Recaps

Joey visited the Zoldyck estate, learned from Zigg how Ming and Brion’s guardians worked, and agreed to join Zigg and Illumi in an attempt to assassinate Brion. He left for Kakin under a new identity, preparing for the journey to the Dark Continent and the dangers beyond Labyrinth City.

• Joey accompanied Illumi into the Zoldyck estate, where Zigg tested Joey’s abilities with a surprise attack before explaining that he knew of him.
• Zigg explained that Ming’s spores transformed users into Brion’s guardians, described the Gold and Silver Ingot Guards, and revealed that Brion’s true body was hidden in an ancient city.
• Zigg proposed that Joey, Illumi, and he cooperate to infiltrate the ancient city and assassinate Brion, and Joey accepted.
• Joey stayed with the Zoldyck Family for three days as Zigg shared information about the Dark Continent and their planned route, then left Kukuroo Mountain for Kakin.
• Joey considered the risks around Labyrinth City and Saherta, recorded his plans in a notebook, and traveled under a new identity as an investment businessman from the Republic of Padokea.

Joey prepared to board the B.W. on deck two and reach the Imaginary Continent, but Mizaistom and Kurapika asked him to join a prince’s security team to help investigate the succession war. Joey agreed after Kurapika offered money and the right to travel to the Dark Continent, and they began planning his new identity and assignment.

• Joey mapped the B.W., secured a deck-two ticket, and concluded that an unauthorized crossing would be his only route from the Imaginary Continent to the Dark Continent.
• Mizaistom and Kurapika visited Joey and showed him Isaac Netero’s report documenting Gold Experience and urging the Association to make use of Joey on the journey.
• Mizaistom asked Joey to assist Kurapika on deck one, while Kurapika explained that a mole in the Hunter Association made it safer for Joey to join a prince’s security team under a new identity.
• Kurapika offered Joey money and the right to travel to the Dark Continent, and Joey accepted the partnership.
• Joey asked whether he should meet the other five recruits, and Kurapika said they would arrive at headquarters in two days.

Joey negotiated with Kurapika and Mizaistom over his commission, then shared intelligence about the B.W. Ship and Kakin’s secret Succession War. He left the meeting with the voyage drawing closer and still needed to find a way to join a prince’s Guard Soldiers while avoiding the Succession War’s turmoil.

• Mizaistom offered Joey an Association position and future work on the Dark Continent, while Joey asked about Beyond’s route and delayed deciding what he wanted in return.
• Kurapika commissioned Joey to create an opportunity to meet Tserriednich Hui Guo Rou, but Joey explained that reaching the Fourth Prince before the voyage would be extremely difficult.
• Joey shared detailed B.W. Ship plans showing severe shortages of clinics on the lower tiers, and Mizaistom sent the intelligence to Cheadle.
• Joey revealed evidence that Nasubi Hui Guo Rou planned to hold a Succession War aboard the ship through the Seed Urn Ceremony and its Guardian Spirit Beasts.
• Kurapika and Joey discussed how the ceremony would affect the princes’ guards, while Mizaistom considered the added risks to the voyage and its passengers.
• After Mizaistom and Kurapika left, Joey considered how to avoid being caught in the Succession War and how to join a prince’s Guard Soldiers.

Joey analyzed the princes’ security commissions, applied under his merchant identity, and was rejected by the Fourteenth Prince’s team before finally receiving an interview invitation from another prince’s team. He and Kurapika’s group planned how to reach Tserriednich aboard the B.W. Ship, then prepared to gather intelligence through their separate assignments.

