Chapter Summaries

Senju Hi Shin accepted Orochimaru as her disciple after he gave her a vastly increased gift, and Uchiha Gin took her to a spa before asking about the Uchiha Clan. She warned him that attackers in the Rain Country wore Konoha Headbands and had crimson eyes, leaving their identity unresolved.

• Uchiha Gin helped Orochimaru present a red envelope, and Senju Hi Shin accepted him as her disciple after discovering he had added two zeros to the gift.
• Senju Hi Shin promised Uchiha Gin a broker's fee, then he brought her to a West Street spa, where she received an unexpectedly thorough treatment.
• Senju Hi Shin asked whether Uchiha Clan members were eager for war, and Uchiha Gin denied that they were interested in the Rain Country conflict.
• Senju Hi Shin reported that mysterious ninja had been attacking civilians in the Rain Country while wearing Konoha Headbands.
• Senju Hi Shin said survivors had described the attackers as having crimson eyes capable of piercing the night.

Uchiha Gin traveled to the Land of Hot Water to find his Old Uncle, Tajima, and ended up fighting Tajima’s guard, Uchiha Yashiro, after being mistaken for an impostor. After learning Yashiro worked at the bathhouse, Gin followed him to Tajima’s private lounge and asked about the rumor linking Yashiro to a child named Obito.

• Senju Hi Shin warned Uchiha Gin to investigate whether Uchiha Clan Members were killing civilians and to contain the matter if necessary.
• Uchiha Gin used his Flying Thunder God Seal to travel to Tajima’s location in the Land of Hot Water and entered the bathhouse by claiming to be Tajima’s nephew.
• Uchiha Yashiro attacked Gin after mistaking him for an impostor, but Gin defeated him, healed his injuries, and discovered his identity.
• The Madam and her thugs confronted Gin, and Yashiro revealed that the bathhouse belonged to Wave Country; Gin ordered the wall repairs deducted from Yashiro’s salary.
• On the way to Tajima’s private lounge, Gin asked Yashiro about the rumor that he had fathered a child, and Yashiro angrily denied any connection to Obito.

Uchiha Gin learned that the massacre in the Rain Country was likely carried out by the Chinoike Clan, whose blood-red Ketsuryūgan had been mistaken for Uchiha eyes. He traveled to their exile site in Hell Valley and encountered a girl guarding the entrance.

• Uchiha Gin visited Uchiha Tajima, who confirmed that the Ghost Soldier Squad never attacked unarmed civilians.
• Uchiha Tajima explained the Chinoike Clan’s history and identified their Ketsuryūgan as the likely source of the blood-red eyes at the massacre.
• Uchiha Gin ordered Uchiha Yashiro to monitor a group recruiting for Lord Jashin after Yashiro drove off one of its members.
• Uchiha Gin traveled to Hell Valley and followed a faint scent of blood past a warning sign.
• A girl with blood-red eyes confronted Uchiha Gin and complained that he had entered Hell Valley without buying a ticket.

Uchiha Gin entered Hell Valley Hot Spring Resort, where he met the tiny ticket attendant Xiao Meng and learned she was actually twenty-eight. After exploring the resort and meeting its manager Long, Gin began investigating its residents while Xiao Meng tried to trade candy for something the Great Elder forbade.

• Uchiha Gin confronted Xiao Meng at the entrance, bought a ticket for ten thousand ryo, and learned she worked for Hell Valley Hot Spring Resort.
• Xiao Meng told Gin that Goyōen wanted her to bear his child, then revealed she was twenty-eight despite her childlike appearance.
• Gin and Xiao Meng reached the resort village, where the Great Elder Long greeted Gin and showed him the Hot Spring Eggs the clan sold to survive.
• While Long toured Gin around the resort, Gin sensed that the staff were mostly ordinary Genin rather than the elite ninja he was investigating.
• Xiao Meng asked Long to trade her candy for something, and Gin spoke up for her as she held up two fingers and promised to quit after one more.

