Chapter Summaries

Kevin investigated the Undying disease and realized it might be a population-level Red Line that turned living beings into soulless, aggressive, immortal bodies. After confirming in a dream that a ceramic shard could kill an infected body, he concluded the Machine Lifeforms had suffered the same Disaster and that humanity had been spared from extinction.

• Kevin examined an infected official, found no soul or consciousness, and used his Mental Image Medicine Tripod to refine the body into a mass of blood.
• Kevin connected the Gatekeeper's confidence that humanity would survive with the possibility that the Undying disease was a racial extinction mechanism.
• Kevin retrieved a ceramic fragment from the Machine Lifeforms' Homeland, then realized he had already destroyed the infected body he meant to test it on.
• Kevin recreated the infected official in a dream and discovered that the ceramic shard injured the immortal body and killed it when he struck its brain.
• Kevin concluded that the Undying disease was a Red Line Disaster that regulated population size and that the Machine Lifeforms had triggered it.

Kevin and his allies deduced how the Undying disease had entered human society and decided to wait for officials to seek their help identifying the infected. The International Voyage Bureau arrived to negotiate, but the meeting was interrupted by Saheluta's Hell Black Hound special forces surrounding the manor.

• Kevin gathered the group and proposed that Beyond's oversized expedition had carried the disease from the Dark Continent into the inner circle while it was incubating.
• Qiduo, Biscuit, Morel, and Pairo discussed the disease's nature, and Kevin urged them to purge infected people before they could destroy humanity.
• Koto advised the group to wait for officials to approach them, and Kevin refused Kre and his men permission to leave and seek his help.
• Yas arrived on behalf of the International Voyage Bureau to discuss cooperation, and Kevin revealed that Jin and others were still guarding the Dark Continent forward base.
• Kre told Yas that Kevin could recognize at least one parasitized person, but Yas received word that Saheluta's Hell Black Hound special forces had surrounded the manor.
• Kurapika, Pairo, and Bellolight headed outside as Kevin prepared to face the approaching special forces.

Kurapika, Pairo, and Bellolight overwhelmed the Hell Black Hound Tactical Unit as it attempted to capture everyone in the Manor. The unit's surviving members were subdued, and Clone and Chameleon ended up in Pairo's grasp.

• Listener ordered the five Nen users to capture the Manor's inhabitants alive, and Mist spread his fog around the grounds.
• Clone confronted Pairo, who dodged his bullets and beat him back; Pairo had already restrained Clone's doubles without being detected.
• Kurapika incapacitated Mist and Listener, deduced how their abilities worked, and stopped Mist from withdrawing his fog.
• Bellolight took control of the rear camp's heavy weapons and armored vehicles, forcing the Soldiers and Pitcher to surrender.
• Pairo followed Clone to Chameleon, exposed Chameleon's mistaken belief that Clone had betrayed him, and swiftly restrained both men.

Kurapika survived a parasitic mental attack when Pairo cut down the attackers through his eyes, revealing that parasites became mindless undying shells if killed during an invasion. When a missile launched from a Saheluta military base threatened the Manor, Kevin intercepted it and destroyed it high above the ground.

• Kurapika escaped the white mental space after Pairo killed Mist and Listener, whose bodies revived as undying shells.
• Kurapika and Kevin concluded that parasites invaded minds through a mental space and became undying shells if their exposed bodies were killed during the process.
• Yas received warning that a Wave Missile launched from a Saheluta military base would reach the Manor in two minutes.
• Kevin used En to locate the missile, flew to it, and suspended it inside layered barriers.
• Kevin hurled the missile into the sky and detonated it harmlessly, while the military base confirmed that no casualties or damage had occurred.

Kevin and Netero agreed that Kevin’s group would help the countries find parasitized people in exchange for support for their Dark Continent exploration. As inspections began, attacks on military facilities showed how deeply the parasitized had infiltrated, and Kevin arrived to begin screening the gathered leaders.

• Kevin reasoned that the parasitized shared information and were targeting his group, then said he would eventually learn to recognize them without seeing them directly.
• Netero arrived at the Manor and praised Kevin for disrupting the parasitized people’s plans, then discussed the expedition and the group’s next steps.
• Kevin negotiated with Netero, agreeing to help identify parasitized people in return for support with their exploration and plans to establish a Forward Base on the Dark Continent.
• Kevin left some people, including Pairo, at the Manor and took teams to inspect decision-makers, their associates, and important military facilities.
• Officials reported that parasitized personnel had taken over military bases and launched tactical weapons and fighter jets at Kevin’s airship.
• Kevin arrived before the gathered leaders, who were anxiously awaiting inspections to uncover the parasitized among them.

