Chapter Summaries

Mimi secretly left the village, established an Eve Swarm base in River Country, and explored the desert in search of unusual species. Her journey led her across the sea to a barren island shaped by the Sage of Six Paths’ Chibaku Tensei, where she concluded that another continent lay beyond the horizon.

• Mimi released the Eve Swarm in River Country, where it dug a temporary underground branch base for research, resource gathering, and future transport routes.
• Three days later, Mimi reached Wind Country and assessed the desert’s harsh conditions, deciding that the swarm would need to adapt to the heat and scarcity of water.
• Mimi caught a ground beetle whose shell collected moisture, identifying it as a potential key to the swarm’s survival in the desert.
• Mimi visited an oasis, bought local specialties, and asked about the Giant Desert Death Worm, but the locals had only heard legends of it.
• Mimi traveled with migrating desert people to a mountain range, crossed the sea, and found barren islands marked by bird droppings.
• Mimi recognized that the islands had been sunk by the Sage of Six Paths’ Chibaku Tensei and inferred that another continent lay across the sea.

After failing to find the Dragon Vein near the border between River Country and Wind Country, Mimi returned to the village and resumed her work with Tsunade. She then began a human infection experiment on prisoners in an abandoned Anbu torture facility.

• Mimi searched for the Dragon Vein but found only desert and no trace of Rōran, then returned to the village.
• Mimi continued her research and helped Tsunade improve her control over the Nine-Tails.
• Mimi went to the underground dungeon to conduct a human infection experiment on prisoners.
• Yui, Ryoma, and Shi Hei dragged four prisoners from their cell after Mimi ordered them to bring people out.
• Yui prepared a chair in the abandoned Anbu torture facility, and Ryoma and Shi Hei tied the prisoners to torture frames while Mimi took charge.

Mimi tried to infect four captured warriors by breaking their resistance through torture, while Ryoma and Shi Hei carried out her orders. Even after the warriors sincerely submitted, Mimi declared that they had not and continued the beatings.

• Mimi's infection of an unconscious warrior stalled, so she ordered Ryoma and Shi Hei to wake the four captives and torture them.
• Ryoma and Shi Hei gagged the men and whipped them until one warrior submitted, but Mimi's attempt to infect him still failed.
• The warriors claimed they had submitted, and Mimi used Kikaichū to heal them so Ryoma and Shi Hei could continue beating them.
• Mimi asked the four warriors one last time whether they submitted, then declared that they still had not and left them despairing.

Mimi discovered that infecting people required their souls to accept her, explaining why Yui’s unconditional trust made her easy to control while Shi Hei and Ryoma resisted. After a lobotomy failed to complete the infection, Mimi concluded that she needed to target souls directly and considered body-snatching techniques as a solution.

• Mimi successfully infected Yui, whose blind admiration and trust in her allowed the process to work, and gave her control of some Nano Kikaichū.
• Mimi failed to infect Shi Hei and Ryoma, then tested Ryoma’s obedience by ordering him to stab himself and healed his wound afterward.
• Mimi performed a frontal lobotomy on a samurai and tried to infect him, but the process still failed to reach its final target.
• Mimi concluded that infection depended on winning a person’s soul rather than controlling their body, and considered using Living Corpse Reincarnation or the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to take over bodies.

Mimi made Yui her shadow and began teaching her to control the swarm, then agreed to accompany Tsunade to Shikkotsu Forest so she could train in Sage Techniques. Tsunade discovered Mimi had taken one of her slugs and became furious when Mimi refused to admit it.

• Mimi ended the experiment, named Yui Shadow, and opened part of the swarm’s permissions to her, but Yui collapsed from the information overload.
• Several days later, Tsunade said her Nine-Tails training had stopped improving, and Mimi suggested they pursue Sage Technique training instead.
• Tsunade decided to go to Shikkotsu Forest, and Mimi summoned a Little Slug so she could accompany her.
• Tsunade recognized her slug despite Mimi calling it her Snot Slug, and lunged at Mimi in anger.

Tsunade and Mimi rampaged through the forest while the Third Hokage chose to ignore the damage. Hitomi watched a young green-skinned Genin before setting out to train, while Chiri struggled to teach Uchiha Fugaku and left him battered but impressed.

