Recaps

As darkness engulfed the city and infected people began appearing everywhere, Bai Zhu decided to force them to merge into a single powerful monster so the hidden Paper Person would reveal itself. He sent Hisoka to eliminate weaker infected while he and Milluki began herding the rest.

• A black curtain swallowed the dawn, and screams spread as infected people appeared across the city.
• Bai Zhu reasoned that the Paper Person was causing the outbreak and that escaping the city was likely impossible.
• Hisoka proposed killing everyone, but Bai Zhu instead planned to gather the infected and make them merge into the strongest monster.
• Bai Zhu assigned Hisoka to thin out weaker infected and took responsibility for herding them while protecting Milluki.
• Bai Zhu killed an infected man with White Lightning and led Milluki toward two monsters fighting in the street.

Bai Zhu contained panicked civilians behind barriers while Milluki located Camilla, who revealed how the Experimental Subject infected people and trapped the city. The chapter ended with Bai Zhu noticing Camilla’s fear of the silver case and reaching for his Zanpakuto.

• Bai Zhu and Milluki herded uninfected civilians into a square, where Bai Zhu sealed them behind four Dankū walls.
• Milluki’s Mechanical Ants found Camilla hiding in a wrecked watch shop with a silver combination-lock case.
• Camilla told Bai Zhu that the researcher had fused with the Experimental Subject and that its red-paper offshoots infected people from inside their bodies.
• Camilla explained that most of her guards had been infected and that her Nen Ability had revived her repeatedly until she escaped.
• Camilla said the black curtain trapped hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the city, where they were being forced to fight until the strongest emerged.
• Bai Zhu questioned Camilla about the silver case, and when she recoiled without answering, he reached for his Zanpakuto.

Bai Zhu learned that Camilla’s case could extract a Nen Ability, then led the group back to Dankū, where Hisoka revealed a giant flesh monster bearing the red paper figure. Bai Zhu claimed the figure as his target and left Hisoka to fight the mass below.

• Camilla told Bai Zhu that the case contained a device for extracting the Final Experimental Subject’s Nen Ability, and Bai Zhu ordered her to bring it along.
• Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Camilla returned to the square, where Milluki reported that fewer monsters remained and several had grown to enormous sizes.
• Bai Zhu saw the monsters swarming outside Dankū and the civilians trapped behind its transparent walls.
• Hisoka arrived wounded and excited, saying that he had cleared away the weaker monsters and that the perfect fruit was nearly ripe.
• A gigantic mass of stitched-together flesh emerged with the red paper figure atop it, and Bai Zhu claimed the figure while assigning the flesh monster to Hisoka.

Bai Zhu and Hisoka fought the monsters in the square, but Bai Zhu realized the giant Flesh Mountain was only bait. The real Experimental Subject remained hidden somewhere in the city, leaving the group facing a more dangerous threat.

• Bai Zhu cut through the Flesh Mountain while Hisoka toyed with the faster Long-Legged Monster, and Bai Zhu noticed the Flesh Mountain was unusually weak.
• Bai Zhu and Hisoka swapped opponents, and Bai Zhu killed the Long-Legged Monster with three strikes.
• Hisoka found the Flesh Mountain too weak to entertain him, so Bai Zhu destroyed it and the Red Paper Figure with a pillar of flame.
• Milluki estimated the city had over a hundred thousand people, and Bai Zhu concluded the Flesh Mountain could not have grown so large naturally in under an hour.
• Bai Zhu reasoned that the Flesh Mountain was bait and the intelligent Experimental Subject was hiding; Hisoka became excited at the prospect of finding it.

Bai Zhu and his allies used his Reiatsu to lure the hidden monsters out, and he killed one that could consume energy. They discovered a strip of experimental tissue inside it and traced the remaining monsters as they moved toward the city center through underground passages.

