Chapter Summaries

Jueming collected Mental Energy from several people while Danzo persuaded the young Feudal Lord to support impeaching Hiruzen Sarutobi and choosing a new Hokage. After Anko visited Jueming, B-Type reached its maximum, while A-Type remained five points short of unlocking both skills.

• Danzo convinced the young Feudal Lord to support his proposal to impeach Hiruzen Sarutobi and choose a new Hokage.
• Jueming gained Mental Energy from Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kurenai Yuhi as he searched for more targets.
• Orochimaru learned from a Root Ninja that Danzo planned to seek the Hokage position, then left Anko behind.
• Jueming inferred that Danzo's plan was beginning when the village summoned its Jonin, and he increased A-Type by targeting Hyuga Hieki and Yamanaka Santai.
• Jueming brought Anko into his house and used Grass Release: Grass Rope and Vine on her, raising B-Type to 100/100.

Konoha began nominating candidates for the Fourth Hokage as Jonin gathered to hear the announcement, while Jueming moved to complete his final A-Type Energy collection. The chapter left the Hokage election underway with Danzo among the nominees and Jueming blocking Sayuri as Aburame Chiharu watched.

• Anko ran away crying after Jueming exposed her feelings, and Jueming decided to finish collecting A-Type Energy.
• Utatane Koharu argued that Hiruzen Sarutobi could no longer lead Konoha, while Jiraiya announced that he would run for Hokage and bring Tsunade into the election.
• Utatane Koharu announced Tsunade, Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Shimura Danzo as nominees, excluding Fugaku Uchiha.
• Yashiro Uchiha protested Fugaku's exclusion, while Fugaku told him to stay calm.
• Kunugi Mokume declared that he would vote for Koharu, and Koharu redirected his support to Danzo, prompting other supporters to back him.
• Jueming blocked Sayuri as she tried to leave with Aburame Chiharu, intending to make Chiharu feel jealous and complete his final Mental Energy collection puzzle.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter opens with Koharu Utatane, a high school girl, waking up to find her room filled with flowers and a mysterious letter.
• The letter, from an unknown sender, invites Koharu to a secret art exhibition at an abandoned mansion.
• Koharu, intrigued, attends the exhibition and discovers paintings that seem to depict her life and secrets, including her past trauma of losing her mother.
• She meets the artist, a mysterious man named Kakeru, who reveals that he has been watching her and painting her life.
• Koharu is disturbed by the invasion of her privacy but finds herself drawn to Kakeru's art and his understanding of her.

Character Developments

• Koharu Utatane: Koharu is initially shocked and upset by the intrusion into her private life but begins to open up as she connects with Kakeru through his art.
• Kakeru: Kakeru is revealed to be a talented artist who has been secretly observing and painting Koharu. His motivations for doing so are not yet clear.

Significant Themes

• Privacy vs. Connection: The chapter explores the tension between the desire for privacy and the human need for connection and understanding.
• Art as Communication: Kakeru's art serves as a means of communication and connection between him and Koharu, despite the initial invasion of privacy.

Character Interactions

• The primary interaction in this chapter is between Koharu and Kakeru, which is facilitated through Kakeru's art.
• Their interaction is tense at first, with Koharu feeling violated and Kakeru being evasive about his motivations.
• However, as they discuss the paintings, they begin to form a connection, with Koharu finding comfort in Kakeru's understanding of her experiences.

Jueming unlocked new skills and a Special Jonin signature technique, then went to Senju Momoka to ask whether an unknown cost was worth saving the clan. Meanwhile, Danzo prepared to master Impure World Reincarnation and pressure the Senju, while the Fourth Hokage election loomed.

• Jueming unlocked A- and B-Type Mental Energy skills, gained the Special Jonin title, and obtained the B-Rank technique Pulling Seedlings to Help Them Grow, which could rapidly increase his age at dangerous cost.
• Tsunade stayed in her home researching a colorless, odorless drug and declared she would stake her hopes on Jueming.
• Black Zetsu and Aoki watched Obito train and discussed Danzo's possible rise to Hokage and the threat of Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi worried that Danzo's rule would turn Konoha into a place of pure darkness, while Danzo told Utatane Koharu he was close to mastering Impure World Reincarnation and planned to pressure the Senju for an Aberration.
• Jueming visited Senju Momoka in the Forbidden Ground, saw that her Mutation had worsened, and asked whether he should risk his lifespan to resolve the Senju Clan's crisis and future dangers.

Momoka Senju told Jueming how Hashirama’s changing beliefs had helped create Konoha’s darker practices, and said Jueming needed to become Hokage to reform the village. Jueming rejected that goal but promised to save Momoka and asked her to believe him once, while Tsunade finished preparing a knockout drug and went to find him.

