Chapter Summaries

The Zodiacs finished the first round of proposing rules, and Mizaistom and Cheadle adjusted their approaches after Dio warned that Pariston and the others were serious. The chapter ended with Cheadle limiting each Candidate to one collaborator and forbidding collaborators from both being Candidates, while the danger of Hunter casualties remained.

• Pariston objected to Cheadle's proposal to let the Zodiacs cooperate, invalidating Dio's rule and ending the first round.
• Dio told Pariston not to propose meaningless rules, and Mizaistom asked why Dio and Pariston had opposed his ban on using force against one another.
• Mizaistom declared that his rule in every future round would prohibit harm to innocent civilians.
• Dio warned Cheadle that the others were serious, prompting her to declare that each Candidate could choose only one collaborator.
• Ging reminded Cheadle to add that collaborators could not both be Candidates, and Cheadle included the restriction in her rule.

Dio reconsidered his earlier opposition to Cheadle’s rule and tried to ensure Pariston was the last candidate to establish one. Pariston proposed a 120-hour deadline for candidates to find a Collaborator and obtain Certification, while the rule-setting process remained vulnerable to loopholes.

• Dio realized he could not rely on Cheadle and considered taking the initiative against Pariston, while Ging noticed their disagreement and spoke up.
• Pariston agreed to Mizaistom’s and Cheadle’s rules, then proposed that candidates find a Collaborator and obtain Certification within 120 hours.
• Ginta took Pariston’s deadline as a sign that he had shifted focus to the assessment, while Gel reasoned that the deadline could expose his accomplices.
• Dio objected to Pariston’s proposal to prevent him from finishing his rule early and exploiting a voting loophole, making Pariston’s proposal invalid.
• Mizaistom restated his rule against harming civilians, and Pariston, Dio, and Cheadle agreed as the deadline for setting rules approached.

As the first candidates passed, Netero revised the voting rules for the remaining candidates, and Dio and Cheadle secretly coordinated their votes to reject Cheadle’s proposal. Pariston suspected Dio had cheated and proposed a bet that would eliminate Cheadle if Pariston won, while still agreeing to Dio’s rule either way.

• Netero announced new voting rules for the three- and two-person decisions, including punches after each vote when only two remained.
• Mizaistom proposed changing the voting rules, and all three remaining candidates agreed, allowing Mizaistom to pass.
• Cheadle proposed restricting candidates to one collaborator, and Dio, Cheadle, and Pariston all voted to oppose it.
• Pariston accused Dio of cheating with his ability but admitted he had no evidence.
• Pariston offered a bet: if he lost, he would unconditionally agree to Dio’s rule; if he won, Cheadle would be eliminated and he would still agree to the rule.

Dio and Cheadle entered [Zetsu] and beat Pariston at his own challenge by voting in near-perfect sync, leaving him unable to identify how they communicated. After admitting defeat, Pariston took Dio seriously as the most important person to watch in the Election.

• Cheadle accepted the wager for Dio, and Dio entered [Zetsu] to show that he was not using his ability openly.
• Cheadle also entered [Zetsu], relying on the Ripple Dio had spread through her body for protection.
• Pariston considered possible explanations for their coordination, including a Nen Beast and telepathy, but found no clear evidence.
• Dio and Cheadle repeated their votes in synchronized unison, and Pariston admitted that he could not identify their method.
• Cheadle realized Dio’s Ripple had made her speak against her intended vote, while Dio stopped channeling it and Beans moved the meeting to the [Two-Person Duel].
• Pariston repeated his proposal and resolved to stop underestimating Dio, whom he considered the person requiring the most attention in the Election.

After the election rules were set, Dio stayed behind to confront Ging about a classified theft at the Ruins Department five years earlier. Ging admitted he knew about it but demanded a price for the information.

