Chapter Summaries

Joey treated Fugetsu and Salgov, then forced Hinrigh to reveal the Phantom Troupe’s movements and secretly marked him with Killer Queen’s bomb. The chapter left Joey preparing to recover while Franklin waited in his room on the Third Tier.

• Joey arrived at the room and used Gold Experience and medicine to treat Fugetsu, then began treating Salgov.
• Hinrigh revealed that the First Prince’s people had likely leaked information about Joey and supplied intelligence on the Phantom Troupe.
• Joey injected Hinrigh with a virus and demanded intelligence on the Phantom Troupe in exchange for an antidote.
• Hinrigh told Joey that Phinks, Machi, and Kalluto were on the Fourth Tier, while Chrollo, Shizuku, and Bonolenov had left the Third Tier and Franklin was waiting in Joey’s room there.
• Joey secretly attached Killer Queen’s First Bomb to Hinrigh, then detonated it and turned him to ash.
• Joey put Kacho to bed, sat down to recover, and focused his attention on his Clone.

Joey relocated the princes to the Third Tier with Cheadle and Knov’s help, then returned to Room 12 with Momoze. There, Momoze revealed a new scouting ability and insisted on helping Joey and Kurapika, leaving them to test who could perceive it.

• Joey learned from Piyon that the Hunter Association’s intelligence had leaked to the First Prince and that the Third Tier was gripped by fear and disappearances.
• Fugetsu opened a passage to the Third Tier, where Joey found Cheadle, Knov, the Twelfth Prince, and the Exorcism Master; the Exorcism Master confirmed the Twelfth Prince’s curse had been removed.
• Cheadle arranged for Knov to protect the princes and gave Joey surveillance equipment from Piyon, while warning that the Association might publicly distance itself from his actions.
• Joey returned to Room 12 with Momoze and the fake prince, leaving Fugetsu and Kacho with Knov; Kurapika warned that the King's Army guarded the routes to the VVIP Area.
• Momoze refused to rest and revealed that she could send a moving viewpoint to observe the VVIP Area; her Guardian Nen Beast released a winged eye that Joey and Kurapika began testing.

Joey infiltrated the VVIP Area to investigate Hisoka’s report of a hidden Coffin Area, but found only an empty room and unusually lax security. He suspected Nasubi Hui Guo Rou was using the dead Thirteenth Prince’s spatial Nen Beast to conceal the entrance, and left a clone inside while he withdrew to find a way through.

• Momoze directed her Little Monster into the VVIP Area until exhaustion forced her to stop, while Joey’s insects also searched without finding the Coffin Area.
• Joey used Weather Report’s cover to enter the VVIP Area and sent a concealed clone into the room Hisoka had identified, but it found only an ordinary empty room.
• Joey discovered that most VVIP Area soldiers were ordinary and poorly alert, while the First Prince’s residence had a Nen user guarding it and the Third Prince’s assassination site was lightly watched.
• After reviewing surveillance footage of the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast attacking his device, Joey suspected Nasubi Hui Guo Rou had gained control of the dead Thirteenth Prince’s spatial Nen Beast and used it to hide the Coffin Area.
• Joey left the clone in the empty room as a probe, withdrew from the VVIP Area, and sent a surveillance device into the ceiling.

Joey left the First Tier after Biscuit sent an urgent message saying the Seventh Queen needed emergency treatment. He reached the Fifth Floor, treated the Queen, and learned that Biscuit had been trapped there by two Hunters working for the Gasha-A Family, leaving Joey interested in capturing and using them.

• Joey chose a vacant VVIP room as a route to the lower floors, but changed plans after Biscuit messaged him from Warehouse B64 on the Fifth Floor.
• Joey verified the sender was Biscuit, then opened a series of holes through the ship to reach the Fifth Floor while avoiding detection.
• Joey crossed the blood-soaked Fifth Floor and found that the Warehouse Area was guarded only by Mafia personnel.
• Joey used Nen Bullets to incapacitate four guards outside Warehouse B64 and entered, where Biscuit had captured two people and the Seventh Queen lay badly wounded.
• Joey began treating the Seventh Queen as Biscuit explained that two Hunters had used spatial abilities to transport and seal them, and that the Gasha-A Family's Young Master had bought them off.
• Joey recognized the captured Hunters could be useful and considered returning to the warehouse district's connected space.

