Chapter Summaries

Obito reached the exam finish line with the main group, while the chapter explained how Mimi’s Chakra-based welfare system drew resources from Konoha’s vast population. After Tsunade woke from a drunken night to find Mimi had drained her Chakra, she left for work, unaware that Mimi needed it to activate the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Obito arrived at the finish line with the main group, whose candidates were in better shape than those in the leading group despite widespread injuries.
• The chapter described Mimi’s nationwide Chakra collection system, which supported Konoha’s free medical care and generated vast reserves from the population and the Gaia Garden System.
• Tsunade woke beside Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi amid the wreckage of their drinking session and realized Mimi had drained her Chakra again.
• Mimi told Tsunade she had taken only a little Chakra and refused to go to work, so Tsunade left angrily for her job as Fourth Hokage.
• After Tsunade slammed the door, Mimi settled back down with Chiri; the narration revealed she had taken Tsunade’s Chakra to activate the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

After graduating, Rin learned that Konoha hospitals had rejected her, while Obito, Rin, and Kakashi were summoned by Lizard Teacher. He told them that a powerful person intended to become their team leader and master, leaving them curious about who it was and how the arrangement would affect their futures.

• Rin told Anko that Konoha Hospital had rejected her application, and Anko suggested other career paths.
• Rin and Anko discussed their ambitions, Obito’s feelings for Rin, and Anko’s claim that Kakashi liked boys.
• Lizard Teacher summoned Rin, Obito, and Kakashi to discuss their futures after graduation.
• Lizard Teacher revealed that a great person intended to lead their team and take them on as disciples and inheritors.
• Rin questioned how their team leader could teach their different specialties, and Lizard Teacher reassured her.

Mimi became the teacher of Obito, Rin, and Kakashi, then began their first lesson. Obito asked whether he could earn a salary by serving in the Ninja Magistrate, but Mimi said the decision was not up to him and led the children onward.

• The Lizard brought Obito, Rin, and Kakashi to meet Mimi, who told them she would be their team leader and teacher.
• Rin eagerly accepted Mimi as her teacher, while Kakashi asked whether his father had arranged the assignment and revealed his fear of Mimi.
• Mimi began the formal lesson, but Obito interrupted to ask whether he would still receive a salary as her disciple.
• Mimi challenged Obito to explain why he needed money, dismissing his excuses about helping people and rescuing animals.
• Obito said he wanted to serve in the Ninja Magistrate for the salary, but Mimi told him that the choice was not his and continued leading the children.

Mimi took Rin, Obito, and Kakashi to the Ninja Magistrate, where she explained its military structure and the strict rules awaiting them as newly registered Konoha Ninja. The three prepared to leave their carefree student days behind and become Mimi’s subordinates.

• Rin introduced herself to Obito and Kakashi, and the three became more familiar as they walked with Mimi.
• Obito complained that Mimi had taken them on a stroll, and Mimi agreed that she had.
• Mimi brought the children into the Ninja Magistrate headquarters and explained its ranks and deployments.
• Mimi told them that graduates began at Boot Camp and had to learn the Ninja Regulations.
• Mimi declared that they would register as Konoha Ninja and become her subordinates, subject to collective responsibility and obedience to orders.

The narrator explained how a landlord had rented out equipment and property the narrator had left at a closed breeding farm. The narrator planned to dismantle and sell everything the next day, and said they would call the police if the landlord tried to interfere.

• The narrator said the breeding farm had closed the previous January after five years of operation.
• The narrator described improving the leased property and paying the landlord some rent to avoid trouble.
• The narrator said the landlord had rented out the narrator’s equipment without permission and threatened to make trouble when asked to return it.
• The narrator planned to go to the farm the next day, dismantle the equipment, and sell it as scrap.
• The narrator said they would call the police rather than fight if the landlord confronted them.

Mimi treated her new disciples to a farewell meal, warned them about Boot Camp, and sent them to begin three months of recruit training. After joining the camp, Obito, Rin, and Kakashi endured repeated nighttime emergency assemblies and punishment, leaving them exhausted as formal training began at dawn.

• Mimi told Obito, Rin, and Kakashi that they would enter Boot Camp in three days and warned that failing would cost them her tutelage.
• Rin happily told her parents that Insect Princess had accepted her as a disciple, while Obito told his mother and Grandma and Kakashi informed White Fang.
• The three followed the Ninja Academy graduates into the Ninja Magistrate's Boot Camp and were assigned to a platoon at a training camp outside the city.
• The platoon instructor woke the recruits with repeated emergency assembly whistles, drilled them on obedience, and punished those who failed to get up with push-ups.
• The exhausted recruits held out until dawn, when their real training officially began.