• Joey studied Hunter Association intelligence and concluded that the fixed-pay commission most likely came from the Eighth Queen, Oito, rather than the Ninth Prince.
• Joey was rejected from the Fourteenth Prince’s security team, then discussed the commission and their plans with Kurapika, Biscuit, Hanzo, Melody, and the others.
• Kurapika considered using the Fourteenth Prince and Oito as a route to Tserriednich, while Joey warned that their weakness could make them burdens rather than useful intermediaries.
• Joey proposed using the princes’ events and Melody’s performance to create an opportunity for Kurapika to meet Tserriednich, with protecting a prince as a backup plan.
• Joey received an interview invitation at the Huihui Hotel, and most of the group received the same destination while Hanzo was assigned to a different Hui Guo Rou hotel.
• Kurapika arranged for the group to share intelligence through the Hunter Association’s Q system, which Joey could also access through Cheadle’s authorization.

Joey secured a guard position with Twelfth Prince Momoze while secretly monitoring her security team and coordinating with Kurapika. After the Eve Festival and the voyage to the B.W. Ship, the succession war began when a huge Nen beast appeared in Momoze’s room.

• Joey interviewed with Seventh Queen Sevanchi and Twelfth Prince Momoze, who hired him on the condition that he prioritize protecting Thirteenth Prince Marayam.
• Joey and Kurapika joined Momoze’s security team, and Joey used ladybug devices to investigate the guards and their possible loyalties.
• At the Eve Festival on August 7, King Nasubi Hui Guo Rou and Beyond Netero addressed the crowd before the princes and guards traveled to the B.W. Ship.
• After the banquet, Joey and Kurapika escorted Momoze and Sevanchi to their quarters, where a huge Nen beast appeared to protect Momoze.

Joey and Kurapika protected Momoze after the Seventh Queen transferred most of her guards to Marayam, and they subdued two guards who attacked her. Joey revealed his plan to help Momoze survive the Succession War and began explaining Nen to her.

• The Seventh Queen moved Marayam into Momoze's room and ordered most of Momoze's guards to protect him, but Momoze kept Joey and Kurapika with her.
• After the Seventh Queen and Marayam left, two guards rushed toward Momoze, and Joey used Weather Report to trap them in a gale.
• Kurapika restrained all six guards and began questioning them while Joey introduced himself to Momoze as Dio Brando.
• Joey explained that Momoze had trusted him in hopes of surviving the Succession War, and she thanked him for giving her hope.
• Joey explained the Seed Urn Ceremony and Nen to Momoze, then said he would help her awaken her Nen.

Joey and Kurapika considered how Momoze’s Guardian Spirit Beast and the other princes’ parasitic Nen Beasts might behave during the Succession War. When several unfamiliar Nen Beasts appeared in Momoze’s quarters, Joey decided to test his abilities against the Thirteenth Prince’s Wandering Dragon, but the chapter ended as he tried to overcome its spatial defenses.

• Joey explained that Nen abilities usually required gradual training or carefully balanced vows and limitations, and decided to teach Momoze only enough to recognize Nen and protect herself.
• Momoze grew exhausted because her Guardian Spirit Beast had unknowingly used its ability, so Joey prepared food while Kurapika discussed the dangers of the princes’ parasitic Nen Beasts.
• Joey and Kurapika chose to restrain the six guards rather than kill them, hoping to use them to draw out their backers and contact the senior princes.
• Several Nen Beasts appeared in Momoze’s quarters, including the Sixth Prince’s Musical Notes and the Thirteenth Prince’s Wandering Dragon, prompting Joey and Kurapika to go on alert.
• Joey expanded his En and used weather to repel the approaching Nen Beasts, then vanished using Mirage while Kurapika watched the creatures.
• Joey focused on the Wandering Dragon and sought a way to bypass the space around it so he could make contact.

Joey used lightning and freezing weather to destroy the jellyfish Nen Beasts while investigating the Wandering Dragon’s spatial ability. After revealing that it transported targets to the Fourteenth Prince’s room, Joey completed a God Script that reinforced the wall and let his hummingbirds strike it; Killer Queen then triggered First Bomb.