• Milluki reported that the monsters had multiplied and gone silent, so Bai Zhu concealed Hisoka, Milluki, and Camilla with Kyokkō before drawing the creatures toward them.
• Bai Zhu used Kakushitsuijaku to reveal his Reiatsu and lure out a monster that consumed his tracking sigils and absorbed most of his White Lightning.
• Bai Zhu trapped the monster with Dankū while Milluki sent a firebomb into its body, then Bai Zhu struck its core with White Lightning and killed it.
• Bai Zhu recovered a strip of experimental tissue from the monster's remains as Hisoka reported finding several energy-eating creatures near an abandoned theater.
• Milluki mapped the creatures' movements and found that they were heading toward the city center through subway ventilation shafts and underground maintenance tunnels.

Bai Zhu, Milluki, Camilla, and Hisoka investigated the occupied financial tower and discovered the test subject could drain people, control corpses, and evade Reiatsu by shedding its skin. They traced it deeper underground, where every signal vanished and a second heartbeat began in the tower.

• Hisoka healed his wound, while Milluki reported that the Poop Monsters had multiplied and gone silent across the city.
• Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki entered the financial tower and found corpses drained from within, then destroyed the red liquid controlling the receptionist.
• The group encountered smaller Poop Monsters underground, and one swallowed a Mechanical Beetle before sending a self-destruct command that destroyed half of Milluki's reconnaissance units.
• Hisoka lured the monsters into a maintenance shaft, where he and Bai Zhu trapped and defeated them.
• Bai Zhu found shed red membrane beneath a decoy cafeteria and realized the test subject had escaped his senses by leaving no Reiatsu behind.
• Every red dot disappeared from Milluki's terminal as a second heartbeat sounded deep inside the tower.

Bai Zhu realized the Experimental Subject had gathered abilities into its Paper People and might be using the Financial Center as bait, but Milluki discovered the silver lockbox had activated the signal before the disaster. As Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Camilla reached a sealed passage, a voice imitating Bai Zhu spoke from behind the membrane, an eye opened within it, and a hidden elevator began descending to -9F.

• Milluki discovered that every monster signal had vanished, and Bai Zhu explained that the Experimental Subject had likely recovered its Paper People and no longer needed hosts.
• Bai Zhu suspected the Financial Center was bait, but Milluki found a system log showing that the silver lockbox had activated its signal three hours before the disaster.
• Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Camilla realized that a faction had planted the Recovery Core and hurried toward the Financial Center's underground equipment level.
• The three found a red membrane sealing the maintenance passage, and an imitation of Bai Zhu warned them not to come closer.
• Hisoka emerged from the shadows and said the creature seemed to be learning from Bai Zhu.
• A pupil-less eye opened in the membrane as the elevator indicator displayed -9F and the elevator began descending.

Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki discovered a hidden tunnel beneath basement nine and followed traces of a red membrane through it. Elsewhere, Hisoka found suited strangers installing devices in parasitized people and reported the new guests to Bai Zhu.

• Hisoka stayed above ground while Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki descended in the elevator, which revealed a hidden basement level nine.
• Milluki found a red membrane inside a dry drainage pipe and traced the tunnel’s route toward the Observation Tower and Financial Center.
• Hisoka reported finding shoes without their owners near the Observation Tower, while Bai Zhu’s group continued through the tunnel.
• Camilla spotted scratches, and the group heard a red membrane moving through the pipes before it slipped away.
• Hisoka followed a busload of hungry, parasitized passengers to the shore, where suited strangers inserted devices into them and collected blood.
• Hisoka told Bai Zhu about the suited strangers and said Rotten Meat Monsters ignored them.

Bai Zhu and Milluki found a chamber of shriveled monsters beneath the observation tower while Hisoka discovered a third silver box held by a mysterious faction. The chapter ended with the monsters detecting Hisoka despite his use of Zetsu and Bai Zhu’s Kyokkō.

• Bai Zhu found that the monsters covering the chamber wall were empty husks, supporting Milluki’s theory that the final test subject had reabsorbed its offshoots.
• Hisoka reported that at least thirty monsters avoided the sealed top floor of the tower and that people in protective suits nearby had a silver box matching Camilla’s.
• Camilla said only two boxes should exist: Queen Unma’s and one made by her researcher, while Milluki suggested someone was mistaken or lying.
• Bai Zhu realized a hidden faction with extensive knowledge of the test subject had entered the conflict.
• Hisoka reported that the monsters had all turned toward him despite his using Zetsu while Bai Zhu’s Kyokkō concealed him.

