Chapter Summaries

After the battle in the Yoshiwara Pleasure District, Uchiha Hikari discussed Tanjiro’s Hinokami Kagura and promised to arrange further training for him and his friends. Muzan saw Hikari through the Daki siblings’ eyes and demanded that Kokushibo find the identity of the girl he feared.

• Uzui Tengen and Iguro Obanai wondered why the Upper Moons had stopped resisting when Uchiha Hikari appeared, and Hikari joked that they suspected her of being Muzan.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Tanjiro about the strange images he saw while using Hinokami Kagura and offered to arrange guidance from Rengoku Kyoujurou.
• Uchiha Hikari promised to take Tanjiro to Korin Tower to explore whether he could cultivate ki, and agreed to find training for Agatsuma Zenitsu and Inosuke.
• Uchiha Hikari wondered why Muzan had not sent anyone to confront her since she first appeared as Yoriichi.
• Muzan saw Hikari’s arrival through the Daki siblings’ eyes, panicked at her abilities, and demanded that Kokushibo uncover her identity.
• Kokushibo told Muzan he still had found no clues, and Muzan angrily challenged his explanation.

Muzan blamed the Ubuyashiki Clan for the Demon Slayer Corps’ recent successes and ordered Nakime to summon the Upper Moons. After Upper Moon Six’s defeat, Ubuyashiki Kagaya thanked Uchiha Hikari and Bulma with gifts, including a sacred sword that Hikari recognized as imbued with spiritual power.

• Kokushibo told Muzan that he had found no trace of Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s reincarnation and insisted that Yoriichi could not have come back to life.
• Muzan concluded that Ubuyashiki Kagaya’s precognitive ability had revealed Hikari and the demons’ weaknesses, then ordered Nakime to summon all the Upper Moons and preserve their strength.
• Ubuyashiki Kagaya celebrated Upper Moon Six’s defeat and visited Hikari and Bulma with his wife and daughters to thank them.
• Ubuyashiki Kagaya presented Hikari with several mysterious objects, including the sacred sword Demon Cutter, prayer beads, a bow, a necklace, a flute, and a mirror.
• Hikari examined Demon Cutter and sensed that generations of wielders had left spiritual power within it, then stored the gifts to study later.

Uchiha Hikari used Impure World Reincarnation to bring Tanjiro and Nezuko’s mother and siblings back temporarily, reuniting them with their family. After Kamado Kie offered to help, Hikari said she might need to use her body for experiments.

• Bulma gave Ubuyashiki Kagaya the modified Laser Sword and warned him about its dangers and self-destruct function.
• Uchiha Hikari, Bulma, Tanjiro, and Rengoku Kyoujurou went to the Kamado family home on the Snow Mountain, where Hikari searched the area and collected possible Blue Spider Lily bulbs.
• Hikari dug up the Kamado family graves and used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Kamado Kie in a demon’s body.
• Kamado Kie embraced Tanjiro and Nezuko, and Hikari then reincarnated Kamado Takeo, Shigeru, Hanako, and Rokuta as well.
• Hikari stored the coffins and corpses in Capsule Corp, while Kamado Kie explained that she had sometimes watched events from the other world and offered to help Hikari.
• Hikari apologized to Kamado Kie and said she might need to use her body for experiments.

Uchiha Hikari tested Impure World Reincarnation on Kamado Kie and her children, then left the Demon Slayer world with Bulma. Rengoku Kyoujurou and Uzui Tengen agreed to manage the aftermath and guessed that the visitors were gods.

• Uchiha Hikari severed Kamado Kie's limbs and head to test how the Impure World Reincarnation body regenerated, while her Shadow Clones held back the children.
• Uchiha Hikari explained the technique's strengths and flaws, including that its revived bodies could heal, did not age, and could endure sunlight.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Rengoku Kyoujurou and Uzui Tengen to help handle the consequences and decide whether to inform the other Hashira and Mr. Ubuyashiki.
• Uchiha Hikari and Bulma said goodbye and vanished in streaks of white light, leaving Tanjiro to watch over Kamado Kie and the others.
• Rengoku Kyoujurou and Uzui Tengen speculated that Uchiha Hikari and Bulma were divine beings, while Tanjiro remained confused.

Uchiha Hikari returned to Naruto’s home in Konoha after being away for three weeks, while Sarutobi Hiruzen learned she had reappeared without detection. The next morning, Hikari reunited with Naruto and prepared to go shopping for New Year goods, just as someone knocked at the door.

