Chapter Summaries

Mei Terumi and Ao weighed Kirigakure’s options after Uchiha Chisen’s attack, and Mei decided she had to become the Fifth Mizukage. As Mei went to seek Genji’s support, a Kirigakure jonin ordered the gathered survivors to prepare for battle.

• Ao suggested seeking help from the Lands of Lightning, Earth, and Wind, but Mei warned that Kirigakure was too weakened to protect its interests.
• Mei persuaded Ao to avoid provoking Uchiha Chisen for now and ordered him to gather the surviving ninja, including those stationed on the outlying islands.
• Mei reconsidered her plan to shoulder the blame and withdraw from leadership, deciding instead to seek Genji’s support and succeed Yagura as Mizukage.
• Ao agreed to rally support for Mei, and she hurried toward Genji’s residence.
• A Kirigakure jonin gathered the surviving ninja and ordered them to prepare for battle.

Ao told Kirigakure’s assembled ninja that Uchiha Chisen had killed Yagura and devastated the village, urging them to support Mei Terumi’s plan until other nations acted. The remaining ninja split into three factions, with Kukulin opposing Ao and calling for revenge.

• Kukulin tried to take troops to the battlefield, but former deserters blocked him and he attacked one of them.
• Ao arrived and stopped Kukulin’s sword with a kunai, then assessed that only 487 Kirigakure ninja were nearby.
• The Kirigakure ninja questioned Ao about Yagura’s fate and the damage to the village.
• Ao confirmed that Uchiha Chisen had killed Yagura and at least a thousand people, and urged the ninja to support Mei Terumi’s plan.
• Kukulin accused Ao and Mei Terumi of abandoning Yagura and serving the enemy, and the ninja divided into three factions.

Mei Terumi sought Genji’s support for becoming the Fifth Mizukage, but he first showed her intelligence on Uchiha Chisen and his Mangekyō Sharingan. She learned that Chisen could judge crimes from the past or future, threatening her plan to unite Kirigakure against him, and the chapter left her fearing the village’s criminals would be doomed if they faced him.

• Ao rebuked Kukulin for keeping the village divided while Kirigakure fought for survival, but neither man was willing to back down.
• Mei Terumi arrived at Genji’s temple and found him treating injured Ninja before asking for his support to become the Fifth Mizukage.
• Genji gave Mei a scroll of intelligence on Uchiha Chisen, and she learned that Chisen’s actions in Konoha made it unlikely he had come specifically to target Kirigakure.
• Genji urged Mei to read the report on Chisen’s Mangekyō Sharingan, which revealed that he could judge crimes from the past or future.
• Mei realized her plan to make Chisen a common enemy might send Kirigakure’s criminals to their deaths, while Genji agreed to support her as Mizukage.

Genji pledged unconditional support for Mei Terumi to become the Fifth Mizukage, and she set out to gather the village’s ninja. Ao failed to rally them, while Kukulin’s Conservative Faction grew stronger as more ninja returned to Kirigakure.

• Genji told Mei Terumi that the surviving ninja’s accounts of Uchiha Chisen’s abilities were reliable and agreed that Kirigakure had to accept its desperate situation.
• Genji gave Mei Terumi his prayer beads and ordered Gonbei to witness his decision to support her as the Fifth Mizukage, endorsing every order she gave.
• Gonbei accepted Genji’s instructions and began treating Mei Terumi as his superior when he rejoined her.
• Mei Terumi left with Gonbei to gather the ninja while Ao failed to persuade the village’s factions to unite.
• More returning ninja joined Kukulin’s Conservative Faction, while Mei Terumi and Ao’s reformists remained scattered across the Outer Islands.

Ao and Kukulin’s dispute over how to respond to Uchiha Chisen nearly sparked a fight within Kirigakure until Mei Terumi arrived. Gonbei then announced Genji’s support for Mei Terumi to become the Fifth Mizukage, leaving the gathered ninja stunned.

• Kukulin tried to recruit Ao and his supporters, while Ao warned that opposing Uchiha Chisen would get them killed.
• Kukulin’s supporters and Ao’s men drew weapons as their argument escalated toward a fight.
• Mei Terumi arrived and used her Lava Release to separate the two camps, then heard Ao explain their disagreement.
• Gonbei presented Genji’s prayer beads and declared Genji’s support for Mei Terumi to become the Fifth Mizukage.

Mei Terumi became the Fifth Mizukage after the Kirigakure Ninja failed to produce a challenger and rallied behind her. She then led a group to meet Uchiha Chisen, who waited on the devastated battlefield as dawn approached.

