Chapter Summaries

Mirai explained that defeating Tanro might repair the time-space distortion and send Naruto back to his own era, though he remained uncertain how the changes would affect history. Kushina learned Tanro had attacked Naruto and turned her anger toward him.

• Naruto reflected on his father's love and his own wish to protect Konoha as himself.
• Kushina worried that Naruto and Tanro's arrival in the past might change Naruto's history.
• Mirai distinguished his soul's rebirth from Naruto and Tanro traveling through time with their bodies and souls.
• Mirai proposed that defeating Tanro could repair the distortion and return Naruto to his time.
• Kushina realized Tanro had controlled the Dragon Vein and attacked Naruto, then fixed him with a furious glare.

Mirai, Naruto, and Kushina decided they needed to find Tanro, who had used the Dragon Vein to create a giant and could conceal himself from detection. Mirai explained why Naruto’s risky action had been the best way to draw Tanro out, but warned him to think carefully before taking such risks.

• Kushina reacted protectively to the danger facing Naruto, while Mirai judged that Tanro’s control of the Dragon Vein made him a difficult opponent.
• Naruto and Kushina wanted to find and defeat Tanro, but Mirai noted that Tanro would likely stay hidden after their clash.
• Naruto said he had not found Tanro with Sage Mode, though he had sensed a small, unusual power.
• Mirai cautioned Naruto that his earlier action had risked injury, then explained that it had been the best way to force Tanro to reveal himself.
• Mirai warned Naruto that this approach carried risks and urged him to think carefully before using it again.

Mirai, Kushina, and Naruto planned to reach the Princess of Roran and prevent Tanro from controlling the Dragon Vein through her. Meanwhile, Li Ling found Sara hiding in the palace and urged her to be brave as Roran’s future ruler.

• Mirai told Naruto and Kushina that the unusual fluctuation came from the Princess of Roran, who could wield the Dragon Vein’s power.
• Mirai decided they would approach the Princess and stop Tanro, and Naruto offered to lead the way.
• Mirai warned Naruto not to rush ahead or act rashly because Sara might see them as invaders.
• Sara hid in a palace hall, frightened by the commotion caused by the battle in Roran.
• Li Ling appeared beside Sara, promised to protect her, and urged her to pull herself together for Roran’s future.

Mirai, Kushina, and Naruto infiltrated the palace to reach Princess Sara, who trusted Anrokuzan despite his secret plans for her. The group subdued the guards and entered after Mirai rewrote the sensory barrier, leaving Naruto impressed by his parents’ strategy.

• Anrokuzan comforted Sara while privately thinking of her as a puppet because she could control the Dragon Vein.
• Naruto led Mirai and Kushina to the palace where Princess Sara was staying.
• Mirai formed hand seals and placed his palm against the palace gates as Kushina’s clones subdued the guards.
• Kushina explained that Mirai had rewritten the sensory barrier, preventing Anrokuzan from detecting their actions.
• Naruto realized his parents had used the barrier to conceal their infiltration and looked at them with admiration.

Mirai, Kushina, and Naruto found the frightened Princess Sara and tried to persuade her they were not her enemies. Mirai convinced Sara to go with them so she could see for herself who killed her mother, and Kushina led her away.

• Mirai entered the room and found Sara trembling in a corner as Kushina and Naruto followed.
• Kushina tried to comfort Sara, but Sara accused them of killing her mother and threatened to face them as Rōran's princess.
• Naruto began to tell Sara who had killed her mother, but Mirai stopped him and urged Sara to seek the truth herself.
• Sara admitted she wanted revenge but feared she lacked the strength to act, and Mirai invited her to come with them.
• Kushina took Sara by the hand, and Sara left with the three of them without resisting.

Mirai damaged the guard’s armor and drew Tarō’s attention, then lured the Dragon Vein’s power into attacking him while Kushina and Naruto protected Sara. The chapter ended with four stone giants surrounding Mirai as Sara watched from safety.

• Mirai used Spiral Pill to crack the armored guard’s armor and told Kushina and Naruto to protect Sara.
• Kushina, Naruto, and Sara followed Mirai out through the window he had smashed.
• Tarō sensed the Dragon Vein’s resonance near Sara’s palace and prepared to act after realizing Mirai and Sara were still nearby.
• Mirai had Kushina and Naruto take Sara away as dark violet spheres descended toward him.
• The spheres pulled Dragon Vein-infused ground into four giants that surrounded Mirai.

Mirai tested Tanro’s strategy as four giants hemmed him in and shattered the ground beneath him. Tanro then used dark-purple beams from the building to seize three giants, leaving Mirai suspended in the air as the puppets were pulled down.

• Sara watched Naruto and Kushina and insisted that Father could not be defeated by the giants.
• The four giants retreated to block the streets around Mirai, then struck the ground and caused it to collapse toward him.
• Mirai dashed toward a ravine as the giants’ attack spread the collapse across the area.
• Minato threw a special kunai into the air and escaped as the ground gave way beneath him.
• Dark-purple beams split from the building and latched onto three giants, lifting them before pulling them down.

