Chapter Summaries

Konan revealed that the battlefield was covered in Exploding Tags and detonated them, devastating both the Allied Forces and their enemies. As the blasts spread, Hizashi sacrificed himself to send Hiashi to safety, leaving Hiashi crying out for his brother.

• Hiashi and Hizashi fought Kakuzu, and both brothers were gravely wounded before Kakuzu was taken from the battlefield by White Zetsu.
• Mabui organized the Allied Forces against Akatsuki, but the ground split open and Konan rose from beneath it.
• Konan transformed the battlefield’s paper ground into countless Exploding Tags and activated the Art of the Divine Paper Person.
• As explosions engulfed the battlefield, Hizashi carried the injured Hiashi toward safety but realized they could not escape together.
• Hizashi launched Hiashi toward the forest and was swallowed by the explosions, while Hiashi cried out his brother’s name.

After Konan’s Exploding Tags devastated the Allied Forces and left about 13,000 survivors, Raikage Ai, Tsunade, and Rasa chose to head to the battlefield despite pressure to remain behind. Asuka and Mabui survived the blast, but a mysterious Rinnegan-wielding Akatsuki member arrived and unleashed Shinra Tensei on the remaining forces.

• The Allied Forces headquarters learned that only about 13,000 of the original 80,000 fighters remained, and Raikage Ai handed command to Nara Shikaku before deciding to join the battle.
• Tsunade prepared to go to the front to treat the wounded, while Rasa refused the daimyo’s offer of funding and left to fulfill his duty as Kazekage.
• Asuka saved Mabui from the explosion, and the two saw that the battlefield had become a vast lake surrounded by injured Allied Forces ninja.
• Asuka explained that Shisui and the Great Elder had used their Mangekyō Sharingan to save more than half the Uchiha clan, though the survivors remained sorrowful.
• A purple-eyed Akatsuki member appeared over the lake, identified the wars’ cycle of attacks, and declared that the world would know pain.
• The Akatsuki member raised his hands and unleashed Shinra Tensei against the Allied Forces.

Deva Path Pain devastated the Ninja Allied Forces with a massive wave, then fought Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and Uchiha Asuka. As Nagato prepared additional Rinnegan-bearing Paths and summoned beasts, Kisame reconsidered his mission and decided to pursue the greatest possible benefit.

• Nagato's Deva Path Pain raised a colossal wave that overwhelmed the Allied Forces despite Ōnoki and the Earth Release users building barriers, leaving only a little over ten thousand ninjas still able to fight.
• Mabui and Uchiha Asuka survived the flood, while Ōnoki recognized Pain as the enemy leader and challenged him.
• Pain impaled Ōnoki with a Black Receiver, repelled Mei Terumi's Lava Release, and evaded Ōnoki's Rock Fist Technique after disrupting him with the Rinnegan.
• Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull Mei Terumi toward him, and her chain dragged Asuka along as he protested that he did not want to marry into Kirigakure.
• Konan warned Nagato that she feared they would become someone else's pawn, but Nagato said their ultimate objective was still the Tailed Beasts and summoned more Rinnegan-bearing Paths and beasts.
• Kisame recognized Nagato as a member of the Whirlpool Clan and resolved to abandon infiltration and pursue the greatest possible benefit if he could not receive orders.

The Ninja Allied Forces fought Deva Path Pain, but Ōnoki’s Dust Release failed to finish him. Nagato arrived with Akatsuki’s forces, explained his inherited dream of peace, and began Chibaku Tensei against the allied ninjas.

• Deva Path Pain repelled attacks from Torifu Akimichi, Choza, Mei Terumi, Asuka, and the allied ninjas while Ōnoki prepared Dust Release.
• Torifu and Choza restrained Pain with chains, allowing Ōnoki to strike him with Dust Release and make him disappear.
• Shikaku warned the allied forces that Nagato and the enemy army were still present three kilometers away, and Asuka saw Pain standing beside Nagato without injuries.
• Nagato said Yahiko had been Akatsuki’s true leader and that he had inherited Yahiko’s dream of creating a peaceful ninja world.
• Nagato argued that the Five Great Nations had ignored Akatsuki when it sought communication, then invoked Chibaku Tensei against the Ninja Allied Forces.

