Chapter Summaries

Manki used Fixed-Time Control to strike Han down with a Deathly Forehead Flick, but the wounded Jinchuriki rose and attacked again. Han and Purple coordinated a two-pronged assault, engulfing Manki in a Steam Burst as Purple attacked from below.

• Han charged Manki in Steam Armor, and Manki struck his forehead with a concentrated Force-Field Prison, sending him flying more than three hundred meters.
• Han staggered back to his feet with a severe head wound, then activated Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and charged Manki again.
• Manki warned Han that he could not win and said she would have to kill him, but Han continued his attack.
• Han triggered Steam Burst, engulfing Manki in a wave of steam as Purple launched a simultaneous attack from beneath her.

Manki used Fixed-Time Control: World to freeze Ōnoki, Zi, and Han, while Uchiha Mask considered whether to attack. Terumi Homura launched a long-range Sage Art assault as Manki prepared to counter Old Zi’s Dust Release.

• Manki activated Fixed-Time Control: World, solidifying space within fifty meters and immobilizing Ōnoki, Zi, and Han.
• Uchiha Mask judged that the three had fallen too quickly and prepared his ninja blade, summoning seal, and Uchiha Gunbai.
• Terumi Homura realized Manki’s technique required sustained attention and coordinated an attack with Snow Princess.
• Terumi Homura unleashed Sage Art: Lava Release: Flying Swallow from a distance while Snow Princess raced along the frozen wall.
• Manki noticed the incoming attacks and locked onto Old Zi’s Dust Release, deciding to destroy what she could not obtain.

Manki’s force field resisted Dust Release, Genjutsu, and Lava Release, but Terumi Homura used its boundary to attempt to seal him. When the seal failed, Manki broke free and launched himself and Han toward their opponents, leaving the battle poised for another clash.

• Uchiha Mask’s Genjutsu and Terumi Homura’s Lava Release swallows failed to penetrate Manki’s force field, so the swallows outlined its reach in magma.
• Terumi Homura hardened the magma into a rock sphere and began sealing it, exploiting Manki’s inability to move while maintaining his jutsu.
• Manki detected the seal’s final connection and broke the sphere apart, freeing Ōnoki and launching himself and Han toward the ground.
• Uchiha Mask tried to attack the Jinchuriki, but Ōnoki raised Dust Release and Old Zi began forming a Tailed Beast Ball, forcing Uchiha Mask to lower his hand.
• Terumi Homura formed a transparent water-shaped giant woman and swung at the incoming Han.

Manki transformed into Insect Sage Mode, Pain Queen, and unleashed a devastating sound attack across the battlefield. As her scream incapacitated the fighters, she targeted Terumi Homura with a spear thrust.

• Han and Zi crashed into the ground after the Uchiha Mask and Manki’s water-shaped giantess redirected their attacks.
• Manki transformed into Insect Sage Mode, Pain Queen, and formed a spinning spike spear and a shield-like drill.
• Manki unleashed Sage Art. Sound Release. Painful Scream, shattering the ground and buildings and incapacitating fighters across the battlefield.
• Ōnoki fell from the sky, Snow Princess struggled beneath cracking ice, and the Uchiha Mask used Izanagi as the sound attack battered them.
• Terumi Homura lost control of her Water Form Illusionary Shadow and saw Manki’s spear thrust toward her through the dust.

Mimi unleashed her Sage Art: Insect Secret Technique, Bee Dance: Thrust, and pierced Terumi Homura despite her desperate defenses. She destroyed the surrounding buildings and defeated Terumi Homura, then noticed Madara Cells in her ruined body.

• Mimi accelerated toward Terumi Homura with her crimson spear, using wind and the storm to trap her target.
• Terumi Homura anchored herself and used a water giant’s punch to try to stop Mimi’s attack.
• Mimi’s spear pierced through the water fist and Terumi Homura’s chest, carrying her through the village as buildings and Rock Ninjas were caught in the storm.
• Mimi examined the ruined Terumi Homura and noticed a distorted face and heart in her chest that seemed connected to Madara Cells.
• Mimi said she had thought Terumi Homura would be stronger, then flung her off the spear to fall toward the ground.

En lay dying after a disastrous battle, remembering her promise to her dying teacher that she would defeat Insect Princess and Chiri. The chapter ended with En still unwilling to accept her defeat as she slipped into darkness.

