Chapter Summaries

Dio used his green ripple Nen to immobilize the mummies while searching for the hidden enemy, Mori. After Mori attacked with his scarlet and black lassos, Dio trapped the ropes against each other and identified Mori’s hiding place.

• Dio completed his heavy Diving Suit and used green ripple Nen to restrain the mummies, while Cheadle watched.
• Dio’s Ripple Radar failed to distinguish Mori, who disguised himself as a mummy and sent out several lassos.
• Dio charged the immobilized mummies, but Ripple Sensing warned him of a rope attack, and Cheadle told him to watch his back.
• Dio told Cheadle to turn off the light, stopped time, removed his Diving Suit, and used the two attacking ropes to make them restrain each other.
• Dio detected Mori with En and called him out for pretending to be a corpse.

Dio uncovered an attacker disguised as Cheadle after the impostor tried to kill him with a scalpel. The white-haired woman had Cheadle’s face, and Cheadle urged Dio to kill her.

• Mori prepared to use the Nen Aura stored in his treasure while remaining disguised among the mummified corpses.
• Dio sensed someone approaching behind him and mistook the figure for Cheadle, while the real Cheadle spoke from elsewhere.
• The disguised attacker lunged at Dio with Cheadle’s scalpel, but Dio blocked the strike and kicked her back.
• Dio saw that the attacker was a white-haired woman whose face matched Cheadle’s.
• Cheadle denied having a sibling, called the woman a stalling enemy, and told Dio to kill her.

Mori was knocked into Dio, whose attack forced him to sacrifice a corpse to escape, while a second Cheadle appeared and turned the confrontation into chaos. Mori was left injured and suspected an unseen person was manipulating events on the Second Floor.

• An unknown person kicked Mori out of hiding, and he crashed in front of Dio.
• Dio attacked Mori, who deactivated Cover the Sky and Change the Earth and used a corpse to block the blow before escaping.
• Cheadle urged Dio to ignore Mori and attack the white-haired woman pretending to be her, but Dio questioned whether she was the real Cheadle.
• Mori tried to flee while Dio and Cheadle argued, but the white-haired Cheadle suddenly cut off half his left palm.
• Mori bandaged his hand and concluded that an unknown figure on the Second Floor was secretly interfering.

Dio and Mori struggled to determine which Cheadle was real while the two Cheadles fought, and Mori used explosive mummies to keep them at bay. Pariston revealed himself and asked Dio why he had not been affected.

• Green-haired Cheadle threatened to kill White-haired Cheadle unless Dio helped her, and Dio agreed to subdue her before deciding what to do.
• Mori fought White-haired Cheadle with a dagger as Dio and Green-haired Cheadle moved to join the battle.
• Mori used an exploding mummy to halt the Hunters and escape toward a group of corpses.
• Green-haired Cheadle attacked White-haired Cheadle, leaving Dio unable to intervene while Mori sent more mummies toward them.
• A mummy kicked Mori back into the corner, then peeled away its disguise to reveal Pariston, who asked Dio why he had not been affected.

Dio survived Mori’s explosion and found that Pariston’s fate was uncertain, while Cheadle returned to normal. As Dio charged Mori, he recognized the object Mori held as a fragment of the Stand Arrow.

• Dio approached Pariston, but Mori triggered an explosion using desiccated corpses, forcing Dio to activate The World.
• Cheadle rushed toward the blast, and Dio appeared behind her and stopped her.
• Dio saw what looked like Pariston’s corpse standing amid the wreckage and wondered whether Pariston was dead.
• Dio charged Mori, who was nearly out of Aura and tried to replenish it from the Stone.
• Dio recognized the Stone’s pattern as belonging to a Stand Arrow fragment and eagerly pursued it.

Dio killed Mori after using Time Stop Rampage and taking the Stand Arrow Fragment, which caused his aura output to begin increasing. As Cheadle noticed a red lasso on Dio’s hand and a Doll appeared beside him, Mizaistom began a citywide broadcast.

