Chapter Summaries

Mimi taught Nawaki the principles behind Water Gun Bullet Technique and Water Severing Wave, then made him practice until noon. After lunch, Nawaki continued training while Mimi stayed with Mito, whose loneliness over rarely seeing Tsunade showed through their conversation.

• Mimi explained how compression could give water immense density and demonstrated it by shrinking a cubic meter of water into a heavy sphere that cratered the ground.
• Mimi compressed water through a narrow opening in the Barrier, firing a stream that pierced a rockery stone and demonstrating Water Severing Wave.
• Mimi told Nawaki to practice the technique, correcting him as he struggled and cried through the morning.
• At lunch, Mito noticed Nawaki's swollen eyes but did not ask what had happened, and Nawaki stayed silent.
• After lunch, Mimi drank tea with Mito, who lamented how rarely she saw Tsunade and urged Mimi to leave, but Mimi said she had nothing to do.

Chiri confronted Uchiha clansmen who demanded the release of detained relatives and arrested the protesting crowd when they refused to leave. She ordered everyone taken into custody and returned to her office, leaving the onlookers afraid of her.

• Chiri arrived at the Konoha Military Police Force as Uchiha clansmen gathered to demand their relatives' release.
• Chiri refused to release the detainees before the investigation was finished, despite appeals and threats from Grandpa Jialan and the crowd.
• Chiri declared the crowd under arrest for causing a disturbance, obstructing public security, assaulting the force, and suspected rebellion.
• Chiri ordered the Pro-Peace Faction members to arrest the crowd, and they shackled the protesting adults and children.
• Chiri told an Uchiha who asked about interrogation to take everyone away and lock them up, then returned to the office.

Chiri took charge of the overburdened Konoha Military Police Force and struggled to manage its workload while confronting the Uchiha clan’s deep-rooted misconduct. When prisoners’ families gathered to demand their release, she prepared to face them rather than yield.

• Chiri formally took over as captain and began registering the imprisoned Uchiha while dealing with the force’s severe staffing shortage and endless village complaints.
• Reviewing old records, Chiri recognized that the Uchiha had damaged their reputation through wrongful arrests, brutal enforcement, bribery, and corruption.
• Chiri identified manpower as the urgent problem but decided the imprisoned Uchiha would remain locked up for at least ten days.
• An Uchiha told Chiri that the prisoners’ families had gathered outside, crying and demanding their release.
• Chiri ordered the Uchiha to tell the crowd to leave, then went to the window and faced the gathered clan members with a cold smile.

Mimi helped Chiri address the Military Police Force’s overcrowding and manpower shortage by proposing outside recruits and temporary workers. She also laid out a plan to build an Anbu battalion under Chiri’s command, leaving the force ready to activate when Tsunade became Fourth Hokage.

• Chiri told Mimi that Konoha Prison was full, and Mimi advised her to recruit non-Uchiha shinobi as temporary workers through the village’s mission center.
• Mimi proposed delaying workers’ pay and offering exceptional recruits permanent positions, while Chiri agreed despite having no funds.
• Mimi said Senju, Hyuga, and Aburame members would temporarily join the Military Police Force as trailblazers and help draw civilian shinobi closer to the Uchiha.
• Mimi told Chiri to establish and train a thousand-person Anbu battalion, use the Military Police Force as cover, and build an independent intelligence network for the Second Shinobi World War.
• Mimi agreed to split the Anbu’s initial costs with Chiri and said White Fang and experienced members of the three clans would assist her.

Mimi advised Chiri on reforming the Konoha Military Police Force by changing its accountability, leadership, and staffing. Chiri agreed to begin the reforms after learning the force needed only one hundred people to operate.

• Mimi explained how temporary workers could take the blame for mistakes and warned Chiri that absolute rules could make the force rigid.
• Mimi proposed adding Senju, Hyuga, and civilian members to the Konoha Military Police Force so resentment would no longer focus solely on the Uchiha.
• Chiri agreed that White Fang could take over as captain after she put the force in order, and Mimi suggested later promoting a civilian.
• Mimi said Uchiha could remain in the force, join the Anbu, or pursue ordinary village careers and missions.
• Mimi described how patrols were overstaffed and poorly organized, with overlapping routes and as many as forty people assigned to one route.
• Mimi told Chiri that the force needed only one hundred people, shocking her.

