Chapter Summaries

Joey read Hinrigh’s file on the Gasha-A Family and heard from Morena that a guarded warehouse on the Fifth Tier might conceal the coffin area. After burning the file and preparing, he went to the Fifth Tier to investigate.

• Hinrigh gave Joey a file about the Gasha-A Family and reported that the investigation had found no leads on the Fourth Tier.
• Joey studied the file, learning that the Gasha-A Family controlled the Fifth Tier and had clashed with the Phantom Troupe after its massacre at the Central Cafeteria.
• Morena visited Joey and revealed that her people had found a suspicious supply warehouse on the Fifth Tier, guarded by disguised members of the King's Army.
• Joey questioned Morena about her motives, confirmed that she stood by the information, and learned that the location was the C District Warehouse.
• Joey burned the file, prepared his belongings, and appeared on the Fifth Tier a few hours later.

Joey agreed to impersonate the Third Prince in the VVIP Area in two days, while continuing to search the Fifth Floor for the coffin area. Elsewhere, Camilla ordered her Personal Guard to investigate whether the Twelfth District had an Exorcism Master.

• Joey stayed in the Fifth-Floor Regular Room and sent Gold Experience creations to map the area as he searched for the coffin area.
• Sakada told Joey that the Third Prince had deduced he was using a clone and had impersonated the Fourth Prince, then offered information about the King's Army and Nugui in exchange for Joey disguising himself as the Third Prince.
• Joey accepted the deal for two days later and planned to use Fugetsu to enter the VVIP Area, with Hisoka's help and advance reconnaissance.
• Camilla complained to the Second Queen that the Ninth Prince was still alive, but the Second Queen refused to approach him and said Halkenburg was targeting the First Prince.
• Camilla asked whether the Twelfth District had an Exorcism Master, and after the Second Queen said it did not, Salahale left to investigate.

Slaka’s intelligence led the Second Prince to send Kabichi to curse Momoze, while Joey discovered the curse and reconsidered why the Second Prince had launched the attack. Joey suspected it was a probe, and the curse was still draining Momoze’s life.

• Slaka concluded that Room 12 had no Exorcism Master and sent his findings to the Second Queen before he died.
• The Second Prince ordered Kabichi to target the Twelfth Prince, and Kabichi entered Room 10 and stabbed himself to activate his curse on Momoze.
• Joey’s clone noticed a new Nen Beast Clone on his shoulder and considered whether the Twelfth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast periodically replenished its followers’ clones.
• Joey saw a grotesque Nen beast draining Momoze’s life and realized she had been cursed without leaving Room 12.
• Joey suspected the Second Prince’s attack was a probe, since the curse would take days to kill Momoze and the Second Prince had an Exorcism Master.

Joey and Kurapika planned how to expose the Second Prince’s curse ability and save the Twelfth Prince, while preparing for Joey to sever his ties to Room 12. On the Fifth Floor, Luini confronted Nobunaga and Phinks over their hesitation to act.

• Joey assessed the Second Prince’s trap and concluded that he could seek an Exorcism Master through the Hunter Association, though doing so could expose his knowledge of Room 2.
• Kurapika urged Joey to locate the Second Prince’s Personal Guard who activated the curse, and they identified Room 10 as the likely hiding place.
• Kurapika proposed using Bellerente’s impending outburst to lure him toward Room 8, then making people disappear in Room 10 to draw investigators there; Joey agreed and contacted Piyon about an Exorcism Master.
• Nobunaga and Phinks encountered Luini on the Fifth Floor, where Luini criticized the Phantom Troupe for hesitating to confront the Gasha-A Family.

Nobunaga and Phinks confronted Luini, whose spatial ability let him escape while he tried to bargain with information about Hisoka. Joey learned of the encounter through his listening device and headed toward the Warehouse, where he met Gasha-A Family Young Master Kenyi and offered to make a deal.

