Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Ren negotiated Kirigakure’s defeated survivors into the Shogunate’s service, placing Genji in charge of the remaining prisoners while retaining control over their futures. He summoned Biwa Juzo and Suikazan Fuguki’s souls through the Seven Ninja Swordsmen’s blades, and Kisame bonded with Samehada as the Shogunate’s new swordsmen took shape.

• Ren inspected the Guiyi Army camp with Kisame and ordered him to manage the Kirigakure prisoners.
• Ren rejected Genji’s request to trade resources for the Three-Tails and Saiken, and Genji agreed to serve the Shogunate in exchange for his people’s survival.
• Ren put Genji in charge of reorganizing the Kirigakure prisoners who had not joined the Guiyi Army, while keeping their lives and status subject to Shogunate law.
• Ren summoned the souls of Biwa Juzo and Suikazan Fuguki through the ninja swords and ordered them to guide future Shogunate swordsmen.
• Kisame chose Samehada, bonded with Suikazan Fuguki’s soul, and gained a more powerful presence.

Ren watched Shisui demonstrate his growing power with the Six-Tails, then ordered Kisame to test his new strength against the Three-Tails. Meanwhile, Hanzo finally sent Amegakure's army north with Danzō, setting it on course for the Land of Lightning.

• Mei Terumi accepted Ren's offer to serve as his aide, while Genji was pleased that she would be close to him.
• Shisui used the Six-Tails' Chakra to advance his Susanoo and cover most of the beast with Majestic Attire.
• Ren arrived with Kisame and Mei, praised Shisui's progress, and asked him to lead them to Isobu.
• Ren ordered Kisame to fight the Three-Tails, and Kisame attacked Isobu with Samehada, draining its Chakra as the battle escalated.
• Hanzo ordered Amegakure's army to head north, and Danzō joined the march toward the Land of Lightning.

After confirming Sunagakure and Iwagakure were coordinating against Konohagakure’s southwestern army, Orochimaru secretly asked Uchiha Ren for aid. Ren sent Uchiha Shisui to support the front while revealing to Mei Terumi that his ambition reached beyond the Land of Fire to the entire Shinobi World.

• Orochimaru received a dying scout’s report confirming more than a thousand Sunagakure forces in Rōran and Iwagakure activity west of the Land of Rivers, then secretly wrote to Uchiha Ren for help.
• Ren read Orochimaru’s letter and ordered Uchiha Shisui to travel southwest, defend the line, and use his Mangekyo Sharingan against important Sunagakure leaders if necessary.
• Ren instructed Shisui to bring Orochimaru Tsunade’s clinical summary of the life potion and to take a beacon from Chiyao and a mark from Minister Hazuki.
• Mei Terumi questioned why Ren would help stabilize Konohagakure’s front, and Ren told her that Konohagakure’s survival was irrelevant to him and that he sought to reshape the entire Shinobi World.

Mei Terumi revealed Kirigakure’s weakness to Ren and condemned its Bloody Mist Policy, arguing that it had destroyed the village’s trust and future. Ren ordered her to have Genji issue an immediate order halting the policy, leaving Mei hopeful that Kirigakure could begin rebuilding.

• Mei Terumi told Ren that Kirigakure had lost most of its strength and could not mount meaningful resistance, and Ren praised her for volunteering the information.
• Mei Terumi read reports that Kakuzu had obtained the Land of Snow’s Chakra Armor plans and that Uchiha Obito had returned safely.
• Ren ordered the Shogunate to prioritize Chakra Armor research, have Tsunade examine Uchiha Obito, and double Kakuzu’s mission payment.
• Mei Terumi condemned the Bloody Mist Policy and declared that she would abolish it if she gained influence over Kirigakure’s future.
• Ren told Mei Terumi to have Genji issue an order directing Karatachi Yagura and Kirigakure’s remaining leaders to halt the Bloody Mist Policy immediately.

Karatachi Yagura defended Elder Genji’s order to suspend the Bloody Mist Policy as Kirigakure’s clans challenged his authority after the village’s devastating defeat. A report that Momochi Zabuza and Chojuro had slaughtered their classmates strengthened Yagura’s case, leaving the clan leaders unable to answer his accusations.

