Chapter Summaries

A Luo realized Silva had captured her because she once hinted that she knew how to use Alluka’s ability without paying a price. She refused to reveal Killua’s secret and tried to distract Silva with a story about her previous life, leaving him stunned.

• A Luo woke in an underground chamber and wondered why Silva had attacked her.
• Silva recalled meeting A Luo in Meteor City four years earlier and demanded to know how she learned about Alluka.
• Silva admitted he wanted to learn how to make wishes without paying a price so the Zoldyck Family could gain absolute power.
• A Luo decided to conceal that Killua’s commands to Nanika carried no price, fearing Silva and Illumi would control Killua and Alluka.
• A Luo asked Silva whether people had souls after death, then claimed she knew so much because she had once been Kasuga, the family's butler.

A Luo claimed she had been Kasuga, a Zoldyck butler in her previous life, and offered Silva an antidote for Kikyo in exchange for her freedom. Silva considered the deal but demanded she return to butler duties, and A Luo refused.

• Silva questioned A Luo’s claim that she had once been Kasuga and pressed her about a supposed way to grant wishes without a price; A Luo admitted she had invented that claim to survive.
• A Luo offered Silva the antidote to Kikyo’s unknown Nen affliction in exchange for her freedom.
• Milluki urged Silva to use Alluka’s wish-granting ability to wake Kikyo, and Silva warned him not to repeat the past incident.
• Silva said he would consider A Luo’s offer only if she resumed her former butler duties after the trade.
• A Luo refused to become a Zoldyck butler again, and Silva rejected her offer, saying the family could eventually find an Exorcist to help Kikyo.

A Luo refused Silva's demand that she become a Zoldyck butler, escaped his attempts to kill her, and used the threat of exposing the family’s secrets to force negotiations. Zeno arrived and asked A Luo to state her conditions.

• A Luo rejected Silva's offer to become the Zoldyck Family's butler, and Silva attacked her with hidden weapons and lethal poison gas, but her Golden Bell shielded her.
• Silva filled the cell with Sleeping Gas and tried to attack A Luo while she was unconscious, but the Golden Bell continued protecting her.
• A Luo pretended to be unconscious, escaped the dungeon, and later warned Silva that a friend would reveal the Zoldyck Family's secrets if she did not leave Kukuroo Mountain within half an hour.
• Silva threatened to dispose of A Luo and Alluka, but A Luo challenged him to consider what might happen if Alluka's death freed the being inside her.
• Zeno arrived, reprimanded Silva for acting impulsively, and asked A Luo to name her conditions so they could negotiate.

Zeno brokered a deal between A Luo and Silva, and A Luo later secured a chance to see Killua by offering to remove the Nen affecting Kikyo. She found Killua imprisoned in the Zoldyck torture room and invited him to rejoin his friends, then left Silva alone with him to talk.

• Zeno proposed that A Luo become a butler in name only, with confidentiality as her sole obligation, and Silva and A Luo accepted.
• A Luo called off her plan to publish information about the Zoldyck family, and Silva asked her to remove the Nen affecting Kikyo.
• A Luo agreed to help Kikyo if Silva let her see Killua, and five days later Silva brought her to the family torture room.
• A Luo told Killua that Gon, Leorio, and Kurapika were training with Zebro, and Killua broke the chains holding him up.
• Killua asked Silva for permission to leave and train with his friends, while Silva asked to speak with him alone.
• A Luo left the torture room so Silva could talk privately with Killua.

A Luo denied Silva’s claim that she had been reborn as a Zoldyck butler, while Silva insisted she honor their agreement. When Gotoh arrived to handle her onboarding and asked her to cure the unconscious Kikyo, Killua eagerly embraced the family’s chaos, prompting A Luo to decide she should get him down the mountain soon.

• A Luo told Killua that Silva’s story about her being reborn as a former family butler was impossible, and she and Silva exchanged hostile looks before he stormed away.
• Killua explained that he was delaying his trip to meet Gon so he could buy snacks and work out how to get pocket money from his Second Brother.
• Gotoh told A Luo he would handle her butler onboarding and asked when she would neutralize the poison that had left Kikyo unconscious.
• Killua excitedly asked A Luo for more of her sleeping medicine so he could use it when Kikyo started screaming.
• A Luo decided to take Killua down the mountain to meet Gon and the others as soon as possible.