Kevin met with world leaders to plan a response to the parasitized people, revealing that the crisis was a consequence of humanity’s overpopulation and proposing tightly limited Dark Continent expeditions. After the leaders approved a joint plan, Kevin used a feint to expose infiltrators and expanded his En across the city, identifying every possessed human there.

• Kevin identified a clerk parasitized by an entity, but the clerk killed himself and became an empty, undying shell.
• Kevin told six major-power leaders that the parasitized people crisis stemmed from humanity’s population and proposed public disclosure, a stricter blockade, and limiting Dark Continent exploration to licensed Hunters.
• The leaders approved a plan for Kevin to hunt parasitized people while Netero coordinated the response, and military bases sealed their weapons after an inspection warning prompted attempted escapes.
• Kevin and Biscuit exposed sixteen parasitized people in a building, and Kevin captured them while three more possessed humans escaped the Time Drop by withdrawing their personalities.
• Kevin expanded his En across the city and declared that he had found every possessed human hiding there.

Kevin and the others debated how to stop the rapidly multiplying Parasitized people, whose numbers made a thorough purge seem impossible. Kevin realized most of the infected were ordinary people and proposed killing them with a large-scale En-based Nen attack, but he had not yet explained how he would do it.

• Kevin used En to locate 35,631 targets across the city and observed that nearby parasites invaded a target's mental world at the same time.
• Biscuit, Kurapika, Netero, Morel, and Qiduo discussed the parasites' rapid spread, their threat to humanity, and how difficult it would be to eliminate them without warning the survivors.
• Netero called someone who appeared to be Beyond, while the others contacted national resource departments to discuss the growing threat.
• Kevin considered the parasites' vulnerability and concluded that nearly all infected people were ordinary people, with few Nen users among them.
• Kevin told Biscuit he had thought of a way to kill the Parasitized people, then suggested attacking them across a wide area with En.

Kevin created the Phosphor Dust of En, a potion that let his En drift invisibly and attack targets from within, then heard Beyond's account of the parasitized humans. Beyond suggested the infection had given them a desire for revenge rooted in the people he abandoned on the Dark Continent.

• Kevin used Youpi's heart and other materials to brew a potion that transformed his En into fine, drifting particles.
• Kevin tested the Phosphor Dust of En with Netero and Kurapika, demonstrating how it could spread widely and injure targets by gathering inside their bodies.
• Beyond arrived with two members of his team, one of whom had lost his left forearm and hand.
• Beyond admitted responsibility for his failed expedition and said Pariston had been the first member of his team to be parasitized.
• Beyond explained that the parasitized people retained their personalities and emotions but seemed driven to avenge their species, possibly because of the group he abandoned on the Dark Continent.
• Kevin believed Beyond's theory and connected it to the role of human emotions and will in the Undying disease.

Beyond explained how Pariston and the Parasites targeted his former team, then offered himself as bait in exchange for a chance to return to the Dark Continent. Kevin wiped out tens of thousands of Parasites across the city, and the group prepared to draw Pariston into a trap.

• Beyond explained that the Parasites’ revenge focused on members of his Dark Continent team, while Saiyu and others had been spared because of their past opposition to the team’s actions.
• Beyond identified Pariston as a likely leader of the Parasites and described himself as their prime target and the best bait.
• Beyond asked to be exiled to the Dark Continent and offered to help defeat the Parasites, but Kevin left the decision about Beyond to Netero.
• Kevin spread En across the city, identified the Parasites, and killed tens of thousands of them at once.
• Beyond warned that Pariston would respond to the mass deaths and urged the group to use him as bait before Pariston could force them into a crisis.

Kevin and his allies prepared to eliminate the Parasite People gathered around Beyond, but the Parasite People trapped Kevin in a black-and-white space just as he was about to act. Their leader revealed that they had paid a tremendous price to hold Kevin there so they could kill Beyond, whom the Parasite People’s inherited resentment marked as their highest-priority target.

• The Parasite People gathered in the border town and its surrounding areas while Beyond repeatedly revealed himself as bait and helped evacuate uninfected residents.
• Kevin, Qiduo, Gon, and Kurapika learned that more than 120,000 Parasite People were in the city and over 500,000 were nearby, so Kevin prepared to eliminate those within his En.
• As Kevin raised his hand to act, the Parasite People trapped him in a black-and-white space, apparently through a simultaneous mass suicide.
• A Parasite Person confronted Kevin and explained that the group had paid a huge price to trap him so they could kill Beyond.
• The Parasite Person revealed that the Parasite People inherited the resentment of the thousand people sacrificed in the Dark Continent and would be free to destroy humanity if Beyond died.
• Kevin recognized that he needed to escape, gathered power, and watched the Parasite Person become terrified.

