Recaps

Simu awoke in a strange realm and met the sealed Lord Jashin, whom he eagerly agreed to serve in exchange for power. Jashin granted Simu an Immortal Body and sent him back, while postponing the Jashin Ritual.

• Simu awoke surrounded by black-purple mist and saw Jashin appear as a monstrous shadow that said two people had arrived and the Otsutsuki seal might soon break.
• Jashin asked Simu to become a believer, and a system interface offered the Womb of the Creator for choosing yes.
• Simu declared that he would offer the entire Shinobi World to Jashin, convincing the sealed deity to grant him the Immortal Body and promise the Jashin Ritual later.
• Jashin sent Simu back and privately compared him favorably to Hidan, delighted by his promise to offer the Shinobi World.

The Jashin Cult’s ritual brought Hidan and Kamizuki Simu out of the Blood Pool, and both claimed to be Jashin’s spokesperson. After Hidan demonstrated his immortality and damage-reflecting ritual, Simu dismissed his attacks and had Hidan decapitated, leaving the cultists to confront Simu’s power.

• The bishop and cultists offered corpses and venomous creatures in a ritual that drew Jashin’s presence to the shrine.
• Hidan rose from the Blood Pool and claimed to be Jashin’s favored spokesperson, then Kamizuki Simu emerged and identified himself as the chief spokesperson.
• Hidan attacked Simu, but Simu’s purple centipede pierced him, revealing that Hidan could endure severe injuries without pain.
• Hidan drew the Jashin symbol and used his ritual to reflect self-inflicted wounds onto Simu’s centipede, then declared he would offer Simu as a sacrifice.
• Simu mocked Hidan’s ability and a red shadow severed Hidan’s head; a foot stepped on it as a voice questioned whether he was worthy of being Jashin’s dog.

Simu defeated Hidan in the Jashin Cult hall and revealed that he had reincarnated as the Blood Pool, gaining the power to create new bodies and races. The Cult Leader named Simu and Hidan God Children and ordered Simu to stay with the cult, while Hidan continued protesting about the age of Simu’s neighbor’s cat.

• Simu pinned Hidan down, cut off his arms, and mocked his threats while the cultists watched.
• The Cult Leader ordered Simu to follow him and told the other cultists to reassemble Hidan’s body.
• Simu reflected on being reincarnated as the Blood Pool and considered using Hidan’s blood and body parts to analyze the Jashin Gene.
• The Cult Leader declared that Simu and Hidan would become God Children and urged Simu to help the Jashin Cult grow.
• Hidan insisted that the old woman’s cat was thirty-seven years old as the Cult Leader left the room.

Simu carried Hidan’s severed head back to the Jashin Cult’s main hall, where he taunted Hidan and kicked his head into the Blood Pool, gaining a small amount of Jashin Gene analysis progress. After stitching Hidan’s head back on backward, Simu cut it off again.

• The Cult Leader raged over being denied Jashin’s blessing, then convinced himself that Jashin was testing him and resolved to seize the power from Simu and Hidan.
• Simu brought Hidan’s head to the main hall, and Hidan suggested killing the cultists so nobody would know what had happened.
• Simu kicked Hidan’s head into the Blood Pool, advancing [Jashin Gene] analysis to 0.004%, then ordered the cultists to retrieve him.
• Simu pinned Hidan down and used [Koukaku: Spider] threads to stitch his head back onto his body.
• A cultist pointed out that Simu had attached Hidan’s head backward, so Simu promptly cut it off again.

Simu repeatedly foiled Hidan’s assassination attempts, then carried Hidan’s severed head to the cafeteria and tormented him while eating. Simu left with Hidan still furious and threatening to kill him.

• Hidan ambushed Simu outside, but Simu trapped his spear and swiftly cut off his head again.
• Simu explained to himself that Hidan’s Jashin Ritual could not reliably kill him because of his clones and Immortal Body.
• Simu dragged Hidan’s head through the cafeteria, where Hidan insulted the cultists who stared at him.
• Simu ordered food and fed Hidan tonkatsu and rice by pouring it into his mouth, only for it to spill back out through his severed neck.
• Simu finished eating, wiped Hidan’s mouth with his tissue, and carried him out as Hidan shouted threats.

