Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Obito learned that Nohara Rin had survived surgery but remained unconscious because of Uchiha Madara’s ocular power, and resolved to save her despite Black Zetsu’s orders to seize Nagato’s Rinnegan and overthrow Konoha. Meanwhile, Hyuga Yu returned from the battlefield with Kaguya Clan samples and Kimimaro, bringing them to Hiruko’s laboratory for genetic analysis.

• Obito received a report that Nohara Rin’s life was no longer in danger, but realized Madara’s ocular power was keeping her unconscious.
• Black Zetsu ordered Obito to go to the Land of Rain, retrieve Nagato’s Rinnegan, and then overthrow Konoha.
• Obito agreed outwardly but decided to confront Madara’s lingering power and save Rin himself.
• Hyuga Yu’s battle against Jigen and the Lunar Ōtsutsuki strengthened his claim to become the Fourth Hokage, while Minato Namikaze took on the succession and war-related work.
• Hyuga Yu left the front with Kaguya Clan corpse samples and the abducted Kimimaro, then brought them to Hiruko’s laboratory.
• Hyuga Yu asked Hiruko to sequence Kimimaro’s genes and test his Shikotsumyaku integration.

Three-year-old Kimimaro attacked Hiruko after fearing that nobody needed him, but Hyuga Yu recognized the unusual power of his Shikotsumyaku and assured him he would be needed as family. Kimimaro eagerly agreed to help Hyuga Yu face the world, though he did not understand what that meant.

• Kimimaro remembered the chipped bowl his guard had discarded and feared he would be thrown away now that nobody needed him.
• Kimimaro stabbed Hiruko with a bone blade, which broke against Hiruko’s Steel Release, but the attack still pierced it and drew a tiny spot of blood.
• Hyuga Yu examined the attack with his Byakugan and concluded that Kimimaro’s bones had a trace of a disintegration property and that his Kaguya bloodline was exceptionally strong.
• Kimimaro clutched Hyuga Yu’s clothes, hoping for an order, and Hyuga Yu called him family and directed him to go with Hiruko to develop his Shikotsumyaku.
• Hyuga Yu told Kimimaro he would not need to kill anyone and asked him to help stand against the world; Kimimaro happily agreed.

Hyuga Yu, Hiruko, and Orochimaru used the Giant Tenseigan to analyze the ancient Kaguya remains and map the genes needed to recreate Hamura’s sage body. The calculation revealed the complete sage-body genome, leaving Hyuga Yu with a clear blueprint for the lineage.

• Hiruko confirmed that Kimimaro’s Kaguya bloodline was highly compatible with Hyuga Yu’s, but the ancient remains contained a far more complex sage-body genome.
• Orochimaru explained that the remains represented a complete Ōtsutsuki genome, so recreating it required sequencing every base and regulatory region in the Hyuga and Kaguya samples.
• Hyuga Yu took Orochimaru and Hiruko to the fourth basement floor and revealed the Giant Tenseigan’s intact information-processing module.
• Hyuga Yu connected the laboratory equipment to the Giant Tenseigan, which reduced an estimated seven or eight years of computation to about ten minutes.
• Hyuga Yu synchronized with the Giant Tenseigan’s calculations and saw the Hyuga, Kaguya, and ancient sage-body gene maps combine into a precise snowflake-shaped genome.

Hyuga Yu became Konoha’s Fourth Hokage while preparing to merge with a cultivated Kaguya Clan clone and awaken the Hamura bloodline. As he began the procedure, the supposedly mindless clone opened its eyes.

• Hyuga Yu oversaw the creation of a Kaguya Clan clone, then left the laboratory as Orochimaru and Hiruko began cultivating embryos.
• Ōtsutsuki Tetsuto completed a network of signal towers in the Land of Wind and began mobilizing the Moryo Army toward the Land of Rain, while Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu discussed exploiting the coming conflict.
• Hyuga Yu led Konoha’s delegation to sign an armistice with Ōnoki, ending the war between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth.
• Hyuga Yu won the Jonin Squad vote and was appointed the Fourth Hokage by the Land of Fire’s Daimyo.
• Hyuga Yu, Orochimaru, and Hiruko prepared to use Living Corpse Reincarnation and the Chimera Technique to merge Hyuga Yu with his cultivated Kaguya Clan clone.
• As Hyuga Yu began the procedure, the clone unexpectedly opened its eyes.