Mimi explained to Orochimaru that cloning was intended to produce rare experimental animals, not human subjects, and revealed that Tsunade’s Healing Regeneration Technique could theoretically regenerate an entire person and grant her immortality. The chapter ended with Orochimaru demanding more help for the cloning project because he was out of Chakra and manpower, while Mimi considered how to address the problem.

• Mimi returned to the laboratory, where Orochimaru reported that his cloning research was nearly successful but faced problems with human cloning and mass production.
• Mimi clarified that she wanted cloned experimental animals, and she explained the potential uses of cloning and Konoha’s existing organ-regeneration technique.
• Mimi told Orochimaru that Tsunade could theoretically regenerate a complete person from a drop of blood and replace her aging cells, but warned him to keep the secret of her potential immortality.
• Mimi rejected Orochimaru’s suggestion to bring Tsunade into the laboratory, saying she was the future Fourth Hokage, and ordered him to keep the information secret.
• Mimi proposed using blood-derived stem cells and village missions to obtain female cats for the cloning project, while Orochimaru protested that he lacked the Chakra and manpower to handle the work.
• Mimi realized Orochimaru’s Chakra shortage was the central problem and began weighing possible solutions.

Mimi urged Orochimaru to expand Ninjutsu research and recruited him to train apprentices, starting with Nawaki. Orochimaru agreed to seek promising students at the academy, while Mimi warned him not to recruit her disciple Namikaze Minato.

• Mimi gave Orochimaru a Yin Seal scroll and explained that sharing Ninjutsu would help advance research, but Orochimaru resisted using the seal.
• Mimi suggested turning the Snake Sage into a source of power, but Orochimaru recognized that attempting it without mastering Sage Technique could kill him.
• Mimi proposed that Orochimaru take Nawaki as an apprentice so he could assign him research work and enlist Tsunade's help when needed.
• Orochimaru agreed to teach Nawaki and look for more candidates at the school, while Mimi warned him that Namikaze Minato was her disciple.
• Mimi praised the research achievements of young Chiri, Tsunade, and Hitomi, and Orochimaru agreed that students could be worth training.

Mimi considered how to build a biological computer but postponed the project until after the Second Ninja World War. As the Military Police Force improved and Orochimaru’s laboratory advanced, Orochimaru dressed up to recruit disciples at the school.

• Mimi reasoned that the swarm’s computing power could support a biological computer, but she lacked the time to develop one before the war.
• Chiri’s crackdowns improved the Military Police Force’s reputation, while Senju and Hyuga joined the force and helped arrest local troublemakers.
• The Eve Swarm began monitoring the pregnant bodies delivered to Orochimaru, and the cats eventually settled into the laboratory.
• When spring school-opening season arrived, Orochimaru dressed up and told Mimi he was going to recruit disciples at the school.
• Mimi inferred that cloning technology for egg-laying animals was mature and that Orochimaru was ready to begin mammal cloning experiments.

Orochimaru went to the Ninja Academy to choose Nawaki as his first disciple, but he also became interested in the gifted Yakushi Nonō. He left with both children, while wondering where the blond-haired Namikaze Minato was.

• Orochimaru visited the Academy and found Nawaki asleep during class, leaving him unimpressed with his future disciple.
• The principal explained the rules for Jonin disciples, and Orochimaru invoked Insect Princess’s request to secure Nawaki as his student.
• Orochimaru asked to see other promising candidates and learned about Yakushi Nonō, a quick-learning new student.
• Orochimaru mistook Nonō for the blond-haired child he had heard about and asked for Namikaze Minato, but the principal said no such child attended the school.
• When Nawaki interrupted to ask what Nonō could teach him, Orochimaru ordered both children to come with him.

Jubei struggled to find meaningful work in Mimi’s laboratory while she refined her experiments. Orochimaru returned with Nawaki and his new disciple Yakushi Nonō, who quickly bonded with Mimi, leaving Nawaki jealous.

• Jubei tried to impress Mimi, but she assigned him to experiment with making milk tea.
• Mimi recalled that White Fang had rejected a transplanted arm containing Slug’s Sage Technique cells, though he had tolerated one without them.
• Orochimaru returned with a battered Nawaki and Yakushi Nonō, whom he had taken as his disciple.
• Nonō eagerly approached Mimi, who gave her candy and invited her to call her Mei Ji, Older Sister.
• Mimi praised Orochimaru as a responsible teacher, and Nonō promised to study hard under him.
• Nawaki grew jealous of Nonō’s bond with Mimi and glared at her, thinking her unforgivable.