• En lay gravely wounded among the ruins and believed her life was ending.
• As En's consciousness faded, she remembered meeting her masked teacher and insisting that he take responsibility for helping her find a husband.
• En recalled sitting with her teacher at sunset and learning that he wished to create a peaceful, happy world.
• Her teacher told En he was running out of time, and she promised to fulfill his ideal and defeat Insect Princess and Chiri.
• En's teacher agreed to believe she would win, and they made a promise for him to watch her victory.
• En remembered the promise as she died, unable to accept that she had lost.

Mimi’s bee swarm overwhelmed the Rock Ninjas, leaving them unable to fight and undermining their village’s defenses. Third Earth Shadow Ōnoki lay critically injured and wondered if his life was ending.

• Mimi’s wild bees stung Rock Ninjas until their bodies swelled with venom and they could no longer fight.
• Rock Ninjas hid underground or barricaded themselves indoors, but the endless swarm exploited every opening while their medical and combat systems collapsed.
• Explosion Corps ninjas realized they had to destroy the flesh pillar generating the bees, but they could not charge through the swarm.
• In a temporary shelter, Rock Ninjas argued over surrender and the likely outcome of the conflict, while acknowledging Shikaku’s strength and the leverage he held over their families.
• Third Earth Shadow Ōnoki lay badly injured near the hospital ruins, overwhelmed by pain and regret as his vision faded.

Manki charged into Iwagakure and killed Han after deflecting his Tailed Beast Ball and driving him through the earth. She surveyed the destruction and turned her gaze on Uchiha Mask, who realized he was next.

• Mū fell unconscious, while Ōnoki and Han struggled to recover from Manki's attack.
• Han unleashed Boil Release and five tails of Tailed Beast Chakra, then fired a Tailed Beast Ball at Manki.
• Manki deflected the Tailed Beast Ball with her shield and continued her charge through its explosion.
• Manki struck Han and drove him deep underground, devastating Iwagakure before launching the Five Tails into the sky.
• The Five Tails dispersed, and Manki dropped Han's corpse before fixing her gaze on Uchiha Mask.

Mimi’s remote body pursued the Uchiha Mask underground after he fled her overwhelming attack, while White Zetsu forces appeared in Iwagakure to rescue Ōnoki and help the village escape. Mimi chose to continue hunting the Uchiha Mask, leaving the rescue operation underway.

• The Uchiha Mask realized Mimi had defeated the other powerful fighters and tried to escape by burrowing underground with the Mayfly Technique.
• Mimi’s shield deflected his Dust Release, and her diving attack tore through the earth as she pursued him.
• Mimi followed the Uchiha Mask hundreds of meters underground, while he raced toward Iwagakure’s outskirts.
• Thousands of White Zetsu emerged in Iwagakure, helping the Rock Ninja break through the swarm and rescuing Ōnoki and the other defeated fighters.
• Mimi weighed whether to return to defend Iwagakure or continue her pursuit, then chose to keep hunting the Uchiha Mask.

Mimi watched Iwagakure’s forces splinter and began considering how Konoha could benefit from the village’s defeat. After catching the Uchiha Mask underground, she killed him and suspected his strange body was the result of a Rinnegan technique before heading back toward Iwagakure.

• Mimi saw the Rock Ninjas flee with Ōnoki, leaving Manki and the villagers behind, and judged that Iwagakure no longer posed a threat to Konoha.
• Mimi ordered her insects to clean up the battlefield, confirmed that Han’s corpse remained while Old Zi and the Lava Release woman’s corpses had been taken, and considered demanding manpower as war reparations.
• After pursuing the Uchiha Mask through the underground caverns, Mimi caught up with him and broke his mask to reveal a pale, distorted face.
• The Uchiha Mask asked whether Mimi wanted to know his identity, but she refused and killed him with her spear.
• Mimi found that the Mangekyo eyes had turned ordinary and suspected the Shapeshifting Technique; she used insects to deal with the corpse and left underground for Iwagakure.

After Iwagakure’s defeat, Ōnoki struggled to decide where to lead the surviving shinobi and how to resist Konoha. The Uchiha Mask arrived with a plan to use the Ten-Tails as a weapon against Konoha.

