Chapter Summaries

Umino Sasuke’s group defeated a Sand Hidden Jonin in a staged contest, but Chakage Ryusuke killed him after Sasuke let him go. When Ryusuke warned that the Mist Ninja had taken the Sea Defense Fortress, Sasuke exposed him as a Mist Village spy, and Ryusuke admitted it.

• The Sand Hidden Jonin knocked Tejudo and Xiao Xiao unconscious, but Umino Sasuke used Chakra Threads to keep them at a distance while Inuzuka Ryo transformed into a Three-Headed Demon Wolf and badly injured the Jonin.
• The Sand Hidden Jonin claimed victory, and Umino Sasuke honored their wager by letting him leave; Chakage Ryusuke then encountered him and beheaded him.
• Chakage Ryusuke and Kaihane warned Umino Sasuke that the Mist Ninja had breached the Sea Defense Fortress and that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist were advancing.
• Umino Sasuke accused Chakage Ryusuke of being a Mist Village spy who had supplied intelligence about the fortress’s defenses, and Ryusuke admitted his identity.

Umino Sasuke intervened when Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke nearly killed Shirakumo Hayama, then faced the Mist swordsman himself. After revealing that he wielded Flounder and Sole, Ryuusuke pushed Sasuke to unveil his new Three Heads Six Arms Technique and Konoha Nine-Sword Style, leaving their battle poised to begin in earnest.

• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke rejected Umino Sasuke’s offer to cooperate and challenged Shirakumo Hayama to survive three exchanges.
• Ryuusuke broke Hayama’s sword and wounded him, but Sasuke arrived in time to block the killing strike.
• Sasuke fought Ryuusuke with Wind Breathing techniques and wounded his face with Illusion Willow Slash, but Ryuusuke survived and revealed Flounder and Sole.
• Sasuke recognized Ryuusuke as a mysterious wielder among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and formed the Three Heads Six Arms Technique.
• Sasuke drew five ninja swords alongside the Fish-Cutting Sword and announced his Konoha Nine-Sword Style.

Umino Sasuke and Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke fought a fierce sword duel, with Sasuke ultimately gaining the advantage through genjutsu and his own Mist Technique. Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke survived with Water Transformation Jutsu and refused to concede, leaving the two facing off again inside the mist.

• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke attacked Sasuke with his Halibut Twin Blades, but Sasuke countered with a coordinated formation of six swords and forced him to retreat.
• Sasuke disarmed Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke's right blade and pressed him with Continuous Water Blade Slash, prompting Ryuusuke to defend himself with Abyssal Sea Dragon's Roar.
• Sasuke trapped Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke in genjutsu and struck his vital points, but Ryuusuke used Water Transformation Jutsu to turn the wounds into water.
• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke formed a massive water monster with Water Release: Shield Eboshi, blocked Sasuke's attack, and then declared Sasuke the strongest swordsman.
• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke reclaimed his blades and released the Mist Technique, but Sasuke answered with the same technique and gained the advantage in the dense mist.

Umino Sasuke used his hidden three blades and multiple techniques to defeat Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke and take the Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole. He left Ryuusuke gravely wounded after piercing his chest with a final combined attack.

• Umino Sasuke used the fog and his Three Heads Six Arms Technique to approach Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke for a surprise attack.
• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke blocked Sasuke’s assault with Myriad Blades Recognition Net, then unleashed Flounder and Halibut Release: Abyss Whale Song.
• Umino Sasuke countered with Myriad Swords Return to the Sect, but the two attacks clashed until both fighters were exhausted and Sasuke’s six blades shattered.
• Umino Sasuke launched three water-blade swords from his heads, severely injuring Ryuusuke, then seized the Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole and sealed their summoning inscriptions.
• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke continued attacking with Water Release: Grand Water Arm Technique, but Sasuke’s combined water-and-wind spears pierced his chest.

Might Duy killed Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke with his Sixth Gate technique, Morning Rooster, after Umino Sasuke had wounded him. Umino Sasuke then considered how to face the remaining Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and planned to equip the Mecha Puppets with Ryuusuke’s swords.

