Chapter Summaries

Kushina fought Minato after he tried to stop her from beating village boys, then followed Mimi’s insects to meet Grandma Uzumaki Mito. Meanwhile, the Third Hokage worried about Konoha’s weakened defenses as the Kamizuru Clan attacked again.

• Kushina beat up boys who had insulted and harassed her, and Minato stepped in to stop her.
• Kushina defeated Minato, then followed Mimi’s insects to a quiet house where she met Mito.
• Mito welcomed Kushina as her granddaughter and promised to punish Minato after Kushina blamed him for her swollen face.
• The Third Hokage learned that the Whirlpool Country had fallen and that Orochimaru was retreating with the Uzumaki clan.
• The Kamizuru Clan attacked Konoha again, and the Third Hokage hoped the absent Insect Princess would return before the Hokage Building was destroyed.

Kamizuru Manki prepared her clan for another assault on Konoha while worrying about the Aburame Clan and the mysterious absence of the Aburame Insect Princess. She insisted she was not inferior, then demonstrated an inherited Earth Release technique that let her float, which Mimi recognized as a distortion of the space-time field.

• The Kamizuru Clan used daylight to regroup after its costly nighttime attack and prepared its Giant Ninja Bees for continued assaults on Konoha.
• Mimi observed Manki communicating with the Ninja Bees through song and dance, and considered the Kamizuru Clan's insect techniques fascinating.
• Manki ordered the Killer Bees to launch a careful daytime surprise attack, continue nighttime harassment, and seal off the area around Konoha.
• A clanswoman warned Manki about the Aburame Clan and the Aburame Insect Princess, but Manki dismissed the rumors while privately fearing something was wrong.
• Manki declared that she was not any worse, then danced while floating in the air using an inherited secret Earth Release technique.
• Mimi sensed that Manki's levitation distorted the space-time field and connected the technique to the Kamizuru Clan's imitation of bees.

Mimi reflected on why Iwagakure would covet the Kamizuru Clan’s bees and decided she wanted their honey, techniques, bees, and people. As giant Ninja Bees attacked Konoha with Exploding Tags, the Third Hokage shielded his building with Enma while Mimi watched from hiding.

• Mimi reasoned that Iwagakure valued the Kamizuru Clan’s Ninja Bees more than its people and that the clan was vulnerable to the village’s attempts to seize its assets.
• Mimi resolved to take the Kamizuru Clan’s honey, secret techniques, Ninja Bees, and people, framing cooperation as a way for everyone to benefit.
• Giant Ninja Bees approached Konoha, and the Third Hokage sent shinobi to search for the person controlling the swarm.
• The swarm dropped Exploding Tags over Konoha, prompting shinobi to take cover and raise earthen defenses.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma, who became a giant staff and formed a shield over the Hokage Building as Mimi watched from hiding.

Konoha defended itself against the Kamizuru Clan’s aerial assault, but the Killer Bees shifted the battle by coating a ninja in sticky Golden Fluid and making him an easy target. The chapter ended with the Bees’ coordinated tactic revealing how they could aim their giant needles accurately.

• The Killer Bee formation dispersed and attacked Konoha with giant needles and fragmenting projectiles, though the ninja on the ground dodged or found ways to defend themselves.
• Konoha’s ninja used varied tactics to survive, while the Third Hokage shattered incoming needles and chased Giant Killer Bees with his extending staff.
• The Giant Killer Bees began spraying Golden Fluid over the battlefield, drenching a Konoha ninja and trapping his feet to the ground.
• A giant needle struck the trapped ninja with perfect accuracy, killing him and revealing that the Killer Bees used Golden Fluid to help aim their attacks.

Orochimaru and the retreating Konoha forces reviewed how Mimi’s limited support and enemy breakthroughs had turned the battle against them. As Orochimaru tried to understand her plans, he recalled that a blizzard and the Hidden Mist Snow Princess had overwhelmed the battlefield.

• Orochimaru led the injured Konoha troops and Uzumaki clan members through the mountains as they retreated, while Yui had failed to defeat the Third Kazekage.
• Orochimaru asked Yui what Mimi was trying to accomplish, but Yui stayed silent and Orochimaru decided to investigate the insect swarm’s weakness himself.
• Hidden Mist fighters broke through using underground passages, while the Third Raikage repeatedly smashed gaps in the city walls for Hidden Cloud troops to enter.
• Orochimaru summoned snakes and expected Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers to help the defenders hold out until dawn.
• A blizzard engulfed the battlefield, and Orochimaru recalled that the Hidden Mist Snow Princess had proved stronger than him.

