Chapter Summaries

Biscuit pushed Gon and Killua into a life-or-death training regimen against the fugitive Phinks, while Morin and Ging discussed Gon's outlook and training. The chapter left Ging startled when Morin revealed he had obtained information about the Dark Continent from the Navigation Bureau.

• Biscuit told Gon and Killua that their talent and drive fell short of Morin's and warned them that strength was necessary to achieve their goals.
• Biscuit identified the barber as bounty hunter Phinks, a notorious murderer, and made him their opponent in a two-week evasion training trial.
• Gon and Killua began fighting Phinks, and Biscuit praised their progress after they managed to restrict his movements in half a day.
• Morin watched Gon thank Phinks after training and explained to Ging that Gon judged people by whether they were connected to him rather than by conventional good and evil.
• Morin told Ging he had obtained information about the Dark Continent from the Navigation Bureau, and Ging reacted with surprise that Morin had gone there.

Morin showed Ging a genuine Dark Continent travel contract and recruited him for an expedition planned to begin after September next year. They discussed the tentative team roster, and Morin left the identity of its final member a secret.

• Ging told Morin he had obtained none of the four requirements for official travel to the Dark Continent.
• Morin gave Ging one of the genuine contracts he had acquired from the Navigation Bureau and revealed that he planned to launch an expedition after September next year.
• Ging accepted Morin's invitation immediately, citing Morin's strength and useful items as reasons to join.
• Morin named Biscuit, Hishito Douro, and Tonpa among the team's other tentative members, while keeping the final recruit's identity secret.
• Morin said he would not bring the Phantom Troupe because their goals differed from his, and considered recruiting members of Beyond's team instead.

After Ging gave Morin the Doraemon card, Morin teased him about the Stone of Pregnancy and promised to send him Dark Continent information. Morin then approached Kalluto at the hospital and invited him to join an expedition, leaving Kalluto to answer whether he had already accepted Beyond's offer.

• Ging gave Morin the No. 22 Designated Pocket Card, and Morin joked that Ging might have used the Stone of Pregnancy to have Gon.
• Ging denied ever using Greed Island items, and Morin said he would send Ging a copy of the Dark Continent intelligence before leaving.
• At a hospital, Kalluto worried about his younger sister's surgery and the debts he would need to repay.
• Kalluto considered accepting Beyond's offer of fifteen billion Jenny for official expedition personnel.
• Morin introduced himself to Kalluto and invited him to join an expedition to an unknown land.
• Morin asked Kalluto whether he had already accepted Beyond's invitation.

Morin offered Kalluto five billion Jenny and his recovered Hunter License to join his Dark Continent expedition, outbidding Beyond. After his sister’s successful surgery, Kalluto accepted Morin’s invitation and planned to meet Tonpa in Zaban City.

• Morin offered Kalluto five billion Jenny, transferred the money, and returned his Hunter License with directions to find Tonpa at the Laxative Tavern in Zaban City.
• Kalluto saw the money arrive and considered Morin’s offer while waiting for news of his sister’s surgery.
• Beyond called Kalluto, but Kalluto declined his one-and-a-half-billion-Jenny offer, saying someone had offered more.
• Kalluto learned his sister’s surgery had succeeded and decided to go to Zaban City to join Morin’s team.
• Beyond dismissed the failed recruitment and reflected on the rewards he had promised his other Dark Continent expedition members.
• Morin considered his immense fortune and concluded that he could recruit capable people by paying them well.

Morin sought to recruit Mihail and his Stonewall mercenary unit for an expedition to a highly dangerous unknown land. Mihail recognized the danger in Morin’s offer but had not yet agreed to join.

• After leaving the hospital, Morin considered recruiting members of Beyond’s team and chose the mercenary Mihail.
• Morin appeared beside Mihail and his squad in the European Continent, surprising them as he examined their combat robot.
• Mihail explained that the robot amplified an Emission-type user’s attacks and supported the squad, and said Stonewall had suffered no casualties in the Lu Bo Civil War.
• Morin learned that the robot’s hidden operator was called Grem and identified Mihail as the mercenary in charge of the eleven-man unit.
• Morin offered to hire Mihail and Stonewall to explore an unknown land, and Mihail asked whether the expedition was dangerous.
• Morin confirmed that the danger was exceptionally high and that they could die before reaching their destination.