Obito and the other new recruits endured a punishing day of physical, weapons, and tactical training at the Ninja Magistrate camp. After they collapsed into bed, the instructor ordered an emergency assembly, leaving the rookies howling in despair.

• The recruits ran around the mountain before breakfast, then practiced individual combat tactics and learned to use the Ninja Magistrate's Flesh Ripper Bio-Gun.
• The instructor taught the recruits how to maintain and fire the Flesh Ripper, and they spent half an hour shooting at targets.
• The recruits practiced formations, System Military Taijutsu, and throwing Tactical Kunai, but Obito dropped an activated Kunai at his feet.
• The instructor tackled Obito into a pit to shield him from the explosion, then scolded him and made him continue practicing.
• The recruits ran up the mountain after dinner, completed night training, and collapsed into bed before the instructor kicked open their door and called an emergency assembly.

At the Rain Country border, Konoha’s reconnaissance team detected a twelve-person Allied Shinobi Forces infiltration squad and launched a response while a Hyuga sniper attacked them. When the enemy’s destroyed Automated Puppets reassembled, the Hyuga called for support, as Orochimaru watched the battle and tiny Black Shadows began moving beneath the Konoha Ninja.

• A crimson dragonfly spotted twelve Allied Shinobi Forces infiltrators, and the camp sent three Armed Transport Bumblebees carrying a tactical squad toward them.
• A four-man Konoha squad used a Byakugan and a Heavy Breaker 20 to snipe the infiltrators from a concealed outpost.
• The infiltrators took cover and tried to escape underground, but mines killed three of them and left their commander trapped below.
• The Hyuga sniper shot the remaining Automated Puppets, then watched the fragments reassemble and called for support.
• Orochimaru watched the footage and showed Mimi his masterpiece as Black Shadows moved beneath the Konoha Ninja and screams rang out.

Mimi reviewed the history of Konoha’s Puppet Research Group and rejected its proposal to integrate puppets into the Ninja Magistrate’s combat system. After the frontline troops delivered a powerful Chakra core removed from an Iron Sand Puppet, she recognized Orochimaru’s handiwork.

• Mimi examined past records of Konoha puppet research, including experiments in transferring souls into puppets and the risks of losing human emotions.
• The Puppet Research Group developed Human Puppets that retained a living core to generate Chakra, but their cores aged and could be destroyed in battle.
• The group proposed remotely supplying puppets with Chakra through the Ninja Magistrate, but Mimi rejected the application because the Insect Swarm had no need for them.
• Mimi saw that Lizard had repaired his face through puppet technology and had partially transformed his own body.
• Frontline troops delivered a sealed, crystalline Chakra core taken from a specially made Iron Sand Puppet, and Mimi identified it as Orochimaru’s work.

Namikaze Minato joined Akatsuki and watched Yahiko rally oppressed workers and shinobi with speeches about resisting their exploitation. As Minato questioned Konoha’s justice, Yahiko announced that Akatsuki would soon stage a large-scale riot openly.

• Yahiko warmly welcomed Namikaze Minato into Akatsuki, despite Minato raising the possibility that he was a spy.
• Yahiko denounced the exploitation of workers and urged the crowd to unite and resist their oppressors.
• Minato joined Akatsuki’s combat shinobi group and struggled with how Yahiko’s ideas challenged his beliefs about Konoha.
• Yahiko told Minato that Konoha had already made progress toward a fairer world and that many people wished they could live there.
• Yahiko told Minato to prepare for Akatsuki to stage a large riot openly and make their cause known.

Mimi watched Konoha’s strategy deepen the Rain Country’s food crisis and fuel Akatsuki’s growth, while the Allied Shinobi Forces cracked down on the movement instead of fighting Konoha. Three months later, as border tensions rose and the forces displayed new weapons and techniques, Mimi prepared to teach Obito and the other recruits to use ninjutsu without relying on their tools.

• At Konoha’s Jonin Meeting, Mimi opposed Sarutobi’s call to exploit the Rain Country riots immediately, and Konoha settled on cutting off food, deploying troops at the border, and supporting resistance groups.
• As hunger and disorder spread, Akatsuki expanded, while the Allied Shinobi Forces failed to assassinate Yahiko and suspected Konoha’s involvement.
• At a meeting in Demon Country, Hanzo and the other leaders debated the food crisis, Akatsuki, and whether to start a war against Konoha; the Uchiha Mask pursued his plans for the Demonic Statue and the Whirlpool Clan.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces chose to suppress Akatsuki and restrict the spread of its ideas rather than go to war, but three months later the movement’s spark still remained.
• Obito and his two companions completed recruit training and joined Mimi’s personal guard as clashes along the border intensified and the Allied Shinobi Forces revealed new weapons, puppets, Impure World Reincarnation bodies, and Wood Release users.
• Mimi called the three recruits over and warned them not to rely on their Tactical Ninjutsu Tools, preparing to teach them ninjutsu themselves.

