Chapter Summaries

Minato and Yahiko defeated the Sand Hidden Village by keeping it occupied while Minato completed the sealing, then helped seal Mōryō using the same strategy. With the continent under Konoha’s rule, Mimi handed Tsunade a resignation letter, leaving her to ask why.

• Yahiko punched through the Sand Hidden Village’s Iron Sand attacks while Minato used the Flying Thunder God to evade it and continue sealing.
• Minato and Yahiko wore down the Sand Hidden Village over three days and two nights until its Iron Sand was devoured and its soul was sealed.
• After resting, Minato and Yahiko helped the Ninja Magistrate defeat Mōryō, finishing the work several hours faster than before.
• Konoha’s postwar work proceeded across the Shinobi World Continent, which had come under Konoha’s rule.
• Mimi told Tsunade that her work was finished and gave her a resignation letter, prompting Tsunade to ask why.

Mimi resigned from her work in Konoha and invited Chiri and Hitomi to travel with her, leaving Tsunade to face her workload alone. Tsunade discovered their notes after returning home and fumed that they had gone without her.

• Mimi told Tsunade she was stepping down, rejected Tsunade's attempts to stop her, and left.
• Mimi invited Chiri and Hitomi to travel with her, and they agreed to set out together that day.
• Mimi explained that the trip would prepare them for traveling farther in the future, and Chiri and Hitomi promised to go with her.
• Tsunade returned home to find everyone gone and read notes from Hitomi, Chiri, and Mimi explaining their trip.
• Tsunade angrily insisted she was not jealous and declared that she loved working.

Hitomi, Chiri, and Mimi traveled together, revisiting places from their past and enjoying the peace their actions had helped create. Their journey continued after they took a photograph in the Rain Country, while Tsunade struggled with the absence of her usual home cooking.

• Hitomi, Chiri, and Mimi soaked in a hot spring, where Chiri teased Mimi until Hitomi started a water fight with her.
• The three women walked through the rebuilt Flower District and recalled its past, with Mimi saying that the future would keep improving.
• Hitomi thanked Mimi for everything, and the three continued their journey to the Rain Country.
• Hitomi, Chiri, and Mimi searched for crabs by the river and took a cheerful photograph together.
• Tsunade complained that no one was cooking at home, and she rejected Kushina's offer to cook for her.

Danzo’s repeated attempts to use Impure World Reincarnation failed, leaving the Uchiha Mask searching for a way to survive the Insect Princess’s swarm. Meanwhile, Uchiha Ken guarded the childlike Madara until Hashirama Senju found him, only for Madara to deny knowing him.

• Danzo repeatedly failed to summon the First Hokage and Sarutobi Hiruzen, and the experiments ended with Impure World Reincarnation unable to summon souls.
• The Uchiha Mask concluded that their planned undead army was unusable and privately considered abandoning Danzo and escaping.
• Uchiha Ken reflected on Konoha’s resurrected fighters and guarded Madara, who was forbidden from leaving the Uchiha grounds.
• Madara asked Uchiha Ken to buy him ramen, then sensed a chakra calling to him as Ken went to fetch it.
• Hashirama Senju followed the connection to the Uchiha grounds and called out to Madara, who claimed to be Uchiha Er Zhu and repeatedly misunderstood his name.

Hashirama mistook the childlike Madara for an injured impostor and tried to take him for treatment, while Madara resisted and called for help. Their chase ended with a furious crowd of Uchiha surrounding Hashirama, who fled as Madara joined the pursuit.

• Hashirama broke down after seeing Madara’s childlike state, and Mimi watched their reunion before traveling downstream.
• Back in Konoha, Hashirama tried to take Madara to the hospital, but Madara escaped and accused him of abducting a child.
• Uchiha Ken saw Hashirama dragging Madara, panicked, and ran to summon help while calling for Uchiha Sasuke to hold him off.
• Madara grabbed Hashirama and refused to let go, but Hashirama tricked him into releasing his hand and taunted him until Madara chased after him.
• Madara stopped pursuing Hashirama because he had been told not to run around, just as a crowd of armed Uchiha arrived and surrounded Hashirama.
• Hashirama fled from the Uchiha crowd, while Madara joined them and shouted for them to hack him to death.