Morin recruited Mihail and the Stone Wall Mercenary Group for a future expedition, offering thirty billion Jenny for the team and another twenty billion for the Nowell Fund. After Mihail accepted, Morin sent the group to Zaban City to prepare, though he still considered their eighteen-person force too small for the Dark Continent trip.

• Morin offered Mihail thirty billion Jenny to hire the Stone Wall Mercenary Group, and Mihail agreed after Morin explained his money’s source.
• Morin promised another twenty billion Jenny to the Nowell Fund, easing the group’s concerns about accepting such a large commission.
• Morin transferred the team’s payment and instructed them to gather at his Laxative Bar in Zaban City and prepare for an operation planned for July or August.
• Mihail pledged that the group would not take other commissions before completing Morin’s mission, and Morin offered them access to a copy of Greed Island.
• Morin left after bringing the group into his service, raising his total force to eighteen people and judging it insufficient for the Dark Continent expedition.

Mihail accepted Morin’s thirty-billion commission, turning down Beyond’s offer to explore an unknown land. Meanwhile, Kalluto brought Mihai into Greed Island to help him navigate the game as Battra hired new players amid a deadly scramble for cards.

• Mihail resolved to do his best on Morin’s commission and considered the money Battra had offered for Greed Island’s clearance data.
• Beyond called Mihail to recruit his Stone Wall Mercenary Group, but Mihail refused because he had already accepted a long-term job; Beyond wondered whether the unknown-land expedition was connected to the Dark Continent.
• Battra introduced Zushi to a new group of hired Greed Island players, including Mihai and a dangerous youth in a black cherry blossom kimono, while Zushi worried about the game’s worsening danger.
• Zushi returned to Greed Island to keep collecting cards before Feitan and Phinks overtook them, and Battra’s new hires entered the game.
• Mihai complained that Kalluto had forced him to learn Nen and join Greed Island, but Kalluto said he needed his brother’s gaming expertise.

Morin visited the Zoldyck Family to recruit one of them for his planned expedition to the Dark Continent, and Zeno agreed in principle under three conditions. The story left Morin facing Zeno’s question about whom else he had invited.

• Kalluto brought Mihai into Greed Island, hoping Mihai could help Killua, while Mihai scolded Kalluto for calling him Second Brother.
• Morin escorted Maha to Mount Pika and met Grandmother Zoldyck, Gotoh, Amane, and Canary before speaking with Silva and Zeno.
• Morin proposed that a Zoldyck accompany his planned expedition to the Dark Continent, but Zeno initially said the family had no plans to change its work.
• Zeno set three conditions: Morin had to pay Jenny, the family would send only one person outside the younger generation, and Morin had to prevent another Alluka-like disaster from affecting the family.
• Morin accepted all three conditions, and Zeno said the Zoldyck Family would consider joining him before asking whom else he had invited.

Morin agreed to serve as an examiner for the upcoming Hunter Exam while preparing for a Dark Continent expedition. As Greed Island descended into violence and Killua arrived in Zaban City, the Hunter Association accepted Morin’s Three-Star Hunter promotion without objection, even as it reported the promotion to V5.

• Morin finalized the Zoldyck Family’s cooperation and told them that Hishito Douro planned to visit Mount Pika to fulfill their old sparring agreement.
• Feitan and Phinks wiped out a Greed Island clearing group, while Kensru, Bala, and Shabu began hunting players and drove other teams to consider forming an alliance.
• Killua arrived in Zaban City for the Hunter Exam, where Kalluto learned that Tonpa owned Laxative Bar and went there while Killua visited the Fierce Fox family.
• Netero asked Morin to examine the upcoming Hunter Exam, and Morin accepted after learning his Three-Star rank gave him examiner privileges.
• The Hunter Association recognized Morin’s Three-Star promotion without opposition, and it reported the decision to V5.

Morin accepted Netero’s offer to serve as an examiner and arrived in Biscama to begin the Hunter Exam. He opened the first round before nearly fifteen hundred applicants, including Killua and several people who remembered him from the previous exam.

