Chapter Summaries

After returning to Konoha, Hinata learned that the Land of Fire's daimyo and the other great villages were challenging her authority, so she declared that she would abolish the daimyo system and rule the Land of Fire herself. She won the shinobi clans over with promises of power and opportunity, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi opposed and Konoha's political order on the brink of upheaval.

• Roman returned to the Naruto World with Hinata and told her that his Tenseigan had entered its second gestation phase.
• Fugaku Uchiha reported that the Land of Fire's envoy had been killed and that the daimyo and the four other great villages were threatening Hinata's position.
• Hinata announced that she would eliminate the daimyo and abolish the daimyo system, then ordered Fugaku to spread the news while keeping the Uchiha Clan in Konoha.
• Konoha's residents largely supported Hinata, while the shinobi clans gathered with Hyuga Hiashi to urge her not to kill the daimyo.
• Hinata argued that Konoha could collect taxes and rule the Land of Fire without a daimyo, promising the shinobi clans greater power; Shikaku Nara and the other clans quickly pledged their loyalty.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi warned that Hinata's plan would provoke war, but she had him escorted away and led the clans in pledging to conquer and govern the Land of Fire.

Hinata led Konoha in overthrowing the Land of Fire’s Daimyo and nobles, then claimed both the Daimyo’s seat and Hokage’s authority while redistributing seized wealth and improving conditions for many residents. Her actions alarmed the other great nations, whose Daimyos supplied their hidden villages to prepare for war against Konoha.

• Hinata and Roman launched the Exterminate Bugs and Shoot the Sun Operation, and Konoha’s First Airborne Unit set out to purge the Land of Fire’s nobles.
• Hinata’s forces captured the Daimyo and his heirs, beat them and the nobles into revealing their wealth, and spread across the Land of Fire to seize supplies and arrest the ruling class.
• Hinata declared herself the Land of Fire’s Daimyo as well as Hokage, lowered taxes for farmers and small merchants, and began road improvements.
• Hinata shared the seized wealth with Konoha’s shinobi, strengthening their loyalty, while news of the purge spread through the other nations.
• Raikage A received supplies and a justification for war from the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning, then began assembling Kumogakure’s forces; other Daimyos also urged their villages to attack Konoha.
• Iwagakure and Sunagakure prepared to mobilize, while Kirigakure focused on studying Ao’s Byakugan, leaving Konoha surrounded by the threat of a coalition war.

Hinata Hyuga led Konoha’s First Airborne Unit against Kumogakure after the three hidden villages threatened her rule, rallying her allies with promises of wealth and noble status. She devastated the Raikage’s forces and trapped Fourth Raikage A, who joined Killer B and Gyuki in a desperate counterattack.

• Jiraiya and Tsunade headed for the Land of Fire’s capital, while Konan and Nagato concluded Konoha could not survive a war against three villages.
• Mitarashi Zixiao and Konoha’s clans blocked Hiruzen Sarutobi from leaving Konoha, and Asuma Sarutobi defended Hinata’s rule and the rewards her leadership had brought their clans.
• Fugaku Uchiha reported that the three Kage had orders to kill Hinata, and Hinata persuaded the uneasy clan leaders to fight by promising they could keep their seized wealth and become nobles.
• Hinata led the First Airborne Unit toward the Land of Lightning, where Fourth Raikage A prepared to fight Konoha and expected Iwagakure and Sunagakure to attack as well.
• Hinata’s Vacuum Attack shattered Kumogakure’s Earth Wall and killed hundreds of shinobi, then her repulsive force field stopped Fourth Raikage A’s attack and shattered his four fingers.
• Killer B transformed into Gyuki to rescue Fourth Raikage A, but Hinata halted Gyuki’s tentacles, allowing the brothers to launch Hell Stab: One-Fingered Thrust.

Hinata defeated and killed Fourth Raikage A, then overwhelmed Killer B and Gyuki as Konoha's forces drove them back. The Hidden Cloud forces surrendered or were subdued, leaving Hinata victorious on the border between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Fire.

• Fourth Raikage A's One-Finger Nukite clashed with Hinata's Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists, and Hinata broke his finger before striking him with a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Killer B pulled A away, but the Truth-Seeking Orb consumed A's body; before he died, A ordered Killer B to make peace with Konoha.
• Killer B attacked Hinata with a Tailed Beast Bomb, but her Tenseigan absorbed it, and she began draining Gyuki's Chakra through a hand extended from the Void.
• Killer B severed Gyuki's tentacle and charged Roman, but Hyuga Hiashi, Fugaku Uchiha, and Konoha's ninjas stopped and battered Gyuki.
• Hinata demanded the Hidden Cloud ninjas surrender; most threw down their kunai, while Konoha's forces subdued those who refused.
• Spies from Sunagakure and Iwagakure witnessed the defeat and feared Hinata's power.

