Chapter Summaries

Mimi’s insect nests used Slugs, Chakra, and the Jar Poison Technique to rapidly mass-produce Summer Red Soldiers. The automated production cycle ended with the new soldiers replenished and ready in the Insect Nest.

• Mimi’s Insect Queens received Chakra from Little Devil Slugs, allowing them to produce Insect Eggs at an accelerated rate.
• The Eve Swarm carried the eggs and food into the Jar Poison Technique’s Barrier, where accelerated cell division hastened their hatching and growth.
• Summer Red Soldier larvae fed underwater until they matured, crawled out of the Barrier, and took flight.
• The Eve Swarm fed the newly emerged Summer Red Soldiers honeydew as they settled on racks in the Insect Nest.

Third Hokage sent an Anbu to follow Mimi’s unusual bug swarm, while Mimi used the distraction to move Kikaichū carrying Little Devil Slug eggs toward corpses in the River Country. Chiri then ambushed a Rock Ninja force with a concealed Fire Release, leaving them behind an earthen fortress wall as the forest burned.

• Third Hokage ordered an Anbu to follow Mimi’s swarm openly and avoid being seen by anyone else.
• Mimi noticed the Anbu following the swarm, directed it onward, and caused a Root ninja trailing them to collapse.
• Mimi sent Summer Red Soldiers to drop Kikaichū carrying Little Devil Slug eggs onto battlefield corpses.
• Chiri attacked the advancing Rock Ninjas with a Genjutsu-concealed Fire Release, killing several at the front.
• The Rock Ninjas raised successive earthen walls to block Chiri’s flames, and the tall ninja built a fortress wall as the surrounding forest caught fire.

Chiri faced a group of Rock Ninjas and analyzed the sensing methods that could expose her Projection Genjutsu. After sealing her Chakra to evade their ordinary sensing, she was detected through Earth Release: Earth Resonance and had to devise a counter.

• Chiri stood atop the city wall as Rock Ninjas attacked her with Earth Iron Cannon, but their stones passed through her illusion.
• A Rock Ninja Sensory Ninja revealed that Chiri was not where she appeared, and she considered the different forms of sensing and their weaknesses.
• Chiri recalled how Tsunade and the Slug Sage had developed powerful sensory techniques, including a wide-area Slime Acid Mist.
• Chiri sealed her Chakra to evade the Sensory Ninja's ordinary Chakra sensing, making herself seem like a corpse.
• The Sensory Ninja used Earth Release: Earth Resonance to detect Chiri on the earthen wall, prompting the Rock Ninjas to prepare another attack.

Chiri used Nami as bait to ambush the Rock Ninjas, then struck their formation with lightning-charged wire. After Daichi activated a wide-area sensory barrier that revealed Chiri and Nami, they prepared to fight openly against the alerted squad.

• Chiri followed the Rock Ninjas unseen as they chased Nami through the forest.
• Chiri attacked from above with Blood Rose Dance, killing six Rock Ninjas with lightning-charged wire.
• The squad halted and regrouped after Daichi sensed the deaths, while Chiri watched them from beneath a tree.
• Daichi used Earth Release: Gratitude Stone Tablet Formation to spread a sensory barrier and reveal Chiri and Nami.
• Chiri and Nami drew their swords as the Rock Ninjas prepared to engage them.

Chiri combined her seals, chakra, and multiple nature transformations to fly through the Rock Ninjas’ massive Earth Release attack and strike their formation. After diving into the ground, she activated a prepared Summoning Technique that unleashed a volcanic eruption beneath them.

• Twenty-seven Rock Ninjas combined their Earth Release to raise a huge wave of soil and stone toward Chiri.
• Chiri opened the First and Second Gates, released her Yin Seal, and layered Lightning, Wind, and Fire Release to propel herself into the air.
• Chiri flew over the earth wave and dived through the Rock Ninjas, killing three with her sword and forcing the others to scatter underground.
• Chiri crashed into the ground and activated a Sealing Technique linked to a volcano.
• Chiri summoned a pillar of magma that erupted around her and the Rock Ninjas.

Mimi confronted a Mist Ninja force advancing through dense fog, where a Red-Eyed shinobi guided them with a Mist Bell. After killing the guide and using the fog to set traps, Mimi went underground to evade the force’s other sensory shinobi.

