Chapter Summaries

The World Government’s Auxiliary Corps seized Yokosuka City, killing civilians and police who resisted as its forces advanced toward nearby cities. As the invasion spread and Japan’s command structure remained paralyzed, Vice Admiral Damiano dispatched Predator drones to reconnoiter Yokosuka and coordinated with the Seventh Fleet.

• Lieutenant Ferrer’s troops entered Yokosuka and announced the city’s occupation, then killed three police officers when Morita Sae challenged them.
• The Auxiliary Corps suppressed resistance across Yokosuka, and nearly a thousand people died as the city’s residents realized they had been invaded.
• Auxiliary Corps trucks left Yokosuka Port Base and advanced toward Miura, Yokohama, and other areas while news of the occupation spread.
• Japan’s Self-Defense Force and government remained unable to act because communications were disrupted and their command authorities could not be reached.
• Vice Admiral Damiano ordered two MQ-1B Predator drones to reconnoiter Yokosuka and directed his staff to contact the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the Seventh Fleet.
• Vice Admiral Damiano connected with Vice Admiral Irakli Lehman, who said the Seventh Fleet had begun returning to port.

Major General Moriguchi mobilized the Tokyo Division after receiving orders to deploy to Yokosuka, but Sea Ninja Village forces infiltrated the base and slaughtered its defenders. As Tokyo descended into panic and Japan’s leadership fell silent, Kevin Mitnick hijacked screens worldwide to announce the World Government’s conquest notice.

• Major General Moriguchi ordered the Tokyo Division to enter combat readiness and deploy forces to Yokosuka, but a ninja assassinated him before his orders could be relayed.
• A and fifteen Sea Ninjas attacked the Tokyo Division headquarters, destroying vehicles and aircraft and killing more than three thousand personnel.
• Ninjas also attacked military bases around Tokyo, while residents fled the capital amid reports of a new Gate and an approaching World War II-style army.
• Tokyo’s officials and lawmakers went silent as police and Sumiyoshi-kai members struggled to maintain order and people speculated about the missing leaders.
• Kevin Mitnick appeared on screens worldwide and introduced the World Government’s purpose and its conquest notice for Nuclear World No. 0007.

President Darell and his advisers assessed the World Government’s invasion, weighing its military threat and the possibility of hidden spies with supernatural abilities. Darell ordered a military response in Japan and heightened security before Madara Uchiha suddenly appeared in his office.

• President Darell’s advisers discussed the World Government’s parallel-world origins, its World War II-level military, and the resources it had gained by conquering other worlds.
• CIA Director Achim Mays revealed that Japanese officials had been captured, Tokyo Division had been massacred, and a soldier had been dragged into ultra-high-performance concrete by someone with extraordinary strength.
• Darell and his advisers considered the threat of enemy spies and supernatural abilities, then agreed to strengthen security around the president and the Pentagon.
• Darell ordered the Seventh and Third Fleets to take military control in Japan, secure Yokosuka, Tokyo, and the Ginza Gate, and stop further World Government forces from entering.
• Darell ordered a nationwide Level One combat alert, warned other countries against sending armed forces into Japan, and told the CIA and NCR to intensify their investigations and security measures.
• After the meeting, Madara Uchiha appeared in Darell’s office and introduced himself.

Madara Uchiha controlled President Darell and ordered him to gather intelligence on the Lighthouse Nation’s industries, military assets, and conglomerates while the World Government continued its invasion of Japan. As Shiki’s forces spread through the country, he ordered Budo to attack Sasebo and destroy its forces, sparing pilots and technical personnel.

• Madara Uchiha kept President Darell under control and refused to rescind the orders already issued, explaining that the World Government needed to demonstrate its power.
• Madara Uchiha ordered President Darell to compile information on industrial bases, military enterprises, conglomerates, and nuclear weapons sites, then told him to begin with the conglomerates.
• Shiki’s Auxiliary Corps expanded its occupation from Yokosuka across central Japan, while alchemists and ninjas modified the base and crews prepared the spacecraft carrier.
• Budo reported that reconnaissance aircraft were approaching Yokosuka and that Vice Admiral Karasu’s air wing was headed for the Ancient Nation’s capital.
• Shiki ordered the ninjas in Japan to destroy the troublesome bases and sent Budo aboard his aerospace carrier to attack Sasebo, telling him to leave pilots and technical personnel alive.