Kevin broke free of the Parasite People’s mental trap, rescued Beyond, and unleashed his power against the infected in the city. Pariston then seized control of Kurapika and the others and forced Kevin to choose how to respond.

• Kevin shattered the black-and-white mental space with his punches, escaped, and used his En to locate the others fighting parasitized Nen users.
• Kevin flew to Beyond and revived him with medicine after Beyond survived Pariston’s attempt to trap and parasitize him.
• Kevin killed the Parasite People surrounding him and burned the risen corpses, but then every Parasite Person in the city collapsed and became an undead husk.
• Pariston appeared and controlled Kurapika and the others through their shadows, while Gon and Kiy were missing.
• Kurapika warned Kevin about Pariston’s shadow control and the danger of fighting the Parasite People for too long.
• Pariston taunted Kevin by making the controlled group charge at him, targeting Kevin’s attachment to his friends.

Kevin freed Biscuit and the others from Pariston’s control, then let Pariston’s forces combine into a gigantic Monster made of corpses, shadows, and the Undying disease. As Kevin waited to destroy it, the command center launched a Core Explosive Missile, which the Monster survived, leaving the authorities to rely on Kevin.

• Biscuit explained that Pariston had used a concealed city-wide ritual to control their bodies, and Kevin freed the group with medicine fired from Syringe-like machines.
• Biscuit struck the ground and dispersed a mass of shadow, while Gon and Kiy revealed that Kiy had saved Gon with medicine.
• Pariston transformed into black mud and drew corpses and shadows together, creating a gigantic Monster that Kevin identified as the Undying disease manifesting against a powerful lifeform.
• Netero defended Kevin’s decision to wait as officials ordered a Core Explosive Missile launched at the Monster.
• Kevin shielded himself from the missile, but the Monster swallowed the blast and regenerated; Kevin signaled the command center not to interfere, and Netero expressed confidence in him.

Pariston gathered the infected and shadows into a giant monster and attacked Kevin, but Kevin overwhelmed him with his speed and strength. Kevin summoned a powerful Mental Image and unleashed a punch that erased the shadow domain and Pariston, leaving the observers unable to see what happened.

• Pariston fused the city's Undying disease victims, corpses, and shadows into a monster, while Nobu watched with Biscuit, Morel, and Men Qi from a nearby high-rise.
• Pariston attacked Kevin with tentacles and a shadow domain, but Kevin blocked and dodged the assaults before hurling Pariston's monster into a building and punching a hole through it.
• Pariston tried to retreat through the shadows, but Kevin's Mental Image appeared and fixed its gaze on him, filling him with fear as the other wills in his body refused to flee.
• Kevin took a charged stance and struck the ground with a punch so swift that the observers missed it; the shadows and Pariston vanished.
• Kevin waved toward the command-room screen, while Netero regretted that he had not witnessed the battle firsthand.

Kevin’s mental attack ended the battle against Pariston’s Parasite People, and the ensuing three-month hunt eliminated all confirmed cases of Undying disease. The International Voyage Bureau then discussed negotiations with Kevin’s team over Dark Continent exploration rules, records, and trade, while acknowledging that the Hunter Association would hold the stronger position.

• Nobu, Biscuit, Morel, and Men Qi discussed how Kevin’s mental attack erased the shadows and briefly disrupted their thoughts.
• Kevin, Three-Tails, and Beyond helped locate and eliminate 1.36 million Parasite People over three months, including 500,000 newly parasitized people.
• Nations reviewed how Undying disease spread from the Exploration Team and accelerated after Pariston was parasitized.
• Representatives at the International Voyage Bureau questioned Three-Tails’s role in verifying the eradication and discussed future Dark Continent rules, exploration records, and trading for Kevin’s gains.
• The Meeting’s host concluded that negotiations should combine the issues, since Chairman Netero and the Hunter Association held substantial leverage.

At Nosra Manor, Kevin agreed to Netero’s help with upcoming negotiations over the Dark Continent and explained the ranks of strength he had observed there. After demonstrating the gulf between Lord and Knight, Kevin and Netero discussed the unexplained leap to Overlord as the negotiations approached.

• Three-Tails ate cake while Rosana and Melusina doted on her, and Netero asked Kevin how he had turned the fox into a human.
• Biscuit raised the question of whether Netero wanted Kevin to save Beyond, but Netero did not ask him for help.
• Kevin accepted Netero’s assistance with negotiations and said he would wait until his teammates had finished their own affairs before holding them.
• Kevin explained the Knight, Lord, and Overlord ranks to Netero, then used his presence to demonstrate how a Lord could overwhelm a Knight.
• Netero questioned the vast leap between Lord and Overlord, and Kevin agreed that another rank might lie between them.
• A month passed, and the most important negotiation meeting was about to begin.

