Chapter Summaries

Shimura Kentei continued training Pakura, Karura, and Inuzuka Ken in Sunagakure while preparing to leave for Kumogakure. He took Pakura and Karura flying on a Great Sword and taught them seven chakra armor techniques, leaving them confused about why he shared such powerful secrets.

• Shimura Kentei knocked Inuzuka Ken, Pakura, and Karura around during sparring, then told Ebizo he planned to leave for Kumogakure after Aro began training with Shukaku.
• Shimura Kentei resumed sparring and repeatedly kicked Karura into the sand, prompting her to complain about the painful blows and his medicine afterward.
• Shimura Kentei used Anti-Gravity Technique and Karura's Magnet Release to fly with Pakura and Karura on a Great Sword.
• Shimura Kentei used Immortal Yuan Power to teach Pakura and Karura Wind, Earth, Water, Yang, Yin, Fire, and Lightning chakra armor techniques.
• Pakura and Karura asked Shimura Kentei why he was teaching them such valuable secret techniques.

Shimura Kentei persuaded Karura and Pakura to help protect the Ninja-Samurai children, while secretly using his personalized Chakra Armor techniques to drive a wedge between them and Sunagakure. After the Third Kazekage ordered them to develop universal versions and failed to find a way to capture Kentei, he treated the women’s injuries and resumed cultivating his Rasengan golden-core system, which required restoring a ninth vital acupoint.

• Shimura Kentei asked Karura and Pakura to grow stronger and prevent Sunagakure from sending Ninja-Samurai children into the war, and both women agreed on condition that other villages kept their Ninja-Samurai out of the fighting.
• Karura and Pakura reported Kentei’s seven Chakra Armor arts to the Third Kazekage, who ordered them to develop versions that others could use despite their warning that the techniques suited only their bodies.
• The Third Kazekage asked Ebizo about stealing the secret art inheritance given to Bunpuku and capturing Kentei, but Ebizo said neither approach had a realistic chance of success.
• Shimura Kentei visited Karura and Pakura to treat their injuries with Shimura Erguotou, then returned to his room to continue cultivating Rasengan golden cores.
• Shimura Kentei planned to form a core in a pineal-gland acupoint, restoring the weakened ninth vital gate and completing his body’s circulation system.

Shimura Kentei helped Karura fuse with Shukaku’s chakra and split off a new body for the One-Tail, but discovered the process had taken her liver. After replacing it with a chakra-treated pig liver, he began preparing Shukaku’s new body to cultivate the Rasengan Golden Core, while Karura agreed to travel with him.

• Shimura Kentei arrived late at the Temple of Sand after a breakthrough and apologized to Bunpuku, Shukaku, Karura, and the gathered Sunagakure ninja.
• Shukaku transferred origin power to Karura, and Shimura Kentei guided her chakra fusion and used the Splitting Technique to create Shukaku’s new body.
• Shimura Kentei discovered Karura’s liver had been split into Shukaku’s body, then transplanted a chakra-treated pig liver into her.
• Shukaku invited Karura to travel with him and develop Magnet Release, and Bunpuku encouraged her to leave Sunagakure and see the world.
• Shimura Kentei taught Shukaku a chakra circulation circuit and later designed a method for the new body to condense a Rasengan Golden Core.

Shimura Kentei traveled to Kumogakure, where Dodai revealed that he had transplanted a damaged Byakugan. Kentei restored its 360-degree vision, and Dodai accidentally used it to uncover the Third Raikage’s secret.

• Pakura found the Inner Shield and Crescent Moon Saber that Shimura Kentei had left for her and realized she could not yet wield them safely.
• Shimura Kentei rode a Sand Eagle to the Land of Water, said goodbye to Karura and Shukaku's split body, then continued to Kumogakure at his father's request.
• At Kumogakure's gate, Shimura Kentei guessed that Dodai had transplanted a Dojutsu eye, and Dodai revealed it was a damaged Byakugan taken from a Hyuga Main Family ninja.
• Shimura Kentei examined the Byakugan and repaired its damaged meridian, restoring its 360-degree vision.
• Dodai tested the restored vision and saw the Third Raikage in floral shorts, so the Third Raikage ordered him to triple his training and warned him not to misuse the eye.

Shimura Kentei drank Shimura Erguotou with the Third Raikage in Kumogakure and explained his research into combining three Magnet Release bloodlines into a perfect Kekkei Tōta. The Third Raikage left to vomit after losing the drinking contest, while Kentei stayed behind to eat.