Orochimaru began teaching Nawaki, Nonō, and Jubei demanding lessons in academic basics, while Mimi visited the dungeon where the Eve Swarm managed prisoners. Observing the swarm’s behavior and shared learning, Mimi considered whether it had developed artificial intelligence and how its consciousness connected to her network.

• Orochimaru assessed Nawaki and Nonō’s foundations, assigned them self-study, and gave Jubei textbooks after Mimi allowed him to join.
• When Nawaki asked about Ninjutsu, Orochimaru assigned him extra lessons, homework, and tests.
• Mimi left the study session and went with her Aburame guards through a Hidden Passage to inspect her underground dungeon.
• The Eve Swarm delivered extra meals to two prisoners, then forced them to act, biting them when they resisted.
• Mimi reflected on the Eve Swarm’s shared learning and emerging consciousness, and questioned whether its consciousness had originated in her network or been uploaded to it.

Mimi used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to investigate how it worked and discovered that the caster’s soul became the Shinigami, while the target’s life energy and Mental Energy were sealed inside it. She then successfully infected two soulless, dying prisoners with her power and concluded that she had grasped the root of life, leaving them to die.

• Mimi controlled Da Wu with Insect Secret Technique: Puppet Manipulation and made him cast the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, revealing the Shinigami’s appearance.
• Mimi observed that the Shinigami reacted to pain reflected onto its caster and determined that the caster’s soul had become the Shinigami inside a Shinigami Mask.
• Mimi made the Shinigami extract the second prisoner’s soul and saw the target sealed before the technique ended without visibly extracting the caster’s soul.
• Mimi treated both prisoners as they neared death and successfully infected them after their souls were gone, allowing their genes to accept her power.
• Mimi withdrew her hand and let the prisoners die, concluding that she had grasped the root of life and that reviving them would not restore the same people.

Mimi reorganized Konoha’s Military Police Force into a new Anbu with specialized squads and began building an underground headquarters and network of secret bases. After the Anbu took shape, Chiri called Mimi to inspect it, then demanded a reward for her hard work.

• Chiri continued releasing Uchiha Pro-War Faction members after their sentences, while nearly four hundred ideological diehards remained imprisoned.
• Mimi divided the new Anbu into combat, reconnaissance, internal security, village security, prison guard, and experimental units, giving them codenames including the Skeleton Squad, Ghost Squad, Ghoul, Gargoyle Squad, Acolyte Squad, and Abomination.
• Mimi designated Konoha Prison a “Haunted Gold Mine” and began using it for Anbu training and prisoner experiments.
• Mimi began excavating beneath Konoha Prison for a Secret Base and planned underground tunnels connecting her bases and moving facilities outside the village.
• Chiri notified Mimi that the Anbu was ready for inspection, and Mimi hurried away when Chiri demanded a reward for her work.

Mimi brought Chiri and Hitomi to the new independent Anbu headquarters beneath the prison, where she prepared an underground network for future battles and presented the organization to Tsunade. The chapter ended with Mimi and the Anbu pledging their loyalty to Tsunade as the Mitotic Regeneration Princess.

• Mimi and Chiri arrived at the new Anbu headquarters, an underground base built according to Mimi’s plans beneath the prison.
• Mimi planned to use Slime Mold to map underground routes and help her swarm move through the expanding tunnel network.
• A thousand Anbu personnel assembled in the main hall, while Tsunade, Chiri, and Hitomi stood on the platform.
• Mimi and the others removed their hoods to reveal their masked faces, and the Anbu revealed their matching skeleton-painted appearance.
• Mimi, Chiri, Hitomi, and the assembled Anbu knelt before Tsunade and pledged their undying loyalty to the Mitotic Regeneration Princess.

Tsunade rallied Konoha’s forces by declaring her hatred of war and calling for a unified great war against the Four Great Nations. The chapter ended with her taking command as Fourth Hokage and leading the Undying Anbu Squad toward the coming conflict.

• Tsunade addressed the gathered forces, describing the horrors of war and asking what they truly yearned for.
• Mimi declared that she yearned for war, and the crowd roared its agreement as they raised their weapons.
• Tsunade called for a great war, declaring that Konoha would become an army of one hundred thousand and make the Four Great Nations remember the Will of Fire.
• Mimi, Chiri, Hitomi, and the Anbu pledged obedience to Tsunade as Mitotic Regeneration Princess, Fourth Hokage, and Commander of the Konoha Ninja Army.
• Tsunade ordered the Fourth Hokage’s commands relayed to every member of the Undying Anbu Squad and promised to enter hell alongside them.

