Recaps

Chrollo and Cordis crossed the scorching desert, with Chrollo using [Skill Hunter] to shield them from the sun and supply water. As they discussed Chust and the Tower of Love, Cordis asked whether Chrollo wanted to know about his past, and Chrollo agreed.

• Chrollo replaced the enormous sun with night by using [Skill Hunter], then continued east with Cordis without stopping to rest.
• At noon, Chrollo used a shield to shade them and produced water for Cordis after Cordis offered him the first glass.
• Cordis and Chrollo discussed whether the clues pointed to the Tass or the Tower of Love.
• Cordis praised Chust for killing her unfaithful lover, and Chrollo asked whether Cordis hated cheaters.
• Cordis asked if Chrollo really wanted to hear about his past, and Chrollo nodded.

Cordis told Chrollo how his mother killed Si Dun, the person he had loved most before turning ten. They reached a tropical jungle inexplicably appearing in the desert, where Cordis discovered Chrollo felt cool despite the heat.

• Cordis revealed that his mother had beaten Si Dun to death on Christmas, after which Cordis carried Si Dun's body away and never returned home.
• Chrollo apologized and comforted Cordis by patting his head, then teased him about becoming stupid from too much head-patting.
• Cordis and Chrollo spotted a vast tropical jungle in the desert, and Chrollo hurried them toward it.
• Chrollo led Cordis across the sharp boundary between desert and jungle, where Cordis felt uneasy and the heat grew intense.
• Cordis touched Chrollo to find out how he could wear a fur-collared coat in the heat and discovered that Chrollo felt cool.

Cordis and Chrollo were captured by the Tass, who covered their faces with mud and locked them in a hut before offering them to their god. Chrollo concealed them inside a coffin with copied substitutes, planning to escape and find a way into the Tower of Love to reach Chust.

• A Tass hunting party captured Cordis and Chrollo, mistook them for ugly strangers, and smeared mud over their faces.
• The Tass brought Cordis and Chrollo to their territory and locked them in a hut as offerings to their god.
• Cordis washed the mud off and complained about being called ugly, while Chrollo prepared to hide them in a coffin.
• Chrollo explained that he and Cordis needed Tass members to enter the Tower of Love and find Chust.
• Chrollo used [Skill Hunter] to seal them inside the coffin and said he had left substitutes in their place.

Cordis and Chrollo hid inside a coffin while the Tass tribespeople performed a sacrificial ritual, using substitute dolls in their place. After the coffin was carried toward the underground Tower of Love, they remained trapped inside as it was taken down the tribe’s deadly slide.

• Chrollo told Cordis that he had used a stolen Substitute Doll to copy their appearances, and the two waited in the coffin before dawn.
• Cordis guessed that the Tass tribespeople planned to remove their organs and fill them with treasure, while Chrollo admitted he knew about the ritual but did not want to think about it.
• The Tass tribesmen carried the coffin to a platform, where a priest prayed, chanted, and marked the substitute dolls with blood before beginning the sacrifice.
• Blood poured through the coffin’s boards during the half-hour ritual, soaking Cordis and surprising Chrollo because his Substitute Doll had imitated blood.
• The Tass tribesmen carried the coffin toward the Tower of Love and took it down the slide leading to the underground tower.

Cordis and Chrollo reached the Tower of Love, where Cordis collapsed after entering a jeweled palace. In a Christmas-town vision, Cordis discovered a scene of a woman and child violently abusing a dog.

• Cordis and Chrollo slid to the bottom of the Tower of Love and continued through its trap-filled passages.
• They found a brightly lit palace covered in gemstones, and Cordis entered to pry them from the walls.
• Cordis suddenly collapsed, so Chrollo waited outside rather than risk being knocked out himself.
• Cordis awoke in a snowy town and entered a familiar-looking house, where a woman and a child beat and stabbed a dog.

Cordis confronted a woman who called him Pai Pai, then reunited with Si Dun in a collapsing dream and woke in the palace. Chrollo took all the gemstones Cordis had collected, leaving him empty-handed.

• Cordis tried to protect the battered Si Dun from a woman, but she mocked him as Pai Pai and escaped as black mist when he attacked.
• The house collapsed into a dark space, where Cordis found Si Dun unharmed and apologized for failing to protect him.
• Cordis nearly followed a glowing door to his death, but Si Dun blocked him and went through the door alone.
• Cordis woke in the palace, where Chrollo asked how he felt and searched for the treasure described in the book.
• Cordis teased Chrollo about the missing treasure, and Chrollo stole all the gemstones Cordis had collected.

Cordis left the desert with Chrollo, then stopped to collect his custom Febola Stone jewelry on the way to Yorknew City. After being charged two million for earrings and running for a day and night, he was woken by Hisoka, whose teasing greeting prompted Cordis to punch him.

