Recaps

Chen took Guy, Ebisu, and Genma to the garrison cafeteria to train Guy’s control over strength by peeling raw eggs. Guy managed to save the egg liquid when his membrane broke, while Chen nearly lost face after Ebisu praised his nimble middle finger.

• Chen led Guy, Ebisu, and Genma into the cafeteria kitchen and showed them how to peel a raw egg without breaking its membrane.
• Guy copied Chen’s technique and peeled an egg until only the membrane remained, but caught the liquid in a bowl when it ruptured.
• Chen peeled two eggs at once with his right hand, using his middle finger to slice away both shells.
• Ebisu murmured that Chen had a nimble middle finger, distracting Chen and causing one egg’s membrane to crack.
• Chen caught the egg liquid in a bowl and privately felt relieved that he had avoided an embarrassing mishap.

Chen assigned Guy a month of kitchen training to improve his control by peeling eggs and slicing tofu, requiring him to use the oversized Kubikiribōchō. He then took Ebisu and Genma away for their own training, leaving Guy to begin practicing alone.

• Chen told Guy to learn to peel four eggs at once without damaging their membranes and offered to assign him the base’s egg-peeling work.
• Chen demonstrated slicing a block of tofu into hundreds of uniformly thin strands with a kitchen knife.
• Chen ordered Guy to slice three hundred jin of tofu each day to the same standard, using the Kubikiribōchō.
• Guy accepted the training, recognizing that the delicate tasks would test his control over strength.
• Chen took the still-laughing Ebisu and Genma away, leaving Guy with baskets of eggs and tofu to begin his month of special kitchen training.

After a month of kitchen training, Guy mastered precise control of Kubikiribōchō and completed Chen’s first stage of special training. He left the cafeteria to find Chen and begin the next phase.

• Guy carved a lifelike tofu sculpture of Chen with Kubikiribōchō, impressing the kitchen staff.
• Guy recalled how Chen’s training had made him eat ruined tofu and led him to practice cutting other ingredients with Kubikiribōchō.
• Guy demonstrated his greatly improved finger speed and control, then stopped when nearby kitchen women watched him with interest.
• Guy declared the first stage complete and headed toward the mountainside to find Teacher Chen.

After completing his month of kitchen training, Guy returned to Chen and learned that phase two would take place after sunset. Chen led Guy, Ebisu, and Genma to a swamp filled with an enormous mosquito swarm and announced it as Guy’s new training ground.

• Guy arrived at the camp, where Ebisu and Genma greeted him after enduring a month of brutal wilderness survival training.
• Chen praised Guy for carving tofu with the Kubikiribōchō and warned that phase two would test his body and mind.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma shared stories about their separate training while they waited for sunset.
• Chen led the three students out of camp and into a damp forest after receiving approval from Fugaku Uchiha.
• The group reached a swamp covered by a vast mosquito swarm, and Chen declared it Guy’s phase two training ground.

Chen set Guy an exacting second stage of training: threading one million living mosquitoes’ wings with bamboo skewers while opening the first five Inner Gates. Guy accepted the two-month challenge, while Chen took Ebisu and Genma away for further training.

• Chen demonstrated piercing mosquitoes’ wings without killing them and told Guy to train in the first five gate states.
• Chen required Guy to thread two hundred thousand mosquitoes in each gate state within two months, explaining that the exercise would improve his control of power.
• Guy understood that the training would address the unstable, dispersed power of his Morning Peacock and vowed to complete it.
• Chen gave Guy bamboo skewers and specified that each must hold at least two hundred living mosquitoes, then led the despairing Ebisu and Genma away.
• Alone at the swamp, Guy accepted the challenge of threading one million mosquitoes and prepared to begin.

After mastering Four-Sided Stake-Walking Art, Guy gained a short-range afterimage step and a gift pack containing Kasaya Demon-Subduing Art. Having completed Teacher Chen’s mosquito-killing task and second training stage, he set out to begin the final stage.

• Guy mastered Four-Sided Stake-Walking Art after two months of dodging mosquitoes and gained Stake-Walking Afterimage Step, which let him appear within ten meters while leaving an afterimage.
• Guy opened his ultimate skill gift pack and received the mid-grade Kasaya Demon-Subduing Art, which let him use a kasaya as an extension of his body for attack and defense.
• Guy decided to practice the art with ordinary clothes rather than wear his conspicuous Fire Cloud Kasaya, and wondered if he could teach the art to White Fang.
• Guy found that he had killed over ten million mosquitoes and completed Teacher Chen’s second training stage.
• Guy decided to find Teacher Chen and begin the third stage of training.

