Chapter Summaries

Shimizu defeated and killed Ōnoki during Sunagakure’s assault on Iwagakure, then used Spirit Summoning to seize Ōnoki’s soul and learn his secrets and techniques. With Iwagakure’s defenders nearing defeat, Shimizu gained access to Dust Release and prepared to claim the village for Sunagakure.

• Kitsuchi held back Ayane Uzumaki and the Four-Tails while Baki and Sunagakure’s forces overwhelmed Iwagakure’s shinobi.
• Ōnoki attacked Shimizu with Dust Release, but Shimizu redirected the technique through a teleportation halo and countered Ōnoki’s attacks.
• Ōnoki tried to strike Shimizu through the teleportation halo, but Shimizu’s Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist shattered his stone fist and left him mortally wounded.
• Shimizu killed Ōnoki before he could use Dust Release again, then extracted his soul with Spirit Summoning.
• Shimizu forced Ōnoki’s soul to reveal Iwagakure’s caches, escape routes, inheritances, and secret techniques, then absorbed the soul and demonstrated Dust Release.

Shimizu’s forces destroyed Iwagakure after killing Ōnoki and defeating Kitsuchi, prompting the other great villages to prepare for another war. As Sunagakure moved to occupy the Land of Earth, Hanzo sent Yahiko to win over its people while Amegakure prepared to pursue the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails.

• Shimizu sealed Ōnoki’s soul and watched Sunagakure’s forces overwhelm Iwagakure, whose desperate resistance turned into a retreat toward the village.
• Sunagakure broke apart Iwagakure’s remaining forces and, after a day of fighting, Ayane Uzumaki and Baki helped defeat Kitsuchi, ending Iwagakure’s resistance.
• News of Iwagakure’s destruction drove Konoha, Kirigakure, and Kumogakure to mobilize, raising the prospect of the Fourth Great Ninja War.
• Hanzo ordered Yahiko and Konan to enter the newly occupied regions, where Yahiko could win over survivors and help Amegakure control the territory.
• Hanzo said he would distract Kumogakure while Nagato and Kakuzu pursued the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails.

Amegakure captured Kumogakure’s Two-Tails and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, while Sasori’s forces stopped Konoha’s invasion of Sunagakure. In the One-Punch World, Shimizu tested the devastating Air Splitting Fist and returned home to study Kusuno’s new Energy Cores.

• Nagato and Kakuzu raided Kumogakure, captured Killer B and Yugito Nii, and intensified the war.
• Sasori and Sunagakure’s enhanced fighters nearly shattered Konoha’s army, while Sasori battled Senju Hashirama and Uzumaki Kushina to a stalemate.
• Shimizu reached a training bottleneck near the fifth limiter and used Eight Directions Inversion to intensify his workouts.
• Shimizu traveled to an uninhabited sea and used Reverse Life Triple to withstand the backlash from testing the Air Splitting Fist.
• Shimizu returned home after the attack drained his stamina and planned to study Kusuno’s Lightning Core and Dragon Roar Core.

Shimizu tested Geno’s new high-energy nutrient capsules and received an urgent summons to the Hero Association headquarters, where he met Atomic Samurai. The chapter left Shimizu at the start of a gathering of S-Class heroes, suspecting Boros was about to arrive.

• Shimizu installed the Lightning Core and Dragon Roar Core in his Black Samurai Battle Armor and reviewed Geno’s research report.
• Shimizu made high-energy nutrient capsules, tested them after training, and found they rapidly restored his stamina.
• Sitch summoned all S-Class heroes to the Hero Association headquarters because something terrifying was about to happen, and Shimizu traveled to A City.
• Atomic Samurai greeted Shimizu at the headquarters and invited him to exchange swordsmanship insights.
• Shimizu showed Atomic Samurai his Black Steel Longsword and explained that he had forged it himself.

Shimizu met Atomic Samurai and agreed to forge him a sword before joining an emergency S-Class meeting about a prophecy that Earth would be doomed within six months. The chapter ended with Shimizu sensing an enormous entity warping in above A City and ordering the evacuation alarm activated.

