Recaps

Illumi Zoldyck asked Jiang Ye to find and capture a fugitive hiding in District 13, and Jiang Ye saw a chance to obtain the Zoldyck Family's training methods. He began explaining why Illumi would benefit from working with him, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

• Iron Wall ushered Illumi Zoldyck into Jiang Ye's room, where Jiang Ye recognized him and invited him to sit.
• Illumi confirmed that Jiang Ye led the Rust Remains Alliance and said he needed help finding a man who had fled to District 13.
• Illumi explained that the target had entered District 13 three days earlier and that Jiang Ye could search the area faster because he controlled its routes and local networks.
• Jiang Ye considered trading his help for the Zoldyck Family's training methods, which he wanted to supplement his self-taught Nen training.
• Jiang Ye told Illumi that searching alone would take three to five days and that his men could obstruct him, then began outlining two possible outcomes.

Jiang Ye offered to capture Illumi’s target unharmed in exchange for the Zoldyck Family’s assassination training system. Illumi judged the deal insufficient and demanded additional value, leaving Jiang Ye to negotiate further.

• Jiang Ye explained that Illumi would lose the commission or incur a penalty if he killed the target or prolonged the fight, while Jiang Ye remained calm under Illumi’s killing intent.
• Illumi asked about Jiang Ye’s offer to deliver the prisoner unharmed, and Jiang Ye proposed an equivalent exchange that would let Illumi complete the commission without losses.
• Jiang Ye asked for the Zoldyck Family’s complete basic assassination training program, including conditioning, poison resistance, stealth, and combat tactics.
• Illumi said the training was a family asset and that delivering the prisoner only offset the trouble of the assignment, so Jiang Ye needed to provide additional value.

Jiang Ye accepted Illumi’s three conditions and swore a Nen vow in exchange for the Zoldyck Family’s basic assassination training program. After receiving word that the man in the photograph had been cornered, Jiang Ye set out with Illumi to inspect the capture.

• Jiang Ye agreed to Illumi’s terms: he would keep the training methods secret and not use them against the Zoldyck Family, while District 13 would remain open to them and intelligence on targets would be prioritized.
• Jiang Ye and Illumi swore Nen vows, binding their promises to severe consequences if either broke them.
• Jiang Ye summoned Iron Wall and ordered him to have Shattered Eye and Gray Beak corner the man in the photograph without alerting him, and to take him alive.
• Iron Wall returned with word that Shattered Eye and Gray Beak had surrounded the target near the boundary between Central City and the eastern district’s scrap area.
• Jiang Ye rose and invited Illumi to go with him to see the target.

Jiang Ye and Illumi captured the wanted man hiding in District 13, and Illumi took him away. Jiang Ye returned to camp and told Iron Wall to call Bago to the open ground.

• Jiang Ye, Illumi, Shattered Eye, and Gray Beak found the wanted man trapped in a dead end among the scrap.
• Jiang Ye summoned Divine Dog: Totality, which blocked the man's escape and carried him back to Illumi.
• Illumi knocked the wanted man unconscious, confirmed he was breathing, and said he would report the capture to the head of the family.
• Illumi told Jiang Ye, "Not bad," then left with the captive.
• Jiang Ye dismissed Illumi's opinion and told Iron Wall to call Bago to the open ground.

Illumi reported his deal with Jiang Ye to Silva, who approved the exchange but told Illumi to watch Jiang Ye until his position in District 13 was secure. Later, Jiang Ye found the Zoldyck training-system recording waiting in his room and recognized that it had finally arrived.

• Illumi told Silva about Jiang Ye's conditions, the intelligence agreement, and their Nen vow, and Silva accepted the deal.
• Illumi described Jiang Ye's Nen Beasts and argued that he could become a useful Zoldyck agent in Meteor City.
• Silva told Illumi to monitor Jiang Ye until he proved able to hold his position in District 13.
• Illumi took the Nen-locked training recording and left to deliver it to Jiang Ye himself.
• Jiang Ye and Bago finished sparring, and Bago realized Jiang Ye's progress had made him struggle to keep up.
• Jiang Ye returned to his room, found the black device on his table, and recognized that the recording had arrived.

Jiang Ye absorbed the Zoldyck Family’s assassination training system and began preparing to put its methods to use. He then arranged a guarded space for his next Exorcism Ritual, intending to summon Nue.

