Chapter Summaries

Zhili watched the Third Hokage turn the battle against Ōnoki by using a dangerous technique that neutralized Dust Release. The two Kage charged at each other as the Third Hokage secretly fought to keep his injuries and Chakra under control.

• Ōnoki’s Dust Release devastated the battlefield, but the Third Hokage dodged its beams until he blocked one with his bare palms.
• Mimi told Zhili to give Ōnoki a chance, and Zhili recognized that the Third Hokage had briefly fused five nature transformations to nullify Dust Release.
• Ōnoki fired Dust Release again, and the Third Hokage blocked it a second time, forcing Ōnoki to abandon his reliance on the technique.
• The Third Hokage concealed the severe pain and strain caused by his life-threatening technique while recovering his Chakra.
• Ōnoki and the Third Hokage roared and charged toward each other.

Zhili told the Third Hokage that the war was already won after she had secretly neutralized the Hidden Rock Village through an unexplained plan involving a meal. Ōnoki found his army devastated by an unknown disease and faced a growing crisis as he demanded reports and forbade anyone from retreating.

• Ōnoki and the Third Hokage fought to a standstill until Enma’s Four Red Yang Formation collapsed, allowing Ōnoki to escape and Enma to leave by Reverse Summoning.
• Zhili told the Third Hokage that the Hidden Rock Village had no future and that Konoha had already won the war.
• The Third Hokage asked what Zhili had done, and she described it as inviting the Rock Ninjas to a meal.
• Ōnoki searched the battlefield for his troops, then found their camp fifteen kilometers away in chaos, with wounded soldiers and worms everywhere.
• A Rock Ninja told Ōnoki that an unknown disease had incapacitated many troops and pleaded for a retreat; Ōnoki demanded casualty figures and threatened anyone who retreated or weakened morale.

Ōnoki ordered the Hidden Rock army to retreat after learning their village was in danger, bringing the war to a temporary end. Back at Konoha’s camp, the Third Hokage had Danzo seized and arranged for him to face judgment after they returned to the village.

• Ōnoki received a letter warning that the Hidden Rock Village was in danger and ordered the entire army to withdraw.
• Konoha’s scouts reported the retreat, and the Third Hokage let the camp celebrate their apparent victory.
• Danzo asked the Third Hokage what they should do next, and the Third Hokage ordered the Uchihas to seize him.
• Chiri offered to handle Danzo, but the Third Hokage said Danzo would confess and reform after they returned to the village.
• Danzo claimed he had acted for the village, and the Third Hokage ordered his subordinates to keep him under careful guard.

Mimi witnessed Grass Hidden use the Box of Paradise to consume more than seventeen hundred captured Rock and Konoha ninja, and her consciousness became trapped inside the box. She discovered a weakness in the box, then watched Grass Hidden leave as a beetle carrying her awareness vowed to remember the grudge.

• Grass Hidden captured large numbers of wounded Rock and Konoha ninja during the Hidden Rock Village's retreat and gathered them in a secluded valley.
• A Grass Hidden leader brought out the Box of Paradise, which swallowed the captives during a two-hour ritual but remained unsatisfied.
• Mimi sensed the Box of Paradise's chaotic, hateful thoughts through her Parasitic Insects and found that her consciousness had been trapped inside it.
• The Box of Paradise attacked Mimi and tore her soul apart, but it seemed confused about whether it had killed her.
• Mimi realized that the box stored most of the captives' Chakra and identified what she believed was its fatal weakness.
• Grass Hidden departed with the Box of Paradise, while a beetle carrying Mimi's awareness vowed to remember the grudge.

Mimi watched her moth be consumed and reborn as she pondered whether Chakra could preserve a person’s identity and whether souls went to the Pure Land. As the Hidden Cloud force tried to retreat across the lake, her insects and the monsters beneath the water broke their formation and turned the retreat into a slaughter.

• Mimi saw a moth get swallowed by her transparent creature and emerge again, genetically unchanged.
• Mimi considered whether Chakra could replicate a person’s soul and wondered whether Orochimaru had truly survived reincarnation.
• Mimi reflected on the Pure Land and the Box of Paradise as possible keys to answering her questions.
• The Hidden Cloud ninjas raised lightning nets against the dragonflies, but Mimi’s White Phosphorus Explosion sent fireballs through the defenses and scattered their ranks.
• The Hidden Cloud force tried to flee across the lake as insects swarmed overhead and underwater monsters attacked them.
• The monsters battered a squad captain between their tails until his body burst, then continued attacking the fleeing ninjas.

