Recaps

Bai Zhu, Knov, and Gao Mao fought Big Dog inside a space protected by Knov’s ability, but Bai Zhu learned that the battlefield was inside Big Dog’s belly and that the creature could regenerate. They fled toward the Red Door as the belly tried to seal their escape.

• Knov opened a spatial domain that blocked Big Dog’s red mist, and Bai Zhu unleashed his Bankai attacks while Gao Mao warned him not to damage the mushrooms.
• Bai Zhu struck Big Dog until its body collapsed, but Gao Mao revealed that it was regenerating and had not truly been defeated.
• Gao Mao told Bai Zhu that they were inside Big Dog’s belly and that the red mist was stomach acid, so Bai Zhu carried him and ran for the Red Door.
• Gao Mao used Knov’s Black Gates to hold back the pursuing mist while Bai Zhu raced toward the exit.
• The flesh walls split around the Red Door and began closing over it as Bai Zhu and Gao Mao approached.

Bai Zhu and Gao Mao escaped the closing Red Door with Knov, and Gao Mao sealed the entrance before freeing Knov from its mycelia. Gao Mao then opened a Black Gate and disappeared to retrieve its body, leaving Bai Zhu alone with the unconscious Knov.

• Gao Mao used Knov's spatial marks to carry Bai Zhu and Knov through the closing Red Door, and the three of them leapt into the living room.
• Gao Mao nailed wooden boards across the former doorway, sealing the Red Door and stopping the banging behind it.
• Gao Mao gathered the mycelia from Knov, who collapsed unconscious after his wounds and spatial fluctuations disappeared.
• Gao Mao opened Four-Dimensional Space and entered a Black Gate, telling Bai Zhu it was going to retrieve its body.
• Bai Zhu remained in the living room with Knov and wondered whether Gao Mao had taken his pen.

Bai Zhu and Knov survived Gao Mao’s failed attempt to reclaim its body from the giant dog guarding it, and Knov woke to find his friends safe. Milluki learned that Bai Zhu had offered his belongings in a deal with Gao Mao and angrily confronted him.

• Bai Zhu treated Knov’s hidden injuries while Gao Mao returned through a Black Gate with a giant dog’s jaws chasing it.
• The gate was crushed shut by the ruins’ protective walls, and Gao Mao confirmed it had found its body but failed to retrieve it from beneath the dog.
• Gao Mao woke Knov after Bai Zhu stopped it from using its fungal threads, and Knov discovered he could open Black Gates.
• Knov opened a gate to the apartment, bringing Milluki, Piyu, Gela Jiang, and Palm into the ruins.
• Gao Mao asked Milluki about his game console, while Bai Zhu explained the deal and admitted he had offered Milluki’s belongings.
• Milluki grabbed Bai Zhu by the collar and threatened to kill him for using his game console, refrigerator, and chips.

Bai Zhu traded the Pope’s head to Milluki for Gao Mao’s electronics and reunited another component of Soul King's Pen, then left Gao Mao’s domain with his companions. The Pope revealed that it had seen the final missing piece of the pen.

• Milluki claimed the regenerating Pope’s head as a gift for his Great-Great-Grandfather, and Gao Mao accepted it in exchange for its electronics.
• Milluki set up the TV, refrigerator, and game console, while Gao Mao used fungal threads and underground Nen to generate power for them.
• Bai Zhu gave Milluki the Pen component, joined it with his own, and raised his Kidō Analysis Progress to 60%.
• Knov opened a route back to the apartment, and Gao Mao made Bai Zhu promise to find it after returning from the Dark Continent.
• As Milluki carried the Pope away, the Pope quietly told Bai Zhu that it had seen the final piece he was missing.

Bai Zhu left NGL after reaching a temporary containment agreement with Gao Mao, then planned to rest and travel with Milluki. Meanwhile, the Creation Society and Kakin Royal Family began searching for Bai Zhu because of his special bloodline.

• Bai Zhu and Piyu agreed to let Gao Mao keep the Orcs and D1-affected villagers in the Underground City under the Association's monitoring conditions.
• Gao Mao reorganized the Underground City with mycelium, while Bai Zhu left with his group and avoided promising that he would go to the Dark Continent.
• Knov reported the NGL events to Netero, and Bai Zhu parted from Piyu and Knov before agreeing to travel with Milluki.
• Piyu received an anonymous report that the Creation Society was searching for a young man with a special bloodline and saw the Kakin Royal Family's emblem.
• Unma ordered live Nen Beast samples prepared and instructed her attendant to investigate whether Bai Zhu's blood could replace Benjamin's Nen Beast.

