Chapter Summaries

Chiri used her heightened perception to read Madara’s attacks and keep pace with him in a duel that pushed both of their bodies to the limit. After she escaped Shinra Tensei and pierced its force field with the Flying Thunder God Technique, she also saw through Madara’s Limbo clone, leaving him stunned.

• Chiri and Madara fought with elegant swordsmanship, neither gaining the advantage as their hair turned white and their bodies grew gaunt.
• Madara grew anxious and used Shinra Tensei offensively, but Chiri perceived its expanding distortion and dodged the force wave.
• Chiri used the Flying Thunder God Technique to open a hole in Shinra Tensei and rushed at Madara with her sword.
• Madara summoned Limbo: Border Jail, but Chiri sensed the invisible clone’s movements and evaded it.
• Chiri called the Limbo clone an invisible puppet and told Madara she had seen through his trick, leaving him confused.

Chiri and Nami used Yin Release and increasingly complex Flying Thunder God techniques to counter Madara’s Wood Release attacks. As Madara summoned a Wood Dragon, Chiri charged through the raging forest toward him.

• Madara wounded Chiri with a wooden fist, but she used her Yin Release Clone and Flying Thunder God to evade his follow-up strike and counterattack.
• Madara hardened his body and seized Chiri’s sword while his clone attacked Nami’s Yin Release Clone, which reformed and used a Kunai to teleport away.
• Madara erupted a vast forest, forcing Chiri and Nami to use Flying Thunder God to dodge the advancing trees and reposition around each other.
• Madara formed a Wood Dragon to intercept Nami, while Chiri and Nami coordinated a ten-Kunai ricochet using the Uchiha Style Flying Thunder God Shuriken Technique.
• Chiri charged through the raging forest toward Madara.

Chiri and Nami exhausted their Chakra in a final assault that left Madara seemingly defeated, but Chiri was too badly injured to move. Madara revived himself with Izanagi and tried to kill her, but Chiri escaped with the Flying Thunder God as Madara headed toward the Land of Water.

• Chiri and Nami used the Twin Camellia Dance to slice through Madara’s wooden serpents, forcing him to summon Susanoo and leaving both Chiri and Madara gravely injured.
• Nami disappeared after exhausting her Chakra, while Chiri fell and found herself unable to control her limbs.
• Madara collapsed with his life signs fading, and Chiri believed she had defeated him before she passed out from her injuries.
• Madara revived himself with Izanagi, used Banshō Ten'in to pull Chiri toward him, and vowed not to spare her.
• Chiri vanished with the Flying Thunder God, and Madara left for the Land of Water.

Uchiha Setsuna was cornered by three Konoha factions with conflicting goals, but their confrontation erupted into a battle that gave him a chance to escape. Meanwhile, Mimi organized the cleanup and relief effort in the village and surrounding area after the explosion.

• Uchiha Setsuna encountered Anbu, Root, and the Skeleton Squad, all of whom claimed him as their target.
• The three squad leaders agreed to capture Uchiha Setsuna first, despite wanting different things from him.
• Root attacked Anbu and the Skeleton Squad with Wind Blades, triggering a chaotic fight that gave Uchiha Setsuna an opportunity to flee.
• Kikaichū, Shadow Clones, and cleanup teams cleared snow ash and toxic debris from Konoha and the surrounding area.
• Mimi and the Eve Swarm sheltered, fed, and treated surviving animals, including with a Chakra-based gene drug whose side effects remained unknown.

Mimi reached Chiri and found her critically injured by radiation, then brought her to the hospital for Tsunade to treat. As Hitomi and Insect Sister stayed beside Mimi, Mimi finally broke down outside the treatment room.

• Mimi and Hitomi found Chiri unconscious on a boulder, and Mimi discovered that radiation had severely damaged her body.
• Mimi enclosed Chiri in a Barrier and summoned Tsunade, then sent Hitomi away before using the Summoning Technique to reach Insect Sister.
• Insect Sister licked Mimi’s wounds as they returned to the hospital, where Mimi ordered Hitomi to rest despite Hitomi’s protest.
• Mimi used Kikaichū to put Hitomi to sleep, but Hitomi sprang up while unconscious when Tsunade arrived to examine Chiri.
• Tsunade sent a Slug into Chiri’s room to assess her condition, while Mimi sealed the treatment room and collapsed outside.
• Insect Sister licked Mimi’s wounds as Mimi clutched her and trembled.

