Chapter Summaries

Joey and Kurapika prepared to use evidence against the First Prince to negotiate with Tserriednich while avoiding a dangerous confrontation. After recognizing Joey as Yoshikage Kira, Tserriednich summoned him and Kurapika, and Tserried interpreted Joey’s warning as a possible prediction that her planned attack would fail.

• Joey and Kurapika agreed to let Tserriednich’s people retrieve the hidden surveillance video, preserving it as leverage while keeping Joey’s involvement concealed.
• Kurapika told Joey that Nasubi Hui Guo Rou was the only survivor of the previous Succession War, and Joey revealed the Eleventh Prince’s Secret Door ability and their plans to infiltrate Tserriednich’s Room.
• Joey rejected Melody’s offer to meet Tserriednich, warned Tserried through a fly not to act and to beware of time, and asked Hisoka to watch over Melody.
• Tserriednich learned that DIO was an alias for Yoshikage Kira and ordered his Personal Guards to search for Morena’s base and invite Kurapika and DIO to his Room.
• Tserried decoded Joey’s warning, burned the message, and considered that Joey might foresee the future and know her planned attack would fail.

Joey and Kurapika accepted the Fourth Prince’s invitation to lunch and prepared to use the meeting to approach him, while Kurapika began awakening the princes’ guards to Nen. After Danjin completed the process, Shukurinov struggled against the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast’s temptation as it offered to show him something special.

• Joey inferred that the First Prince had told the Fourth Prince about his business connection to Morena, and he and Kurapika agreed to risk the lunch meeting to approach the Fourth Prince.
• Kurapika began calling guards into Momoze’s bedroom for private Nen training and summoned Danjin first, who agreed to proceed.
• Joey used Gold Experience to grow a lily from a seed, and Kurapika explained how his Steal Chain could lend the ability to awaken Danjin’s Nen.
• Danjin used the borrowed Gold Experience to grow a lily and awakened his own Nen before returning to the other guards.
• Shukurinov judged that Danjin was not being controlled and tried to resist Momoze’s Nen Beast, but he finally answered that he was free.

Shukurinov, controlled by the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast, attacked Bellerente and was killed by Sakada, prompting charges against the First Prince. Later, Joey and Kurapika met Tserriednich, who recognized Joey as Yoshikage Kira and tried to recruit him, but Kurapika attacked, triggering a clash between their Nen abilities.

• Shukurinov fired at Bellerente while shouting that the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast had asked him to act, and Sakada shot him dead.
• Sakada charged the First Prince with attempted murder, and the King’s Army removed Shukurinov’s body before the First Prince was taken for questioning.
• Benjamin learned that Shukurinov had activated his ability and suspended his plans to attack the Sixth Prince, while ordering his Personal Guards to pull back.
• Joey and Kurapika met Tserriednich, who recognized Joey as Yoshikage Kira and urged him to return to the Ai Yi Yi Family, but Joey refused.
• Kurapika attacked Tserriednich with his chain as Joey sent bees toward the Guardian Nen Beast, which killed the bees and left coins beneath gathering thunderclouds.

Joey, Kurapika, and Tserried attacked Tserriednich, forcing him to use [Precognitive Dream], but Joey’s flames and sealed exits overwhelmed the ability and left the prince unconscious. As the group fought off the arriving guards, Joey pressed the attack on Tserriednich and offered Tserried a choice that effectively made her his ally.

• Joey and Kurapika kept Tserriednich’s Nen Beasts beside him while transformed tableware and creatures attacked, and Tserried pointed her pistol at the prince.
• Tserriednich entered Zetsu and activated [Precognitive Dream], but Joey warned Kurapika and Tserried to use Ken before Nen-enhanced flames engulfed the sealed room.
• Tserriednich tried to escape the flames, struck Joey with his Nen Beast, and fell unconscious after his ability broke.
• The Guard Soldiers fired at Joey and Kurapika, while Joey’s birds blocked the bullets and Kurapika deflected them with his chain.
• Joey and Kurapika attacked Tserriednich and his Nen Beast as Joey sent Piyon a message and offered Tserried a choice between helping him below or remaining in the Fourth District.
• Joey approached the exposed Tserriednich as a door appeared silently in the dining-room wall.

