Chapter Summaries

Yuu’s attacks forced Roshi to lose consciousness and release the Four-Tails in its complete form at the Land of Earth border. The Four-Tails confronted Yuu, who taunted it by calling it a red-haired monkey.

• Yuu slashed Roshi again, and the surge of Tailed Beast chakra caused Roshi to lose consciousness.
• The Four-Tails emerged in its hundred-meter-tall ape-like form, shocking Han and leaving Minato uneasy.
• The Four-Tails asked Yuu whether he knew it after hearing him call it a red-haired monkey.
• Yuu declared that red-haired monkey would be its name from then on.

Yuu recognized the Four-Tails as Son Goku and enraged it by insulting its name and appearance. Han and Minato watched in disbelief as the furious beast faced Yuu.

• Yuu recognized the Four-Tails and privately questioned whether its red-haired monkey appearance suited the name Son Goku.
• The Four-Tails demanded to know who Yuu was after sensing that he knew its true name.
• Yuu drew Shusui and mocked the Four-Tails, provoking it with repeated insults.
• Han watched in disbelief while Minato noted that Yuu had even cursed a Tailed Beast into a rage.
• The Four-Tails roared at Yuu, and a loud boom followed.

Yuu repelled the enraged Four-Tails with a powerful slash, sending it crashing into a mountain. Han and Minato watched in shock, and Minato decided to ask Yuu to teach him offensive techniques.

• The Four-Tails unleashed its Tailed Beast chakra and punched at Yuu.
• Yuu blocked the Four-Tails' attack with Armament, triggering a violent shockwave.
• Blackish-purple lightning surged from beneath the Four-Tails' fist and disrupted its balance.
• Yuu struck the Four-Tails with a slash and hurled it into a small mountain.
• Han gaped at Yuu's feat, while Minato resolved to ask him for offensive training.

Yuu overwhelmed the Four-Tails with a sword strike, leaving the tailed beast stunned that an apparently ordinary human could defeat it. Enraged, the Four-Tails attacked Yuu with a barrage of enormous lava balls as he prepared to counter with Shusui coated in Armament Haki.

• Yuu sent the Four-Tails crashing from a shattered hill with a single sword strike.
• The Four-Tails searched Yuu for signs of Indra's or Asura's chakra but found none.
• Yuu taunted the Four-Tails, which roared that it was not a monkey.
• The Four-Tails launched dozens of massive lava balls at Yuu.
• Yuu coated Shusui in Armament Haki and prepared to draw his sword.

Yuu fought the Four-Tails at the border of the Land of Earth, humiliating it with his swordsmanship and taunts. The Four-Tails demanded that Yuu draw his sword as it attacked, but the chapter ended with the battle still underway and Yuu beating it up.

• Yuu sliced dozens of the Four-Tails' lava balls apart with Shusui and mocked it as a red-haired monkey.
• The enraged Four-Tails charged Yuu, who blocked its attack with Armament Haki coating his still-sheathed Shusui.
• The Four-Tails felt the blade's strange energy pierce its Tailed Beast chakra and realized Yuu was looking down on it.
• The Four-Tails demanded that Yuu draw his sword and attacked with its fists and feet.
• At the Land of Earth border, the Four-Tails continued getting beaten up by Yuu.

Yuu battered the Four-Tails with his black scabbard, inflicting real pain and leaving it covered in swollen lumps. Han watched in disbelief as the normally untouchable Tailed Beast screamed under the assault.

• Yuu struck the Four-Tails repeatedly with his black scabbard, causing it severe pain and raising bumps across its body.
• The Four-Tails flailed at Yuu but could not catch him, and it grew furious that Han could see its humiliation.
• Han remembered the Four-Tails' destructive rampage and the efforts required to stop it.
• Han realized that Yuu was making the Four-Tails scream despite ordinary ninja attacks being unable to truly injure a Tailed Beast.

Yuu battered the Four-Tails with his scabbard until the tailed beast was injured and crying, then prepared to deliver a powerful sword strike. He drank a bottle of Nectar and gained a special boost, leaving the fight poised for his next attack.

• Han felt relieved that Yuu was not his opponent, while Minato watched Yuu's attack with interest.
• Yuu struck the Four-Tails with his Armament Haki-coated scabbard and injured its nose, making it scream and cry.
• Yuu retreated with Shusui and explained that he had been setting up a decisive slash to maximize his system reward.
• Yuu drank a bottle of Nectar, and the system announced that he had entered a drunken state and gained a special boost.

After drinking, Yuu gained temporary fivefold boosts that brought his swordsmanship to the Great Swordsman level and his Armament Haki to admiral-candidate strength. He drew Shusui and terrified the Four-Tails, which began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb as Yuu unleashed a tremendous sword intent.

