Chapter Summaries

Danzo, Hanzo, and Shu joined forces against Ōnoki, who transformed into the Four-Tails Knight and defeated them with ease. As Senju Hi Shin prepared to enter the fight, Hydrangea activated Plan B.

• Amegakure's Maintenance Squad replaced Hanzo's body while Danzo held Ōnoki off and enabled Root to retreat.
• Hanzo charged Ōnoki despite Xiu's warnings, then teamed up with Danzo after Ōnoki threw him into Danzo.
• Shu summoned his new Puppet Knight, Unit-01, and joined Hanzo and Danzo against Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki took Xiao Zi's Driver and Four-Tails Card, transformed, and swiftly crippled Hanzo, destroyed Unit-01, and knocked Shu and Danzo down.
• Senju Hi Shin asked if it was her turn to fight, while Hydrangea activated Plan B after losing contact with Hanzo.

Hydrangea hired a renowned fixer to rescue Hanzo, while Hanzo, Shu, and Danzo struggled to hold off Ōnoki until reinforcements arrived. Uchiha Gin spotted the approaching silver light, suggesting the promised help was finally near.

• Hydrangea arranged for a fixer to reach the battlefield within five minutes, and the fixer took Yi along without telling the mother Yi expected.
• Hanzo had Shu fit him with replacement arms, then fought beside Shu and Danzo as they waited for reinforcements.
• Shu deployed his Knight Legion, but Ōnoki quickly destroyed two puppets and pressed the three defenders.
• Danzo struck Ōnoki with Butt Release: Thousand Blade Slash, piercing his armor and wounding him at the waist.
• Senju Hi Shin prepared to intervene, but Uchiha Gin pointed out that the incoming reinforcements had arrived as a silver light sped toward the battlefield.

Ōnoki overwhelmed Danzo, Hanzo, and Shu after shedding his outer armor, while Uchiha Gin and Senju Hi Shin watched from hiding. Just as Ōnoki moved to seize Hanzo, a silver-white Rhinoceros Beetle Knight intervened, and Chiwings rescued Danzo from the blast and demanded extra payment.

• Ōnoki revealed that his old wound had healed, destroyed most of Shu’s Puppet Knights, and fought Hanzo while Danzo waited for reinforcements.
• Danzo used Wind Release attacks with Shu’s remaining puppets to blast Ōnoki through an Earth Style Wall, but Ōnoki shed his outer armor and defeated the three of them.
• Uchiha Gin watched with Senju Hi Shin, who posed in front of a mirror, and Gin pointed out an approaching silver figure to distract her.
• Ōnoki destroyed Shu’s last Puppet Knights and threatened to take the defeated trio to Iwagakure, while Hanzo’s expected reinforcements failed to arrive on time.
• A silver-white Rhinoceros Beetle Knight appeared and blocked Ōnoki from taking Hanzo, then knocked Xiao Zi away and clashed with Ōnoki’s Lava Fist.
• A young man named Chiwings caught Danzo as the blast threw him toward a swamp and told him the rescue service cost extra.

Kakuzu arrived to rescue Hanzo and sold protection contracts to Shu and Danzo before confronting Ōnoki. As Kakuzu and Ōnoki battled, Chiwings unexpectedly subdued Xiao Zi, leaving Han stunned and the others relieved that their rescue fees had paid off.

• Kakuzu reached Hanzo, identified him as his paid rescue target, and offered Shu and Danzo protection services.
• Chiwings brought Danzo to Kakuzu, who recognized Danzo from the past and approved his thirty-five-million rescue contract.
• Hanzo agreed to reimburse Shu and Danzo, and Kakuzu faced Ōnoki after Ōnoki refused to retreat.
• Ōnoki and Kakuzu began a destructive fight while Xiao Zi and Han moved to attack Chiwings and the others.
• Chiwings suddenly seized Xiao Zi by the neck, leaving Han, Danzo, Shu, and Hanzo astonished by his strength.

Chiwings transformed into Amazo Neo and fought Han while Kakuzu battled Ōnoki, as Uchiha Gin’s boast of calling in reinforcements was unexpectedly fulfilled by the arrival of the retired Gin-Kin Brothers. Ginkaku immediately attacked Kakuzu, confirming the brothers had come to take advantage of Iwagakure’s weakened position.