• Ging stood to leave the meeting, and Dio secretly used [The World] before proposing a rule requiring everyone to stop nonparticipants from interfering in the election.
• Dio and Pariston both approved the rule, and Netero set the next gathering for 120 hours later in the Hunter Association headquarters lobby.
• Piyon mocked Pariston, while Ginta mistakenly assumed Dio and Cheadle were arguing and urged Dio to make peace with her.
• After everyone else left, Dio waited in the meeting room and returned a coin to Ging, who had come back after leaving.
• Dio asked Ging about the classified theft at the Ruins Department five years earlier, and Ging confirmed he knew of it but said information had a price.

Ging asked Dio how he had stolen the ancient coin from his pocket, then invited him to walk with him to the airship. Cheadle argued with Pariston about Dio and her father, only to discover Dio and Ging had overheard her, including her admission that she was happy to assist Dio.

• Ging realized Dio had taken his Parthian coin during their argument and asked how Dio had done it.
• Dio declined to explain his ability, and Ging invited him to walk along to the airship.
• Cheadle looked for Netero, then encountered Pariston, who taunted her about losing to Dio and mentioned her father, Sherlock.
• Cheadle angrily defended Dio and declared she was happy to assist him before walking away.
• Cheadle turned a corner and found Dio and Ging squatting in the corridor, where they admitted nothing but had clearly overheard her argument.

Dio returned to help Cheadle with the Hunter election, but she confronted him for opposing her and entering the race without telling her. They reconciled, and Cheadle left after telling him to choose a reliable collaborator and avoid Ging.

• Ging dodged Dio's attempt to leave with him, then surrendered when Cheadle called him a bad influence on her student.
• Cheadle angrily challenged Dio for returning without telling her, and Dio apologized, explaining that he had rushed back to help her.
• Dio outlined his plan to knock Pariston and Mizaistom out before withdrawing, but Cheadle insisted he should not enter the election unless he truly wanted the position.
• Dio told Cheadle that helping her was what he wanted, easing her anger, and promised he would still compete seriously against her.
• Cheadle told Dio to pick a reliable collaborator, warned him away from Ging, and left after noticing the staff who had gathered to listen.

Dio tricked Ging into fleeing after making it seem like Ging had publicly confessed to him, while Cheadle considered the upcoming election and called Granny about a potential collaborator. A civil servant in the Ochima Federation also ordered an urgent investigation into an unspecified threat.

• Cheadle told Dio that Mrs. Yorkshire wanted him to visit Pati for a job after he finished his current business.
• Ging urged Dio to take the Vice-Chairman election seriously, then jokingly declared that love was a game.
• Dio loudly implied that Ging had confessed to him, escaped, and left Ging to be mistaken for a rejected suitor.
• A civil servant at the Ochima Federation's Special Office for Civil Affairs ordered intelligence on an unspecified matter within five days.
• Cheadle thought of someone who could help her find a collaborator and called Granny.

Dio traveled to Pati City to meet Mrs. Yorkshire and ask about the commission she wanted to give him. She explained that she had not asked Cheadle because she was busy with Association business and the matter involved Cheadle’s father.

• Dio recalled that Ging had refused to explain the Ruins Department attack until next February, and he decided to focus on the election and visit Mrs. Yorkshire.
• Dio traveled to Pati City with Luren, whom Mrs. Yorkshire had again assigned to pick him up.
• Mrs. Yorkshire welcomed Dio to her villa and offered him Cheadle’s room for the night.
• Dio asked why Mrs. Yorkshire had not given her commission to Cheadle, and she said Cheadle was busy and that the matter concerned her father.

Dio learned that Cheadle’s father, Sherlock, had been missing for three years, though recent credit-card transactions suggested someone had used his card in the Dentora Region of Padokea. He accepted Mrs. Yorkshire’s request to investigate and headed there, suspecting the card user was a fraudster rather than Sherlock.

• Mrs. Yorkshire told Dio that Sherlock had been missing for three years and that Cheadle believed her father hated her.
• Mrs. Yorkshire said Sherlock’s card had recently been used in Dentora, and Dio connected the location to the Zoldyck Family.
• Mrs. Yorkshire explained that the Zoldycks had quoted a normal price to assassinate Sherlock, suggesting they had not taken a contract on him.
• Mrs. Yorkshire hired Dio to investigate Sherlock’s disappearance and asked him to keep it from Cheadle.
• Dio declined payment, booked an overnight flight to Padokea, and reviewed the card transactions.
• Dio concluded that someone had likely found Sherlock’s card and spent with it before the bank froze it.

