Chapter Summaries

Mingren anticipated that the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind would pressure the Land of Rain’s daimyo to cut off Amegakure’s funding and supplies. After Aburame Shikuroo used poison to force an audience with the daimyo, the funding was cut, and Mingren set out for the capital.

• Mingren reviewed Asuka’s report and predicted that pressure from the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind would soon disrupt Amegakure’s funding and supply lines.
• Mingren said he would personally visit the daimyo of the Land of Rain.
• Aburame Shikuroo infiltrated the daimyo’s residence, poisoned guards and officials who attacked him, and demanded a proper conversation with the daimyo.
• An official from the Land of Rain told Amegakure that its funding and material supplies would be cut off.
• Mingren questioned the official about whether he was being threatened, then left Amegakure for the capital of the Land of Rain.

Mingren condemned the Ninja World’s systems and set out to impose change by force. He arrived in the Land of Rain’s capital and confronted Aburame Shikuroo, whose bug clone Mingren destroyed, revealing that the intelligence on his speed and strength was wrong.

• Mingren denounced nepotism, Bloodline Theory, and the exploitation of ordinary people, then declared that he would change the Ninja World by force.
• Aburame Shikuroo waited at the Land of Rain’s palace after securing the daimyo’s backing for his campaign to pressure Amegakure.
• Mingren landed in Kyoto, bought a black trench coat, and headed for the daimyo’s residence, disgusted by its luxury amid the war.
• Mingren rushed past the guards and cut down Aburame Shikuroo’s bug clone at extreme speed.
• Aburame Shikuroo hid behind a pillar and realized that the intelligence had underestimated Mingren’s true strength.

Amakawa Mingren confronted the Daimyo of the Land of Rain and demanded control over the Land of Rain’s ninja affairs, threatening to kill and replace the daimyo if he refused. Aburame Shikuroo attacked Mingren with the Poison Dust Technique, and Mingren responded as the chapter ended.

• Amakawa Mingren appeared in the great hall and swiftly reached the Daimyo of the Land of Rain, avoiding the poison mist from a destroyed insect clone.
• Mingren demanded that Amegakure and all ninja-related affairs in the Land of Rain answer to him, threatening to kill the daimyo if he refused.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Rain warned that the ninja of the entire Ninja World would pursue Mingren, but Mingren threatened to kill the ninja and ruling class if they opposed him.
• Mingren threatened to replace the daimyo repeatedly until an obedient ruler took his place, while promising to keep the Land of Rain running and watch over the rulers’ lives.
• Aburame Shikuroo attacked Mingren from behind with the Poison Dust Technique, and Mingren sensed the attack and flicked his left hand.

Amakawa Mingren fought Aburame Shikuroo inside the hall, countering his poisonous insects with overwhelming speed and Dark Void Palms. Mingren destroyed the hall and killed Shikuroo, then stood amid the wreckage and toxic mist.

• Mingren used Dark Void Palm to knock people out of the hall and severed Shikuroo’s arm while the poisonous dust obscured their sight.
• Shikuroo escaped repeated attacks with insect clones, but Mingren drove him from hiding and beheaded him, only for the body to explode into insects.
• Shikuroo detonated poisoned corpses throughout the hall, unleashing a vast cloud of toxic dust and destroying the palace.
• Mingren flashed through the air, used Dark Void Palms to push the onlookers to safety, and swept the attacks across the hall to suppress the poison and expose Shikuroo.
• Mingren crushed Shikuroo with thousands of blows, killing him before he could speak.

After securing Amegakure’s supplies, Mingren left the village’s war effort strengthened, while Fugaku Uchiha led the Uchiha vanguard toward Iwagakure. The chapter ended with the forces facing off, as Orochimaru proposed taking on the Five-Tails Jinchuriki and leaving Kari of Explosion Release to Fugaku.

• Mingren killed Aburame Shikuroo, gained Dark Chakra, and returned to Amegakure with enough money and supplies to support its fight against the Five Great Nations.
• Fugaku Uchiha told Shisui Uchiha that the Konoha higher-ups had betrayed his father and were sending the Uchiha vanguard into battle to assess their Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Fugaku Uchiha led the Uchiha unit, including Shisui Uchiha, toward Iwagakure with Orochimaru and Aburame Ryoma accompanying them.
• The Uchiha unit reached Iwagakure’s defensive line and found about eight hundred enemy ninja, including Kari of Explosion Release and the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han.
• Orochimaru offered to fight Han and asked Fugaku Uchiha to take on Kari of Explosion Release.