Korea’s First East Sea Fleet fought six Japanese fighters before the World Government’s hidden air fleet revealed itself above them. Bombardment Ship One survived a missile barrage with an energy shield and fired its Dyna Stone Energy Cannon at the fleet, leaving the attack’s damage unresolved.

• Vice Admiral Shen Chengping ordered the Korean fleet to attack six unresponsive Japanese fighters after they launched missiles, and the two sides fought over the sea.
• Vice Admiral Karasu watched from a radar-invisible space carrier and ordered Bombardment Ship One to descend against the Korean fleet while the other warships continued toward Seoul.
• The Korean fleet shot down the six fighters, then noticed Bombardment Ship One hovering overhead and launched ten Sea Sparrow missiles at it.
• Bombardment Ship One’s energy shield absorbed the missile barrage, and its Dyna Stone Energy Cannon struck the Gwanggaeto the Great destroyer and engulfed nearby ships in purple light.

The World Government’s bombardment ship destroyed the Korea First East Sea Fleet, while Vice Admiral Karasu’s aviation group attacked Seoul. The Five-Way Revolving Thunder God Cannon obliterated the Blue House and killed President Park Tae, leaving Seoul’s fate uncertain.

• The bombardment ship fired Dyna Stone Energy Cannons and laser beams, destroying all twenty-six warships of the Korea First East Sea Fleet.
• The bombardment ship continued toward the Korean capital to rendezvous with Vice Admiral Karasu’s aviation group.
• Vice Admiral Karasu ordered the space carrier to descend above the Blue House after the monitoring ninjas withdrew.
• F-4 and F-15 fighters launched from the carrier, alerting the Blue House guards and prompting them to evacuate President Park Tae.
• The Five-Way Revolving Thunder God Cannon struck the Blue House, killing President Park Tae, the guards, officials, and palace staff while scorching the surrounding grounds.

An electromagnetic pulse crippled Seoul’s infrastructure and air defenses as the World Government launched an assault on Osan Air Base. Mitabi’s airborne Eldian troops transformed into Pure Titans and slaughtered the base’s defenders, while other paratroopers hunted armed soldiers through its buildings.

• A powerful electromagnetic pulse damaged electronics, power grids, communications, and air-defense systems across much of Seoul, leaving the city in chaos.
• Fighter jets attacked Seoul’s military bases, while Vice Admiral Karasu’s transport ship approached Osan Air Base and deployed Mitabi’s airborne troops.
• Vice Admiral George Oh ordered the base’s soldiers to resist, and their manually operated Anti-Aircraft Guns damaged some paratroopers but could not penetrate the transport ship’s Magic Reflection Barrier.
• Eldian paratroopers transformed into Pure Titans in midair, then crushed soldiers and destroyed weapons across Osan Air Base as gunfire failed to stop them.
• Other paratroopers used grappling hooks and modified M1911 pistols to move through the base, shooting armed Lighthouse Nation soldiers.

Korean forces mobilized against the World Government’s invasion as fighting spread across the country, while the World Government prepared its Reincarnation Paradise training ground in Giant World. Crocodile and Bullet watched monsters being dropped into the sealed zone, and Crocodile refused Shukaku’s request to join them, calling him a companion.

• Korean air wings launched 283 fighters toward Seoul, while army units advanced from Gangwon and the Chungcheong provinces.
• Korean troops fought Karasu’s airborne forces in Ulsan, where a hovering transport ship’s laser cannons destroyed armored vehicles and its Magic Reflection Barrier blocked counterattacks.
• The World Government sent Air Wings and Auxiliary Corps troops toward several countries, while shinobi controlled national leaders and prevented nuclear launches.
• Crocodile and Bullet inspected Reincarnation Paradise, a sealed training zone covering more than 600,000 square kilometers in North America.
• Transport ships dropped tens of thousands of Kabane, thousands of Man-Eating Demons, hundreds of Pure Titans, and other monsters into the zone.
• Shukaku asked to go down and play among the monsters, but Crocodile called him his companion and refused.

