Chapter Summaries

Joey fought Knife Wielder and Sound Maker while Morel kept Observer occupied, using an illusion and atmospheric manipulation to evade their attacks and counter them. He disrupted Sound Maker’s sonic attack and launched a barrage at the pair, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Joey recognized the charging Knife Wielder as a powerful Humanoid and suspected his blade’s abilities relied on a hidden condition or Specialization.
• Sound Maker emerged from Knife Wielder’s aura and blasted Joey’s Heartbreaker Attack Chariot with a sonic wave, but Joey sent it back toward them.
• Observer’s attention was strained by the Deep Purple soldiers, allowing Joey to make Knife Wielder’s powerful slash pass through an illusion and punch through the deck.
• Joey saw Knife Wielder shrink from the blade’s backlash and attacked the pair with Nen bullets, flames, wind blades, and Thunder.
• Joey used his Weather Nen Beast to suppress the atmosphere around Knife Wielder and Sound Maker, nullifying Sound Maker’s next sonic attack.

Joey and Morel withdrew from the Blood Vessel Knife Wielder rather than risk fighting it as it attacked the Deep Purple soldiers. They reached a hidden room in the Prince District, where Morel revealed that the Cruise Ship was isolated and anyone attempting to leave was teleported back.

• The wounded Knife Wielder died as his blade drained his blood, then reappeared as a post-mortem Nen creature made of blood vessels wielding the blade.
• The Blood Vessel Knife Wielder extended its Nen and charged toward the soldiers, striking down Deep Purple soldiers as Joey considered whether to keep fighting it.
• Morel captured Observer and signaled Joey to retreat, while Shoot and another concealed ally joined them through a hidden passage.
• Joey followed Morel down a pipe into a storage room in the Prince District, where a Conjuration user repaired the concealed entrance.
• Morel explained that black aura in the Cruise Ship’s walls prevented messages and people from leaving, teleporting anyone who moved roughly twenty meters away back aboard.

Joey joined Morel and Shoot in hunting the Cruise Ship’s organ ability users, learning how they fit into a plan connected to Kakin’s king, Nasubi Hui Guo Rou. After Joey and Shoot reached Ears, Joey’s attack killed him, leaving the group to continue their search for the remaining organs.

• Domi used his modeling-clay-like ability to open passages toward Nose and Ears while Morel explained the organ users’ code names and their connection to Brain, Nasubi Hui Guo Rou.
• Joey turned Eyes into a Human Club to keep him alive and unable to escape, and Morel left Deep Purple soldiers to guard him.
• Shoot told Joey that the group had learned about the guardians from Mouth and suspected they needed to eliminate most of the organs to make Skin reveal an exit.
• Joey muffled their approach with the Weather Nen Beast, and he and Shoot broke through the wall into Ears’ room.
• Joey hesitated when Ears’ presence disrupted his urge to attack, but Killer Queen’s Heartbreaker Attack struck Ears and exploded, killing him.

Joey and Shoot rushed to support Morel and Domi after the Blood Vessel Knife Wielder appeared to track them. Joey healed Domi and joined the fight, where the enemy organs had gathered and the Knife Wielder began creating Flesh Monsters.

• Joey sensed that Gold Experience creations following the blood vessels were disappearing near Morel and warned Shoot that the Blood Vessel Knife Wielder might be tracking him.
• Joey and Shoot hurried through the passage, found Domi wounded by a bullet, and Joey healed him while Shoot charged ahead.
• Domi explained that Nose and other organs had gathered after Voice's death and had set an ambush, so Joey went to help Morel and warned Domi to guard the escape route.
• Joey entered the crowded room, where Morel and Knov were protected by Domi's iron walls as Deep Purple soldiers fought the attackers.
• The Blood Vessel Knife Wielder arrived and created Flesh Monsters, while Joey, Morel, and Shoot waited for a chance to act against the gathered organs, including Nose.

