Chapter Summaries

Joey and Kurapika disguised a captive as the Twelfth Prince to conceal her and prepared for the First Prince’s guard to investigate. After Bicotte was ensnared by the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast and driven to attack another guard, Joey and Kurapika helped kill both men; the chapter ended with the Third Prince Chorai inviting Joey and the Twelfth Prince to meet and exchange information.

• Joey rejected Kurapika’s plan to disguise himself as the Twelfth Prince and instead modified the captive Nagamam to resemble her, while the real prince was hidden.
• Bicotte arrived to inspect the Twelfth Prince’s room, and her Nen Beast repeatedly asked him whether he was free.
• Bicotte answered that he was free and, under the Nen Beast’s influence, went to the Fourteenth Prince’s room and attacked another First Prince’s guard.
• Kurapika and Joey helped Bicotte kill the other guard, and the Weather Nen Beast then used the guard’s gun to kill Bicotte.
• Kurapika told the King’s Army that the First Prince’s guards had attacked each other, and Joey later received Chorai’s invitation to meet and exchange secrets with the Twelfth Prince present.

Joey used Killer Queen and Gold Experience to set a remote trap in the corridor, killing Lihan after the First Prince sent him to monitor the Twelfth Prince and destroy the prince’s Nen Beast. The trap left Babimayna surrounded by the King’s Army, while Joey waited in the Twelfth Prince’s quarters for the First Prince’s response.

• The First Prince sent Lihan to monitor the Twelfth Prince and Babimayna to monitor the Fourteenth Prince, planning for Lihan to eliminate the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast.
• Lihan and Babimayna found suspicious coins in the corridor and cautiously investigated them as they headed toward the lower-ranking princes’ quarters.
• A swift and a Skeleton Chariot appeared, and Lihan and Babimayna attacked them; the Chariot exploded, and Lihan vanished from Babimayna’s En beside a misshapen coin.
• The King’s Army surrounded Babimayna after the explosions, while the Chariot and swift disappeared and the First Prince came out with Balsamilco.
• Joey revealed that he had remotely set up the corridor assassination without telling Kurapika, and he waited as his left hand regenerated.

Joey carried out an elaborate assassination in the First Prince’s corridor, killing Lihan and framing the Third Prince while concealing his methods. After Kurapika and the Twelfth Prince left, Joey discovered that the calm prisoner Juan was Hisoka in disguise, and Hisoka asked him to keep his identity secret.

• Joey used transformed coins, insects, a swift, and Heartbreaker Attack to lure the First Prince’s guards into an ambush and plant evidence implicating the Third Prince.
• When Lihan attacked the fly, Joey activated First Bomb and killed him, then retrieved the evidence coin as explosions erased the scene.
• Joey sent a disguised, venom-filled mosquito after Blagi and used a Ladybug camera to monitor the Third Prince’s room remotely.
• After Kurapika and the Twelfth Prince left, Joey questioned the remaining prisoners and suspected Juan because he had stayed unusually calm.
• Hisoka revealed himself by killing Nipeba, Raloku, and Tafudi, then asked Joey to hide his identity from Kurapika.
• Joey disposed of the bodies with Gold Experience and cleaned the room with Weather Report while Hisoka looked forward to fighting him.

Joey lent Hisoka a handkerchief that could grant him a temporary Conjuration ability, helping him conceal his identity from Kurapika while learning that Hisoka had come aboard seeking the Gatekeeper. After Kurapika returned with the Third Prince’s guards, Slaka challenged Juan’s sudden reappearance and insisted the King’s Army question him.

• Joey questioned Hisoka about his identity and learned he had joined the guards by frightening Marayam into having him removed from the Seventh Queen’s group.
• Hisoka asked Joey for a way to explain his abilities to Kurapika, and Joey offered him a Nen-filled handkerchief enhanced with God Script, warning that prolonged use could lead to soul assimilation.
• Joey asked why Hisoka had boarded the ship, and Hisoka said he was there for the Gatekeeper.
• Joey engraved God Script on Hisoka and lent him the handkerchief, explaining how its Nen would let Hisoka use a temporary Conjuration ability.
• Kurapika returned with the Twelfth Prince and three Guard Soldiers, and Joey claimed Juan’s disappearance and reappearance had been caused by a Nen Beast ability.
• Slaka demanded that Juan be handed over to the King’s Army for questioning, while Hisoka said he did not know where the other guards were.

Joey and Kurapika dealt with the fallout from Hisoka’s capture and discussed how his presence could expose Nen to the Princes. After Kurapika awakened the Twelfth Prince’s Nen, Balsamilco announced that the First Prince’s Guard Soldier would arrive in an hour, and Joey suspected a trap but chose not to intervene.

