Recaps

After transmigrating into fourteen-year-old Allen in the Hunter x Hunter world, an Earth man survived a brutal beating by Hisoka thanks to his World of Warcraft Hunter abilities and rapid healing. In the hospital, Allen resolved to grow stronger with Lupos and considered learning Nen.

• Allen recalled how he had died on Earth and awakened in the body of a boy surrounded by corpses, with a playing card lodged in his chest.
• When Hisoka attacked, Allen summoned Lupos and used Hunter skills and weapons to wound and poison him.
• Hisoka enveloped himself in Nen and overwhelmed Allen, stopping only after realizing Allen had no Nen abilities.
• Allen recovered in the hospital as the doctor reported that his severe injuries were healing at an astonishing rate.
• Allen told Lupos he was now Allen and discussed reaching level sixty and learning Nen; Lupos showed signs of awakening Nen abilities.

Isaac Netero offered Allen a Hunter License after Allen wounded Hisoka, but Allen refused because he wanted to earn it by defeating Hisoka and promised to return in a year. After Netero left, Allen teleported with Lupos to Uldaman to hunt Troggs and gain experience while keeping his recovery secret.

• Isaac Netero told Allen that the examiners had unanimously passed him and offered him a Hunter License.
• Allen refused the license, explaining that he did not feel worthy of passing and would return in a year.
• After Netero and Mr. Bean left, Allen secretly teleported from the hospital ward to Uldaman with Lupos.
• Allen and Lupos attacked Troggs in the dungeon, and Allen defeated two Elite Troggs to gain experience and loot.
• Allen recalled that the dungeon exit returned him to the hospital and decided to remain there for a month to avoid attracting attention.

Allen reviewed the powers and limitations he had discovered while exploring the Odaman Dungeon and resolved to become strong enough to face Hisoka. As Hisoka and Machi appeared in his hospital room, Lupos awakened its aura nodes, allowing Allen to form Ten through their Soul Link.

• Allen returned from the Odaman Dungeon after deciding its stronger monsters and bosses were beyond his current abilities.
• Allen reviewed how his Hunter template, Night Elf traits, Soul Link, Dungeons, and in-game shop worked, and regretted spending nearly all his game currency.
• Allen decided he needed to grow strong enough to confront Hisoka and tried to awaken Nen by reliving their fight through Soul Link with Lupos.
• A wave of malice swept through the hospital room, and Lupos opened its aura nodes, sharing the awakening with Allen.
• Allen and Lupos formed Ten and saw Hisoka on the windowsill with Machi beside him.

Allen rejected Hisoka’s offer of treatment and vowed to defeat him at next year’s Hunter Exam. He began training Nen in a Dungeon, where ten days of real time let him clear Uldaman and defeat its final boss, Azadas.

• Hisoka visited Allen in the hospital, praised his newly awakened Nen, and offered to arrange treatment.
• Allen revealed that his injuries had healed and vowed to train for a year before returning Hisoka’s violence at the next Hunter Exam.
• Hisoka left with Machi, then dismissed her questions about Allen’s recovery and agreed to pay her fee.
• Allen teleported into a Dungeon and began practicing basic Nen while fighting monsters alongside Lupos.
• After ten days in the real world and more than two thousand hours of Dungeon battles, Allen reached Hunter level 48 and defeated Azadas in Uldaman.

Allen returned to his family’s villa with Lupos and realized the original owner’s final obsession was to find a sense of home and family. When his father summoned him in an apparent crisis, Allen prepared to join the others and learn what had happened.

• Allen returned to the villa, told the Old Butler he had failed the Hunter Exam, and asked him to prepare raw meat for Lupos.
• Allen entered the original owner’s flower-filled bedroom and recognized that fulfilling his wish for home and family could help awaken his Nen.
• Allen learned that Agostino and the original owner’s siblings had arrived, and he wondered whether the family’s business was in trouble.
• Agostino urgently asked the Old Butler to summon Allen, while his ring-twisting and his children’s anxious expressions revealed their alarm.
• The Old Butler told Allen that his father had run into major trouble, and Allen asked for a few minutes to prepare before going downstairs.

