Chapter Summaries

Mingren punished the Akatsuki members for letting their battle endanger civilians, then overwhelmed the Stone Ninja who attacked him. He left the last Stone Ninja facing his strength after destroying three Shadow Clones.

• Mingren killed an Iwagakure kunoichi with two punches, and Asuka compared his strength to Hanzo's.
• Mingren hurled the kunoichi's corpse through a building and threw the Akatsuki members outside, injuring them.
• Mingren warned the Akatsuki members that he would kill them if their battles endangered ordinary people again.
• A Stone Ninja attacked Mingren with Rock Fist, but Mingren shattered the technique and sent him crashing through two walls.
• The remaining Stone Ninja created three Shadow Clones, and Mingren destroyed them with three punches.

Mingren killed the Stone and Sand ninja and raised his strength to 11, while Minato Namikaze's group fought Pakura and Kitsuchi. Nagato revealed a powerful technique to repel Orochimaru, and the surviving fighters left without realizing their companions were dead.

• Mingren destroyed the Stone Ninja's Shadow Clones, killed him, and headed toward the three Sunagakure ninja.
• Minato Namikaze and Pakura ended their fight without a clear victor while Kitsuchi's attacks disrupted the battle.
• Orochimaru rushed toward Nagato to provoke Yahiko, but Nagato used Shinra Tensei to blast him away without hand seals.
• Yahiko retreated with Nagato and Konan, while Orochimaru suspected Nagato had killed Shikahide Nara and the others.
• Pakura left to seek out Hanzo's Granddaughter, and Kitsuchi departed to rejoin his companions.
• Mingren killed the three Sunagakure ninja, reached strength 11, and disappeared into the rain.

Asuka and Hanzo of the Salamander tracked Amakawa Mingren after he killed three Sand shinobi, and Hanzo decided to recruit him into Amegakure. Back at the inn, Mingren told Shennong that his strength had reached eleven, while Shennong proposed using Amegakure’s ceasefire with Konoha to recover Empty Village’s stolen research.

• Asuka found the three dead Sand shinobi and left the scene, then met Hanzo of the Salamander, who said he would handle recruiting Amakawa Mingren.
• Pakura found her three dead subordinates, blamed Akatsuki, and vowed revenge.
• Kitsuchi recovered the bodies of his three men and decided to report Akatsuki to his father.
• Mingren returned to the inn, where Shennong asked about his strength, and Mingren said it had reached eleven.
• Shennong explained that he planned to join Amegakure and use future exchanges with Konoha to reclaim the Zero-Tails research Scroll.

Mingren trained in an abandoned warehouse before Hanzo of the Salamander approached him and invited him to join Amegakure. Hanzo argued that gradual reform and strengthening the village were necessary, but Mingren rejected his caution and insisted that killing evil people would improve the world.

• Mingren left Shennong and trained through the rainy night, thinking about the consequences of Amegakure allying with Konoha.
• Hanzo of the Salamander appeared in the abandoned warehouse, and Mingren questioned what he was because he showed no signs of life.
• Hanzo invited Mingren to join Amegakure and said he knew about Mingren's killings of corrupt officials, nobles, and foreign ninja.
• Mingren challenged Hanzo's claim that killing evildoers would worsen unrest and argued that leaving only good people would make the world better.
• Hanzo warned that the weakened Land of Rain could not risk rash decisions and urged Mingren to help strengthen Amegakure, but Mingren sneered at his proposal.

Mingren questioned Hanzo about his identity and plans for the Akatsuki, while Hanzo urged him to broaden his combat skills and revealed that he had met him through a Water Clone. Hanzo then confirmed Amegakure might ally with Konoha, leaving Pakura stunned by his willingness to negotiate.

• Hanzo said he would prefer to resolve Amegakure’s conflict with the Akatsuki through talks, and Mingren asked what Hanzo truly was.
• Hanzo warned Mingren that his reliance on Taijutsu left him vulnerable, while Mingren kept his knowledge of Dark Chakra secret.
• Hanzo revealed that the figure speaking with Mingren was a Water Clone, explaining that he had stayed away to protect his granddaughter.
• Pakura approached Asuka and Hanzo to learn about Amegakure’s negotiations, and Hanzo confirmed an alliance with Konoha was possible.
• Pakura argued that Konoha had betrayed Sunagakure, but Hanzo maintained that compromise could buy Amegakure time.

