Chimera Ant Story Arc

Chapter 185 - Chance Meeting: Gon, together with Killua, set to finding Gin at last by using the Accompany magic card they got by winning in the Greed Island. However, they were merely transported to Kaito, the very first Hunter Gon met who also happens to be Gin's student.

"If Gon uses Magnetic Force, then take him to me. But if he uses Accompany, take him to Kaito."

Chapter 186 - Queen: On the continent of Yorubian, the body of a strange creature was washed up on the southern shore of Barusa Island. It was the Queen of the Chimera Ants. Immediately, she started seeking food in order to recover from her injuries. But what could possibly satisfy her appetite?

Gon and Killua learn that they are in a country known as Kakin, and that Kaito is there because he, together with six other Hunters, was requested to conduct some research on life forms for almost 3 years already. Everyone is introduced and the two decide to go with them. They learn of a digital camera that automatically checks with the database whether the species it has photographed is new or not. Cool, huh?

Chapter 187 - The Ultimate Prey: In no time the queen's first eggs hatched, thus, giving birth to new ants. She commands them to hunt for nutiritious food so that she can breed for the king. Meanwhile, part of the her body — her leg — was discovered, giving dawn to a new task for Kaito and company.

Chapter 188 - NGL: The ants capture two kids that turn out very delicious for the queen. She demands more of the same kind by telling her Division Leaders to bring 50 humans a day. She is surprised and interested to hear that one of the leaders request that they have individual names in order for them to distinguish between themselves.

Kaito and the rest continue to speculate of where the mysterious creature might have gone to, considering that there have been no eyewitnesses of seeing a creature taller than 2 meters. They come up with the idea that it might have originated from the NGL (Neo Green Life), which is a group of people who shun modern technology and try to live "as one with nature".

Chapter 189 - Infiltrate: The group undergo an inspection before formally entering the NGL Free State. Basically, products that are not naturally occuring need to be left behind. Only five of them was left — Killua, Kaito, Podongo, Gon, and Stick. In the lair of the Chimera, dead bodies of some ants were brought and division leaders start to ponder on how they were killed and by whom.

Chapter 190 - The Hunt: It turns out that Pokero and Ponzu, together with seven other Hunters are in NGL too. They happen to be the ones who slaughtered the ants. They planned of escaping when the ants suddenly found them. Pokero fought with his Nen but in the end, still, not one of them stayed alive. Fortunately, Ponzu's last message arrived to Kaito, and they finally learn of the Chimera ants' nest. The NGL and Chimera ants, Kaito couldn't think of a worse combination.

Chapter 191 - 70: Kaito, Gon, and Killua find a deserted village and meet a Chimera ant soldier for the very first time. Kaito realizes that it knows how to conceal its aura while the other two are stunned of its appearance. Kaito challenges the two to take care of the ant because if they cannot, then they'd better go home. Killua uses his electricity (which catches Kaito's attention) and Gon, his Jan-Ken-Rock Punch. As the ant was blown away, he was caught and carried away by a flying division leader ant. Kaito tells them that their attacks were not ineffective, but rather, they just lack experience. But what will happen now that the enemy has already identified their strengths?

Chapter 192 - Human-Dog: Ramotto, the ant that our protagonists beat, flames in anger because of what was done to him. Koruto, the division leader that saved him, tries to calm him down and finds out that other division leader ants have already started doing things on their own will, like leaving corpses behind and not bringing them for the queen.

More dead bodies — and guns — are discovered by Gon, Killua, and Kaito. Soon enough, they discover the hidden side of NGL — a drug production factory. They come face-to-face with three ants, who's been slaving humans as dogs. And the battle begins...

Chapter 193 - Choki: Gon, Killua, and Kaito individually take care of the enemies. Gon uses his "Scissors" attack, which is a sword, for the first time and cut his opponent in half. He was scolded by Kaito because he merely left the ant thereafter. He was told that its head must be completely destroyed, because such things are capable of coming back to life. Kaito finishes everything, and his real ability is finally revealed.

Chapter 194 - The Hagya Squad: The presence of the three are already known to the ants. Back in the ants' nest, Ramotto is revived to good health and unknowingly learns Nen, his aura visible in the eyes of Koruto. Koruto then commands Ramotto to try out his new strength to him. Meanwhile, near the drug factory, quickly, Gon, Kaito, and Killua got surrounded by Hagya's (a division leader) squad.

Chapter 195 - The Hagya Squad 2: The squad captain offered three alternatives for them to choose from. They chose the one-on-one battle. Gon was up first. His opponent was an ant that looks like a shrew and attacks by rolling itself. Before they started, Gon was trying to convince the ant that their rule not be that one has to die. Gon won by containing the ant's attack.

Chapter 196 - The Hagya Squad 3: Killua's battle against the bull-looking ant did not last long. It was then Kaito's turn. His roulette (refer to Kaito's profile for details of his weapon) comes up with number 2 — a relatively gigantic scythe. He requests Gon and Killua to jump up high. When they returned, all the remaining ants were already dead, cut and decapitated.

Chapter 197 - The Hagya Squad 4: It turns out that the ants have a way of monitoring all the humans they feed to the queen. Peggy, a division leader, notices that one seemed to have escaped or haven't been fed to the queen yet. One of the queen's Royal Guards appear for the very first time and punish Ramotto for seeing himself as the King. Furthermore, she sensed where the prey Peggy was looking for was. It was Pokero. Hagya, on the other side of the story, after seeing Kaito, Gon, and Killua, decided to retreat.