• Karatachi Yagura read Elder Genji’s letter ordering him to take charge and suspend the Bloody Mist Policy, prompting the Kaguya Clan head to condemn the order.
• Yagura argued that Kirigakure had to preserve its remaining strength after losing nearly seven thousand shinobi, its Mizukage, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and two Tailed Beasts.
• The Kaguya Clan head questioned Genji’s authority as a captive and challenged Yagura’s legitimacy as acting leader.
• An Anbu shinobi reported that Momochi Zabuza and Chojuro had each killed every student in their class during the wartime graduation examination.
• Yagura blamed the Bloody Mist Policy for the slaughter and denounced the clan leaders’ ambitions, warning that Kirigakure could not resist the Mugen City Shogunate with its remaining forces.

Karatachi Yagura sought approval to become Kirigakure’s Fourth Mizukage, while the Fourth Raikage ordered Nii Yugito to return to Kumogakure and prepare the weary village for the war’s strain. Hanzo and Shimura Danzō then led a surprise attack that devastated Kumogakure’s newly recruited army, leaving Hanzo to insist that Konohagakure’s Hokage decide what came next.

• Karatachi Yagura challenged the Kaguya Clan Chief’s leadership claims and petitioned to become the Fourth Mizukage, gaining support from Ao and other officials.
• The Fourth Raikage A ordered Nii Yugito to return to Kumogakure with wounded soldiers and reassure the village, while Killer B agreed that the army needed rest.
• Hanzo and Shimura Danzō studied Kumogakure’s new army camp and planned a three-pronged attack using stealth, fire, and a frontal assault.
• Amegakure’s forces infiltrated the camp, set its supplies ablaze, and attacked as Danzō led the assault at the main gate.
• Hanzo summoned Salamander Ibuse and unleashed poison mist, causing Kumogakure’s recruits to flee as the camp was overwhelmed.
• Danzō urged Hanzo to target Kumogakure’s hidden reserves, but Hanzo said Konohagakure’s Hokage had to decide the village’s next move.

Obito reunited with Rin, completed another examination, and chose to follow her and the Shogunate rather than pursue his dream of becoming Hokage. In Uchiha Ren’s office, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, and Mikoto gathered amid a quiet rivalry, and Tsunade began explaining her discoveries about Obito.

• Rin drew Obito’s blood for a second examination, and Obito promised to protect her while Rin told him to honor his own beliefs rather than carry Kakashi’s share.
• Obito accepted Rin’s invitation to eat red bean cake after his examinations and decided to remain wherever Rin was.
• Obito picked up the Shogunate forehead protector and put it on, concluding that becoming Hokage no longer mattered to him.
• Tsunade visited Ren’s office, where Mei Terumi arrived and approached Ren with calculated flirtation.
• Mikoto joined them and sat beside Ren, while the three women silently sized one another up.
• Tsunade told Mikoto that Ren had asked her to examine Obito and that she had discoveries to report in private.

Ren and his allies examined Uchiha Obito’s artificial modifications and discussed the fallout from Konohagakure’s alliance with Amegakure against Kumogakure. The chapter ended with Black Cat reporting that Minako’s team had stabilized the Guidance Channel and Hikari could enter the world.

• Mei Terumi served tea while Tsunade and Mikoto traded barbed remarks over Ren’s attention and their standing with him.
• Tsunade reported that Obito had unusual healing, foreign life energy, and graft-like changes to his chakra pathways, confirming that artificial modification had granted him Wood Release.
• Ren assigned Tsunade to investigate Obito’s abilities, and Mikoto offered her support and urged her to proceed carefully.
• Mikoto reported that Hiruzen had publicly backed Amegakure as the sixth great shinobi village, while Kumogakure sent Nii Yugito to pursue the retreating Amegakure forces and Danzō returned to Konohagakure.
• Ren declared that strength would decide the Shogunate’s future, and Black Cat delivered Minako’s report that the Guidance Channel was stable and Hikari could enter the world.

Uchiha Ren and the Uzumaki sealing team released Uchiha Hikari from the Ryumyaku Amber after centuries of sleep. Hikari awakened disoriented and unleashed Amaterasu, but Ayan calmed her by explaining that Ren and the others were her allies, leaving Hikari quietly holding the cat.