• Joey sent Heartbreaker Attack toward the Wandering Dragon and used the Weather Nen Beast’s lightning and cold to freeze and shatter the jellyfish Nen Beasts.
• Joey determined that the Wandering Dragon transported anything approaching it to the Fourteenth Prince’s room and concluded that repeatedly triggering its ability could exhaust the Thirteenth Prince.
• Joey observed Kurapika shoot down musical-note Nen Beasts with Shu-enhanced bullets while the wormhole-type Nen Beast remained passive.
• Joey finished inscribing God Script on a wooden plaque and sent it onto the wall, weakening the Wandering Dragon’s spatial defense enough for a hummingbird to strike it.
• A second hummingbird carrying First Bomb hit the Wandering Dragon, and Killer Queen activated the bomb.

Joey gathered intelligence about the princes while guarding Momoze, whose Nen Beast had changed after the Many-Legged Snake disappeared. Kurapika chose to pursue an alliance with the Third Prince, while Joey discovered that the Fourth Prince's Nen Beast was destroying his surveillance insects.

• Joey concealed the Many-Legged Snake's disappearance, destroyed his left hand to eliminate Heartbreaker Attack, and collected reports from his listening-device ladybugs.
• Joey noticed that Momoze's Nen Beast had become smaller and cuter, then kept watch as Momoze went to sleep.
• Joey and Kurapika reviewed Hanzo's, Biscuit's, and Izunavi's reports, learning that the Fourteenth Prince faced grave danger and identifying the Musical Note Nen Beast as the Sixth Prince's.
• Kurapika considered Blagi's offer to connect them with Chorai Hui Guo Rou, and Joey agreed that they should pursue an alliance with the Third Prince using their Nen abilities as leverage.
• Joey resolved to delay the Fourth Prince's discovery of Nen and found that the Fourth Prince's Nen Beast had destroyed the insects sent to monitor him.

Joey and Kurapika weighed their alliance with the Third Prince against the worsening Succession War and the Hunter Association’s limited ability to intervene. After Joey sent a supernatural message to Chorai, the Third Prince noticed it and prepared to contact the Twelfth Prince, but a knock interrupted him.

• Joey sent a paper fly bearing Gilbur’s name and the number twelve into Chorai’s room to prompt the Third Prince to contact the Twelfth Prince.
• Joey learned from Biscuit that an assassin had attacked the Thirteenth Prince, the Seventh Queen had been severely injured, and the prince’s Nen Beast had not appeared.
• Joey told Kurapika to warn Biscuit to proceed carefully and discussed the Thirteenth Prince’s growing danger after losing his Nen Beast and the Seventh Queen’s protection.
• Kurapika reported that Mizaistom, Botobai, and Cheadle were occupied with unrest and shortages across the lower tiers, leaving the Hunter Association unable to support them for about three days.
• Chorai learned that the Fourteenth Prince’s royal guards had been killed and suspected the surviving Hunters might know how it happened.
• Chorai found Joey’s message on his pastry table and reached for the telephone to contact the Twelfth Prince, but someone knocked at his door.

Joey and Kurapika disguised a captive as the Twelfth Prince to conceal her and prepared for the First Prince’s guard to investigate. After Bicotte was ensnared by the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast and driven to attack another guard, Joey and Kurapika helped kill both men; the chapter ended with the Third Prince Chorai inviting Joey and the Twelfth Prince to meet and exchange information.

• Joey rejected Kurapika’s plan to disguise himself as the Twelfth Prince and instead modified the captive Nagamam to resemble her, while the real prince was hidden.
• Bicotte arrived to inspect the Twelfth Prince’s room, and her Nen Beast repeatedly asked him whether he was free.
• Bicotte answered that he was free and, under the Nen Beast’s influence, went to the Fourteenth Prince’s room and attacked another First Prince’s guard.
• Kurapika and Joey helped Bicotte kill the other guard, and the Weather Nen Beast then used the guard’s gun to kill Bicotte.
• Kurapika told the King’s Army that the First Prince’s guards had attacked each other, and Joey later received Chorai’s invitation to meet and exchange secrets with the Twelfth Prince present.

