Chapter Summaries

Mimi forced Pakura to swallow a controlled parasitic insect, then burned the Sand Hidden Village and led her ninja force across the Wind Country to attack the Daimyo Residence. The chapter ended as the force stormed into the bustling city and its people panicked at the arrival of Konoha's ninja.

• Mimi showed Pakura a parasitic worm and forced her to swallow an insect egg after she refused.
• Mimi left Pakura and the other prisoners behind, then used the Sand Hidden Village's oil stores to set the village ablaze.
• Mimi ordered her force to move through the desert toward the Wind Country Daimyo Residence, passing the oasis settlements.
• Mimi led a surprise assault on the city before its intelligence network could report the attack.
• Konoha's ninja rushed through the streets as the insect swarm flew overhead, and the frightened residents fled in panic.

Mimi and Konoha’s Anbu stormed the Wind Daimyo’s residence and crushed his forces. After the Wind Daimyo tried to negotiate, Mimi asserted control by striking him and declaring that there were no terms to discuss.

• The Summer Red Soldiers and ninja forces routed the Wind Country’s roughly three thousand soldiers and killed the daimyo’s guards.
• Mimi entered the palace and told the Wind Daimyo she was Aburame Insect Princess from Konoha.
• The Wind Daimyo asked for her terms while secretly considering ways to stall and escape.
• Mimi challenged the Wind Daimyo’s ninja guard, and the Anbu killed him when he attacked.
• Mimi slammed the Wind Daimyo’s head against his throne and declared herself the ruler, saying there were no conditions to negotiate.

Mimi’s ninjas raided the oasis’s wealthy households and brought the Wind Daimyo, officials, merchants, and their families to the Daimyo Residence. Mimi interrogated them about the Daimyo’s descendants and clans, while the officials scrambled to offer information to save themselves.

• Lian Sheng led ninjas in breaking into a wealthy household, capturing its head, restraining his family, looting valuables, and setting the house ablaze.
• Ninjas across the oasis seized wealthy households and gathered their occupants at the Daimyo Residence, where Mimi confronted the bloodied Wind Daimyo.
• Mimi demanded the Daimyo’s descendants, and officials revealed that he had three acknowledged children and two illegitimate children.
• An official provided information about the Daimyo’s nine related clans, while a registry official volunteered to fetch the genealogy records.
• An official revealed that the Daimyo’s favored male companion might also count among the clans, and the youth protested that the Daimyo had forced him.

Mimi questioned officials in the Land of Wind, uncovered the origins of the daimyo system, and ordered one defiant official killed. As Konoha prepared for attacks by the Kamizuru Clan’s Ninja Bees, Mimi suggested a way for Tsunade to exploit the bees’ response to Oleic Acid.

• Mimi learned that the Land of Wind’s treasury held gold sent by Sand Hidden Village, then questioned officials about the daimyo and the country’s political structure.
• An old official claimed the daimyo were sacred rulers appointed by the Rabbit Goddess and recognized by the Sage of Six Paths, and Mimi ordered her subordinate to kill him.
• Mimi considered how daimyo-controlled restrictions kept ninjas from supporting themselves through production and business.
• As Konoha prepared for further Ninja Bee attacks and Konoha and Hidden Rock Village approached battle in the Grass Country, Mimi visited Tsunade’s workshop to ask about medicines.
• Tsunade struggled to find an insecticide effective against the Ninja Bees, so Mimi explained that bees marked with Oleic Acid were treated as dead and attacked by their hive mates.

Miji led Konoha’s forces through a brutal purge that destroyed the Land of Wind’s ruling class and left the country in chaos. As the troops withdrew, they rescued a child and continued the killings at an oasis, beginning an age of bloodshed associated with the Insect Princess.

• Miji’s purge wiped out the daimyo’s clans and other influential families, while the Land of Wind fell into disorder and armed groups began fighting over abandoned land.
• Konoha withdrew along a route Miji had scouted, hoping to avoid Sunagakure’s returning forces.
• The ninja found an unconscious child in the desert and took her with them, while privately calling Miji the Evil Insect Princess.
• Miji’s forces moved on to eliminate people elsewhere, aiming to prevent future trouble and make the world fear her name.
• At an oasis, Konoha’s troops sent a squad to repeat the purge, hanging people from the branches as wind chimes.

The Fire Daimyō learned that Mimi had destroyed the ruling clan in the Wind Country and demanded that Konoha explain and punish her. The Third Hokage discovered the scale of Mimi’s actions, realized he could not conceal Konoha’s involvement, and confronted the insect she used to communicate.

