Chapter Summaries

Yuhara, reborn in the world of Naruto and imprisoned by Orochimaru, was forced into a fight to the death despite having no memory of his former life or ninja skills. He survived by instinctively using Magnet Release, drawing Orochimaru’s interest as valuable experimental material.

• Orochimaru visited Yuhara’s cell, identified him as a former member of a nearly destroyed Ninja Sect, and declared him a test subject.
• Hotaru took Yuhara from his cell to an arena, where Orochimaru announced that only one of the two fighters would leave alive.
• Yuhara dodged his opponent’s first attack and threw a kunai, but the opponent quickly overwhelmed him and swung for his neck.
• Yuhara caught the blade with his bare hand, then used an uncanny connection to make his fallen kunai fly back and pierce the opponent.
• Yuhara grabbed the opponent’s kunai and fatally wounded him, while Orochimaru recognized Yuhara’s power as Magnet Release.

Yuhara discovered that his Magnet Release let him survive Orochimaru’s lethal experiment by enclosing himself in iron. He awoke in another cell beside a bound child, who said Yuhara’s arrival had delayed his own departure and might leave him trapped there indefinitely.

• Yuhara tested his Chakra and found lightning, wind, and earth natures, then wondered whether his Magnet Release was actually a Kekkei Tōta.
• Hotaru led Yuhara to Orochimaru’s laboratory and warned him that Orochimaru used experimental subjects and their corpses for different purposes.
• Orochimaru had Yuhara draw number 97 and injected him with a high, potentially lethal dose of a pale violet liquid.
• Yuhara endured two minutes of agony, lost consciousness, and survived seven days of violent bodily changes inside an iron shell formed from his cage.
• Yuhara woke in a different cell and learned from a bound, nameless child that his Magnet Release had encased him in iron before his body could explode.
• The child told Yuhara that his arrival had delayed the child’s planned departure and might mean he could never leave.

After recovering from Orochimaru’s experiment, Yuhara learned that he had become a test subject in Orochimaru’s early Cursed Seal research and realized he needed to escape. Orochimaru prepared to surrender the laboratory to Konoha after its experiments were leaked, while Yuhara noticed that Hotaru had vanished.

• A ninja told Orochimaru that information about Experiment A had been leaked to Konoha, and Orochimaru decided to hand over the laboratory while keeping the spy from the village.
• Hotaru delivered Yuhara’s meal with a hidden note, which he took without reading it in the cell.
• Orochimaru drew Yuhara’s blood and explained that the experiment was meant to suppress a deadly power; Yuhara recognized that he was being used to develop the Cursed Seal using Nature Energy from Jugo.
• Yuhara realized he was beneath Konoha near the end of the Third Ninja World War and resolved to escape before Orochimaru became more dangerous.
• Orochimaru drew Yuhara’s blood daily for three days, and Yuhara noticed that Hotaru had not appeared during that time.

Yuhara watched Kou kill Hotaru in the arena, then discovered Orochimaru’s dungeon had been abandoned. As Konoha took control, a Konoha ninja escorted Yuhara from his cell, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Yuhara reflected on the limits of his Magnet Release and his new ability to sense Nature Energy after the Assimilation Experiment.
• Kou fought Hotaru in the arena and killed her with Wood Style.
• Kou disappeared after the fight, and Yuhara noticed that the dungeon had been emptied and nearly starved while waiting.
• A Konoha ninja opened Yuhara’s cell and asked him to come along as Konoha took control of the dungeon.
• Yuhara left his cell and saw Konoha ninjas checking the prisoners’ identities, unsure what would happen to him.

Yuhara left Orochimaru’s underground prison and was made a Konoha Genin, then assigned to a squad bound for the front lines. He met his teammates at a nearby camp and discovered that their twenty-four-person force was commanded by Rindou, a Chunin rather than a Jonin.

• Rindou led Yuhara out of the underground facility, and Yuhara saw the night sky over Konoha for the first time since arriving in this world.
• Rindou told Yuhara that he had officially become a Konoha Genin and would serve as his subordinate on an upcoming front-line mission.
• Yuhara explained to Rindou that he had Magnet Release but could not use conventional ninjutsu.
• Rindou introduced Yuhara to squad leader Jian Dong and squad members Tigo and Xinliang at a camp outside Konoha.
• Tigo complimented Yuhara’s eyes, and Yuhara joked that his gaze was like liquid helium.
• Yuhara learned that Rindou, a Chunin, commanded a twenty-four-member force that would ordinarily be led by a Jonin.