Joey rescued the Seventh Queen with Biscuit and learned the abilities of the men who had imprisoned them. After Joey left the Lower Level to pursue his plans, the Gasha-A Family alerted the authorities, while the Seventh Prince received a secret message.

• Joey and Biscuit escaped the warehouse with the unconscious captives, and Biscuit explained how two of the attackers had used spatial bubbles to trap her and the Seventh Queen.
• Biscuit said she had killed the guard soldiers for lack of oxygen and smashed a third attacker, an Enhancement ability user, to pieces.
• Joey left Biscuit and the recovering Seventh Queen in the warehouse and headed away with the captives, explaining that he was wanted by the King's Army and intended to act alone.
• Kenyi discovered the warehouse's bodies and realized the Seventh Queen had been held on Gasha-A Family territory, so he ordered the King's Army to be informed.
• The King's Army, Hunter Association, and Judicial Affairs Bureau mobilized as the Seventh Prince received and secretly read a slip of paper before dismissing his guards for the night.

Joey recruited two injured Nen users to transfer the space around a room in the VVIP Area, where his Clone was waiting. The King's Army ambushed them with abilities tailored to counter Joey, and the clash ended with his Clone destroyed and one attacker reduced to ash.

• Joey planted cockroach scouts in warehouses on the Fourth, Third, and Second Tiers before returning to the First Tier and waking the two injured men.
• Joey persuaded the chubby young man and the dark-skinned young man to help transfer the space around the room containing his Clone.
• The dark-skinned young man placed the chubby man's blood-activated marker in the room, but a Nen user's dagger attack was stopped by the Thirteenth Prince's Weather Nen Beast ability.
• Joey ordered the chubby man to activate his ability while lightning and flames attacked the King's Army soldiers emerging from the room.
• A defensive barrier blocked Joey's lightning, and another soldier absorbed his flames as the troops pressed their attack.
• A soldier's spinning top immobilized Joey's Clone, whose head was smashed; Joey then struck the attacker with a coin, and the man's body turned to ash.

Joey used the fat man’s ability to bring Nasubi Hui Guo Rou out of the Thirteenth Prince’s Nen Beast’s inner space, then broke into the Coffin Area to investigate the source of the king’s power. There, Joey found the Seed Urn and confronted its defenders, including a man whose spinning-top ability could affect the mind.

• The fat man expanded his blood-powered bubble and brought Nasubi Hui Guo Rou and others into the room, but a bizarre Nen Beast pierced the fat man’s throat and killed him.
• Joey charged through the King’s Army blockade, defeated two ability users, and entered the room that had returned to the normal world.
• Joey found himself inside a glass-protected machine in the Coffin Area, where his clone killed an ambusher before a spinning top made the clone vanish.
• Joey spread the Weather Nen Beast’s storm across the Coffin Area, freezing the ambusher and weakening the archer and the man wielding the tops.
• Joey saw fourteen coffins, glowing patterns linked to the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Thirteenth Princes, and the Seed Urn above the central room.
• Joey recognized the top-wielding man as a [Ming] cooperating with Nasubi Hui Guo Rou and deduced that his ability targeted the mind rather than creating clones.

Joey sealed the Coffin Area’s entrance and fought two men whose abilities combined into a powerful illusion, while strange Nen phenomena emerged around the coffins. He broke free of the illusion and realized Nasubi’s trusted allies had ambushed him, but the fight left him chilled and the Coffin Area’s other threats remained.

• Joey reasoned that the equipment room was a teleportation entrance to the Coffin Area and froze its entrance to delay Nasubi’s return.
• Joey used Weather Report to attack the archer and the man controlling spinning tops, freezing and electrocuting them while the archer died.
• Four flowers of flame rose from the coffins, strange Nen Beasts appeared, and black souls poured from the frozen urn as the spinning tops’ effects overwhelmed Joey.
• Joey suspected the tops, whip, and arrows were creating an illusion, and his hidden glass frog used First Bomb to help him dispel it.
• Joey saw the top man’s corpse and the archer’s ashes, then concluded the two attackers were Nasubi’s trusted collaborators rather than Kakin soldiers.