• Hisoka was taken away by a King's Army Soldier, while Joey considered how his appearance could alert the Princes to Nen and complicate the Succession War.
• Joey told Kurapika that Juan had killed three men after breaking free and explained that Juan could not escape; Kurapika questioned whether Juan was trustworthy and asked for assurance that he had no connection to the Phantom Troupe.
• Joey confirmed that Juan was not connected to the Phantom Troupe and said Hisoka had handled the earlier capture of two Phantom Troupe members, while Kurapika probed Joey’s stance toward the group.
• Kurapika proposed revealing Nen to balance the Princes’ forces, but Joey advised him to consult the Third Prince’s Guard Soldiers and warned that the timing mattered.
• Kurapika quietly awakened the Twelfth Prince’s Nen, then Balsamilco called to announce that the First Prince’s Guard Soldier would arrive in one hour.
• Joey suspected the First Prince had set a trap to identify whoever had attacked his men, but decided not to take part.

Joey guarded the Twelfth Prince while Shukurinov joined the room and Benjamin’s guards investigated the suspected Nen users and their abilities. The chapter ended with events unfolding across the princes’ rooms, including Gohndobba finding a listening device and Tserried admitting to the Fourth Prince that she could use Nen.

• Joey kept watch over the sleeping Twelfth Prince and used En while Shukurinov served as the First Prince’s new Guard Soldier.
• Shukurinov reported that Joey was a Nen user, and Benjamin and Balsamilco reasoned that the Twelfth Prince’s guards had helped use the Third Prince’s Nen Beast to kill Lihan.
• Benjamin ordered his men to kill insects near his room and told Shukurinov to approach the Twelfth Prince’s guards with an offer before Babimayna replaced him.
• Gohndobba discovered a listening device disguised as a Ladybug in the Third Prince’s Room and reported it to Benjamin.
• Tserried told the Fourth Prince that she knew about Nen and could use it.
• Biscuit found two bloodless corpses in the Thirteenth Prince’s Room and feared that more deaths would follow.

Joey assessed the Princes’ threats and weighed an alliance with Benjamin against his goal of stopping the Fourth Prince, while Kurapika proposed a way to test whether a Prince could escape the Succession War. The chapter ended with Joey doubting that Marayam could leave the B.W. Ship safely and considering Kurapika’s alternative of breaking the war’s containment or killing Nasubi Hui Guo Rou.

• Joey reviewed intelligence from his Ladybugs, concluding that Benjamin had inherited at least four Nen abilities and that several Princes’ rooms were being watched or searched.
• Joey hoped Benjamin would contact him so they could ally against the Fourth Prince, with a pardon for the Twelfth Prince as a possible condition.
• A Ladybug brought Joey intelligence that three people had been killed in the Thirteenth Prince’s room and that a witness had seen a white snake beside the third victim.
• Kurapika deduced that the visible white snake was a conjured Nen Beast and proposed taking Marayam off the B.W. Ship to make the Princes’ parasitic Nen Beasts disappear.
• Joey warned Kurapika that leaving the ship could kill Marayam, then described the Succession War as a gu-poison contest trapped inside a container.
• Kurapika suggested breaking the container or killing Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, while Joey noted that reaching the King’s living quarters was nearly impossible.

Joey and Kurapika planned to draw the assassin toward the Twelfth Prince’s Room and use the First Prince’s support to approach the Fourth Prince, while weighing the risks of protecting the lower-ranking Princes. Joey then probed the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast, which devoured his insect scouts and showed it could detach its tongue from its body.

• Joey questioned whether Kurapika was prepared to protect the lower-ranking Princes, and explained why he wanted to ally with the First Prince and use the chance to reveal Nen abilities.
• Joey shared intelligence about several Princes’ Nen Beasts, and he and Kurapika planned to gain the First Prince’s trust by offering information and opposing the Fourth Prince.
• Shukurinov invited Kurapika to the First Prince’s Room to confirm a meeting for the next morning, putting the Twelfth Prince’s Room in the spotlight.
• Joey sent a biscuit-turned-cockroach through the ventilation duct toward the Fourth Prince’s Room, where the Nen Beast swallowed it and a Killer Queen explosion destroyed only its detached tongue.
• Joey sent a swift carrying the First Bomb, the Heartbreaker Attack Chariot, and a hummingbird camera into the duct to continue probing the Nen Beast.