• Tsunade and Mimi fought in the forest, destroying trees as the Barrier monitoring unit and the Third Hokage watched without intervening.
• Hitomi ate dango and red bean soup while remembering her school days and watching a green-skinned Genin botch a mission, then accept his teammates' criticism cheerfully.
• Hitomi decided to train her swordsmanship and pursue Mimi's Nameless Divine Wind Style to improve her weak attack power.
• Chiri taught young Uchiha Fugaku the Shuriken Technique but found his progress painfully slow, so she switched to Uchiha Kenjutsu.
• Chiri defeated Fugaku with her fingernail, fists, and feet, leaving him bruised but admiring her skill.

Mimi brought Tsunade to Shikkotsu Forest to learn Sage Technique and meet Slug Sage. After Mimi reunited two Little Slugs with Slug Sage, the giant Slug panicked and accused Mimi of wanting her to bear children, leaving Tsunade bewildered.

• Tsunade stopped fighting Mimi, then agreed to travel to Shikkotsu Forest and learn Sage Technique.
• Tsunade arrived at Shikkotsu Forest by Reverse Summoning, and Mimi followed with her own Slug.
• Slug Sage examined Mimi and was surprised by her size, then asked to see the Little Slug Tsunade had hidden in her pocket.
• Mimi summoned two Little Slugs and released them into Slug Sage, who trembled and cried out in fear.
• Slug Sage accused Mimi of wanting her to bear children and threatened that they would perish together, leaving Tsunade confused.

Mimi confronted the Slug Sage to learn her Sage Technique and discovered that she could reorganize her body into other forms. Mimi saw potential in using that ability to transform her insect swarm, while Tsunade intervened to protect the frightened Slug Sage.

• Little Slug recalled years of painful experiments and lamented that she had been forced to give birth and left alone.
• Mimi reassured the Slug Sage that she would leave after learning Sage Technique, and the Slug Sage claimed that no one could learn it.
• Tsunade learned that Hashirama had never formed a contract with the Slug Sage and that the Slug Sage had falsely told her that enough Chakra was all she needed.
• Mimi identified Slug Great Division as the Slug Sage's Yang Release Sage Technique and realized the Slug Sage could transform her body by reorganizing her organs.
• The Slug Sage screamed for Tsunade's help, and Tsunade scolded Mimi and promised to protect her.

Mimi questioned the Slug Sage about her Natural Energy techniques and discovered that the Slug converted Natural Energy into Chakra without the seed shared by the Sage of Six Paths. The Slug explained her primitive Sage Technique, but Mimi left with more interest in investigating the Slug’s unusual biology than in learning the technique.

• Mimi asked the Slug Sage how her Sage Technique used Natural Energy and learned that she absorbed it directly into her body.
• Mimi realized the Slug had mastered Natural Energy before the Sage of Six Paths shared Chakra’s seed and inferred that the Slug could convert Natural Energy into Chakra herself.
• Mimi connected the Slug’s biology to the Kikaichū, whose ability to use Chakra without producing it suggested a way to destroy the God Tree.
• The Slug Sage told Mimi that humans had failed to master her Sage Technique because they could not survive absorbing Natural Energy, while the Slug could divide and regenerate.
• The Slug Sage claimed she had already taught Mimi the technique and nervously asked her to leave.

Mimi discovered that the Slug Sage had adapted to Natural Energy through forced bodily evolution and devised a way for Tsunade to learn its Sage Technique. Tsunade regrew an arm dissolved by a tiny dose of Sage Art Chakra, proving she could survive the training, while the Nine-Tails realized its Chakra was involved.

• The Slug Sage explained that Natural Energy had invaded its body, forcing it to divide and adapt until it could control the energy.
• Mimi concluded that Tsunade could learn Sage Technique by relying on her medical ninjutsu and ability to heal, despite the danger of her body dissolving.
• Mimi had Tsunade block her sense of pain and persuaded the Slug Sage to begin training her.
• Mimi ordered a tiny test dose of Sage Art Chakra, which dissolved Tsunade's arm before she could react.
• Tsunade regrew her arm without using the Hundred Healings Technique, convincing Mimi that she could learn the Slug Sage's technique.
• The Nine-Tails sensed that something was wrong and realized the Chakra being used was its own.

