Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing prepared for the high-difficulty Yoshikage Kira trial by seeking to improve his Golden Spin, then traveled to Konoha to ask the Yamanaka Clan for help. Tsunade suspected that the technique he described was the Rasengan.

• Lin Qing worried that he might enter Morioh without any Stands and calculated that Killer Queen could kill him in a few blasts.
• Lin Qing decided to postpone the trial and visit Konoha to train the Golden Spin with the Yamanaka Clan.
• Lin Qing traveled to Konoha with Sasuke and Xiaotao, passing through the Land of Waves and seeing a bridge under construction.
• Kakashi welcomed Lin Qing at Konoha’s gate and remarked that he had marked a landing spot in case Lin Qing flew in on his sword.
• Lin Qing met the exhausted Tsunade and explained that he wanted the Yamanaka Clan’s help with a spinning technique.
• Tsunade listened to Lin Qing’s description and asked whether he was simply trying to learn the Rasengan.

Jiraiya returned to teach Lin Qing and Naruto the Rasengan, but Lin Qing quickly mastered it and transformed it into a Golden Spin Rasengan. Its first use badly injured his arm, but he healed with Natural Energy and was eager to continue experimenting.

• Jiraiya explained how the Rasengan worked and began teaching Lin Qing and Naruto, while Sasuke and Xiaotao watched through the window.
• Lin Qing discerned the chakra strands inside Jiraiya's Rasengan and formed a golden, flame-wreathed version after hearing the explanation.
• Lin Qing altered the sphere's irregular rotation to follow the Golden Spin technique, making thunder fill the training room.
• The Golden Spin Rasengan's force twisted and broke Lin Qing's right arm, and Purple Vines stopped its scattering flames from hitting Jiraiya and Naruto.
• Lin Qing used Natural Energy to regenerate his arm and told Jiraiya he had figured out a few tricks.

Lin Qing advanced his Steel Ball and Ripple training in Konoha before beginning the Killer Queen trial, where he arrived in Morioh as Hayato Kawajiri. He realized Bites the Dust was already active and went out to confront the situation.

• Sasuke entered Naruto's mind through the seal and asked the Nine-Tails about its family of origin.
• Inoichi exhausted himself repeatedly using Mind Transfer on Lin Qing, while Lin Qing cared for him and demonstrated progress with the Steel Ball and Golden Spin Rasengan.
• Lin Qing began the Killer Queen trial and woke in Morioh as the child Hayato Kawajiri.
• Lin Qing gathered marbles, recognized the danger surrounding Morioh, and saw Yoshikage Kira combing his hair with Bites the Dust already activated.

Lin Qing weighed ways to survive Yoshikage Kira’s Bites the Dust and decided to attack him before Killer Queen returned. He challenged Kira to a gamble involving Rohan Kishibe, then struck Kira with a spinning marble as Rohan watched.

• Lin Qing considered training, hiding, and other ways to defeat Kira, but concluded he could not safely wait or flee.
• Shinobu Kawajiri dropped a teapot, and Lin Qing caught it with ease while Kira watched him warily.
• Kira accompanied Lin Qing outside, where Lin Qing noticed Rohan Kishibe waiting in a red sports car.
• Lin Qing proposed a bet with Kira about whose luck was stronger, with their lives and Rohan’s life at stake.
• Lin Qing launched a marble into Kira’s mouth, breaking one of his front teeth and drawing Rohan’s attention.

Lin Qing tried two plans to escape Bites the Dust, but neither worked; after returning to 7:30 a.m. again, he found a way to force repeated resets by exposing Yoshikage Kira to strangers. The fourth loop began with Kira realizing Lin Qing was willing to use other people’s lives to defeat him.

• In the first loop, Rohan Kishibe, Jotaro Kujo, and Koichi Hirose discovered Kira’s identity and died when Bites the Dust exploded.
• Lin Qing returned to 7:31 a.m. and rejected using Stray Cat, then left home after Kira questioned him about the latest victims.
• Lin Qing attacked a group of thugs and revealed Kira’s identity to them, but Bites the Dust returned him only to 7:30 a.m.
• In the third loop, Lin Qing continued his morning routine while Kira followed him and guessed that the same morning had repeated several times.
• Lin Qing grabbed a passing woman and identified Kira as Yoshikage Kira, activating Bites the Dust and starting another reset.
• Kira protested that Lin Qing was treating human lives like chips, and Lin Qing said he would use the deaths to drive Kira into despair.