Joey and Kurapika captured the Fourth Prince, moved him to Room 12, and then decided he could not be allowed to live. After Joey killed him, Momoze’s Nen Beast evolved and produced new abilities, while the King’s Army investigated the disappearance of the Fourth Prince’s guards.

• Kurapika told Joey that retaining a stolen ability had side effects, and Joey planted the First Bomb on the unconscious Fourth Prince.
• Joey and Kurapika moved the Fourth Prince to Room 12, where Joey left him with Hisoka before returning to the Fourth District and disguising a clone as the prince.
• Kurapika decided the Fourth Prince should die, and Joey used Killer Queen to annihilate him despite the sudden appearance of his Guardian Nen Beast.
• Momoze’s Nen Beast grew larger, produced smaller copies that offered to help Joey and Kurapika, and appeared to have gained new abilities.
• Momoze gave Joey and Kurapika sweaters she had knitted, while the King’s Army investigated the disappearance of the Fourth Prince’s Personal Guards.
• Joey’s disguised clone asked Tserried and Salgov to explain what had happened to the Fourth Prince.

Joey learned that Tserried had been concealing extensive wounds from the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast, raising doubts about whether the prince had truly died. While Joey suspected the prince’s body might have been transported to a hidden chamber, Benjamin ordered Kurapika and DIO summoned for questioning.

• Tserried explained that the Fourth Prince had survived her earlier assassination attempt and that his Nen Beast had wounded her for lying to him.
• Tserried revealed that the wounds still covered half her face and upper body, leading her to suspect the Fourth Prince or his Nen Beast remained alive.
• Joey reasoned that the person he had destroyed might have been a Nen Beast and wondered if the Fourth Prince’s body had appeared in the chamber with fourteen coffins.
• Benjamin and Balsamilco analyzed the unexplained disappearances and considered whether the ability belonged to a prince or Kurapika.
• Balsamilco reported that the Fourth Prince appeared to be dead, and Benjamin ordered Kurapika and DIO summoned to meet him within half an hour.

Joey and Kurapika were summoned to the First Prince after the Fourth Prince’s death became known, but Babimayna’s escort mission turned into a deadly confrontation that killed Shikaku. At Room 1, Kurapika confirmed their deal with Benjamin and handed over a booklet of information about the Princes’ Nen beasts.

• Joey sent Mizaistom Morena’s information and location, then rejected Mizaistom’s request to keep Hisoka with him.
• Kurapika told Joey that Benjamin had summoned them and that the Second and Third Princes had also invited them to meet.
• Babimayna’s Nen beast attacked Shikaku after Shikaku fired at Babimayna, killing Shikaku in the corridor.
• Babimayna claimed he was being controlled, fired at the Ninth and Tenth Princes, then took poison; Olawu revived him before the King’s Army carried him away.
• Tsungidori escorted Joey and Kurapika to Benjamin, who asked them to fulfill their deal after confirming the Fourth Prince’s death.
• Kurapika gave Balsamilco a booklet of Nen beast records and explained that the information reflected the beasts’ initial abilities aboard the ship.

Joey and Kurapika visited the First, Second, and Third Princes while shifting their plans after the Fourth Prince disappeared. They returned to Room 12, where Momoze’s Nen Beast again attached itself to them, leaving them concerned about the dangers of its uncontrolled ability.

• Joey gave the First Prince fabricated but plausible intelligence about the Princes’ Nen Beast abilities, then his Clone impersonating the Fourth Prince shot a First Prince Personal Guard and dissipated after being hit by the guard’s Aura-stealing ability.
• Joey suggested that Kurapika discreetly help the Second Prince’s guards understand the Succession War and warned him that Izunavi seemed affected by the Sixth Prince’s influence.
• The Second Prince dismissed Joey and Kurapika after a brief, interrogative meeting, but Kurapika offered her guard captain Salahale information about a camera in Room 8 and proposed a peace treaty.
• Kurapika denied knowing what had happened to the Fourth Prince when he met the Third Prince, Chorai, and agreed that Tafortoli would take Sakada’s place in the next Nen test.
• Joey and Kurapika passed the turbulent Ninth District and returned to Room 12, where Momoze’s Nen Beast sent two new doll-like creatures onto their shoulders.

Joey recovered his Nen, watched the fallout from a deadly incident in Rooms 7 and 8, and prepared to leave the First Tier as tensions rose. After receiving Piyon’s message about the worsening Mafia conflict and the Phantom Troupe, Joey said he would head to the lower tiers by the next day.