Mimi guided Tsunade through a grueling method of mastering Sage Technique by balancing Natural Energy’s destruction against her healing. Tsunade learned that the process could take centuries, but Mimi argued that her version of Sage Mode could grant permanent access to Natural Energy and extend her lifespan.

• Mimi had Tsunade activate the Hundred Healings Technique while Slug reduced the flow of Natural Energy, keeping Tsunade healing faster than the energy harmed her.
• After four hours of training, Tsunade complained about the method and asked how long mastering Sage Mode would take; Slug said it had taken her several hundred years.
• Mimi told Tsunade that Natural Energy could extend her lifespan, and Slug explained that she and other ancient sage creatures had lived for a very long time.
• Tsunade briefly tried to quit after worrying she might be the only one to live so long, but Mimi persuaded her to continue and said her training followed Slug Sage’s proven method.
• Mimi explained that Tsunade’s Sage Mode would store Natural Energy continuously, unlike Jiraiya’s temporary version, and could keep Tsunade permanently in Sage Mode once mastered.
• Tsunade asked whether the completed technique could defeat Mimi, and Mimi dismissed the idea, prompting Tsunade to vow to surpass her.

Mimi confirmed that Tsunade’s slow Sage Technique training remained viable, then returned to her laboratory to prepare her own safer approach and cultivate new insects. As tensions and preparations spread through Konoha’s clans and ninja, White Fang was unexpectedly summoned for testing.

• Mimi left Tsunade to continue Sage Technique training after concluding that Tsunade’s body might eventually adapt to Natural Energy.
• The Nine-Tails reluctantly let Tsunade draw on its Chakra, then worried that her success would keep it sealed away for a long time.
• Mimi returned to her laboratory to plan a safe Sage Technique method and begin cultivating insects that could use it.
• Konoha’s ninja, clans, and civilian fighters began training, forming alliances, or preparing for a looming conflict.
• White Fang, who had been cleaning in the winter forest for months, was summoned for testing and wondered what was being tested.

Konoha ninjas gathered during the quiet winter season and discussed the growing number of deaths and increasingly dangerous missions. They suspected tensions with Kirigakure and the Hidden Rock Village were rising, but had little control over the worsening situation.

• Konoha ninjas shared stories from patrols and missions before discussing the deaths of Arai and Yu Er.
• The ninjas mourned a Genin squad and its Jonin leader who had died at sea, and some blamed Kirigakure.
• A young ninja said his squad’s escort mission against the Rock Ninjas had become unusually dangerous and ended in a retreat.
• The ninjas discussed how the Five Great Nations usually kept conflicts restrained, then one warned that the Hidden Rock Village was struggling to support its large ninja force.

Konoha ninjas discussed how Hidden Rock’s food crisis and lack of room to expand could push it into war, then a drunken argument between civilian ninjas and the Uchiha escalated into a fight. The chapter left the tavern in chaos as both groups confronted each other.

• A senior ninja predicted that Hidden Rock would soon start a war because ground collapses and poor farmland had created a food crisis and surplus population.
• The senior explained that Earth Country was boxed in by hostile or inhospitable neighbors, leaving Hidden Rock with few options for expansion.
• A drunken civilian ninja complained about his stalled Jonin application and compared his treatment with that of the Ninja Clans, but his childhood friend slapped him and calmed him down.
• A group of Uchiha mocked the civilian ninjas for backing down, and both groups stood up to confront each other.
• The Uchiha opened their Sharingan, the civilians rose to meet them, and the tavern erupted into a brawl after they shouted insults.

A brawl at an Izakaya spiraled into a clash between the Uchiha and civilians, and the Konoha Military Police Force arrested the defeated patrons. The Third Hokage arrived to bail them out and worried that the Uchiha’s control of the force was pushing the clan toward extremism.

• Uchiha angered by hostile remarks attacked the patrons at the Izakaya, and the fight grew out of control.
• The Konoha Military Police Force arrived, defeated the troublemakers, and detained them in a temporary prison.
• The chapter recounted how an attempted Uchiha rebellion under Tobirama Senju damaged the clan’s reputation and how Tobirama’s death ended his efforts to guide them.
• The Third Hokage headed to the Konoha Military Police Force to bail out the civilians and avoid worsening the divide with the Uchiha.
• Seeing the Uchiha celebrating their victory, the Third Hokage feared that reclaiming the force would corner the clan, but leaving it in their hands would drive them toward extremism.

