Chapter Summaries

Odin and Ponzu traveled to the Barusha Mountains after Ponzu began bonding with a Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly. Odin sensed a mass of violent energy in a deep valley and led Ponzu toward it as they climbed the mountains.

• Ponzu used Nen to bond with the Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly and considered how it might improve her combat strength.
• Odin and Ponzu traveled by airship and then by an old bus to the edge of the Barusha Mountains.
• Odin and Ponzu walked for two hours until they reached the mountain range.
• Odin spread his Nen: Observation Haki and detected powerful, chaotic energy in a valley ten kilometers away.
• Odin led Ponzu toward the energy as they began climbing the steep, trail-less mountain.

Odin discovered how to transform his Nen into ki while investigating the violent energy in a valley sinkhole. He and Ponzu left the valley’s edge and spent a month training in a cave, refining ki and developing the Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly’s abilities.

• Odin descended into the valley, found a glowing sinkhole, and studied the energy surging from it.
• Odin realized Dragon Ball’s ki held both destructive and regenerative properties, then successfully transformed his Nen into ki and blasted a crater into the rock wall.
• Odin returned to Ponzu and showed her a ki ball, and they left the cliff to train in a nearby cave.
• Odin practiced controlling the size and stability of his ki balls while Ponzu trained the Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly to spread its wings, fly, and move faster with Nen.

Odin and Ponzu tested the Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly’s enhanced abilities and compared its flight with Odin’s Flight Technique. They continued training for a month, improving their Nen and ki as they prepared to return to the Mitne Wetlands.

• Ponzu demonstrated that her Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly could withstand heavy impacts and carry her at high speed for five minutes, or fly slowly for over an hour.
• Odin showed Ponzu that he could fly using his Flight Technique, though his current speed was slower than the dragonfly’s.
• Odin and Ponzu agreed to return to the Mitne Wetlands, with Ponzu planning to use dragonflies for flight and defense and bees for scouting and poison.
• Odin practiced ki control, flight, and ki blasts, while Ponzu used Nen to strengthen and enlarge the dragonfly’s wings.
• Odin and Ponzu trained together each day for a month.

After a month of training, Odin and Ponzu tested their improved Nen abilities and decided to head to Greed Island, though they needed to find a way to afford a console. They returned to Mito City to catch another Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly before continuing their journey.

• Odin tested his improved ki by creating a Destructo Disc that pierced a mountain wall, while Ponzu demonstrated that her enhanced dragonfly could slice apart a large rock.
• Odin told Ponzu about Greed Island and suggested they travel there to train, and Ponzu decided to join him.
• Odin and Ponzu discussed the high price of Greed Island consoles and planned to look for a bargain at the Yorknew City auction in September.
• Odin and Ponzu packed up, left the mountains by bus, and stopped in town for a proper meal after a month of eating dry rations.
• Odin and Ponzu flew to the airport, returned to Mito City, and entered the Mitne Wetlands the next morning to catch another Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly.

Odin and Ponzu traveled to a lively city, where Ponzu sold a rare Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly for thirty million Jenny and bought a book about insects. They boarded an airship to their next destination, with Ponzu reading and Odin sensing the skies with Nen and Observation Haki.

• Odin and Ponzu arrived in a city near their route to Yorknew City and stayed overnight at a hotel.
• Ponzu bought new clothes, and Odin bought a few outfits in his familiar style.
• Ponzu showed an insect shop owner her 3.2-meter Glassy Giant-vein Dragonfly, declined his offer of five hundred million Jenny, and sold him a smaller one for thirty million.
• Ponzu bought an Illustrated Guide to Rare Insects at a bookstore.
• Odin and Ponzu boarded an airship to the next city, where Ponzu read and Odin sensed the skies around them.

Odin and Ponzu traveled through Bess and nearby regions, visiting unusual landmarks and collecting new experiences along the way. After nearly two months on the road, they looked forward to exploring even more places together.

• Odin and Ponzu climbed a mountain in Bess, explored an old tower, and admired the view of the city.
• Odin bought an unidentified patterned fragment at the Rare Treasures Pavilion after bargaining with its old owner, while Ponzu learned about a preserved magical beast heart.
• Odin and Ponzu visited the Singing Stones valley and heard the wind make a hollow, songlike sound between the rocks.
• Odin and Ponzu continued traveling, exploring a hot spring, a foggy valley with animals adapted to darkness, a glowing forest, ruins, and a lakeside village.
• Ponzu collected bright fireflies for her Nen Ability system, while Odin used Nen · Observation Haki to investigate unusual places.
• After nearly two months of travel, Ponzu reflected on how far they had gone, and Odin said they would visit even more places in the future.

Odin and Ponzu arrived in Yorknew City during the September auction rush and checked into a hotel near Auction Street. Along the way, they encountered Kurapika and four members of the Phantom Troupe, while Machi sensed that Odin was dangerous and decided to warn the boss.