• The Fire Daimyō raged over reports from the Wind Country and ordered officials to demand an explanation from the Third Hokage.
• The officials recalled the Flower Street Incident and accused Konoha of concealing Mimi’s identity before agreeing to contact the Hokage first.
• The Third Hokage reviewed intelligence about the Kamizuru Clan and recognized that Mimi had secretly attacked the Sand Hidden Village.
• The Third Hokage learned that Mimi had wiped out the daimyō clan in the Wind Country, leaving the country in chaos, and feared the consequences for Konoha.
• The Third Hokage failed to contain the intelligence and decided to stall while he watched events unfold.
• The Third Hokage pointed at the insect in his office and demanded that Mimi find a way to clean up the mess, and Mimi nodded.

As Konoha endured the Kamizuru Clan’s relentless Ninja Bee assault, Mimi let the bees steal medicines she had prepared while watching a secret exchange between Root and the Kamizuru Clan. She decided to intercept the exchanged item and find grounds to remove Danzo.

• Konoha used smoke to drive the Ninja Bees away, but the swarm continued circling and harassing the village as Tsunade prepared medicine.
• Ninja Bees raided the abandoned Konoha Hospital and covertly carried off its medicines while Mimi watched, recognizing that they might be targeting Chakra Seeds.
• Mimi allowed the bees to take the medicines, which she had made dangerous to consume, and observed the fierce defense of the Forbidden Jutsu Archives.
• A Root ninja secretly handed a scroll to a Kamizuru Clan ninja through the smoke.
• Mimi resolved to intercept the scroll and uncover Danzo’s plan, while considering how to remove him without provoking the Third Hokage.

Mimi developed the Queen of Light Project to spread the swarm through space with launched Destruction Mushroom seeds, but a test flight consumed vast resources and failed to establish survivors on the moon. Facing the Eve Swarm’s environmental limits and mounting resource costs, she dispatched reserves to intercept a marked Ninja Bee.

• Mimi abandoned the slow Giant Insect battleship plan and devised the Queen of Light Project, launching Destruction Mushroom seeds through space toward new planets.
• Mimi’s test launch sent many seeds into space and reached the moon, but attrition and the moon’s harsh conditions prevented the seeds from surviving.
• Mimi identified resource shortages, limited territory, predation, disease, and the swarm’s environmental impact as threats to the Eve Swarm’s continued growth.
• Mimi concluded that the swarm’s scale had to be restricted and production carefully managed, with wartime production adjusted to circumstances.
• Mimi dispatched reserves in a Winter Storm Chariot and Emerald Flying Blade to intercept the marked Ninja Bee.

Mimi’s Winter Storm Chariot flying blades killed a Kamizuru Clan ninja and recovered a list of clan and Anbu intelligence that Danzo had assembled for Hidden Rock Village. Mimi examined the misleading information and the blades’ flight limitations as she took the dead ninja’s items.

• A Kamizuru Clan ninja on a Giant Ninja Bee fired a barrage of bristles at the approaching green lights, but the lights dodged and struck her.
• The ninja and her bee crashed into the forest; she realized the attackers were not flies before dying as the insects searched her belongings.
• Mimi had the Winter Storm Chariot blades inspect a list containing information about the Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, Aburame, and Mimi’s insects.
• Mimi concluded that Danzo had guessed or fabricated much of the intelligence, which could mislead Hidden Rock Village and cause it greater losses.
• Mimi noted that supersonic flight could make Winter Storm Chariot stall and drift because its stabilizing organs were imperfect.

Jiraiya struggled to help the Jonin Squad Leader with command work in the Rain Country while Konoha and the Sand Hidden Village faced off. When the Insect Princess broke through Sunagakure and Amegakure moved against Konoha, the Squad Leader ordered the army to attack, and the chapter ended with a battle already underway in the Grass Country.

• The Jonin Squad Leader tried to teach Jiraiya command work, but Jiraiya admitted he understood none of the documents and preferred reconnaissance or fighting.
• A Ninja Eagle delivered a report that the Insect Princess had broken through Sunagakure, forcing the Sand Hidden forces to withdraw and rush back to defend it.
• A messenger reported that Amegakure forces were gathering and advancing toward Konoha.
• The Jonin Squad Leader ordered Konoha's entire army to move against Amegakure, and Jiraiya prepared to fight.
• Konoha's ninja forces moved out as a battle between Hidden Rock and Konoha began in the Grass Country.

After Sunagakure fell to Konoha, Chiyo ordered Lu and Sachiko to return with the One-Tail and assassinate Aburame Insect Princess. News of the defeat prompted Hanzo to attack Konoha in the Rain Country, while Kirigakure considered taking the One-Tail and the Third Raikage warned against underestimating the Insect Princess.