Lin Qing used Bites the Dust’s repeating 8:29 loop to search Morioh for Joseph Joestar, then convinced the elderly man to leave with him by claiming to be Caesar and warning that Kars had returned. As Jotaro and the others pursued them, Lin Qing used Ripple-infused Spin to revive Joseph’s Hermit Purple.

• Lin Qing rode through Morioh during repeated Bites the Dust loops, searching for Joseph while the cycles ended at 8:29.
• Lin Qing found Joseph Joestar pushing a stroller and persuaded him to come along by claiming to be Caesar and saying Kars had returned to Earth.
• Lin Qing used Spin-charged marbles to knock down Joseph’s SPW Foundation guards, and one guard called Jotaro for help.
• Jotaro gathered Josuke, Okuyasu, Koichi, and Rohan Kishibe, and they chased Lin Qing and Joseph through Morioh.
• Lin Qing struck Joseph with a Ripple-infused marble, restoring vitality to his blood and causing Hermit Purple’s vines to emerge.

Lin Qing, Joseph, and Jotaro cornered Yoshikage Kira and forced him to reveal his identity, deactivating Bites the Dust. Kira tried to trigger it again, but Lin Qing used the office worker’s spinning fingernails to kill him.

• Lin Qing and Joseph attacked Kira with a motorcycle and a Golden Spin marble, forcing him to summon Killer Queen and deactivate Bites the Dust.
• Rohan recognized Kira from his photograph, and Jotaro protected Lin Qing from Sheer Heart Attack as the group surrounded Kira.
• Kira grabbed an office worker’s hand, revealed his identity, and tried to use her as a shield while preparing to activate Bites the Dust.
• Jotaro stopped time and threw Lin Qing toward Kira, allowing Lin Qing to send a spinning marble into the office worker’s back.
• The Spin traveled through the woman to her fingernails, which pierced Kira’s eyes and killed him.

After completing the Killer Queen trial mission, Lin Qing stayed in Morioh to examine the Aja Red Stone and learn how it amplified Ripple. He returned the stone to Jotaro and said goodbye, leaving with a new direction for his training.

• Lin Qing learned he could remain in Morioh and spoke with Joseph, who wondered whether they had met before.
• Lin Qing asked Jotaro and Joseph to let him examine the Aja Red Stone, and they opened the SPW Foundation safe for him.
• Lin Qing used Ripple on the Aja Red Stone and discovered that it drew on the sun's power to amplify Ripple and could help evolve the body.
• Lin Qing returned the stone to Jotaro, declined to explain his suspicions about the future, and urged Jotaro to practice Time Stop before saying goodbye.
• The system announced that the Killer Queen trial level was complete and unlocked Killer Queen: Bites the Dust.

Lin Qing reviewed and fully upgraded Killer Queen, then celebrated with Jiraiya and the others at Ichiraku Ramen. The dinner ended with Jiraiya revealing that a group in the Land of Fire had been drawn there by the Awakening Ideology.

• Lin Qing reviewed Bites the Dust's rules and drawbacks, then spent 6,000 Soul Shards to raise Killer Queen to its maximum level.
• Lin Qing invited Jiraiya, Sasuke, Xiaotao, and Naruto to Ichiraku Ramen to celebrate his upgrade.
• Jiraiya and Lin Qing debated whether a ramen connoisseur should drink the broth or inspect the bowl before eating.
• After the meal, Jiraiya told Lin Qing that the Land of Fire was unstable and showed him a paper about people who had come because of the Awakening Ideology.

Lin Qing learned that the Sky Ninja Legion had been carrying out purge air raids across the Land of Fire to oppose the Awakening Ideology and undermine Konoha. The chapter ended with the Legion threatening to attack Konoha in three days.

• A father and his daughter watched flying ninjas drop flares and attack their city with Explosive Tags.
• Lin Qing examined a surrender leaflet and heard Jiraiya explain that the attackers struck at night, evaded pursuit, and targeted schools and factories.
• Jiraiya declined Lin Qing's offer to help, saying the crisis was Konoha's responsibility.
• An Anbu Ninja summoned Jiraiya to an emergency meeting and showed him photographs of a recently attacked town.
• Jiraiya read the Sky Ninja Legion's warning that it would attack Konoha in three days.

