Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan escaped Black Zetsu’s ambush and moved his fight with Princess Kaguya away from the lava dimension. He began gathering the planet’s rotational energy to prepare a decisive attack, while Kaguya watched.

• Kaguya emerged from a portal and grabbed Chen Fan as Black Zetsu began covering his body, but Chen Fan remained calm and questioned Black Zetsu about the Ten-Tails.
• Chen Fan seized Kaguya’s wrist and repelled Black Zetsu, then tried to control the blood in her body; Kaguya severed her own arm to escape the effect and quickly regenerated it.
• Chen Fan carried Kaguya out of the lava region and threw her into a crater in a less damaged area, explaining that he wanted to change battlefields.
• Chen Fan decided he had to defeat Kaguya quickly and spread his AIM Field, gathering the planet’s rotational kinetic energy while Kaguya waited.

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki attacked Chen Fan, but his defense repelled her strikes while he secretly gathered enough power to stop the planet's rotation. As the world began to quake, Chen Fan and Kaguya unleashed their strongest attacks and collided in midair.

• Black Zetsu urged Kaguya Ōtsutsuki to kill Chen Fan, and she attacked him with needle-like hair that bounced away from his body.
• Kaguya turned her hair into a giant fist and repeatedly struck Chen Fan, gradually pushing through his resistance until her attack came within a centimeter of him.
• Kaguya sensed something was wrong and realized that the planet had stopped rotating as Chen Fan opened his eyes.
• Chen Fan revealed that he had brought the planet's kinetic energy under his control, while the planet's sudden halt triggered earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Kaguya condensed her chakra into a powerful sphere as Chen Fan concentrated the planet's kinetic energy into his fist, and their attacks collided in midair.

Chen Fan defeated Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, separated the Ten-Tails from her, and captured it as the Infinite Tsukuyomi ended. The awakened ninjas began freeing one another and suspected that Chen Fan had saved them.

• Chen Fan broke free of the spatial rift's pull and punched the Ten-Tails out of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Chen Fan captured the Ten-Tails with his domain and Rinnegan, then told Kaguya she had no right to take others' lives as she lay mortally wounded.
• Kaguya cursed humanity and the world, while Chen Fan considered her grievances and the harm she intended to cause.
• After Chen Fan defeated Kaguya, the full moon returned to normal and the people trapped by the Infinite Tsukuyomi awakened.
• The freed ninjas began rescuing others and discussed how Chen Fan had likely dispelled the illusion, wondering whether the battle was over.

Princess Kaguya used the sacrifice of the Rinnegan on her forehead to pull the moon toward the planet, intending to destroy the world. As the moon drew near and people despaired, Chen Fan struggled to choose between escaping with his women and trying to save everyone.

• Chen Fan noticed Princess Kaguya’s faint smile as she declared that she would destroy the world before she died.
• Princess Kaguya revealed through her Byakugan that the moon was growing larger and heading toward the planet.
• Chen Fan tried to take the Nine Tomoe Rinnegan, but found that Princess Kaguya had sacrificed it to bring the moon crashing down.
• People across the world watched the approaching moon in despair as panic spread among ninjas and villagers.
• Chen Fan calculated the danger and wrestled with whether to flee with his women or fight to save the planet.

As the moon neared the planet, Chen Fan accepted Tsunade and Mei Terumi’s support and decided to try to stop the impending collision. He absorbed the Ten-Tails’ power, evolved his Rinnegan to twelve tomoe, and prepared to act while the others braced themselves.

• Tsunade and Mei Terumi rushed to Chen Fan and comforted him as he apologized for failing to save the world.
• Chen Fan spoke to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki about bonds and loneliness, leaving her unable to answer when he asked whether she had any friends.
• Chen Fan declared that he would try to stop the moon from colliding with the planet despite Kaguya’s warning that it was futile.
• Chen Fan swallowed the crystal containing the Ten-Tails and used its power to evolve his Rinnegan into a Twelve-Hook Jade Rinnegan.
• Chen Fan told Tsunade and Mei Terumi to protect themselves from the coming tremors, and they affirmed their trust in him.

Chen Fan spread his new domain across the planet, warned everyone that the moon was about to fall, and realized he had reached Level 6. As the moon drew close and gravity destabilized, he prepared to use all his kinetic energy to stop it.

• Chen Fan expanded his domain around the planet and told its people the moon might collide with Earth, urging them to protect themselves.
• Chen Fan sensed he could control life and matter, making a tree grow and then wither into dust.
• Chen Fan recognized his new power as the Level 6 realm he had long pursued and faced the approaching moon with confidence.
• Chen Fan gathered kinetic energy for an attack as the moon blotted out the sky and its gravitational field threw Earth into chaos.

Chen Fan raced to the moon and stopped it from colliding with the planet, but found its hollow interior had no core to detonate. He unleashed an enormous Almighty Push from within the moon, leaving its surface split by massive cracks as he pushed himself beyond his limits.

