Chapter Summaries

Kevin and Melusina survived a Sand Worm’s hunt and witnessed the Giant Bird close the devastation by manipulating the landscape. After crossing the emptied region and leaving the Dense Forest, they reached a vast plain, where Melusina spotted what looked like a tower.

• A gigantic Sand Worm drew Kevin and Melusina toward its maw, so they flew inside and cut a gap in its Flesh Wall with Kevin’s Golden Dagger.
• Kevin and Melusina waited inside until the Sand Worm finished hunting, then escaped as it left the area.
• The Giant Bird arrived, vented its anger, and used its power to make the trees and earth close the opening before flying away.
• Kevin and Melusina crossed the lifeless region, camped overnight, and traveled through the Dense Forest the next day.
• After emerging from the forest onto a vast plain, Melusina spotted what appeared to be a tower.

Kevin and Melusina avoided a distant tower but were surrounded by hyenas while crossing the plain. After Kevin drove them off, a giant bird and its flock stole some of the corpses, and the pair prepared to move on with a tuft of the Hyena Queen’s fur.

• Kevin and Melusina decided to avoid the distant tower and continue toward their destination without taking unnecessary risks.
• More than ten hyenas surrounded Kevin and Melusina, but Kevin attacked the Hyena Queen and drove the pack away.
• A giant bird and dozens of smaller black birds swooped in and carried off four hyena corpses before flying away.
• Kevin examined the remaining bodies and cut off the Hyena Queen’s high-grade tuft of fur to carry with them.

Kevin and Melusina struggled across the dangerous plain, where groups of creatures repeatedly forced them to flee. After a mechanical creature attacked them at night, Kevin destroyed it, and they began examining its remains.

• Kevin and Melusina escaped a pack of rats and rested near a boulder as the distant tower drew closer.
• They decided to detour around the tower, but a floating mechanical creature with six red lights approached after nightfall.
• The mechanical creature fired lasers and attacked with drilling tentacles, injuring Kevin and their Nen Beasts.
• Kevin severed the creature's tentacles, resisted its flames, and tore apart its upper structure, causing it to crash.
• Melusina cut away Kevin's burned flesh and treated him with a Healing Potion while a Maid Nen Beast guarded the mechanical wreckage.
• Kevin and Melusina prepared to investigate the creature's remains.

Kevin and Melusina discovered that the Mechanical Octopus might have come from the artificial High Tower and began detouring farther away from it. Meanwhile, Kurapika and the others waited at Nosra Manor, unable to help them from afar, as the detour led Kevin and Melusina into regions filled with enormous, powerful creatures.

• Kevin examined the Mechanical Octopus with Melusina, found that its parts could not be used as materials, and identified a Sharp Gear engraved with patterns resembling God Text.
• Kevin concluded that the Mechanical Octopus likely came from the High Tower, so he and Melusina decided to keep farther away from it.
• At Nosra Manor, Kurapika, Biscuit, and Men Qi discussed how little they could do while Kevin and Melusina remained on the Dark Continent, and the others gradually left.
• After making a wider detour around the High Tower, Kevin and Melusina encountered more giant creatures and concluded that the Tower’s mechanical creations cleared dangerous animals from its vicinity.
• Kevin killed a Giant Lizard, and Melusina sent the four Nen Beasts to handle its corpse while Kevin watched for creatures that might try to steal their prey.

Kevin and Melusina fled a pursuing Tyrannosaurus Rex, then Kevin fought it until it retreated and a Pterosaur killed it. A new mechanical construct appeared and seemed to offer them a trade.

• Kevin and Melusina abandoned the lizard materials and fled when a Tyrannosaurus Rex approached.
• Kevin recognized the wounded Tyrannosaurus Rex from an earlier encounter and decided to fight it while Melusina strengthened him with Nen Aura.
• Kevin wounded the Tyrannosaurus Rex again and drove it away, then emerged from the dust covered in blood.
• A Pterosaur attacked the injured Tyrannosaurus Rex, tore it apart, and carried its body into the sky.
• A mechanical construct appeared before Kevin and Melusina, and they sensed it wanted to trade.

Kevin traded the Sharp Gear to a friendly Machine Lifeform in exchange for a mechanical chip. He discovered that the chip used Nen Aura to detect and process information about living creatures, though its stored data was difficult to interpret.

