Chapter Summaries

Mimi trapped the Kamizuru Clan and its Queen Bee, then confronted Clan Head Kamizuru Manki and demanded the clan’s bees and their secrets. Manki faced pressure to choose between protecting her captured clanspeople and preserving the village, while Mimi’s intentions remained coercive.

• Mimi’s mycelium overwhelmed the Kamizuru hive, trapping Manki, the Queen Bee, and the clan’s surviving ninja in the central chamber.
• Manki moved to kill the Queen Bee, but the mycelium stopped attacking, giving the Kamizuru time to dig an escape passage.
• Mimi appeared through an Insect Clone and identified herself as the Aburame Clan Head, then explained that she wanted the Kamizuru swarm and its honey-producing Queen Bee.
• Mimi revealed that she held the captured Kamizuru clanspeople alive, and Manki refused her demand to take the clan’s secrets.
• Manki offered to go with Mimi if she released the others, but Mimi refused and warned that Manki’s death would make the clan’s secrets worthless.
• Two Kamizuru ninja urged Manki to fight or to consider the village, while Mimi watched her weigh her choices.

Manki and the Kamizuru Clan escaped underground with the queen bee while Mimi’s scouts tracked them. Back in Konoha, Mimi handled village affairs and confronted Fire Temple emissaries, using the Daimyo’s demand for her surrender to justify Konoha fighting back; Hui Pu left under guard, fearing a ninja rebellion.

• Manki led the Kamizuru Clan underground toward Hidden Rock forces while Mimi’s Insect Clone dispersed and Autumn Tiger Elephants tracked their trail.
• Mimi left Mito in charge of urgent village decisions, and Mito went home after persuading Mimi to take over the work the next morning.
• Hui Pu entered the Hokage Office seeking the Third Hokage and learned that Mimi was serving as acting Hokage.
• Mimi ordered Hui Pu detained, then listened as he delivered the Daimyo’s demand that Konoha hand over Aburame Insect Princess.
• Mimi told Hui Pu that the Daimyo had colluded with Shimura Danzō to assassinate the Third Hokage and said Konoha could only fight back.
• Mimi told Hui Pu to inform the Daimyo that the Third Hokage would hand over Aburame Insect Princess on a chosen date, then sent him away under Konoha ninja guard.

Mimi sent Autumn Tiger Elephants after Manki and her four companions, but Manki survived their infrasound attack and crushed them with the Super Added-Weight Rock Technique. Mimi’s Slugs reassembled after the defeat, leaving Manki to face Mimi again and realize she could not win.

• Manki led four remaining ninja into an ambush by the Autumn Tiger Elephants, whose infrasound attack incapacitated all five.
• Manki rose into the air and used the Super Added-Weight Rock Technique to flatten the Autumn Tiger Elephants and four nearby clansmen.
• Manki drank Royal Jelly to heal her injuries and replenish her Chakra as the battlefield fell quiet.
• Manki found fleshy worms surviving in the remains and tried to crush them with another gravity attack.
• The worms gathered and re-formed into Mimi, who faced Manki as Manki recognized her defeat was inevitable.

Mimi revealed her Insect Sage Mode, a metamorphic body that resisted Manki’s attacks and pursued her through the sky and underground. Manki fled into the earth, but Mimi caught up and covered her body with flesh worms.

• Mimi explained how her universalized Imago Plates let larvae dissolve and develop into different adult forms, and described the mass-production system behind her insect swarm.
• Mimi emerged from a humanoid cocoon as a Chakra-fed Insect Sage Mode, and she told Manki that ordinary attacks, internal damage, and Genjutsu could not defeat her.
• Manki used a gravity Technique to flatten Mimi, but Mimi’s body turned to jelly and reformed, then sprouted wings and pursued her into the sky.
• Manki sprayed cement to trap Mimi, but Mimi seeped through it and leaped at her, forcing Manki to flee underground.
• Manki traveled through the soil, but Mimi split into slender worms and caught up, covering Manki’s back, limbs, and chest.

Mimi captured Manki and took control of her body to learn about Iwagakure’s Dust Release Corps Project, then used Manki’s appearance to pursue Ōnoki’s cellular tissue. Back in Konoha, Mimi continued directing the war and working as Hokage, with Hitomi keeping her company.

• Mimi swallowed Manki with her gelatinous body, took control of her system, and read her memories about Iwagakure’s Dust Release Corps Project.
• Mimi disguised herself as Manki and headed toward Iwagakure to retrieve Ōnoki’s cellular tissue for her research into Kekkei Tōta.
• Manki tried to tear the fused substance from her body, but Mimi told her it could not be removed and promised she could extract and restore Manki’s younger sister.
• Manki briefly fled, then turned back toward Grass Country, while Mimi resumed managing the war and considered threats including the Ōtsutsuki, Black Zetsu, and Jigen.
• Hitomi brought Mimi a late-night meal and stayed beside her as Mimi worked; Mimi also asked to speak with Hitomi’s brother about her family’s marriage pressure.