Fugaku Uchiha revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan during a confrontation with Kumogakure scout Toroi, displaying a space-time ability that alarmed Black Zetsu and White Zetsu. The gathered shinobi saw the Uchiha’s power, while Orochimaru grew eager to study their bloodline.

• Orochimaru warned Fugaku Uchiha that Konoha’s forces would suffer heavy losses despite assigning fighters to counter the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and Fugaku said he had a plan.
• Aburame Ryoma detected observers nearby, and Orochimaru and Fugaku recognized Kumogakure’s Magnet Release Ninja Toroi hiding in a tree.
• Fugaku Uchiha activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and used his left eye to distort Toroi’s body and absorb him.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu recognized Fugaku’s ability as a space-time technique and worried that his two Mangekyō eyes made him a greater threat than Obito Uchiha.
• Shisui Uchiha and the Iwagakure ninja stared in shock, while Orochimaru became eager to study the Uchiha Clan’s bloodline.

Konoha’s leaders discussed Fugaku Uchiha’s shocking victories and the growing threat posed by Amakawa Mingren, then planned to end the war and select the Fourth Hokage. Danzo decided to send Yakushi Nonō as a spy into Amegakure.

• Fugaku Uchiha’s battlefield report revealed that he had killed sixty-three jonin, prompting Danzo to demand his immediate recall.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Aburame Shikuroo had been killed and that Amakawa Mingren had threatened the Land of Rain’s daimyo.
• Danzo and Mitokado Homura discussed choosing the Fourth Hokage, suppressing the Uchiha, and accepting Iwagakure’s truce to end the war.
• Danzo proposed sending spies into Amegakure to investigate Amakawa Mingren, Hanzo of the Salamander, and the Akatsuki Organization.
• Danzo chose Yakushi Nonō, believing he could pressure her into spying for Konoha.

After the Third Shinobi World War ended with a truce and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s resignation, Mingren continued training and managing Amegakure. He learned that Ibuse remained badly injured from the battle against Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina, while Pakura kept training in isolation.

• Konoha and Sunagakure signed a truce with Iwagakure, and Hiruzen Sarutobi resigned as Hokage.
• Mingren trained in Amegakure and reviewed Guren’s reports on the village’s administration and the Akatsuki Organization.
• Mingren asked Guren to help him research Dark Chakra that night, and she agreed bashfully.
• Mingren found Asuka overseeing treatment for Ibuse, whose injuries had been caused by Uzumaki Kushina’s Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Mingren told Asuka to make use of Ibuse while her grandfather remained unconscious, and he vowed not to let Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina have an easy time.
• Guren reported that Pakura was still training intensely, and Mingren said time would eventually help her recover.

Mingren recognized Yakushi Nonō as a spy sent by Shimura Danzō, but kept her identity secret for his own purposes. He retrieved the life-support equipment from his old underground laboratory with Guren, destroyed the site, and left Nonō to report for duty in Amegakure.

• Yamada hinted that he was unhappy about the Ninja World War ending, but Mingren offered no explanation.
• Mingren rejected the women trying to approach him and set out with Guren to interview a new medical-ninja applicant.
• Mingren recognized the applicant as Yakushi Nonō, a spy from Konoha, and decided to use her without exposing her identity.
• Mingren took Guren to his former underground laboratory and had her pack its life-support pods and other experimental equipment into scrolls.
• Mingren destroyed the laboratory after the equipment was removed, and Yakushi Nonō arrived that afternoon to report for duty in an Amegakure uniform.

Mingren brought Yakushi Nonō to an underground site in Amegakure and ordered her to establish a secret treatment facility he called Black Prison. He planned to imprison her there as a Dark Weapon, using her to produce Dark Chakra for his research.

• Mingren asked Yakushi Nonō how she would respond if an enemy threatened a hostage, and her prepared answer failed to meet his real standards for trust.
• Mingren told Yakushi Nonō to set up a hidden treatment facility near his residence, with Guren assigned to assist her.
• Guren unsealed Life Support Pods and medical equipment, and Yakushi Nonō began arranging the underground site as Mingren's Black Prison.
• Mingren ordered Guren to have people guard the area and prevent Yakushi Nonō from leaving without permission.
• Mingren planned to inscribe the Dark Chakra Jutsu on Yakushi Nonō, keep her sedated in a Life Support Pod, and use her as the first Dark Weapon in his experiments.

