Chapter Summaries

Shinki visited the Konoha Research Institute, where Ao received advanced prosthetic limbs, and proposed that Konoha develop computers. After Ino tried to confess her feelings, Shikamaru interrupted with news of a crashed unidentified flying object near the Land of Fire border, and Shinki left to investigate after telling Ino he understood what she had been saying.

• In the Alternate Dimension, Jigen ordered Amado to begin the Second Stage experiment and move the Vessel to the testing ground.
• Katatsuke showed Shinki Ao's alloy prosthetic arm, which had a Chakra Blade, technique capsules, and a Chakra Absorption Chip, and then presented Ao with a prosthetic leg.
• Amado sent Koji to arrange an airship from Victor's company while a curly-haired beauty fought Code in the training room.
• Shinki asked Raimon to work with Katatsuke on developing a computer, and Raimon promised to make a prototype within half a year.
• Ino entered Shinki's office and began to confess her feelings, but Shikamaru interrupted to report an unidentified flying object had crashed near the Land of Fire border.
• Shinki agreed to investigate the crash and told Ino he understood what she had been saying.

Shinki investigated a crashed airship at the Land of Fire border, defeated its mechanical guards, and brought the wreckage to Konoha for study. Kara’s Leader and Amado learned that the airship’s Vessel was missing, while Ino waited for Shinki’s answer and was told to meet him at Shinki Park.

• Ino worried that Shinki’s response meant he would reject her, while Shinki vanished before Shikamaru could ask what he planned to say.
• Ao met a black-robed member of Kara’s Inner Formation and received orders to kill everyone who had gone near the crashed airship.
• Shinki found the crashed Victor Technologies airship, defeated its mechanical puppets, and discovered that its cargo and crew were gone before transporting the wreckage to Konoha.
• Shinki appeared with the airship in Shinki Park, where Shikamaru and Temari were talking, then returned to ask Shikamaru for a favor.
• Ao arrived at the crash site and found the airship missing; Kara’s Leader told Amado that the wreckage was in Konoha but the Vessel had not fallen into their hands.
• Amado suspected a traitor in Kara, while Code and a curly-haired woman discussed who might have sabotaged the airship; Shikamaru later told Ino to meet Shinki at Shinki Park.

Shinki kept the details of his evening with Ino secret, then explained that he had promised she was his first choice for a future wife. Meanwhile, Ao searched for the airship’s cargo, and Shinki left the Hokage’s Office after learning that a suspicious person had been found near the Northwest Border Forest.

• Naruto and Sasuke waited for Shinki to return, but he kept the outcome of his evening with Ino to himself.
• Ao learned that Shinki had taken the airship to the Konoha Research Institute and decided to search for its important cargo.
• Ino brought Shinki snacks, and Shikamaru guessed that Shinki had given her a marriage promise.
• Shinki clarified that he had told Ino she was his first choice for a future wife, then told Shikamaru that they were not from the same world.
• An Anbu member reported finding a suspicious unconscious person and a Mechanical Puppet head near the Northwest Border Forest, and Shinki went to investigate.

Ao attacked the Border Guard Unit to seize Kara’s Vessel, but Delta sent Wolou to claim the boy as well. The Sixth Hokage arrived as Ao and Wolou argued over who would take the Vessel.

• Little Turtle visited Konoha’s Ninja Academy in the past and watched young Naruto ask Shinki when they would graduate.
• Jigen allowed Delta to join Kashin Koji in retrieving Kara’s captured Vessel and warned her not to underestimate their opponents.
• Ao ambushed the Border Guard Unit with Kara modifications and scientific Ninja Tools to take the boy they were guarding.
• Delta ordered Wolou to claim the Vessel, provoking a standoff with Ao while Kashin Koji urged Delta to leave before the Sixth Hokage arrived.
• The Sixth Hokage appeared between Ao and Wolou and offered to take the Vessel himself.

Shinki subdued Ao and Wolou at the Land of Fire border, then fought a mysterious boy whose marked arm could absorb Chakra. After defeating the boy and reading his memories, Shinki revived the Border Guard Unit members Ao had killed and used Trace Eye to connect to the Alternate Dimension.

• Kashin Koji warned Amado that Shinki had captured the Vessel and could expose Kara by reading his memories, so they prepared to flee their laboratory.
• Ao explained to Shinki that he had joined Kara to gain strength and escape the limits of his ordinary abilities.
• Wolou challenged Shinki and called for help from the Naijin, but no reinforcements arrived, and Shinki subdued him and Ao.
• The boy awakened and attacked Shinki with a transformed arm, then spread the Diamond Mark across his left arm and fought using its Chakra-absorbing power.
• Shinki defeated the boy, read his memories, and sent Shadow Clones to revive the Border Guard Unit members Ao had killed.
• Shinki used Trace Eye to connect to the Alternate Dimension.