• Ōnoki woke from his injuries and learned that fewer than ten thousand Iwagakure shinobi remained.
• Ōnoki admitted he had ordered the retreat and prepared to tell the survivors that Manki was only a puppet.
• Kitsuchi suggested seeking refuge in the Land of Water, then proposed the Snow Country, but Ōnoki rejected both ideas.
• The Uchiha Mask emerged from underground, and Ōnoki questioned how he had escaped Insect Princess.
• The Uchiha Mask proposed continuing to resist Konoha with the Ten-Tails, a weapon he claimed could erase an entire country.

Mimi considered how to govern a unified Shinobi World, tracked Kirigakure’s retreating forces, and hired young women to help manage the flood of government work. The chapter ended with a former noblewoman boldly applying to become a minister.

• Mimi reasoned that Chakra and Ninjutsu could make ordinary people highly productive, but that public security would require effective controls rather than reliance on personal morality.
• Mimi planned for Manki to stabilize Iwagakure and gain the Earth Country daimyō’s support, while considering how Konoha might attack Kirigakure using Angkor Fortress.
• Summer Red Soldier located Kirigakure ninja retreating toward the Land of Water with a block of ice containing a frozen woman from the Yuki Clan.
• Mimi hired a group of young women as secretaries and told them to sort government reports by priority, while the exhausted Uchiha and Senju had been handling errands and guard duty.
• A former noblewoman told Mimi that she wanted to apply for the position of minister.

Mimi tested a girl's understanding of the Shadow Cabinet and appointed her as a spokesperson. She showed her orders intended to recruit samurai and provoke conflict with the monks, leaving the girl to realize Mimi planned to make the two groups fight.

• The girl explained that the Shadow Cabinet served the Shadow and argued that everyone except the Shadow was equal, then asked to become Shadow Cabinet Secretary.
• Mimi challenged the girl's proposal to investigate and imprison hundreds of thousands of samurai, pointing out the lack of prisons and trustworthy investigators.
• Mimi appointed the girl as her spokesperson and gave her a speech announcing that samurai and ronin could apply to join the Ninja Magistrate.
• Mimi showed the girl the Monk Hunting Order, which imposed harsh taxes on monks and religious followers.
• The girl realized Mimi intended to spark a conflict between samurai and monks, and Mimi said samurai were happy as long as they had a battle to fight.

As the General’s deadline for the Flower Brothel and Gambling House arrived, their owners prepared to resist while the establishments continued exploiting the vulnerable. Mimi received a bundle of gold from wealthy merchants and encouraged a rescued girl to seek work, leaving the girl still unsure of her own worth.

• On the deadline’s final night, patrons dismissed the General’s threat as the Flower Brothel and Gambling House continued operating; a little girl was beaten while her mother watched helplessly.
• A gambling-house bouncer turned away a man trying to sell his wife, then the gambling den’s leaders gathered to plan resistance and set out to meet other bosses.
• The next morning, Mimi received a heavy bundle of gold and a letter from wealthy merchants.
• Mimi urged the exhausted girl beside her to apply to the Community Magistrate and suggested she could teach music, but the girl doubted her abilities.
• Mimi left breakfast, and the landlady put the gold away because Mimi had not said what to do with it.

After Kirigakure withdrew to the coast of Whirlpool Country, Mimi reorganized Konoha’s forces to attack the remaining fronts, while Tsunade took Angkor Fortress toward the Land of Water. A man with the Rinnegan invited Chiyo to a Five Kage Summit to decide the Shinobi World’s fate.

• Tsunade learned Kirigakure had retreated, and Mimi later told her to take a force to River Country while Orochimaru stayed to lead the troops.
• Mimi planned to send Konoha’s forces against Kirigakure, keep Jiraiya’s force wearing down Amegakure, and move Chiri’s force from Kusagakure toward the Land of Water.
• Chiri led her troops through Rain Country toward River Country after securing supplies from Kusagakure.
• A pale-skinned man showed Chiyo photographs of Chiri, Tsunade, and Mimi, describing their threat to Sunagakure and the Shinobi World.
• Tsunade boarded Angkor Fortress and lifted it from the bay to join her subordinates and intercept Kirigakure’s forces.
• The Rinnegan-bearing man, who said he represented Amegakure, invited Chiyo to a Five Kage Summit.

