Chapter Summaries

Imu renamed Monster Paradise as Reincarnation Paradise and reviewed the state of Demon Slayer World and Giant World under World Government control. In Giant World, Eldians gained new Titan transformation abilities and were put to work, while Imu considered using them for military purposes and training.

• Imu decided that Monster Paradise should be called Reincarnation Paradise and ordered the Star Sea System to send the new name to the Five Elders.
• Demon Slayer World prospered through World Government medical support and trade, while its upper classes adopted Breathing Techniques and sought Devil Fruits and ways to strengthen themselves.
• CIPHER POL-7 secretly let organizations in Giant World destroy one another, assassinated emerging leaders, and searched unsuccessfully for the Devil Fruits of fallen ability users, especially Byndi Wald's More-More Fruit.
• Historia trained tennis in hopes of winning Imu's sympathy and securing Eldian freedom, but Imu continued to insist that three years was too short and that they should labor for at least five.
• Ymir agreed to let Eldians choose when to transform into Pure Titans and when to return to human form, so they worked in Titan form before returning to their camps each evening.
• Imu considered using the more valuable Eldians as military cannon fodder or as resilient targets for training at Reincarnation Paradise.

Shanks and thirteen Celestial Dragon Academy dropouts prepared to escape Mary Geoise after years of training and growing close. They fought their way out of the Land of the Gods and leaped from the Red Line into the sea, laughing as they fell.

• Shanks adapted to life in the Figarland district, trained relentlessly, and fought off Celestial Dragons who tried to attack him.
• Celestial Dragon Academy dropouts returned to Mary Geoise, clashed violently with older Celestial Dragons, and later began training and studying alongside Shanks.
• Shanks and thirteen dropouts decided to abandon their Celestial Dragon identities and risk escaping the Land of the Gods.
• At three in the morning on May 5th, Marine Calendar 1503, Shanks led the thirteen dropouts through Mary Geoise's defenses and over the Red Line's cliffs.

Imu decided to let Shanks and thirteen former Celestial Dragons remain fugitives after they escaped Mary Geoise. Esdeath asked to visit the Shinobi World, and Imu made her permission depend on a duel with Doflamingo and a mission in the Land of Snow.

• Imu read that Shanks had escaped Mary Geoise with thirteen Celestial Dragons who had failed to graduate, and chose not to pursue them while revoking their status.
• Esdeath asked Imu to let her travel to the Shinobi World and fight its strong people, but he said she first had to prove her strength.
• Imu arranged a fight between Esdeath and Doflamingo for the next day, allowing her to go to the Shinobi World if she won and reducing Doflamingo's Giant God Soldier challenge if he lost.
• Imu ordered Esdeath to take Akame and Kurome with her and temporarily occupy the Land of Snow while protecting its environmental transformation machine.
• Esdeath accepted the mission and asked Imu if she could bring Red Lotus.

Iwagakure and Cloud Village advanced toward the Land of Wind with their allies, while Sand Village prepared for the invasion. Crocodile told Sand Village’s leaders to let the attackers come, leaving the next move to him.

• Onoki led ten thousand Iwagakure ninja toward the Land of Wind, with Kitsuchi commanding the main force.
• A led Cloud Village, Hidden Waterfall Village, and Grass Village troops toward Loulan alongside Hanzō and his Rain ninja.
• Yahiko became the Two-Tails jinchuriki after calming the beast with his sincere words, while Nagato and Konan accompanied him.
• Rasa, Chiyo, and the Sand Village elders consulted Crocodile about the invasion.
• Crocodile refused to intervene in Loulan and ordered Sand Village to face the arriving Iwagakure forces while he waited to act.

Iwagakure’s reconnaissance unit suffered heavy casualties from Sand Village’s traps as it scouted through the desert. Kitsuchi ordered Wenya to clear the route with a mass Earth Release technique, but the resulting explosions revealed an alarming number of buried explosive tags.

• Taiseki used Camouflage Concealment to scout toward Sand Village and discovered poisoned senbon traps in the sand.
• Iwagakure scouts were killed by traps, including poison bombs, venomous snakes, and explosive tags.
• Kitsuchi ordered the surviving scouts to withdraw and sent Wenya with a thousand Genin to clear the area.
• Wenya and the Genin used Earth Release: Fissure Palm, triggering a vast chain of explosions across the desert.
• Kitsuchi worried that repeated combined ninjutsu would exhaust Iwagakure’s chakra before its forces reached Sand Village.

Iwagakure’s advance was battered by repeated explosive-tag traps, then attacked from the sky by more than a thousand armed puppets. Kitsuchi’s forces fought back with stone spears, but the puppet assault inflicted heavy losses and continued toward the main army.

