Recaps

Lianke explained how to judge Nen users and comforted Carl after recognizing his loneliness. She then assigned Hisoka to train Carl in the Four Major Principles by beating him, leaving Carl facing an eager senior brother.

• Lianke tested Carl’s Nen affinity and turned the water in a cup into pale golden crystals, identifying him as a Conjurer.
• Lianke taught Carl to judge Nen users by their age, trusting his instincts, and observing their eyes.
• Lianke embraced Carl and reassured him that she would help mend what was broken, while Hisoka watched jealously from beneath a tree.
• Carl asked Lianke to continue the lesson, but she declared that he first had to learn the Four Major Principles.
• Lianke ordered Hisoka to train Carl by attacking him, and Hisoka eagerly prepared to begin.

Carl trained with Hisoka under Lianke’s supervision, enduring a beating while learning to keep Ten focused on her eyes. After Lianke knocked Hisoka unconscious, she explained how he had hidden his Nen and exploited Carl’s habit of closing her eyes, then encouraged them to keep practicing.

• Hisoka repeatedly struck Carl, and she managed to block one blow before being beaten to her knees.
• Hisoka snatched Carl’s Bomb Pomegranate, but Lianke tossed a twig at him and ordered him to throw the fruit before it exploded in the sky.
• Hisoka admired the explosion, then answered Lianke’s question about whether it was more beautiful than her; Lianke lifted him and knocked him unconscious.
• Carl asked Lianke why she could not see Hisoka’s Nen Aura, and Lianke explained that he had concealed Bungee Gum with Texture Surprise and attacked whenever Carl closed her eyes.
• Lianke told Carl to practice with Hisoka more, while privately approving of the strength and resolve she had shown.

Carl shared dinner with Lianke after training and learned about the dangers of overusing Nen Aura. In Flint City, Mayor Hao promised Teresa a trip home while ordering Vincent to intensify the exploitation of Meteor City, revealing his ambition to profit from it.

• Hisoka served Carl and Lianke dinner, and Lianke urged Carl to eat enough to support her Nen Aura training.
• Lianke warned Carl that excessive Nen Aura use could destroy her body, and Carl ate while remembering her lonely meals at the welfare home.
• Teresa confronted her father, Mayor Hao Halis, for drinking and smoking, then persuaded him to promise to take her home soon.
• Hao called Vincent and ordered him to cut Meteor City's allocation by another thirty percent and increase its recovery rate, threatening Vincent's grandson when he hesitated.
• Hao reflected on Flint City's exploitation of Meteor City and vowed to make fifty billion jenny during his term as mayor.

Carl taught the Phantom Troupe about Nen before everyone rested for the night. In Meteor City, Sheila stole communion wafers to trade on the black market, then decided to use her stash to buy Old Will new glasses.

• Carl taught the Phantom Troupe while Chrollo recorded her explanations, Uvogin fell asleep, and Machi and Paku repaired Carl's robe.
• Carl went to sleep, and Chrollo finished recording notes so he could teach the others the next day.
• In September's heat, Sheila secretly withheld communion wafers from Meteor City's hungry residents and traded them for a gold-plated brooch.
• Sheila hid twenty wafers to sell on the black market, but after seeing Old Will's worn glasses, she decided to buy him a new pair instead of a hair clip.
• Sheila dropped her brooch and noticed the discount voucher from the black-market merchant attached to it.

In Meteor City, Vincent pressured Pike and Borso to support Mayor Hao’s early famine contingency plan, despite the damage it would cause to the city and their businesses. The meeting ended with both men agreeing to cooperate, while Vincent was left troubled by what the decision had done to their old friendship.

• Pike confronted Vincent over the early food cuts, citing soaring black-market prices and attacks on his casino.
• Borso reported that organ transplant orders had fallen and questioned whether Mayor Hao had ordered the famine plan.
• Vincent said the mayor needed to see Meteor City’s sincerity and demanded triple taxes and further hardship for the residents.
• Pike agreed to help maintain order, and Borso said the Hoffman Medical Group would begin buying fresh organs.
• After Pike and Borso left, Vincent reflected on their damaged friendship and the scar left by Pike’s Nen Ability, Fang.