Uchiha Gin investigated Hell Valley Resort and learned that some Chinoike had left after clashing with Manager Long over how to run the resort. While receiving a back scrub from Xiao Meng, he heard that the departing members had talked about restoring the clan’s former glory, leaving him to consider whether they were tied to the murders committed in the Uchiha Clan’s name.

• Uchiha Gin learned that Manager Long was two years younger than Xiao Meng and told Long that the Uchiha Clan had become marginal in Konoha but prospered through its pork business.
• Long explained that some Chinoike had left Hell Valley Resort after disagreements over its management, and Xiao Meng confirmed that Goyōen was one of them.
• Long showed Uchiha Gin the Blood Pool Hot Spring and arranged for him to stay at the resort.
• Xiao Meng entered the hot spring room to provide back-scrubbing service, and Uchiha Gin corrected her when she tried to use steel wool.
• Uchiha Gin asked Xiao Meng why the Chinoike had left, and she said they had talked about restoring the clan’s former glory before leaving together with their bedding.

Uchiha Gin learned that Goyōen’s faction had taken a lucrative job and planned to recruit Xiao Meng and Long, while Manager Long returned to Hell Valley and faced Goyōen’s group. Long rejected their offer and fought them, leaving Goyōen wondering whether Blood Pool Hot Spring held the Chinoike Clan’s ultimate secret.

• Xiao Meng told Uchiha Gin that Goyōen’s group had taken a major job and intended to start a trade association after finishing it.
• Uchiha Gin noticed that soaking in the hot spring slightly loosened the viscous Chakra in his body, then resolved to question Manager Long about the departing clan members.
• Long returned with meat for the resort and was confronted by Goyōen and the Chinoike Clan members who had left Hell Valley.
• Goyōen tried to recruit Long and the clan members, but Long accused him of caring only about recruiting Long and Xiao Meng.
• Goyōen attacked Long with his Ketsuryūgan, and Long revealed his scarred, powerful body before charging into the group.
• Long knocked Goyōen and several other attackers into the air, prompting Goyōen to wonder if Blood Pool Hot Spring contained the Chinoike Clan’s ultimate secret.

Uchiha Gin waited for Long to return, while Long battled Goyōen and Han after the traitors attacked him. Back at Hell Valley, Gin questioned Long under genjutsu in the hot spring and mistakenly took his account of the battle as a story about a group of women.

• Uchiha Gin left the Blood Pool Hot Spring and asked Xiao Meng where Long had gone, learning that Long was out buying food.
• Long fought Goyōen, who used the Ketsuryūgan to plant a Human Bomb in him, then chased the fleeing Chinoike Clan Members with a blood-burning secret technique.
• Han intervened to protect Goyōen, struck Long back, and left Long weakened after the fight.
• Long returned with half a pig, and Xiao Meng eagerly accepted a carton of Hua Zi from him.
• Uchiha Gin joined Long in the hot spring and used a little genjutsu to make him describe the battle, then mistook Long's answers for tales of sexual exploits.

Uchiha Gin removed the Human Bomb planted inside Long and joined the Chinoike Clan’s banquet, where Long recognized Gin may have saved him. When Goyōen returned to attack Hell Valley Resort, Long confronted him and delivered a devastating blow, leaving Goyōen screaming in pain.

• Uchiha Gin used his Mutated Byakugan to destroy the Human Bomb inside Manager Long, who woke up and suspected Gin had saved him.
• Uchiha Gin confiscated Xiao Meng’s cigarette, praised her cooking, and gave her a Gold Brick, which Long told her to return.
• An explosion interrupted the banquet, and a security guard reported that Goyōen and his men had returned to Hell Valley Resort.
• Long left Xiao Meng with Uchiha Gin and went to the resort entrance, where he rescued the injured security personnel from Goyōen.
• Goyōen tried to activate Long’s Human Bomb, but Long struck him in the crotch, making him scream in agony.

