Chapter Summaries

Kajin Dorudo confronted Hisoka and Molena after they hunted him through the Imaginary Continent, but Hisoka struck down Meleoron when he and Illumi ambushed them. Hisoka recognized Illumi, leaving the confrontation poised between them.

• Kajin Dorudo searched the Ai Yi Family's territory for Hisoka, but increasingly powerful monsters forced him to travel alone across the Imaginary Continent.
• Hisoka and Molena tormented Kajin Dorudo through the night until he stopped running and prepared to fight them with Enhancement Tiger Bite True Fist.
• Hisoka and Molena appeared in mutated forms, and Molena asked to eat Kajin Dorudo, whom she considered a ripe fruit.
• Hisoka sensed an unseen attack and struck Meleoron, disrupting his use of God's Accomplice.
• Illumi revealed himself after using Meleoron as a human shield, and Hisoka greeted him as an old friend.

Hisoka explained to Illumi how the Kakin Royal Family’s bloodline and a deadly contract had transformed him and Molena into monsters that absorbed the dead’s Grudge. As Illumi weighed a fight against them, Gelman suddenly appeared beside a mechanical orb.

• Illumi asked how Hisoka had detected him and Meleoron, and Hisoka explained that his senses could detect murderous intent despite Meleoron’s concealment.
• Illumi admitted that Chrollo had hired him to kill Hisoka and that he also wanted revenge over Hisoka’s marriage proposal and interference in his Kakin assignment.
• Hisoka explained that the explosion had awakened the Kakin bloodline and transformed its contracted killers, granting many of them the ability to absorb Grudge.
• Illumi considered controlling Meleoron and Kajin Dorudo to create an opening against Hisoka and Molena.
• A mechanical orb flew into view, and Gelman leaped from a nearby branch, startling everyone.

Gelman arrived at the battlefield and faced Hisoka, whose power had grown through the Dark Grudges surrounding him. After Hisoka survived Gelman’s opening attack and revealed his supposed immortality, Gelman used his Hunter Badge to absorb the Grudges, turning the fight in his favor.

• Gelman found Meleoron, Kajin Dorudo, Illumi, Hisoka, and Molena during his search for survivors and missing allies.
• Gelman asked Kajin Dorudo to guard Meleoron while Illumi took Molena on as his opponent.
• Hisoka declared Gelman his target, and Gelman summoned the Sacred Moonlight Greatsword and released his restrained Nen Energy.
• Gelman struck Hisoka with a blast of blue light, destroying much of his body, but Hisoka’s Dark Grudges reassembled him.
• Hisoka explained that the Grudges made him stronger, but Gelman’s Hunter Badge began absorbing them.

Gelman defeated Hisoka and Molena, ending Hisoka’s immortality and claiming a new outfit from the Hunter Badge. After the battle, Illumi accepted that Gelman’s guidance could help Killua become the Zoldyck Family head and said he would support Killua if he chose that path.

• Gelman used the Hunter Badge to absorb Hisoka’s Grudge and weakened Hisoka as Molena attacked him from behind.
• Gelman killed Molena with a Slash Wave, and Hisoka’s attempt to bind Gelman with pink Nen failed.
• Hisoka laughed at his hopeless position, charged Gelman, and was destroyed by Gelman’s final Slash Wave.
• The Hunter Badge absorbed the remaining Grudge and granted Gelman the Lightweight Illusion outfit.
• Illumi told Gelman he would give up competing with Killua for family head if Killua chose to take the role, while Gelman left Killua’s future to him.

Gelman returned to the coastal fortress with thirty-eight survivors, including Illumi, Kajin Dorudo, and Meleoron, as the guards burned the monster corpses outside. Inside, Kurapika and Sacho screened arrivals for possible mutations linked to service under the Kakin Royal Family while the fortress prepared to contain further threats.

• Ging directed the guards to burn the mountain of monster corpses after Gido warned that the bodies could spread disease.
• Gelman brought thirty-eight survivors to the fortress, with Illumi, Kajin Dorudo, and Meleoron among them.
• Ging welcomed the group and told Gelman to have his disciple test each survivor before they entered.
• Kurapika screened arrivals with his Nen ability to identify former Kakin Royal Family servants who might mutate into monsters.
• Kurapika explained that Sacho had arrived with survivors and joined the screening effort.

Kurapika questioned a surviving Kakin Empire woman while Sacho told Gelman what he remembered of the midnight riot and BW1’s destruction. Gelman then arranged to return to the top level of BW1 with Shizuku to bring more survivors and supplies to the fortress.