• Atomic Samurai asked Shimizu to forge him a sword, and Shimizu measured his current blade as a model.
• Shimizu waited with the other arriving S-Class heroes and worried that Caped Baldy might not attend the meeting.
• Sitch revealed Sibabawa’s final prophecy, warning that Earth would be doomed within six months, and explained that her predictions had never failed.
• Shimizu distributed marked kunai that could open portals so the S-Class heroes could assemble quickly during a crisis.
• Shimizu sensed intense spatial fluctuations above A City and urged Sitch to evacuate its residents to shelters.

Shimizu and Tatsumaki defended A City from Boros’s Dark Matter Pirates, then stormed the alien warship to confront its forces. As the heroes headed into battle, Shimizu and Tatsumaki encountered two of the pirates’ top combatants.

• Shimizu learned that Boros’s warship was targeting A City, while Caped Baldy had not yet arrived.
• Shimizu shielded A City from the warship’s missiles, and Tatsumaki turned the barrage back to destroy its launch ports.
• Shimizu killed Melzargard, while Boros watched the heroes’ strength and sent Geryuganshoop and Groribas to test the invaders.
• Tatsumaki tore open the ship and led Shimizu inside as King stayed on the ground and the other heroes went to support them.
• Shimizu and Tatsumaki fought their way through the ship until Groribas blocked Shimizu and Geryuganshoop confronted Tatsumaki.

Shimizu and Tatsumaki defeated Boros’s top officers Groribas and Geryuganshoop, then joined forces to face Boros aboard his spaceship. Boros proved powerful enough to withstand their first attacks, and the battle began in earnest.

• Shimizu used Black Samurai and his combined martial arts to overwhelm Groribas, then killed him and improved his fighting technique.
• Tatsumaki learned Geryuganshoop’s psychic techniques during their battle, raised her power, and crushed him with his own Psychic Stone Wave.
• Shimizu and Tatsumaki decided to stay together after sensing that stronger enemies might appear, and Shimizu warned Tatsumaki that one had already arrived.
• The S-Class heroes fought the Dark Matter Pirates throughout the spaceship while Shimizu and Tatsumaki confronted Boros, who introduced himself and explained that he had come seeking worthy opponents.
• Tatsumaki attacked Boros with psychic power, but he regenerated from his injuries and charged forward; Shimizu intercepted his punch, and Boros rushed at them again after she blasted him back.

Shimizu and Tatsumaki struggled against Boros after he entered his Meteoric Burst Form, while the S-Class heroes joined the fight and Metal Bat’s fighting spirit rose enough to help hold Boros at bay. As the injured heroes evacuated the collapsing spaceship, Caped Baldy finally arrived and headed toward the battle.

• Boros entered his Meteoric Burst Form, overwhelming Shimizu and Tatsumaki as they fought to contain him.
• Shimizu and Tatsumaki launched a combined attack, but Boros fought through it while the S-Class heroes arrived to help.
• Flashy Flash organized an assault, and the S-Class heroes attacked Boros with their varied abilities.
• Metal Bat’s fighting spirit surged until he joined Shimizu and Tatsumaki as a combatant able to fight Boros on equal terms.
• Most of the S-Class heroes were badly injured and evacuated the damaged spaceship, while Superalloy Darkshine, Pig God, and Zombie Man helped them withdraw.
• Caped Baldy arrived as Genos and the other injured heroes evacuated, and Bang vouched for his strength, allowing him to head toward the battle.

Saitama defeated Boros’s planet-destroying attack with a Serious Punch, leaving Boros gravely injured and accepting his loss. Blast arrived after the battle and revealed that a Boros from another parallel world had joined his squad, while the surviving Boros asked who had defeated him.

