Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ye awakened in Meteor City as a starving twelve-year-old vagrant and opened his Nen nodes just before a gang member could stab him. He discovered that his Nen Ability was the Ten Shadows Technique and began summoning its first Shikigami, Divine Dogs.

• Jiang Ye woke surrounded by gang members after being caught stealing food in Central City and learned he was a twelve-year-old vagrant from Meteor City's outer district.
• The gang's bald leader threatened to sell Jiang Ye's organs and thrust a dagger at him.
• Jiang Ye's Aura Nodes burst open, awakening his Nen and allowing him to dodge the dagger.
• Jiang Ye learned that his Nen Ability was the Ten Shadows Technique and recognized its power to summon ten Shikigami.
• Jiang Ye loosened his bindings and formed the hand sign for Divine Dogs, casting a wolf-shaped shadow on the wall.

Jiang Ye summoned the Black and White Divine Dogs to kill the men who had captured him, then escaped through acid rain to his shack in Meteor City. He realized his malnourished body would limit his Nen and reached into his Shadow Space for supplies.

• Jiang Ye summoned the Black and White Divine Dogs from his shadow, and they attacked the bald man’s underlings as he fled.
• Jiang Ye ordered the dogs to kill the bald man, then collected the group’s weapons, food, and Jenny in his Shadow Space before dismissing them.
• A witness saw Jiang Ye’s dogs and ran toward the middle district to warn his boss about a monster in the outer district.
• Jiang Ye recognized the corrosive rain and hurried back to his shack, where he examined his wounds and frail body.
• Jiang Ye concluded that his poor health would limit his Aura and reached into his shadow, pulling out several things.

Jiang Ye learned Ten to stop his aura from leaking and began planning how to survive the gang that backed the men he had killed. He decided to use the Ten Shadows Technique’s Exorcism Ritual to tame Rabbit Escape, leaving him preparing to summon it.

• Jiang Ye bandaged his acid-rain wound with strips of corpse clothing and used the Four Major Principles to learn Ten, sealing his Aura Nodes and stabilizing his aura.
• Jiang Ye ate his remaining biscuits and considered the danger posed by the gang behind the men he had killed.
• Jiang Ye decided to muddy the waters by using his knowledge as a Nen user to obtain information in Meteor City.
• Jiang Ye reviewed the Exorcism Ritual’s rules, which required him to defeat an untamed Shikigami alone without outside help.
• Jiang Ye chose Rabbit Escape as the Shikigami he would attempt to tame.

Jiang Ye moved to an abandoned scrapyard, mastered the basics of Zetsu, and prepared a secluded place to exorcise Rabbit Escape. He began the ritual and faced the Shikigami’s core body amid thousands of rabbits.

• Jiang Ye left his shack before the gangs could trace him and hid in an abandoned scrapyard.
• He learned Zetsu and practiced switching smoothly between it and Ten.
• Jiang Ye explored the scrapyard and found an enclosed space where outsiders could not interfere with the exorcism ritual.
• After using up his last food, Jiang Ye began the Rabbit Escape exorcism ritual.
• Rabbit Escape appeared with thousands of rabbit clones, and Jiang Ye challenged its core body.

Jiang Ye trapped Rabbit Escape among its countless duplicates and used the Divine Dogs and shadow walls to force the rabbits together, despite his dwindling aura and the Rust Bone Gang closing in. He finally spotted the original rabbit’s Scarf of Myriad Things pattern.

• Jiang Ye summoned the White Dog and Black Dog, sealed the only exit with shadow, and ordered the dogs to search for Rabbit Escape’s original body.
• Jiang Ye used a strand of shadow to frighten scavengers away from the entrance when they investigated the noise inside.
• Jiang Ye noticed the duplicates protected areas where the White Dog approached, then ordered the dogs and shadow walls to herd the rabbits toward the center.
• Jiang Ye heard the Rust Bone Gang searching nearby and chose to keep pressing his weakening body rather than abandon the taming attempt.
• Jiang Ye compressed the rabbits into a writhing mound and glimpsed the Scarf of Myriad Things pattern on the original rabbit.

Jiang Ye completed the taming of Rabbit Escape, used its black rabbit clones to escape the Rust Bone Gang, and began recovering his depleted Aura in Zetsu. Chrollo Lucilfer had witnessed the fight and followed Jiang Ye, appearing beside him as he recovered.