• Momoka Senju explained that Hashirama had changed, allowing the village’s interests to justify sacrificing friends, family, and clans.
• Momoka told Jueming she believed he should become Hokage and follow the true Will of Fire, but Jueming said he cared only about deciding who lived and died.
• Jueming promised Momoka he would use a special method to save the Senju Clan and asked her to believe him once, even if his claim seemed unbelievable; she agreed.
• Jueming returned home, shut himself away, and began training with the B-Rank technique Pulling Seedlings to Help Them Grow.
• Tsunade prepared a colorless, odorless knockout drug, while Rasa’s troops crossed the desert into the Land of Rivers and Konoha’s clans worried over the coming Hokage election.
• The next morning, Tsunade finished preparing the drug and set out to find Jueming.

Utatane Koharu prepared for the Hokage election while Senju Jueming took medicine from Tsunade and secretly endured a strange bodily transformation. Jueming said he would protect the Senju Clan, then prepared for the coming fight as Koharu planned to confront Momoka Senju.

• Utatane Koharu admired her rejuvenated appearance, then learned that the Hokage election still required the Jonin vote and the Feudal Lord's approval.
• Koharu planned to eat near the Senju Clan compound, deal with Momoka Senju, and attend the election ceremony.
• Tsunade brought Jueming medicinal powder and heard disturbing sounds from inside his house, fearing that he had begun to mutate.
• Jueming emerged pale and sweating, accepted the medicine, and told Tsunade he would protect the Senju Clan.
• After Tsunade left, Jueming's body twisted again; he mixed the medicine with grass leaves as a backup and returned inside to prepare for actual combat.

Jueming offered himself as an experiment subject to stop Utatane Koharu from targeting Momoka Senju, then secretly led her into a trap. The chapter ended as he told Koharu to go straight to his house instead of heading to Root’s headquarters.

• Danzo delayed his arrival at the Hokage election while he celebrated the preliminary success of Impure World Reincarnation.
• Utatane Koharu confronted Momoka Senju and demanded that she hand over Senju clansmen for experiments.
• Jueming volunteered as Koharu’s experiment subject on the condition that she stop making things difficult for Momoka.
• Jueming tried to lower Koharu’s Wisdom Value with flattery and promises, but she remained wary of his words.
• Koharu escorted Jueming through an underground tunnel toward Root’s headquarters, and Jueming told her to go straight to his house.

Shimura Danzō won the Fourth Hokage election after claiming he alone could stop Sunagakure’s approaching army. His victory established a new world where Danzō became Hokage.

• Jiraiya withdrew from the election, leaving Tsunade, Minato Namikaze, and Shimura Danzō as candidates.
• Kunugi Mokume reported that Utatane Koharu had taken volunteers to a designated location, and Mitokado Homura sent people to investigate her absence.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi removed his Hokage hat and stepped down before the candidates gave their nomination speeches.
• Shimura Danzō warned that Sunagakure would reach Konoha in about a day and said his forbidden techniques and Mutation Weapons could defeat Rasa.
• The jonin voted, giving Danzō 60% of the votes, Tsunade 20%, and leaving 20% abstaining.
• Mitokado Homura handed Danzō the Hokage hat, making him the Fourth Hokage in a new spacetime.

Jueming fought Utatane Koharu underground while hiding his poison-based plan and testing her abilities. The battle continued as he searched for an opening to defeat her.

• Kunugi Mokume told his subordinates to guard the entrance and follow Utatane Koharu’s arrangements before leaving for the Hokage election.
• Jueming revealed that he had prepared a large supply of Tsunade’s potent poison and decided to confront Utatane Koharu directly.
• Utatane Koharu accepted Jueming’s challenge, blocked his punch, and attacked him with overwhelming strength after he endured her killing intent.
• Mito Uzumaki urged Jueming to use his trump card, but he kept testing Koharu’s abilities before making his move.
• Jueming drew his Leaf Blade Sword and attacked, but Koharu used Earth Release: Earth Returns to smash him down, and he scuttled toward her on all fours.

Senju Jueming fought Utatane Koharu as she tested his mutation and used Earth Release to trap him. The chapter left Koharu’s Earth Clone exposed after Jueming and Mito Uzumaki struck through the collapsed ground.

• Utatane Koharu recognized that Jueming’s posture and movements came from his mutation, while Mito Uzumaki warned that Koharu might use Wood Release because of her Hashirama cell transplant.
• Koharu kicked Jueming away with Konoha Gale, but Jueming returned in his prone stance, relying on the increased defense his mutation granted him.
• Koharu used Earth Core Uprising to sink the ground around Jueming, and he asked Mito to teach him the technique so he could dig an underground prison.
• Koharu told arriving Konoha ninja to stay out and concealed the fight, while intending to keep the Aberration matter secret until Danzo took power.
• Jueming and Mito sent the Leaf Blade Sword through the rubble toward Koharu, but it pierced an Earth Clone instead of her real body.