• Uchiha Hikari returned to Naruto’s bedroom and chatted with Bulma and the others in the group before going to sleep.
• Kakashi reported Hikari’s sudden return to Sarutobi Hiruzen and suspected she had used space-time ninjutsu to bypass Konoha’s surveillance.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Kakashi to accompany him to find Jiraiya.
• Uchiha Hikari found Naruto cleaning the living room and learned that Sarutobi Hiruzen and a white-haired man had visited while she was away.
• Uchiha Hikari threw away most of the books Naruto had received, then planned to buy New Year goods with him after breakfast.
• Someone knocked at Naruto’s door as Hikari and Naruto finished eating.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Jiraiya visited Naruto and Uchiha Hikari, who confronted them about Jiraiya’s past and heard their news about the Uchiha Clan. Hikari claimed Minato was in the Death God’s stomach and said he had taught her the Flying Thunder God, leaving Hiruzen and Jiraiya startled.

• Naruto welcomed Sarutobi Hiruzen and Jiraiya, and Hikari exposed Jiraiya’s history of peeping on women’s bathhouses.
• Hikari returned to the living room after Hiruzen said he had matters to discuss with her, while Naruto went to wash the dishes.
• Hiruzen told Hikari about Uchiha clan members joining the Ninja Academy and Jonin Class, and about unexplained disturbances near the Naka River.
• Hiruzen explained that Jiraiya wanted to know about Minato, and Hikari said Minato was staying in the Death God’s stomach.
• Hikari told Hiruzen and Jiraiya that Minato had taught her the Flying Thunder God, and both men were startled.

Uchiha Hikari showed Jiraiya and Sarutobi Hiruzen that Minato had taught her the Rasengan, then challenged Hiruzen’s defense of Konoha’s treatment of the Uchiha Clan and the Will of Fire. Hiruzen was left unable to answer her arguments, while Jiraiya regarded her with new seriousness.

• Uchiha Hikari demonstrated the Rasengan, and Jiraiya recognized it as Minato’s technique.
• Jiraiya asked Uchiha Hikari to look after Naruto, and she said she planned to move out but would not let Hiruzen impose the Will of Fire on him.
• Uchiha Hikari questioned Hiruzen about how Konoha would have handled the Uchiha Clan without her intervention.
• Hiruzen admitted that Konoha might have urged Fugaku to punish the rebellion’s supposed instigators, and Uchiha Hikari challenged the village’s accusations and priorities.
• Uchiha Hikari argued that people mattered more than preserving Konoha’s interests, leaving Hiruzen speechless and Jiraiya studying her intently.

Uchiha Hikari challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen and Jiraiya’s beliefs, then prepared to leave Naruto’s home for the Uchiha Compound. After she departed, Hiruzen and Jiraiya questioned what her origins and ideas meant for Konoha’s future.

• Uchiha Hikari dismissed Sarutobi Hiruzen and Jiraiya after criticizing the Will of Fire, and they left Minato Namikaze’s house deed behind.
• Uchiha Hikari reassured Naruto that she was moving for personal reasons and promised to visit him before leaving for the Military Police Force Building.
• Jiraiya asked Sarutobi Hiruzen whether the account of Uchiha Hikari’s past was accurate, while both men reflected on her unusual nature and her criticism of Konoha.
• Jiraiya wondered whether Uchiha Hikari, rather than Minato Namikaze, might be the person in the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Jiraiya whether he had sensed an aura like Minato’s Flying Thunder God at Naruto’s home.

Jiraiya and Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed whether Uchiha Hikari could contact Minato and the fallout from the Root Base’s destruction, while Tsunade prepared to return and kill Danzo. Hikari investigated repeated intrusions near the Naka River with Fugaku, where Minato warned that the Masked Man’s space-time ninjutsu would leave few clues.

• Jiraiya told Sarutobi Hiruzen that meeting Minato through the Death God was not theoretically impossible, though he could not confirm how the Flying Thunder God technique worked.
• Jiraiya gave Sarutobi Hiruzen Shizune’s letter, which said Tsunade had left the casino and was returning to kill Danzo for experimenting with the First Hokage’s Cells.
• Uchiha Hikari visited Fugaku at the Military Police Force and learned that the barrier near the Naka River had been breached repeatedly, most recently three days earlier.
• Uchiha Hikari carried Fugaku to the Naka River and examined the area where the intrusions had been detected.
• Minato told the group chat that the Masked Man’s strange space-time ninjutsu would make him difficult to detect even if Minato were present.

Uchiha Hikari joined Uchiha Fugaku and Konoha forces searching the forest, where they encountered Kirigakure ninja using the Hidden Mist Technique. After deflecting a sudden Shikotsumyaku attack, Hikari spotted Konoha fighters badly outnumbered and struggling below.

