Chapter Summaries

The Killer Whale Girl of the Naraka Path unleashed massive Water Release techniques against four injured Anbu, who fought to survive the flooding battlefield. A Senju Anbu used a modified Water Severing Wave through his ninjatō to shred her arm, but the fight continued.

• The Killer Whale Girl of the Naraka Path created a colossal wave that submerged the battlefield, and the four Anbu ran up its crest to avoid being swept away.
• The Naraka Path summoned a water whale that struck the Anbu; one hid inside an insect cocoon, the Byakugan girl used Palm Rotation, the Senju escaped with Instant Water, and the Uchiha was slammed into the water.
• The Senju Anbu dodged the Naraka Path's Water Moon Slash and countered with seven water blades, but she blocked his sword and grabbed him.
• The Senju Anbu drove his ninjatō through the Naraka Path's palm, then used Water Form: Thousand Cuts to shred her arm and escape her grip.
• The Naraka Path questioned the Senju Anbu's original Water Release technique, and he explained that it improved Water Severing Wave with a specially made ninjatō.

Tsunade transformed with Sage Art: Mitotic Regeneration Beast Armor and overwhelmed the revived Deva Path with blinding light and silent, crushing punches. Mimi watched as Tsunade kept pursuing him through the forest and beating him senseless.

• Mimi observed that the Allied Shinobi Forces could not break the battlefield stalemate and waited for the main characters to appear.
• Tsunade chased the Deva Path away from the village and struck him with a heavy punch.
• The Deva Path grew thick bone armor and a spiral spear, while Tsunade transformed her body with Sage Art: Mitotic Regeneration Beast Armor.
• Tsunade used Sage Art: Dark Line Technique to blind the Deva Path, then silently pursued him and repeatedly punched his face.
• Mimi watched Tsunade continue beating the Deva Path as he crashed through the forest.

Mimi explained the strengths and weaknesses of laser weapons as White Zetsu advanced toward Konoha and seven Jinchuriki were transported into the forest by the Hidden Cloud’s Heavenly Transfer Technique. Mimi’s Light Prism Insect Tower immediately fired on them, and Ōnoki redirected the attack toward destroying the towers.

• Mimi described how laser weapons could strike at light speed but were limited by distance, weather, and defenses such as Water Release, barriers, and chakra cloaks.
• White Zetsu traveled underground through Mimi’s fungal network, passed Konoha’s interception line, and approached the range of the Light Prism Insect Tower.
• The Hidden Cloud’s supply transport squad used the Heavenly Transfer Technique to send seven Jinchuriki to the Konoha Forest near Tsunade.
• The Light Prism Insect Tower detected the arriving Jinchuriki and struck all seven with beams, setting the surrounding forest ablaze.
• Ōnoki failed to hit the tower with Dust Release and ordered the ninjas to prioritize destroying the Ninjutsu towers near Konoha.

The Allied Shinobi Forces attacked Mimi’s Light Prism Insect Towers while her defenses killed many of them, though the Fourth Raikage, Kirigakure, and Iron Sand brought down three towers. Mimi finished damaging Madara’s mind, reduced him to a submissive state, and began taking his Rinnegan as Jigen considered fleeing.

• Mimi’s laser fire, poisonous Nano Kikaichu, and Autumn Tiger Elephant guards slaughtered attacking shinobi around the towers, while Mimi recorded their genes.
• The Fourth Raikage destroyed one Light Prism Insect Tower, Kirigakure caused another to dissolve, and Iron Sand blocked Mimi’s vision long enough for a third tower to be abandoned.
• Mimi completed her brain modification of Madara, leaving him unable to use Izanagi and barely able to think.
• Mimi tested Madara with a question, gave him candy, and made him sit and bark while Jigen watched in disgust and fear.
• Mimi told Madara she would take his Rinnegan, but when he tried to evade her, she held his head still and threatened him.

Mimi captured Black Zetsu after Jigen escaped, then used Hachama to drain Black Zetsu’s Chakra. She revealed she was not Kaguya, though Black Zetsu still believed his mother loved him.