Pix’s mysterious hunger drove him to eat his own hand and attack Mia, while Bai Zhu and Milluki encountered the aftermath in the Basha Islands. After spotting someone watching from the villa, Bai Zhu received a system alert that the City of Hunger was a main quest area.

• Pix refused food for three days and argued with Mia, then stormed out of her villa.
• Mia found Pix eating his own hand and discovered a mouth with teeth inside his abdomen.
• Mia tried to escape and fought Pix with a cleaver, but Pix embraced her and she lost consciousness.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki saw police remove Mia’s emaciated body and arrest Pix, who muttered that he was hungry.
• Bai Zhu spotted a figure behind the villa’s curtains, and the system identified the City of Hunger as a main quest area.
• Bai Zhu changed his mind about leaving and told Milluki they had to stay.

Bai Zhu and Milluki returned to the murder villa at night and found evidence that Nen had sealed its exits during Mia’s struggle. The Pope identified the lingering presence as a Parasite, while Bai Zhu decided they might need to visit Pix.

• Bai Zhu and Milluki explored the carnival, collected restaurant stamps, and returned to the villa after dark.
• Milluki picked the kitchen door’s lock, and Bai Zhu and Milluki found traces of Nen throughout the house.
• Bai Zhu reconstructed how Mia had tried to escape, and Milluki concluded that Nen had sealed the villa’s exits.
• Milluki found daytime surveillance footage showing a humanoid silhouette at the second-floor window while Bai Zhu had been outside.
• Bai Zhu found Pix’s hospital examination receipt and suggested visiting him.
• The Pope sensed a presence in the villa and identified it as a Parasite.

Bai Zhu and Milluki secretly questioned Pix at the precinct about the voice that had stopped him from eating. As Pix began describing his first encounter with it, a bulge emerged from his abdomen and another voice addressed Bai Zhu.

• Bai Zhu and Milluki used forged credentials to gain permission to visit Pix, while police warned them he was dangerous and restrained.
• After the officers left, Milluki disabled the interview room surveillance and brought out the Pope, whose appearance made Pix lunge at him.
• Bai Zhu asked Pix about the voice, and Pix said it had appeared while he was eating, criticized his food, and eventually made him vomit whenever he tried to swallow.
• Pix said Mia had advised him to see a doctor and repeated that a later meal had filled him up, then began describing samples handed out on the street.
• A bulge pushed out against Pix's restraints, and a voice from beneath the table asked Bai Zhu whether he had visited its house the night before.

Bai Zhu and Milluki discovered that Pix had been turned into a host for a hungry mouth through an experiment linked to the Creation Society and Kakin. After learning that the experiments had reached Carnival restaurants, Bai Zhu heard from Piyu that the Kakin Royal Family might be searching for a young man with a special bloodline.

• Bai Zhu questioned Pix and the Pope, who revealed that Kakin held records of experiments conducted at its request.
• Pix’s abdominal mouth threatened Bai Zhu, so Bai Zhu used Circular Light Lock to seal it and keep Pix restrained.
• Pix explained that a restaurant had served him an unlisted stew during the Carnival, and Milluki identified a matching tooth-edged stamp linked to the Baba Sisters beachfront open-air restaurant.
• Pix described how the voice inside him grew hungrier until he ate his own fingers, while Bai Zhu concluded that the experiments had reached the streets.
• After leaving the precinct, Bai Zhu called Piyu, who said she had received a tip about a young man with a special bloodline and suspected the Kakin Royal Family was behind the search.

Bai Zhu and Milluki investigated a restaurant’s tasting event after learning that a murder victim had eaten there, uncovering clues that the burger supplier Old Zhang was hiding something in his van. They traced his delivery routes toward the seawall, but what the van contained remained unknown.

• Bai Zhu stopped Milluki from secretly scanning Baba Sisters and questioned a waitress about the murder victim and the restaurant’s tasting event.
• The waitress said the victim had become alarmingly thin and identified the event food as burgers supplied by a man called Old Zhang.
• Bai Zhu questioned the owner, who produced Old Zhang’s business card and recalled that he later returned to ask whether customers had stomachaches, nausea, or unusual hunger.
• Milluki noticed a faint label indentation on the business card, while Bai Zhu smelled disinfectant in the paper.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki checked other participating restaurants and found that they all had Old Zhang’s card, but none knew his real business location.
• Milluki compared surveillance footage and mapped the van’s routes toward the seawall, and Bai Zhu suspected it was concealing something valuable.