• Yuu entered a drunken state and received temporary fivefold enhancements to his swordsmanship, constitution, and Armament Haki.
• Yuu drew Shusui and locked his sharpened gaze onto the Four-Tails.
• The Four-Tails sensed danger, accused Yuu of breaking his promise not to draw his sword, and recalled the fear Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara had inspired.
• The Four-Tails opened its maw and began gathering chakra for a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Yuu grinned at the Four-Tails and released a powerful sword intent as Shusui rang with the force of his Armament Haki.

Yuu unleashed Light Slash, plunging the battlefield into total darkness and frightening the Four-Tails and Han. He summoned enormous eyes in the sky and prepared a finishing sword strike against the Four-Tails.

• Yuu's Light Slash swallowed all light across the battlefield, disrupting the Four-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The Four-Tails panicked in the darkness, while Han activated Steam Armor without feeling any safer.
• Minato recognized the technique as Yuu's swordsmanship and watched a vortex form in the sky.
• The Four-Tails and Han saw a pair of enormous black eyes emerge as Yuu's sword intent peaked.
• Yuu declared that the Four-Tails would beg to follow him to Konoha, then unleashed One-Sword Style—Dark Heavenly Demon God!! Grave.

A Great Swordsman unleashed an enormous Ultimate Technique Level sword strike against the Four-Tails. The strike overwhelmed the beast and drained its chakra as it continued ravaging the earth.

• A Great Swordsman sent a sword strike twice the Four-Tails' size roaring toward the beast, splitting the ground.
• The Four-Tails gathered Tailed Beast chakra and charged into the approaching strike.
• The collision created a destructive shockwave that fractured the ruined earth into a chasm several kilometers wide.
• The Four-Tails realized the sword pressure was tearing apart its chakra and draining it rapidly.
• The sword strike pierced the Four-Tails and surged onward.

Yuu severely injured the Four-Tails and received major rewards, including a portion of Six Paths Power. He then discovered that another Jinchuriki had escaped, leaving him furious with Minato.

• Yuu's slash sent the Four-Tails crashing into a mountain range and buried it beneath the shattered rocks.
• Yuu received chakra, constitution, Armament Haki, and swordsmanship rewards, along with one ninth of Six Paths Power.
• Yuu celebrated the rewards and thought about defeating all nine Tailed Beasts to grow stronger.
• Yuu noticed a half-human, half-beast figure with five tails fleeing and realized it was another Jinchuriki.
• Minato apologized for failing to stop the fleeing Jinchuriki, and Yuu angrily blamed him for letting the target escape.

Yuu and Minato returned to the rubble where the Four-Tails lay buried after their battle. Yuu exposed the beast's devastating wound, leaving Minato stunned that a Tailed Beast could be physically injured.

• Yuu warned Minato not to slash him yet because Minato could help carry someone, then threatened to slash him after they returned.
• Minato promised to hunt game for Yuu, and Yuu said he would wait until after eating to slash him.
• Yuu and Minato reached the enormous rubble pile at the border of the Land of Earth, where their battle had devastated the terrain.
• Yuu used Observation Haki to locate the Four-Tails and sliced the rubble apart with a blackish-purple blade flash.
• The exposed Four-Tails lay severely wounded, its neck-to-abdomen slash suppressed its healing chakra, and Minato stared in disbelief.

Yuu seriously wounded the Four-Tails, shocking Minato and the beast with his ability to hurt a Tailed Beast directly. He beat the Four-Tails until it agreed to answer him, leaving it terrified and in pain.

• Yuu's slash grievously wounded the Four-Tails, overturning Minato's understanding of what could harm a Tailed Beast.
• Yuu told the Four-Tails to return to Konoha with him, while the beast stared at him in fear.
• Yuu punched the Four-Tails' wound when it failed to answer, and the beast cried out in pain.
• The Four-Tails pleaded that it had only been thinking and begged Yuu to stop hitting it.
• After the beating ended, the Four-Tails watched Yuu fearfully and growled in pain.

Yuu subdued the Four-Tails and forced it to return to Konoha with him. At the Iwagakure frontline camp, Ōnoki learned that Konoha’s advance had pushed nearly five kilometers forward while Iwagakure lacked its two Jinchuriki.

• Yuu frightened the Four-Tails into agreeing to return to Konoha and help set off fireworks.
• Yuu removed the Armament Haki from the Four-Tails’ wounds, and its chakra began healing them.
• The Four-Tails returned to its seal, leaving the unconscious Roshi behind with a new Lava Release chakra mark reinforcing his seal.
• An Iwagakure strategist reported to Ōnoki that Konoha’s fierce attacks had advanced the frontline nearly five kilometers.
• The strategist explained that Konoha’s diverse chakra releases, secret technique clans, and specialized squads gave it a major battlefield advantage.

