Chapter Summaries

Ōnoki’s test of Shinki’s Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings failed when the pilots’ Chakra ran out, while Shinki summoned Manda to take him to Ryūchi Cave so he could learn its Senjutsu. Manda warned that combining it with Mount Myōboku’s Senjutsu could be dangerous, but Shinki insisted on going.

• Ōnoki tested five planes made from Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings, but they vanished when their pilots ran low on Chakra, forcing him to catch the falling pilots.
• Kitsuchi questioned the pilots, and Kurotsuchi recalled that Shinki had flown the plane without tiring because he supplied the Chakra himself.
• Shinki returned home, greeted Naruto, and went to a clearing outside Konoha to perform the Summoning Technique.
• Manda was summoned from Ryūchi Cave while boasting to the Divine Princesses that he had become Shinki’s summon.
• Shinki asked Manda to take him to Ryūchi Cave to learn its Senjutsu, and Manda warned him that learning it alongside Mount Myōboku’s Senjutsu could have unknown, dangerous consequences.
• Shinki dismissed Manda’s warning and insisted that he take him to Ryūchi Cave.

Shinki entered Ryūchi Cave to learn Senjutsu and faced the trials set by its Divine Princesses. After defeating Tagorihime’s illusion, he subdued Ichikishimahime during the second trial.

• Manda brought Shinki to Ryūchi Cave, where the Three Divine Princesses prepared the trials.
• Shinki followed a misty path to Ryūchi Cave and refused Tagorihime’s food, drink, and advances.
• Tagorihime revealed her snake form and attacked, but Shinki punched her through the illusory palace.
• Shinki found himself in a cavern facing Ichikishimahime’s puzzle trial, which required fitting thousands of stone blocks into holes in a door.
• Shinki used Sage Art: Binding Sage Vine to restrain Ichikishimahime before attempting her puzzle.

Shinki passed Ryūchi Cave’s trials and met the White Snake Sage. She recognized him and compared him favorably to the previous visitor, while Shinki’s reason for seeking her remained ahead.

• Tsunade learned that Shinki had left the village after summoning a giant snake and suspected he had gone to Ryūchi Cave.
• Shinki forced Ichikishimahime to help him open the stone door, then passed Mizutsuhime’s trial after reflexively punching her during her sneak attack.
• Mizutsuhime led Shinki past the Ryūchi Cave monument and through the snake-filled cavern to the temple.
• Shinki met the White Snake Sage, who quieted the divine maidens and said he looked better than the previous visitor.

Shinki visited Ryūchi Cave to learn Snake Senjutsu, but mistook the White Snake Sage’s attempt to inject chakra for an attack and punched her into a wall. After she injected him with a hundred times the usual amount of Senjutsu Chakra, purple Sage Face Markings appeared on his face.

• The White Snake Sage praised Shinki’s strength and warned him that learning Senjutsu from two places could make his body explode, but Shinki insisted on proceeding.
• The White Snake Sage lunged at Shinki to inject Snake Senjutsu Chakra, and Shinki struck her with an enlarged Sage Mode punch that sent her crashing into the wall.
• Shinki apologized after learning the White Snake Sage had not tried to eat him, then refused her demands for a Tailed Beast or Mount Myōboku toads and promised her pigs, cattle, and sheep instead.
• The White Snake Sage injected Shinki with a hundred times the usual amount of Senjutsu Chakra, while the Three Divine Princesses discussed whether he would survive.
• Purple Sage Face Markings appeared on Shinki’s face.

Shinki mastered Ryūchi Cave’s Snake Senjutsu and returned to Konoha, where he searched for Naruto before Tsunade summoned him over Iwagakure’s Chakra-hungry Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings. The chapter ended with Shinki asking Tsunade if she knew where Naruto was.

• Shinki completed Snake Senjutsu training, developed horns and pale, patterned skin, and left Ryūchi Cave after the White Snake Sage confirmed his success.
• Manda arrived and learned that Shinki had mastered the Senjutsu in less than three minutes and had even punched the White Snake Sage.
• Shinki returned to Konoha, looked for Naruto at home and the Ichiraku Ramen Shop, and encountered Ino and other familiar faces.
• Shizune brought Shinki to Tsunade, who told him Iwagakure had asked why its Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings consumed so much Chakra.
• Shinki agreed to investigate the drawings and asked Tsunade if she had seen Naruto.