• Dio used Time Stop Rampage to sever Mori’s right hand, take the Stand Arrow Fragment, and destroy Mori’s head.
• The fragment’s warmth restored Dio’s stamina and began substantially increasing his aura output.
• Cheadle witnessed Mori’s death and concluded that surrender or death were her only options against Dio.
• Cheadle spotted a red lasso around Dio’s right fist, and a Doll appeared behind him and crawled toward his hand.
• Mizaistom announced that he was broadcasting to everyone through the central broadcasting tower.

Lu Yan died after giving up hope of returning home, while Mizaistom escaped and broadcast a warning that the Secret Realm was collapsing. Mizaistom and Kanzai headed for the Hotel as Dio appeared overhead and called for them to catch him.

• Mizaistom warned Lu Yan that destroying the Secret Realm would probably only make it collapse, but Lu Yan died still hoping their bodies would return to reality.
• Mizaistom contacted Kanzai, then reached the Central Broadcasting Tower and repaired its backup generator.
• Mizaistom broadcast that the Secret Realm was about to collapse and urged everyone to go to the Hotel for a possible escape route.
• Mizaistom and Kanzai rushed toward the Hotel, and Mizaistom noted that he had not seen Cheadle or Dio.
• Dio swept through the air, spotted Mizaistom and Kanzai, and shouted for them to catch him.

Silva fled from his pursuers as the secret realm showed signs of collapse, while Pariston investigated why his ability had failed against Dio. Dio decided to confront the Nen user controlling the red lassos, but Kanzai released him and the ropes dragged him away.

• Silva abandoned Biscuit to fight two enemies alone and hurried away after hearing the warning about the secret realm.
• Biscuit escaped her enemies and raced toward the hotel, blaming Silva for leaving her behind.
• Pariston recalled the seven activation conditions of [Evil Hidden King] and concluded Dio might not have felt enough aversion toward him.
• Pariston recognized the Dark Golden Skull as a Nen Object that could teleport him to the original world if he had a beacon, then left the Underground Church.
• Dio failed to break free from the rapidly multiplying red lassos and told Mizaistom he would kill their Nen user.
• Mizaistom gave Dio a miniature Communicator, and Kanzai released him, allowing the lassos to yank him away.

Dio was dragged to Druha, a lasso-wielding man who explained how he and his companions had been trapped in the Secret Realm for twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Pariston manipulated the number of people the Divine Artifact could teleport, leaving Cheadle to hear Dio’s final message as the chapter ended.

• Druha pulled Dio to the excavation site with [From the Lasso], and Dio punched through Druha’s chest and shattered half his head.
• Druha revealed that he had transformed into [Lasso Man] and told Dio how he and his companions had been trapped in the Secret Realm for twenty-five years.
• Dio recorded a message for Cheadle before sitting with Druha to hear the story of the Fuji Four Thieves and their arrival in the Secret Realm.
• Cheadle refused to leave without Dio, while Pariston claimed the Divine Artifact could teleport only six more people and then used it to send Kanzai away.
• Pariston warned Cheadle that challenging him would risk the others’ lives, but Mizaistom gave her Dio’s recorded message.
• Dio told Cheadle to ask Madam Xiya about one secret, to claim he had gone sheep herding if Kakin came looking, and to put his ten-billion-Jenny debt on his gravestone.

After hearing Dio’s message, Cheadle rejected his vague explanation and tried to force Pariston to help bring the others back to the Living World. Pariston turned the tables with the Dark Gold Skull, leaving Cheadle gone and his chest wound bleeding again.

• Biscuit asked what Dio’s message meant, and Cheadle calmly said he would find another way out.
• Cheadle summoned the [Yorkshire Registrar] and prepared to seize Pariston, driven by her anger that Dio had kept secrets from her and left without explaining them.
• Cheadle struck Pariston, removed his heart, and fitted the [Cultivation Dish] into his chest to keep his blood flowing.
• Cheadle ordered Pariston to sign an agreement requiring him to teleport the others away or she would deactivate her ability.
• Pariston said her plan would have worked if he feared death, then activated the Dark Gold Skull; Cheadle vanished as his chest wound began bleeding uncontrollably.

