Recaps

Konoha’s defenders used layered Earth, Fire, and Wind Release techniques and a field of Explosive Tags to break Iwagakure’s combined ninjutsu and disrupt its formation. Nara Shikaku ordered the 1,500-strong army to advance, turning the defense into an attack.

• Nara Shikaku ordered Konoha’s Earth Release unit to raise spiked walls against Iwagakure’s two-thousand-person Myriad-Mile Earth Wall.
• Konoha’s Fire Release unit and Wind Release unit reinforced the defenses, but Iwagakure’s earthen wave pushed them toward the ridge.
• Lu Yi detonated tens of thousands of Explosive Tags, ripping apart the earthen wave and blasting debris into Iwagakure’s ranks.
• Lu Yi directed two hundred Wind Release users to drive the flames, rubble, and explosions into Iwagakure, leaving its formation in disarray.
• Nara Shikaku raised his commander’s sword and ordered the entire Konoha army to advance.

Lu Yi’s planned charge broke Iwagakure’s formation, and Konoha fought the divided forces until Iwagakure sounded its retreat. Guy, Ebisu, and Genma survived the bloody battle, but as night fell Konoha began counting its dead.

• Lu Yi ordered Konoha’s eight battalions to split and surround Iwagakure’s forces, leaving Iwagakure strategically defeated.
• Guy fought alongside Choza, Ebisu, and Genma, killing attackers and rescuing his teammates as they battled through the enemy ranks.
• Guy and his team helped Choza fight off attackers, while Ebisu and Genma sustained injuries.
• Iwagakure sounded its retreat after hours of fighting, leaving a thousand corpses as Konoha’s exhausted troops stayed behind.
• Guy, Ebisu, and Genma rested amid the battlefield while Konoha’s squads counted their dead.

After Konoha’s costly victory over Iwagakure, Might Guy confronted the brutal reality of war and resolved to become strong enough to change it. He helped carry the dead and wounded, then joined Ebisu and Genma for food after the fallen were buried.

• Choza reported that Konoha had lost 317 men while Iwagakure had left more than 1,200 dead, and Guy grieved over the casualties.
• Guy reflected that war was not a lone hero defeating an army but ordinary soldiers dying and suffering in the mud.
• Guy checked his system panel and saw that Golden Bell Shield and Mercy Blade had gained proficiency through taking injuries and saving people.
• Guy refused to be treated for his superficial wounds and went to help carry the wounded and dead from the battlefield.
• By dawn, Guy watched the 317 Konoha dead being buried, including a chunin he had saved during the battle.
• Ebisu and Genma told Guy that food was ready, and he walked with them toward the mess hall without looking back at the graves.

A month after Konoha drove Iwagakure from Kikyo Mountain, Guy grew alarmed as the camp relaxed under its new commander, Sarutobi Sosuke. He warned Choza that Sunagakure might attack, but ended the chapter alone on the ridge, convinced the danger was real and no one else believed him.

• Ebisu dismissed the possibility of a Sunagakure attack while Guy recalled how Konoha's forces and commander had been withdrawn or replaced after the victory over Iwagakure.
• Guy remembered that Sarutobi Sosuke took command and that sentries, training, and the camp's vigilance steadily declined.
• Guy concluded that Konoha had lost the original Battle of Kikyo Mountain because its leaders had relaxed after securing the position, leaving it vulnerable to a surprise attack.
• Guy went to Choza's tent and warned that Sunagakure could send an elite force through the Land of Grass to strike the weakened camp.
• Choza agreed to report Guy's concern but remained doubtful, and Guy went alone to the unguarded ridge, certain the others were wrong.

Might Guy feared that Konoha’s weakened Kikyo Mountain Camp would soon face an attack from Sunagakure or Iwagakure, so he wrote to Hatake Sakumo asking him to warn Lord Third and reinforce the camp. After sending the letter, Guy practiced through the night, troubled by his stalled progress with the Yijin Jing and the system’s lack of missions.