• Boros assumed his strongest form and prepared to destroy the planet, but Shimizu said the others would no longer be needed as Saitama arrived.
• Boros fired his Planet Collapsing Roar Cannon, and Saitama countered with a Serious Punch that shook the continent and left Boros barely alive.
• Shimizu protected Tatsumaki from the blast, treated Metal Bat’s wounds, and told Boros he no longer had the power to change his future.
• Boros admitted defeat and asked Saitama to kill him, while Shimizu reminded Saitama that Boros had intended to destroy Earth and kill humanity.
• Blast emerged from a spatial portal and explained that a Boros from another parallel world had joined his God Resistance Squad after being defeated by him.
• Boros asked who had defeated him, and Blast focused his gaze on Saitama.

Blast recruited Boros to fight powerful beings in other dimensions and agreed to Shimizu’s requests, including Caped Baldy’s promotion to S-Class. After the invasion ended, the Hero Association classified it as a God-level disaster and revised several hero rankings, while Blast taught Shimizu a faster method of spatial teleportation.

• Blast offered Boros a chance to atone by fighting God-level beings in other dimensions, and Boros accepted.
• Shimizu and Caped Baldy asked Blast to support two requests, and Blast agreed before taking Boros with him.
• The Hero Association rated the alien invasion God-level, promoted Genos to Rank 14 and Metal Bat to Rank 10, and raised Shimizu to Rank 5.
• The Association promoted Caped Baldy from B-Class Rank 63 to S-Class Rank 20 after recommendations from S-Class heroes.
• Blast took Shimizu to a reef island and taught him how to open portals instantly and teleport without a visible movement.
• Shimizu mastered Blast’s portal method and realized his earlier teleportation technique might connect different dimensions and worlds.

Shimizu used Blast’s dimensional travel method to reach the Naruto World’s higher-dimensional boundary and investigate its attached pocket dimensions. He confirmed one was Kamui Space and another was the Pure Land, where he encountered the Sage of Six Paths.

• Blast gave Shimizu a Phase Sphere containing coordinates for a base in another dimension and showed him how to open a portal.
• Shimizu opened his own portal and reached the boundary between the Naruto World and higher-dimensional space, where he identified attached pocket dimensions.
• Shimizu sent two Shadow Clones into separate pocket dimensions; one explored a rocky storage-like space that he suspected was Kamui Space.
• The second Shadow Clone found the Pure Land, observed the souls of dead shinobi including Kitsuchi, and identified the Shinigami and the Kings of Hell.
• The Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, emerged through a portal and told Shimizu that his arrival had awakened him.

Shimizu met Hagoromo Otsutsuki in the Pure Land and persuaded him that Sunagakure's unification and development could help the Shinobi World face the Otsutsuki. Hagoromo agreed to help Shimizu uncover a hidden Otsutsuki threat by searching the memories of dead shinobi.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki acknowledged that he opposed some of Shimizu's methods but accepted that they pursued similar goals through different approaches.
• Shimizu argued that conflict and peace drove human progress, and that knowledge could pass strength on more reliably than bloodlines.
• Hagoromo warned Shimizu that the Otsutsuki threatened the Shinobi World and explained that he had spread Chakra partly to prepare people to resist them.
• Shimizu said Sunagakure would soon unify the Shinobi World and asked Hagoromo to help expose hidden Otsutsuki agents.
• Hagoromo agreed to use the Rinnegan and Yin-Yang Release to search the memories of deceased shinobi for traces of the hidden organization.

Shimizu and Hagoromo Otsutsuki exchanged knowledge about cultivation, the Pure Land, and the Shinobi World’s history. Hagoromo then revealed that the world already had an owner and that its will resembled a trace within primordial Chakra, extracting that trace from a soul.

