Recaps

Qi Zhou joined Chrollo’s Phantom Troupe as a candidate and uncovered the deadly secret of the Sonata of Darkness at Whale Manor. After refusing to join the Troupe, he was stripped of his ability and cast into Meteor City, where he discovered the truth about Noah and began searching for food and answers.

• Qi Zhou escaped the one-eyed old man’s prison with Chrollo Lucilfer, demonstrated Imaginary Musician, and began learning Nen under the Troupe’s watch.
• Chrollo trained Qi Zhou and sent him to investigate Whale Manor as an entrance test, where Qi Zhou discovered that the manor’s hidden musical passages were connected to Nen.
• Qi Zhou entered Whale Manor, identified the flute Dipping Jade, and attended Hilt Wood’s performance of the Sonata of Darkness.
• Qi Zhou severed the Sonata’s Nen Threads, attached a Mouth of Calamity Badge to Hilt Wood, and watched Hilt Wood and the undead collapse before burning the score.
• Chrollo ordered Qi Zhou to kill the surviving witnesses, but Shalnark controlled him into doing so, and Qi Zhou then attacked Chrollo and tried to escape.
• After Qi Zhou refused to join the Phantom Troupe, Chrollo took his Nen ability and released him into Meteor City, where Qi Zhou survived Kerien’s attack and learned that Noah’s soul had lent him its power.
• Qi Zhou left the settlement after setting its tent ablaze, then scavenged for food among the garbage mountains and followed a child who stole his biscuits and agreed to answer his questions.

Qi Zhou survived Meteor City’s gangs and poison while joining forces with A-Wu to gain influence and pursue a cure. After building an alliance with Wennide and learning more about Nen, Qi Zhou accompanied A-Wu as he infiltrated the elders’ manor to confront his brother and investigate the Stock Solution.

• Qi Zhou learned Meteor City’s districts and escape options from a child, then traveled to District Twelve, created clean water, and fought off gunmen before arranging a water-for-food trade with A-Wu.
• After killing Kelirui, Qi Zhou targeted White Eagle Society president Suoerzite, but Suoerzite’s Nen poisoned him with the addictive Stock Solution.
• A-Wu taught Qi Zhou how to use Nen and proposed targeting the White Eagle Society, and the two formed the Wu-Zhou Alliance after A-Wu killed a man who had come to confront him.
• Qi Zhou helped Wennide rise within the White Eagle Society, using his Nen to subdue rival bosses and defeating Vincent during a clash at the gang’s hidden base.
• Weisite taught Qi Zhou and A-Wu the principles and categories of Nen, while Qi Zhou discovered that Noah’s Song of the Four Seasons ability used Transmutation to produce rock and wind.
• A stranger attacked Qi Zhou and A-Wu at the clock tower, questioned Qi Zhou about the Phantom Troupe and Suoerzite, then released them after hearing Qi Zhou’s answers.
• A-Wu revealed that the East District elder had given Suoerzite the Stock Solution and planned to confront his brother at the council of elders, while Qi Zhou insisted on going with him.
• Qi Zhou infiltrated the elders’ manor disguised as a waiter, surveyed the guards on the first and third floors, and waited near Kadis Eros’s rooms for A-Wu.