• Wenya, Kitsuchi, Huoguang, and Dong Shiren realized repeated Fissure Palm strikes had drained their troops and cost them nearly three thousand fighters before they reached the Sand Village.
• Iwagakure ninja spotted a large group of flying humanoid figures approaching from the northwest and recognized them as puppets.
• The puppets dropped explosive pellets on the troops behind Kitsuchi, killing and wounding many ninja in a chain of blasts.
• Kitsuchi ordered the main force to stop the puppets, and Iwagakure ninja fired volleys of stone spears into the sky.
• The puppets evaded the stone spears and counterattacked with explosive energy spheres and spinning blades, causing hundreds of casualties.

Rasa and the Sand Village used Loulan’s puppets, powered by Bunpuku and Shukaku and controlled through Visual Den Den Mushi, to attack the Hidden Rock Village army. The second wave began as the Sand Village prepared to send more puppets if needed.

• Rasa ordered Chiyo to launch the second puppet unit after the first wave was destroyed.
• Sabatini used his Teigu to project images of the Hidden Rock Village battlefield for the Sand Village commanders.
• Crocodile arranged for Bunpuku and Shukaku to supply Chakra and for Visual Den Den Mushi to let puppet masters control the Loulan puppets remotely.
• Chiyo and a thousand puppet masters directed the puppets through red Chakra threads and projected first-person views.
• A new swarm of puppets attacked the Hidden Rock Village ninja with Chakra blasts, starting another fierce battle.

Imu learned that the Dragon Vein resisted alchemical contact and that an ancient demon dragon had revived in the Zero Magic World, so he ordered Shiki to replace Kizaru and contain it. Kizaru’s bombardment stripped the dragon’s outer shell but failed to stop it, leaving him unable to find a way to defeat it.

• Principal Taylor attempted to draw energy from the Dragon Vein, but its consciousness rejected him, and he reported that Loulan’s Queen and the removal of Minato Namikaze’s seal were needed for further contact.
• Biba Amatori warned the Zero Magic World about the Wind Stone Disaster, arranged evacuations to Albion’s Sky Island, and then returned to the Giant World with his companions.
• Imu learned that an ancient demon dragon had destroyed Aquileia and ordered Golden Lion Shiki to replace Kizaru and contain the creature for the Academy of Sciences’ research.
• Kizaru bombarded the dragon with Yasakani no Magatama, but the attacks only damaged its outer shell, and the dragon continued roaring from the Black Mist.
• Kizaru concluded that Haki and explosions could not kill the magma-bodied dragon, which could recover in a volcano, and he complained that it was a troublesome opponent.

Konoha prepared for Aramaki’s impending attack as Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzo learned that Aramaki and Crocodile belonged to the World Government, an invading power from other worlds. Hiruzen ordered the intelligence shared with Konoha’s commanders and agreed with Danzo that they had to fight Aramaki before preparing for the larger threat.

• Jiraiya organized nearly ten thousand Konoha shinobi into two defensive lines and cleared the forests around the village to prepare for Aramaki.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Tsunade and Shizune were in the Land of Snow and ordered Minato Namikaze to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring them back.
• Shimura Danzo told Hiruzen that he had authorized a Yamanaka to search Queen Sara’s memories for intelligence about Aramaki and Loulan.
• Hiruzen read the report and learned that Aramaki and Crocodile were World Government officers who had entered the Shinobi World through a Star Gate after conquering other worlds.
• Hiruzen ordered the intelligence sent to Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Minato, then agreed with Danzo to put on their combat uniforms and face Aramaki.

Orochimaru analyzed how Konoha might counter Aramaki and persuaded Minato Namikaze to share Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode cultivation method. An S-rank document shocked them both as Aramaki approached Konoha with a huge wooden ox and welcomed the village’s assembled forces to fight.

• Orochimaru examined Minato Namikaze’s injured feet and proposed treatments, including using First Hokage cells, but Minato said he wanted to consult the Third Hokage first.
• Orochimaru analyzed reports from Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka and concluded that Yin Release and Senjutsu might help Konoha counter Aramaki.
• Orochimaru asked Minato Namikaze for Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode cultivation method, and Minato agreed to provide it despite lacking permission to consult the toads.
• An ANBU ninja delivered an S-rank confidential document, and Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze were shocked as they read it.
• Aramaki rode a giant wooden ox toward Konoha’s assembled forces and called out for a grand fight.

Jiraiya and Konoha’s assembled forces battled Aramaki, whose Wood Release threatened to overwhelm their defenses. The Konoha ninja destroyed his wooden bull in midair, but it crashed into the front ranks, and Jiraiya warned that Aramaki himself was still coming.