Mimi, Hitomi, and Chiri went night fishing and camping, turning their catch into a lively feast beneath the stars. As they rested together, the fish they had left behind showed a strange gleam in its eyes.

• Hitomi questioned the point of camping while Mimi prepared artificial bait and Chiri teased her about fishing poorly.
• Chiri used her perception and Lightning Release to catch a snake-like eel, and Hitomi cheered at the prospect of grilled eel.
• Mimi hooked a huge fish, plunged into the lake after her broken rod, and dragged the unconscious catch ashore.
• Mimi recorded the catch as a new fishing record, and the three posed for a photo before grilling and eating the fish.
• After the meal, Hitomi, Mimi, and Chiri relaxed beneath the stars and admired the moonlight.
• A strange light gleamed from the eyes of the fish left behind.

Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi climbed a mountain and watched the sunrise while Tsunade struggled with work back in Konoha. After cutting off Tsunade’s calls, Mimi spotted the Mist Ninja Remnants and prepared to destroy them.

• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi climbed the mountain, shared sour wild fruit, and reached the summit in time to watch the sunrise.
• Tsunade received Mimi’s photos, called her to discuss work, and asked when she would return to help with the Sand Hidden Village’s aftermath.
• Mimi refused to take on Tsunade’s work, hung up, and blocked her number.
• Tsunade tried calling back and heard that the number was not in service.
• Mimi spotted the Mist Ninja Remnants across the sea and began the Annihilation Operation.

Aburame Insect Princess reached Kirigakure’s isolated iceberg village and began cutting down the ninjas who discovered her. She framed the remaining crowd with her fingers and unleashed a massive beam of light across the harbor.

• Kirigakure’s ninjas slaughtered whales at the iceberg harbor while struggling with food shortages and malnutrition.
• A sentry spotted a person walking across the sea, and the village raised an alarm and sent four ninjas to attack.
• The four ninjas recognized Aburame Insect Princess, who killed them with her Light Prism Piercing Wave.
• A young Hozuki Clan ninja used the Water Transformation Technique to survive her first attack, but she vaporized him.
• Aburame Insect Princess raised her hands, framed the gathered ninjas with her fingers, and fired a massive beam of light across the sea.

Mimi massacred Kirigakure's forces as she advanced through the glacier, easily nullifying their attacks and killing everyone who challenged her. She destroyed the village with Starfall and left the devastated area calling its defenders weak.

• Mimi slaughtered the people at the harbor, then spared a pod of whales and continued inland through the glacier.
• Kirigakure ninjas attacked Mimi with Kunai and Water Release, but Daikokuten absorbed their attacks and Anti-Taijutsu Field left their fighters helpless.
• Mimi froze the Yuki Clan ninjas who confronted her, then killed Kijin and the other Kirigakure defenders along the glacier passage.
• Mimi reached the village, formed a huge Black Orb, and brought it down with Starfall, flattening the village.
• Mimi surveyed the destruction and called the Kirigakure defenders weak.

Mimi slaughtered the Mist Ninja Remnants in Kirigakure, confronting their modified beast fighters and demonstrating her power against their Kekkei Genkai and techniques. As the surviving enemies surrounded her with a combined Ice Release attack, Mimi countered with Whale Fall and Vacuum Spiral Shuriken.

• Mimi killed the grieving father and annihilated the Mist Ninja Remnants who charged her through the fog.
• Mimi identified Hiruko's Chimera Technique among the modified fighters, then killed the giant dog-man Chimera and the conjoined brothers.
• Mimi fought the Bloodline Fusion Squad, using her Black Orb, an enlarged stone, and a Black Rod against their beastlike ranks and Kekkei Genkai users.
• Mimi used Chiri's Genjutsu and her Insect Secret Techniques to evade the fighters and kill them with precise strikes.
• The Mist Ninja Remnants attacked Mimi with Ice Release, and she countered with Whale Fall and Wind Release: Vacuum Spiral Shuriken.