Tsunade treated Chiri’s severe radiation injuries and explained why radiation damaged ordinary cells while Chakra-based life remained resilient. Mimi collapsed from her injuries and exhaustion, so Tsunade carried her, Chiri, and Hitomi to the Underground Shelter, while Insect Sister followed despite being told to stay behind.

• Tsunade explained that radiation damaged genes and prevented normal cell renewal, while Chakra-related backup genes could keep Chakra-based life forms functioning.
• Tsunade removed radioactive particles from Chiri and treated her injuries, then left her to recover through self-healing and observation.
• After three hours, Tsunade asked Mimi when her Special Medicine would be ready, but found Mimi asleep beside Insect Sister and Hitomi.
• Tsunade carried Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi toward the Underground Shelter so they could receive care.
• Insect Sister followed Tsunade despite her order to stay behind, prioritizing protecting Mimi over obeying her instructions.

While unconscious, Mimi’s Insect Clone worked through the night on medicine and analyzed how genes regulate life force, cellular damage, and aging. Mimi concluded that the treatment required activating the genes that repair wear and tear, and set out to activate life force’s operating system.

• Mimi’s Insect Clone continued working on the medicine while Mimi was unconscious, addressing unresolved technical problems involving Chakra and life force.
• Mimi explained how life force supports gene activity and why treatments can fail when cells can no longer divide or repair themselves.
• Mimi traced aging to genes that reduce damage repair after an individual has matured enough to pass on its genes.
• Mimi connected this process to Chiri’s greater resistance to radiation than Madara and to the inevitable deaths of elderly villagers.
• Mimi concluded that she needed to activate the genes responsible for repairing wear and tear.

Mimi explained how cellular repair, aging, and lifespan were regulated by genes, then outlined five ways to extend life. She was developing a targeted viral medicine to deliver a crucial repair fuel into cells, while concluding that lasting immortality required giving up being human.

• Mimi described how repair proteins, replication controls, and age markers regulated cellular repair and contributed to aging.
• Mimi outlined five possible methods for extending lifespan, including activating repair genes, altering methylation, deleting an inhibitory gene, stimulating repair signals, and guiding lost repair proteins.
• Mimi explained that cells blocked externally supplied repair fuel and that a targeted virus could smuggle it inside; Nano Kikaichu could do the same only with extensive training.
• Mimi’s Insect Clones conducted experiments and hurried to develop the Gene Targeting Drug using viral templates.
• Mimi concluded that Orochimaru’s method of taking a young body was more practical, but that her own pursuit of immortality meant no longer being human.

Mimi examined the mysteries of the Chakra Transformation Gene while recovering in Konoha Hospital, where Chiri and Hitomi remained gravely ill. Overseas, Madara’s body weakened as the drug’s self-destruct mechanism reduced the fuel sustaining him, and he began seeking allies against the girls.

• Mimi concluded that the Chakra Transformation Gene operated unlike ordinary genes, producing Chakra without the usual transcription machinery, but she could not explain how it worked.
• Tsunade visited the ward, where Mimi was recovering, Chiri remained unconscious with inflammation, and Hitomi suffered cell necrosis from an intermittent radiation source in her bones.
• Mimi identified Hitomi’s mutation as Shikotsumyaku, while Tsunade could only ease her pain and treat her symptoms.
• In the Land of Water, Madara weakened as the drug’s self-destruct mechanism reduced the production of vital fuel in his body.
• Madara decided he needed to cultivate pawns and find allies to oppose the four girls.

Mimi recovered in the hospital and considered how radiation was changing children and complicating medical work. After discussing village security with White Fang and Haruno, she met the Third Hokage, who questioned her about her fight, and she feigned ignorance.

• Mimi decided to return to hospital work to treat Chiri and Hitomi and address new cancerous lesions caused by gene-replication errors.
• White Fang reported that the village cleanup was nearly complete, and Mimi told him to rest before following the Third Hokage’s orders to reopen routes outside the village.
• Haruno reported that Uchiha Setsuna had escaped with Root’s help and had been named an S-rank Missing-nin; Mimi ordered the pursuit stopped.
• Mimi remembered that Jiraiya was still being held in the Konoha Military Police Force detention center.
• The Third Hokage visited Mimi and asked who she had fought, but Mimi deflected his question by asking about his injuries.

Mimi treated Chiri and Hitomi, curing Chiri’s immune disorder while discovering that her blindness persisted despite eye regeneration. Chiri used her Takemikazuchi Radar to perceive the suffering throughout the hospital and resolved to grow stronger.