The Fourth Raikage and Third Bee accepted Asura Path’s proposal to join a Five Kage Summit and strike Konoha, while Mimi’s forces moved across the countries. In Konoha, the Demon Country’s Priestess warned Mito of her death, and Lord Izuna used Rinne Rebirth to revive his foolish little brother.

• The Fourth Raikage grieved for the Third Hokage until Asura Path appeared and offered to help Kumogakure draw out the Jinchuriki’s power.
• Asura Path told the Fourth Raikage and Third Bee that Hidden Rock had fractured and Kirigakure was under attack, then invited Kumogakure to the Five Kage Summit to plan a Konoha Crush.
• Summer Red Soldiers tracked forces moving toward the Snow Country, Demon Country, Earth Country, and Rain Country as Mimi watched the Shinobi World map and declared everything under control.
• Hitomi taught little Minato to practice Chakra control while cooking, and the Demon Country’s Priestess told Mito that she was going to die.
• Lord Izuna mourned the dead woman in the ice coffin, then performed Rinne Rebirth and brought her back to life.

Hitomi put Minato through his daily training and welcomed Kushina and Miroku to the courtyard. Kushina declared Minato her opponent, while Miroku greeted Hitomi by predicting her death, leaving Hitomi to wonder at the custom.

• Minato struggled through a breakfast of insects that Hitomi served as part of his willpower training.
• Hitomi watched Minato train and explained that taijutsu and instinctive reactions would help him master the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Kushina arrived with Miroku, the Priestess of Demon Country, whom Grandma Mito had asked Hitomi to look after.
• Kushina confronted Minato, called him a sissy, and announced that he would be her opponent from then on.
• Miroku told Hitomi she would die, and Kushina explained that people in Miroku's hometown used it as a greeting.

Hitomi settled into the damaged house, sent Minato, Kushina, and Miroku to explore Konoha, and noticed a giant Byakugan scanning the world. On the moon, the Hagoromo Clan searched for the stolen Demonic Statue of the Outer Path while its members argued over what to do.

• Hitomi arranged for Minato to show Kushina and Miroku around Konoha, then watched them leave together.
• Hitomi coughed blood and reflected on her weakening body and the risks of battle and training.
• Hitomi saw a giant Byakugan scanning the Shinobi World and decided not to tell Mimi about it.
• A white-haired man used the Giant Tenseigan to search for the stolen Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as the Hagoromo Clan argued over its response.
• The Hagoromo Clan members fought over whether to purge the Shinobi World, while a young man watched them bicker.

As Konoha rebuilt itself into a green, bustling village, a beautiful black-haired girl spoke with a takoyaki vendor about the Sand Hidden Village residents joining Konoha. The girl vanished when the vendor looked away, leaving him convinced he had seen a ghost.

• Konoha's residents rebuilt their homes and streets as Mimi's biological infrastructure transformed the village.
• A black-haired girl bought takoyaki and told the vendor that Sand Hidden Village's newcomers were now Konoha Ninja.
• The vendor said he would treat the newcomers like other villagers, while the girl observed that they had similar thoughts about integrating.
• The girl asked why the vendor ran a stall despite having a house and enough to live on, and he said he was bored and wanted to work.
• The vendor's fellow stallholder failed to see the girl, and she disappeared before the vendor turned back, making him wonder whether he had seen a ghost.

Mimi wandered through Konoha, reflecting on how her Gaia Garden System could blend virtual illusions into everyday life as people from Sand Hidden and other displaced communities began new lives in the village. She met Miroku, who foresaw Mimi’s death but could see no death for Minato or Kushina, leaving Mimi grateful and hopeful.

• Mimi explored Konoha in an insect-created form and considered using the Gaia Garden System to improve the village and connect people.
• Mimi watched Pakura enjoy her new life, while the Gold Sand boy continued resisting in the Underground Shelter.
• Mimi saw Sand Hidden people settling into Konoha, including Nagato playing with other children and the rescued Princess walking with her recovering mother.
• Mimi climbed to a high branch where Kushina, Minato, and Miroku looked out over the forest, and Miroku recognized her despite the insects.
• Miroku told Mimi that she would die, but said she saw nothing for Minato or Kushina; Mimi thanked her and called the news wonderful.