Chapter Summaries

Hagoromo used crude, improvised methods to revive Pakura after finding her with no pulse. After she woke and tried to reach for a kunai, he captured her and prepared to take her to Konoha.

• Hagoromo examined Pakura's wounds, found no pulse, and began treating her while his clone kept watch.
• Hagoromo cauterized Pakura's wounds, gave her antidote pills, and used an electrical shock to restart her heart.
• Pakura's heartbeat and breathing returned, and she woke up.
• Pakura reached for a nearby kunai, but Hagoromo stomped on her hand and announced that she was his prisoner.
• Hagoromo planned to take Pakura to Konoha, where she might fall into the hands of the Anbu or Root.

After capturing the wounded Pakura, Hagoromo flew toward Konoha with her, but detected immense chakra near a small island and diverted to investigate. He spotted a crimson figure there, leaving the identity of the powerful fighter unresolved.

• Hagoromo left the Land of Water with Pakura aboard the summoned Yata Crow after treating and restraining her.
• Pakura asked what would happen to her, and Hagoromo said he was only responsible for taking her to Konoha.
• Pakura reflected on being betrayed by Sunagakure and said she no longer had anywhere to belong.
• Hagoromo sensed chakra as powerful as a tailed beast while flying over the sea toward the Land of Fire.
• Hagoromo steered the Yata Crow to a nearby island and spotted a crimson figure radiating intense battle intent.

Might Dai opened the Gate of Death to let Hagoromo and the others escape, then faced the Five remaining Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. Hagoromo watched as Dai killed Kushimaru Kuriarare with a single strike, and the battle continued.

• Hagoromo and Pakura arrived as Might Dai entered the Eight Gates Formation Array, and Dai told Hagoromo that the technique would last until his death.
• Dai explained that Kai and the others had escaped safely and said he would try to stop Kirigakure's Jonin force; Hagoromo and Pakura withdrew to watch.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen attacked first, sending Kushimaru Kuriarare after Hagoromo in an attempt to draw Dai away and expose an opening.
• Dai intercepted Kushimaru Kuriarare and struck him into the ground with the Konoha Strong Whirlwind, killing him with one blow.

Might Dai used the Eight Gates Formation to kill three of the enemy Seven Ninja Swordsmen in rapid succession. With only two enemies left and his body nearing its limit, Dai prepared to finish the fight.

• Hagoromo retreated with Pakura as Dai killed Kushimaru Kuriarare with a single strike.
• Dai charged the four remaining enemies and targeted Kurosuki Raiga, severing his arms and decapitating him.
• Hagoromo counted Raiga as Dai’s second victim while the other enemies continued fighting rather than flee.
• Akebiino Jinin anticipated Dai’s approach and swung Kabutowari, but struck only an afterimage.
• Dai attacked Akebiino Jinin with the Morning Peacock and killed him, leaving two enemies as Dai neared his limit.

Might Dai used the Eight Gates Formation to defeat all seven of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, dying from the technique’s cost. Hagoromo honored Dai by gathering the fallen swords and carving a memorial into a boulder.

• Might Dai killed Kushimaru Kuriarare, Akebiino Jinin, and Kurosuki Raiga, while the remaining Kirigakure ninja tried to delay him.
• Munashi Jinpachi used smoke and Water Clones, but Dai unleashed Daytime Tiger and fatally struck him, shattering his own left arm in the process.
• The final swordsman attacked Dai with Hiramekari, but Dai countered with Evening Elephant and blasted him into the sky.
• Dai’s power vanished, and he gave Hagoromo a thumbs-up before succumbing to the Eight Gates Formation.
• Hagoromo picked up Sewing Needle and Hiramekari, then carved a memorial stating that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had died to Might Dai’s Eight Gates Formation.

After Might Dai died defeating the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Hagoromo preserved the scene and left a message identifying Dai as their killer. Hagoromo carried Dai and the wounded Pakura back toward the front lines, where Dai arrived before Kai but could not truly return.