White Fang led Konoha’s Anbu on a raid across Earth Country to disrupt Iwagakure’s supplies and force it to divert troops from the front. After the squads ambushed a Rock Ninja supply unit and struck cities across the country, Ōnoki ordered a search for the attackers while Mimi watched the operation’s effects.

• White Fang briefed the ninja on their mission to destroy supplies and strategic resources while avoiding civilian casualties, then sent them out in twelve-person teams across Earth Country.
• Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers scouted the supply routes and located Rock Ninja transport squads, allowing Konoha’s teams to ambush them.
• A Konoha squad overwhelmed a rookie Rock Ninja unit, killed its members, and concealed the bodies before moving on to prepare another ambush.
• Konoha’s raiders set fires in major cities, destroying granaries and causing power outages that threw residents into confusion.
• Ōnoki received reports of coordinated attacks on the granaries and ordered Iwagakure’s ninja to find the raiders as Mimi watched the response at dawn.

Nami discussed Konoha’s finances, reconstruction, and plans to reform the Hyuga Clan while the village remained underground amid the war. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki responded to Konoha’s sabotage and ordered the study of medicine stolen by the Kamizuru Clan, hoping it could help Iwagakure produce more ninja.

• Nami told Mito that the Sky Ninja were approaching and recommended keeping the villagers underground while she rested.
• Nami and Mito debated providing housing and work for the Uzumaki clan, the Sand Hidden Village, and displaced civilians as Konoha rebuilt and expanded.
• Nami confronted Fumihito about arranged marriages and urged him to change the Hyuga Clan’s rules; he said he needed more time, and Nami resolved to address the clan’s system.
• Ōnoki learned that the daimyo had survived an assassination attempt and ordered a nationwide search for Konoha’s infiltrators.
• Ōnoki learned that medicine obtained by the Kamizuru Clan had stabilized patients and ordered researchers to decipher and reproduce it so Iwagakure could train more ninja.

The Sand Hidden, devastated by Konoha and short on supplies, left the Wind Country under Chiyo’s leadership while she sought leverage from other villages. Meanwhile, Third Hokage’s army advanced toward Grass Country, where he blamed Danzo for his setbacks and wondered about Mimi’s plans for Konoha.

• Sand Hidden survivors endured water shortages, hidden explosives, and despair as envoys arrived seeking their support and were driven away by Lu.
• Chiyo returned, assessed the village’s desperate position, ordered the Sand Hidden to leave, and sent demands for money to Kirigakure and Hidden Rock Village.
• Mimi noticed the Sand Hidden’s route might block White Fang’s retreat, then rested while Mito urged her to conserve her strength.
• Third Hokage’s army ran toward Grass Country with Chiri, and he questioned her about Mimi’s ideals and plans for Konoha.
• Chiri criticized Third Hokage’s suppression of the clans and said Tsunade would become a good Hokage with support from Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
• As the army reached the prairie near Grass Country, Third Hokage considered how to deal with Danzo and blamed him for everything.

The Third Hokage arrived at Konoha’s front-line camp, where he and Danzo assessed the stalemate with Hidden Rock Village and endured an aerial bombardment. Chiri urged them to hold their defenses and provoke Ōnoki cautiously, while Hidden Rock forces began advancing underground.

• The Third Hokage toured the battlefield and met the badly wounded Danzo, who described the stalemate and the threat posed by Yellow Earth.
• Hidden Rock’s Explosion Corps bombed the forest, but Chiri said the attack was mostly for show and caused minimal losses.
• Danzo asked for reinforcements and a plan, and Chiri advised holding the line while preparing to exploit any opening and draw Ōnoki’s attention.
• The Third Hokage rejected a proposed operation against Yellow Earth, wary of provoking Ōnoki and needing to guard against Hidden Cloud.
• After the air raid ended, Konoha’s ninjas repaired traps and defenses as Hidden Rock squads advanced silently underground.

Konoha and Rock Ninjas fought a bloody battle as young Fugaku faced the horrors of war under Chiri’s guidance. With Konoha threatened on several fronts, Ōnoki declared the moment had come to attack, while Mimi’s hidden insect swarm began to emerge.