Dio arrived in Zoro Town seeking Sherlock’s Black Gold Card holder at the Oushang Inn and unexpectedly encountered Killua. He led Killua toward the inn, while Killua reluctantly ate vegetable buns before finding one filled with lamb.

• Dio arrived in Zoro Town and asked a breakfast shop owner for directions to the Oushang Inn.
• Dio met Killua, who was also looking for the inn, and gave him the remaining steamed buns.
• Killua suspected the buns might be poisoned but tried one and discovered it had vegetable filling.
• Dio told Killua not to waste food and urged him to eat his vegetables.
• Killua ate the vegetable bun, then found a lamb-filled bun and followed Dio toward the inn.

Dio and Killua independently tracked Lev Potovich to the Oushang Inn, where they joined forces to find his room. When someone fired at Kikyo through the door, Dio stopped the shot by plugging the gun barrel with his finger, and the gun blew apart.

• Dio and Killua discovered that they were both looking for Lev Potovich, though for different reasons.
• Dio paid and threatened the receptionist into revealing that Lev was in room 601.
• Dio and Killua reached the sixth floor and found room 601’s door unlocked.
• When Killua opened the door, someone aimed a gun at Kikyo from close range.
• Dio plugged the gun barrel with his finger, causing the gun to blow apart without injuring him.

Dio interrogated Lev Potovich about a black credit card while Killua reeled from Dio’s ability to control his body. After learning the card came from a man in a suit and that Lev had disposed of a woman’s body in a sewer, Dio left, while Killua crept behind him.

• Killua kicked down the iron door and found Lev Potovich with a ruined hand after his pistol exploded.
• Killua prepared to kill Lev, but Dio used the Ripple to control Killua’s body and stop him.
• Dio confronted Lev with details of the black credit card and his payments to Collins Goodale, then twisted Lev’s arm muscles with the Ripple to force him to talk.
• Lev admitted the card was in his pocket and said the woman’s body was in a sewer.
• Lev said a man in a suit had given him the card, and Killua crept behind Dio as Dio listened.
• After confirming Lev had told him everything, Dio stood and walked toward the door.

After Kikyo killed Liefer, she followed Dio and pressed him about his ability, while Dio investigated clues about the missing Hunter Sherlock Yorkshire. Dio offered to teach Kikyo another ability, and she accepted him as her teacher.

• Kikyo beheaded Liefer after Dio left the room, then hurried to catch up with him in the elevator.
• Kikyo introduced herself as Kikyo Zoldyck and asked Dio how he had controlled Liefer’s muscles, but Dio said his ability could not be taught.
• Dio reclaimed the money he had given the hotel receptionist, suspecting the receptionist had warned Liefer that someone was coming.
• Dio reasoned that someone had deliberately exposed Sherlock Yorkshire’s whereabouts to attract Mrs. Yorkshire’s attention, though he could not tell why Sherlock had appeared.
• Dio offered to teach Kikyo a different ability if she called him Teacher, and Kikyo accepted.

Dio took Killua to shop and then brought him aboard a sightseeing bus headed for Kukuroo Mountain, while asking whether he was pursuing what he truly wanted. As the bus approached the Zoldyck estate, Dio received an important message from Xiya Yorkshire.

• Dio teased Killua about a childhood engagement, then explained that Hunters pursued what they hoped for.
• Killua questioned whether everyone did that, then fell silent as he considered his resistance to the assassin’s calling imposed on him by his family.
• Dio took Killua to a shop, where Killua ended up carrying two enormous bags of supplies.
• Dio boarded a sightseeing bus to Kukuroo Mountain and told Killua to come along as a tourist.
• As the bus passengers discussed the Zoldyck Family, Dio received a message from Xiya Yorkshire.