Kevin and Netero presented plans for regulated Dark Continent exploration and argued over Hunters’ authority, Dark Probe’s control of its Forward Base, and exclusive resource rights. The meeting’s first disputes were deferred, and Kevin revealed the expedition’s treasures, including an Unmanned Stone.

• Kiy and Gon arrived with Kevin’s team at a heavily guarded skyscraper for a concealed international meeting.
• Netero proposed setting strict exploration limits and reserving Dark Continent expeditions for Professional Hunters, prompting a heated argument.
• Kevin showed the gathered representatives the team’s map and claimed ownership of its Forward Base and exclusive development rights for the explored area under a new organization called Dark Probe.
• Kevin argued that the claimed territory was already under his control as a Lord recognized by an Overlord, and the Host deferred the dispute for later negotiation.
• Kevin presented the team’s recovered treasures and identified the Unmanned Stone as one of humanity’s hopes.

Qiduo, Koto, and Illumi presented the Dark Continent materials’ potential, giving Netero and Kevin leverage to negotiate an international exploration framework and recognition for Dark Probe. After the agreement was signed, Kevin told his companions he might not return from his next expedition, though the team expected to remain in human society for another year or two first.

• Scientists, merchants, and national representatives crowded around the materials as their medical, industrial, and Nen-related value became clear.
• Netero and Kevin used the materials’ growing importance to strengthen their bargaining position during more than a month of negotiations.
• The nations established the External Security and Development Committee, set strict rules for future expeditions, and recognized Dark Probe’s privileges and sovereignty over its Forward Base and discoveries.
• Men Qi complained about the exhausting meetings aboard the Airship while Kurapika, Ce, Berolete, and Qiduo continued handling the agreement’s implementation.
• Kevin told his companions he probably would not return from his next exploration, and Men Qi said the others could travel between the Dark Continent and human society without him as their strength improved.
• Kevin estimated that the group would stay in human society for at least another year or two while the Hunter Association reorganized and the team prepared for the future.

Kiy and Gon left Nosra Manor with Three-Tails and traveled to the Zoldyck Family estate, where Three-Tails easily opened the family’s massive gate. As they entered the forest, Kiy and Three-Tails sensed someone waiting for them.

• Kiy invited Men Qi to visit his home, and Three-Tails asked to go with him; Melusina agreed to let her travel with Kiy and Gon.
• Illumi met Hisoka on a rooftop, warned him not to target Kiy, and then headed home; Hisoka followed after learning Kiy and Gon were returning with a little girl.
• Kiy, Gon, and Three-Tails traveled leisurely for two weeks before reaching the Zoldyck Family’s private territory and greeting Zebro.
• Three-Tails pushed open The Gate of the Underworld by herself, astonishing Zebro, and then entered the forest with Kiy and Gon.
• Three-Tails concealed her Aura inside the forest, and Kiy and Three-Tails sensed someone waiting for them.

Kiy and Gon returned to the Zoldyck estate, where Kiy demonstrated his overwhelming strength during encounters with Illumi and Hisoka. The reunion continued as they reached the butlers’ quarters and Kiy greeted his parents.

• Illumi blocked the forest path, but Kiy and Gon walked past him before Three-Tails appeared and returned Hisoka’s cards with enough force to injure him.
• Hisoka challenged Gon, who dodged his sneak attack and struck him so hard that he crashed through trees and needed Kevin’s medicine to recover.
• Kiy used his speed and aura to stop Illumi from drawing Nen needles and forced him onto one knee.
• Three-Tails frightened Kiy’s guard dog, and Kiy freed it before leading Gon and the others toward the estate.
• Kiy and Gon greeted Gotoh and the other butlers, then Kiy reunited with his mother and father.

Killua returned to the Zoldyck estate, reunited with his family, and showed how far his strength had advanced. As Hisoka and Illumi considered whether to explore the Dark Continent, Three-Tails warned them they were too weak, leaving them worried about the changes its new exploration rules would bring.

• Killua reunited with Silva and his siblings, gave gifts to the family, and learned that his grandfather was away on a job.
• Killua defeated his grandfather in a single move, showing the family how powerful he had become.
• Killua sparred at extreme speed with Three-Tails, then challenged Gon to train with him.
• Hisoka and Illumi watched the sparring and discussed how far Gon and Killua had surpassed them, along with the Exploration Team's gains and influence.
• Three-Tails told Hisoka and Illumi that they were too weak for the Dark Continent and revealed that she ranked around tenth in her father's team.
• Hisoka and Illumi considered how the coming exploration rules might widen the gap between them and the strongest Nen users.