Hinata Hyuga’s victory over Kumogakure forced Iwagakure and Sunagakure to abandon their planned invasions, while Konoha expanded its rule over the Land of Lightning. As reports of her power spread, rival leaders reconsidered their plans, and Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted that the academy textbooks could no longer call him Konoha’s strongest Hokage.

• Tsunade and Jiraiya reached Konoha’s battlefield, learned how Hinata Hyuga had defeated Kumogakure, and recognized her as a new God of Shinobi.
• Ōnoki learned that Hinata had crushed Kumogakure, called off Iwagakure’s invasion, and publicly claimed his troops had only been conducting exercises.
• Rasa heard that Kumogakure had surrendered and Iwagakure had retreated, so he withdrew Sunagakure’s forces and told the Land of Wind’s daimyo that Hinata could not be defeated.
• Konoha took control of the Land of Lightning, purged nobles and resistance among the Hidden Cloud, and reduced burdens on ordinary people under Hinata’s rule.
• Nagato and Konan discussed Hinata’s Tenseigan, postponed Akatsuki’s Tailed Beast capture plan, and resolved to wait for a better opportunity.
• Asuma showed Hiruzen Sarutobi a textbook calling him Konoha’s strongest Hokage, and Hiruzen agreed that the claim should be changed.

After Konoha’s victory over the Land of Lightning, Hinata rewarded its shinobi with noble titles and fiefs while Black Zetsu planned to revive Madara to counter her. The chapter ended with Roman carrying a drunk Hinata to bed and holding her as he slept.

• Asuma Sarutobi left to write Hinata Hyuga about Hiruzen Sarutobi’s agreement, while Danzo and Itachi learned that Konoha had defeated Cloud Village and annexed the Land of Lightning.
• Tekka Uchiha beat Danzo and Killer B in the Uchiha cells, and Danzo broke down after learning that the Fourth Raikage was dead and Killer B had been captured.
• Itachi realized Hinata’s victories proved he had been wrong to turn against his clan, and he laughed through his tears.
• Hinata granted Fugaku Uchiha a noble title, a fief, and tax-collection rights, then bestowed military noble status on other Konoha shinobi and clans.
• Black Zetsu discovered Konoha had annexed the Land of Lightning and decided to guide Nagato into using the Rinne Rebirth Technique to revive Madara Uchiha.
• Roman carried the drunk Hinata to bed and held her as he slept.

V returned to Night City, killed a cyberpsycho, and drew the attention of the city’s corporations, who began searching for her. After discovering Arasaka had sent Adam Smasher to help Tyger Claws capture her, V gathered Jackie Welles and Maine’s crew for a dangerous job near their territory.

• V used her extraordinary vision and speed to kill a cyberpsycho who had massacred civilians and NCPD officers, then hacked the dead and wounded to steal money before escaping MAX-TAC.
• MAX-TAC identified V in surveillance footage, and Night City’s corporate executives ordered investigations and discussed capturing or killing her.
• V bought firearms, researched magic arrays, and made bullets that carried lightning power; the next day, Jackie Welles called after hearing rumors about her fight.
• V learned that the corporations were targeting her, recruited Jackie Welles and Maine’s crew for a major job, and sent them to a meeting point near Tyger Claws territory.
• V discovered Arasaka had ordered Tyger Claws to capture her and had armed them with powerful cyberware, with Adam Smasher sent to train them.

V recruited Jackie Welles and Maine’s crew to raid Tyger Claws territory, offering each member fifteen thousand eddies. They stormed a factory, where V’s extraordinary ability to cut bullets with a dagger left the crew stunned as they secured the entrance.

• Jackie Welles met Maine’s crew and clarified that the V he knew was not a famous fixer, while Rebecca threatened him with her shotgun.
• V arrived, admitted the fixer identity was fake, and offered fifteen thousand eddies per person to help her fight the Tyger Claws.
• Jackie, Maine’s crew, and Lucy accepted the job, and V promised to reimburse their vehicles as they charged into Tyger Claws territory.
• V cut incoming bullets with her dagger and shot Tyger Claws members with perfect accuracy while Jackie and Maine’s crew returned fire.
• Kiwi and Lucy breached the factory systems and shut the doors behind the vehicles, trapping the group inside with V unharmed.
• Jackie told the crew that V had blocked and cut apart the bullets with her blade, and they saw the dagger was bent and covered in bullet marks.