Bai Zhu and his companions found evidence linking the strange Experimental Subject to the Port District and headed there. Hisoka then reported that people in protective suits were planting something in others.

• Hisoka sensed that something besides Nen was detecting him, and Bai Zhu suspected a biological marker had been planted in living things on the island.
• Bai Zhu told Hisoka to follow the people in protective suits, then led Milluki and Camilla away from the Observation Tower.
• Bai Zhu found a trace of high-precision K-7 lubricant, and Milluki identified it as a lubricant used at the Port District’s Gantry Cranes.
• The trio headed through the return tunnel toward the port while a light blinked on Camilla’s silver lockbox unnoticed.
• Hisoka told Bai Zhu that the people in protective suits seemed to be planting something in people.

Bai Zhu and his companions discovered that the island was being used for a secret biological-weapon stress test, while civilians were implanted with nanobots to track the creature. The chapter ended when Hisoka reported that the implanted civilians' stomachs had split open.

• Hisoka showed Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki suited operatives implanting civilians with Zoldyck nanobots that turned them into biological signal stations for tracking the final Experimental Subject.
• Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki searched the port and found Queen Unma's damaged retrieval device in Warehouse No. 7.
• Bai Zhu gave Milluki a damaged encrypted storage board, and Milluki overcame its self-destruct sequence to recover a report titled “Chimera” Project · Biological Weapon D-04 · Extreme Environment Stress Test Report.
• Bai Zhu realized the island was a sealed testing ground where observers monitored a monster as it fed, mutated, and merged; the report bore an unfamiliar anvil-and-planet emblem.
• Hisoka warned Bai Zhu that the civilians implanted with nanobots had all suffered split-open stomachs.

Bai Zhu and Milluki uncovered that Illumi had secretly authorized the theft of embryo D-04 and the nanobot technology. As a team activated a citywide beacon to find D-04, the hidden monster and the infected civilians began reacting to its signal.

• Milluki discovered that Illumi had authorized the contract to retrieve experimental embryo D-04 from a Kakin laboratory.
• Milluki decoded that Mystery International was the client and learned that Illumi had sold the family’s nanobot technology to a business partner.
• Bai Zhu realized their mission on the island had been part of a trap, while Hisoka warned that the enemy was heading for the Financial Center.
• A person in an armored vehicle activated the Hive Network and began using a biological beacon to locate D-04 across the city.
• The beacon made the red tissue throughout the city convulse and caused nanobot marks on civilians to burn as the hidden monster shrieked in pain.

Bai Zhu and his companions traced the resonance signal to a container yard, where Future Technology was preparing to capture a creature hidden in a refrigerated shipping container. They approached as the creature began forcing its way out, while the company’s team prepared to retrieve it and treat them as expendable testers.

• Bai Zhu lost the ability to distinguish Reiatsu signatures as the citywide resonance field overwhelmed his senses.
• Milluki hacked into the jamming network and discovered that Future Technology, a powerful Kakin conglomerate, was behind the operation.
• Milluki located the signal’s convergence point in the container yard, and Bai Zhu realized the target had been hiding in a shipping container and moving with port machinery.
• Hisoka intercepted an order to prepare a high-voltage grid and liquid-nitrogen sprayers, while the command treated Bai Zhu’s group as disposable testers.
• Bai Zhu led Milluki and Camilla to Sector B-7, where they saw a protective-suit team surrounding a refrigerated container as a creature pushed its doors open.

Bai Zhu and his companions discovered that Anvil Enterprises had used them as beta testers, while the hidden Paper Person transformed the Pope’s clone into a growing flesh monster. As Bai Zhu prepared to fight, the Overseer summoned a heavily armed Scavenger that arrived and targeted him.