After seeing the casualties from an air raid, Lin Qing joined Konoha’s preparations for an attack by the Sky Ninja Legion, due in three days. As the meeting ended, he left with the surrender poster and vanished from a breakfast stall, leaving thunder in the sky.

• Lin Qing saw photographs of children killed in an air raid and decided to accompany Jiraiya to Konoha.
• At a strategy meeting, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu objected to Lin Qing’s presence, but Jiraiya offered him his seat and Tsunade welcomed him.
• Konoha’s ninjas debated defenses against the Sky Ninja Legion and planned to prepare during the three days before its attack.
• Lin Qing questioned why the ninjas intended to wait for the enemy and asked Jiraiya for the surrender poster.
• Lin Qing ordered breakfast, said he would return in twenty minutes, and disappeared from the stall amid distant thunder.

Shinnō planned to use the Sky Ninja Legion’s attack on Konoha to win support from powerful unseen sponsors, even if General Hummingbird had to die for the cause. Their preparations ended when Lin Qing arrived at the Sky Fortress.

• Shinnō told General Hummingbird that the Sky Ninja Legion would attack Konoha in two days to restore the Land of Sky and gain the approval of unseen forces.
• General Hummingbird worried about Lin Qing, but Shinnō insisted that attacking Konoha and wounding him was their best chance to secure supplies, wealth, and weapons.
• Shinnō made clear that General Hummingbird was expected to attack, bomb Konoha, and die publicly as a hero of the Sky Ninja Legion.
• A radar alarm announced an unidentified flying object approaching the Sky Fortress, and the Sky Ninja initially laughed at the tiny craft.
• Shinnō and General Hummingbird recognized Lin Qing as he emerged from the clouds and hovered before the Sky Fortress.

Lin Qing found and destroyed the Sky Fortress, then escaped its self-destruct trap and returned to Konoha with General Hummingbird’s Memory Disc. He told the meeting that no one would die in the coming battle and presented the Disc as evidence.

• Lin Qing tracked a Sky Ninja to a village and used the information he gained to locate the Sky Fortress among the clouds.
• Lin Qing and Whitesnake fought the Sky Ninja Legion; Lin Qing destroyed their attackers and confronted General Hummingbird aboard the fortress.
• Whitesnake took General Hummingbird’s Memory Disc and Ninjutsu Disc, but the Sky Fortress’s self-destruct sequence killed the remaining legion members.
• Lin Qing escaped a barrier designed to trap him in the exploding fortress and returned to Konoha with General Hummingbird’s Memory Disc.
• At the meeting in the Hokage building, Lin Qing told the assembled shinobi that no one would die and tossed the Disc onto the table.

After Lin Qing showed the conference room that he had already defeated the Sky Ninja Legion, he and Tsunade decided to strike back and find the forces backing them. Kakashi identified a desert beetle in Lin Qing’s photograph as a clue pointing to the Land of Wind, where Shinnō might be.

• Lin Qing showed the Memory Disc footage of himself defeating the Sky Ninja Legion, leaving Tsunade, Jiraiya, the clan leaders, and the advisors stunned.
• Lin Qing and Tsunade agreed to take the initiative by attacking the Sky Ninja Legion and tracing its backers.
• Lin Qing used Hermit Purple to photograph Shinnō giving a staged presentation of the battle and then tried to capture the audience behind it.
• Lin Qing’s second photograph showed cameras and a desert beetle instead of any audience, suggesting the financiers had avoided appearing in person.
• Kakashi recognized the beetle as a desert species and concluded that Shinnō was likely in the Land of Wind.

Lin Qing prepared to travel to the Land of Wind to investigate Shinnō’s connections, meet the Kazekage, and visit Iwao Genyako. Before leaving with Kakashi, he invited Tsunade to study Hidan’s ashes, and she agreed while deciding to address past divisions in the village.

• Lin Qing told Tsunade he would leave for the Land of Wind that day, reasoning that Shinnō might have more resources and weapons hidden away.
• Tsunade agreed to provide support from Konoha’s intelligence shinobi if needed.
• Lin Qing showed Tsunade Hidan’s ashes and explained his theory that the being left behind was a monster created by Jashin; Tsunade joined the research project.
• Tsunade said she wanted to address past sacrifices and divisions in the village, and Lin Qing understood which shinobi she meant to send with him.
• Lin Qing met Kakashi at the Hokage Building elevator, and they set off for the Land of Wind.