Xi gained the Third Hokage’s trust through a renewed teacher-student bond, while unrest across several countries intensified and Yahiko chose to meet Demon Hanzo despite Minato’s warnings. In Konoha, Mimi learned that the Third Hokage had been missing for a week and ordered her subordinates to stand by.

• The Third Hokage reunited with Xi, who reminded him of his old lessons about puppets, and the two began meeting for drinks.
• Xi comforted the Third Hokage’s frustrations and gradually became a trusted companion as the seasons passed.
• Riots spread through territories controlled by the Allied Shinobi Forces, and brutal crackdowns only strengthened the resistance.
• Yahiko decided to attend a meeting with Demon Hanzo despite Minato warning that it was a trap, while Minato said he planned to return home and marry.
• Kushina confronted Mimi about Minato’s long absence, but left when a shinobi arrived to report that the Third Hokage had been missing for a week.
• Mimi ordered the Ninja Magistrate to stand by and maintain radio silence after learning that the Fourth Hokage’s Anbu had taken over the investigation.

After the Third Hokage disappeared, Tsunade investigated and publicly blamed his close associate Xi while Biwako accused Mimi of murder. Mimi later revealed that Xi was Sasori and the Third Hokage was probably dead, while Tsunade chose to keep the truth buried and continue a public manhunt that she expected to fail.

• Biwako reported the Third Hokage's disappearance, and Tsunade ordered an investigation through the Ninja Magistrate and Anbu.
• At the Jonin Meeting, Tsunade named Academy teacher Xi as the suspect who had left Konoha, while Biwako accused Mimi of arranging the Third Hokage's death.
• Mimi taunted Biwako and refused to offer an explanation, while Tsunade defended the investigation and ordered the pursuit of Xi.
• After the meeting, Mimi told Tsunade that Xi was Sasori and suggested that the Third Hokage had probably been turned into a Human Puppet.
• Mimi admitted to Chiri that she had briefly seen Sasori meeting the Third Hokage but had not realized what he intended to do.
• When Konoha failed to recapture Xi, Tsunade ordered a public manhunt while privately preferring not to uncover the truth.

Yahiko and Hanzo met in a snowy river valley to negotiate Akatsuki’s demands, but neither agreed to yield power and the talks turned toward a duel. Hanzo began the fight by vanishing with the Body Flicker.

• Hanzo confronted Yahiko and argued that the Rain Country needed sacrifices to resist Konoha, while Yahiko demanded better conditions for its people.
• Hanzo offered to make Yahiko his successor, but Yahiko refused and demanded that Amegakure disband so Akatsuki could take over the Rain Country.
• Hanzo declared he would eliminate Yahiko, and the two prepared to settle the dispute in battle.
• Hanzo recalled his defeats by the Hyuga swordsman with the Byakugan, the Uchiha Flower Tyrant, and the Insect Princess of Konoha, then challenged Yahiko to prove himself.
• Yahiko accepted the challenge, and Hanzo formed a one-handed seal and vanished with the Body Flicker.

After Yahiko defeated Hanzo and led the Rain Country away from the Allied Shinobi Forces, uprisings and mutinies spread across the Shinobi World. Tsunade’s plan to support Akatsuki met Mimi’s opposition, and Konoha voted to send in its troops, leaving Tsunade to declare war.

• Yahiko took control of Hanzo’s territory, rejected the Allied Shinobi Forces, and inspired rebellions and military mutinies across several countries.
• Mimi announced that war had begun as Tsunade reviewed Yahiko’s ideology and called a private Jonin Meeting to decide Konoha’s response.
• Tsunade proposed supporting Akatsuki and resistance groups, but Mimi argued that resource conflicts would eventually make them a threat to Konoha.
• Mimi urged Konoha to send in its troops and take the Earth Country, citing the need to investigate the Allied Shinobi Forces’ possible connection to the Third Hokage’s disappearance.
• The Jonin Meeting voted in favor of military action, and Tsunade declared that the war had begun.

Tsunade announced Konoha’s impending war against the Allied Shinobi Forces, while she wrestled with the cost of Mimi’s strategy and the deaths it would bring. As war approached, Dan Katō confessed his feelings to Tsunade, and she left his confession unresolved while bickering with Kushina.