Amakawa Mingren defeated Hanzo’s Water Clone and explained his ambition to overthrow the old world, while Hanzo arranged for Asuka to accompany him. The chapter ended with Asuka joining Mingren and Shennong at breakfast before they left for Amegakure.

• Hanzo challenged Amakawa Mingren to a spar, betting that Mingren would join Amegakure if he lost and promising to grant any request if Hanzo’s clone was defeated.
• Mingren overwhelmed Hanzo’s Water Clone with his speed and strength, eventually shattering both its arms.
• Mingren told Hanzo that he intended to rule the Land of Rain, unite small nations and villages, and overthrow the old world governed by Bloodline Theory.
• Hanzo decided to have his granddaughter Asuka contact Mingren, and his Water Clone collapsed as it reached its limit.
• The next morning, Shennong worried that their food would run out before they could sell the bodies in their Scroll, and Asuka arrived at the bun shop to say she would travel with Mingren.

Mingren, Shennong, and Asuka prepared to travel together, with Asuka explaining her abilities and Mingren setting out to hunt the people on his list. After a week of killing targets and a rare calm across the Land of Rain, Mingren still had no news of Amegakure forming an alliance.

• Asuka kept her distance while eating because the Salamander Poison Sac in her body made her breath deadly, and Mingren said people could change their fate.
• Mingren, Shennong, and Asuka formed a team, and Asuka described her toxin weapons, elemental ninjutsu, and sensory skills.
• Mingren gave the team a list of targets to find and kill, reflecting that the living world could diverge from the manga and databooks.
• Over the following week, Mingren pursued his plan and increased his strength while the Land of Rain remained unusually peaceful.
• Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure blamed Akatsuki for the murders at the Underground Exchange, while Sunagakure considered an alliance with Amegakure.
• After seven days, Mingren still had heard no news of Amegakure forming an alliance with any side.

Mingren and Asuka finished killing a group of criminals and set out with Shennong for Amegakure. Meanwhile, Fugaku Uchiha led Konoha’s final diplomatic mission to Hanzo as the Third Shinobi World War’s next steps remained uncertain.

• Mingren crushed the last criminal’s head, and Asuka said the people he killed were evil and that his actions could help the country’s people live in peace.
• Mingren considered recruiting companions with Asuka and then led her and Shennong toward Amegakure.
• Fugaku Uchiha arrived at Amegakure with two Uchiha companions to deliver Konoha’s final diplomatic submission to Hanzo.
• While they waited for Amegakure’s reply, Fugaku discussed Itachi’s battlefield assignment and Shisui’s newly awakened Sharingan with the couple.
• Fugaku asked whether Shisui would take part in Konoha’s planned Chunin Exam, which Konoha intended to use to display its strength and help bring the war to an end.

Fugaku Uchiha met Hanzo to secure an alliance between Konoha and Amegakure, but Hanzo planned to recruit Akatsuki rather than destroy it. Meanwhile, Asuka brought Shennong and Mingren into Amegakure and led them toward the Central Tower.

• Fugaku Uchiha told Hanzo that Konoha expected Amegakure to answer for Akatsuki's crimes, and Hanzo agreed to the alliance.
• Hanzo said he would track Akatsuki and suggested recruiting its members, while Fugaku Uchiha warned that Konoha's leaders would hear his words.
• Asuka arrived at Amegakure with Shennong and Mingren, and the guards let them pass when they recognized her.
• Mingren surveyed Amegakure's crowded streets and steel towers as Asuka led the group to the Central Tower.

Mingren met Hanzo as Konoha pressured Amegakure to answer its demands, and he urged Hanzo to let those who wanted revenge resist while protecting those unable to fight. Hanzo arranged for Mingren and Shennong to stay at Asuka’s parents’ home, where Shennong sensed Ryu’s resentment and Mingren considered the threat of betrayal within Amegakure.

• Mingren recognized Fugaku Uchiha and wondered whether another Uchiha was Shisui Uchiha’s father as the three Uchiha left.
• Hanzo questioned Shennong, then spoke with Mingren about Amegakure’s suffering, opposition to the war, and chances of winning.
• Mingren told Hanzo that those who wanted to fight could pursue vengeance and resist invaders, while others should be protected.
• Mingren left Hanzo and followed Ryu to the residence of Asuka’s deceased parents, where he learned Asuka lived there too.
• Shennong sensed Ryu’s dissatisfaction toward them, while Mingren reflected that some of Hanzo’s subordinates might betray him.