• Luini offered information about Hisoka in exchange for Gasha-A Family corpses, but Nobunaga threatened him and Luini escaped through his spatial passage.
• Phinks deduced that Luini could travel to places he had visited before, and he and Nobunaga argued before fighting their way into the Warehouse.
• Joey learned from his Cockroach Listening Device that the Phantom Troupe planned to capture Luini and give him to Chrollo, and he considered locating and eliminating Luini first.
• Joey decided to head to the Warehouse and potentially provoke a conflict between the Phantom Troupe and the King's Army to learn more about the location.
• Kenyi stopped Joey near the Warehouse, introduced himself as the Gasha-A Family's Young Master, and invited him to talk; Joey said he preferred making deals.

Joey traded information with Kent and learned that the King's Army guarded a special weapons arsenal on the Fifth Floor, near the area where the Phantom Troupe was headed. After killing Kent's escort, Joey deployed coins and Cockroach Listening Devices to investigate the arsenal and find Phinks and Nobunaga.

• Joey and Kent discussed possible trades, and Joey said he could send people to the First Tier but would not sell mafia information or help locate Hisoka.
• Kent told Joey that the King's Army guarded a special weapons storage site with help from the Gasha-A Family, and warned him not to approach it.
• Kent offered an escort to the arsenal, and Joey accepted while realizing Kent wanted to monitor and assess him.
• At the arsenal's edge, Emperor Killer touched Kent's escort and turned him to ash.
• Joey released coins that produced Cockroach Listening Devices to locate Phinks and Nobunaga and probe the arsenal's defenses.

Joey investigated the Phantom Troupe and encountered Nobunaga and Phinks, who recognized him and suspected he was connected to Hisoka. Nobunaga attacked Joey, and their fight ended with blood spraying through the corridor as Joey was carried backward by his Nen abilities.

• Joey tracked Phinks and Nobunaga, then spotted Luini hiding in the ceiling and tried to send a concealed swift into the space Luini was leaving through, but the ceiling had already closed.
• Nobunaga and Phinks confronted Joey, and Phinks deduced that Joey had been monitoring them with cockroaches.
• Nobunaga recognized Joey as the man connected to Hisoka and charged him, while Phinks stayed back and considered capturing Joey for information.
• Joey defended himself with Killer Queen as Nobunaga attacked with rapid sword strikes, then used flames and a Nen-powered wind to counter Nobunaga's moves.
• Nobunaga cut through the corridor at explosive speed and appeared behind Joey as two sprays of blood erupted.

Joey fought Nobunaga and Phinks in a fog-filled corridor, using explosions, lightning, and a controlled bird to break through their blockade and move toward the Warehouse. Nobunaga wounded the King's Army soldiers, while Phinks shared his suspicions about Joey's abilities with Feitan and Franklin as the pursuit continued.

• Joey sacrificed his left arm to wound Nobunaga, then used Sheer Heart Attack to explode beside him and alert the King's Army.
• Joey filled the corridor with fog and attacked Nobunaga with lightning while sending a bird carrying First Bomb toward Phinks, but Phinks destroyed it with flying rubble.
• Joey struck Nobunaga's neck with his Scalpel before withdrawing and slipping past him toward the Warehouse as the King's Army arrived.
• Nobunaga charged the King's Army soldiers and cut them down while Joey's bird entered Luini's hiding place and killed him.
• Phinks inferred that Joey's small-animal abilities might come from an unseen ally, then briefed Feitan and Franklin as Nobunaga pursued Joey toward the Warehouse.

Joey lured the Phantom Troupe into the King's Army’s Warehouse defenses while investigating a sealed-off area he suspected might be Kakin’s Coffin Area. Disguised as a soldier, he reached the restricted zone and confronted three hidden guards, then stepped back, expecting Nobunaga to arrive and test them.

