Chapter Summaries

Black Zetsu revealed how it had deceived Shirou Emiya and taunted him before moving to absorb his Chakra. Shirou suddenly seized Black Zetsu and reached for Kaguya Otsutsuki, ending the chapter with him declaring that he had never accepted his fate.

• Black Zetsu told Shirou Emiya that Kaguya Otsutsuki had started the Ancient Era war to reclaim Chakra and had used him as a pawn.
• Black Zetsu explained that it had chosen Madara Uchiha as the sacrifice because Shirou had shown too much tolerance toward his fellow travelers.
• Black Zetsu mocked Shirou's past regrets, while Naruto Uzumaki grew angry and Kakashi Hatake appeared beside Obito Uchiha.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki banished Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake to another dimension, then Black Zetsu moved to control Shirou and drain his Chakra.
• Shirou Emiya seized Black Zetsu by the throat and reached for Kaguya Otsutsuki, who retreated and abandoned Black Zetsu.

Shirou Emiya revealed that he had long planned for his death and resurrection, secretly cultivated a Ten-Tails, and preserved his own eyes with Kamui. After becoming its Jinchuriki, he faced Kaguya Otsutsuki and explained that he had once lured Black Zetsu out to draw her forth.

• Shirou Emiya ignored Black Zetsu's threats and asked when he had ever accepted defeat or resigned himself to fate.
• Shirou Emiya revealed that he had planned his death and resurrection since obtaining Chakra and had learned from God Tree remnants that the Ten-Tails and Kaguya could not truly die.
• Shirou Emiya summoned a slug clone, retrieved his preserved eyes, and restored his own Sharingan.
• Shirou Emiya used Kamui to bring a hidden Ten-Tails out of its dimension, then absorbed it and became its Jinchuriki.
• Shirou Emiya told Black Zetsu that he had discovered him in the Ancient Era and attacked Indra to lure him out, because Black Zetsu could draw Kaguya into the world.

Shirou Emiya revealed to Black Zetsu that he had anticipated Kaguya’s revival plot and arranged his own deaths and resurrections to manipulate events across a thousand years. He left Black Zetsu trapped and humiliated, while Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha learned that they, too, had been pawns in his schemes.

• Shirou Emiya reminded Black Zetsu that they had met soon after its creation, and Black Zetsu realized he might have been manipulating it from the beginning.
• Sasuke Uchiha explained to Naruto Uzumaki that Black Zetsu had believed Shirou was its pawn, when Shirou had actually been controlling it.
• Black Zetsu accused Shirou of manipulating Naruto, Sasuke, and the entire Shinobi World, and Shirou acknowledged that he had arranged his own death to keep Black Zetsu from fearing his power.
• Shirou explained that he had left two Crystal Coffins to enable his revival, and that Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru had ultimately activated them through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Shirou told Black Zetsu that he had regained its trust after his first revival and mocked its regret and humiliation, saying he felt pity for it.

Shirou Emiya battled Kaguya Otsutsuki, using his Rinnegan technique Godless to reflect her attacks and copy her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack. He followed her through space-time and repeatedly pierced her with a Truth-Seeking Orb sword, leaving Kaguya gravely wounded.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki attacked Shirou Emiya with All-Killing Ash Bones, but Godless reflected the bone spikes back at her.
• Shirou Emiya's mirror absorbed Kaguya's Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, and he used the technique information to launch the same attack against her.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki shifted herself, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sasuke Uchiha to the yellow sand world, but Shirou Emiya followed through a Space-Time Door.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki rushed Shirou Emiya in close combat, but he cut through her hair and stabbed her chest with a black sword.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka, but Shirou Emiya opened another door and stabbed her again as she emerged.

Shirou Emiya overwhelmed Kaguya Otsutsuki across the Ice Space, disrupting her escape and wounding her while draining her Chakra. As Kaguya transformed into the Ten-Tails, Shirou answered with a gigantic, Susanoo-armored White Tiger.

• Black Zetsu advised Kaguya Otsutsuki to escape to the Ice Space, where she pulled Shirou Emiya's sword from her body and planned to hide in the ice.
• Shirou Emiya spread wind-fed flames through the Ice Space, melting the ice and forcing Kaguya to reveal herself.
• Shirou Emiya ambushed Kaguya, fought her at close range, and broke her arm before she attempted to escape to another dimension.
• Shirou Emiya used his Mangekyo Sharingan and Yomotsu Hirasaka to disrupt Kaguya's dimensional transfer, leaving her severely injured.
• Shirou Emiya pierced Kaguya's chest and absorbed her Chakra, prompting her to transform into the Ten-Tails.
• Shirou Emiya transformed into a gigantic White Tiger clad in blue Susanoo armor, startling Black Zetsu.