• Shimizu and Hagoromo Otsutsuki discussed ninjutsu, senjutsu, and the principles of the world, and Hagoromo taught Shimizu Six Paths senjutsu and other powers.
• Hagoromo explained how he created the Pure Land from a Pocket Dimension linked to his Rinnegan and used it to gather souls and prevent new devils from forming.
• Shimizu realized Hagoromo’s accumulated strength surpassed Kaguya’s and considered combining Hagoromo’s Pocket Dimension method with the Dragon Tiger Dao Inquiry True Chapter to create his own small world.
• Hagoromo told Shimizu that the world containing the Shinobi World already had an owner and that its will resembled a trace in primordial Chakra.
• Hagoromo drew Chakra from a soul and used Black Six Paths Yin Power to extract that trace of will.

Shimizu learned from Hagoromo Otsutsuki that a multiversal God of Otsutsuki might control the will embedded in all Chakra, and they discussed preparing to resist or escape that being. Shimizu left to search for a compatible Pocket Dimension to refine into a world while his Shadow Clones managed affairs and cultivated Yin-Yang Power.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki explained that the will in Chakra belonged to the God of Otsutsuki, the likely progenitor of Chakra and ancestor of the Otsutsuki clan.
• Shimizu and Hagoromo Otsutsuki considered how to survive the God of Otsutsuki, including refining Pocket Dimensions into true worlds so they could resist or flee with the Shinobi World.
• Shimizu left the Pure Land, and Hagoromo Otsutsuki began empowering Kings of Hell to search the memories of recently deceased shinobi for traces of the Otsutsuki.
• Shimizu absorbed his Shadow Clones' memories and studied Hagoromo Otsutsuki's method for cultivating Six Paths Yin-Yang Power.
• Shimizu sent two Shadow Clones through a portal to handle affairs and cultivate, then flew toward a nearby Pocket Dimension to search for one he could refine.

Shimizu’s forces prepared to destroy Konoha after Nagato’s defeat of Kumogakure transformed the balance of power. As Sunagakure launched its final offensive, the Fourth Raikage and Dodai joined Konoha’s defenders with Six Paths Tools, hoping to turn the battle against Shimizu and Sasori.

• Shimizu’s Kazekage Shadow Clone reported that Nagato had crushed Kumogakure, killed the Third Raikage, and forced the Fourth Raikage to lead the scattered survivors.
• Shimizu’s Shadow Clones discussed Nagato’s use of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and decided to recall allies, send the Third Kazekage to the Land of Earth, and attack Konoha.
• Shimizu met with Sasori, Rasa, and Karura, confirmed that most of Konoha’s leadership was at the front, and ordered an army of over four thousand to assemble for a final assault.
• Konoha’s twelve thousand ninja prepared to defend the fortress outside Kikyo Castle as Orochimaru summoned Hashirama and Tobirama through Impure World Reincarnation.
• The Fourth Raikage and Dodai revealed their Six Paths Tools, and Tobirama recognized them as weapons that could defeat Shimizu or Sasori if Konoha’s fighters kept the enemy occupied.

Shimizu attacked the Konoha-Sunagakure battlefield and nearly captured the Nine-Tails, severely wounding Kushina and Minato. Minato and Kushina summoned the Shinigami to seal Shimizu, but he recognized the Shinigami and ordered it to stand down.

• The Fourth Raikage joined Konoha's battle against Sunagakure, while Konoha's fighters raised the Four Red Yang Formation against the aerial missile attack.
• Shimizu teleported above Kushina's Perfect Nine-Tails, cut through its cloak, and unleashed an energy beam that erased the lower half of Kushina's body.
• Minato tried to protect Kushina, but Shimizu disarmed and grievously wounded him after destroying his Flying Thunder God kunai.
• Minato and Kushina formed hand seals together and summoned the Shinigami with the Reaper Death Seal.
• Shimizu recognized the Shinigami as Hagoromo's creation and demanded that it withdraw, warning it not to attack him.

Shimizu overwhelmed the Allied forces on the battlefield, killing the Fourth Raikage and Jiraiya while capturing Kushina and Sage Fukasaku. With Konoha’s forces in retreat and Senju Hashirama still fighting Sasori, Orochimaru ordered the older ninjas to cover the escape.

