Chapter Summaries

Renye and Shimura Danzō returned to the village after their time-space trip and left Hiruzen Sarutobi to handle the political work. On the moon, Yuki Hyuga’s main family fought the branch family, while Renye planned to visit him after resting.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Renye and Shimura Danzō about their battered appearance, and they blamed the injuries on Dragon Vein energy.
• Shimura Danzō left the Hokage’s Office to rest, and Renye followed after jokingly encouraging Hiruzen to become Hokage.
• Shimura Danzō asked Renye when he would visit Yuki Hyuga, and Renye said he would rest for a couple of days before making a plan.
• Yuki Hyuga and the main family fought the branch family over whether to protect or destroy the shinobi world, and the branch family retreated after both sides were injured.
• Renye watched the full moon and wondered whether Yuki Hyuga belonged to the main or branch family and whether he had survived their conflict.

Renye met Motoya Nara after the latter finished teaching and questioned him about Yuki Hyuga. When Motoya denied knowing Yuki’s whereabouts, Renye pointed at the full moon, leaving Motoya visibly shocked.

• Motoya Nara left the Ninja Academy after work, but Renye intercepted him at the gates and took him to their usual yakiniku restaurant.
• Renye asked whether Motoya intended to remain a teacher, and Motoya said he preferred the peaceful life and had no interest in becoming clan head.
• After they ate in silence until nightfall, Motoya asked whether Renye had come about Yuki Hyuga.
• Motoya claimed Yuki had died on the battlefield and that he had not recovered the body, but Renye pointed to the full moon and asked if Yuki was up there.
• Motoya’s pupils contracted and shock flashed across his face at Renye’s remark.

Renye learned from Motoya Nara that Yuki Hyuga had been taken to the moon by the Otsutsuki Clan after an ambush during the Second Shinobi World War. Renye invited Motoya to travel to the moon with him, and Motoya agreed so he could find out what had happened to Yuki.

• Renye hinted that Yuki Hyuga was on the moon, and Motoya Nara admitted he knew what had happened.
• Motoya explained that Otsutsuki Clan members rescued Yuki from enemy troops during a supply escort mission and took him home as their young clan head.
• Motoya said he had kept Yuki's departure secret, while their injured Yamanaka teammate believed Yuki had died in battle.
• Renye asked Motoya to join a future trip to the moon, and Motoya agreed because Yuki had not returned in years.

Renye and Shimura Danzō planned to travel to the moon through an ancient portal and learned that Yuki Hyuga was connected to the Otsutsuki there. They visited the Hyuga compound to question the former clan head, leaving the reason for Yuki's past unexplained.

• Renye told Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi that a terrestrial-lunar portal could take them to the moon, and Hiruzen sent Anbu to search for it.
• Renye explained that Yuki Hyuga had gone to the moon, prompting Hiruzen to wonder how their former classmate had become an alien.
• Shimura Danzō left Hiruzen with the paperwork and accompanied Renye to the Hyuga clan compound.
• Hizashi Hyuga welcomed Renye and Shimura Danzō, then led them to the former clan head after Renye asked about Yuki Hyuga.
• The former clan head greeted Renye and Shimura Danzō warmly and invited them inside to discuss their questions.

Renye and Danzo learned that Yuki Hyuga was the old Hyuga patriarch’s adopted son and had been sent to the moon to lead the Otsutsuki main house. The old patriarch asked to join Renye’s planned trip to the moon, and Renye agreed to take him when they departed.

• Renye confronted the old Hyuga patriarch, who admitted Yuki was alive and not his biological son.
• The old patriarch explained that Yuki was the child of the Otsutsuki clan head, had been sent to the Shinobi World for protection, and was later taken back to the moon as the main house’s leader.
• Renye told the old patriarch about his plan to travel to the moon, and the old patriarch asked to go with him.
• Renye agreed to bring the old patriarch along and assured Danzo that the spring needed for teleportation existed.
• Renye and Danzo parted ways, with Danzo returning home to sunbathe while Hiruzen Sarutobi struggled with paperwork at the Hokage’s Office.