The Ninja Allied Forces survived Uchiha Asuka’s destruction of Chibaku Tensei, then regrouped under Mei Terumi as Konan unleashed a massive rain of Exploding Tags. Mabui confessed her feelings to Asuka with a kiss, while the system’s records revealed that it had stolen her family’s chickens and other belongings for him.

• Uchiha Asuka split the rocky sphere formed by Chibaku Tensei, releasing the trapped ninjas and sending rocks crashing down around them.
• Mei Terumi ordered the battered Allied Forces to prepare for a final battle, and Mabui kissed Asuka before running back to the fighting.
• Asuka confronted the system about stolen goods, and its records implicated him in taking supplies, chickens, and Uchiha Mikoto’s belongings.
• Asuka destroyed Nagato’s summoned centipede with Earth Release, prompting Nagato and Konan to recognize that Asuka had joined the Allied Forces.
• Konan unleashed a vast storm of Exploding Tags, and the Allied Forces fled from the descending papers.

Asuka and the Allied Forces struggled against Nagato’s Pains as their Chakra and strength dwindled, while Kakuzu tormented an enemy ninja over money. Jiraiya arrived to save the battlefield, and Nagato recognized his former teacher as an enemy.

• Kakuzu repeatedly beat an enemy ninja and paid him one yuan for each blow, then reclaimed the coins while lecturing him about thrift.
• Mei Terumi relayed headquarters’ assessment that Nagato controlled the Pains and Summoning Beasts through Black Receivers, and the Allied leaders focused their attacks on him.
• Asuka fought the Asura Path but discovered his vision and Chakra were nearly spent, while Nagato overpowered Ōnoki and Mei Terumi with the other Pains.
• A Three-Headed Dog charged the Allied Forces, but Jiraiya arrived atop a Blue Toad and introduced himself with a flamboyant speech.
• Nagato recognized Jiraiya, his former teacher, and lamented that they had met again as enemies.

Jiraiya confronted his former disciples as he tried to learn why they had abandoned their pursuit of peace, while Nagato fought him with formidable strength. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu decided to postpone Madara’s revival and headed with Obito and Spiral Zetsu to capture the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails Jinchuriki on Turtle Island.

• Jiraiya and Konan fought, and Jiraiya restrained her with Toad Oil and his hair.
• Jiraiya questioned Nagato about Yahiko’s death and how their peace-seeking Akatsuki had become the instigator of war, but Nagato refused to explain.
• Nagato summoned a crab to wash the Toad Oil from Konan, then took over the fight against Jiraiya.
• Asuka treated Mei Terumi and realized that a mobile Nagato could wield the powers of all Six Paths of Pain himself.
• Black Zetsu and Spiral Zetsu discussed delaying Uchiha Madara’s revival, then planned to attack Turtle Island while Obito searched for the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Obito, Black Zetsu, and Spiral Zetsu attacked Turtle Island to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki while the Allied Forces' elderly guards defended the island. As Spiral Zetsu fought the guards, Obito slipped toward the Eight-Tails, convinced his plan was nearly complete.

• Obito considered reviving Madara, but Black Zetsu refused and the three set out for Turtle Island without reinforcements.
• Hiruzen and Danzo argued with the Kumogakure guards about protecting the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails Jinchuriki while awaiting new orders.
• Danzo noticed that the island's barrier had been breached, and the guards rushed outside as Akatsuki launched its attack.
• Spiral Zetsu fought the guards, shrugged off Danzo's attacks with Wood Release, and summoned a towering Wood Human that prompted the guards to counterattack.
• Obito used the chaos to target the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, while Black Zetsu moved to draw away the guards protecting the Nine-Tails.

Jiraiya confronted Nagato on the battlefield and rejected his plan to end war by threatening the world with a forbidden weapon, arguing that nations’ struggles for interests would only make the weapon fuel more conflict. Nagato dismissed his former teacher and prepared to fight, while Jiraiya began gathering Sage Chakra and summoned the two sages of Mount Myōboku.

