Chapter Summaries

As Konoha sent most of its forces to the front, Mimi mobilized the Insect army from Konoha Forest, sending swarms and giant insects toward the battlefield. The story left off with the colossal Thousand-Legged Dragon emerging from the mountains as people hailed it as the Tokoyo Goddess.

• Konoha dispatched a reinforcement force led by elite Senju, Hyuga, and Uchiha members, while Mimi reinforced the Insect army.
• Summer Red Soldiers, Goliath Holy Armor Giant Insects, and Autumn Tiger Elephants emerged from the forest and flew toward the front lines.
• A Mountain Person hid from the passing insect forces and prayed to the Tokoyo Goddess for protection.
• After the flying insects passed, a colossal Thousand-Legged Dragon burst through a mountainside, and witnesses cried out that the Tokoyo Goddess had arrived.

Mimi used Super Lightened Heavy Rock and her accumulated technology to create a colossal insect that overcame the weight and mobility limits of giant creatures. As it rose into the clouds, Konoha's shinobi watched in awe, while Orochimaru brooded over being surpassed and Mito took pride in Mimi's achievement.

• Mimi applied gravity control to her giant insect, allowing it to grow to a scale previously beyond her reach.
• Villagers worshiped the insect as the Tokoyo Goddess, while Konoha's shinobi watched it nervously and in amazement.
• Orochimaru felt that Mimi had surpassed him, mourned the end of their friendship, and vowed their contest was not over.
• Tsunade and Mito watched the insect from the Hokage office, and Mito compared its scale to Hashirama's Thousand-Armed Buddha.
• The giant insect rose into the clouds and disappeared from sight, while Hitomi wondered why everyone was looking into the distance.
• At the Rain Country front line, Chiri acknowledged a message with a quiet reply.

The Insect Princess’s swarm overwhelmed the Ninja Allied Forces at the Rain Country frontline despite repeated Tailed Beast Ball attacks. The Allies retreated through the Rainforest, leaving Konoha in control of the front line across the river.

• The Insect Princess’s swarm arrived at dusk, and Konoha’s ninjas began a counterattack alongside it.
• The Ninja Allied Forces panicked as the swarm approached, but discipline enforcers cut down soldiers who tried to flee.
• Jinchuriki fired Tailed Beast Balls that burned through the swarm, but the insects regrouped and advanced again.
• Goliath Dung Beetles burst from underground tunnels, wrecked artillery, and attacked the Allied Forces as explosive insects poured onto the battlefield.
• The Allied formation collapsed under the swarm’s assault, and the old warrior ordered a retreat.
• Konoha’s ninjas pursued the retreating Allies, and the front line changed hands as the Allies withdrew into the Rainforest across the river.

Mimi used aerial mines and Konoha's troops to contain the Ninja Allied Forces while discovering how the Rain Country was becoming an industrial and military hub. In a rainy alley, she met the orphan Yahiko, gave him candy, and introduced herself as Akatsuki before disappearing.

• Mimi sealed sections of the Rainforest with Spring Thunder Cannons, while Konoha's ninjas fought scattered skirmishes with the Ninja Allied Forces.
• Mimi observed that the Rain Country was drawing recruits, forced labor, factories, weapons, and technology from several countries as Amegakure rebuilt into a fortress.
• Mimi reflected that the Rain Country had become the World's Center and awaited the awakening of an idealistic great man.
• Mimi found the starving orphan Yahiko in a rainy alley and gave him candy.
• Yahiko asked Mimi's name, and she answered, "Akatsuki," before vanishing as he fell asleep.

Mimi and Madara spent weeks preparing for a decisive assault, while White Zetsu infiltrated the Land of Fire and kept Konoha on alert. Mimi’s forces and the country’s nobles mobilized toward Konoha as the Ninja Allied Forces gathered for the final battle.

• White Zetsu infiltrators crossed into the Land of Fire, staged attacks near Konoha, and secretly traded with rebel forces.
• Konoha strengthened its defenses but could not recall troops from the Rain Country, where the Ninja Allied Forces and Mimi’s Insect swarm kept fighting.
• After half a month, Mimi ordered the three-hundred-thousand-strong Ninja Magistrate to turn toward Konoha.
• Nobles, samurai, and monks mobilized their armies and marched toward the capital, while Konoha sent White Fang with its remaining two thousand ninjas to stop them.
• The various Kage gathered in the Tenshu, and the Uchiha Mask raised a toast before the decisive battle.

