Recaps

Machi reported on the Rust Bone Gang’s victory over the allied forces, while Chrollo refused to let the Phantom Troupe intervene so he could watch Jiang Ye develop. The battle continued as Jiang Ye stopped Tie Liao and Shu Mu, leaving Chrollo eager to see how far he would go.

• Machi watched the Rust Bone Gang use coordinated squads to scatter the allied forces, then returned to Chrollo, Shalnark, and Feitan with her report.
• Feitan asked to join the fighting, but Chrollo refused and ordered the Phantom Troupe not to help either side.
• Chrollo explained that intervening would expose the Phantom Troupe and interrupt his interest in Jiang Ye, whose Nen technique he had once helped correct.
• Shalnark reported that the allied fighters had nearly been routed and that Jiang Ye had stopped Tie Liao and Shu Mu.
• Chrollo wondered whether Jiang Ye would remain a nobody or become known throughout the world.

Jiang Ye confronted Tie Liao and Shu Mu after they threatened him, then revealed his Nen Beasts and attacked them. Divine Dog: Totality and Rabbit Escape overwhelmed the two men, leaving Tie Liao wounded and Shu Mu struggling to find his targets.

• Tie Liao and Shu Mu demanded that Jiang Ye surrender the Rust Bone Gang's territory, and Shu Mu threatened to make him serve him.
• Jiang Ye summoned Divine Dog: Totality and Rabbit Escape, shocking Tie Liao and Shu Mu with his Nen Beasts.
• Divine Dog: Totality lunged at Tie Liao and tore into his shoulder before he used Iron Body Hardening to resist.
• Shu Mu used Fine Thread Lead Powder to attack, but Rabbit Escape filled the area with clones that blocked his sight and tangled his attacks.
• Divine Dog: Totality kept striking Tie Liao's injured shoulder while Shu Mu's threads missed or hit Rabbit Escape clones.
• Tie Liao, bleeding and trapped in the rabbits' cover, roared that he would fight Jiang Ye to the death.

Jiang Ye defeated Tie Liao by using Divine Dog: Totality’s concentrated aura to break through his Iron Man defense, but the costly attack left Jiang Ye concerned about his aura reserves. Shu Mu then prepared a dangerous move and warned Jiang Ye to leave.

• Tie Liao transformed his body with Iron Man and fought Divine Dog: Totality, stopping its fangs and claws from piercing his metal skin.
• Jiang Ye used Totality to concentrate aura on Divine Dog: Totality’s claws, which tore through Tie Liao’s body and left him gravely wounded.
• Jiang Ye assessed how much aura he had spent and realized he needed to increase his reserves to sustain multiple powerful Shikigami.
• Shu Mu dismissed Tie Liao’s defeat, faced Jiang Ye, and warned that his next move would frighten even him.

Jiang Ye saw through Shu Mu’s escape and sent Divine Dog: Totality after him, then confronted the wounded Tie Liao, who offered the Shattered Iron Group and information in exchange for his life. Tie Liao revealed his ties to the Dawn Society, but Jiang Ye dismissed its threat, leaving Tie Liao to recognize a lawlessness reminiscent of Chrollo Lucilfer.

• Shu Mu used Shu Mu’s Short-Sightedness to vanish and flee north from the scrap yard, but Jiang Ye sent Divine Dog: Totality after him along the shadow-threaded route.
• Jiang Ye turned to the wounded Tie Liao and demanded to know whether he would kill himself or be killed.
• Tie Liao offered to bring the Shattered Iron Group under the Rust Bone Gang and share information about Grey Elder in exchange for his life.
• Tie Liao revealed that he belonged to the Dawn Society, a force with over a thousand members in District 5, and warned that it would investigate his death.
• Jiang Ye dismissed the Dawn Society’s threat, and Tie Liao compared his fearless attitude to Chrollo Lucilfer, leader of the Phantom Troupe.

Jiang Ye killed Tie Liao after deciding the gang leader would remain a threat, then learned that Iron Wall and Shattered Eye had subdued the combined forces. Divine Dog: Totality returned with the exhausted Shu Mu alive, leaving both enemy leaders defeated.