Joey saw through Nugui’s attempt to stall him and began cutting open all fourteen coffins in the Coffin Area. As the dead princes’ Guardian Nen Beasts emerged, Joey attacked the Fourth Prince’s beast while it was still vulnerable.

• Joey realized the whip’s crack had drawn him into an illusion, and the man with the whip destroyed Ming before dying in an explosion.
• Joey found the Fourth Prince’s body inside his coffin and met Nugui, whose presence appeared to be a projection.
• Joey used a Clone to keep Nugui talking while his real body prepared to destroy the coffins, rejecting Nugui’s offer and threats.
• Joey extinguished the floor’s flames and cut open all fourteen coffins, releasing black Nen and revealing the dead princes’ Guardian Nen Beasts.
• Joey saw that King Nasubi had not arrived and sent a Skeleton Chariot to strike the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast before it fully emerged.

Joey attacked the Guardian Nen Beasts and coffins in the Coffin Area while King Nasubi Hui Guo Rou began a ceremony inside the Central Device. Nasubi emerged and struck Joey with an ability that appeared to involve time reversal, leaving Joey hidden in the fog and trying to understand the limits of Nasubi’s power.

• Joey used the Heartbreaker Chariot and lightning to weaken the Fourth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast, while the Third and Eighth Princes’ Nen Beasts vanished and a giant resentment-wreathed creature appeared.
• Joey’s hummingbirds used the First Bomb to destroy coffins, releasing screaming figures of resentment, as his clone approached Nugui in the fog.
• Joey attacked the Central Device and discovered King Nasubi Hui Guo Rou behind its ice; Nasubi accepted a black orb from the monster emerging from the urn.
• Nasubi’s attack pierced Joey with resentment, but Joey cut out the affected flesh and vanished into the fog as Nasubi’s En detected several figures bearing Joey’s presence.
• Nasubi erased a hidden button and began to turn to ash, but his body reversed to its previous state; Joey inferred that Nasubi’s Guardian Nen Beast disappeared while using Time Reversal.

Joey deduced that Nasubi’s Guardian Nen Beast consumed aura whenever it reconstituted, then used Erasure and coordinated attacks to force it to activate repeatedly. Joey escaped the Coffin Area through a hole in the wall, leaving Nasubi to absorb resentment from fallen King's Army soldiers.

• Joey concluded that Nasubi’s Guardian Nen Beast needed resentment to reconstitute and that its attacks relied on space rather than time.
• Joey tested Nasubi’s attack pattern, then used Killer Queen’s First Bomb to erase the Guardian Nen Beast and strike Nasubi’s heart with an ice spire.
• The Guardian Nen Beast reappeared and reversed Nasubi’s injury, but Joey sensed that Nasubi had lost aura in the process.
• Nasubi recognized Joey as a formidable opponent and switched to defense, while Joey used a clone and decoys to distract him.
• Joey made an opening in the Coffin Area wall, escaped near the Third Tier’s Observation Deck, and vanished with Weather Report and Mirage.
• Nasubi realized Joey had toyed with him, broke through the wall, and absorbed black aura from the King's Army soldiers collapsing nearby.

Joey escaped Nasubi after destroying the Coffin Area and returned to Room 12, where he and Kurapika began planning to move Prince Momoze and warn their allies. Nasubi ordered Room 12 sealed and the Coffin Area abandoned, while Benjamin investigated the king’s intervention.

• Nasubi was fooled by Joey’s locust illusion, and Joey used the distraction to escape the Third Tier.
• Joey returned to Room 12, confirmed that nothing unusual had happened there, and told Kurapika he planned to take Prince Momoze away.
• Kurapika insisted that Izunavi and the others should be given information and allowed to decide whether to abandon their missions, so Joey shifted to a covert plan.
• Momoze used her Big-Eyed Monster to scout while Joey sent insects through the ventilation ducts.
• Nasubi ordered the King's Army to seal Room 12 and commanded that the Coffin Area be left to sink into the sea.
• Benjamin learned of Nasubi’s intervention and told Balsamilco they needed to discover what DIO had done in the VVIP Area.