Konoha forces fought overwhelming enemy armies in the forest and in the Rain Country, with Chiri, the Third Hokage, and Jiraiya helping hold the line. In the Land of Fire, Mimi stopped to face Madara, who had blocked her advance.

• A white-haired Anbu captain led his squad through the forest, where they repeatedly fought underground creatures with no human organs and suffered no casualties.
• Enemy forces numbering around one hundred thousand advanced toward Konoha while Konoha's forces battled the Ninja Allied Forces in the Rain Country.
• Chiri redirected a Tailed Beast Ball with Flying Thunder God Transfer, and a user of Dust Release wiped out swarms of insects as the fighting escalated.
• The Third Hokage raised a Four Red Yang Formation, then Jiraiya and the two Toad Sage broke through the enemy's stone walls with flaming oil.
• Mimi halted her advance in the Land of Fire after a ninja reported someone blocking the road.
• Mimi stepped from her carriage and confronted Madara, exchanging cold greetings with him.

Mimi and Madara walked away from the army to prepare for their duel, but their conversation turned to their beliefs, similarities, and the origins of Madara’s desire for peace. Madara began recounting how Hashirama helped him escape the cycle of hatred and how Konoha was founded.

• Mimi sent her army onward and led Madara across the wheat fields to choose a place for their fight.
• Madara asked Mimi how she viewed the Shinobi World and said she reminded him of his younger self, while Mimi insisted they were different.
• Madara called Mimi his kind and proposed that they shatter and change the world together, but Mimi mocked his demand that she prove her resolve by stabbing herself.
• Madara described losing his younger brothers in the Warring States Era and explained how hatred kept the wars going.
• Madara said Hashirama had pulled him from that cycle, leading the Senju and Uchiha to establish Konoha together.

Mimi challenged Madara’s belief that the Eye of the Moon could create lasting peace and revealed her own vision of absolute rule as the Eternal World God. As her insect swarm darkened the sky, distant observers recognized her power and wondered whether the Goddess had awakened.

• Madara explained that villages had replaced clan wars with conflicts between nations and said Hashirama had rejected his plan to conquer the Five Great Nations.
• Mimi argued that Hashirama may have sought peace by gradually replacing the daimyō, while Madara insisted that forceful conquest could never prevent future wars.
• Madara warned that Mimi’s ideals would eventually lead Tsunade to betray her, but Mimi dismissed his warning and named the Eye of the Moon as his answer to peace.
• Mimi declared that the Infinite Tsukuyomi was a childish dream and announced that she would control every living thing as the Eternal World God.
• Mimi summoned an immense swarm of insects that covered the sky, while Madara called her arrogant and claimed they were alike.
• Black Zetsu and a distant white-haired man with horns watched Mimi’s display, and the man wondered whether the Goddess had awakened.

Mimi and Madara fought as she countered his gravity techniques and Limbo clones with her own abilities. Madara recognized the gap between them and unleashed Tengai Shinsei as his last option.

• Mimi compressed Madara with gravity, and he countered with Shinra Tensei before she withdrew after testing his cooldown.
• Madara attacked with four Limbo clones, but Mimi sensed their movements and dodged or caught their strikes.
• Madara's clones struck Mimi's back, but her Gravity Armor repelled them without injuring her.
• Mimi taunted Madara about the difference in their strength as his clones disappeared.
• Madara unleashed Tengai Shinsei, deciding to fight with everything he had.

Mimi destroyed Madara’s enormous meteor with a remotely deployed light cannon, then countered his Sage Art and revealed that she could read his thoughts. She unleashed an automatic barrage of lightspeed attacks on Madara and the others, leaving them overwhelmed by her firepower.