• Jiraiya rejected Clan Head Shimura’s suggestion to deploy Kushina and asserted his authority as commander.
• Aramaki raised a vast forest across the battlefield, but more than fifteen hundred Konoha ninja used Earth Release to sink the trees into mud.
• Aramaki merged with the wooden bull and launched it over the swamp toward the Konoha army.
• Konoha ninja combined Wind and Fire Release to smash the bull in midair, but its burning wreckage crashed into the front ranks, killing more than a thousand ninja, mostly from the Shimura Clan.
• Jiraiya spotted Aramaki and alerted the others that the Army Admiral had arrived.

Minato Namikaze learned that the World Government had conquered other worlds and feared the Shinobi World could not resist its invasion, while Orochimaru saw the otherworldly power as a path to immortality and new research. On the battlefield, Aramaki slaughtered Konoha’s forces with his Devil Fruit abilities, and the village’s leaders launched a coordinated counterattack as Jiraiya prepared to act.

• Minato Namikaze read the World Government report and worried about how the Shinobi World could withstand its invasion, while Orochimaru became eager to explore other worlds and pursue immortality.
• Aramaki introduced himself to the assembled Konoha ninja and declared that the World Government’s conquest was its form of justice.
• Aramaki broke through Konoha’s Earth Release attack and massacred ninja with his Haki and Woods-Woods Fruit powers, healing through their counterattacks.
• Aramaki used enormous carnivorous plants to fight the Aburame Clan’s insects, then unleashed a sea of trees that bound groups of Konoha ninja.
• Fugaku Uchiha and the clan leaders prepared to protect Jiraiya and hold Aramaki back until reinforcements arrived.
• An Akimichi elder used his pills and Super Expansion Jutsu to launch a gigantic Human Boulder at Aramaki, while Fugaku Uchiha and the others charged toward him.

Aramaki overwhelmed Konoha’s forces with his Wood Giant and killing intent, then evaded the Uchiha Flame Formation with a Wood Clone and demanded their submission to the World Government. Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzo, and Orochimaru arrived, leaving Konoha’s strongest fighters assembled to face Aramaki.

• Aramaki caught and hurled the Akimichi elder’s Human Boulder with his Wood Giant, then the Konoha Jonin combined Earth, Fire, and Wind Release to destroy one of its legs before it regenerated.
• Aramaki’s killing intent shook the Konoha ninja, and his Wood Giant’s Haki-coated fists struck the ground but were blocked by Fugaku Uchiha and three other Uchiha using the Uchiha Flame Formation.
• Aramaki revealed that he had escaped the barrier using the Wood Giant’s roots and left a Wood Clone inside, then demanded that the ninja submit to the World Government.
• Jiraiya appeared in Sage Mode and warned Aramaki that he could now hurt him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzo, and Orochimaru arrived with reinforcements, and Aramaki challenged them and the Konoha forces to attack together.

Cloud Village, Rain Village, Grass Village, and Hidden Waterfall Village sent a coalition toward Loulan, but their scouts were devastated by the city’s armed defenders. As the coalition advanced at dawn, the World Government opened fire with fifty heavy howitzers, leaving the invasion force caught in a massed artillery barrage.

• Okuyama led three Hidden Waterfall Village Chunin toward a Loulan watchtower, unaware that Observation Haki users and armed soldiers were waiting for them.
• Doni blocked Okuyama’s attack with Flame Breathing, but a sniper killed the Hidden Waterfall Jonin and gunfire cut down the remaining Chunin.
• Ueshima returned to the command tent wounded and warned A, Hanzō, and the village representatives that Loulan’s watchtowers were prepared for infiltration.
• Hanzō proposed a direct assault, and A threatened to destroy Loulan if the coalition’s enemies had harmed his father; Yahiko secretly resolved to oppose a massacre.
• Nearly a thousand Grass Village and Hidden Waterfall Village ninja advanced toward the apparently empty watchtowers, while the full coalition followed behind them.
• Loulan’s soldiers opened fire with fifty heavy howitzers, blasting the advancing shinobi with a devastating long-range barrage.

A and the allied ninjas advanced on Roran City under heavy artillery fire, but their combined lightning attack failed against a barrier. Teach revealed himself as the barrier’s user, hoping the display would help him leave the Construction Department.

• A used Lightning Release: Spider Web to intercept artillery shells and shield the allied army as it advanced toward Roran City.
• A and Hanzō organized Cloud Village ninjas to combine their attacks while A blocked another artillery barrage.
• Thousands of Cloud Village ninjas launched Swift Lightning Arrows, but an invisible barrier stopped most of the lightning before black-coated soldiers intercepted the rest.
• Nagato noticed the barrier reflecting light, and Hanzō guessed that its immense glass-like surface came from a bloodline limit wielded by a Kage-level fighter.
• Teach admitted that he had used the Glass-Glass Fruit to create the barrier, and he worried that his performance was too weak to impress the military.

The Army battled the Allied Shinobi Forces as Marshall D. Teach used his Cement-Cement Fruit to attack the shinobi and draw the military's attention. Hanzō summoned Ibuse to release poison gas toward Loulan, but the Third Raikage intercepted it and warned him to stop.