V defeated Adam Smasher and took control of the Tyger Claws, transforming the gang and recruiting Maine's crew and Jackie Welles. News of her victory spread across Night City, making rival gangs retreat and drawing attention from the corporations and other figures.

• V charged through the Tyger Claws' gunfire, evaded their rocket barrage, and used the blackout Lucy and Kiwi created to kill the gang's boss and many of its members.
• Adam Smasher attacked V under optical camouflage, but she blocked his strike, trapped him, and killed him with a shot to the brain.
• V forced the surviving Tyger Claws elites to submit, changed the gang's rules, and planted viruses that could punish rulebreakers and prevent cyberpsychosis.
• Maine, Dorio, Pilar, Rebecca, Kiwi, Lucy, and Jackie Welles accepted V's offer to join her Tyger Claws.
• Word of V's takeover and Adam Smasher's death spread through Night City, causing rival gangs to halt their plans and prompting corporations, Rogue, and David Martinez to take notice.

After returning from the Chaos Hall, Herta 0988 discovered that she had gained the Trailblaze Path and could use Imaginary Energy to open a passage and sense Finality Kiana on a distant moon. Lady Herta absorbed Special Material and gained traits of Hunt and Trailblaze, then joined Herta 0988 to bring new discoveries to Ruan Mei for study.

• V announced that she intended to marry Roman, prompting Tyger Claws members to speculate about him and corporations to search for his identity.
• Herta 0988 realized that she had gained the Trailblaze Path, opened an Imaginary Passage, and sensed a Kiana-like figure on a distant moon absorbing Honkai Energy.
• Finality Kiana told Prometheus XVII that someone far away had activated the Herrscher of the Void's power and drawn Honkai Energy toward them.
• Lady Herta recognized Herta 0988's new Path, consumed Special Material, and began displaying traits of Hunt and Trailblaze, which Nous noticed.
• Lady Herta examined Hextech Energy and Furina's Gnosis, then took Herta 0988 to Ruan Mei's laboratory to arrange further research and seek a special prescription for Roman.

Herta 0988 sought blueprints for the Azure Star air purifier while Herta planned to study the Gnosis and Hextech Energy and build a Honkai version of the Astral Express. When the Antimatter Legion invaded Herta Space Station, Herta 0988 and Asta reached the Stellar Core compartment, where they encountered Silver Wolf and Kafka working to revive the Stellar Core.

• Ruan Mei agreed to prepare restorative medicine for Herta 0988 before her next trip to the Unknowable Realm, while Herta planned to research the Gnosis and Hextech Energy.
• Herta 0988 proposed building a Honkai version of the Astral Express, and Herta agreed that the Herrscher's authority and the Genius Society's wisdom could make it possible.
• Herta 0988 learned that the Astral Express's journey had been accelerated and asked Asta for the Azure Star air-purifier blueprints, which were stored with the Stellar Core.
• The Antimatter Legion invaded Herta Space Station, and Herta 0988 used Imaginary Space to remove the Voidrangers before taking Asta to the Stellar Core compartment.
• Asta recognized Silver Wolf and Kafka as Stellaron Hunters, but Kafka's Spirit Word Art stopped her from acting.
• Silver Wolf tried to teleport Herta 0988 and Asta away with Aether Editing, but Herta 0988 blocked the effect, leading Kafka to identify her as the one who had disrupted Elio's prophecy.

Herta 0988 punished Silver Wolf by banning all seventy-six of her game accounts, then helped place the Stellar Core inside Stelle and led Asta and Stelle against the Antimatter Legion. After meeting March 7th and Dan Heng, Herta learned that multiple Doomsday Beasts were attacking the Astral Express and agreed to help.

• Herta 0988 defeated Silver Wolf in a hacking contest with help from Lady Herta, banning all seventy-six of Silver Wolf's game accounts.
• Kafka placed the Stellar Core inside Stelle, explained Elio's prophecy to her, and left with Silver Wolf after Herta 0988 allowed them to go.
• Herta 0988 gave Stelle a Curio Bat, and Stelle and Asta fought Voidrangers before Herta cleared the corridor with her Diamond Hammer Spinning Circle.
• Herta 0988 encountered March 7th and Dan Heng fighting the Antimatter Legion and helped them defeat a Trampler.
• March 7th told Herta 0988 that multiple Doomsday Beasts were overwhelming Himeko and Welt Yang at the Astral Express, and Herta agreed to deal with the attack.

Herta 0988 reached the Platform and destroyed the Doomsday Beast horde attacking the Astral Express, saving Himeko and Welt Yang. The battle ended the crisis, while Aha’s role in sending the beasts was revealed and Nous warned Nanook to stop interfering.

