Chapter Summaries

After learning that Sand Hidden Village had turned millions of Demon Country residents into Human Puppets, Tsunade ordered Konoha’s forces to contain the threat and confronted Mimi over her failure to intervene. Mimi explained why her surveillance network had not uncovered the massacre in time, and Tsunade left after declaring that she would forgive Mimi this last time.

• Mimi reported that millions of people around Demon Country Capital had disappeared, and Tsunade ordered Konoha’s forces to stop the Human Puppets from crossing the border.
• After the meeting, Tsunade accused Mimi of knowingly letting the disaster unfold, and Mimi confirmed that she had tracked the population figures.
• Tsunade blamed Mimi for exploiting the crisis and letting Orochimaru go, while Mimi argued that Tsunade also bore responsibility for the massacre.
• Tsunade demanded to know why Mimi had not stopped the deaths, and Mimi explained that her swarm could not penetrate Sand Hidden Village’s defenses or reliably survive in Demon Country.
• Tsunade released Mimi and said she would forgive her this last time, then left the conference room as Hitomi, Chiri, and Little Hot Pepper waited outside.

The Old Man searched the Underworld’s overflowing souls for useful intelligence as Konoha’s forces began a general offensive. At the Demon Country’s ruined capital, Mimi met Chiyo and faced Sand Hidden Village’s Human Puppet army as Chiyo refused to let her take the Priestess away.

• The Old Man learned from the dead about Sand Hidden Village’s Human Puppets and hoped their sacrifice might help defeat Mama.
• Pakura received orders for an unrestricted assault and led her squad from the base toward the front.
• Uchiha Mask decided to warn Terumi Homura about Sand Hidden Village’s weapon and wait to see how the battle unfolded.
• Konoha’s bee pilots reached the Demon Country capital and saw it engulfed by Iron Sand, with the Priestess Manor standing amid the ruins.
• Mimi answered the Priestess’s call and promised to eliminate her resentment, while Chiyo confronted Mimi and summoned an army of Human Puppets.
• Chiyo refused to let Mimi take the Priestess, and Mimi declared that she would destroy the puppets.

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• The narrator struggled with Steam's password recovery and traffic-light verification, which ended in a 404 page.
• They complained about B Site recommending COVID-19 videos and about grinding Genshin Impact for a video that received barely over a hundred views.
• They mourned losing their Steam account and treasured DOTA2 items, including Lina's 2016 Immortal, after recalling disappointments involving Devil May Cry 5 and Blizzard and NetEase.
• The narrator said they still had leave slips but that each cost ten thousand points.
• They headed home after spending over three thousand on a meal and vowed to smash their house once they felt better.

Mimi and Orochimaru confronted each other while the swarm bombarded the giant Iron Sand sphere, and they argued over Orochimaru’s attempt to become a god by materializing souls. Mimi exposed Orochimaru’s doubts about his own identity, breaking his composure and sending him fleeing as she chased after him.

• The Bombing Bee Swarm dropped Napalm Insects on the Iron Sand sphere, but the bombardment only cracked its outer layer.
• Chiyo explained that Orochimaru was using millions of people as a collective mind to control the Third Kazekage’s body and grow stronger by killing.
• Mimi questioned Orochimaru about his plan to materialize souls, while Orochimaru defended his experiments and accused Mimi of tyranny and killing innocents.
• Orochimaru revealed his resentment toward Mimi and claimed that she was the true Insect Tyrant, but Mimi dismissed his accusations and asked how he had captured the souls.
• Mimi suggested that Orochimaru might be a descendant produced through repeated splitting and reproduction rather than the original Orochimaru, triggering his doubts about his identity.
• Orochimaru screamed and fled in distress, and Mimi pursued him.

Mimi’s swarm tried to destroy the giant Iron Sand orb over the Demon Country Capital, but its explosion only cleared the sky temporarily. Chiyo’s Iron Sand overwhelmed the stranded pilots and absorbed their bodies and souls, while Mimi realized how the monster grew.

• The pilots spotted the Iron Sand moving consciously and intensified their attack, but a massive metal dust explosion wiped out the vanguard and devastated the Demon Country Capital.
• Survivors emerged from the wreckage and saw that the giant black orb remained intact, while Iron Sand began reforming from the ruins and soil.
• Chiyo explained that Iron Sand could endlessly change form as long as its dust particles survived, then vowed to destroy Konoha and Mimi.
• Mimi ordered the grounded Ninja Magistrate pilots to withdraw, but Iron Sand trapped and killed many of them across the city.
• Chiyo unleashed Magnet Release: Iron Sand World Method, impaling the pilots with iron thorns as Iron Sand absorbed their flesh, blood, and souls.
• Mimi recognized that about sixty percent of the victims’ souls were being converted into the Iron Sand monster.

