Chapter Summaries

Mimi consolidated power as the Shadow Cabinet announced tax cuts, public recruitment, and complaint channels that won the residents’ approval. As local lords plotted to flee the Land of Fire, Yahiko killed his family’s leaders and prepared to welcome the Royal Army.

• Mimi left the city after transferring power into her hands, and the next morning residents gathered to read the Shadow Cabinet’s decrees.
• The decrees promised tax exemptions, public recruitment, and complaint boxes, prompting residents to celebrate their new shogun.
• Local lords debated resistance and escape before their head ordered the clan to migrate from the Land of Fire.
• Yahiko burst into the family meeting, accused the head of abandoning his branch, and killed him and Uncle Xin.
• Yahiko spared his eldest sister, told his followers to welcome the Royal Army, and allowed anyone unwilling to stay to flee.

As Mimi’s actions plunged the Land of Fire into upheaval, nobles fled, local households armed farmers, and temples prepared for conflict. Mimi watched the chaos unfold while the country’s major factions braced for a fight with ninjas.

• Nobles packed their wealth into carriages and fled, while a balding retainer desperately chased after his departing lord.
• Local households armed farmers with crude weapons and improvised armor as workers tried to repair an old cannon and forge equipment.
• A household steward promised farmers a hundred thousand ryo for each ninja’s head and threatened deserters with execution.
• A family head ordered higher pay for Ronin samurai after some refused to fight ninjas.
• Mimi watched as her actions threw the Land of Fire into chaos, while Warrior Monks guarded the major temples and turned away visitors.

Mimi struggled to build a governing framework while consolidating control, then reviewed Al’s film and ordered him to turn it into propaganda exposing the nobles and crediting Shadow and Tsunade. Al left energized to revise the film, while Mimi planned an official news channel.

• Mimi drafted the principles for Shadow’s rule and considered how Tsunade would handle governing while she focused on her garden.
• Al showed Mimi a film depicting her killing people and walking past rows of corpses.
• Mimi ordered Al to remove her scenes, interview residents, and expose rumors and evidence of the nobles’ abuses.
• Mimi instructed Al to emphasize Wei Wei’s beauty and subtly suggest that Shadow and Tsunade had saved the city.
• Mimi announced plans for an official television news channel, and Al hurried off to continue working.

After Hidden Rock Village’s defeat left Hidden Cloud facing Konoha with only Hidden Mist as an ally, Bee urged the Third Raikage to retreat temporarily and prepare a mass army to counter Aburame Insect Princess’s swarm. The Third Raikage warmed to the plan, though it would require loosening the daimyo’s military restrictions.

• Hidden Cloud regrouped near the border and learned that Hidden Rock Village had been defeated and retreated in a single day.
• Bee warned the Third Raikage that Konoha could redirect its forces against Hidden Cloud and that Aburame Insect Princess’s swarm could devastate their ninja army.
• Bee argued that Hidden Cloud should preserve its strength, study the Whirlpool Clan’s sealing techniques, and develop the Jinchuriki Technique for a future fight.
• Bee proposed raising an army of at least five hundred thousand ordinary people, equipped with firearms and cannons, to wear down the swarm and shield Hidden Cloud’s ninjas.
• The Third Raikage considered the political risks of empowering the daimyo but judged Bee’s plan useful and began to feel more confident.

The Third Raikage reopened the Second Raikage’s secret techniques, but rejected Bee’s plan to end the war and instead ordered the Hidden Cloud to keep fighting Konoha. As the Hidden Cloud prepared to recruit Hot Water Ninja, the Third Hokage moved to block their route home while Mimi’s swarm advanced behind their army.

• Bee urged the Third Raikage to open the village’s secret techniques and reorganize the Kinkaku-Ginkaku Pursuit Force, and the Third Raikage agreed to let qualified ninja learn them.
• The Third Raikage dismissed Bee’s suggestion to withdraw and declared that the Hidden Cloud would continue the battle against Konoha.
• Bee proposed hiring Hot Water Ninja by offering to help spread the teachings of their god, and the Hidden Cloud rallied for revenge.
• Mimi watched the Hidden Cloud’s renewed commotion and judged that they were not reassuring.
• The Third Hokage led Konoha forces into the Land of Fire to block the Hidden Cloud’s route, while Mimi’s swarm moved toward the rear of their army.