Shinki traveled from Iwagakure to Sunagakure to help find the missing-nin Mukade at the Rōran Ruins. After Naruto and Yamato failed to locate him, Shinki sensed Mukade’s enormous chakra underground.

• Tsunade told Shinki that Mukade had appeared near Rōran and that Naruto, Sai, and Yamato had gone to help Sunagakure.
• Shinki found that Iwagakure’s planes could not stay airborne because its pilots lacked enough chakra, then left for Sunagakure.
• Gaara welcomed Shinki and arranged for Matsuri to guide him to the Rōran Ruins.
• Shinki arrived at the ruins and joined Naruto and Yamato, who had searched for Mukade without success.
• Shinki sensed a massive chakra presence underground and told Naruto and Yamato that he had found Mukade.

Shinki was swept into the past when Mukade removed the Sealing Kunai from Rōran’s platform. After meeting Sara and defending her from attacking puppets, he encountered a group of Konoha ninja, including a much younger Akimichi Chōza.

• Mukade pulled the Sealing Kunai from the platform, triggering a surge of chakra that swept Shinki away while Naruto and the others watched helplessly.
• Shinki woke in a cavern and met Sara, who told him he was in Rōran and that she was its queen.
• Shinki confirmed he had arrived in an earlier era by seeing Rōran as a thriving city.
• A Puppet Golem attacked Sara and Shinki, and Shinki split it in two with Wind Release.
• More puppets appeared, but Konoha ninja arrived, and Shinki recognized a younger Akimichi Chōza among them.

Shinki rescued Sara after discovering he had traveled to Rōran’s past and met Minato Namikaze. The chapter ended with Minato stunned to see Shinki use Wood Release to catch the falling queen.

• Shinki destroyed the puppets attacking Rōran with a powerful Great Fireball Technique.
• Shinki told Minato and his companions that he had traveled from the future, and Minato advised him to find Mukade and repair the damaged seal.
• Minato removed his mask, revealing himself as the future Fourth Hokage, and Shinki told him that his son would be a troublemaker.
• Shinki searched Rōran for Mukade but could not find his Chakra.
• At Sara’s celebration, the Chakra amplifier crackled and she fell from the platform, so Shinki reached out with a Wood Release vine to catch her.
• Minato saw Shinki’s Wood Release and wondered whether he was truly from the future.

Shinki rescued Sara from the puppet attack and accepted her commission to protect her for two hundred million, then escorted her into the palace. There, ordinary people accused Sara of ordering their male relatives to be taken away.

• Shinki caught Sara as she fell, then saved her from puppets that attacked her and suspected Anrokuzan was behind the assault.
• Sara insisted Anrokuzan would not harm her, but asked Shinki to protect her; Shinki defeated the attacking puppet and accepted her offer of two hundred million.
• Shinki escorted Sara toward the palace and suggested confronting Anrokuzan, but Sara refused to believe he was responsible.
• Anrokuzan realized Shinki had returned to Rōran and declared that the Ryūmyaku’s power would let him defeat him.
• Shinki led Sara through the palace past unconscious guards, where a crowd of townspeople accused her of ordering their husbands, brothers, and sons taken away.

Sara and Shinki searched beneath Rōran and found a factory where enslaved workers powered the production of war puppets. Sara was left confronting the truth that Anrokuzan, whom she had trusted, was responsible for the suffering of her people.

• After the people accused Anrokuzan of taking workers to build war machines, Sara agreed to investigate with Shinki.
• Shinki sensed the Ryūmyaku’s Chakra underground, and Sara told him Anrokuzan had appeared in Rōran six years earlier and encouraged her mother to use its power.
• Shinki suspected Anrokuzan might be Mukade and decided to investigate his identity.
• Shinki and Sara descended underground, where they found a factory assembling clay puppets and enslaved workers pushing a machine to power production.
• Shinki asked Sara whether she believed the people now, and Sara stood frozen as she struggled to accept that Anrokuzan was evil.

Shinki and Sara shut down the puppet factory by severing its Ryūmyaku Chakra, then Shinki shielded the rescued workers as Anrokuzan appeared outside. Sara learned that the monstrous figure was the minister who had exploited Rōran’s people.