• Shimura Kentei brought out Shimura Erguotou, and the Third Raikage drank a liter before discovering how intensely it burned.
• Shimura Kentei and the Third Raikage competed by drinking from barrels while eating hotpot, and Kentei consumed far more liquor.
• The Third Raikage asked about Kentei's Kekkei Tōta research, and Kentei explained his plan to combine three Magnet Release bloodlines.
• The Third Raikage asked whether the Shimura Family had a method for fusing three Kekkei Genkai, and Kentei said they did not.
• Dodai urged the Third Raikage to attend to urgent business, and the Third Raikage hurried away before vomiting in the Raikage Building restroom.
• The Third Raikage regretted wasting the liquor's vitality, while Shimura Kentei continued eating beef hotpot.

Shimura Kentei demonstrated the Shimura Family’s extraordinary physical conditioning, alarming the Third Raikage and his advisors as they considered a planned attack on the Land of Whirlpools. The Third Raikage agreed to seek Iwagakure’s support and use two imprisoned kunoichi to approach Kentei, while the council also debated involving him in Kumogakure’s Jinchuriki project.

• Shimura Kentei showed Yugito Nii that he had pierced a cherry tree with a stream of urine produced by his exceptionally trained body.
• Yugito Nii brought the pierced trunk to the Third Raikage, and Dodai explained how Kentei had made the hole without chakra.
• The Third Raikage and his advisors worried that the Shimura Family’s techniques and Kentei’s powerful connections would make an attack on the Land of Whirlpools dangerous, so they decided to bring Iwagakure into their plan.
• The Third Raikage agreed to ask Maternal Aunt to let her two Hagoromo disciples approach Kentei in exchange for a chance to obtain Shimura Secret Techniques and earn their release from house arrest.
• The intelligence chief reported that Hozuki Suirou and another woman had displayed Super Kage Level power, then revealed that Kirigakure’s Three-Tails and Six-Tails Jinchuriki could unleash Tailed Beast Balls and asked whether Kentei should help Kumogakure create Jinchuriki.

Kumogakure’s leaders agreed to involve Shimura Kentei in their tailed beast Jinchuriki plans, while Kentei aimed to strengthen Kumogakure for his own scheme. He obtained the Lightning Flash Technique from the Scroll of Seals, and the Third Raikage began negotiating for his help with the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails.

• Kumogakure’s upper ranks agreed to invite Shimura Kentei into their tailed beast Jinchuriki plan, and the Third Raikage said he would negotiate with him.
• Shimura Kentei resolved to strengthen Kumogakure and use its forces alongside Kirigakure’s in his plan against the Senju and Uzumaki clans.
• Shimura Kentei met the Third Raikage, accepted the Ninja-Samurai Academy principal position, and requested the Lightning Flash Technique as compensation.
• The Third Raikage brought out Kumogakure’s Scroll of Seals, and Shimura Kentei memorized the Lightning Flash Technique while Dodai monitored him with his transplanted Byakugan.
• Shimura Kentei offered the Shimura Family’s C-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique in exchange for the entire Scroll of Seals, but the Third Raikage refused.
• The Third Raikage asked Shimura Kentei whether he was on good terms with the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails.

Shimura Kentei negotiated with the Third Raikage to help Kumogakure seal Matatabi and Gyuki in exchange for access to the True Waterfall. At Turtle Island, the waterfall expanded Kentei’s Mental Space, but the absence of a dark version of himself deepened his suspicions about how the True Waterfall and Naruto’s dark side worked.

• Shimura Kentei agreed to approach Matatabi and Gyuki and asked to experience Kumogakure’s True Waterfall in return.
• Shimura Kentei told the Third Raikage that young women with Yin or Yang Release could help the tailed beasts create split bodies, and the Raikage offered two of his Junior Sisters as candidates.
• The Third Raikage used the Heavenly Transfer Technique to take Shimura Kentei to Turtle Island and led him to the True Waterfall.
• Shimura Kentei entered the waterfall’s genjutsu barrier, which temporarily expanded his Mental Space to a diameter of ten meters.
• Shimura Kentei found that no dark side appeared and wondered what this meant for Uzumaki Naruto and the reincarnations of Ōtsutsuki Ashura and Ōtsutsuki Indra.

Shimura Kentei investigated how True Waterfall affected people and animals, then shared his theory about chakra’s potential with the Third Raikage. After analyzing the Raikage’s black Lightning Release, he concluded that a single chakra nature could evolve beyond ordinary ninjutsu chakra.