Goyōen attacked the Chinoike Clan and seized Xiao Meng while Long fought to protect the hot spring resort. Goyōen awakened the Blood Dragon Technique and destroyed the hotel, while Han watched from above and an unseen observer ordered him to submit to inspection.

• Long survived Goyōen’s attack and led the Hell Valley clan members against the traitors as the battle erupted outside the resort.
• Xiao Meng searched for Uchiha Gin, but Goyōen cornered her inside the hotel and captured her with an illusion.
• Long reached Goyōen, who entered the Blood Pool Hot Spring and used the Blood Dragon Technique to summon giant dragons that demolished the hotel.
• Long attacked Goyōen but was struck down by the Blood Giant Dragons, while Han watched the battle from the canyon above.
• An unseen observer studied Han and ordered him to raise his hands over his head for inspection.

Uchiha Gin confronted Han and warned him to deliver a message to Ōnoki, while Goyōen continued attacking the Chinoike Clan in Hell Valley. Xiao Meng broke free of Goyōen’s genjutsu, awakened overwhelming Blood Dragon Eye power, and swallowed his blood dragons, leaving Goyōen to unleash a desperate attack on everyone.

• Uchiha Gin restrained Han, demonstrated his annihilating power, and ordered him to warn Ōnoki that Iwagakure could lose its Knight privileges if its Knights harmed civilians.
• Han fled as Uchiha Gin and Wang Liang bickered over which power he had used, then Goyōen continued beating Long and threatening the Chinoike Clan Members.
• Goyōen’s theft of Xiao Meng’s Hua Zi helped her break his genjutsu, and she struck him in the face with a gold brick before escaping to Long.
• Xiao Meng awakened the Blood Dragon Eye’s power and summoned a huge blood dragon that devoured Goyōen’s dragons.
• Goyōen’s signal flare brought no help, so he declared that everyone in Hell Valley would die and commanded them to explode.

Uchiha Gin arrived at Hell Valley Resort and dismantled Goyōen’s Human Bomb, saving the Chinoike Clan members. He agreed to invest in the resort, while the captured traitors were taken away by Uchiha Yashiro’s Ghost Soldier Squad for work at the Copper Refining Factory.

• Goyōen seized control of part of Xiao Meng’s Blood Dragon and prepared to detonate his Human Bomb, trapping the Chinoike Clan members in Hell Valley.
• Long recognized that Uchiha Gin had broken the Human Bomb inside him and begged Gin to save the clan; Gin agreed after Long promised him braised pork belly.
• Uchiha Gin used Illusion Break to dismantle Goyōen’s Human Bomb, and Goyōen fell alive from the fading explosion.
• Uchiha Gin rejected Long’s offer of loyalty and instead proposed investing in Hell Valley Resort, with Long remaining as its paid manager.
• Long said the traitors deserved death, but Uchiha Gin kept them alive and handed them to Uchiha Yashiro’s Ghost Soldier Squad for work at the Copper Refining Factory.
• Uchiha Yashiro delivered Gin’s requested ingredients, while Xiao Meng packed Gin two boxes of braised pork belly and earned a month-long smoking ban.

Uchiha Gin told Tobirama Senju that Kumogakure's army, led by the Gin-Kin Brothers, had reached the Fire Country border as Konoha faced growing accusations over massacres in the Rain Country. Tobirama suspected Hiruzen's past operations had left Konoha vulnerable, while Senju Hi Shin questioned Orochimaru and Nonō asked Danzo for a larger Root budget.

• Senju Itama told Uchiha Gin that Uchiha Setsuna had placed Obito with a childless couple and planned to make him his final disciple.
• Tobirama Senju arrived at Uchiha Gin's house and revealed that Kagami had reported the Gin-Kin Brothers leading a Cloud Village army near the Fire Country border.
• Tobirama Senju described the accusations against Konoha over killings in the Rain Country, and Uchiha Gin raised the possibility that Hiruzen had authorized earlier secret operations.
• After returning to the Hokage's Office, Tobirama Senju identified Root and Danzo as a possible lead, then sent his findings to Senju Hi Shin through their soul link.
• Senju Hi Shin asked Orochimaru for advice at the research lab, while Nonō told Danzo that Root's recruitment failures required more funding.

