Chapter Summaries

Joey awakened in Yoshikage Kira’s body after consuming Kira’s soul, and discovered that Killer Queen had become his Stand. As someone pounded on the door and demanded to see Yoshikage Kira, Joey faced his first immediate threat in this unfamiliar world.

• Joey overpowered Yoshikage Kira in their shared soul space and began absorbing his soul power.
• Over roughly five years, Joey absorbed Yoshikage Kira’s soul and adapted to the body, while Killer Queen remained with him.
• Joey recalled that his new body came with fragments of its original owner’s knowledge, but he had gained none of Kira’s memories.
• Joey found a severed woman’s hand on the table and nearly brought it to his face before recoiling.
• Joey ordered Killer Queen to destroy the severed hand with its first bomb, then heard a man outside angrily demand that Yoshikage Kira open the door.

Joey faced a monster attack on the village and decided to escape through the back window rather than fight the creatures. While gathering supplies, he found modern weapons and documents bearing his former name, Yoshikage Kira, leaving him questioning the world he was in.

• Joey saw bizarre monsters attack the village and capture its inhabitants.
• A monster broke through Joey's door, and Killer Queen touched its blade-like limb, turning it into a bomb.
• Joey decided to flee through the back window and gathered supplies while preparing a decoy.
• Joey found a handgun, grenades, a cell phone, a flashlight, a marked map, and a wallet containing identification under the name Yoshikage Kira.

Joey recognized that he was in NGL in the world of Hunter x Hunter and used Killer Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack to draw the Chimera Ants away from his escape route. He reached the woods, but remained wary of Ants nearby and uncertain about the tank’s vague orders.

• Joey recognized NGL and identified the attackers as Chimera Ants, then packed supplies and prepared to escape.
• Joey sent Sheer Heart Attack through the broken doorway to attack the Chimera Ants and draw their attention with repeated explosions.
• Joey slipped out through a rear window and hid beneath the eaves as flying Chimera Ants investigated the blasts.
• Joey ran into the woods while the explosions continued in the village and worried about the risks of his command to Sheer Heart Attack.

Joey fled through the forest while worrying that Sheer Heart Attack’s explosions were draining his stamina as well as his mental energy. He resolved to survive and decided to head for a nearby Organization Base, hoping to find supplies and eventually join Kite, Gon, and Killua to escape NGL.

• Joey realized that Sheer Heart Attack’s repeated explosions were exhausting him and feared he might run out of stamina before the tank returned.
• Joey calmed himself by considering that he could sacrifice his left hand to release Sheer Heart Attack if necessary.
• Joey kept moving through the forest with a pistol, though he doubted he could rely on it against danger.
• Joey used a map and his wilderness experience to estimate his location and concluded that the nearby villages were unsafe.
• Joey chose to seek the Organization Base, hoping it could provide weapons, information, or a chance to find Kite, Gon, and Killua.

Joey recalled what he knew about the Chimera Ants and their hierarchy while fleeing through the forest after Chariot destroyed the ants in the village. Chariot's tracks exposed his route, and Joey realized a Chimera Ant was following him as he wondered whether it could see Killer Queen.

• Joey searched Yoshikage Kira's phone but found no contacts, messages, call history, or photos.
• Joey reasoned that the village's surviving Chimera Ants could send Squadron Leaders after him and hurried to put more distance between himself and the village.
• Joey considered how the Chimera Ant Queen's phagogenesis and the colony's hierarchy made the intelligent ants a dangerous threat.
• Chariot returned after eliminating the Chimera Ants in the village, and Killer Queen absorbed it into its hand.
• Joey noticed that Chariot had left tracks through the woods and quickened his pace to escape.
• Killer Queen warned Joey of a Chimera Ant behind him, and Joey suspected the pursuer might be able to see Killer Queen.

Joey used Killer Queen to ambush and destroy a pursuing bee Chimera Ant, then continued through the forest toward the base. He found a village and organization personnel devastated by Chimera Ant attacks, and the chapter left him exhausted near the base as night approached.