Utatane Koharu struck Senju Jueming with an A-Rank Great Waterfall Technique, but he survived and revealed a transformation that aged his body to seventeen. Jueming charged her with Arhat Fist: Collapsing Palm as she countered with Water Release: Water Shockwave.

• Utatane Koharu ambushed Jueming from the sewer ceiling and swept him away with the Great Waterfall Technique.
• Jueming survived the torrent and rose, while Koharu praised his resilience and mocked his claim that he had not used his full strength.
• Jueming used “Evolve” and transformed from a seven-and-a-half-year-old child into a seventeen-year-old man.
• Koharu retreated while forming hand seals, but Jueming charged and attacked her with Arhat Fist: Collapsing Palm.
• Utatane Koharu answered with Water Release: Water Shockwave, sending a spiraling torrent toward Jueming.

Jueming used the B-Rank skill Pulling Seedlings to Help Them Grow, aging his body from seven to seventeen at the cost of ten years of his lifespan. He overwhelmed Utatane Koharu in close combat, but her Mutation Weapon began rapidly raising his Mutation Level as he attacked.

• Jueming's Collapsing Palm tore apart Utatane Koharu's Water Shockwave, and he charged toward her.
• The skill Pulling Seedlings to Help Them Grow had forced Jueming's body to mature overnight, granting him greater physical power while costing him ten years of his lifespan.
• Jueming's boosted speed let him close the distance and send Utatane Koharu crashing through several walls with a single strike.
• Utatane Koharu drew Mutation Weapon: Senju Takeshi from her sealing box, and its Mutation Chakra made Jueming's Mutation Level rise rapidly.
• Despite the pain and danger of the Mutation Chakra, Jueming continued his charge and swung his fist at Utatane Koharu.

Senju Jueming fought Utatane Koharu while his Mutation Level rose toward the point of full mutation. He weakened her with Grass Release and Tsunade’s poison, leaving her incapacitated as the battle reached its decisive moment.

• Utatane Koharu struck Jueming with the Mutation Weapon, but his skin resisted the kunai, and he punched her through a wall.
• Jueming’s Mutation Level climbed as his body and mind changed, so he used Eccentric Movement and Brave Ox to slow and suppress the mutation.
• Jueming used Grass Release: Grass Knot to bind the weakened Utatane Koharu, then released poisoned grass blades with Grass Release: Grass Whirlwind.
• Utatane Koharu swallowed an all-purpose antidote, but Jueming told her Tsunade’s poison had left her powerless and could not be cured.

Jueming defeated and captured Utatane Koharu with poisoned weapons, then returned to the Senju compound to seek a way to control his rapidly worsening mutation. Meanwhile, Danzo took office as Fourth Hokage and announced that he would use Impure World Reincarnation against Sunagakure, drawing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s opposition.

• Utatane Koharu attacked Jueming with a kunai, but his prone stance let him withstand the strike and slash her with his poisoned Nuibari.
• Jueming forced poison into Utatane Koharu’s mouth until she lost consciousness, while his mutation level rose to 65 and the Mutation Weapon remained missing.
• Jueming carried Utatane Koharu back to the Senju compound and demanded that Mito Uzumaki teach him Earth Core Uprising so he could dig an underground prison.
• Jueming’s mutation level climbed to 69 as he began digging, while Danzo assumed the Fourth Hokage’s position and convened a war council ahead of Sunagakure’s invasion.
• Danzo announced that he would use Impure World Reincarnation against the enemy, and Hiruzen Sarutobi objected and warned him he would regret it.

Danzo promoted the Impure World Reincarnation as a way to revive heroes while taking power in Konoha, then ordered a search for the missing Utatane Koharu and Senju Jueming. Jueming built an underground room at home as his mutation worsened, and Hizashi Hyuga’s search led him to suspect Jueming had defeated Koharu and to discover a concealed basement.

• Danzo presented the Impure World Reincarnation as a heroic revival technique, announced plans to handle Rasa, and began appointing members to his direct Anbu.
• Konoha ninja investigated the damaged underground site, found Koharu’s Mutation Weapon, and reported that Koharu and Jueming had disappeared.
• Danzo ordered Hizashi Hyuga to lead a search squad, which included Yakushi Nonō, Yamanaka Santai, and Nara Suzaku.
• Jueming used ninjutsu to build an underground room beneath his home, stocked it with supplies, and tossed the unconscious Koharu aside as his mutation intensified.
• Hizashi searched the area with his Byakugan, suspected Jueming had defeated Koharu, and found that Jueming’s home and newly created basement were shielded from his sight.