• Joey told Kurapika he would create chaos to enter the King's Area and would leave the First Tier, asking Kurapika to protect Momoze.
• Joey exhausted his Gold Experience Nen, recovered with Biscuit’s help, and watched the King's Army respond to a fire in Room 8 and Satobi’s attack on the Seventh Prince’s guards.
• Joey secretly blocked Satobi’s oxygen, and Satobi died after the medic failed to revive him; Joey and Biscuit then questioned who was behind the deaths in Room 8.
• Joey suspected Kinoshita Aru might still be acting for someone beyond the dead Eighth Prince, then relieved Kurapika and warned that the coming days would be unsettled.
• Sakada told Kurapika that the court had begun seventy-two hours of surveillance on the First Prince, and Joey inferred that the Second Prince’s people had taken the camera hidden in Room 8.
• Piyon told Joey that Mizaistom had taken Tserried and Salgov to deal with escalating Mafia violence and had located a Phantom Troupe member; Joey replied that he would head to the lower tiers by the next day.

Kakin investigators brought Benjamin to the VVIP Area over evidence connecting his guards to the Eighth Prince’s death, while Womamma exposed Muser’s lingering ability on Camilla. Balsamilco concluded that Room 12’s Nen Beast could spread a dangerous ability among Nen users and developed a plan to counter both the Twelfth and Ninth Princes.

• Shutaina took Benjamin to the VVIP Area for investigation, but Benjamin presented Bridges’s dismembered remains and claimed the Fourth Prince had returned him.
• Womamma used her blood to reveal Muser’s owl ability on Camilla, and the owl burned away as Benjamin sensed the loss of the ability.
• Balsamilco told Benjamin that Room 12’s Nen Beast had evolved to attach itself to ability users, making Kurapika and DIO potential carriers and Slaka, Bellerente, and Satobi possible threats.
• Balsamilco reasoned that Room 12’s actions might aim to stall the Succession War, while Benjamin said the First Queen would handle the Fifth Queen’s interference in Room 8.
• Balsamilco concluded that the Ninth Prince’s Nen Beast could replace a victim’s soul and proposed using Victor’s ability to restrict the Ninth Prince while targeting his supporters.

Halkenburg investigated the effects of his Nen ability and received warnings from Joey about the First Prince’s plans to isolate him. Elsewhere on the ship, Gangidor, Basho, Izunavi, and the Fifth Prince each faced growing suspicions and dangers, leaving the succession war’s schemes spreading across several rooms.

• Halkenburg confirmed that Shikaku had taken Smith Lee’s body and ordered Shikaku killed, then wrote down his understanding of his Nen ability and its cost.
• Joey warned Halkenburg that the First Prince could use legal proceedings to separate him from his guards, and Halkenburg agreed to delay his move until nine the next morning.
• Gangidor investigated the Second Queen’s Direct Guards in Room 7, resisted the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast Clone, and asked Basho about Satobi’s behavior.
• Basho considered whether the Seventh Prince was disconnected from the Kakin Mafia or concealing his involvement, while Izunavi worried that Tyson’s Nen Beast ability was affecting Giuliano and the Sixth District.
• The Fifth Prince planned how to survive the First Prince’s suspected assassination attempt and decided that Kurapika was the collaborator she needed.

Slaka’s assassination attempt triggered a battle in Room 12, where Hisoka’s disguise was exposed and Joey helped him fight toward the King’s Area. They found no sign of Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, so Joey prepared to use hidden devices and an assassination plan before their defenses failed.

• Slaka stabbed Hasuto, but Hisoka killed Slaka with a playing card as Sakada fired at him.
• Victor entered Room 12 and was killed by Hisoka, while Phinks attacked Victor and then fought Hisoka in the corridor.
• Joey used fog to conceal Hisoka and his clone as they rushed toward the King’s Area.
• Joey and Hisoka broke into the King’s Area, fought past its Nen users, and found the room where the Ninth Prince had met Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, but Nasubi was absent.
• Joey searched the room for a hidden passage and planted listening devices, telling Hisoka that his defenses could last at most three minutes.

