Chapter Summaries

The Sand and Cloud Alliance’s main camp learned that Konoha had destroyed all three defensive lines in a surprise night attack, inflicting nearly three thousand casualties. Ebizo blamed Saiki Yuu for the bold strategy as the alliance faced rebuilding its defenses and battlefield intelligence.

• Sand and Cloud survivors reported that Konoha had attacked under cover of darkness with the aid of massive summoned beasts.
• The Fourth Raikage smashed the command table and berated Ebizo and Chiyo for claiming Konoha would not attack.
• Ebizo explained that the alliance had lost all three bridgeheads and estimated that Konoha had used Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Minato Namikaze to overwhelm the defenses.
• Ebizo concluded that Saiki Yuu had ordered the unexpected attack.

Ebizo and the Fourth Raikage realized Saiki Yuu had caused devastating losses before the allied forces even faced him. Yuu’s black-violet beams appeared over the Sand and Cloud camp, and terrified shinobi recognized his arrival.

• Ebizo concluded that Saiki Yuu’s attack on Sunagakure had revealed both his power and strategic intelligence.
• The Fourth Raikage learned that Saiki Yuu’s order had cost the Cloud-Sand Allied Forces more than three thousand men and ordered the troops to rebuild the bridgehead.
• The ground shook, and towering black-violet beams appeared across the Sand and Cloud Alliance camp.
• A sand shinobi recognized the beams as the light that had cleaved Sunagakure in half and screamed that Saiki Yuu had arrived.

Saiki Yuu’s massive black-purple slashes tore through the Cloud-Sand Allied Forces’ main camp before the army had even begun its attack. Fourth Raikage A and Killer B prepared to stop the slashes as the camp descended into chaos.

• Saiki Yuu’s sword pressure transformed purple-black beams into enormous slashes that smashed through the camp’s Earth Style gates.
• The slashes ravaged the camp, destroying tents and triggering explosions at storage sites filled with Explosive Tags.
• Fourth Raikage A, Rasa, Chiyo, and the others appeared in the center of the camp and watched the allied shinobi flee.
• Fourth Raikage A activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode—Full Power Mode and ordered Killer B to help destroy the slashes.
• Killer B agreed and called on Hachi as he prepared to move with Fourth Raikage A.

Killer B entered Tailed Beast Mode and joined the Fourth Raikage in stopping Saiki Yuu’s slashes from destroying the Allied Forces camp. Unable to break the attacks quickly, the Fourth Raikage called on Rasa to handle the remaining slash.

• Killer B and the Eight-Tails gathered chakra, and Killer B transformed into Tailed Beast Mode.
• Chiyo and Rasa were shocked by the power of Killer B’s transformation.
• The Fourth Raikage and Killer B struck two of Saiki Yuu’s slashes, but their attacks only produced explosions and shockwaves.
• The Fourth Raikage realized they could not break the slashes quickly enough to stop another one from ravaging the camp.
• The Fourth Raikage asked Rasa to handle the remaining slash, and Rasa agreed.

Rasa tried to prove his strength and win authority among the Allied Forces by using Gold Dust to stop the slash. His attack surged toward it as the Fourth Raikage, Chiyo, and the others recognized the danger of his approach.

• Rasa resented having less influence in the Allied Forces than the Fourth Raikage, Chiyo, and Ebizo.
• Rasa decided that stopping the slash would prove he was stronger than the Fourth Raikage and Killer B and earn him prestige.
• Rasa used Magnet Release—Gold Dust Wave to send a massive river of Gold Dust and sand toward the slash.
• The Cloud Ninja and sand shinobi cheered Rasa’s display, while the Fourth Raikage, Chiyo, and the others glared at him in alarm.

Saiki Yuu’s slash shattered Rasa’s massive sea of Gold Dust and sand, sending the collapsing wave toward the Allied Forces’ camp. Rasa stood stunned as Chiyo cursed him, and the allied ninja faced the incoming debris.

• Saiki Yuu’s blackish-purple slash pierced Rasa’s sea of sand and caused it to collapse.
• Rasa froze as the collapsing sand surged toward the Allied Forces’ camp.
• The allied ninja shouted for everyone to run while Cloud Ninja and sand shinobi panicked.
• Chiyo cursed Rasa for meeting Saiki Yuu’s slash with a large-scale attack.
• The shattered Gold Dust and sand rushed toward the Allied Forces’ camp like a raging wave.

Rasa lost control of the Gold Dust Sand Sea after Saiki Yuu’s slash weakened it, and it crashed into the Allied Forces camp despite Chiyo’s evacuation order. As the sand shinobi lost their will to fight, the Fourth Raikage and Killer B attacked the slash threatening them.

• Chiyo ordered Rasa to control the collapsing Gold Dust, and he struggled to slow the Sand Sea with his chakra.
• Chiyo urged the Allied Forces ninja to evacuate, and most escaped before Rasa released his hold.
• The uncontrolled Sand Sea buried tents, supplies, and several ninja in the Allied Forces camp.
• A sand shinobi and other Sunagakure ninja lost hope as they recalled Saiki Yuu’s destruction of their village.
• The Fourth Raikage shattered the slash with Raikiri, while Killer B struck it with the Eight-Tails’ chakra.