• Rock and Konoha Ninjas used stealth, decoys, and ambushes to begin a deadly battle across the forest, which ended after a long morning with both sides withdrawing to tend their wounded.
• Fugaku was shaken by the battlefield’s corpses, but Chiri calmed him, warned him about the dangers of fear, and urged him to pursue the Hokage position.
• Chiri noticed Grass Hidden Ninjas capturing a wounded Rock Ninja while Konoha and Rain Ninjas remained poised for conflict, Kirigakure gathered in the Whirlpool Country, and forces assembled in the Land of Lightning.
• Ōnoki reviewed intelligence showing Konoha was surrounded and declared that the time had come to lead an assault himself.
• Mimi woke as insect pupae cracked open underground, and a flesh-eating worm crawled inside a Medical Department researcher in Iwagakure.

Mimi used her parasite research to plan covert infections that could alter emotions, monitor health, and spread as biological weapons, while targeting Iwagakure through its water supply. In the hospital, parasites inside treated patients entered a reproductive stage and began escaping their hosts, setting off an impending insect tide.

• Mimi explained how her parasites could influence emotions and planned to infect Konoha villagers and the Sand Hidden Village to reduce their hostility.
• Mimi described how her restrained tapeworms could monitor health, then transform into more dangerous and transmissible varieties when their restrictions were removed.
• Mimi bypassed Iwagakure’s natural defenses and harassed the Earth Country, forcing Ōnoki to spread his forces across the region.
• Mimi identified Iwagakure’s water system as a channel for reaching the village and focused on its water source.
• A treated nurse’s parasites began reproducing inside her, with larvae hatching and clinging to her intestinal wall.
• Parasites crawled out of the nurse and other treated patients in the hospital as an insect tide began to emerge.

Mimi’s Parasitic Insect spread through Iwagakure by infecting flies, birds, animals, food, and the water supply. A medical team failed to save an infected Ninja, and Manki watched the village fall into darkness as strange coughs began echoing from its homes.

• Mimi’s larvae spread through flies, birds, dogs, livestock, and food, while infected birds pecked a hole in a water tank and released eggs into its water.
• A boy saw a dog expel a long Flesh Worm, and a Medical Ninja coughed up larvae before collapsing in agony.
• The medical team operated on the Ninja, removed countless larvae, and uncovered a giant worm occupying his intestinal tract.
• The giant worm dissolved the Ninja’s organs and died after the lead surgeon cut it apart, but its eggs had already spread through his blood.
• The lead surgeon learned that the dead Ninja was her younger brother, while crows fell from the sky and strange coughs sounded across Iwagakure.
• Manki looked up at the dark, silent village from the foot of the mountain.

Ōnoki sent Hidden Rock’s army toward the front after refusing Manki’s plea to negotiate for her captured clansmen, while Mimi revealed that the medicine contained dangerous insects. As White Fang’s squad recognized that the harassment had drawn Ōnoki into a surprise offensive, a vast insect swarm began moving along the South River in the Land of Fire.

• The Medical Department’s head warned Ōnoki that the medicine from the Kamizuru Clan contained dangerous parasitic insect eggs, but Ōnoki ordered the researchers to keep studying them.
• Manki reported that Konoha had captured the Kamizuru force, and Ōnoki refused to bargain for their release until Hidden Rock won the war.
• Mimi confronted Manki and implied that the insects in the medicine were one of her Little Cuties, prompting Manki to rush off to destroy the medicine.
• White Fang’s squad realized that their harassment had helped draw Hidden Rock into a large-scale surprise attack, and White Fang ordered them to continue the plan and await orders.
• A huge swarm of insects moved upstream along the South River, engulfed a fisherman without harming him, and continued buzzing through the night.

Manki tried to destroy the medicine in Hidden Rock Village’s research facility, warning that it was dangerous, but the Deputy Minister dismissed her claims and had her imprisoned. At dawn, Mimi arrived in Hidden Rock, and Manki recognized that the terror she had feared was beginning.

• Manki infiltrated the hospital to destroy the medicine while researchers debated the parasitic insects, their connection to Chakra, and the disappearance of earlier larvae.
• Manki fought the Hidden Rock ninja who tried to stop her, but her warnings about the medicine failed to convince them.
• Manki told the Deputy Minister that a white mushroom had wiped out her clan’s entire front-line force, but he dismissed her as frightened and ordered her taken away.
• The ninja escorted Manki to a dungeon, where she waited through the night in despair.
• At dawn, screams rang out above the dungeon as Mimi announced her arrival in Hidden Rock, and Manki screamed in terror.

A swarm of crows fell on Iwagakure, spreading blood, maggots, and a terrifying infection through the village. As villagers and ninjas panicked and fled, the chapter ended with the streets overwhelmed by a tide of people and the crows watching overhead.