Mimi’s insect swarm devastated the Hidden Cloud forces at the lake, killing or missing 3,672 ninjas before the survivors decided to avoid her and sneak away. Mimi watched them prepare to leave and hid her insects in the surrounding woods.

• Underwater Summer Red Soldiers attacked the Hidden Cloud ninjas with sonar-guided sonic bombs, while swarms of insects struck those who surfaced and ran across the lake.
• After half an hour of fighting, the surviving Hidden Cloud reached shore, where Gustav the man-eating crocodile bit a corpse and shrugged off their attacks.
• The Hidden Cloud Jonin counted 3,672 dead or missing and agreed to avoid Mimi rather than enter the canyon waterway or join the Hidden Rock offensive.
• The Jonin planned to sneak away that afternoon and reunite with their leader, while Mimi scattered her insects into the surrounding woods.

Konoha’s forces launched a surprise assault on the Sky Ninja fleet, using Kikaichū to cripple ships and aircraft before storming Angkor Fortress. A crimson-eyed Konoha ninja learned to fly a glider in battle and landed on the fortress, with more Konoha Ninja following.

• Konoha Ninja watched the Sky Ninja fleet from the forest and prepared an attack while the ships rested near River Country.
• Aburame ninja released Kikaichū that damaged the ships’ hulls, and Konoha’s forces charged as the Sky Ninja scrambled to respond.
• A Hyuga ninja deflected incoming Kunai with Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation while Water Release users swept defenders off the decks.
• A crimson-eyed Konoha ninja cut down Sky Ninja and sailors, set fires, and helped destroy a ship as Kikaichū swarmed the fleet and its aircraft.
• A masked Sky Ninja struck the swarm with lightning, but the Kikaichū overwhelmed the airship and brought it down.
• The crimson-eyed ninja killed a Sky Ninja, took his flight wings, launched from a catapult, and landed on Angkor Fortress as other Konoha Ninja followed.

Konoha’s ninja infiltrated Angkor Fortress and discovered that the Sky Ninja were using people as power sources, while Mimi sent Little TV to collect samples and found a room of imprisoned children. Little TV distracted the children with a cartoon as an insect secretly injected them with medicine, while the battle continued outside.

• Konoha’s ninja found Mu Jin chambers containing living people and continued deeper into the fortress, leaving some ninja to secure the site.
• Ryoma released Little TV, Mimi’s bioluminescent insect device, to collect and analyze Mu Jin samples from Angkor Fortress.
• Little TV located about a hundred imprisoned children in a secluded room and entertained them with a cartoon.
• While the children watched Little TV, a flying insect carrying medicine secretly injected them as fighting continued outside.

The Konoha Ninja defeated the Sky Ninja and took control of Angkor Fortress, rescuing its captives and registering survivors. A disguised Sky Ninja boy escaped detection by posing as Shen Nong, but Mimi ordered Ryoma to kill him because she disliked his assumed name.

• A young Sky Ninja stripped off his uniform and hid in Angkor Fortress as Konoha attacked.
• Konoha Ninja fought through the fortress, killing Sky Ninja with their Sharingan, Byakugan, Senju strength, and Aburame insects.
• The Konoha Ninja defeated the Sky Ninja leader, accepted some surrenders, and brought Angkor Fortress to the sea's surface before shutting down its power.
• The Konoha Ninja rescued captives and registered survivors, while the disguised boy claimed to be a sixteen-year-old herb farmer named Shen Nong.
• Ryoma watched the registration as Mimi ordered him to kill the boy using the name Shen Nong.

Orochimaru fought the Hidden Mist forces atop his giant snake while Konoha’s ninjas struggled around the colossal ice sculpture. The battle intensified when a snake-like girl commanding Ice Release creations confronted him, leaving Orochimaru surrounded by an inexhaustible tide of ice soldiers.