A Luo waited to wake Kikyo until she and Killua were ready to leave, while Killua explained his lack of concern and schemed to make money from Milluki's figures. After Milluki recovered his collection, Killua planned to leave Kukuroo Mountain before Illumi returned.

• A Luo decided to give Kikyo the antidote only when she and Killua were leaving, and Silva agreed after confirming it would not harm her.
• Killua told A Luo he was glad Kikyo could not bother him and shared that he trusted A Luo, though he also joked about turning his family in for their bounties.
• Killua stole Milluki's limited-edition figures, hid them in Illumi's room, and offered to sell them unless Milluki paid to get them back.
• Silva sent Gotoh to stop Killua and Milluki's argument, and Killua eventually received 1.1 billion Jenny before returning the figures.
• Killua told A Luo they only needed to leave Kukuroo Mountain before Illumi returned.

A Luo and Killua waited for Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio to finish climbing Kukuroo Mountain, then left with Gon to begin their training journey. After the group parted ways at the mountain’s foot, Gon chose Heavens Arena as their first destination so he could return Hisoka’s number plate and punch him.

• Kurapika told A Luo that Gon’s arm had nearly healed and that the others had trained enough to open the smallest Testing Gate soon.
• A Luo and Killua waited while Gotoh kept them out of the main hall, and A Luo realized he was testing Gon with a coin game.
• A Luo administered an antidote to Kikyo, then found Gon and Killua reunited and ready to leave the mountain.
• Kurapika set off to pursue his goals, while Leorio continued toward medical school.
• Gon, Killua, and A Luo learned that Hisoka was at Heavens Arena and bought airship tickets there.

Illumi learned that Silva had allowed Killua to leave the mountain and grew irritated, then attacked Milluki after finding a lace miniskirt in his room. At Heavens Arena, Killua blocked Milluki’s calls, leaving Milluki vowing to settle the score.

• Silva told Illumi that he wanted Killua to become a capable heir rather than remain dependent on the Nen Needle, and discussed A Luo’s strength and powers.
• Illumi returned to his room, found a lace miniskirt, and assumed Milluki had entered without permission.
• Illumi attacked Milluki, who blamed Killua and pointed to the butlers and security footage as proof.
• Killua realized Illumi had found the gift he left behind and blocked Milluki’s calls.
• Milluki vowed to make Killua pay if he ever got the chance.

A Luo returned to her family’s abandoned dessert shop near Heavens Arena with Gon and Killua, and the three made it their temporary home. When A Luo refused a pass to the two-hundredth floor, the man who had destroyed her family appeared and accepted it in her place.

• A Luo and Killua recognized the abandoned dessert shop as A Luo’s former home, and a neighbor recognized A Luo and asked about her family.
• A Luo told the neighbor that her father had died and her mother was safe, then the three cleaned the shop and moved in.
• Killua asked about A Luo’s mother, and A Luo said her mother was living peacefully and promised to take them to visit her.
• A tall, thin figure watched A Luo, Gon, and Killua through binoculars as they cleaned the house.
• Killua and Gon registered at Heavens Arena, while staff offered A Luo a pass directly to the two-hundredth floor because she already knew Nen.
• A Luo refused the pass, but a brown-haired young man from her past took it and greeted her, causing her to turn on him with killing intent.

A Luo confronted the brown-haired man who had led the attack on her family, but he seized Gon and threatened to control him as a puppet. The standoff continued as Gon tried to escape and was caught again.

• A Luo registered for the 200th floor after Heavens Arena staff explained that fights were permitted there.
• A Luo recognized the brown-haired man as the leader of the men who attacked her family and charged at him.
• The man grabbed Gon and threatened to make him fight A Luo, while Killua warned him to let Gon go.
• A Luo told Killua that the man had attacked her family, and the man revealed his Puppet Strings ability and his desire to control the children.
• Gon headbutted the man and tried to run to A Luo and Killua, but the man anticipated him and caught him again.

A Luo and Killua accepted a deadly Heavens Arena wager against the brown-haired man to save Gon, while A Luo tried to finish a new hidden weapon before their match. Killua vanished the night before the duel, and the chapter left Gon and Killua tied up in an inn while A Luo confronted the man.