• Joey assessed his recent fight with Nobunaga and concluded that his abilities could suppress Nobunaga, though Nobunaga had greater combat experience.
• Joey entered the Warehouse as Nobunaga pursued him, then concealed his Nen and planned to use the Phantom Troupe as a distraction while he investigated an area his cockroaches could not enter.
• Joey knocked out a King's Army soldier, took his uniform, and continued toward the unknown area, but a hidden attacker fired a Nen-infused bullet at him.
• Joey stopped the bullet with his atmospheric defenses and sent a bird created from a coin to swallow it, then confronted three guards who emerged from the ground.
• Joey insisted on seeing the restricted area, but stepped backward as he expected Nobunaga to arrive and confront the guards.

Joey watched the Phantom Troupe and a trio of King's Army ability users, then used his coins and cockroaches to expose the trio and steer Nobunaga into capturing their leader. Nobunaga held the middle-aged man at swordpoint as the other two fled, while Joey continued observing from hiding.

• Joey watched the middle-aged man and Lizardman discuss the intruder, then sent a swift coin after the man whose ability concealed his presence.
• Nobunaga arrived and beheaded the middle-aged man and Lizardman, but Joey discovered they had escaped using lizard-tail substitutes.
• Joey sent a cockroach and a coin-filled swift after the disguised trio, and the swift's explosion exposed their hiding place to Nobunaga.
• Nobunaga questioned the trio about the cockroaches and pressed his sword against the middle-aged man's neck.
• The other two fled as the middle-aged man seized Nobunaga's sword, apparently trying to give them time to escape.

Joey watched Nobunaga defeat the Lizardman and secretly abduct the wounded middle-aged man, then found a guarded storeroom containing a spatial ability that transported his Heartbreaker Attack Chariot away. After deciding to investigate the space with a clone and leave the Warehouse, Joey prepared to escape through Nobunaga’s route and fight him if necessary.

• Nobunaga severed the middle-aged man's hand and legs, pursued the fleeing pair, and exposed the Lizardman with an Emission Slash; the Lizardman surrendered but could not provide useful information, so Nobunaga killed him.
• Joey used Gold Experience to seal the middle-aged man's wounds, took him away while Nobunaga was occupied, and knocked him unconscious before reaching the previously inaccessible storeroom.
• Joey sent a new Heartbreaker Attack Chariot into the storeroom, where a spatial ability transported it away; he memorized the location and planned to investigate it using a clone.
• Joey learned from his clone and Biscuit's reports that Bellerente's condition had improved, suggesting that the Twelfth Prince's Nen Beast Clone possessing him might have been removed.
• Joey decided to leave the Warehouse and target the exit near Nobunaga, resolving to fight and kill Nobunaga if he tried to intercept him.

Joey agreed to help Hisoka by drawing Phinks, Franklin, and Feitan away from the warehouse while Hisoka went to fight Nobunaga. The Phantom Troupe pushed deeper into the warehouse as Kent alerted the authorities, and Hisoka and Nobunaga began their duel.

• Hisoka told Joey that the warehouse contained what he was seeking, but its guards could dispel clones, and Joey agreed to hold off three Phantom Troupe members for fifteen minutes in exchange for information.
• Joey sent hummingbirds to lure Phinks, Franklin, and Feitan toward the warehouse while he returned to its entrance.
• Phinks, Franklin, and Feitan broke through the King's Army defenders and advanced into the warehouse, leaving many soldiers dead.
• Kent ordered his subordinates to notify the King's Army, the guard soldiers, and the Hunter Association, then led his men deeper into the warehouse.
• Hisoka reached Nobunaga at another warehouse exit, and both men readied themselves for a fight.

Hisoka used clones, Bungee Gum, and Nobunaga’s five-meter En limit to defeat him in their duel. With Nobunaga badly wounded and Hisoka’s time running short, Hisoka and his clone attacked him again while Joey watched from afar.

