Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Hikari checked on Erii after she returned to the Dragon World, while Erii’s family tried to understand her disappearance and prepared to move her to a safe house. When Tachibana Masamune secretly confronted Erii for Uchiha Hikari’s identity, Hikari appeared beside them and asked if he was looking for her.

• Erii told Uchiha Hikari that her family might cause trouble for her, then returned to the Dragon World and was treated for contaminated blood.
• Minamoto Chizuru and Tachibana Masamune learned that Erii had written down names from Naruto and suspected a powerful kidnapper named Hikari had returned her.
• Minamoto Chizuru ordered preparations for a new safe house, while Erii messaged Uchiha Hikari that her family planned to give her another serum injection.
• After the medical team left Erii alone, Tachibana Masamune returned to her room and demanded that she reveal the kidnapper’s real identity.
• Tachibana Masamune grabbed Erii’s wrist, but Uchiha Hikari appeared and seized his hand, asking whether he was looking for her.

Uchiha Hikari attacked Tachibana Masamune at Minamoto Heavy Industries and battled the guards who tried to stop her. Minamoto Chizuru intervened to protect his father and sister, and Hikari began casting a genjutsu on him.

• Uchiha Hikari used Tsukuyomi to daze Tachibana Masamune, crushed his wrist, and threw him into a cabinet.
• Erii pleaded with Hikari not to hurt her brother, and Hikari promised she would not.
• Tachibana Masamune summoned armed guards, but Hikari blocked their gunfire with Susanoo and carved a burning path through the corridor.
• Hikari fought through the guards and advanced on Masamune until Minamoto Chizuru arrived and struck at her with his sword.
• Minamoto Chizuru vowed to protect Erii and Masamune, and Hikari began casting Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death on him.

Uchiha Hikari used her Sharingan and Susanoo to overpower Minamoto Chizuru and the Execution Department officers while pursuing Tachibana Masamune. When Minamoto Chizuru unleashed his Kotodama, Kingship, Hikari remained unaffected, leading him to suspect she was a Dragon King.

• Uchiha Hikari trapped Minamoto Chizuru and the Execution Department officers in a Sharingan-enhanced Tree Binding Death illusion, while Tachibana Masamune recognized that she had used another Kotodama.
• Minamoto Chizuru broke free and attacked Hikari with the Heart-Shaped Sword Style, but she dodged his strikes and sent a Shadow Clone to hold him off.
• Hikari used Thunder Breathing to reach Tachibana Masamune, disarmed the officers guarding him, and pinned him against the wall with Susanoo.
• Minamoto Chizuru threw Spider Cutter at Hikari, but she pinned him to another wall with Susanoo as the officers' gunfire failed to harm her.
• Minamoto Chizuru unleashed Kotodama No. 91, Kingship, but Hikari resisted its crushing gravity without moving, prompting him to wonder if she was a Dragon King.

Uchiha Hikari used Yachihoko to examine Tachibana Masamune’s memories and discovered that he was a puppet implanted with a carefully constructed identity. After restraining Minamoto Chizuru and giving him twenty minutes to reconsider his approach, she returned to Erii; Chizuru later came to speak with her.

• Uchiha Hikari probed Tachibana Masamune’s memories and found gaps in his past alongside detailed memories of a life as former KGB agent Bondarev.
• Uchiha Hikari concluded Herzog had implanted Bondarev’s memories into an artificial puppet posing as Tachibana Masamune.
• Minamoto Chizuru lunged at Uchiha Hikari, but her Shadow Clone threw him down and restrained him.
• Uchiha Hikari warned Minamoto Chizuru to reconsider his attitude, then returned to Erii’s room.
• Minamoto Chizuru arrived twenty minutes later and introduced himself to Uchiha Hikari before asking to speak with her.

Crow interrogated Kishimoto Masashi about Uchiha Hikari and learned that he was a low-purity Hybrid who may have encountered her Nibelungen, inspiring Naruto. In Tokyo, Hikari tested Yachihoko on Minamoto Chizuru and absorbed enough power to unleash a burst of pressure that nearby children mistook for Conqueror's Haki.

• Crow questioned Kishimoto Masashi about Uchiha Hikari, and Kishimoto denied knowing her or that Konoha was real.
• Crow told Yaksha that Kishimoto was a low-purity Hybrid who may have entered Hikari's Nibelungen and used memories from it as the basis for Naruto.
• Kishimoto proposed a story in which Hikari was a sealed Humanoid Weapon who became the Masked Man, and Crow arranged for him to draw it.
• Uchiha Hikari walked through Tokyo, planned to buy books and manga for Konoha, and considered investigating the world's Hybrid powers and alchemy.
• Hikari used Yachihoko to draw power from Minamoto Chizuru, then released a surge of pressure that startled passersby.
• Two elementary school students recognized Hikari's display as what they called Conqueror's Haki.