• Odin and Ponzu spotted Kurapika escorting a young girl with a mafia group at the airport, and Kurapika was shocked by how much more terrifying Odin felt than during the Hunter Exam.
• Odin and Ponzu took a taxi toward downtown and passed Nobunaga, Franklin, Machi, and Feitan; Odin said he wanted the Phantom Troupe to attack him.
• Machi's sixth sense warned her that Odin was dangerous, so she told Feitan they could not kill him and urged him to inform the boss.
• Odin and Ponzu checked into a hotel for a week at 150,000 Jenny per night and found their suite overlooked Auction Street.

Odin and Ponzu explored Auction Street before the auctions and unexpectedly ran into Gon and Killua, who were trying to earn money. They agreed to consider pooling their funds to buy a Greed Island console, then parted ways, leaving Odin and Ponzu to continue exploring the next day.

• Odin and Ponzu left their hotel to explore the busy streets and reached Auction Street.
• Odin spotted Gon and Killua arguing with a crowd and went over to greet them.
• Gon and Killua said they were trying to earn money to bid on a Greed Island console, and Odin revealed that he and Ponzu wanted one too.
• Killua proposed that their group pool money to buy a console, and Odin agreed to consider the plan.
• Odin and Ponzu continued exploring, returned to their hotel, and planned to see more of the area the next day.

Odin and Ponzu explored Yorknew City's Auction Street, where Odin bought a marked stone containing faint energy while Ponzu purchased a rare beetle. The chapter left them approaching a crowded electronics stall where an argument was underway.

• Odin told Ponzu that he planned to enter Greed Island to find something that could make him stronger.
• Odin sensed the Phantom Troupe from afar during the night, and a woman in the group reacted to his attention.
• Odin and Ponzu returned to Auction Street the next morning to search the stalls for interesting items.
• Odin bought a marked gray stone from a young stallholder who claimed it came from ruins, and Ponzu bought a brightly colored beetle.
• Odin and Ponzu reached a crowded electronics stall near noon and heard an argument inside.

Odin and Ponzu reunited with Leorio, Gon, and Killua on Auction Street, where Leorio’s haggling helped them buy several curios at steep discounts. Back at the hotel, Odin examined the items and found traces of energy in some, while the notebook contained symbols he could not identify.

• Odin and Ponzu met Leorio, Gon, and Killua outside a phone shop after Leorio negotiated a low price for two phones.
• Odin asked Leorio to help them bargain for curios, and Leorio led the group from stall to stall along Auction Street.
• Leorio helped Odin and Ponzu buy a rusty bronze mirror, a strange bone, a bottle containing an unrecognizable object, and a battered notebook for far below the asking prices.
• Odin examined the purchases at the hotel and sensed faint or chaotic energy in several items, while Ponzu found strange symbols in the notebook.

On September 1, Gon, Killua, and Leorio invited Odin and Ponzu to join their arm-wrestling scheme to attract wealthy employers, but Odin declined. He and Ponzu set up a modest stall near Auction Street while Odin planned to rescue Mafia members in danger for a large fee.

• Gon, Killua, and Leorio visited Odin and Ponzu to explain Leorio's plan to draw attention with an arm-wrestling challenge.
• Odin declined to join their scheme, and the three headed toward Auction Street to set up their stall.
• Odin told Ponzu they would seek out Mafia members attending the auction and make money by rescuing them when their lives were in danger.
• Odin used his Nen: Observation Haki to find a Mafia officer surrounded by armed bodyguards.
• Odin and Ponzu occupied an empty stall on the outskirts of Auction Street and displayed a glowing rock and an unusual insect specimen.

Odin and Ponzu sold a Human-Faced Beetle specimen to Yamada for ten million Jenny, then left Auction Street expecting the Scorpion Group to retaliate. Odin led Ponzu into an alley to confront them, where Yamada ordered his men to attack before Odin could show off his strength.

• Yamada, a Scorpion Group officer, tried to buy Ponzu's Human-Faced Beetle specimen and paid Odin ten million Jenny after Odin raised the price.
• Odin gave the money to Ponzu and warned her that Yamada's gang would seek revenge once they left Auction Street.
• Odin and Ponzu left the stall, noticed men following them, and headed into an alley to face their pursuers.
• Yamada and four underlings caught up with Odin and Ponzu, and Yamada ordered the men to attack.

Odin and Ponzu watched the Phantom Troupe attack the underground auction, and Yamada returned to hire them to catch the thieves. The chapter ended with Odin agreeing to consider the job after Yamada offered one hundred million.

• Odin knocked out Yamada's four lackeys and extorted one million from Yamada as compensation.
• Odin and Ponzu watched the mafia's underground auction area, where Ponzu spotted Melody and Kurapika with her bees.
• Odin sensed the Phantom Troupe infiltrating the auction and escaping in a hot-air balloon after Franklin attacked the mafia members.
• Yamada arrived and asked Odin and Ponzu to help catch the Phantom Troupe, raising his offer from ten million each to one hundred million.

Odin, Ponzu, and Kurapika watched Uvogin withstand gunfire and a rocket before he defeated Worm with a devastating Big Bang Impact. The chapter left Odin wondering why Uvogin's power exceeded what he remembered, while Ponzu decided she had no chance against him.