The chapter described Hozuki Castle’s brutal prison system and Kusagakure’s plan to profit from prisoners and feed them to the Box of Paradise. Mimi secretly scouted the prison and vowed to punish Kusagakure, while the village prepared to exploit its new captives.

• The chapter explained how Hozuki Castle forced prisoners into exhausting labor and how Kusagakure secretly turned selected captives into boxes for the Box of Paradise.
• The warden branded captured Rock Ninja and Konoha Ninja with the Heavenly Prison seal and ordered them processed for admission.
• Grass Hidden operatives returned the Box of Paradise to the prison and planned to obtain more prisoners despite the village’s financial troubles.
• Mimi, disguised as a beetle, surveyed the prison and discovered youths who had been sold, along with ordinary people, vagrants, and Ronin held there.
• Mimi vowed not to spare Kusagakure for killing Konoha Ninja, as the destruction of small countries remained part of the plan.

Mimi and Chiri prepared to attack Kusagakure while struggling with shortages, and White Fang’s unit took advantage of Iwagakure’s retreat to begin assassinating nobles in Earth Country. The chapter left White Fang’s team setting out to create chaos and panic, with a quota of ten targets.

• Mimi told Chiri to rest for two days before attacking Kusagakure with their full strength.
• Chiri learned that supplies would not arrive for two days, so Mimi planned to sustain the troops with Soldier Pills and gathered mushrooms.
• White Fang’s scouts reported that Iwagakure’s forces had withdrawn from the cities and were fleeing toward Bird Country and Demon Country.
• White Fang ordered his team to begin an indiscriminate assassination mission against nobles in Earth Country, with a quota of ten people.
• White Fang’s team set out to identify targets without further intelligence support from Mimi.

White Fang’s team infiltrated a city in Earth Country, gathered intelligence, and selected targets for a covert assassination operation intended to implicate Konoha and destabilize Iwagakure. By dawn, their killings had been discovered across the country, while Mimi left her inn.

• White Fang and his team entered the city, with the Hyuga member scouting from outside while the others gathered intelligence by their own methods.
• Haruno of the Senju questioned people at entertainment venues, the Uchiha youth interrogated a guard, and Jubei eavesdropped inside wealthy households.
• White Fang sent his Ninja Dogs to search residences and identify targets by scent, then gathered the team to review the reports and choose their targets.
• The team launched its assassination operation at night, with each member assigned targets and Jubei volunteering to take extra ones.
• Before dawn, a ninja killed a target, removed the head, and carved “Heaven’s Punishment” into the wall; similar discoveries and screams followed across Earth Country.
• Mimi left the inn as the landlady bowed farewell.

Mimi directed the officials to restore order, make social recruitment genuinely open to women, and punish an official who stole from her. After ordering his arm cut off and warning everyone against testing her, she adjourned the meeting.

• Xi Yuan warned Mimi that allowing street thugs to cause trouble would disrupt public security, and Mimi told him to keep making suggestions while ordering officials to arrest troublemakers.
• Mimi ordered Akamatsu Arikado to have the Samurai Bureau handle the thugs, offering ninja support and warning him to act quickly.
• Mimi questioned the Community Magistrate's office about slow recruitment, discovered women had been barred from testing, and ordered the roster and public notice redone.
• Mimi exposed an official who had stolen money, sentenced him to two years in prison, and ordered him to cut off the hand that had touched her things.
• After the man failed to sever his arm and a ninja cut it off, Mimi warned the officials that she was watching them and adjourned the meeting.

A student explained the General’s notice, which ordered nobles to register, made schooling mandatory for all children, opened public jobs to men and women, and ordered gambling houses and brothels to close. A noble young woman resolved to register as a commoner and serve the General, while a thug realized his livelihood was at risk.

• A student read the notice and explained that people with noble backgrounds had to register with the Community Magistrate and could lose their noble status.
• The student announced that all school-age children, boys and girls, had to attend free nine-year schools, and that both men and women could apply for public jobs.
• A young noblewoman declared herself a commoner and headed to the Community Magistrate’s office, with her maid following her.
• The student announced that gambling houses and Flower Brothels had to close within three days, and a thug feared losing his livelihood.

The general’s crackdown on gambling houses and Flower Brothels unsettled workers and residents across the city. As the teahouse closed, Mama prepared to face punishment, while the girls were urged to leave and make lives of their own.