• Mimi chased Jigen through the Black Forest, but he escaped through the forest’s edge and vanished into the clouds.
• Mimi released viruses to disinfect the Black Forest and clear it for other species.
• Black Zetsu approached Mimi, believing Kaguya had returned, and asked whether they should continue the original plan.
• Mimi pierced Black Zetsu’s chest and used Hachama to consume his Chakra.
• Mimi told Black Zetsu she was not Kaguya and mocked him, but he still concluded that his mother loved him.

Jigen fled from Kaguya, then realized she might be targeting his Ten-Tails and returned to confront her as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Mimi survived his surprise attack and ignited the pollen in the Black Forest, beginning a fight to the death.

• Jigen escaped into the sky, then reconsidered hiding because he needed Chakra from the Ten-Tails and feared Kaguya would find it.
• Jigen shed his failing vessel and revealed his true form as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki before flying back toward Kaguya.
• Mimi continued absorbing Chakra from Black Zetsu in the Black Forest when Isshiki ambushed her with a powerful punch.
• Mimi was thrown through the forest, but rose with only a superficial wound and confronted Isshiki.
• Mimi ignited the flammable pollen with a snap of her fingers, engulfing the Black Forest in a massive explosion.

Mimi used a vast concentration of Natural Energy and Chakra to complete the first stage of Insect Sage Mode while Ōtsutsuki Isshiki watched from the burning forest. As the land around them withered and residents fled, scarlet beetles began emerging from Mimi’s face, starting her second-stage transformation.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki endured the flames and called for Kaguya, while Mimi prepared to destroy his energy-based body with Chakra Radiation.
• Mimi gathered Natural Energy into a towering Fire Tornado, alarming Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and drawing the surrounding flames inward.
• Blue Chakra rose from the earth as life throughout the region died, spreading a vast dead zone and driving nearby residents to flee.
• Mimi completed Insect Sage Mode, grew and snapped off a scarlet horn, then began her second-stage transformation as scarlet beetles crawled from her face.

Mimi ignited the Nine-Tails Chakra and entered God Insect Mode, unleashing a power that terrified Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. She attacked him with a Wormhole Black Particle and then engulfed him in overwhelming white light, leaving his fate unclear.

• Mimi used the Nine-Tails Chakra to ignite her power, resisted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's attack, and entered Baryon Mode.
• Mimi transformed into God Insect Mode and declared herself the Insect Princess and God.
• Mimi fired a Wormhole Black Particle that consumed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's summoned Black Cubes, but he dodged it and charged at her.
• Mimi stopped Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's punch with white light and burned him with an attack she called Amaterasu.

Mimi unleashed a devastating power that destroyed the landscape and left Ōtsutsuki Isshiki badly injured. After he realized her power consumed life and Chakra, Mimi revealed that he could no longer refine Chakra and attacked again, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Mimi’s radiance annihilated the mountain and surrounding land, leaving a vast crater amid fire, storms, and black snow.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, gravely wounded by the destruction, recognized Mimi as a godlike existence and shouted that he was a noble member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Mimi sent Black Particles toward Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then redirected them; they erased his left arm and blasted a deep pit into the ground.
• Mimi’s mask cracked and exposed a wound, allowing Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to realize her power burned Chakra and life, so he regained his fighting spirit.
• Mimi calculated that maintaining her power drained the Nine-Tails’ Chakra and asked Ōtsutsuki Isshiki how much of his remaining lifespan he could use in battle.
• Mimi declared that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would turn into nothingness and sent Black Particles down at him.

Orochimaru infiltrated Mimi’s motionless Insect Nests and searched her dump of failed experiments for a discarded gem. He found the Chakra Stone he had been seeking and realized it could open a great door, despite its power painfully damaging his body.

• Orochimaru coated himself in swarm-countering medicines and seals, then cautiously entered the Insect Nest through an abandoned passage.
• He found the swarm frozen in place but chose to proceed, using one of his Little White Snakes to carry him through the rock and across the Nest.
• Orochimaru passed other motionless Nests and reached Mimi’s dump of failed experimental subjects, where he searched among heaps of mutated remains.
• Orochimaru recalled that Mimi had discarded the item from Room Thirteen and found a dusty gem sealed in glass among the remains.
• Orochimaru sensed the gem’s violent Chakra Stone power, held it despite the pain blistering his hands, and recognized it as the key to opening a great door.