Dio learned that Sherlock Yorkshire had arranged for Lev Potovich to hold a credit card as part of a carefully planned birthday message to his wife, and Mrs. Yorkshire asked him to keep it from Cheadle. On the sightseeing bus to Kukuroo Mountain, Dio encouraged Kikyo to pursue her own wishes and secretly suppressed the Nen aura from the needle in her forehead before they approached the Zoldyck gate.

• Dio read Mrs. Yorkshire's message confirming Sherlock had chosen the date because it was her birthday, and she stopped asking him to investigate.
• Mrs. Yorkshire asked Dio not to tell Cheadle about Sherlock, and he agreed that keeping it from her was probably best.
• Kikyo asked Dio what it meant to pursue what she hoped for, and admitted she could not yet defy her father or big brother.
• Dio used Ripple to suppress the Nen aura from the needle in Kikyo's forehead but left the needle in place, saying her trial was not his to take.
• Dio and Kikyo left the sightseeing bus and spoke with Zebro at the Zoldyck Family guardhouse, while Kikyo introduced Dio as her new teacher.

Dio introduced himself to Zebro as Kikyo’s master and a Hunter, then took her to the Testing Gate to demonstrate his strength. He kicked open six sets of doors but concluded that opening the seventh would exceed his power.

• Dio reassured Zebro that he was Kikyo’s master, and Zebro relaxed after seeing how comfortably they interacted.
• Kikyo hurried away with Dio rather than bring him home, fearing her family would kill him.
• Dio immobilized Kikyo briefly and carried her to the Testing Gate, saying he would show her how strong her master was.
• Dio unleashed his Aura and Ripple, then kicked open six sets of doors in the Testing Gate.
• Dio examined the gate and judged that he could not open the seventh set, marveling at Silva’s strength.

Dio entered the Zoldyck estate with Kikyo after forcing open the Testing Gate, and Illumi confronted him in a mist-filled forest. Illumi attacked after Dio said Kikyo wanted to leave, but Dio answered with Green Ripple Nen and thunderbolts, leaving their fight underway.

• Dio kicked open the Sixth Gate, then carried Kikyo through the Testing Gate into the estate.
• Illumi heard the gate being opened and went to investigate, where strange white mist prevented him from using En.
• Dio emerged from the mist and told Illumi that Kikyo was his master and wanted to leave the assassin life.
• Illumi attacked Dio, who used Green Ripple Nen, Armament, and thunderbolts to stop his charge.
• Illumi evaded the thunderbolts and recognized that they carried a special Nen ability.

Dio defeated Illumi by luring him into a trap in the fog and knocking him unconscious with Time Stop. He then took Kikyo toward Kukuroo Mountain, carrying Illumi and claiming he had caught wild game for her parents, while several figures closed in.

• Illumi threw a Nen Needle at Dio and charged, but Dio retreated from the rain zone into the fog when his attempt to materialize [Armament] failed.
• Illumi pursued Dio through the fog and tore apart a humanoid [Cloud] that had lured him into a trap.
• Dio, who had hidden in a tree using [Zetsu], activated Time Stop and knocked Illumi unconscious.
• Kikyo saw the fog disperse and headed into the forest to find Dio.
• Dio appeared carrying Illumi, grabbed Kikyo, and rushed toward Kukuroo Mountain as several figures approached.

Dio carried Kikyo and the unconscious Illumi through the forest to the Zoldyck mansion hidden inside Kukuroo Mountain. Silva met them at the gate and calmly told Killua to give the family advance notice next time he brought a guest.

• Dio revealed that the unconscious person on his shoulder was Illumi, and Kikyo judged that Illumi was still too weak.
• Dio used thick mist to evade the butlers searching the forest while carrying Kikyo and Illumi.
• Amane told Gotoh to recall the butlers, and Gotoh ordered them to return to their residence.
• Dio followed Killua to the massive gate embedded in Kukuroo Mountain, where the Zoldyck mansion lay inside.
• Silva emerged from the open gate, and Kikyo feared he would attack Dio.
• Silva calmly told Killua to notify the family before bringing a guest, leaving Kikyo stunned that he had not objected.