Yuhara adjusted to his new role in a suspicious Konoha squad while weighing Hotaru’s hidden message against the risks of getting involved. He focused on survival and devised a system for comparing ninja strength, leaving himself far below the benchmark of “one Kakashi.”

• Yuhara learned from Tigo that his squad consisted largely of naturalized ninjas and had little reason to trust its members.
• Yuhara secretly read Hotaru’s note, which contained a map to a hidden location, but decided not to pursue it yet.
• Yuhara resolved to preserve his knowledge of the ninja world and avoid recording it where Konoha might find it.
• Yuhara created a ten-category combat-strength scale and set Kakashi Hatake at age twenty-six with three Sharingan tomoe as the benchmark.
• Yuhara estimated Jiraiya and Hashirama Senju’s scores, acknowledged the system’s limits for exceptional fighters, and rated himself at only 30 to 50.

Yuhara’s squad replenished its supplies and learned that its A-rank mission was to hunt a Hidden Cloud Elite Jonin, despite being badly outmatched. After the Yellow Flash drove back the Hidden Cloud forces, the squad moved toward the front lines, where Yuhara faced an uncertain fate.

• Yuhara collected standard supplies and Explosive Tags, then asked Jian Dong how to use them.
• Jian Dong explained how the Explosive Tags worked and warned Yuhara to avoid using them unless necessary.
• Rindou led twenty-four ninjas to the Land of Fire border and revealed their mission to kill Koto, a Hidden Cloud Elite Jonin.
• Yuhara realized Konoha was using the squad to wear down an elite enemy and grew more eager to escape.
• Rindou reported that the Yellow Flash had driven back the Hidden Cloud’s AB Brothers, and the squad continued toward the battlefield.

Yuhara’s squad waited in ambush for a week before their sensory ninja detected a Cloud Hidden force led by the Jonin Koto. After the enemy squad was revealed to have four members instead of two, Rindou ordered the mission to continue.

• Rindou arranged the Konoha squad in a wide search-and-encirclement formation, placing Yuhara’s team at the rear junction.
• Yuhara, Xinliang, and Jian Dong stayed concealed for seven days while Tigo secretly relayed battlefield information to Rindou.
• Tigo’s signals directed the squad toward an enemy, and Konoha confirmed that the target was the Cloud Hidden Jonin Koto; five Konoha Ninjas had died in the encounter.
• Xinliang warned Yuhara that the Cloud Hidden force had four members, not the two reported by their intelligence.
• Rindou ordered the squad to continue the mission despite the unexpected enemy reinforcements.

Yuhara’s Konoha unit tried to lure a Cloud Hidden squad into a trap, but the plan failed and an Elite Jonin reached their position. As the survivors fought him, Jian Dong destroyed her brother Rindou’s brain to keep enemy hands from obtaining his intelligence.

• A Konoha decoy confirmed the enemy’s identity, and the vanguard retreated while drawing the four-man Cloud Hidden squad forward at the cost of several lives.
• Yuhara prepared kunai with Explosive Tags as the unit waited, but the trap failed and a Cloud Hidden Ninja appeared carrying Captain Rindou’s corpse.
• Xinliang rushed to retrieve Rindou’s body, but the enemy wounded him; Jian Dong attacked with Fire Release while Yuhara joined the fight.
• Yuhara threw kunai fitted with Explosive Tags but forgot how to detonate them, then one unexpectedly sprang up and exploded against the enemy.
• Jian Dong drove a kunai through Rindou’s eye socket and into his brain to prevent the enemy from extracting Konoha intelligence.

Yuhara protected Tigo during the squad’s retreat, was wounded by the Cloud Hidden Jonin Koto, and then underwent a sudden transformation as Nature Energy spread across his body. He left Koto crumpled on the rocky ground, and Xinliang stared at Yuhara’s altered appearance.

• Jian Dong took command after Rindou’s death and ordered the Konoha squad to withdraw together.
• Koto charged toward Tigo, but Yuhara caught his wrist, tethered him with metal wire, and urged Tigo to keep running.
• Jian Dong identified Koto as the Cloud Hidden Jonin and Storm Release Ninja targeted by their mission, and Koto’s lightning pierced Yuhara’s right shoulder.
• Xinliang stayed behind to delay Koto, but after a brief exchange Koto was interrupted by a figure who burst from the forest and slammed him into the rocky ground.
• Xinliang recognized the figure as Yuhara and saw dark-red markings spread across his skin as traces of Nature Energy.