The Cult Leader summoned Simu and Hidan to learn what powers Lord Jashin had granted them. After testing Hidan’s regeneration, Hidan began demonstrating his ritual curse on a bandit, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Cult Leader asked Simu and Hidan to explain their abilities, and Hidan claimed he had an Immortal Body and Curse Power.
• Hidan boasted that the Jashin Ritual let him inflict his own injuries on anyone whose blood he obtained.
• Simu slashed Hidan twice, and the Cult Leader watched the wounds heal within seconds.
• Simu reattached Hidan’s head after it had been removed, then spun it into the correct position and sealed it with spider silk.
• Hidan pierced a bandit’s skin, licked the bloodied spear, and drew Jashin’s symbol with his own blood as he began the ritual.

Hidan demonstrated his immortality by sharing his injuries with a captured bandit during a Jashin ritual, while Simu revealed that he had inherited parts of Jashin’s body as Kagune. The Cult Leader watched both Spokespersons and secretly resolved to seize their abilities so he alone could offer the Shinobi World to Jashin.

• Hidan stabbed himself with a spear, causing matching wounds in the captured bandit, who died after trying to escape.
• Simu called Hidan’s ritual boring, dodged Hidan’s attack, and cut off his head before asking what would happen if he sacrificed Hidan to Jashin.
• At the Cult Leader’s request, Simu explained that his Kagune were parts of Jashin’s body and displayed his centipede, mantis, and spider Kagune.
• Hidan embraced Simu’s ambition to offer the Shinobi World to Jashin, while the Cult Leader secretly vowed to obtain both men’s abilities and claim that offering for himself.

Simu let the Cult Leader study his blood and learned that chakra powered ninjutsu, confirming that the Shinobi World held unfamiliar abilities he needed to understand. He left the laboratory determined to find the Jashin Cult’s historical records, with Hidan reluctantly leading the way.

• The Cult Leader drew blood from Hidan and Simu to study their powers, using chakra-enhanced kunai to cut through Simu’s Kagune.
• The Cult Leader explained chakra and ninjutsu to Simu, who said he wanted to learn enough to offer the Shinobi World to Lord Jashin.
• After leaving the laboratory, Simu asked Hidan where the Jashin Cult kept its historical records.
• Simu threatened to sew Hidan’s body onto a giant boar’s head, and Hidan submitted and agreed to take him there.

Simu searched the Jashin Cult archives and learned about the Shinobi World's nations, hidden villages, and history. He ended the day intrigued by the unanswered mysteries surrounding the world's ancient deities and the origins of chakra.

• A cultist led Simu and Hidan to the neglected archives, where Simu suspended Hidan's head from the ceiling and silenced him with webbing.
• Simu found the book Ancient Deities, which described Jashin, the God of Death, the God of Nature, and other legendary beings.
• Simu wondered why the deities had disappeared and why the accounts did not mention chakra.
• Simu spent the day reading about the Five Great Nations, their hidden villages and Kage, and the Daimyo's political authority.
• Simu found little information about the eras before the Warring States Period and became fascinated by the mysteries surrounding Jashin, the Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, and the Shinobi World.

Simu tricked Hidan into going hungry, then arranged for him to find a taunting message in a pork cutlet. Meanwhile, Simu used the Jashin Cult’s response to a sign from Lord Jashin to secure offerings that would replenish his life energy.

• Hidan refused to eat to prove that his Immortal Body and Lord Jashin’s power made food unnecessary, while Simu ate ten servings of pork cutlet rice in front of him.
• Hidan crept into the cafeteria at midnight and found a small scroll hidden in a cold pork cutlet; it asked whether the cutlet was delicious, making him furious at Kamizuki Simu.
• The Blood Pool bubbled and formed the character for “Offering,” and the Cult Leader ordered the cultists to gather wild beasts and poisonous creatures for Lord Jashin.
• Simu slept contentedly, having arranged for the cultists to supply the life energy he needed to analyze genes and create more members of the Jashin Race.

For three months, the Jashin Cult fed Lord Jashin and Simu with sacrifices, leaving the cult nearly broke while Lord Jashin drew closer to escaping his confinement. The Cult Leader accepted a paid request to eliminate Gato, but a report of another fight between Simu and Hidan interrupted him, and Hidan ended the chapter threatening to blow them both up.