Mingren prepared to build Black Prison while Konoha and Sunagakure sent diplomats to Amegakure. After selling two famous swords, Mingren learned that Yakushi Nonō had started gathering intelligence, and Nonō slipped out at night to investigate whether Hanzo was alive.

• Mingren decided to seek a substance that could block perception and study a C-rank Five Seal Barrier to protect Black Prison.
• Kurenai Shinku and Shikaku Nara departed for Amegakure as Konoha diplomats, while Sunagakure sent two diplomats as well.
• Guren returned with five hundred million from the sale of Samehada and Thunder Sword Fang, and Mingren planned to ask Land of Rain officials about perception-blocking substances.
• Yakushi Nonō secretly sent her first day's intelligence to Konoha, including details of the secret medical facility Mingren was building.
• Yakushi Nonō left her room at night and headed out to investigate whether Hanzo was alive.

As Konoha and Sunagakure diplomats arrived in Amegakure to negotiate a truce, Mingren questioned whether the Ninja World War should end while Hanzo remained unconscious. The diplomats entered amid hostility, and the chapter left Amegakure’s leaders gathered to decide how to respond.

• Nonō listened to a strange cry at night, and Mingren told her to rest instead of answering her question about Amegakure and the war.
• Mingren gathered intelligence-blocking materials while Nonō built a medical clinic and secretly sent Konoha useless reports.
• Mingren and Amegakure’s leaders visited the unconscious Hanzo, and Chuan reported that Konoha and Sunagakure’s diplomats had arrived.
• Shikaku Nara and Kurenai Shinku waited at Amegakure’s entrance, where Kurenai Shinku used Genjutsu on the hostile guards after they insulted him.
• Yamada let the diplomats into Amegakure, where Asuka, Mingren, Guren, and Pakura faced them in a conference room.

Mingren held a vote on a truce with Konoha and Sunagakure, and most of Amegakure’s officials approved it. He then asked Yamada, a war orphan who had initially supported peace, to speak, and Yamada erupted in anger over the deaths of his family and friends.

• Mingren told Pakura to hold back her anger and summoned Yamada to stay for the meeting.
• Shikaku Nara proposed a truce between Konoha, Sunagakure, and Amegakure, offering compensation as part of the deal.
• Mingren called for an anonymous vote, and ninety percent of the attendees approved the truce while the rest abstained.
• Mingren stopped Yamada as he tried to leave and asked whether Amegakure should sign the agreement.
• Yamada said that he had lost his family and friends in the war, then shouted that he did not agree to stop fighting.

Mingren rejected Konoha and Sunagakure’s truce proposal and declared that Amegakure would continue the war until one side was destroyed. As Kurenai Shinku launched a sound-based genjutsu and moved to assassinate Asuka, the attack remained unresolved.

• Yamada broke down over the deaths of his family, friends, and comrades, and Mingren stopped the others from dragging him away.
• Mingren announced that Amegakure rejected the truce and promised Yamada that his loved ones would be avenged.
• Mingren told Shikaku Nara that Amegakure would prepare for war and would accept no peace until one side was destroyed.
• Kurenai Shinku secretly spread sound-based genjutsu through his voice, disorienting those present.
• Kurenai Shinku drew a kunai and prepared to kill Amegakure’s leaders, targeting Asuka first.

Mingren killed Kurenai Shinku after resisting his Genjutsu, rejected Konoha’s truce attempt, and grew stronger by absorbing his negative emotions. That night, Obito Uchiha appeared to recruit Mingren, who recognized him as Madara.

• Mingren resisted Kurenai Shinku’s Genjutsu and killed him with Dark Finger after threatening his daughter, Kurenai Yuhi.
• Kurenai Shinku’s negative emotions strengthened Mingren, while Pakura killed two Sunagakure ninjas and Mingren stopped her from attacking Shikaku Nara.
• Mingren told Shikaku Nara that he would reject a truce if Konoha harmed his family and clan, then sent him back to warn Konoha’s High Command.
• That night, Obito Uchiha appeared behind Guren, and Mingren recognized him as Madara after Guren moved to his side.