Senju Hi Shin confronted Danzo over Root’s covert missions and pressured him into confessing that Hiruzen had ordered them, while clearing Danzo of the civilian massacre accusation. She later explained that the confessions would serve as leverage as Konoha faced rising tensions across the Ninja World, then paused outside a place called Lilies to handle personal business.

• Nonō received Danzo’s signed funding request and greeted Orochimaru and Senju Hi Shin as they arrived at Root Headquarters.
• Senju Hi Shin questioned Danzo about Root’s foreign missions, and Danzo confessed that Hiruzen had ordered them while denying involvement in the Rain Country civilian massacre.
• Senju Hi Shin revealed that Orochimaru’s testimony had been her evidence, then offered Danzo a chance to become an approver witness by finding who had framed Konoha.
• Danzo ordered the Intelligence Department to have Little Orchid investigate the Rain Country Civilian Massacre Case within three days, then discovered that Shinnosuke had brought him milk tea.
• Orochimaru asked Senju Hi Shin when she would close the net on Hiruzen, and she explained that Danzo’s testimony was leverage against the restless Ninja Clan Alliance.
• Senju Hi Shin canceled Orochimaru’s lesson and stopped outside Lilies after seeing two women at its second-floor window.

Jiraiya and Hiruko searched for Yahiko after he went missing, finding him with Nagato and Konan at the Great Lake. The children fled after a Rain ninja post came under attack, but Shinno’s men caught up with them, and Nagato’s sealed Karma began to stir.

• Jiraiya received a Root mission to investigate the Rain Country Civilian Massacre Case, but he and Hiruko set off to find Yahiko after the boss lady reported him missing.
• Whirlpool Masahiko told Jiraiya that Yahiko had gone to the Great Lake with Nagato and Konan.
• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan encountered two Rain ninja at a forbidden-ground sentry post and fled when an explosion and signal flare announced an attack.
• Shinno killed a Rain ninja and ordered an ally to pursue the three children while he staged evidence against Konoha.
• Nagato sensed danger as Shinno’s men appeared in front of the fleeing children and claimed Konan as his target.

Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan were ambushed by disguised Konoha ninja, but Nagato’s damp Exploding Tags helped them escape the first confrontation before Shinno caught up. When Yahiko’s scroll summoned Jiraiya, the children faced their pursuers with a powerful ally at last.

• Nagato threatened the attackers with stacks of Exploding Tags, and the creepy man let Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan go to avoid alerting Rain ninja.
• Shinno intercepted the children, but Nagato’s expired Exploding Tag fizzled, letting them flee while the attackers realized the tags were duds.
• The creepy man’s group cornered the children, and Yahiko opened the scroll Jiraiya had given him.
• The attackers dismissed the scroll as another fake, but Jiraiya appeared through the smoke and introduced himself in grand fashion.

Jiraiya fought the impostor ninja led by Shinno while Hiruko escorted Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan away. A fleeing enemy caught up with Hiruko and the children, leaving them facing an immediate threat.

• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan teased Yahiko about Jiraiya being his father as Jiraiya confronted Shinno and the impostors.
• Creepy Man claimed the group was Konoha’s Anbu, and Shinno falsely introduced himself as Jiraiya before Jiraiya and Hiruko recognized them as the real culprits.
• Jiraiya sent Hiruko away with the three children, then fought Shinno and the impostors with Earth Release, Needle Jizo, and Rasengan.
• Creepy Man escaped during Jiraiya’s battle, then decided to pursue Hiruko and use the children to threaten Jiraiya.
• Creepy Man ambushed Hiruko and the children with Earth Spears and targeted Konan-nee.

Hiruko struggled against Creepy Man while protecting Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato, until Nagato’s strange mark awakened and Jiraiya arrived. Creepy Man was suddenly crushed by an unknown black box, leaving Jiraiya and the others baffled about who had intervened.