• Students at the academy argued over the crackdown as news of the city’s upheaval spread.
• Tsunade remained unaware of events while Kirigakure made small probing moves and she struggled to cook salted fish.
• Gambling-house workers debated fleeing, joining the general’s forces, or finding other work after seeing Mitsui’s armed Ronin group pass by.
• Mama announced that the teahouse would close under the general’s proclamation, and the girls reacted with shock and fear about their futures.
• Mama told the girls to leave and seek help from the Community Magistrate if necessary, then prepared to face imprisonment for the deaths at the teahouse.

You Xi and the other girls left the teahouse after Mama shut it down, and she urged them to find work and apply for opportunities through the Community Magistrate. As more teahouse Mamas joined the closures, the girls celebrated their freedom, while those still trapped in other shops hoped the General would rescue them.

• You Xi packed only plain clothes and her savings, then left the teahouse with Kyoko-chan and the other girls.
• Mama advised the girls to settle in the southern city, avoid flaunting their money, seek work, and consider examinations or teaching jobs.
• You Xi walked through the streets with a new sense of freedom as the girls followed Mama toward the Community Magistrate.
• Makoto reunited with a rival Mama, who agreed to close her own shop and go with Makoto to the Community Magistrate.
• Girls at neighboring shops packed and celebrated as more Mamas joined the closures, while some girls remained under abusive Mamas and hoped the General would save them.

Mama learned that she would still serve prison time, while the girls left the establishments being closed under the Shogun’s orders. Mimi let You Xi and Kyoko stay at her inn, and after night fell, Akamatsu’s samurai attacked an estate as rifle-bearing soldiers moved against their targets.

• The magistrate told Mama she would go to prison, and Makoto consoled her as she returned to her establishment.
• Mama sent the girls away to begin new lives, while Yukino Mama secretly celebrated that Mama would join her in prison.
• Establishments closed across the city as girls departed, though many low-end owners refused to release them.
• Mimi allowed You Xi and Kyoko to stay at her inn after they could not find lodging.
• At night, Akamatsu led armored samurai in a bloody assault and declared that the age of the samurai was over.
• Rifle-bearing soldiers began closing in on targets across the city as the Ninja Magistrate’s operation unfolded.

Akamatsu’s forces seized the capital of the Land of Fire by crushing the city’s criminal bosses, while a covert campaign of assassinations and intimidation unsettled the other lands. The chapter left the other powers reacting to the upheaval as Kirigakure’s elite recoiled from Iwagakure’s hospital and Hidden Cloud’s army departed alongside the Hot Water Ninja.

• Akamatsu’s soldiers raided a tavern where the city’s bosses were plotting against him, arresting or pursuing them as the old powers fell and the capital came under his control.
• Mimi spoke with You Xi after the fighting died down and planned for restoring order and expanding across the Land of Fire.
• A ninja infiltrated the Land of Earth Daimyo’s residence, left severed heads and a bloodied Kunai, and carved “Heaven’s Punishment” into a wall.
• The Land of Earth Daimyo learned that the Land of Fire Daimyo was dead and Konoha had seized the Land of Fire, then grew suspicious when Ōnoki declined his invitation.
• Ōnoki brought Snow Princess and the elite Kirigakure Ninja to a hospital, where they saw a gruesome scene and fled outside to vomit.
• The Third Raikage and the leader of the Hot Water Ninja finalized their cooperation, then set their army in motion.

The Third Raikage led Hidden Cloud and the Soup Ninja into Konoha’s forest, where Aburame Insect Princess’s explosive insects ambushed and devastated them. With the swarm closing in and their retreat trapped, the Third Raikage faced a desperate choice.

• The Third Raikage dismissed a warning about a minefield and led Hidden Cloud deeper into the Land of Fire despite Bee’s concerns.
• Insect Princess’s dragonfly swarm launched an attack as the Third and his forces advanced to intercept Hidden Cloud.
• Explosive insects hidden among flowers, trees, and underground traps tore through Hidden Cloud, leaving its survivors unable to move safely.
• The Third Raikage watched helplessly as his troops died, while Bee struggled to save people and the future Fourth Raikage fought the swarm.
• Bee told the Third Raikage that the army was trapped, and a massive swarm surged toward them as the Third clenched his fists and prepared to decide what to do.

The Hidden Cloud squads tried to stop the Summer Red Soldiers with Lightning Release, but the insects survived inside protective Insect Spheres and broke through. The Cloud Ninjas fled through the forest as the swarm overtook and killed them.