Joey’s attempt to investigate the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast led to a rampage of Nen Beasts aboard the ship, while the Fourth Queen was killed during the chaos. The chapter ends with Kurapika preparing to meet the First Prince and Joey watching the princes’ alliances shift.

• Joey guided Heartbreaker Attack toward the Fourth Prince’s Room, where the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast destroyed the swift and apparently damaged Joey’s severed hand before the chariot exploded.
• Izunavi announced that Nen Beasts had appeared in the Sixth Prince’s Area, and Nen Beasts from several princes’ abilities suddenly appeared inside the Twelfth Prince’s room.
• The Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast reached toward Hasuto, but Slaka knocked him away; the creature then searched the room and moved toward the Thirteenth Prince’s Area.
• Joey saw the Fourth Queen’s death had devastated the Sixth Prince and her guards, while soldiers arrested several people, including a member of the First Prince’s Personal Guards.
• The Fourth Prince watched the aftermath from his damaged room, and Joey recognized that he had begun learning Nen.
• Kurapika accepted the Ninth Prince’s request to teach Nen in exchange for a truce, then left with Shukurinov to meet the First Prince as Hisoka returned disguised as Juan.

Kurapika negotiated with Benjamin Hui Guo Rou, offering information and support in exchange for a chance to meet Tserriednich alone and a pardon for the Twelfth Prince. After Kurapika returned, Joey learned that the Thirteenth Prince had been killed, while Benjamin began spreading word that Kurapika would teach Nen to the princes’ guards.

• Hisoka told Joey that Chrollo had regained his Nen Ability, and Joey warned Hisoka not to create trouble before the Kakin succession contest was settled.
• Kurapika met Benjamin Hui Guo Rou and Balsamilco, revealed his Scarlet Eyes, and requested a private meeting with Tserriednich in exchange for information and support.
• Balsamilco said the Thirteenth Prince no longer needed a pardon; Kurapika accepted a deal pardoning the Twelfth Prince and provided information about two princes’ Nen Beasts.
• Kurapika offered to teach Nen to the princes’ Guard Soldiers, and Benjamin promoted the offer while inviting Kurapika to remain in Kakin.
• Kurapika returned to Room 12, where Joey learned that the Thirteenth Prince had been shot dead and that Benjamin’s men were preparing to act against the Eighth Prince.
• More princes’ guards and attendants were summoned to Room 12, and Joey received the day’s Ladybug intelligence.

Joey investigated the Second Prince’s curse-based Personal Guards and watched the princes’ representatives gather for Kurapika’s Nen training. An apparent supernatural attack killed Longi in Room 12, but the culprit remained unidentified as the group weighed whether to continue training.

• Joey concluded that the Second Prince might be using her house arrest by the First Prince as cover while her Personal Guards prepared curse attacks, and he suspected the Second Queen also had an ability.
• Representatives from most Prince’s Rooms gathered in Room 12, where Kurapika asked who could already use Nen and Joey considered whether the dead might be preventing the princes from leaving the B.W. Ship.
• Ribeli claimed to see a strange woman, and Longi suddenly clutched his throat and died as white, lip-covered snakes emerged from his body.
• Sakada shot Longi’s corpse and the snakes, then tried with Maor to have the Sixth Queen arrested, but the Chief Justice rejected the request and ordered observation and questioning instead.
• Kurapika gave the gathered representatives until eleven to decide whether to continue training, and Joey told him Shukurinov’s actions had limited the clues he could find.

Joey and Kurapika narrowed the suspected assassin in the Twelfth Prince’s Room to the Eighth Prince’s Guard Soldier while planning how to expose him. Meanwhile, Benjamin disguised himself as a Guard Soldier and used his Nen Beast [Foreigner] to devour the Eighth Prince’s Guardian Spirit Beast, unaware that Joey’s camera recorded him.

• Joey and Kurapika eliminated several people as suspects and discussed the suspicious Nen users, the white snakes, and the attacks on ordinary Guard Soldiers.
• Joey identified Kinoshita Aru, the Eighth Prince’s Guard Soldier, as the most likely assassin and planned to observe him before acting.
• Kurapika began teaching Nen to the people in the Twelfth Prince’s Room after Ribeli was taken away by the King’s Army.
• Benjamin disguised himself as a Guard Soldier, entered the Eighth Prince’s Room, and summoned [Foreigner] to devour the Eighth Prince’s Guardian Spirit Beast.
• Benjamin signaled the start of his assassination plan, while a camera recorded his actions and Joey watched the footage on his phone.