• The Overseer revealed that Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Camilla had provided combat data for Anvil Enterprises’ Project D-04.
• The refrigerated container door burst open, releasing the mutated Pope clone with the red Paper Person attached to its back.
• Bai Zhu recognized the Paper Person as the true experimental subject and showed the Pope’s original head to the clone, shocking both the Pope and the Overseer.
• The Pope clone spread a mat of fleshy fungus, devoured several protective-suit squad members, and grew into a towering flesh mountain.
• Bai Zhu drew Ryujin Jakka as the Overseer activated the Class A Forced Retrieval Protocol and ordered the Scavenger deployed.
• A black-armored Scavenger arrived in a metal cocoon and aimed its crimson mechanical eye at Bai Zhu.

Bai Zhu discovered that the Scavenger ignored him because his Forced Zetsu made him appear harmless, but the Overseer retrieved the Pope duplicate’s red-paper core before Bai Zhu could claim it. The Overseer revealed that Anvil Enterprises had been using the battle to collect combat data, then ordered the Scavenger to eliminate the remaining testers.

• The Scavenger charged the Pope’s Flesh Mountain, and Bai Zhu blocked its scythe to keep it from killing the Pope duplicate.
• The Scavenger’s scan classified Bai Zhu as a harmless ordinary person, so Bai Zhu tried to cut the red paper from the duplicate’s back.
• The Overseer activated full-spectrum resonance, retrieved the red-paper core, and left Bai Zhu’s strike to hit only the duplicate’s flesh.
• Bai Zhu realized the Scavenger had been recording combat data and warned Milluki that Anvil Enterprises was using them as testers.
• Hisoka restrained the Scavenger with Bungee Gum, while the coreless Flesh Mountain became a heap of rotting flesh.
• The Overseer thanked the testers for their data, declared that they would be eliminated, and had the Scavenger target Bai Zhu.

The Overseer unleashed the leashed Experimental Subject D-04 against Bai Zhu, Camilla, Milluki, and Hisoka, but Camilla’s Replica Box disrupted its control long enough for Bai Zhu to wound it with Ryujin Jakka. The Overseer recalled D-04 and began refining it, while Bai Zhu revealed the Creation Society Pope’s head as the three-minute countdown began.

• The Overseer ordered D-04 to attack the group while the Scavenger kept Hisoka pinned down, and Bai Zhu’s attacks failed to stop the monster.
• Camilla discovered that her Replica Box interfered with the Overseer’s Main Box, while Milluki planted a data marker in the Hive network and memorized the Main Box’s control-node coordinates.
• Camilla pushed the Replica Box to full power, disrupting D-04’s suppression and giving Bai Zhu an opening to slash it with Ryujin Jakka.
• The Overseer forcibly recalled D-04 and announced that its Refining Process would begin in three minutes.
• Bai Zhu pulled the Creation Society Pope’s head from Milluki’s backpack and faced the Overseer.

After learning that Anvil Enterprises would finish refining D-04 within an hour, Bai Zhu organized a plan to destroy the creature and corrupt the data upload. Milluki then discovered that the upload contained an S-class file about an unknown energy sample linked to the data-blank person on the Port District battlefield, stopping Bai Zhu just before he struck the Main Box.

• The Pope told Bai Zhu that the Main Box would refine D-04 within an hour, that extreme heat could destroy its paper core, and that disrupting the upload could ruin Anvil Enterprises’ operation.
• Bai Zhu assigned Hisoka to draw off the Scavenger, Milluki to attack the upload system, and Camilla to disrupt the Main Box with her imitation box, promising her samples of D-04.
• Hisoka lured the Scavenger away, Milluki sent his Mechanical Beetles toward the Financial Center, and Camilla’s device disrupted the Main Box as Bai Zhu attacked it with Ryujin Jakka.
• Milluki warned Bai Zhu to stop after intercepting an S-class file that prioritized an unknown energy sample above D-04 and identified its source as the data-blank person on the Port District battlefield.

Bai Zhu escaped Anvil's recovery team and learned that they were using the city’s resonance field to refine the box beneath the Financial Center. At the server room, Milluki discovered that most of the data had already been transmitted and found a hidden directory marked in Illumi’s naming style.