• Mei Terumi declared that anyone who opposed her becoming Mizukage could challenge her, but Kukulin and the Conservative Faction's Jonin hesitated.
• Ringo Ameyuri taunted Kukulin and chanted in support of Mei, prompting Ao and other Kirigakure Ninja to join in.
• The Kirigakure Ninja accepted Mei Terumi as the Fifth Mizukage, while she resolved to suppress opposition and implement Uchiha Chisen's Absolute Justice.
• Uchiha Chisen browsed the many rewards from killing Kirigakure Ninja while Katsuyu split into more slugs to chat with herself.
• Mei Terumi, Ao, and hundreds of Kirigakure Ninja approached Uchiha Chisen at the edge of the devastated battlefield.

Uchiha Chisen assessed the Kirigakure survivors and declared that sinners could not participate in [Absolute Justice], while Katsuyu embraced his judgment. He began exposing the survivors’ crimes, leaving Fuwari Kuroō trapped in terror as Chisen recited his offenses.

• Uchiha Chisen estimated that around thirty percent of the remaining Kirigakure Ninja needed immediate punishment, while the rest could still atone.
• Uchiha Chisen told Katsuyu that sinners would sully [Absolute Justice] and should be sent to face their victims instead of helping carry it out.
• The four giant Katsuyu celebrated their conversation, while Kukulin and the approaching Kirigakure Ninja reacted with fear to their appearance and Uchiha Chisen’s imposing presence.
• Mei Terumi brought the surviving Kirigakure Ninja to Uchiha Chisen and claimed they were willing to fight for [Absolute Justice], hoping he would spare them for now.
• Uchiha Chisen named Fuwari Kuroō and recited his grave crimes, while Sharingan Genjutsu prevented Fuwari Kuroō from fleeing.

Uchiha Chisen executed Fuwari Kuroō by forcing him to relive his victims’ suffering, then burning his body and condemning his soul. As Kirigakure’s Conservative Faction prepared to attack, Chisen warned them that he would punish the guilty and spare the innocent, while acknowledging he lacked the strength to deal with everyone at once.

• Uchiha Chisen used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make Fuwari Kuroō experience the agony of his victims again and again.
• When Fuwari Kuroō’s body could no longer endure the torment, Chisen burned it with scarlet flames and redirected the punishment to his soul.
• Kirigakure ninja, including members of the Conservative Faction, began preparing to fight Chisen after he killed Fuwari Kuroō.
• Mei Terumi ordered the restless ninja to stand down and invoked Genji’s verification of Chisen’s ability.
• Chisen told the Kirigakure ninja that he would not condemn innocents or spare the guilty, but admitted he could not punish everyone with a red name immediately.

Uchiha Chisen exposed Kukulin’s crimes, prompting Ringo Ameyuri to avenge her murdered mother and father by killing him. Afterward, Ameyuri offered to serve Chisen, but he declined, insisting that he acted to uphold justice.

• Kukulin pleaded that the Bloody Mist Policy had forced him and other Kirigakure ninja to commit their past crimes, while several others echoed his excuses.
• Uchiha Chisen revealed that Kukulin had poisoned his father and raped and murdered his stepmother, shocking Ringo Ameyuri.
• Ameyuri charged Kukulin with a lightning-powered attack, but he cut off her braid before she killed him and repeatedly stabbed and trampled his body.
• Uchiha Chisen silently used the Eye of Judgment on Kukulin and let Ameyuri carry out her revenge.
• Ameyuri knelt before Chisen, thanked him, and offered to become his sharpest blade, but he declined and said he had acted only for justice.

Uchiha Chisen tested Yugiri’s commitment to Absolute Justice by ordering her to kill Jiro Ohashi, then unleashed Perfect Susanoo against the remaining Kirigakure ninja. He left the surviving criminals burned to ash, while Yugiri witnessed the vast difference in their power.

• Uchiha Chisen hesitated to accept Yugiri as a follower, and Mei Terumi suggested she could oversee Absolute Justice in the Land of Water after he left.
• Uchiha Chisen gave Yugiri a chance to follow him by naming Jiro Ohashi’s crimes and ordering her to kill him.
• Yugiri killed Jiro Ohashi with Lightning Blade, and Uchiha Chisen received a reward after the act counted toward Absolute Justice.
• The remaining Kirigakure ninja charged Uchiha Chisen, and he summoned Perfect Susanoo and burned dozens of them with a Lava Great Blade.
• Uchiha Chisen used Great Fire Eruption to incinerate fleeing Kirigakure ninja, while Yugiri watched in shock.