Shirou Emiya defeated Kaguya Otsutsuki in their colossal battle, stripped her of the Tailed Beasts, and erased Black Zetsu. With the Shinobi World’s fate seemingly in his hands, Shirou turned his attention to Madara Uchiha.

• Shirou Emiya and Kaguya Otsutsuki fought as giant Ten-Tails, while Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake watched helplessly.
• Shirou Emiya severed Kaguya Otsutsuki from the Tailed Beasts, forcing her to return to human form, and sent her uncontrolled Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb into another dimension.
• Shirou Emiya struck Kaguya Otsutsuki down and rejected Black Zetsu’s plea to join forces against the Otsutsuki from beyond the heavens.
• Shirou Emiya absorbed Black Zetsu’s memories and destroyed him.
• Shirou Emiya opened Yomotsu Hirasaka and examined Madara Uchiha’s body, leaving the others to wonder what fate awaited them.

After defeating Kaguya Otsutsuki, Shirou Emiya revived Madara Uchiha and took Kaguya away to learn about future threats, leaving Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha captured. In the Sage of Six Paths’ Pure Land, the others accepted their defeat and prepared for what might come next, while Sasuke remained lost and Naruto vowed they would not give up.

• Shirou Emiya restored Madara Uchiha with Yang Power and urged him to keep seeking a path to peace despite his past mistakes.
• Shirou Emiya told Sasuke Uchiha that someone else had schemed against him and offered to guide him when his despair grew greater.
• Shirou Emiya sent Kaguya Otsutsuki into the Kamui Dimension to search her memories for information about future enemies, then left with Madara Uchiha.
• The Sage of Six Paths gathered the past Kage, Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha, and the Tailed Beasts in the Pure Land after Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha were captured.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha to stay together and summon his remaining Chakra if necessary, and Naruto promised not to give up.

After the Infinite Tsukuyomi ended, the Five Kage found themselves forced to consider Shirou Emiya and Madara Uchiha’s plan to unite the Shinobi World under one country. Shirou presented their surrender agreement as the first experiment in lasting peace and warned that he would keep trying if it failed.

• Tenten woke with a scroll and a cup of water, then discovered that her scroll contained the Sage of Six Paths' sacred tools.
• The Shinobi Alliance realized that the Five Kage had disappeared and found them standing before Shirou Emiya, with Madara Uchiha and Akatsuki blocking the troops.
• Shirou Emiya gave Tsunade the Five Great Nations' surrender document, which she recognized as a plan to abolish the nations and redistribute their resources under one country.
• Tsunade objected that the daimyo, nobles, and villages would reject the agreement, while Madara Uchiha called its concessions generous.
• Shirou Emiya said the agreement was their first experiment in eternal peace and warned that he and Madara would try again if it failed.

Shirou Emiya forced the Five Kage to sign an agreement merging their villages into a New Nation, presenting it as the first step toward peace. After the Kage returned to their villages, Shirou left the New Nation’s leadership unresolved, suggesting it might not need a Daimyo at all.

• Gaara signed the agreement first, and Shirou explained that Madara’s recent defeat made it necessary to act quickly.
• Mei Terumi, Tsunade, and Ōnoki signed after Gaara, while the Fourth Raikage reluctantly agreed to merge Hidden Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning into the New Nation.
• Madara reflected on Hashirama and the need to let go of hatred, but Shirou interrupted him and pressured the Fourth Raikage into signing.
• Shirou declared the New Nation established and ordered the Five Shinobi Villages to execute any Daimyo, nobles, or small villages that resisted the agreement.
• Ōnoki suggested choosing a benevolent former Daimyo to lead the New Nation, but Shirou argued that the position might not be needed and said military force would remain most important.

Shirou Emiya left the future of the Shinobi World’s peaceful order to Madara Uchiha as he prepared to depart, while predicting that Sasuke would return. Meanwhile, Itachi Uchiha escaped control long enough to entrust a crow carrying Kotoamatsukami and his hopes for Sasuke to the sky.