• Uchiha Hikari decided not to tell Minato Namikaze that the Masked Man was Obito and considered the risks of Minato traveling from the Death God's belly.
• Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Fugaku met Izumi and Inuzuka Hana while the Military Police Force searched the area.
• Inuzuka Hana reported that her mother had followed fresh tracks, then a signal flare revealed her location.
• Uchiha Hikari flew toward the flare and found a dense Hidden Mist Technique obscuring a battle in the forest.
• Kaguya Clan ninjas attacked Uchiha Hikari with Shikotsumyaku, but she blasted them away with Wind Release and glimpsed Konoha forces fighting Kirigakure ninja.

Uchiha Hikari fought three Kirigakure assassins in the mist and uncovered Uchiha Obito’s presence. She struck him with Amaterasu as he escaped through Kamui, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Uchiha Hikari evaded two Kaguya clansmen and a Hozuki clansman, then used her sword and Breathing techniques to overpower them.
• Uchiha Hikari trapped the three Kirigakure ninjas with a genjutsu, but explosive tags hidden on the Kaguya clansmen detonated and engulfed the area.
• Uchiha Hikari emerged in a dark red Susanoo and killed the fleeing Hozuki clansman with a Wind Breathing sword strike.
• Uchiha Hikari spotted Uchiha Obito in the mist and pursued him with a Crimson Flame Slash.
• Uchiha Obito used Kamui to escape, but Uchiha Hikari’s Amaterasu caught him and was pulled into the Kamui Dimension with him.

Uchiha Hikari defeated the Hidden Mist Ninja and helped Konoha secure the battlefield. After the Inuzuka Clan offered her Ninja Dog puppies, she accepted, while other clans’ efforts to find their own “Grand Ancestors” were revealed.

• Uchiha Hikari killed a Hozuki clansman, drove off Obito, and cut through the remaining Hidden Mist Ninja with her sword techniques.
• Uchiha Fugaku, Izumi, Inuzuka Hana, and the others arrived after the battle, then checked the Hidden Mist Ninja for Exploding Tags and hidden poison.
• Inuzuka Tsume thanked Uchiha Hikari, who asked whether the Inuzuka Clan could give puppies to outsiders.
• Inuzuka Tsume and Inuzuka Hana offered to send Uchiha Hikari several gentle puppies, and she accepted.
• The chapter noted that the Hyuga, Nara, and Yamanaka clans were searching their records and graves for their own “Grand Ancestors.”

Uchiha Hikari suspected that Obito had learned about her Tsukuyomi and considered whether Itachi might be connected to him, while Fugaku asked her to train Itachi and Shisui. After surviving her attack, Obito regrouped with Zetsu and decided to revise his plans against the Uchiha.

• Fugaku introduced Itachi to Uchiha Hikari and asked her to guide his training alongside Shisui, and she agreed to assess them in a few days.
• Uchiha Hikari reasoned that Obito’s knowledge of Tsukuyomi could have come from several witnesses or Black Zetsu, and considered checking Itachi’s memories for signs of contact with Obito.
• Obito escaped to a forest outside Konoha after using Izanagi to negate the damage from Hikari’s Amaterasu, losing the light in his left eye.
• Obito told Zetsu that Hikari was a formidable threat and decided to delay the Uchiha clan-destruction plan until they had dealt with her and Shisui.
• Obito and Zetsu left to arrange their next moves after the Hidden Mist ninja they had brought were wiped out.

After Kirigakure ninja attacked near Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen and the village leaders arranged security measures and compensation while Uchiha Hikari took Naruto shopping for New Year. Hikari then agreed that Bulma could visit Konoha that weekend.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen reviewed the Military Police Force and Anbu reports about the Mist Village Attack and summoned Jiraiya, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura to discuss it.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the advisors ordered stronger patrols and barriers, interrogations of captured Hidden Mist Ninja, a protest to Kirigakure, and compensation for the casualties.
• Uchiha Hikari left the village leaders to handle the aftermath and took Naruto through Konoha’s commercial district to buy New Year goods and clothes.
• Uchiha Hikari sent Minato Namikaze a photo of Naruto in his new outfit, and Bulma asked to visit Konoha.
• Uchiha Hikari told Bulma she could come, and Bulma said she would pack and arrive that weekend.

Uchiha Hikari arranged for Naruto to help care for two Ninja Dogs, then introduced him to Bulma and showed her around Konoha. Near the village gate, Hikari spotted Tsunade returning.