• Orochimaru’s giant snake rampaged through the Hidden Mist ranks, while Orochimaru used poison and Sage Art techniques to kill attacking ninjas.
• Hidden Mist ninjas ambushed Orochimaru with a Genjutsu, but he used thermal imaging to locate them and cut them down with Four-Headed Shot Water Severing Wave.
• Hidden Mist attackers froze the giant snake, and Orochimaru answered with Nine-Headed Shot Heat Wave, burning enemies and melting the ice around them.
• An Ice Crystal Serpent appeared and clashed with Orochimaru’s snake as a snake-like girl formed ice-crystal serpent soldiers with Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation.
• The ice soldiers overwhelmed the battlefield and surrounded Orochimaru, whose giant snake struggled to fend off their endlessly replenished ranks.

Konoha’s outnumbered ninjas fought Hidden Mist forces and Ice Release constructs while Tsunade’s healing powers kept them battling through severe wounds. As cracks spread through Tsunade’s ice prison, Snow Princess and the Yuki Clan prepared to finish her off.

• Nagano and Steamed Bun Shop Kid charged into the surrounding Ice Release constructs despite Konoha’s numerical disadvantage.
• The Slug Sage used Tsunade’s Yang Release Chakra to heal wounded Konoha ninjas, while Mimi’s Insect treated the host’s worsening physical condition and kept the fighters energized.
• Konoha ninjas exploited their rapid healing to fight recklessly, shocking the Hidden Mist forces and prompting them to call the Konoha fighters monsters.
• A crack appeared in the enormous ice sculpture holding Tsunade, raising Konoha’s hopes and hardening the Hidden Mist’s resolve to kill her.
• Snow Princess watched Tsunade as Yuki Clan members moved through the ice using Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals.

Hidden Mist ninjas entered Tsunade’s enormous body to find her, but the living passages trapped them and exposed them to deadly acid. As their ice shelter began to dissolve, the survivors faced an increasingly desperate struggle to escape.

• Konoha ninjas warned that Hidden Mist attackers were closing in on Princess Tsunade, while Yuki Clan ninjas cut into her body and entered.
• The Hidden Mist teams found a maze of fleshy passages and argued over whether to cut their own route toward the heart.
• A ninja who sliced open a passage was sprayed with corrosive liquid and melted to death, so the captain led the group deeper through the maze.
• The living passages shifted until the Hidden Mist ninjas became trapped between dead ends with no route back.
• Acid dripped from the ceiling, and the group used Ice Release to shield themselves as the corrosive liquid began melting their ice.

Tsunade’s body defended itself from Hidden Mist invaders while she was trapped in ice, and Konoha shinobi inside her witnessed her bizarre regenerative creations. After breaking free, Tsunade crushed Orochimaru’s Ice Crystal Serpent and unleashed a multitude of Tsunade figures across the battlefield.

• Tsunade’s body used tentacles, acid, and regenerating humanoid forms to kill Hidden Mist Ninja who had invaded her, while Konoha Ninja inside her fought alongside the strange creations.
• Tsunade’s regenerative figures recovered from severe injuries, bickered over mismatched body parts, and carried away corpses as stunned Konoha Ninja watched.
• Tsunade broke free of the ice with a sneeze, then pressed her hands to the ground and sent the fighters on her body fleeing to safety.
• Tsunade grabbed and crushed Snow Princess’s Ice Crystal Serpent, startling Orochimaru and the surrounding fighters.
• Tsunade called out “Sage Art: Tsunade Great Division!” and her enormous body burst into countless Tsunade figures that fell across the battlefield.

Tsunade and her clones devastated the Hidden Mist forces as Konoha advanced toward the iceberg, while Terumi Homura watched and declined to intervene. The Hidden Mist unleashed a massive Water Release that froze several front-line Tsunades, drawing cheers from the battlefield.

• Tsunade clones rampaged across the ice, smashing Hidden Mist Ninja and Ice Soldiers with their Wolf Fang Maces.
• Snow Princess struggled to keep her Ice Soldiers in the fight, spending more Chakra to make them thicker and heavier.
• Terumi Homura watched the Hidden Mist's encirclement collapse and said Tsunade was a troublesome opponent she was not suited to fight.
• Konoha Ninja supported Tsunade's advance as Hidden Mist attacks failed to seriously injure her clones.
• The Hidden Mist used Water Release: Great Exploding Water Surge, and the freezing cold turned the waves into ice around several front-line Tsunades.
• The Hidden Mist cheered as the frozen waves cleared a section of the battlefield.