• Uchiha Hazuki teleported Uchiha Ren into the Underground Altar, where Minako reported that the guiding channels and seal were ready.
• Uzumaki Minako and the sealing team drew the Ryumyaku energy out of the amber, and Ren caught Hikari as the seal dissolved.
• Hikari woke with her Mangekyō Sharingan active and accidentally ignited Amaterasu, prompting Hazuki and the Uzumaki clansmen to protect Ren.
• Ren calmed the group and sent Ayan to explain the changed world to Hikari while he and the others waited outside.
• Ayan told Hikari that her enemies were long gone and that Ren and the Uchiha had welcomed her home; Hikari relaxed and gathered Ayan into her arms.

Rasa ordered Sunagakure’s puppet forces to mobilize against Konohagakure as the Ryumyaku’s energy began fluctuating. At the southwestern front, Shisui offered Orochimaru the Shogunate’s support and two Tailed Beasts, while Tsunade’s research letter pushed Orochimaru toward a decisive break with Sarutobi Hiruzen.

• Chiyo detected a major disturbance in an underground Ryumyaku tributary and warned Rasa that it could threaten Rōran’s energy supply.
• Rasa ordered Baki to ready the First and Second Puppet Legions, establish a command post in the Land of Rivers, and coordinate an attack with Kitsuchi; twenty thousand puppets began assembling.
• Shisui met Orochimaru at Konohagakure’s southwestern camp and told him the Shogunate would support the defense in exchange for a price.
• Orochimaru offered to serve General Ren with his own power and the forces under his command, while claiming he would protect Konohagakure’s interests.
• Shisui promised Isobu and Six-Tails Saiken as support and gave Orochimaru an envelope from Tsunade containing detailed Life Potion research.
• Orochimaru studied Tsunade’s research, burned her letter, and declared that he hoped he and the Third Hokage could part with some dignity.

Baki and Pakura launched Sunagakure’s invasion of the Land of Rivers alongside Iwagakure, unleashing a massive puppet force against Konohagakure’s defenses. The chapter ended with the puppets slaughtering Hyuga Sōsuke’s patrol while an unidentified group watched from afar.

• Baki and Pakura assembled their forces at the border as Iwagakure began its attack, then signaled Sunagakure’s advance.
• Baki released Sunagakure’s assault, support, and heavy puppets, which destroyed Konohagakure’s watchtowers as Pakura’s troops pushed forward.
• Hyuga Sōsuke’s five surviving patrol members were surrounded by the puppets in Shattered Rock Valley.
• The puppets killed the Sarutobi Chunin, the Inuzuka ninja and Kuromaru, and the Aburame ninja, leaving Sōsuke alone.
• Sōsuke destroyed one puppet with Gentle Fist before the others mortally wounded him and killed him.
• The puppets moved toward the next battlefield while an unidentified group watched the massacre from afar.

Ren monitored the battle in the Land of Rivers through Uchiha Chiyao and Uchiha Ayane’s abilities, then authorized Uchiha Shisui to unleash the Six-Tails alongside Orochimaru’s Manda. Sunagakure’s puppet assault met fierce resistance, but Iwagakure’s Four-Tails entered the fight and the battlefield remained locked in a brutal clash.

• Uchiha Chiyao projected the battlefield while Uchiha Ayane relayed its sounds and connected Ren to Uchiha Shisui.
• Uchiha Shisui reported that Sunagakure’s puppets had shattered the outer defenses and that Iwagakure was moving to flank the retreating forces.
• Ren ordered Shisui to proceed, and Shisui summoned the Six-Tails Saiken as Orochimaru summoned Manda to attack the puppet army.
• Baki ordered Sunagakure to deploy its Pangolin siege-breaking puppets, while the Iwagakure Four-Tails charged into battle and fought Saiken.
• Sunagakure’s Pangolin puppets challenged Manda, and Pakura engaged Orochimaru with Scorch Release as fighting spread across the battlefield.
• Ren watched the battle from the Shogunate Building and asked Ming to bring him an ice-cold cola.