Druha broke through the Secret Realm’s rock wall, unleashing a vacuum that began collapsing the realm and swept him away. Dio learned that Cheadle and the others had left, spoke with Pariston, and entered the vacuum in a Diving Suit, hoping to return to the real world.

• Druha punched through the rock wall, but the blast of air swept him into the vacuum, where he eventually died from his ability’s backlash.
• Dio used Ripple to keep himself from being sucked into the hole and weighed whether to return to the Hotel or risk crossing the vacuum.
• Pariston told Dio that a [Beacon] was needed to find the way back to reality and admitted he had driven Cheadle away.
• Pariston warned Dio to visit him at the Hunter Association before seeking Cheadle, then sat down and died.
• Dio summoned Misty, covered himself in water, formed his Diving Suit, and charged into the boundless vacuum.

Kunxi heard the story of an old woman who had searched for her missing son for twenty-five years and decided to stop searching for Kunla, leaving to find work so he could support her and the young woman she cared for. As Stella vanished from the Secret Realm and its consequences shaped the world, Netero suspected Pariston was waiting for Dio’s possible return and said Cheadle’s anger was directed at someone else.

• Kunxi met an old woman and a young woman at a noodle stall, learned that the old woman had searched for her missing son Toma for twenty-five years, and paid for their meal with a coin Mori had given him that split into two.
• Kunxi told the old woman he would stop looking for Kunla, promised to find work and pay for her meals, then left into the night.
• The chapter described how the incident changed the Ochima Federation, the Hunter Association, Dalatran City, Stella, and the Fujiang Kingdom, while Stella and its remaining contents collapsed into the vacuum of the Secret Realm.
• Netero told Beans that Cheadle had proved her faith in Dio by contradicting him, and considered whether Dio would return and become Vice-Chairman.
• Beans reminded Netero that Cheadle was angry and had refused to attend the Zodiacs meeting, and Netero said she was angry with someone else.

Dio traveled through the vacuum with Misty, using the Mumuzawa Doll to guide him toward reality. He landed in the South Pacific in 1997, where two fishermen hauled his Diving Suit aboard and heard him answer them.

• Dio maintained his Ripple and oxygen supply in the vacuum and summoned Misty to carry him.
• Dio prepared to use the Parent-Child Seed as a beacon, but the Mumuzawa Doll knocked on his helmet and pointed toward Mumuzawa.
• Dio followed the Doll's direction and flew toward reality with Misty.
• Two brothers fishing west of the South Pacific hauled a glowing object into their boat and found Dio inside a Diving Suit.
• The older brother read the name on the suit, and Dio calmly answered him from inside the helmet.

Dio discovered that he had landed on Greed Island after asking Bipeng and Bili for directions. As he walked along the coast, a powerful man emerged from the forest and asked him to leave.

• Dio startled Bipeng and Bili, then used his overwhelming Ren to make them answer his questions.
• Bili told Dio that the nearest city was Soufrabi, and Dio realized he was on Greed Island after noticing the brothers' rings.
• A girl monitoring the island spotted Dio as an Outsider and sent Razor his location so he could remove him.
• Dio learned from Bipeng that the date was December 25 and that the brothers had never seen an Outsider arrive without a game console.
• A burly man emerged from the forest, identified Dio as an Outsider, and asked him to leave.

Dio asked Razor to use a specific- destination teleportation card instead of sending him to a random place on the Aijin Continent. He claimed to know Razor through Ging Freecss, leaving Razor surprised and wary of Dio’s story.

• Razor confronted Dio and the Bibi brothers for entering Greed Island illegally and prepared to use the [Eliminate] card.
• Dio asked whether [Eliminate] sent intruders to a random destination and explained that he needed to reach an airport city to return before the Vice-Chairman election deadline.
• Razor confirmed that the administrator-exclusive [Accompanying] card could send Dio to the center of any city on the Aijin Continent.
• Dio said Ging Freecss had told him about Razor and called himself Ging’s in-law, leaving Razor startled and suspicious.

