Chapter Summaries

Moro and Hisoka fought at full strength as Moro analyzed Hisoka’s rubber-based Nen and countered his speed with ranged attacks and careful timing. Moro landed a powerful punch that sent Hisoka crashing into a wall, while the terrified examinees watched from the sidelines.

• Kalluto reflected on Killua’s fear of Nen and considered—but again refrained from—removing Illumi’s needle.
• Hanzo pulled Gon away from the fight as Moro emerged unharmed from the crater Hisoka had sent him into.
• Moro recognized that Hisoka had developed a way to turn parts of his body into rubber, and the two resumed their battle without holding back.
• Moro used Flash Strike and Flying Star: Splitting Bow to attack Hisoka from a distance, but Hisoka blocked the barrage and charged through the dust.
• Hisoka struck Moro and sent him flying, but Moro used the hovering Deceptive Flying Stars to propel himself back and punch Hisoka into the wall.
• Moro wondered whether Hisoka had turned his face into rubber to soften the force of the punch.

Moro defeated Hisoka in the arena after surviving his attacks and binding him with Star Brilliance Condensation. Hisoka was knocked unconscious, and Gon quietly took his number tag while the other examinees stared at Moro in fear.

• Moro bombarded the ruins with Nen Bullets, but Hisoka emerged with only minor injuries after rubberizing his body.
• Hisoka challenged Moro to use Star Brilliance Condensation and launched a sweeping attack with his elastic arms and playing cards.
• Moro used Biomorphic Mutation to slip through Hisoka's assault, then bound him with a Golden Chain and formed a Deceptive Flying Star.
• Hisoka launched playing cards at Moro, but Moro teleported away as the Golden Chain broke, leaving the doubled-power flying star to blast Hisoka toward him.
• Moro punched Hisoka in the face, breaking his nose and knocking him unconscious.
• Gon hooked Hisoka's number tag with his fishing rod while Hanzo and the other examinees watched Moro in shock.

Moro defeated Hisoka, while Gon seized Hisoka’s number tag to win the first duel alongside Hanzo. In the next match, Moro took Killua’s tag after encouraging him to fight, leaving Killua relieved despite his defeat.

• Moro defeated Hisoka, and Gon used his fishing rod to take Hisoka’s number tag while everyone watched the fight.
• Satotz declared Gon and Hanzo the winners, and Netero allowed Moro to continue the tests alone while wearing Hisoka’s tag.
• Somi and Scarpon’s team defeated Sissituhr and Umori by using snakes to create an opening for a monkey to steal a tag.
• Barbara surrendered against Moro, but Killua refused to give up and prepared to fight him.
• Moro used Flash Strike to take Killua’s number tag, and Killua felt happier after the loss as his negative feelings lifted.

Moro waited out the final test with Kalluto, then attended the Hunter License orientation and helped settle questions about Kalluto's age. After exchanging contact information with the other new Hunters, Moro summoned Chimera to carry them down the mountain, leaving the candidates stunned by the creature.

• Moro left the training ground to admire the sea of clouds, and Kalluto joined him while they discussed Kalluto's match against Leorio.
• The final test ended with Umori and Sissituhr eliminated, and Bean explained the Hunter License's privileges and rules to the successful candidates.
• Bean questioned Kalluto's falsified age, but confirmed through his identification that Kalluto was ten and allowed him to keep his license.
• Moro, Killua, and Kalluto joined the other candidates, exchanged contact information, and discussed their plans as Professional Hunters.
• Moro summoned Chimera to give the group a ride down the mountain, shocking the candidates and martial arts schools gathered there.

After the Hunter Exam, Moro helped the new Hunters decide their next steps and visited the injured Hisoka. The chapter ended with Kurapika waiting outside the medical room as Moro emerged.

• Chimera carried Ponzu and the other departing candidates away, while Barbara asked Moro to register Chimera and he refused.
• Gon chose to return to Whale Island before searching for Ging, and Killua agreed to go with him.
• Leorio planned to study medicine, while Barbara arranged to explore nearby and Kalluto worried about Killua and her family.
• Menchi cornered Moro in the corridor, then accompanied him to the medical room to see Hisoka.
• Moro gave Hisoka his Hunter License and warned him that any further pursuit would put his life at stake.
• Kurapika waited outside the medical room as Moro left.