• Hagoromo confirmed that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Might Dai were dead, then collected their swords.
• Hagoromo sealed Sewing Needle and Hiramekarei in a scroll and imprisoned Kiba, Shibuki, and Kabutowari near the rock wall with a barrier that blocked summoning.
• Hagoromo left the battlefield and his carved message untouched so Kirigakure would learn that Might Dai had killed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Hagoromo carried Dai's body to Pakura, summoned the Yata Crow, and prepared to fly back to the front lines with Dai and the half-dead Pakura.
• Pakura questioned Hagoromo about leaving the enemy corpses, but Hagoromo said he only wanted to bring his people back.
• Kai returned to the front lines after Hagoromo, though Dai had already arrived there and was dead.

Hagoromo reported Pakura’s capture and Might Dai’s sacrifice to Konoha, then reflected on Dai’s death while Kai mourned his father. The chapter ended with Hagoromo telling Kai that Dai had been incredibly cool, drawing a response from him.

• Pakura revealed that Sunagakure had sent her to Kirigakure as the price for peace, and Konoha prepared to send her to the Hokage after treating her injuries.
• Konoha’s command staff judged Dai’s death alongside the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to be a strategic victory, while honoring his sacrifice and Kai’s connection to him.
• Hagoromo gave Orochimaru a full account of Dai’s final battle, and Orochimaru focused on the defeat of the swordsmen and the power of the Eight Gates Formation.
• Hagoromo spent the following days gazing at the sea until Kai came to thank him for bringing Dai’s body back.
• Hagoromo told Kai that Dai had been incredibly cool, and Kai agreed that his father must have been.

After Might Dai’s death, Hagoromo resolved to take a genuine role in ending the war, while Guy began to recover his spirits. A letter from Kushina informed Hagoromo that Kakashi had become a Jonin at twelve, and Guy vowed to become one too.

• Hagoromo reflected on Dai’s final stand and decided he wanted to help bring the war to an end.
• Guy gave Hagoromo a letter from Konoha, and Hagoromo recognized Kushina’s handwriting.
• Hagoromo told Guy that Kakashi Hatake had recently been promoted to Jonin at age twelve.
• Guy declared that he would become a Jonin someday, and Hagoromo considered how Dai’s example might shape Guy’s future.

Hagoromo accepted Konoha’s mission to serve as an envoy to Kirigakure, despite Orochimaru warning that the village might kill him. After preparing twenty chakra-loaded Reverse Four Symbols Scrolls, Hagoromo set out for the Land of Water, confident he could enter Kirigakure and leave it safely.

• Orochimaru warned Hagoromo that the mission was an S-rank risk and that Kirigakure would control his fate once he arrived.
• Hagoromo explained that he had judged the danger for himself and accepted the mission to explore the possibility of peace negotiations.
• Orochimaru agreed to leave the decision to Hagoromo, while the mission awaited the Hokage’s personal letter and Hagoromo’s preparations.
• Hagoromo modified the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique and made twenty chakra-stored scrolls for the journey.
• After receiving the Hokage’s letter, Hagoromo departed for the Land of Water as Ebisu, Shiranui Genma, and Kai watched him leave.

Hagoromo was intercepted at sea by Yagura and three Kirigakure ninja trying to assassinate Konoha’s envoy. He trapped them inside the Severing Void barrier and began charging a continuous Super S-rank lightning technique.

• Hagoromo traveled across the sea toward the Land of Water while carefully timing his arrival for the agreed meeting.
• Yagura and three Kirigakure ninja intercepted Hagoromo and identified him as the Konoha ninja who had killed the Third Lightning Shadow.
• Yagura said his team had been ordered to assassinate whichever envoy Konoha sent, and the four Kirigakure ninja prepared to attack Hagoromo.
• Hagoromo created four Shadow Clones, which positioned themselves around the group and formed the Severing Void barrier.
• Hagoromo taunted Yagura and his team, crossed his wrists, and began channeling lightning for a continuous Super S-rank ninjutsu.

Hagoromo trapped Yagura and three other Kirigakure Ninja inside a sealing barrier and overwhelmed them with repeated Railgun attacks. He survived the battle exhausted but nearly unharmed, then continued onward as the barrier collapsed and the four enemies died.