• Jiraiya summoned Gamaken, while Ichikishimahime destroyed a giant bird and Gamahiro and Gamaken fought the enemy summons.
• Jiraiya questioned Nagato about his plan, and Nagato explained that he intended to use a weapon made from the tailed beasts to frighten the world into peace.
• The Ninja Allied Forces rallied after Nagato revealed his goal, while Jiraiya argued that weapons could not end wars driven by national interests.
• Nagato rejected Jiraiya’s objections, recalled the three Pain puppets, and challenged his former teacher to stay and fight.
• Jiraiya attacked Nagato with Fire Release, then asked Asuka and the others to buy him time as he began preparing Sage Art.
• Asuka recognized that Jiraiya was about to summon the two sages of Mount Myōboku.

Jiraiya prepared Sage Art while Mei, Ōnoki, and Asuka fought Nagato, whose power overwhelmed the Allied Forces. Asuka wounded Nagato but fell, and Jiraiya’s summons arrived amid a surge of chakra, leaving Nagato to recognize his former master’s final echo.

• Jiraiya began preparing Sage Art as Ōnoki declared that the Allied Forces and Akatsuki had irreconcilable visions of peace.
• Mei and Ōnoki coordinated attacks on Nagato, while Asuka used his Mangekyō ability and Kusanagi Sword to cut through Asura Path Pain.
• Hashirama urged Tobirama to find a way to help the war effort, while Tobirama continued experiments to give his brother strength beyond his peak.
• Nagato blasted Mei and Ōnoki away and countered Asuka, but Asuka struck a deep wound across Nagato’s abdomen before collapsing.
• Jiraiya summoned two beings whose arrival released a tremendous surge of chakra, and Nagato identified it as his master’s final echo.

Jiraiya and the two toad sages fought Nagato, testing his Rinnegan and discovering that senjutsu and coordinated attacks could catch him off guard. Nagato admitted he was using his abilities with his real body for the first time and began explaining how he had lost the use of his legs.

• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode with Fukasaku and Shima, who recognized Nagato as the Child of Prophecy and the wielder of the Rinnegan.
• Jiraiya’s fire attack and Super Big Ball Rasengan were absorbed by Nagato, while Shinra Tensei repelled his taijutsu and hair needles.
• Asuka asked Ichikishimahime about countering the Rinnegan, and she suggested releasing the Six Paths Sage’s former opponent, Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Jiraiya used Shima’s smoke to obscure Nagato’s perception, allowing Fukasaku to strike him with Frog Kumite while Nagato tried to absorb Jiraiya’s chakra.
• Fukasaku noticed Nagato’s techniques seemed unfamiliar, and Nagato confirmed it was his first time using them with his real body before revealing his damaged legs.

Nagato revealed how pain had awakened the Rinnegan’s full power and unleashed Shinra Tensei, but Jiraiya and the other leaders shielded the Allied Forces. Nagato defeated Jiraiya and pinned him down, but Asuka tried to rally the wounded toads before Nagato could finish him.

• Nagato told Jiraiya that repeated experiences of extreme pain had awakened his Rinnegan and explained how Yahiko’s death and their comrades’ suffering shaped his hatred of war.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei, and Jiraiya, Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, Asuka, and giant summons formed a shield that protected the Allied Forces at the cost of their strength.
• Nagato attacked Jiraiya with his Rinnegan techniques, while Jiraiya fought back with the help of Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima.
• Nagato outmaneuvered Jiraiya, incapacitated both sages, ended Jiraiya’s Sage Mode, and pinned him to the ground with a Black Receiver.
• Asuka rose and urged Fukasaku, Shima, and the other toads to keep fighting so Jiraiya would not die.

Tsunade persuaded Asuka to save Jiraiya by promising to protect Pakura, and Asuka rallied the Mount Myōboku toads to summon Gamamaru. The Great Toad Sage arrived on the battlefield, recognized Nagato and Asuka from his fragmented prophecies, and called Asuka over without offering him the toads’ power.

