Original subtitles

Donna yume nara oikakeru no?

What kind of dreams will you pursue?

Kimi ga tsubuya kumi tai ni yuu

You seem to just mutter away the answer.

Tooi saki datta mirai wa ima sugu soba wo,

The future which seemed so very distant,

hashi ite yuku

is running alongside me now.

Mienai koede saken deta

Crying out to me in a voice that can't be heard.

Kizutsu ita karada ima tokashi tai

I want to melt away my scarred body right now.

Kono itami wa tada watashi wo kiri saite,

This pain within just tears me apart,

ashita wo unarau inori ga todoku made

And until my prayer which foretells tomorrow is heard...

I pray every night and day...

Start x Spell x City of Prizes

Welcome to Greed Island!

Ging’s ring is...

Are you Gon, by any chance?

Yes, I am.

I’ve been waiting for you.

I will now give you the message from Ging.

Welcome, Gon.

This is the game I made with my friends. Well, go ahead and enjoy.

If you thought there’d be a clue to help you find me, too bad.

I just wanted to show off our game.

Anyway, now you’re stuck here until you can get the item that’ll let you out.

So play your heart out.

That is all.

That’s all?

Yes. That’s the entirety of the save file.

Enjoy the game...

Did he really just want to show the game off?

I will now explain the game.

Gon, do you want to hear it?

Yeah.

There are two magic spells you can cast with that ring.

Spells?

Book and Gain.

Hold the hand with the ring out in front of you, and say, “Book.”

Book!

You can convert every item you get in the game into a card.

Those cards can be stored in this binder.

The goal of the game is to fill out your binder.

Please open to the first page.

There are no cards in it now, but you can see that each slot is numbered.

These “specific slots” will only accept a card of the same number.

Keep flipping the pages, and you will see no more numbers.

Those slots can hold cards of any number.

Those are called “free slots.”

There are 100 specific slots, from 000 to 099.

You also have 45 free slots.

Collect all 100 cards that go in the specific slots.

That’s how you clear the game.

Okay. So I have to find 100 cards?

But how do I get a hold of them?

Technically, you will collect 100 items and turn them into cards.

For example, let’s say you find a sword.

The moment you take it in your hand, it will turn into a card.

I see. The items turn into cards automatically when you get them.

If you want to use it as a weapon, use the spell, “Gain.”

Then, the card will turn back into the sword.

I see.

Once a card has been gained, it can never be turned into a card again, so be careful.

If you want the card, you’ll have to find the same sword again.

Are you with me so far?

Um, somehow...

Once gained, an item can’t be turned into a card again.

There are two other cases where you won’t be able to turn it into a card.

One is when the card conversion limit has been reached.

Card conversion limit?

That’s right. Every item on this island has a card conversion limit.

This number may be more than 100, or as few as three.

Let’s say there is an item with a limit of three cards.

If three players have one card each in their binder,

a fourth player will not be allowed to

convert the item into a card when he finds it.

Because it’s been maxed out.

One more word of caution. You must store the card in your binder.

If you leave it out, the card will revert into the item

in 60 seconds. You can never convert it into a card again.

Lastly, the most important word of caution.

Okay.

I’m reaching my limit of memorization.

If a player dies, their binder and ring will be

destroyed, and the cards inside will cease to exist.

So please be careful.

All right.

Who cares about the cards if you’re dead?

That’s the end of the briefing.

These are only the most basic rules.

You will have to find out more details by playing the game.

Okay.

Book!

You may now begin the game!

I wish you luck!

I’m being watched from somewhere out there...

I can’t see any sign of people...

Hey, wait long?

We’re being watched.

Yeah. By more’n one.

So they all feel it.

It feels slimy.

Ignore ’em. They can’t be any good if they’re being this obvious.

Thanks for waiting.

Killua!

We’re being watched...

A grassy plain. No sign of a town.

Yeah, but I wonder why everyone headed the same way.

Lemme guess. This way and that way?

How’d you know?

That’s where I feel the eyes from.

Vigilance takes mental and physical effort,

so even if you take turns, you want to be near a town.

The question is, why are they watching us?

Well, they can’t be any good if they’re being this obvious.

Oh, that’s the same thing the others said.

So which way do we go?

On three!

– Three! – Three!

– First comes rock! – First comes rock!

– Rock, paper, scissors! – Rock, paper, scissors!

Let’s go!

Damn it!

So, what did you get?

Book.

Your save data.

How many cards did it contain?

It was only a message.

Seriously?! Not even a hint?!

Yeah.

So we have to start from scratch.

Yeah, Ging told me to enjoy the game.

Book.

It doesn’t feel like we’re in a game at all.

What did you think of the rules?

There are too many unknowns.

How do we even get the items?

We have to gather information first. For that...

We need to find a town!

A basic for any game.

How is this batch of contenders?

Not bad.

I better get back to the game.

I’ll lose my memory card data if I don’t get back within ten days.

What’s wrong?

I hear a sound above us.

The plains by the starting point...

You kids new to the game, huh?

He flew?!

Who knows?

Was that Nen?!

That binder must mean you’re also a player.

Ya think?

Don’t bother playing dumb. You don’t take out your binders when I have mine...

It’s obvious you’re noobs.

So you’re Killua and Gon.

How’d you know our names?

Like I’d tell you.

They don’t even know about the spell cards.

Peek let’s me look at the free slots of one player.

There are no cards in their free slots?

That settles it. They just got here.

They’re only kids. This’ll do.

Trace, “See the current location of one player at any time.”