• Hagoromo sealed Yagura and three Kirigakure Ninja inside a barrier that restricted their movements and covered the full range of his Railgun.
• Hagoromo fired fewer than twenty Railguns at the trapped enemies, striking them as they tried to attack from the edges of the space.
• The barrier collapsed after less than five minutes, revealing Hagoromo alive and the four Kirigakure Ninja dead.
• Hagoromo entered power-saving mode to recover, then resumed walking forward without hesitation.

Hagoromo tested Kirigakure’s peace delegation by reaching for Ao’s Byakugan, then provoking Mei Terumī with Chidori Current. After confirming Mei led the group and that they did not immediately reject peace talks, he agreed to accompany them to Kirigakure, while concealing Yagura’s death.

• Hagoromo lunged for Ao’s exposed Byakugan, but Kisame Hoshigaki pulled Ao away, Hozuki Mangetsu blocked him with Samehada, and Mei Terumī restrained his wrist.
• Hagoromo explained that his move was a reflex, then released Chidori Current through his arm and forced Mei Terumī to retreat.
• Hagoromo assessed Mei Terumī as the delegation’s leader and inferred that Kirigakure’s shortage of elite fighters had left the village in a difficult position.
• Mei Terumī warned Hagoromo that another attack on her people would end the peace talks, and he claimed that delivering the Hokage’s letter was his priority.
• Mei Terumī led Hagoromo toward Kirigakure with Hozuki Mangetsu and Kisame Hoshigaki flanking him and Ao following behind.

Kamishiro Hagoromo entered Kirigakure as Konoha’s envoy and waited three days before meeting the Third Mizukage. At the meeting, he suspected the person presented as Mizukage was not really the village leader.

• Mei Terumī escorted Hagoromo into Kirigakure through a hidden entrance and demanded the Hokage’s letter, but he insisted on delivering it only to the Mizukage.
• Mei Terumī confined Hagoromo to a room while she reported his arrival, and Hozuki Mangetsu, Kisame Hoshigaki, and a Byakugan kept watch over him.
• After three days, Mangetsu and Kisame led Hagoromo to meet the Third Mizukage and four officials in an assembly hall.
• Hagoromo sensed guards nearby and noticed that the person presented as the Mizukage seemed to have a lost soul and the wrong-colored pupils.

Konoha envoy Hagoromo urged the Third Mizukage to make peace, then used Kirigakure’s response to confirm that something was wrong with the Mizukage. When Mei Terumī threatened to kill him to keep the secret, Hagoromo revealed a massive Reverse Four Symbols Seal and threatened to destroy all of Kirigakure with him.

• Hagoromo delivered the Third Hokage’s letter and argued that Konoha and Kirigakure should end the war before further losses.
• The Third Mizukage postponed his decision on peace and Hagoromo’s fate, then left with his advisers.
• Mei Terumī confronted Hagoromo with her team, and he told them that five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Yagura had died.
• Hagoromo deduced from Mei Terumī’s reaction that the Third Mizukage had a problem, prompting her to declare that he had to die.
• Hagoromo spread Iron Sand through the room, revealed scrolls covered in sealing formulas, and began activating the Reverse Four Symbols Seal to threaten Kirigakure.

Hagoromo used charged Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique scrolls to frighten Kirigakure’s leaders and revealed his suspicions about the Third Mizukage’s condition. After putting the scrolls away, he said he wanted peace and friendship between Kirigakure and the other great ninja village.

• Ao warned everyone not to move after seeing the dangerous sealing scrolls with his Byakugan.
• Ao explained that the charged, above-S-rank technique could be detonated at any moment, and Mei Terumī and the others froze.
• Hagoromo guessed that the Third Mizukage had become too weak or ill to manage affairs, and the leaders’ reactions confirmed his suspicion.
• Hagoromo put the scrolls and Iron Sand back into his gourd and said they could let him fight his way out of Kirigakure, though he preferred not to cause damage.
• Mei Terumī asked what Hagoromo wanted, and he answered that he sought peace and friendship between the villages.

Hagoromo negotiated directly with Kirigakure’s Peace Faction, which agreed to pursue peace in exchange for his help eliminating the War Faction’s leaders. The chapter left Hagoromo poised to take part in a coup before returning to the war front.