Guy completed the mosquito-skewering training and asked Chen to begin the third stage, but Chen instead tested his progress in a taijutsu spar without the Eight Gates. During the fight, Chen helped Guy recognize the value of Konoha taijutsu and began teaching him through combat.

• Guy showed Chen the million mosquitoes he had skewered, and Chen was astonished by the result of his training.
• Guy asked to begin the third stage, but Chen postponed it and challenged him to spar without opening the Eight Gates.
• Guy and Chen exchanged taijutsu attacks, and Guy noticed how Chen used Konoha Sudden Wind to neutralize his Konoha Great Whirlwind.
• Chen mirrored Guy’s Konoha Great Whirlwind, and Guy countered it with a precisely timed Konoha Sudden Wind.
• Chen slowed his next Konoha Great Whirlwind to show Guy the details of its movement and force, and Guy realized Chen was teaching him through combat.

Chen taught Guy Konoha taijutsu by demonstrating techniques during a sparring match, and Guy rapidly copied and adapted them. The chapter ended with Chen preparing to show Guy his strongest move.

• Chen exchanged Konoha taijutsu techniques with Guy, who copied each move as they fought.
• Ebisu and Genma watched in amazement as Guy learned Chen's techniques through observation and imitation.
• Chen demonstrated more powerful and advanced techniques, while Guy adapted them with strength he had gained from the Yijin Jing and his own Shaolin training.
• Chen and Guy ended the sparring match, and Chen praised Guy for learning Konoha taijutsu's fundamentals.
• Chen told Guy he would show him his strongest move, and Guy eagerly said he was ready.

Chen demonstrated Konoha Dragon God to Guy, who learned the A-rank taijutsu after watching and copying it once. After their dragons clashed, Chen recognized Guy’s exceptional talent and asked him to someday eliminate the technique’s weakness, while revealing that the third phase of training was already over.

• Chen demonstrated Konoha Dragon God to Guy, and Ebisu and Genma watched in amazement.
• Guy copied the technique and clashed with Chen, spotting its moving weak point but choosing to meet Chen head-on.
• The dragons broke apart, and Guy landed harder than Chen, though both were exhausted.
• Chen realized Guy had mastered the technique after seeing it once and marveled at his potential, especially with the Eight Inner Gates.
• Chen explained Konoha Dragon God’s weakness and asked Guy to perfect it into an S-rank technique someday.
• Guy asked when the third phase of training would begin, and Chen told him it was already over.

Chen told Might Guy that he had graduated after mastering the Konoha Dragon God, and the team learned they would soon leave the Land of Rivers. They met young Itachi Uchiha at Fugaku Uchiha’s tent, where he learned their names and resolved to remember them.

• Chen explained that the Konoha Dragon God had served as Guy’s final test and confirmed that Guy had graduated from his training.
• Chen told Guy, Ebisu, and Genma that their transfer orders had been delayed by Fugaku Uchiha, and advised them to prepare to leave the Land of Rivers.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma visited Fugaku Uchiha and met his young son, Itachi Uchiha, who was visiting the battlefield.
• Fugaku Uchiha confirmed the team had earned 6,200 merit points, including points from the swords they turned in and their earlier battle accomplishments.
• After the three left, Itachi asked Fugaku about them, learned their names, and decided he would remember them.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma went to the Land of Rivers merit exchange, where Ebisu hoped to buy sealing scrolls with their 6,200 merit points. The exchange worker had no sealing scrolls but offered Ebisu a summoning scroll instead.

• Ebisu bragged that he had mastered the Fire-Sealing Formula and Water-Sealing Formula during his training with Teacher Chen.
• Guy admitted he had bought Ebisu the Rope-Binding Seal training scroll partly so Ebisu could recharge his Lion's Sealing Roar, and Genma urged Ebisu to recharge it during their free days.
• Ebisu decided to spend the next few days recharging Guy's Lion's Sealing Roar so he could support the team.
• The three reached the merit exchange, where Ebisu asked to buy all the blank sealing scrolls.
• The exchange worker said there were no sealing scrolls and asked Ebisu if he wanted a summoning scroll.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma browsed a catalog of summoned beasts captured in the Giant Forest, but Guy rejected a contract with the Giant Crab. He asked for four blank summoning contract scrolls instead, deciding the team would catch their own summoned beasts.

• The exchange clerk gave Guy, Ebisu, and Genma a catalog of summoned beasts from the Giant Forest and explained that they had to earn each beast’s approval to form a contract.
• Guy considered the limits and risks of summoning contracts, then inspected the Giant Crab’s scroll and saw that Uchiha clan members had already contracted with it.
• The clerk offered the team one of the Giant Crab contract’s two remaining slots, and Ebisu and Genma eagerly considered the Water Release beast.
• Guy turned down the Giant Crab contract and requested four blank summoning contract scrolls so the team could catch their own beasts.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma spent merit points on four blank summoning contract scrolls and supplies so they could find summon beasts exclusive to their team. After Fugaku Uchiha approved their trip, they prepared to leave for the Giant Forest, where enemy shinobi might still be present.