Joey, Morel, and Shoot fought the Blood Vessel Knife Wielder and the Stomach Bag Giant as the monsters clashed across the room. Joey’s cold attack was thwarted and Heartbreaker Attack was damaged, but Morel’s smoke covered a coordinated assault, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Stomach Bag Giant appeared and sprayed acid while confronting the Blood Vessel Knife Wielder, as Morel and Shoot attacked the nose monster.
• Shoot used Dark Inn to remove the nose monster’s nose, and Morel bound it with smoke while the Stomach Bag Giant turned to attack them.
• The Blood Vessel Knife Wielder exploited the opening to strike at the Stomach Bag Giant, who caught and pulled taut many of his blood vessels.
• Joey tried to trap the fighters in an Extreme Cold Domain, but the Knife Wielder’s Flesh Monsters broke the forming ice and protected his escape route.
• The Knife Wielder used Heartbreaker Attack chariots against the giant, while acid damaged Joey’s Heartbreaker Attack and Joey cut off his left hand to prevent the corrosion from spreading.
• Morel smashed the captured nose monster, then filled the room with smoke as Joey and Shoot vanished and multiple copies of them charged both opponents.

Joey and his allies attacked the Blood Vessel Knife Wielder after learning that his great blade was made from blood, while the Stomach Bag Giant continued fighting nearby. Killer Queen’s explosive attack destroyed the Knife Wielder’s blood vessels, but the fallen blood still tried to reach the broken blade as the giant stepped on it.

• The Stomach Bag Giant endured the Knife Wielder’s slash, revealing that his body consisted of muscle that could regenerate, and splashed acid over the Knife Wielder.
• Joey, the Weather Nen Beast, Killer Queen, and Deep Purple soldiers attacked the Knife Wielder, who swung his great blade at them.
• The Weather Nen Beast briefly dispersed the atmosphere around the Knife Wielder, causing his great blade to break apart into blood, and Joey realized that blood and body parts formed the strange humanoids.
• Joey and Killer Queen used exploding Heartbreaker Attacks to create an opening, then rushed the Knife Wielder as he began rebuilding his blade from blood.
• Joey slashed the Knife Wielder’s blood vessels while Killer Queen grabbed his fist and triggered an explosion that destroyed his body.
• The broken blade fell as the remaining blood tried to flow toward it, but the Stomach Bag Giant stamped on the blade and stopped it.

Joey burned away Blood, then joined forces with Morel, Shoot, and Domi to defeat the Stomach Bag Giant. The giant’s regeneration and corrosive attacks nearly stopped them, but a concealed pit and Killer Queen’s bombs destroyed him, leaving only the other remaining threat unresolved.

• Joey expanded his En and used Nen-infused flames to incinerate Blood and its scattered remnants.
• Joey regenerated his feet, turned them into eagles, and sent them with Morel’s smoke eagles to attack the Stomach Bag Giant while Shoot returned after touching the stomach bag.
• The Stomach Bag Giant sprayed corrosive liquid across the battlefield and used his powerful regeneration to withstand its effects.
• Domi opened a huge pit beneath the giant as the eagles attacked, but the giant’s stomach bag released a mixture of acid and Blood that dissolved the flock.
• Shoot gave Joey a piece of stomach skin, which Killer Queen turned into a bomb; the blast destroyed the stomach bag and the giant, while Domi emerged from beneath the ground.

After the team defeated the Muscle Giant, Domi warned them that the eyes had been taken, and Morel led them to hide and recover. A pursuing stench followed them through the ship, and Joey suspected an unseen gas-based enemy; Domi then sealed the room in an airtight sphere, giving Joey a chance to act against it.

• Domi emerged from underground and warned Joey that something had happened to the eyes, so Morel ordered the team to retreat through Domi’s passage.
• Joey treated Shoot as they moved, then knocked Morel unconscious when he tried to cover their rear and had Shoot and Domi carry him onward.
• A foul stench spread through the passage and followed the team despite Joey using Weather Report to clear the air, leading Joey to suspect Buttocks or a gas-like attacker.
• Joey silently signaled Shoot about a plan, but Domi understood and gestured that he would handle it.
• Domi sealed the room inside a pitch-black sphere that stopped air from flowing in or out, then urged Joey to hurry as strong wind began to sound.