Mingren trained through the night and demonstrated strength beyond an ordinary person before joining Hanzo to examine a brutally tortured Amegakure ninja. He concluded that the killer was likely from Kirigakure’s Hozuki Clan, revealing that people from the Bloody Mist had entered the Land of Rain.

• Mingren refined Dark Chakra until dawn, reached 11.4 Strength, and punched through a steel plate in the courtyard.
• Hanzo visited Mingren and praised his raw strength, while neither discussed Amegakure’s future alignment.
• A subordinate reported that a missing reconnaissance ninja had been found horribly mutilated, and Hanzo invited Mingren to investigate.
• Shennong examined the corpse and determined that the victim had suffered knife wounds, bites, and blunt-force trauma before being drowned.
• Mingren ruled out Konoha’s Interrogation Division as the likely culprit and identified the Hozuki Clan of Kirigakure as the probable killers.

Mingren deduced that Kirigakure and Iwagakure had allied and set out to kill the Kirigakure murderer. At the same time, Hozuki Mangetsu confirmed the alliance and learned Kirigakure would attend Konoha’s Chunin Exam, while Mingren raced toward the crime scene with Asuka trailing behind.

• Mingren explained that Kirigakure had likely allied with Iwagakure because both villages had been weakened and shared enemies.
• Hanzo suspected that Hozuki Mangetsu had used Water Release: Powerful Stream to kill the victims, and Mingren left to hunt him down.
• Hozuki Mangetsu met with an Iwagakure squad, and they confirmed the alliance between their villages.
• Hozuki Mangetsu read a message inviting Kirigakure to Konoha’s Chunin Exam and eagerly anticipated making it bloody.
• Mingren raced toward the crime scene while Asuka struggled to keep up, and he warned that the Bloody Mist’s brutality was unpredictable.

Mingren slaughtered a Bloody Mist squad while searching for the Hozuki Clan killer and learned that Hozuki Mangetsu had gone to Konoha for the Chunin Exam. Enraged, Mingren raced toward Konoha, while Asuka returned to Amegakure with the surviving prisoner and confirmed the squad’s mission.

• Mingren attacked the Bloody Mist ninja, killing three of them and leaving one alive to question.
• The surviving ninja told Mingren that the killer was Hozuki Mangetsu and that he had gone to Konoha for the Chunin Exam.
• Mingren’s rage intensified his Dark Chakra and strength, and he leaped away toward Konoha at subsonic speed.
• Asuka arrived at the scene, found the corpses and prisoner, and returned to Amegakure with him.
• After interrogating the prisoner, Asuka and the others learned that Hozuki Mangetsu’s four-man squad had gone to Konoha and that Mingren had set out alone.

Hanzo sent Asuka and Guren to bring Amakawa Mingren into the Chunin Exam through official channels, but Mingren traveled to Konoha on his own to kill Hozuki Mangetsu. He entered the village disguised as a refugee and was taken to a shelter for registration.

• The villagers feared Hozuki Mangetsu's Water Transformation Technique would make him nearly invulnerable to Mingren's attacks, while Shennong explained that Mingren knew hand-to-hand combat and Medical Ninjutsu but not the basic ninjutsu techniques.
• Hanzo decided not to stop Mingren and ordered Asuka to accompany Guren, an Akatsuki member with Crystal Release, to persuade him to enter the Chunin Exam properly.
• Mingren arrived at Konoha after traveling from the Land of Rain, determined to kill Hozuki Mangetsu and eventually overthrow Konoha's regime.
• A Konoha guard mistook Mingren, whose clothes were tattered from his journey, for a refugee and directed him to register.
• A Konoha ninja brought Mingren to a refugee shelter, where a female ninja began asking for his name.

Mingren passed Konoha’s screening as an ordinary person and was assigned warehouse work while secretly searching for Hozuki Mangetsu. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s advisers discussed the visiting exam teams and suspected Sunagakure and Kirigakure of sending ninja far stronger than Genin.

• Mingren told Kushina and Inoichi Yamanaka that he sought revenge, had no special bloodline, and wanted to prove an ordinary person could surpass bloodlines.
• After tests confirmed Mingren had an extremely ordinary bloodline, Kushina arranged a warehouse job for him, and he ate ten portions of food at the temporary cafeteria.
• Mingren began moving goods while secretly listening for news of Hozuki Mangetsu, as ninja teams from across the Ninja World arrived in Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzō discussed Hanzo’s arrival and his granddaughter Asuka’s participation in the Chunin Exam.
• Danzo warned that Sunagakure’s Pakura disciple and Kirigakure’s Hozuki Mangetsu appeared far too powerful to be legitimate Genin.