Uchiha Chisen crushed the Kirigakure ninja’s resistance and allowed those who would follow him to remain, while Uchiha Izumi and Juzo Biwa began investigating Water Gull City as the first step in spreading [absolute justice]. The chapter leaves Izumi and Juzo set to investigate separately, with Kijiro already exploring an alley.

• Uchiha Chisen burned over a hundred Conservative Faction ninja to ashes, and the remaining Kirigakure ninja surrendered to him.
• Uchiha Chisen dispelled his Perfect Susanoo and told the Kirigakure ninja they could stay if they followed him or leave if they would not.
• Uchiha Izumi and Juzo Biwa chose Water Gull City, the Land of Water’s largest black market, as their first target for investigation.
• Uchiha Izumi, Juzo Biwa, and Kijiro split up to investigate the impoverished city, and Juzo gave Izumi two signal flares for emergencies.

Kijiro and Juzo Biwa investigated the strange conditions in Water Gull City while Uchiha Izumi traced the city’s underground black market. When they reunited, Izumi had uncovered a long list of crimes and was grimly prepared to report what she found.

• Kijiro found no other cats until Black Cat emerged from a mouse hole and warned him that humans in Water Gull City caught and ate cats.
• Juzo Biwa reached a rundown district and ran into Raiga Kurosuki, who invited him to join the Funaya Family.
• Juzo Biwa avoided fighting Raiga and withdrew, deciding that the black market operators might already suspect an investigation.
• Uchiha Izumi followed people marked by Uchiha Chisen as sinful and uncovered the crimes behind Water Gull City's underground black market.
• Uchiha Izumi reunited with Juzo Biwa and Kijiro with her notebook filled with evidence of the city's crimes.

Uchiha Izumi, Juzo Biwa, and Kijiro uncovered how the Funaya Family’s control of Water Gull City’s grain trade fueled famine and human trafficking, then attacked the black-market warehouse. Izumi and Juzo began killing the gang leaders and criminals, leaving the reckoning underway.

• Uchiha Izumi learned that the Funaya Family monopolized Water Gull City's grain trade and forced impoverished people to sell their children.
• Juzo Biwa warned Uchiha Izumi that the black market was protected by powerful rogue ninja, then joined her and Kijiro in the fight.
• Uchiha Izumi, Juzo Biwa, and Kijiro infiltrated a warehouse where gang leaders were holding a deadly contest over grain allotments.
• Uchiha Izumi ordered Juzo Biwa to kill the criminals after seeing hundreds of red names, and he charged into the gang leaders.
• Juzo Biwa slaughtered the thugs while Uchiha Izumi used her Three-Tomoe Sharingan to trap a gang thug in genjutsu and prepare to kill him.

Uchiha Chisen and his allies attacked Water Gull City's underground black market, killing its enforcers and exposing the gang's crimes. Chisen used his Eye of Judgment on Raiga Kurosuki and then unleashed Heavenly Condemnation Fire against the remaining criminals.

• Uchiha Izumi used her Sharingan to judge and kill two gang enforcers while Kijiro cheered her on.
• Raiga Kurosuki surprised Kijiro and attacked him with Lightning Release: Lightning Snake.
• Kijiro reverse-summoned Uchiha Chisen's Wood Clone, which blocked Raiga's lightning with its bare hand.
• Chisen recognized Raiga's crimes and used the Eye of Judgment, leaving him screaming on the floor.
• Kijiro told Chisen that the black market's gang had forced civilians to eat cats, and Chisen praised him before using Heavenly Condemnation Fire on the remaining criminals.

Uchiha Chisen and Uchiha Izumi defeated the gangs operating Water Gull City's underground black market and freed the civilians held captive beneath their warehouse. Chisen arranged to move the gangs’ grain into the city, while Juzo Biwa pursued the mastermind who escaped.

• Chisen's Heavenly Retribution Fire burned the gang bosses and thugs, and Izumi apologized for needing his help against the city's stronger-than-expected forces.
• Chisen ordered Juzo Biwa to hunt down the escaped mastermind, and Biwa left to carry out the order.
• Chisen confirmed Izumi was unharmed and sent her to clear out the remaining enemies and free the captives underground.
• Chisen created a wooden slide from the warehouse to Water Gull City so its grain could be transported into the city.
• Izumi led the freed captives out of the secret passage, and they saw the gang members' bodies and realized they were no longer under the gangs' control.