• A sanitation worker found piles of dead animals crawling with maggots, while crows gathered in a black vortex above Iwagakure.
• The flock plunged into the village, killing crows on impact and covering the streets with corpses, blood, and maggots.
• Villagers fled indoors, but maggots appeared in their vomit and the remaining ninjas discovered that people were being infected.
• A ninja vomited up a maggot, then died as a huge worm emerged from his mouth; his companions broke down in fear.
• Terrified villagers burst from their homes and stampeded through the streets as a ninja collapsed, while crows watched from the rooftops.

Manki left her cell and crossed the devastated dungeon and village, carrying an infected little girl to a hospital overwhelmed by desperate villagers. At the hospital, she begged Insect Princess to stop the suffering, but Insect Princess called it the price of war and refused.

• Manki escaped her cell after Insect Princess twisted the bars and released her shackles.
• Manki found the dungeon filled with blood, maggots, and Giant Eggs, and fled after a dying prisoner begged her to kill him.
• Manki found an infected little girl in the village and carried her away, promising to save her.
• Manki reached the crowded hospital but found the ninja guarding its full wards from the desperate crowd.
• Manki pleaded with Insect Princess to stop, but Insect Princess said the suffering was the price of war.

Ōnoki’s Hidden Rock forces launched a devastating assault on Konoha’s frontline, and the Third Hokage and Chiri intervened to stop him. After Chiri’s lightning technique exposed Ōnoki’s Earth Clone, the real Ōnoki faced a renewed attack as the Third Hokage prepared another jutsu.

• An aging Rock Ninja reflected on the coming battle before Ōnoki ordered the Hidden Rock forces to attack and used Dust Release to devastate Konoha’s defenses.
• The Third Hokage left Danzo to organize the battle and flew toward Ōnoki with Chiri, while Konoha’s troops rallied around him.
• Chiri redirected Ōnoki’s Dust Release into the Rock forces, and the resulting opening allowed Konoha’s combat units to charge into battle.
• The Third Hokage rode Enma’s extending Adamantine Staff into the sky and struck at Ōnoki with a massive, flaming blow, but Ōnoki evaded it.
• Chiri attacked Ōnoki from behind with lightning, revealing that the figure she had struck was an Earth Clone and that the real Ōnoki was on a clay bird.
• The real Ōnoki faced Chiri’s lightning kunai as the Third Hokage steadied himself on Enma’s staff and began forming hand seals.

Mimi’s ambush trapped the Hidden Cloud force on a lake between man-eating crocodiles and swarms of insects, forcing its commander to order a retreat. Mimi revealed she had deliberately left the Cloud a false escape route, while Tsunade and Orochimaru spotted the approaching Hidden Mist forces by the sea.

• The Hidden Cloud force crossed the lake in the Land of Rice Fields, where giant crocodiles attacked from underwater and dragged away hundreds of ninjas.
• Summer Red Soldiers swarmed above the Cloud ninjas as they formed a defensive ring, and the commander ordered a cautious retreat rather than risk the gorge ahead.
• Mimi told Mito that she had left the Hidden Cloud a false path to escape so her forces could pursue and kill them gradually.
• Mimi said she would close all casinos, and Mito agreed that this would stop Tsunade from gambling after becoming Hokage.
• Tsunade sneezed while standing beside Orochimaru at the seaside, where they saw the Hidden Mist arriving.

A deadly infection overwhelmed Hidden Rock Village as its medical staff and researchers failed to find a treatment, while the elders imposed a brutal quarantine. The chapter left the hospital sealed off, its patients and workers trapped amid mounting deaths and despair.

• A hospital doctor lost patients one after another, discovered a larva in his own blood, and realized he had been infected.
• Elders learned that the water source had been contaminated and that the infection could spread through several known routes.
• Old Zi ordered the infected isolated, the village disinfected, and its animals killed and buried.
• Hidden Rock Village sealed the hospital behind stone walls, and a ninja who tried to escape was killed by his comrades.
• Panicked villagers gathered inside the quarantine zone as corpses piled up and medical workers feared no one would save them.
• A researcher drank lethal poison after his tests failed, and his colleague found him dead with worms emerging from his mouth.

A quarantined research team struggled to treat a parasitic insect infection, and their dangerous experiments produced only deaths and one uncertain survival. The director realized the Insect Princess had deliberately left the infected alive to force them into continued research, and he ordered the discovery kept secret.

• The director learned that Xuan Yi had died by suicide and that sedatives and glucose only slightly calmed the parasites.
• A Medical Ninjutsu researcher proposed boiling infected patients, but the first test patient died even though the parasite was killed.
• The team froze another patient and removed the parasite successfully, but the patient did not wake up.
• An old shinobi survived parasite removal by hardening his organs, though his condition remained critical, and the director approved research into sealing techniques.
• The director realized the Insect Princess had not intended to kill everyone and that only those who provoked the parasites during removal died.
• The director ordered the researcher to keep the realization secret, while both men feared the Insect Princess's control over their lives.