• Chen Fan told Tsunade and Mei Terumi to protect themselves, then launched toward the approaching moon.
• Chen Fan struck the moon with the energy of the entire planet and stopped its advance, but knew he could not hold it there for long.
• Chen Fan punched through the moon to its center and discovered it was hollow because the Ten-Tails was gone.
• Chen Fan formed hand seals and used Almighty Push to erupt with repulsive force inside the moon.
• Chen Fan's attack split huge canyons across the moon as blood ran from his eye and his calculations exceeded their limit.

Chen Fan destroyed the moon, freeing Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and saving humanity, then appeared badly injured before Tsunade after she searched for him. The survivors worked together to deal with the falling lunar fragments, and Chen Fan reunited with Tsunade.

• Chen Fan shattered the moon, revealing sunlight and prompting humanity to celebrate its survival.
• The Third Tsuchikage rallied the ninjas to destroy the fragments falling from the moon.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki stopped resisting as the destruction reached her, and she vanished into smoke and ashes.
• The ninjas cooperated to break up the falling fragments, while Tsunade and Mei Terumi searched for Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan appeared before Tsunade, badly injured and wearing only underwear, and she embraced him through tears.

Chen Fan gathered humanity’s faith to save all living species by moving them into his Divine Kingdom before the planet burned up, then used a spatial passage to leave. He arrived in Academy City, where espers competed to develop their abilities and the strongest known esper wielded Vector Manipulation.

• Chen Fan told Tsunade that the moon’s destruction had altered the planet’s orbit and that it would eventually collide with the sun, but assured her he could save everyone.
• People around the world prayed to statues of Chen Fan, and their faith fueled the Divine Flame in his mind.
• Chen Fan moved humanity and every other living species into his Divine Kingdom as the planet’s surface began to explode from the sun’s heat.
• Chen Fan watched the planet burn up, then activated his token and stepped through a spatial gate.
• Chen Fan descended upon Academy City, a city of 2.3 million residents, most of them students competing to develop superpowers.
• Academy City had seven Level 5 espers, and its number one esper possessed Vector Manipulation.

Chen Fan forced his way through Academy City's barrier and fell into a crater after surviving a dangerous spatial journey. He used Illusion Magic to question a nearby man, who identified the location as Academy City.

• A violent impact tore open Academy City's barrier, and Chen Fan fell through into the city.
• Aleister Crowley noticed the breach and used the Sky-Floating Wires to monitor events across Academy City.
• A man and woman approached the crater, and Chen Fan grabbed the man before climbing out.
• Chen Fan revealed his Twelve-Hook Jade Rinnegan and placed the man under Illusion Magic.
• Chen Fan asked where he was, and the man answered that they were in Academy City.

Chen Fan arrived in Academy City after exhausting his power to establish the Divine Kingdom, and discovered that he now looked much younger. When he stepped in to help a girl being harassed, he unexpectedly asked her to pay him for chasing the delinquents away.

• Chen Fan wandered through Academy City, where he planned to recover his strength and study its espers and AIM Fields.
• Chen Fan noticed in a storefront mirror that he had become a boy of about sixteen or seventeen.
• Chen Fan heard three men cornering a middle school girl and walked over to intervene.
• One delinquent punched at Chen Fan, who caught the blow without moving.
• Chen Fan offered to chase the men away for ten thousand, then lowered his price to eight thousand, leaving the delinquents furious.

Chen Fan rescued Misaka Mikoto from a gang of delinquents, then robbed the unconscious gang members before leaving. Misaka Mikoto confronted him, and Chen Fan tried to convince her that he had done nothing wrong.

• Chen Fan subdued the gang leader as his men surrounded him with baseball bats, while Misaka Mikoto watched and prepared to intervene.
• Chen Fan opened his strange, tomoe-patterned eye and blasted the attackers away with a powerful repulsive force, knocking them unconscious.
• Chen Fan searched the delinquents' wallets for money, then warned Misaka Mikoto not to walk alone at night and left.
• Misaka Mikoto called after Chen Fan and accused him of robbery, but Chen Fan feigned outrage and claimed he was a righteous hero.
• Misaka Mikoto rejected Chen Fan's excuse and insisted that robbery was wrong.

Chen Fan argued with Misaka Mikoto after taking compensation from the street punks he had stopped, then recognized her as Academy City's Railgun. Misaka Mikoto remained suspicious of Chen Fan and waited outside the clothing store to learn more about him.

• Chen Fan claimed he was poor and headed to a clothing store, while Misaka Mikoto objected to his taking money from the people he had beaten.
• Misaka Mikoto attacked Chen Fan with electricity, and he recognized her safety shorts and identified her as Railgun.
• Misaka Mikoto introduced herself as Academy City's third-ranked Level 5 esper, but Chen Fan reacted more to being called a middle schooler than to her reputation.
• Chen Fan defended keeping the money with a roundabout argument and compared his actions to Misaka Mikoto tampering with vending machines.
• Misaka Mikoto waited outside the clothing store, suspicious of Chen Fan and curious about his mysterious right eye.

After changing into new clothes, Chen Fan clashed briefly with Misaka Mikoto and demonstrated that her electricity could not reach him. He left Academy City’s network without a record, while Aleister learned of Chen Fan’s arrival and realized he had detected the city’s surveillance.

