Chapter Summaries

White Fang revisited the woman who had once sheltered him, leaving money behind before departing on his mission. Later, Mimi led Chiri and Hitomi through the Flower District, where they witnessed its exploitation and poverty, and Hitomi treated a badly beaten boy.

• White Fang visited the woman who had cared for him while he recovered, but left without answering her pleas to stop coming.
• The woman wept after White Fang left, believing she was unworthy of him.
• Mimi guided Chiri and Hitomi through the Flower District, where Hitomi condemned the street’s false smiles and Chiri observed the caged Flower Girls.
• Security guards caught a young boy stealing, beat him, and left him in the street with his grieving mother.
• Mimi brought Chiri and Hitomi to the boy, and Hitomi treated him while Mimi questioned a Flower Girl about the children living nearby.

Mimi and Hitomi argued over whether to rescue the women and children exploited in the district, but their conversation was interrupted by armed samurai. After Chiri and Hitomi slaughtered the attackers, Hitomi vowed to tear the place apart, and Mimi accepted.

• Mimi explained to Hitomi that rescuing the women and children without a plan would leave them with nowhere to live or survive, while Hitomi insisted they should act.
• A gang of samurai confronted Mimi, Hitomi, and Chiri, and one man reached for Mimi's collar.
• Chiri severed the yellow-haired samurai's arm, and the gang attacked after he ordered them to kill the three women.
• Chiri blocked a gunshot with her sword, then Mimi ordered her to leave one attacker alive as Chiri scattered into Butterflies.
• Hitomi cut down the samurai and pursued the survivors, killing them throughout the street before returning to Mimi.
• Hitomi declared that she would tear the place apart, and Mimi told her it was fine as she rubbed Hitomi's head.

Mimi and her companions captured Fuma Party member Nobumoto after attacking a site where women were being exploited, then debated how to respond to the wider corruption in River Country. The group resolved to destroy the place despite White Fang's warnings, and Nobumoto panicked when Mimi revealed her Kikaichū.

• Chiri restrained Nobumoto while Hitomi cut down his subordinates, and Mimi tested a handgun against her Chakra armor before discarding it.
• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi brought Nobumoto to an Izakaya, where White Fang explained that the Fuma Party was a large ninja organization.
• White Fang warned Mimi that harming the daimyo's interests could cause trouble, but Mimi argued that the exploitation could not be ended by merely rescuing the women or destroying one site.
• Mimi and Hitomi agreed to smash the site anyway, while White Fang warned that the Fuma Party was dangerous.
• Mimi showed Nobumoto her Kikaichū, prompting him to beg for a quick death and offer to answer their questions.

Mimi questioned Nobumoto about the Fuma Party, then used an insect to compel him to find its base and leader, Fuma Kotaro. After assigning White Fang to confront Nikyokuwa Inosuke, Mimi began an operation against the Fuma Party and annihilated dozens of attackers with her insects.

• Mimi learned from Nobumoto that the Fuma Party had no village, served as hired guards, and had twelve powerful Jonin led by Fuma Kotaro.
• Mimi sent Winter Storm Chariot into Nobumoto and ordered him to locate the Fuma Party's base and Fuma Kotaro.
• Mimi assigned White Fang to deal with his old opponent Nikyokuwa Inosuke and ordered the team to kill their enemies and burn the area.
• Dozens of Fuma Party ninja surrounded Mimi and Hitomi, and Mimi unleashed swarms of beetles that burrowed into them and made them explode.
• Nobumoto watched the massacre and realized Mimi was the true Fuma.

Mimi killed Flying Kama with a vacuum Barrier, then used Summer Red Soldiers to bomb the pleasure district and free its imprisoned Flower Girls. Amid the destruction, one Flower Girl escaped and ran toward an unknown future, refusing to stop.

• Mimi trapped Flying Kama inside a Chakra Barrier and killed him by rapidly evacuating its air.
• Mimi summoned Summer Red Soldiers and controlled their attacks across the streets.
• The Summer Red Soldiers bombed civilians, shops, and the cages holding the Flower Girls, blasting the cages open.
• A Flower Girl crawled through a shattered cage, discarded her clogs and ornaments, and fled through the burning streets.
• Summer Red Soldiers killed the samurai lords who tried to stop the Flower Girls from escaping.
• The Flower Girl recognized the flames as hope and ran on despite her bleeding feet.