• Netero appointed Morin as an examiner and told him to prepare the test questions, while Ging declined to join him.
• Morin reached the examination venue in Biscama and decided on the assessment as the applicant crowd gathered outside.
• Killua recognized the Amori Brothers and noticed other returning applicants, including Ponzu, Sōmi, and Bokur.
• Morin opened the iron door at five o’clock and entered as the new applicants awaited the start of the exam.
• The returning applicants recognized Morin as their former fellow candidate and were unnerved to see him serving as examiner.

Morin began the Hunter Exam’s first round, and Netero confirmed that Morin was qualified to serve as chief examiner because he had become a Star Hunter. The exam opened with Morin announcing an unusually high elimination target, leaving the candidates facing a test designed to reduce nearly 1,500 participants to about 300.

• Killua greeted Morin and asked whether he was the first-round chief examiner, while the other candidates watched their exchange.
• Morin welcomed the candidates, warned that the official tests could be deadly, and asked if anyone wanted to withdraw; no one did.
• Takuto questioned whether Morin was qualified to examine the test, and Netero appeared to affirm that Morin was more than qualified.
• Netero explained that Morin was a Star Hunter and said a Star rating qualified him to be chief examiner, then went behind the door to watch the test.
• Morin announced that the first round would eliminate four-fifths of the nearly 1,500 candidates, leaving roughly 300 to advance, and began the test.

Morin began the Hunter Exam’s first test, a command-based Wooden Man challenge that required candidates to keep moving and freeze on cue. Killua exploited the rules by knocking candidates unconscious, rapidly reducing their numbers as Morin watched.

• Morin explained that candidates had to pass both the main and secondary portions of the round, then introduced the main portion as a variation on Wooden Man.
• Morin used En to cover the arena and ordered candidates to keep moving until he called “Stop,” then freeze completely until he called “Move” again.
• Netero listened from behind the iron door and praised Morin’s test for assessing candidates’ stamina, coordination, willpower, and reactions.
• The candidates conserved energy with small movements, while Killua raced through the crowd and knocked them unconscious.
• Morin announced the numbers of the fallen candidates, and the others realized Killua was eliminating them under the test’s rules.

Morin tested the examinees’ ability to stop on command by turning the warehouse floor into a trampoline, while Killua continued knocking people out. The test ended with roughly three hundred examinees remaining, and Morin announced that the next stage would be a written exam.

• Morin stopped the examinees, then sprayed the floor with Trampoline Spray and ordered them to move again.
• The elastic floor sent examinees bouncing into one another, while Killua darted through the crowd and knocked people down.
• Morin called another stop and eliminated examinees who could not immediately hold still.
• Morin warned eliminated examinees not to obstruct the test, and they left as the remaining examinees continued the stop-and-move test.
• Killua’s attacks and the trampoline test reduced the group to around three hundred before Morin clapped his hands and ended the stage.

After 298 examinees passed the first half of the Hunter Exam, Morin announced that the second half would be a written exam, leaving the candidates shocked and worried about their lack of knowledge. The test began with easy questions about Hunter professions before exposing how little many of them knew about the Hunter Association and its chairman.

• Morin declared that 298 examinees had passed, while the candidates kept their distance from Killua after witnessing his strength.
• Morin assessed Killua's improved aura and Nen skills, then reassured the examinees that the next test would not involve combat.
• Morin announced a written exam and explained that Hunters needed knowledge as well as physical ability; Netero listened from behind the iron gate without objecting.
• Killua answered a question about Hunter Licenses and praised Biscuit in his essay naming Gem Hunter as his desired profession.
• The examinees confidently answered questions about their preferred Hunter professions, then faltered when asked to identify Netero's profession and the current Vice Chairman.

Morin’s written Hunter Exam eliminated most of the candidates, and the second round began with far fewer examinees. Elsewhere in Greed Island, a mysterious man asked the Nen exorcist Abengane to remove an ability from something he possessed.

• Netero praised Morin’s written test, and Morin reflected on the similarities between Hunter x Hunter and Naruto.
• Morin’s exam was graded, and 250 examinees passed after the weighted scoring favored serious answers.
• The second-round examiner arrived, puzzled that the candidates had not fought over Number Tags, and began the next test.
• In Greed Island, the mysterious man with a cross on his forehead asked Abengane to exorcise Nen from something he possessed.
• Abengane considered the request while the chapter explained how his forest-spirit Nen beasts removed abilities.