• Tsunade announced that Konoha would declare war on the Allied Shinobi Forces within twenty-four hours unless they provided a satisfactory answer about the Third Hokage’s disappearance.
• Mimi argued that Konoha needed to destroy potential threats and let people pursue their own value through battle, while Tsunade questioned the sacrifices war would demand.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces’ representatives panicked over Konoha’s ultimatum, and the Priestess took satisfaction in Hanzo’s absence.
• Tsunade drank alone in her office and accepted the burden of the lives lost as the Fourth Hokage before Kushina brought Dan Katō to see her.
• Dan Katō confessed that he liked Tsunade, who was surprised and put off answering him by offering him a drink.
• Kushina demanded that Tsunade repay the money she had spent on liquor, and the two argued while Dan Katō watched them fondly.

Konoha launched the Lightning Operation, swiftly occupying the Earth Country’s capital and capturing its daimyo with the Ninja Magistrate’s advanced troops and insect forces. After Tsunade ordered the captured daimyo and nobles executed and Iwagakure placed under the Ninja Magistrate’s control, Konoha prepared to continue its expansion.

• Mimi led Konoha’s invasion into the Earth Country while a smaller force pinned down the Allied Shinobi Forces in the Rain Country.
• Konoha’s aerial troops and armored soldiers took the Earth Country’s capital within hours, capturing the daimyo and destroying the Daimyo Residence.
• The Gyūki Special Tactical Squad killed resisters and secured the city as Light Goliaths and Ninja Magistrate troops suppressed opposition.
• Konoha’s forces advanced across the Earth Country, and the territory was fully occupied and incorporated into Konoha.
• Tsunade ordered the captured daimyo and nobles hanged, while Iwagakure surrendered and came under the Ninja Magistrate’s control.

After the Allied Shinobi Forces suffered a crushing defeat, the leaders planned their next offensive, prioritizing the Land of Lightning. Mimi questioned Dan Katō about his past ties to Root and his feelings for Tsunade, then left Tsunade and Chiri arguing over romance and children before going home with Hitomi.

• The commanders debated whether to attack west or cross the sea, then chose to target the Land of Lightning and its industrial facilities.
• Mimi told Dan Katō she had spared him despite his former Root ties and urged him to pursue happiness with Tsunade if he sincerely loved her.
• Tsunade confronted Mimi about encouraging Dan Katō and demanded to know what Mimi thought of her.
• Chiri interrupted, and Tsunade argued that she and Mimi could have children together while accusing Mimi of already having several children with their daughters.
• Mimi left Tsunade and Chiri bickering, and Hitomi welcomed her home and offered to cook.

The Ninja Magistrate launched a massive air and sea assault that devastated the Allied Shinobi Forces’ supply lines and seized Hot Water Country. As its forces invaded Land of Lightning, the Allied leaders struggled to respond, and Konoha established a beachhead.

• The Ninja Magistrate’s Bee Swarm bombed Land of Iron, captured Hot Water Country, destroyed Kusagakure, and crippled the Allied Shinobi Forces’ communications and supply routes.
• Mimi approved the operation, and the Bee Swarm launched from Hot Water Country toward Land of Lightning.
• In Demon Country, Chiyo urged the Allied representatives to withdraw troops from Rain Country, concentrate in Demon Country, and rebuild their factories.
• The Ninja Magistrate’s Summer Red Soldiers bombed Land of Lightning’s harbor and attacked its troops and civilians with Combat Wasps and Emerald Beetles.
• The Mass-Produced Specialized West Abyss seized and dragged steel warships underwater as Ninja Magistrate forces landed in Land of Lightning.

Konoha captured the capitals of the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water, leaving the Allied Shinobi Forces isolated and short on supplies. When the forces in the Land of Rain withdrew toward the Bird Country, Konoha attacked them from behind and unleashed swarms, incendiary bombs, and Blade Beasts, turning their retreat into a massacre.

• Konoha's forces captured the daimyō of the Land of Lightning and broke through the capital while other troops began attacking the Land of Water.
• Konoha's air raids and landings overwhelmed the Land of Water, and its capital fell around midnight as the daimyō and noble factions were wiped out.
• Mimi reviewed the battle reports and judged the Allied Shinobi Forces' mechanized strategy ineffective as Konoha's enemies remained trapped across several fronts.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces in the Land of Rain received a withdrawal notice and began retreating toward the Bird Country, but Konoha attacked them from behind.
• Konoha's swarms and incendiary bombs set the Bird Country's forests ablaze and shot down the Allied forces' clay birds.
• Blade Beasts burst from underground and slaughtered infantry as the retreating Allied Shinobi Forces scattered through the burning woods.