• Bai Zhu evaded Anvil’s capture team with Camilla, then learned the recovery team wanted Ryujin Jakka as the sample and planned to take him alive or dead.
• The Pope explained that Anvil needed the collected flesh as a catalyst, while Milluki warned that the refinement would use the city’s resonance field as furnace fire.
• Milluki traced the monsters’ convergence point beneath the Financial Center, and Bai Zhu led the group through the tunnel to stop the refinement.
• Bai Zhu cleared infected people blocking the tunnel while protecting the still-living ones behind Dankū.
• At the Financial Center’s ninth basement level, Milluki revealed that seventy percent of the data had already reached Anvil headquarters and that he needed higher-level access to replace the remaining data with fakes.
• Milluki found a hidden directory named in the Zoldyck family convention used by Illumi, then stopped before opening it.

Milluki used Illumi’s hidden backdoor to disrupt the Hive network and uncovered Anvil Enterprises’ plan to destroy the city. The Overseer accelerated the purge countdown, while civilians across the corridors began responding to the Hive.

• Milluki discovered that Illumi had secretly sold the Hive technology and left a backdoor in the network.
• Milluki used his access to shut down nearly thirty percent of the city’s base stations and prepared forged data packets.
• Camilla copied part of a repair log before Bai Zhu warned her that the data was under surveillance, and the Pope revealed when D--04 would be most vulnerable.
• Milluki found the purge protocol, which would use a kinetic strike satellite to destroy the Port District, the Financial Center, and the city, with less than five minutes between the refinement and purge deadlines.
• The Overseer ordered Scavenger to defend the Main Box and summoned civilians to block the server room; Scavenger fled Hisoka, who followed it toward the Financial Center.
• The Overseer triggered the physical switch, dropping the purge countdown to ten minutes as the civilians stopped and opened their mouths.

Bai Zhu and Camilla fought through the Recovery Team and disrupted the hive network’s Main Box while Milluki fed forged data to Anvil headquarters. With six minutes left on the Purge Protocol, D-04 finally began sensing Bai Zhu and marked him as an S-class sample.

• Bai Zhu left Milluki to keep feeding the hive network false data and pushed through the Recovery Team’s traps, using Ryujin Jakka as bait to freeze the squad and let Camilla steal a Biological Beacon reader.
• Bai Zhu identified the duplicate’s remaining human chest as the location of its core, while Camilla’s Replica Box briefly disrupted the Main Box and the Overseer shot her.
• Bai Zhu healed Camilla with Angel’s Glance, and Milluki reported that Anvil headquarters had accepted the first forged data packets as valid.
• The Scavenger mech crashed into the server room, and Hisoka grappled with it while Bai Zhu charged toward the cultivation tank.
• Camilla disrupted the Main Box again, and D-04’s sensory data formed a blurred image of Bai Zhu and labeled him an S-class sample.

Bai Zhu used Bankai to destroy Experimental Subject D-04 and its core, completing the main quest. As the survivors thought the battle was over, the Main Box activated an emergency protocol and began extracting the dead subject’s nen, prompting the Overseer to call it a genuine S-class specimen.

• D-04 broke free of the Main Box’s control and attacked Bai Zhu from the front while Scavenger struck from behind.
• Hisoka overloaded Scavenger’s energy pack with Nen Threads, forcing the mech to shut down for three seconds before the blast knocked him unconscious.
• Bai Zhu released Bankai and used Zanka no Tachi, East: Kyokujitsujin to vaporize D-04, its core, and everything in the blade’s path.
• The system confirmed that Bai Zhu had completed the objective to destroy Experimental Subject D-04.
• The Main Box activated an emergency protocol and began extracting the nen lingering after D-04’s death.
• The Overseer contacted Headquarters and announced that they had secured a genuine S-class specimen through successful post-mortem nen extraction.

Bai Zhu and his allies defeated the Overseer and divided the recovered equipment and data, but the Overseer triggered the Purge Protocol’s orbital strike before they could escape. The chapter ended with only seconds left before impact and each of them scrambling to survive.