Five years earlier, Uchiha Madara recruited the Third Mizukage, Hagoromo, into a plan to weaken Konoha and train gifted children from Kirigakure's clans. He named the emotionless Xue Er his disciple Snow Princess, but Terumi Homura said the child was a boy, and Madara insisted on the name regardless.

• Uchiha Madara revealed his identity and persuaded the Third Mizukage, Hagoromo, to hear his plan against Konoha and Senju.
• Three days later, Hagoromo appointed Madara as a mysterious Mizukage adviser.
• A month later, Madara gathered five young geniuses from the Hozuki, Terumi, Yuki, Hagoromo, and Kaguya clans.
• Madara renamed Xue Er Snow Princess and declared the child his disciple.
• Terumi Homura told Madara that Snow Princess was a boy, but Madara insisted that the name would stand.

A lethal blizzard devastated the battlefield, killing most of Eve Swarm’s insect reinforcements and crippling the fighting forces. Eve identified the storm’s likely source as Snow Princess, who appeared in Sage Mode and attacked Orochimaru and the Cloud Ninja.

• Hidden Mist slaughtered opposing ninjas in the blizzard while the storm’s cold and snowfall weakened fighters across the battlefield.
• Eve considered how insects survived winter, but Summer Red Soldier froze to death, Spring Thunder Cannon hid underground, and nearly all of her battlefield surveillance failed.
• The temperature plunged to minus seventy degrees, leaving Orochimaru frozen and struggling while the Raikage and Cloud Ninja continued fighting with Lightning Release.
• A giant Ice Crystal Serpent emerged from the storm, smashed Orochimaru’s Plague Serpent, and froze a Cloud Ninja into bloody ice chips.
• A girl with a horn, scales, and a long tail stood on the Ice Crystal Serpent and revealed her Sage Mode, which resembled Ryūchi Cave’s snake-like transformation.

Mimi’s forces withdrew from the Whirlpool Country after completing the evacuation of the Uzumaki clan, while the Sand Hidden Village’s army advanced through the blizzard. Orochimaru, Snow Princess, and the Third Kazekage faced the Third Raikage, who found himself surrounded by powerful serpents, puppets, and ice soldiers.

• Mimi ordered Yui and the remaining Konoha and Uzumaki forces to retreat after the defensive line was breached.
• Yui asked why Mimi was withdrawing despite the Zerg’s ability to fight in harsh weather, and Mimi said their objective had been achieved.
• Mimi’s plans included evacuating the Uzumaki, igniting the inevitable Ninja World War, and bringing the clan into Konoha under the Senju side.
• The Third Kazekage joined Orochimaru and Snow Princess on the battlefield with a flying Iron Sand Serpent carrying the Sand Hidden Village’s troops and puppet corps.
• Snow Princess used Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation to create many ice-serpent-headed soldiers, leaving the Third Raikage overwhelmed as he faced them alongside the serpents.

Mimi watched the forces fighting over Whirlpool Country and saw how Snow Princess, Terumi Homura, Sand Hidden Village, and Hidden Cloud each brought formidable techniques and tactics to the battlefield. As Hidden Cloud began bombarding the city, Mimi recognized Sand Hidden Village’s standardized puppet army as a major obstacle but had no time to prepare before confronting it.

• Snow Princess’s Ice Serpent Men and Ice Crystal Serpent repeatedly attacked the Third Raikage, while Orochimaru copied their serpent-like movement technique and escaped her spear.
• Terumi Homura watched Snow Princess from a concealed mirage and thought about meeting Uchiha Chiri, while remaining cautious of Insect Princess’s surveillance.
• Orochimaru realized that Sand Hidden Village’s standardized puppets could be rapidly replaced and repaired, making their organized mass deployment difficult to defeat.
• After Mimi withdrew, Hidden Cloud shinobi hauled warships overland and began bombarding the city with cannon fire.
• Mimi recognized the strength of Sand Hidden Village’s puppet army and prepared to press ahead despite having no time to plan for it.

Mimi unleashed the Summer Red Soldiers against the Sand Hidden forces, which rallied and countered with puppets and a sandstorm. She sent large, engine-powered insects diving into their ranks, where they detonated into a rain of White Phosphorus Bombs.

• Mimi and Autumn Tiger Elephant summoned a vast swarm of Summer Red Soldiers over the battlefield.
• A Sand Hidden captain rallied the frightened shinobi to defend their village and fight to the death.
• The Sand Hidden Puppet Corps used oil-spewing puppets to set the sky ablaze and repel the insects.
• A woman wielding the Three Stars Fan and the Ninjutsu Corps raised a sandstorm that trapped the Summer Red Soldiers in the air.
• Mimi sent large Summer Red Soldiers diving through the storm, and they exploded into burning White Phosphorus Bombs over the Sand Hidden forces.