• Shinki gave Sara a Flying Thunder God Kunai so he could find her during the fighting.
• Sara used her royal authority to shut down the Ryūmyaku Chakra powering the factory, and the workers blamed Anrokuzan for enslaving them.
• When a monster broke through the earth above, Shinki protected Sara and the workers with Wood Release: Vine Domain.
• Minato Namikaze, Chōza, and Shibi Aburame arrived outside the vine shield and identified its Wood Release barrier.
• Anrokuzan recognized the factory and demanded to know who had cut off the Ryūmyaku Chakra, while Sara realized he was the monster before them.

Sara confronted Anrokuzan, who revealed that he had replaced her with a puppet, murdered her mother, and gained immortality by using the ryūmyaku. Shinki emerged to fight him, revealing his Sharingan and Susanoo, and prepared to counter Anrokuzan’s rapid regeneration with Dust Release.

• Sara ordered Anrokuzan to surrender, but he revealed that he had replaced her with a puppet and murdered her mother for opposing his use of the ryūmyaku.
• Sara told Shinki that she planned to seal the ryūmyaku and restore peace to Rōran, while Shinki said he wanted its power as a reward for defeating Anrokuzan.
• Shinki left the vine shield and revealed his Sharingan and half-body Susanoo, shocking Minato, Chōza, and Shibi.
• Shinki attacked Anrokuzan with the Susanoo’s Spiral Sword, but Anrokuzan regenerated his head using ryūmyaku Chakra.
• Shinki identified Anrokuzan’s clay body and rapid healing, then formed a cube and began using Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.

Shinki killed Anrokuzan, returned from the past to the Rōran ruins, and learned that Sara had kept her promise to give him the Ryūmyaku. He discovered that Sara had died three years earlier, leaving the promise and his marked Kunai for her descendants to fulfill.

• Shinki erased Anrokuzan with Dust Release, then used Space-Time Sealing to return to his own time while Minato, Chōza, Shibi, and Sara sealed their memories.
• Sara wrote a letter for Rōran’s future ruler and gave her marked Flying Thunder God Kunai to protect her before the Forgetting Seal took effect.
• Shinki reappeared at the Rōran ruins, where Naruto and Yamato believed only an instant had passed and accepted his explanation that he had survived Mukade’s blast.
• A girl from Rōran’s former residents showed Shinki his Kunai and explained that Sara’s letter promised him the Ryūmyaku.
• Shinki proved the Kunai’s mark was his, learned the Ryūmyaku was his, and heard that Sara had died of illness three years earlier.

Shinki returned to Konoha after reporting Mukade’s death to Gaara and giving him Sasori’s core, where he learned that Kumogakure suspected Sasuke of capturing Killer B. As Tsunade prepared to attend the Five Kage Summit, Shinki took responsibility and offered to find Sasuke.

• Shinki sealed the Ryūmyaku Chakra inside himself, then led Naruto, Yamato, and Sai to Sunagakure to inform Gaara that Mukade was dead and deliver Sasori’s core.
• Omoi and Karui reached Konoha with a letter from the Raikage reporting Killer B’s disappearance and announcing a Five Kage Summit about the Akatsuki.
• Gaara thanked Shinki for Sasori’s core and gave him gold, which Shinki sealed into a scroll before returning to Konoha.
• Tsunade agreed to travel to Kumogakure after hearing Omoi and Karui’s accusations that Sasuke had helped capture Killer B.
• Shinki told Tsunade that Sasuke was allied with him and had been sent to the Land of Lightning to protect the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails.
• Shinki offered to look for Sasuke and take responsibility for the situation.

Shinki agreed to search for Sasuke and handle Kumogakure’s missing Eight-Tails Jinchuriki while Tsunade traveled to the Five Kage Summit. The other Kage and their escorts began their journeys to the Land of Iron, where Ao was startled by Chōjūrō’s question about Mei Terumi’s age and marriage.

• Tsunade decided to visit Kumogakure before the summit, and Shinki offered to deal with the crisis there while Naruto stayed behind to guard her.
• Shinki failed to reach Sasuke with Flying Thunder God because his mark had disappeared, so he set out for the Land of Lightning instead.
• Ōnoki departed Iwagakure with Akatsuchi and Kurotsuchi, but his back seized up under his luggage and Akatsuchi carried him on a box.
• Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro left Sunagakure for the summit as Temari complained that Konoha alone had helped when Gaara was captured.
• Mei Terumi set out from Kirigakure with Chōjūrō and Ao, and Ao was shocked when Chōjūrō asked whether Mei was married.

Shinki traveled to the Land of Lightning to search for the missing Killer B while the Fourth Raikage left for the Five Kage Summit. Shinki tracked a huge Tailed Beast chakra signature to a ruined shrine and found a gravely injured Killer B.