• Chiwings released Xiao Zi into the swamp, revealed his Piranha card, and transformed into Amazo Neo, with his mother Satoru taking control of his body.
• Amazo Neo relentlessly attacked Han, wounding him and forcing the Five-Tails Knight to retreat.
• While Gin joked with Senju Hi Shin and Kushina about his ability to summon reinforcements, two thunderbolts heralded the arrival of the Gin-Kin Brothers.
• Ōnoki recognized the retired Kumogakure brothers, and Senju Hi Shin worried they might join the fight against Iwagakure.
• Ginkaku charged Kakuzu and smashed at his face with a Hydraulic Mechanical Fist, confirming that the brothers had come to exploit Iwagakure’s disadvantage.

Kinkaku and Ōnoki struck a deal to ally their villages, while the battlefield erupted into clashes between transformed fighters. As Danzo’s rescue turned into a dangerous standoff, Senju Hi Shin decided to enter the battle, but she lacked a Driver until Uchiha Gin offered her one.

• Kinkaku revealed that he and Ginkaku had come to confirm Konoha’s involvement in the war and threatened to take Danzo hostage to draw out Tobirama Senju.
• Ōnoki and Kinkaku agreed that Kumogakure would help hold Konoha and Sunagakure back in exchange for half the spoils and temporary custody of Danzo.
• Ginkaku transformed into the Two-Tails Matatabi Rider and fought Chiwings, while Han rescued Xiao Zi from the swamp and learned that Satoru could drain Chakra.
• Kinkaku transformed into the Eight-Tails Gyūki Rider and struck Kakuzu, who accepted Danzo’s offer to raise his fee and began powering up with Chomei’s source Chakra.
• Senju Hi Shin decided to join the battle, but Nonō had no Driver for her, so Uchiha Gin offered her a newly made dual-card Driver.

Senju Hi Shin learned how to use Uchiha Gin’s new Driver before heading into battle, while Danzo’s group faced Han and released an unfinished One-Tail puppet as a trump card. The puppet Shukaku fled after Kurama appeared and shattered it, leaving the battlefield’s battle unresolved.

• Uchiha Gin fastened the Driver around Senju Hi Shin and taught her to activate it, using Hashirama Prison Bottom’s voice source.
• Kushina blackmailed Uchiha Gin into buying her a dress, while Nonō resolved to win his attention by becoming wealthy.
• Kinkaku and Kakuzu fought while Ginkaku pinned Satoru, and Han pressed Danzo, Shu, and Hanzo to reveal their hidden abilities.
• Shu unsealed an unfinished One-Tail puppet, and Shukaku emerged, recognized the assembled Tailed Beast Knights, and tried to avoid fighting them.
• Kurama arrived as Shukaku prepared to face Son Gokū, destroyed the puppet with a Chakra fox head, and Shukaku fled while blaming the human-made machinery.

Senju Hi Shin arrived on the battlefield, rescued Danzo’s group, and challenged the Gin-Kin Brothers after transforming with the Yin and Yang Nine-Tails. The brothers accepted her as a worthy opponent, while the Nine-Tails discovered that its restored form was missing something important.

• Shukaku escaped, leaving Shu grieving over his destroyed nineteen-point-eight-billion war puppet, while Danzo welcomed Senju Hi Shin’s arrival.
• Senju Hi Shin rescued Danzo’s group, defeated Han with a Flying Thunder God Slash, and assigned Kakuzu to fight Ōnoki.
• Senju Hi Shin confronted the Gin-Kin Brothers and used Uchiha Gin’s Driver with the Yin and Yang Nine-Tails Cards to transform into an orange-red Rider.
• The Gin-Kin Brothers stopped competing over who would fight first and prepared to face Senju Hi Shin together, while the other tailed beasts braced for battle.
• The Nine-Tails realized that although it had returned to its complete form, its genitals were missing.

Uchiha Gin watched Senju Hi Shin fight the Gin-Kin Brothers after explaining the limits of the children’s transformation devices. The brothers activated Nine-Tails Armor and appeared to defeat Hi Shin, while the surrounding forces prepared to retreat or capture their opponents.