Chapter 198 - Assault: Neferupitoo (Nefelpitou), the royal guard, used her abilities to extract information about Nen from Pokero. Immediately right after learning the "Water Visualization Technique", Pokero was killed. She then calls and spreads the news to all the division leaders and squad captains and decides to test the extent of her power. Kaito sensed a strong aura and instantaneously commanded Gon and Killua to run away. In the blink of an eye, his right arm was off his body — it was snapped by Neferupitoo. Gon raged and was resolute on attacking but Killua stopped him on time.

Chapter 199 - Light and Shadow: Killua, with the unconscious Gon, luckily escaped and called Kaito's other companion Hunters. Help arrives. It was the Hunter Association Chairman Netero and two other never-before-seen Hunters. Netero tells Killua that two assassins have been released in the neighboring town and that if they want to go with them, they have to defeat those two first. When Gon awoke, he thanked Killua for what he did and was optimistic that Kaito is still alive.

Chapter 200: A mysterious girl appears before Gon and Killua and introduces herself as Palm, an apprentice of Novu (one of Netero's companions). She tells them that the time limit for them to beat the assassins is only a month, for only one team — them or the assassins — can go to NGL with Netero's troupe.

Chapter 201: One of the assassins, Morau's (Netero's other companion) apprentice, rampaged in public calling out their opponents, who happen to be Gon and Killua. Killua was there so instantaneously the identity of one of the guys they were supposed to hunt is already known. Biscuit Crueger enters the scene once again and, well, train the two rigorously for the second time around.

Chapter 202: Netero sees the royal guard Nefelpitou from a distant view and hypothesizes that it is stronger than him. The second of the three royal guards is introduced and Morau uses his Nen to explore and find out how many enemies are in the place. Meanwhile, Gon and Killua completed Biscuit's first task — holding Ren for three hours. Subsequently, they are surprised to hear Biscuit say that they have to go and beat Knuckle at that very instant.

Chapter 203: Knuckle gets his first encounter with Gon and Killua and suggests that they better get some sleep first. He deeply underestimates the two that when Gon uses his Nen punch he was easily put to sleep. Nonetheless, they did not grab the opportunity of stealing the bamboo plate which contains the message from Netero's group. (Put simply, the plate serves as the ticket for either of the two teams to proceed to NGL — a sort of simple puzzle in which message cannot be read by the absence of the other piece.)

Chapter 204: Jairo, the president of NGL, is eerily introduced. He passes by the town where our protagonists are currently at. Division leaders Peggy and Koruto notice that more ants have gone missing — primarily from the unorganized groups. Gon and Killua continue to fight Buckle, still, after holding Ren for three hours.

Chapter 205 - Remaining Time: Shoot, Morau's other apprentice, plans to ambush Gon and Killua and take advantage of the fact that they are weak. However, his timidity blocks him all over. Maintaining Ren for two hours have become easy for the two because they no longer need to concentrate. Time is running out though, only 10 days left. Gon and Palm are becoming friendlier to each other and Netero continues to wipe off ants, bringing them down to only 14 groups. But what if the King comes out sooner?

Chapter 206 - Engagement: The real fight against Knuckle finally arrives. A single punch made Gon realize that it won't be as easy as it looks. Netero's two companions bet on which of the two teams arrive to their aid. Quite suddenly, Netero realizes that it might be impossible to complete the mission without any sacrifices.

Chapter 207 - Weakness: Beating Knuckle appears to be way impossible. Gon's aura is being read easily and is being used by Knucle to his advantage. Knuckle points out two weaknesses of Gon's technique, which he mistakenly named as "Jajanken" when Gon didn't mean to stutter the first syllable. Firstly, it takes too long to charge. Secondly, concentrating more aura into the fist leaves the rest of the body unprotected. Gon tries to use it but is severely hit, as what Knuckle initially said if ever he uses it. However, Gon tries a second attempt...

Chapter 208 - Weakness (2): It turns out that Gon decided on using his technique to fake Knuckle. That is, as Knuckle moves to stop him from using the technique, he stops it himself and does a surprise attack. Killua realizes that Gon just thought of doing it at that instant — right in the middle of battle! Gon's aura's stamina is reaching its limit, and he can only stay in battle in about less than 10 minutes. Surprisingly, after a series of hits received, Gon tries to use his technique once more.

Chapter 209: The last of Gon's abilities is revealed — "Paper", an emission attack. He uses it to make Knuckle divert his attention and sneak up from behind. Knuckle gets hit of the "Rock" punch but still remained standing, while Gon finally loses consciousness. Knuckle realizes that if only Gon didn't exhausted the rest of his aura in his emission attack, then he would have lost. Killua carries Gon away and tells Knuckle that Gon will fight him again the next day.

Chapter 210: Upon waking up, Gon is surprised to see Killua's face swollen. Unknown to him, while he was asleep, Biscuit fought Killua and pointed out his weakness, which is fighting with the objective of trying to run away. He is instructed that if he can't beat Shoot, Knuckle's buddy, then he must leave Gon's side. The 2-on-2 bout has finally come. Which of the teams will get hold of the other side's bamboo plates?

I have already started extracting information from the arc via the Manga. If time (and school) permits, hopefully, I will be able to finish it before classes end. The following chapters coming very soon. In the meantime, you may drop me a line in the guestbook and check out the links below! ^_^