• Joey hid a bamboo tube transformed by Killer Queen into a bomb, and the bee Chimera Ant exploded when it touched it.
• Joey returned to find the Chimera Ant still writhing, so Killer Queen's tank finished it off; Joey left the tube behind and wondered why the first explosion had not killed it.
• Several Chimera Ants arrived at the scene, and a dog-headed one tracked Joey's direction as the group pursued him.
• Joey passed the village on his map and saw that Chimera Ants had devastated it.
• Joey found white-uniformed organization personnel dead among their weapons, realized the nearby base was likely under attack, and pressed on while exhausted near dusk.

Joey used the mysterious glowing wallet to recover stamina while trying to escape the forest and reach the base. After finding recently killed soldiers and weighing his options, he decided to keep moving, but a bloodstained beast’s claw attacked him from above.

• Joey discovered that the wallet’s aura restored his stamina, but suspected it might be dangerous and resolved to stop relying on it once he was safe.
• Joey remembered seeing a strange glowing creature before he crossed over and wondered whether it had been made into the wallet and whether its aura was Nen.
• Joey picked up the wallet again and used its fading aura to balance his stamina loss as he continued through the forest.
• Joey found recently killed soldiers, picked up their weapons, and stayed alert for nearby Chimera Ants.
• Joey chose to keep heading toward the base before nightfall, but a bloodstained beast’s claw suddenly swept down at him from a tree.

Joey fought a group of Chimera Ants in the woods, using Killer Queen, his firearms, and a grenade to kill two and cripple a third. After realizing the skull tank was struggling against the last Ant, he ran toward a less densely wooded area, leaving the outcome of the fight unresolved.

• Joey shot and killed an apelike Chimera Ant that had tried to attack him, then fired at a dog-headed Chimera Ant hurled by an explosion.
• A pill bug-like Chimera Ant rammed Killer Queen and knocked Joey down, injuring his right arm.
• Joey dodged the pill bug’s renewed charge as Killer Queen punched it over, then Joey threw a grenade that mangled its body.
• Joey saw the skull tank’s fourth explosion and judged that the final Chimera Ant was difficult to defeat.
• Joey touched a nearby tree, then ran into the woods toward a less densely wooded area, leaving the injured pill bug behind.

Joey tried to lure a pursuing Chimera Ant into a First Bomb trap, but the creature changed course before he could spring it. A red arrow struck the monster, and Joey recognized the newcomers as Ponzu’s group, led by Pokkle.

• Joey hid in a thicket and planned to blast a tree with First Bomb so the Skeleton Chariot could catch the Chimera Ant pursuing him.
• The Chimera Ant changed direction before reaching the trapped tree, leaving Joey’s plan in doubt as his stamina waned.
• Joey considered chasing after Sheer Heart Attack, but a red streak flashed through the woods and hit the monster.
• Three seconds later, the Skeleton Chariot exploded, and Joey saw four figures moving through the woods.
• Joey recognized the newcomers as Ponzu’s group and recalled that Pokkle was their leader.

Joey encountered Pokkle and his companions after escaping the Chimera Ant attack on the village, and tried to work out how much they knew about him and Killer Queen. He agreed to travel with them toward a nearby Drug Plantation, while Pokkle secretly signaled Ponzu.

• Joey recalled Killer Queen and the Skeleton Chariot as Pokkle and three others approached, then surrendered and stepped out of the bushes.
• Pokkle recognized Joey as Yoshikage Kira, and Joey said monsters had attacked the village and that he was its only survivor.
• Joey inferred that Pokkle and the Hunters might have encountered Yoshikage Kira in the village and noticed Killer Queen, while Ponzu reacted with disbelief to the attack.
• Joey said he had been investigating Zaiyilo and planned to visit a Drug Plantation about an hour away, where the organization might have weapons against the monsters.
• Pokkle asked Joey to share what he knew on the way, and Joey agreed while making Killer Queen vanish to signal cooperation.
• Pokkle secretly made a hand signal to Ponzu as Joey watched him lower his hand.

Joey warned Pokkle and his team about the Chimera Ants and urged them to leave NGL, but Pokkle remained determined to investigate. The group headed back to their camp and planned to contact other teams and explore farther, leaving Joey to follow them despite fearing what lay ahead.