Moro reunited with Kurapika, then hosted a crowded dinner with the Hunters and saw Gon, Killua, and Kalluto off toward Whale Island. Ging called Moro afterward and offered to tell him where to find an ancestral Divine Script Strategy Guide, which was on Whale Island.

• Moro met Kurapika, who said he had recovered eight pairs of his clansmen's eyes and planned to recover the rest by the Yorknew City auction.
• Menchi's dinner for Moro turned into a gathering with Kurapika, Kalluto, Buhara, Satotz, Netero, Gon, and Killua.
• Gon and Killua played volleyball with Netero late into the night, delaying their departure the next morning.
• Netero told Moro that an old friend had spoken highly of him, and he privately recalled Moro and Kalluto's resemblance to himself and Maha.
• Moro sent Gon, Killua, and Kalluto toward the port on Chimera, while Kurapika and Menchi stayed with him.
• Ging called Moro and revealed that his ancestral Divine Script Strategy Guide was on Whale Island.

After Ging revealed that Don Freecss's Nen inscription manual was hidden on Whale Island, Moro decided to retrieve it and guide Gon in Nen. As Moro escorted Kurapika and Menchi toward the airport, he sensed a coordinated attack and discovered that the bomb-carrying attackers were from Meteor City.

• Ging told Moro where Don Freecss's Nen inscription manual was hidden and asked him to return it after studying it.
• Moro decided to go to Whale Island and guide Gon in Nen, while Menchi chose to seek Association approval to mentor Barbara for her two-star goal.
• Chimera dropped Gon, Killua, and Kalluto near a port city, while Zilva and Amane raced to find the boys and bring them home.
• Moro took Kurapika and Menchi to the airport, where he sensed more than ten people with killing intent and sent them flying with shooting stars.
• The attackers detonated bombs in the air, and Kurapika identified them as people from Meteor City.

Moro left the airport after a Meteor City suicide bombing and flew toward the port town, where Gon, Killua, and Kalluto were attacked by controlled residents. Zilva and Moro arrived as Killua faced two dangerous assailants, and Moro stopped Charn by striking him with a falling streak of Nen.

• Meteor City residents carried out a suicide bombing at the airport, and Kurapika told Moro that attacks against him had grown increasingly frequent and dangerous.
• Kurapika and Menchi departed by airship, while Moro met Chimera and pursued Zilva and Amane toward the port town.
• Controlled residents attacked Gon, Killua, and Kalluto, who killed the puppets; Kalluto was then struck into a building by Charn.
• Charn and the freckled young man surrounded Gon and Killua, while Illumi's Nen needle made Killua struggle against the urge to flee.
• Zilva arrived and forced Charn and the freckled young man to scatter, then Moro landed in Charn's escape route.
• Moro unleashed a falling streak of Nen that struck and tore Charn apart.

Moro killed Charn and the freckled Nen user, then Zilva took Killua and Kotetsu back to the Zoldyck estate. After helping Gon awaken Nen, Moro sent him toward Mount Pinyin and prepared to travel to Whale Island, where he spotted Morel pursuing Chimera.

• Moro used a Nen Bullet to kill Charn, and Zilva killed the freckled young man as he tried to flee.
• Zilva ordered Kotetsu and Killua to return home; Killua rejected Gon and said they would not see each other again.
• Moro told Gon where the Zoldycks lived and offered to help him open Nen, then trained him in Ten and Zetsu for three days.
• Gon set off alone for the Dengtola Region to find Killua, and Moro asked Kalluto to watch over him.
• Moro prepared to go to Whale Island and saw Morel pursuing Chimera by ship.

Moro confronted Morel and Glarcheon as they tried to restrain Chimera, which was flying back to him after his Flying Star summons. The clash ended with Moro disarming Morel and neutralizing his smoke soldiers, then showing his Hunter License.

• Morel spotted Moro on the cliff and suspected Chimera was connected to him, while he and Glarcheon prepared to restrain the beast because it had capsized a fishing boat.
• Glarcheon rode a smoke-propelled surfboard toward shore as Morel launched Purple Smoke Soldiers at Chimera.
• Moro fired Nen Bullets that destroyed more than half of Morel's airborne smoke soldiers, then caught Glarcheon's harpoon as Glarcheon ran along its chain.
• Moro used Flash Strike to appear beside Morel, struck his throat, and seized his pipe before Glarcheon could help.
• Moro destroyed the remaining smoke soldiers with precisely controlled Nen balls and showed Morel his Hunter License.