After losing contact with Japan, Kanehira kept the news secret from his troops while his advance force guarded the Ginza Gate. Rommel’s 1st Brigade stormed the base through the Gate, and Itami Youji arrived as Kanehira was struck down, while the loli Apostle of the God of Death and War attacked the enemy ranks.

• Kanehira ordered the soldiers who knew Japan could no longer be contacted to keep silent and planned to try blasting open the iron gate if contact was not restored.
• When the Gate began opening, Egawa Bunta and Kobayashi Shoji were shot dead by soldiers of the 1st Brigade.
• Rommel led the 1st Brigade into the camp and directed its assault as the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tried to counterattack.
• The 1st Brigade captured tanks and armored vehicles, and a tank shell exploded near Kanehira’s position.
• Itami Youji identified himself to the mortally wounded Kanehira, while a blue-haired girl asked Itami whether to fight or retreat.
• The loli Apostle of the God of Death and War charged into the enemy ranks with her Halberd Scythe.

Loli Mercury slaughtered Auxiliary Corps soldiers and nearly killed Rommel and Scherner before Lelei froze the battlefield with a powerful Blizzard spell. The fighting outside Ginza Gate was halted, while Mercury’s attack on the two commanders remained unresolved.

• Loli Mercury cut down Auxiliary Corps soldiers, and Rommel confronted her to hold her back while the First Brigade advanced.
• Rommel fought with Thunder Breathing, but Mercury overwhelmed him and prepared to kill him before Scherner intervened with Flame Breathing.
• Scherner and Rommel attacked Mercury together, but she wounded both men and stood over them with her scythe raised to strike.
• As the Auxiliary Corps and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force exchanged fire outside the base, Lelei cast Blizzard and froze soldiers, vehicles, and the ground without harming anyone’s head.
• Cato E. Altistan praised Lelei’s mentor-level Blizzard spell as the battlefield fell silent.

Kurosuki Raiga’s squad intervened when Rory Mercury nearly killed Rommel and Scherner, then split up to confront her and the source of an icy attack. Rory fought Taketori Kazushi and Ruri Seiji, discovering that their combined abilities could seriously threaten her; she wondered whether more powerful fighters would arrive.

• Kurosuki Raiga blocked Rory Mercury’s Halberd Scythe and ordered Ruri Seiji to carry Rommel and Scherner back through the Gate.
• Rory Mercury faced Kurosuki Raiga, Kazahana Yasuhiro, and Taketori Kazushi, while the ninjas prepared to fight because they could not communicate with her.
• A wave of icy air swept across the battlefield, and Kazahana Yasuhiro raised an Ice Mirror Wall to shield the ninjas from it.
• Kurosuki Raiga and Kazahana Yasuhiro left to confront the source of the cold, while Taketori Kazushi and Ruri Seiji stayed to capture Rory Mercury.
• Rory Mercury traded attacks with Taketori Kazushi, but Ruri Seiji’s Crystal Release and Kazushi’s Ten-Finger Bullet sent her crashing into a Type 74 tank and drained much of her defensive magic.
• Rory Mercury recovered, realized she might not defeat the two ninjas quickly, and worried that even stronger fighters could come through the Gate.

Kurosuki Raiga and Kazahana Yasuhiro confronted Itami Youji, Lelei, and Cato, claiming the World Government had occupied Japan and demanding to study the local magic. When the two sides fought, Cato struck Raiga down with natural lightning, and Lelei chose to keep him alive for questioning.

• Kurosuki Raiga attacked the group with lightning, but Lelei blocked it with a magical barrier.
• Kurosuki Raiga told Itami Youji that the World Government had occupied Japan and asked Lelei and Cato to come with him.
• Itami Youji decided to fight, and Lelei warned Raiga and Kazahana Yasuhiro to leave.
• Lelei fired a barrage of purple magic bullets as Raiga charged her under lightning armor and Kazahana prepared another attack.
• Kurosuki Raiga broke through Lelei's barrier, but Cato struck him with natural lightning before he could hit her.
• Cato urged Lelei to kill Raiga, but she asked to keep him alive for questioning, and Cato said the others did not need to be spared.