• Jiang Ye used Nen to receive the Zoldyck assassination training data, and the device crumbled into powder after transmitting it.
• Jiang Ye ordered Iron Wall to gather training supplies, including lead weights, wooden dummies, stimulants, and magical beast meat.
• Jiang Ye told Iron Wall to bring Gray Beak to him, then decided to use his increased Aura for another Exorcism Ritual.
• Jiang Ye instructed Gray Beak to prepare a sealed, soundproof room with guards and no interruptions.
• Jiang Ye chose Nue, the Ten Shadows Technique’s flying Shikigami, as his next target.

Jiang Ye completed a round of Zoldyck Family training, then confronted Grey Elder over control of a sealed chamber and secured temporary access to it. After preparing for the Exorcism Ritual, he began summoning Nue alone inside the chamber.

• Jiang Ye completed weighted conditioning, wooden-dummy combat, stimulus tolerance, and breath-holding stealth training using the Zoldyck Family system.
• Gray Beak told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder's men had taken control of the reinforced chamber he needed for the ritual.
• Jiang Ye confronted Grey Elder and persuaded him to let the Rust Remains Alliance use the chamber temporarily.
• Jiang Ye entered the sealed chamber, replenished his Nen Aura, and ordered Gray Beak to clear everyone from the surrounding area.
• Jiang Ye formed a bird-shaped hand sign and called out to Nue to begin the Exorcism Ritual.

Jiang Ye began the Exorcism Ritual for Nue inside a sealed cargo container and defeated the flying Shikigami with Toad and Divine Dog: Totality. After Nue dissolved into his shadow, Jiang Ye completed the ritual and gained control of the fourth Shikigami.

• Jiang Ye ordered Gray Beak to clear and seal the area, then summoned Nue inside the cargo container.
• Jiang Ye sent Toad and Divine Dog: Totality to attack Nue, whose flight and mobility were limited by the enclosed space.
• Nue wounded a wing, then charged Jiang Ye; he hid inside Toad's mouth while Toad bound Nue and Totality damaged its other wing.
• Nue crashed to the floor but launched a final attack, slamming into Jiang Ye and causing him to cough up blood.
• Jiang Ye ordered Totality to finish Nue, then pierced it with Shadow Spikes as it weakened and dissolved into his shadow.
• Jiang Ye completed the Exorcism Ritual and gained Nue as his fourth Shikigami.

After exorcising Nue, Jiang Ye summoned it to investigate unfamiliar intruders approaching the cargo container. Nue swooped between Gray Beak’s defenders and Yi Er’s elite, while Jiang Ye confronted them about trying to exploit the aftermath of the battle.

• Jiang Ye sensed unfamiliar auras closing in and summoned the newly tamed Nue to investigate.
• Gray Beak, wounded but steadfast, defended the container against Yi Er and Grey Elder’s black-clad elites.
• Gray Beak told Yi Er that his loyalty came from Jiang Ye’s character and declared that anyone who knew him would revere him as a god.
• Yi Er urged Gray Beak to stand aside, arguing that Grey Elder had the Council of Elders’ authority, but Gray Beak prepared to fight.
• Nue descended between the two groups, forcing Yi Er’s men back as Jiang Ye asked what they intended to loot now that the fire was out.

Jiang Ye confronted Yi Er’s men after they wounded Gray Beak, then ordered Gray Beak and Nue to punish them. He spared Yi Er to deliver a warning to Grey Elder, declaring he would visit in three days.

• Nue appeared above the black-clad men, frightening them with its size and the force of its wings.
• Yi Er claimed his group had come under Grey Elder’s orders, but Jiang Ye questioned him about Gray Beak’s wounds and accused the men of trying to kill him.
• Jiang Ye ordered Gray Beak to strike Yi Er as Yi Er had struck him, and Gray Beak hit Yi Er in the shoulder with his Nen-coated blade.
• Nue killed Yi Er’s remaining men with lightning, leaving Yi Er alive and kneeling.
• Jiang Ye told Yi Er to inform Grey Elder that he would visit him in three days.

Jiang Ye uncovered the remains of a Nen-using bounty hunter buried beneath the container chamber, along with a fortune and a Hunter License. As he prepared to rebury the body, an antique ring slipped from the dead man’s finger.