• Cordis and Chrollo left the desert and boarded an airship bound for Yorknew City.
• Cordis got off at a stop to collect the jewelry he had ordered six months earlier.
• The jeweler had turned Cordis's gemstone into dangling earrings and charged him two million for the extra work.
• Cordis put on the earrings, spent his remaining money, and set off on foot toward Yorknew City.
• After running for a day and night, Cordis fell asleep by a tree stump and woke to find Hisoka teasing him.
• Cordis instinctively punched at Hisoka, who dodged and flirted with him.

Cordis tried to escape Hisoka, but Hisoka caught up with him at a country inn and attacked him. Cordis wounded Hisoka with a blood blade and bit his hand, which only excited Hisoka further, leaving Cordis still trapped beneath him.

• Cordis fled from Hisoka and reached the outskirts, believing he had finally escaped.
• Cordis found Hisoka waiting at the only nearby inn, where Hisoka asked if he could kill him.
• Cordis cut his palm and formed a blood blade with Flowing Woman, then slashed Hisoka's neck.
• Hisoka pinned Cordis against a wall and groped him while Cordis struggled to get free.
• Cordis bit Hisoka's hand, but Hisoka showed no pain and became even more excited.

Cordis escaped Hisoka’s advances at an inn, but Hisoka later sneaked into his bed and held him until noon. After remembering Kurapika and their September 1 deadline, the pair set off for Yorknew City, though Hisoka proposed taking an airship when they fell behind schedule.

• Cordis restrained Hisoka with blood cuffs, punched him, and booked a room after the old woman asked how many beds they wanted.
• Cordis slept alone at first, but woke to find Hisoka under the covers, hugging his waist; Hisoka pulled him into his arms, and Cordis eventually fell asleep.
• Hisoka held Cordis until noon, then released him after Cordis reminded him of Kurapika and their need to reach Yorknew City by September 1.
• Cordis and Hisoka traveled for a day and night, and Hisoka suggested taking an airship when Cordis worried they would arrive late.

Cordis and Hisoka traveled by airship to meet the Phantom Troupe before September 1. Chrollo announced that the Spider would seize every treasure at the underground auction and kill anyone who stood in their way.

• Hisoka offered Cordis an airship ticket in exchange for becoming closer to him, and Cordis reluctantly accepted.
• Cordis and Hisoka reached the Phantom Troupe’s meeting place shortly before dawn, where the members confronted Hisoka and Shalnark greeted Cordis.
• Chrollo told the group that Cordis was there to help, though Feitan questioned why they needed him.
• Chrollo announced that the Phantom Troupe would take everything at the underground auction and authorized them to kill anyone who got in their way.
• Cordis watched Chrollo and wondered if he was the legendary savior of villains.

Cordis worried about Gon and Killua amid the coming violence in Yorknew City, so he asked to leave the Spider’s group and find them. He reunited with Gon and Killua at the trading market, and the chapter ended with an author’s note hinting that Yorknew’s events would change Cordis’s life.

• Machi asked Cordis about the people he was worried about, and he showed her a photo of Gon and Killua.
• Cordis asked to go see Gon and Killua, and Pakunoda agreed on the condition that he return before nightfall.
• Cordis rode the wind to Yorknew City and searched the crowded trading market for Gon and Killua.
• Cordis found Killua, hugged him, and then picked up Gon and kissed both boys on the cheek.

Cordis reunited with Leorio, Gon, and Killua, then warned the boys to stay away from the Phantom Troupe. After spending the day shopping with them, he returned to the Spider and was invited to play a new card game.

• Cordis reunited with Leorio, Gon, and Killua, and learned that Leorio had bought the boys beetle phones.
• Gon told Cordis they planned to buy Greed Island, while Leorio revealed their plan to capture the Phantom Troupe for money.
• Cordis sternly told Gon and Killua not to approach the Spider, calling its members lunatics.
• Cordis went shopping with Gon, Killua, and Leorio, then said goodbye to the boys and returned to the hillside before nightfall.
• Shalnark invited Cordis to play Fight the Landlord, drawing the bored Spider members' attention.

After the underground auction’s merchandise disappeared, Cordis accepted Chrollo’s offer to kill the Ten Dons for two million JN and went to their manor. He entered the dark, unguarded building and saw a long-haired figure appear at the end of a corridor.

• Uvogin, Feitan, and the others returned without the auction merchandise, and Feitan suspected Cordis of taking it.
• Uvogin called Chrollo, who dismissed the idea of a traitor and learned that a Shadow Beast named Owl had taken the merchandise.
• Chrollo offered Cordis two million JN to kill the Ten Dons, and Cordis accepted before Chrollo hung up.
• Cordis gave Shalnark a deck of cards and left, using the wind to reach the Ten Dons’ manor.
• Cordis entered the dark manor without encountering guards, then saw a figure with waist-length black hair appear in the corridor.

