Chapter Summaries

Kevin’s group returned from Bronze TC City after Tuck decided to rebuild the Machine Lifeforms’ homeland near Kevin’s territory and form an alliance with him. Back at camp, Kevin prepared the team to return, while Bellolight began planning modifications to their ship.

• Tuck revealed his humanlike mechanical body, explained that he had dismantled the two captive Machine Lifeforms, and confirmed he had not reused their damaged parts.
• Tuck said he would rebuild his people near the original Bronze Tower rather than at Bronze TC City, and Kevin proposed an alliance and a homeland within his territory.
• Tuck agreed to the alliance but said he would relocate only after he had restored and developed his kin; Bellolight offered to help.
• Kevin returned to camp, reviewed the newly surveyed map with Qiduo, and told everyone to prepare to go back.
• Bellolight persuaded Morel to let him modify the ship with the mechanical knowledge and parts he had obtained from Tuck.

Beyond prepared to use the Kakin Empire expedition’s success to secure resources for his true Dark Continent expedition, while Pariston and Saiyu visited the surviving sailors. The sailors refused to return, and Pariston walked into their planned confrontation as Saiyu waited with Keder.

• Beyond reviewed information from the Kakin Empire, dismissed the proposed contract terms, and asked where Pariston was.
• Pariston admitted that he had leaked Saiyu’s movements to Netero, then drove with Saiyu to visit the returned sailors.
• Saiyu warned that the survivors would reject another expedition, while Pariston appeared pleased by the disgust and hostility they showed him.
• Saiyu visited Keder, who refused to join another voyage and explained that the surviving sailors had gathered to confront Pariston.
• Saiyu realized the confrontation might be exactly what Pariston wanted and stayed with Keder while the sailors dealt with him.

Pariston visited the returned expedition members, who refused to join Beyond’s team and trapped him in a Nen-created space to make him feel their hatred. He survived the assault and left with Saiyu, while Keder’s group planned to target them again without drawing attention.

• Pariston met the returnees, who angrily refused to join the Exploration Team because they believed Beyond had used their companions as sacrifices.
• The returnees trapped Pariston in a sealed black space, where shadow creatures attacked him and subjected him to their hatred.
• Pariston realized the group was trying to control him, then recognized something about the shadows and let them overwhelm him.
• Two hours later, Saiyu met Pariston outside the villa and drove away with him, unaware that Keder’s group had planned to kill him.
• Keder told the enraged woman that they had spared Saiyu for now to avoid exposing their plan to target the Twelve Zodiacs.

Kevin finalized the camp’s territory and spent time preparing for the group’s next expedition. Two weeks later, Jin, Biscuit, Lorraine, and Bianluoke met Wearer Ghost near the Spike Mountain Range, where she began leading them to treat a medical problem as agreed.

• Kevin designated the camp’s core territory and a surrounding five-hundred-kilometer range, explaining that a larger claim could attract hostile creatures.
• Biscuit, Ging, Lorraine, and Bianluoke prepared to visit Wearer Ghost, while Kevin arranged for Biscuit to make the group’s accessory settings for their Space Orbs.
• Kevin invited Melusina on a date, and they spent time together during the next two weeks.
• Jin and his companions traveled toward the Spike Mountain Range on Ball Birds and sensed a dangerous presence approaching.
• Wearer Ghost arrived on a Pterosaur, recognized the group as Kevin’s companions, and unsettled the siblings by expressing interest in acquiring their bodies after they died.
• Wearer Ghost honored her deal with Kevin and took Jin’s group on the Pterosaur to treat the siblings’ medical problem.

Wearer Ghost repaired Lorraine’s soul while Kevin and Melusina discussed their hopes of having a child and the obstacles posed by their differing levels of power. After returning to camp, Kevin reunited with Lorraine and Three-Tails, then prepared to secure the core of his territory.

• Jin admired the mixed architectural styles in Wearer Ghost’s manor, and Wearer Ghost carried the unconscious Lorraine into his tower to repair her soul.
• Kevin and Melusina marked the outer boundaries of Kevin’s territory, discussed having a child, and Melusina punched him in frustration over their inability to conceive.
• After two months, Kevin and Melusina returned to camp, where they found Lorraine recovered and waiting for them.
• Kevin gave Three-Tails a lotus seed to end her sulking and handed Biscuit the polished black Space Orb.
• Kevin told Jin that he still needed to secure the core territory, then warned everyone nearby that the process would cause some discomfort.