• Shimura Kentei left True Waterfall without encountering a dark side and asked the Third Raikage whether ordinary people had been tested there.
• Shimura Kentei controlled chakra-less monkeys into True Waterfall, where a shadow possessed one; an examination confirmed the monkey had a chakra bloodline.
• Shimura Kentei told the Third Raikage that the Shimura Clan’s knowledge required strength, then described the possibility of a seven-element Kekkei Genkai.
• Shimura Kentei asked the Third Raikage to cooperate with experiments and requested to examine his black Lightning Release.
• Shimura Kentei analyzed the black Lightning Release in the Black Cauldron Space and concluded that ninjutsu chakra was not the ultimate form of a chakra nature.

Shimura Kentei persuaded the Third Raikage to cooperate with the Shimura Family’s experiments and explored the pool beneath the True Waterfall. He discovered a vast collection of Ketsuryūgan and proposed equipping Kumogakure’s shinobi with them, but the Third Raikage refused.

• Shimura Kentei offered to strengthen the Third Raikage’s Black Lightning in exchange for making him a researcher at the Shimura Family’s Zero Research Institute, and the Third Raikage agreed with conditions.
• Shimura Kentei warned the Third Raikage that beings from beyond the world might threaten them and explained that the Shimura Family aimed to prepare the shinobi world for their arrival.
• Shimura Kentei offered the Third Raikage a free height enhancement and promised compensation if excavating the True Waterfall damaged it, so the Third Raikage ordered his Anbu to clear the pool.
• The Anbu removed the water, silt, and genjutsu barrier, revealing a giant sphere containing tens of thousands of Ketsuryūgan.
• Shimura Kentei examined a Ketsuryūgan and learned that its abilities included enhanced vision, control over an enemy’s blood, and amplified genjutsu.
• Shimura Kentei asked whether the Third Raikage wanted to equip Kumogakure’s shinobi with Ketsuryūgan, but the Third Raikage refused.

Shimura Kentei and the Third Raikage uncovered the Blood Pond Clan’s ancient eye-research and secured its Ketsuryūgan and restored Mangekyō Sharingan. They returned to Kumogakure with the Third Raikage promising cooperation, while Shimura Kentei began investigating the village and the Raikage invited Shimura Danzō.

• The Third Raikage explained that the Ketsuryūgan’s power could damage its user’s mind, and Shimura Kentei offered to purge its negative effects while preserving some abilities.
• Shimura Kentei removed the Ketsuryūgan from the dried corpse and identified its eyes as a pair of nearly restored Mangekyō Sharingan belonging to the Blood Pond Clan’s ancestor.
• Shimura Kentei explained that the Mangekyō created a mental-space Genjutsu barrier and drove opponents toward madness, while the Third Raikage promised the Shimura Family Kumogakure’s support against powerful beings from beyond their world.
• Kumogakure’s Anbu sealed tens of thousands of Ketsuryūgan, and the Third Raikage and Shimura Kentei returned from Turtle Island to the Raikage Building using the Sky Offering Altars.
• Shimura Kentei left to tour Kumogakure under Anbu watch, and Dodai voiced concern about him meeting two senior women before the Third Raikage dismissed the worry.
• The Third Raikage ordered Dodai to train his Byakugan’s x-ray vision and to send an invitation to Shimura Danzō of Konoha.

Shimura Kentei foiled Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji’s attempt to steal his family’s secret techniques, then used their memories to uncover their grudge against his father and their clan’s inherited abilities. After unsealing Kumogakure’s Scroll of Seals and finding a preliminary Chakra Cannon design, he considered how to use the sisters’ talents and pair them with tailed beasts.

• Shimura Kentei detected the sedative Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji had used, pretended to collapse, and restrained them with Immortal Yuan Power threads.
• Shimura Kentei copied the sisters’ bodily data, discovered their hidden injuries, and made them circulate chakra through a pathway he created to begin healing them.
• Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji left at dawn with barrels of Shimura Erguotou, while Shimura Kentei learned from their memories that his father had killed their relatives and extracted their clan’s secrets.
• Shimura Kentei unsealed Kumogakure’s Scroll of Seals and found a preliminary Chakra Cannon blueprint connected to the Heavenly Transfer Technique.
• Shimura Kentei reviewed the sisters’ Hagoromo Clan inheritances and considered pairing Hagoromo Ranji with Matatabi and Hagoromo Haneon with Gyuki.