Lin Qing’s group traveled through the Land of Wind, where Kakashi reflected on his father’s past and Tsunade’s reason for assigning him the mission. Meanwhile, Shinnō learned Lin Qing had reached Sunagakure and decided to toy with him before making a move.

• Lin Qing’s group camped in the desert, and he explained that they would meet Rasa in Sunagakure before gathering information for a surprise attack on Shinnō.
• Kakashi’s memories of Hatake Sakumo resurfaced in the Land of Wind, and Lin Qing said Tsunade wanted him to hear the truth about his father from the enemy’s perspective.
• Kakashi accepted that he needed to let his memories come into the open and examine them.
• Shinnō admired the nearly completed Sky Fortress and its Zero-Tails Core, vowing to crush Lin Qing and Konoha once Unit 2 was finished.
• Shinnō’s adjutant reported that Lin Qing had arrived in Sunagakure, and Shinnō decided to toy with him rather than act immediately.

Lin Qing accepted Rasa’s request to join a rebellion against the Land of Wind’s Daimyo and conglomerates, but insisted they wait and first deal with Shinnō. The chapter left Lin Qing reading Iwao Genyako’s letters from Gelin City, where something in them began to trouble him.

• Rasa asked Lin Qing to help overthrow the Daimyo and break the conglomerates’ control, offering Sunagakure as his spear, and Lin Qing agreed to work with him.
• Lin Qing said they would first deal with Shinnō and asked whether Sunagakure’s shinobi would follow Rasa’s plan; Rasa admitted he could only try to persuade them.
• Rasa told Lin Qing that Iwao Genyako had gone to Gelin City to teach and gave him her weekly letters.
• Lin Qing read Iwao Genyako’s letters, smiled at first, then gradually furrowed his brows.

Lin Qing discovered that Iwao Genyako’s letters concealed a possible dungeon and rushed to Gelin City to find her. At the church, he saw a woman who looked like Iwao and identified her as Whitesnake.

• Lin Qing used Hermit Purple’s Spirit Photography on Iwao Genyako’s letter and saw a dark image that suggested she was being held in an underground cell.
• Lin Qing learned Gelin City’s location from Rasa and set off at full speed, carrying Kakashi, Sasuke, and Xiao Tao in the Ghost Room.
• Rasa saw Gaara’s despairing expression and felt a flicker of guilt before returning to the Kazekage building.
• Lin Qing reached Gelin City and went to the church where Iwao Genyako taught Awakening Ideology classes.
• The priest said Teacher Iwao had arrived, then led Lin Qing to a woman who turned around and smiled.
• Lin Qing recognized the woman as Whitesnake.

Lin Qing discovered that Arima Yukito had tried to abduct Iwao Genyako and killed him and his accomplices after uncovering their crimes. As his search for Iwao stalled, she prepared a group of devoted followers to act against Gelin City.

• Lin Qing learned that Nakagawa Rei had been hired to impersonate Iwao Genyako and traced the scheme to Arima Yukito.
• Lin Qing confronted Arima Yukito, whose memories revealed he had plotted to abduct Iwao and had searched for her after she escaped.
• Lin Qing left Arima Yukito alive at first, but Killer Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack exploded and killed him and the others in the room.
• Lin Qing and Kakashi found that the trail had gone cold, while Lin Qing’s photograph revealed only darkness.
• Iwao Genyako lit a candle in an underground warehouse and called on more than fifty followers to save Gelin City.

Hiding among Gelin City’s exploited factory workers, Iwao Genyako discovered that a genjutsu-like barrier was intensifying the city’s despair. With violence and suicides looming, she led a group of more than fifty people into the underground passages to begin their attack on the barrier.

• Iwao Genyako learned that surveillance and guarded exits trapped her in Gelin City, so she hid in the slums and worked in nearby factories.
• As she investigated the city’s growing despair, Iwao Genyako gathered workers, students, and others determined to act.
• Iwao Genyako told the group that companions had found a citywide barrier beneath Gelin City that used genjutsu-like effects to worsen people’s negative emotions.
• The blind old man warned that the barrier’s energy had surged, making suicide and violence imminent.
• Iwao Genyako rallied the group to attack that night, and more than fifty hooded members entered the underground passages to begin the Rat Operation.