• Guy exchanged 4,000 merit points for four blank summoning contract scrolls, and the team bought a ninja hawk, two ninja hounds, and chakra test paper.
• Guy explained that exclusive contracts with wild summon beasts would avoid the risks of sharing beasts with unknown contractors.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma decided to travel to the Giant Forest before their orders came through.
• Fugaku Uchiha warned them that Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Amegakure shinobi might be in the area, then approved their trip with a five-day return deadline.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma packed their things and prepared to set out for the Giant Forest.

Ebisu, Genma, and Guy reached a lakeside beach in Giant Forest where giant crabs lived, hoping to find a Water Release summoning beast. Unsure how to earn a crab’s recognition, they decided to offer one a scroll containing condensed Water Release chakra.

• Ebisu and Genma guided Guy through Giant Forest, drawing on their past survival training to avoid dangerous creatures.
• The three arrived at a lake whose sandy shore was covered with giant crabs camouflaged as stones.
• Ebisu picked out a particularly large crab and wondered how they could persuade one to sign a summoning contract.
• Guy suggested that Ebisu offer the crabs a high-quality water-sealing scroll, and the three agreed to try it.

Ebisu tried to win the giant crabs’ favor by offering them a premium Water-Sealing scroll, but the Crab King attacked instead. Ebisu called for Guy, who launched himself at the crab.

• Ebisu made a high-quality Water-Sealing scroll and filled it with water from two earlier scrolls.
• Ebisu, Guy, and Genma approached the giant crabs’ beach with the new scroll.
• Ebisu offered the scroll to the house-sized Crab King, hoping to gain its favor.
• The Crab King slammed its pincer into the ground beside Ebisu, who narrowly dodged the attack.
• Ebisu shouted for Guy to get the crab, and Guy charged forward at high speed.

Guy accidentally knocked out a giant crab while trying to help Ebisu and Genma find a summoning beast, prompting the other crabs to flee. A colossal king crab rose from the lake, and Guy charged it to test his new ability.

• Guy kicked a giant crab unconscious, and Ebisu and Genma realized they could not form a contract with it while it was out cold.
• The remaining crabs fled into the lake, where a twenty-meter-wide king crab emerged.
• Ebisu urged Guy to take down the king crab, hoping to make a contract or eat it, and Genma prepared to assist.
• Guy decided to test a new ability from his Yijin Jing breakthrough and charged the king crab with his Super Expansion: Mighty Vajra Flame Axe Kick.

Guy used Super Expansion to deliver a flaming axe kick that cracked the giant crab’s shell and drove it into the lake. Ebisu and Genma rushed in to prove their resolve, while Guy held back to see how much stronger they had become after three months of special training.

• Guy enlarged his leg with Super Expansion and struck the crab with a blazing axe kick, cracking its shell and sending it to the bottom of the lake.
• Ebisu and Genma were stunned that Guy had seemingly figured out the secret technique on his own.
• Genma urged Ebisu to move, and the two raced toward the crab to show they were determined to earn its recognition.
• Guy reasoned that his Body of the Rising Sun had let him use Super Expansion, then set aside his concerns about Captain Choza.
• Ebisu and Genma accelerated past Guy, and he landed behind them instead of attacking again so he could watch them fight.

Ebisu and Genma used a carefully planned combination of Flying Thunder God, a fire-sealing scroll, and Nuibari to attack the Giant Crab, but its retractable eyes and overwhelming strength let it break free. Guy encouraged his exhausted teammates and faced the charging crab, preparing to fight with the power of Youth.

• Genma teleported beside the Giant Crab with Flying Thunder God and detonated Ebisu's fire-sealing scroll at its claw joint while Ebisu bound the crab with Nuibari's wire.
• Ebisu used the Rope-Binding Technique: Nuibari Kill to aim for the crab's eye, but the eye retracted into its shell and the blade missed.
• The crab snapped the wire and swung its claw at Ebisu, but Genma teleported them both to safety using a pre-marked spot on the lakeshore.
• Guy praised Ebisu and Genma's teamwork, comparing their tactic to an instant kill against Sarutobi Sosuke, and helped restore their confidence.
• Guy faced the charging Giant Crab as green steam rose from his body and told his teammates to recover while he took over.

Guy opened the Fourth Gate of Pain and defeated the Giant Crab by striking it underwater with a water-enhanced Konoha Dragon God, hurling it onto the shore. With the crab unconscious, Genma rushed over to try making a contract with it.