After the Third Hokage reclaimed the prisoners, villagers repeated familiar accusations against the Uchiha, and Chiri resolved to change their treatment. She attacked a four-person Military Police Force patrol and left its members terrified of her strength.

• The Third Hokage reclaimed the detained villagers and ninja, dismissed their complaints, and left after telling the ninja not to act impulsively again.
• Villagers spread stories portraying the Uchiha and the Military Police Force as cruel and unjust, reinforcing hostility toward the clan.
• Chiri walked through the village as passersby avoided her and looked at her with hatred, and she decided to correct what she saw as a mistake.
• Chiri stopped a four-person Uchiha patrol in an alley and defeated its members with her illusionary arts and physical attacks.
• Chiri caught one patrolman's blade, kicked him down, and pinned his head beneath her foot while the two remaining Uchiha trembled in fear.

Chiri beat Uchiha clansmen who had attacked village ninja and decided to force the Uchiha factions into submission through a clan-wide civil war before the Second Shinobi World War. She continued her campaign in Konoha, assaulting another Uchiha in public while calling it an internal family matter.

• Chiri confronted four Uchiha men who had fought village ninja, beat them, and warned them not to repeat their behavior.
• After the injured men left for Konoha Hospital, Chiri decided to ignite a full-scale civil war within the Uchiha clan to settle its divisions before the Second Shinobi World War.
• Chiri used Body Flicker to leave the rooftop and continued her attacks, sending an Uchiha man crashing through an Izakaya wall onto Konoha's main street.
• Chiri told the gathered villagers and ninja that the assault was an internal Uchiha matter, then asked the injured man where he had gone wrong.
• When the man protested, Chiri kicked him in the face, knocking out several teeth and sending him flying as the crowd watched in silence.

Uchiha Chiri repeatedly beat an Uchiha man who attacked her, demanding that he admit where he had gone wrong. After leaving him unconscious, she intimidated the villagers into taking him to the hospital and walked away as they recognized her power.

• The Uchiha man charged at Chiri with a kunai, but she severed the nerves in his legs with Medical Ninjutsu and made him kneel.
• Chiri repeatedly kicked the man down the street whenever he refused to answer her question, while the watching villagers grew terrified.
• Chiri told the badly injured man that he had been wrong to challenge her while he was weak, then knocked him unconscious.
• Chiri politely asked the villagers to take the man to the hospital, and they agreed after she swept them with her scarlet Three Tomoe Pattern.
• Chiri left as the villagers bowed and silently watched her go, recognizing her as the Uchiha's Flower Tyrant.

More than a hundred Uchiha were hospitalized after Chiri brutally injured members of the Konoha Military Police Force, and the Pro-War Faction gathered in anger. Mimi observed the faction’s leaders and White Fang, who was tied to a bed, as the clan’s internal tensions remained unresolved.

• Doctors treated scores of badly injured Uchiha and learned that Chiri, known as the Flower Tyrant, had inflicted the wounds.
• The Uchiha assembled in a ward and demanded that their deputy captain respond to the humiliation.
• Uchiha Kagutsuchi watched as Uchiha Naka called for action, while Uchiha Setsuna rebuked him and Uchiha Ken encouraged him.
• Mimi considered the Pro-War Faction’s leaders and their possible future Mangekyo, noting that Uchiha Kama was being sidelined.
• Mimi sighed over the Uchiha clan’s disorder as she looked at the terrified White Fang, tied to a bed with clean cloth stuffed in his mouth.

The Uchiha Pro-War Faction launched a mass mobilization against the Pro-Peace Faction, leaving the Third Hokage to watch as the clan’s internal conflict escalated. Hitomi and Mimi prepared to support Chiri without openly interfering, and Mimi ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

• The Uchiha Pro-War Faction assembled nearly two thousand ninjas and marched through Konoha while Anbu monitored them.
• The Third Hokage watched the procession and concluded that the Uchiha’s internal conflict had to be settled before the village could act.
• A clansman asked Hitomi to return and take charge, and Mimi explained that Chiri had provoked a fight by challenging the Uchiha’s authority.
• Hitomi agreed to bring the Hyuga Branch Family to support Chiri, while Mimi stayed behind to finish her meal.
• Mimi ordered Yui to tell everyone to prepare for battle, then left the house beneath the moonlight.