• Mimi used Flying Thunder God transfer and her Myriad Insects' Thunderclap to melt Madara’s meteor into fiery rain.
• Madara, Black Zetsu, Issun-boshi, and the horned Old Man watched Mimi’s upgraded cannon and realized sealing her would be more difficult, though she had not regained her peak power.
• Madara fired Sage Art: Yin Style Lightning Release at Mimi, but she blocked it with a flash of light.
• Mimi told Madara that she could read his thoughts and soul, then gathered floating spheres of light around herself.
• Mimi unleashed Floating Insect Dance: Oula Iron Fist, raining lightspeed attacks down on Madara and the others until the earth melted beneath them.

The narrator reflected on aging, lost youth, and the possibility of gaining weight, then described another gathering during the break.

• The narrator compared life to a vat of wine that changed their appearance.
• The narrator wondered whether they would get fatter and recalled once having dreams.
• The narrator compared youth to a surging river that never returned once it was gone.
• The narrator accepted the possibility of gaining weight.
• Everyone came out to have fun during another gathering over the break.

Mimi and Madara fought fiercely until Madara recovered from her devastating attack and challenged her to a sword duel. They revealed their poisoned and cursed blades, then charged at each other, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Mimi’s bombardment burned Madara severely, but he used space-time clones as shields and regenerated with Hashirama Cells.
• Madara praised Mimi’s mastery of the Five Chariot Technique and admitted that he had relied too heavily on his eyes.
• Madara declared Kenjutsu the first of the ninja Eight Gates and summoned a blade to challenge Mimi.
• Mimi drew Naginata Daughter, described its deadly poisons, and warned Madara that his regeneration might not save him.
• Madara revealed the cursed Kusanagi Sword, and Mimi recognized that its power resembled a weakened Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Mimi and Madara took offensive stances and charged at each other, beginning their sword fight.

Mimi defeated Madara by overwhelming his perception with her Insect Nest Real-Time Combat Calculation System and poisoning him with a Gene Collapse Potion. After explaining how her stored combat data outmatched his experience, she killed him with a sword stroke.

• Madara used his restored strength and Rinnegan to track Mimi’s attacks, but she predicted his movements and slashed his chest with a poisoned blade.
• Mimi revealed that the poison included a Gene Collapse Potion that could kill Hashirama Cells, while Madara’s body struggled to heal and deteriorated.
• Mimi explained that her Insect Nest Real-Time Combat Calculation System collected combat data from battles across the past and future, giving her more than a billion battles’ worth of experience.
• Mimi taunted Madara about the fear she sensed in him as Black Zetsu and White Zetsu watched from underground.
• Mimi cut off Madara’s head, killing him as Issun-boshi and the horned old man watched in fear.

As Konoha received reports that enemy forces had broken through the frontline, Tsunade organized the village’s defenses and prepared its ninja for battle. Ordered to remain in Konoha, she settled on commanding from the hospital, frustrated by the people watching over her.

• Mito received reports that enemy forces were advancing toward Konoha and told Tsunade to lead the village’s defenses.
• Tsunade summoned the village’s Jonin, distributed her rapid-healing technique, and assigned ninja to defend the village and its approaches.
• Tsunade asked where Orochimaru was and decided he could stay in the village when no one knew why he had missed the signal.
• A Senju young man stopped Tsunade from going to battle, reminding her that Insect Princess-sama had ordered her to remain in Konoha.
• Tsunade agreed to command from the hospital and ordered the command center moved there, annoyed that she was constantly being watched.

Konoha mobilized its ninjas for an emergency mission while its gate guards discussed the village’s defenses and growing commerce. A suspicious woman from the Land of Water entered Konoha with genuine papers, then revealed herself to be the Animal Path reporting in.

• The gate guards collected name-tagged kunai from departing ninjas and registered their names.
• The guards speculated that the emergency mobilization was preparing Konoha to defend against an attack.
• A woman in a Land of Water disguise approached the gate, and the Inuzuka guard detected a strange smell while the Hyuga guard examined her with the Byakugan.
• The woman presented genuine identity papers and a mission form, claiming her employer was waiting inside Konoha.
• The guards let the woman enter after warning her to avoid important locations, and she spotted the Hokage’s office building.
• The woman walked into the crowds and identified herself as the Animal Path reporting in.