• Jiang Ye let Yi Er live and sent him back to Grey Elder with a warning that he would visit in three days.
• Jiang Ye used his shadow perception to discover something buried beneath the chamber and ordered Nue to dig up the ground.
• Jiang Ye found the remains of a long-dead Nen user and uncovered gemstones, gold, and Jenny worth tens of millions.
• Jiang Ye discovered a Hunter License among the buried belongings and stored it and the treasure in his Shadow Space.
• Jiang Ye decided to rebury the bounty hunter’s remains with a marker, but an antique ring fell from the body into the pit.

Jiang Ye discovered a Greed Island entry ring among the dead bounty hunter’s belongings, buried the man, and left with the ring and his other finds. At the Dawn Society headquarters, Nubia concluded that Bo Tong had died in District 13 and ordered his forces to prepare for an attack on the Rust Remains Alliance.

• Jiang Ye found a Greed Island entry ring in the pit and stored it with the gems, gold bars, and Hunter License in Shadow Space.
• Jiang Ye buried the bounty hunter and marked the grave with a piece of scrap steel, saying he had accepted the opportunity the man had sought.
• Nubia learned that Bo Tong and his party had vanished in District 13 and concluded they were dead.
• Nubia ordered his subordinates to gather their people, ready weapons and ammunition, and follow him to District 13.

After Jiang Ye buried the bounty hunter and claimed the Hunter License, Grey Elder learned that the Dawn Society was advancing on the Rust Remains Alliance and decided to exploit the attack. Shattered Eye warned Jiang Ye that Nubia and Grey Elder were both coming for him, and Jiang Ye chose to fight.

• Yi Er told Grey Elder that Jiang Ye had defeated his men, buried the bounty hunter elsewhere, and promised to come in person in three days.
• A scout reported that Nubia of the Dawn Society was leading a large force toward District 13 to attack Jiang Ye.
• Grey Elder ordered his forces to join the Dawn Society and told Yi Er to contact the Ten Dons to borrow a final weapon.
• Shattered Eye learned that Nubia and Grey Elder had both mobilized forces against the Rust Remains Alliance and rushed to warn Jiang Ye.
• Jiang Ye stored the Hunter License and Greed Island entry ring in the Shadow Space and declared that the alliance would fight.

The Rust Remains Alliance prepared its defenses as the Dawn Society arrived with Nubia leading the assault. Just as the two sides faced off, Grey Elder’s force appeared behind the camp, putting the Alliance between both enemy forces.

• Jiang Ye and the Rust Remains Alliance mobilized their members, set defenses, and prepared for attacks from two factions.
• The sentries spotted the Dawn Society approaching with two hundred fighters, three standard-bearers, and Nubia.
• Nubia locked eyes with Jiang Ye and silently vowed to annihilate the Rust Remains Alliance.
• The Alliance’s fighters took their positions as the Dawn Society faced them across the open ground.
• Grey Elder arrived with a second massive force from the road beside and behind the camp.

Grey Elder and Nubia allied to attack Jiang Ye and the Rust Remains Alliance, surrounding their camp with more than 350 fighters. Jiang Ye refused Grey Elder’s offer to surrender, triggered the perimeter traps, and the Dawn Society launched its assault as Grey Elder’s forces held back.

• Nubia and Grey Elder formed a temporary alliance to eliminate Jiang Ye and attack the Rust Remains Alliance.
• Iron Wall rallied the defenders while Gray Beak and Shattered Eye prepared the camp’s defenses.
• Jiang Ye summoned his shadow-controlled abilities and rallied the Rust Remains Alliance fighters.
• Grey Elder offered Jiang Ye a chance to surrender, but Jiang Ye triggered explosives around the camp instead.
• Nubia ordered an all-out attack, and the Dawn Society charged while Grey Elder’s gangsters advanced cautiously and waited.

Jiang Ye rallied the Rust Remains Alliance to defend District 13 as Nubia's Dawn Society attacked and Grey Elder held back his forces. The battle began, leaving Iron Wall locked in combat with the strongest of the Dawn Society's three standard-bearers.

• Nubia led the Dawn Society and Grey Elder's 150 deathsworn surrounded the Rust Remains Alliance camp.
• Jiang Ye urged his warriors to defend their home, and they answered with a united battle cry.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Alliance to attack, and its warriors hurled incendiary bottles, spears, rubble, and other weapons at the advancing Dawn Society.
• Grey Elder watched the fighting without committing his men, while Nubia ordered his forces to charge and take Jiang Ye's head.
• The Dawn Society and Rust Remains Alliance collided, and Iron Wall engaged the strongest of the three standard-bearers.

