Chapter Summaries

Rasa overwhelmed Han in their fight, revealing that he had recovered and grown stronger than Iwagakure believed. Han tried to flee, but Rasa caught him and ordered him to transform into his Tailed Beast form.

• Han charged Rasa with Steam Style taijutsu, but Rasa let his punch pass through and struck him from behind with Electromagnetic Propulsion.
• Han asked how Rasa had evaded him, and Rasa said Han had briefly lost focus; he admitted he had used only thirty percent of his strength.
• Rasa urged Han to transform into his Tailed Beast form, and Han realized Iwagakure's intelligence about Rasa's injuries was wrong.
• Han used the Five-Tails Kokuō's chakra and Boil Release to launch himself away and flee.
• Rasa overtook Han with Electromagnetic Propulsion, punched him back to the ground, and ordered him to transform within three seconds.

Han transformed and fought Rasa, but Rasa overwhelmed him with superior strength and speed. Han fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, which Rasa casually batted into the desert, dismissing it as nothing special.

• Han entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and told Rasa he would fight before trying to escape.
• Han attacked Rasa with a powered-up punch, but Rasa struck his abdomen and launched him into the sky.
• Rasa overtook Han in midair and slammed him into the desert, leaving Han convinced he could not escape.
• Han acknowledged Rasa as stronger than Ōnoki and declared that Iwagakure would have to answer for its attack on Sunagakure.
• Han formed and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Rasa batted it away and called it nothing special.

Rasa fought Han after Han released the Five-Tails Kokuō, then faced Kokuō after it transformed to protect Han. Kokuō tried to flee, but Rasa trapped it in a furnace of molten sand and repeatedly knocked it back inside.

• Han stopped suppressing Kokuō and completed his Tailed Beast Transformation as Rasa ordered the Sand Shinobi to retreat.
• Kokuō told Rasa that Han had been wrong but that it would not let him kill Han, then admitted it could not defeat Rasa and tried to escape.
• Rasa created a high-temperature furnace in the sand sea, and Kokuō fell into it while sprinting away.
• Kokuō tried to leap free, but Rasa used Electromagnetic Propulsion to catch up and repeatedly punched it back into the furnace.
• Baki praised Rasa's victory, while Pakura defended his tactics as effective and energy-saving.

Rasa overwhelmed Kokuō, the Five-Tails, with brutal attacks and a towering Mecha Technique, breaking both of its horns and leaving it beaten into the sand. The chapter ended with Rasa continuing to pummel the helpless tailed beast.

• Rasa snapped one of Kokuō's horns, and Kokuō attacked with a Tailed Beast Bomb that Rasa's kick made it misfire.
• Kokuō escaped the Smelting Furnace and charged Rasa with its Horn Break technique.
• Rasa formed a dense, twenty-meter Mecha Technique and stopped Kokuō's charge with one hand.
• Rasa grabbed Kokuō, broke its remaining horn with a punch, and slammed it into the sand.
• Rasa released Kokuō and unleashed a flurry of punches as the Sand Shinobi watched.

Rasa killed Han after defeating the Five-Tails, then learned that Sunagakure was suffering heavy losses against Iwagakure. He decided to counterattack Iwagakure’s forces at Sector Nine by himself.

• The Five-Tails retreated into Han, and Rasa chose to kill him rather than trade him for supplies.
• Rasa twisted Han’s head off with Gold Dust, killing the Jinchūriki and the Five-Tails.
• Baki reported that Sunagakure had lost seven or eight hundred ninja while defending against Iwagakure’s relentless attacks.
• Baki identified Kitsuchi as the commander of Iwagakure’s strongest unit, stationed opposite Sector Nine.
• Rasa declared that Sunagakure could not accept its casualty rate and said he would lead the counterattack alone.

Rasa left the Sand Ninja command post with Pakura to counterattack the Iwagakure forces at Sector Nine. He unleashed a devastating Magnet Release attack that killed nearly all the Iwagakure Ninja, leaving only a few survivors.