Kevin established the heart of his territory, then spent the camp’s final night with his companions before waking from a strange dream holding a bundle of Golden Thread. The group prepared to leave the Dark Continent, while the thread and the dream’s connection to the Overlord remained unexplained.

• Kevin used his presence and Lord authority to mark the core territory, overwhelming the camp with visions until the pressure faded.
• Melusina explained that Kevin had branded the land as his own, and the group agreed their preparations were complete and planned a feast before leaving.
• During the bonfire gathering, Lorraine told Melusina he preferred the Dark Continent’s freedom and wilderness and wanted to grow stronger so he could keep hunting with the others.
• After falling asleep with Melusina, Kevin became lucid in a white dream, followed a white bird to a bare tree filled with Eye Feather birds, and received a bundle of Golden Thread from them.
• Kevin woke in the morning, found everyone safe and preparing to leave, and realized he was still holding the Golden Thread.

Kevin and his companions set sail from the Dark Continent with golden threads tied to Kevin alone, while a prophecy alerted Nosra Manor that they were returning with a full haul. Netero reassured Light that the nations would hesitate to confront them and warned the manor to stay inside as he investigated a new danger.

• Kevin told Jin and the others that the Overlord had drawn him into a dream and left him golden threads that no one else could touch.
• Kevin, Gon, and the others boarded the repaired ship at Moon Bay and sailed away while Jin's group watched from shore.
• Light worried that the prophecy of Kevin's return with a full haul would draw the attention of major powers, and Goreinu noted that the Imaginary New Continent was heavily watched.
• Netero arrived with Leorio, said Kevin's strength and connections would make the nations cautious, and took charge of handling the situation.
• Netero told the manor residents to stay inside while he investigated a dangerous feeling he had been getting.

Kevin used the Cocoon of Rebirth to transform Three-Tails into a human-like girl, and she successfully emerged with a child’s body, fox ears, and three tails. She delighted in her new hands and body, then puzzled over whether Kevin or Melusina should be called Mom.

• Kevin offered to turn Three-Tails into a human-like lifeform, and she eagerly agreed despite his warning that her will had to be firm.
• Kevin and Melusina supplied blood for the Cocoon of Rebirth, while Kevin carefully guided Three-Tails’s transformation over the next day.
• Three-Tails emerged as a little girl with white hair, fox ears, and three tails, and she celebrated having arms and hands.
• Melusina embraced Three-Tails and asked her to call her Mom, but Three-Tails concluded that Kevin was Mom because he was Boss.

Three-Tails became human, lost her fox-scenting ability, and began adapting to life as a lively child among Kevin’s group. Meanwhile, a tea party helped Kevin and Melusina identify that his golden threads were connected to Nen tools, though their exact purpose remained unclear.

• Three-Tails delighted in her new human senses and accepted Melusina as her mother, but panicked when she discovered she could no longer smell as a fox.
• Kevin reassured Three-Tails that she belonged with the group, and Biscuit suggested she develop Nen abilities to recover some of her former strength.
• Three-Tails’s curiosity and energy overwhelmed Gon and Kiy, then she asked Kevin for a story and fell asleep in his arms.
• Kevin and Melusina held a tea party to investigate the golden threads, and Melusina found a way to connect them to Nen tools.
• Kevin and Melusina examined Skill Hunter, Kairos, Nen Sand, Unmanned Stone, and the Space Orb, while Melusina added dreams as another clue.

Kevin discovered that he could control his own dreams and recovered the Overlord’s explanation of the golden threads, learning they were wishing power tied to Lord-level abilities. He realized he could use them to pursue teleportation, which might transform exploration of the Dark Continent.

• Kevin fell asleep in the ship’s Meeting Room and realized he was inside a dream he could control.
• Kevin recreated his earlier encounter with the great tree and birds, then recovered the information the Overlord had left in that dream.
• Kevin learned that the tree was a Wish-Fulfilling Tree and that its birds turned wishes into golden threads that could be used as wishing power.
• Kevin concluded that the eye-shaped mark let him share the birds’ authority and that golden threads were a resource available to Lords.
• Kevin reasoned that the Wearer Ghost lacked a proper territory and likely understood little about Lord authority, unlike Lords responsible for protecting groups.
• Kevin decided that teleportation was what he wanted most and considered using golden threads to create equipment that could move people across vast distances.

Kevin unveiled the Book of Teleportation, a device that exchanged spaces between linked users and could reach virtually unlimited distances. He explained its costs and limitations, then planned to use it to split the explorers into teams on the Dark Continent, while uncertainty remained about whether it could cross spatial barriers to human society.