Saiki Yuu unleashed a vast blade-filled barrier toward the Allied Forces' camp, revealing how completely he had fused Six Paths Power with his swordsmanship. The Eight-Tails recognized that the attack countered tailed beast power and urged Killer B to use Form Two as they prepared to face it.

• The Cloud Ninja cheered as the Raikage and Killer B's slashes shattered Saiki Yuu's earlier attacks, restoring some Allied Forces morale.
• Saiki Yuu sent his nearly hundred-meter-wide All Creation - Sword Storm toward the Allied Forces' camp.
• The Eight-Tails realized Saiki Yuu had mastered the Six Paths Power as part of his own swordsmanship.
• The Eight-Tails warned Killer B that Form One could not withstand the attack and told him to go straight into Form Two.
• Killer B trusted the Eight-Tails, agreed to fight alongside it, and vanished from the space.

Killer B and the Fourth Raikage joined forces to attack Saiki Yuu’s approaching oval barrier before it could reach the Allied Forces’ camp. They launched their assault while demanding that Saiki Yuu show himself, but the chapter ended before the barrier’s fate was revealed.

• The Eight-Tails recognized that Killer B had seen through his turmoil, and Killer B declared that they would face Saiki Yuu together.
• Killer B entered his partial Tailed Beast Transformation, forming eight tails and growing bones from his elbows while retaining his composure.
• The Fourth Raikage activated Full Power Lightning Chakra Mode and ordered them to attack the approaching barrier together.
• The Fourth Raikage charged the barrier with Lightning Release: Heavy Stone Bullet, and Killer B rushed after him.
• The Fourth Raikage shouted at Saiki Yuu to show himself and struck toward the oval barrier.

Saiki Yuu trapped the Fourth Raikage inside an oval barrier filled with deadly sword energy, leaving the Cloud Ninja unable to reach him. Killer B considered using a Tailed Beast Bomb, but the Eight-Tails warned that it could put the Fourth Raikage in greater danger.

• The Fourth Raikage struck the oval barrier, but his attack sank into it and its collapsing force dragged him inside.
• Killer B and the Cloud Ninja panicked as the Fourth Raikage was pulled toward a web of interwoven slashes.
• The Cloud Ninja attacked the barrier with Lightning Release, but the slashes cut apart every bolt of lightning.
• Killer B asked the Eight-Tails to use a Tailed Beast Bomb, but the Eight-Tails stopped him and cautioned that the attack might endanger the Fourth Raikage.

Saiki Yuu trapped the Fourth Raikage inside a sword-energy barrier shaped by Six Paths Power, where relentless slashes drained his chakra. The Fourth Raikage unleashed his full strength and carved a temporary passage out, but the slashes began closing in around it.

• The Eight-Tails watched the barrier cautiously and held back from attacking while sensing it through Killer B.
• The Fourth Raikage endured the slashes with his Lightning Armor as his chakra rapidly dwindled.
• The Fourth Raikage grew furious that Saiki Yuu was trying to kill him without appearing, recalling his father’s death at Saiki Yuu’s hands.
• The Fourth Raikage unleashed all his chakra with Lightning Release—Rage of the Thunder God! Dance of a Thousand Years.
• The Fourth Raikage spun amid a surge of lightning and carved a passage through the barrier, but the surrounding slashes began to converge on it.

The Fourth Raikage escaped the sword-energy barrier, exhausted but nearly unharmed, and the Allied Forces celebrated his survival. A quiet voice then silenced the swords inside the barrier and unsettled the camp.

• The Fourth Raikage used Raikiri to slash through the attacks and escape the barrier at the last moment.
• Killer B supported the exhausted Fourth Raikage and joked with him as Cloud Ninja rejoiced.
• Chiyo and the Sunagakure elites admired the Fourth Raikage’s strength and reprimanded Rasa for nearly endangering the Allied Forces.
• Chiyo urged Rasa to learn the responsibility of being a Kage, and he silently agreed.
• A quiet voice spoke from the distance, making the swords inside the barrier fall silent and then move along a strange trajectory.

Saiki Yuu arrived before the Allied Forces after unleashing a devastating slash, and his presence sent the shinobi into terror. He taunted the Fourth Raikage and turned his attention toward Killer B, raising Shusui.

• Saiki Yuu approached the halted barrier with wine in hand, and the Allied Forces recognized him as the monster who had killed the Third Raikage and slaughtered thousands of Sand shinobi.
• Chiyo stared at Yuu with hatred and buried fear, while other shinobi recoiled from his black blade, Shusui.
• Yuu asked the Fourth Raikage whether he had enjoyed playing and mocked him as a slow-running “Little Electric Mouse.”
• The Fourth Raikage roared at Yuu, who then compared him unfavorably to A and raised Shusui toward Killer B.

Yuu confronted Killer B by manifesting a towering black-purple Shura infused with sword intent and Armament Haki. As the Shura grew beyond fifty meters, the Allied Forces’ ninjas despaired at the threat before them.