• The Shinigami fled from Shimizu and released Minato Namikaze and Kushina, but Shimizu teleported them away, killed Minato, and incapacitated Kushina before sealing her in the Mirror Dimension.
• The Fourth Raikage and Dodai used their Six Paths Tools to attack Sasori, but Shimizu wounded Dodai and killed the fleeing Fourth Raikage.
• Jiraiya charged Shimizu in Sage Mode, but Shimizu defeated him, turned Sage Fukasaku into a vegetable, and captured him for the White Snake Sage.
• Tsunade charged Shimizu after Jiraiya fell, but Tobirama Senju teleported her away as Konoha’s forces began to retreat.
• Orochimaru ordered Konoha’s ninjas over fifty to stay behind and cover the retreat.

Shimizu killed the Fourth Raikage, Jiraiya, and other Konoha fighters while capturing Kushina and Sage Fukasaku. As Konoha’s forces began retreating, Orochimaru stayed behind with older ninja to cover their escape.

• The Shinigami fled from Shimizu and released Minato Namikaze and Kushina, but Shimizu teleported away with them, killed the critically wounded Minato, and turned Kushina into a vegetable before sealing her in the Mirror Dimension.
• Shimizu returned to the battlefield and severely wounded Dodai, then pursued and killed the Fourth Raikage after he fled with the Amber Purifying Pot.
• Jiraiya attacked Shimizu in Sage Mode, but Shimizu overwhelmed him, turned Sage Fukasaku into a vegetable, and captured him for the White Snake Sage of Ryūchi Cave.
• Shimizu beheaded Jiraiya, and Tobirama Senju teleported Tsunade away as Konoha’s fighters realized the battle was lost.
• Orochimaru ordered Konoha to retreat and called for ninja over fifty to stay behind with him and cover the retreat.

Sunagakure destroyed Konoha’s army and conquered the Land of Fire, while Kirigakure merged with Amegakure to resist Sunagakure’s dominance. Konoha’s scattered survivors regrouped at a secret stronghold, where they prepared to witness Orochimaru’s return and Danzō faced Tobirama Senju’s disappointment.

• Shimura Danzō stayed near the rear during Konoha’s retreat, then used a Root subordinate as a decoy and escaped with several powerful followers.
• Shimizu killed Orochimaru and seized his incomplete soul, then captured Senju Hashirama’s soul after Sasori destroyed Hashirama’s reanimated body.
• Sunagakure’s forces killed most of Konoha’s rear guard and pursued the survivors as they conquered the Land of Fire.
• The Fourth Mizukage announced Kirigakure’s merger with Amegakure, and Elder Genma helped suppress opposition within Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Fugaku, Utatane Koharu, Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shimura Danzō gathered with several hundred survivors at a Konoha secret stronghold.
• Utatane Koharu explained that Orochimaru could return, and Tobirama Senju rebuked Danzō for his conduct during the battle.

Orochimaru revived through Anko’s Cursed Seal, learned of Konoha’s condition, and confronted Uchiha Fugaku about his hidden influence in Kirigakure. He proposed summoning Madara with Impure World Reincarnation to help oppose Sunagakure’s Fourth Kazekage, then revealed he knew Fugaku had access to White Zetsu.

• Tobirama Senju and the surviving Konoha leaders learned that Danzo controlled secret bases, supplies, personnel, and a covert connection to Amegakure.
• Orochimaru emerged from the cave after reviving through Anko’s Cursed Seal, asked Tsunade to obtain supplies to restore his Chakra, and spoke privately with Uchiha Fugaku.
• Orochimaru deduced that Fugaku controlled Kirigakure’s Elder Genma through Madara’s legacy, while Fugaku denied having a connection he could expose.
• Orochimaru asked Fugaku for access to the Sharingan and Madara, arguing that a fully controlled Madara could help fight Sunagakure’s Fourth Kazekage.
• Fugaku agreed that Madara should be summoned, and Orochimaru revealed that Fugaku could provide the soulless white humanoids needed as Impure World Reincarnation sacrifices.