• Jiang Ye trapped Rabbit Escape with his shadows, had the Black and White Divine Dogs restrain it, and shattered its core to complete the taming ritual.
• Jiang Ye summoned Rabbit Escape’s black rabbits to overwhelm the Rust Bone Gang members forcing open the entrance, then escaped through a narrow gap in the metal sheets.
• Chrollo Lucilfer watched the fight, concluded that Jiang Ye had awakened a Nen Ability, and followed him through the junkyard.
• Jiang Ye reached his safe spot, lay down, and began using Zetsu to recover his Aura and conceal himself.
• A figure silently appeared beside Jiang Ye while he was recovering.

Jiang Ye met Chrollo Lucilfer in Meteor City, where Chrollo corrected his Zetsu and taught him Nen fundamentals. Chrollo then offered Jiang Ye a choice between staying hidden in Meteor City and leaving with him to plunder and fight in the wider world.

• Jiang Ye sensed someone beside him, sprang away, and recognized the stranger as Chrollo Lucilfer.
• Chrollo identified flaws in Jiang Ye's Zetsu and showed him how to close his Aura Nodes more effectively.
• Jiang Ye followed Chrollo's instructions, improved his aura recovery, and listened as Chrollo explained the Four Major Principles.
• Chrollo said Jiang Ye was the kind of person who lived in Meteor City and knew why he was alive.
• Chrollo offered Jiang Ye two choices: remain in Meteor City or leave with him to fight, plunder, and gain resources and experience.

Jiang Ye escaped Chrollo, relocated to the central district, and used his Shikigami to investigate the Rust Bone Gang. He located the gang’s headquarters and prepared to strike.

• Jiang Ye chose self-preservation, and Chrollo respected his choice and left him money instead of attacking.
• Jiang Ye found his shelter ransacked by the Rust Bone Gang and moved to a cheap inn in the central district.
• After recovering in Zetsu, Jiang Ye summoned Rabbit Escape and the White Divine Dog and tested their abilities.
• Jiang Ye sent Rabbit Escape and the White Dog to gather information, and the White Dog overheard that the Rust Bone Gang wanted to capture him and sell him to the Nostrade Family.
• The White Dog followed the gang members to their headquarters, a farm in the eastern central district, where Jiang Ye sensed a Nen user and set out to attack.

Jiang Ye infiltrated the Rust Bone Gang’s farm to free its captive children and planted explosives around Dodge Daichi’s house. Dodge survived the blast and recognized Jiang Ye’s Nen Beasts as they attacked him.

• Jiang Ye bought explosives and infiltrated the farm by hiding beneath a van and blending in with a group of captive children.
• Jiang Ye killed an escort, learned where the Rust Bone Gang’s leader lived, and told the children to escape through the warehouse’s back door after an explosion.
• Jiang Ye planted explosives around Dodge Daichi’s house and detonated them from a safe distance.
• Dodge Daichi survived the explosion in damaged Earth Armor and called for his unseen attacker.
• Jiang Ye’s black and white Nen Beast dogs attacked Dodge, who used Gyo to spot them and recognized them.

Jiang Ye defeated Dodge with his Nen beasts and learned that the Nostrade Family was backing Dodge’s bid to become a Meteor City elder. He rejected Dodge’s offer to join the Rust Bone Gang and prepared to kill him.

• Dodge attacked Jiang Ye with Earth Spear, but Jiang Ye evaded him using the Divine Dogs and shadows.
• Jiang Ye’s black and white Divine Dogs overwhelmed Dodge, who was injured and began running low on aura.
• Dodge used Earth’s Support to rush Jiang Ye, but Jiang Ye summoned Rabbit Escape clones that diverted his attack while he vanished into the shadows.
• White Dog bit Dodge’s carotid artery, and the dying Dodge offered Jiang Ye a place in the Rust Bone Gang and revealed the Nostrade Family’s plans to make him an elder in charge of District 13.
• Jiang Ye rejected Dodge’s offer and declared that he would kill him, as White Dog tightened its bite.

Dodge used the Restriction Child of the Earth to draw power from the ground and keep fighting Jiang Ye, who countered with a grenade and tactics using his Divine Dogs. After the White Divine Dog was destroyed, its power flowed into the Black Divine Dog, creating Divine Dog: Totality and turning the fight in Jiang Ye’s favor.