• Jiang Ye decided Tie Liao could not be trusted and killed him with a Shadow Spike.
• Iron Wall and Shattered Eye arrived and found Tie Liao dead, then knelt before Jiang Ye and reported that the combined forces had been subdued.
• Iron Wall and Shattered Eye recalled that Jiang Ye had ordered them to hold the main battlefield while he faced Tie Liao and Shu Mu alone.
• Divine Dog: Totality emerged from the shadows dragging Shu Mu, whose Aura had been exhausted but who was still alive.
• Jiang Ye smiled as Divine Dog: Totality brought Shu Mu back.

Jiang Ye captured Shu Mu and learned that Grey Elder had orchestrated the gang conflict while securing backing from the Ten Dons. As Grey Elder prepared to become a full elder, Jiang Ye showed no fear, and Shu Mu recognized him as an ambitious chess player.

• Divine Dog: Totality dragged Shu Mu back to Jiang Ye, and Shu Mu begged for his life.
• Shu Mu admitted Grey Elder had urged him and Tie Liao to join forces against the Rust Bone Gang so Grey Elder could exploit the outcome.
• Shu Mu revealed Grey Elder was going to the Council of Elders for his coronation, alarming Iron Wall and Shattered Eye.
• Shu Mu disclosed that Grey Elder had powerful men, weapons, Nen fighters, and mafia backing from the Ten Dons.
• Jiang Ye realized Grey Elder had arranged the conflict so he could control whichever side won and leave Dodge powerless.
• Shu Mu saw Jiang Ye's ambition and recognized him as a chess player ready to rearrange the pieces.

Jiang Ye forced Shu Mu to reveal the Dawn Society’s leadership and learned that Tie Liao had been Nubia’s key ally in District 13. Knowing Nubia would come after him before Grey Elder, Jiang Ye welcomed the confrontation.

• Jiang Ye asked Shu Mu about the Dawn Society, then pierced Shu Mu’s shoulder with a Shadow Spike when he hesitated.
• Shu Mu explained that the Dawn Society was led by Nubia, Jiliu, and Yejian, with twelve flag bearers beneath them.
• Shu Mu revealed that Tie Liao had been one of Nubia’s flag bearers and was meant to rise into the Dawn Society’s core ranks.
• Shu Mu warned that Nubia would come to District 13 to kill Jiang Ye after Tie Liao’s death.
• Jiang Ye smiled and said Nubia’s arrival would save him the trouble of searching for him.

Jiang Ye rejected Shu Mu’s warning about the Elders' Guard and exposed his feigned surrender. Shu Mu unleashed hidden explosives at Jiang Ye, leaving the outcome of the blast uncertain.

• Shu Mu warned Jiang Ye that the Dawn Society’s president had served in the Elders' Guard and urged him to flee, but Jiang Ye dismissed the threat.
• Shu Mu begged to live and offered to surrender the Gray Rat Squad, while secretly planning to seek revenge.
• Jiang Ye called Shu Mu petty and cunning and revealed that he had noticed Shu Mu’s concealed killing intent.
• Shu Mu drank from his flask, triggered Nen threads that pulled more than a dozen explosives from hiding, and hurled them at Jiang Ye.
• Iron Wall tried to block the blast as Shattered Eye leapt aside, but the explosives engulfed Jiang Ye’s position and sent both men flying; Shu Mu believed he had succeeded.

Shu Mu celebrated Jiang Ye’s apparent death after his carefully planned bomb attack, but Jiang Ye survived inside Toad and the ambush failed. Iron Wall and Shattered Eye captured Shu Mu as Jiang Ye confronted him.

• Shu Mu explained that he had calculated the bomb placements and coated their shrapnel with poison, believing Jiang Ye could not have survived.
• The smoke cleared to reveal Jiang Ye unharmed beside Toad, whose mucus had shielded him from the explosions and poison.
• Jiang Ye explained that he had summoned Toad to protect against traps like Shu Mu’s, not to fight.
• Iron Wall and Shattered Eye seized Shu Mu and forced him to his knees.
• Jiang Ye told Shu Mu that he had used his intelligence badly and celebrated victory too soon.

Jiang Ye survived Shu Mu’s last attempt to kill him and returned to the battlefield after Tie Liao and Shu Mu died. He declared the fight over and offered the Combined Forces survivors a chance to stay if they showed their sincerity.