Dio used Ging’s emergency number to contact him and ask to be teleported to Newdly City, but Ging told Razor to fight Dio first and send him away only if he won. Razor accepted the challenge, and the two began preparing for a serious battle.

• Dio convinced Razor to use his administrator privileges to call Ging with the emergency number Ging had given him.
• Ging recognized Dio, listened to his account of falling from the sky, and asked Razor to fight him before allowing him to use [Accompanying] to reach Newdly City.
• Dio insulted Ging after the call ended, while Razor dismissed the claims and began releasing his Nen Aura.
• Razor used [Dispel] to teleport the two frightened brothers away, then challenged Dio to fight with intent to kill.
• Dio nodded as he and Razor faced off, and a dark cloud floated above Dio’s head.

Dio faced Razor on a shore at night, and Razor used his Eight Devils to trap Dio inside a storm of Nen Bullets. The bullets failed to hit anything in the spreading fog, leaving Razor puzzled about how Dio was evading them.

• Dio assessed Razor’s strength at about 85 points and compared it with his own.
• Razor summoned eight Nen Beasts with [Fourteen Devils] and sent them to surround Dio.
• Dio’s Nen Beast released dense white mist that concealed him from Razor.
• Razor threw Nen Bullets that the Nen Beasts passed rapidly among themselves, then added more until five bullets ricocheted inside the encirclement.
• Razor realized none of the Nen Bullets had struck Dio and wondered how he was avoiding them.

Dio used fog and cloud Nen Beasts to counter Razor’s tactics, forcing Razor to collapse the cliff and plunge into the sea in an attempt to escape. In Loi City, Cheadle clung to the hope that Dio was alive as she stared at the suitcase he had left behind.

• Razor realized the fog blocked En and had swallowed his Nen Beasts, then deduced Dio was hiding above the encirclement and exposed his position by detonating a Nen Bullet in midair.
• Razor recalled his Nen Beasts as Dio’s fog spread, while Dio watched and anticipated Razor’s stronger Nen Bullets.
• Razor struck at a dark shape behind him, but it proved to be a cloud, and he decided to escape the fog before Dio could wear him down.
• Razor shattered the coastal cliff with a Nen Bullet and plunged into the sea, hoping the fog could not follow him there.
• Cheadle stared at Dio’s suitcase in her dark office and refused to open it because she believed he would return.

Dio used a storm of green lightning to drive Razor from the deep sea and secretly build up Green Ripple Nen in his muscles. When Razor’s movements slowed and his Nen Bullets stopped, Dio probed underwater to find him.

• Dio and Razor remained hidden from each other, with Razor waiting underwater and Dio searching for a way to break the stalemate.
• Dio summoned the Second Weather Phenomena, using torrential rain to disperse the mist and green lightning to bombard the sea.
• Razor moved into the shallows and fired Nen Bullets at Dio, who dodged using repulsive force from the water’s surface.
• Dio’s Green Ripple Nen accumulated unnoticed in Razor’s muscles until Razor became numb and his throws slowed.
• Razor tried to sink into deeper water, but Dio noticed the sudden silence and released En to locate him.

Dio traveled from Greed Island to Newdri after defeating Razor, then secretly made his way toward Mumuzawa’s palace. Mumuzawa tried to create a doll of Dio to activate her ability, while rumors suggested Professor Cheadle had returned from Kakin deeply troubled.

• Razor admitted defeat, and Dio accepted his offer to use the [Accompanying] card to travel to Newdri.
• Before sending Dio away, Razor asked him to tell Ging that his old friends on Greed Island would welcome him back.
• Dio arrived in Newdri’s city center in a crash that left a crater, but he concealed himself from the patrolling soldiers and headed toward Mumuzawa’s palace.
• Mumuzawa unraveled her unfinished doll of Dio after [Song of Silk] failed to react, wondering whether she understood him well enough.
• Two graduate students discussed Professor Cheadle’s gloomy state since her return from a work trip and speculated about her recent visit to Kakin.