Joey used Killer Queen and Gold Experience to set a remote trap in the corridor, killing Lihan after the First Prince sent him to monitor the Twelfth Prince and destroy the prince’s Nen Beast. The trap left Babimayna surrounded by the King’s Army, while Joey waited in the Twelfth Prince’s quarters for the First Prince’s response.

• The First Prince sent Lihan to monitor the Twelfth Prince and Babimayna to monitor the Fourteenth Prince, planning for Lihan to eliminate the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast.
• Lihan and Babimayna found suspicious coins in the corridor and cautiously investigated them as they headed toward the lower-ranking princes’ quarters.
• A swift and a Skeleton Chariot appeared, and Lihan and Babimayna attacked them; the Chariot exploded, and Lihan vanished from Babimayna’s En beside a misshapen coin.
• The King’s Army surrounded Babimayna after the explosions, while the Chariot and swift disappeared and the First Prince came out with Balsamilco.
• Joey revealed that he had remotely set up the corridor assassination without telling Kurapika, and he waited as his left hand regenerated.

Joey carried out an elaborate assassination in the First Prince’s corridor, killing Lihan and framing the Third Prince while concealing his methods. After Kurapika and the Twelfth Prince left, Joey discovered that the calm prisoner Juan was Hisoka in disguise, and Hisoka asked him to keep his identity secret.

• Joey used transformed coins, insects, a swift, and Heartbreaker Attack to lure the First Prince’s guards into an ambush and plant evidence implicating the Third Prince.
• When Lihan attacked the fly, Joey activated First Bomb and killed him, then retrieved the evidence coin as explosions erased the scene.
• Joey sent a disguised, venom-filled mosquito after Blagi and used a Ladybug camera to monitor the Third Prince’s room remotely.
• After Kurapika and the Twelfth Prince left, Joey questioned the remaining prisoners and suspected Juan because he had stayed unusually calm.
• Hisoka revealed himself by killing Nipeba, Raloku, and Tafudi, then asked Joey to hide his identity from Kurapika.
• Joey disposed of the bodies with Gold Experience and cleaned the room with Weather Report while Hisoka looked forward to fighting him.

Joey lent Hisoka a handkerchief that could grant him a temporary Conjuration ability, helping him conceal his identity from Kurapika while learning that Hisoka had come aboard seeking the Gatekeeper. After Kurapika returned with the Third Prince’s guards, Slaka challenged Juan’s sudden reappearance and insisted the King’s Army question him.

• Joey questioned Hisoka about his identity and learned he had joined the guards by frightening Marayam into having him removed from the Seventh Queen’s group.
• Hisoka asked Joey for a way to explain his abilities to Kurapika, and Joey offered him a Nen-filled handkerchief enhanced with God Script, warning that prolonged use could lead to soul assimilation.
• Joey asked why Hisoka had boarded the ship, and Hisoka said he was there for the Gatekeeper.
• Joey engraved God Script on Hisoka and lent him the handkerchief, explaining how its Nen would let Hisoka use a temporary Conjuration ability.
• Kurapika returned with the Twelfth Prince and three Guard Soldiers, and Joey claimed Juan’s disappearance and reappearance had been caused by a Nen Beast ability.
• Slaka demanded that Juan be handed over to the King’s Army for questioning, while Hisoka said he did not know where the other guards were.

Joey and Kurapika dealt with the fallout from Hisoka’s capture and discussed how his presence could expose Nen to the Princes. After Kurapika awakened the Twelfth Prince’s Nen, Balsamilco announced that the First Prince’s Guard Soldier would arrive in an hour, and Joey suspected a trap but chose not to intervene.