Allen tested his and Lupos's Nen affinities with Water Divination and began developing abilities suited to their traits. After identifying a plundering Specialist trait in himself, he used a Red Dragon Egg to create a red dragon Nen Beast, leaving it hovering before him.

• Allen summoned Lupos into the Dungeon and used Water Divination to reveal its Shadow Energy, then helped it begin practicing how to create and control a wolf pack.
• Allen tested his own Nen and found that his water increased, tasted salty and bitter, and the leaf's substances were absorbed into his body.
• Allen concluded that his Specialist trait involved plundering and considered using a vessel to store stolen aura and Nen abilities safely.
• Allen infused his Red Dragon Egg with Nen, causing it to crack and burst open into a small, winged red dragon made entirely of Nen abilities.

Allen learned that his family faced execution by the Cabelli family after a shipment of auction items was replaced with fakes. He refused to sign inheritance papers and went to Yorknew City to confront Marcus Cabelli, using his new Nen ability against the men who tried to stop him.

• Agostino and Allen’s siblings urged Allen to sign insurance and inheritance papers, then explained that the family’s auction items had been switched for fakes during transport.
• Agostino revealed that Marcus Cabelli, leader of the Cabelli family, would likely send assassins to punish them, and Allen left for Yorknew City without signing the documents.
• Agostino chased after Allen but failed to catch up with his car.
• Allen went to a Cabelli-operated hotel and asked the receptionist to take him to Marcus Cabelli.
• Four men in black suits surrounded Allen, and he froze their legs below the knees with his newly developed Nen ability.

Allen forced the Cabelli family thugs to reveal that Marcus Cabelli was on the hotel’s top floor, then fought his way past Marcus’s gunmen with Lupos. He melted the blast door to confront Marcus, who recognized him as a Nen user and feared he had been targeted for assassination.

• Allen froze four Cabelli family thugs in the lobby and learned that Marcus Cabelli was on the hotel’s thirtieth floor.
• Marcus ordered more than twenty gunmen to ambush Allen at the elevator, but Allen blocked their bullets and sent Lupos to kill them.
• Allen praised Lupos, then used his Nen ability to melt the blast door guarding Marcus’s room.
• Marcus recognized Allen as a Nen user and wondered who had hired experts to kill him.

Allen negotiated with mafia boss Marcus Cabelli, offering Nen-enhanced equipment and healing potions to replace Agostino’s lost Auction goods. Marcus agreed to sell the items and protect Allen’s family, while Allen warned him not to reveal their source.

• Allen introduced himself as Agostino’s son and placed rings, weapons, and healing potions before Marcus Cabelli.
• Marcus tried the equipment and felt his strength and reactions improve, then watched Allen stab a mobster and demonstrate a potion healing the man’s wounds.
• Allen explained the potions’ effects and demanded that Marcus sell the items at the Yorknew City underground Auction.
• Marcus agreed to charge the lowest commission and continue the partnership if Allen supplied goods of equal quantity and quality the following year.
• Allen also demanded secrecy and protection for his family, threatening Marcus with violence if he broke the agreement.
• Marcus accepted Allen’s terms and focused on using the potions to advance his position.

Allen resolved the crisis with Marcus Cabelli, securing the continuation of his father Agostino’s business partnership and Marcus’s future protection. He returned home with Agostino, where he planned to share the good news and discuss the Hunter Exam while keeping its bloodier events secret.

• Agostino rushed to Marcus Cabelli’s hotel and found Allen leaving the elevator alongside Marcus, who treated him as a friend.
• Marcus told Agostino he would not pursue the lost Auction Items and that their partnership would continue because Allen had made a deal with him.
• Agostino recognized that Allen had held the upper hand in the deal, then took him home after Marcus offered to help with any future business troubles.
• Agostino thanked Allen for saving the family, and Allen explained that he had acted as a family member.
• Allen realized that his growing bond with the family strengthened his control over the original owner’s Enhancement-type Nen, then agreed to tell everyone about the Hunter Exam while omitting its bloody details.

Allen used his Nen abilities to defeat the enemies in Blackrock Depths, demonstrating how he could manipulate matter between solid, liquid, and gas states. After killing Dagran Thorason and Princess Moira Bronzebeard, he reached Hunter level 56 and reflected on his progress while Marcus Cabelli rose in the Yorknew underworld.