• Tsunade asked Asuka to keep Jiraiya alive and promised to guarantee Pakura’s safety after the war.
• Asuka urged Shima and the giant toads to think of their family and their bond with Jiraiya, prompting Shima to demand that they summon Gamamaru.
• Gamaken, Gamahiro, and Shima performed the Summoning Technique: Great Toad Sage, bringing Gamamaru from Mount Myōboku to the battlefield.
• Gamamaru examined Nagato and voiced cryptic prophecies about a tea kettle, a red-eyed youth, and the future of the Ninja World.
• Nagato used Banshō Ten'in against Gamamaru, who caught Shima and said he was too old to fight and would die.
• Gamamaru recalled earlier events in the Ninja World, beckoned Asuka over, and refused to pass the power of the toads to him.

Uchiha Asuka summoned the Great Toad Sage, who trapped Nagato and explained that the Sharingan’s blindness came from an incomplete connection to Indra’s soul, not from lacking a sibling’s eyes. Asuka prepared to use Indra’s flesh and blood with Impure World Reincarnation to seek Indra’s power, while Gamamaru gave Jiraiya the Sage’s Mark as the Allied Forces faced defeat.

• The Great Toad Sage admitted he could not fight, but after Nagato blasted him and Sage Shima aside, he trapped Nagato with the Toad Mouth Bind Technique; Nagato escaped using reverse summoning.
• Gamamaru explained to Asuka that inherited Kekkei Genkai connected descendants to ancestral souls, and that Indra’s Chakra—not a brother’s eyes—was needed for a perfect Mangekyō.
• Gamamaru told Asuka to use Indra’s flesh and blood with a White Zetsu in Impure World Reincarnation, then convince Indra to help by saying Asura’s descendants were exterminating the Uchiha.
• Gamamaru gave Asuka Indra’s flesh and blood and the White Zetsu, then affixed the Sage’s Mark to Jiraiya to help save him.
• Gamamaru looked up at the moon and lamented that the Otsutsuki Clan and those who followed them kept trying to destroy the world.

Asuka revived Indra with Impure World Reincarnation, and Gamamaru persuaded the reluctant ancestor to fight Nagato by appealing to his desire to prove his ideals and impress his father. After Indra discovered how weak his summoned body was, he lent his power to Asuka, who unleashed a massive Susanoo as Nagato watched.

• Asuka used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Indra onto the battlefield, and Indra questioned why he had been revived.
• Asuka explained that Nagato and Asura’s descendants threatened the world, but Indra initially refused to fight for them.
• Gamamaru challenged Indra’s strength and framed the battle as his chance to prove that individual power could bring peace and show his father that his ideals were right.
• Indra charged Nagato but was quickly knocked into a crater, then condemned the Impure World Reincarnation body as garbage.
• Indra agreed to lend his power to Asuka, entered his body, and enabled Asuka to manifest a giant Susanoo before Nagato.

Yuhi Kurenai witnessed the Allied Forces’ desperate battlefield and learned from Uchiha Ryoichi that the Uchiha had repeatedly been saved by era-defying powerhouses. Uchiha Asuka unleashed Susanoo’s true form, overwhelming Nagato’s forces and leaving Nagato’s summoned beasts cut down.

• Yuhi Kurenai vomited at the sight of the blood-soaked battlefield and grieved as she remembered her comrades’ plans before the war.
• Uchiha Ryoichi urged Kurenai not to lose hope and described how powerful Uchiha figures had repeatedly appeared when the clan faced ruin.
• Kurenai watched Uchiha Asuka’s Susanoo transform into its enormous, winged Fourth Form, which Ryoichi called the true Susanoo’s full firepower.
• Asuka’s Susanoo crushed Nagato’s three-headed ninja dog and punched Nagato into a crater when he tried to devour its Chakra.
• Nagato summoned all his beasts, but Asuka used Okuninushi and Slaughterhouse to cut them down with a single sweeping strike.