• Hisoka was taken away by a King's Army Soldier, while Joey considered how his appearance could alert the Princes to Nen and complicate the Succession War.
• Joey told Kurapika that Juan had killed three men after breaking free and explained that Juan could not escape; Kurapika questioned whether Juan was trustworthy and asked for assurance that he had no connection to the Phantom Troupe.
• Joey confirmed that Juan was not connected to the Phantom Troupe and said Hisoka had handled the earlier capture of two Phantom Troupe members, while Kurapika probed Joey’s stance toward the group.
• Kurapika proposed revealing Nen to balance the Princes’ forces, but Joey advised him to consult the Third Prince’s Guard Soldiers and warned that the timing mattered.
• Kurapika quietly awakened the Twelfth Prince’s Nen, then Balsamilco called to announce that the First Prince’s Guard Soldier would arrive in one hour.
• Joey suspected the First Prince had set a trap to identify whoever had attacked his men, but decided not to take part.

Joey guarded the Twelfth Prince while Shukurinov joined the room and Benjamin’s guards investigated the suspected Nen users and their abilities. The chapter ended with events unfolding across the princes’ rooms, including Gohndobba finding a listening device and Tserried admitting to the Fourth Prince that she could use Nen.

• Joey kept watch over the sleeping Twelfth Prince and used En while Shukurinov served as the First Prince’s new Guard Soldier.
• Shukurinov reported that Joey was a Nen user, and Benjamin and Balsamilco reasoned that the Twelfth Prince’s guards had helped use the Third Prince’s Nen Beast to kill Lihan.
• Benjamin ordered his men to kill insects near his room and told Shukurinov to approach the Twelfth Prince’s guards with an offer before Babimayna replaced him.
• Gohndobba discovered a listening device disguised as a Ladybug in the Third Prince’s Room and reported it to Benjamin.
• Tserried told the Fourth Prince that she knew about Nen and could use it.
• Biscuit found two bloodless corpses in the Thirteenth Prince’s Room and feared that more deaths would follow.

Joey assessed the Princes’ threats and weighed an alliance with Benjamin against his goal of stopping the Fourth Prince, while Kurapika proposed a way to test whether a Prince could escape the Succession War. The chapter ended with Joey doubting that Marayam could leave the B.W. Ship safely and considering Kurapika’s alternative of breaking the war’s containment or killing Nasubi Hui Guo Rou.

• Joey reviewed intelligence from his Ladybugs, concluding that Benjamin had inherited at least four Nen abilities and that several Princes’ rooms were being watched or searched.
• Joey hoped Benjamin would contact him so they could ally against the Fourth Prince, with a pardon for the Twelfth Prince as a possible condition.
• A Ladybug brought Joey intelligence that three people had been killed in the Thirteenth Prince’s room and that a witness had seen a white snake beside the third victim.
• Kurapika deduced that the visible white snake was a conjured Nen Beast and proposed taking Marayam off the B.W. Ship to make the Princes’ parasitic Nen Beasts disappear.
• Joey warned Kurapika that leaving the ship could kill Marayam, then described the Succession War as a gu-poison contest trapped inside a container.
• Kurapika suggested breaking the container or killing Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, while Joey noted that reaching the King’s living quarters was nearly impossible.

Joey and Kurapika planned to draw the assassin toward the Twelfth Prince’s Room and use the First Prince’s support to approach the Fourth Prince, while weighing the risks of protecting the lower-ranking Princes. Joey then probed the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast, which devoured his insect scouts and showed it could detach its tongue from its body.

• Joey questioned whether Kurapika was prepared to protect the lower-ranking Princes, and explained why he wanted to ally with the First Prince and use the chance to reveal Nen abilities.
• Joey shared intelligence about several Princes’ Nen Beasts, and he and Kurapika planned to gain the First Prince’s trust by offering information and opposing the Fourth Prince.
• Shukurinov invited Kurapika to the First Prince’s Room to confirm a meeting for the next morning, putting the Twelfth Prince’s Room in the spotlight.
• Joey sent a biscuit-turned-cockroach through the ventilation duct toward the Fourth Prince’s Room, where the Nen Beast swallowed it and a Killer Queen explosion destroyed only its detached tongue.
• Joey sent a swift carrying the First Bomb, the Heartbreaker Attack Chariot, and a hummingbird camera into the duct to continue probing the Nen Beast.