Animal Path Ringo found Madara incapacitated by a strange foolishness while the battle against the White Zetsu army continued across several fronts. As Konoha’s defenders gained the upper hand, Terumi Homura’s group began a planned uprising and the prison gates were blown open.

• Animal Path Ringo failed to dispel Madara’s condition, told him to hide, and continued toward the battlefield alone.
• The assault team led by the Fourth Shadow attacked the Light Prism Insect Towers while the seven Jinchuriki endured the beams’ assault.
• Chiri trapped the White Zetsu attacking Konoha in a vast illusion, allowing the village’s Ninja to strike them down.
• Hitomi discovered that Mimi’s Insect Clone had lost its appearance while Mimi struggled to maintain God Insect Mode, then stayed beside her.
• Terumi Homura confronted Konoha’s Ninja with wavering resolve, and her group began creating chaos as the Konoha Prison gates exploded open.

The Allied Shinobi Forces breached Konoha Prison, and Uchiha Kama and Danzo escaped while Mimi used the breakout to set plans in motion. As the final Insect Tower fell, Terumi Homura declared the true final battle had begun, and Animal Path Ringo summoned six Tailed Beast Bombs toward the battlefield.

• The Allied Shinobi Forces broke into Konoha Prison and released its prisoners, but found none of their own captured shinobi there.
• Uchiha Kama left his cell with Hiruko, while Danzo later escaped with four former Root shinobi and headed away from Konoha.
• Mimi instructed Uchiha Kama to defect with Hiruko and gather intelligence on the Allied Shinobi Forces' senior leadership.
• Mimi told Uchiha Kama that the imprisoned Uchiha would be released and warned him that a pursuit force would come after him.
• The final Insect Tower collapsed, and Terumi Homura concluded that Mimi had run out of strength and that the true final battle had begun.
• Animal Path Ringo summoned six Tailed Beast Bombs near the battlefield, and Terumi Homura appeared beside her forming hand seals.

Six Tailed Beast Balls threatened Konoha, but Mimi intercepted them with crimson Barriers before the village’s ninjas had to risk their lives. The Kage and Jinchuriki watched her precise defense, and Old Zi repeated that she was a monster.

• The Jinchuriki launched six Tailed Beast Balls toward Konoha while Terumi Homura created three special clones and escaped with Animal Path using a Summoning Technique.
• Konoha’s ninjas prepared to intercept the incoming attacks, with Kagami Uchiha, the Konoha Divine Dragon, and others readying their techniques.
• Mimi formed six crimson Barriers that caught the Tailed Beast Balls and contained their explosions without harming the village.
• The Kage remarked on the precision of Mimi’s control, and Old Zi told the other Jinchuriki that she was a monster.

Bunbuku refused to fight with the other Jinchuriki as they split into two groups and launched Tailed Beast Bombs at Konoha. Mimi deflected the attacks while battling Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then began preparing a response underground as the ground shook beneath the attackers.

• Bunbuku refused to join the fighting, while the Three-Tails Jinchuriki divided the other Jinchuriki into two groups and ordered them to attack Konoha and Tsunade.
• Three Jinchuriki formed Tailed Beast Bombs and fired orange-red beams toward Konoha, destroying White Zetsu in their path.
• Mimi battled Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and raised a crimson Barrier that deflected the Jinchuriki's blasts.
• A voice asked whether the Tailed Beasts or Mimi had more Chakra, and Mimi's underground biological system continued producing Chakra.
• The ground trembled as something rose through the rock beneath the Jinchuriki, who continued firing at Mimi's Barrier.

Mimi sent Eve, the mature embodiment of her swarm’s will, to confront the Two Tails, Four Tails, and Seven Tails Jinchuriki. After Eve emerged and revealed her immense chakra, she launched herself at them, beginning the fight.

• The three Jinchuriki were struck from below by Eve’s tentacles and leaped onto branches to face their attacker.
• Eve rose from underground as a huge, chitin-covered, tentacled creature with chakra reserves comparable to a Tailed Beast.
• The Four Tails Jinchuriki recognized Eve’s chakra from her juvenile form’s earlier fight with Old Zi.
• The chapter explained that Mimi had sent Eve, whose combat instincts were strong but whose intelligence and ability to use chakra were limited.
• Eve cried out, then sprang into the air toward the three Jinchuriki as they prepared to defend themselves.