• Kurapika questioned the woman, denied her special treatment, and sent her to share a room and supplies with other survivors.
• Sacho told Gelman that monsters attacked the bridge during the attempt to seize BW1, the ship crashed into the coast, and a strange Nen force sent Netero and others flying before Sacho was separated from them.
• Gelman surveyed the fortress’s busy sections and found Koukou, Piyou, and List overwhelmed at the control center.
• Gelman proposed that he and Shizuku return to the top level of BW1 to bring Menchi, Shubika, and stored Hope to the fortress, with a possible trip to Greed Island for more supplies.
• Koukou agreed to prepare a supply list and told Gelman to rest for an hour before they set out.

Knuckle and the others searched the burned-out BW1 for supplies while worrying about their missing companions. On the shoreline, Triton and his allies were overwhelmed by a Giant Sphere controlling Chimera Ant demi-humans and the dead, leaving Triton dependent on two temporary allies.

• Knuckle, Menchi, Shubika, and Buhara searched BW1's first and second levels but found no usable supplies.
• An explosion drew the group onto the deck, where they spotted a battle on the beach.
• Triton and his faction retreated from the Giant Sphere and its puppets, including their captured comrades Bucchi and Lupe.
• Triton recalled how he accepted firearms from Pariston, Beyond, and Xiyou and gave them shipyard intelligence that helped enable the riot.
• The Giant Sphere's puppets killed several of Triton's men, forcing him to rely on two Hunters from outside his faction.

Kite and Shoto fought Salé-salé’s surviving Guardian Spirit Beast as it grew stronger by absorbing the grudges of the dead. Just as its terrifying aura forced them to retreat, Knuckle, Menchi, Buhara, and Shubika arrived.

• Kite recognized the spherical monster as the Guardian Spirit Beast of the late eighth prince, Salé-salé, and recalled its smoke-based ability to influence people.
• Kite summoned Death’s Waltz while Shoto prepared Dark Hotel, and they attacked the monster to weaken it by taking its mouths.
• Kite cut down the smoke-controlled puppets as Shoto flew in and removed one of the monster’s mouths.
• The monster unleashed a powerful aura that overwhelmed the group, and Kite realized it had grown stronger by absorbing the grudges of the dead.
• Kite and Shoto decided they had to kill the monster before it reached its complete form, then sensed auras approaching.
• Knuckle, Menchi, Buhara, and Shubika arrived, surprising and reassuring Kite and Shoto.

Kite, Knuckle, Menchi, and the others struggled against Salé-salé's Guardian Spirit Beast until Gelman arrived and killed it. Gelman absorbed its Grudge, while the survivors recovered from their injuries and watched his powers fade.

• Kite, Knuckle, Shoto, Buhara, Menchi, and Shubika fought Salé-salé's Guardian Spirit Beast, but its smoke puppets overwhelmed them and left several badly wounded.
• Buhara and Shoto fell, Triton's remaining subordinates died, and Triton fled in a panic before smashing his skull on a reef.
• Kite, Knuckle, and Menchi kept fighting as their strength ran low, while Shubika struggled to stop the injured Buhara and Shoto from joining them.
• Gelman appeared and used Virtue's Silver White Halo to restore the group's strength, stamina, Nen, and injuries.
• Gelman pierced the monster's smoke defenses and cut Salé-salé's Guardian Spirit Beast in half with a silver-white sword.
• Gelman's Black Robe absorbed the monster's Grudge, producing an Inducing Gas Bomb, before his wings, robe, and halos faded away.

Gelman and Shizuku returned from the shore with Kite and the other survivors, who received treatment and were assigned roles in the fortress. As the fortress prepared for the challenges of sheltering nearly 9,000 people, Gelman and Shizuku headed to the control center.

• Shubika treated Kite, Knuckle, Shoto, Menchi, and Buhara, and the survivors buried Triton and his subordinates before leaving the shore.
• Kajin Dorudo spotted Gelman’s returning group, and Ging ordered the fortress defenses to stand down once the survivors entered.
• Gelman persuaded Illumi to help Kurapika inspect arrivals, then brought the injured to Gido and Geru in the Casualty Zone.
• Geru went to the Morgue Zone, while Kite, Knuckle, Shoto, Meleoron, Menchi, and Buhara were assigned defense, order-keeping, or cooking duties.
• Koukou and Tokalinu took charge of the fortress supplies, and Shizuku restocked the medical area before she and Gelman went to the control center.

Gelman and Shizuku brought the Egg in the Pot Ritual array to the fortress and established it as a new teleportation point. When Nobu and Pam arrived with survivors, Gelman went to find out whether they knew what had happened to Chairman Netero and the others.