• Rasa told Maki to launch a coordinated counterattack after half an hour, then flew toward Sector Nine with Pakura on his Gold Dust Throne.
• Maki rallied the Sand Ninja, who trusted Rasa to defeat the Iwagakure forces alone.
• At Sector Nine, Pakura estimated that the scattered Iwagakure forces would take a long time to defeat, while Rasa claimed he could do it in five seconds.
• Kitsuchi spotted Rasa overhead and ordered his troops to take cover, hold their metal tools, and retreat unpredictably.
• Rasa used Electromagnetic Force to pull metal from the ground and his enemies, then rained it across the battlefield, killing nearly all the Iwagakure Ninja.

Rasa devastated Iwagakure’s forces, killed Han, and forced Kitsuchi to order a retreat. He explained to Pakura that he let survivors escape so word of his arrival would make Iwagakure change its tactics, then hinted he could attack their distant camp.

• Rasa’s Magnet Release slaughtered Iwagakure ninja, and Pakura joined the Sand forces in finishing off the survivors.
• Kitsuchi recognized Han’s severed head and admitted that he and Ōnoki had underestimated Rasa, while promising Han’s death would be avenged.
• Rasa warned Kitsuchi that Iwagakure’s invasion would be repaid and pointed out that its camp held troops, wounded ninja, support personnel, and supplies.
• Kitsuchi ordered the forces on all fronts to retreat, while Pakura led the Sunagakure ninja in pursuit.
• Rasa told Pakura he had spared survivors so Iwagakure would pull back and shift to smaller-scale fighting, then asked if she remembered the move he used against the Four-Tails.

Rasa tested his improved strength by firing a two-ton electromagnetic shell at the Iwagakure camp from more than ten kilometers away, devastating the camp and killing hundreds of ninja. He and Pakura prepared to exploit Iwagakure’s likely retreat or shift to attrition warfare.

• Rasa smelted underground metals into a two-ton alloy rod and told Pakura he could now attack the distant Iwagakure camp.
• Rasa fired the rod from the Gold Dust Throne with his Super Electromagnetic Railgun, sending it toward the camp at roughly Mach 12.
• Baki rallied Sunagakure Ninja to support Rasa’s counterattack after hearing the shell break the sound barrier.
• Kitsuchi saw the shell strike the Iwagakure camp, where the impact and shock wave killed at least five hundred ninja and left survivors badly injured.
• Rasa judged the attack successful and planned to press Sunagakure’s advantage, while Pakura anticipated Iwagakure would withdraw or return to attrition warfare.

After Rasa killed Han and a thousand Iwagakure ninja, Kitsuchi withdrew his forces and reported the disaster to Ōnoki, who absolved him and ordered him back to continue the war. Ōnoki hired Kakuzu to help confront Rasa, while Kakuzu accepted the assignment and eyed other battlefield opportunities for profit.

• Rasa killed Han and slaughtered a thousand Iwagakure ninja, prompting Kitsuchi to retreat eight thousand troops beyond the Land of Wind border and shift to a war of attrition.
• Kitsuchi returned to Iwagakure and told Ōnoki how Rasa had overwhelmed their forces and how he had withdrawn to limit further losses.
• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi that his decisions had been sound, refused to withdraw from the war, and ordered him to return to the front as commander.
• Ōnoki instructed Kitsuchi to prevent Sunagakure from capturing the Five-Tails if it revived and to notify him so he could fight Rasa.
• Ōnoki introduced Kakuzu as a hired ally who would help hold Rasa back, and Kakuzu agreed to cooperate while considering how to earn more money on the battlefield.

Rasa’s victory over Iwagakure made him feared across the Shinobi World, and he began waging a cautious war of attrition while searching for the revived Five-Tails. He planned to keep the beast as a source of combat strength, while Sunagakure left the next One-Tail Jinchūriki undecided; the chapter ended with Rasa firing a Railgun into the distance.

• Rasa’s slaughter of over a thousand Iwagakure Ninja spread his reputation throughout the Shinobi World, though powerful Kage believed they could still challenge him.
• Rasa pursued Iwagakure’s retreating forces briefly, then established a defensive line in the desert and began daily hit-and-run attacks.
• Rasa asked Pakura about the search for the Five-Tails, and she reported that scouts had found no sign of it yet.
• Rasa told Pakura he wanted to capture the Five-Tails and keep it either for a future Jinchūriki or as a summoning beast.
• Pakura reported that Bunpuku’s health was failing, and Rasa said Sunagakure would leave the One-Tail without a Jinchūriki for now.
• Rasa glanced into the distance and fired a Railgun.