Uchiha Hikari brought Uesugi Yue into a Tsukuyomi illusion built from Tachibana Masamune’s memories to reveal that Yue had children. She left him with new revelations about his family and asked whether he could use a Word Spirit inside the illusion.

• Yabuki Sakura told Minamoto Chizuru that Uchiha Hikari had unconsciously released Dragon’s Might and was heading toward Tokyo University.
• Uchiha Hikari found Uesugi Yue at his ramen cart and asked whether he wanted a son, then used Tsukuyomi to draw him into an illusion.
• Uchiha Hikari showed Uesugi Yue memory fragments identifying Tachibana Masamune as Bondarev and as the adoptive father of Yue’s children.
• Uchiha Hikari told Uesugi Yue that Herzog was alive, Tachibana Masamune was an artificial substitute, and Minamoto Chime was not dead.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Uesugi Yue whether he could use a Word Spirit within the illusion.

Uchiha Hikari used Tsukuyomi Space to study Uesugi Yue's Kotodama, Black Sun, while fighting him. She briefly imitated its gravitational effect and charged in to keep practicing.

• Uesugi Yue recreated Kotodama · Black Sun in Tsukuyomi Space, and Uchiha Hikari explained that she wanted to study it there.
• Uchiha Hikari summoned sword replicas from Uesugi Yue's memories and challenged him to fight with intent to kill.
• Uesugi Yue and Uchiha Hikari clashed with swords as Black Sun's gravity pulled in and pulverized their surroundings.
• Uchiha Hikari observed Uesugi Yue's bloodline and Kotodama, then briefly formed a faint gravitational field resembling Black Sun.
• Uchiha Hikari charged Uesugi Yue again to continue practicing her imitation of Black Sun.

Uchiha Hikari tested her ability to analyze Words of Power by fighting Uesugi Yue inside Tsukuyomi, then revealed Herzog’s plot and the identities of his Shadow Warriors to him. Exhausted, she left on Flying Nimbus to find a safe place to rest.

• Uesugi Yue emerged from Hikari’s genjutsu drained and stunned by her ability to imitate his Black Sun.
• Hikari concluded that she could analyze Words of Power by fighting their users and absorbing some of their power.
• Hikari told Yue that Herzog had created Tachibana Masamune and the Ghosts’ King General, who held Yue’s son Minamoto Chime, and planned to use Erii to revive the White King.
• Hikari gave Yue blood samples from Minamoto Chizuru and Erii for paternity tests, warned him that he might feel weak, and departed.
• Hikari declined the agents’ offer of accommodation and flew away on Flying Nimbus, leaving them bewildered.

After waking from a day and a half of sleep, Uchiha Hikari learned that Uesugi Yue had confirmed he was Erii and Minamoto Chizuru’s biological father and agreed to lead the family temporarily. The Shiki Hachi elders suspected Hikari might be linked to the White King, and when she returned to Minamoto Heavy Industries, she challenged Inuyama He to a fight.

• Uchiha Hikari woke in the mountain forest, replied to Erii’s messages, and confirmed that Uesugi Yue was her biological father.
• Uesugi Yue arrived at Minamoto Heavy Industries with Inuyama He and a paternity test confirming his relationship to Minamoto Chizuru.
• Uesugi Yue agreed to lead the family temporarily and ordered Inuyama He to investigate the God Burial Grounds, the sunken ship, and the Ghosts’ plans for Chishio.
• Inuyama He and Minamoto Chizuru suspected Uchiha Hikari was a dragon connected to the White King and planned to speak with her when she returned.
• Uchiha Hikari returned to Minamoto Heavy Industries, stopped Inuyama He, and challenged him to fight.

Uchiha Hikari tested Inuyama He's Word Spirit, made several requests of the Shiki Hachi Family, and studied the Word Spirits of its family heads while staying with Erii. The chapter ended when Minamoto Chizuru reported that the King General might be at the Ghosts' Osaka headquarters, Paradise Hall.

• Uchiha Hikari defeated Inuyama He in Tsukuyomi Space and told him to return when he could use Moment at the Ninth Step.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Uesugi Yue and Minamoto Chizuru for serum research, access to high-level Word Spirit users, a role in the campaign against the Ghosts, and help buying manga and videos.
• Uchiha Hikari sent Shadow Clones with the Execution Department while she stayed at Minamoto Heavy Industries and tested the Word Spirits of Gen'ichirō, the Miyamoto Family head, and Sakurai Nanami.
• Rumors spread through the Shiki Hachi Family that Uchiha Hikari was a bewitching Tamamo-no-Mae who left people mentally exhausted.
• Uchiha Hikari played Street Fighter 4 with Erii until Minamoto Chizuru arrived and reported a possible lead on the King General at Paradise Hall in Osaka.