• Guy watched the camp grow lax after Konoha’s victory and feared Sunagakure would attack before reinforcements arrived.
• Guy wrote Hatake Sakumo a letter warning that Kikyo Mountain’s forces had been redeployed and asking for reinforcements.
• Guy gave the letter to the chunin responsible for mail, who said it would be sent to Konoha the next morning.
• Guy went outside the camp and practiced the Mercy Blade with his reforged Youth Blade.
• Guy checked his system panel and found that the Yijin Jing remained at 999 proficiency and he still had 0 Monk Points.
• Guy continued practicing alone as the night grew colder.

Guy expected his letter warning Konoha about Kikyo Mountain’s defenses to prompt action, but Sarutobi Sosuke instead exposed it at an emergency assembly and accused him of undermining the Third Hokage. Sosuke punished Guy by ordering him to guard a deserted ridge alone, leaving the camp stunned.

• Guy woke to an emergency assembly and assumed the whistle had sounded because his letter had reached White Fang.
• Sarutobi Sosuke addressed the assembled camp, revealed that Guy had written to Konoha warning of an impending Sunagakure attack, and mocked him for questioning the Third Hokage’s decisions.
• Sosuke accused Guy of spreading panic and acting like a coward, while Guy struggled to explain that he had meant to protect the camp.
• A Chunin defended Guy’s past service, but Sosuke dismissed his achievements and demanded that Guy admit he was wrong.
• Sosuke ordered Guy to guard the abandoned ridge alone until the enemy came, effectively exiling him from the camp.

Guy accepted Sarutobi Sosuke’s order to guard the ridge alone after Choza and a medical ninja spoke up for him but were silenced. He left camp with Ebisu and Genma’s supplies and found a tall figure waiting ahead.

• Choza defended Guy’s service record, but Sarutobi Sosuke accused Guy of violating military discipline and warned the crowd against questioning orders.
• A medical ninja said Guy had saved her brother, but Sarutobi Sosuke sent her away and no one else spoke up.
• Guy agreed to guard the ridge, and Sarutobi Sosuke made clear that Guy had volunteered.
• Guy refused to take Ebisu and Genma with him, though Ebisu promised to bring food every three days.
• Guy packed his belongings, left camp alone, and saw a tall figure waiting for him in the distance.

Guy left the camp after Choza acknowledged that two guards had taken his warning seriously, and Choza entrusted him with the Akimichi Clan's Tricolor Pills. Choza then saw that many more people had begun training, showing how Guy had influenced the camp.

• Guy told Choza that he had noticed two guards at the entrance instead of one, and Choza understood that someone had heeded Guy's warning.
• Choza agreed to take care of the camp, and Guy said he trusted him to do so.
• Choza gave Guy the Akimichi Clan's Tricolor Pills and warned him to use the Spinach Pill cautiously, avoid the Curry Pill except in dire need, and never take the Chili Pill.
• Ebisu cried as Guy left, so Choza ordered him to double his training; Ebisu and Genma immediately returned to camp to train.
• Choza saw that more than three times as many people as the day before had begun training on their own and realized Guy had influenced them.

Guy established a hidden observation post on the ridge, prepared escape routes and traps, and trained to warn the camp if Sunagakure advanced. After surviving a battle with an Iwagakure scouting squad, he faced Ebisu’s angry questions, leaving the reason he fought instead of fleeing tied to the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

• Guy found a concealed tree hollow near the ridge, mapped routes back to camp, and set traps to help him escape and alert the Konoha forces.
• Guy trained along the route while Sarutobi Sosuke mocked his precautions as cowardice and discouraged others from supporting him.
• Iwagakure scouting parties visited the ridge, and a four-man chunin squad discovered Guy during the night.
• Guy fought the squad for an hour, killed all four chunin, and was found asleep and badly wounded by Ebisu the next day.
• Ebisu demanded to know why Guy had fought instead of escaping to camp, but Guy only grinned.

Guy kept watch beyond Konoha’s defensive line and used evidence of Iwagakure’s attacks to prevent the camp from lowering its guard. He sent Ebisu back with a report and four enemy corpses, while remaining behind and predicting that Sunagakure would attack soon.

• Guy explained that repeatedly returning to camp would make the defenders believe the enemy posed no threat, so he stayed beyond the ridgeline to keep them alert.
• Guy gave Ebisu a written report about the date, enemy numbers, and situation, and refused to return to camp.
• Guy said he believed Sunagakure’s attack was near, and Ebisu decided to trust his comrade’s instincts.
• Guy showed Ebisu four Iwagakure corpses and told him to bring them to the camp entrance so everyone would see that fighting continued.
• Guy lay down and immediately fell asleep, while Ebisu secured the report and tied the corpses together before standing guard.