Trace on! Attack Killua!

What?!

Killua!

You can’t escape spells, idiot!

Killua, you okay?!

Success. One of the most crucial elements in this game

is information about other players. Now I’ll always know where they go.

What did you do to me?

Uh-oh, he’s not just any kid!

Return on! To Masadora!

He flew off again.

Must be a game ability...

He took out a card from his binder and said, “Trace on.”

It’s probably magic that can be cast in the game.

Hey Killua, feel any different?

Nope.

What kind of magic was it?

Dunno.

Well, I don’t feel any different right now.

We’ll find out soon enough.

Do you think we’ll be able to use magic like that?

If it’s game magic, we’ll be able to use it, too.

Ah! A town!

“Welcome to Antokiba, the Town of Prizes!”

Wow, these are all rewards.

There’s so many!

I guess we can get items from these jobs?

“Lost dog. Reward: The cursed statue of Lady Luck.”

I can’t even tell if that’s a good item.

Oh! Killua, look at that!

Antokiba’s monthly contest list.

September is rock-paper-scissors.

It might not be September in the game.

Oh yeah...

Excuse me, what day is it?

September 11th.

I guess it’s the same...

Yeah.

Every month on the 15th, the prize for September is the Sword of Truth.

Is that an item we need?

Maybe.

Look over there.

Oh! It’s the first person that passed.

More of them over there.

I see ’em.

It’s in four days, want to enter?

Why not? Everyone has a chance to win!

Let’s enter lots of contests and stuff until then!

A meal, information, and prizes! This’ll cover it all!

Eat in half an hour, and it on us! You also get a Gargaidar card!

Begin!

Say mister...

Huh?

How many people enter the monthly contests?

Talk waste of time! You should stuff mouth!

Tell us!

It depend on month. Sometimes it less than ten.

But anyone can win in September, so more than one thousand come!

Odds of 1 in one thousand, ouch.

By the way, how do you use magic?

Magic? What that?

Don’t tell me we gotta ask everyone in town?

Then who’s the wisest person around here?

Wisest? What that?

I knew it...

Aiya! You ate all!

Only ten minute and thirteen minute!

I go bring the prize.

He didn’t know a lot of words.

No. He’s a game N.P.C.

A “non-player character.” He’s programmed to only

give responses to a limited number of questions.

He answers, “X? What’s that?” to everything else.

Huh?! Then what do we do?

We’ll have to ask people, one by one.

What?! All that trouble?!

All R.P.G.s are like that.

Games take an awful lot of time.

Here you go!

Two Gargaidars!

1217... F-185...

What do they mean?

New to cards?

Tourists, are you?

Yeah!

The left number is item card number. The letter on the right is difficulty rating.

There are ten levels of difficulty, and F is third easiest.

The number after that is card conversion limit.

So that means...

It’s crap.

Damn! I thought it would be a weapon!

Well, thanks for the meal!

Aiya! Hold on!

Pasta free. But you also had three soda. 1,020 Jenny please.

Oh yeah.

Here, can you break 10,000?

What that?

Money only used in this form here! That paper worth nothing!

Are you serious?

1,020 Jenny! In cards!

Damn it! Even money is in cards?

I don’t even know how you earn money in this game.

If you take card to Trade Shop, you can sell for money.

Damn it!

If we had just sold the Gargaidars, then we wouldn’t have had to wash those dishes...

But if we didn’t wash the dishes, he might not have given us that information.

It’s common for games to have you do a certain

task in order to trigger another event.

What was that?!

What happened?!

What’s going on?!

How awful...

A tourist.

He was in our group...

He was fine this afternoon...

Hey, what happened?

He suddenly exploded from the inside!

It’s only been a few hours!

We have a victim already...

The blood is so real... he really is dead!

It doesn’t seem like a game at all...

On top of that, Ging made it!

He’s gone?

Back to the real world. Game over.

Hey, Killua... that spell the guy cast on you...

I don’t know...

Don’t worry.

There’s no spell like this in the game.

Spell?

Did this guy witness it all?

This was the Nen of another player.

Players killing each other? But why?

Killing each other?!

It’s a player hunt.

You heard about the card conversion limit system.

There’s a finite number of cards available. The rarer the card, the fewer there are.

Or the fewer players, the better the distribution of cards.

Yes. Thus these cutthroat radicals.

New players are the most likely to be targets.

We’re the opposite. We fight with numbers, and we never shed blood.

Want to join us?

We have a surefire way to clear the game.

A surefire way to clear the game?

Yes.

Next Episode

You know how to clear the game?

I’d like to learn more about the game, but...

Next time on Hunter X Hunter:

“Invitation X List X First Comes Rock”!

This is not a good sign...

Yakusoku noiikan sugita no ni...

Since our promised time has passed by...

ayamaru yousu mo nakute

there's no sign of an apology.

Tsuki hi ga tattemo, hito wa...

Even as time passes by, people...

hikari ni kawaranai yo ne

never seem to be changed by the light

Ano hi ni oki wasureta kioku ga kyuu ni...

One day the forgotten memories iust suddenly...

POPCORN mitai ni hajiketa

burst out like popcorn.

Nakanakutemo ii janai

You don't have to cry.

Hisashiburi ni aeta karatte

Even though it's been a while since we met

Donna toki mo kimi no koto...

I'll never be able to...

wasureru hazu mo nai...

Never again forget about you...

datte itsumo sou kimi ga,

because you were always there,

konna ni mo yuuki kureru kara

providing me with so much courage.