• Odin and Ponzu followed Yamada to the rocky valley, where mafia members confronted the Phantom Troupe.
• Uvogin charged through the mafia gunmen unharmed, punching them down as Kurapika and Melody arrived with Nostrade family bodyguards.
• Uvogin survived a rocket blast without injury, alarming the onlookers and drawing the Shadow Beasts into the fight.
• Worm attacked Uvogin, but injured his own hand and failed to drag him underground.
• Uvogin struck Worm with Big Bang Impact, creating a crater over forty meters wide and ten meters deep.
• Odin noticed Uvogin's attack was stronger than he remembered, and Ponzu gave up any thought of fighting him.

Odin, Ponzu, and Yamada fled the rocky valley after Uvogin killed several Shadow Beasts and Kurapika captured him. As more Shadow Beasts clashed with the Phantom Troupe, Machi sensed Odin watching and led the troupe away with a captured Shadow Beast.

• Uvogin killed Leech, Rabid Dog, and Porcupine despite being poisoned and restrained, while Kurapika captured him with his chain.
• Odin, Ponzu, and Yamada drove away as the Phantom Troupe pursued them, but Yamada refused Odin's offer to capture a pursuer for two billion.
• A Shadow Beast stopped the pursuing car with a conjured cloth and trapped Nobunaga inside it.
• Five Phantom Troupe members defeated the arriving Shadow Beasts, leaving five dead and one alive.
• Machi sensed Odin watching and persuaded the Phantom Troupe to leave and reunite with their boss, taking the surviving Shadow Beast with them.

Odin secretly observed the Phantom Troupe as they fled the city, then warned Gon, Killua, and Leorio against hunting them for bounty money. The three abandoned the plan and left Odin and Ponzu at the hotel.

• Odin used In to observe the Phantom Troupe leaving the city with the captured Shadow Beast member, then decided not to pursue them.
• Odin complained that the Phantom Troupe’s bounties were too low to justify the danger of fighting them.
• Gon, Killua, and Leorio visited Odin and invited him to help capture the Spiders for the bounty.
• Ponzu and Odin warned the three that the Phantom Troupe vastly outclassed them, and Odin compared the Spiders’ combat specialists to Hisoka and Illumi.
• Gon, Killua, and Leorio gave up on hunting the Phantom Troupe and left the hotel.

Odin planned to attack the Phantom Troupe that night while investigating how to store the internal energy he had discovered. Gon, Killua, and Leorio asked him to protect Kurapika, and Odin explained the danger they would face.

• Odin and Ponzu planned a surprise attack on the Phantom Troupe that night to claim the two-billion-per-member bounties.
• Odin realized the stones held internal energy and concluded that he needed to find a way to store it because people lacked meridians and a dantian.
• Gon, Killua, and Leorio returned and offered Odin two billion to protect Kurapika from the Phantom Troupe.
• Gon, Killua, and Leorio explained that Kurapika was pursuing the Spiders alone, and Odin warned them about the troupe's strength and its deadly attack on the Underground Auction.

Odin agreed to protect Light Nostrade and his daughter Neon from the Phantom Troupe for ten billion Jenny, while bringing Gon, Killua, and Leorio along on the condition that they avoid fighting without his permission. The group joined Kurapika at the Nostrade base, where Odin anticipated that Uvogin and the Spiders would come after them.

• Gon, Killua, and Leorio insisted on helping Kurapika, and Odin agreed to take them only if they stayed out of fights without his permission.
• Odin led the group to the Nostrade Family's hotel, where Kurapika introduced them to Light Nostrade and Neon.
• Light Nostrade offered Odin ten billion Jenny to ensure his and Neon's safety and promised the Phantom Troupe's bounties if Odin captured them.
• Odin accepted the contract, and Kurapika asked whether the Spiders would come after them; Odin said they would, especially Uvogin.

Odin planned to use Kurapika’s conflict with the Phantom Troupe to trap the Spiders and assigned the others roles in the coming fight. After Kurapika received a phone call and returned with papers, Odin anticipated seeing Neon’s prophecy.

• Kurapika told Odin that Uvogin had escaped but had not attacked him, and Odin said the other Spiders had stopped him.
• Odin planned to wait for the Phantom Troupe to come after Kurapika, or raid their hideout if they did not, and assigned Gon, Killua, Leorio, Ponzu, and Kurapika their roles.
• Odin showed the group a sketch of the Phantom Troupe’s base and chose an open area in the abandoned complex for the fight.
• Kurapika took a phone call and returned with a stack of papers, while Odin followed him outside, eager to see Neon’s prophecy.

Kurapika brought Neon fortune requests, and Odin studied the properties of her prophetic Nen Ability. Inspired by what he observed, Odin upgraded his Nen · Observation Haki with a prophetic property.

• Kurapika told the group that Neon’s father had given her fortune requests for the underground auction.
• Neon refused to write fortunes until Kurapika confirmed she could attend the auction, then she happily began her work.
• Odin sensed Neon’s Nen Beast extracting possible futures and expressing them through prophetic poems.
• Odin used Observation Haki to survey the city and noticed Machi repeatedly looking toward his location.
• Odin imitated and adjusted Nen · Observation Haki, successfully adding the prophetic property he had observed.