Joey monitored the First Prince’s actions and gathered intelligence from the Ninth Prince’s guards, while weighing how to use the First Prince’s vulnerability as a bargaining chip. The apparent lull in the Succession War ended with Joey noticing that the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast might be affecting Shukurinov and Slaka.

• Joey recorded the First Prince using [Outsider] and decided to save the evidence as leverage for future negotiations rather than expose it immediately.
• The Ninth Prince’s guards explained that his Nen Beast gathered the power of people united by the same will, while the Ninth Prince’s opposition to the monarchy conflicted with the Beast’s drive to make him king.
• Joey suspected the Ninth Prince’s conflicting convictions might indicate a split personality and a dangerous second side to his Nen Beast.
• Joey saw Wu Xiaohei replace the First Prince’s guard in the Eighth Prince’s Room and planned to retrieve his hidden camera after the assassination.
• Joey noticed the Twelfth Prince’s Nen Beast’s belly pouch had swollen and suspected it had already targeted Shukurinov and Slaka.

Gohndobba and Balsamilco pieced together how Joey had concealed his abilities and planted surveillance equipment, while Benjamin considered using Kurapika’s desire to recover the Kurta Clan’s Scarlet Eyes to approach Tserriednich. Joey’s attempt to retrieve cameras from the Eighth Prince’s Room was thwarted, and Shukurinov appeared to recognize that Joey had been exposed.

• Gohndobba examined coins found in the Third Prince’s Room and concluded that Kurapika’s group had staged the corridor incident to disguise the ability that made Lihan disappear.
• Balsamilco told Benjamin that Joey’s controlled creatures could hide cameras as well as listening devices, and they realized Joey might have recorded Benjamin attacking the Eighth Prince’s Nen Beast.
• Benjamin and Balsamilco suspected Kurapika was gathering information to approach Tserriednich and discussed how Joey had bypassed Lihan’s counterattack ability.
• Joey sent prepared parrots through the ventilation ducts to retrieve his cameras from the Eighth Prince’s Room, but an attacker destroyed them before they arrived.
• Joey noticed Shukurinov watching him and realized the First Prince’s side might have discovered that he could cancel Gold Experience’s effects.
• Sakada told Kurapika that the Eighth Prince had died, while the King's Army returned Sailde to the Fourteenth Prince’s side after finding insufficient evidence against him.

Joey hid the last surveillance camera, received the First Prince’s promise to arrange what he wanted, and coordinated with Melody on a plan involving the Fourth Prince. On the fifth day, the Seventh Queen returned to the Twelfth Prince’s Room, where the silent assassin struck again, leaving Joey uncertain who would be targeted next.

• Joey used Gold Experience to hide the camera inside a book, while Olawu reported the trick to Balsamilco and the First Prince told Joey through Shukurinov to wait for the operation to finish.
• Joey considered the assassin’s identity after a quiet third day, then received Melody’s request to help Kacho and Fugetsu escape the succession war and promised to help after their mission.
• Joey prepared to use Melody’s music as cover to probe an assassination of Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, while keeping his own body away from the banquet hall.
• The Seventh Queen returned in a wheelchair and moved her guards to the Twelfth Prince’s Room, where she blamed Joey and Kurapika for Marayam’s death as Momoze listened calmly.
• The assassin with Majority of the Silent struck again despite the Eighth Prince’s guards being absent, shifting suspicion toward Satobi and raising the possibility that the killer acted from outside the room.

Joey and Kurapika planned to use Biscuit to test Satobi while Joey considered exploiting the Ninth Prince’s repeated requests to meet Nasubi as an opportunity to investigate the King’s Area. After Miuhan was found murdered, Biscuit exposed Satobi as a Nen user, but the chapter ended with Satobi denying the accusation and Biscuit escalating the confrontation.

• Joey and Kurapika arranged for Biscuit to question Satobi using a listening device, while Joey rejected involving the Seventh Queen because her grief could make her accuse Satobi without restraint.
• Joey explained that the Ninth Prince’s repeated requests to meet Nasubi might create an opening for Joey to probe the King’s Area, and Kurapika noted that the First Prince would soon leave the VVIP Area.
• Sakada discovered Miuhan’s blood-drained corpse, and Kurapika recognized him as a member of the Fourth Prince’s Room.
• Satobi accused Kurapika and Joey of using Nen training to deceive the Guard Soldiers, while Biscuit accused Satobi of concealing his Nen and possibly being the assassin.
• Biscuit transformed and hurled aura at Satobi, making him reveal Nen to defend himself; the Seventh Queen then ordered the guards to arrest him for Marayam’s assassination.
• Satobi denied being the assassin and claimed he concealed his Nen because he distrusted the Hunter Association, while Biscuit argued that his motives made him more suspicious.