• Mimi challenged the Third Hokage’s dependability and implied he already knew who was behind the trouble; afterward, she decided to keep Jiraiya locked up.
• Mimi transplanted healthy bacteria into Chiri, and two days later Chiri’s fever subsided and she awoke.
• Mimi treated Hitomi’s symptoms as her Shikotsumyaku awakened, while warning that her genetic illness could return.
• Mimi discovered that Chiri remained blind despite Tsunade’s regenerative surgery, and Chiri admitted she used her Electromagnetic Radar to see.
• Hitomi told Chiri not to fight alone next time, and Chiri sensed the hospital’s patients’ pain through her Takemikazuchi Radar.

After the poisoning crisis, Mimi stayed at the hospital to oversee follow-up care while Jiraiya was released from detention and brought to a village gathering. Third Hokage publicly credited Tsunade and the Military Police Force for their work, leaving Jiraiya to realize Konoha had changed.

• Mimi continued monitoring patients at the hospital, while Chiri returned to the Military Police Force and Tsunade kept visiting Mimi.
• Jiraiya was released after weeks in detention and followed Mimi to the village square, where Chiri glared at him.
• Third Hokage told the crowd that a volcanic eruption had caused the poisoning and praised the village's response.
• Third Hokage recognized Tsunade's Medical Team, raising her standing among villagers and ninjas.
• Third Hokage praised the Military Police Force, and its members celebrated as the villagers applauded them.
• Jiraiya watched the crowd's response and realized that Konoha had changed.

Mimi reached Mount Myōboku with Jiraiya and began surveying its ecosystem, hoping to learn how to create a self-sustaining environment for interstellar travel. She left the Eve Swarm to establish itself in the forest, alarming Jiraiya with the claim that the insects could hunt toads.

• Jiraiya led Mimi to Mount Myōboku, where she sent Slug into the flowers and dispatched Summer Red Soldiers to scout.
• The Summer Red Soldiers startled a flock of birds, which attacked them and fled after the insects exploded.
• Mimi's scouts found the toads' homes and identified Mount Myōboku's location in a green valley surrounded by barren mountains.
• Mimi released the Eve Swarm near the forest, and the insects began digging holes as Jiraiya panicked that they would hunt the toads.
• Mimi considered the Eve Swarm gentle and harmless, but she did not correct Jiraiya's misunderstanding.

Mimi explored Mount Myōboku and argued with Jiraiya that conflict among people arose from competition over limited resources, not hatred itself. She proposed changing the environment to create more resources, then challenged the Toad Sages about their species’ isolation and asked what they thought of Mount Myōboku’s limits.

• Mimi examined Mount Myōboku’s unusually primitive, gigantic ecosystem while Jiraiya followed her.
• Mimi tried to scoop up frogspawn for research, but Jiraiya stopped her; she said she would seek the parents and trade instead.
• Mimi asked Jiraiya why ninjas killed one another, then argued that survival and limited resources were the roots of conflict.
• Mimi told Jiraiya that people should remodel the environment and create more resources rather than fight over them.
• Mimi confronted the Toad Sage couple about Mount Myōboku’s limited space and their species’ isolation, and they asked what manner of deity she was.
• Jiraiya hurriedly identified Mimi as the Insect Princess, a Konoha ninja and his classmate.

Mimi warned Sage Fukasaku that Mount Myōboku’s tiny toad population was at risk of extinction and challenged the toads’ reliance on human contractors. She proposed ways to secure their survival, leaving Sage Fukasaku asking for a different solution.

• Sage Shima rebuked Jiraiya for bringing Mimi to Mount Myōboku, while Sage Fukasaku asked Mimi to explain her remarks.
• Mimi said the toads might disappear and explained that populations under a thousand could be critically endangered.
• Jiraiya revealed that Mount Myōboku had fewer than a hundred toads, and Mimi pointed out that the population could not withstand a disaster.
• Sage Fukasaku asked how the toads could solve their predicament, and Mimi told Jiraiya to work for money to buy food.
• Mimi questioned why the toads served human contractors without payment, then suggested seizing land and founding a Ninja Beasts' Ninja Village.
• Sage Fukasaku rejected the proposal and asked Mimi for another method, and she said she had one.

Mimi argued that the toads needed harsher, more efficient survival strategies, comparing their society with those of the Ninja Cat clan, Inuzuka clan, Slug Sage, and Ryūchi Cave. After she warned that their current practices could lead to extinction, the Great Toad Sage summoned her for a meeting.

