Recaps

Carl survived Meteor City, joined Chrollo’s newly formed Phantom Troupe, and used the manor’s crops to help the group awaken Nen. After meeting Lianke and becoming her second disciple, Carl began learning the fundamentals of Nen while Hisoka stayed nearby.

• Carl awakened in Meteor City with an unfamiliar orphan’s memories, discovered Mole’s World in a pumpkin seed, and began growing Bomb Pomegranates to survive.
• Carl used a Bomb Pomegranate to kill three thugs, then met Chrollo and the other children at the church, where she confronted Sheila and gave Chrollo a pomegranate.
• Carl followed Sarasa into the woods and rescued her from Xini’s gang, killing several pursuers with a Bomb Pomegranate before escaping into the manor.
• Chrollo and the others found the devastated clearing, agreed to stand against the laws that condemned Meteor City’s children, and welcomed Carl into the Phantom Troupe.
• Carl showed the Phantom Troupe the manor and gave them Nen Komugi, enabling them to awaken Nen Aura and discover their Nen types.
• Carl and Chrollo rejected selling the manor’s water and sought a Nen teacher, leading Carl to Lianke, who accepted Bomb Pomegranates as payment and named Carl her second disciple.
• Carl met Hisoka at Lianke’s home, then learned the basics of Ten, Zetsu, Ren, and Hatsu as Lianke warned her not to create a Nen Ability without permission.

Carl returned to Meteor City, where Old Will’s murder and the children’s search for Sheila drew the Phantom Troupe into a deadly reckoning. After Sheila’s death, Lianke accepted the troupe as her disciples and brought them to the Forest of Mist, where they found a wall of corpses in her courtyard.

• Lianke tested Carl’s Nen affinity, identified her as a Conjurer, and began teaching her the Four Major Principles while Hisoka watched jealously.
• Hisoka attacked Carl during her training, and Carl later wounded him by predicting his strike before Lianke stopped the fight and warned Carl about her defense.
• Carl returned to Meteor City with Hisoka and found signs of trouble at the church, where the Phantom Troupe discovered Old Will tortured to death.
• Carl upgraded the manor and its fishing pond, then returned to Meteor City and asked Lianke to help find the Phantom Troupe at the black market.
• Chrollo and the troupe vowed to correct the world, while Luona searched Meteor City for the missing children and warned recycling companies not to take them in.
• The Phantom Troupe asked Lianke to take them as disciples, and she agreed to bring them to the Mist Forest after they said goodbye to their foster mothers.
• Sophie brought Sheila back to the church, where the black-market records exposed Sheila’s sale of communion wafers, and Chrollo killed her after she admitted what she had done.
• Lianke took Carl and the Phantom Troupe to the Forest of Mist, where they found a wall of corpses in her courtyard and settled into their rooms.