Mimi searched for a way to stop Chiyo’s nearly indestructible Iron Sand army, which had gained Sage Mode and threatened to spread across the world. Chiyo revealed that the Human Puppet’s power came from the Second Kazekage’s legacy and vowed to turn Mimi into a puppet, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Mimi considered ways to destroy the Iron Sand, but its regeneration, vast underground spread, and resistance to attacks made each option ineffective.
• Chiyo revealed that the Iron Sand had entered Sage Mode, giving it enhanced strength and an endless supply of Natural Energy.
• Mimi identified the threat as an expanding form of Silicon-Based Life that could consume living beings and transform the world into a wasteland.
• Mimi asked how the Human Puppet perceived the world, and Chiyo explained that the Second Kazekage had created Human Puppets to preserve Kekkei Genkai and pass his Magnet Release to future generations.
• Chiyo said the Human Puppet had mastered every technique and threatened to make Mimi part of it; Mimi answered with a laugh as the Priestess clung to her thigh.

Mimi watched the Ninja Magistrate’s artillery tear through Chiyo’s Black Sand and reflected on the promises that restrained her as she challenged Chiyo’s claim to godhood. As the Puppet Machine God began to emerge, Mimi prepared to fight it, calling forth the Sage Art: Eight Branches Technique.

• The Ninja Magistrate’s vanguard deployed Heavy and Light Goliaths, whose artillery barrage blasted holes through the Black Sand without harming the immortal threat beneath it.
• Chiyo dismissed the bombardment and declared that the Human Puppet God would destroy everything as the enormous egg at the center began to crack.
• Mimi considered the promises she had made to her family and allies, and argued that a god was someone who ignored every rule and could not be punished.
• Mimi challenged Chiyo’s claim of godhood, insisting that any living being could be killed, and mocked the emerging creature as the Braided Dough Twist God.
• The egg split open, Iron Sand peeled away, and enormous serpent heads emerged as Mimi invoked the Sage Art: Eight Branches Technique.

The Third Kazekage awakened as the Eight-Headed Serpent, a colossal Iron Sand body powered by the souls of the Demon Country’s population. As it regenerated under bombardment and counterattacked with Dust Release, it advanced toward the Ninja Magistrate forces, who prepared to meet it.

• Orochimaru explained to Chiyo that the Third Kazekage’s strong will could control the puppet, while torture would weaken the other subjects’ wills.
• The Third Kazekage took control of the Eight-Headed Serpent, sensed its network of souls, and discovered that it hungered for more.
• The serpent began moving toward living beings forty kilometers away, but repeated bombardments damaged it only temporarily before it regenerated.
• The serpent’s heads unleashed Dust Release beams that destroyed the incoming Plasma Insects and allowed it to resume advancing.
• Chiyo implied that the Sand Hidden Village had used Hidden Rock shinobi to create Human Puppets, and Mimi remarked that they had done the Ninja Magistrate forces a favor.
• Ninja Magistrate troops raised Earth Release ramparts and prepared for battle as the Eight-Headed Serpent approached.

The Ninja Magistrate’s bombardment stopped the Third Kazekage’s giant Iron Sand serpent, but Chiyo revealed that the serpent was only one changeable puppet form. As Iron Sand and Black Mist spread toward the fortifications, the troops prepared to search for the puppet’s hidden core.

• The Light Goliaths’ shells failed to stop the serpent, so the Heavy Goliaths took flight and bombarded it with plasma.
• Chiyo explained that the Third Kazekage used the giant serpent as a Beast-Type Puppet and urged him to abandon that form.
• The serpent collapsed into clouds of Iron Sand, making the target disappear and leaving the Ninja Magistrate unsure where to strike.
• Mimi’s forces activated maximum-level poison-gas protection as Black Mist and Iron Sand advanced toward the wall.
• The commander ordered the troops to search for and destroy the suspicious core, and the soldiers prepared to engage.

Pakura's squad was sent to help establish a barrier while Tsunade took command of the war against the Sand Hidden Village and ordered the troops to retreat from the Iron Sand. The retreat triggered a microscopic battle between Nano-Insects and Nano Kikaichu that overwhelmed the first-line troops, leaving Konoha's command hall silent.

• Pakura received a direct mission from the Fourth Hokage to assist the Barrier Team and led her squad toward the designated location.
• Tsunade condemned the reckless first-line commander, took charge of the war, and ordered the troops to withdraw from the Iron Sand.
• As the soldiers retreated, Chiyo revealed her knowledge of the microscopic organisms, and the Iron Sand launched a large-scale microscopic attack.
• The Chakra shields weakened as Nano-Insects invaded the soldiers' armor, while panicked troops mistakenly used Fire Release and made the Iron Sand explode.
• Nano Kikaichu fought the invading insects, but the first-line troops were quickly overwhelmed as screams and purple-black blood spread across the battlefield.