• Kiri Gakure Ryuusuke fled from Umino Sasuke, but Might Duy blocked his escape with the Sixth Gate open.
• Might Duy used Morning Rooster to pierce and destroy Ryuusuke’s Water Transformation defense, killing him.
• Umino Sasuke helped Might Duy recover and learned that Duy’s strength had improved enough for him to open the Seventh Gate.
• Umino Sasuke assessed the remaining Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and decided Might Duy should face only four of them.
• Umino Sasuke realized Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole could boost the Mecha Puppets’ offense, then summoned Hagane Senkichi and other sealing specialists to study the swords’ summoning seal.

Umino Sasuke and Uchiha Shun altered the summoning inscriptions in the Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole so the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist would summon another object first, then equipped the blades on two Mecha Puppets. Sasuke persuaded Pakura to fight the Mist Ninja by offering to release captured Hidden Sand ninja for each ten Mist Ninja she killed.

• Hagane Senkichi and Uchiha Shun said they could not remove or modify the swords' summoning inscriptions without damaging their amplification formula, so Umino Sasuke proposed adding and altering inscriptions instead.
• Umino Sasuke, Uchiha Shun, and Hagane Senkichi linked the summoning inscriptions to another object and changed their summoning priority, with Shun completing the work using his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Umino Sasuke equipped the Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole on two Mecha Puppets and judged them to be Elite Jonin-level combatants.
• Umino Sasuke asked Pakura to help fight the Mist Ninja, but she refused despite hearing that they had attacked civilians in the Land of Rivers.
• Umino Sasuke offered to release one captured Hidden Sand ninja for every ten Mist Ninja Pakura killed, then presented Kaihane and Sabaku Dake as proof of his sincerity.

Umino Sasuke freed Pakura after she escorted Sabaku Dake and Kaihane to safety, then tested her loyalty to the captured Sand Ninja on the flight back. Reassured that she would not betray the Konoha force, he led its elite members toward the Mist Ninja ambush site.

• Pakura escorted Sabaku Dake and Kaihane away, then returned to Umino Sasuke after they disappeared into the distance.
• Umino Sasuke removed Pakura's seal, and she recovered before kicking at him in anger when he touched her back.
• Pakura considered ambushing Umino Sasuke during their flight on Big White but held back to protect the captured Sand Ninja.
• Umino Sasuke revealed that he had detected Pakura's movements and was satisfied that she cared about the captives.
• Tejudo praised Umino Sasuke, while Kurama Kyoin watched Pakura with envy, and Umino Sasuke led the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad toward the Mist Ninja ambush site.

Umino Sasuke tried to negotiate with the advancing Kirigakure force, but its Kaguya commander attacked him, forcing him to retreat after fighting off the Mist Ninja’s aerial troops. The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad lured the Mist Hidden Legion toward a trapped river valley, and the commander pursued them into a foggy forest, believing they had run out of options.

• Umino Sasuke scouted the Mist Hidden Legion and identified a Kaguya Clan ninja as its commander before attempting to talk with him.
• The Kaguya commander attacked Umino Sasuke, and Kushimaru Kuriarare pursued him with the Severing Needle while he fought the Mist Ninja’s aerial troops and eventually retreated.
• The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad feigned panic and fled, leading the Mist Hidden Legion toward a dam upstream.
• Umino Sasuke set off Explosive Tags to destroy the dam, but the Kaguya commander waited for the river to calm before leading his forces across.
• The Mist Hidden Legion caught up with the fleeing Konoha Hundred-Man Squad, and the Kaguya commander laughed as they entered a misty forest.

Kaguya Hyakusen led the Mist Hidden Legion into a poison gas maze laid by Umino Sasuke’s forces, where traps and poisoned mist split and weakened the pursuers. As the Mist Ninja threatened to escape, Sasuke used himself as bait, bringing the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and Kaguya Hyakusen into a battle with him, Might Duy, and the Mecha Puppets.