• Nobunaga waited within his five-meter En while Hisoka hid among the shipping containers, then struck when a Hisoka appeared inside his range.
• Hisoka used a clone and Bungee Gum to pull Nobunaga off balance, but Nobunaga recognized that Hisoka timed his attacks around his sword strokes.
• Nobunaga mistook another clone for the real Hisoka, allowing Hisoka to close in and wound his abdomen; Hisoka then used Bungee Gum to keep Nobunaga’s draw slash out of reach.
• Nobunaga admitted defeat, and Hisoka revealed that he had only seven minutes left before he needed to pursue Joey.
• Hisoka saw a falcon fly deeper into the warehouse, then attacked the weakened Nobunaga with his clone as Joey watched the fight on his phone.

Joey discussed Hisoka’s unreliable information and his plans to investigate the Succession War before arranging to meet him again on the First Tier. Meanwhile, the Phantom Troupe found Nobunaga dead in the warehouse and confronted Kent, who realized they were all searching for Joey under different names.

• Joey met Hisoka in his Fifth Floor room, learned that Hisoka knew only that the hidden space contained weapons, and asked him to help disguise a clone as the Third Prince.
• Joey explained why he intended to find the Coffin Area and stop Nasubi Hui Guo Rou’s Succession War, while Hisoka said he did not care if people aboard the ship died.
• Joey arranged to pick Hisoka up the next day, then returned through Fugetsu’s passage with Kacho and the captured middle-aged man.
• Phinks, Franklin, and Feitan found Nobunaga’s corpse in a shipping container and concluded that Hisoka had lured them away with help from other allies.
• Kent arrived with the Gasha-A Family seeking DIO, and Phinks’s description led Kent to realize that DIO was Joey Joestar.

Kent backed down from the Phantom Troupe, then decided to use Joey and the Troupe against each other after suspecting the Hunter Association supported Joey. Joey returned to the Third Tier and prepared to investigate the ship, but the chapter ended as the Second Prince’s Personal Guards arrived at Room 11 before he could involve the Sixth Queen.

• Kent shared information with Phinks and the Troupe about Joey, Hisoka, and their ability to travel between tiers, while Phinks told him about Luini.
• Mizaistom was denied access to the Hidden Warehouse by the King's Army, then sent Joey a warning after Kent questioned him about Joey.
• Kent’s lie-detecting subordinate judged Mizaistom to be lying, so Kent ordered his men to find DIO’s location on the Third Tier and planned to pit Joey against the Phantom Troupe.
• Joey returned to the Third Tier without retrieving his severed arm, sent Kacho and Fugetsu back under Piyon and Cluck’s protection, and replied to Mizaistom’s message.
• Joey’s Clone guarded the Twelfth Prince as the curse worsened, while Joey planned to expose the Second Prince’s problem by having Melody lead the Sixth Queen into Room 10.
• The Second Prince’s Personal Guards arrived at Room 11 before Joey could act.

Joey and Kurapika arranged to use a disguised Clone of Bellerente to provoke an incident that would expose Room 10 and test what the Second Prince and Second Queen knew. Their plan began when the disguised Bellerente attacked Hasuto in the corridor.

• The Second Prince invited Melody to Room 2, while the Sixth Queen agreed after receiving an offer to help find the missing Tenth and Eleventh Princes.
• Kurapika proposed that Joey use his disguised Clone to stage a public attack on Room 10, and Joey agreed after considering the risks.
• Joey and Kurapika enlisted Sakada to send Hasuto out as bait, intending for the disguised Bellerente to attack him and drive him into Room 10.
• Sakada sent Hasuto from Room 12 to relay information, and the disguised Bellerente attacked him with a kitchen knife after Hasuto drew his pistol.

Joey used a disguised clone to lure Hasuto into Room 10, but the Ninth Prince’s intervention and Bellerente’s sudden appearance disrupted his plan. After Bellerente announced the Seventh Queen’s death and Joey found no signs of life in the Thirteenth District, Joey investigated the exposed corpse and curse evidence in Room 10 and planned to implicate Bellerente and the Second Prince.