Bai Zhu and Milluki traced the suspicious meat deliveries from the Old Zhang’s Meat Burgers card to an abandoned Composting Center near Old Street. They found signs that something with a suppressed life force had been imprisoned there, but the shed was empty.

• Bai Zhu explained that the tooth-mark stamps marked people the old man was watching, then spotted a black strand of flesh emerge from an injured waitress’s fingertip at Baba Sisters.
• Milluki located three restaurants called Old Zhang’s Meat Burgers, and Bai Zhu and Milluki began checking them one by one.
• At the second restaurant, they watched footage of a masked young deliveryman with a limp and learned that a strangely uniformed investigator had later collected the tasters’ records.
• At the third restaurant, a neighboring repairman described a battered van that arrived around low tide, and Bai Zhu and Milluki concluded the shop owner had fled after noticing something wrong.
• The second restaurant’s owner told them that leftover meat had gone to an abandoned Composting Center, where Bai Zhu and Milluki found fresh tire tracks, a metal tag with a faint suppressed life force, smashed insulated boxes, and dense scratches on the shed walls.

Bai Zhu and Milluki investigated the abandoned composting center and found a massive shed skin, but could not determine whether it belonged to a snake or an escaped experimental subject. Before they retreated to the hotel, Bai Zhu found torn fabric caught on the drainage entrance’s fence, suggesting something once human had gone underground.

• Bai Zhu examined the claw marks and footprints in the storage room and concluded that something had repeatedly tried to climb the wall.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki searched the broken containers and found a large, scaly shed skin lodged over the drainage channel.
• The Pope said he could not identify the shed skin, and Bai Zhu suggested it might have come from an ordinary snake.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki left the storage room and agreed to return in daylight with proper gear.
• Bai Zhu traced the drainage channel to an underground entrance and found dark fabric caught on its deformed fence.

Bai Zhu and Milluki traced the delivery worker’s route to a concealed maintenance shaft at the abandoned Composting Center. After confirming the underground air was safe and matching a footprint to the suspect, Bai Zhu opened the entrance to investigate.

• Milluki equipped Bai Zhu with a camera, communicator, Mechanical Spider, and gas detector, then showed him the Composting Center’s underground facility plans.
• Bai Zhu returned alone and searched the facility perimeter, finding a maintenance shaft with signs that someone had kept its cover accessible.
• Milluki checked the shaft against the blueprint and identified a dry maintenance corridor near the unloading ramp.
• Bai Zhu sent the Mechanical Spider and gas detector into the shaft, and Milluki confirmed the air was safe.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki matched a dragging shoeprint in the corridor to the delivery worker’s distinctive left-foot gait.
• Bai Zhu decided to follow the worker’s route and lifted the shaft cover.

Bai Zhu followed the deliveryman’s trail through underground passages and discovered a giant snake colony surrounding an abandoned pumping station. After Milluki secured their communications and retreat route, Bai Zhu approached the lit pumping room, where the largest snake blocked his way out.

• Bai Zhu sent the Mechanical Spider down the maintenance passage and found unfamiliar holes and a collapsed section where the footprints ended.
• Bai Zhu used Kyokkō and Kakushitsuijaku to conceal himself and detect a mass of living creatures ahead.
• The Mechanical Spider revealed a colony of giant snakes, including one enormous snake matching the shed skin found at the compost warehouse.
• Milluki sent Mechanical Ants to secure communications and search for paths around the snake colony while Bai Zhu advanced toward the pumping station.
• A giant snake raised its head toward Bai Zhu, then blocked his exit as chopping sounds came from behind the pumping room’s closed iron door.
• Bai Zhu told Milluki the snakes could not stop him, though he found them disgusting.

Bai Zhu and Milluki discovered that the pump room was being used to process human corpses into meat patties, but Bai Zhu was trapped by a supernatural darkness when he entered. The target fled in terror, leaving Bai Zhu’s fate uncertain as he touched the darkness with the Soul King's Pen.