Cordis encountered Illumi, who attacked him and demanded to know where Killua was before strangely teasing him about Hisoka and reaching for his eyes. After Cordis wounded and healed him, Illumi patted Cordis on the head, stirring Cordis’s familiar heart-racing reaction.

• Cordis met Illumi in the corridor, dodged his pins, and said Killua was doing well with him.
• Illumi appeared behind Cordis, held a pin to his neck, and questioned him about Killua and Hisoka.
• Illumi reached toward Cordis’s eyes, but Cordis wounded his arm and escaped his grip.
• Cordis healed Illumi’s superficial wounds to avoid making an enemy of the Zoldyck Family.
• Illumi patted Cordis’s head and praised him, causing Cordis’s heart to race again.

Cordis flirted with Illumi before discovering that Illumi had already killed the Ten Dons, the targets of Chrollo’s commission. Chrollo asked Cordis to make the dead men speak over video, and Cordis began developing a way to control his aura.

• Cordis flirted with Illumi, asked for his contact details, and watched him vanish after refusing.
• Cordis found the Ten Dons dead and realized Illumi had likely killed them.
• Chrollo told Cordis that he had hired Illumi too and asked him to make the Ten Dons speak over video.
• Cordis tried using Flowing Woman on the dead men, but their stagnant blood could not be controlled.
• Cordis recalled Machi’s Nen-Type Stitching, used Ren to control his own aura, and formed a ball of aura before collapsing from exhaustion.

Cordis finished threading aura through the Ten Dons, then arrived at Uvogin’s fight with Kurapika and discovered his former companion was confronting the Spider. Cordis claimed he had been forced to come along and watched from a nearby mountaintop as Kurapika bound Uvogin with his chain.

• Cordis used silver aura threads to control the Ten Dons’ nerves, then collapsed from exhaustion and slept until the following night.
• After receiving Shalnark’s message, Cordis headed to the unfinished building and heard Uvogin fighting.
• Cordis saw Kurapika battling Uvogin, and Uvogin told Cordis to leave them alone.
• Kurapika asked Cordis whether he had joined the Spider, and Cordis replied that he had been forced to come along before hiding nearby.
• Kurapika’s distraction allowed Uvogin to land several hits, but Kurapika then bound him with an iron chain that Uvogin could not break.

Kurapika interrogated Uvogin about the other members of the Spider, but Uvogin refused to betray them and died when Kurapika’s Judgment Chain pierced his heart. Kurapika won, but felt no happiness in his victory.

• Kurapika reminded Uvogin that he was a survivor of the Kurta Clan, while Uvogin mocked the clan and failed to break Kurapika’s chains.
• Kurapika beat Uvogin and demanded the locations and abilities of the other members of the Spider, but Uvogin repeatedly told him to kill him.
• Kurapika grew furious as Uvogin endured his blows without giving him any information.
• Kurapika placed his Judgment Chain in Uvogin’s heart and ordered him to answer his questions or die.
• Uvogin defied Kurapika and died when the Judgment Chain pierced his heart, leaving Kurapika unable to feel glad about winning.

After Uvogin died, Cordis carried his body back to the Spider, while Kurapika left after sharing an ambiguous farewell with Cordis. The Spider mourned Uvogin and resolved to avenge him, and Cordis concealed Kurapika’s identity from Chrollo.

• Cordis stopped Kurapika from burying Uvogin and answered Kurapika’s question about whether the Spider deserved to die by saying it depended on the person.
• Kurapika hugged Cordis, whispered “good night” and “sweet dreams,” then disappeared.
• Cordis carried Uvogin’s body to the Unfinished Building, where Nobunaga realized Uvogin was dead and the Spider privately grieved.
• As rain poured down, Cordis laid Uvogin’s body before the Spider and recounted his death, calling Kurapika only the chain user and claiming the masked man’s appearance was unknown.

After Uvogin’s death, Nobunaga attacked Cordis for failing to save him, while the other Spiders mourned their fallen companion. As Cordis helped clean Uvogin’s body, he questioned the meaning of his own life and found himself without a goal.

• Cordis lied to Chrollo about having seen Kurapika’s face, and Chrollo left without confronting him.
• Nobunaga struck Cordis and demanded to know why he had not saved Uvogin; Machi restrained Nobunaga as he broke down in grief.
• Nobunaga broke free and beat Cordis, but Shalnark and Machi stopped him before he could continue.
• Shalnark reminded Nobunaga that Uvogin would have refused help out of pride, and Nobunaga wept against Uvogin’s body.
• Cordis reflected that everyone around him had a goal while he had none, then quietly wiped the blood from Uvogin’s body.
• Pakunoda arranged flowers around Uvogin, Machi stitched his wounds, and Feitan came to mourn him.