• Kevin asked the Machine Lifeform who it was, but struggled to understand its reply until it conveyed that they were the same kind and identified the Sharp Gear as what it wanted.
• Kevin traded the Sharp Gear for a small mechanical chip, and the Machine Lifeform quickly departed toward the tower.
• Kevin activated the chip with Nen Aura, attached it to the back of his hand, and learned how to operate it through thought.
• Kevin used the chip to examine Melusina and received information identifying her as human with a Resentful Eater Snake mixed into her Aura.
• Kevin told Melusina that the chip could detect information about living creatures but that its stored data was not fully translated.

Kevin and Melusina crossed a relatively safe region around an ancient tower before danger returned as they moved beyond its influence. Back at Nosra Manor, Pairo, Kurapika, Nion, and Rosana worried as the danger readings climbed, while dark clouds gathered over Kevin and Melusina.

• Kevin and Melusina changed course toward the tower after finding its surrounding area safer, and they rested and resupplied as they crossed it.
• Kevin and Melusina examined the ancient, rust-covered tower and the rusted machines around its black-sand base, then continued past it.
• At Nosra Manor, Pairo asked Kurapika about Rosana's readings, and Nion reported that Kevin and Melusina had become more dangerous again.
• Rosana saw the pair's figures approach halfway through the lethal section of the Danger Scale Board and waited for a chance to pull them back.
• After Kevin and Melusina left the tower's sphere of influence, giant beasts grew more common, Kevin sensed danger, and dark clouds gathered overhead.

Kevin and Melusina were caught in a strange storm whose rain accelerated growth and drained Nen Aura, while unseen creatures attacked at incredible speed. After the pair were dragged from their shelter, their bodies reacted on their own with such speed that even they could not follow their movements.

• Kevin and Melusina sensed a subtle danger as the sky faded and the strange weather spread around them.
• Kevin sent Xiao Hong to hollow out a tree, and he and Melusina sheltered inside as a torrential downpour began.
• Melusina found that the rain rapidly consumed her Nen Aura, while wood chips decayed and seeds sprouted at unnatural speed.
• A gray-white weasel struck Kevin through the rain curtain, and he crushed it before a second attacker dragged him and Melusina outside by its tongue.
• Kevin entered his limit state and tore the tongue apart, then he and Melusina stood up with movements so fast they could not consciously follow them.

Kevin and Melusina were caught in rain that first accelerated their bodies and then slowed them nearly to a standstill. As Kevin realized he could barely move, a Resentful Eater Snake appeared in the distorted air.

• Kevin's body accelerated inside the rain, letting him kill an attacking gray-white weasel before he and Melusina rushed into a tree and crashed through it.
• Melusina grabbed Kevin and sat with him as the rain abruptly stopped and the Raindrops began floating upward.
• Kevin reasoned that the rain had first accelerated bodies and muscle memory, then slowed their bodies while leaving their thoughts unaffected.
• Kevin worried that he could not defend himself against danger while nearly immobilized, then spotted the black-red Aura of a Resentful Eater Snake.

Kevin and Melusina encountered a juvenile Resentful Eater Snake in the Reverse Rain, where it could move freely while other creatures were nearly frozen. After inspecting Melusina and her Nen Beasts, the snake turned hostile toward Kevin, and Melusina’s furious warning was followed by it ramming him in the back.

• Kevin recognized the Resentful Eater Snake’s phantom form as it hunted a Frog by injecting it with venom that turned its Nen into Resentment.
• Kevin realized the snake could move freely through the Reverse Rain while the Frog, Melusina, and her Nen Beasts remained slowed.
• The snake noticed Kevin and Melusina, approached them, and examined Melusina and her four Nen Beasts without attacking.
• The snake focused on Kevin, prompting Melusina to angrily beg it not to touch him.
• The snake turned toward Melusina, then rammed its head into Kevin’s back.

Kevin and Melusina were carried out of the Reverse Rain by a Resentful Eater Snake, which treated Melusina as kin and Kevin as her prey. After it absorbed the resentment from Kevin’s dagger, it grew affectionate toward Melusina and continued carrying them onward.

• The Resentful Eater Snake dragged Kevin, Melusina, and her four Nen Beasts through the Reverse Rain, where Kevin observed the plants’ strange life cycle.
• Kevin reasoned that their connection to the Resentful Eater Snake and the Ruins tablet had sent them near the snake’s habitat, possibly giving them a route toward the coast and a way home.
• Once they left the rain, Melusina sensed that the snake meant her no harm, though Kevin remained wary and feared provoking it.
• Melusina relayed that the snake considered Kevin her prey and wanted her to share some of him, then took Kevin’s dagger as an offering.
• The snake absorbed the dagger’s resentment until the weapon crumbled, then showed affection to Melusina and carried her on its head while Kevin was dragged along with the Nen Beasts.