Joey and his allies escaped a sealed room after he transformed Domi’s sphere into a hamster, then hid to recover from the ordeal. When Joey woke, he learned the hamster had been destroyed, the Monster Bird carrying Knuckle was still nearby, and the Black Whale 1 was due to reach the Supply Station the next morning.

• Joey filled Domi’s sphere with Gold Experience Nen, turning it into a hamster and causing the sealed room to become part of a giant hamster’s body.
• Joey, Domi, Morel, and Shoot escaped through the hamster’s flesh as the King’s Army attacked it with gunfire.
• The group reached Domi’s hiding place, and Joey exhausted his Nen creating animals before falling asleep in Zetsu.
• Joey woke after nearly three hours, found that Domi had regained his Nen, and sensed that the Monster Bird carrying Knuckle was still nearby.
• Joey ate and assessed the group’s condition, noting that the Black Whale 1 was expected to reach the Supply Station early the next morning.

Joey and his allies found Knuckle near the Monster Bird and discovered the black aura around Black Whale 1 had confined the deadly zone to within ten meters of the ship. As Joey confronted the Nen users attacking from above, Knuckle warned them that Stench and Muscle were made of Post-Mortem Nen and had already been marked by Potclean.

• Joey shared his intelligence about the ship and led Morel and the others toward the Monster Bird.
• Domi opened a section of the ship's wall, revealing the Monster Bird, the soldiers attacking it, and vengeful spirits approaching the hull.
• Joey sensed Knuckle beneath the Monster Bird's feathers and detected at least four Nen users above, including the surviving Buttocks.
• Joey flew out toward the Monster Bird, where hair strands and a spray of foul-smelling liquid attacked him and the others.
• The Weather Nen Beast used fire and wind to burn the hair and scatter the liquid as Knuckle warned them to watch out for Stench and Muscle.

Joey coordinated with Knuckle and used Weather Report to hide their attacks against the revived Muscle, while the others fought the remaining monsters aboard the ship. The battle continued on both levels as Joey tested the limits of the enemies’ post-mortem Nen and Domi trapped the huge-mouthed monster.

• Joey recognized Muscle and the stench as revived post-mortem Nen, then used thick fog and wind to conceal himself and Knuckle.
• Joey released skatole to confuse the stench’s tracking, while Knuckle repeatedly struck Muscle and increased Potclean’s countdown.
• Muscle swelled and tore open the cabin, but the fog followed him inside; Joey’s insects triggered First Bomb against the gaseous being, which vanished and re-formed.
• Joey sensed the other enemies fighting above, stopped producing flames, and sent wind blades against them as Morel’s Deep Purple soldiers attacked.
• Joey’s wind blades shredded the huge-mouthed monster, and Domi enclosed its splattered body inside a sphere.

Morel and the others defeated Body Hair while Joey and Knuckle stalled Muscle until IRS forced him into Zetsu. Joey sent the sealed gas creature into the black aura, where the resentful ghosts devoured it, but the group then sensed Eyes watching them and fled below deck to search for its body.

• Morel used smoke decoys and flames to expose Body Hair, then struck her down with his pipe and watched to see whether she would revive.
• Joey reasoned that the revived body parts might correspond to the dead princes and kept Muscle occupied while Knuckle's IRS counted down toward aura bankruptcy.
• Morel confirmed that Body Hair and the urine user had been dealt with, while Joey noted that the soldiers had stopped fighting and discarded their weapons.
• After IRS forced Muscle into Zetsu, Domi sealed Muscle and the gas creature in a sphere, and Joey transformed the sphere into a hummingbird.
• Killer Queen destroyed the hummingbird carrying the sealed creature, leaving the gas exposed to the black aura's ghosts, which tore it apart and devoured it.
• Morel sensed Eyes watching the group, and Domi opened a passage so everyone could descend and search for its actual body.