• Uchiha Hikari chose two puppies from the ones Inuzuka Hana brought, and Naruto agreed to help raise them.
• Inuzuka Hana introduced Naruto to her younger brother Kiba and suggested they could become friends.
• Naruto named the puppies Rice Cake and Rice Ball.
• Uchiha Hikari brought Bulma to meet Naruto, and Bulma gave him candy.
• Uchiha Hikari, Bulma, and Naruto toured Konoha, where Hikari spotted Tsunade near the village gate.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and attacked Danzō in the hospital while Uchiha Hikari, Naruto, and Bulma watched. Tsunade stopped when she saw Danzō’s blood, revealing that her hemophobia remained unresolved.

• Tsunade arrived in Konoha with Kato Shizune and headed toward the Hidden Leaf Hospital as villagers discussed recent events.
• Uchiha Hikari recognized Tsunade and brought Naruto and Bulma along to watch what she expected would be interesting.
• Tsunade found Danzō in his hospital ward and attacked him, destroying his bed and damaging the wall as he fled.
• Tsunade caught up with Danzō outside the hospital and struck his shoulder, leaving him badly injured.
• Tsunade froze at the sight of Danzō’s blood, and Shizune helped the Anbu move him away while Uchiha Hikari recognized Tsunade’s hemophobia.

After Tsunade attacked Danzo, Hiruzen intervened and introduced her to Hikari, who learned Tsunade had returned to Konoha. Hikari then asked Hiruzen to help her learn Tsunade’s forehead mark, or grant her access to Konoha’s Yin-Yang Release materials instead.

• Hiruzen arrived with Anbu and persuaded Tsunade to stop attacking Danzo until his crimes could be investigated and he could stand trial.
• Tsunade asked Hikari, Bulma, and their companion why they had followed her, and Bulma asked for a breast-enhancement formula.
• Hiruzen explained that Tsunade did not know Hikari’s identity, and Tsunade realized Hikari was the Uchiha who had destroyed Root.
• Tsunade left with Shizune after Hikari said she would not take offense, and Hiruzen told Hikari that the Mist Village attackers had acted on Yagura Karatachi’s orders to seize the Uchiha’s Kekkei Genkai.
• Hikari asked Hiruzen to arrange for her to obtain Tsunade’s forehead mark or, failing that, to read Konoha’s Yin-Yang Release materials for two days.

Uchiha Hikari secured two days of access to Konoha's archives so she could study Yin-Yang Release, then spent time showing Bulma around the village. The chapter ended with the two sharing a bed and Hikari warning Bulma away from Konoha's hot springs because of the village's perverts.

• Uchiha Hikari persuaded Sarutobi Hiruzen to let her read in Konoha's archives for two days, intending to photograph the materials for the group.
• Uchiha Hikari explained the ninja world's wars and short lifespans to Bulma, then took her out for barbecue.
• Uchiha Hikari and Bulma shared a bed for the night, and Bulma teased Hikari for blushing.
• Uchiha Hikari trained several Shadow Clones while taking Bulma to see Konoha's sights.
• Uchiha Hikari stopped Bulma from visiting Hot Spring Street and promised to take her to hot springs elsewhere instead.

Tsunade rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen’s request to teach Uchiha Hikari and refused the prospect of becoming Hokage, while Jiraiya also declined the position. Hikari celebrated New Year with Bulma and Naruto, then woke to find three new members had joined the chat group.

• Tsunade refused to teach Hikari the Yin Seal, offered the Senju archives’ keys, and demanded that Sarutobi Hiruzen decide Danzo’s punishment.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Jiraiya and Tsunade to succeed him as Fifth Hokage, but both rejected the position.
• Hikari read scrolls on Yin-Yang Release and celebrated New Year with Bulma and Naruto by setting off fireworks from Hokage Rock.
• Bulma returned home, and Hikari spent a snowy morning dozing in bed instead of training.
• Hikari’s chat group announced that “Little Monster,” “Secluded Priestess” (Clay State), and “Haunted by Evil Spirits” had joined.

Uchiha Hikari watched three newcomers join the chat group, where Kikyo and Miko Yotsuya introduced themselves and learned about the group. The silent Little Monster then recognized Bulma and described a story about Dragon Warriors searching for the Holy Grail to defend the Zanskar Empire.

• Bulma welcomed the three newcomers and introduced herself, while Kikyo investigated the unfamiliar chat group as she prepared to visit a samurai's Master.
• Nameless and Minato explained how the chat group connected different worlds, and Tanjiro introduced himself as a Demon Slayer Corps member.
• Miko Yotsuya learned that her chat nickname might foreshadow her fate, and Kikyo offered to help her and Tanjiro with supernatural threats.
• Kikyo and Tanjiro discussed the differences between demons and yokai in their worlds.
• Uchiha Hikari prompted the quiet Little Monster, who recognized Bulma and described her as a Dragon Warrior searching for the Holy Grail with Goku to protect the Zanskar Empire from Britannia.