Konoha’s defenses failed to stop the Sand Hidden Village’s Iron Sand Human Puppets, forcing Tsunade to withdraw from Demon Country as the enemy massacred cities and expanded its forces. Mimi’s insect swarms adapted to the Iron Sand, while she discovered that the Underworld had overflowed with souls.

• The Iron Sand Black Tide destroyed Konoha’s first defensive line, killing more than twenty thousand people, and Tsunade challenged Mimi’s willingness to sacrifice troops.
• The Ninja Magistrate trapped the Iron Sand inside a Four Red Yang Formation and attacked it with Sealing Technique Number Twenty-Three, disrupting Chiyo and the Human Puppets but causing only limited damage.
• More Iron Sand erupted beneath the second defensive line, forcing Tsunade to order all troops to withdraw from Demon Country.
• Chiyo attacked Mimi’s avatar and crushed its Kikaichū swarm, then kept the Priestess captive as hidden insects in the Priestess’s brain watched her.
• Mimi’s Nano Kikaichū evolved overnight enough to withstand the Metallic Nano-Insects defensively, while the Sand Hidden Village’s Iron Sand troops slaughtered cities and villages across Demon Country.
• Mimi saw that the Underworld had run out of room for souls and reached toward the wandering spirits.

Mimi and Nonō successfully tested a method of reincarnating a soul in a cloned body, raising a dead man from infancy to adulthood. The reborn Shun Shun Yuan relearned how to move and speak, and his memories proved incomplete.

• Nonō began Soul Experiment No. 1316 and confirmed that the soul-separation procedure worked under Mimi’s supervision.
• Nonō cultivated a clone from preserved cells, injected the subject’s soul, and accelerated the embryo’s growth to adulthood.
• The reborn Shun Shun Yuan struggled to move, and Nonō kicked him until he relearned how to crawl.
• Mimi recognized his difficulty adjusting to his new body as a symptom of reincarnation.
• Nonō questioned Shun Shun Yuan and found that he remembered his name but had lost parts of his memories.

Nonō celebrated the success of Soul Transplantation Surgery while continuing to care for the children at her orphanage. Later, Mimi told Tsunade the technique was complete, raising the possibility of resurrecting Tsunade’s grandmother, though necessary conditions were still missing.

• Nonō sent Mimi’s former experiment subject to the experimental-animal dormitory and declared Soul Transplantation Surgery a success.
• Nonō returned to the orphanage, handed out candy to the children, and gave Kabuto a piece he could not identify.
• Konoha’s leaders debated the growing threat from the Sand Hidden Village, and Tsunade offered to command the front lines.
• Mimi dismissed the others from the meeting room and told Tsunade that Soul Transplantation Surgery was complete.
• Tsunade asked whether the technique could resurrect her grandmother, and Mimi said it could in theory but lacked several necessary conditions.

Mimi explained to Tsunade that reviving the dead required locating their souls in the Underworld, which was nearing collapse from an overwhelming influx of souls. She proposed publicly establishing Tsunade as a god who could revive the dead, leaving Tsunade apologizing for her past criticism of Mimi’s actions.

• Mimi described three ways to locate the Underworld and said she had nearly found it, but its shifting signals and the Sage of Six Paths’s interference made locating it difficult.
• Mimi explained that the Underworld was close to exceeding its capacity, especially after the Third Shinobi World War, and Tsunade accused her of using the dead to force its passages shut.
• Mimi argued that bodily death had become temporary and warned that resurrection would upend identities, inheritance, relationships, and society.
• Tsunade suggested using resurrection secretly, but Mimi insisted they should do it openly by establishing Tsunade as a god with absolute authority.
• Tsunade asked about the Third Hokage, and Mimi challenged her to revive him and make him confront Mimi; Tsunade repeatedly apologized.

Mimi and Tsunade planned Konoha’s war against the Sand Hidden Village, identifying the Human Puppet technique’s weaknesses and ordering an attack while protecting the trapped souls. Meanwhile, Orochimaru questioned whether he was only a false replacement and challenged the Iron Sand spheres to prove his worth.

• Mimi told Tsunade that resurrection allowed Konoha to accept heavy losses and proposed testing whether the Human Puppet technique could be overwhelmed by the souls it absorbed.
• Mimi warned Tsunade to keep resurrection secret and explained that the Iron Sand’s core was still hidden, its reach depended on relay communications, and attacks on souls could harm the trapped victims.
• Mimi called everyone back for a war meeting, and Tsunade ordered Konoha to attack the Sand Hidden Village regardless of the cost.
• Orochimaru, who had made himself undetectable to the Human Puppet system, wandered through Demon Country and wondered whether his memories and identity belonged to him or to the dead Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru demanded that the Iron Sand defeat him and prove whether he was a failure or a success.