Yuhara’s unstable transformation helped him and Xinliang defeat the Cloud Hidden Ninja, but it left him severely exhausted. After resting in Konoha-controlled territory, Yuhara recovered enough to begin the squad’s return to camp three days later.

• Yuhara’s kick incapacitated the Cloud Hidden Ninja, and Xinliang used the enemy’s dropped blade to kill him and took his head as evidence.
• Jian Dong asked Yuhara to explain his transformation, and he said Orochimaru had modified him as a test subject.
• Yuhara and the squad left the dangerous forest and reached Konoha-controlled territory without further pursuit.
• Yuhara’s Nature Energy markings faded as his Chakra recovered, but he collapsed from exhaustion and could not move normally.
• Three days later, Yuhara could stand, and the squad began returning to camp.

After returning from a deadly mission, Yuhara learned that Xinliang’s poisoned hand might end his career as a ninja and suspected the injury was not what it seemed. That night, Cloud Hidden attacked Konoha’s front-line camp, targeting the hospital above even the command post.

• Jian Dong brought Squad Z back to camp, where Yuhara learned that only two other squad members had survived and that the mission’s million-ryo reward would be divided among them.
• After his examination, Yuhara found Xinliang in the ward and learned that nerve damage in his right hand might force him to leave the front line and become a civilian.
• Yuhara questioned whether Xinliang’s wound had really been poisoned, but Xinliang did not explain how he had been injured.
• Yuhara told Xinliang that people had to take responsibility for their choices, then left the ward.
• Cloud Hidden sent elite squads to raid Konoha’s front-line camp, making the hospital their highest-priority target.

After the Cloud Hide ambush killed Xinliang, Yuhara returned to Konoha with Jian Dong and Tigo and decided to build up his combat strength before leaving again. He commissioned two exceptionally heavy sword crates and asked the shopkeeper whether he sold Ninja Academy elementary school textbooks.

• Yuhara stayed hidden during the Cloud Hide attack, then saw Xinliang's corpse when he returned to the frontline hospital.
• Three days after the ambush, Yuhara, Jian Dong, Tigo, and two other Squad Z members left the frontline camp for Konoha.
• Jian Dong took Yuhara and Tigo to her home, where Yuhara rested and later heard her quietly sobbing over her brother's death.
• The next day, Yuhara commissioned two sword crates from a Ninja Tool Shop, one solid steel and the other filled with mercury, each measuring 10×20×120.
• Before leaving the shop, Yuhara asked whether the shopkeeper sold Ninja Academy elementary school textbooks.

Yuhara trained Chakra control by climbing the slippery cliffs of Whispering Stream Trail, then began developing techniques using his metal-controlling abilities. He tested a mercury projectile that failed, but successfully formed a thin steel armor over his body.

• Yuhara began climbing the ravine cliffs to practice precise Chakra control, falling into the stream whenever he lost his grip.
• Yuhara alternated climbing practice with rest and studying a Ninja Academy textbook borrowed from Jian Dong.
• Yuhara added equipment to his training and, after a week, reached the top of the cliff for the first time.
• Yuhara shifted to speed training and experimented with developing his own ninjutsu.
• Yuhara tried to launch a ball of mercury, but it fell to the ground because his Chakra intensity, nature transformation, and burst of force were insufficient.
• Yuhara used the Sword Crate to spread a thin, tough layer of black steel over his arms, chest, and part of his back.

After a month of wilderness training, Yuhara returned to Konoha with stronger Chakra control, new offensive ninjutsu, and a better understanding of his Magnet Release. At the village gates, he saw Kakashi Hatake leave alone and reflected on the war and the peaceful life he wished could last.

• Yuhara finished his month of training, confirmed that his Magnet Release used Earth, Wind, and Lightning Chakra, and decided to keep its Kekkei Tōta nature secret.
• Yuhara developed three offensive ninjutsu and began applying Lightning Release, while remaining uncertain about his special passive and his body's ability to bear Nature Energy.
• Yuhara cleaned up his wilderness camp and headed back to Konoha, deciding not to investigate the coordinates Hotaru had left behind.
• At Konoha's gates, Yuhara recognized Kakashi Hatake, who glanced at him and continued on without stopping.
• Yuhara watched Kakashi leave the village, then returned his gaze to Konoha at dusk and wished its ordinary peace could last despite the ongoing war.