• Kevin presented the Book of Teleportation, which he had built by combining several rare materials and the former Master of Stealth.
• Kevin explained that the book could register nine users and create child booklets whose pages enabled linked users to exchange locations.
• Kevin demonstrated the exchange by connecting his booklet to Gon's, tearing out pages, and teleporting from his bubble to Gon's.
• Kevin explained that each teleportation consumed one page from each user's booklet and that replenishing pages required materials or new booklets made with the mother book.
• Kevin planned to divide the explorers into two teams to investigate separate locations, and he warned that spatial barriers might prevent teleportation between the Dark Continent and human society.

Kevin and the others returned to the human world after three years, where Janus revealed that this would be Kevin’s final homecoming and hinted that a real calamity was approaching. The chapter ended with Kevin realizing that the calamities previously sent to humanity had only been warnings, and that Beyond might have brought something far worse back.

• Three-Tails showed off her Nen training, told Gon she was an Enhancement Type like her Father, and learned from Biscuit that she should begin building her Nen ability.
• Kevin and the others emerged from the whale on August 20, 2005, exactly three years after beginning their journey, and passed through The Gate into the human world.
• Janus greeted Kevin respectfully, explained that Kevin’s palm mark made him a divine envoy, and said humanity’s ancestors had come from deep inland.
• Janus warned Kevin that this was his last return to the human world and explained that the closed loop would eventually push him out, while Janus himself was an incarnation of humanity’s protective barrier.
• Kevin asked about the calamity humanity’s ancestors had fled, and Janus said humanity had already encountered it and that Kevin’s return was timely.
• Janus suggested Beyond had brought back a true calamity, explaining that earlier failures had only sent calamities’ outward manifestations to humanity as warnings.

Kevin returned from the Dark Continent and warned his team that Beyond had brought back the Undying disease, leaving them racing home before the danger spread. Meanwhile, Light locked down Nosra Manor as wars erupted around the world, then learned Kevin had returned and that the manor appeared safe for the month.

• Kevin concluded that Beyond had returned with the Undying disease and that Janus had neither explained nor removed the danger.
• Kevin told Biscuit, Kurapika, Morel, and the others that Beyond had brought back a disaster, and the team deduced that the situation had not yet become irreversible.
• The team decided to speed up its return voyage and worried that the disaster could overwhelm Nosra Manor.
• Light returned to Nosra Manor, ordered an emergency lockdown, and had the manor's defenses prepared as wars broke out across the world.
• Light read the Prophecy Poems, learned Kevin had already returned, and saw that nothing was predicted to happen at the manor that month.

Netero attended an international meeting about the Undying disease, whose infected could replace people and infiltrate governments. The meeting produced no way to identify the replacements, and Netero left suspecting Beyond was willing to exploit the disaster for his ambitions.

• Netero passed strict security checks and joined a meeting with Beyond and officials from various countries.
• Officials reported that the Undying disease had infiltrated governments and that infected people could replace humans, while Beyond admitted he could only kill the disease's walking-corpse carriers.
• The officials learned that only rapid, all-encompassing high-energy destruction could eliminate the walking corpses, but they had no means to identify the hidden replacements.
• Netero criticized the officials for excluding him from information about the returning expedition and warned that many returnees had contacted high-ranking officials before becoming walking corpses.
• At lunch, Netero accused Beyond of anticipating the disaster and pursuing his ambitions, and Beyond left without answering.

After three years on the Dark Continent, Kevin and the others returned to the Imaginary New Continent, where their wild presence frightened the locals. Nobu welcomed them and learned that they had established a Forward Base without losing anyone, while Koto's aura revealed how powerful the returning group had become.

• Morel and the others relaxed aboard the ship as Kiy and Gon drove off a unicorn whale and took its horn.
• Kevin and Melusina discussed the Undying disease before the ship reached the Imaginary New Continent after three more days.
• Morel showed his Star Rank Hunter's License to the harbor soldiers, who were intimidated by the group as they disembarked.
• Nobu met Morel and led the group to the Hunter Association office, where he learned that some of their companions had stayed behind to garrison a Forward Base on the Dark Continent.
• Nobu reacted in shock when Koto unleashed her aura and realized how much stronger the returning Hunters had become.

Kevin and the others learned that Beyond had brought the Zobae, or Undying, disease back to human society, where it had replaced people’s personalities and helped fuel widespread chaos and war. They set sail for home to investigate, while Morel invited Nobu to join their next Dark Continent exploration.