Carl risked an all-out strike during a brutal spar with Hisoka and broke half of his tooth, but the blow left Carl badly wounded and without Nen Aura. Lianke stopped Hisoka from attacking further, treated Carl’s wound, and charged Carl for the ruined courtyard; as Carl recovered, he reflected on how much he had improved before his vision darkened.

• Carl gambled that Hisoka would attack his abdomen and struck Hisoka’s jaw with a Nen-infused fist, breaking his jaw and half a tooth.
• Carl surrendered after exhausting his Nen Aura, and Lianke severed Bungee Gum and ordered Hisoka to vent his anger in the forest.
• Lianke warned Carl that abandoning his defense could have gotten him killed, sealed Carl’s bleeding wound, and charged him for the damaged stone slabs.
• Carl held Ten around his wound until he regained enough strength to sit up against the courtyard wall.
• Carl reflected on his progress over the month as Hisoka’s roar echoed from the forest, then his vision sank into darkness.

Carl woke from her abdominal wound and set out for Meteor City with Hisoka, who had been ordered to accompany her. During the bus ride, she learned that the city’s food supply had been cut and a ticket inspector had been murdered, leaving her to suspect Lianke knew more about the growing chaos.

• Carl woke in Lianke’s care, still in pain from the wound on her abdomen.
• Hisoka said Lianke had told him to accompany Carl back to Meteor City, and the two set off with free lifetime tickets.
• On bus number 16, Carl learned the previous ticket inspector had been stabbed eighteen times and found with his organs removed.
• The young inspector began to discuss food shortages, but the driver warned him and Carl not to talk about them.
• Carl wondered whether Lianke had sent Hisoka because she knew about the unrest in Meteor City.

Carl and Hisoka encountered Meteor City's Elders' Guard while walking through the north district, and Hisoka's Nen made the guards believe they were facing deadly threats. The guards fled, and Carl and Hisoka continued toward the incineration plant.

• Carl and Hisoka discussed Hisoka's year of studying under Teacher Lianke and his debt for tuition.
• An Elders' Guard squad led by Fak approached Carl and Hisoka to conduct a routine check.
• Hisoka enveloped his playing cards in Nen Aura, and Fyodor pulled Fak back before he could approach.
• Fyodor recognized the chilling sensation from a massacre five years earlier and led Fak and the guards into an abandoned slaughterhouse.
• Carl and Hisoka continued down the street toward the smoke-covered incineration plant.

Carl found the church damaged and heard strange sounds coming from beneath it, so she retreated to the manor and alerted the Phantom Troupe. Chrollo planned a cautious search for Old Will, and the group entered the church while Carl watched through the outside-view panel.

• Carl inspected the church's broken door, spotted dried blood, and heard a gnawing sound underground before teleporting to the manor.
• Shalnark raised the alarm, and Carl told the Phantom Troupe that something might have happened at the church and that she was injured.
• Chrollo examined the church door and noticed its handle was clean, suggesting someone might have used it recently.
• Carl led the group to the warehouse, where each member took twenty Bomb Pomegranates for protection.
• Chrollo assigned the Phantom Troupe roles in a plan to search the church for people, and Carl transported them there.
• Carl watched through the outside-view panel as Chrollo and the others entered the church, while Sarasa worried about Old Will.

Carl entered the church and found Old Will tortured to death, while Chrollo and the Phantom Troupe gathered his remains and planned their next steps. Hisoka arrived ready to fight the Troupe, but Carl explained they were companions and led him away to fetch Teacher Lianke.

• Worried after Chrollo and the others failed to return, Carl went into the church to look for them.
• Carl found Uvogin in the kitchen and learned that Old Will had been tortured to death; she helped the Troupe piece together his corpse.
• Chrollo asked Carl to bring Teacher Lianke for protection and sent the Troupe to search for clues before regrouping at Sarasa's house.
• Paku questioned what they would do with Old Will's body, but Chrollo decided to leave it in the church.
• Hisoka broke into the kitchen and prepared to fight after sensing the Troupe's Nen, but Carl identified them as her companions and persuaded him to leave with her.