Joey used Momoze’s Nen Beast Clone and insects to deliver intelligence to Izunavi, but an unknown attacker destroyed the clone and the message-carrying bee as the King’s Army stormed the Twelfth Prince’s room. Joey and Kurapika evacuated Momoze through a hole to the Second Floor, leaving the King’s Army firing behind them.

• Momoze’s large-eyed monster entered the Sixth District, where her sudden fatigue led Joey to suspect that the Sixth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast had attached itself to the clone.
• Joey sent insects and a message-carrying bee toward Izunavi, while Kurapika warned that a Nen user might have discovered the intruder; the insects were initially left alone.
• Joey used the bee to transmit intelligence to Izunavi, but the King’s Army began battering down the door, and the bee was killed by an unknown attacker.
• Momoze reported that a large hand had grabbed and crushed the big-eyed monster, while insects across the Sixth District began dying in different places.
• As the King’s Army prepared to fire, Kurapika carried Momoze and jumped with Joey through a hole to the Second Floor, where they escaped through a screening room.

Joey and Kurapika escaped to the VVIP Area with Momoze, while Joey used a clone and a listening insect to investigate the people pursuing them. Barka was killed after reaching Ye Caihua, and Kurapika prepared to contact Izunavi as Joey stayed behind to recover.

• Momoze noticed that Barka recognized her, and Joey and Kurapika explained why they had left him behind as a potential source of information.
• Joey sent a clone disguised as Kurapika to draw the King's Army away while he took Kurapika and Momoze to the VVIP Area.
• King Nasubi ordered an elite unit to capture Kurapika and Momoze and demanded an investigation after learning the Judicial Affairs Bureau had taken Barka.
• Barka escaped King's Army custody and went to Ye Caihua, but Ye Caihua refused to protect him and King's Army soldiers shot him.
• Joey learned through his hidden ladybug that Barka had reached Ye Caihua, and Kurapika set out to contact Izunavi while Joey rested.

Joey watched Halkenburg attack the First Prince in the VVIP Area, but the strike hit a convincing impostor, leaving the purpose of the assault unclear. Kurapika returned at noon without Izunavi, Basho, or Hanzo, and he, Joey, and Momoze prepared to leave together.

• Joey and Momoze stayed in the VVIP Area while Kurapika went to investigate, but Joey soon sensed Halkenburg’s Nen roar moving into their district.
• Halkenburg advanced on Benjamin’s room, pierced the soldier captain and the apparent First Prince with his Nen arrow, then surrendered to the King's Army.
• Joey realized the fallen First Prince was likely a decoy and wondered why Halkenburg had attacked despite the many suspicious circumstances.
• The King's Army arrested Halkenburg, released his Personal Guard, and carried the injured impostor away while Joey and Momoze returned to their room.
• Kurapika returned and told Joey that Izunavi planned to save the brainwashed Giuliano, while Basho and Hanzo remained inaccessible in guarded rooms.
• Joey, Kurapika, and Momoze decided to leave together, find Momoze a safe place, and then gather intelligence.

Joey investigated the Succession War by examining the Third Tier’s Coffin Area and weighing King Nasubi’s possible control over the Guardian Nen Beasts, while he planned to remove a Prince from Black Whale 1 to test whether the war still held. He learned that the Phantom Troupe was disguised on the Third Tier, and the King’s Army’s renewed interrogations left the Princes’ quarters on the verge of turmoil.

• Joey left Prince Momoze with Kurapika until Knov arrived, then returned to the Third Tier to investigate the Coffin Area and the Succession War.
• Joey saw King's Army Soldiers demolishing the Coffin Area and suspected King Nasubi had removed the Thirteenth Prince’s Guardian Nen Beast.
• Kurapika told Joey that the Phantom Troupe was using disguises on the Third Tier, and Joey suspected Morena might be sharing information with them.
• Joey told Kurapika he would help if needed and planned to find a chance to take a Prince off Black Whale 1.
• The King's Army summoned Izunavi, Basho, Hanzo, and other Hunters for questioning, further unsettling the Princes’ quarters.