Shinki reported his raid on Kara’s abandoned laboratory to Konoha and identified the captive boy as a valuable Vessel marked with a Diamond Mark. After Sai drew portraits from Shinki’s memories, the group decided to send the boy to Kabuto’s orphanage, while Shinki began to suspect that Ao had helped Kara steal Konoha’s recorded Ninjutsu data.

• Shinki found Kara’s abandoned laboratory, learned from the boy’s memories that he had been treated as a Vessel, and memorized the faces of Kara’s inner members.
• Amado mourned the data and materials left behind at his old base, while Jigen reminded him that he had chosen to leave quickly.
• Shinki told Tsunade and the others about Kara and the boy’s mark, then failed to draw recognizable portraits of the group’s members.
• Shinki used Genjutsu to share his memories with Sai, who produced accurate portraits of Kara’s members.
• The group decided to send the captive boy to Kabuto’s second orphanage.
• That night, Shinki recalled Ao’s visit and suspected Kara had used him to steal the Ninjutsu data from Katatsuke’s scroll.

Delta argued with Code and Boro about Kara’s retreat and her plan to retrieve the Vessel, while Konoha’s Second Orphanage took in a boy rescued from Kara and gave him the name Shūichi. Shinki prepared to investigate captured Kara members, but an Anbu reported that two prisoners had killed themselves.

• Delta complained to Code that Kashin Koji had stopped her from capturing the Sixth Hokage, and she said she would confront Jigen or enter Konoha to reclaim the Vessel.
• Boro warned Delta that Konoha was difficult to infiltrate, but she mocked his record and the danger posed by the wanted posters.
• At the Konoha Second Orphanage, Kabuto and Yakushi Nonō received a hostile boy whom the Anbu said Kara wanted; Kabuto restrained him when he attacked Nonō.
• Nonō offered the boy a fresh start and, after rejecting the name Shinsei, Kabuto suggested Shūichi, which Nonō accepted.
• Shinki discussed keeping Shūichi in Konoha and arranging to examine the memories of Ao and another captured Kara member; Shikamaru said the Mizukage planned to visit.
• An Anbu reported to Shinki that the two Kara members brought back the previous day had killed themselves in prison.

Shinki investigated the deaths of two Kara prisoners and began helping Shūichi train to remove his Kāma. Meanwhile, Delta and Kashin Koji set out together to retrieve the Vessel from Konoha.

• Shinki and Shikamaru learned that two Kara prisoners had used forbidden scrolls to sacrifice their souls, and Shinki planned to trace the ghost that consumed them.
• Shūichi grew comfortable at the orphanage and told Nonō and Kabuto that he liked it there, rejecting Jigen's belief that Kāma was all he had.
• Shūichi asked Shinki to help him release and eventually remove his Kāma, so Shinki arranged to train him with a Shadow Clone.
• Shinki's Shadow Clone beat Shūichi badly during their training in the countryside.
• Delta and Kashin Koji stood together on a mountain outside Konoha as they prepared to go after the Vessel.

Kashin Koji entered Konoha to search for the Vessel while Delta used a drone to locate Shūichi training with Shinki outside the village. Delta attacked and tried to abduct Shūichi, but Shinki drove her back; the fight continued as Delta fired lasers at him.

• Delta launched herself toward Konoha, but Kashin Koji warned that its Chakra sensing system would detect her and went in alone to search for the Vessel.
• Shinki sensed Kashin Koji's Chakra in the village, while Koji searched without finding the Vessel.
• Impatiently waiting outside, Delta sent a Chakra-free drone over Konoha and spotted Shinki and Shūichi training in the countryside.
• Shinki and Shūichi rested and talked about Shūichi's past in Kara and why villagers admired the Hokage.
• Delta swooped down and tried to seize Shūichi, but Shinki shortened her Chakra Blade's reach, kicked Delta away, and stepped in front of Shūichi.
• Delta fired two purple laser beams that narrowly missed Shinki.

Shinki defeated Delta, but she destroyed her body before he could bring her in, and Kara prepared a replacement. Later, Neji and Tenten tried Naruto and Sasuke’s stinky tofu, while Delta’s new body woke up cursing the Sixth Hokage.

• Shinki bound Delta with Wood Release, but she detonated herself and left only parts and ash behind.
• Shinki and Shikamaru discussed Delta’s attack and the chakra technology in her body, while Shinki’s search for a rooftop figure led him to Jiraiya and then an empty tower.
• Shinki decided to test Chinese snacks and enlisted Naruto and Sasuke to sell stinky tofu.
• Neji and Tenten followed the tofu’s smell to Naruto and Sasuke’s stall, where Neji tried a piece and found it tasty.
• Amado implanted Delta’s drone into a new body, and the woman woke up cursing the Sixth Hokage.