Jiang Ye's Rust Remains Alliance struggled against the Dawn Society until Gray Beak revealed the firearms Jiang Ye had acquired with a bounty hunter's treasure. The guns turned the battle in the Alliance's favor, but Grey Elder then ordered his own forces to attack.

• Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago fought Dawn Society standard-bearers while Jiang Ye used Rabbit Escape and Nue to support the Rust Remains Alliance's defense.
• As Dawn Society soldiers pressed forward and the Alliance's frontline faltered, Gray Beak reported that the preparations were complete.
• Jiang Ye ordered the cargo-container fortifications opened, revealing firearms and ammunition bought through black-market channels in Central City.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Alliance to open fire, and the barrage devastated the Dawn Society's formation and halted its advance.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Alliance to push forward, and its fighters charged while Rabbit Escape and Nue attacked the disrupted enemy.
• Grey Elder saw the Dawn Society's impending defeat and ordered his guards and armed men to attack.

Grey Elder’s armed forces turned the battle against the Rust Remains Alliance, forcing Jiang Ye to abandon his exhausted tactics and launch a direct attack on Nubia. Jiang Ye charged through the gunfire with Divine Dog: Totality as Nue moved to hold Grey Elder and his guard at bay.

• Grey Elder ordered his 150 mafia deathsworn to fire on the Rust Remains Alliance’s flank, halting their advance and restoring the Dawn Society’s morale.
• Nubia rallied his surviving Dawn Society soldiers and joined Grey Elder’s gunmen in a two-sided barrage that inflicted heavy casualties on Jiang Ye’s forces.
• Jiang Ye withdrew Rabbit Escape and recalled Nue, then summoned Divine Dog: Totality after deciding that defeating Nubia could break the enemy’s resolve.
• Jiang Ye ordered Gray Beak to have the front line retreat behind the fortifications and conserve ammunition while Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago kept the standard-bearers occupied.
• Jiang Ye sent Nue to distract Grey Elder and his Elders’ Guard, then charged Nubia with Divine Dog: Totality, drawing Nubia’s attention.

Jiang Ye and Divine Dog: Totality fought Nubia while Nue battled Grey Elder’s forces, but Nubia’s relentless attacks drained Jiang Ye’s Aura and left him gravely injured. Nubia strode toward the fallen Jiang Ye, declaring the fight over.

• Nubia charged Jiang Ye, but Jiang Ye used Shadow Stealth and Shadow Spikes while Divine Dog: Totality joined the fight.
• Nue attacked Grey Elder’s formation as Grey Beak ordered Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago to retreat behind their shield wall.
• As Jiang Ye’s Aura dwindled, Nubia ignored Divine Dog: Totality’s claws and rushed him with a killing punch.
• Jiang Ye blocked Nubia’s punch with his arms but was hurled across the battlefield and seriously injured.
• Divine Dog: Totality attacked Nubia in fury, but Nubia shook it off and approached the fallen Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye used shadows cast by the battlefield’s corpses to bind Nubia, then had Divine Dog: Totality mortally wound him and called on the Dawn Society to surrender. As Grey Elder ordered his armored guard to kill Jiang Ye, Toad appeared from the Shadow Space and blocked the descending blade.

• Jiang Ye revealed that he had baited Nubia into striking close and used the corpses’ shadows to bind him.
• Divine Dog: Totality attacked the trapped Nubia, tearing through his Nen Aura and leaving him mortally wounded.
• Jiang Ye announced Nubia’s defeat and offered the Dawn Society’s soldiers a chance to surrender, causing their morale to collapse.
• Grey Elder ordered the armored guard to abandon his fight with Nue and attack Jiang Ye.
• Toad emerged from the Shadow Space, blocked the guard’s blade with his back, and lashed out with his tongue.

Jiang Ye was surrounded by five Nen users after Nubia unleashed his life-consuming secret art, while Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago were pinned down by gunfire. As Chrollo Lucilfer, Shalnark, and Illumi Zoldyck watched, Jiang Ye began a hand sign and summoned Max Elephant.