Carl bribed Hisoka with Bomb Pomegranates to fetch Lianke, then entered her manor and upgraded it, unlocking a dimensional fish pond. She used basic bait for her first cast and waited to see what she would catch.

• Carl offered Hisoka up to thirty Bomb Pomegranates to bring Lianke to her, and Hisoka agreed before heading off in the wrong direction.
• Carl left Sarasa safely with her adoptive mother, entered the manor, and decided to upgrade it now that the Phantom Troupe had left.
• Carl submitted 5,000 Bomb Pomegranates, expanding the manor’s farmland and unlocking the fish pond.
• Carl followed a foggy path to the ocean, where she found a fishing rod and learned the pond could catch items from other worlds.
• Carl spent fruit on basic bait and cast her line into the sea.

After failing to catch anything, Carl planted all 900 available plots with Bomb Pomegranates and decided to stay safe in her estate. Suspecting that Chrollo and the Phantom Troupe were hiding a plan to rescue Sheila, she went to the church to confront them and take them back to the Mist Forest.

• Carl spent 20,000 Bomb Pomegranates on fishing bait but caught nothing, then planted Bomb Pomegranate seeds in all 900 plots.
• Carl realized Sheila might still be alive and suspected Chrollo had sent her away while the Phantom Troupe planned a rescue.
• Carl checked Sarasa's house, where Hank told her Chrollo and the others had not visited.
• Carl hurried to the church and entered the lit projection room, determined to drag the Phantom Troupe back to the Mist Forest.

Carl returned to the church and learned that the Phantom Troupe had gone to seek revenge, while Hisoka gave her a brooch marked with the black market’s death bird. Lianke urged Carl to leave Meteor City, but after learning that Carl had opened Nen for ten companions, she rushed to the black market to find them.

• Lianke scolded Carl for staying in Meteor City and repaired Old Will’s corpse while Hisoka handed Carl the Bomb Pomegranates and a gold brooch.
• Hisoka suggested Carl ask Lianke for help, and Lianke identified the brooch’s crow as the black market’s death bird.
• Lianke told Carl to take Old Will’s body and return with her to the Mist Forest, but Carl asked her to find the Phantom Troupe at the black market.
• Lianke doubted Carl’s claim that the Phantom Troupe were Nen users until Carl explained that she had opened their Nen herself.
• Carl said that ten companions had awakened Nen, and Lianke immediately dragged her toward the black market to retrieve them.

Lianke took Carl to the Keike Casino to ask Luona for help finding the children who had gone missing in Meteor City’s black market. Luona agreed to search and gave Carl a ring bearing the Keike Family crest.

• Lianke carried the injured Carl to the Keike Casino, where the Viper’s Kiss ring earned them an escort to the manager’s room.
• Lianke’s display of malice left the scar-faced guard convulsing, and Luona invited Lianke and Carl into her room.
• Lianke told Luona that several children, including a black-haired boy who liked reading, might have gone to the black market with homemade bombs.
• Luona promised to search the black market and warn recycling companies not to take in children that night.
• Luona embraced Carl and gave her a ring bearing the Keike Family crest.

As a storm kept Lianke and Carl at Luona’s casino, the Phantom Troupe discovered that their foster mothers had likely killed Grandpa Will. Chrollo declared that they would fight the world’s oppression, and the group vowed to join him.

• Luona offered Lianke and Carl a place to stay and promised to help search for the missing children after the rain stopped.
• Hisoka hid in the church projection room as the Phantom Troupe arrived to see Grandpa Will’s body.
• Phinks and Feitan revealed that the children’s families had communion wafers, leading the group to suspect their foster mothers had killed Grandpa Will.
• Uvogin rejected the idea in disbelief, then shattered the stained-glass window as the storm poured into the room.
• Machi asked whether they would take revenge, and Chrollo said the killers deserved death but had acted to survive.
• Chrollo declared that the world was wrong and vowed to correct it, and the Phantom Troupe raised their hands and echoed his pledge.