Moro settled the dispute over the Chimera’s attack on a fishing boat and learned from Morel and Glarcheon that Phantom Beasts were usually hostile and highly sought after on the black market. He took the Chimera to hide on Whale Island, then found a woman standing near the cliff where Ging’s Divine Script Strategy Guide was hidden.

• The Chimera approached Moro’s ship without harming it, convincing Morel that Moro had truly tamed the Phantom Beast.
• Morel explained that the Chimera had sunk a fishing boat while hunting fish caught in its net, and Moro agreed to compensate the fishermen for their losses.
• Morel and Glarcheon told Moro that Phantom Beasts were generally aggressive and warned him that black-market buyers might hunt the Chimera for food or as a specimen.
• Moro exchanged contact information with Morel and Glarcheon, then left with the Chimera for Whale Island.
• Moro hid the Chimera near Whale Island’s active volcano and went alone to the cliff where Ging had said the Divine Script Strategy Guide was concealed.
• Moro arrived at the cliff and saw an unfamiliar woman standing by the sea.

Moro met Mito on Whale Island, retrieved Don Freecss's Divine Script Strategy Guide, and began studying its difficult material. After checking into the island's only inn, he ate at Mito's restaurant, where his enormous appetite astonished the customers.

• Moro met Mito at the cliff and pretended to be a tourist visiting Whale Island.
• After confirming no one was watching, Moro descended to a cave and dug up the Divine Script Strategy Guide beneath a tree.
• Moro studied the guide's annotated Krakowian text and found that memorizing and assembling Divine Script modules was extremely difficult.
• Moro decided to keep studying for a while, then checked into the village's only inn and went to Mito's restaurant for dinner.
• Moro repeatedly ordered seafood fried rice until he had eaten at least twenty servings, leaving Mito and the customers stunned.

Moro continued studying Divine Script on Whale Island and realized Ging had used a mysterious pitch-black drift bottle to spark his interest in the Dark Continent. Gon and Killua arrived late at Mito’s tavern, where Gon repeated Moro’s story about an examiner who ate 101 roasted pigs.

• Moro joked with Mito and the tavern patrons about a person who could eat 101 whole roasted pigs, then helped Mito close the tavern and accepted a late-night snack from her.
• Moro studied Ging’s notes and discovered a Divine Script illustration of a pitch-black bottle associated with drifting, randomness, and teleportation.
• Moro connected the illustrated bottle to the drift bottle he had seen in memories extracted from post-death Nen, and suspected Ging had withheld the connection to draw him toward the Dark Continent expedition.
• Gon and Killua reached Whale Island after missing the last ferry, found Mito’s tavern still lit, and went inside for food.
• Mito had run out of ingredients and served Gon and Killua milk, then Gon told her that an examiner had eaten 101 roasted pigs, prompting Mito to recognize Moro’s story.

Moro practiced Divine Script on Whale Island until he successfully created a record-type script and used it to release Tiger Head Play Painting. He built a wooden frame covered in scripts to launch many controllable aura strikes at once, then sent a video of the result to Ging, who replied with praise.

• Moro went to a secluded beach and repeatedly practiced drawing record-type Divine Script in the sand.
• Moro completed a Divine Script, recorded Tiger Head Play Painting in it, and activated the ability from a distance.
• Moro made a wooden frame covered in more than a dozen recording scripts and activated them together, directing their fast aura strikes with his gestures.
• Moro recorded his improvised attack and sent the video to Ging.
• Ging watched the video and nearly choked before replying, “Genius!!!”

Ging considered how divine-script drift bottles might help him and Moro reach the Dark Continent, while Moro practiced divine script and imagined developing his Secret Realm. The chapter ended with Kurapika preparing to use Chain of Healing on a terminally ill old man.

• Ging watched Moro's divine-script drum demonstration and considered working with him to investigate the Pitch-black Drift Bottle.
• Moro improved his control of the aura clusters, then continued studying divine script and considered adding its effects to his Secret Realm.
• Moro met Gon and Killua on the village road and returned with them to Mito's tavern, where Mito gave him a strange look.
• Kurapika stood beside a terminally ill old man and prepared to use Chain of Healing on him.

Kurapika healed a dying old man with the Chain of Healing and received another pair of Scarlet Eyes, bringing his recovered total to ten. Meanwhile, Moro advanced Gon and Killua’s Nen training, teaching them Gyo before using the Divine Script Drum to begin a punishing evasion exercise.