Shimura Kentei warned Shimura Danzō that a strange lunar signal might bring the Cosmic Otsutsuki Clan to the shinobi world early, then advanced their preparations against them. After they transformed Kumogakure’s Ketsuryūgan, Shimura Kentei began explaining how the altered eyes could be used without transplanting them into eye sockets.

• Shimura Danzō told Shimura Kentei that an eerie fluctuation from the moon had stirred the Second Hokage’s Chakra God Tree before traveling into space.
• Shimura Kentei urged Shimura Danzō to arrange for spies to steal Sage Mode cultivation methods and to push his Wind Release Chakra Mode further.
• Shimura Kentei explained that the Third Raikage’s Black Lightning might be an evolved chakra nature, then brought Shimura Danzō to the Raikage’s laboratory.
• Shimura Kentei and Shimura Danzō spent a week fusing pairs of Ketsuryūgan and modifying them with the Second Hokage’s Chakra God Tree, while Shimura Danzō absorbed their Pupil Power.
• The Third Raikage’s medical ninja reported that the fused Ketsuryūgan were symmetrical but weaker and could not be transplanted normally.
• Shimura Kentei told the Third Raikage that he had a solution for using the altered eyes without eye-socket transplants, but had not yet explained it.

Shimura Kentei tested a forehead Ketsuryūgan transplant technique on prisoners and found that hidden curse marks, not the surgery, caused one death. He also tested the powerful Mangekyō on Third Raikage, then proposed giving the eyes to two people who could endure them, leaving Raikage suspicious that Kentei had maneuvered him into a trap.

• Shimura Kentei proposed transplanting Ketsuryūgan into the forehead and connecting them to the pineal gland, and Third Raikage ordered prisoners brought in for trials.
• Shimura Kentei used a Kaguya human puppet to help implant third eyes in six captured special jonin, but one prisoner died after a hidden curse mark damaged his brain.
• Shimura Kentei determined that foreign pupil power had triggered the prisoner's curse mark, and Third Raikage privately asked whether Shimura Danzō had reached the First Hokage's level.
• Shimura Kentei tested the Mangekyō on Third Raikage, whose chakra was rapidly drained even when he supplied only one eye.
• Shimura Kentei said only True Kage Level Senju or Hagoromo Clan members could bear one of the eyes, and Third Raikage suspected that Kentei had set him up.

Shimura Kentei transplanted modified Mangekyō Sharingan into Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji, while the Third Raikage considered how to kill Shimura Danzō. Kentei left Kumogakure hoping to provoke the Raikage into rebuilding the Chakra Cannon, which he planned to use against the moon and the Cosmic Otsutsuki Clan.

• The Third Raikage approved Mangekyō Sharingan transplants for Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji, despite their hatred of Shimura Kentei.
• Shimura Kentei paralyzed Hagoromo Haneon and implanted a modified Mangekyō Sharingan in her forehead using the second senior brother's optic nerves, then performed the same operation on Hagoromo Ranji.
• Hagoromo Haneon discovered she could extract a little Yin Attribute chakra, while the Third Raikage noticed her transplanted eye consumed less power than expected.
• The Third Raikage urged the sisters to set aside their revenge for now and considered restarting Kumogakure's Chakra Cannon project to kill Shimura Danzō.
• Shimura Kentei wandered through Kumogakure, believing he had pushed the Third Raikage toward rebuilding the cannon so he could eventually seize it and destroy the moon.

Shimura Kentei examined the Hagoromo sisters, transplanted Senju Tobirama’s cells into their hearts, and explained that he intended to help them develop stronger bloodline abilities. After confirming the cells’ limited lifespan, the sisters learned they could gain Space Attribute chakra and received incomplete Flying Thunder God Technique research from the Third Raikage.

• Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji tried to trap Shimura Kentei with Mangekyō genjutsu, but he resisted and restrained them for an examination.
• Shimura Kentei found that the sisters’ transplanted Mangekyō Sharingan strained their bodies, then replaced each of their hearts with Senju Tobirama cells and built new chakra circulation networks.
• Shimura Kentei told the sisters he wanted to strengthen them so they could fuse more powerful bloodline abilities, and he used their Mangekyō to cultivate his spiritual power through his Mental Space.
• The Hagoromo sisters secretly tested samples of their new hearts, and a medical ninja confirmed the cells came from Senju Tobirama and had little division capacity remaining.
• The Third Raikage gave Hagoromo Haneon an incomplete Flying Thunder God Technique scroll, urging the sisters to cultivate the technique while their hearts still required Shimura Kentei’s maintenance.