• Herta 0988 led Asta, Star, March 7th, and Dan Heng through Imaginary Space to the Platform, where Himeko and Welt Yang were defending the Astral Express from Doomsday Beasts.
• Star killed an injured Doomsday Beast with her bat and stepped onto the Path of Destruction, drawing the rest of the horde toward her.
• Herta 0988 rescued Star by redirecting the beasts’ dragon breaths into an asteroid field, then used her combined powers and Imaginary Space to kill the remaining Doomsday Beasts in one second.
• Herta told Black Tower that Herta 0988 had saved the Astral Express, but Black Tower received only an automated reply from Herta and put away the Aeon of Erudition key.
• Ruan Mei canceled the creation of her artificial Propagation Emissary, Star-Shattering King Worm Skaracabaz, after learning the crisis was over.
• Nous warned Nanook to stop making trouble, while Aha revealed that he had sent the Doomsday Beasts to try to make Herta 0988 wear the mask of Elation.

Herta 0988 stopped the Antimatter Legion attack and joined the Astral Express’s preparations to take Stelle aboard, while Welt Yang learned that her Honkai powers came from Earth. Herta could not take him there directly, but proposed building a train that might reach his homeland; elsewhere, Finality Kiana learned that mastering Finality could let her travel across the universe.

• Nanook considered empowering Herta 0988 as an Emissary of Destruction, but Nous and Aha’s disapproval made him stop.
• Himeko and Pom-Pom recognized Herta 0988’s multiple Path auras, and Welt Yang identified her Honkai power as the authority of the Second Herrscher.
• Herta 0988 returned to the station, and Himeko invited her aboard the Astral Express; Herta recommended Stelle, who agreed to become a Nameless.
• Herta 0988 agreed to board later and arranged for Stelle to help test the Simulated Universe, then told Welt Yang that her Honkai power came from Earth.
• Herta 0988 explained that Earth was unreachable by Imaginary teleportation or the Astral Express’s star rails, but proposed building a train that could travel through Imaginary Space and might take Welt home.
• Finality Kiana and Prometheus XVII discovered monsters from another civilization in Imaginary Space, and Prometheus told Kiana that mastering Finality could let her reach them.

Herta 0988 sent Stelle to test the Simulated Universe while the Stellaron Hunters learned that Herta 0988 lay outside Elio’s script. After Stelle completed the test, she boarded the repaired Astral Express with Herta 0988, which set out for the Jarilo-VI Star System.

• Herta scolded Stelle for judging her figure, then took her to test the Simulated Universe while Herta 0988 reviewed news about the station’s battle with the Antimatter Legion.
• Silver Wolf cried over her seventy-six banned gaming accounts until Firefly broke down her door, and Elio told the Stellaron Hunters that Herta 0988 was outside fate’s script.
• Ruan Mei judged Herta 0988’s Special Material to rival or surpass an Aeon’s essence and asked her to bring back more.
• Stelle completed a Simulated Universe test, and Himeko planted a Trailblaze Beacon before Herta 0988 boarded the repaired Astral Express with Stelle.
• The Astral Express departed for the Jarilo-VI Star System as Herta 0988 sensed its spatial rhythms and studied how to build the Thousand Realms Cycle.

Herta 0988 revealed that Roman’s Special Material had extraordinary effects because his soul essence rivaled or surpassed an Aeon, and the Romans gathered in the Chaos Hall reacted to the discovery. Miko Yotsuya gave Roman a Marriage Certificate after arranging for her parents to reunite, and Nami then presented one of her own.

• The Astral Express detected a Stellar Core near Jarilo-VI, and Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng set out to explore the planet while Herta 0988 studied the train with Himeko and Welt.
• Herta 0988 studied climate-altering blueprints, then sensed the Chaos Hall opening and joined Roman and the other reincarnated soul fragments there.
• Herta 0988 explained Ruan Mei’s research that Roman’s soul essence rivaled or surpassed an Aeon, and Roman asked whether his body had become special flesh with extraordinary effects.
• Alice bit Roman’s arm, and Hinata and the others noticed that his healing wound shed golden blood, which they attributed to his soul essence influencing his body.
• Miko Yotsuya gave Roman a Marriage Certificate after revealing she had used his supposed identity as Emperor of the Underworld to help her living and deceased parents meet again; Roman accepted it.
• Nami presented Roman with another Marriage Certificate.