Konoha outfitted its forces in Demon Country with nonferrous Faraday Cage exoskeletons to counter Magnet Release and Lightning Release. As the soldiers completed their refit, their Light Goliaths began molting, leaving some partners at risk of dying during the process.

• Konoha redeployed personnel to Demon Country and built a new defense using nonferrous metal to block Magnet Release.
• Mimi's Insect Swarm processed delivered ore and pumped synthesized metal into the soldiers' exoskeletons.
• The soldiers joked about the metal flowing through connecting tubes and prepared for the collective refit.
• The Light Goliaths stopped moving and began molting while their drivers watched anxiously; some Goliaths failed to survive.
• The soldiers completed their Faraday Cage refit, forming a glittering silver tide, but their exoskeletons could no longer undergo agile growth and transformation.

The Sand Hidden Village’s Human Puppets held a chaotic meeting before launching their attack on Konoha, while Sasori endured his family’s suffocating attention. Chiyo ordered Sasori and the Third Hokage to move with the army, leaving Sasori trapped beside the delusional Hokage as the invasion began.

• The Demon Country fell under the Sand Hidden Village’s Iron Sand, and Sasori resisted his mother’s request to become a Human Puppet.
• The Third Kazekage rallied the Sand Hidden shinobi, whose bizarre behavior revealed their varied mental illnesses and insomnia.
• Chiyo ended the chaotic meeting and announced the attack on Konoha, ordering the entire army to move out.
• Chiyo summoned Sasori and the Third Hokage, who insisted he was the Second Kazekage and treated Sasori as his little brother.
• The Third Hokage painfully slapped Sasori’s back while boasting about his leadership, and Mimi urged Sasori to endure it.

Mimi uncovered the connection between Demon Country’s Human Puppets and Mōryō, then helped Konoha repel Sand Hidden Village’s Iron Sand attacks with new defenses and a devastating sound technique. The chapter ended with Chiyo raging as Konoha shattered the Human Puppets’ Chakra Stone cores.

• Sasori and Chiyo reached Demon Country’s underground sealing site, where Chiyo explained that Mōryō’s power had enabled the transfer of souls into Human Puppets.
• Chiyo assigned Sasori to guard the sealed Mōryō, while Mimi learned that the demon’s flesh body was sealed in a volcano in Swamp Country and sent troops to strike there.
• Sand Hidden Village attacked Konoha with Iron Sand, but Konoha’s outer armor and a microwave-isolation Barrier severed the Sand’s electromagnetic control.
• Sand Hidden Village sent Human Puppets in a second attack, and Konoha’s Light Goliaths bombarded their ranks as the puppets advanced.
• Konoha’s Ninja Magistrates unleashed Super Airquake, shattering the Human Puppets and their Chakra Stone cores.
• Chiyo slammed the rock wall and screamed at Insect Princess as she watched the Human Puppets fall.

Sand Hidden Village’s Iron Sand offensive devastated the surrounding lands and reclaimed Wind Country, worsening Konoha’s position. Mimi led Chiri and Hitomi into the Underworld to seize it, where they cleared away the mist with a burst of light.

• Sand Hidden Village swept through neighboring countries and reclaimed its homeland, while Konoha held its positions in Earth Country.
• Mimi told Tsunade that the Underworld’s location had been found and left Konoha with Chiri and Hitomi to seize it.
• Chiri cut open a passage to the Underworld, and the three entered as the horned Old Man realized too late where they had gone.
• In the Underworld, a frightened ninja recognized Mimi and fled into the mist.
• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi assumed their battle forms, and Mimi unleashed Amaterasu, evaporating the mist and revealing countless souls.

Mimi and Chiri traveled through the Underworld in a giant Susanoo, drawing together souls from the ninja villages and Warring States clans. The gathering brought old rivalries to the surface as Mimi waited to find her father.

• Mimi saw the isolated souls erupt into chaos after the mist disappeared and set out to find her father.
• The Third Hokage chased Susanoo and pleaded with Mimi and Chiri to speak to him, but they ignored him.
• Souls from the villages and clans gathered around Susanoo, with the First Hokage and Second Hokage taking command of Konoha's faction.
• The Senju and Uchiha Warring States veterans glared at each other, while Mimi made clear that the Uchiha would follow her lead.
• Tobirama learned from the Third Hokage that Tsunade still controlled the village, while young Izuna glared at him.
• Mimi noticed the Aburame elders wondering why other villages' souls looked at them as if they had killed their families.