The World Government’s forces overwhelmed the Nuclear World’s militaries as Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha attacked the capitals of the Ancient Nation and Lighthouse Nation. Shiki reached Okinawa Island and began his assault on its many military bases, intending to capture aircraft and record the battle.

• Hashirama Senju attacked Dadu, where his Wood Human and Wood Dragons destroyed forces while civilians sheltered and some armed men who resisted were killed.
• Madara Uchiha fought the Lighthouse Nation’s forces near Washington, using Sage Mode’s Majestic Destroyer Flame to devastate an armored division as Auxiliary Corps soldiers recorded the battle.
• Shiki rejected Pershing’s proposal to attack Okinawa Island with ballistic missiles and flew there alone from Yokosuka Port.
• Shiki released four Visual Den Den Mushis to film Okinawa Island’s military bases, then plunged toward the island, announcing his arrival.

Vice Admiral Damiano sent fighters to intercept Shiki as he flew toward Kadena Air Base, but Shiki turned their missiles back on them. The two F-15s exploded, leaving Damiano and the command room stunned.

• Vice Admiral Damiano learned that the Seventh Fleet had gone silent while World Government forces continued fighting across Japan.
• A radar operator detected a fast-moving object approaching Kadena Air Base, and Damiano dispatched an E-3 and two F-15s to investigate.
• The aircraft crews and Kadena command staff discovered that the approaching object was a human flying through the sky at supersonic speed.
• Damiano ordered the F-15s to attack Shiki, and the fighters launched two AIM-9 missiles at him.
• Shiki made the missiles turn back, and both F-15 pilots were destroyed by their own weapons.

Shiki destroyed Kadena Air Base and used the awakened Float-Float Fruit to shatter Okinawa Island, gathering its remains into a colossal pillar. He crowned it with a giant silver lion as his monument, leaving the Ryukyu Islands in the shadow of his creation.

• Shiki stopped the F-15s’ cannon rounds, formed a white-cloud lion, and smashed it into Kadena Air Base, destroying the airfield and killing thousands of people.
• Shiki held hundreds of military aircraft aloft and dropped the people and debris while keeping the planes suspended.
• Shiki unleashed his awakened Float-Float Fruit, shattering Okinawa Island and lifting its fragments into the sky.
• Shiki gathered most of Okinawa Island’s remains, along with buildings, warships, weapons, and people, into a pillar more than three thousand meters tall.
• Shiki shaped a giant silver lion atop the pillar and laughed as its golden surface shone toward Mount Fuji.

After Cato sealed the Ginza Gate, Itami Youji agreed to accompany him to Rondel and explain Japan’s weapons to the mages in hopes of finding a way home. Meanwhile, Tekka Uchiha’s squad planned to join Moonlight Shigure’s team in Rondel and capture Louise alive, despite the danger posed by the city’s many mages.

• Cato sealed the Ginza Gate with earth and ice, while his group killed Kazahana Yasuhiro and Ruri Seiji and captured Kurosuki Raiga and Taketori Kazushi.
• Lelei asked Cato to take Itami Youji and his troops to Rondel, and Cato invited Itami to bring a tank and explain their weapons to the mages.
• Itami Youji agreed to go to Rondel after considering his stranded troops’ options, and Cato set the group to clean up the battlefield before departing.
• Moonlight Shigure’s team requested support from Tekka Uchiha’s squad after discovering that Rondel was full of powerful mages and too dangerous for four Jonin to seize Louise alone.
• Tekka Uchiha decided to meet Louise and the mages with both squads, while Pakura voiced her dislike of the Hidden Mist Village ninja.

In Rondel, Saito Hiraga and Louise decided to bring Louise’s family to their world so they could reunite safely. In the Nuclear World, Shiki ordered the tunnel cleared but postponed sending troops through the Gate, while Budo won permission to enter the Special Zone World with three Colonels.