• Ao warned Kaguya Hyakusen about a possible ambush, but Hyakusen sent Ao ahead to scout and then hurried after the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad.
• Kaguya Hyakusen tested the suspicious mist by ordering a genin into it, then killed the poisoned genin and ordered the Mist Hidden Legion to retreat.
• Umino Sasuke’s Shadow Clones filled the forest with poison-laced mist, while traps and Konoha sniper teams blocked the Mist Hidden Legion’s escape routes.
• The Mist Hidden Legion became trapped in the narrowing Poison Gas Maze, while Konoha’s forces used antidotes and tactical support to move through it.
• When Kaguya Hyakusen and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen threatened to break out, Umino Sasuke used himself as bait, and the swordsmen pursued him and Might Duy.
• Might Duy opened the Seventh Gate to face the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, while the Mecha Puppets and Umino Sasuke engaged Kaguya Hyakusen, Suikazan Fuguki, and Juzo Biwa.

Umino Sasuke defeated Juzo Biwa by disarming him and turning his Silent Killing Technique against him, then sealed Kubikiribōchō and equipped it to a Mecha Puppet. Juzo fled to Suikazan Fuguki, who began fighting seriously and tried to summon the Hiramekarei Twin Blades from a Mecha Puppet.

• Juzo Biwa clashed with Umino Sasuke’s six-sword formation, then used the Mist Technique to hide himself in denser fog.
• Umino Sasuke used Sonic Radar to bait Juzo into an ambush, then disarmed him and sealed Kubikiribōchō.
• Umino Sasuke used Silent Killing in the mist to wound Juzo, whose Blood Control Secret Technique stopped the bleeding.
• Juzo fled toward Suikazan Fuguki, while Umino Sasuke equipped Kubikiribōchō onto a Mecha Puppet.
• Suikazan Fuguki stopped sparring with the Hiramekarei-wielding Mecha Puppet and began fighting seriously as Umino Sasuke arrived.
• Juzo failed to summon Kubikiribōchō, and Suikazan Fuguki attempted to summon the Hiramekarei Twin Blades instead.

Umino Sasuke fought Suikazan Fuguki, using Mecha Puppets and water-blade swords to wound him while Fuguki repeatedly healed with Samehada. After Samehada absorbed chakra from one of Sasuke’s water-blade swords, it began acting as if it wanted to leave Fuguki and join Sasuke.

• Suikazan Fuguki survived the Explosive Tags with severe injuries, then used Samehada’s chakra transfer to recover as Juzo Biwa fled toward the other battlefield.
• Suikazan Fuguki attacked Umino Sasuke with hair-based secret jutsu, but Sasuke evaded the strikes and used a hidden Shadow Clone to study the technique.
• Suikazan Fuguki used Samehada’s reach and Chakra Devouring Slash against Sasuke’s six-sword formation, but Sasuke anticipated the blade’s spikes and avoided being drained.
• Two Mecha Puppets forced Suikazan Fuguki to defend himself, allowing Umino Sasuke to pierce his chest with a Secret Sword Eruption water blade.
• Samehada healed Suikazan Fuguki again, but after absorbing chakra from the water blade, it grew excited and appeared eager to leave him for Umino Sasuke.

Umino Sasuke and Might Duy defeated Suikazan Fuguki, who fled after Duy overwhelmed him with Morning Peacock. Sasuke then learned that several swords had been lost and a Mecha Puppet destroyed, leaving him facing Kaguya Hyakusen.

• Umino Sasuke wounded Suikazan Fuguki and his Samehada Great Sword with Vacuum Great Ball, while Juzo Biwa fled and warned that Duy was a Kage-Level Expert.
• Might Duy blasted apart Suikazan Fuguki's Great Shark Missile Technique with Morning Peacock, badly injuring him and forcing him to flee.
• Umino Sasuke helped Might Duy release the Eight Inner Gates, gave him a Honey-infused Energy Block, and hid him inside the Black Ant Puppet.
• Umino Sasuke learned that Might Duy had killed Kushimaru Kuriarare, Jinin Akebino, and Munashi Jinpachi, while Raiga Kurosuki and Juzo Biwa escaped with several swords.
• Umino Sasuke discovered that Kaguya Hyakusen had destroyed a Mecha Puppet, then faced his challenge to fight.