• Chen Fan changed into black clothes, covered his right eye with an eyepatch, and explained that he wanted to keep a low profile in Academy City.
• Misaka Mikoto confronted Chen Fan about his eye and identity, and he told her she would find no record of him in the school network.
• Misaka Mikoto attacked Chen Fan with electricity, but the current scattered around him and destroyed a streetlamp.
• Chen Fan told Misaka Mikoto he was not a Level 5 esper and vanished, prompting her to search the network and vow to find him.
• Aleister reviewed nanobot footage of Chen Fan and realized Chen Fan had noticed the surveillance.

Aleister arranged documents, a dormitory, and a school placement for Chen Fan, hoping to learn more about his unusual abilities. Chen Fan accepted the arrangement and arrived at his new class, where he startled Teacher Komoe and the students by lifting her in his hands.

• Aleister sent Chen Fan documents, a bank card, a résumé, and a dormitory key, then watched to see how strong he was.
• Chen Fan settled into the prepared dormitory, read his forged student profile, and decided to experience school life in Academy City.
• Chen Fan put on his uniform and went to Class 7, Year 1 to study esper abilities.
• Teacher Komoe greeted Chen Fan as the new transfer student and offered to help him.
• Chen Fan lifted Teacher Komoe in both hands, leaving her and the class staring in surprise.

Chen Fan joined Kamijou Touma’s class in Academy City, where he met his new classmates and learned more about esper development. After school, he discovered that he lived next door to Kamijou and Tsuchimikado Motoharu.

• Chen Fan introduced himself to the class after playfully picking up Teacher Komoe, then took the seat behind Kamijou Touma.
• Chen Fan recognized Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Kamijou Touma, and met Blue-Clad Earring as his classmates introduced themselves.
• Chen Fan listened to Teacher Komoe’s lesson and gained new insights into equations and Academy City’s research into esper abilities.
• After class, Kamijou Touma offered to walk back with Chen Fan and learned that they lived next door to each other.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu said he lived nearby too, and suggested that Chen Fan and Kamijou head home together.

Chen Fan and Kamijou Touma walked back toward the dormitories, where Chen Fan kicked a broken vending machine and collected its drinks. Misaka Mikoto arrived, recognized Chen Fan, and called him an enemy, leaving Kamijou worried about getting in trouble as his accomplice.

• Tsuchimikado Element left, and Chen Fan and Kamijou Touma walked toward the dormitories while discussing esper powers and Academy City's treatment of Level 0s.
• Kamijou Touma tried to buy a drink, but the vending machine swallowed his coins.
• Chen Fan kicked the vending machine, causing its drinks to spill out, and gave Kamijou Touma two cans.
• Kamijou Touma urged Chen Fan to leave before anyone caught them, but a voice called out to them.
• Misaka Mikoto jumped down beside the machine, complained that Chen Fan had taken every drink, and called herself his enemy.

Chen Fan and Kamijou Touma encountered Misaka Mikoto, whose attempt to challenge Chen Fan ended with the cleaning robots identifying her as the vending-machine culprit. Misaka caught up with them afterward and challenged Chen Fan again, while he calmly said he expected to lose.

• Chen Fan reassured Kamijou Touma that Misaka Mikoto would not report them for taking drinks from the vending machine.
• Misaka Mikoto challenged Chen Fan, and Kamijou Touma stepped in front of him as she charged up her electricity.
• Misaka Mikoto’s attack struck the vending machine, and cleaning robots identified her as the culprit and chased her away.
• Chen Fan told Kamijou Touma that he had toyed with the situation, though he claimed it was a coincidence, and they headed toward the dormitory.
• Misaka Mikoto caught up with Chen Fan and challenged him again, and Chen Fan said he expected to lose to the Level 5 esper.

Chen Fan accepted Misaka Mikoto’s challenge and wagered that if she lost, she would accompany him while he shopped. Their fight began by the river, where Chen Fan avoided her opening lightning attack and reappeared in his original spot.

• Kamijou Touma recognized Misaka Mikoto and worried that Chen Fan might be hurt fighting a Level 5 esper.
• Chen Fan sent Kamijou Touma back with the drinks and went with Misaka Mikoto to the river.
• Chen Fan wagered that he would go to Public Security if he lost, while Misaka Mikoto would accompany him shopping if she lost.
• Misaka Mikoto agreed to the wager and launched a probing lightning attack at Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan vanished from the attack’s path, then reappeared in his original spot as the lightning struck the riverbank stones.

Chen Fan outmaneuvered Misaka Mikoto’s lightning attacks, then demonstrated his destructive power and revealed the mysterious eye beneath his eyepatch. Misaka’s curiosity about the eye was finally answered as she stared at it in shock.

• Misaka Mikoto tracked Chen Fan’s movements and covered the ground with electricity, but he evaded her attacks with Soru and appeared in the air.
• Misaka Mikoto exhausted herself trying to hit Chen Fan, then called the fight a draw because he had not attacked her.
• Chen Fan skipped a stone across the river and then caused a powerful explosion in the water, proving he had a formidable attack.
• Chen Fan removed his eyepatch and opened his right eye, revealing rings marked with twelve magatama as Misaka watched.