Obito Uchiha approached Mingren to recruit him into Akatsuki and explained a false plan to combine the Tailed Beasts into a weapon. Mingren agreed conditionally and demanded the Zero-Tails Scroll and the Eight Inner Gates, but Obito only offered to obtain the scroll.

• Mingren kept Obito Uchiha's identity secret while asking why he had come to Amegakure.
• Obito Uchiha invited Mingren to join Akatsuki and claimed its goal was to combine the Tailed Beasts into a weapon.
• Mingren agreed to join only on his own terms, while reassuring Guren that she could relax.
• Mingren demanded the Zero-Tails Scroll and the Eight Inner Gates to advance his power and seek a way to awaken Hanzo.
• Obito Uchiha agreed to obtain the Zero-Tails Scroll but refused to provide the Eight Inner Gates.

Mingren arranged to join Akatsuki in name so Obito Uchiha would bring him the Zero-Tails Scroll, while he continued building Black Prison and recruited Asuka to help with its seals. The chapter ended with Shikaku Nara returning to Konoha with news of Kurenai Shinku’s death and realizing the situation was worse than expected.

• Mingren agreed to join Akatsuki in name, and Obito Uchiha promised to bring him the Zero-Tails Scroll within three days.
• Mingren visited Asuka, comforted her over Kurenai Shinku’s attack, and learned she could use the Five Seal Barrier.
• Mingren brought Asuka to help build Black Prison, explaining its human experimentation and his plans to research and spread Dark Chakra.
• Mingren warned Asuka not to trust the newcomer too much, and she began discussing the facility’s construction with Yakushi Nonō.
• Two days later, Shikaku Nara returned to Konoha alone with news of Kurenai Shinku’s death.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi resigned, Konoha’s leaders began choosing a Fourth Hokage while plotting to use Rougakure against Amegakure. Kurenai Yuhi learned that her father had died, while Mingren monitored Pakura and went to activate Asuka’s improved barrier.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and Mitokado Homura agreed to begin the Fourth Hokage election and withdraw forces from the border.
• Danzo proposed provoking Rougakure into attacking the Land of Rain so Konoha could weaken both Rougakure and Amegakure.
• Shikaku Nara told Kurenai Yuhi that Kurenai Shinku had been killed in action, and she collapsed in grief.
• Guren reported that Pakura had grown increasingly violent after Sunagakure blamed Amegakure for the diplomatic incident, and Mingren ordered her watched.
• Guren told Mingren that Asuka had upgraded the Five Seal Barrier into a Six Seal Barrier, and Mingren went with her to activate it in the Black Prison.

Mingren inspected the nearly completed Black Prison, including its Six Seal Barrier and Life Support Pods, and trapped Yakushi Nonō inside. Obito Uchiha delivered the Zero-Tails Scroll, whose account of Dark Chakra only strengthened his belief in bloodlines.

• Asuka explained the Six Seal Barrier, and Mingren activated it and granted Asuka and Guren permission to pass through.
• Yakushi Nonō reported that the Life Support Pods were installed and that officials had found a substance that blocked Chakra Perception.
• Mingren praised Nonō and left with Asuka and Guren, while Nonō discovered the barrier prevented her from leaving.
• Obito Uchiha emerged through a vortex and gave Mingren the Zero-Tails Scroll he had retrieved from Konoha's confidential archive.
• Obito read the scroll's description of Zero-Tails and dismissed Dark Chakra as inferior to bloodlines.

Obito Uchiha told Amakawa Mingren that Rougakure would invade the Land of Rain, and Mingren prepared Amegakure to repel them while concealing its contact with Akatsuki. After assigning Pakura to lead the defense, Mingren gave Shennong the Zero-Tails Scroll as repayment for his years as a master, though Shennong warned that their bond meant nothing to him.

• Obito Uchiha told Mingren that Rougakure would reach the Land of Rain's border in a day and then departed to target the Bloody Mist.
• Mingren told Amegakure's leaders that Akatsuki had contacted him and warned them to keep the information secret.
• Asuka proposed deploying elite squads to intercept Rougakure, and Mingren approved her strategy while warning that Amegakure faced a wider conflict with Konoha and Sunagakure.
• Mingren assigned Pakura to lead the defense against Rougakure, and she eagerly accepted.
• Mingren gave Shennong the Zero-Tails Scroll as repayment for the six years he had spent training him, but Shennong dismissed the meaning of their master-disciple bond.