Renye, Shimura Danzō, Motoya Nara, and the Old Hyuga Clan Head traveled through the Earth-Moon Spring to the moon, where they found the Otsutsuki main and branch families fighting. They arrived just as Yuki Hyuga was cornered by the branch family's Grand Elder, and someone interrupted the Grand Elder's attack with a shuriken.

• Anbu members found the Earth-Moon Spring, and Renye set out for it with Shimura Danzō, Motoya Nara, and the Old Hyuga Clan Head.
• Renye and the others crossed the spatial passage beneath the spring and arrived on the moon.
• The Old Hyuga Clan Head used his Byakugan to spot a battle and led the group toward it.
• The branch family's Grand Elder confronted the wounded Yuki Hyuga while two main family members tried to protect him.
• The Grand Elder attacked Yuki as he tried to flee, but a shuriken struck nearby and forced the Grand Elder to stop.

Renye arrived on the moon and intervened when the Grand Elder of the Branch Family attacked Yuki Hyuga. He faced down the branch elders and their approaching forces, then used his left-eye dōjutsu to catch the Grand Elder off guard and struck him with his tachi.

• Renye blocked the Grand Elder of the Branch Family from killing Yuki Hyuga and kicked the elder away.
• Renye reunited Yuki Hyuga with the Old Hyuga Clan Head, Shimura Danzō, and Motoya, while Yuki warned them that the moon was dangerous.
• The Grand Elder and two other branch elders confronted Renye and demanded that he hand over Yuki Otsutsuki.
• Renye told Yuki to move the main family members back, and they left the branch family standing before him.
• Renye trapped the Grand Elder with his left-eye dōjutsu and appeared before him, bringing his tachi down.

Renye killed the branch family's Grand Elder Ryuichi, then unleashed his Perfect Susanoo against the branch family forces on the moon. He wiped out the remaining branch family members with a single slash, leaving a canyon across part of the moon.

• Renye killed Grand Elder Ryuichi with a single strike, shocking both the main and branch families.
• The two remaining branch family elders led more than forty fighters in a charge against Renye, while Yuki Hyuga refused to send help.
• Renye summoned his Perfect Susanoo, which remained unharmed by the branch family's ninjutsu attacks.
• Renye's Susanoo swung its tachi once, annihilating the branch family forces and cutting a vast canyon through the moon.

Renye used his Perfect Susanoo to wipe out the Otsutsuki branch family's strongest fighters, ending their threat to the Shinobi World. He reunited with Yuki Hyuga and his friends, who teased him about his poor academy grades and discussed whether any of them had married.

• Renye killed the branch family's Jonin-level fighters, including two elders, with a single Perfect Susanoo slash.
• Shimura Danzō and Yuki Hyuga recognized Renye's overwhelming strength, and Yuki felt relieved that the conflict was over.
• Yuki asked Motoya Nara about Renye's academy grades, and Motoya revealed Renye had scored five points in culture class.
• Renye confronted the group about their conversation, then proudly showed off his strength to Yuki.
• Renye asked whether Yuki had married and had children on the moon, admitted that he had not married either, and learned Yuki was also unmarried.

Renye and his companions defeated the Otsutsuki branch family, and Yuki Hyuga decided to return to the Shinobi World with them temporarily while remaining responsible for his clan. As Renye and Shimura Danzō relaxed on the moon, Hiruzen Sarutobi spotted what looked like Renye’s Susanoo from the Hokage Building.