Joey planned to use Hisoka’s clone and Fugetsu’s spatial ability to get Hisoka off the First Tier, while preparing disguises and equipment for the operation. The chapter ended as the Ninth Prince entered the King’s Area at gunpoint, unaware that Joey’s ladybug was hidden on him and that Joey was monitoring events from Room 12.

• The King’s Army took Biscuit, Satobi, and Miuhan’s body away, while Danjin chose to continue attending Kurapika’s Nen training after discussing the risks with Tserriednich.
• Joey and Kurapika concluded that Biscuit had deliberately arranged to be taken to the VVIP Area to gather intelligence, and Melody reported Fugetsu’s spatial ability and her alliance with Gini.
• Joey told Hisoka about Fugetsu and Kacho’s spatial transportation ability, then proposed disguising Hisoka as Kacho and himself as Fugetsu so they could leave the First Tier.
• Joey prepared listening devices and carved the God Script for the Chirping Insect’s ability, keeping Ming concealed in Killer Queen’s abdominal storage space.
• The First Prince used an owl Nen Beast to observe the Second Prince, while the Ninth Prince entered the King’s Area at gunpoint with Joey’s ladybug hidden beneath his collar.
• Joey monitored the Ninth Prince’s entry from Room 12 while flicking coins into a ventilation duct.

Joey eavesdropped on Halkenburg confronting Nasubi Hui Guo Rou and learned that the King could not die before the Succession War ceremony ended. Nasubi’s trolley problem suggested the B.W. Ship and its 200,000 passengers might be part of Kakin’s sacrifice, leaving Joey to consider warning the Hunter Association and stopping the threat.

• Joey used a ladybug hidden on one of Halkenburg’s Guard Soldiers to listen in as Halkenburg met Nasubi Hui Guo Rou in the King’s Area.
• Halkenburg demanded that Nasubi suspend the Succession War or die, then fired repeatedly at him, but Nasubi survived through his Guardian Nen Beast’s transportation ability.
• Nasubi told Halkenburg that the King would become nourishment for Kakin and urged him to bear the burden of sin, while Halkenburg questioned whether a wrong choice could destroy the nation.
• Joey concluded that Nasubi’s trolley problem might put the B.W. Ship and its 200,000 passengers on the track to be sacrificed, and considered warning the Hunter Association or stopping the Succession War.
• After Halkenburg returned, Joey felt his supporters’ Nen gather again and expected Halkenburg to target the First Prince’s Personal Guards after the second banquet.

Joey and his allies began their plan during the banquet, but the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast thwarted their attempt to use Melody’s music to approach him. Joey then used Fugetsu’s ability to get Fugetsu and Kacho to safety with Piyon, leaving the next move for another opportunity.

• After a peaceful seventh day, the banquet began without the First or Second Prince, and the host announced that the Eighth Prince had withdrawn due to illness.
• When Melody’s flute affected the First Tier, Joey and Hisoka used clones to escort the disguised Tenth and Eleventh Princes toward the preparation room.
• Joey entered the banquet hall and confronted the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast, but withdrew after Kurapika signaled him to abandon the approach.
• Joey and Hisoka’s clones met the princes and Gini, then used Fugetsu’s ability to open a passage to Piyon’s room on the Third Tier.
• Joey gave Piyon his notes and a memory card, and Piyon took in Fugetsu and Kacho with Cheadle’s arrangements in place.

Joey and Hisoka performed at the banquet while the Princes’ factions reacted to Melody’s ability and the events during her music. Shukurinov passed Joey information about Morena’s hideout, and Kurapika warned that the First Prince’s agent was testing Joey and might soon act against the Twelfth Prince.

• Joey asked Hisoka to play the harp for their performance, while the Fourth Prince watched Melody’s act and ordered her Guard Soldier to invite Melody to her room.
• Benjamin ordered Balsamilco to invite Melody to Room 1 and discussed using information about Morena’s hideout to arrange contact between the Fourth Prince and Kurapika.
• Joey and Hisoka waited in the passage as the Fourth Prince left the banquet, and Tserried noticed Joey’s fly while concealing what she had observed about the Fourth Prince’s Nen Beast.
• Shukurinov told Joey that Morena’s hideout was Regular Room 5310 on the Fifth Floor and said the information would reach its target the next day.
• Joey relayed Shukurinov’s message to Kurapika, who concluded that Shukurinov was assessing Joey’s importance and might soon return to Room 1 or attack the Twelfth Prince.