• The Jashin Cult hunted animals and bought living creatures for sacrifices, allowing Simu to gather life energy and genes while Lord Jashin grew stronger.
• The Cult Leader worried that the cult had nearly run out of money until Kikuchi Miura delivered Sakamoto's offer of fifty million ryo per year for dealing with Gato.
• The Cult Leader accepted Sakamoto's request to eliminate Gato, a shipping company owner in the Land of Waves.
• A follower reported that Kamizuki Simu and Hidan were fighting again, and the Cult Leader reacted with exasperation.
• Hidan attacked Simu with a spear but was stopped by Simu's centipede and mocked for never winning their fights.
• Hidan revealed Kibaku Fuda beneath his clothes and threatened to take Simu down with him.

Simu and Hidan were assigned to assassinate Gato after their fight destroyed the Jashin Cult cafeteria. Before leaving for the mission, Simu gave Hidan a custom Kagune that could reconnect his severed body parts.

• Hidan tried to kill Simu with an explosion, but Simu survived by using his new [Koukaku: Ant-Man] exoskeleton and cut off Hidan's head again.
• The Cult Leader sent Simu and Hidan on a mission to assassinate Gato, with Kikuchi Miura assigned to guide them.
• Simu carried Hidan back to the Shrine to pack before they departed that night.
• Simu sealed Hidan's mouth and submerged his body in the Blood Pool to implant a new Kagune.
• The [Koukaku: Parasitic Spider] attached to Hidan and used spider silk to stitch his head back on, enabling him to reconnect severed body parts.

Over three months, Simu upgraded the Jashin races and created ravens and black beetles to expand his surveillance network. He used his Immortal Body to fuel mass production of beetles and Kagune, prompting Jashin to investigate and mistake Simu for Hidan.

• Simu enhanced the Centipede, Spider, and Mantis Kagune and created the Ant-Man Kagune, Ravens, and Black Beetles.
• Simu spread ravens and beetles around the Jashin Cult headquarters, using them to monitor the area.
• Simu activated the Womb of the Primordial Creator and poured out black beetles, then began producing more than a hundred Kagune.
• As Simu's energy ran out, his Immortal Body drained life force and caused Jashin's accumulated energy to rapidly disappear.
• Jashin traced the energy drain to the Shrine and saw Simu floating in the Blood Pool, but mistook him for Hidan.

Simu restrained Hidan’s newly acquired Kagune and packed Kakuhou before joining Kikuchi Miura’s mission to kill Gato. As the group set out for Shuiyu Village, Hidan dismissed the plan to gather intelligence and insisted they should simply kill their target.

• After Hidan bragged about his Kagune, Simu chopped him into eight pieces and revealed that he could control the Kagune whenever he wanted.
• Simu packed Kakuhou in a box, and Hidan followed him out of the Shrine as they prepared for the mission.
• Kikuchi Miura and two Jashin Cult followers joined Simu and Hidan as supervisors for the mission.
• Kikuchi Miura explained that they would contact Mr. Sakamoto in Shuiyu Village for intelligence before killing Gato at the Gato Shipping Company headquarters.
• Hidan dismissed the intelligence-gathering plan and said the strong should go straight to the enemy and sacrifice them to Jashin-sama.

Hidan and Simu ate at a tonkatsu shop, then summoned Kikuchi Miura to pay when they realized they had no money. Kikuchi Miura killed the shop owner and confronted them, leaving the three poised to fight.

• Hidan smelled tonkatsu and led Simu into town, where they ate more than twenty plates at a shop.
• When the owner asked for payment, Hidan admitted he did not know meals cost money, and Simu suggested Kikuchi Miura might pay.
• Hidan fired a Jashin Cult emergency signal flare, bringing Kikuchi Miura to the shop to settle the bill.
• Kikuchi Miura refused to pay and killed the shop owner, then ordered Hidan and Simu to obey him.
• Hidan asked Simu if he could kill Kikuchi Miura, and Simu gave his approval.
• Kikuchi Miura drew his blade and threatened to teach Hidan and Simu a lesson, while they prepared to fight.