• Mimi recognized the Red Eye as a powerful sensory ability and judged its user a top-priority target among the Mist troops.
• The Red-Eyed shinobi detected Mimi and charged toward her, but she died after brushing against a branch laced with Kikaichū.
• Mimi used insects to carry off the Mist Bell User’s hat, while another Mist sensory shinobi sounded an alarm and the troops attacked the bell’s last location with kunai.
• Mimi identified the remaining sensory shinobi’s ability as sonar and sank underground using Earth Style: Hiding Like a Fish Technique.
• Mimi released stored oxygen to breathe underground while she waited beyond the reach of the Mist shinobi’s sound-based detection.

Mimi used Kikaichū and Nano Kikaichu to ambush the Hidden Mist forces after Volka Shachi’s sensory search failed. Most of the ninjas were poisoned, while a few survivors fled through the fog and Volka Shachi remained unchallenged.

• Volka Shachi ordered Hong Wan’s head destroyed and sent the Hidden Mist ninjas to search in pairs after ultrasonic detection found no one nearby.
• Mimi hid underground, listened through her Kikaichū, and sent insects to parasitize ninjas as they searched.
• The Hozuki Clan ninja detected the insects because he had maintained his Water Transformation Technique, then warned the others to beware of them.
• Poisoned Hidden Mist ninjas collapsed and screamed as the insects spread through their bodies.
• A Yuki Clan girl and a Hozuki ninja escaped, while another Yuki ninja cut off his infected leg; Mimi left the Kaguya Clan members alive but intensified their agony.

Shachi and the surviving Mist Shadow ninjas fled Mimi’s insect attack, but Mimi pursued them and forced them into a moving Water Prison. Mimi summoned a massive Kikaichū swarm and launched it at the water sphere, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Shachi found that only eight others remained from the group of more than a hundred and learned that insects had killed the rest.
• Shachi blasted a passage through the fog with Sound Release: Ultra Shockwave, and she led the survivors in retreat.
• Mimi pursued the group underground, but Shachi sensed her approach and trapped the survivors inside a Water Prison.
• Shachi sent water columns through Mimi’s earthen walls while Mimi summoned more Kikaichū behind them.
• Mimi formed the Kikaichū into a giant Insect Meteor and sent it falling toward the water sphere.

Mimi used hardened Kikaichū to crush the Mist ninjas’ water sphere, then hunted down Killer Whale Girl and defeated her with a poisonous strike. With the remaining Mist fighters dead or trapped by the swarm, Mimi collected the spoils.

• Mimi hardened the Kikaichū into a giant sphere, which endured Killer Whale Girl’s sound attack before crashing into and bursting apart the water sphere.
• Killer Whale Girl escaped underground as the Mist ninjas fled, but Mimi sent Kiyanchū to lay a pheromone Genjutsu trap in her path.
• Mimi caught Killer Whale Girl underground and cut her foot in close combat, poisoning her and Samehada with Poison Insect Mode.
• The Kikaichū overwhelmed Killer Whale Girl’s five clansmen, including a Hozuki Clan boy, a Yuki Clan girl, and a Water Spider Jonin.
• Mimi summoned the Winter Storm Chariot and began packing up the spoils.

Hitomi fought the Sand Hidden Village shinobi at the lake, killing two Puppet Masters and disabling their puppets before facing the Wind Release girl and the Iron Sand boy. As Hitomi’s speed overwhelmed Black Sand’s defenses, he sensed danger and sealed himself inside Iron Sand.

• Two Puppet Masters sent their puppets after Hitomi, but she killed them with her sword in moments.
• The Sand Hidden Village squad moved in, and Hitomi severed the Chakra Threads controlling the remaining puppets.
• The Giant Fan girl attacked Hitomi with Wind Release, but Hitomi charged through the wind and knocked her back.
• Hitomi cut the Chakra Threads again, then struck Black Sand’s Iron Sand shield as he declared it his Absolute Defense.
• Black Sand sent Iron Sand spikes through the water, but Hitomi vanished in a burst of speed, forcing him to encase himself in Iron Sand.

Hitomi used her sword to kill the Puppet Masters, then kept the Iron Sand boy chasing her while conserving her strength. When a streak of fire appeared on the horizon, she launched herself at the boy and struck with Secret Sword: He Luo.