• Allen gathered a massive horde of Dungeon enemies with Lupos, slowed them with a Frost Trap, and wounded them with a Goblin Sapper Charge.
• Allen turned air into liquid to freeze the enemies, then shattered the ice sculptures with Nen-enhanced arrows.
• Allen explained the limits and conditions of his Nen ability to change matter between solid, liquid, and gas states.
• Allen fought through Blackrock Depths and killed Dagran Thorason and Princess Moira Bronzebeard, reaching Hunter level 56.
• Allen recalled staying home to train and prepare while keeping an eye on Marcus Cabelli, who had gained the Ten Dons' favor and become known as one of the Underworld Twin Stars.

Allen accepted his family’s support and left home to prepare for the Hunter Exam, then secretly teleported from the airship to Scholomance to pursue equipment and levels before facing Hisoka. The chapter ended with him summoning Shadow Wolf King Lupos in the dangerous dungeon.

• Agostino gave Allen a check for seventy-five billion Jenny from the sale of his equipment, and Allen asked him to invest the money in the family business.
• Agostino gave Allen a customized phone and learned that Allen planned to leave the next day for the Hunter Exam.
• Allen’s family saw him off as he boarded an airship bound for Whale Island and urged him to return home safely.
• After the airship reached cruising altitude, Allen used Teleportation in an empty restroom to travel to Scholomance.
• Allen summoned Shadow Wolf King Lupos and prepared to seek the Ancient Bone Bow and gain levels before fighting Hisoka.

Allen traveled from Whale Island aboard the ship carrying Hunter Exam candidates, where he reunited with Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio and explained why he was taking the exam again. After the ship docked, he went ahead to the examination venue with a Beast Fox sent by the review committee.

• Allen reflected on his years of training in Dungeons and the strength he had gained before falling asleep on the ship's deck beside Lupos.
• A storm struck the ship, and Kurapika and Leorio came onto the deck as the Captain recognized Allen as last year's candidate who had refused a Hunter License.
• Gon introduced himself and tried to touch Lupos, but Allen stopped the wolf from biting him and explained that he had not considered himself to have passed the previous exam.
• The Captain told Allen that he could go directly to the examination venue, while he rebuked Leorio for demanding fair treatment.
• Kurapika questioned Allen about the exam, and after the ship docked, Allen followed the review committee's Beast Fox to the venue.

Allen and Hisoka began a life-or-death duel before the Hunter Exam, but examiner Satotz stopped them to protect the other candidates. The battle was postponed until a later stage, leaving Allen to observe that Killua remained despite the terrifying Nen.

• Hisoka recognized Allen’s power and eagerly agreed to a wager in which the loser would face death or three months without Nen.
• Allen summoned the Red Dragon of Life and formed a contract with Hisoka before attacking him with liquefied air.
• Satotz intervened and threatened to disqualify them, so Allen restored the air and agreed to postpone the fight.
• Hisoka accepted the delay but killed a nearby candidate with a playing card and tasted the blood.
• Several frightened candidates abandoned the exam, while Allen noticed that Killua stayed and struggled against Illumi’s influence.

Allen rested and assessed the examinees before reuniting with Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio. When Satotz began the first Hunter Exam test, Allen rode his Swift Thunderclaw Leopard through the running trial.

• Allen observed the examinees' aura and considered his advantages and Hisoka's fighting style.
• Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio arrived, and Allen shared strawberry juice with Gon.
• Kurapika noticed that the other examinees kept their distance from Allen and Hisoka, while Lupos's warning aura deterred them.
• Satotz warned the examinees about the Hunter Exam's dangers, confirmed that no one withdrew, and began the first test by leading them through the tunnel.
• Allen summoned his Swift Thunderclaw Leopard and rode it as the examinees ran to keep up with Satotz.

Allen used his summoned leopard to keep pace during the Hunter Exam’s endurance test, while Gon and Killua became acquainted and Hisoka pressed him to fight. Allen passed the first trial and headed into the dangerous second half on Zevil Island.