• Joey’s disguised clone drove Hasuto into Room 10, drawing the Ninth Prince and other royals and guards into the corridor.
• The Ninth Prince prepared to use his soul-swapping arrow on Joey’s clone, but the real Bellerente emerged and caused him to lower his bow.
• Bellerente announced that the Seventh Queen had been attacked and killed, then blocked others from entering the Thirteenth District until the King’s Army arrived.
• Joey used En to discover no signs of life in the Thirteenth District and suspected that a spatial ability had removed everyone there.
• Hasuto found a corpse in Room 10, where the Sixth Prince and his guards saw the cursed photograph and Olawu pointed it out.
• Joey dispelled his clone and decided to blame the real Bellerente while connecting Room 10’s mystery to the Second Prince.

Joey watched the Second Prince’s Personal Guard curse the Ninth Prince before being killed, and the Ninth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast only partially countered the attack. After the chaos subsided, Joey arranged for the Twelfth Prince to undergo Exorcism while disguising a clone as her, leaving the story with Kurapika still absent and the Ninth Prince’s fate uncertain.

• Joey realized the Second Prince’s Personal Guard was targeting the Ninth Prince, then watched the Ninth Prince’s Personal Guards shoot him dead as he charged toward Room 10.
• The Ninth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast tore apart the curse spider, but the spider reformed and began draining the Ninth Prince, who collapsed and was taken back to his room with Kurapika.
• The King’s Army and the Judicial Affairs Bureau arrived, took Hasuto, the dead Second Prince’s Personal Guard, and Bellerente into custody, and sealed the Thirteenth District.
• After Kurapika failed to return, Joey sent the Twelfth Prince toward the lower tiers for Exorcism and used a clone to take her place.
• Piyon warned Joey that Exorcism could take days and refused to pick up Hisoka, then left with Kacho, Fugetsu, and Momoze.

Kurapika returned to Room 12 and told Joey that the Ninth Prince was temporarily safe, while the Princes’ schemes and the risks surrounding Joey’s planned visit to the VVIP Area continued to grow. Joey and Kurapika agreed to proceed with preparations, leaving the operation dependent on Hisoka arriving by the agreed time.

• Kurapika told Joey that the Ninth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast and curse Nen Beast had reached a stable balance, though the prince still needed an Exorcism Master and could not use his ability safely.
• Joey and Kurapika assessed the Second and Third Princes as threats, including the possibility that the Third Prince would target the Twelfth Prince and expose Joey’s activities.
• Joey insisted on going to the VVIP Area with Hisoka to bring Fugetsu and Kacho, relying on Hisoka’s [Texture Surprise] to disguise them, while Kurapika warned that the plan could expose them.
• Joey explained that the Second Prince’s Personal Guards had destroyed his surveillance insects in Room 2, while the Second Prince remained under scrutiny after her Personal Guard’s death.
• Kurapika agreed to fetch Hisoka from the lower tiers, and Joey told him to cancel the operation if Hisoka had not arrived by two-thirty.

Joey and his allies were ambushed by the Third Prince’s forces while carrying out a substitution in the VVIP Area, but Hisoka protected Fugetsu and Kacho. Back in Room 12, Joey killed Sakada after Sakada exposed his suspicions, leaving Joey wondering how the enemy would discover Hisoka’s clone was a fake Twelfth Prince.

• Joey arranged for Hisoka to accompany Fugetsu and Kacho through a passage to the VVIP Area, where they planned to substitute a clone for the Third Prince.
• The King's Army ambushed Joey's clone and the others; Joey's clone fought back with Nen Bullets before vanishing, and Hisoka killed two King's Army Nen users who entered the room.
• Hisoka sent Fugetsu and Kacho back to Room 12 while he stayed behind to face any further attackers.
• The King's Army and Judicial Affairs Bureau arrived at Room 12, and Sakada revealed that he had deduced the Twelfth Prince was a substitute and suspected Joey's group had attacked the Ninth Prince.
• Joey killed Sakada with a coin from Killer Queen, and he and Kurapika concluded that the Third Prince had organized the ambush.