• Grass Village shinobi tried to drag Teach underground while other Earth Release shinobi attacked Army soldiers, but Tekkai and the soldiers' combat skills blunted their assault.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces charged the Army's positions, where heavy machine guns, artillery, and other weapons inflicted heavy casualties.
• Teach transformed into a cement giant, scattered shinobi with his attacks, and injured many more with sharp glass rising from the sand.
• A confronted Teach, while Hanzō led Yahiko, Nagato, Konan, and Hidden Rain Village ninjas aside and summoned Ibuse.
• Ibuse released poisonous gas toward Loulan, but the Third Raikage's Black Panther tore through it, and he warned Hanzō not to attack in that direction.
• The Third Raikage flew toward Teach and A's battle, leaving Hanzō and the others wondering how he could fly.

A’s black lightning failed to stop Teach, whose cement body reformed, and the Third Raikage arrived to order an end to the fighting. After learning that A had traded the Two-Tails for his rescue, the Third Raikage demanded the jinchūriki back, setting himself against Hanzō while Yahiko and the others withdrew under threat from Cloud Village’s forces.

• A blasted Teach’s cement giant apart with Black Panther, but Teach reformed and revealed that A’s attacks could not hurt him.
• The Third Raikage arrived with Hanzō and ordered both sides to cease fighting, then told A to withdraw the ninjas.
• Hanzō demanded to inspect and restrain the Third Raikage, but the Raikage insisted he was himself and explained that he would speak after the withdrawal.
• Teach flew toward Roran City, hoping to meet Admiral Akainu and transfer from the Construction Department to the military.
• Hanzō told the Third Raikage that A had paid for his rescue with the Two-Tails, and the Raikage demanded that Yahiko, its jinchūriki, stay with Cloud Village.
• Hanzō and the Third Raikage prepared to fight as Yahiko led the Hidden Rain forces away and stopped within sight of Hanzō to deter Cloud Village from attacking.

The Third Raikage fought Hanzō in the desert and broke through his poison and fire attacks with overwhelming lightning. Meanwhile, Teach reached Sakazuki at Roran City’s central tower and asked to leave the Construction Department to serve under him.

• Hanzō summoned his giant salamander and filled the battlefield with poison, then sent two toxic snakes at the Third Raikage.
• The Third Raikage used Four-Finger Nukite to destroy the poison snakes and charged through Hanzō’s fire-and-sickle attack, shattering the weapon with a lightning-coated strike.
• Teach returned to Roran City and asked an Army Colonel to arrange a meeting with Sakazuki, emphasizing that he possessed three Devil Fruit abilities.
• Shiryu told the Colonel to send Teach up, and Teach rode the elevator to the central tower’s top floor.
• Sakazuki acknowledged Teach as the Construction Department architect, and Teach asked to join his command and fight for the World Government across worlds.

Hanzō surrendered to the Third Raikage, who planned to use the Hidden Rain Village to help conquer the Shinobi World and win its representation under the World Government. Meanwhile, Imu offered Historia a choice for Eldia: replace forced labor with military service, while leaving Eldia’s political restrictions in place, and gave her two days to decide.

• The Third Raikage defeated Hanzō and offered him death or submission; Hanzō chose to submit and knelt before him.
• The Third Raikage explained that he intended to use Hanzō and the Hidden Rain Village to conquer the other ninja villages and secure a place for himself and Cloud Village under the World Government.
• Sakazuki rejected Marshall D. Teach’s attempt to join the military, while Shiryu discussed Teach’s abilities and Aramaki’s campaign against Konoha.
• Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter fought over whether the Sea Ninja Village should fall under military command, and the clash wrecked the Authority Room.
• Doflamingo admitted to Imu that he had deliberately lost to Esdeath, who then left for the Shinobi World with Red Lotus, Akame, and Kurome.
• After Historia demonstrated new tennis techniques, Imu offered to replace Eldian forced labor with military service and gave her two days to consider the terms.

Imu learned that King Enma’s fleet had reached the edge of the Shinobi World’s Underworld, raising hopes that it could restrain Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi and his squad began their battle against Aramaki near Konoha.

• Imu reviewed reports on the ancient dragon, which Shiki had turned into a lava sphere for research after cutting away its disruptive black shell.
• Little Enma told Imu that King Enma’s fleet had followed the soul coordinates to the edge of the Shinobi World’s Underworld, and Imu asked her to keep monitoring the fleet.
• Imu let Little Enma stay with him for two days and asked to see the progress of her Kido research.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Sage Jiraiya, Shimura Danzo, and Orochimaru confronted Aramaki on the Sea of Trees battlefield near Konoha.
• Hiruzen summoned Monkey King Enma as the Adamantine Staff and sent three Shadow Clones toward Aramaki.