Mimi used her insects and poison to kill the ninjas hunting her, then confronted Twin Demon ZuoYou, one of the Twelve Fuma. Seeing his ability to separate and fuse with another body, she became interested in using him to solve a problem in her head transplant research.

• Mimi's insects and poisonous blood killed the hidden ninjas attacking her, including the twenty subordinates of Twin Demon ZuoYou.
• Mimi sensed that the remaining ninja's Chakra had a mixed scent and recognized it as a Kekkei Genkai.
• Twin Demon ZuoYou revealed himself and transformed by shifting his conjoined partner from his back to his shoulder.
• Mimi recognized his technique as Twin Demon Assault and considered how his ability to fuse flesh could help her head transplant surgery overcome rejection.

Mimi trapped and collected living subjects during the attack on Tokiwa, while Chiri tested her new Takemikazuchi technique from a rooftop. Chiri was forced to dodge a concealed yellow mass after it found her position.

• Mimi used a shrinking Barrier to capture Twin Demons and teleported them away as living subjects.
• Mimi captured a samurai escaping through a drainage ditch and considered experiments on infecting and controlling humans.
• Dragonflies attacked the Flower District’s brothels, while Chiri used electrically launched kunai to kill samurai hiding among the crowds.
• Chiri developed Takemikazuchi, a sensory technique that let her detect her surroundings through electrical waves carrying Yin Release clones.
• A concealed yellow mass shot at Chiri, and she leaped aside, surprised that it had located her.

Chiri used her Sharingan to expose a spider-like ninja’s web-sensing technique and killed him with a magnetically accelerated kunai. She continued attacking fleeing samurai while considering how to control her lightning-fast throws and become stronger before the Second Ninja World War.

• Chiri recognized that the spider-like ninja sensed movement through fine threads, then lured his attack toward her position.
• Chiri charged a kunai with a magnetic field and pierced the spider ninja through the chest.
• Chiri used a one-second charge to throw a kunai through two walls and strike a fleeing samurai.
• Chiri continued hurling kunai at enemies but worried that their speed made them difficult to control or use for the Uchiha Shuriken Technique.
• Chiri thought about improving her technique, regretted that Uchiha Madara had taught her little about Lightning Release, and felt urgency to grow stronger before the Second Ninja World War.

Hitomi slaughtered the samurai guarding a brothel and killed four men who had abused a woman, then told the survivor to escape and warn her sisters. With Mimi sweeping the streets and Chiri dealing with stragglers, Hitomi continued clearing buildings and entered a burning five-story brothel.

• Hitomi advanced through the corridor and killed the samurai who charged her, then cut down the rest as they attacked together.
• Hitomi entered a room and killed four men who threatened her with their status and wealth.
• Hitomi told the bruised woman to flee, take money, and notify her sisters, then left to search for more targets.
• Hitomi considered learning Shadow Clone but decided her Chakra reserves and swordsmanship made the technique unsuitable.
• Hitomi reached a burning five-story brothel, kicked open its doors, and hurried inside past two fallen attendants.

Hitomi slaughtered the nobles and guards who ran the Flower District and freed the children trapped in a guarded school. As her anger over the cruelty of the Shinobi World grew, Mimi delayed the River Country soldiers to give the fleeing Flower Girls time to escape.

• Hitomi cut down nobles, merchants, and guards at several establishments, killing those who resisted and letting fleeing samurai go.
• Hitomi reached a guarded school, killed the surrounding samurai and ninjas with Secret Sword: Pigeon Hawk, and watched the girls and children escape.
• Hitomi saw the bones beneath the backyard and vowed to break the larger cage her father had described before heading to another location.
• Mimi sensed Hitomi's surging killing intent and chose to let her vent rather than stop her.
• Mimi used Summer Red Soldier explosions to warn the River Country troops and keep them in their camp temporarily while the Flower Girls fled.

After witnessing the abuse of a girl he wanted to rescue, Sakumo killed a nobleman and fought Zhu Zhu, who defeated him and let him live. In the hospital, the Third Hokage told Sakumo to forget the girl and focus on protecting Konoha, and Sakumo left behind his innocence to become the feared White Fang.