• The brown-haired man proposed a life-or-death Heavens Arena match in three days, with Gon’s freedom and all three children’s lives at stake, and Killua accepted for himself and A Luo.
• A Luo worked day and night to refine her aura-based Ghost Gate Needle, while Killua secretly watched the brown-haired man and Gon.
• On the final night, the brown-haired man spotted Killua and a second figure appeared behind the boy and knocked him out.
• A Luo discovered she could no longer reach Killua and accused the brown-haired man, who challenged her to prove his involvement by defeating him in the ring.
• Gon and Killua were tied back-to-back to chairs in an inn guarded by a tall, burly man.

At Heavens Arena, A Luo faced Sean Blade, the bounty Hunter who had killed her father, while Killua and Gon remained captive. Sean revealed that he had dug up Fan'en Reno and turned his corpse into a puppet, then used A Luo's grief and hesitation to attach his Nen to her.

• Killua questioned Gon about the masked guard and wondered if the man resembled A Luo's supposedly dead father.
• A Luo recognized Sean Blade as Falcon, the man who had killed Fan'en Reno and abducted Malena four years earlier.
• Sean sent a cloaked puppet to attack A Luo while she tried to strike him directly.
• Sean revealed that the puppet was Fan'en Reno's reanimated corpse, and that another one of Fan'en Reno's doubles guarded Gon and Killua.
• A Luo restrained her attacks after recognizing her father's body, and Sean used her hesitation to attach his Nen to her joints.

A Luo defeated Xien in Heavens Arena after trapping him in the Avenger's Cage and killing him, but learned that her father Fan'en Reno had been dead for years and had only been animated as a puppet. After cremating his remains, A Luo collapsed outside the crematorium as Gon and Killua rushed to help her.

• Gon and Killua escaped their puppet-like guard and headed toward Heavens Arena to find A Luo.
• During the live broadcast, Xien immobilized A Luo and tried to claim her as a puppet, but she trapped him in the Avenger's Cage.
• A Luo killed Xien inside the cage, and she and Xien reappeared in the ring with Xien dead and Fan'en Reno's corpse beside them.
• The referee declared A Luo the winner, and she realized Fan'en Reno had never been brought back to life.
• A Luo cremated her father's remains, then fainted outside the crematorium while Gon and Killua rushed to her.

After years of revenge, A Luo collapsed from exhaustion and recovered in the hospital, where Gon and Killua told her how they had reached Heavens Arena’s two-hundredth floor. Upon discharge, she encountered Hisoka and rushed to Heavens Arena, hoping to stop Gon and Killua from being hurt during their Nen initiation.

• Gon and Killua told A Luo that she had collapsed from overexertion and reminded her to take care of herself.
• A Luo reflected on her past and finally let herself cry after rescuing her mother and taking revenge on her enemies.
• A Luo spent several days in the hospital with fever and guilt, while Gon and Killua visited and asked about her match with Xien.
• A Luo learned Gon and Killua had reached the two-hundredth floor, then received a doctor’s discharge after a checkup and advice to see a therapist.
• Hisoka met A Luo outside the hospital and asked her to fight him after watching her match with Xien.
• A Luo hurried to Heavens Arena, hoping to reach Gon and Killua before their Nen initiation could put them in danger.

A Luo hurried back to Heavens Arena to stop Sadaso, Gido, and their companion from targeting Gon and Killua, but Hisoka followed her and attacked when she brushed off his challenge. The chapter ended with Gon and Killua arriving to find Hisoka pelting A Luo’s Protective Golden Bell with cards.

• A Luo hurried from the hospital to Heavens Arena, while Hisoka followed after realizing she had ignored his challenge.
• Sadaso, Gido, and their companion confronted A Luo on the 200th floor, but fled when Hisoka appeared.
• Hisoka accused A Luo of rudely walking away from his challenge and attacked her with playing cards.
• A Luo raised her Protective Golden Bell, which stopped Hisoka’s cards from reaching her.
• Gon and Killua arrived at eight o’clock and found the corridor covered in cards as Hisoka continued attacking A Luo.

A Luo warned Gon and Killua that the 200th Floor was dangerous for fighters who had not learned Nen, and urged them to seek Wing's help before midnight. After the boys successfully awakened their Nen and registered, A Luo asked them to take her to meet Wing, leaving the visit for the next day.