• Shu Mu bit down on a bomb disguised as a tooth, but Jiang Ye had Toad swallow him before it exploded.
• Jiang Ye confirmed Toad had survived the blast, then headed with Iron Wall and Shattered Eye toward the battle at the scrap yard.
• Jiang Ye announced Tie Liao and Shu Mu were dead and declared the fight over, while the Rust Bone Gang gathered behind him.
• Bago and the Rust Bone Gang knelt and shouted their allegiance, then stopped when Jiang Ye raised his hand.
• Jiang Ye told the Combined Forces survivors that those willing to stay had to kneel and put down their weapons to prove their sincerity.

After defeating the Combined Forces, Jiang Ye renamed the Rust Bone Gang the Rust Remains Alliance and promised its members they would not be left behind. He sent teams to collect the defeated groups’ supplies, returning with weapons, food, and other goods to stock the Alliance.

• Jiang Ye announced that the Rust Bone Gang would become the Rust Remains Alliance and declared its members one family.
• Iron Wall, Gray Beak, Shattered Eye, Bago, and the kneeling survivors shouted the Alliance’s name together.
• Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall and Gray Beak to gather supplies from the Shattered Iron Group and Gray Rat Squad while Shattered Eye guarded the survivors.
• Jiang Ye and Iron Wall’s team searched the Shattered Iron Group’s empty fortress and collected weapons, food, clothes, jenny banknotes, watches, and electronic parts.
• Iron Wall reported that the Gray Rat Squad had hoarded a large supply of long blades and semiautomatic submachine guns, and Jiang Ye led the teams back with their haul.

Jiang Ye learned that rumors about his unification of District 13 had reached the Dawn Society, whose leaders confronted Nubia over Tie Liao’s death and loss of influence. Nubia ordered his men to set out before dawn and demanded that Jiang Ye come to the Fifth District to beg forgiveness.

• Shattered Eye told Jiang Ye that rumors of the Rust Bone Gang’s rise and the changes in District 13 were spreading, while Iron Wall reported that people believed an elder backed him.
• Shattered Eye said the Fifth District had linked Tie Liao’s death to the new power in District 13 and expected the Dawn Society to retaliate; Jiang Ye said they would discuss it the next day.
• At the Dawn Society headquarters, Jiliu and Yejian questioned Nubia about Tie Liao’s death and the loss of his influence in District 13.
• Nubia said his men would leave before dawn and demanded that Jiang Ye come to the Fifth District to confess and beg for forgiveness.
• After Nubia left, Jiliu and Yejian agreed that Jiang Ye would die whether he came or stayed away, noting Nubia’s reputation for settling every score.

Jiang Ye’s forces finished combining supplies from the Rust Bone Gang, the Shattered Iron Group, and the Gray Rat Squad, while he discovered a preserved Scarlet Eye in Shu Mu’s vault. He tasked Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye with managing the growing Rust Remains Alliance and warned Iron Wall that others could replace them if they failed.

• Iron Wall reported that the Gray Rat Squad’s stores included cash, weapons, ammunition, and enough food for the Rust Remains Alliance to last three months.
• Iron Wall showed Jiang Ye a preserved Scarlet Eye found in Shu Mu’s underground vault, and Jiang Ye ordered it sealed away separately.
• Jiang Ye considered the Alliance’s growing numbers and supplies, but recognized that its members lacked unity and had not yet become a reliable fighting force.
• Iron Wall voiced fears that the larger group might become divided or suffer internal trouble.
• Jiang Ye told Iron Wall that he, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye held the highest authority after him and were responsible for managing supplies, men, and newcomers.
• Jiang Ye warned Iron Wall that others would take their places if they could not prove themselves.

Jiang Ye assessed the Rust Remains Alliance’s lack of people and fighting strength, then ordered that its newly seized businesses be distributed according to combat merit. Shattered Eye reported that Grey Elder had returned as a full elder and wanted to meet Jiang Ye, who agreed to receive him.

• Jiang Ye reviewed the Alliance’s numbers and recognized that it had fewer than 150 members and too few strong fighters to confront Nubia’s elites.
• Gray Beak described the Shattered Iron Group’s and Gray Rat Squad’s profitable metal-recycling businesses, and Jiang Ye ordered their profits distributed according to combat merit.
• Jiang Ye promised the Alliance’s fighters and newcomers tangible shares and extra rations, earning Gray Beak’s and Iron Wall’s agreement.
• Shattered Eye arrived and told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder had returned as a full elder of District 13 and wanted to see him.
• Jiang Ye stored the list in Shadow Space and ordered Grey Elder’s messenger to let him in.