• Piyou and List helped Gelman find a secure underground room for a new teleportation point.
• Shizuku used Evil Tenderfoot to bring out the Egg in the Pot Ritual array that Gelman and Shizuku had removed from the BW1 wreckage.
• Gelman explained that the array could connect the fortress to the Ancient Labyrinth station, while a sea route to the Dark Continent remained the long-term goal.
• Piyou agreed with Gelman that the array needed tighter security and monitoring.
• List reported that Nobu and Pam had arrived at the fortress with survivors inside Nobu's Four-Dimensional Apartment.
• Gelman decided to meet the survivors and ask whether they knew what had happened to Chairman Netero and the others.

Gelman reunited with Nobunaga and Pam at the Coastal Fortress, where Pam explained how they had survived the BW1 disaster. Her account revealed how Nobunaga overcame his fear to rescue survivors, and the chapter left him reunited with the others after reaching safety.

• Gelman met Nobunaga and Pam at the Casualty Zone after following Shubika’s hand-sanitizing rules.
• Pam explained that Lonely Deep Sea Fish had let her track Gido, but she had been unconscious after the BW1 battle and had been rescued by Nobunaga.
• Pam recounted how Luzurus’s and Tyson’s Guardian Spirit Beasts had attacked the group before a powerful Nen force threw them into the sea.
• Nobunaga had repeatedly left Four-Dimensional Apartment to rescue survivors despite his fear of Chimera Ants and the monsters stalking them.
• After Pam woke at daybreak, she found Gido’s Hunter Association mark and led Nobunaga toward the Coastal Fortress.

Pam told Gelman that Chairman Netero and several Zodiacs were preparing to act from an abandoned Chimera Ant Nest, and gave him directions to find them. Netero and the Zodiacs killed Tzvepa, alerting its source, and then Netero sensed an approaching presence that improved their chances of victory.

• Pam used Lonely Deep Sea Fish to observe Netero and explained that he had written directions on his shirt for her to relay to Gelman.
• Netero and the Zodiacs destroyed Tzvepa’s wheels and Netero killed it with repeated blows from Hundred-Type Guanyin.
• Tzvepa’s corpse crumbled and its Grudge flew toward its source, alerting the beings beyond the mountains.
• Netero sensed an unfamiliar Nen Energy and said their chances of winning had improved as four black dots appeared in the distance.

Gelman and his companions reunited with Chairman Netero’s group at the Chimera Ant Nest and helped them piece together how the Egg in the Pot Ritual triggered the Great Chaos. Netero warned that the ritual’s monster was evolving, and the group had little time to stop it.

• Gelman, Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku reached Chairman Netero’s group at the Chimera Ant Nest and explained how the special Teleport Lantern and Crimson Light had brought them there.
• Morel connected the previous night’s explosion to the array and said the Kakin Royal Family had brought Fourth Prince Tserriednich’s corpse aboard BW1.
• Gelman, Morel, and Micenei Strome concluded that the fourteen pods held the corpses of the twelve princes, Tserriednich, and King Nasubi, while the new heir activated the ritual at the center.
• Chairman Netero theorized that the Guardian Spirit Beasts were formed from the accumulated Grudges of the Kakin Royal Family and that each Succession War added to the Pot of Poisons.
• Netero warned that the ritual’s monster was growing stronger by creating monsters and absorbing their Grudges, making the group’s chance to stop it urgent.

Morel and Kansai encountered a powerful, grudge-fed Guardian Spirit Beast while scouting the route to a gloomy castle. As the beast faced them, they judged they could handle it and prepared to fight.

• Morel and Kansai noticed the temperature dropping as they crossed the mountains and approached a field of upright stones.
• Morel sent his fifty-four-member Purple Smoke Machine Troop ahead to scout, but the entire troop was quickly taken out.
• Morel contacted Micenei Strome and warned that an enemy blocked their route.
• A huge disc-shaped Guardian Spirit Beast appeared, and Morel identified it as belonging to the deceased Third Prince Chorai.
• Morel assessed that the grudge-fed beast was likely a Conjurer, stronger than the Three Royal Guards but still within their ability to fight.

Micenei Strome’s group followed Morel and Kansai’s recommendation to detour toward the gloomy castle, where they climbed past a horrific slaughter tied to the Egg in the Pot Ritual. At the top of the stairs, Gelman and the others encountered a thorn-throne woman with the Pot of Poisons as four giant monsters emerged from black fog and surrounded them.