• Yuu taunted Killer B and raised Shusui, coating the blade in Armament Haki.
• Yuu’s sword intent formed a black-purple Shura around him, alarming Killer B and prompting the Eight-Tails to warn him to use his full strength.
• Killer B drew on Tailed Beast chakra to resist Yuu’s sword intent and steadied himself for the fight.
• Yuu’s Shura expanded beyond fifty meters as black-purple lightning raced around it and dark clouds gathered overhead.
• The Allied Forces’ ninjas and Chiyo watched the Shura descend and feared they could not defeat Yuu.

Chiyo recognized that Saiki Yuu had become even more dangerous and ordered Pakura to bring out the One-Tail Jinchuriki test subject for a decisive battle. Meanwhile, Yuu’s attack forced Killer B to partially transform into the Eight-Tails as the exhausted Fourth Raikage watched.

• Chiyo judged Saiki Yuu’s slash to be nearly as dangerous as his earlier attack and told Pakura to prepare the Jinchuriki test subject.
• Pakura accepted Chiyo’s order and rushed to the secluded area where the One-Tail’s temporary Jinchuriki was sealed.
• Yuu challenged Killer B and gathered the black-purple lightning of his Sword World into Shusui for a powerful slash.
• Killer B unleashed his remaining Tailed Beast chakra and entered Form Two partial transformation to face Yuu’s attack.
• The Fourth Raikage, still depleted from breaking through the Sword World, watched Killer B protect him and cursed his inability to help.

Yuu unleashed a massive black-violet sword slash at Killer B, who countered with a Tailed Beast Bomb and escaped with the Fourth Raikage. The explosion devastated the battlefield, but an enraged sword cry rose over the blast.

• Yuu brought his sword intent to its peak and unleashed One-Sword Style—Asura at Killer B.
• Yuu’s slash destroyed Killer B’s oval barrier and devoured the slashes within it as it closed in.
• Killer B formed and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the incoming slash, then carried the Fourth Raikage away.
• The clash caused a massive explosion that engulfed everything within several kilometers and shocked the Allied Forces ninja.
• A sword cry rang out over the explosion, drowning out its roar.

The Allied Forces despaired when Killer B’s Tailed Beast Bomb seemed unable to damage Saiki Yuu’s lightning-wreathed slash, but the Eight-Tails sensed that the attack had weakened. The Fourth Raikage joined Killer B to face it, and Yugito arrived despite Killer B’s protest.

• The Allied Forces watched Saiki Yuu’s slash withstand Killer B’s Tailed Beast Bomb and lost hope.
• The Eight-Tails sensed that the energy coating the slash had diminished and urged Killer B to keep fighting.
• The Fourth Raikage struck Killer B to snap him out of his despair, then offered to fight alongside him.
• Yugito joined the confrontation, and Killer B warned her that facing Saiki Yuu was dangerous.
• Yugito rejected Killer B’s warning and insisted she would not hide in the rear.

Saiki Yuu provoked Yugito by calling her a she-cat, while the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails discussed the Six Paths Power they sensed in him. The Eight-Tails confirmed that Yuu seemed to have inherited the Sage of Six Paths' power, leaving the Two-Tails alarmed at the possibility of being captured.

• Yuu called Yugito a she-cat and said he wanted her to warm his feet, angering her.
• The Two-Tails appeared in the Eight-Tails' inner world and questioned why Yuu seemed to know them.
• The Two-Tails asked whether Yuu's power was the Sage of Six Paths' power.
• The Eight-Tails confirmed that it was and suspected Yuu had inherited it.

Eight-Tails and Two-Tails agreed to fight Saiki Yuu, fearing what he might do to the Tailed Beasts if they lost. As Yuu’s slash approached, Killer B transformed into the full Eight-Tails to meet it.

• Eight-Tails speculated that Saiki Yuu had less power than the Six Paths Old Man, giving the Tailed Beasts a chance to fight back.
• Two-Tails agreed to help Eight-Tails, promising not to hold back against Yuu to protect Yugito.
• Eight-Tails warned Killer B that the Tailed Beasts faced danger if they lost, then prepared to pour his chakra into him.
• Killer B struck a pose and told Eight-Tails to give him all his power, despite Eight-Tails criticizing his words.
• Killer B transformed into the full Eight-Tails and blocked Yuu’s approaching slash, shattering the ground with the impact.

Yugito, the Two-Tails, the Eight-Tails, and the Fourth Raikage combined their attacks to shatter Saiki Yuu’s slash, but the tailed beasts realized his power could harm them directly. Yuu treated them as future sources of wine and prepared to take them back to Konoha.

• Yugito and the Two-Tails transformed and joined the Eight-Tails and the Fourth Raikage in striking Yuu’s slash.
• The combined attack shattered the slash, but the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails were left in pain and shock.
• The Eight-Tails recognized that Yuu’s attack could harm tailed beasts and their souls, and wondered about his power.
• Yuu hoped the One-Tail would appear too, then drank his wine and told the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails to let him cut them down and take them to Konoha.