Hidan defeated the two Jashin Cultists sent to attack him, using his Immortal Body and newly honed Taijutsu to kill them. He then turned his spear toward Kikuchi Miura and declared him next.

• Kikuchi Miura ordered two Jashin Cultists to teach Hidan and Simu a lesson, and the cultists reluctantly obeyed.
• Hidan charged the cultists, shrugging off their Shuriken and fighting with the speed and skill he had gained from Simu's training.
• Hidan killed one cultist after overpowering him and striking through his heart.
• Hidan grabbed the second cultist and drove his spear through his own back, piercing them both and killing the man.
• Hidan pulled out his spear, dismissed the cultists as unworthy sacrifices to Lord Jashin, and pointed it at Kikuchi Miura.

Hidan and Simu fought Kikuchi Miura, who used Water Release techniques and explosive talismans against them. Kikuchi Miura trapped Hidan in a water sphere and repeatedly decapitated him, leaving Hidan’s body bound and his head under Miura’s foot.

• Hidan charged Kikuchi Miura, who unleashed a Water Wave Technique that flooded the street and swept Hidan into ruins while Simu blocked the torrent with Weihe: Centipede.
• Hidan recovered from the flood and charged through Kikuchi Miura’s explosive talismans, laughing despite being badly burned.
• Hidan pierced Kikuchi Miura, but Miura transformed into water and trapped Hidan inside a water sphere.
• Kikuchi Miura used Underwater Decapitation Technique to split Hidan’s neck, then bound his body and stepped on his head.

Kikuchi Miura defeated Hidan at first, but Hidan used the Parasitic Spider and his ritual to kill him. Simu then collected the corpses for research and began analyzing Kikuchi Miura’s Water Release genes.

• Kikuchi Miura bound Hidan with water currents and turned to fight Simu, who recognized the tactics behind his attack.
• Hidan used the Parasitic Spider to redirect his spear, reattach his head, and wound Kikuchi Miura.
• Hidan performed the Jashin ritual, causing Kikuchi Miura’s heart to be pierced when he stabbed Hidan through the heart.
• Simu teased Hidan about secretly practicing the Parasitic Spider, then left with him as the residents emerged from hiding.
• Ravens carried the three corpses to the Jashin Cult headquarters, where Simu restored Kikuchi Miura’s body and began analyzing his Water Release genes.

Shiraishi Mori and his grandfather tried to appease Hidan and Simu, two Jashin Cult members who arrived at their fishing village. As the family prepared their last piglet for the visitors, Mori feared he was as powerless as the animal on the roasting rack.

• Shiraishi Mori comforted his sister Shiraishi Rin by claiming their missing parents would return from fishing.
• Hidan and Simu arrived at the village, and Shiraishi Mori's grandfather invited them into the family home.
• Hidan demanded fried pork cutlets, and Shiraishi Mori's grandfather told Mori to help prepare food for the guests.
• Shiraishi Mori's grandfather identified Hidan and Simu as likely members of the Jashin Cult and warned Mori about their history of bloodshed.
• Shiraishi Mori connected the visitors to the Sakamoto Trading Company, which he suspected had taken his parents, and questioned his grandfather's helplessness.
• Shiraishi Mori's grandfather slaughtered the family's last piglet and grilled it for the guests, while Mori compared his own helplessness to the pig's.

Simu and Hidan learned from Grandpa that Sakamoto Trading Company had detained the Shuiyu Village fishermen after banning them from fishing. As the two headed to confront Mr. Sakamoto, Shiraishi Mori found a Jashin Cult necklace and decided to use it to search for his parents.

• Hidan and Simu ate the Shiraishi family's grilled pork, and Simu reassured Grandpa that they had no connection to Sakamoto Trading Company.
• Grandpa told Simu that Sakamoto Trading Company had forbidden the villagers from fishing and detained the fishermen, including Mori and Rin's parents, for more than half a month.
• Simu and Hidan left for the shore to speak with Mr. Sakamoto, while Grandpa returned home and went to sleep.
• Shiraishi Mori found a crimson Jashin Cult necklace beside a stool and resolved to use it to search for his parents.