Mirai outmaneuvered Tanro’s attack by summoning Mount Myoboku’s three great toads to intercept the falling giants. As the toads seized their opponents and plunged toward the ground, Naruto and Kushina evacuated Sara from the impact zone.

• Tanro sent three giants hurtling toward Mirai while another prepared to attack Naruto, Kushina, and Sara.
• Mirai used his marked kunai to teleport into the air and let the giants lose strength as they descended.
• Mirai summoned Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro to meet the giants in midair.
• Naruto and Kushina moved Sara away from the crash site as the toads grabbed the giants and fell with them.
• Tanro tried to pull the giants away, but the toads maintained their grip and continued downward.

Mirai and the three toads fought Tanro’s stone giants in Rōran, but the Dragon Vein’s power restored the destroyed creatures. Mirai dismissed the toads after achieving his objective, leaving the confrontation with Tanro unresolved.

• The chakra threads controlling the giants snapped, and the creatures crashed into the ground, forming three craters.
• Gamabunta and Gamahiro wondered what the stone monsters were and suspected Sunagakure was involved, while Mirai judged Tanro to be dangerous.
• Mirai moved everyone away from the remaining giant and inferred that Tanro still needed Sara for his plan.
• Purple light enveloped the craters and restored the destroyed giants with the Dragon Vein’s power.
• Mirai told the toads their work was done and dismissed Gamabunta, Gamahiro, and the third toad.

Mirai used a Shadow Clone to deceive Tanro and rescue Kushina, Sara, and the others. After escaping, he explained his theory that Anrokuzan was using the Dragon Vein to build an army, while Tanro realized Mirai had outplanned him.

• Mirai's Shadow Clone appeared beside Kushina and the others, and he transported them away before the four giants could react.
• Tanro realized Mirai had used the opening created by Gamabunta's disappearance to rescue the group and conceal his chakra.
• Mirai and the others reappeared elsewhere in Rōran and hid their chakra fluctuations.
• Kushina asked Mirai what he had learned from deliberately exposing himself.
• Mirai told Sara that Anrokuzan was using the Dragon Vein to make armor and build an army, and he suspected Tanro had ties to Sunagakure.

Mirai and Kushina confronted Sara with evidence that Anrokuzan had deceived her and that Rōran was empty and in danger. Sara began to doubt the minister she had trusted, but she still struggled to accept what Mirai told her.

• Sara denied knowing anything about the deaths caused by Mirai and the previous Zhaisi Shumaao.
• Mirai reminded Sara that Anrokuzan had become a giant and attacked them, while Kushina said he had never cared about protecting Sara.
• Sara recalled that Anrokuzan had failed to appear when she was in danger and realized he seemed afraid of the ninjas.
• Mirai showed Sara the desolate Rōran and asked when she had last seen her people.
• Sara discovered that Rōran had no people in sight and began to waver as Mirai warned that using the Dragon Vein could destroy the nation.

Mirai persuaded Sara to help him locate the Dragon Vein’s strongest point in Rōran, where his group discovered Tanro’s underground production line. The chapter ended with Mirai sensing a powerful fluctuation from a strange machine beside the enslaved citizens.

• Mirai told Sara that protecting Rōran meant protecting its citizens, and asked her to help find them.
• Sara agreed to lead Mirai’s group to where the Dragon Vein’s power gathered most heavily in the city.
• At night, Mirai, Sara, Kushina, and Naruto followed a vent beneath central Rōran and found an underground production line.
• Sara saw shackled civilians, including children, forced to work while armored guards watched over them.
• Mirai noticed a massive machine near the production line and sensed an extremely powerful fluctuation coming from it.

Mirai and his companions discovered that Anrokuzan was using the Dragon Vein to control Rōran and planned to rescue the imprisoned civilians. They began the rescue while Mirai prepared to hold Anrokuzan off and Sara prepared to seal the Dragon Vein’s power.

• Sara recognized a device that gathered the Dragon Vein’s power, and Mirai concluded Tanro had altered the vein to control it.
• Kushina told Sara that Anrokuzan had deceived her and was suspected of killing her mother; Sara asked the group to save Rōran.
• Naruto and Sara suggested a place beyond the Dragon Vein’s reach where the civilians could shelter.
• Mirai assigned himself to fight Tanro while Naruto and Kushina escorted Sara and the civilians; Sara agreed to temporarily seal the Dragon Vein.
• The group rushed to free the shackled civilians, and Naruto and Kushina used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu as armored guards noticed them.

Namikaze Mirai, Naruto, and Kushina destroyed the device channeling the Dragon Vein and began rescuing the enslaved civilians. As Tanro unleashed the Dragon Vein’s power for a final fight, Mirai protected Sara from an angry civilian.

