Steal Chain is revealed as Kurapika strips Little Eye from the restrained Sayird — parasitic beasts, he learns, cannot be stolen. Two hours in, Room 1014 is down to two guards; Sevanti reassigns Momoze's whole detail to little Marayam; and Halkenburg, his bow-armed beast newly revealed, asks to withdraw from a contest his father blandly refuses to stop.
- Nen revealDay 1CanonicalSteal Chain takes Little Eye
Kurapika's index-finger chain is shown: it drains a target's aura into forced Zetsu and borrows one ability for one use. He strips Little Eye — a Nen ball that captures and pilots small creatures — from the restrained Sayird, who is then arrested for the killings.
LocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito)▸Consequences (1)
- Room 1014 is down to two guards and two servants from eleven and four
- DecisionDay 1CanonicalSevanti guts Momoze's detail
Two hours into the voyage, Queen Sevanti orders Momoze's personal guards and servants transferred wholesale to her little brother Marayam — the child Sevanti judges worth saving. The Twelfth Prince is left with only the higher queens' spy-guards.
InvolvedSevanti Hui Guo Rou · Momoze Hui Guo Rou · Marayam Hui Guo Rou · VergeiLocationRoom 1013 (Marayam)▸Consequences (1)
- Momoze becomes the contest's softest target
- Nen revealDay 1CanonicalThe hamster beast is Momoze's
The reader learns the small beast that puppeted Sayird belongs to Prince Momoze — a girl whose guardian kills for her without her knowledge or consent.
InvolvedMomoze Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito) - ConversationDay 1CanonicalHalkenburg asks to withdraw; Nasubi shrugs
The Ninth Prince, whose bow-armed Guardian Spirit Beast is revealed this chapter, tells his father he wants out of the succession battle. Nasubi's answer — 'do as you wish' — commits him to a contest that has no exit clause.
InvolvedHalkenburg Hui Guo Rou · Nasubi Hui Guo RouLocationTier 1 — Royal Deck - ConversationDay 1CanonicalBill's three escape routes
Bill lays out the only ways Oito and Woble could ever leave the ship: Kurton's transforming ability (dead with him), Pariston Hill, or Beyond Netero. Every surviving option runs through someone untrustworthy.
InvolvedBill · Kurapika · Oito Hui Guo RouLocationRoom 1014 (Woble & Oito)
- Sayird arrested; Momoze's guards transferred to Marayam's quarters
- Steal Chain: drains aura and borrows one ability for one use
- Little Eye changes hands from Sayird to Kurapika
- Momoze becomes the contest's softest target