• Uchiha Gin told Kushina and the others their transformation devices were limited to twenty percent of the Nine-Tails’ power, while Senju Hi Shin’s output was about two hundred percent.
• Senju Hi Shin overwhelmed Kinkaku and Ginkaku at first, but the brothers equipped Nine-Tails Armor made from chakra linked to the Nine-Tails’ body.
• Ginkaku used his heightened sense of smell to intercept Senju Hi Shin, and Kinkaku struck her with a powerful punch that left her charred at the bottom of a massive pit.
• Ginkaku declared victory, Ōnoki moved to stop Kakuzu and Chiwings from retreating, and the Root members lost hope of rescuing Danzo.
• Kizaru asked Uchiha Gin for a transformation device so he could help, but Minato warned him that their enemies were too strong.
• Hyuga Kagami gave Kushina a censored vulgar explanation of a word, prompting Uchiha Gin to worry about the books in his study.

Nonō sent Root to rescue Danzo and Senju Hi Shin while Uchiha Gin reassured the children that Hi Shin had not truly been defeated. Hi Shin’s deception exposed Han as her decoy and let her ambush Ōnoki, but the Driver’s effects left her flushed as she faced the Gin-Kin Brothers.

• Nonō ordered Root to rescue Danzo and Hi Shin, left Shinnosuke behind, and Minato’s group prepared to help.
• Uchiha Gin hinted that the apparent Hi Shin in the pit was a decoy, and Hyuga Kagami discovered Han’s real identity with the Byakugan.
• Ōnoki destroyed Ginkaku’s attack on the decoy, but Hi Shin appeared behind him and slashed him before escaping his counterattack with Flying Thunder God.
• Xiao Zi rescued the charred Han, and Ōnoki found a Flying Thunder God seal on his lower back, revealing how Hi Shin had used him as a decoy.
• Konoha celebrated Hi Shin’s return while Kushina massaged Uchiha Gin; Hi Shin faced the Gin-Kin Brothers, troubled by the Driver’s effects.

Senju Hi Shin fought Ginkaku while struggling with an urgent need to pee and the loss of her Flying Thunder God kunai. Though Ginkaku appeared to win their clash, he admitted defeat after noticing Danzo’s attack had left a mark on his chest.

• Senju Hi Shin realized Uchiha Gin’s lemon water had caused her discomfort, while Kakuzu prepared to retreat with Danzo, Shu, and Hanzo.
• Ōnoki confronted Senju Hi Shin over Han’s injuries, but the Gin-Kin Brothers insisted on fighting her, and Ginkaku attacked first.
• Senju Hi Shin used Flying Thunder God to evade Ginkaku until Kakuzu gathered up her marked kunai, leaving her with few escape points.
• Ginkaku struck Senju Hi Shin and injured her, while Danzo charged in with Butt Release: Thousand Blade Slash and wounded Ginkaku’s chest armor.
• Senju Hi Shin drew on Nine-Tails’ remaining power to clash with Ginkaku in midair, and both crashed to the ground.
• Ginkaku noticed the growing mark on his chest and declared that he had lost.

Senju Hi Shin wounded Ginkaku with the Nine-Tails’ Baryon Mode, but Kinkaku threatened her before Rain Ninja reinforcements arrived with a legion of cyborgs. As the battle escalated, Uchiha Gin rallied Konoha’s Root members to fight the invaders.

• Senju Hi Shin struck Ginkaku’s chest with Baryon Mode Chakra, leaving him near death, while the Nine-Tails revealed the move consumed his life force.
• Kinkaku demanded a way to save Ginkaku and prepared to take Senju Hi Shin, while Ōnoki tried to exploit the situation.
• Hanzo sensed the Rain Ninja approaching, and Hydrangea arrived with a fully prepared cyborg legion made from wounded Rain Ninja.
• Hanzo deployed the legion, whose steel fists smashed Ōnoki’s Earth Style Wall and forced the attackers to retreat.
• Uchiha Gin gave an impassioned mobilization speech that stirred the Root members and Konoha allies into declaring their duty to fight.

Amegakure’s cyborgs clashed with Ōnoki as Kinkaku prepared to kill the injured Senju Hi Shin. Uchiha Gin arrived just in time to protect her, though her urgent bathroom problem left them in an awkward embrace as the chapter ended.