Joey moved Kacho and Fugetsu out of Nasubi’s bedchamber, where Nasubi’s old Nen Beast was destroyed and his new one appeared. After sending Hisoka toward Franklin to stir up the Mafia conflict, Joey watched the room’s surveillance feed and waited for the results of his plan.

• Joey arranged for Kacho and Fugetsu to travel through Secret Door to the Fifth Floor, then bargained with Hisoka for the Guardian Handkerchief and agreed to a trade.
• Hisoka and his Clone left for the Fifth Floor while Joey, Kacho, and Fugetsu escaped through the passage; Nugui’s soldiers found Nasubi’s bedchamber empty.
• Nasubi returned to the bedchamber, turned to ash, and reformed; his former Nen Beast vanished and a new Guardian Nen Beast appeared, destroyed Joey’s camera, and prompted a search of the room.
• Joey brought Kacho and Fugetsu to Piyon, sent Hisoka after Franklin, and explained that the Phantom Troupe and Hisoka could draw the Three Great Mafia Families into a stalemate.
• Joey monitored the bedchamber through his phone as Killer Queen appeared beside him and pressed its right thumb.

Joey watched King Nasubi survive First Bomb and deduced that he had spatial movement, a time-reversal ability tied to his Nen Beast, and protection from deceased Princes’ Nen Beasts. As the authorities investigated attacks and disappearances aboard the ship, Joey remained in Room 12 to protect Prince Momoze while Kurapika left to meet the Third and Seventh Princes.

• Joey detonated First Bomb when Nasubi appeared on the monitored sofa, but Nasubi revived and a Guardian Nen Beast appeared behind him.
• Joey inferred that Nasubi could move himself and others through space, reverse time through his Nen Beast, and summon deceased Princes’ Nen Beasts for protection; he shared his deductions with Piyon in exchange for a surveillance camera.
• The Judicial Affairs Bureau questioned Room 12’s occupants, accepted Sakada’s complaint against the Second Queen, and took Bellerente into protective custody as a witness.
• Kurapika received invitations from the Third and Seventh Princes and left Room 12, while Joey’s clone stayed to guard Prince Momoze.
• The Judicial Affairs Bureau and King’s Army investigated the disappearance of the Tenth and Eleventh Princes, while the First Prince and Balsamilco received intelligence about the developments.

Benjamin and Balsamilco pieced together a theory that Kurapika, DIO, and the Tenth and Eleventh Princes were connected to the intruders in the King's Area, then ordered a search below. On the Fifth Floor, Franklin attacked Hisoka, but their battle ended with two apparent Hisokas confronting him.

• Balsamilco and Benjamin discussed Victor's death and theorized that the Eleventh Prince's spatial ability had helped the intruders escape.
• Balsamilco concluded that the Tenth and Eleventh Princes might be hiding in the lower tiers, and Benjamin ordered his Personal Guards to find and eliminate them.
• Benjamin ordered Balsamilco to warn the Second Prince about DIO and alert the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Princes to Kurapika's abilities.
• Hisoka entered the Fifth Floor cafeteria, where Franklin immediately attacked him with Nen Bullets.
• Hisoka used Bungee Gum to catch and return Franklin's bullets, but Franklin countered with Double Bowl Cannon and Laser Eyes.
• Franklin destroyed what appeared to be Hisoka, then discovered a trap involving moving corpses and saw two Hisokas attacking him with Bungee Gum.

Franklin and Feitan fought off Mafia members after Hisoka used a feint to provoke chaos and escape, while Hunters Botobai and Mizaistom suspected the Ai Yi Yi Family was aiding him. On the Third Tier, Joey evaded a blood-based surveillance ability, encountered two Shu-U Family members, and realized his cover as the person in Room 12 might soon be exposed.

• Franklin unleashed a barrage of Nen Bullets at two Hisokas, but Hisoka disappeared before the Mafia arrived.
• A Mafia member fired at Franklin, prompting Franklin and Feitan to kill the attacking Mafia group as a short figure wielding an umbrella and sword joined the fight.
• Franklin and Feitan concluded that Hisoka had deliberately provoked the Mafia and might have help, then decided to move together and warn Machi.
• Botobai and Mizaistom arrived at the cafeteria, suspected Hisoka had made an agreement with the Ai Yi Yi Family, and discussed the growing turmoil aboard the ship.
• Joey concealed Kacho and Fugetsu from a tiny blood surveillance device, then left their room to investigate it.
• Joey encountered two Shu-U Family members in the corridor and let them pass, knowing they could identify him and expose the fake Joey in Room 12.