Joey and his companions searched the cruise ship’s upper tier while an unseen enemy kept them under surveillance. They discovered that Nen had sealed off the upper tier, then realized Black Whale 1 was closing its top as well.

• Joey struggled to locate the watchers with his Gold Experience creations, and Morel calmed him when the pressure made him impatient.
• Joey, Morel, Shoot, and Domi finished exploring the upper tier without finding the enemy, while soldiers continued their work around them.
• Domi’s ability failed against a repulsive Nen barrier beneath the deck, and Joey suspected the skin and another body part were behind the seal.
• Joey sent Heartbreaker Attack toward the barrier while Morel and Domi tested whether the Nen divided the upper and middle tiers.
• Joey, Morel, and Shoot ran onto the deck after hearing a hum and saw two huge metal plates moving to seal off the top of Black Whale 1.

Joey and Morel’s group broke through the Cruise Ship’s rebounding Nen, only to uncover a vast pile of Nen-wrapped bones that released swarms of skeletons. They held the skeletons back with a narrow passage and enhanced acid rain, but the skin began to reform and the cause of the ship’s defenses remained unclear.

• Joey used repeated Heartbreaker Attack explosions to weaken the Nen sealing the Upper Tier, while Morel returned with Domi and confirmed the tiers were isolated.
• The exposed skin vanished when Heartbreaker Attack’s chariot struck it, revealing a huge mass of white bones that began producing Skeleton People.
• Joey’s Erasure turned individual skeletons to ash but did not destroy the whole bone pile, as more skeletons emerged and charged the group.
• Domi shaped the terrain into a narrow passage, and Joey filled it with enhanced acid rain to corrode the skeletons while Deep Purple soldiers held them back.
• Joey and Morel saw the skin beginning to reform, and a chariot that had vanished with it suddenly crashed onto the deck nearby.

Joey realized Skin’s ability was to rebound objects rather than teleport them, then led the group through the Skeleton blockade into the Cruise Ship’s Middle Tier. He questioned whether Brain existed and speculated that the Succession War’s winner might become the final Brain, while the fate of the organs and body parts remained uncertain.

• Joey deduced that Skin rapidly rebounded anything it chose and that its ability was passive and randomly directed.
• Joey ordered Domi to drain the reservoir’s acid through the bones, and Domi shaped the passage so the acid corroded the Skeleton pile.
• Joey and the others used spacesuits and Morel’s Deep Purple soldiers to cross the reservoir, then descended through the acid-carved opening into the Middle Tier.
• Joey questioned whether Brain existed, and Morel explained that they had only heard about it from Mouth.
• Joey theorized that the organs and body parts corresponded to Kakin’s king and princes, and that the winner of the Succession War might become Brain.
• Morel suggested that King Nasubi Hui Guo Rou could be Brain because he had won the previous Succession War, while Joey warned that the ship’s passengers might be sacrificed to create something terrible.

Joey devised a fiery attack to blind the watcher and expose the skin above the Middle Tier, then led the group to retreat when bones began swarming them. As they descended toward the Lower Level, he sent Gold Experience creations in every direction to investigate the watcher and the ship’s restrictions.

• Joey used Weather Report, Killer Queen, and Heartbreaker Attack chariots to burn through the bone pile and send a coin into the exposed skin, but the attack cost him his right hand and triggered a rain of bones.
• Joey searched the bone pile for the skin and considered finding the bones’ original core, while Morel and Domi established defenses against the assembling skeletons.
• Joey concluded that fighting the bones would waste too much Nen and signaled a retreat; Domi opened a passage, and the group followed him toward the Lower Level.
• Joey judged the bones’ Aura Capacity to be immense but their attacks less dangerous than Youpi’s, and wondered whether the princes might become allies.
• Joey scattered coins and scraps of paper that Gold Experience transformed into flying insects, hoping their movements would reveal the watcher and whether anyone could leave the Black Whale 1.