• Louise told Saito Hiraga she missed her family and asked whether they could return home, but Saito warned that the World Government might be watching her family.
• Saito suggested bringing Louise’s family to their world, and Louise eagerly hurried to gather Tabitha, Kirche, and the others to plan their rescue.
• Budo reported that nearly six thousand auxiliary troops had been lost in the Special Zone World and that the Ginza Gate tunnel had been sealed.
• Shiki ordered the tunnel cleared, held back further troops, and directed the Sea Ninja Village to gather intelligence about the mages and the Gate.
• Budo asked to enter the Special Zone World to earn military merit, and Shiki approved his request while ordering him to take three Colonels from the Sky-Splitting Unit.

As Shiki’s forces expanded their conquest of the Nuclear World, ninjas and officers gathered at the Ginza Gate to test the frozen tunnel leading into the Special Zone World. Major General Budo asserted his corps’ separate mission and summoned his Teigu, Adrammelech, as the chapter ended with lightning striking him.

• Shiki reinforced the Auxiliary Corps with another four hundred thousand troops and decided to focus on three worlds rather than rush the Nuclear World’s conquest.
• At the Ginza Gate, Hui Uchiha used Fire Release to blast several meters into the frozen tunnel, revealing molten earth and metal beneath the ice.
• Major General Budo arrived with three officers from Admiral Golden Lion’s White Sea Sky-Splitting Corps and said they had orders to carry out their own mission in the Special Zone World.
• Inoichi Yamanaka challenged Budo’s authority to investigate the new world, and the ninjas and officers nearly clashed before Budo ordered them to handle their own assignments.
• Budo raised his arms and shouted “Adrammelech,” summoning storm clouds and golden lightning that struck him.

Budo and A blasted through the frozen Ginza Gate and devastated the Japanese advance team at Arnus Hill. Inoichi Yamanaka learned that Kurosuki Raiga and Taketori Kazushi had been taken to Rondel, where a lightning-wielding mage had defeated Raiga instantly, leaving Budo intrigued by the powerful opponent.

• Budo used Adrammelech to blast a long tunnel through the frozen Ginza Gate, impressing the Air Force officers with his Vice Admiral-level strength.
• At Arnus Hill, the golden lightning beam burst through the Gate, destroyed a Type 74 tank, and alerted the Japanese advance team.
• A and Budo charged into the camp and killed all but ten of the more than one thousand soldiers, while destroying the tanks and armored vehicles.
• A handed the unconscious Kosugi Kensho to Inoichi Yamanaka, who read his memories and learned that Kazahana Yasuhiro and Ruri Seiji were dead, while Kurosuki Raiga and Taketori Kazushi had been taken to Rondel.
• Inoichi reported that the mage Cato had defeated Kurosuki Raiga instantly with a bolt of lightning, prompting Budo to take interest in the otherworldly expert.

Inoichi Yamanaka shared intelligence about the mages in Rondel and sent his team to pursue Louise, while Budo headed for the Imperial Capital and attacked Pina Co Lada’s cavalry. Meanwhile, Hyuga Takeshi and Uchiha Kejiu followed Itami Youji’s convoy and flew off on their summoned Flame Dragon to rescue Kurosuki Raiga.

• Moonlight Shigure reported that Louise and the others were in Rondel, and Inoichi Yamanaka warned him about Lelei’s frost magic, energy bolts, barriers, and Japanese speech.
• Budo refused to join the operation against Rondel and set off for the Imperial Capital with Colonel Marcus Mars and two other officers, while Inoichi Yamanaka led the ninja teams northwest.
• Budo’s group encountered the Rose Knight Order, and Budo, Colonel Marcus Mars, and the two Air Force colonels slaughtered its cavalry, killing Grey Go Aldo and leaving Princess Pina Co Lada fleeing in terror.
• Itami Youji’s convoy reached the Lomalia Mountains and continued west toward Rondel after Lelei explained that the vehicles could not cross the mountains.
• Hyuga Takeshi and Uchiha Kejiu watched the convoy depart, then summoned the Flame Dragon and flew away with the unconscious Yamanaka Yosuke to rescue Kurosuki Raiga.