Chapter Summaries

At the Autumn Hunt, Leo and the other participants received point recorders and learned the rules for the seven-day competition in the Demon Realm. Leo crossed the gateway into the forest, where the hunt began.

• The host announced that killing ordinary magical beasts earned one point and that Beast King's Fangs were worth an undisclosed number of points.
• Staff distributed point recorders, and the host explained that participants could kill one another but could not initiate lethal attacks against princes.
• Leo joined the other participants as staff opened a gateway into the Demon Realm and groups began entering at two-minute intervals.
• Hisoka, Illumi, Hanzo, Ponzu, Tonpa, Gon, Killua, Leorio, and the white-haired, gray-eyed boy entered the gateway before Leo.
• Leo crossed into the forest, where the participants spread out and the hunt began.

Leo slaughtered magical beasts with precise air bullets, rapidly increasing his points and life energy before heading to a canyon with meat for a temporary stop. A team of five participants found the clearing he had left behind and hurried away after seeing how efficiently he had killed the beasts.

• Leo killed five giant lizards with air bullets, raising his level progress to 4% and his point tracker to 6.
• Leo expanded his En across a 2,200-meter radius, detected twenty-three participants and 231 magical beasts, and frightened nearby Nen users into retreating.
• Leo hunted magical beasts along a stream for half an hour, raising his points to 635 and his level progress to 14%.
• Leo gathered three beasts for meat and headed toward a canyon he had chosen as a temporary stop.
• Five participants found the clearing filled with magically slain beasts and hurried away without confronting Leo.

Leo rested and ate with Little Azure in a canyon while the other Autumn Hunt participants hunted across the Demon Realm or pursued their own plans. A white-haired boy led the score with 622 points as the hunt continued.

• Leo and Little Azure roasted and ate magical beasts, then rested beside a stream in a canyon.
• Vance and Edward hunted aggressively, reaching 392 and 341 points, while Julian relied on his subordinates for 336 points and Rhine calmly watched the other princes from a distance.
• Gon, Killua, and Leorio worked together to hunt pig-nosed elephants, raising their score to 167.
• Illumi and Hisoka killed beasts only when they encountered them, focusing instead on their plan to kill the princes.
• Hanzo and Ponzu rested after hunting a pack of swift-running beasts and recorded 139 points.
• A white-haired, gray-eyed boy with 622 points put away his recorder and walked deeper into an underground cave.

On the second day of the Autumn Hunt, Leo gathered points while observing the dangers and betrayals unfolding among the participants. He let a stealthy bald man approach for an attack, and the chapter ended as the world froze in front of the man.

• Leo raised his score from 635 to 927 and his level progress from 14% to 20% while hunting magical beasts.
• Leo found the remains of a team trampled by Red-Eyed Berserk Cow-Horses and three participants killed in an ambush for their point recorders.
• Leo decided to slow down and watch the other hunters instead of rushing to collect points.
• Leo noticed a camouflage-clad bald man secretly following him but pretended not to see him.
• Leo watched a six-person team fight a Moonlight Bear and teased them with unsolicited advice.
• The bald man sprang at Leo with a flying kick, and the world froze before his eyes.

Leo caught a bald man's flying kick and used him to knock down a Moonlight Bear that six hunters had been fighting. After the bald man fled and the hunters thanked Leo, Leo looked toward the direction he had gone.

• The bald man recalled how his speed and Nen Aura had helped him escape danger before, then launched a kick at Leo.
• Leo caught the bald man's ankle without leaving his seat beneath the tree roots.
• Leo swung the bald man into the Moonlight Bear, knocking it to the ground and giving the six hunters an opening.
• Leo told the bald man to run, and the man sprinted away into the forest.
• One of the hunters thanked Leo before the group resumed attacking the Moonlight Bear, and Leo looked after the fleeing man.

Leo caught the bald man who had been stalking him, took his score, and left him hanging from a tree. On the third day, the princes and Gon’s group continued raising their scores while Illumi and Hisoka watched a large gathering that included their assassination targets.

• Leo caught up with the fleeing bald man by flying alongside him with Little Azure, and the man passed out from frustration.
• Leo transferred the bald man’s 180 points to his own tracker, raising his score from 927 to 1107, then left him hanging upside down from a tree.
• By midday on the third day, the Demon Realm’s death toll had passed twenty as participants fell to magical beasts and their scores rose.
• Vance led the princes’ scores after his group hunted giant armored beasts, while Gon, Killua, and Leorio neared 400 points after fighting Rockhorn Rhinos.
• Illumi and Hisoka watched a group of about forty people centered around the third and fifth princes, and Illumi judged an attack too difficult under their protection.
• Hisoka kept his increased strength and ability to level up by killing secret from Illumi as the group moved deeper into the Demon Realm.

Illumi and Hisoka watched a heavily guarded group of princes, while Leo flew over the Demon Realm on Little Azure and drew attention from participants below. In the northeastern hills, a seven-person group closed in on a white-haired boy who had killed many magical beasts.

