s fire-breathing Nen ability, letting Chrollo capture him with the Cursed Camera, and learned that the Gogar Royal Family sent Ryuk and Elena on separate missions. Ian planned to take Ryuk to Feitan for further questioning, while a palace man agreed to seek another way to seal the demon cave if Elena failed to retrieve the Demon King's Score.

• Ian demonstrated the Word Chain Pen on Uvogin, then used it with Chrollo to disrupt Ryuk’s ability and capture him with the Cursed Camera.
• Ian struck Ryuk through the Cursed Doll and questioned him, learning that the Gogar Royal Family had sent him to Ejin City and Elena to search for something.
• Ian discovered that the Cursed Doll transferred physical injuries but could not kill Ryuk, and decided to take him to Feitan for more information.
• In Guguriant, a woman asked a man whether the Demon King's Score was the only way to seal the demon cave and what would happen if Elena failed.
• The man said he would try another way if Elena could not retrieve the Demon King's Score.

Ian and the Nen users wiped out the special operations squad and took the unconscious Ryuk, while Elena discovered the Demon King's Score was nearby. Princess Egina put Ging in contact with Elena, and he warned her to leave before the Nen users caught her, then took charge of retrieving the Score.

• Ian's group killed the special operations squad, captured the unconscious Ryuk, and returned to the Grand Leader's residence to search for another Nen user.
• Elena watched the group leave and reported that the compass indicated the Demon King's Score was nearby.
• Princess Egina contacted Elena, then handed the call to Ging and told Elena to follow his instructions.
• Ging told Elena that the Demon King's Score was definitely with the Nen users and ordered her to leave the area.
• Elena refused to abandon her chance to seal the demon's den, so Ging said he would retrieve the Score and instructed her to obey him completely and wave a little white flag.

Ian and the Phantom Troupe tracked the hidden enemy with the Person-Finding Sensor and ambushed Elena, who had agreed not to fight back after Ging advised her to surrender. The chapter ended with Nobunaga photographing her and Uvogin preparing to punch the resulting Cursed Doll.

• Feitan tortured the captured nobles while Ian and the others returned with the unconscious Ryuk, the last enemy they had caught.
• Ian tried to use the Person-Finding Sensor on Ryuk, but Chrollo suggested that the hidden enemy might be looking for Ian instead.
• Ian used the sensor on himself, and it guided the group underground toward the hidden enemy while Nobunaga prepared Chrollo's Cursed Camera.
• Ging advised Elena by phone to raise a white flag, but she refused and promised not to fight back if the enemy appeared.
• Ian's group burst out of the ground near Elena, Nobunaga photographed her, and Uvogin drew back his fist to strike the Cursed Doll.

Ian’s group defeated Elena and learned from Ging that the Dark Sonata could help seal a deadly ruin in Gogar. Ian rejected a deal and declared Ejin City under their control, while Ging decided to investigate in person and warned Egina that the royal family could be destroyed if the conflict went badly.

• Uvogin struck Elena through the Cursed Doll, knocking her unconscious, and Chrollo held a blade to her neck.
• Ian answered a call on Elena’s phone, and Ging explained that Elena had been searching for the Dark Sonata to help seal a ruin emitting deadly Nen.
• Ian refused Ging’s offer to buy the score, vowed revenge for the attack, and claimed Ejin City for his group.
• Ging told Egina that Ian’s group’s confidence and ambitions made them dangerous, and warned that the Gogar Royal Family might be wiped out.
• Ging agreed to investigate the group and rescue Elena if possible, secured more funding for the ruins expeditions, and left on a flying creature.

Silva returned to Kukuroo Mountain badly injured and told Zeno and Tsubone that Ian was a remarkable Nen user the Zoldyck Family should befriend. After hearing that Silva had been hurt, Illumi questioned whether the report was true.

• Silva arrived at Kukuroo Mountain with poisoned, scarred hands and told Tsubone that Ian’s potential made building ties with him essential to the family’s future.
• Zeno asked Silva to explain his mission, and Silva recounted his time in Ejin City and the Sharku Clan’s possession of the Dark Sonata.
• Silva and Zeno discussed the score’s possible connection to the Dark Continent and learned that Zigg was preparing to return to the family.
• Silva urged Zeno not to treat Ian as an enemy, comparing his potential to Netero’s, and considered sending Illumi or Milluki to approach him.
• Illumi finished endurance training, then questioned Milluki’s claim that Silva had returned injured before reacting to the report that their father’s hands were nearly crippled.