• Chiyo told Lu and Sachiko that Sunagakure had fallen and ordered them to join Chikamatsu’s resistance, bring the One-Tail, and target Aburame Insect Princess.
• Hanzo learned of Sunagakure’s defeat and ordered Amegakure’s army to drive Konoha out of the Rain Country.
• The Mizukage and Zetsu discussed exploiting Sunagakure’s defeat, and the Mizukage said he wanted the One-Tail.
• The Third Raikage cautioned his sworn brother against joining the fight recklessly, warning him that Aburame Insect Princess was dangerous.

The Third Raikage weighed Hidden Cloud’s vulnerability after the Insect Princess killed a Kage and considered restoring forbidden techniques and the Kinkaku Corps. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki chose to continue the war against Konoha despite the threat, declaring that Hidden Rock would teach it a profound lesson.

• The Third Raikage recalled the terrifying abilities and deaths of the Second Kage, then recognized that the Insect Princess could kill him.
• The Third Raikage considered lifting restrictions on forbidden techniques and recruiting the Six Paths clan to strengthen Hidden Cloud.
• The Third Raikage concluded that Hidden Cloud could not provoke Konoha alone and wondered what Ōnoki would do.
• Ōnoki studied intelligence about Sand Hidden Village’s defeat and suspected the Insect Princess had planned the surprise attack and the other villages’ restraint in advance.
• Ōnoki decided to continue the war because Earth Country needed resources, and he told an official that Hidden Rock would give Konoha a profound lesson.

Konoha’s forces camped in the Grass Country while ninjas discussed the brutal consequences of wartime hunger. Danzo’s unit was caught off guard when the Hidden Rock Village launched an aerial bombardment followed by an underground assault, and the battle began.

• Konoha ninjas discussed scarce supplies, grim wartime survival, and why they had to fight the Hidden Rock Village.
• Danzo studied the enemy’s position and believed the night would remain peaceful, but a sudden explosion triggered an enemy attack.
• The Hidden Rock Village’s Explosion Corps used Clay Owls to drop explosive birds on Konoha’s forces, setting the forest ablaze.
• Danzo’s troops struggled to respond as Hidden Rock Ninjas emerged from underground and attacked through the burning forest.
• Konoha’s enlarged fighters caught the Stone Giants’ punches and struck back, while both sides exchanged Earth Release and fire attacks.

Konoha faced mounting pressure on several fronts as Sand Hidden Village struggled to survive the destruction of its home, while Mimi’s unit crossed the desert with Leta Sha. Mimi’s plan to weaken Sand Hidden Village continued, and the Kamizuru Clan suffered a sudden, devastating attack on its bee hives; the chapter ended with Mimi watching a giant bee carry medicine back to Iwagakure.

• Konoha received Danzo’s urgent requests for reinforcements and supplies as Hidden Cloud, Kirigakure, and Hanzo’s forces added to the encirclement.
• Lu and the returning Sand Hidden Village ninja found their village emptied, their water poisoned, and the Wind Country in chaos, leaving them with only three days of water.
• Mimi discussed the desert’s unrest with Chiri and rejected Leta Sha’s requests to rescue the people of Rōran, telling her to rely on herself.
• Mimi’s unit collected dew in the desert and continued toward the edge of the sands with Leta Sha.
• A hive swarm attacked returning Ninja Bees and Kamizuru Clan members, killing them and prompting Manki to order inspections and clearances.
• Manki sent medicine back to Iwagakure, and Mimi watched the giant bee carrying it.

Mimi returned to Konoha with her forces during martial law, but the gate guards refused entry without authorization. After a confrontation with Hui Pu and the Guardian Ninja Twelve, Mimi had the monks arrested as suspected spies and left to speak privately with the Third Hokage.

• The gate squad leader stopped Mimi and her group for lacking a pass, so they waited while the Third Hokage watched from a distance.
• Hui Pu arrived with the Guardian Ninja Twelve and confronted Mimi about the killings she and her companions had committed.
• Mimi challenged Hui Pu’s claims and ordered her ninjas to arrest the monks as suspected spies.
• The gate squad leader backed Mimi’s accusation, and the ninjas subdued and bound the monks.
• The Third Hokage arrived, pretended not to recognize Hui Pu, and agreed to have the monks interrogated.
• Mimi dismissed her forces and agreed to speak privately with the Third Hokage.

After conquering Sunagakure, Mimi confronted the Third Hokage over Konoha’s future and moved to take control of the village, citing the Hokage’s weakness and Danzo’s crimes. She secured Mito’s support to take charge, while Konoha remained under martial law and several leaders were detained.