• Kurapika used the Chain of Healing to cure the old man, enduring a severe drain on his vitality and strength.
• After the old man’s recovery was confirmed, his family gave Kurapika a pair of Scarlet Eyes and promised to keep his ability secret.
• Kurapika placed the Scarlet Eyes in his collection and reflected that he had recovered ten pairs, with the Kakin Nation beast still his final target.
• Moro explained Zhou, In, and Gyo to Gon and Killua, then helped them learn Gyo by concentrating aura around their eyes.
• Moro started special training with the Divine Script Drum, which fired visible and concealed Nen spheres at Gon and Killua.
• Gon and Killua repeatedly dodged the attacks but were struck by spheres hidden with In, while Moro continued reading his book.

Moro used the Divine Script Drum to train Gon and Killua, teaching them to balance Gyo, observation, evasion, and defense under pressure. After two months of rapid progress, the boys recognized how much they owed their teacher, while Moro considered the danger posed by Tserriednich if he learned Nen.

• Gon and Killua repeatedly faced the Divine Script Drum's attacks, and Killua began identifying its automated patterns while learning to use Gyo with better timing.
• Killua endured the barrage for over a minute, but Moro increased its difficulty after Killua asked whether there was a harder mode and sent him flying.
• Gon stopped focusing on perfect evasion and used Gyo to reinforce the points where attacks would land, eventually blocking the Drum's barrage.
• Moro praised Killua's insight that Gon's defensive approach allowed more room for error, then explained that the Divine Script Drum was a small part of his Nen ability.
• Two months later, Gon and Killua had advanced at an extraordinary rate through Moro's demanding training and understood how much his teaching had helped them.

Moro taught Gon and Killua about Nen types and encouraged them to begin developing abilities suited to their talents. Killua quickly turned his idea into an electric Nen ability, while Gon was still considering what to make.

• After months of training, Gon and Killua mastered Gyo, Zhou, and In, and Moro began teaching them about Nen types and ability development.
• Killua asked whether a Nen user could shift between types, and Moro explained that training, environment, and changes in body and mind could affect their position in the type system.
• Moro revealed that he had taken about a year and a half to efficiently use two Nen types, then urged Gon and Killua to value their exceptional talent and aptitude.
• When Killua asked which of them was stronger, Moro said Gon excelled in talent while Killua had greater aptitude, prompting the two boys to bicker.
• That night, Killua transformed his aura into electricity and decided to master the ability before asking Moro for combat training.

Killua challenged Moro to a sparring session after rapidly developing his electricity-based Nen ability, but Moro easily outmaneuvered and defeated him. After months of training on Whale Island, Moro gave Gon the box Ging had left for him, then accepted a lunchbox from Mito as she acknowledged his work and anticipated his departure.

• Killua completed the midpoint between Transmutation and Enhancement in a month and asked Moro to test his new electricity-based abilities.
• Moro and Killua began sparring as Gon watched, and Killua used Godspeed to attack at lightning speed.
• Moro evaded Killua's attacks, restrained him with a Golden Chain, and ended the match with Flash Strike.
• Killua repeatedly sparred with Moro afterward but ran out of aura without landing a hit, while Gon watched with renewed determination.
• Moro gave Gon the box Ging had left for him, and Gon began examining it with Killua.
• Mito met Moro outside and gave him a lunchbox, thanking him for everything he had done for Gon.

Moro left Whale Island with Gon and Killua, who learned that Ging’s box contained a lead to the Nen-only game Greed Island. They headed to Heaven’s Arena to earn money and prepare for the Yorknew auction, where Gon and Killua unexpectedly encountered Hisoka.

• Mito asked Moro whether Ging had sent him, and Moro said Ging had arranged for him to guide Gon’s training before leaving Whale Island.
• Gon and Killua opened Ging’s box with Nen and found Divine Script markings, a cassette tape, a ring, and a Greed Island save-data card.
• Moro showed Gon how to use the Hunter-only website, where they paid 20 million Jenny for information about Greed Island and learned about its danger, price, and upcoming Yorknew auction.
• Moro took Gon and Killua to Heaven’s Arena, advising them to earn money while treating their matches as valuable combat training.
• Gon and Killua impressed the first-floor arena with their aura and received passes to the 150th floor after their opponents quickly surrendered.
• Gon and Killua saw Hisoka outside the elevator and frantically tried to close the doors, angering the elevator attendant as Nen aura emerged around her.