Uchiha Chisen freed the slaves in Water Gull City, gave them grain, and continued his crackdown on the underground black market. As Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi asked him to let Kirigakure assign a small number of ninja to urgent missions, and he frowned at her request.

• Uchiha Chisen announced that the former slaves were free and offered them grain to take and distribute to the city's people.
• Uchiha Chisen left Uchiha Izumi, Kijiro, and Juzo Biwa to oversee the freed people and maintain order in Water Gull City.
• Juzo Biwa returned with the severed head of Funaya Yūjirō, the Funaya Family boss.
• Uchiha Chisen returned his attention to Kirigakure and considered how to reform the Land of Water and prevent the black market from returning.
• Mei Terumi told Uchiha Chisen that Kirigakure lacked personnel and asked to assign a small number of ninja to time-sensitive missions.

Uchiha Chisen moved from Kirigakure to the capital of the Land of Water to purge its corruption, while Sarutobi Hiruzen approved Jiraiya's plan to teach at the Ninja Academy and influence Naruto. The Land of Water's daimyo gathered the nobles to resist Chisen, but Chisen arrived behind him.

• Mei Terumi accepted that Kirigakure could take missions, and Uchiha Chisen announced he would next target the Land of Water's capital.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen realized Kakashi and many Konoha ninja supported Tsunade, while Jiraiya asked to teach at the Ninja Academy rather than take sides in the Hokage dispute.
• Jiraiya told Sarutobi Hiruzen he hoped to persuade Naruto to abandon absolute justice, and Sarutobi approved his teaching request.
• Uchiha Chisen reached the Land of Water's capital and saw that it contained far more evildoers than the Land of Fire's capital.
• The Land of Water's daimyo gathered the nobles to discuss resisting Uchiha Chisen, then heard Chisen call him a warmonger from behind.

Uchiha Chisen attacked the Land of Water's Daimyo's Residence and used Wood Style across the capital to kill those he judged evil. Genji watched the devastation and wondered whether Chisen's absolute justice could improve the country, while fearing that the other great nations would start a Shinobi World war.

• Uchiha Chisen killed the Land of Water's Daimyo, nobles, and their Ninja guards with the Wood Style: Tree Impaling Technique.
• Uchiha Chisen's enormous trees tore apart the Daimyo's Residence, and nobles in the capital recognized his attack and fled.
• Uchiha Chisen spread Wood Style throughout the capital, impaling thousands of people he judged evildoers as frightened commoners watched.
• A commoner urged the people to stay calm after realizing the trees were killing those exploiting the chaos.
• Genji watched from outside the capital and feared that the deaths of both the Land of Fire's and Land of Water's Daimyo would provoke the other great nations into war.

Uchiha Chisen put Mei Terumi in charge of restoring order in the Land of Water Capital and continued his campaign to spread absolute justice. Back in Kirigakure, Genji warned that his actions could provoke the other great nations into a war aimed at killing him.

• Mei Terumi saw the blood-red fog and thousands of corpses in the Land of Water Capital as civilians emerged from hiding.
• Uchiha Chisen ordered Mei Terumi to summon the surviving nobles, have them maintain order, and teach them absolute justice.
• Uchiha Chisen warned that nobles who refused to stay or committed evil would face the consequences, then left Mei Terumi to manage the capital.
• Kijiro told Uchiha Chisen that Genji had criticized him, and Genji explained that the other great nations might unite against him after the Daimyo's death.
• Genji predicted that the Daimyo would demand Uchiha Chisen's death to feel secure, while Uchiha Chisen remained confident in his strength.

After Uchiha Chisen massacred the Land of Water’s nobles and Daimyo, leaders across the shinobi world feared that a new war was imminent. Konoha, the Akatsuki, and Kumogakure prepared for the fallout, while the Fourth Raikage watched the other great nations for signs of mobilization.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen rejected the claim that Orochimaru had given Chisen Wood Style and ordered Utatane Koharu to deploy Root along the borders with the Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, and the Land of Wind.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen considered the coming war a chance to restrain Chisen and Tsunade, but feared Konoha might be ruined by their absolute justice.
• Konan feared another war, while Nagato pointed out that it could expose the Jinchuriki on the battlefield.
• Uchiha Obito and White Zetsu struggled to plan their next move while Black Zetsu remained incapacitated, and White Zetsu suggested following the Akatsuki Organization’s lead.
• The Fourth Raikage told Kumogakure’s elite that the Daimyo had repeatedly ordered Chisen’s elimination and said the Land of Earth faced even greater pressure, while Kumogakure should avoid starting the war.