Ōnoki reviewed Iwagakure’s mounting setbacks against Konoha and expected Roshi and Han to return with Saiki Yuu’s corpse. A messenger reported that Saiki Yuu had defeated the Four-Tails and Roshi, while Han escaped and collapsed after returning to Iwagakure.

• The Think Tank reported that Konoha’s clans and elite squads had seized key positions and inflicted heavy losses on Iwagakure.
• Ōnoki acknowledged that Iwagakure was struggling against Konoha’s forces across multiple fronts, but expected Roshi and Han to kill Saiki Yuu.
• A stone ninja rushed into the War Room and announced that Han had returned.
• The messenger said Saiki Yuu had severely wounded Roshi, suppressed the released Four-Tails with one sword strike, and left Roshi’s fate unknown.
• The messenger reported that Han had fled back after realizing he could not defeat Saiki Yuu, then passed out.

Iwagakure learned that Saiki Yuu had subdued the Four-Tails and left Roshi’s fate uncertain, prompting Ōnoki to collapse in the war room. Roshi awoke in darkness and found the badly wounded Four-Tails crying, relieved and joyful.

• A Stone Ninja reported that Roshi’s fate was unknown, Han had fled, and Saiki Yuu had suppressed the Four-Tails’ rampage.
• Ōnoki blacked out and fell backward, throwing the war room into chaos.
• Roshi, believing himself dead, recalled that the Four-Tails might have broken free and killed him.
• Roshi heard a faint cry and saw the injured Four-Tails licking its wound, its eyes filled with tears and relief.

Yuu brought the captured Four-Tails Jinchuriki Roshi to Tsunade and the Konoha shinobi, who were astonished that he had taken Roshi alive. Roshi tried to draw on Tailed Beast chakra, but Yuu stopped him with a slap.

• Roshi awoke and realized he had been captured alive.
• Tsunade and the Konoha shinobi marveled that Yuu had captured the Four-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Yuu joked that Roshi was weak and said he would give him a lesson later.
• Roshi tried to summon Tailed Beast chakra to take everyone down with him.
• Yuu slapped Roshi and told him to stop screaming.

Yuu subdued Roshi and discovered that the Four-Tails had sealed its chakra inside Roshi itself. Minato explained what had happened to Konoha’s people, who stared at Yuu in awe.

• Yuu struck Roshi until Tsunade pulled him away and warned that he might beat Roshi to death.
• Roshi tried to contact the Four-Tails but received no answer and wondered why it could not help him.
• Roshi saw lava-like markings around his seal and realized the Four-Tails had returned to his body and locked itself in.
• Roshi was taken away from the Iwagakure and Konoha Frontline Camp.
• Tsunade asked whether Roshi’s Tailed Beast chakra needed sealing, and Minato explained what had happened.
• Konoha’s people listened to Minato and looked at Yuu with awe.

Yuu returned to Konoha after capturing the Four-Tails Jinchuriki Roshi alive, leaving the village stunned that he had made the beast seal itself away. He then put Konoha’s strategists to work figuring out how much alcohol to extort from the Third Hokage.

• Yuu’s victory over the Four-Tails astonished Konoha’s elite, who recalled the destruction its past rampages had caused in Iwagakure.
• Tsunade praised Yuu’s safe return and reported that Konoha’s offensive had inflicted severe losses on Iwagakure.
• Shikaku Nara and Konoha’s strategists watched Yuu, expecting him to share another military strategy.
• Yuu revealed that he was calculating how much alcohol to extort from the Third Hokage, disappointing the strategists.
• Yuu assigned Shikaku and the strategists to study the supplies the Third Hokage should pay him.

Yuu and Tsunade prepared Konoha for a decisive battle against Iwagakure after capturing the Four-Tails. The chapter ended with Konoha’s forces mobilized and ready to attack.

• Yuu threatened to settle the score with the old man who had deceived him, while Tsunade reviewed the strategists’ plans to get more fine wine for Yuu.
• Tsunade said that capturing the Four-Tails had shifted the balance of power in Konoha’s favor, though the Five-Tails had escaped.
• Minato revealed that he had caught a rare piece of game with the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Yuu warned him he would cut him down next time.
• Shikaku Nara told Yuu that the Think Tank considered the moment ideal for a decisive battle because Iwagakure had lost the Four-Tails and Konoha held the advantage.
• Yuu ordered Konoha to launch the decisive battle, and the village sent supplies to the front as its forces prepared to fight.