• Kirigakure’s Six Tails went berserk and broke the Three-Tails’ seal, leaving the Mizukage nearly incapacitated and Isobu under surveillance at a lake.
• Mei Terumī emerged as a leading figure in Kirigakure’s Peace Faction after Yagura died trying to intercept Hagoromo.
• Mei told Hagoromo that peace talks would take time because her faction first needed to suppress the War Faction.
• Hagoromo met with Kirigakure’s advisers and proposed removing the War Faction’s leaders with his help.
• The advisers gave Hagoromo a written peace proposal after verifying his strength, making his assistance part of their agreement.

Hagoromo used the Reverse Four Symbols Seal to eliminate the War Faction leaders in Kirigakure, then escaped before the village could blame him for their deaths. Mei Terumī and the Kirigakure advisors were left with his baffling farewell note as peace negotiations with Konoha became possible.

• Mei Terumī confirmed that the War Faction leaders had entered the building where Hagoromo’s scroll was hidden.
• Hagoromo activated the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, annihilating the leaders and destroying the center of the building.
• Hagoromo’s clone performed Devil’s Steps for four minutes, vanished, and left a note claiming he had already withdrawn.
• Mei Terumī and the Kirigakure ninja found the note and realized Hagoromo had disappeared.
• Hagoromo’s real body destroyed Kirigakure’s barrier and escaped, leaving the village likely to blame him for the deaths.

Hagoromo returned from Kirigakure with a favorable reply to Konoha’s peace letter and reported that the Third Mizukage was likely incapacitated. Konoha and Kirigakure established a ceasefire and began formal peace talks, while Hagoromo left the front to focus on Mirai.

• Hagoromo left Kirigakure after helping its Peace Faction weaken the War Faction and secure a response to Konoha’s letter.
• Hagoromo delivered Kirigakure’s reply to Orochimaru and described how Mei Terumī had disguised herself as the Mizukage.
• Hagoromo told Orochimaru that the Third Mizukage might be dead or gravely incapacitated, and Orochimaru praised his work.
• Konoha learned that the Third Mizukage had been gravely injured, and Kirigakure’s envoys entered further peace talks with Konoha.
• Orochimaru met Mei Terumī and Kirigakure’s representatives on an island, where they established a framework for peace.
• Hagoromo left the front because he had other matters to pursue, including Mirai.

Hagoromo searched the Kannabi Bridge battlefield for Uchiha Obito’s body, but found only dried blood before White Zetsu attacked him. He destroyed the creatures and left, unaware that an Aloe Head watched him, as the chapter outlined the altered war’s consequences for Minato, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin.

• Hagoromo reached the battlefield near the former Kannabi Bridge and found no body beneath the earth and rocks, only dried blood.
• Six White Zetsu emerged from Hagoromo’s body after absorbing his chakra and questioned why he had come.
• Hagoromo used Chidori Current Second Stage to kill the White Zetsu, but its corpse exploded before he could collect it.
• Hagoromo left as an Aloe Head watched him from the forest.
• The war’s altered course forced Iwagakure to withdraw from the Land of Grass, strengthened Minato Namikaze’s reputation, and gave Kakashi Hatake a Sharingan; Obito and then Rin died.

Hagoromo, Minato, and Kushina mourned Rin while Kakashi remained alone at her grave. Afterward, Hagoromo told Minato that Obito’s body had vanished and described his encounter with a chakra-absorbing enemy, leaving Minato to consider the possibility of a powerful threat lurking in the shadows.

• Hagoromo reflected on Rin’s death and said she should not have died as Minato, Kushina, Kakashi, and he visited her grave.
• Minato stopped Kushina from calling Kakashi away, and the others left him alone to grieve.
• Hagoromo told Minato that Obito’s body had disappeared from the battlefield in the Land of Earth.
• Minato suggested Iwagakure might have taken Obito’s body, but Hagoromo said there were no signs of damage and described encountering White Zetsu.
• Hagoromo warned Minato that an unknown enemy capable of absorbing chakra might be more powerful than the Four Great Ninja Villages.