Joey’s attempt to investigate the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast led to a rampage of Nen Beasts aboard the ship, while the Fourth Queen was killed during the chaos. The chapter ends with Kurapika preparing to meet the First Prince and Joey watching the princes’ alliances shift.

• Joey guided Heartbreaker Attack toward the Fourth Prince’s Room, where the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast destroyed the swift and apparently damaged Joey’s severed hand before the chariot exploded.
• Izunavi announced that Nen Beasts had appeared in the Sixth Prince’s Area, and Nen Beasts from several princes’ abilities suddenly appeared inside the Twelfth Prince’s room.
• The Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast reached toward Hasuto, but Slaka knocked him away; the creature then searched the room and moved toward the Thirteenth Prince’s Area.
• Joey saw the Fourth Queen’s death had devastated the Sixth Prince and her guards, while soldiers arrested several people, including a member of the First Prince’s Personal Guards.
• The Fourth Prince watched the aftermath from his damaged room, and Joey recognized that he had begun learning Nen.
• Kurapika accepted the Ninth Prince’s request to teach Nen in exchange for a truce, then left with Shukurinov to meet the First Prince as Hisoka returned disguised as Juan.

Kurapika negotiated with Benjamin Hui Guo Rou, offering information and support in exchange for a chance to meet Tserriednich alone and a pardon for the Twelfth Prince. After Kurapika returned, Joey learned that the Thirteenth Prince had been killed, while Benjamin began spreading word that Kurapika would teach Nen to the princes’ guards.

• Hisoka told Joey that Chrollo had regained his Nen Ability, and Joey warned Hisoka not to create trouble before the Kakin succession contest was settled.
• Kurapika met Benjamin Hui Guo Rou and Balsamilco, revealed his Scarlet Eyes, and requested a private meeting with Tserriednich in exchange for information and support.
• Balsamilco said the Thirteenth Prince no longer needed a pardon; Kurapika accepted a deal pardoning the Twelfth Prince and provided information about two princes’ Nen Beasts.
• Kurapika offered to teach Nen to the princes’ Guard Soldiers, and Benjamin promoted the offer while inviting Kurapika to remain in Kakin.
• Kurapika returned to Room 12, where Joey learned that the Thirteenth Prince had been shot dead and that Benjamin’s men were preparing to act against the Eighth Prince.
• More princes’ guards and attendants were summoned to Room 12, and Joey received the day’s Ladybug intelligence.

Joey investigated the Second Prince’s curse-based Personal Guards and watched the princes’ representatives gather for Kurapika’s Nen training. An apparent supernatural attack killed Longi in Room 12, but the culprit remained unidentified as the group weighed whether to continue training.

• Joey concluded that the Second Prince might be using her house arrest by the First Prince as cover while her Personal Guards prepared curse attacks, and he suspected the Second Queen also had an ability.
• Representatives from most Prince’s Rooms gathered in Room 12, where Kurapika asked who could already use Nen and Joey considered whether the dead might be preventing the princes from leaving the B.W. Ship.
• Ribeli claimed to see a strange woman, and Longi suddenly clutched his throat and died as white, lip-covered snakes emerged from his body.
• Sakada shot Longi’s corpse and the snakes, then tried with Maor to have the Sixth Queen arrested, but the Chief Justice rejected the request and ordered observation and questioning instead.
• Kurapika gave the gathered representatives until eleven to decide whether to continue training, and Joey told him Shukurinov’s actions had limited the clues he could find.

Joey and Kurapika narrowed the suspected assassin in the Twelfth Prince’s Room to the Eighth Prince’s Guard Soldier while planning how to expose him. Meanwhile, Benjamin disguised himself as a Guard Soldier and used his Nen Beast [Foreigner] to devour the Eighth Prince’s Guardian Spirit Beast, unaware that Joey’s camera recorded him.