Mimi’s White Phosphorus attack threw the Sand Hidden Village into chaos, and her forces began a coordinated assault to break its defenses. Konoha steadily divided the village’s forces as Mimi searched for the Sand Hidden Village’s Jinchuriki.

• White Phosphorus flames spread through the Sand Hidden Village, and the burning ninjas struggled to extinguish them or cut away injured limbs.
• Mimi sent the Summer Red Soldiers down to attack while Konoha troops broke in from four directions with Earth Release and Fire Release.
• The Senju raised an Earth Flow Wall and fired Earth Dragon Bullets, battering the Sand Hidden Village’s defensive line.
• Mimi used the insect swarm to suppress the village’s forces and searched for its Jinchuriki, whose whereabouts puzzled her.

Mimi used air power, information control, and coordinated operations to break through Sand Hidden Village while limiting casualties. She revealed that the campaign was only one part of a larger plan to reshape the entire Shinobi World, ending with her declaration that no one would escape the coming change.

• Mimi launched airstrikes and advanced ground forces into Sand Hidden Village, using the assault to deter resistance rather than exterminate its people.
• After probing the Second Kazekage, Mimi sent Chiri to carry out a precision strike while she monitored the wider battlefield.
• Mimi coordinated Konoha and other fronts through the Zerg information network, using parallel and network-centric warfare to outpace Sand Hidden Village.
• Mimi revealed that she had prepared secret tunnels and an underground palace as contingencies, and that Sand Hidden Village was only one step in her larger plan.
• Mimi declared that she intended to change the world and that whoever tried to escape would not get away.

As the Sand Hidden Village struggled against the insect swarms and Konoha forces, Chiyo left Scorpion behind with instructions to hide and live under another name if she did not return. On the battlefield, young fighters including Pakura endured mounting losses and shortages, and the chapter ended with the exhausted squad facing the prospect that no reinforcements were coming.

• Scorpion watched puppets fall to the insect swarm until Chiyo found him and ordered him to hide, conceal his identity, and use the name Flower if she did not return.
• Chiyo embraced Scorpion and left to fight, while the village sent even children into battlefield support roles.
• A young boy used Magnet Release Gold Sand to carry supplies while avoiding the insect swarms overhead.
• Pakura, a young Scorch Release user, rested with her squad after combat and gave her spare Kunai to a teammate.
• Pakura's squad discussed dwindling supplies, exhausted Chakra, and the likelihood that the Uchiha would break through, while their captain admitted he had no hopeful news to offer.

The Uchiha advanced against the Sand Hidden with coordinated combat formations, overwhelming the defenders despite their desperate attacks. Mimi saw the battle unfold as expected, with the Sand Hidden steadily driven back and their numbers dwindling.

• The Sand Hidden scouts spotted the Uchiha approaching, and Pakura discussed how the defenders might imitate their formation with their captain.
• The Uchiha teams alternated between covering fire and advancing, while the Sand Hidden struggled to coordinate their attacks.
• The Uchiha used Genjutsu, Kunai, and Fire Release to break through the Sand Hidden defensive line and kill its commander.
• The Uchiha split the retreating Sand Hidden into smaller groups and left them an escape route to avoid a desperate last stand.
• Mimi glanced at the battle and found its outcome exactly as she had expected.

Mimi’s insect swarm bombed Sunagakure and uncovered records of a failed Human Puppet project while elite forces blocked the village’s attempts to send for help. As the Second Kazekage unleashed a powerful Iron Sand technique against Chiri, a silver current of water emerged from the ground, leaving his true identity uncertain.

• Mimi used Summer Red Soldiers to scout and bomb Sunagakure, setting fire to supplies and searching its archives for information.
• Mimi found sealed records describing the village’s failed Human Puppet experiments and concluded that the project posed little immediate threat.
• Elite skull-adorned squads intercepted Sunagakure teams trying to break through the blockade and relay information.
• The Second Kazekage saw Chiyo and Chikamatsu struggling against the attackers, but Chiri kept him from helping them.
• The Second Kazekage unleashed Iron Sand World Method and Black Coffin, but Chiri vanished and cut through his neck.
• Mimi noticed a silver current of water rise from the ground, and Chiri questioned whether the Second Kazekage she had struck was real.