Uchiha Hikari joined Minamoto Chizuru’s expedition to Osaka after the Shiki Hachi Family found the Ghosts’ Paradise Hall, suspecting King General’s apparent exposure might be a trap. Their convoy was ambushed on the way there, and the chapter ended as rockets exploded beside Hikari’s car.

• Minamoto Chizuru showed Uchiha Hikari a covert photograph of a masked figure at Paradise Hall and explained that an Execution Department agent had vanished after sending it.
• Uchiha Hikari agreed to travel to Osaka with Minamoto Chizuru and told Erii to stay home, hinting that they might bring Minamoto Chime back.
• During the drive, Minamoto Chizuru asked what Hikari thought of Erii, and Hikari warned him to consider how he would face Minamoto Chime.
• As the convoy neared Paradise Hall, vans and motorcycle gangs attacked with machine guns, forcing Minamoto Chizuru, Crow, and the others to fight back.
• The attackers fired rockets at the convoy, and a second wave exploded less than a meter from Uchiha Hikari’s car.

Uchiha Hikari and the Execution Department fought off a Ghosts ambush targeting the convoy, and Hikari faced Minamoto Chime, the Ghosts’ Dragon King. After overwhelming his swordsmanship, she broke through his defense and wounded him.

• Uchiha Hikari used Susanoo and a wall of fire to shield the convoy from the Ghosts’ gunfire and rockets.
• Minamoto Chizuru used King’s Authority to crush the attackers, but the slender Minamoto Chime broke through the flames and pierced Yabuki Sakura.
• Minamoto Chime sent Crow and Yaksha flying before Uchiha Hikari intercepted him with Thunder Breathing.
• Uchiha Hikari recognized Minamoto Chime as Kazama Ruri, the Ghosts’ Dragon King, and demanded to know where King General was.
• Uchiha Hikari attacked Minamoto Chime with a rapid succession of sword styles, then used her Three Tomoe eyes to break his defense and draw blood.

Uchiha Hikari battled Minamoto Chime, who used an Evolution Potion to dragonize and intensify their duel. After her Demon Cutter broke, Hikari stopped Chime with a powerful punch, but a whispered order and a clapper sound reached him as she approached.

• Minamoto Chime dragonized with an Evolution Potion and launched a savage assault on Uchiha Hikari.
• Uchiha Hikari and Minamoto Chime fought at extreme speed, while their clashes killed nearby bikers and forced the others to flee.
• Uchiha Hikari used Amaterasu to set a heavy machine gun and its gunman ablaze, while Minamoto Chizuru directed Crow and the others to subdue the Ghosts.
• Demon Cutter snapped after repeated clashes, and Minamoto Chime attacked the opening with Iai · First Sword.
• Uchiha Hikari caught Minamoto Chime's blade and struck him with Word Spirit · Immortality, sending him crashing into a truck with severe injuries.
• As Uchiha Hikari approached the downed Minamoto Chime, a voice in his earpiece ordered him to kill her at all costs, accompanied by a hollow clapper sound.

Uchiha Hikari outmaneuvered an ambush by using a Shadow Clone as bait and tracked down the sniper known as King General. After probing his memories and defeating him, she returned to find Minamoto Chime unresponsive.

• Minamoto Chime trapped Uchiha Hikari's Shadow Clone in a dream while a hidden sniper fired a Philosopher's Stone bullet at her.
• Uchiha Hikari's true body activated Susanoo to block the shot and revealed that the apparent Hikari was a Shadow Clone.
• Uchiha Hikari followed the bullet's trajectory to a hillside, where she used Marked Tsukuyomi to defeat the sniper wearing a Noh Mask.
• Uchiha Hikari probed King General's memories, learned little, and took his sniper equipment before cutting him in half.
• Uchiha Hikari returned to the battlefield and found Minamoto Chime standing motionless; her Shadow Clone said that he had shut down.

Uchiha Hikari defeated Minamoto Chime by turning his Dream Eater against him, then took Minamoto Chizuru to the burning Paradise Hall. After she destroyed a surveillance camera there, someone watching from a distant city lost the feed, and Eva later intercepted a data stream from Japan.

• Minamoto Chime's Dream Eater rebounded against him, trapping him in a nightmare of being killed by his older brother, and Uchiha Hikari left him to recover.
• Minamoto Chizuru thanked Uchiha Hikari, who assured him that Chime would survive and said Yabuki Sakura would recover from her wound.
• Uchiha Hikari flew Minamoto Chizuru to Paradise Hall and used a Water Dragon Bullet to extinguish its fire.
• Minamoto Chizuru searched the deserted casino while Uchiha Hikari spotted and destroyed a working surveillance camera.
• A man wearing a Noh Mask lost the camera feed, and Eva intercepted a data stream from Japan several hours later.