Konoha’s leaders finalized their Chunin Exam candidates and secretly chose the eleven-year-old Root operative Terai as insurance against Hozuki Mangetsu. In Konoha, Mingren confirmed Mangetsu would compete and left the cemetery with a plan to kill him, before encountering an approaching group in the rain.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders reviewed Konoha’s candidates, and Danzo selected Terai to compete against Hozuki Mangetsu.
• At the cemetery, Kakashi warned Hayate and the other mourners not to act rashly against Amegakure’s candidates, but they talked about killing them anyway.
• Mingren carried a coffin into the cemetery, and Kakashi spoke with him in the rain without recognizing him as the killer he had been pursuing.
• Mingren learned from Kakashi that Hozuki Mangetsu had come to Konoha for the Chunin Exam and disappeared into the rain with killing intent.
• Mingren considered which young ninja would compete, predicted Mangetsu would dominate the exam, and ran into an uneasy group approaching him.

Mingren stood his ground against Pakura and her Sunagakure examinees before Kakashi stepped in and invited him to lunch. As the Chunin Exam’s first test began, Hanzo of the Salamander was still searching for Amakawa Mingren.

• Mingren refused to move aside for Pakura’s Sunagakure team and identified her as the Scorch Release user.
• Pakura asked whether she had met Mingren before, but left with her team after Maki reminded her the exam was about to begin.
• Kakashi mistook Maki for Nohara Rin, then invited Mingren to lunch after the group departed.
• Mingren followed Kakashi, planning to skip the written test and head for the second exam’s practical battles after eating.
• Hanzo of the Salamander asked Asuka whether she had found Amakawa Mingren, and she shook her head.

Mingren ate with Kakashi, challenged his view of responsibility for his companions’ deaths, and then planned to ambush Hozuki Mangetsu during the Forest of Death. Hanzo searched for Mingren while the Chunin Exam’s first stage began, and Kushina remained bored at the Screening Reception Office.

• Hanzo settled on Asuka, Ryu, and Guren as Amegakure’s examinees and sent clones to search Konoha for Amakawa Mingren.
• Mingren shared a meal with Kakashi and argued that invaders and the Ninja World’s system were responsible for Obito Uchiha and Nohara Rin’s deaths, leaving Kakashi conflicted about Konoha’s own invasions.
• Mingren watched the examinees enter the sealed Ninja Academy, identified the powerful village representatives gathered there, and decided to wait outside the village to ambush Hozuki Mangetsu during the second stage.
• Kari of Explosion Release and Pakura departed, while Hanzo began receiving his clones’ reports and resolved to find and speak with Mingren.
• Kushina spun a pen at the Screening Reception Office, bored by the dwindling refugee work, as Ibiki Morino served as the first-stage examiner.

Mingren left Konoha and entered the Forest of Death to test how much his physical strength and resistance to poison had improved. While Kushina and Hanzo searched for him, the first-stage Chunin Exam continued, and Hanzo suspected Mingren had gone to the forest.

• Kushina learned that Mingren had carried coffins as assigned and appeared to be behaving normally, then planned to meet Hanzo and his granddaughter.
• Mingren left Konoha with the transportation crew and headed for the Forest of Death.
• Mingren entered the forest, killed venomous creatures with his fists, and tested his resistance by eating a poisonous mushroom.
• Asuka wondered where Mingren was while Ibiki Morino administered a regular written exam at the Ninja Academy.
• Hanzo reported that his clones had found no trace of Mingren and suspected he had gone to the Forest of Death.

Hanzo confronted Amakawa Mingren in the Forest of Death and learned that he intended to kill examinees from the Five Great Nations, especially Konoha, as resistance against their invasions. After Hanzo agreed to cover for him, the first-round written test ended, and Asuka left still worried because she could not find Mingren.

• Hanzo realized Amakawa Mingren might be planning to kill many Chunin Exam examinees and rushed to find him.
• Hanzo found Mingren in the Forest of Death, where Mingren said he was targeting examinees from the Five Great Nations while sparing minor-village and Kumogakure examinees.
• Mingren rejected Hanzo's concerns about Konoha's response and argued that resisting invaders, rather than surrendering for peace, was necessary.
• Hanzo accepted Mingren's resolve and said he would cover for him if anything went wrong before his Water Clone dispersed.
• The first-round written test ended, and Asuka searched for Mingren but could not find him as Ryu and Guren watched her reaction.