• Mei Terumi set out for the Five Kage Summit while fantasizing about marrying Shinki, and Ao and Chōjūrō endured her teasing and anger.
• The Fourth Raikage worried over Killer B's disappearance and sent Shinki to find him before leaving for the summit.
• Shinki appeared in the Raikage's office using a Flying Thunder God Mark and promised to search for Killer B.
• Shinki found traces of Amaterasu near Killer B's home, then sensed a Tailed Beast's chakra hundreds of kilometers away.
• Shinki flew to a ruined Buddhist shrine in a forest and found Killer B gravely injured inside.

Shinki returned Killer B safely to Kumogakure after learning that Sasuke had helped him fight the Masked Man, not attacked him. He confronted Kumogakure’s leaders over their accusations against Konoha, and the chapter ended as the great elder prepared to offer compensation.

• Killer B told Shinki that the Masked Man had attacked him and that Sasuke had joined the fight and helped him escape.
• Killer B said Sasuke had disappeared and offered to help Kumogakure search for him, then Shinki teleported them both to Kumogakure.
• Kumogakure’s leaders debated whether to blame Konoha or declare war over Killer B’s disappearance before Shinki appeared with him.
• Killer B explained what had happened, leaving the leaders embarrassed to learn Sasuke had helped save him.
• Shinki demanded an explanation for Kumogakure’s hostile response, and the leaders began discussing compensation.
• A senior official suggested fifty million, but the great elder rejected the amount and approached Shinki with two fingers raised.

Shinki collected payment from Kumogakure, searched the Land of Lightning for Sasuke and his companions, and headed toward the Five Kage Summit. At the summit, the Raikage accused the other villages of responsibility for Akatsuki, and Ōnoki challenged him.

• Shinki accepted two hundred million for his trouble and a one-million errand fee to deliver a message to the Raikage, then left Kumogakure with the gold.
• The Kumogakure Elder demanded Killer B explain his recent absence, while Yugito arrived asking where Shinki had gone and Killer B teased her about her interest in him.
• Shinki searched nearly the entire Land of Lightning for Sasuke, Jūgo, Karin, and Suigetsu but found no trace of them.
• Shinki decided to use the Flying Thunder God Mark on Naruto to reach the Five Kage Summit after resting.
• At the summit, Naruto asked Kakashi about Mifune, the Land of Iron's general, while they waited behind the Hokage's curtain.
• The Raikage accused the other villages of harboring Akatsuki members, and Ōnoki warned him not to let grief over Killer B cloud his judgment.

The Five Kage Summit descended into angry accusations over Killer B’s disappearance until Shinki appeared and revealed that Sasuke had protected him from the Akatsuki. Shinki demanded that Kumogakure answer for its suspicion of Konoha, then flipped the summit table, leaving the Raikage unable to respond.

• Gaara, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi challenged the furious Raikage as he blamed Konoha for Killer B’s disappearance and raised a lightning-charged hand.
• Shinki appeared beside Naruto and stopped the Raikage from striking, then said Killer B and the Eight-Tails were safe.
• Shinki told the Kage that Sasuke had fought to protect Killer B and was now missing, rejecting the claim that Sasuke had captured him.
• Shinki accused Kumogakure of wrongly suspecting Konoha and demanded an explanation before flipping the Five Kage Summit table.
• Gaara watched silently, Mei Terumi admired Shinki, and the Raikage held back from confronting him.

Shinki confronted the Raikage at the Five Kage Summit, prompting the Raikage to apologize to Konoha and Sasuke and ask Shinki to take him to Kumogakure. There, Shinki reunited with Killer B and Yugito Nii, who admitted she had come to the Raikage’s Office to find him.

• Darui and Shi drew their swords against Shinki, but Tsunade stepped between them and the Raikage apologized for accusing Konoha and Sasuke without knowing the facts.
• The Raikage left the summit, and Mifune postponed the meeting until the following morning.
• The Raikage asked Shinki to teleport him to Kumogakure so he could check that Killer B was safe, and Shinki agreed.
• Yugito Nii suggested moving Shinki’s Flying Thunder God Mark to Spirit Cat Peak, but Shinki teleported into the Raikage’s Office and arrived holding her hand.
• The Raikage reunited with Killer B and struck him on the forehead for causing trouble, while Yugito told Shinki she had come to the office to find him.