King Nasubi ordered the skeletons to attack the Supply Station as Black Whale 1 approached, while Mizaistom and Kurapika discussed the lifted blockade and their next moves. The ship stopped offshore as skeletons descended on the island, leaving its defenders and the cloaked group under attack.

• King Nasubi ordered the skeletons to attack the Supply Station and leave no one alive there, including V5 personnel.
• The man in black redirected the skeletons toward the upper deck, where Resurrected Skin launched them toward the Supply Station.
• Mizaistom told Kurapika that the First Tier blockade had lifted, then planned to meet the arriving V5 personnel while Kurapika chose to investigate the Phantom Troupe alone.
• Mizaistom took Tserried to the Fifth Floor, and Kurapika left later to pursue his investigation.
• Black Whale 1 stopped offshore, and skeletons landed across the Supply Station and attacked its inhabitants and the cloaked figures.

Mizaistom withdrew the Hunters from the devastated Supply Station as the King's Army fought the skeletal attackers, and news of the disaster spread through Black Whale 1. Joey investigated the incident and sought a way to counter the eyes watching him, leaving the possibility of a fourth Post-Mortem Nen ability under consideration.

• Black Whale 1 docked at the Supply Station, where the King's Army soldiers fired on charging skeletons while Mizaistom led the Hunters back to the Third Tier.
• The King's Army officer called Nugui, and rumors about the massacre spread through Black Whale 1, alarming its passengers.
• Joey heard that the Supply Station had been destroyed and concluded that Kakin's king had attacked it, putting the voyage and Kakin's relationship with V5 in doubt.
• Joey declined to accompany Morel to the Hunter Association office because he wanted to find the eyes watching him and considered seeking help from Exorcism Masters among the princes' allies.
• Joey sent encrypted messages to Mizaistom and Piyon for information, then searched the second tier for reports and photographs of the Supply Station.
• Joey recalled strange sounds detected by his Gold Experience creations and considered whether they pointed to a fourth Post-Mortem Nen ability.

Joey pieced together the Black Whale 1’s arrival at the Supply Station and learned that turmoil aboard had made the Hunter Association consider abandoning ship. After a violent jolt and a broadcast about dangers in the Unexplored Waters, he found the ship sealed by a black aura that grew stronger on fear, while Zigg arranged to meet him within two days.

• Joey read intelligence from Piyon and Mizaistom about the massacre at the Supply Station, the Ai Yi Yi Family’s ongoing conflict, and the Hunter Association preparing to abandon ship.
• Joey went to the Third Tier to contact Morena, but the Black Whale 1 shuddered as if struck, and panic spread among the passengers.
• A broadcast from Little Blue blamed the ship’s pitching on a super hurricane and said lightning had struck the hull, while the ship entered defensive mode.
• Joey found black mist covering the hull and sensed that it grew stronger by absorbing people’s fear, leading him to suspect Nasubi Hui Guo Rou was central to the ship’s problems.
• Zigg asked to meet Joey, who agreed to meet within two days if they could not meet under surveillance.
• Joey sensed armed personnel and ability users apparently waiting above, avoided them, and continued toward the Ai Yi Yi Family’s base.

Joey used a Clone to reach the Ai Yi Yi Family’s hidden base and meet Morena, who confirmed that King Nasubi Hui Guo Rou’s plans had made the Lower Level’s coming chaos unavoidable. Sheryl removed the feeling of being watched, and Morena sent Joey through a hidden door to meet someone who had been waiting for him.

• Joey sent a Clone and Gold Experience creations to investigate the Ai Yi Yi Family’s base near Room No. 3101.
• A woman led Joey’s Clone through a concealed wall into a Nen-created space, where a masked man stopped him after discovering he was a Clone.
• Morena allowed Joey to enter and explained that he was being watched, while both recognized that Nasubi Hui Guo Rou had planned the ship’s unfolding chaos.
• Sheryl entered and used her ability to make the feeling of being watched disappear.
• Morena told Joey that others aboard the ship were resisting Nasubi Hui Guo Rou and directed him through a hidden door to someone waiting for him.