Chapter Summaries

Mingren and Asuka parted ways after Shennong sealed the dead Konoha ninjas, while Kakashi arrived too late to save Shinya Senju. Elsewhere, Hanzo and the Konoha forces ended their clash, and Hanzo worried that Asuka had been captured.

• Ryu assumed Shennong had defeated the Konoha ninjas, but Asuka realized Mingren had killed Hokage Tsuchi and Shinya Senju.
• Shennong sealed the corpses, leaving Shinya Senju's body behind, and Ryu tried to recruit Mingren and Shennong.
• Asuka sensed Kakashi approaching, so Mingren and Asuka exchanged farewells and left before he arrived.
• Kakashi reached the rooftop and mourned that he had arrived too late to save Shinya Senju.
• Hanzo, Shimura Danzō, and Minato Namikaze paused their battle, and Hanzo reflected on the Land of Rain's suffering and feared Asuka had been captured.

Hanzo reconsidered Konoha’s proposed alliance after learning that Asuka had escaped its capture attempt, and he ordered Chuan to investigate Amakawa Mingren. Asuka later returned and told Hanzo how Mingren had defeated the Konoha squad, leaving Hanzo curious about the source of his strength.

• Shimura Danzō urged Hanzo to form an alliance with Konoha, and Hanzo said he needed three days to consider it.
• Ryu returned to Hanzo and reported that Asuka and her companions had repelled Kakashi Hatake’s squad, while Shennong had dealt with the Konoha team targeting her.
• Hanzo ordered Chuan to secretly investigate Shennong and his disciple, Amakawa Mingren.
• Asuka returned to Amegakure and told Hanzo that Mingren had defeated the Hyuga, Transparent Release, and Senju ninja with overwhelming strength.
• Hanzo wondered whether Mingren’s remarkable strength came from a Kekkei Genkai.

Hanzo and Danzo considered the consequences of the missing Kekkei Genkai corpses and sent Konoha agents to watch the Underground Exchange. Shennong and Mingren arranged an auction of the bodies, intending to humiliate Konoha before the other great nations.

• Hanzo concluded that the Hyuga and Transparent Release corpses had likely been taken to sell, and he told Asuka to investigate the Land of Rain's Underground Exchange.
• Danzo learned that Shinya Senju and several others had been killed by Hanzo's guard, while Hokuto Hyuga and the Gekko Clan member's bodies were missing.
• Danzo sent Shido Akimichi and Kaede Yamanaka to watch the Underground Exchange and ordered the other bodies returned to Konoha.
• Mingren told Shennong that the devastation in the ruined town strengthened his resolve to avenge the dead and drive out invaders.
• Shennong said he had spread word of an auction for the corpses, which he planned to hold within two days so the news would reach the great nations and make Konoha look helpless.

Mingren and Shennong went to the Underground Exchange for the corpse auction while Danzo sent Minato Namikaze to investigate and support the mission. The chapter ended with Minato confronting an Amegakure ANBU in the rain.

• Mingren explained that he wanted to weaken Amegakure's confidence in Konoha and prevent an alliance, while Shennong questioned whether peace might benefit the Land of Rain.
• Mingren tested his strength, found it still insufficient, and anticipated slaughtering Konoha reinforcements at the corpse auction.
• After receiving Shennong's news, Danzo sent an ANBU agent to question Hanzo of the Salamander and ordered Minato Namikaze to the Underground Exchange.
• Mingren and Shennong reached the masked auction, where Asuka, Ryu, and the others also arrived.
• Minato used a Flying Thunder God Kunai to pin an Amegakure ANBU at the throat and ordered him not to move.

Minato Namikaze confronted Hanzo after learning that Hanzo did not possess the corpses of Hokuto Hyuga and Gekko Clan, leaving the identity of the people behind the auction uncertain. As the auction began at the Underground Exchange, Minato and Hanzo raced toward it while Mingren surveyed the wealthy crowd.

• Minato Namikaze subdued Chuan of Amegakure's ANBU after Chuan tried to stop him.
• Hanzo arrived and told Minato that he did not have the corpses of Hokuto Hyuga and Gekko Clan.
• Minato said he still intended to reach the Underground Exchange and recover the corpses, while Hanzo asserted his authority over the Land of Rain.
• Minato used the Body Flicker Technique to race toward the Underground Exchange, and Hanzo pursued him with the same technique.
• At the Underground Exchange, the auctioneer opened the event as Mingren noticed the wealthy, well-dressed attendees.

