Chapter Summaries

Deidara entered the mysterious game and found himself trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi World, where a Black Earth avatar explained its rules. After learning that a random world would be selected for him, Deidara asked for one where he could make art.

• Deidara visited the cliff where he believed Sasori had died, then decided to try the dangerous game on his phone.
• Deidara flew to a safe place, signed the game's secrecy contract, and activated the moon app.
• The app's image revealed a Rinnegan-like eye, and Deidara found himself inside the Infinite Tsukuyomi World.
• Deidara tried to disrupt his Chakra to escape, but the illusion did not break, and the phone transformed into a Black Earth avatar.
• Black Earth explained that players could explore randomly selected worlds and trigger missions and storylines, so Deidara asked for a world where he could create art.

Deidara woke in a survival game aboard an aircraft and parachuted onto a deserted island, where he began collecting supplies. He learned that the game standardized participants’ appearances and abilities, and Neji had designed its inventory rules to distinguish Tsukuyomi from reality.

• Deidara woke strapped into an aircraft as a broadcast explained that he had to survive on a deserted island and eliminate his enemies.
• Deidara studied the map and jumped from the aircraft, then steered his parachute toward an area with buildings and supplies.
• Deidara noticed that the game had restricted his physical abilities and standardized his appearance and strength.
• Deidara landed inside a building, picked up a grenade, and learned that he could summon items from his backpack by thinking of them.
• Neji’s deliberate game settings distinguished the Tsukuyomi world from reality.

Deidara explored the Battle Royale World, testing its weapons and killing other players while Neji, Izumi, and Karin monitored him from the Land of Waves base. Neji decided he would need to add ordinary people and casual worlds to balance future instances, while Karin waited for him to test the effects of dying in the game.

• Deidara tested a grenade and an Impact Gun Generation 1, then used the gun to kill a player and discovered that kills appeared in a shared feed.
• Deidara looted the dead player’s box, finding a Basic Talisman, and learned that gunshots caused pain without visible injuries or impaired movement.
• Deidara wandered through the corridors searching for more grenades.
• Neji, Izumi, and Karin watched Deidara’s actions on a screen at the Land of Waves base.
• Neji refused to let Karin enter the game until he tested the effects players experienced after dying, and Karin continued gathering information on dead players with Izumi.

Neji monitored the mental effects on players who died in the Tsukuyomi World and adjusted the recovery rules to prevent lasting trauma. Meanwhile, Deidara survived an attack in the Battle Royale and suspected that players were teaming up, so he prepared to fight back.

• Karin reported that ten participants had died in the Tsukuyomi World, and Neji ordered their condition and recovery data displayed.
• Neji had Karin monitor the players’ mental health, restore anyone who needed it, and erase the game memories of a participant who abandoned the mission.
• Neji studied the dead players’ aftereffects and began setting a recovery period before they could return to the Tsukuyomi World.
• Deidara explored the Battle Royale, relied on mines and other explosives, and eliminated a player as the match dwindled to twelve survivors.
• An opponent ambushed Deidara with a Submachine Gun Generation 4, but his grenade killed the attacker; Deidara suspected the opponent had been part of a team and vowed to fight them properly.

Deidara wiped out three opponents in the Battle Royale World with traps and explosives while Neji monitored the test from the Land of Waves base. The test continued as Neji considered adding stronger worlds and gambling for a Golden Legend.

• Deidara ambushed three opponents in an unfinished building, killing them with grenades, traps, flashbangs, and fire.
• The safe zone shrank, leaving nine players as Deidara prepared a surprise for a sniper in a distant building.
• Neji watched Deidara's performance and learned from Izumi that the players' death reactions and mental damage had lessened.
• Karin reported that no one had died in the real world, though some participants had suffered mental damage and fallen into a groggy sleep.
• Neji considered adding perspectives from the main world and decided to gamble for more worlds, hoping to draw a Golden Legend.