Umino Sasuke fought Kaguya Hyakusen, whose bone techniques and instincts gave him the advantage in close combat. Sasuke trapped Hyakusen in Active Water Candy, but Hyakusen unleashed a bone forest and destroyed a Mecha Puppet before impaling Sasuke’s Water Candy Clone.

• Kaguya Hyakusen used his bone swords and combat instincts to fight Umino Sasuke’s six-blade formations to a standstill.
• Umino Sasuke unleashed his strongest sword technique, but Kaguya Hyakusen regenerated his hardened bone spear and knocked him away.
• Umino Sasuke flooded the battlefield with Active Water Candy and buried Kaguya Hyakusen in a vortex.
• Kaguya Hyakusen released Early Fern Dance, spreading a forest of bones across the battlefield and shattering a Mecha Puppet.
• Kaguya Hyakusen pierced Umino Sasuke through the chest, but Sasuke’s body dissolved into Active Water Candy, revealing that he had used a clone.

Umino Sasuke defeated Kaguya Hyakusen, studied the Yuki Clan’s Ice Release while clearing out the Mist Ninja, and chased Suikazan Fuguki after Samehada turned against him. Fuguki, Juzo Biwa, and Ao escaped, leaving Sasuke to wonder why Samehada had chosen him.

• Umino Sasuke survived Kaguya Hyakusen’s Early Wara Dance with an Active Water Candy Clone, and Kaguya Hyakusen died after using his final attack.
• Umino Sasuke sealed Kaguya Hyakusen’s corpse and realized the Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai held secrets connected to Yang Release.
• Umino Sasuke studied a Yuki Clan jonin’s Ice Release with a Shadow Clone while he and transformed clones attacked the Mist Ninja trapped in the poisonous gas maze.
• Suikazan Fuguki escaped the maze after destroying Umino Sasuke’s Shadow Clones and absorbing some of their chakra with Samehada.
• Umino Sasuke pursued Suikazan Fuguki and attacked the remaining Mist Ninja with four Mecha Puppets, but Samehada broke free from Fuguki and approached Sasuke.
• Juzo Biwa, Suikazan Fuguki, and Ao fled, while Umino Sasuke stayed behind with Samehada and wondered why it had taken a liking to him.

Umino Sasuke discovered that Samehada could convert food energy into Chakra and feed it back to him, making it a reusable reserve of power. He remained cautious about using Cell Regeneration and wondered whether Sage Jutsu could help him live longer as he tested another kind of energy on Samehada.

• Umino Sasuke cautiously fed Chakra to Samehada and found that it eagerly accepted his high-quality Water Release Chakra.
• He used the Gluttony Technique to send food energy into Samehada, which reacted with joy and revealed its original role as a food-digesting symbiote of Three-Tails Isobu.
• Umino Sasuke learned that Samehada had been turned into a ninja sword after the Mist Ninja captured it, disrupting its original way of feeding and extracting Chakra from food.
• Samehada converted Umino Sasuke's food energy into Chakra and returned it to him, giving him a renewable power reserve that he compared to a Yin Seal.
• Umino Sasuke resolved to avoid using Cell Regeneration recklessly and considered Sage Jutsu a better path to longevity than relying on Chakra.
• Umino Sasuke sent Samehada energy drawn in through his Wind Breathing Style to see how it would respond.

Umino Sasuke bonded with Samehada and took it into the poisonous mist maze, where he captured Mizuki Yuki. Pakura arrived as Umino Sasuke was examining Mizuki Yuki and attacked him, leaving him insisting that the situation was a misunderstanding.

• Big White grew jealous of Samehada until Umino Sasuke told it to act like Samehada's big brother.
• Samehada chose Umino Sasuke for his abundant chakra and Wind Breathing Style energy, which restored its body and gradually improved its intelligence.
• Umino Sasuke carried Samehada back to the poisonous mist maze and captured Mizuki Yuki while disguised as Suikazan Fuguki.
• Mizuki Yuki revealed that he was a man, and Umino Sasuke lost his disguise in shock after checking for himself.
• Pakura found Umino Sasuke with Mizuki Yuki and attacked with Scorching Release Fireballs, which he cut down with Samehada while claiming it was a misunderstanding.