Shimura Kentei helped Hagoromo Haneon and the Two-Tails Matatabi and Eight-Tails Gyuki begin creating split bodies, while the Third Raikage witnessed the power of a Tailed Beast fusion and resolved to master it for Kumogakure. The chapter ended with Gyuki’s main body sealed into a young boy and Haneon recovering from an unexpected stomach transplant.

• Shimura Kentei negotiated with Matatabi and Gyuki, who agreed to cooperate with the sealing in exchange for creating their own split bodies.
• Gyuki requested a humanoid body, while Matatabi asked for a human female form.
• Hagoromo Haneon fused her chakra with Gyuki’s and used Shimura Kentei’s tailored techniques to create Gyuki’s humanoid split body.
• The transformation removed Haneon’s stomach, so Shimura Kentei transplanted Second Senior Brother’s stomach pouch into her.
• The Third Raikage sealed Gyuki’s main body into a young boy with half-white, half-black hair.

Shimura Kentei repaired Hagoromo Haneon's heart temporarily and helped transform her and Hagoromo Ranji with tailed-beast traits. After returning to Kumogakure, the sisters confronted the bodily changes while Kentei began teaching Matatabi's and Gyuki's split bodies customized techniques, and Matatabi asked about his research into Three-Element Kekkei Genkai Elimination.

• Shimura Kentei had Gyuki fully chakrify Hagoromo Haneon's heart, then restored it to a half-flesh state and told her the procedure had extended its life by three years.
• Kentei and Matatabi transformed Hagoromo Ranji, giving her cat ears and a tail while Matatabi gained a humanoid split body; Kentei restored Ranji's chest with processed Second Senior Brother fat.
• The Third Raikage's group rested after sealing Matatabi, then traveled back to Kumogakure with the sisters and the tailed-beast split bodies.
• Kentei invited the sisters to learn body half-chakrification and specialized techniques, while the Third Raikage asked them to help Kumogakure obtain the Shimura Clan's methods.
• Female medical ninja told Haneon that her bull horns and tail could not safely be removed, leaving the sisters angry about their transformations.
• Kentei taught Matatabi's and Gyuki's split bodies about customized meridians and acupoints, and Matatabi asked whether he was researching how to evolve Kekkei Genkai into Three-Element Kekkei Genkai Elimination.

Shimura Kentei discussed the Nine Attributes and a cultivation path with Gyuki and Matatabi, then taught Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji techniques for transforming their bodies and meridians. The sisters abruptly erupted near dawn and fled, leaving him stunned.

• Shimura Kentei explained that Time and Space could emerge beyond the seven basic Chakra attributes, and connected the nine attributes to the body's vital gates.
• Shimura Kentei sensed Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji arriving, left Gyuki and Matatabi, and waited for the sisters in his room.
• Shimura Kentei examined the sisters and explained his plans for Half-Chakrafication body cultivation and the Meridian and Acupoint Reconstruction Technique.
• Shimura Kentei constructed personalized cultivation pathways for the sisters while they memorized the techniques and protested his handling of their tails.
• Near dawn, Hagoromo Haneon and Hagoromo Ranji erupted, dressed, and fled, leaving Shimura Kentei sitting blankly on the bed.

Shimura Kentei met Black Zetsu, inspected his abilities, and tasked him with gathering Kumogakure’s clan techniques while planning a cultivation method for him. Kentei then performed the Third Raikage’s body-expansion surgery, which ended with the Raikage studying his transformed reflection.

• Black Zetsu introduced himself as a special clone created by Shimura Danzō and explained how he had secretly drained the Uchiha’s stored Sharingan of their Pupil Power.
• Black Zetsu told Shimura Kentei that the Hyuga Main Family sacrificed its Byakugan and that the Birdcage Cursed Seal extracted Branch Family Pupil Power after death.
• Shimura Kentei examined Black Zetsu, planned to give him a half-flesh body and a Rasengan Golden Core cultivation method, and ordered him to collect Kumogakure’s clan techniques.
• Shimura Kentei offered Dodai a lucrative job, but Dodai refused a Ketsuryūgan transplant and explained that he had little money and worked for a fixed salary.
• Shimura Kentei began the Third Raikage’s body-expansion surgery, using nutrient solution and the Second Senior Brother’s bones to enlarge and rebuild the Raikage’s body.
• After the surgery, the Third Raikage removed his blindfold, saw his new reflection in a large mirror, and fell into thought.