Squad Z returned to the front lines under Jian Dong’s command, and Yuhara brought new jutsu skills and a supply of Explosive Tags. At the camp, Orochimaru took command and singled Yuhara out for a separate mission.

• Squad Z replenished its ranks and set out for the front lines in the Land of Rice, with Jian Dong as its commander.
• Yuhara reflected on his new jutsu skills and carried one hundred Explosive Tags he had bought, in addition to the twelve issued by Konoha.
• During a rest stop, Tigo gave Yuhara a warm meal as rain fell around them.
• Squad Z reached the front-line camp and encountered Orochimaru, who had returned to command after Konoha’s recent setback.
• Orochimaru assigned Squad Z to gather intelligence southwest, then selected Yuhara for a separate mission.

Orochimaru sent Yuhara to search a dangerous location in Cloud Hidden territory for the corpses of the Second Hokage and the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers. After learning the mission’s real target, Yuhara decided to look for the brothers’ missing ninja tools and began planning a quick, covert trip across the battle lines.

• Orochimaru assigned Yuhara a solo search mission and gave him a map, scrolls, supplies, and a Konoha Headband.
• After leaving the camp, Yuhara opened the mission scroll and learned Orochimaru wanted the corpses of the Second Hokage and the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers.
• Yuhara realized the brothers’ ninja tools might still be near their corpses and decided to search for them.
• Yuhara planned to cross the battle lines quickly and considered using a disguise to borrow the Yellow Flash’s intimidating reputation.

Yuhara disguised himself as the Yellow Flash to draw Cloud Hidden forces together and slip through their control line toward the location on Orochimaru’s map. His deception reached the Konoha camp as a report that Cloud Hidden was preparing for a final battle, leaving Orochimaru stunned.

• Yuhara chose to infiltrate Cloud Hidden territory by impersonating the Yellow Flash and provoking the enemy into regrouping.
• A Cloud Hidden Ninja spotted the golden-haired Yuhara, mistook him for Minato Namikaze, and reported that the Yellow Flash was heading toward headquarters.
• Yuhara used magnetism and Chakra to skim quickly over the ground, let several more enemies see his disguise, then changed direction toward the marked location.
• Cloud Hidden's reported movements reached the Konoha front-line camp, and Orochimaru wondered whether Cloud Hidden was preparing for the final battle.

Yuhara found the remote battlefield where Tobirama Senju had died and recovered the Six Paths Tools from the Gold and Silver Brothers. After collecting the remains, he left Tobirama in a separate scroll and accidentally sealed Kinkaku alone before putting Ginkaku with him.

• Cloud Hidden commander A ordered a full defensive withdrawal and prepared to intercept the Yellow Flash with B while sensory ninjas tracked him.
• Orochimaru learned that the Cloud Hidden was gathering for a decisive battle and requested reinforcements, confident one person could arrive in time.
• Yuhara reached the hidden battlefield and followed the traces of the fight to the remains of Gold and Silver Brothers and Tobirama Senju.
• Yuhara collected Hōrin Kagami, Shichiseiken, Kōtanuki, and Banjō Senshi, then sealed the brothers’ remains together and Tobirama’s separately.
• Yuhara accidentally sealed Kinkaku alone in one scroll and placed Ginkaku with him in another.

Yuhara left the Second Hokage’s corpse carrying stolen Cloud Hidden tools, but a four-man Cloud Hidden squad intercepted him as he withdrew. Outnumbered and battered by their attacks, he killed their Magnet Release ninja with his secret technique, Mercury Lamp.

• Yuhara decided to leave after taking several Six Paths Tools, which he considered stolen goods he could not use openly.
• Toroi led a four-man Cloud Hidden squad in pursuit of Yuhara, believing the lone Konoha ninja might carry important intelligence.
• Toroi magnetized Yuhara with a shuriken, while his squad attacked him with Lightning, Earth, and Fire Release techniques.
• Yuhara feigned an injury as he fled, then turned and unleashed Mercury Lamp on Toroi, cutting the Magnet Release ninja apart.