Jiang Ye accepted Grey Elder’s invitation and met him at a guarded villa. He asserted his authority over District 13, leaving Grey Elder to respond to his claim.

• A messenger told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder wished to see him, and Jiang Ye agreed to go.
• Iron Wall and Gray Beak tried to accompany Jiang Ye to the villa, but he went inside alone after stopping them.
• Jiang Ye noticed Grey Elder’s concealed guards as the messenger led him across the scavenging yard.
• Grey Elder asked whether Jiang Ye was the scavenger who had unified the Rust Bone Gang.
• Jiang Ye said Tie Liao and Shu Mu were dead and that he had united all of District 13 as the leader of the Rust Remains Alliance.

Jiang Ye met Grey Elder to negotiate the Rust Remains Alliance’s relationship with the newly appointed elder of District 13. They agreed to a temporary arrangement that gave Jiang Ye freedom to govern while requiring him to obey Grey Elder’s orders, leaving both sides to prepare for a future reckoning.

• Jiang Ye tested Grey Elder’s reaction to being addressed as the leader of the Rust Remains Alliance, and Grey Elder calmly welcomed him by that title.
• Grey Elder announced that the Council of Elders had appointed him to govern District 13 and acknowledged Jiang Ye’s control of the district’s major power.
• Grey Elder offered not to interfere in the Rust Remains Alliance’s affairs, on the condition that Jiang Ye obey his orders.
• Jiang Ye accepted the condition and congratulated Grey Elder on becoming the official elder of District 13.
• Jiang Ye and Grey Elder shook hands, each securing time to strengthen his position while anticipating a future contest for power.

After negotiating with Grey Elder, Jiang Ye assigned Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye to strengthen the Rust Remains Alliance while their truce lasted. He realized his weak body limited his combat ability, planned a comprehensive training regimen, and called Iron Wall over.

• Jiang Ye told Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye that Grey Elder had granted them freedom to operate in District 13 while keeping final authority.
• Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall to organize the surrendered men, Gray Beak to unite the businesses, and Shattered Eye to expand the intelligence network.
• Jiang Ye assessed how his poor physical condition and limited stamina could undermine his Nen and Shikigami in a fight.
• Jiang Ye planned training in strength, endurance, resistance, combat skills, sensory awareness, and recovery.
• Jiang Ye called Iron Wall and told him to come over.

Jiang Ye tested his physical limits in the open ground and trained with weights, stones, and a log while using Ten to protect and nourish his body. After discovering how his physical training and Aura could strengthen each other, he returned to his lodging exhausted and ravenous.

• Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall to gather lead blocks, stones, and a large log, then told him to have Bago meet him the next afternoon.
• Jiang Ye used Ten and weighted his legs with lead blocks to test his stamina, running for thirty minutes before stopping to rest.
• Jiang Ye trained his strength by lifting and carrying stones, using Aura to cushion his body and help repair his muscles.
• Jiang Ye struck the log with his fists, elbows, and palm until evening, pushing himself until his muscles ached and his knuckles swelled.
• Jiang Ye returned to his lodging, overwhelmed by hunger, and pulled a tin bucket from under the table.

Jiang Ye recovered from his injuries after eating magical beast meat, then asked Bago to attack him so he could train his reactions. After Bago knocked him down, Jiang Ye insisted they continue sparring.

• Jiang Ye ate potatoes and magical beast meat, then slept while his body healed and grew stronger.
• Jiang Ye woke the next morning, found that his knee injury had not worsened, and went to the clearing.
• Jiang Ye gave Bago a stick and told him to hit him, explaining that this was Bago’s only chance to attack his boss legitimately.
• Bago blocked Jiang Ye’s first strike and swept his stick into Jiang Ye’s ribs, knocking him onto the gravel.
• Jiang Ye got up, praised Bago’s attack, and ordered him to pick up his stick and keep fighting until the sparring was over.

Jiang Ye fought Bago through the fading light and used the Ten Shadows Technique’s nighttime boost to turn the duel around. After Jiang Ye disarmed him, Bago recalled Feitan Portor and became glad he had joined the Rust Remains Alliance.