• Joey and Kurapika eliminated several people as suspects and discussed the suspicious Nen users, the white snakes, and the attacks on ordinary Guard Soldiers.
• Joey identified Kinoshita Aru, the Eighth Prince’s Guard Soldier, as the most likely assassin and planned to observe him before acting.
• Kurapika began teaching Nen to the people in the Twelfth Prince’s Room after Ribeli was taken away by the King’s Army.
• Benjamin disguised himself as a Guard Soldier, entered the Eighth Prince’s Room, and summoned [Foreigner] to devour the Eighth Prince’s Guardian Spirit Beast.
• Benjamin signaled the start of his assassination plan, while a camera recorded his actions and Joey watched the footage on his phone.

Joey monitored the First Prince’s actions and gathered intelligence from the Ninth Prince’s guards, while weighing how to use the First Prince’s vulnerability as a bargaining chip. The apparent lull in the Succession War ended with Joey noticing that the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast might be affecting Shukurinov and Slaka.

• Joey recorded the First Prince using [Outsider] and decided to save the evidence as leverage for future negotiations rather than expose it immediately.
• The Ninth Prince’s guards explained that his Nen Beast gathered the power of people united by the same will, while the Ninth Prince’s opposition to the monarchy conflicted with the Beast’s drive to make him king.
• Joey suspected the Ninth Prince’s conflicting convictions might indicate a split personality and a dangerous second side to his Nen Beast.
• Joey saw Wu Xiaohei replace the First Prince’s guard in the Eighth Prince’s Room and planned to retrieve his hidden camera after the assassination.
• Joey noticed the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast’s belly pouch had swollen and suspected it had already targeted Shukurinov and Slaka.

Gohndobba and Balsamilco pieced together how Joey had concealed his abilities and planted surveillance equipment, while Benjamin considered using Kurapika’s desire to recover the Kurta Clan’s Scarlet Eyes to approach Tserriednich. Joey’s attempt to retrieve cameras from the Eighth Prince’s Room was thwarted, and Shukurinov appeared to recognize that Joey had been exposed.

• Gohndobba examined coins found in the Third Prince’s Room and concluded that Kurapika’s group had staged the corridor incident to disguise the ability that made Lihan disappear.
• Balsamilco told Benjamin that Joey’s controlled creatures could hide cameras as well as listening devices, and they realized Joey might have recorded Benjamin attacking the Eighth Prince’s Nen Beast.
• Benjamin and Balsamilco suspected Kurapika was gathering information to approach Tserriednich and discussed how Joey had bypassed Lihan’s counterattack ability.
• Joey sent prepared parrots through the ventilation ducts to retrieve his cameras from the Eighth Prince’s Room, but an attacker destroyed them before they arrived.
• Joey noticed Shukurinov watching him and realized the First Prince’s side might have discovered that he could cancel Gold Experience’s effects.
• Sakada told Kurapika that the Eighth Prince had died, while the King's Army returned Sailde to the Fourteenth Prince’s side after finding insufficient evidence against him.

Joey hid the last surveillance camera, received the First Prince’s promise to arrange what he wanted, and coordinated with Melody on a plan involving the Fourth Prince. On the fifth day, the Seventh Queen returned to the Twelfth Prince’s Room, where the silent assassin struck again, leaving Joey uncertain who would be targeted next.

• Joey used Gold Experience to hide the camera inside a book, while Olawu reported the trick to Balsamilco and the First Prince told Joey through Shukurinov to wait for the operation to finish.
• Joey considered the assassin’s identity after a quiet third day, then received Melody’s request to help Kacho and Fugetsu escape the succession war and promised to help after their mission.
• Joey prepared to use Melody’s music as cover to probe an assassination of Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, while keeping his own body away from the banquet hall.
• The Seventh Queen returned in a wheelchair and moved her guards to the Twelfth Prince’s Room, where she blamed Joey and Kurapika for Marayam’s death as Momoze listened calmly.
• The assassin with Majority of the Silent struck again despite the Eighth Prince’s guards being absent, shifting suspicion toward Satobi and raising the possibility that the killer acted from outside the room.