• Hitomi unleashed a sweeping sword attack that killed the Puppet Masters in the forest, leaving the Giant Fan girl and the Iron Sand boy alive.
• The Giant Fan girl panicked in the air while Hitomi, unable to reach her, turned and ran as the Iron Sand boy emerged from his sealed sphere.
• Hitomi led the boy on an exhausting chase through the forest, dodging his Iron Sand attacks until he grew depleted and vomited.
• The boy descended in a sealed Iron Sand ball, but Hitomi ran again, prompting him to rage and smash the forest with a huge Iron Sand pillar.
• Hitomi and the boy paused to face each other as he cursed and demanded a fight, until a streak of fire appeared on the horizon.
• Hitomi suddenly sprang into the sky and slashed down at the boy with Secret Sword: He Luo.

Chiri and Hitomi battled the Iron Sand boy, whose Magnet Release was overwhelmed by Chiri’s fire and Hitomi’s sword techniques. He unleashed the Iron Sand World Method to escape underground with the Giant Fan girl, leaving Chiri too exhausted to pursue him.

• Chiri melted the Iron Sand boy’s constructs with intense Fire Release while Hitomi deflected his attacks and struck him with her sword.
• The Iron Sand boy fled toward the ground, where Hitomi pierced him and used Fierce Flame to damage his internal organs.
• The Iron Sand boy unleashed the Iron Sand World Method, raising a vast wave of Iron Sand and forming a giant serpent that attacked Hitomi.
• The Iron Sand serpent swallowed the Giant Fan girl and burrowed underground with her, allowing the Iron Sand boy to escape.
• Chiri and Hitomi discussed their remaining strength after the battle, and Chiri watched the escape route in alarm.

Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi faced a massive force from Kirigakure, Hidden Rock Village, and Sand Hidden Village after the enemy failed to find the missing Flower Girls in River Country. Mimi unleashed a vast swarm of Summer Red Soldiers toward River Country, beginning an insect plague as the three nations’ ninja searched for her group.

• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi waited in River Country as ninja from the small hidden villages arrived and died, while the Five Great Nations stayed away for three days.
• Mimi led Chiri and Hitomi to confront nearly a thousand ninja from Kirigakure, Hidden Rock Village, and Sand Hidden Village as Konoha deployed forces at its border.
• The three nations’ forces searched River Country for the Flower Girls and the unknown ninja, but found only a trail ending in woodland where the group had vanished.
• The Mist Anbu, Hidden Rock Village, and Sand Hidden Village leaders ordered their ninja to search River Country, but five days of searching turned up nothing.
• From Bird Country, Mimi summoned a vast swarm of Summer Red Soldiers and sent it toward River Country using Insect Secret Technique: Insect Plague Dance, Fireworks Ceremony.

White Fang recovered in the village and left Shan Zi behind when she refused to return to Konoha, while his team escorted him home. The Third Hokage reviewed the aftermath of Mimi’s operation against the Five Great Nations as the story prepared to move into the Second Ninja World War.

• White Fang asked Shan Zi to return to Konoha and promised to support her, but she chose to remain in the countryside and secretly hid when he had to leave.
• White Fang left the village with Hitomi, Chiri, and Mimi, who told him to seek Tsunade about his missing hand and confirmed that the Flower Girls had been settled across the Land of Fire.
• Mimi suggested fitting White Fang with an iron arm, but he refused and asked for a normal replacement instead.
• The Third Hokage reviewed the heavy losses the Exploding Insect Swarm had inflicted on the Earth, Water, and Wind nations and noted that the Flower Girls had been safely dispersed.
• The Third Hokage worried that Mimi had become too powerful and difficult to control.

Third Hokage dismissed Mimi, Chiri, Hitomi, and White Fang from the Anbu, stripped Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi of their shinobi ranks, and erased their records. The group left the Hokage Office unemployed, while Third Hokage insisted they could regain their status only after realizing their mistakes.

• Third Hokage announced that he had dismissed the four from the Anbu, leaving White Fang worried about the humiliation and Hitomi panicked about losing her income.
• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi argued over who had caused the trouble, but Third Hokage refused to reconsider and said he had burned their Anbu records.
• Third Hokage stripped Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi of their Chunin status and explained that White Fang would face a harsher punishment as their captain.
• Hitomi threatened to tell Grandma Mito, but Third Hokage revealed that she had already agreed to the decision and said the records would make the group appear not to exist.
• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi claimed they realized their mistakes, but Third Hokage rejected their appeals and ordered them out of the office.
• Mimi and the others left after taunting Third Hokage about his workload, and he collapsed into his seat, exhausted.