• Bai Zhu sealed the snakes inside the foundation pit with Bakudo #81: Dankū.
• A Mechanical Ant revealed a masked, injured young man chopping meat beside rows of hanging corpses and delivery supplies.
• Bai Zhu identified the young man as the target and entered the pump room to restrain him.
• A darkness trap swallowed Bai Zhu and severed Milluki’s connection to the scouting units.
• Bai Zhu sensed that he remained inside the pump room and touched the darkness with the Soul King's Pen.
• Milluki saw Bai Zhu vanish into a black sphere, and the young man fled through another exit.

Milluki learned that Bai Zhu was trapped inside a paired Nen Tool that could only be released with its matching child tool, and he organized a search while monitoring Bai Zhu’s condition. Meanwhile, Camilla tracked Milluki to his hotel and arrived with a sealed suitcase, introducing herself at his door as Ella.

• Milluki questioned the Pope’s head and learned that the black sphere was a confinement Nen Tool that could not be opened from within and might hold Bai Zhu for only minutes or hours.
• Milluki deployed Mechanical Insects and reconnaissance units to guard the sphere, search for the paired child tool, and locate an exit from the underground passages, then sent Piyu a report and ordered the surface secured.
• Camilla learned that Bai Zhu and Milluki were investigating the escaped experimental subject and decided to act before Unma could seize the materials.
• Camilla’s guards secured Milluki’s hotel, and she brought a specially sealed suitcase with her.
• Milluki recognized Camilla through a Mechanical Moth, and she knocked on his door and called herself Ella.

Milluki confronted Camilla after she revealed that the fleeing man was a defected researcher, not an escaped Experimental Subject. She warned that he and the Experimental Subject were preparing a large-scale parasitic Nen Beast experiment underground.

• Camilla entered Milluki’s suite and told him that the man he was tracking was a defected researcher who had stolen the cargo.
• Milluki realized the researcher had been deliberately avoiding crowds and the snakes’ territory, then noticed Camilla knew about Bai Zhu and the black sphere.
• Milluki threatened Camilla while his mechanical insects revealed her Nen ability and exposed the sniper guarding her.
• Camilla told Milluki that the researcher’s meat patties contained parasitic Nen Beast embryos and that the Experimental Subject was meant to become a Nen Beast using its hosts as a new body.

Milluki pressured Camilla into revealing that she could use the researcher’s family to force him to release Bai Zhu, then dismissed her plan as naive. Trapped inside the black sphere, Bai Zhu used the Soul King's Pen to analyze its defenses and began preparing a Kidō to escape.

• Milluki told Camilla he would use Rose bombs without hesitation and demanded to know whether she could rescue Bai Zhu.
• Milluki used the Pope’s living head to verify Camilla’s claims, and the Pope said the black sphere could not be opened from outside without the 'Child' device.
• Camilla admitted she could use the researcher’s family to force him to free Bai Zhu and surrender the experimental subjects, but needed Milluki to locate him.
• Milluki mocked Camilla’s faith in family as a means of leverage.
• Bai Zhu discovered that the Soul King's Pen helped him deduce the essence of spiritual power and analyzed the black sphere’s infinitely extending barrier.
• Bai Zhu began forming an unfamiliar hand seal and sought to find the barrier’s one and only anchor.

Milluki witnessed Bai Zhu’s enormous Reiatsu sword destroy the black sphere and learned that Camilla wanted to recruit them to pursue a Creation Society researcher. Bai Zhu decided to keep investigating in hopes of capturing the Experimental Subject, and he planned to use the dying Pope as their guide.

• Milluki drove Camilla away after she proposed using the researcher’s family as leverage, then watched a massive sword of Reiatsu split the black sphere and pierce the sky.
• Camilla saw the light sword from her car and felt relieved that she had only confronted Milluki.
• Bai Zhu returned to the hotel after killing the giant serpents trapped by Dankū and told Milluki he was unharmed.
• Milluki explained Camilla’s proposal, and Bai Zhu deduced that the researcher and an Experimental Subject were conducting Nen Beast experiments using meat patties.
• Bai Zhu asked whether they should leave or pursue the researcher, and Milluki eagerly agreed after Bai Zhu suggested they might gain a new ultimate move.
• Bai Zhu dismissed cooperation with Camilla and decided to question the dying Pope, whom he regarded as their guide to the missing researcher.

The Pope could not tell Bai Zhu and Milluki what he knew about the Creation Society’s project. Elsewhere, Hisoka discovered people afflicted by a strange hunger and sensed a familiar power in the sky, prompting him to hunt for the person wielding it.