• Joey told Pokkle that Chimera Ants had attacked multiple villages and were intelligent, dangerous, and present in large numbers.
• Pokkle collected Chimera Ant remains, and Joey gave him a phone so the group could photograph the bodies and inspect the battlefield.
• Joey handed Pokkle his map and said the base was probably under attack, but Pokkle chose to return to camp for their belongings first.
• Ponzu and the others returned with phones and weapons they had gathered, visibly shaken by the battle scene.
• Pokkle's group decided to contact other teams and explore farther into NGL, and Joey quietly followed them.

As Pokkle and Joey ran through the forest, Pokkle investigated Joey’s abilities and suspected he knew more about the group than he let on. Joey privately wondered why he could see Nen, and the two continued on with their questions unresolved.

• Pokkle asked whether Joey had learned anything about the base, and Joey said he had received no information since leaving the village.
• Joey told Pokkle that four monsters had chased him and described killing two and injuring a third with a grenade.
• Pokkle reasoned that Joey probably could not use Nen, but questioned how Joey controlled a Nen Beast and appeared able to see Nen.
• Pokkle recalled investigating Yoshikage Kira in the village and suspected that Kira had secretly learned about Pokkle’s group and Ponzu’s bees.
• Joey wondered whether his mental strength or Stand let him see Nen, then remembered seeing a glow around a wallet.
• Joey and Pokkle met each other’s gaze, nodded awkwardly, and looked away without discussing their suspicions.

Joey and Pokkle’s squad fled to a safer campsite after fighting Chimera Ants, while Joey weighed whether saving Pokkle could change the ants’ progress in learning Nen. When Ponzu could not contact the other squads, Pokkle decided they would hide for the night and return to the checkpoint if they still could not reach anyone by morning.

• Joey felt better after recalling Killer Queen and replenishing his strength as the group left the campsite under Pokkle’s lead.
• Pokkle led the group toward a nearby hidden campsite rather than traveling through the forest at night, and Ponzu used her bees to scout.
• Joey considered saving Pokkle to delay the Chimera Ants’ discovery of Nen and wondered how that might affect Kite’s future encounter with Neferpitou.
• Joey noticed Yoshikage Kira’s habits influencing him and thought about becoming a Hunter who traveled to photograph scenery.
• Ponzu told Pokkle she had been unable to contact the other squads for two hours, and Extra Number 2 worried that the Chimera Ants had attacked them.
• Pokkle ordered Ponzu to keep trying to contact the squads and decided they would hide overnight, then return to the checkpoint if they still had no contact by morning.

Joey and the others followed a distress signal into the forest, where Chimera Ants ambushed them and killed two of the tagalongs. Pokkle and Ponzu faced a larger crocodile-like ant, while Joey’s explosion engulfed it as the fight continued.

• Ponzu’s bees found a distress signal from a nearby team, so Pokkle led Joey, Ponzu, and the two tagalongs to investigate.
• The group found mangled human and insect corpses and tracked signs that some team members might have survived.
• A Chimera Ant ambushed the ash-haired tagalong and killed him before Pokkle and Joey’s group fought back.
• More Chimera Ants attacked, and a stone knocked the gray-browed tagalong into a rhinoceros-beetle ant, killing them both.
• A crocodile-like Chimera Ant caught Pokkle’s arrow, but Joey’s shouted warning preceded an explosion that engulfed it.

Joey, Pokkle, and Ponzu fought a Squadron Leader-class crocodile Chimera Ant, using explosives and poison to bring him down. As Joey fled and Pokkle escaped with Ponzu, the crocodile rose again under a surge of dark Nen.

• Joey recognized the crocodile as a Squadron Leader-class Chimera Ant, retrieved his Skeleton Chariot, and attacked while Pokkle fired a poison arrow that burst into mist.
• Joey used Killer Queen to set off an internal explosion, realized the crocodile could suppress the blast with Nen, and warned Pokkle to run.
• A Chimera Ant seized Plant Ash Soy Sauce Fan's rifle and shot Joey, who escaped into the woods while detonating a tree and another marked target to cover his flight.
• Pokkle poisoned the crocodile through his wounds and pierced its left eye with a Red Bow arrow, apparently killing it.
• Dark Nen rose from the crocodile and its head-pierced body stood again, so Pokkle grabbed Ponzu and fled; the rifle-wielding Chimera Ant collapsed under dead bees and pustules.