Ren welcomed Hikari into his home while his command center watched Shisui’s battle against Sunagakure. Shisui summoned Isobu to support Saiken, but Baki sent in a corrosion-resistant second Puppet Legion and a sealing squad, leaving Shisui facing a new threat.

• Ren gave the Imperial Guard girls cola, fruit, and desserts as Mei Terumi served them in the command center.
• Uchiha Mikoto brought Hikari to meet Ren, who forgave her for attacking him and told her she could consider his home her own.
• Shisui’s forces defeated Manda, and Shisui summoned Three-Tails Isobu to help Six-Tails Saiken fight the Four-Tails.
• Isobu attacked the Four-Tails while Saiken’s acid mist disabled many of Sunagakure’s puppets.
• Baki ordered the corrosion-resistant Second Puppet Legion to target Saiken and sent a sealing squad to prepare to capture it.
• Shisui noticed the new puppets resisting Saiken’s acid and told Saiken to change tactics.

Shisui and Saiken fought under pressure as Iwagakure secretly diverted the Four-Tails’ attacks into Sunagakure’s forces, disrupting the allied assault and allowing Konohagakure’s remnants to retreat. In the Shogunate office, Hikari learned the battlefield images were real and asked Ren to let her fight, but he refused and told her to enjoy the childhood she had lost while the Uchiha protected her.

• Shisui ordered Saiken to switch to pinpoint acid attacks and physical strikes, but the Six-Tails remained trapped in a draining battle against Sunagakure’s forces.
• Kitsuchi sent Roshi a secret order to steer the Four-Tails toward Sunagakure’s puppets, and the resulting collateral damage disrupted their formations.
• Baki recognized Iwagakure’s interference, ordered Sunagakure’s troops to pull back from the tailed beasts, and requested permission to deploy the ultimate weapon.
• Orochimaru used summoned snakes and evasive tactics to keep Pakura occupied while Konohagakure’s battered forces withdrew toward the Land of Fire border.
• Hikari realized the images in the Shogunate office showed a real battle and asked Ren to let her join the fighting.
• Ren refused Hikari’s request and told her that her task was to enjoy the childhood she had lost while the Uchiha made amends for their past mistreatment of her.

Ren reassured Hikari that she was family, not a weapon, and Mikoto carried the tearful girl away from the command center. On the battlefield, Sunagakure assembled its final weapon, Mukade Zaemon, which charged Saiken and Shisui as their fight began.

• Hikari anxiously insisted she believed the Uchiha clan was strong, and Ren explained that she was family rather than a tool of war.
• Mikoto embraced the sobbing Hikari and carried her from the command center to the private quarters.
• Baki ordered Sunagakure's forces to activate Mukade Performance, fusing their remaining puppets into the giant metal centipede Mukade Zaemon.
• Shisui refused Saiken's offer to interrupt the fusion and welcomed the opportunity to face Sunagakure's ultimate weapon.
• Baki ordered Mukade Zaemon to attack Saiken, and Shisui commanded Saiken to meet its charge head-on.
• Saiken struck Mukade Zaemon's drill head and raised an acid mist barrier, but a hooked claw tore one of its tentacle tails before another tail seized the claw.

Shisui and Saiken fought Mukade Saemon, whose armor survived a direct Tailed Beast Bomb and began repairing itself. Shisui fused Susanoo with Saiken and resumed the battle, leaving Mukade battered as their clash continued.

• Saiken corroded Mukade Saemon’s sensors and hooked claw, then fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that badly damaged its armor but failed to destroy it.
• Baki ordered the puppet army to repair Mukade and replenish its energy by absorbing battlefield wreckage.
• Shisui summoned Third Stage Susanoo and fused it with Saiken using Majestic Attire: Susanoo.
• Mukade charged as Shisui formed a Spiral Sword, and the two exchanged blows; Saiken helped deflect Mukade’s claws while Mukade’s energy cannons forced Susanoo to block.
• Shisui unleashed Susanoo: Ninety-Nine, damaging Mukade’s weapons and sensors with a barrage of arrows before launching another slash at its weakened flank.