• Toad blocked the Elder Guard’s attack on Jiang Ye, though a blade aura cut Jiang Ye’s cheek.
• Nubia activated Dawn’s Blessing, and Grey Elder ordered the Elder Guard and three flag bearers to join him.
• Nubia and four other Nen users encircled Jiang Ye as gunmen kept Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago from reaching him.
• Chrollo Lucilfer and Shalnark watched the battle from a scrap-metal framework, and Illumi Zoldyck appeared nearby.
• Jiang Ye formed an elephant-shaped hand sign and shouted, “Max Elephant!!”

Jiang Ye summoned the untamed Max Elephant, whose indiscriminate killing intent turned the battlefield into a danger for both sides. As it attacked Dawn Society soldiers, Nubia ordered the three flagbearers to stop the beast.

• Max Elephant emerged from the shadows, and Nubia realized Jiang Ye had summoned another enormous Nen Beast.
• Jiang Ye warned everyone not to move because Max Elephant attacked whoever moved, while Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago froze behind cover.
• Max Elephant struck down several Dawn Society soldiers and charged after the survivors.
• Nubia ordered the three flagbearers to stop Max Elephant instead of attacking Jiang Ye.
• The wind-blade flagbearer launched dozens of blades at Max Elephant, but the beast did not dodge.

Jiang Ye’s untamed Max Elephant scattered Nubia and the three flag bearers, but its indiscriminate attacks left Jiang Ye in danger as his Aura ran low. Chrollo Lucilfer intervened just in time to divert the elephant’s charge, then asked how Jiang Ye planned to stop it.

• Max Elephant broke through the Conjuration flag bearer’s wall and snapped the Manipulation flag bearer’s Nen threads, scattering the three flag bearers.
• Nubia tried to bypass Max Elephant and attack Jiang Ye, but the elephant targeted him and sent him flying with a trunk strike.
• Iron Wall realized Jiang Ye was retreating because maintaining Max Elephant, Nue, and Toad was rapidly draining his Aura.
• Max Elephant turned on Jiang Ye and stomped toward him, batting away Toad’s tongue and enduring Nue’s lightning strike.
• Chrollo Lucilfer dropped between Max Elephant and Jiang Ye and flicked a coin into the elephant’s trunk, diverting its charge.
• Chrollo told Jiang Ye his Aura was nearly depleted and asked how he planned to deal with Max Elephant.

Jiang Ye used his remaining Aura to return the rampaging Max Elephant to its cage, then provoked Nubia and asked Chrollo to protect him in exchange for a reason. The chapter ended with Nubia charging at Jiang Ye and Chrollo facing Jiang Ye’s choice.

• Chrollo’s coin struck Max Elephant’s trunk, and he asked Jiang Ye how he planned to stop the beast with his Aura nearly gone.
• Jiang Ye abandoned the impossible exorcism attempt and summoned his shikigami to restrain Max Elephant while he poured Aura into his hand shadow.
• Jiang Ye used Totality and Toad to hold Max Elephant in place, then pulled the Nen Beast back into its cage.
• Jiang Ye taunted Nubia about the Dawn Society’s losses and declared that it had lost face.
• Nubia charged at Jiang Ye, who asked Chrollo to block him in exchange for a reason.

Chrollo Lucilfer intervened to save Jiang Ye from Nubia, then agreed to take half of District 13 in exchange for stopping him. After Nubia and Grey Elder’s forces withdrew, Jiang Ye learned Grey Elder was moving to involve the Ten Dons, while Chrollo and Grey Elder each headed toward Central City.

• Chrollo Lucilfer blocked Nubia’s punch with a coin, and Nubia recognized him as the Phantom Troupe’s leader.
• Jiang Ye and Chrollo agreed that Chrollo would receive half of District 13, and Nubia withdrew with the flag bearers and Grey Elder’s gunmen.
• Jiang Ye collapsed from exhaustion, confirmed he had sealed Max Elephant back into his shadow, and warned Iron Wall that he would have to subdue it alone when it emerged again.
• Shattered Eye told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder’s armored guard had gone to Central City, and Jiang Ye prepared to face the Ten Dons.
• Chrollo told Machi he had helped Jiang Ye because he wanted to see how far he could grow, and said he would take back his investment if Jiang Ye failed to survive.
• Grey Elder sent his armored guard toward Central City, expected the Ten Dons to have received word, and ordered a car so he could go there himself.