Mimi unleashed a devastating Wind Release attack against the airborne whale pod while Chiri and Hitomi searched the sea for fleeing Kirigakure shinobi. Chiri slaughtered the scattered pursuers with lightning-fast attacks and then sensed another living target nearby.

• Mimi fired successive Wind Release techniques that pulverized the whale pod and swept figures into a bombardment of wind spheres.
• Hitomi and Chiri spotted Kirigakure shinobi fleeing across the sea, and Chiri told Hitomi to search ahead while she pursued the others.
• The Kirigakure shinobi scattered, but Chiri struck one from miles away with a lightning-charged kunai and closed in on the group.
• Chiri cut down the shinobi who attacked her with Epiphyllum Dance and Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Chiri swept the sea with Takemikazuchi, detected a living presence, and headed toward it.

Hitomi fought a group of Kirigakure shinobi at sea, using the Seventh Gate to break through their Water Dragon Bullet and their kunai barrage. After fatally wounding one with an ordinary tree branch, she explained her supreme swordsmanship as the remaining shinobi listened in terror.

• Hitomi raced across the rough sea toward a group of Kirigakure shinobi, who prepared to stop her.
• The shinobi combined their Water Release to send a massive water dragon at Hitomi, but she opened the Seventh Gate and charged straight through it.
• Hitomi ignored the kunai barrage, wounded a shinobi with her branch, then evaded his counterattack and struck him with her elbow.
• Hitomi described the stages of swordsmanship and revealed that she had been wielding an ordinary tree branch.
• The wounded shinobi understood that Hitomi had defeated him through a higher level of swordsmanship, then died.

Mimi descended through Kirigakure’s snow-covered corridor to inspect the bloodline-fusion experiments and found a young girl whose soul had become trapped in a dog’s body. The girl called herself Mei, and Mimi left her with an affectionate head rub as she confronted the cruelty of the experiments.

• Mimi used her Mysterious Flow State routine to keep the restless Hitomi from overtraining during her recovery.
• Mimi and the Insect Swarm continued through the aftermath of a battle while Chiri and Hitomi guarded the perimeter.
• Mimi walked through a corridor of experimental subjects and stopped when a small dog called out to her as “Onee-chan.”
• Mimi recognized that the dog’s soul belonged to a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl and learned that she called herself Teru and Mei.
• Mimi stroked Mei’s matted head and reflected that she would never have conducted the experiments that left the girl in this condition.

Mimi continued through the village, ending the suffering of its remaining inhabitants before confronting Hiruko in his laboratory. Hiruko attacked with his Chimera Technique but was quickly overwhelmed, while he stubbornly refused to reveal where his most recent boss was.

• Mimi fed a starving little girl Queen Bee Honey Milk Candy, then stayed with her until she died.
• Mimi spread purple insect mist through the village rooms, then melted the ice sealing the laboratory gate.
• Mimi recognized Hiruko and challenged him to kneel or resist; Hiruko declared that his Chimera Technique would let him take Mimi's abilities.
• Hiruko attacked Mimi with Swift Release, Steel Release, and Storm Release, but Mimi struck him and sent him crashing through the laboratory.
• Mimi asked Hiruko where his most recent boss was, and Hiruko refused to tell her before taking a fighting stance.
• Mimi mocked Hiruko's stance, then punched him and sent him flying.

Mimi subdued Hiruko and found Terumi Homura transformed into a mass of tendrils covered in Madara’s faces after a failed experiment. She condemned the reckless experimentation and confronted Hiruko over his crimes, leaving his fate unresolved as she prepared to end Terumi Homura’s suffering.

• Mimi forced Hiruko to lead her to Terumi Homura, who was sleeping in a Cultivation Tank after the experiment turned her body into writhing tendrils bearing Madara’s faces.
• Hiruko blamed Terumi Homura for the failed experiment and accepted Mimi’s punishment of returning to sewing-machine work, but Mimi reminded him that he had helped Danzo and was responsible for buried corpses.
• Mimi warned Hiruko that his past excuses would no longer protect him and asked whether he was ready to die; Hiruko reacted with disbelief.
• Mimi criticized the reckless experiments that had caused Terumi Homura’s transformation and reached out to end her suffering.

Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi camped in the Wind Country and admired its brilliant starry sky before Mimi revealed the Queen of Light and shared her dream of sailing through the heavens. The countdown to their departure had begun, and Mimi was determined to live a life of her own and pursue their dream together.

• Mimi showed Chiri and Hitomi the orderly greenery she had planted to prevent desertification in the Wind Country.
• Hitomi hunted desert creatures for dinner, and Chiri warned her not to touch a dead camel because it was a bomb.
• The three finished their meal and lay beneath the dazzling desert stars, which Mimi called a gift for them.
• Mimi launched the Queen of Light, a man-made stream of light rising toward the sky, and declared their dream of setting sail and living without regrets.
• Chiri and Hitomi recognized Mimi's familiar enthusiasm as they watched the Queen of Light climb toward the stars.

Konoha enjoyed a peaceful festival season, with Minato proposing to the red-haired girl and friends and families celebrating together. At home, White Fang tried to escape his wife’s wish for another child, but she dragged him toward their room.

• Minato proposed marriage to the red-haired girl, and she accepted by offering him her hand.
• The Konoha Military Police Force broke up a bloody fight between a Senju husband and an Uchiha wife, then reconciled the couple through counseling.
• Shisui treated Itachi and Izumi to dango at the temple fair, while Obito awkwardly tried to give Rin extra barbecue.
• Kakashi watched Kai eat barbecue with his father and felt envious of their close relationship.
• White Fang’s wife said she wanted another child, and he tried to flee before she dragged him into their room.

At the Temple Fair, Mito pressured Tobirama to find a girl and get a haircut before sending him off, then continued her date with Hashirama. Pakura rejected Karyuura's request to help Rasa get a job, while Orochimaru encountered a lost girl named Terumi Mei, who kept saying “woof.”

• Mito asked Tobirama when he planned to marry and told him to improve his appearance, so he fled the fair after promising to get a haircut.
• Hashirama hurried after Mito as she walked away, still upset that he had brought Tobirama along instead of Madara.
• Rasa approached Pakura with Karyuura and asked for help, but Pakura advised them to have him apply for work and attend a cram school.
• Pakura set off on patrol with a junior from the Ninja Magistrate, giving her the takoyaki she had been eating.
• Orochimaru met a lost Terumi Mei at the fair and gave her his yokan, while she complained that he had not bought her a fresh one.

Konoha’s fallen Ninja Magistrate personnel returned to life, bringing joy, anger, and confusion to families across the village. As residents sought resurrection for their loved ones and Tsunade’s influence grew, Chiyo’s family reckoned with Sasori’s crimes and their connection to the Insect Princess.

• A revived father tried to reunite with his daughter, but she mistook him for a pervert and called the Konoha Military Police Force; another revived son returned home and was beaten by his furious, tearful father.
• Third Hokage returned to Biwako and was made to kneel on a washboard after she confronted him for delaying his return.
• Konoha residents flocked to the Community Magistrate to ask about resurrection, learning that each person’s first application was free and later ones would cost one-tenth of their property.
• Chiyo told her revived family to apply to return to life and admitted she felt ashamed of what she had done.
• Sasori revealed that he had assassinated Third Hokage and turned him into a Human Puppet, so Chiyo decided the family would take responsibility while keeping the Insect Princess out of it.

Mimi oversaw the aftermath of the war, lent Minato and Kushina money for their wedding, and watched Konoha’s next generation grow up in lasting peace. By Konoha Year Fifty-Five, she had no opponents left and felt lonely, but the author’s note clarified that this was not the ending.

• Rejected Kirigakure ninja were assigned work in the Underworld, while Tsunade planned a public trial for the war’s principal culprits.
• Mimi lent Minato ten million for his wedding to Kushina and suggested they name their future child Naruto.
• Mimi and Tsunade attended Minato and Kushina’s wedding, where Tsunade got drunk and begged Mimi to return to help her.
• In Konoha Year Forty-Eight, Gaara, Shino, Sakura, Choji, Shikamaru, Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto were born into a peaceful world.
• Mimi looked over Konoha from the Hokage Rock and reflected on her long, peaceful life and her loneliness in Konoha Year Fifty-Five.