Simu and Hidan arrived at Sakamoto Trading Company’s dock to carry out the Jashin Cult’s commissioned task, where Hidan killed four thugs after they attacked him. Mr. Sakamoto confronted them, and Simu calmly insisted the deaths were justified self-defense.

• Hidan questioned why Simu had left a Jashin necklace at Shiraishi Mori’s house, and Simu explained that he had been curious whether the boy would act on it.
• Simu and Hidan reached Sakamoto Trading Company’s dock, where the company had detained the fishermen and seized their boats.
• When four thugs challenged them, Hidan charged into their attacks and killed all four.
• Mr. Sakamoto arrived with bodyguards, recognized them as Jashin Cult members, and questioned why they had killed his men.
• Simu told Mr. Sakamoto they had come to complete his commissioned task and said the thugs had attacked first, so Hidan’s retaliation was reasonable.

Simu and Hidan boarded Sakamoto’s cruise ship after Sakamoto compensated his men for the Jashin Cult members they had killed. Shiraishi Mori disguised himself as a cult member and snuck aboard, while Sakamoto showed Simu the ship’s lavish casino and introduced him to a group of bunny girls.

• Sakamoto welcomed Simu and Hidan aboard, then promised each dead subordinate’s family one hundred thousand ryo.
• Hidan hurried to the restaurant to get fried pork cutlets, and Simu told Sakamoto that an accident during Hidan’s inheritance of Lord Jashin’s power had affected his head.
• Shiraishi Mori disguised himself in a makeshift black robe and used a Jashin Cult necklace to convince the dock guards to let him onto the ship.
• Simu and Sakamoto toured the Heaven on Earth, which included a restaurant, concert hall, dance floor, and beast-fighting arena.
• Sakamoto summoned more than a dozen bunny girls for Simu beneath the ship’s neon lights.

Simu met Chairman Sakamoto to discuss the threat posed by Gato, but said the Jashin Cult would not attack him directly. He presented Kagune as a gift from Lord Jashin, and the chapter ended as a server who ate one screamed in pain.

• Hidan interrupted Simu's meeting with Sakamoto, and Simu bound him in spider silk to keep him quiet.
• Sakamoto asked Simu to eliminate Gato, but Simu said he did not intend to do it himself.
• Simu opened a case of Kagune and claimed that ordinary people could gain power by eating one.
• Sakamoto paid a server two hundred thousand ryo to test a Kagune, and the server ate it.
• The Kagune broke down inside the server and gathered at his lower back, causing him to scream.

Simu demonstrated that implanting a Kagune could transform an ordinary person into a powerful Ghoul, though the process could drive them berserk. After Sakamoto learned that some Ghouls might retain their sanity, he prepared to start experiments, then asked Simu whether other Jashin Cult members had come with him.

• A waiter implanted with a Kagune transformed into a centipede-like Ghoul and attacked Sakamoto, whose ninja subordinates restrained him with Earth Style techniques.
• Simu explained that Kagune implantation affected people differently and that strong-willed Ghouls could theoretically retain their sanity.
• Sakamoto became eager to create obedient Ghouls and gathered his subordinates to begin experiments.
• A subordinate reported that someone had been found in the dungeon, and Sakamoto asked Simu whether any other Jashin Cult members had accompanied him.
• Simu recognized that Shiraishi Mori had been caught after stealing his necklace, but pretended not to know of anyone else, prompting Sakamoto to show killing intent.

Sakamoto used Shiraishi Mori’s parents and other prisoners in experiments to implant Kagune, creating several Ghouls. He then invited the ship’s guests to watch a beast-fighting event called Mutant Showdown, leaving the arena packed before the performance began.

• Simu accompanied Sakamoto to the prison, where Shiraishi Mori recognized Sakamoto as the man who had taken his parents.
• Sakamoto had Shiraishi Mori’s parents dragged away to serve as Kagune test subjects, then selected eighteen more prisoners for the experiment.
• The Kagune experiment killed eleven subjects, left six unconscious, and produced three sane survivors: Shiraishi Ao, Yanagishima Keiko, and Shimizu Ken.
• Sakamoto announced a Mutant Showdown in the Octagon Cage arena, drawing the ship’s dignitaries to fill the venue.