• Dodge invoked Child of the Earth and Earth's Favor, restoring his strength and reinforcing his earthen armor at the cost of his life.
• Jiang Ye threw a grenade at Dodge, breaking his armor, then evaded Dodge's Earth Spear attacks by moving through shadows.
• Jiang Ye used the Black and White Divine Dogs and shadow bindings to stall Dodge as his life-burning Restriction took its toll.
• Dodge forced the White Divine Dog back and hurled an earthen spike at Jiang Ye, but the White Divine Dog took the blow and dissipated.
• The White Divine Dog's power flowed into the Black Divine Dog, evolving it into Divine Dog: Totality while Jiang Ye prepared to summon Rabbit Escape.
• Divine Dog: Totality charged Dodge and shattered most of his restored armor with a single claw strike.

Jiang Ye killed Dodge and survived the bomb implanted in his chest. Holding Dodge's head before the Rust Bone Gang, he declared himself its new leader and challenged anyone to object.

• Rabbit Escape's clones blinded and restrained Dodge while Divine Dog: Totality attacked him, and Dodge's failing body could no longer keep up.
• Divine Dog: Totality bit through Dodge's chest and killed him.
• Dodge's chest exploded after his death, but Jiang Ye protected himself with Shadow Armor while Totality shielded him.
• Jiang Ye picked up Dodge's head as the farm's thugs arrived and found him standing over Dodge's corpse.
• Jiang Ye declared himself leader of the Rust Bone Gang and asked who agreed and who objected, but no one answered and a thug dropped his gun.

Jiang Ye took control of the Rust Bone Gang and ordered its cadres to keep and raise fifteen captured children instead of sending them to the Nostrade Family. He left the gang under his authority and asked what other forces operated in District Thirteen.

• After a kneeling thug shot at him, Jiang Ye's shadow armor stopped the bullet and Divine Dog: Totality killed the shooter.
• Jiang Ye declared himself leader of the Rust Bone Gang, and the remaining thugs submitted.
• Iron Arm, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye identified themselves as cadres and described their duties; Iron Arm reported that the gang had forty registered members.
• Gray Beak said the gang had captured fifteen vagrants for delivery to the Nostrade Family, but Jiang Ye ordered him to keep and train them as future gang members.
• When Gray Beak questioned how the gang would explain the change to the Nostrade Family, Jiang Ye demanded that he choose between obeying the family and obeying the leader; Gray Beak affirmed the leader came first.
• Jiang Ye ordered the corpses disposed of, the children housed, and a new roster prepared by morning, then asked about the other forces in District Thirteen.

Jiang Ye learned that Grey Elder maintained District 13’s three-way standoff and had blocked Dodge’s attempts to expand. He declared that the Rust Bone Gang would expand regardless, setting the gang on a course to challenge Grey Elder and the other factions.

• Iron Wall told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder governed District 13 and kept the Rust Bone Gang, the Shattered Iron Group, and the Gray Rat Squad from overpowering one another.
• Iron Wall explained that Dodge had sought the Nostrade Family’s help to replace Grey Elder and had repeatedly failed to expand under Grey Elder’s warnings.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Rust Bone Gang to expand, despite Iron Wall’s warning that the other gangs and Grey Elder could destroy them.
• Jiang Ye vowed to do what Dodge had not dared, and Divine Dog: Totality rose behind him as he challenged anyone who tried to stop him.
• Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye were awed by Jiang Ye’s declaration as the Rust Bone Gang’s world began to change.

Grey Elder, the Shattered Iron Group, and the Gray Rat Squad learned that twelve-year-old Jiang Ye had taken over the Rust Bone Gang and began weighing their next moves. In his new quarters, Jiang Ye planned to use the gang’s resources to prepare a battlefield for taming Toad, but a knock interrupted his thoughts.

• Grey Elder decided to let the Shattered Iron Group and Gray Rat Squad clash with the newly led Rust Bone Gang, then planned to seize the advantage and ordered informants placed around Jiang Ye.
• The Shattered Iron Group’s scarred leader chose to wait for the Gray Rat Squad to test Jiang Ye first.
• The Gray Rat Squad’s boss ordered his men to investigate how Jiang Ye killed Dodge, who supported him, and what resources he had.
• Jiang Ye considered the gang a source of manpower and resources and planned to expand it while preparing suitable terrain to tame Toad.
• Someone knocked on Jiang Ye’s door.

Jiang Ye assessed the Rust Bone Gang’s strength and businesses after Dodge’s death, then ordered an end to human trafficking and proposed bringing District 13’s small gangs under the gang’s protection. Iron Wall accepted Jiang Ye as his leader, and the chapter ended with Jiang Ye asking whether he knew Nen.