Rasa investigated a powerful chakra surge and watched the Five-Tails, Kokuō, resurrect, while imagining ways to transform his own life form through Electromagnetic Force. The newly reborn tailed beast tried to flee but found Rasa waiting for it.

• Rasa learned that a powerful chakra signature had appeared about fifty kilometers east and flew to investigate.
• Rasa recognized the chakra as belonging to the Five-Tails and waited while considering radical ways to develop his abilities.
• The Five-Tails, Kokuō, revived, celebrated its return, and decided to hide from Rasa.
• Kokuō turned to leave and found Rasa smiling at it in the desert, realizing it had been waiting for him all along.

Rasa forced the newly revived Five-Tails Kokuō to agree to become his summon rather than a Jinchūriki, promising it freedom and protection. As an unknown attacker struck during the contract ritual, Kokuō completed the pact and shrank to a manageable size.

• Rasa offered the Five-Tails Kokuō a Summoning Contract that would let it roam freely and call on him for protection.
• Kokuō resisted until Rasa threatened to kill it repeatedly, then agreed to sign the contract.
• An attacker used Fire Style: Searing Migraine, but Rasa blocked the flames with a Gold Dust canopy.
• Rasa warned Kokuō not to use the attack as an opportunity to escape, and Kokuō completed the Summoning Contract.
• Rasa ordered Kokuō to shrink, and it became the size of a medium-sized dog.

Rasa formed a Summoning Contract with the Five-Tails, but Kakuzu arrived to stop him and refused to believe his claims about Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. Rasa struck Kakuzu with a powerful electric attack, shattering his Fire-Attribute Heart.

• Kitsuchi sent Kakuzu to hold Rasa back and dispatched squads to find Ōnoki.
• Kakuzu arrived and saw Rasa holding the Five-Tails after forming a Summoning Contract with it.
• Rasa told Kakuzu that Madara Uchiha had once controlled the Nine-Tails, but Kakuzu rejected his claims and defended his own account of fighting Hashirama Senju for more than ten moves.
• Kakuzu attacked Rasa with eight black-thread tentacles and declared that he would kill him to make the Five-Tails wild again.
• Rasa fired a two-hundred-thousand-volt current at Kakuzu, scorching him and shattering his Fire-Attribute Heart.

Rasa toyed with Kakuzu in a fight, killing three of his hearts while allowing him chances to attack and insisting he use different moves. Kakuzu found a last trick that might let him survive and sprang back to his feet.

• Rasa destroyed Kakuzu's Fire-Attribute Heart with a lightning attack and offered to let him attack four times before striking back.
• Kakuzu's Storm Light Torrent missed, and Rasa appeared behind him, pierced his chest, and shattered his Water-Attribute Heart.
• Rasa challenged Kakuzu to use a powerful three-element attack without moving, then countered Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear: Final Shot with a Special Beam Cannon and a Railgun that destroyed his Wind-Attribute Heart.
• Kakuzu gave up and asked whether Hashirama Senju had been stronger than Rasa, who admitted that defeating Hashirama at his peak would be difficult.
• Kakuzu suddenly recalled an unused last trick, sprang to his feet, and believed it gave him a fifty percent chance of escaping.

Rasa defeated Kakuzu’s fourth attack and rejected his offer of three billion, explaining that money could not secure scarce resources. He spared Kakuzu in exchange for his loyalty, leaving the former enemy recruited as his subordinate.

• Kakuzu unveiled his trump card by offering Rasa his life savings of more than three billion in cash, gold, and silver.
• Rasa explained that money could not guarantee access to scarce resources, then used pure-gold lotuses to encase Kakuzu in molten metal.
• Kakuzu’s lightning-style heart shattered, letting him break out of the gold shell and survive Rasa’s fourth attack.
• Rasa offered Kakuzu a chance to sway him by joining him, and Kakuzu knelt to pledge his loyalty.
• Rasa welcomed Kakuzu as a subordinate and promised to reward him for his work.