After Tsunade’s speech boosted morale at the Anbu conference, Mimi praised her and discussed her political platform and plans for medical training. Tsunade agreed that basic battlefield care could be taught more widely, but noted she was not yet a Jonin.

• Mimi praised Tsunade’s speech and urged her to guard against the Third Hokage while pursuing the Hokage position with a clear platform.
• Tsunade said she hoped Sarutobi Sensei could retire with dignity, and Mimi asked her to propose medical teams at the Jonin meeting.
• Tsunade objected that Konoha lacked enough Medical Ninjas, so Mimi proposed training shinobi in battlefield first aid and basic medical skills.
• Tsunade argued that Medical Ninjutsu was difficult to teach and risky to spread, while Chiri challenged her claim that she could treat the whole village alone.
• Mimi said Hitomi and other combat forces needed help sharing the burden of treatment, and Tsunade replied that she was not yet a Jonin.

Mimi urged Tsunade to apply for the Jonin assessment, while assigning Hitomi a major classified Barrier project in the Hidden Passages. The work ended with Chiri agreeing to help Hitomi, and the group teasing Tsunade until she blushed.

• Mimi told Tsunade to apply for the Jonin assessment and said she and the others would help her prepare for the written and practical tests.
• Mimi assigned Hitomi to place trigger-trap seals and Barriers in the Hidden Passages, revealing that the classified project would be ongoing.
• Hitomi protested the workload, but Chiri offered to help drive the piles and use the work to train the Anbu.
• Hitomi kissed Chiri, and Chiri kissed Mimi, prompting Hitomi to demand a kiss and Tsunade to stop her.
• Hitomi and Chiri teased Tsunade about blushing, and Tsunade angrily ordered them not to kiss in front of her or kiss her.

After leaving prison, Lian saw that Chiri had brought the Uchiha respect and harmony with the village, and she hurried home to share the news. Her grandfather instead demanded that she kill him to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan, and their confrontation ended with bloodshed.

• Lian was released from prison and found Uchiha and other villagers living and playing together peacefully.
• Lian realized that Chiri had restored the Uchiha's lost respect and ran home to tell her grandfather.
• Lian's grandfather ordered her to seize control of the clan and awaken the Mangekyo by killing him.
• Lian refused to kill her grandfather, but he attacked her and forced a sword into her hands.
• Lian decided that her grandfather had betrayed her and the Uchiha's honor, then charged him with her sword.
• Blood sprayed as a body fell to the ground.

Kama killed his grandfather after realizing the old man had manipulated him in hopes of awakening the Mangekyo, but the attempt failed and Kama was sentenced to ten years in prison. In a separate cell, Kagutsuchi rejected Madara’s efforts to sway him and asked to see Clan Head Chiri.

• Kama’s grandfather died after urging him to hate the Uchiha name, while Kama laughed and insisted he would not follow the old man’s path.
• A clan member discovered the murder, and the Konoha Military Police Force arrested Kama at the scene.
• Chiri questioned Kama, who admitted killing his grandfather for the Mangekyo but said he had not awakened it; Chiri sentenced him to ten years in prison.
• Kama returned to the Konoha Heavy Offender Interrogation Center and sat in his private cell in a daze.
• Kagutsuchi told Madara that the dead elder had stolen Rei, Kagutsuchi’s nephew, and refused to support Madara’s plans for the Uchiha.
• After Madara left, Kagutsuchi asked the guard to arrange a meeting with Clan Head Chiri.

Chiri questioned Kagutsuchi about Uchiha Madara and learned about his Rinnegan, possible goals, and the threat he posed. Kagutsuchi destroyed his Mangekyo eyes as a gift to Chiri, the newly named Clan Head, and revealed that he had acted to help the Uchiha integrate into the village.

• Chiri dismissed Kagutsuchi's Mangekyo abilities and said she could defeat his Izanagi, even though she lacked a Mangekyo herself.
• Kagutsuchi warned Chiri that Madara had a mountain-sized Complete Body Susanoo, a potentially powerful Genjutsu, and strength beyond his eyes.
• Kagutsuchi suggested that Madara was old, hiding because he lacked confidence, and might want to resurrect himself at his youthful peak.
• Kagutsuchi destroyed his Mangekyo eyes, telling Chiri that they would have no value to Madara.
• After Chiri left, Kagutsuchi asked Tobirama-sensei whether he had disappointed him and noted that the Uchiha had begun integrating into the village.