Mimi tried increasingly extreme methods to catch a hidden horned fish, then discovered larger fish and turned her attention to fishing Jigen and finding the Underworld. After defeating Madara, she spotted Jigen trying to escape and confronted him.

• Mimi electrocuted the pond, mimicked a large fish, and drained the water, but failed to find the horned fish and ate the fish she had gathered.
• The horned fish appeared with another large fish, and Mimi used Hachama's ability and her mask's Nine Tomoe Rinnegan pattern to locate and frighten them.
• Mimi considered using Jigen's reincarnation as bait to catch Jigen and Kaguya as bait to catch the Six Paths Old Man, but focused on finding the Underworld.
• Mimi killed Madara, considered the consequences of his early death for Indra and Asura's reincarnations, and saw Jigen trying to slip away.
• Mimi asked Jigen where he thought he was going as a fierce wind began to roar behind him.

Mimi fought Jigen, using her combat system and overwhelming strength to badly injure him while seeking the Ten-Tails he had hidden. Madara arrived and challenged Mimi, who taunted both men and prepared to face them together.

• Mimi released a barrage of white beams at Jigen, but he shrank to less than a millimeter tall, slipped through the gaps, and expanded beside her to attack.
• Mimi evaded Jigen’s Black Rod, broke his bones and wrist in close combat, detected him after he shrank again, and struck him into the ground with a gravity-powered kick.
• Jigen crawled from the crater, and Mimi recognized that his fragile body could not safely support Isshiki’s power; she also revealed her interest in the Ten-Tails sealed in the ruins.
• Mimi detected a Rinnegan-wielding woman near Konoha’s Hokage Office and suspected that Madara’s Six Paths Clone had an independent consciousness.
• Madara, bleeding from an eye after using Izanagi, ordered Mimi to finish Jigen and called her his prey; Mimi said both men were too weak and threatened to kill Madara each time he revived.

Mimi faced Jigen and Madara as they launched a coordinated assault, testing Jigen’s Black Rods and countering his charge with a barrier. Madara’s Wood Release spread across the battlefield, forcing Mimi to confront him while Jigen struggled to recover.

• Mimi asked Madara how many Sharingan he possessed, but he refused to answer and turned his attention to Jigen.
• Jigen charged Mimi with a Black Rod while Madara used Sage Technique: Wood Release: Flower Tree World Birth to attack from behind.
• Mimi raised a One-Line Four Red Yang Formation to block Jigen’s Black Rods and stop his headlong charge, sending him tumbling backward.
• Madara’s Wood Release covered the battlefield with trees and poisonous pollen as Jigen dodged the surging trunks.
• Mimi mocked Madara for relying on the Senju’s Wood Release, and Madara roared at her to shut up.

Mimi used the Kamizuru Clan's Light-Weight Rock Technique and dormant Tunneling Insect spores to take control of Madara's Wood Release, then transformed the forest into a blackwood grove. Madara faced the hostile forest as Mimi revealed the terrifying scale of her power.

• Madara's Wood Release engulfed Mimi, but it failed to absorb her chakra, and she remained protected inside a spatial force field.
• Mimi activated dormant Tunneling Insect spores, whose mycelium invaded the trees and seized control of Madara's Wood Release.
• Mimi made the trees release her and obey her, leaving Madara unable to command them.
• Mimi used the Insect Creation Technique to alter the trees into a dark, leafless forest covered in blood-red flowers.
• Madara braced himself as Mimi's blackwood forest erupted around him.

Mimi attacked Madara and Jigen with insect-themed Wood Release techniques, breaking her giant spiny moth constructs but quickly growing new spikes. Madara dodged the renewed barrage by twisting and dancing, while Mimi mocked him and named the technique Summer Dance.

• Mimi created two enormous, thorn-covered Wood Release pillars resembling spiny moth larvae and swung them down at Madara and Jigen.
• Jigen shrank and escaped the attack zone while Madara used the Body Flicker Technique to flee; the pillars broke apart and crashed into distant mountains.
• Mimi regrew the broken structures into a radial forest of spikes and launched them at the two men.
• Madara focused on dodging the spikes, twisting through the shrinking space as Mimi clapped, called it Summer Dance, and teased him about dancing.