• Allen rode the Swift Thunderclaw Leopard through the endurance test, drawing complaints from examinees and taunts from Leorio.
• Killua skateboarded alongside the group, met Gon, and learned they were both twelve years old.
• Satotz accelerated into Zevil Island, then waited for Leorio and Kurapika before announcing the end of the first half of the test.
• Hisoka proposed fighting Allen on Zevil Island, but Allen refused and promised to settle their grievances before the exam ended.
• Allen used Hunter's Mark and Track Humanoid to catch up with the leading group and successfully passed the first trial.

Hisoka hinted that Allen was like him and suggested that something inside Allen had yet to awaken. During the second exam, Lupos cooked a feast that earned Allen a pass, but Menchi failed the other candidates until Chairman Netero changed the test; the successful candidates then flew toward the third exam.

• Hisoka returned with an injured Leorio and told Allen he had found several promising candidates to nurture.
• Hisoka called Allen and himself the same kind of people and said Allen had not yet tasted the forbidden fruit, briefly stirring a strange sensation within Allen.
• During the second exam, Allen lost focus while Lupos prepared an elaborate meal from a Snapping Turtle Pig.
• Menchi and Buhara devoured Lupos's cooking, passing Allen, while Menchi failed the other candidates after rejecting their food.
• Hisoka tried to provoke a disturbance, but Chairman Netero intervened and replaced the test with retrieving Grape Spider eggs by a canyon.
• The candidates who passed boarded the Hunter Association's Airship and set off for the third exam.

On the airship, Allen asked Chairman Netero what Hisoka meant by saying they were the same kind of person. Netero proposed a game to help Allen find the answer, and the chapter ended as he explained its rules.

• Chairman Netero approached Allen and Lupos, and Allen vowed to win the Hunter License.
• Allen told Netero that Hisoka’s words had made something stir in his mind, but he could not understand what it was.
• Netero learned that Allen had never fought an intelligent opponent near his strength, and Allen explained that his Dungeon opponents acted like manifested puppets.
• Netero invited Allen to play a game, and Allen agreed after Netero promised it would reveal the answer.
• Netero led Allen to the airship’s recreation room and set rules requiring them to fight with basic Nen while avoiding damage to the room.

Allen sparred with Chairman Netero and realized his combat ability and talent had grown enough to challenge first-rate Nen users. After Netero’s guidance helped him embrace his desire to hunt and surpass the strong, Allen continued the game to gain more experience.

• Allen and Chairman Netero exchanged rapid blows, and Allen realized he could match the chairman’s offense and defense despite Netero’s experience.
• Netero kicked Allen toward a wall, but Allen used Ko and the combined traits of Enhancement and Manipulation to propel himself into a powerful counterattack.
• Netero praised Allen’s unusual Nen talent and revealed that it had taken him forty-five years to reach his own level.
• Allen thanked Netero for helping him understand his desire to challenge powerful opponents and declared himself a qualified hunter.
• Allen charged back at Netero, eager to continue their sparring and land a solid hit.

Allen fought Chairman Netero aboard the Airship, then reached Trap Tower ahead of the other examinees by leaping from the airship and using a sonic boom to slow his fall. Hisoka demanded a fight on the ground, and Allen began attacking him with Lupos’s support.

• Allen lost focus when Gon and Killua appeared, allowing Chairman Netero to seize his ankle and slam him into the floor; Allen surrendered and admitted his mistake.
• Allen declined Chairman Netero’s offer of another round and left to reflect on what he had learned, while Netero invited Gon and Killua to play a game for Hunter Licenses.
• The Airship arrived at Trap Tower, and Allen jumped from the tower, slowed his descent with a sonic boom, and landed safely beside Lupos.
• Hisoka leaped down using Stretchable Love and challenged Allen, who refused to fight until the next test began.
• Hisoka pressed for a fight, so Allen ordered Lupos to use Wolf Howl and struck Hisoka with a punch that exceeded Hisoka’s limits.

Allen overwhelmed Hisoka with his superior speed and countered his card trap with Shadow Energy, then healed Hisoka’s broken arm during a temporary truce. He ended by warning Hisoka that the next exam would be hell, revealing his intent to take revenge on him.