Morin and Ging continued researching the Dark Continent while Greed Island grew more dangerous amid aggressive card hunting. After passing the Hunter Exam, Killua returned to the game, encountered Kalluto and Mihai, and asked Mihai for a favor.

• Abengane accepted a mysterious man's offer to hire him to remove Nen and left with him.
• Feitan, Phinks, and Kensru's violent card-collecting tactics made Greed Island increasingly dangerous as players and GMs watched the game's progress.
• Morin told Ging that the Doraemon card could produce gadgets, though its gadgets were inferior to his own Four-Dimensional Pocket.
• Killua passed the Hunter Exam and encountered Kalluto and Mihai in Andochiwhi after returning to Greed Island.
• Killua asked Mihai to do him a favor, and Mihai agreed with a knowing smile.

A Chimera Ant was carried across a deadly black sea by a silent captor while, on Greed Island, Gon and his allies planned how to recruit enough players to obtain One Tsubo of Coastline. The chapter left Killua considering an invitation to Feitan and Phinks as the group searched for allies.

• A badly injured Chimera Ant woke on a bamboo raft with a beast-headed figure and questioned where he was taking her, but he did not answer.
• Kensru’s killing spree intensified the Greed Island card race, and Gon’s group joined the quest involving Razor and his ten demons to pursue One Tsubo of Coastline.
• Goreinu explained that he knew other players, but their strengths varied, so Killua looked for stronger helpers who had no interest in collecting cards.
• Killua proposed recruiting Mihai and Kalluto, hiring other players with a Leave card, and using Clone to copy One Tsubo of Coastline; Gon and Goreinu agreed.
• Gon suggested inviting Feitan and Phinks, who also wanted the card.

Gon and Killua assembled a group to cooperate with Feitan and Phinks in collecting Greed Island cards. Mihai delivered the heavy yo-yos he had forged for Killua, and Feitan and Phinks arrived to join the gathering.

• Feitan and Phinks discussed their stalled card collection and decided to hunt down players monopolizing cards or holding out on them.
• Gon chose to ask Feitan and Phinks to cooperate, despite Killua’s warning that they were more dangerous than Kensru and Zushi.
• Mihai and Kalluto arrived, and Mihai gave Killua the ultra-heavy yo-yos he had forged from rare materials.
• Killua introduced Mihai and Kalluto to Gon, Biscuit, and the others, while Kalluto privately resented Gon for taking Killua away from home.
• Feitan and Phinks arrived and sized up the assembled group.

Gon and his companions returned to Shu Fu La Bi with Feitan and Phinks, whose strength impressed the pirates and drew the attention of Razor. Phinks chose Razor as his opponent, setting up a challenging match.

• Feitan and Phinks arrived and recognized that Gon and Killua had trained in the Mind's Eye Style under Biscuit, Morin's master.
• Biscuit confirmed her connection to Morin and Pakunoda, and Phinks and Feitan nearly accepted that she was their teacher's master.
• Gon led the group of fifteen to Shu Fu La Bi using Accompany to challenge the pirates again.
• Rure dismissed Gon and the other young challengers as weak before their group arrived at the gymnasium.
• Razor recognized Feitan and Phinks as formidable opponents, and Phinks declared that he would take Razor's event.

Razor revealed that his final challenge would be an eight-versus-eight dodgeball match against Gon’s group, then unleashed his aura after recognizing Gon as Ging’s son. The match began under Bounce System rules and [BACK], with Razor promising not to go easy on Gon.

• Razor summoned seven humanoid Nen beasts and declared that he would face the group in an eight-versus-eight dodgeball match, with each player counting as one win.
• Killua realized Mihai’s warning had helped the group avoid wasting players on the boxing match, and Mihai showed quiet pride in his insight.
• Gon’s team assembled eight players, while Razor ruled that Goreinu’s Nen beasts could not participate; Goreinu left White Sage outside the court to cheer.
• Razor and Gon’s group took their positions, and Gon asked whether Ging was on Greed Island.
• Razor recognized Gon and revealed that Ging had told him not to go easy on his son, then released a powerful aura as Gon eagerly accepted the challenge.