• Biscuit asked Nobu when Beyond had returned, and Nobu said it had been nearly two years and that the Hunter Association had been shut out of the investigation.
• Kevin told Nobu that Beyond had brought back a real disaster, and Goreinu reported that the Chairman had warned Nosra Manor’s residents to stay inside as wars broke out in several places.
• Nobu used a Nen notebook to contact the Hunter Association and received the instruction to return immediately, so Kevin’s group prepared to sail home.
• As messages arrived the next morning, Biscuit, Qiduo, Koto, and Pairo learned that the Undying disease replaced victims’ personalities before turning them into walking corpses, making infected people difficult to identify.
• Morel took the helm and told Nobu that their Dark Continent expedition had widened his perspective, then invited him to join their next exploration because of his Nen ability.
• Nobu said he was not suited to the expedition, but Morel claimed that seeing Kevin’s power would make his concerns disappear.

Kevin and the others returned from the Dark Continent and gathered at Nosra Manor, where they reunited with loved ones and old friends. They planned to stay together while awaiting V6’s response, and the chapter ended with everyone preparing to return to the Manor.

• Kevin called Netero, who advised the returning group to stay together because V6 would soon approach them, so Kevin redirected the ship toward Nosra Manor.
• Several days later, the group arrived at a cleared port near Nosra Manor, where Rosana and Nion eagerly awaited Kurapika.
• Kurapika reunited with Nion and Rosana, while Light welcomed Kevin home and remarked on his intimidating presence.
• Gowen greeted Kevin, who embraced him and praised his knightly seriousness.
• Kiy and Gon teased Leorio about his height and appearance, and Leorio marveled at how much the boys had grown.
• Rosana learned that Pairo had proposed to Shalnark, and the reunited group agreed to head back to Nosra Manor.

An International Voyage Bureau official learned that Kevin’s elite team had returned from the Dark Continent and convened V6 representatives to decide how to deal with them and their spoils. The meeting recognized that Kevin’s influence and the team’s legal contract made coercion risky, then shifted urgently toward stopping an unnamed country from acting on its own.

• A Special Affairs Division official received a report that Kevin and his team had returned from the Dark Continent, and he worried they might bring back another disaster until the secretary reminded him of the Gatekeeper’s promise.
• The official discovered that Kevin had once stowed away to the Dark Continent and that Chairman Netero and other Hunters had concealed the information, then called an emergency meeting of V6 representatives.
• The representatives learned that Kevin’s team had signed a standard exploration contract, making it difficult to arrest them or claim much of their spoils.
• The meeting identified Kevin as the owner of the Pharmacy and the hidden owner of Red Stone Pharmaceuticals, and recognized that his resources and influence made forceful action dangerous.
• After a secretary reported that someone’s country was about to act, the official urged the representatives to stop it before it provoked Kevin’s team.

Kevin and his companions held a banquet after returning from the Dark Continent, but their gathering was interrupted by officials and Kre, who claimed the team had to submit to a new security review. Kevin identified a disguised parasitic human among the visitors, exposing a threat just as the confrontation began.

• Kevin told the returned expedition members they had to stay together until the V6 pressure and possible Disasters were resolved, and he ordered the Pharmacy reopened.
• Kre and officials from the Saheltar security department arrived at Nosra Manor and demanded entry, but Daznuer challenged their authority before Kevin allowed them in.
• Kre and his companions were overwhelmed by the Nen users in the manor and fell silent when they entered the living room.
• The officials demanded that the expedition team submit to supervision and surrender its belongings, while Nobu questioned their authority and credentials.
• Kevin restrained an ordinary-looking official and asked Kre whether his team accepted Demonic Beasts, revealing that the man was a parasitic human.

Kevin’s group discovered that a Saheluta official had been replaced by an Undying parasite, while authorities prepared to contain the Hunters’ returning team. As the group questioned Kre about the parasites’ spread and aims, Kurapika raised the possibility that compromised superiors had directed their mission.

• Kevin sensed something wrong with a restrained official, bound him with Nen Aura, and Nobu trapped the corpse inside the Four-Dimensional Apartment after it died and began moving again.
• Men Qi urged the group to inspect their people for infection, while International Voyage Bureau and Saheluta officials mobilized forces toward Nosra Manor.
• Saheluta’s special forces and part of the army set out to contain Kevin’s team, with orders to destroy them if containment failed.
• Kre explained that the Undying disease replaced people before they died and that the parasites sought to provoke conflict and destroy humanity.
• Kre described precautions against parasitism and told Kevin that his ability to identify infected people could help the authorities.
• Kurapika asked whether the team’s orders might have come from superiors who had already been parasitized.