Chapter Summaries

Banner’s Hulk form endured a united barrage of gunfire and then more than twenty powerful cannons, growing larger and angrier before appearing dead in a crater. His wounds rapidly healed, leaving the surrounding fighters to realize he was still alive.

• The hostile factions stopped fighting each other and concentrated their gunfire and artillery on Banner.
• Banner survived the barrage, grew to around six meters tall, and roared as Hulk’s rage took over.
• Kham’s underling ordered more than twenty cannons to fire, blasting Banner into a crater.
• The fighters believed Banner was dead, but his heartbeat continued and his body rapidly healed beneath a man standing on him.

Banner’s Hulk form battled Kham’s men, enduring a Railgun blast before killing their lackey and the remaining attackers. Banner returned to human form and hid, unaware that a red mechanical eye was watching him from an underground structure.

• The Hulk’s renewed strength and terrifying aura sent many of Kham’s men fleeing, while the lackey ordered Weapon Number One brought out.
• The Hulk leapt into the air and crushed the men holding their ground beneath his massive body.
• The lackey fired Germa 66’s Electromagnetic Gun, whose Railgun blast badly wounded the Hulk and slowed his regeneration.
• The lackey urged the others to attack, but the Hulk knocked them away and crushed the lackey with his fist.
• Banner’s Hulk form shrank back into a haggard man, and Banner went to hide as a red mechanical eye tracked him from a dark corner.

Obi-Wan was brought to a lavish room and confronted by Alfred, the former Hunter King and his old master, who had helped orchestrate his capture. Alfred revealed that he sought revenge for Obi-Wan’s past actions, and the chapter left Obi-Wan facing the man he once defeated.

• Obi-Wan endured taunts from his captors while secretly questioning where they were taking him.
• Obi-Wan entered a lavish room, recognized the Strong Crossbow, and found Alfred waiting for him.
• Alfred called Obi-Wan his disciple, and Obi-Wan challenged him about surviving and working with the Navy.
• Alfred said Obi-Wan’s mercy had allowed him to survive and return for revenge.
• Obi-Wan recalled that Alfred had raised and brainwashed children into loyalists, and that Obi-Wan had defeated him and reformed the Hunter Organization.
• Obi-Wan realized Alfred had allied with the Navy branch, used the captured girl to lure him in, and arranged the operation against him.

Obi-Wan faced Alfred’s threats over Rami while keeping Scusen’s plan secret. When riots erupted across Round Street Slaughter, Obi-Wan revealed the underground breakout, and Alfred ordered the base’s defenses strengthened.

• Alfred questioned Obi-Wan about the Dunhold Family and threatened Rami to learn the names of his accomplices.
• Obi-Wan heard Rami’s voice over the Den Den Mushi before Alfred ended the call and threatened to have her tortured.
• A giant green Monster crashed into North Street as rioters surged toward the Hunter Base and chaos spread across Round Street Slaughter.
• Alfred deduced that the riot was a diversion, and Obi-Wan admitted that Scusen and the others were escaping through the underground base.
• Alfred ordered the underground base’s defenses reinforced and prepared to confront Obi-Wan further.

Alfred mobilized the hunters to contain the riot and prepare for Scusen’s group, while Obi-Wan blamed himself for betraying his comrades to protect Rami. In the underground cell, Rami escaped by feigning illness and turned the guard’s own weapon against him, then set out to find her captured uncle.

• Alfred ordered the hunters to suppress the riot and guard the underground entrances against Scusen’s group.
• Obi-Wan smashed his head against the ground in guilt and hoped Aeneas could still change the outcome.
• Rami pretended to suffer a severe attack until the guard entered her cell to carry her out.
• Rami slipped out of the bundle, killed the guard with the charcoal-roasted iron plate, and took his keys.
• Rami left the cell to search for the place where her uncle was being held.

Aeneas left Bellamy and Andorhal fighting over the Donquixote insignia and headed toward the Hunter Base, thinking about the Dunhold Family’s destruction and his need to clear his name. On South Street, he encountered Kotahan, a massive fighter whose Hammer-Hammer Fruit ability and childlike voice surprised him.