Eve defeated and captured the Four Tails Jinchuriki with a series of devastating flagella attacks, then buried her underground to save her Chakra and keep her alive. The Two Tails Jinchuriki and Seven Tails Jinchuriki remained on guard, unaware of where the Four Tails had gone.

• Eve used her spinning tentacles to knock the three Jinchuriki away and launch herself into the sky.
• Eve dove into the forest and struck the Four Tails Jinchuriki with a powerful drill attack.
• Eve pierced and restrained the Four Tails Jinchuriki, then forced flagella into her body and began absorbing her Chakra.
• Eve decided to preserve the Four Tails Jinchuriki for later, paralyzed her with toxins, and dragged her underground.
• The Two Tails Jinchuriki and Seven Tails Jinchuriki stood guard, wondering what had happened to the Four Tails.

The Four Tails Jinchuriki was left paralyzed and trapped in Mimi’s insect prison, where the sight of its inhabitants and feeding swarm terrified him. As an insect laid eggs on his wounds, he desperately called for the Four-Tails, but his damaged meridians kept him from using its Chakra.

• The Four Tails Jinchuriki’s muscles and Chakra meridians were damaged, leaving him unable to move or circulate Chakra.
• He saw Eve leave Mimi’s underground insect prison and watched White Zetsu remains fall into the swarm below.
• The Four Tails Jinchuriki saw the prisoners and insects feeding, and feared the torture awaiting him.
• An insect laid eggs across the Four Tails Jinchuriki’s wounds, and he cried out for the Four-Tails as his Chakra remained sealed.

Konoha trapped White Zetsu’s invading army in a Genjutsu and began clearing the immobilized forces, though their numbers and ability to burrow made the fight exhausting. White Fang encountered a masked White Zetsu with Wood Release and activated his Insect Sage Mode to attack it.

• Mimi’s Genjutsu halted White Zetsu’s advance, and Konoha Ninja began killing the trapped forces while White Fang’s troops returned to the village.
• White Fang ordered his squads to conserve Chakra and keep the burrowing White Zetsu occupied as the battle continued elsewhere.
• A masked White Zetsu emerged and tried to distract White Fang before attacking with Wood Release.
• White Fang transformed with his Ninja Prosthetic Arm and activated Insect Sage Mode, then accelerated toward the masked White Zetsu.

Mimi refined the swarm’s hierarchy and equipment, explaining its members’ roles and the limits she placed on creating intelligent individuals. In the Northern Abyss, White Fang arrived in experimental silver armor and launched a Lightning Blade attack at White Zetsu.

• Mimi described the swarm’s hierarchy, including Insect Sister, Eve, Hachama, Aburame Yui, and Kamizuru Manki.
• Mimi decided not to create more highly intelligent swarm members and kept Chiri and Hitomi outside the Swarm Network to protect their independence.
• Mimi detailed the Autumn Tiger Elephant’s standardized armor and weapons, as well as the difficulties of building sealed systems.
• Mimi explained that White Fang’s experimental Ninja Prosthetic Arm was designed to test a stronger model before its performance was limited for mass production.
• White Fang arrived in the Northern Abyss wearing silver armor and charged at White Zetsu with a Lightning Blade.
• White Zetsu raised wooden stakes to intercept White Fang, who struck without dodging or blocking.

White Fang fought White Zetsu, broke through his Wood Release with lightning-charged claws, and absorbed the wood to regenerate his arm. He transformed Silver Wolf into Centaur Mode and charged White Zetsu across earth he had shaken apart.

• White Fang’s lightning-charged claws pierced White Zetsu’s wooden stakes, but White Zetsu used Beckoning Wood to strike him into the air.
• White Fang absorbed cells from the wooden stake with Recell Absorption and regenerated his severed arm.
• White Fang’s body transformed into Centaur Mode, with a shield and lance formed from Stronghold Armor: Silver Wolf.
• White Fang used Earthquake Wave to shake the forest and crush White Zetsu’s underground wooden stakes.
• White Zetsu retreated as White Fang charged after him with his lightning-charged lance.