Hizashi Hyuga’s search for Senju Jueming and Utatane Koharu found nothing, while Danzo investigated Momoka Senju and confirmed she was not responsible for their disappearance. Danzo faced Rasa’s Sunagakure army as Konoha’s new Fourth Hokage and summoned a coffin with the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

• Hizashi Hyuga concealed that he had not searched Jueming’s home and reported to Danzo that Jueming and Koharu were missing.
• Danzo visited Momoka Senju in the Senju Clan Forbidden Ground, mocked her about becoming Hokage, and concluded that her Mutation had not caused the disappearances.
• Danzo’s search teams looked beyond Konoha, while the Senju Great Elder learned Jueming had become an experimental subject and renewed his hope when he heard Koharu was missing too.
• Rasa led the Sunagakure army to Konoha’s gates, where Danzo stood as the newly appointed Fourth Hokage beside Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Danzo summoned a coffin atop Konoha’s walls, and Chiyo recognized the technique as Tobirama Senju’s Impure World Reincarnation.

Danzo summoned Hashirama Senju with Impure World Reincarnation and blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for Konoha’s wartime crisis. Hashirama attacked Sunagakure, and as the armies clashed, Danzo prepared to use more reincarnated dead.

• Hashirama Senju emerged from the coffin, and the Konoha elders recognized the First Hokage.
• Danzo declared himself the Fourth Hokage and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of mishandling the Third Shinobi War.
• Danzo explained that he had used a Special Jonin as the sacrifice, and Hashirama charged at Sunagakure.
• Hashirama unleashed Deep Forest Emergence, crushing Sand Ninja, while Rasa severed his leg with Gold Dust before it regenerated.
• Chiyo prepared the Ten Puppet Collection and called for a sealing technique, while Danzo led Konoha's forces into battle.
• Danzo fought Chiyo as Hashirama fought Rasa, and Danzo considered summoning more reincarnated dead.

Danzō’s forces drove Sunagakure into retreat after Rasa raised a massive Gold Dust wall, and Danzō planned to use his growing power to eliminate the Senju and Uchiha clans. At the Senju compound, Jueming suppressed much of his Mutation Level and unlocked Grass Weapon Seed, a skill that could help treat his mutation and eventually save Teacher Momoka.

• Chiyo urged Rasa to withdraw and form a special sealing squad to counter Konoha’s Impure World Reincarnation.
• Rasa raised a vast wall of Gold Dust to cover Sunagakure’s retreat, while Konoha’s forces stopped and then celebrated their victory.
• Hashirama acknowledged Rasa’s strength, and Konoha’s troops cheered Danzō as he contemplated conquering the Ninja World and targeting the Senju and Uchiha clans.
• Ryoma Aburame reported to Danzō that the Mutation Weapon had been recovered but Utatane Koharu and Senju Jueming remained missing.
• Jueming reduced his Mutation Level by nearly 40 points and unlocked the Blondie, Backstab, and Grass Weapon Seed skills, which could help dissolve his mutation and save Teacher Momoka.

Iwagakure conquered the Land of Rain, forcing Hanzō of the Salamander to surrender and become its ally. Watching the defeat, Yahiko vowed to resist the occupation through guerrilla warfare and find a way for ordinary people to wield power.

• Kitsuchi, Han, and ten thousand Iwa Ninja invaded the Land of Rain and occupied Amegakure while Hanzō of the Salamander was held in a stalemate.
• Kitsuchi told Hanzō that the Land of Rain’s daimyo had made the country a vassal of the Land of Earth, and Hanzō surrendered to spare his people.
• Kitsuchi welcomed Hanzō into Iwagakure’s forces, which planned to use the Hidden Rain ninja as an enforcer against other nations.
• Nagato, Yahiko, and Shennong watched the surrender, and Yahiko concluded that personal strength alone could not change the world.
• Yahiko refused to abandon the Land of Rain and planned guerrilla attacks, recruitment, and research into making power available to ordinary people.

Jueming returned after defeating Utatane Koharu and suppressing his Mutation, then learned that Shimura Danzō had become the Fourth Hokage and controlled Hashirama Senju through Impure World Reincarnation. He reunited with Momoka Senju and urged her to flee Konoha.

• Jueming secured the recording evidence and saw that his Grass Weapon Seed had reduced his Mutation and placed Utatane Koharu’s life under his control.
• Jueming reversed his body’s growth, returning from his seventeen-year-old appearance to his apparent seven-year-old body, then went to explain what had happened to Momoka Senju and the others.
• Jueming encountered the Great Elder, who had been searching for him and told him that Shimura Danzō had become the Fourth Hokage.
• The Great Elder revealed that Danzō had used Impure World Reincarnation to summon and control Hashirama Senju.
• Jueming reached the underground cavern, reunited with Momoka Senju, and urged her to flee Konoha.