After recovering from her fight with Shinki, Delta admitted he had outclassed her, while Jigen and Amado discussed how to deal with him. Meanwhile, the Ōtsutsuki Cult gained followers by promising relief and preaching Infinite Tsukuyomi, and Shinki learned its following was growing as Konoha also uncovered the deadly effects of Delta’s laser.

• Delta told Amado and Kashin Koji that Shinki excelled in strength, skill, adaptability, and intelligence, and said he had looked down on her like an ant.
• Amado told Jigen that Delta was recovering in her new body, and Jigen called Shinki a formidable opponent; Amado replied that there was always a way.
• A cloaked cult leader healed a sick villager in a border village and preached to the Ōtsutsuki Cult that Infinite Tsukuyomi would end suffering.
• Shikamaru told Shinki that the cult had more than a thousand members, and Shinki ordered him to have Kakashi-sensei and Might Guy-sensei investigate it.
• Katatsuke reported that Delta’s laser destroyed cells and could not be countered by regeneration, prompting Shinki to recognize how far Kara’s technology surpassed Konoha’s.

Shinki developed a Tenseigan-powered spatial passage that could open anywhere within his line of sight, which he named the Anywhere Door. Meanwhile, Mei ended Kirigakure’s debate over Ao and chose to trust Konoha, while Shinki’s new ability impressed Naruto and Sasuke.

• Shinki told Katatsuke that developing a laser like the one they had discussed would be difficult without the prisoner, then dismissed him.
• Mei apologized to Shinki for Ao’s actions and requested Ao’s return, but Shinki told her Ao had died in Konoha Prison and that Rinne Rebirth could not recover information from Kara’s self-destructing agents.
• Kirigakure’s Advisors suspected Konoha of mishandling Ao and provoking border clashes, but Mei silenced them and ordered them not to harm relations with Konoha.
• Mei asked Chōjūrō for his view, and he said Kirigakure should trust Konoha because Ao had been at fault and the war had ended only a year earlier.
• Shinki used the Tenseigan within his Trace Eye to create a spatial gate, pulled Naruto’s missing earnings through it, and demonstrated that a person could pass through.
• Shinki explained that he could control the gate within his line of sight and named the ability Anywhere Door.

Shinki received Kakashi's report about the Ōtsutsuki Cult and Kara, while Jigen prepared to go to Konoha. Later, Shinki's Kāma began acting strangely, and he suspected it was connected to Shūichi's Kāma.

• Shinki read Kakashi's letter about the Ōtsutsuki Cult's headquarters and a suspected Kara member, then told Kakashi to keep observing.
• Jigen drew Chakra from the Ten-Tails and told Amado he planned to go to Konoha; Code and Delta asked to join, and Jigen told them to get Boro.
• Shūichi asked Shinki to spar so his Kāma would unfreeze, and Shinki gave him a Wooden Man as a training partner.
• Ino brought Shinki lunch, but he sensed his Kāma had grown darker and that its power had broken through one layer of Sealing.
• Shinki added another layer of Sealing and decided to check on Shūichi, suspecting their Kāma marks were resonating.

Jigen abducted a Shadow Clone of Shinki, mistook it for the original, and sealed it in another dimension. After Shinki’s original appeared and defeated him, unusual Chakra signatures arrived in Konoha, suggesting Jigen’s allies had come to rescue him.

• Jigen emerged from Shūichi’s Kāma and transported Shinki’s Shadow Clone to an alternate dimension, where he fought and sealed it between two Black Bowls.
• Shinki learned from the Shadow Clone’s memories that Jigen planned to return for Shūichi, and he prepared to protect him.
• Jigen opened another Space Gate beside Shūichi, only to discover that the Shinki he had sealed was a Shadow Clone and the original had arrived.
• Several Shinkis beat Jigen and restrained him, but unusual Chakra signatures appeared in Konoha as Shinki was about to take him to prison.

Kara Cyborgs invaded Konoha, where Delta overwhelmed the defenders before Neji and the other Ninja managed to seal her. Kashin Koji freed her with a mechanical toad, and Shinki arrived to face Delta as Neji withdrew.

• An Anbu reported to Shinki that Delta and Boro had invaded Konoha, so Shinki left a Shadow Clone to watch Jigen and went to the battle.
• Delta attacked the Ninja defending Konoha’s northwest wall, and Neji organized a close-range assault followed by a Sealing Jutsu.
• Neji’s group trapped Delta and prepared to take her to Konoha Prison, but Kashin Koji’s mechanical toad crashed down and disrupted the seal.
• Delta escaped and threatened Neji’s exhausted group while Kashin Koji rode away on the Steam Toad.
• Shinki appeared behind Neji, who left with the remaining fighters, and Shinki challenged Delta to face him.

Shinki killed Delta with Dust Release, but learned that Jigen had escaped after an Anbu traitor helped him. Shinki then confronted Boro at Konoha’s South Gate, where their fight turned into a bizarre bet over Boro’s missing anatomy.