Ebisu brought back four Iwagakure scouts killed by Guy, changing the camp’s attitude toward the lone guard on the ridge. After sixty-eight nights of waiting, Guy finally sensed a faint tremor and realized the enemy had arrived.

• Ebisu dragged four Iwagakure scout corpses to the camp gate and announced that Guy had killed them.
• The camp’s shinobi began visiting Guy, training harder, and tightening their guard shifts, while Sarutobi Sosuke dismissed the scouts’ deaths.
• Guy continued guarding the ridge and grew increasingly restless as neither Sunagakure nor Iwagakure appeared.
• Choza visited Guy several times, and Guy urged him to eat more before Choza returned to the camp.
• On the sixty-eighth night, Guy felt a faint tremor beneath the ground and opened his eyes, declaring that the enemy had arrived.

Guy discovered Sunagakure’s army approaching and fired a warning flare, but Pakura caught him and attacked. Guy struck her with a powerful blade technique before escaping, while Rasa ordered the assembled forces to attack the Kikyo Mountain garrison.

• Guy heard an orderly tremor, spotted a vast Sunagakure force crossing the ridge, and fired a signal flare toward the Konoha outpost at Kikyo Mountain.
• Pakura confronted Guy and attacked him with Scorch Release fireballs.
• Guy opened the Third Gate and used Precept-Breaking Blade to cut through Pakura’s fireballs, then fled as she recovered.
• Pakura chased Guy but triggered an Explosive Tag and lost his trail.
• Rasa arrived with Sunagakure’s main force, halted Pakura’s pursuit, and ordered three thousand troops to attack the Kikyo Mountain garrison and leave no survivors.

Guy raced back to camp and warned the Konoha forces that three thousand Sunagakure ninja led by Rasa were approaching. When Sarutobi Sosuke accused him of falsifying military intelligence, Guy drew his blade and aimed it at him.

• Guy warned the patrol that Sunagakure was coming with three thousand ninja led by Rasa, and Nakano fired a signal arrow despite Scarface's doubts.
• The patrol fired more signal arrows and followed Guy toward camp, but he quickly outpaced them.
• Guy reached the camp, found the troops disorganized, and used the second of the Eight Inner Gates to rush into the central clearing and announce the attack.
• Sarutobi Sosuke questioned Guy's report and accused him of falsifying military intelligence, while the gathered ninja grew suspicious.
• Guy drew his blade and aimed it at Sarutobi Sosuke on the raised platform.

Might Guy sounded the emergency command whistle and warned Sora’s camp that three thousand Sunagakure troops were advancing. As signal flares and explosions confirmed the attack, the divisions mobilized, and Guy ran to rejoin Choza and his squad.

• Might Guy cut Sarutobi Sosuke’s command whistle free and sounded the signal for a large-scale enemy attack.
• Might Guy declared that three thousand Sunagakure troops were charging over the ridge, and Choza ordered the 7th Division to assemble.
• The 7th, 5th, and 2nd Divisions ignored Sarutobi Sosuke’s protests and prepared for combat.
• Frontline outposts launched a series of red signal flares as explosions grew closer, confirming that Sunagakure had attacked.
• Might Guy estimated the vanguard would arrive within twenty minutes, then ran to rejoin Choza and his squad.

As Sunagakure’s forces neared Kikyo Mountain, Sarutobi Sosuke called for reinforcements but ordered a retreat, prompting the division captains to remove him and appoint Akimichi Choza commander. Choza organized the defenses as the enemy appeared in the forest.

• Sarutobi Sosuke sent an emergency flare and dispatched a Yamanaka shinobi, ninja hounds, and a ninja hawk to alert Konoha.
• Sarutobi Sosuke ordered the camp to retreat, but Choza argued that they should defend the fortifications and protect the Land of Fire.
• The division captains unanimously stripped Sarutobi Sosuke of command and appointed Choza commander-in-chief.
• Choza assigned the divisions to defensive positions and ordered them to prepare the lines while Guy agreed to fight at his side.
• Choza and Guy headed toward the front as Sunagakure’s forces drew near and appeared in the distant forest.