Luona learned that Carl was a young Nen user and considered ways to bring her into the Keike Family’s circle. Meanwhile, Hisoka secretly watched the Phantom Troupe until Machi and Feitan exposed him, and he left the screening room after Chrollo let him go.

• Luona asked Carl if she was a Nen user, and Carl confirmed that she counted as one according to Lianke’s teaching.
• Luona decided to cultivate goodwill with Carl and considered introducing her to children from the Keike Family.
• Hisoka watched the Phantom Troupe from the ceiling under Texture Illusion while they discussed Old Will’s restored body.
• Machi sensed someone overhead, and Feitan spotted a dry patch on the ceiling and prepared to throw his dagger.
• Hisoka revealed himself, and Uvogin recognized him as Carl’s senior fellow disciple.
• Chrollo stopped Feitan, directed Hisoka to a room where he could rest, and said they would pay Lianke for restoring Old Will’s body.

Carl woke at the casino and learned that Luona was searching Meteor City for the missing Phantom Troupe children. While Luona introduced him to five girls from the Keike Family, Pike Cake arrived and confronted Lianke.

• Carl woke in Luona’s casino and hurried to ask about the Phantom Troupe.
• Luona said she had sent people to the black market and across Meteor City to find the children, and had warned recycling companies not to take any children that week.
• Luona had Carl share breakfast with Sophie Cake, Sela Cake, Yani Cake, Kayla Cake, and Rachel Cake, who introduced themselves and tried to befriend him.
• Carl told the girls that he liked collecting plant seeds.
• Pike Cake entered the dining room and addressed Lianke as a rare guest.

Lianke left the Keike Family’s casino with Carl after Pike’s arrival disrupted Luona’s attempt to win them over. On the way, Lianke explained why she had departed and revealed that the Keike Family had been considering a marriage alliance for Carl, who objected that she was only eleven.

• Pike recognized Carl’s constant Ten and considered how to keep the young Nen user in Meteor City or earn her goodwill.
• Lianke refused to stay at Luona’s home and left with Carl, while Luona remarked that Pike had scared away her treasured guest.
• As they walked from the casino, Lianke told Carl that she had to leave because the church’s corpses needed attention.
• Lianke explained that the Keike Family had presented its girls as potential marriage partners for Carl and described the family’s influence in Meteor City.
• Carl protested that she was only eleven and asked whether she could become an elder without marrying into the Keike Family.

Carl reunited with Chrollo and the Phantom Troupe at Grandpa Will’s funeral, where Chrollo concealed what he had learned about the killer. After Lianke charged ten million Jenny to stitch the body, Carl proposed that the troupe become her disciples and owe her for their training, and Chrollo led a vote to ask her the next day.

• Carl arrived at the church and found Chrollo, Uvogin, and the others burying Grandpa Will.
• Chrollo told Carl that nearby residents had killed Grandpa Will and stolen the church’s food, but he concealed what he had discovered about the real killer.
• Lianke arrived, and Chrollo thanked her for stitching Grandpa Will’s body; Lianke charged ten million Jenny, which the troupe could not afford.
• Carl suggested that the troupe train under Lianke and repay her later, explaining that she already owed Lianke a hundred million Jenny.
• Chrollo, Carl, Franklin, Shalnark, Machi, Sarasa, and Paku voted to approach Lianke about becoming her disciples.

Wao rescued Sheila from traffickers and learned that she had once been part of the Phantom Troupe, though she did not know where they had gone. At the church, Chrollo told Carl that their foster mother had killed Old Will and asked Carl to keep the truth from Sarasa.

• Wao and his gang intercepted three men carrying Sheila in a cage, captured them, and freed her.
• Sheila told Wao that the Phantom Troupe was the name of her old church group and said its members had left a month before the church was attacked.
• Wao decided to bring Sheila back with him because she knew about the Phantom Troupe.
• Hisoka teased Carl about the Qi and Blood Pumpkin, and Carl gave him a whole pumpkin before returning to the church room.
• Chrollo explained that he had kept information from Carl because he feared Carl would tell Sarasa, then revealed that their foster mother had killed Old Will.
• Carl agreed to keep the murder secret from Sarasa, questioned whether Chrollo was certain, and watched Chrollo leave without answering.