• Ninjas returning from Sunagakure revealed the victory to villagers in the Underground Shelter, lifting their spirits.
• Mimi told the Third Hokage she had brought back tens of thousands of prisoners and challenged his plan to wait for the daimyō’s financial pressure to pass.
• Mimi threatened to seize Konoha and replace the Third Hokage, then left Chiri to protect him; Chiri had the Third Hokage order Tsunade to reinforce Orochimaru.
• After Tsunade departed, Mimi sent forces against the Kamizuru Clan and led the breach of Root’s headquarters, where her ninjas uncovered Danzo’s human experiments.
• Mimi’s forces imposed martial law, detained Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and brought the Sarutobi Clan and Third Hokage under control.
• Mimi asked Mito to take charge of the village, and Mito praised her efforts.

Mimi and Mito took control of Konoha, and Mito confronted the Third Hokage over experiments and the deaths of ordinary ninja. Mito removed Hiruzen from office, assumed control of the village, and imposed punishments as the chapter ended with her turning to the Ino-Shika-Cho clans.

• Mimi seized control of Konoha and gathered its leaders, including the Third Hokage, Sand Hidden Village representatives, and members of the Whirlpool Clan.
• Mito demanded an explanation from the Third Hokage for experiments and the deaths of ordinary ninja, then struck him when he defended his actions.
• The Third Hokage accepted responsibility, and Mito removed Sarutobi Hiruzen from his duties and took over village affairs.
• Mito ordered Hiruzen to the Grass Country battlefield to take charge and arrest Danzo, and she disbanded the Hokage's Anbu and Root.
• Mito stripped Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura of their advisor posts and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
• Mito warned the Sarutobi and Shimura clans that they had no special privileges, then turned her attention to the senior members of Ino-Shika-Cho.

Mito exposed widespread nepotism and waste in Konoha’s departments, announced reforms, and took over as Hokage after Sarutobi Hiruzen stepped down. As she began reshaping the village and welcoming captured Sunagakure personnel and the displaced Uzumaki clan, a surprise attack approached the recovering Kamizuru Clan.

• Mito condemned the village’s entrenched patronage and announced professional exams, annual job assessments, and plans to abolish, merge, and establish departments.
• Mito ordered that the Insect Princess oversee job assessments and warned that no one would be exempt from reform.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen announced that he was stepping down, and Mito declared she would take control of village affairs and prioritize fairness.
• Mito announced Konoha’s victory over Sunagakure, ordered captured personnel to be welcomed as villagers, and offered the Uzumaki clan the choice to rebuild or settle in Konoha.
• Mito left the gathering as the village’s clans reacted to the changes, while Summer Red Soldiers moved through the forest toward a surprise attack on the recovering Kamizuru Clan.

Mimi used the Aburame clan’s insect expertise to locate the Kamizuru Clan’s hidden hive network, then deployed Destruction Mushrooms against its surface hives. The mushrooms began spreading and consuming everything, while Mimi’s plan to recruit Kamizuru spouses for the Aburame clan remained her motive for avoiding a massacre.

• Mimi determined that the Kamizuru Clan’s underground hives were difficult for Konoha to find but easy for the Aburame clan’s Kikaichū to track through pheromones.
• Mimi decided she did not want to wipe out the Kamizuru Clan, hoping instead to pair its members with Aburame bachelors and help both clans find spouses.
• Mimi sent Summer Red Soldiers and Autumn Tiger Elephants to positions near the Kamizuru hives and their concealed entrances.
• Summer Red Soldiers near the small hives died and sprouted Destruction Mushrooms, which released spores and began growing rapidly.
• The Destruction Mushrooms spread spores through the air and consumed their surroundings.

Nami's Destruction Mushroom adapted to infiltrate the Ninja Bee hives by disguising its spores as nectar-bearing flowers, then unleashed a mass infection that wiped out the swarm and the Kamizuru ninjas inside the giant hive. The Kamizuru Clan's rear main hive was also under attack, and its defensive line was close to collapsing as Nami tried to ensure the woman would retain a surviving lineage.

• Nami restricted the Destruction Mushroom's reproduction and set the Ninja Bee as its attack target, but the fungus rapidly mutated to overcome those limits.
• The fungus developed white flowers that attracted Ninja Bees, whose returning workers spread dormant spores through the hives and their honey-processing routines.
• After the flower field exhausted its soil nutrients, the fungus erupted across the hives, killing Ninja Bees and Giant Ninja Bees and filling the passages with spores.
• The Kamizuru ninjas inside the giant hive were covered in mycelia, lost their Chakra, and died as the Destruction Mushroom consumed the hive's resources.
• At the Kamizuru Clan's rear main hive, the defenders struggled against the fungus as their defensive line neared collapse, while Nami hoped the woman would survive with part of her swarm.