Joey refused Mizaistom’s request to help investigate the ship’s assassinations, then made a deal with the Shu-U Family to transport their people to the First Tier in exchange for information on the Gasha Family and help locating the coffin room. While investigating places where his cockroaches had died, Joey encountered Zigg Zoldyck and Illumi, who warned him about the Phantom Troupe.

• Joey declined to assist Mizaistom’s investigation and moved the Tenth and Eleventh Princes to a new room while using cockroaches to explore the ship.
• Hinrigh, Zacrow, and Lynch met Joey, and he arranged a phone deal with Onior to transport Shu-U Family personnel to the First Tier in return for Gasha Family information and a search for the coffin room.
• Joey continued mapping the Third Tier, then visited locations where his cockroaches had died and found Zigg Zoldyck fishing.
• Joey questioned Zigg and Illumi about Kalluto joining the Phantom Troupe, and Zigg said Kalluto would leave the ship when it stopped.
• Illumi asked whether Joey had teamed up with Hisoka, then warned him not to let an important tool for the mission break before they reached the Dark Continent.

Joey gathered intelligence on the Succession War, captured one of Morena’s Nen users, and arranged to meet her on the Third Tier. Meanwhile, the princes and Mafia families prepared for their own moves, with Hinrigh choosing a team to eliminate Gohndobba.

• Joey fished with Zigg, who said Nasubi could sacrifice ordinary people and described the Succession War as a reckoning for Kakin’s accumulated resentment.
• Joey explored the Third Tier, captured a novice Nen user, and used Killer Queen to force him to reveal how to contact Morena.
• Joey called Morena, learned she already knew the Fourth Prince was dead, and arranged to meet her at the Third Tier Observation Area at midnight.
• Joey spoke with Fugetsu and Kacho, agreed to help protect them, and asked Piyon to tell Mizaistom to reduce the Observation Area’s security presence.
• The Third Prince considered his Guardian Nen Beast’s coins and the need to survive without its protection, while Gohndobba kept the coin he gave him.
• Onior questioned Hinrigh about DIO, and Hinrigh confirmed he would send three people to the First Tier to eliminate Gohndobba.

Joey met Morena on the observation deck and negotiated a ring-linked agreement to protect her twice in exchange for access to her [Love Etude] ability. The next morning, he sent three Shu-U Family members through Fugetsu’s portal to the Third District, where they attacked Gohndobba beside the Third Prince.

• Joey admitted to Morena that he had dealt with the Fourth Prince, and she revealed Kakin’s ties to the Chimera Ants and offered information about [Ming].
• Joey and Morena agreed that he would help protect her twice, and she gave him an aura-sensing ring that could locate her.
• Joey learned from Morena about a [Weapon] in the Second Floor VIP Area and asked her to investigate the coffin area and the previous King of Kakin.
• Joey gave the ring to a tabby cat he created, then disguised Fugetsu with a human-skin mask and prepared to send Hinrigh’s people to the Third District.
• Fugetsu opened a portal for three Shu-U Family members, who emerged behind Gohndobba and attacked him while his headset exploded beside his ear.

Hinrigh’s assault team attacked Gohndobba in Room 3, but the guard’s counteractive ability turned the ambush deadly and left him dead. The Third Prince accepted Miguel and Craig as covert guards, learned of threats involving DIO and the Ai Yi Yi Family, and calmly went to the VVIP Area after the First Prince accused him of murder.

• The Third Prince realized the attackers were targeting Gohndobba and wondered what had changed on the First Tier.
• The Shu-U Family’s three-man team attacked Gohndobba, whose counteractive ability injured the first two attackers and forced him into Zetsu.
• Miguel killed Gohndobba with a pistol, and the Third Prince ordered the death blamed on the Phantom Troupe.
• Miguel identified himself and Craig as Hinrigh’s men, then told the Third Prince that DIO in Room 12 was a clone and that the Ai Yi Yi Family might target the Princes.
• The Judicial Affairs Bureau escorted the Third Prince to the VVIP Area after the First Prince accused him of murdering Gohndobba.
• Chorai considered DIO’s connection to the missing Tenth and Eleventh Princes and thought about using that knowledge to strengthen his position.