Uchiha Hikari helped the Shiki Hachi Family uncover Ghosts informants while receiving research materials and a mountain of requested media. After a manga embarrassed her in front of Erii, Hikari learned Bulma had finished the Shikon Jewel Radar and offered to share complete manga sets with Bulma and Kikyo-miss.

• Uchiha Hikari used Yachihoko to uncover a list of Ghosts informants and told the Uesugi father and son to investigate further.
• The Shiki Hachi Family delivered serum research materials and eight boxes of manga, books, discs, and game consoles to Uchiha Hikari.
• Minamoto Chizuru said Minamoto Chime had recovered from his puppet-like state but remained quiet under guard.
• Erii found an H-manga in a box and asked Uchiha Hikari about its pictures and her preference for larger breasts, prompting Hikari to hide it and consider giving Erii private lessons.
• Bulma told Uchiha Hikari that the Shikon Jewel Radar was finished and that she and Kikyo-miss planned to search for the jewel soon.
• Uchiha Hikari offered Bulma and Kikyo-miss complete sets of the Inuyasha and Dragon Balls manga.

Uchiha Hikari visited Kikyo and Bulma, discussed the manga and Spiritual Power, and explored whether she could use it to create Susanoo’s Three Sacred Treasures. She then delivered a serum sample, research materials, and a Dead Servant specimen to Dr. Brief before going to see Korin.

• Uchiha Hikari arrived in Kikyo's world and learned that Bulma had been using a helicopter to search for the Shikon Jewel.
• Bulma read the manga about her future and considered researching Saiyan equipment, while Kikyo accepted that Kagome was more suited to Inuyasha.
• Kikyo told Uchiha Hikari that she could likely cultivate Spiritual Power and offered to teach her how to draw it out.
• Uchiha Hikari and Kikyo discussed using Spiritual Power and sealing techniques to construct Susanoo's Totsuka Sword and Yata Mirror.
• Uchiha Hikari visited Dr. Brief and gave him Tachibana Masamune's serum sample, copied research materials, and a live Dead Servant specimen.
• Uchiha Hikari went to visit Korin.

After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Hikari learned that Shisui had nearly lost his sight after using Susanoo during an ambush. She helped him grow new eyes with a Senzu Bean, restoring his vision but leaving him with ordinary two-tomoe Sharingan, and took his damaged Mangekyo eyes.

• Uchiha Hikari returned to her villa in the Uchiha Clan Compound and met Sasuke, who brought her to Fugaku.
• Fugaku told Uchiha Hikari that Shisui had used Susanoo to protect his teammates during an ambush and was now close to blind.
• Uchiha Hikari offered Shisui a risky treatment: he could stop being a ninja or remove his eyes and use a Senzu Bean to grow new ones.
• Shisui gouged out his eyes, swallowed the Senzu Bean, and regrew a pair of eyes with recovered vision and black two-tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Hikari took Shisui's former eyes, hoping they might eventually be restored to Mangekyo and Eternal Mangekyo.

Uchiha Hikari showed Shisui a vision of the Uchiha Clan’s possible massacre and destruction if she had never returned, then tasked him with guiding the clan’s younger members toward a better future. The chapter ended with Shisui appointed clan librarian and assigned to help write a five-year development plan.

• Shisui asked Uchiha Hikari about the Senzu Bean, and she refused to reveal its secret before questioning him about the attackers at the border.
• Shisui described attackers including Biwa Juzo, Raiga Kurosuki, Hozuki Mangetsu, Kakuzu, and a white-haired summoner.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Shisui to imagine the clan’s future without her and used Marked Tsukuyomi to show him a version of events ending in the Uchiha massacre.
• After watching, Shisui realized the shown events could have happened and asked whether Uchiha Hikari’s Mangekyo could see the future, but she did not answer.
• Uchiha Hikari made Shisui the Uchiha Clan’s librarian, ordered him to supervise the younger members’ reading and reflections, and assigned them a five-year development plan.

Uchiha Hikari checked on Shisui and Naruto, then used Marked Tsukuyomi to encourage Danzo to continue infiltrating the Akatsuki. Meanwhile, Obito recruited Hiruko and offered him Uchiha and Kirigakure bloodline samples for his Chimera Technique.

• Shisui told Uchiha Hikari that Tsunade had likely left Konoha after Shimura Danzō defected.
• Uchiha Hikari bought ingredients, visited Naruto, and caught up with him over a meal.
• Uchiha Hikari questioned Danzo about his undercover mission and urged him to make the Akatsuki notice him, promising to nominate him as Konoha's Fifth Hokage if he succeeded.
• Uchiha Hikari considered using Shisui's eyes and Yachihoko to prepare plans involving Orochimaru and Dr. Gero.
• Obito gave Hiruko a captured Uchiha clansman with Three Tomoe Sharingan and offered him samples of Kirigakure bloodlines in exchange for working for the Akatsuki.