• Hydrangea warned Hanzo that Ōnoki and Kinkaku were formidable, while Kakuzu agreed to protect Danzo and Shu for an additional fee.
• Hanzo returned to battle in a rebuilt cyborg body, and he and the Android Legion attacked Ōnoki, who was wounded despite his armor.
• Kinkaku charged at Senju Hi Shin, and Danzo used his last strength to fire a Vacuum Great Sphere before collapsing; Kinkaku crushed it and continued toward her.
• Senju Hi Shin tried to stall Kinkaku so she could use the bathroom, but Uchiha Gin struck her with a thrown brick and landed in front of her as Root arrived.
• Senju Hi Shin scolded Uchiha Gin, then realized she had wet herself in his arms; he said that kind of play cost extra, and she told him to deduct it from the betrothal gifts.

Uchiha Gin stopped Kinkaku from attacking and discovered that Kinkaku had come to confront Senju Hi Shin over Ginkaku’s injuries. While Hanzo and Ōnoki tried to make sense of Gin’s influence, Gin promised to help Ginkaku and left Hi Shin fuming after humiliating her during their bathroom break.

• Ōnoki tested whether he was under a genjutsu by ordering Xiao Zi to slap him, while Hanzo asked Hydrangea to identify Uchiha Gin and she hid how much she knew about him.
• Hanzo ordered Hydrangea to keep watch on Ōnoki and ensure the Iwagakure forces stayed on the battlefield.
• Gin took Kinkaku and Hi Shin into the Small Forest, where Kinkaku explained that he and Ginkaku had come to confront Senju Tobirama and demanded an explanation for Ginkaku’s injuries.
• Gin promised Kinkaku he would find a way to free Ginkaku from his predicament, then stopped Kinkaku from bowing by holding onto his horn.
• Hi Shin worried that she and Gin were doomed, but Gin startled her while she was squatting, teased her about her underwear, and demanded that she wash his soiled clothes.

Uchiha Gin removed the corrosive Nine-Tails energy from Ginkaku and helped Senju Hi Shin seal it, while revealing his old ties to the Gin-Kin Brothers. After Kinkaku left with his recovered brother, Ōnoki and his companions faced the remaining Leaf and Rain ninja, until Kakuzu offered corpse escort services.

• Kinkaku emerged from the rainforest with Uchiha Gin and treated him as an old acquaintance, while Ōnoki and Hanzo tried to figure out Gin’s identity.
• Danzo told Hanzo that Gin was an over-eighty-year-old Uchiha who had lived since the Warring States Period, mastered the Yin Seal, and still held the rank of Genin.
• Gin examined Ginkaku and found that corrosive energy from the Nine-Tails and Senju Hi Shin was damaging him; he and Hi Shin sealed the energy inside a card.
• Kinkaku accidentally made Ginkaku drink an entire bottle of tonic, then carried him away after Gin confirmed he had recovered and thanked Hi Shin for helping.
• Gin explained that he had involved Hi Shin so the Gin-Kin Brothers would owe her a favor, while she promised to return his washed strawberry underwear.
• Ōnoki complained that the Gin-Kin Brothers had abandoned the alliance, and Kakuzu stepped forward to offer corpse escort services to the Leaf and Rain ninja.

After Amegakure repelled Ōnoki, Hanzo hosted the allies who had helped defend the village. Senju Hi Shin revealed that she had come to discuss cooperation with Amegakure, and Hanzo asked whether she could speak for Konoha.

• Ōnoki escaped after unleashing Dust Release, while Hanzo abandoned pursuit because the Amegakure Cyborg Legion could not fly.
• Hanzo thanked Shu, Danzo, and the others for their support, paid Kakuzu, and invited the group to a banquet.
• Senju Hi Shin asked Uchiha Gin about his relationship with the Third Kazekage and threatened him over her little sister; on the way to the base, she told Danzo she intended to cooperate with Amegakure.
• Uchiha Gin criticized Hydrangea's Wave Country-inspired cyborg designs, gave her a human body modification textbook, and praised the meal she had cooked at the banquet.
• Senju Hi Shin warned Hanzo that Iwagakure might launch a full-scale assault, and Hanzo asked whether she could represent Konoha's position.