• Illumi judged that killing the princes would leave him with poor odds of escaping the Guganyu Kingdom, and Hisoka agreed to wait.
• Leo surveyed the Demon Realm from above, noting beast king territories and the signs that two beast kings had been killed.
• Participants across the Demon Realm spotted Little Azure in the sky, including Illumi, Hisoka, and Killua.
• A white-haired boy walked alone through the northeastern hills and said he was almost recovered.
• Seven armed figures spread into an encirclement and approached the white-haired boy, believing he had not noticed them.

On the fifth day of the Autumn Hunt, Leo continued observing rather than actively gathering points while Illumi and Hisoka manipulated the princes into suspecting Vance. As participants continued killing one another for points, the conflict between the princes threatened to escalate.

• A white-haired boy killed seven participants beside a pool and transferred the points from one man's tracker to his own.
• Leo rested on a hillside after spending two days moving and observing without actively hunting for points.
• Illumi sent needle people to attack Julian and Edward's party, then left a clue that led them to suspect Vance.
• Hisoka watched the attack and hoped the princes' suspicions would spark a more entertaining conflict.
• A passerby discovered the bodies beside the pool, judged their killer too dangerous to confront, and quietly took a detour.

Vance fought the Crimson-Winged Centipede King in Mist Valley before Julian and Edward’s forces encircled him. From a distance, Rhine watched the confrontation unfold through a Nen-powered mirror, pleased by the spectacle.

• Vance attacked the Crimson-Winged Centipede King alone, but its poison gas harmed his subordinates and one of its legs wounded him.
• Julian and Edward’s men descended from the cliffs and surrounded Vance as he fought the Centipede King.
• Vance recognized Julian and Edward on opposite sides of the valley and challenged them while the Centipede King prepared another wave of poison gas.
• Rhine watched the battle in a Nen-powered mirror from a dry slope and said that it looked entertaining.

Leo watched Vance battle his brothers Edward and Julian in Mist Valley as their forces dwindled and the fight reached a stalemate. Illumi and Hisoka waited at the battlefield’s edge for the princes to become distracted enough to strike.

• Vance fought Edward and Julian’s encircling forces while accusing his brothers of plotting to kill him and seize the throne.
• Leo watched from Little Azure’s back and judged that Vance would lose, while the dead Crimson-Winged Centipede King and its Beast King's Fang remained untouched.
• Vance’s hidden supporters joined the battle, but Edward and Julian sent key subordinates into the front line to press their advantage.
• The fighting became a bloody stalemate as Edward and Julian avoided risking themselves and held back against each other’s interests.
• Illumi and Hisoka waited in concealed positions, watching for the battle to consume the fighters’ attention so they could target the princes.

As Vance’s battle against Edward and Julian’s forces continued, Illumi and Hisoka joined the fight from separate directions, turning the clash into a chaotic four-sided melee. As the fighting reached its peak, an unidentified figure leisurely approached Mist Valley through the mist.

• Illumi sent Hisoka to attack Edward while he targeted Julian, and both entered the battle from different directions.
• A guard blocked Illumi’s Nen needle and died, while Edward’s guards deflected Hisoka’s playing card before it could strike him.
• Vance mocked Edward and Julian as the unexpected attackers disrupted the battle, giving Vance’s men time to reorganize.
• Illumi kept pursuing Julian as Hisoka disrupted the fighters from the battlefield’s edge, and more people fell amid the chaos.
• An unidentified figure approached the entrance to Mist Valley through the thin mist.

A white-haired youth entered Mist Valley during the battle and calmly took the Beast King's Fang from the Centipede King's corpse. Vance, Edward, and Julian reacted angrily, while Rhine watched with growing amusement.

• A white-haired youth walked into the battlefield, drawing the attention of Hisoka, Illumi, Leo, and Rhine.
• Vance resumed the fighting, but the youth passed through the melee untouched as the combatants avoided him.
• The youth removed the Beast King's Fang intact from the Centipede King's corpse and put it in his bag.
• Vance, Edward, and Julian saw the youth take the fang and shouted at him.

Edward hired Illumi to kill the white-haired boy, and Illumi accepted before attacking him in Mist Valley. The boy stopped Illumi’s Nen Needles with the mist and struck him with a massive mist fist.

• Edward offered Illumi ten billion to kill the white-haired boy, and Illumi accepted the commission.
• Edward ordered his subordinates to surround the boy, while Julian signaled his men to hold back.
• Illumi threw three Nen Needles at the boy’s back, but the mist stopped them in midair.
• Illumi rushed forward and aimed another Nen Needle at the boy’s temple, but the boy tilted his head and dodged it.
• The mist formed a fist and slammed into Illumi’s chest.

The white-haired boy overwhelmed Illumi with his mist, trapping him in a cage as the onlookers watched. Gon, Leorio, and Killua entered Mist Valley and discovered the battle, with Killua recognizing Illumi as his big brother.