At an Underground Exchange auction, Shennong showed Mingren the wealthy patrons and explained the venue’s influence while Konoha agents Kaede Yamanaka and Shido Akimichi tried to recover two corpses. Shido’s fight with an escort exposed their identities, and the auction began as attendees considered handing the corpses over to Konoha for favors.

• Shennong pointed out Gato and other wealthy patrons to Mingren, while Asuka and her subordinates felt out of place and Kaede Yamanaka and Shido Akimichi surveyed the venue.
• Kaede Yamanaka worried that the auction of Hokuto Hyuga’s and the Gekko Clan’s corpses would make their mission difficult because the attendees were powerful patrons.
• Sato insulted Shido Akimichi and shoved him, so Shido used Expansion Jutsu and Human Bullet Tank to crush Sato and his men.
• Kaede Yamanaka realized that Shido’s outburst had revealed their Konoha identities and their mission to recover the corpses.
• Attendees approached Kaede Yamanaka and Shido Akimichi to sound them out about returning the corpses, and the auctioneer announced the auction’s start.

Mingren watched a black-market auction in the Land of Rain and grew stronger as its human trafficking and Konoha’s inaction fueled his anger. As the auction ended, someone killed the auctioneer with a thrown stone and stepped out of the crowd.

• A wealthy merchant bought the corpses of Hokuto Hyuga and Gekko Clan, then asked Shido Akimichi and Kaede Yamanaka to guard him on the way home.
• The auctioneer put a refugee girl from the Land of Rain up for sale while Mingren watched with Shennong and vowed to kill the officials and nobles involved.
• Mingren’s anger at the trafficking and Konoha’s decision to look away increased his power through Dark Chakra.
• Asuka saw the auction’s cruelty but feared that confronting its powerful attendees would bring disaster to the Land of Rain.
• A stone struck the auctioneer and exploded his head just as he was closing the auction, and someone stepped out from the crowd.

Mingren attacked the officials and criminals gathered in the Underground Exchange while Shennong sealed the entrance and watched his Dark Chakra experiment unfold. Asuka and her guards sheltered in the shadows, while Shido Akimichi and Kaede Yamanaka tried to clear the blocked exit for their employer.

• Mingren appeared onstage and threatened to kill everyone, while Shennong blasted the entrance shut with Explosive Tags.
• Mingren charged into the crowd, killing attackers with his strength and shrugging off Kunai as his wounds healed.
• Shennong led Asuka and her three subordinates into the shadows, then broke the hall’s lights to plunge the crowd into darkness.
• Mingren continued slaughtering people in the dark as Shennong urged him to kill and observed his reaction.
• Shido Akimichi and Kaede Yamanaka guarded their employer near the entrance while preparing to use the Human Bullet Tank to clear the rubble.

Mingren fought Shido Akimichi and Kaede Yamanaka inside the dark hall, revealing that he could recover from severe injuries. The chapter left Shido enlarged and swinging at Mingren, who had just dodged aside.

• Mingren provoked Shido Akimichi by calling him a fatso, causing Shido to attack with the Human Bullet Tank.
• Shido's rolling attack struck Mingren twice, and Kaede Yamanaka used the Mind Disturbance Body Technique to leave Mingren vulnerable to another hit.
• Shido slammed Mingren into a wall, leaving him with multiple fractures and internal bleeding.
• Mingren recovered quickly, astonishing Shido, who expanded his body and swung a huge palm at him.
• Mingren flashed to the side and dodged Shido's attack.

Mingren slaughtered the Akimichi and Yamanaka fighters and the nobles, while Shennong spared Gato to preserve Amegakure’s sea trade. Mingren’s strength reached 10, and Minato Namikaze and Hanzo arrived at the blood-soaked underground entrance.

• Mingren defeated Shido Akimichi by striking his head until his skull caved in, then blocked Kaede Yamanaka’s Mental Secret Technique.
• Mingren killed Kaede Yamanaka before he could react and absorbed the negative energy from both corpses, raising his strength to 9.9.
• Mingren killed the nobles and slaughtered the crowd until Shennong stopped him from killing Gato, the merchant supplying Amegakure by sea.
• Mingren’s strength reached 10, and Minato Namikaze and Hanzo arrived, sensing the heavy stench of blood underground.