• Gon tried to rush to A Luo's aid, but Hisoka cut his cheek with a playing card, and Killua stopped him from interfering.
• A Luo explained that dangerous fighters on the 200th Floor could cripple newcomers through Nen Baptism and told Gon and Killua to learn Nen before fighting there.
• A Luo sent Gon and Killua to Wing, confident they could awaken their Nen and return to register before midnight.
• A Luo called Hisoka's threats against Gon and Killua a bluff, pointing out that he wanted to see both boys mature as promising opponents.
• Gon and Killua trained at Wing's house, awakened their Nen, and returned to register at the 200th Floor before midnight.
• A Luo asked Gon and Killua to take her to Wing so she could ask him about Nen, and Killua suggested they visit the next day.

A Luo visited Wing with Gon and Killua, and Wing began testing the boys’ Nen types with Water Divination. A Luo demonstrated her Specialist ability by turning water into a powerful sleeping drug, leaving Gon and Zushi asleep while Killua and Wing reacted.

• Wing welcomed A Luo, Gon, and Killua into his home, where Zushi greeted the boys and nearly brought up A Luo’s bloody match.
• A Luo reflected on leaving her past behind and told Wing that her own Nen initiation had been forced, explaining why she had sent Gon and Killua to him.
• Wing prepared Water Divination to test Gon and Killua’s Nen types, then asked A Luo how she knew she was a Specialist.
• A Luo enveloped a glass of water in aura and gave portions to Gon and Zushi to demonstrate her Nen ability.
• Gon and Zushi drank the water and immediately fell asleep, and A Luo explained to Wing that her ability turned water into a potent sleeping drug.

A Luo asked Wing whether Nen could resurrect the dead and sought advice about developing her Specialist ability, the Little Disc. As Gon recovered and the group dealt with the fighters who had targeted him and Killua, A Luo stayed out of their fight, and Heavens Arena prepared for Hisoka and Kastro’s match.

• A Luo asked Wing about resurrection and showed him her Nen training, the Little Disc, and the tools it could make; Wing said her ability might still be awakening and warned himself not to make an enemy of her.
• A Luo noticed Wing seemed afraid of her, while Gon and Killua also wondered what she had done to him.
• After the trio kidnapped Zushi, Killua stopped A Luo from intervening, and he and Gon handled the trouble themselves.
• Gon broke his arm fighting Gido, so Wing forbade him from using Nen for three months while A Luo and Killua watched without pleading for him.
• Zushi told Wing that A Luo had called impulsive Enhancers people with a screw loose, but Wing abandoned any thought of confronting her.
• Advertisements for Hisoka and Kastro’s match spread through Heavens Arena, making it impossible for A Luo to ignore the coming fight.

A Luo met Machi at Heavens Arena while Hisoka fought Kastro, then watched Machi stitch Hisoka’s severed arms back on and deliver the Phantom Troupe’s Yorknew City instructions. She proposed that she and Hisoka work together in Yorknew City.

• A Luo spotted Machi waiting near the fighters’ exit and asked whether the bombs on the Spiders had been removed.
• Machi said the Boss had assigned her to tell Hisoka about the next mission, while someone else had taken the mission involving A Luo.
• Machi predicted Hisoka would defeat Kastro, and Hisoka won the match after losing both arms.
• A Luo followed Hisoka and Machi to his room, where Machi stitched his arms back on and told him the members would gather in Yorknew City on September 1.
• After Machi left, A Luo told Hisoka she knew he was pretending to be Number Four and proposed they cooperate in Yorknew City.

A Luo told Hisoka she wanted to cooperate against the Phantom Troupe, but Feitan ambushed her before they could discuss the plan. She lured Feitan away from the city and fought him in the outskirts, determined to keep his ultimate technique away from Heavens Arena.

• A Luo proposed working with Hisoka to eliminate the Spiders, explaining that she wanted to protect Malena and end the conflict for good.
• Hisoka agreed to discuss the cooperation after bathing, then imagined hunting Chrollo as A Luo left the room.
• Feitan appeared in Hisoka's room and demanded that A Luo return to Chrollo, but she refused and mocked his height.
• A Luo escaped through the window, drawing Feitan away from the city so he could not unleash Pain Packer near Gon and Killua.
• A Luo fought Feitan without holding back, using her Golden Bell to protect herself and catch him off guard.