• Iron Wall reported that all forty adults and fifteen children had stayed with the Rust Bone Gang after Dodge’s death.
• Iron Wall said the Shattered Iron Group and Gray Rat Squad were watching the gang, and that the Rust Bone Gang could face either group alone but not both together.
• Iron Wall listed the gang’s businesses, including scrap metal, clean water, territory tolls, antiques, and human trafficking.
• Jiang Ye ordered the gang to end human trafficking and take captured children in as members, while leaving the other businesses unchanged.
• Jiang Ye announced that small gangs could join the Rust Bone Gang’s supply chain in exchange for following its orders, aiming to unite them as a fourth force in District 13.
• Iron Wall acknowledged Jiang Ye as his leader, and Jiang Ye asked him whether he knew Nen.

Jiang Ye summoned Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye and offered to teach them Nen so they could strengthen and support the Rust Bone Gang. He required them to make Nen vows against betraying or harming him, and after they accepted, he said training would begin the next day.

• Iron Wall told Jiang Ye that Dodge had mentioned Nen but had never taught it to his subordinates.
• Jiang Ye summoned Gray Beak and Shattered Eye, explaining that he planned to teach Nen to the gang’s core officers.
• Gray Beak, Iron Wall, and Shattered Eye knelt and agreed to learn Nen.
• Jiang Ye demanded that each man make a Nen vow against betraying, selling out, or harming him, with a curse as the consequence.
• Jiang Ye summoned Divine Dog: Totality and warned the three that breaking their vows would mean death; none withdrew.
• Jiang Ye dismissed the pressure and told the three that Nen training would begin the next day.

Tie Liao and Shu Mu agreed to join forces and attack the Rust Bone Gang in three days, while Jiang Ye trained three gang members in Nen. The chapter ended with Jiang Ye asking Iron Wall about the gang’s weapons and combat tactics.

• Shu Mu told Tie Liao that Jiang Ye was recruiting scavengers and small gangs as vassals for the Rust Bone Gang.
• Shu Mu relayed Grey Elder’s order for their groups to unite and attack the Rust Bone Gang in three days, and warned that Jiang Ye seemed unusual.
• Tie Liao agreed to the attack and looked forward to seizing the Rust Bone Gang’s territory.
• Jiang Ye observed Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye practicing Ten after he had forcibly opened their Aura Nodes.
• Jiang Ye told the three that they had grasped the rudiments of Ten and needed months of practice to stabilize it.
• Jiang Ye asked Iron Wall about the gang’s armaments and combat tactics.

Jiang Ye reorganized the Rust Bone Gang’s weapons and battle tactics, then assigned his lieutenants to manage new vassals, scout a suitable open area, and monitor rival gangs. The chapter ended with Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye kneeling before Jiang Ye.

• Iron Wall described the gang’s limited weapons and reckless fighting methods, and Jiang Ye ordered them to make shields, Molotov cocktails, and traps while dividing combat roles among Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye.
• Jiang Ye gave the gang rules for choosing battles, retreating, pursuing enemies, and watching for traps and ambushes.
• Iron Wall reported that nearly thirty drifters and small groups had joined as vassals, and Jiang Ye ordered him to visit them and make clear that they would have to earn their place.
• Jiang Ye sent Gray Beak to find a large, flat, open area and ordered Shattered Eye to closely monitor the Gray Rat Squad and the Shattered Iron Group.
• Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye knelt before Jiang Ye with their right hands pressed to their chests.

Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye swore loyalty to Jiang Ye, and he answered with a vow to protect them if they upheld their agreement. Their relationship shifted toward mutual trust, but urgent pounding at the door interrupted the moment.

• Iron Wall, Gray Beak, and Shattered Eye each swore vows against betrayal, with clauses voiding their vows if Jiang Ye sought their deaths without cause.
• Jiang Ye promised to ensure their survival and growth and vowed that one of his shadow Shikigami would be permanently destroyed if he harmed them without cause.
• The three men were surprised by Jiang Ye’s reciprocal vow and felt they had been treated as equals.
• Divine Dog: Totality watched from outside the door, prepared to act if any of the men tried to leave, then slipped back into the shadows when they stayed.
• Hurried footsteps approached, and someone pounded on the door as Jiang Ye and the three men turned toward it.