• Sakumo waited through the night outside the girl's home, then killed the nobleman who emerged at dawn.
• Sakumo returned that night to take the girl away, but Zhu Zhu confronted him and revealed that she was missing.
• Sakumo attacked Zhu Zhu, who defeated him and spared him after discovering his Konoha Forehead Protector.
• After Sakumo awoke in the hospital, the Third Hokage told him the village would handle the nobleman's death and ordered him to forget the incident.
• Sakumo agreed to put Konoha and its comrades first, becoming the merciless White Fang.

White Fang faced Zhu Zhu in a savage battle and used clever swordplay to wound him, but struggled against his opponent’s brute strength and durability. He opened the first two Eight Gates and entered Mad Dog Mode as Zhu Zhu charged again.

• White Fang blocked the ninja group and confronted Zhu Zhu after the other ninjas were scattered by Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers.
• Zhu Zhu blasted White Fang down the street with a head-on charge, then attacked him in the ruins.
• White Fang used his feet and electricity to guide his sword through Zhu Zhu’s chin, then recovered it and retreated to a rooftop.
• Zhu Zhu charged White Fang again, and White Fang opened the first and second Eight Gates to increase his speed and stamina.
• White Fang entered Mad Dog Mode as Zhu Zhu charged toward him.

White Fang fought Zhu Zhu through the streets and killed him with a final burst of lightning, though he suffered a catastrophic wound to his right arm. Mimi arrived afterward and began treating White Fang, lamenting how badly the battle had damaged him and the huge fish she had caught.

• White Fang and Zhu Zhu traded wounds in a brutal street fight, with White Fang using Lightning Release Armor to withstand Zhu Zhu's attacks.
• Zhu Zhu absorbed a nearby corpse to heal, then transformed and fired Chakra shells at White Fang as he retreated.
• White Fang pursued Zhu Zhu, blocked his escape with an Earth Release wall, and struck his heart with the White Fang Short Sword.
• Zhu Zhu impaled White Fang, but White Fang unleashed White Fang: Flash Burst, destroying Zhu Zhu from within with lightning.
• Mimi arrived after both fighters collapsed, sent Kikaichū to keep White Fang alive, and cut off his mangled right arm.

Mimi directed the fleeing Flower Girls toward the Land of Fire while White Fang, gravely wounded, followed Nais through the ruins to find Shan Zi. He reached her and promised to take her away, though he survived and could not die yet.

• Mimi sent Summer Red Soldiers to guide the Flower Girls east toward the Land of Fire.
• White Fang woke from his injuries, ignored Mimi's warning to rest, and asked Nais to lead him to Shan Zi.
• As he limped through the city, White Fang remembered Shan Zi's dreams of a family and his promise to make her a scarecrow.
• White Fang reached Shan Zi in the ruins and told her he had come to take her away.

Mimi rescued Shan Zi and White Fang from the abandoned Flower District, treating Shan Zi while Chiri and Hitomi began healing White Fang. When River Country sent cavalry after the fleeing Flower Girls, Mimi's insect swarm killed their commander and scattered the pursuers, but she expected the pursuit to continue.

• Shan Zi refused to leave White Fang at first, but Mimi persuaded her to come along and promised she could treat her illness and rebuild her uterus.
• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi carried White Fang and Shan Zi away from the city, then hid with the Flower Girls in a tunnel while the others began treating them.
• Mimi rebuilt Shan Zi's immune defenses with Nano Kikaichu, but Shan Zi refused uterine reconstruction without explaining why.
• River Country sent cavalry after the Flower Girls, and Mimi used Summer Red Soldiers to attack the pursuers.
• Mimi's swarm killed the cavalry commander and scattered the remaining soldiers before returning to escort the Flower Girls.

Mimi and the Flower Girls continued their escape while the Third Hokage secretly worked to shelter them and erase evidence of the River Country attack. As ninja from across the Five Great Nations closed in, Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi took up defensive positions for the coming battle.