Neji entered the world of Akame ga Kill and appeared between Esdeath and Najenda as Esdeath was about to kill the defecting general. Najenda mistook Neji for someone connected to her Revolutionary Army, while Neji revealed that he belonged to a different one.

• Najenda fled the Empire, but Esdeath intercepted her and offered to let her return.
• Najenda refused, and Esdeath drew her sword and attacked her.
• A golden Gate of Time and Space appeared between the two women, forcing them to pause their fight.
• Neji stepped through the gate and recognized Esdeath and Najenda.
• Najenda asked whether Neji was from the Revolutionary Army, and he said he belonged to one in another world.

Neji tried to persuade Esdeath and Najenda to take him to the Empire, but Esdeath attacked and he defeated her. He left Najenda with him and learned that she wanted Esdeath spared because her absence could leave the northern border vulnerable.

• Neji suggested that Esdeath and Najenda take him to the Empire, but Esdeath attacked him with ice.
• Neji deflected Esdeath’s attacks and used repulsive force to send her enormous ice meteor crashing away from them.
• Neji pulled Esdeath toward him and struck her repeatedly until she lost consciousness.
• Neji told Najenda not to leave and suggested she bring Esdeath over so they could make her appear to have fled with Najenda.
• Najenda asked Neji to spare Esdeath, explaining that the northern tribes could invade if she were gone.

Neji spared and healed Esdeath at Najenda’s request, then traveled with Najenda to the Imperial Capital. There, Najenda explained that she wanted to overthrow the corrupt Empire and rebuild the country, and Neji asked whether she planned to rely on the Revolutionary Army.

• Neji restored the battlefield with Tempo Arc and healed Esdeath with Medical Ninjutsu.
• Najenda explained that she had asked Neji to spare Esdeath so she could continue guarding the northern border, and Esdeath accepted that responsibility despite threatening to pursue Neji.
• Neji and Najenda flew to the Imperial Capital, where Neji reflected on the Empire’s decay and the Minister’s control over it.
• Neji asked Najenda whether she wanted to save the country, and she said she intended to overthrow the Empire and rebuild it.
• Neji asked Najenda whether she planned to achieve that through the Revolutionary Army she had contacted.

Neji offered to help Najenda kill the minister, but she insisted the Empire had to be overthrown, so he urged the Revolutionary Army to move on the Imperial Capital that night. After exploring the city and seeing its corruption, Neji waited on the western wall for midnight as the Revolutionary Army prepared its forces.

• Najenda told Neji she could not travel with him because she was a wanted criminal, but Neji stopped her by offering to help kill the minister.
• Najenda decided the Empire still had to be overthrown, and Neji told her to bring the Revolutionary Army to the Imperial Capital that night.
• Neji entered the Imperial Capital unseen by its guards and walked through its crowded streets, where he sensed pickpockets and violence in the alleys.
• Najenda informed the Revolutionary Army of Neji's offer, and its leaders sent Imperial Arms users, nearby troops, and hidden operatives toward the capital.
• At dusk, Neji sat on the western city wall with a cup of wine, having finished his preparations and waiting for midnight.

Najenda and her forces gathered in Dewdrop Forest, waiting for a man to break through the Imperial Capital’s defenses, when a terrifying meteor appeared over the city. The young emperor sought help from General Bud, who admitted he could not stop the meteor but vowed to protect him.

• Najenda led her forces to the breach in Dewdrop Forest and prepared to enter the Imperial Capital once the promised breakthrough began.
• A streak of light appeared in the sky, and its growing oppressive presence alarmed the Imperial Capital’s residents and soldiers.
• A little boy and his mother looked up at the meteor as the city brightened around them.
• The young emperor asked whether Heaven was destroying the Empire, and General Bud descended outside his bedchamber to defend him.
• The minister arrived and urged General Bud to stop the meteor, but General Bud said he could not deal with it and promised to protect the young emperor.
• The minister realized General Bud could not guarantee his safety and looked toward the young emperor with renewed hope.