Tsunade’s forces defeated the retreating Kirigakure Ninjas after her regenerating clones overwhelmed them on the battlefield. Back at camp, Tsunade learned that her side had suffered three wounded and two missing, leaving her distressed over failing to bring everyone home.

• Tsunade’s clones regenerated after being frozen, then used smaller versions of themselves as projectiles to attack the Kirigakure forces.
• The Tsunades overwhelmed the Kirigakure Ninjas with their clubs and other techniques, while Konoha’s forces fought alongside them.
• After the fighting continued for hours, Kirigakure retreated across the sea, and Snow Princess escaped by traveling beneath the frozen water.
• Tsunade led her forces back to the coastal camp, where she rested with Orochimaru while the troops recovered.
• A ninja reported that Konoha had three wounded and two missing, and Tsunade felt miserable over the missing people.

Mimi arrived in the capital of the Land of Fire and chose an inn instead of staying at the Imperial Palace. After sending Hui Pu and the monks away, she arranged for shinobi to watch the group and guard the inn, insisting to the wary landlady that she was a good person.

• Mimi observed the capital's prosperous streets and the poverty, exploitation, and samurai extortion hidden among its crowds.
• Mimi reflected on the limits of shinobi seeking peaceful lives and the civilians who hoped to control their own destinies by becoming shinobi.
• Hui Pu told Mimi that they had reached the inn she had requested, and Mimi decided to stay there because it was late and she disliked the Imperial Palace.
• Mimi told the landlady to give her a quiet room and ordered Hui Pu and the monks to leave.
• Mimi instructed the accompanying shinobi to watch the monks and threatened to kill them if they caused trouble, prompting the landlady to doubt Mimi's claim that she was a good person.

Mimi stayed at an inn, learned about the town’s taxes, and arranged a hot meal for a film crew whose production had stalled. She approached the crew to discuss their work and had her Uchiha companion wake the drunken director, Mr. Al.

• Mimi bathed, ate at the inn, and asked the landlady to prepare food for three hundred and sixty people.
• The landlady explained the taxes paid by townspeople and farmers, and Mimi said that ninjas paid nothing.
• Mimi noticed a struggling film crew and decided to approach them because she was interested in their filming machine and wanted to make educational documentaries.
• Mimi ordered her Uchiha companion to wake the crew members, and he roused the male lead with tea and slaps.
• Mimi asked who directed the film, and the landlady identified Mr. Al, whom the Uchiha youth then woke with a series of slaps.

Mimi recruited a film director to make a documentary about war, offering the actress generous pay to narrate instead of appearing in romantic scenes. She proposed the title The Destruction of the Land of Fire, leaving the group stunned.

• Mimi questioned the director about his films and learned he wanted to record real ninja battles after his investor refused to fund the dangerous idea.
• Mimi explained the documentary genre and told the director to film the war without adding romance.
• The director introduced his niece, an actress, and Mimi offered her one million ryo to narrate the film without romantic scenes.
• Mimi promised to fund the project and named the film The Destruction of the Land of Fire, shocking everyone present.

Mimi coerced a film crew into accepting her commission while Danzo was brought back to a radically transformed Konoha and taken to prison. Danzo resolved to endure his confinement and trust Hiruzen to secure his release.

• Mimi threatened a man and a female actress into considering her commission, giving them until morning to decide.
• Danzo arrived at Konoha and saw that a vast, glowing Wood Release tree had replaced the village gate.
• Danzo admired the giant tree and resolved to obtain Wood Release for himself.
• Danzo was escorted through Konoha as villagers whispered about him, then taken to the remote prison under Insect Princess's control.
• Danzo steeled himself to endure prison, believing Hiruzen would get him released.

Danzo was processed into Konoha Prison, where guards stripped, examined, and humiliated him despite his protests. After receiving prison clothes and the number 107896, he endured the final body search.

• Danzo demanded special treatment during intake, but the guards told him the Third Hokage was dead and ordered him to undergo the standard medical examination.
• The guards restrained Danzo and forced him to undress, while he blamed Insect Princess for his fall from power.
• A prison doctor reviewed Danzo’s blood tests, and a Byakugan Medical Ninja scanned his body during the health and security checks.
• The guards issued Danzo prison clothes, assigned him registration number 107896, and taught him to answer when it was called.
• Danzo reluctantly bent over for the final search, and a guard put on gloves and examined him.