Senju Hi Shin ordered Minato and the other young Konoha Rangers back to the village, while Uchiha Gin stayed behind and dealt with Hi Shin’s drunken advances. After Hi Shin learned the wine had come from Waterfall Country, she appointed Danzō commander of Konoha’s forces supporting Amegakure and warned him not to sacrifice himself needlessly.

• Nonō relayed Senju Hi Shin’s order for Minato, Kushina, and the other young Rangers to return, and Uchiha Gin supported the decision with a lesson about protecting the village’s young shinobi.
• Senju Hi Shin drunkenly flirted with Uchiha Gin and groped him, so Gin used hypnosis to put her to sleep and had Nonō escort her to a tent.
• The next morning, Senju Hi Shin mistakenly suspected Gin had taken advantage of her until Nonō explained what had happened and reported that the wine had been imported from Waterfall Country.
• Senju Hi Shin summoned Danzō and appointed him commander-in-chief of Konoha’s First Combat Division, entrusting him with the aid operation for Amegakure.
• Senju Hi Shin warned Danzō that he could retreat if the battle could not be won, passing on Hashirama Senju’s advice to preserve his forces.

Uchiha Gin and Senju Itama visited Yamanaka Minako’s flower shop to buy flowers for their new neighbors, then ran into Jiraiya working at Yahiko’s newly opened Pain Barbecue Restaurant. Jiraiya revealed that he, Tsunade, and Orochimaru had declined Hiruzen’s request to join Anbu by applying to become team-leading Jonin.

• Uchiha Gin and Senju Itama visited Yamanaka Minako’s flower shop, where Gin teased Yamanaka Inoichi and Minako before Itama bought red tulips for their new neighbors.
• Uchiha Gin and Senju Itama came across the newly opened Pain Barbecue Restaurant, and Jiraiya greeted them while working there.
• Uchiha Gin and Senju Itama teased Jiraiya about marriage, and Jiraiya introduced Yahiko, who called Itama “Grandma” and was struck for it.
• Uchiha Gin learned that Yahiko had named the restaurant Pain and wished Jiraiya success with it.
• Jiraiya told Uchiha Gin that Hiruzen had asked him, Tsunade, and Orochimaru to join Anbu, but they had applied to Tobirama to become team-leading Jonin instead.

Senju Itama and Uchiha Gin went to meet their new neighbors, Yuhi Shinku and Yuhi Rina, and discovered that the couple’s infant daughter was Yuhi Kurenai. After Rina recognized Gin as Konoha’s Gynecology Saint, she asked him to examine the baby.

• Senju Itama teased Uchiha Gin about the Training Dummy’s diminishing benefits, and Gin decided to find a way to get it used by Ninja Academy students.
• Senju Itama told Uchiha Gin that their new neighbor was a newly hired Ninja Academy teacher, so they went to visit the Yuhi family.
• Yuhi Shinku drew his blade when Uchiha Gin and Senju Itama appeared behind him, but Senju Itama introduced them as neighbors and calmed him down.
• Uchiha Gin recognized the Yuhi family’s infant as the future Yuhi Kurenai, and he and Senju Itama remarked on her resemblance to Kagami Uchiha.
• Yuhi Rina recognized Uchiha Gin as the Gynecology Saint and asked him to make time for her newborn daughter’s examination.

Uchiha Gin named Yuhi Shinku and Yuhi Rina’s daughter Kurenai, then introduced Shinku to the Training Dummy, which became popular with students and village ninjas. Senju Hi Shin visited Gin to ask for more dummies, admitting that the village’s ninjas wanted to try them too.

• Uchiha Gin examined the Yuhi couple’s newborn daughter and reassured them that she was healthy and had strong potential as a ninja.
• Uchiha Gin persuaded Yuhi Shinku, the Ninja Academy’s chief practical combat instructor, to try the Training Dummy, and he named the baby Kurenai.
• Yuhi Shinku reserved the training field and brought his students to use the dummy, generating a steady stream of experience for Uchiha Gin.
• Senju Hi Shin visited Uchiha Gin and asked for extra dummies because students, their parents, and village ninjas wanted to use them.
• Uchiha Gin teased Senju Hi Shin about wanting to try the dummy himself, and Hi Shin invoked Gin’s hostage to pressure him for an answer.