The young emperor activated the Imperial Armor Supreme Throne to destroy a meteor threatening the Imperial Capital, while General Bud used his Imperial Arm to shatter the falling debris. As the emperor weakened and the minister plotted to profit from the damage, a second meteor appeared.

• The minister urged the young emperor to activate the Supreme Imperial Arm, and General Bud carried him to the palace hall.
• The young emperor awakened Supreme Throne with his blood as the palace shook and civilians across the capital began disappearing.
• Supreme Throne fired a crimson beam that shattered the meteor, scattering enormous fragments over the city.
• General Bud used the Wrath of the Thunder God Adramelech to blast the meteor debris apart with lightning.
• The minister praised the emperor while planning to make the surviving commoners pay to rebuild the palace, and Supreme Throne drained the emperor's strength.
• The young emperor spotted a second meteor and fired another beam from Supreme Throne.

The Little Emperor and General Bud exhausted themselves destroying a second meteorite, leaving the Minister convinced that no one could oppose his planned takeover. A third meteorite then appeared over the Imperial Capital, shattering his confidence.

• General Bud told the Little Emperor he could no longer fight after using his lightning to destroy the first meteorite's fragments.
• The Minister urged the Little Emperor to protect the Imperial Capital, and the Little Emperor used the Imperial Armor Supreme Throne to destroy the second meteorite's fragments.
• The Little Emperor collapsed, and the Minister believed he was dead and began celebrating his chance to seize control of the Empire.
• General Bud confronted the Minister about his plans, but collapsed before he could stop him.
• The Minister gloated over General Bud's apparent defeat until a third meteorite appeared above the Imperial Capital.

Najenda watched three meteorites destroy the Imperial Capital and blamed herself for the deaths of its people. Neji stopped her attack and revealed that she had misunderstood what happened to the city’s inhabitants.

• Najenda watched the meteorites descend and regretted having helped bring about the attack.
• The Minister raged atop the Imperial Armor, and General Bud seized him and burned him as the third meteorite fell.
• The meteorite struck the Imperial Capital, while an orange barrier contained most of the blast and Neji’s threads kept the Revolutionary Army from being swept away.
• Najenda mourned the city’s presumed dead until Neji told her none of them were innocent and caught her punch.
• Neji dispelled the Nen Barrier, froze the spreading smoke, and activated Tempo Arc.

Neji reversed the destruction of the Imperial Capital, reshaped the meteorites into cities across the Empire, and handed the restored capital to the Revolutionary Army. After Najenda apologized, Neji left a Gate of Time and Space in the palace and departed, telling the army to handle the rest and to send Esdeath to find him there.

• Neji restored the Imperial Capital and the three meteorites, then reshaped them into vast stone cities and sent them to the Empire's borders.
• Neji summoned the Revolutionary Army, and Najenda led its commanders into the Imperial Capital to take control.
• Neji restored the citizens killed beneath the meteorites, while guards, nobles, and certain merchants remained dead.
• Najenda apologized to Neji for misunderstanding him, and the citizens submitted to the new rule as the Revolutionary Army secured the capital.
• Neji told Najenda the Revolutionary Army could handle the rest, left a door in the palace for Esdeath to find him, and stepped through the Gate of Time and Space.

Neji entered Academy City and watched a confrontation between Misaka Mikoto and Kamijou Touma, discovering that Touma’s right hand could erase supernatural power. He recognized the ability as a serious unknown and left himself unsure how much of the world’s power he could handle.

• Neji reflected on his wish to travel through peaceful worlds, then used a grain of Sands of Time to enter a new world.
• Neji arrived on a futuristic bridge in Academy City and used the Tenseigan to spot Accelerator inside a heavily protected building.
• Neji recognized the world as A Certain Magical Index and noticed Kamijou Touma running toward Misaka Mikoto.
• Misaka Mikoto demonstrated her Railgun for Touma and explained that she had dealt with the delinquents who had been bothering her.
• Misaka Mikoto attacked Touma with lightning, but his right hand erased it, and Neji realized he could not understand the ability’s power.