Silva told Illumi and Milluki that children their age had defeated him and urged Illumi to join their group rather than challenge them. As Milluki secretly left Kukuroo Mountain and Illumi set out to follow Silva’s instructions, Ian and Xia prepared to unveil a new invention in Ejin City.

• Silva admitted to Illumi and Milluki that he had lost to a group of children, and he warned Illumi not to mistake the defeat for a lack of preparation.
• Silva said one of the children had the potential to reach the top and that standing beside him could change the Zoldyck brothers’ futures.
• Milluki decided to investigate the child who had impressed Silva and slipped away from Kukuroo Mountain the next day.
• Silva told Illumi to join the child’s group or stay by his side, and Illumi vanished to carry out the instruction.
• Silva explained to Zeno that he hoped the children would find their own paths, while Zeno chose not to interfere.
• In Ejin City, Ian asked Xia about the planted devices as the newspaper office rushed to print headlines announcing an artificial intelligence machine called Evil’s Nemesis.

A strange vine with enormous eyes appeared across Ejin City, restraining attackers and rescuing Elina from her bullies. Meanwhile, Ian sensed a change in the Justice Rope, whose fusion with the world might have altered it.

• Luca crashed into a gang's truck, but a strange vine bound the tattooed men before they could attack him.
• The vine appeared at Elina's school and stopped Pondina and her companions from hurting her.
• Elina thanked the vine, which then struck and restrained the teacher who had sided with Pondina.
• Ian waited outside the room where Feitan interrogated Ryuk and considered the group's need to learn Nen systematically.
• Ian sensed that the Justice Rope had changed.

Ian used the Anywhere Cannon to send himself and the Phantom Troupe members to the school, where the Justice Rope had restrained Elina’s bullies and teacher. After finding the Justice Rope seemed conscious and seeing dark green Nen connecting it to Elina and something underground, Ian realized a hidden force beneath Ejin City might be involved.

• Ian detected an unexpected change in the Justice Rope and used the Anywhere Cannon’s screen to view it restraining Pondina, Ms. Yuki, and others at the school.
• Uvogin volunteered to test the cannon and arrived at the school safely, followed by Nobunaga, Chrollo, Franklin, and Ian.
• Ian noticed the Justice Rope react to his own vine and suspected it had developed consciousness.
• Chrollo alerted Ian to unusual Nen, and Ian used Gyo to see dark green Nen connecting the Justice Rope to Elina and leading underground.

Ian confronted the principal over Elina’s bullying, arranged for the education minister to remove him and investigate the city’s schools, then took Elina away with his group. Meanwhile, Hunter Association Chairman Netero arrived by airship in Ejin City after hearing a report.

• Ian questioned the principal about Elina’s bullying and asked Elina whether she hated the world; she shook her head.
• Ian called education minister Mons and ordered an investigation of Ejin City’s schools and checks for gang remnants.
• Mons ordered the principal to resign, and the principal collapsed after hearing the minister’s curses.
• Ian and Uvogin’s group took Elina and left the school, while Ian left the bullies for the coming cleanup.
• Netero arrived near Ejin City by airship, telling his companion that he had come out of curiosity.

Ian helped Elina bond with the Justice Rope, which she named Aimon, and the pair grew stronger together. As Justice Ropes cracked down on crime throughout Ejin City, Hunter Association Chairman Netero arrived at the Grand Leader’s Mansion, leaving Ian stunned.

• Ian tested the Justice Rope by sending a pebble at Elina, and Steel Shell subdued it when it attacked him.
• Ian told Elina the Justice Rope could be her companion, and she named it Aimon as it comforted her and grew larger through their Nen.
• Justice Ropes appeared throughout Ejin City, binding nearly a hundred gang members and exposing other residents and officials who had committed crimes.
• Kazan told Ian that Hunter Association Chairman Netero had arrived at the Grand Leader’s Mansion, and Ian reacted with astonishment.