Umino Sasuke captured Pakura and Mizuki Yuki, then left Kurama Kyoin to guard and interrogate them while he hunted Mist Ninja. Unable to attack the Sea Defense Fortress directly, he devised a deception and sent disguised Shadow Clones toward it.

• Umino Sasuke drained Pakura's remaining chakra with Samehada and caught her as she collapsed, prompting her to accuse him of being a pervert.
• Kurama Kyoin arrived, and Umino Sasuke identified Mizuki Yuki as a captured Kirigakure jonin before leaving the two women in Kyoin's custody.
• Pakura tried to warn Kurama Kyoin that Sasuke flirted with other women, but Kyoin dismissed her and arranged for both captives to be detained separately.
• Umino Sasuke flew toward the Sea Defense Fortress, judged it too difficult to attack, and turned back.
• Umino Sasuke spotted escaped Mist Ninja and sent Shadow Clones disguised as Mist Ninja, including one disguised as Kaguya Hyakusen, toward the fortress with sealing scrolls.

Umino Sasuke let Kirigakure load its plunder onto the fleet while preparing to seize the ships and cargo. Before Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost’s forces could decide whether to attack the Konoha infiltrators, the Sea Defense Fortress and the mountain around it were destroyed, forcing them to flee.

• Umino Sasuke learned that Ao had exposed the disguised Konoha Ninjas, and Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost had escaped to the ships rather than risk a fight inside the fortress.
• Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost ordered Ao to load the looted wealth and military supplies, while Umino Sasuke agreed and eyed Kirigakure’s fleet as another prize.
• Ao urged Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost to destroy the Konoha Ninjas in the fortress before leaving, and Juzo Biwa asked whether Watermelon Rind had entered it.
• A devastating explosion destroyed the Sea Defense Fortress and brought down the mountain, blocking the river and damaging a supply ship.
• Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost recognized the attack as the White Blood Demon’s forbidden jutsu and ordered the fleet to flee.

Umino Sasuke intercepted the fleeing Mist Ninja fleet and forced Suikazan Fuguki to abandon its spoils of war. The elite Mist Ninja escaped with their lives, while Umino Sasuke returned upstream to claim the stranded ships.

• The Mist Ninja used Water Release to raise the river level and speed their ships toward the sea, but several supply ships ran aground.
• Suikazan Fuguki warned Umino Sasuke that attacking them could start a war, but Umino Sasuke claimed they were pirates and threatened to wipe them out.
• Umino Sasuke held back from attacking the flagship because the river favored the Mist Ninja, while Suikazan Fuguki sent intelligence away with a school of sharks.
• Umino Sasuke struck a second ship with Water Release: Hard Vortex Water Blade, sinking it and trapping the ships behind it.
• Suikazan Fuguki agreed to negotiate, and Umino Sasuke let the elite Mist Ninja leave while he headed upstream to seize the stranded ships.

Suikazan Fuguki and the surviving Mist Ninja blamed Kaguya Hyakusen for their defeat and hurried back toward the Land of Water. Meanwhile, Umino Sasuke concealed the sunken ships in mist and began killing the weaker Mist Ninja left aboard.

• Juzo Biwa and Raiga Kurosuki agreed that the Mist Ninja should avoid the White Blood Demon, and they marveled at Konoha's strength.
• Suikazan Fuguki persuaded the survivors to blame Kaguya Hyakusen for the defeat, while Juzo Biwa and Raiga Kurosuki agreed to support the story.
• Suikazan Fuguki warned Juzo Biwa and offered to mentor Raiga Kurosuki's daughter, Kurotsuchi Kuri, before ordering the ship back toward the Land of Water.
• Umino Sasuke returned to the sunken ships, covered the river channel in Mist Technique, and sent Jonin Puppets to kill the weaker Mist Ninja aboard.