Neji intervened when Mikoto Misaka's lightning fight with Touma Kamijou threatened Academy City's power lines, then traveled to the Windowless Building to meet its chairman, Aleister Crowley. The chapter ended with Aleister welcoming Neji, a visitor from another world, and Neji inspecting the machinery keeping him alive.

• Neji was struck by Mikoto Misaka's lightning, dispersed her storm, and stopped her attacks from causing a blackout.
• Neji warned Mikoto that it was late, prompting her to leave for Tokiwadai before her dorm supervisor locked her out.
• Touma Kamijou thanked Neji and headed back to his dormitory while Neji acknowledged the surveillance surrounding them.
• Neji vanished from the bridge and arrived at the Windowless Building, where Aleister Crowley greeted him as a visitor from another world.
• Neji introduced himself to Aleister and quickly recognized that the machinery was extending Aleister's lifespan.

Neji confronted Aleister Crowley about Academy City and secured a villa and student identity, then withdrew from surveillance to explore the city. The next morning, Touma Kamijou found Index hanging from his balcony and learned she was hungry.

• Neji criticized Aleister Crowley's life-support devices and warned him not to expose Academy City's darker side.
• Neji asked Aleister Crowley to arrange accommodation and identification, then vanished after calling him Edward Alexander.
• Aleister Crowley arranged a luxurious villa and student identity for Neji, who removed the Sky-Stopping Wires monitoring him and set up a barrier.
• Touma Kamijou woke to debris in his room and went to air out his bedding on the balcony.
• Touma Kamijou discovered Index hanging from the balcony, and she told him she had starved to death by the roadside.

Neji accepted his new identity as a student and went out instead of heading to class. After Aehwa Yomikawa told Komi Tsukuyomi about seeing an unfamiliar student heading toward the Sixth School District, Komi asked her to find him.

• Neji found a phone, identification documents, and student clothes outside his door, then dressed and checked his student ID.
• Neji saw that he had been assigned to Touma Kamijou's class and went out to explore the city.
• Neji encountered Aehwa Yomikawa in the elevator, and she later arrived at school without recognizing him as the transfer student Komi was expecting.
• Komi Tsukuyomi told Aehwa that a transfer student had failed to arrive at school, and Aehwa recalled seeing an unfamiliar student heading toward the Sixth School District.
• Komi asked Aehwa to find the student, and Aehwa agreed.

Aehwa Yomikawa searched the Sixth School District for Neji Hyuga after finding almost no information about him. She finally met him at an amusement park, where he invited her to lunch before agreeing to go to school with her that afternoon.

• Aehwa Yomikawa found only basic transfer-student information about Neji Hyuga and began searching for him in the Sixth School District.
• Neji Hyuga spent the morning at an amusement park, repeatedly avoiding Aehwa Yomikawa as she tracked him.
• Neji Hyuga waited at a shaded rest area with an iced drink for Aehwa Yomikawa, who arrived exhausted and accepted his invitation to sit.
• Aehwa Yomikawa introduced herself as Neji Hyuga's new teacher and asked why he had not reported to school.
• Neji Hyuga apologized, offered to take Aehwa Yomikawa to lunch, and said he would accompany her to school that afternoon.
• Neji Hyuga produced a table of food and cooled the area with his abilities, and he and Aehwa Yomikawa began eating.

Neji returned to school with Aehwa Yomikawa and met his homeroom teacher, Komi Tsukuyomi, who prepared to introduce him to the class. The chapter ended as Komi and Neji entered the classroom, where Fukiyose Seiri had already quieted the students.

• Neji snapped his fingers and transported himself and Aehwa Yomikawa from the Sixth School District to the school gate, then went inside.
• Aehwa brought Neji to the staff office and left him with Komi Tsukuyomi, who admitted him as her transfer student and forgave him for missing school.
• Komi told Neji to wait for afternoon classes, explained school rules, and planned to introduce him to his classmates.
• Komi brought Neji to the classroom, where Fukiyose Seiri silenced the noisy students and glared at the yellow-haired trio.