• Shirou Emiya rejected Madara Uchiha’s suggestion that he lead the future order and told Madara to protect the Shinobi World if he did not return.
• Shirou Emiya predicted that Sasuke Uchiha would soon come looking for them, and Madara Uchiha realized Sasuke might not return to Konoha.
• Itachi Uchiha, still revived through Impure World Reincarnation, searched the battlefield for Sasuke but could not find him.
• Itachi Uchiha sealed a technique, his memories, and his hopes for Sasuke into Shisui Uchiha’s Kotoamatsukami Sharingan inside a hidden crow.
• Itachi Uchiha released the crow and dissolved his Summoning Contract with it before Orochimaru could regain control.

Sasuke Uchiha reunited with Naruto and their former classmates, then resolved to stay in Konoha and rebuild the Uchiha grounds. At Naka Shrine, he discovered that Itachi had left a Mangekyo Sharingan crow carrying a will-altering technique and memories, leaving Sasuke devastated by his brother’s attempt to make him protect Konoha.

• Naruto Uzumaki recounted the final battle to his former classmates, while Shikamaru Nara worried that the Five Great Shinobi Villages would eventually disappear.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha discussed their lack of power to resist Shirou Emiya, and Sasuke urged Naruto to grow stronger with the Sage of Six Paths’ power.
• Sasuke Uchiha decided to remain in Konoha and restore the Uchiha clan grounds rather than return to Shirou Emiya’s Akatsuki.
• Sasuke Uchiha found a Ninja Crow with a Sharingan at Naka Shrine and discovered that its Mangekyo Sharingan held a Transcription Seal designed to make him protect Konoha.
• Sasuke Uchiha resisted the technique, received Itachi Uchiha’s stored memories, and watched the crow turn to ashes.
• Sasuke Uchiha smashed the shrine’s stone tablet and questioned whether Itachi had truly acted to save him.

Sasuke Uchiha attacked Konoha after learning that Itachi Uchiha had tried to alter his will with Kotoamatsukami, and Naruto Uzumaki fought to stop him. Shirou Emiya revealed that he had anticipated Itachi’s plan and praised him because Sasuke’s anger had made him unwilling to return to Konoha.

• Sasuke Uchiha attacked Konoha with his Complete Body Susanoo, and Naruto Uzumaki confronted him with his golden Nine-Tailed Demon Fox form.
• Tsunade and Madara Uchiha discussed Sasuke’s attack before Shirou Emiya arrived with Orochimaru, Itachi Uchiha, and Yakushi Kabuto.
• Itachi Uchiha worried that the Kotoamatsukami crow he had released had not changed Sasuke’s will.
• Shirou Emiya explained that Kotoamatsukami could not affect Sasuke because of his Yin Power and Rinnegan, and revealed that he had predicted Itachi’s attempt.
• Shirou Emiya praised Itachi for enraging Sasuke and making him unlikely to return to Konoha.

Shirou Emiya stopped Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha's battle and arranged for Sasuke to leave with Madara Uchiha, as Konoha could no longer accept him. Shirou, Madara, Sasuke, and their companions departed through a Space-Time Door, and Shirou was never seen by the Shinobi World again.

• Itachi Uchiha realized Shirou Emiya had known about his plans, while Shirou promised to arrange a place for Sasuke and Madara offered to train him.
• Shirou Emiya summoned a thousand-meter-tall Susanoo and stopped Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha's fight with a giant sword.
• Sasuke Uchiha refused to speak with Itachi but accepted Madara Uchiha's offer to leave and train with him.
• Jiraiya stopped Naruto Uzumaki from pursuing Sasuke, explaining that Konoha could not accept him after he nearly destroyed the village.
• Shirou Emiya, Madara Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha, and their companions left through a Space-Time Door, and Shirou never appeared before the Shinobi World again.

Shirou Emiya attacked a Daimyo’s banquet while searching for members of the Ninja Sect who had spread Chakra. After learning that a hired expert had gone south, Shirou killed the Daimyo and his remaining ministers and continued into the snow.

• The Daimyo boasted to his guests about hiring a Ninja Sect expert to obtain wine by killing a village’s people.
• Shirou Emiya entered the banquet, killed the guests with vines, and asked the Daimyo for information about the Ninja Sect.
• The Daimyo said his hired expert had left for the south two days earlier to gather intelligence on several villages.
• Shirou thanked the Daimyo, then killed him and the two remaining ministers before leaving into the snow.