• Yuki Hyuga told Renye he could not remain in the Shinobi World permanently because his clansmen needed him as patriarch.
• Renye teased Yuki about his identity as Otsutsuki Elm and explained that “King of Show-offs” meant someone who liked putting on airs.
• Yuki joked that Renye was an even greater show-off and decided to call him the King of Show-offs too.
• Yuki led the group toward the main-family compound to rest and arrange how to handle the remaining branch-family members.
• Renye took out reclining chairs, and he and Shimura Danzō lounged while looking at the Shinobi World from the moon.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi looked up outside the Hokage Building and thought he saw Renye’s Susanoo, realizing the others had gone to the moon without him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi realized Renye and Shimura Danzō had gone to the moon without him, while Renye and the others resolved the Hyuga branch family’s fate and returned to Konoha. Hiruzen asked whether they had simply run out of time to invite him, and Yuki Hyuga reluctantly backed their lie.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered that Renye and Shimura Danzō had traveled to the moon without telling him and resigned himself to remaining Acting Hokage.
• Renye, Shimura Danzō, and Motoya Nara relaxed on the moon while Yuki Hyuga decided to spare the surviving branch family members.
• Yuki Hyuga finished settling clan matters and led the group through a teleportation array back to the shinobi world.
• The next day, Renye and Shimura Danzō returned to Konoha and told Hiruzen Sarutobi they had lacked time to notify him.
• Yuki Hyuga confirmed the excuse when Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned him, despite knowing they had deliberately left Hiruzen behind.

Renye brought Yuki Hyuga, whom he had retrieved from the moon, to Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru for examination. After the tests, Yuki planned to consider marriage, while Black Zetsu secretly decided to target the Otsutsuki clan.

• Renye introduced Yuki Hyuga to Tobirama Senju and revealed that he had brought him back from the moon.
• Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru examined Yuki Hyuga and drew several tubes of his blood while Renye reassured him.
• Renye promised to cook for Yuki the next day, and Yuki agreed before leaving the laboratory.
• Yuki decided to consider marriage now that Renye had resolved the Branch Family issue.
• Black Zetsu watched Renye leave and resolved to go to the moon and harm Hamura's descendants.

Renye invited his old comrades to dinner, where they were shocked to discover that Yuki Hyuga was alive and had returned. As the group shared a meal, Yuki recounted his years away and caught up with his former classmates.

• Utatane Koharu, Kagami Uchiha, Mitokado Homura, and Motoya Nara arrived at Renye's mansion and speculated about why he had invited them.
• Shimura Danzō lounged in the courtyard while the others waited for Hiruzen Sarutobi, who arrived exhausted from his work as Acting Hokage.
• Renye welcomed the group inside, where they froze at the sight of Yuki Hyuga and asked if he was still alive.
• Yuki greeted his former classmates, while Utatane Koharu wondered whether Renye had hidden him and noticed Danzō showed no surprise.
• Renye brought out dinner, and Koharu helped Danzō serve the food.
• Renye explained that Yuki had asked him to invite their old classmates, and the group listened as Yuki described his experiences over the years.

Yuki Hyuga told his friends he might marry after returning to the moon, where he had met a girl he liked. The others teased him and the other unmarried men, who insisted marriage and children were too troublesome.

• Utatane Koharu asked whether Yuki Hyuga was betrothed, and he said he had not married yet but would consider it after returning to the moon.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kagami Uchiha, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu asked Yuki Hyuga to invite them to his lunar wedding.
• Renye asked whether Yuki Hyuga had a girl he liked, and Yuki admitted he had met someone on the moon and planned to try pursuing her.
• Renye stopped the others from teasing Yuki Hyuga, then asked whether Shimura Danzō and Motoya Nara would marry.
• Motoya Nara said marriage and raising children were too troublesome, and Renye and Shimura Danzō agreed that being single had its advantages.

Renye and Shimura Danzō tricked Yuki Hyuga into going to Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru’s laboratory to study his Otsutsuki bloodline. After a long examination, Yuki refused Renye’s offer of dinner and hurried home, wary of being taken back to the lab.

• Renye tried to coax Yuki Hyuga into going to the laboratory, and Shimura Danzō misread the situation as evidence of Renye’s interest in men.
• Renye explained that he wanted Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru to study the Otsutsuki bloodline inside King of Show-offs, and Shimura Danzō helped him catch Yuki as he tried to escape.
• Renye and Shimura Danzō persuaded Yuki Hyuga to lie on the experimental table while Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru examined him.
• Utatane Koharu watched the three leave together and concluded that Renye and Shimura Danzō were hiding a secret relationship from Yuki’s future bride.
• After the examination, Yuki Hyuga declined Renye’s offer of dinner and went home, while Renye invited Shimura Danzō over for dinner the next day.