• Shinki used a Shadow Clone and Dust Release to reduce Delta to nothing, then learned from returned memories that Jigen had escaped with help from a traitorous Anbu.
• An Anbu reported that Boro was spreading a paralyzing virus through Konoha, and Shinki checked the Anbu’s memories before trusting the report.
• Boro released virus from vents across his body and urged Konoha’s people to join his Ōtsutsuki Cult, but Shinki confronted him and explained that his regenerative abilities made him immune.
• Shinki’s Big Ball Rasengan tore off Boro’s clothes without harming him, revealing that Boro had no genitals because he was a cyborg.
• Shinki offered to spare Boro and imprison him, but Boro challenged him to a bet in which the winner would claim the loser’s penis.

Shinki defeated Boro during Kara’s invasion and sent a piece of Boro’s flesh to Tsunade so she could develop a virus antidote. After the battle, Konoha’s leaders discussed Kara’s infiltration and decided to keep Shūichi in the village under Shinki’s watch.

• Shinki took a piece of Boro’s flesh through an Anywhere Door and sent it to Tsunade, who used it to develop antibody injections for the infected.
• Boro regenerated after Shinki blasted away half his head, but Shinki destroyed him with Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.
• Shinki and the Konoha Ninja drove back Kara’s invasion, and Shinki revived the thirteen Jonin, twenty-eight Chunin, and seventy-three Genin who had died.
• Shikamaru reported the casualties and the hundreds of infected patients at the postwar briefing, while Tsunade said she had prepared antibody injections.
• Shinki warned the leaders that Kara had infiltrated Konoha, including the Anbu, and they discussed stricter personnel screening.
• Naruto raised concerns about Shūichi’s connection to Jigen, and Shinki chose to keep Shūichi in Konoha and offered to watch him with a Shadow Clone.

After Shinki insisted that Shūichi stay in Konoha, he joined Naruto and Sasuke for a barbecue, where a misunderstanding about the women’s conversation left him bewildered. Meanwhile, Jigen and Amado discussed the failed mission and decided to destroy the Ōtsutsuki Cult before Konoha could reach it.

• Shinki persuaded Konoha to let Shūichi stay, then clarified that he had wanted to invite Naruto and Sasuke to barbecue rather than answer Naruto’s question.
• At the Naka River, Naruto and Sasuke brought Hinata, Sakura, and Ino to the barbecue, and Shinki mistook their talk about a company massage device for something intimate.
• Ino asked Shinki to visit his company with her, while Naruto and Sasuke explained what the massage device was and Shinki realized he had misunderstood the conversation.
• After the meal, Hinata, Sakura, and Ino walked home together, and Ino admitted that she felt distant from Shinki and feared he could leave at any moment.
• In the Alternate Dimension, Jigen and Amado discussed the losses of Boro and Delta, and Jigen ordered the Ōtsutsuki Cult destroyed because Konoha had discovered it.

Shinki and Shikamaru investigated the theft of Konoha’s Defense Map and Sewer Line Map, which Konohamaru’s squad soon found on a tower. Kashin Koji and Amado then used Koji’s reconnaissance to move Amado into Konoha, where he entered wearing a Chakra Concealment Device.

• Shikamaru discovered that Konoha’s Defense Map and Sewer Line Map were missing and reported the theft to Shinki.
• Shinki and Shikamaru checked the Records Room surveillance, found that it had been disabled during the night, and ordered an investigation and a change to the Chakra Cannon’s deployment.
• Kashin Koji used Amado’s Invisibility Device to survey Konoha, while Konohamaru’s squad climbed a tower and found the stolen documents lying there.
• Konohamaru brought the documents to Shikamaru and claimed the squad had fought powerful strangers, but admitted the maps had simply been on the ground.
• Kashin Koji told Amado that Jigen had recovered less than ten percent of his Chakra, then sent Amado toward Konoha by Reverse Summoning Technique.
• Amado arrived outside Konoha, put on a Chakra Concealment Device, and entered the village along the route Koji had provided.

Amado abducted Konohamaru and threatened Shinki with a bomb collar, but revealed that he wanted Konoha’s protection after Shinki beat him. Shinki agreed to shelter him, and Amado began sharing a message from Koji.

• Konohamaru trained with Udon and Moegi until Amado arrived, incapacitated them, and attached a bomb collar to Konohamaru.
• Shinki teleported to the training ground, attacked Amado, and refused to be intimidated by his threat to detonate the collar.
• Amado asked Konoha for refuge, explaining that he and Koji planned to kill Jigen and that Kara would hunt him afterward.
• Shinki agreed to take Amado in and promised to bring him a legally binding document granting refuge.
• Amado received a message from Koji, and Naruto arranged his glasses so the message could be projected onto the wall.