• Mimi used the Winter Storm Chariot to provide shelter, while she directed insects to help the hungry Flower Girls find food as they traveled.
• The River Country issued an A-rank mission offering rewards for capturing the Flower Girls and identifying the attackers, and Mimi saw the notice in the village mission hall.
• The Third Hokage recognized Mimi and her companions from the report, blocked bounty hunters from taking the mission, and ordered Anbu to shelter the Flower Girls, erase evidence, and confront infiltrating enemy ninja.
• Danzo considered using the mission to eliminate Mimi but decided against it, fearing the consequences for himself and the village.
• As ninja arrived that night, Mimi left Shan Zi to watch White Fang and led Chiri and Hitomi to prepare defenses, assigning each of them a side of the perimeter.

An Iwagakure squad entered River Country to hunt escaped Flower Girls, only to be attacked by Mimi’s explosive Summer Red Soldiers. After the swarm killed three Genin and forced their Jonin teacher to flee, Mimi sent the dragonflies against a larger Iwagakure force to test their performance in battle.

• An Iwagakure Jonin led three Genin into River Country, and Chuye reasoned that the escaped Flower Girls had likely split up and would be easy to capture.
• The squad noticed a swarm of Summer Red Soldiers approaching, and the Jonin raised an Earth Wall Array to shield them from the attack.
• The Summer Red Soldiers broke through the earth barrier, killing the three Genin and leaving the wounded Jonin to escape underground.
• Mimi ignored the fleeing Jonin and turned her attention to a forty-person Iwagakure force gathered to capture the Flower Girls.
• The Iwagakure ninjas threw Exploding Tags and raised Earth Wall Arrays as the Summer Red Soldiers dove at them.

Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers failed to stop the Rock Ninjas, who used Earth Release to evade attacks, and she learned from Chiri that a large force was approaching. She then attacked Mist Ninjas landing on the coast, but they countered the swarm with Water Release.

• Mimi bombarded the Rock Ninjas, but they escaped underground using Earth Release.
• A Rock Ninja surfaced for air and evaded a diving Summer Red Soldier by burrowing underground again.
• Mimi contacted Chiri with a Slug and learned that more than thirty enemies were approaching while Mist Ninjas landed along the southern coast.
• Mimi observed the Mist force, led by a short woman carrying Samehada, and identified the group as the Mist Anbu’s Corpse Disposal Unit.
• Mimi sent the Summer Red Soldiers to attack the Mist Ninjas, who scattered water pillars across the sky, forcing the swarm to dodge.

Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers broke through the Hidden Mist ninja’s water defenses, but Killer Whale Girl’s technique destroyed many of the insects and forced Mimi to wait in the fog. As the Hidden Mist ninja withdrew, a twelve-member Hidden Sand Puppet Corps arrived from the west to confront the swarm.

• Mimi directed the Summer Red Soldiers to attack the Water Formation Walls until the Hidden Mist defenses collapsed and the swarm killed many ninja.
• Killer Whale Girl used an unseen technique that caused numerous Summer Red Soldiers to fall lifeless, while surviving Yuki, Hozuki, and Kaguya clan members recovered from the attack.
• Killer Whale Girl ordered the Hidden Mist ninja to cut off their fallen comrades’ heads, then used the Hidden Mist Technique to conceal their retreat.
• Mimi held back her insects and sent them to scout the coast through the fog, deciding to wait for the Hidden Mist to dissipate.
• Twelve Hidden Sand ninja arrived from the Wind Country, and a girl prepared her Giant Fan while another ninja produced volatile purple-green orbs to attack the approaching insects.

Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers battled a twelve-member Sand Hidden Puppet Corps, whose Giant Fan user and poison user forced her insects to adapt before a young Iron Sand user protected the group. Mimi warned Hitomi about the dangerous opponents and called Chiri to reinforce him, then continued observing the Puppet Corps as they set off.

• A Giant Fan user and a Puppet Master released a poison ball and used a Sandstorm to repel Mimi’s Summer Red Soldiers.
• Mimi used the insects’ explosions to create a passage through the storm, but rain began weakening the wind and the girl withdrew from the fight.
• A boy wielding Iron Sand enclosed the Sand Hidden ninjas in a spinning cube, and Mimi recognized him as a likely Third Kazekage.
• Mimi warned Hitomi about the Puppet Corps and told Chiri to reinforce him after defeating the Hidden Rock Village forces.
• The Iron Sand cube withstood five minutes of insect explosions, then the Sand Hidden group emerged and prepared to move while Mimi’s surviving insects watched from the sky.