Renye gave Kagami Uchiha a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan he had recovered during a trip through time, and Kagami planned to use them to become clan head. After Renye accepted Uchiha Lie Feng’s invitation to visit, Lie Feng revealed his secret alliance with Black Zetsu and his role in Madara’s plan.

• Renye explained to Kagami Uchiha that he had recovered the Mangekyo Sharingan during a time-traveling trip with Danzo, then gave him the eyes.
• Kagami told Renye that Tanaka Uchiha had left him in charge of clan affairs and would likely retire soon, making Kagami the next clan head.
• Renye met Uchiha Lie Feng outside the compound and agreed to visit his home.
• At Lie Feng’s residence, Renye saw Uchiha Fugaku practicing shuriken, while Lie Feng said he had stayed home raising his son.
• After Renye left, Lie Feng met with Black Zetsu, who warned him to follow Madara’s plan and reminded him that it could help resurrect his wife and younger brother.

Uchiha Lie Feng agreed to follow Black Zetsu’s plan because he hoped to revive his dead wife and younger brother, and learned that the Three-Tails held by Uchiha Renye was the last tailed beast Black Zetsu needed. Renye returned to Hashirama and Mito’s home, where Mito again urged him to marry.

• Uchiha Lie Feng told Black Zetsu not to order him around, then considered the book containing a wedding photo of his wife.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Lie Feng that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s health was worsening and explained that Renye held the only tailed beast chakra still missing from Madara’s collection.
• Uchiha Lie Feng accepted the explanation and watched Black Zetsu sink into the ground before thinking about Madara Uchiha.
• Renye encountered Tsunade outside Hashirama’s home after she lost her money gambling with Hashirama.
• Hashirama welcomed Renye, and Mito spoke with him about his age and urged him to find a wife.

Mito Uzumaki pressured Renye to marry and decided to arrange partners for him and Shimura Danzō. Danzo misunderstood her question and accidentally agreed that Renye was wrong, leaving both men facing matchmaking.

• Renye tried to avoid marriage, but Mito Uzumaki insisted he was running out of time and offered to arrange a match.
• Hashirama Senju backed Mito and urged Renye to marry someone acceptable and develop feelings later.
• When Renye mentioned that Shimura Danzō was also unmarried, Mito sent Tsunade to summon him so she could arrange matches for both men.
• Shimura Danzō arrived expecting to discuss the Warring States incident and mistakenly said Renye was in the wrong when Mito asked his opinion.
• Mito Uzumaki took Danzo's answer as agreement and announced she would arrange partners for both him and Renye.

Mito Uzumaki summoned Renye and Shimura Danzō to arrange blind dates, and the two tried to escape before learning the village was watching the gates. Renye and Danzō agreed they were not interested in women, while Tobirama Senju greeted Renye with a joke about the matchmaking.

• Mito Uzumaki dismissed Renye and Shimura Danzō after telling them she would find suitable women for them to meet.
• Renye and Danzō planned to leave the village, but Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Kagami Uchiha blocked them and warned them not to run away.
• Renye decided to attend the blind dates and reject the women later, while privately considering using Danzō to test an excuse about liking men.
• Renye asked Danzō why he did not want to marry, and both said they were not interested in women before parting ways.
• At Tobirama Senju's mansion, Tobirama teased Renye about Mito Uzumaki setting him up on dates.

Tobirama Senju urged Renye to marry, then imagined a disastrous old age in which Renye’s three disciples neglected him and Tsunade gambled away his home. The vision convinced Tobirama to insist that Renye marry, but Renye rejected the demand and said he could arrange his own retirement.

• Tobirama Senju told Renye to stay home while Aunt Mito found suitable women for him.
• Renye objected that Tobirama was unmarried, and Tobirama argued that Renye’s disciples could not be trusted to care for him.
• Tobirama imagined Tsunade gambling away Renye’s home, Orochimaru demanding meals, and Jiraiya neglecting him, leaving Renye to die alone.
• Tobirama snapped out of his daze and declared that Renye would marry, no matter what he said.
• Renye asked whether Tobirama had taken the wrong medicine and said he could hire a caregiver or live in a nursing home when he grew old.