Choza led a fifty-person Konoha assault team in a surprise attack on Sunagakure shinobi dismantling the camp’s traps, then lured their pursuers into an explosive-tag minefield. The team returned with no deaths, but Sunagakure’s main force remained in the forest as the ground began to tremble.

• Choza ordered five squads, including Guy’s, to attack the Sunagakure shinobi dismantling traps while Ebisu and Genma stayed behind.
• Choza led the assault team out of camp, where Guy and the others killed dozens of Sunagakure shinobi before the survivors fled toward the forest.
• Choza ordered the team to retreat into the trap zone, where explosive tags blasted the pursuing Sunagakure shinobi.
• Choza brought all forty-nine team members back to camp, and he ordered the wounded checked and supplies replenished.
• Guy rested at the camp entrance and reassured Ebisu that he would get his chance later.
• The ground near the forest began to tremble as Sunagakure’s main force prepared to advance.

A massive Gold Dust Wave unleashed by Rasa advanced toward the Konoha camp, and Choza prepared to stop it with Akimichi pills. Just as he was about to take the Curry Pill, Guy stopped him and claimed he had another way to deal with the attack.

• Rasa's Gold Dust Wave surged out of the forest, swallowing the camp's traps as the Konoha shinobi watched it approach.
• Sarutobi Sosuke urged Choza to order a retreat, but Choza stayed at the front of the camp and calculated the wave's approach.
• Choza took the Spinach Pill and prepared to use the Curry Pill and Expansion Jutsu to block the wave with his body.
• Guy stopped Choza from taking the Curry Pill and said he had a way to deal with the Gold Dust Wave.

Choza coordinated Konoha’s elemental squads against Rasa’s advancing Gold Dust Wave, using a combined Water, Lightning, Fire, and Wind assault. The flames struck the wave in a thunderous explosion, but the chapter ended before the result was revealed.

• Guy whispered something to Choza, who then ordered Konoha’s Water, Lightning, Wind, and Fire Release squads to prepare.
• Choza stood at the camp’s front and commanded the Water Release squad to soak the approaching Gold Dust Wave.
• Choza sent the Lightning Release squad to attack the wet Gold Dust, but the electricity dried it and helped the wave speed up.
• As the wave neared the camp, Choza ordered the Fire Release squad to attack and the Wind Release squad to strengthen the flames.
• The combined flames struck the Gold Dust Wave and caused a thunderous explosion.

Guy’s water, lightning, and fire combination detonated Rasa’s gold dust wave, devastating Sunagakure’s ranks while Konoha’s earth and wind defenses shielded the camp. With Rasa blasted away and the enemy in chaos, Choza ordered Konoha to charge.

• Guy’s planned combination triggered explosions throughout Rasa’s gold dust wave, blasting Rasa from its crest and injuring him with fragments.
• The explosions and flying gold dust devastated Sunagakure’s tightly packed ranks, leaving its soldiers dead, wounded, or disoriented.
• Choza’s Earth Release ninja raised walls while Wind Release ninja pushed the blast and debris away from Konoha’s camp and toward Sunagakure.
• Choza recognized the enemy’s disarray and ordered the Konoha ninja to charge.

After Rasa’s gold-dust blast devastated Sunagakure’s ranks, Choza led Konoha’s counterattack and forced the battle into a brutal melee. Rasa blamed Sarutobi Sosuke for the setbacks and tried to kill him, but Choza and Sosuke’s guards kept him alive as Rasa continued pursuing him.

• Rasa survived his gold-dust sphere but found hundreds of Sunagakure ninja killed or wounded by the explosion.
• Choza led more than eight hundred Konoha ninja in a charge that inflicted heavy losses before Rasa split the armies with a deep trench.
• Rasa accused Sarutobi Sosuke of orchestrating Konoha’s strategy and ordered his forces to attack across the trench.
• Rasa charged at Sosuke, but Choza intervened, and one of Sosuke’s guards rescued him from a Sunagakure ninja.
• Rasa’s gold needles pierced Sosuke’s shoulder despite an Earth Wall, while Choza kept Rasa from reaching him.
• Rasa concluded that Sosuke was feigning weakness and vowed to kill him as the battle continued.