Rasa decided to keep Kakuzu in Sunagakure and recruited him with a salary and bonus plan, gaining a reliable Kage-level fighter for the coming war. He then took Kakuzu to raid Iwagakure hideouts, where Kakuzu replenished his hearts and returned to peak condition.

• Rasa weighed keeping Kakuzu in Sunagakure against using him to promote the Celestial Organization, then chose the safer option of keeping him close.
• Rasa offered Kakuzu a base salary, bonuses, bounty rewards, and the option to take village missions; Kakuzu enthusiastically accepted.
• Rasa proposed replenishing Kakuzu's hearts by targeting Iwagakure ninja, and Kakuzu revealed several former employer hideouts.
• Rasa and Kakuzu raided four Iwagakure hideouts in two hours, killing seven jonin and many chunin and genin.
• Kakuzu replenished his hearts and returned to peak condition.

Rasa returned to the Sunagakure camp with Kakuzu and the revived Five-Tails, introducing Kakuzu as the new captain of Pakura’s special operations squad. He revealed that Kokuō had become his summoning beast and continued treating it like a pet.

• Rasa introduced Kakuzu to Pakura and assigned him to replace her as captain of the special operations squad.
• Pakura challenged Kakuzu, but he claimed he could drive Iwagakure’s forces back and offered to kill Ōnoki if he came to the front.
• Rasa warned Kakuzu that Ōnoki’s Dust Release and flight made him a dangerous opponent.
• Rasa showed Pakura the shrunken Five-Tails Kokuō and explained that he had signed a Summoning Contract with it.
• Pakura held Kokuō in surprise, and Rasa took it back and petted it.

Rasa hired Kakuzu as captain of the Special Operations Team and assigned Maki as his deputy, with Maki responsible for directing the squad. Kakuzu’s eagerness to earn bonuses led him to charge into two Iwagakure camps before Maki could finish giving orders, and the team wiped out both enemy units.

• Rasa paid Kakuzu generously in gold and appointed him captain of the Special Operations Team, with Maki as deputy and in charge of directing the squad.
• Maki scouted an Iwagakure unit in a forest and planned an ambush, but Kakuzu attacked alone with Fire Style: Searing Migraine.
• Maki ordered the team to support Kakuzu and eliminate the stragglers, and they wiped out the first enemy unit with no reported casualties.
• At a second camp, Maki began assigning attack directions, but Kakuzu charged in before he finished.
• Maki led the squad in surrounding the Iwagakure shinobi, and they defeated the second unit as Kakuzu celebrated their success.

Maki told Rasa that Kakuzu’s solo tactics were hurting the Special Operations Team’s ability to work together. Rasa persuaded Kakuzu that coordinating with Maki could improve the team’s efficiency without reducing his Bounty Reward, and Kakuzu agreed to cooperate.

• After destroying several Iwagakure outposts, Kakuzu set off alone to attack another while the Special Operations Team rested.
• Maki told Rasa that Kakuzu’s refusal to cooperate could cause problems when they had to hold a front line together.
• Kakuzu angrily protested to Rasa that his solo attacks reduced casualties and honored their agreement to pay him for kills.
• Rasa explained that Maki and the others could help plan attacks, surround enemies, and catch escapees, making Kakuzu’s operations more efficient without reducing his income.
• Kakuzu accepted Rasa’s advice, promised to cooperate, and took back his Sunagakure Forehead Protector.

Ōnoki arrived at the Iwagakure front and learned that Kakuzu had defected to Rasa, causing the village heavy losses. He dismissed Kakuzu as an opponent and prepared to face Rasa, but chaos erupted outside the camp before he could rest.

• Kitsuchi explained that Sunagakure had held its defensive line while Kakuzu led raids that forced Iwagakure to retreat and suffer heavy casualties.
• Ōnoki reached the front, boosting Iwagakure’s morale, and questioned Kitsuchi about the losses.
• Kitsuchi told Ōnoki that Rasa had defeated Kakuzu and recruited him into Sunagakure, where he now led attacks against Iwagakure camps.
• Ōnoki cursed Kakuzu, then declared that Rasa was the only opponent worth his attention and planned to fight him after recovering.
• Chaos broke out outside the camp, and a battle suddenly began.