Nami obtained the Door-Door Fruit, used the Herrscher of the Void’s power to travel and steal most of the Heavenly Tribute, and gathered Kuina before returning to Skypiea with its gold. After Nami’s marriage contract strengthened her bond with Roman, Sirin ate the Door-Door Fruit and gained greater control over the Herrscher of the Void, while Kiana and Powder presented Roman with more wedding blessing letters.

• Nami used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to reach the Blue Sea, raided a Heavenly Tribute ship, and traded with the World Government for the Door-Door Fruit; the Five Elders raised her bounty to 1.5 billion Beli after learning she could wield multiple Devil Fruit powers.
• Nami visited Bellemere and Nojiko in Cocoyasi Village, admitted her connection to Roman, then invited Kuina to leave Shimotsuki Village and pursue becoming the World's Greatest Swordsman.
• Nami used the Herrscher of the Void’s power to return to Skypiea and transport away the Golden City’s gold and Golden Bell, while revealing that she had also stolen most of the Heavenly Tribute.
• Nami gave Roman her marriage contract, greatly increasing their resonance, and later offered the Door-Door Fruit to the others.
• Sirin ate the Door-Door Fruit, shared its awful taste with Kiana, and gained greater control over the Authority of the Herrscher of the Void.
• Sirin gave Roman wedding blessing letters from Theresa and Durandal, and Powder arrived with letters from Vander and Vi.

Powder revealed her magic to Vander and the people of The Last Drop, winning support to become Zaun’s leader by promising Roman would help transform the city. She purified the tavern’s tap water, and the chapter ended with The Lanes celebrating her as Zaun’s new hope.

• Powder told Vander, Vi, and Sevika that Roman was her boyfriend, then used magic to repel Vi and withstand Vander’s punches.
• Powder demonstrated that she could turn into elements such as sand, water, fire, and lightning, and promised Roman would help improve Zaun if they wrote Marriage Contract Blessing Books.
• Vander agreed to write a blessing, asked Vi to do the same, and accepted Powder’s request to notify Silco; he also handed Powder leadership of The Lanes and Zaun.
• Powder used her water-related magic to remove impurities from the pipes around The Last Drop, producing clean tap water for the first time.
• Sevika spread word of the clean water while Vander informed his old friends that Powder had become Zaun’s leader.
• The next day, residents of The Lanes gathered to collect clean water and praised Powder as Zaun’s new leader and hope.

Vander brought Silco back to The Lanes, where Powder’s magical clean-water and air-purification projects convinced Silco to approve her engagement to Roman. In the Chaos Hall, Herta gave Powder plans for a climate-control device, Kiana gave Furina a Herrscher authority fragment, and Roman began resonating with Kiana and Furina to see what had happened in their worlds.

• Vander visited Silco’s factory alone and told him Powder was getting married, persuading Silco to return to The Lanes with him.
• Silco saw that Powder had become The Lanes’ leader and was selling magically purified water at the same price as contaminated tap water.
• Vander showed Silco the runes purifying the water pipes, and Vi led them to Powder’s simple air purifier, which cleaned the air around The Last Drop.
• Convinced that Powder and Roman could help transform Zaun, Silco signed the Marriage Blessing Book and postponed a scheme concerning The Lanes.
• In the Chaos Hall, Herta gave Powder plans for a planetary climate-control device and explained that Hextech crystals could power a Warp on the Astral Express.
• Kiana gave Furina a fragment of Wendy’s Herrscher authority, and Roman hugged Kiana and Furina to enter Soul Resonance and experience their memories.

Furina strengthened her Hydro power through resonance with Focalors, while Roman successfully transplanted Hashirama Cells and awakened Wood Release to help her gain the remaining elements. As Furina and Roman went to test their bond, Ao Run, Ping Ping, and Chihaya Anon arrived at the Chaos Hall, learned they were Roman's split-soul reincarnations, and discovered they could grow stronger through Soul Resonance.

• Furina and Focalors discussed delaying the reinforcement of the Primordial Sea seal until Furina grew stronger, while Furina worried about Focalors being confined in the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale.
• Roman transplanted Hashirama Cells into his arm, and Hinata confirmed that he showed no harmful side effects.
• Roman used Wood Release to create a wooden house, then asked Furina to resonate with him so she could pursue the grass and wind elements and complete her Light Vision.
• Furina accepted Roman's invitation to the house, while Hinata and Powder stayed behind and began Soul Resonance.
• Ao Run and Ping Ping met Chihaya Anon in the chaotic mist, recognized one another as Transmigrators, and followed a distant firelight to the Chaos Hall.
• Hinata used her Tenseigan to show the newcomers that they were Roman's split-soul reincarnations, and Chihaya Anon recovered her memories and learned she could become stronger.