Joey chose to avoid returning to the battlefield and headed toward a village he considered safer, while setting a trap for the Chimera Ants tracking his blood trail. He killed the four pursuers at a stream and continued on alone.

• Joey rejected the idea of returning to Pokkle and Ponzu, deciding instead to head toward the village northeast of the base.
• Joey concluded that he needed to eliminate his pursuers rather than try to lose them, since one of them was likely a skilled tracker.
• The four Chimera Ants stopped by a stream, where the rooster-headed tracker spotted the tracks left by Heartbreaker Attack.
• Joey detonated his trap and fired at the Chimera Ants from the opposite bank as Heartbreaker Attack pursued them.
• Joey dodged spikes from the porcupine Chimera Ant, and Heartbreaker Attack destroyed the remaining pursuers in a series of explosions.

After escaping the base, Joey hid in a village and waited for Kite’s group while wounded and increasingly afraid of the Chimera Ants. He saw Gido kill a man, heard suffering from the base, and finally spotted several familiar figures emerging from the woods.

• Joey treated his wounds beside a stream, then sneaked toward the village and hid in a house to wait for Kite’s group.
• Joey watched a Carapace Chimera Ant torment a wounded man until Gido appeared and killed the man with a swift strike.
• Joey recognized Gido as a Chimera Ant Squadron Leader and stayed hidden, knowing he could not defeat him in a direct fight.
• Joey heard cries from the base and later gunshots near the woods, while worrying that Ponzu might be in danger.
• Joey drew comfort from the Nen flowing from his wallet, then saw several familiar figures emerge from the woods.

Joey encountered Kite, Gon, Killua, Pokkle, and Ponzu in the devastated village and revealed that he had fought Chimera Ants with Killer Queen. Kite recognized Joey’s unusual connection to Nen and took him along as the group investigated the area.

• Joey stepped out of a house and reunited with Pokkle and Ponzu as Kite, Gon, and Killua approached the ruined village.
• Pokkle identified Joey as a resident of NGL and a member of Zaiyilo’s Narcotics Organization, and Joey explained how he had become trapped in the village.
• Joey described the Chimera Ants he had seen nearby, and Gon noticed a bloody smell coming from the woods.
• Kite asked whether Joey had killed Chimera Ants near a stream, and Joey admitted it while summoning Killer Queen.
• Kite examined Joey’s ability to see Nen and concluded that Joey had awakened Nen and instinctively learned a restricted form of Gyo.
• Kite told Joey to come along with the group, and Joey cautiously followed them.

Kite led the group deeper into the woods, where Gon and Killua fought the Chimera Ant known as Bugs Bunny. As Bugs Bunny was knocked into the air, Joey shot him in the thigh, while a winged figure reached to catch him.

• Ponzu gave Joey water and explained that her bees had sent the team’s information ahead, while Kite planned to wait for reinforcements before sending the wounded back to the border.
• Kite and the others followed blood smears to prey impaled on dead trees, where a hidden Chimera Ant named Bugs Bunny suddenly attacked.
• Kite told Gon and Killua to prove they could handle Soldier Ants, while Joey prepared his gun and recognized the attacker.
• Gon and Killua attacked Bugs Bunny together, and Gon’s punch sent him flying into the sky.
• Joey fired at Bugs Bunny as a winged figure reached for him, hitting his thigh with two shots.

Joey and the others watched Bugs Bunny die in Killer Queen’s explosion, then Kite asked Joey to lead them to the Narcotics Organization’s base. Joey realized Kite believed he was a liaison with knowledge of secret V5 records, and agreed while looking for ways to improve his chances of surviving.

• Killer Queen detonated Bugs Bunny, and the Chimera Ant who had carried him flew away after inspecting the group.
• Kite asked Joey, Gon, and Killua to join him, but Joey refused to enter the dangerous forest with them.
• Kite told Joey he could not reach the border because he was a citizen of NGL and would be stopped at the checkpoint.
• Kite said he needed Joey to take the group to the Narcotics Organization’s base, where records showed V5 had funded the organization and hidden its presence in NGL.
• Kite explained that he believed Joey was one of the organization’s liaisons, and Joey agreed while privately wondering what Yoshikage Kira had known about the organization.