Minato Namikaze and Hanzo investigated the slaughter at the auction site, while Mingren prepared to purge the Land of Rain’s corrupt officials and nobles. After hearing Asuka’s account, Hanzo decided to meet Mingren in person.

• Minato Namikaze and Hanzo found the bodies of Kaede Yamanaka and Shido Akimichi, questioned the traumatized Gato, and suspected Akatsuki was responsible.
• Hanzo took Gato back to Amegakure and resolved to ask Asuka what had happened before deciding how to handle Amakawa Mingren.
• Mingren thanked Asuka for her help, then told Shennong he would travel through the Land of Rain and kill the people preying on it.
• Asuka confirmed to Hanzo that Mingren had caused the slaughter, and Hanzo decided to observe him personally.

Konoha’s leaders concluded that Akatsuki was likely behind the killings and planned to ally with Hanzo against them, while Orochimaru became interested in the unknown culprit. Meanwhile, Mingren continued killing criminal groups in the Land of Rain, drawing the attention of Sunagakure ninja Pakura.

• Minato Namikaze brought Shido Akimichi and Kaede Yamanaka’s bodies to the Konoha camp, and the investigation suggested Akatsuki was responsible for the attacks.
• Danzo decided to seek an alliance with Hanzo against Akatsuki and ordered Minato Namikaze to investigate the organization.
• Danzo warned Konoha’s forces that the culprit likely possessed a Kekkei Genkai, while Kakashi struggled to track the attacker and remained frustrated by the missing bodies.
• Orochimaru questioned Kakashi about his Sharingan and left the camp interested in the culprit’s abilities as a possible vessel for Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Mingren continued slaughtering thieves, bandits, and criminal groups across the Land of Rain, targeting a town that night.
• Pakura and her Sunagakure subordinates found the bodies of their village’s ninjas and their assigned nobles at the Underground Exchange, and Pakura noticed the disturbance in town.

Pakura and Kitsuchi investigated the murders of officials and merchants, suspecting Amegakure or Akatsuki, while Shennong and Orochimaru met to discuss the killer. Orochimaru sought to identify the youth and consider him as a reincarnation vessel or test subject, but Shennong suggested the killer might be an ordinary person.

• Pakura assessed the killer as a brutal teenage boy and led her three subordinates to continue tracking him.
• Kitsuchi ruled out Sunagakure and Konoha as likely culprits, then ordered his team to follow Pakura from a distance.
• Orochimaru met Shennong at a roadside tavern while Shennong's disciple was away training in the rain.
• Orochimaru revealed that he wanted to investigate the killer as a possible reincarnation vessel or experiment subject.
• Shennong asked whether the killer might be an ordinary person, and Orochimaru dismissed the idea.

Mingren hunted down evildoers across town at night, while Shennong argued that an ordinary person could challenge the strong through sheer will. Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan confronted Mingren after learning of the killings, but he leaped away, leaving them shocked by his strength.

• Shennong dismissed Orochimaru’s confidence in bloodline abilities and claimed his disciple could prove that an ordinary person could fight the strong.
• Mingren used intelligence gathered during the day to hunt and kill criminals and other evildoers throughout town at night.
• Mingren checked his strength score of 10.26 and concluded that his physical power had reached elite standards and could still grow.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan tracked the killings to Mingren and found him on a rooftop in the rain.
• Mingren leaped from the ten-story building and escaped, while Yahiko froze and Konan remarked that Mingren had grown much stronger.

Mingren confronted Yahiko’s Akatsuki over his campaign against criminals, arguing that protecting innocent people could not be postponed for a distant peace. Nagato countered that killing criminals would perpetuate vengeance, and Mingren challenged the idea that good people should bear the cost of evil.

• Hanzo watched Mingren’s group and suspected he had moved the conflict away from civilians, then followed them to observe what happened.
• Mingren, Yahiko’s Akatsuki, and Asuka’s group met in the rain, and Yahiko confronted Mingren about the recent killings.
• Mingren argued that his work against criminals could coexist with Akatsuki’s efforts to end the war, leaving Yahiko temporarily speechless.
• Mingren insisted he would keep killing criminals to protect innocent people, while Nagato warned that their families and friends would seek revenge.
• Mingren challenged Nagato by asking why good people should pay for evil deeds, and the argument remained unresolved.