The Second Kazekage transformed into Iron Sand and challenged Mimi, raining molten iron across Sunagakure as she chose to face him in an honorable battle. Mimi charged into the storm while the village watched, and the outcome remained unresolved.

• Chiri discovered that the Second Kazekage had become a Black Coffin of Iron Sand after decapitating him, while Sand shinobi cheered his apparent return.
• Mimi identified the liquid metal covering the village as poisonous mercury and realized Shamon had transformed into a formidable Human Puppet.
• Shamon spread Iron Sand Thorns across the sky and heated them until molten iron rained down on Mimi, her swarm, and the village.
• Chiri urged Mimi to retreat, but Mimi argued that defeating Shamon in front of the Sand shinobi would break their morale and reduce casualties.
• Shamon challenged Mimi to a final battle, and Mimi flew into the storm as the swarm and village watched them face off.

Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers overwhelmed the Second Kazekage’s Iron Sand defenses, revealing that his Human Puppet form was running on his final Chakra. As the battle reached its climax, Mimi summoned crystalline beetles for a decisive strike.

• Mimi sent the Summer Red Soldiers in successive suicidal attacks, destroying the crimson thorns and breaking through the Second Kazekage’s Iron Sand and lightning defenses.
• The Sand Hidden Village’s ninjas sensed the Second Kazekage’s Chakra fading and realized that his Human Puppet form could no longer produce more.
• Chiyo, the Uchiha Clan, the Senju Clan, the Hyuga Clan, and others watched as Mimi’s power was hailed as a storm that would sweep across the Shinobi World.
• The Second Kazekage roared for Mimi to die and compressed his battered Iron Sand coffin into a magma-like sphere for one final attack.
• Mimi summoned radiant white diamond-shaped beetles and challenged the Second Kazekage to witness her terror as both sides prepared to decide the battle with one strike.

Mimi survived the Second Kazekage Shamon’s devastating magnetic-field and radiation attack by sheltering inside her Light Prism Insect, then led Konoha’s assault as Sand Hidden Village’s defenses crumbled. After Chiyo escaped with some elite ninjas and Chikamatsu stayed to fight, the village fell and its surviving defenders surrendered.

• Shamon compressed Iron Sand into a blazing sphere and unleashed a magnetic-field attack that disabled Mimi and her swarm, but Mimi’s Light Prism Insect shielded her from the ensuing radiation.
• Chiri found Mimi’s Flying Thunder God mark and entered the sun, while Shamon maintained the unstable technique until he shut it down with a sealing sphere and died.
• Mimi announced Sand Hidden Village’s defeat and used Light Pillars to destroy its forces, prompting Chiyo to lead an attempted breakout while Chikamatsu stayed behind to cover her.
• Mimi’s swarm, poison, and explosive insects overwhelmed the remaining resistance as Chiri struck Sand Hidden ninja across the battlefield.
• After an hour of fighting, Sand Hidden Village collapsed, and its surviving ninja knelt with their hands bound.

After Konoha captured the Sand Hidden Village’s forces, Mimi ordered White Fang to raid the Earth Country border and began planning how to prevent the Sand Hidden Village from recovering. She transferred the prisoners of war to Konoha and left their treatment at a guaranteed minimum standard.

• Mimi ordered White Fang to abandon the pursuit of Chiyo and lead half the available forces into the Earth Country to harass its border.
• Mimi assessed the Sand Hidden Village’s large, militarized population and traced its income to missions and ore exports, including weapons sales through the Land of Iron.
• Mimi decided that future operations would target the Sand Hidden Village’s sources of income so it could not rise again.
• Mimi summoned the Winter Storm Chariot and transferred the gathered Sand Hidden Village prisoners of war to Konoha.
• Mimi said she could provide the prisoners with enough water and food to keep them alive, while maintaining only a bare minimum standard.

After capturing the Sand Hidden Village, Mimi counted Konoha’s casualties, arranged the prisoners’ transfer, and decided what to take from the village. The chapter ended when Pakura refused a candy pill and confronted a Konoha ninja.

• Chiri reported 593 Konoha casualties and estimated that more than 3,000 people in the Sand Hidden Village had died.
• Mimi watched the captured Sand Hidden residents being restrained and force-fed candy pills containing insect eggs as an insurance measure.
• Mimi ordered half of the Sand Hidden Village’s gold dust distributed among her forces and told Chiri to take or destroy the rest of its belongings.
• Mimi explained that the boy’s Gold Dust contained mostly brass and other impurities because his Magnet Release could not purify metals.
• Pakura knocked a candy pill from a Konoha ninja’s hand, and he angrily demanded that she eat it.