Joey tracked the Princes’ disputes and the King's Army’s investigation before the wanted notices exposed trouble in the Upper Tier and put Kurapika at greater risk. He met Hisoka at a Third Tier cinema to lure Phinks, but Franklin and Machi attacked them as the chapter ended.

• Joey learned that the Fifth Prince had taken the First Prince to court after a member of the First Prince's Personal Guard killed several of her guards, while the Ninth Prince also faced trial.
• Joey passed Basho a warning about Room 7, failed to contact Izunavi, and saw the Hunters return from questioning without the King's Army gaining useful intelligence.
• The King's Army issued wanted notices for Joey, Kurapika, several Princes, Melody, and Hisoka, drawing the Phantom Troupe and Mafia closer to Kurapika.
• Hisoka invited Joey to meet at a Third Tier cinema, where they planned to use themselves as bait to draw in Phinks, with Machi and Franklin expected to accompany him.
• Franklin opened fire on Joey's seat while Machi caught Joey with a Nen Thread, and another attack sent Hisoka flying toward the cinema screen.

Joey and Hisoka tried to lure the Phantom Troupe toward the Ai Yi Yi Family’s hidden base, but the Troupe chose to pursue Joey and cautiously used Gasha-A Family members to investigate the rooms. Joey’s clone found a passage between Rooms 3101 and 3102 but was destroyed by Franklin’s Nen Bullets and Machi’s Nen Threads, leaving the Troupe to target the Ai Yi Yi Family before hunting Hisoka.

• Joey and Hisoka used clones to lure the Phantom Troupe away from the cinema, and Machi chose to pursue Joey rather than Hisoka.
• Joey reached Room 3101, where Hisoka revealed himself and disappeared, while the Phantom Troupe arrived outside the room.
• Joey spotted a hidden passage behind the bathroom wall and escaped into it as Machi brought armed Gasha-A Family members to investigate the room.
• Joey killed a mafia member and moved through the hidden space toward Room 3102, but Franklin’s Nen Bullets wounded his clone and Machi’s Nen Threads tore it apart.
• Franklin, Phinks, and Machi decided to investigate the Ai Yi Yi Family’s base first and postpone pursuing Hisoka until they knew where he was.

Joey suspected that Hisoka was using traps, signal interference, and fabricated messages to make him reveal the Ai Yi Yi Family’s hideout. By tracking where his listening devices began transmitting static, Joey pinpointed the likely base near Room No. 3321.

• Joey sent a disguised clone back to the Third Tier to investigate Room No. 3101 while refusing to help the Gasha-A Family locate the Ai Yi Yi Family.
• Joey received messages from Kurapika and Mizaistom about Hisoka, the Ai Yi Yi Family, and a possible battle, then suspected that Hisoka had forged both messages to extract the hideout’s location.
• Joey’s clone watched the Phantom Troupe remain near Room No. 3101 as Mafia members and King's Army soldiers sent people into the room.
• Joey used listening devices around Room No. 3101 and confirmed their signals came through clearly before directing them toward his teleported insect.
• The listening devices began transmitting static as they neared Room No. 3321, leading Joey to identify the area as the likely location of the Ai Yi Yi Family’s hideout.

Joey infiltrated the Ai Yi Yi Family’s suspected base, fought and killed two of its members, then confronted an old man who turned out to be a clone. He entered Room No. 3321 to investigate its hidden mechanism while a Gold Experience ladybug remained behind to observe.

• Joey sent his clone toward Room No. 3321 and prepared to warn Kurapika if he appeared near Room No. 3101.
• Two hostile men approached Joey in the corridor, and he struck first, killing them despite their Nen abilities.
• Joey knocked on Room No. 3321 and found an old man alone inside, then discovered a likely secret compartment behind the wall with a thrown coin.
• The old man tried to lure Joey into the room, but Joey pierced his head with a coin and realized he was a clone when he dissipated into smoke.
• Joey threw a corpse into the room, then stepped inside himself while a Gold Experience ladybug hid on another corpse nearby.