Mingren challenged Nagato and the Akatsuki Organization over their past and their conduct, while Hanzo reconsidered how to deal with them. Elsewhere, Pakura, Kitsuchi, and Minato Namikaze’s groups confronted one another over the Underground Exchange and agreed to share information.

• Mingren reminded Nagato that Konoha ninja had killed his parents, leaving Nagato shaken and supported by Konan.
• Mingren condemned the Akatsuki Organization for wearing Amegakure forehead protectors while refusing to obey Hanzo, and Hanzo considered negotiating with them.
• Asuka concluded that Mingren would not join Akatsuki and resolved to invite him to join Amegakure.
• Pakura captured an Akatsuki Organization member for questioning, then encountered Kitsuchi’s group and Minato Namikaze’s group in a warehouse.
• Minato proposed that the three factions share intelligence about the Underground Exchange, and the others agreed to cooperate for the time being.

Orochimaru failed to interrogate an Akatsuki captive because Nagato had protected his mind, so the three villages tortured him for information. They tracked Yahiko’s group and arrived as Mingren definitively rejected Akatsuki, leaving the two sides facing one another.

• Orochimaru attempted to use Genjutsu on the captive, but discovered that a powerful countermeasure formula blocked mental interrogation.
• An Iwagakure kunoichi used Rock Fist to torture the captive until he revealed that Akatsuki’s leader had sent members out to patrol around midnight.
• Minato Namikaze led the three groups to Yahiko and the others, where they heard Mingren refuse to join Akatsuki.
• Pakura confronted Yahiko’s Akatsuki over the Underground Exchange incident and noticed Mingren among them.

Yahiko faced Orochimaru and a group of shinobi investigating the Underground Exchange killings, then tried to shield Akatsuki by admitting the organization was involved. Mingren instead confessed to the murders, but Pakura dismissed him as an insignificant nobody and turned her attention to Akatsuki.

• Yahiko recognized Orochimaru and realized the Five Great Shinobi Villages blamed Akatsuki for the Underground Exchange killings.
• Orochimaru identified Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan as the Land of Rain orphans he had met during the Second Shinobi World War, while Pakura criticized Konoha for sparing them.
• Yahiko acknowledged Akatsuki’s connection to the killings and tried to explain that a misunderstanding was involved.
• Mingren interrupted Yahiko and confessed that he had killed the people, while Ryu and the others watched anxiously from hiding.
• Asuka arrived and tried to protect Mingren, but Pakura dismissed him as an unknown ordinary person and focused on holding Akatsuki accountable.
• Yahiko accepted the challenge and said Akatsuki would answer for itself.

Minato Namikaze proposed peace with Amegakure, but Pakura rejected the plan, accusing Konoha of undermining Sunagakure. The negotiations collapsed, and Minato’s thrown kunai began a battle among the gathered factions.

• Minato Namikaze urged the shinobi to avoid war until they uncovered the full chain of events, while Pakura suggested dividing the Akatsuki Organization and targeting Hanzo’s granddaughter.
• Minato Namikaze opposed attacking Hanzo’s granddaughter because Konoha was negotiating an alliance with Amegakure, leading Pakura, Kitsuchi, and others to suspect a secret agreement.
• Minato Namikaze proposed making Amegakure neutral and ending the war, but Pakura rejected his offer and accused Konoha of taking Sunagakure’s missions and weakening its livelihood.
• Kitsuchi reconsidered the value of alliances, and Pakura gathered Scorch Release as the negotiations broke down.
• Yahiko signaled the Akatsuki Organization to prepare for battle, while Asuka prepared to get Amakawa Mingren away from the conflict.
• Minato Namikaze threw a kunai, starting the battle as the six factions reacted.

As Akatsuki retreated into the streets, Mingren watched an Iwagakure ninja destroy a building and kill the civilians inside. Enraged, he charged her and struck with overwhelming force, appearing before her again as she flew through an alley.

• Mingren and Asuka withdrew from the open ground, while Konan and Nagato led Akatsuki toward the town and Kitsuchi's subordinates pursued them.
• Hanzo watched the forces scatter and decided to reconsider Konoha's alliance proposal in hopes of ending the Ninja World War.
• The battle spilled into the streets, where Akatsuki used underground passages and buildings to evade their pursuers.
• An Iwagakure female ninja smashed a building apart with the Rock Fist Technique, and Mingren saw blood seep from beneath the rubble.
• Mingren's rage erupted, and he struck the Iwagakure ninja so hard that she flew across the street before he appeared in front of her again.