Indra explained that he had enhanced Asuka’s Mangekyō Sharingan but had not lent him his full power, and revealed why he chose to help him. He urged Asuka to defeat Nagato, driven by his suspicion of Asura and his resentment toward his younger brother.

• Indra told Asuka that his power had restored the Mangekyō Sharingan to the level Indra once possessed, but had not granted him Indra’s unique ocular technique or other powers.
• Indra explained that he had learned to lend power through spiritual resonance after the Six Paths Sage linked his and Asura’s Chakra, and Gamamaru had learned of the method then.
• Asuka questioned why Indra had helped him without conditions, and Indra admitted he was interested in Nagato’s Rinnegan and that Asuka’s resurrection ninjutsu could not restore his full strength.
• Indra recalled that Zetsu had once told him how to awaken the Rinnegan by combining Indra’s and Asura’s powers, but he had refused to rely on Asura and later failed.
• After seeing Nagato’s Rinnegan, Indra suspected a conspiracy by Asura and told Asuka to defeat him, then admitted that his hatred of Asura was the real reason he had helped.

Uchiha Obito learned that Uchiha Asuka had awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, while Black Zetsu urged him to revive Uchiha Madara. Meanwhile, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo decided to join the battle, but Danzo revealed he could contact Orochimaru and might persuade him to undo the Impure World Reincarnation.

• Obito confronted Black Zetsu about Asuka's sudden change of sides and the power of his Susanoo, and Black Zetsu identified his eyes as the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu told Obito to revive Uchiha Madara, then disappeared to prepare for sealing the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo arrived at Obito's former location, learned the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki was missing, and confirmed Kushina and her child had been reverse-summoned to Mount Myōboku.
• Hiruzen proposed that he and Danzo join the battle, and Danzo revealed he had remained in contact with Orochimaru since his defection.
• Danzo explained that hundreds of surveillance and control methods he had placed on Orochimaru let him keep in contact, and Hiruzen realized they might convince Orochimaru to undo the Impure World Reincarnation.

Nagato confronted Uchiha Asuka’s Susanoo while Konan feared losing him, and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Asuka confirmed that Nagato intended to feed the nine tailed beasts to the statue, prompting Indra to recall Hagoromo telling him that their mothers were in the sky.

• The Susanoo’s attacks sent Konan, Nagato, and the others flying, and Konan asked whether Nagato could absorb its Chakra.
• Nagato reassured Konan that he would not lose, then charged at Uchiha Asuka as Konan pleaded for him to return alive.
• Nagato accused Asuka of helping Akatsuki capture the tailed beasts to provoke an early war, and Asuka confirmed he had ignited it for another reason.
• Nagato deflected Asuka’s Yasaka Magatama with Shinra Tensei, then summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and had Black Receivers pierce his back.
• Indra realized Nagato meant to gather the nine tailed beasts for the statue, and Asuka confirmed it before Indra recalled Hagoromo saying their mothers were in the sky.

Indra connected the moon, the Ten-Tails, and Hamura’s departure to a hidden history involving their mother, while Asuka fought Nagato’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Asuka unleashed a powerful Mangekyo sword technique, and Ryoichi judged that Asuka’s eyes could keep the Uchiha safe for decades.

• Indra reconsidered his father’s account of the Ten-Tails and concluded that their mother had brought the Divine Tree and Chakra to the world, while Hamura had gone to the moon to accompany her.
• Indra joked to Asuka that Hagoromo had been the truly filial son for joining Hamura against their mother, and Asuka agreed that killing one’s parents was worse than brothers fighting.
• Nagato’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path attacked Asuka’s Susanoo and drained Chakra from its shoulder with a Chakra dragon, but Asuka severed the dragon and restored the damage.
• The Demonic Statue caught Susanoo’s sword between its palms, so Asuka struck it in the chest and sent it staggering backward.
• Asuka used Okuninushi: High-Frequency: Cutting to unleash countless slashes at the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Ryoichi recognized Asuka’s Mangekyo sword technique and believed Asuka’s non-blinding eyes could protect the Uchiha for decades.