Shisui destroyed Sunagakure’s ultimate weapon, Mukade Saemon, after escaping its death grip and striking its weakened core. Back at the Shogunate, the exhausted observers rested while Mei Terumi danced for Ren beneath the moonlight.

• Baki drove Mukade Saemon into a suicidal grapple that pinned Shisui’s Majestic Attire: Susanoo and began wearing down its defenses.
• Shisui dispersed Susanoo, used Space Jump to escape, resummoned Saiken, and reformed Susanoo around the Tailed Beast.
• Shisui struck Mukade’s exposed core with his spiral sword, destroying the weapon as Rōshi retreated and the other fighters withdrew or rested.
• Ren ended the battlefield projection, and Chiyao, Caiyin, and Yaoyao were taken to the lounge to recover from their exhaustion.
• Mei Terumi served Ren tea, then offered to dance and performed for him in the moonlit office.

Ren stopped Mei Terumi’s seductive advance and told her to watch children’s shows because she was only ten-X, leaving her to tease him before he sent her away. Meanwhile, Orochimaru’s report on the southwestern battle reached Konohagakure, where Sarutobi Hiruzen chose not to act against the Uchiha Clan for now despite Danzo’s demands.

• Ren carried Mei Terumi to the sofa, played a children’s cartoon, and explained that she should watch children’s shows because she was only ten-X this year.
• Mei Terumi switched the cartoon to a melodrama, teased Ren, and received a tap on the forehead before he ordered her to clean up and rest.
• Orochimaru thanked Uchiha Shisui for saving the southwestern force and gave him intelligence and battle-report scrolls for the Shogunate.
• Shisui returned to the Shogunate, while Orochimaru prepared to send his report to Konohagakure and wondered whether Sarutobi Hiruzen would accept the chance to recover.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, and Mitokado Homura argued over the Uchiha Clan’s power and Konohagakure’s response to its intervention.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen decided that Konohagakure would not act against the Uchiha Clan for now, and Danzo left in anger.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Mitokado Homura worried about Konohagakure’s wavering clans and dispatched Sarutobi Shinnosuke to contact Orochimaru. On the northwestern front, Jiraiya arranged limited support for Amegakure, but a Kumogakure tailed-beast threat interrupted the meeting; meanwhile, Ren allowed Uchiha Hikari to accompany Agumon on a Konoha Military Police Force patrol.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to send Sarutobi Shinnosuke south to inspect the defenses and make contact with Orochimaru, while Mitokado Homura warned that clans might defect to the Shogunate.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke left the northwestern front, and Jiraiya, Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, and Mimura Hamaki discussed Hanzo of the Salamander’s request for help against Kumogakure.
• Jiraiya ordered increased surveillance and readiness, then approved a cautious offer of a small elite support force, supplies, and intelligence for Amegakure instead of direct combat troops.
• A shinobi reported a large Chakra gathering and suspected Tailed Beast Chakra in the Kumogakure camp, prompting Jiraiya and the others to prepare for battle.
• Ren ate breakfast with Uchiha Hikari and gave her permission to join Agumon and observe the Konoha Military Police Force’s daily patrol, provided she followed its captain’s instructions.

Ren considered how to ease the Shogunate’s manpower shortage and heard Mei Terumi propose employing Kirigakure in exchange for marrying her. Meanwhile, Uchiha Shisui rescued the Queen of Rōran and her daughter Sara from Sunagakure’s Ryumyaku tower, leaving the energy source unstable.

• Ren reviewed the Military Police Force’s structure and worried that the Shogunate could not govern its eastern territories with its limited personnel.
• Mei Terumi proposed assigning Kirigakure routine missions to integrate the village into the Shogunate, then asked Ren to marry her as her betrothal gift.
• Ren told Mei to invite her teacher so he could speak with him directly.
• Uchiha Shisui infiltrated Rōran’s tower and discovered Sunagakure was using the imprisoned Queen as a living controller for the Ryumyaku, with her daughter Sara kept nearby.
• Shisui freed the Queen by cutting her restraint ring, and she disrupted the Ryumyaku while he prepared to escape with her and Sara.
• Uchiha Hazuki teleported Shisui, the Queen, and Sara away, leaving Rasa and Chiyo to find the tower’s formation empty and the Ryumyaku surging out of control.