• Aeneas watched Bellamy’s faith in the Donquixote Family help him break through his limits, then reflected that the family was likely tied to the Dunhold Family’s destruction.
• Aeneas decided to keep the Dunhold name and clear his predecessor’s reputation, since using a false identity would reduce fame gained through the Lottery System.
• Aeneas worried about Obi-Wan’s surrender and the threat to the Hunter Base, then calmed himself with the Essence Breathing Technique and charged into battle with Emondi, Amos, and the others following.
• Aeneas and his companions expanded their fight across Southwest Street and South Street as the conflict between Kham and the Orton Group intensified.
• Emondi introduced Kotahan as a favored dark horse and a Hammer-Hammer Fruit user, and Aeneas was startled by the burly fighter’s childlike voice.

Aeneas watched Emondi wound Kotahan with Seastone Tiger Knuckles and try to recruit him against Orton, but Kotahan refused to cooperate. Orton then arrived at the arena, swinging his colossal battle-axe and clearing a wide path as the group faced the feared Destroyer.

• Kotahan used his hammer techniques to knock Orton’s minions around, while Amos laughed at his childish voice and provoked his anger.
• Emondi told Aeneas that Orton had murdered Kotahan’s family, then attacked Kotahan with Seastone Tiger Knuckles and wounded him.
• Emondi apologized and sought Kotahan’s cooperation against Orton, but Kotahan rejected the offer and ordered the group to leave.
• Aeneas observed Emondi’s Soru and considered asking him for pointers on the technique.
• Orton abandoned his subordinates and charged toward the group, swinging his battle-axe through a wide area as he arrived.

Aeneas and Emondi learned from Kotahan that Orton was a semi-mechanical being whose strength depended on his battery level. After Orton overpowered Kotahan, Kotahan recalled the loss of his family and fused three body-made hammers into a meteor hammer to attack him.

• Emondi explained that Orton's strength fluctuated between ordinary and overwhelming, and Kotahan revealed that Orton's power depended on his battery level.
• Kotahan charged Orton with a Double Hammer Strike, but Orton blocked it with his giant axe and sent him crashing into a building.
• Kotahan recalled how Orton had killed his wife and baby daughter, fueling his resolve to take revenge.
• Kotahan transformed his hands and skull into three hammers and fused them into a spiked meteor hammer.
• Kotahan extended the meteor hammer's chain and hurled it toward Orton.

Orton’s fight with Kotahan, Aeneas, and Emondi revealed that Orton was a cyborg, while Aeneas recognized the big-nosed man with broken glasses from the port. The stranger shed his disguise to reveal a woman, leaving Aeneas and Emondi stunned as the confrontation continued.

• Kotahan transformed into a meteor hammer, trapped Orton’s axe and struck his head, but Orton seized him and whipped him unconscious.
• Emondi and Aeneas attacked Orton, and Aeneas punched through his chest to discover machinery and electrical wires beneath his skin.
• Aeneas and Emondi backed away as Orton grew sluggish and unstable, and Kotahan lay unconscious in the ruins.
• A big-nosed man with broken glasses emerged, identified Orton as a failed experiment, and threatened Aeneas.
• Aeneas recognized the stranger from the port, and the man shed his disguise to reveal a woman.

Caroline revealed that Germa 66 controlled Tinos and used it for cyborg experiments, then activated Orton’s mechanical body to attack Emondi. Aeneas tried to intervene, but Caroline’s combat bracelets let her overpower him, leaving both men facing Germa 66’s enhanced technology.

• Caroline introduced herself as a Germa 66 test subject and said Tinos was under the organization’s control.
• Caroline activated Orton’s mechanical body with an Overload Battery, boosting his strength and speed as he attacked Emondi.
• Caroline struck Aeneas aside when he tried to help Emondi, revealing her own enhanced strength.
• Aeneas attacked Caroline with Knuckled Down, but her Combat Bracelet absorbed the blow.