• Namikaze Mirai and Naruto attacked the special device with Super Big Ball Rasengans, destroying it and disrupting the Dragon Vein’s power.
• Namikaze Mirai stayed with Sara while Naruto returned to help free the civilians, and Tanro reacted to the broken stone pillar by activating the remaining pillars.
• The Dragon Vein gathering point glowed with deep purple energy, and Namikaze Mirai sensed that Tanro was preparing for a final battle.
• Namikaze Mirai told Sara to lead the freed civilians out and called for Naruto’s and Kushina’s shadow clones to help those at the back.
• An angry civilian blamed Sara and tried to stab her, but Namikaze Mirai stopped the attack and explained that Anrokuzan had issued the orders in Sara’s name and victimized her mother.

Mirai protected the underground evacuation by using his space-time techniques to gather the energy giants together. As civilians emerged from the tunnel, he summoned Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro to face the giants.

• Mirai promised the civilian he would safely free the subdued guards, then ordered Sara to evacuate everyone as the production line shook.
• Mirai trapped one giant in a spatial barrier and moved it into the path of another, knocking the giants down.
• Sara led the civilians out of the ventilation tunnel while Mirai and his shadow clones stacked all five giants together.
• Mirai summoned Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro to confront the rock giants.

Mirai and the three toads fought the five Dragon Vein giants while Naruto and Kushina evacuated civilians from underground. The civilians were blasted safely to the surface, while Mirai prepared to confront the giants and uncover who was behind them.

• Mirai asked Gamabunta, Toad Oil Sword, and Toad Oil Light to restrain the five giants as he sat aside and gathered himself.
• Tan Luo sent a beam of Dragon Vein energy that restored the giants, and Mirai awakened Sage Mode as they turned on him.
• Gamabunta and the other toads fought the giants while Mirai dodged their attacks and urged Sara to hurry with the evacuation.
• Naruto and Kushina emerged, entered Sage Mode, and used hundreds of shadow clones to blast the remaining civilians out of the ground.
• Naruto's clones vanished after the civilians landed safely, and he told them to follow him.

Kushina joined Mirai in fighting the Dragon Vein giants and used her newly awakened Adamantine Chains to immobilize them. As Naruto evacuated the Rōran civilians, Mirai watched the five giants and wondered whether they could create more.

• Kushina told Naruto to take responsibility for getting the Rōran civilians to safety, then went to help Mirai.
• Kushina bound the giants’ attacks with Adamantine Chains and revealed that she had learned the ability two months earlier.
• Kushina restrained the giants again when the Dragon Vein’s power poured into them, preventing them from breaking free.
• Gamabunta remarked on Kushina’s strength while fighting alongside others against the giants.
• Mirai faced the five giants and considered that the Dragon Vein’s power was not inexhaustible.

Mirai used Sage Mode to locate Tan Luo and rushed to confront him while Kushina and the toads held off the giants. Tan Luo destroyed the pillars sustaining the Dragon Vein’s power, leaving Sara to realize it was in danger and set out to seal it with Naruto’s help.

• Mirai used the Lightning Shield and Sage Mode to sense Tan Luo’s hiding place.
• Mirai told Kushina and the giant toads to hold the giants down, then sped toward Tan Luo.
• Tan Luo shattered the stone pillars, causing the Dragon Vein’s lights to dim and the five giants to collapse.
• Kushina headed after Mirai as Sara sensed the Dragon Vein was in danger.
• Naruto made Shadow Clones and offered to guide Sara to the Dragon Vein so she could seal it.

Naruto evacuated Rōran’s civilians with shadow clones as danger grew, while Mirai tracked a hidden power inside Tanro’s building. The building collapsed and released a spreading violet light, leaving Mirai facing an unknown threat.

• Naruto sent shadow clones with Princess Sara to guide them through the buildings.
• Naruto summoned more than two thousand shadow clones and ordered them to carry Rōran’s civilians beyond the Dragon Vein’s reach.
• Kushina felt the Nine-Tails stir inside her as she confronted Mirai.
• Mirai sensed the Nine-Tails sealed inside Naruto and headed toward Tanro’s hiding place.
• A sudden surge of natural energy forced Mirai to retreat as the building collapsed and violet light burst from the ruins.

Mirai confronted Tanro, who used a purple beam to connect himself to the Dragon Vein and absorb its power. As Tanro grew stronger and Rōran began to shake, Mirai sent Kushina away and Naruto toward the Dragon Vein to seal it.

• Tanro declared that Mirai, his son, and his wife had ruined his plans and that he wanted Mirai dead.
• Mirai recognized the Dragon Vein's energy in the fissure and sent Kushina away as the purple beam contracted.
• Tanro landed by the fissure and absorbed Dragon Vein power, transforming his body.
• Tanro clashed with Mirai and claimed the Dragon Vein's power had made him strong enough to resist him.
• As Tanro drained the Dragon Vein, Rōran began to tremble, and Naruto headed toward the source to seal it.