• Micenei Strome told the group that Morel and Kansai had encountered enemies and recommended changing routes, so Chairman Netero agreed to take a detour.
• Gelman led the group up the stone stairs toward the castle and received fragmentary knowledge about a ritual to revive a demigod.
• Biscuit and Micenei Strome recognized that the blood-soaked people in the pits were trapped in the Egg in the Pot Ritual and that they had to uproot the Flower of Evil.
• Gelman warned the group that something was coming as they reached the top of the stairs.
• A fairy emerged from the Pot of Poisons beside a woman on a thorn throne, and four giant monsters emerged from black fog and surrounded the group.

Gelman examined the Guardian Spirit Beasts of the dead princes as the chapter recounted Halkenburg’s failed attempt to challenge the Succession War and King Nasubi’s revelations about its purpose. With only Benjamin and Camilla left among the original thirteen heirs, their final conflict approached as BW1 neared the Dark Continent.

• Gelman recognized Halkenburg’s one-eyed Guardian Spirit Beast and recalled how Halkenburg tried to kill King Nasubi, then himself, before deciding to claim the throne and reform Kakin.
• King Nasubi told Halkenburg that Chorai was not his son and that he had allowed the Succession War to unfold because he foresaw the role Chorai’s death could play.
• King Nasubi condemned Halkenburg’s failure to protect his siblings or unite the princes, and Halkenburg returned to his residence and died that night under unknown circumstances.
• Gelman examined the Guardian Spirit Beasts of Tserriednich and Benjamin, noting that only Benjamin and Camilla remained of the original thirteen heirs.
• With one week left before BW1 reached the Dark Continent, Benjamin and Camilla faced the final struggle between them.

Benjamin’s scheme to acquire the princes’ Guardian Spirit Beasts unraveled as Camilla’s Lower Class Curse weakened Halkenburg’s protection and ultimately led to his death. The chapter ended with Halkenburg shot dead during the voyage.

• Benjamin used forced protection and escalating debt to drive Chorai to suicide, then took Chorai’s Guardian Spirit Beast with his own beast’s ability.
• Camilla’s Guardian Spirit Beast had once controlled her guards to free her from Benjamin’s prison, after which Camilla focused on building support among the lower classes.
• Camilla promised the lower classes citizenship and better living conditions, then used their loyalty to create the Lower Class Curse against her rivals.
• After Chorai died, Camilla realized the curse had taken effect on Halkenburg, whose Guardian Spirit Beast weakened while absorbing it.
• During the voyage, an assassin shot Halkenburg between the brows after his Guardian Spirit Beast could no longer protect him.

Camilla defeated Benjamin and became the sole surviving prince and heir to Kakin, but the Succession War’s purge had only begun. Meanwhile, Gelman and Netero pushed toward Camilla’s Thorn Throne as their allies fought four Fierce Beasts, and another powerful beast blocked the final path.

• Benjamin planned to exhaust Camilla’s private soldiers with repeated assassination attempts while secretly offering her protection.
• Camilla let herself be pushed to the brink, and her Guardian Spirit Beast took control of Benjamin and made him attack her, allowing Million Cycle Cat to use Benjamin’s life to revive her.
• Camilla became the sole surviving prince and heir, and King Nasubi formally announced her succession at a banquet aboard BW1.
• Netero told Gelman to continue up the stone steps with him while Ging, Biscuit, Potbelly, Shizuku, Micenei Strome, and Ginta stayed to fight four Guardian Spirit Beasts.
• A Champion Grade Fierce Beast descended in black mist and shattered the steps ahead of Gelman and Netero.

Gelman and Netero confronted Nasubi, who had merged with his Guardian Spirit Beast and his children, while he revealed that Camilla had inherited the ancestors’ memories through a ritual. Netero attacked Nasubi as Gelman rushed toward Camilla, who rose from the Thorn Throne amid blood and the power of the Pot of Poisons; the chapter ended with a thunderbolt striking her ritual pod.

• Nasubi appeared as a spider-like Greater Species monster, with the faces of twenty-three children—including Tserriednich and Molena—trapped in its gourd sacs.
• Nasubi explained that the ancestors’ collected wisdom had passed into Camilla, and Netero struck him off the stone steps before pursuing him into the Ten Thousand Man Cave.
• Gelman rushed toward Camilla as she stood on the Thorn Throne, bleeding and holding the Pot of Poisons.
• Nasubi’s earlier ritual had trapped Camilla in a mechanical pod, flooded her with the ancestors’ memories, and left her destined to give birth to a child in fourteen days.
• A tremendous storm tore open the ritual chamber’s roof and sent a thunderbolt crashing into Camilla’s pod.