• The Hidden Cloud Ninjutsu units fired Lightning Release: Energy-Accumulating Detonation at the approaching insect swarm, incinerating the insects within range.
• The Summer Red Soldiers emerged from the lightning inside charred Insect Spheres, shed their burned outer layers, and resumed their advance.
• The Hidden Cloud commander ordered a retreat toward open ground, leaving slower soldiers to face the swarm.
• A young Cloud Ninja turned to throw Kunai at the insects, but the Summer Red Soldiers dodged them and swallowed him in a chain of explosions.
• The insect swarm caught and killed fleeing Cloud Ninjas as they ran through the forest, while some triggered buried Spring Thunder Cannons.

The Destruction Crimson Tide overwhelmed the shinobi in the forest, with Summer Red Soldiers and their swarm evolving tactics to defeat different defenses. As the survivors tried to flee, the Summer Red Soldiers accelerated and their Emerald Beetles began hunting at extraordinary speed, leaving the swarm’s new assault underway.

• A ninja was overwhelmed by Summer Red Soldiers, and the swarm covered him after his blade shattered.
• A Hidden Cloud ninja’s Lightning God Armor held against repeated explosions, but he died from his injuries before the swarm reached him.
• The Destruction Crimson Tide flooded the forest as a fast-running ninja tried to escape it.
• Summer Red Soldiers carrying Emerald Beetles accelerated toward the fleeing ninja, who threw a kunai and struck one of them.
• The Emerald Beetles emerged from the insect’s body and pierced the ninja with Chakra blades, killing him.
• Green flashes raced through the forest as the swarm began hunting its remaining targets.

The Third Hokage led Konoha’s forces out of the insect-ravaged forest and confronted the retreating Hidden Cloud army. The Third Raikage ordered a withdrawal but charged at the Hokage to end the war with a final blow, forcing the injured Third Hokage to prepare to fight.

• Konoha’s Ninja surveyed the corpses and insect swarm, fearing that the dead would become breeding grounds for more insects.
• The Third Hokage led his forces out of the forest and saw the surviving Hidden Cloud Ninja assembled on the plain.
• Bee urged the Third Raikage to retreat and proposed unleashing the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, but the Third Raikage refused to risk losing the village’s Jinchuriki.
• The Third Raikage ordered the Hidden Cloud army to retreat, then charged at the Third Hokage to take a piece of Konoha before leaving.
• The Hidden Cloud fled as Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers pursued them, while Konoha’s Ninja raised earth walls and the injured Third Hokage prepared to fight the charging Raikage.

Mimi used Summer Red Soldier and the Insect swarm to pursue the retreating Hidden Cloud forces, turning their escape route through the Land of Lightning into a deadly trap. The Hidden Cloud teams faced minefields and ambushes as they fled, while the chapter ended with one team destroyed in the mountain forest.

• Bee urged Fourth Ay to lead the retreat, and Fourth Ay ordered the Hidden Cloud forces to split into small teams and flee separately.
• Mimi divided Summer Red Soldier to pursue the retreating teams without letting them escape, while another force wiped out the Hot Water Ninja who had separated from the Hidden Cloud.
• The surviving Hot Water Ninja fled into the mountains, where warning signs marked a minefield, and the pursuing Konoha Ninja chose not to enter.
• The Hidden Cloud teams encountered warning signs and hidden explosives as they tried to escape through the mountains, with some choosing to detour and others pressing on.
• Mimi's Insect swarm filled the retreat routes with traps and planted misleading signs, and a Hidden Cloud team was destroyed in the mountain forest.

The Third Hokage and the Third Raikage fought amid a vast Konoha encirclement, matching the Raikage’s overwhelming speed and power against the Hokage’s planning and Ninjutsu. Their final clash sent the Raikage flying and buried both fighters, leaving the watching Ninja stunned.

• The Third Hokage treated his injured shoulder, created Shadow Clones, and prepared to face the Third Raikage’s charge.
• The Third Raikage broke through Konoha’s rain of Kunai and a succession of Earth Release walls and stone spears.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma as an Adamantine Staff and used the ground, his clones, and Earth Release to counter the Raikage’s Hell Stab.
• The clash sent the Third Raikage flying into the earth and buried the Third Hokage, while Enma roared in pain and the watching Ninja stared in amazement.