• Illumi recovered from the white-haired boy’s blow and attacked again, but mist blocked his strikes and enclosed him in a cage.
• The white-haired boy’s warning and Illumi’s memories of a previous defeat drove Illumi to unleash his killing intent and continue fighting.
• Leo watched from above and compared the white-haired boy’s mist control to Morel’s smoke manipulation.
• Gon, Leorio, and Killua entered Mist Valley and found Illumi trapped amid the devastation.
• Killua recognized Illumi, while Leorio restrained him and Gon from rushing into the conflict.

Gon, Killua, and Leorio arrived at Mist Valley as Illumi remained trapped in Bai’s Mist Cage and Vance’s forces pressed their attack. Leo unleashed a golden Nen storm that caused everyone in the valley intense pain while healing many of their wounds, then watched the aftermath from above.

• Hisoka greeted Gon and Killua but initially ignored Leorio, while Gon recognized Illumi inside the Mist Cage.
• Illumi tried to pierce the shifting mist with Nen Needles as Vance’s group attacked Edward and Julian’s forces.
• Gon rushed into the battle, and Killua and Leorio joined him to defend against Vance’s subordinates.
• Leo summoned a golden Nen dragon that burst into a rain of tiny projectiles over Mist Valley.
• The projectiles inflicted intense pain while healing small wounds, leaving most fighters curled on the ground and Illumi, Hisoka, Gon, Killua, and Bai still standing.
• Leo lowered his hand and laughed as he surveyed the chaos below.

Leo tested his new move, Hopeless Love, in Mist Valley, where it healed humans while inflicting intense pain and dealt extra damage to nonhuman creatures. After Bai left with the Beast King's Fang, Illumi followed Bai, the other groups withdrew, and Leo flew onward with Little Azure.

• Leo reviewed Hopeless Love's effects and confirmed that his remaining aura could power it five more times.
• The golden projectiles healed the humans they struck while leaving them in pain, and Bai departed with the Beast King's Fang.
• Illumi decided to pursue Bai first to fulfill the Zoldyck Family's commission, leaving Edward and Julian for later.
• Hisoka delighted in the sensation of Leo's attack, while Vance, Edward, and Julian decided to leave Mist Valley.
• Illumi followed Bai, the other groups dispersed, and Leo watched them go before directing Little Azure onward.

Gon, Killua, and Leorio were ambushed in the forest by ten men sent because they had interfered with Prince Vance. Leo watched from above as the fight began, with Gon and Killua struggling to break through and Leorio in danger.

• Ten men surrounded Gon, Killua, and Leorio at their forest camp, while Killua detected the attackers and quietly warned his friends.
• Leo recognized Vance's men from above and descended on Little Azure to watch the ambush unfold.
• Gon fought four attackers but was repeatedly forced onto the defensive.
• Killua used limited bursts of electricity against four opponents, unable to finish them with his attacks.
• Leorio struggled to withstand two coordinated opponents, and Gon could not reach him through the encirclement.

Gon, Killua, and Leorio fought Vance’s ambushers while Leo watched from above. Rhine’s hidden team moved in to attack the battered trio, but Leo prepared to descend and intervene.

• Gon and Killua knocked down most of their opponents, while Leorio struggled to hold off two attackers.
• Rhine’s five men assessed the trio and decided to target Leorio first, with separate attacks planned for Gon and Killua.
• Rhine’s team slipped out of hiding and took up positions around the battlefield, waiting for the trio to weaken further.
• Leo spotted the ambush and decided it was time to descend and save the three youngsters.

Gon and Killua were overwhelmed by the five attackers after Leorio was knocked unconscious. Just as the attackers moved in to finish them, Leo descended into the clearing and faced the five men.

• Gon, Killua, and Leorio fought off several attackers, but the wiry man struck Leorio from behind and knocked him unconscious.
• Two attackers ambushed Gon and Killua, then joined the wiry man and four others in surrounding them.
• The attackers wounded Killua and knocked Gon down as both boys ran out of stamina and Nen.
• As the five men advanced on the fallen Leorio, Gon, and Killua, Leo plummeted from the sky and landed in a crater before greeting them.

Leo healed Leorio and Killua after they survived a deadly attack, then watched the Autumn Hunt enter its final day as the remaining contenders fought for points. Illumi, Vance, Edward, and Julian all suffered major setbacks, while Leo considered sinking the Demon Realm to gain a level.

• Leo healed Leorio's broken ribs and restored Killua's chest wound, and both thanked him for saving them.
• The Autumn Hunt entered its final day with fewer than a hundred of the original 636 participants remaining.
• Illumi's attacks on Bai failed, and the mist numbed Illumi's left arm while Hisoka watched from a distance.
• Rhine and his men cornered Vance near a beast king's territory, and Rhine killed him and took his points.
• Edward and Julian fought after arguing over their route, lost more subordinates, and split up with too few points to contend for the top three.
• Leo rode Little Azure above the Demon Realm and considered sinking it to gain a level.