• Hisoka’s attack missed as Allen dodged and explained that his neural reflexes were far faster than Hisoka’s.
• Hisoka threw a deck of cards and attacked from above, but Allen caught his wrist and destroyed the cards with Shadow Energy after Lupos spotted the trap with Gyo.
• Allen and Hisoka agreed to a temporary truce so they could assess each other’s abilities.
• Allen healed Hisoka’s broken arm with a Heavy Runecloth Bandage, restoring it within seconds.
• Allen released his resentment toward Hisoka and warned him to enjoy his final moments before the next exam.

Allen denied to Hisoka that he had known the Hunter Exam’s events in advance, then reassured Killua that he was not targeting him or his friends. On the fourth exam island, Allen took Pokkle’s number plate and headed into the forest to find Hisoka for their promised fight.

• Hisoka questioned Allen about whether he had known the exam’s contents, but Allen dismissed the idea as a coincidence.
• Hisoka left to find Illumi, while Killua emerged from hiding and asked Allen about his target.
• Allen told Killua that he was not targeting Killua, Gon, Kurapika, or Leorio, and Killua relaxed.
• Allen landed first on the fourth exam island with Lupos and waited openly for his target, Pokkle.
• Allen’s malicious Nen overwhelmed Pokkle, who handed over his number plate.
• After securing six points’ worth of number plates, Allen entered the forest to find Hisoka.

Allen and Hisoka began their long-awaited fight on the island, each secretly setting up a deception while trading attacks. Allen believed he had gained the advantage by planting Nen-infused air inside Hisoka, but Hisoka’s own trick remained undiscovered as the battle continued.

• Allen found Hisoka waiting by the lake, and the two prepared to fight while Lupos stayed alert.
• Hisoka attacked with playing cards as Allen used Lupos’s Shadow Energy to deflect them and secretly manipulated Nen-infused air into Hisoka’s lungs and throat.
• Hisoka used False Swipe and Stretchable Love to create a lifelike puppet, planning to hide his real body with Zetsu for an ambush.
• Hisoka speculated that Allen’s Shadow Nen bullets could not travel far from him, but Allen formed one into an arrow with a sinister bone bow and destroyed a nearby tree.
• Allen concealed the danger of his Nen and believed the air inside Hisoka gave him the key to victory, intending to trigger it after Hisoka thought he had won.

Allen defeated Hisoka by triggering a hidden freezing ability, then healed him enough to keep him alive. He left Hisoka with Illumi after the Life Red Dragon drained Hisoka’s aura, leaving him unable to use Nen for three months.

• Hisoka advanced while distracting Allen and Lupos with his twisted beliefs about teachers and students.
• Allen said he and Hisoka shared a taste for deception but that he sought the satisfaction and rewards of defeating powerful opponents.
• Hisoka obscured the area with an attack on the ground, used a decoy, and tried to kill Allen from behind with playing cards.
• Allen activated a hidden ability that froze Hisoka’s lungs, evaded the attack, and beat him unconscious over ten minutes.
• Allen gave Hisoka a healing potion and entrusted him to Illumi, then warned that he welcomed another challenge at a price.
• The Life Red Dragon drained Hisoka’s aura, putting him in Zetsu for three months and growing to about 1.6 meters long.

After defeating Hisoka, Allen discovered that fighting powerful Nen users earned him rank, Talent Points, and a chance to buy honor gear. He tested his strength in Molten Core, where he defeated two Magma Giants but decided to avoid bosses until he found ways to heal and remove negative effects.

• Allen realized his victory over Hisoka had raised his rank and earned him a Talent Point, and he considered farming honor by fighting Nen users.
• Allen watched the Red Dragon of Life react eagerly and noted that it could materialize by consuming aura, though doing so used a great deal of energy.
• Allen teleported to Molten Core and ordered Lupos and its Phantom Wolves to attack the two Magma Giants guarding the entrance.
• Allen used enhanced arrows to weaken the giants, and Lupos's Phantom Wolves destroyed one with a coordinated explosion before Allen killed the other.
• Allen found only a Lava Core and worthless junk, then chose to hunt ordinary enemies until he gained healing and status-removal abilities strong enough to challenge bosses.