Kevin and Melusina traveled with the Giant Snake into a pristine forest filled with the bones of enormous snakes and a pool surrounded by fruit-bearing vines. As the Resentment in the air grew oppressive, Kevin finally spotted more Resentful Eater Snakes and confirmed they had reached the nest.

• The Giant Snake carried Kevin and Melusina through a clean forest where giant snake skeletons had been carefully buried in Quartz Sand.
• Kevin examined the bones and speculated that Resentful Eater Snakes matured from Nen Aura forms into physical adults as they grew and needed more substantial food.
• The Giant Snake led them to a clear pool lined with snake-bone fragments and Snake Berry Vines, where Kevin sensed an environment rich in Aura and Resentment.
• Kevin realized the forest's oppressive Resentment made it a true nest despite its pristine appearance.
• Kevin spotted more Resentful Eater Snakes and the signs of a proper nest.

Kevin and Melusina entered the Resentful Eater Snake nest hoping to find a safe stronghold, and the snakes mostly treated them as their own kind. Kevin led Melusina toward the nest’s enormous oldest snake to learn whether it would accept them, and they faced its scrutiny.

• Kevin and Melusina entered the nest with two older snakes, and Kevin judged that the snakes from the human world were unusually weak for their growth stage.
• The snake that brought them to the nest left after nuzzling Melusina, who told Kevin to stay close because the other snakes might see him as her prey.
• Kevin and Melusina explored the nest and found that the snakes largely ignored them, while Kevin counted the nest’s younger and adult snakes.
• Kevin proposed approaching the nearly two-hundred-meter snake to confirm whether the nest was truly safe, and Melusina clung to him as they went.
• The enormous snake sensed their arrival, moved its house-sized head toward them, and fixed its scrutinizing gaze on Kevin and Melusina.

Kevin and Melusina settled into the Resentful Eater Snake territory after the snakes accepted them, and Melusina reassured Kevin that sharing hardship with him was her dream. A snake interrupted their affectionate moment to discuss feeding and egg-laying, leading them to realize that all the snakes there were female.

• A colossal Resentful Eater Snake inspected Kevin and Melusina, then withdrew, and the two found a nest beside a creek.
• Kevin explained that scanning the snakes with his Mechanical Chip would require an aggressive Nen Bullet, so they agreed to wait until they knew the snakes better.
• Melusina comforted Kevin by telling him that facing danger and hardship together with him was what she had always dreamed of.
• A smaller Resentful Eater Snake watched Kevin and Melusina and communicated with Melusina about feeding, laying eggs, and her health.
• Melusina told Kevin that the snakes were all female, a fact neither of them had noticed before.

Kevin and Melusina examined the Resentful Eater Snakes’ behavior and used the Mechanical Chip to translate information about their life cycle. They learned that the snakes were Nen Aura lifeforms whose flesh-and-blood bodies were only a growth stage, and inferred that an unseen adult snake shaped the surrounding environment.

• Melusina and Kevin considered whether the Resentful Eater Snakes were all female and whether their malnourished state explained why one had brought Melusina back.
• Kevin asked Melusina to draw the smallest snake closer, then used his Nen Aura to scan it while Melusina played with it.
• The Mechanical Chip revealed that Resentful Eater Snakes developed from pure Nen Aura infants into physical growth-stage snakes before returning to a more powerful Nen Aura form as adults.
• Kevin realized the snakes they had encountered were infants or still growing, and that an adult Resentful Eater Snake must be nearby, creating the environment that allowed eggs to hatch.

Kurapika maintained the manor’s daily routines while worrying about Kevin and Melusina, who remained far away but appeared safer this month. That night, Chrollo and three Phantom Troupe members prepared to rob a Pharmacy, setting up a possible confrontation with a powerful enemy.

• Kurapika trained with Pairo, checked the manor’s operations, and ate breakfast with Nion and the others.
• Kurapika discovered that growing sales would exhaust the manor’s potion reserves within months, then told Nion they should limit outings until Kevin returned.
• Kurapika checked the Painting in Home and learned that Kevin and Melusina’s danger level had risen, while attempts to locate or contact them had produced little information.
• Rosana warned Kurapika to pay attention to Nion and Light, who had both reacted strongly to Kevin’s disappearance.
• Chrollo gathered Hisoka, Pakunoda, and Machi near a shopping mall and explained that he intended to rob its Pharmacy during a scheduled restocking.
• Hisoka recognized the Silver Card Chrollo carried and suspected the robbery could provoke a formidable opponent.