• The Pope trembled and stayed silent when Bai Zhu and Milluki demanded information about the researcher and project.
• Hisoka, bored in a Basha Islands café, overheard reports of a man who had eaten his girlfriend.
• Hisoka sensed an old man and at least twenty others harboring a destructive hunger beneath their appearances.
• Hisoka spotted a massive sword of light in the night sky and recognized its power as unlike Nen.
• Hisoka vanished into the alleys, intent on finding the familiar person he called his little apple.

Hisoka investigated the aftermath of Bai Zhu’s sword attack, then tracked Bai Zhu and Milluki to a barbecue restaurant. He confronted them there, revealing that he knew they were investigating the abnormal events and teasing Bai Zhu for having no leads.

• Hisoka arrived at the crater and heard police discuss the missing people and giant snakes found below.
• Hisoka realized the marked people’s hunger had worsened and decided to keep searching for Bai Zhu.
• Bai Zhu felt watched while walking with Milluki and entered a barbecue restaurant to observe the street.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki spotted Hisoka pressed against the restaurant window and tried to leave.
• Hisoka entered, sat with them, ordered more food, and asked whether Bai Zhu had figured out the abnormal events.

Bai Zhu agreed to work with Hisoka after Hisoka revealed that he had found several people affected by Parasitic Nen Beast Embryos. The group went to investigate an old man in Room 307, where Bai Zhu heard the sounds of someone chewing and crushing bones.

• Hisoka found Bai Zhu at the barbecue restaurant by instinct and offered to help him investigate people who had become hungry.
• Hisoka revealed that several affected people had started eating humans, and Bai Zhu agreed to work with him instead of Camilla.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki finished eating with Hisoka, who described the disturbing people he had discovered.
• Hisoka led Bai Zhu and Milluki to an old apartment building and identified an animal-collecting old man in Room 307 as their lead.
• Bai Zhu entered the building alone while Milluki prepared a Mechanical Spider outside, and Hisoka waited in the hallway.
• Bai Zhu reached Room 307 and heard chewing and bones being crushed inside.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Hisoka found and fought a grotesque mutated creature in Room 307, but it had lost its reason and offered no clues about the Creation Society. Hisoka stopped Bai Zhu from disposing of it, leaving the creature’s fate unresolved.

• Bai Zhu spotted the rotten-flesh monster in Room 307, and Milluki recoiled while Hisoka admired its vitality.
• The monster burst through the door and lunged at Bai Zhu, but Hisoka’s playing card knocked it back.
• Bai Zhu beat the monster down with Reiatsu and bound it with Bakudō #4.
• Bai Zhu searched the room, found bones and signs of a feeding ground, and concluded that the trail to the Creation Society researcher had gone cold.
• Bai Zhu determined the creature had lost its reason and was useless for questioning, but Hisoka interrupted him before he could order its disposal.

Hisoka uncovered a hidden crimson paper-like creature inside the wall of Room 307, and Bai Zhu broke through the wall to reveal it. The creature escaped through a narrow crack before Milluki could mark it, leaving them with an answer about the experiment but no capture.

• Hisoka deduced that the amount of blood and bones in Room 307 pointed to something hidden behind the load-bearing wall.
• Bai Zhu inspected the solid wall, but Hisoka exposed a hidden barrier by embedding three Playing Cards in its cracks.
• Bai Zhu destroyed the wall with his Zanpakuto, revealing a thin crimson creature concealed inside it.
• Bai Zhu recognized the creature as the experiment that had evaded him and Milluki at the villa by slipping through narrow gaps.
• The creature fled through a crack in the ground before Milluki could mark it, and Bai Zhu noted that they had at least learned what the experiment was.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Hisoka hunted infected people across the Basha Islands, hoping to learn what happened to the escaped Paper Person. After Hisoka killed a fused monster in Apartment 1508, he sensed that infected people were appearing across the city in rapidly growing numbers.

• Bai Zhu identified the escaped Experimental Subject as a Paper Person who could slip through cracks, while Hisoka proposed hunting the people he had marked.
• The trio tracked infected people throughout the night, and Bai Zhu chose to watch two newly affected people as potential leads rather than kill them immediately.
• Hisoka sensed two infected people had fused in Apartment 1508, where a composite monster attacked them.
• Hisoka dodged the monster with Bungee Gum and killed it by cutting off its two heads.
• At dawn, Hisoka sensed that hungry people were appearing almost everywhere in the city, with more emerging rapidly.