After losing his position as a ninja, White Fang struggled to find a way to support himself, while Hitomi and Chiri chose new work. Mimi offered White Fang a well-paid job that included testing future equipment, and he agreed to start the next day.

• Hitomi decided to ask Tsunade for work as a sparring partner, while Chiri chose to teach the clan's children.
• Chiri left using the Body Flicker, and Hitomi went to find Tsunade at the hospital.
• Mimi advised White Fang to train during his recovery and consider a Ninja Prosthetic Arm to improve his combat capabilities.
• White Fang accepted Mimi's offer of a job guarding an entrance and cleaning for a monthly salary of two hundred thousand.
• Mimi told White Fang that he would start work the next day and might test products such as a Ninja Prosthetic Arm.

Mist and Sand ninjas struggled with severe physical and psychological trauma after the mission in River Country. Chiyo decided to research Human Puppets and called for Pakura so she could train her.

• Mist ninjas in the hospital suffered burns, nightmares, despair, and other symptoms of PTSD after the battle in River Country.
• Chiyo inspected the injured Sand ninjas and saw a young man’s nightmares and violence leave her unable to ease his mental suffering.
• Chiyo identified the Puppet Corps’ weakness as its reliance on vulnerable Puppet Masters and resolved to research Human Puppet techniques.
• Ebizo warned Chiyo that the village could not afford to lose people, but she insisted on researching both kinds of Human Puppet, including turning herself into one.
• Chiyo ordered Ebizo to begin preparations and told him to bring Pakura so she could teach her.

Meiji returned to research and development, planning projects involving Stronghold Armor, upgraded Summer Red Soldiers, new insects, and a medical Parasitic Insect to control and preserve captives. She had identified potential approaches for several projects but still lacked a way to influence prisoners who were determined to die.

• Meiji inventoried her specimens and decided to conduct human infection experiments in a more secret location.
• Meiji planned Stronghold Armor, a symbiotic super-tool life-form, and recognized that the Dual Demon Power kekkei genkai could address its production and host-control problems.
• Meiji designed small, medium, and large Summer Red Soldier models and chose cockroach genes to improve their endurance and environmental tolerance.
• Meiji provisionally named two new insect projects Spring Thunder Cannon and Autumn Tiger Elephant, and reserved General for her strongest insect.
• Meiji planned an insect to imprison and preserve captives because some prisoners were trying to commit suicide.
• Meiji concluded that she needed to develop an internal Parasitic Insect that could influence a host's actions while monitoring health and preventing disease.

Mimi explained the limits of Nano Kikaichu and the need to improve them, then assigned Orochimaru cloning research and exploration of new species. Orochimaru accepted the work in exchange for money to buy clothes and research materials.

• Mimi considered how Nano Kikaichu could harm other people, be expelled from their bodies, and potentially be upgraded to work with Chakra.
• Orochimaru asked Mimi for wages, but Mimi pointed out the costs of his equipment use and his failures to clean and follow safety regulations.
• Mimi offered to provide Orochimaru with research materials and gave him one hundred thousand ryō after he said he needed money for clothes.
• Mimi assigned Orochimaru cloning research and the exploration of new species, and he agreed to take on the tasks.

Mimi assigned Orochimaru to clone a Ninja Cat as the first step toward creating a new Beast-Shaped Insect called Autumn Tiger Elephant. After handing over the sleeping cat and explaining her plan, Mimi left the laboratory, where Orochimaru continued his work alone.

• Mimi gave Orochimaru a Ninja Cat and warned him repeatedly not to let her die while performing large-scale cloning.
• Mimi explained that she planned to use the cloned cats to develop a new Beast-Shaped Insect, designated Autumn Tiger Elephant.
• Orochimaru asked to observe Mimi’s later development experiments, and Mimi agreed once he finished the cloning work.
• Mimi left the laboratory, and White Fang concluded that the workday was over and put down his mop.
• Orochimaru stayed behind and continued working with his Shadow Clones on gene mapping, experiment records, and other laboratory tasks.