Pakura abandoned her pursuit of Guy and followed Rasa’s order to kill Sarutobi Sosuke, while Guy focused on rescuing Konoha fighters across the battlefield. The chapter ended with Pakura standing over the injured, terrified Sarutobi Sosuke as Rasa and Choza looked on.

• Rasa ordered Pakura to kill Sarutobi Sosuke while Choza kept him occupied.
• Pakura spotted Guy but left him alone and charged toward the camp ruins to reach Sarutobi Sosuke.
• Guy used the Mercy Blade to protect Konoha shinobi, turning aside attacks and helping them defeat their opponents.
• Rasa attacked Choza with a barrage of Gold Dust spikes, but Choza endured the wounds and held his ground.
• Pakura reached Sarutobi Sosuke and left him with a shriveled, blackened arm; as he begged for help, she walked toward him.

Rasa ordered Pakura to capture Sarutobi Sosuke alive so he could use Konoha’s commander to weaken its resolve. As Choza charged to stop her, a golden Buddha blocked Pakura’s Scorch Release, and the scene ended with Sosuke’s arm torn off in the chaos.

• Rasa changed his plan and ordered Pakura to bring Sarutobi Sosuke to him alive.
• Pakura repelled five Konoha rescuers with Scorch Release and dragged the injured Sosuke toward Rasa.
• Choza abandoned his fight with Rasa and charged at Pakura using Human Bullet Tank to prevent Sosuke’s capture.
• A golden Buddha appeared in Choza’s path and shattered after blocking all five of Pakura’s fireballs.
• Pakura tried to retreat with Sosuke, but his charred left arm tore off in her grasp as Choza’s attack struck the ground nearby.

Rasa abandoned his plan to take hostages and ordered Sunagakure to crush Konoha’s remaining forces. Guy gave Choza a Lesser Restoration Pill, and Choza charged Rasa as the battle intensified, while Pakura set her sights on Guy.

• Pakura killed three Konoha Chunin with Scorch Release, and Choza realized Guy’s golden Buddha had saved him from the same fate.
• Rasa assessed the heavy losses on both sides and ordered his remaining troops to kill every Konoha survivor.
• Guy tossed Choza a Lesser Restoration Pill, which Choza swallowed with a Curry Pill before using Expansion Jutsu to meet Rasa’s Gold Dust fist.
• Sunagakure’s forces surged toward Konoha, and Pakura fixed her attention on Guy, declaring that it was his turn.

Guy, Ebisu, and Genma stood behind the wounded Sarutobi Sosuke and forced him to face Pakura rather than flee. As the four resolved to fight together, Pakura launched a three-pronged Scorch Release attack at Sarutobi Sosuke.

• Guy shouted that they would protect Sarutobi Sosuke, but he, Ebisu, and Genma leaped behind him and left him at the front.
• Pakura decided to kill Sarutobi Sosuke to make up for failing to capture him alive.
• Guy warned Sarutobi Sosuke not to run and urged him to join their attack on Pakura.
• Sarutobi Sosuke recognized that Guy, Ebisu, and Genma were prepared to fight with their lives, leaving him no choice but to face Pakura with them.
• Pakura fired three Scorch Release fireballs at Sarutobi Sosuke, targeting his head, chest, and injured shoulder.

Sarutobi Sosuke, Ebisu, Genma, and Guy coordinated against Pakura, and Sosuke used an ash explosion to disrupt her seven Scorch Release fireballs. Guy unveiled Du'e Blade and brought its mighty slash down toward Pakura, leaving the blow’s outcome unresolved.

• Sarutobi Sosuke deflected Pakura’s fireballs with Phoenix Sage Fire while Ebisu and Genma distracted her and Guy protected the group with his sword.
• Pakura summoned seven Scorch Release fireballs, trapping the four of them and threatening to overwhelm their defenses.
• Sarutobi Sosuke spread chakra-infused ash around Pakura, and its ignition disrupted her fireballs and filled the area with smoke.
• Guy’s Mercy Blade reached complete mastery, and it fused with his fully mastered Precept-Breaking Blade to create Du'e Blade.
• Guy leaped above Pakura and swung Du'e Slash, backed by a towering golden apparition, as the chapter ended before the strike’s result was shown.