• Mimi proposed that the toads earn income through missions or form close partnerships with human ninja clans, but Fukasaku rejected both strategies as threats to their independence and unity.
• Mimi explained how snakes in Ryūchi Cave survived food shortages through predation and argued that the toads wasted their abundant eggs by leaving them unfertilized.
• Fukasaku objected that the toads would never prey on their own kind or offspring, and Mimi compared their choices to the cruelty and love found in human society.
• Mimi asked whether the toads should sacrifice some individuals to improve the group's survival and warned that their population might go extinct if they changed nothing.
• The Great Toad Sage called for Mimi, and Fukasaku led her toward him as Shima and Jiraiya followed.

Mimi confronted the Great Toad Sage over his claims of prophecy and accused him of using the Child of Prophecy to pursue Asura's reincarnation. The Great Toad Sage admitted he could not convince her, and the chapter ended with Mimi offering to help the toads in exchange for a high price.

• Mimi dismissed the Great Toad Sage's prophecy and challenged his ability to foresee the future, arguing that cause determined effect and that the future could change.
• Jiraiya watched in shock as the Great Toad Sage admitted he could not convince Mimi.
• Mimi identified the Child of Prophecy as Asura's reincarnation and accused the Great Toad Sage of seeking to attach himself to a powerful hero.
• The Great Toad Sage insisted that the toads sought peace, but Mimi mocked their circumstances and questioned whether Jiraiya could take anything from her.
• Mimi offered to help the toads, and the Great Toad Sage asked what she wanted in return.

Mimi demanded Mount Myōboku teach Sage Techniques to Konoha shinobi, arguing that its training could be made accessible and that the toads needed to create resources through farming to prevent their decline. She left after declaring they could not follow her proposed solution, while the Great Toad Sage remained uncertain whether to pursue her.

• Mimi demanded a guarantee that she could learn Sage Techniques, and Jiraiya admitted he was an idiot when she challenged him.
• Mimi explained that Mount Myōboku’s training methods controlled the risks of Natural Energy and could accommodate people with different amounts of Chakra.
• The Great Toad Sage revealed that the Sage Technique taught to Jiraiya was defective for humans, and Mimi said she wanted Konoha shinobi to receive long-term training.
• Mimi argued that Sage Techniques alone could not protect Mount Myōboku or end wars, and proposed farming and transforming harsh environments to create more resources.
• Mimi left, Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima argued, and the Great Toad Sage considered observing for a little longer.

Mimi returned to Konoha and resumed managing patients and laboratory work, while planning to expand her research and find more funding. She outlined seven biological projects and left the laboratory’s progress dependent on scarce talent, Orochimaru’s research, and her own efforts.

• Mimi returned to Konoha without Jiraiya and concluded that Mount Myōboku offered few unique resources, though she continued considering how to study Natural Energy and Sage Mode.
• Mimi remotely managed laboratory work while treating patients and recognized that expanding the laboratory required more skilled researchers than Konoha could readily provide.
• Mimi identified Yakushi Nonō as a possible future researcher, but noted that Nonō still had years of training ahead under Orochimaru.
• Mimi argued that Konoha needed to disseminate knowledge and implement Compulsory Education to develop the talent her projects required.
• Mimi described Orochimaru’s research into Gene Maps and biological cloning, which would support experimental animals and her planned Autumn Tiger Elephant weapon.
• Mimi reviewed seven projects, including Chimera, Spring Thunder Cannon, Tunneling Insect, Vampire Fungus, Dead Soul Insect, Animat, and the Fungal Mat.

Mimi examined Hitomi and warned her to stop strenuous training because her body was changing and her unexplained pain could signal illness. Hitomi considered teaching a boy with unusually strong muscles, then realized he was merely a stubborn idiot and left without agreeing to teach him.

• Mimi found nothing immediately wrong with Hitomi but warned her that unexplained pain could signal illness.
• Mimi explained that Hitomi's bones, strength, and self-healing ability were growing as her Kekkei Genkai awakened, and ordered her to stop strenuous training.
• Mimi suggested Hitomi teach disciples and said that teaching could inspire her in return.
• Hitomi described a boy whose muscle strength kept increasing and whose muscles recovered quickly, though he could not heal minor wounds.
• Mimi explained that physical traits like these appeared among several shinobi clans and could be hereditary effects of Chakra and generations of taijutsu training.
• Hitomi decided the boy was a stubborn idiot, complained about teaching him, and left Mimi's office.