After Uvogin's death, Cordis struggled with guilt over choosing not to save him and withdrew from the Spiders. Meanwhile, Gon and Killua followed a lead on the Spiders, who were waiting in public for the chain user.

• Cordis brooded over his decision not to save Uvogin, knowing that rescuing him would have exposed Kurapika's identity and that either choice would hurt someone.
• Hisoka found Cordis alone and stayed with him through the night; at dawn, he kissed the corner of Cordis's mouth, but Cordis said it was not fun and flew away.
• Cordis checked into a hotel, messaged Shalnark that he would return at noon, and fell into a heavy sleep.
• Gon accepted a job to capture the Spiders for a large reward, and Killua persuaded him that they could look without getting involved.
• Gon and Killua met Leorio at a café, where he pointed out Nobunaga and Machi sitting nearby.
• Nobunaga and Machi realized someone was watching them and waited to capture the chain user as their boss had ordered.

Gon and Killua followed Nobunaga and Machi, hoping to claim a bounty, but the Phantom Troupe caught them. Pakunoda called Cordis, who promised to come get the boys and was furious with them.

• Gon and Killua secretly followed Nobunaga and Machi toward an abandoned area, hoping to track them to their hideout and earn the bounty.
• Nobunaga and Machi stopped to discuss whether the boys were connected to the Chain User, and Gon and Killua accidentally revealed themselves while eavesdropping on Nobunaga’s phone call with Phinks.
• Nobunaga and Machi blocked the boys’ escape, and Pakunoda and Machi recognized Gon and Killua.
• Pakunoda and Machi questioned Gon, who explained that they followed the pair for the two-billion-per-person bounty and denied knowing the Chain User.
• Pakunoda took Gon and Killua to a car, called Cordis, and heard him promise to come get them after angrily threatening the boys.

Cordis confronted Gon and Killua after they secretly followed the Spider, but Nobunaga threatened to keep the boys from leaving unless they joined. Gon stood up to Nobunaga and called him an old man, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Cordis arrived at the Spider's meeting place and caught Gon and Killua after they teased Shalnark and recognized Hisoka.
• Cordis scolded the boys, then softened when they pretended to cry and asked for Hisoka's giant lollipops.
• Nobunaga blocked the boys from leaving and said they had to join the Spider or stay there forever.
• Cordis pleaded with Nobunaga to let Gon and Killua go and offered to take responsibility for Uvogin's death.
• Gon stepped in front of Cordis and shouted "Old man!" at Nobunaga.

Cordis rescued Gon and Killua from the Spider’s meeting place after a smoke bomb filled it with paralytic poison, then urged the boys to stay away from the Spider. He accepted that he might have severed ties with the group and suggested that they rest.

• Gon stepped in front of Nobunaga and asked him to let Gon and Killua leave, but Nobunaga said he did not trust Gon to keep the meeting place secret.
• Smoke containing paralytic poison filled the meeting place, and Cordis grabbed Gon and Killua and escaped by smashing through a wall.
• Shizuku used Pouty Fish to clear the smoke, and Pakunoda noticed that Hisoka was missing.
• Cordis carried the boys to the city center, checked that they were unharmed, and told them to stay out of anything involving the Spider.
• Gon and Killua agreed to Cordis’s warning, and Cordis suggested that they find somewhere to rest.

Cordis took Gon and Killua shopping in a Yorknew City mall, where he spent his entire two million on a discounted platinum-colored handkerchief. When he realized the boys had disappeared, he searched for them until someone pulled him into an alley.

• Cordis carried Gon and Killua to a mall, despite their protests that they needed to save money for Greed Island.
• Cordis tried to buy a ruby ring but learned it cost three million, so he bought a platinum-colored handkerchief for two million instead.
• Killua dragged Gon to an amusement park while Cordis shopped, and Gon soon forgot to worry about leaving Cordis behind.
• Cordis discovered Gon and Killua were missing and searched the mall for them.
• As Cordis approached an alley, a pair of hands suddenly pulled him inside.

Cordis ran into Hisoka, learned that Chrollo was in town, and waited with him for the auction while Gon and Killua checked in safely. When Cordis spotted Neon heading into the mall, he realized they might still get drawn into looking for Chrollo.

• Hisoka ambushed Cordis in an alley and teased him with the news that Chrollo was in town.
• Hisoka admitted he did not know why Chrollo was there, and Cordis fought him until he ran out of stamina.
• Gon called Cordis to say that he and Killua were safe at the arcade on the third floor.
• Cordis and Hisoka discussed the Scarlet Eyes auction, then decided not to follow Chrollo and waited outside the mall.
• Cordis spotted Neon heading into the mall and realized they might still end up looking for Chrollo.