Carl and Lianke maneuvered the Phantom Troupe into becoming Lianke’s disciples instead of paying the ten million Jenny mending fee. Lianke agreed to take them to her cabin in the Mist Forest after they said goodbye to their foster mothers and gathered their belongings.

• Carl woke early to harvest the Bomb Pomegranates after barely sleeping, then joined Uvogin and the Phantom Troupe on their visit to Lianke.
• Carl proposed that Lianke take the Phantom Troupe as disciples, with tuition of fifty million Jenny each, rather than demand the unpaid fee.
• Sarasa pleaded with Lianke and promised the children would collect and sell trash to repay her, while Chrollo and the others also asked to become her disciples.
• Lianke agreed to take the Phantom Troupe to the cabin in the Mist Forest and gave them half a day to say goodbye to their foster mothers and pack.
• The Phantom Troupe celebrated, Carl and Chrollo shared a knowing smile, and Hisoka grinned at the thought of having so many people to fight.

Sophie delivered a message and rare seeds from Madam Luona to Carl at the church, while Franklin rescued Sheila from an iron cage. Carl discovered that the seeds could grow Seven-Day Flowers, which could temporarily revive the dead, leaving her shocked by their power.

• Sophie, escorted by Wao, brought the exhausted Sheila in an iron cage to the church.
• Franklin recognized Sheila, freed her from the cage, and carried her inside with Carl and Sophie.
• Sophie gave Carl documents and explained that Madam Luona had sent rare seeds as a gift.
• Carl examined the seeds and learned that Seven-Day Flowers could revive the dead for seven days.

Carl’s papers exposed Sheila’s sale of church communion wafers on the black market, enraging Chrollo and the others. Sheila defended herself, and Chrollo ended the chapter demanding that Franklin move aside as he confronted her.

• Carl accepted seeds from Sophie and learned that Sophie had already given her the black-market records.
• A loose page revealed transactions involving communion wafers, and Chrollo recognized a brooch mentioned in the records as one he had found in Sheila’s room.
• Carl showed the records to the others, whose entries described someone selling the wafers and buying a gold-plated brooch.
• Nobunaga accused Sheila of selling the communion wafers, and Sheila admitted she had sold some to buy Grandpa Will new glasses.
• Carl challenged Sheila for taking food from residents in need, but Sheila defended herself and called those residents lowlifes.
• Chrollo struck the wall beside Sheila and ordered Franklin to move, his eyes reddened with tears.

Carl stopped Franklin from defending Sheila, and Chrollo killed Sheila at Old Will’s grave. The Phantom Troupe returned to the church, while Carl urged Franklin to check Chrollo’s house.

• Franklin refused to let the Phantom Troupe hurt Sheila, so Carl knocked him down and held him back.
• Chrollo chased Sheila toward Old Will’s grave, where he cut off her head.
• Carl told Franklin he had no right to act like a good person when he knew nothing, and Franklin stopped trying to escape.
• Carl led the others to Old Will’s grave, where they found Chrollo beside Sheila’s headless body and Paku sobbing.
• Machi helped Paku back to the church as the Phantom Troupe followed, and Carl told Franklin to check Chrollo’s house.

Carl thanked Sophie for arranging protection for the Phantom Troupe’s foster mother and escorted her from the church, while Lianke took the troupe to the Forest of Mist and settled them into rooms. The chapter left the troupe inside Lianke’s courtyard, where Carl carried the sleeping Sarasa upstairs.

• Lianke told Carl she had not cared about Sheila’s death because Sheila was a stranger, then reminded him to thank Sophie for her gift.
• Sophie told Carl that Madam Luona would send people to maintain stability in the North District, and Carl agreed to see her home.
• Wao and his men appeared outside the church, but Wao made an excuse and hurried away so Carl could continue escorting Sophie.
• Lianke and the Phantom Troupe rode the number 16 bus to the Forest of Mist, where the group found a wall of corpses in Lianke’s courtyard.
• Lianke assigned rooms, Chrollo paired up the troupe members, and Carl offered to share his room with Sarasa.