• Guy opened the Fourth Gate of Pain and overwhelmed the Giant Crab with a rapid series of attacks.
• When the crab tried to escape underwater, Guy followed and used Konoha Dragon God to form a gigantic water dragon vortex.
• Guy lifted the Giant Crab from the lakebed and hurled it onto the shore, where it crashed through trees and fell unconscious.
• Ebisu and Genma watched Guy's feat in disbelief, and Ebisu admitted he had given up trying to compete with him.
• Genma charged toward the unconscious crab to attempt a contract while it could not resist.

Genma and Ebisu used their newly developed Lightning Release: High-Voltage Power Line Technique to electrocute the Giant Crab unconscious. Guy praised their teamwork, but the three were left wondering how to tame the crab without simply eating it.

• Genma released tempered steel wire from a scroll and Ebisu used the Rope-Binding Seal to wrap the Giant Crab in it.
• Genma and Ebisu joined their Lightning Release through the wire, shocking the Giant Crab until it collapsed unconscious.
• Genma explained that they had developed the technique during three months of training and could strengthen it by soaking targets with a Water-Sealing Formula.
• Guy congratulated his teammates on their progress and ingenuity.
• The three looked at the unconscious crab and wondered how they could tame it.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma restrained the Super Giant Crab and tried to recruit it as their summoned beast by offering a partnership and threatening to roast it. The crab surrendered, leaving the three delighted that their blunt strategy had worked.

• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma ate a giant beetle while the bound Super Giant Crab recovered from Guy's electric shock.
• The three approached the crab, confirmed it understood them, and Guy offered it a summoning contract while threatening to cook it if it refused.
• The crab saw the beetle's remains, felt its restraints, and lowered its head in surrender.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma celebrated after their intimidation-and-temptation strategy succeeded.

Ebisu and Genma completed a summoning contract with the super-giant crab, but their chakra reserves were too low to summon it. Guy realized he might be able to use their Hiramekarei swords to solve the problem.

• Guy had Ebisu and Genma sign the summoning contract with the super-giant crab.
• The crab wondered why Guy had not signed, but Guy convinced it that he and the others were a team.
• Ebisu and Genma discovered that their chakra reserves were insufficient to summon the crab.
• Guy considered how to boost their chakra without teaching them the Yijin Jing, then focused on their Hiramekarei swords.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma used chakra stored in the real Hiramekarei to overcome Ebisu and Genma’s lack of chakra and successfully summon the colossal crab. The three celebrated their breakthrough, but the crab suddenly rumbled beneath them.

• Guy proposed using Hiramekarei’s stored chakra to power Ebisu and Genma’s Summoning Technique.
• Guy supplied Fire Release chakra, which Ebisu and Genma’s Hiramekarei absorbed and stored.
• Ebisu and Genma released the stored chakra and performed the Summoning Technique together.
• The colossal crab appeared beneath them, and Ebisu and Genma celebrated their successful summoning.
• Guy recognized that the method required chakra absorbed from enemies, making the crab a limited-use tactical option.
• The crab made a low rumbling noise beneath Ebisu and Genma.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma agreed to the Super Giant Crab’s summoning fee and named it Crab Fortress King. With its contract settled, they turned to choosing summoned beasts for their remaining three blank scrolls.

• The hungry Super Giant Crab swallowed more than ten Soldier Pills, then told Ebisu and Genma that a hundred dried fish would fill it up.
• The crab pointed to calf-sized Giant Beetle shells, revealing that its dried fish would need to be enormous and cost about one hundred battle merit points per summoning.
• Guy convinced Ebisu and Genma that the price was worthwhile, and they agreed to keep a crab fund for important battles.
• Genma suggested the name Crab Fortress King, Ebisu approved it, and the crab accepted its new name.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma prepared to consider summoned beasts for their remaining three blank summoning scrolls.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma searched for a reconnaissance summoning beast and found a colony of giant bats whose sound waves caused genjutsu. Guy devised a plan for Ebisu and Genma to capture one, and they approached the bats to begin.

• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma agreed to seek a reconnaissance summoning beast before pursuing medical support.
• Crab Fortress King told them about giant bats living in a nearby cliffside cave, so the squad rode there on his shell.
• As the three approached the cave, Guy's Sobering Stone warned him of genjutsu carried by the bats' inaudible sound waves.
• Guy resisted the sound waves and saw hundreds of bats emerge from the cave, including some with strength around the Chunin level.
• Guy gave Genma water infused with the Sobering Stone and instructed him to move in with Flying Thunder God while Ebisu used the Rope Binding Technique to capture a bat.
• Ebisu and Genma took the leaf cup and approached the colony while Guy and Crab Fortress King stayed back.