• Creepy Man overpowered Hiruko, captured him, and tried to keep Konan while using Nagato as a hostage.
• Hiruko attacked Creepy Man with poisoned Senbon and a Poison Blade, but Creepy Man’s Rock Plate blocked the strike and he seized Hiruko by the neck.
• Yahiko and Nagato pelted Creepy Man with shoddy stolen Ninja Tools, and Hiruko’s kick deflected Creepy Man’s Earth Spear toward Nagato.
• Nagato’s dark left hand stopped the Earth Spear, absorbed its Chakra, and revealed a black diamond-shaped mark that Creepy Man suspected was connected to the Whirlpool Clan.
• Jiraiya arrived and said he had captured Creepy Man’s subordinates, but a black box suddenly crushed Creepy Man before he could answer.
• Jiraiya supported the injured Hiruko, who asked whether the crushing attack had been Jiraiya’s jutsu, and Jiraiya denied it.

Jigen arrived to claim Nagato as his Vessel, but Jiraiya tried to protect the children and was swiftly defeated. After Jigen impaled Hiruko and threatened Jiraiya, Konan used the White Pony to wish for their rescue, summoning two figures who confronted Jigen.

• Jigen appeared, identified himself as Kami, and demanded that Nagato come with him after inspecting the mark on Nagato's hand.
• Jigen used suction to lift Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan, but Jiraiya and the two sages intervened to save them.
• Jigen severed Sage Shima's tongue, absorbed Jiraiya's Rasengan, and defeated him with a Tongbei punch that ended Sage Mode.
• Hiruko tried to rescue Jiraiya, but Jigen impaled him with a Black Rod, leaving the children mourning over his body.
• Konan snapped the White Pony and wished for someone to save them, and two figures appeared above the group as one accused Jigen of bullying his most talented student.

Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu, posing as Uchiha Sasuke, joined Konan and Jiraiya to fight Jigen, who had captured Hashirama and was holding Jiraiya. After Madara and Sasuke transformed to face Jigen together, a Black Rod pierced Sasuke from behind, leaving his condition uncertain.

• Uchiha Madara arrived with Black Zetsu, defeated Jigen's attempt to escape, and ordered Black Zetsu to treat the gravely wounded Hiruko.
• Jiraiya and Konan recognized Black Zetsu as the First Hokage, but he denied it and sent them away with the rescued children and Hiruko.
• Jigen activated Karma Release—State Two and attacked Madara, but Black Zetsu's Wood Release interrupted his sneak attack.
• Black Zetsu revealed his resolve to fight beside Madara, and the two transformed with their Decade Drivers before launching a joint attack on Jigen.
• Jigen summoned Black Rods and Daikokuten cubes, and a Black Rod pierced Black Zetsu from behind after Madara deflected another one.

Uchiha Madara fought Jigen with a succession of Tailed Beast Cards while Izuna and the Chuzi Legion arrived to rescue the wounded Uchiha Sasuke. After the group removed the Black Rod and applied Izuna’s secret medicine, Black Zetsu suffered an agonizing reaction to its Yang Release Chakra.

• Jigen pierced Black Zetsu with a Black Rod and wounded Uchiha Sasuke, prompting Uchiha Madara to rescue Sasuke and challenge him.
• Uchiha Madara transformed with Shukaku and then Nekomata cards, injuring Jigen and freezing his legs, but Jigen recovered and continued fighting.
• Uchiha Izuna arrived with Ichichuzi, Shichuzi, and Kyuchuzi, and Uchiha Madara ordered them to carry the badly wounded Uchiha Sasuke to safety.
• The group struggled to wake Uchiha Sasuke until Shichuzi suggested removing the Black Rod, which Kyuchuzi pulled from Black Zetsu’s body.
• Uchiha Izuna poured his secret Glimmering Potion 3.0 over Uchiha Sasuke, healing the wound but causing Black Zetsu severe pain because the potion contained Yang Release Chakra.