The Three-Family War

Kakin's three mafia families boarded to stake territory on the New Continent, each with a direct line to a prince: Xi-Yu to Zhang Lei, Heil-Ly to Tserriednich, Cha-R to Luzurus. Five Spiders surface in Tier 5, hunting a man taller than 190 centimeters.

The Heil-Ly hold Tier 3, the Xi-Yu Tier 4, the Cha-R Tier 5; moving between the lower tiers requires the army's stamp or the mafia's. Unregistered passengers boarded outside the manifest — the ship has a shadow population.

Onior Longbao (Xi-Yu) and Brocco Li (Cha-R) are Nasubi's half-brothers; Morena Prudo (Heil-Ly) is his illegitimate daughter. Kakin scars its kings' bastards at birth and pays them to stay invisible — 'Second-track Fakers' propping up the monarchy from the gutter.

Morena's ability infects a community of 23 including herself: members gain power by killing — one level per civilian, ten per Nen user, fifty per prince. Level 20 grants an ability; level 100 lets a member seed their own community. Her stated aim is havoc, starting with the ship.

Onior and Brocco order their underbosses to find Hisoka before the Troupe does: Ken'i floats ten million per tip, Hinrigh plans ID checks through Queen Tang Zhao Li's influence. Everyone wants the clown found — nobody wants him fought.

The Heil-Ly's Luini kills three more Cha-R guards to reach level 24, using a corpse to infiltrate and mark the family's hideout for his sealed-room transportation ability. His accomplice Cashew feeds Mizaistom a testimony of curated lies to gauge the Association's investigators.

The Cha-R underboss offers Nobunaga, Phinks, and Feitan a working arrangement: hunt the warehouse killer for the family. Franklin, unimpressed by searching, decides to simply wait for Hisoka in Tier 5.

Ken'i and Vice Boss Tajao explain the custom: hits between families must be squared between bosses within 24 hours, with the boss off home turf when it happens. Over 300 workers are missing, Morena's Tier 1 room is empty, and no call has come — war with the Heil-Ly is now procedural fact.

The Third Prince visits Onior in person, asking after the beasts and Nen. The Second-track Faker knows nothing himself but promises to ask his younger members — the succession contest and the mafia formally shake hands.

Onior directs Hinrigh to find Hisoka on Tier 3 while ceding Tier 4's search to the Spiders — keeping the Troupe where the family can watch it — and to kill Morena along the way.

Hinrigh's team corners Heil-Ly members registered as civilians — a legal trap, since mafia attacking civilians means catastrophe. When soldiers move them along, Hinrigh's Biohazard turns their gun barrels into snakes that shoot both men dead. The war stops pretending.

Three leveled Heil-Ly members ambush Hinrigh; his handcuff-pigeons shrug off bullets and shackle the weapon-limbed Padaille, whose own conjured axe is pushed into his skull. The survivors flee to ask Morena for instructions.

Padaille's corpse stands up and leaves the plaza carrying a dead woman with a bullet-holed head: Misha Hao, the Xi-Yu's late undertaker, whose post-mortem ability quietly disposes of anyone killed by a family member. The mafia's cleanup runs on a ghost.

For fifty million, a soldier tells Hinrigh about silenced wiring workers and a room that appears on no ship plan, behind Room 3101's missing bathroom wall. The blueprints have been lying since launch.

Zakuro's blood-drop search flags a tall man with his hair down: Lynch's soul-punch confirms nothing before she is dropped by a reflex counter, and the terrified Zakuro takes the man's overwhelming aura as proof. The reader will learn in ch 405 that this Hisoka is Bonolenov, planted by Chrollo to be found.

Luini surfaces at the Cha-R office proposing the Troupe help him kill both families, the royals, and then the old world. Nobunaga stabs him mid-pitch, bisects the corpse, and leaves it as the Troupe's declaration of war on the Heil-Ly.

In auditorium 8, Hinrigh offers the found 'Hisoka' a VVIP room on Tier 1 to sit out the mafia war, invoking the doctrine of balance. 'Hisoka' accepts on one condition — he will not refuse a fight the Troupe starts. The mafia believes it has contained a man who was never there.

Led to the hidden room, Corporal Maizan steps inside and vanishes; an unbothered old man — someone's projected double — invites the underbosses in after him. The Heil-Ly's front door is a teleport trap.

After the Spiders map the trap as a continuous 'land mine' type, Hinrigh turns a transmitter into a raw oyster with Biohazard, swallows it, and walks into the teleporter himself — betting his life that the Troupe will follow the signal.

Inside the hideout, the Heil-Ly lawyer Yokotani activates A Battle of Wits: 'LSDF' — untouchable puppet guards that charge intruders with their actual crimes and eject them. Nobunaga is carried out and warped back to Room 3101; Hinrigh hides the oyster transmitter before his own expulsion.

Tracking the swallowed oyster, the Spiders read the Heil-Ly hideout as sitting above Tier 3 — meaning Morena has technically never been on her own turf, exploiting the very custom that legitimizes the war. Nobunaga starts to respect the enemy's architect.

Chrollo's balance play is revealed: Bonolenov impersonated Hisoka so the mafia would 'find' and stash him, freeing the Troupe's search. Lynch's soul-punch pierced the act, so he killed her, spared the unknowing Zakuro as a messenger, and now spots the real Hisoka across the casino floor.

After Tajao pledges the Cha-R and Xi-Yu's full support to the Troupe's Heil-Ly extermination, Ken'i privately addresses Morena — 'we have a problem' — and considers deploying their 'joker.' The Cha-R underboss has been hers all along.

Tajao leads three Spiders up through the ship's outermost shell and the sewage plant between Tiers 4 and 5 — subcontracted turf where, Nobunaga realizes, killers posing as waste contractors could murder on an assembly line. Phinks and Feitan continue up; Nobunaga turns back toward the Heil-Ly.

Lynch is found with her neck professionally broken. Working backward from Zakuro's account, Hinrigh reconstructs the truth: the found 'Hisoka' was a fake; Lynch's ability exposed him, so he killed her and impersonated her to steer the mafia's conclusions. The Xi-Yu vows revenge on the culprit, whoever it is.