• Milluki revealed that he had rerouted Anvil’s data upload and replaced it with packets that would eventually corrupt, while Bai Zhu questioned the Overseer about Anvil’s ties to the Kakin Royal Family.
• The Overseer disclosed that Anvil had deceived the royal family, used Illumi Zoldyck, and built secret laboratories in Kakin before trying to flee with the Main Box.
• Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki cornered and killed the Overseer, each pursuing a different goal during the fight.
• Bai Zhu, Camilla, and Milluki divided the spoils, with Milluki taking the storage core and access key, Camilla taking the empty Main Box, and Bai Zhu keeping Anvil’s executive directory.
• The Overseer’s severed head activated an emergency self-destruct switch, restarting the Purge Protocol and initiating an orbital strike as Milluki tried to stop it and Camilla prepared to revive after death.

Bai Zhu escaped the destruction of Anvil’s core facility and earned a new Zanpakuto name, Katen Kyōkotsu, though he could not yet awaken it. After slipping past Piyu’s cordon and returning to a safe house, he began examining Anvil’s contacts as Milluki warned that Illumi had grown suspicious.

• Milluki overrode the satellite’s targeting system long enough for Bai Zhu, Milluki, and Camilla to escape before its strike destroyed the Financial Center and core facility.
• Bai Zhu completed the City of Hunger quest with a perfect rating, gained 4,300 achievement points, and reached 12,350 Reiatsu.
• Bai Zhu acquired Katen Kyōkotsu as his third Zanpakuto name, but learned he needed greater understanding of naming and the Soul King’s Pen to awaken it safely.
• Piyu confronted the group at the cordon, and Bai Zhu pretended to be a civilian informant so she would let him leave.
• Bai Zhu returned to Hisoka, who was being treated by a Nen healer, then went to another safe house and decrypted Anvil’s senior management contacts.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu that Illumi had called to ask about the Basha Islands, and Bai Zhu advised him to play dumb.

Bai Zhu tested the Soul King's Pen, then learned that the Zoldyck Family had entered the hunt for the Pope and the Kakin Empire’s post-mortem Nen technology. After finding a V5 confidential liaison in the Overseer’s files, he realized the conspiracy reached the highest levels of power and wished he could escape overseas.

• Bai Zhu saw that invoking Katen Kyōkotsu with only 2% naming comprehension risked a reiatsu rampage or blade collapse, so he avoided it.
• Bai Zhu used the Soul King's Pen to write “Fire,” which burned the paper but cost him 300 reiatsu, and he put the brush away.
• Milluki told Bai Zhu that Illumi had warned him, Maha Zoldyck wanted the Pope alive, and Silva had joined the investigation into Kakin's post-mortem Nen technology.
• Milluki said he had left Bai Zhu an encrypted communicator and miniature demolition ants, and warned that the forged data would fool Anvil headquarters for only seventy-two hours before Mystery International might get involved.
• Bai Zhu decrypted the Overseer's card and found Kakin Unma listed as a Class A partner and a V5 confidential liaison with the code name Court.

Bai Zhu finished the Basha Islands handoff, learned that Silva Zoldyck viewed him as a long-term investment, and gained two binding Bakudō as he planned to flee. Just as he was about to board a freighter, Ging Freecss called and asked him to test a revamped Greed Island.

• Milluki handed Bai Zhu the cryogenic case containing the Pope's head and Anvil's data core, then warned that his brother had chosen Bai Zhu as a project to develop before eventually collecting on his investment.
• Hisoka appeared at the docks, sensed destructive power sleeping in Bai Zhu's sword, and left after saying he hoped Bai Zhu would be more appealing when they met again.
• Bai Zhu planned to escape the Kakin Empire and V5's reach, then received the regional achievement rewards of 300 achievement points and a targeted draw.
• Bai Zhu drew Bakudō #75: Gochūtekkan and the rare Bakudō #79: Kyūyō Baku, adding two binding techniques to his abilities.
• As Bai Zhu was about to board a freighter for the Sareta United States, Ging Freecss called and asked him to serve as a special tester for a revamped Greed Island.