• Bago attacked Jiang Ye, who took several blows but kept fighting.
• As night fell, Jiang Ye used shadows to trip Bago and began anticipating his attacks more precisely.
• Jiang Ye’s counters forced Bago to retreat, and their final clash ended with Jiang Ye striking Bago’s staff from his hand.
• Jiang Ye told Bago they would continue the next afternoon, then left the clearing.
• Bago remembered watching Feitan Portor defeat more than a hundred gang members and saw a similar battle-driven growth in Jiang Ye.
• Bago renamed the Rust Bone Gang as the Rust Remains Alliance and strode away, glad he had joined it.

Bo Tong, an envoy from the Dawn Society, visited the Rust Remains Alliance and threatened Jiang Ye over Tie Liao’s death. Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall to slap him, leaving the envoy stunned and the Dawn Society openly insulted.

• Bo Tong mocked the Rust Remains Alliance’s shabby camp while Iron Wall endured his taunts in silence.
• Jiang Ye arrived after training, and his cold gaze briefly frightened Bo Tong.
• Bo Tong introduced himself as Chairman Nubia’s envoy and said the chairman was angry that Jiang Ye had killed Tie Liao.
• Bo Tong demanded that Jiang Ye go to the Fifth District or the Rust Remains Alliance would be destroyed.
• Jiang Ye told Iron Wall to slap Bo Tong, and Iron Wall struck the envoy across the face.

Jiang Ye dismissed Bo Tong’s threats by revealing he had met Grey Elder, then killed Bo Tong with Divine Dog: Totality. The chapter ended with Jiang Ye declaring that the killing was his answer.

• Bo Tong threatened to report Jiang Ye to Chairman Nubia after Iron Wall slapped him.
• Jiang Ye revealed that he had met Grey Elder, leaving Bo Tong shaken as he realized Grey Elder had allowed Jiang Ye to remain in District 13.
• Jiang Ye called Nubia a sick cat and rejected Bo Tong’s warning that the Dawn Society chairman was still beyond his reach.
• Jiang Ye summoned Divine Dog: Totality, which decapitated Bo Tong.
• Jiang Ye said Bo Tong’s death was his answer.

Jiang Ye killed Bo Tong after the Dawn Society envoy threatened the Rust Remains Alliance, leaving the alliance facing Nubia’s inevitable response. Gray Beak asked Jiang Ye what they should do next.

• Jiang Ye beheaded Bo Tong after Bo Tong insulted and threatened the Rust Remains Alliance.
• Gray Beak and Shattered Eye entered the shack, saw Bo Tong’s head, and realized the Dawn Society’s envoy had been killed.
• Iron Wall recounted Bo Tong’s behavior and Jiang Ye’s attack without concealing anything.
• Gray Beak and Shattered Eye agreed Bo Tong had brought his death on himself, but recognized Nubia would retaliate.
• Gray Beak asked Jiang Ye what they should do next.

After killing Bo Tong, Jiang Ye ordered the Rust Remains Alliance to hide the death and use the delay to grow stronger, then vowed to make Nubia kneel. With the body disposed of and a cover story in place, Jiang Ye left the shack and met Bago, who was glad to see him.

• Jiang Ye concluded that Bo Tong had come to lure him into a trap in the Fifth District and decided that killing him had been necessary.
• Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye to conceal Bo Tong's death and develop the Rust Remains Alliance at full speed.
• Jiang Ye declared that he would eventually go to the Fifth District and make Nubia kneel before him, and the three men pledged their obedience.
• Iron Wall and Gray Beak disposed of Bo Tong's body and clothes while Shattered Eye kept watch, then Gray Beak told the sentries that Bo Tong had been a bookkeeper.
• Jiang Ye left the shack and crossed the camp to meet Bago, who said he was glad Jiang Ye had arrived.

Jiang Ye steadily improved his body and Aura through daily training and magical beast meat, becoming able to sustain Divine Dog: Totality at full speed for three minutes. His routine was interrupted when Illumi Zoldyck arrived in Meteor City, and Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall to bring him in.

• Jiang Ye sparred with Bago as his combat skills and reactions continued to improve.
• Jiang Ye trained with Ten, ran with lead weights, and ate magical beast meat, gradually building muscle and raising his Aura capacity.
• Jiang Ye realized he could sustain Divine Dog: Totality at full speed for three minutes, though he knew he still had far to go.
• Iron Wall urgently told Jiang Ye that a visitor named Illumi Zoldyck had arrived.
• Jiang Ye recognized Illumi as a member of the Zoldyck Family and ordered Iron Wall to bring him in.