Kurapika and Pairo dealt with a robbery at the Pharmacy and learned that Hisoka had joined the Phantom Troupe to spy on them. After discovering Chrollo was interested in their medicine, they faced the revelation that the Troupe was involved but put Kevin’s safety ahead of revenge.

• Kurapika and Pairo discussed the Pharmacy’s dwindling medicine stock before Kurapika received an urgent call about an attack.
• Chrollo, Hisoka, Machi, and Shalnark stole a suitcase of medicine from the Pharmacy, and Hisoka learned Chrollo wanted it for its effects.
• Basho survived Chrollo’s attack with medicine, while Kurapika and Pairo’s search found no trace of the thieves.
• Kurapika and Pairo suspected Hisoka had deliberately spared Basho and waited until midnight to call him.
• Hisoka revealed that he had joined Chrollo’s group and offered to spy for Kurapika and Pairo in exchange for cooperation.
• Kurapika and Pairo realized Hisoka meant the Phantom Troupe, but Kurapika restrained Pairo and insisted that Kevin’s safety came before revenge.

Hisoka offered to help Kurapika and the Manor destroy the Phantom Troupe in exchange for a one-on-one death match with Chrollo, and Kurapika agreed. In the Snake Nest, Kevin and Melusina planned to gather materials and make potions, while Kevin continued studying his Resentment ability.

• Hisoka told Kurapika he had joined the Phantom Troupe to challenge Chrollo and offered to pass along intelligence about the Troupe's next full-group operation.
• Kurapika agreed to provide Hisoka with a safe arena for a one-on-one death match if he supplied the intelligence needed to eliminate the Troupe.
• Kevin sensed that the Snake Nest's ambient Resentment came from adult Resentful Eater Snakes and said the environment had deepened his understanding of his Nen ability.
• Kevin and Melusina planned to visit the Timely Rain Cloud region and bring a Resentful Eater Snake as their bodyguard so they could collect materials for potions.
• A small Resentful Eater Snake visited Kevin, who used his Nen ability to make it a ball of Resentment-infused Aura and promised it only one per day.

Kevin and Melusina reached the Timely Rain Cloud region with Gray Scale and Little Wang, then studied how its Rain Curtain affected objects and living creatures. They discovered that time differences across the boundary distorted blood flow and slowed Aura, and Kevin prepared to test whether Raindrops could serve as time-related material.

• Kevin and Melusina traveled on Gray Scale with Little Wang, and Melusina explained that Gray Scale hunted in the Timely Rain Cloud region for entertainment during Reverse Rain.
• Kevin asked Gray Scale about the Mechanical Tower, the Giant Bird, and the Sand Worm, then used her answers to sketch the region’s food chain and the Giant Bird’s dominance.
• At the distorted Rain Curtain, Gray Scale and Little Wang entered to hunt while Kevin and Melusina stayed at the edge to study it.
• Kevin tested the boundary with a branch and an animal, finding that crossing it caused resistance and dangerously uneven blood flow because time moved differently on either side.
• Melusina sent Xiao Hong into the Rain Curtain and found that the Nen Beast was unaffected while she remained outside, though Kevin’s Aura slowed inside.
• Kevin told Melusina to make rain so they could examine the Raindrops for his planned time-related material experiments.

Kevin discovered that the time-altered raindrops were A-rank but inseparable from the clouds, then found a Space System plant called the Pocket Flower. After Kevin learned to control Snake Venom and condense a creature’s life into Resentment, he planned to use the clusters to win protection from powerful Resentful Eater Snakes in the Snake Nest.

• Kevin tested the returning raindrops, found they were A-rank, and concluded they could not be collected as materials because they remained part of the clouds.
• Melusina sent her Nen Beasts into the rain curtain, and they returned with a Silver Beast and a small Backpack Beast carrying a Space System Pocket Flower.
• Kevin used his Nen ability to control and strengthen the Snake Venom inside the Backpack Beast, draining its life into a concentrated Resentment Cluster for Little Wang.
• Gray Scale agreed to help Kevin in exchange for Resentment Clusters, and Kevin planned to use the arrangement to recruit stronger Resentful Eater Snakes as bodyguards and establish a safe base in the Snake Nest.