Chapter Summaries

Kawaki Aoba exposed the Sunagakure squad’s weaknesses, evaded their coordinated attacks, and counterattacked with Wind Release. After the five ninja trapped him in a wind-and-sand cage, he protected himself with Earth Spear and began using Earth Fissure to break free.

• The Sunagakure leader ordered his four remaining ninja to surround Kawaki Aoba and attack alongside a barrage of sand blades.
• Kawaki Aoba dodged the attacks and pointed out the squad’s lack of unity, chakra-consuming barrage, and dependence on desert terrain.
• Kawaki Aoba struck a charging Sunagakure ninja with Wind Release: Gale Slash, forcing the squad to unleash their full strength.
• The Sunagakure ninja combined their techniques to trap Kawaki Aoba in a spinning wind-and-sand cage.
• Kawaki Aoba blocked the cage’s sand blades with Earth Release: Earth Spear and used Earth Release: Earth Fissure.

Kawaki Aoba broke the Sunagakure team’s Wind-Sand Cage and swiftly disabled three of its five shinobi. The Sunagakure leader rejected his teammate’s plea to retreat and launched a massive Wind Release attack at Kawaki Aoba.

• Kawaki Aoba escaped the Wind-Sand Cage by exploiting its weakness and identified himself to the Sunagakure leader.
• The Sunagakure leader ordered his team to attack, but Kawaki Aoba dodged their assault and disabled two shinobi with precise strikes.
• Kawaki Aoba took down a third Sunagakure shinobi, leaving only the leader and one teammate able to fight.
• The remaining teammate urged the leader to retreat, but the leader refused and used Wind Release: Great Sandfall to send enormous masses of sand crashing toward Kawaki Aoba.

Kawaki Aoba defeated the Sunagakure team’s combined attack and confronted their leader about the cross-border ambush and Sunagakure’s probing of Konoha’s defenses. The leader refused to provide intelligence, so Kawaki Aoba said he would be handed over to Konoha’s Interrogation Department.

• The Sunagakure leader and his teammate unleashed a combined sand attack, but Kawaki Aoba blocked it with his Wind-Earth Fusion: Gale Barrier.
• The attack failed, the Sunagakure leader ran out of chakra, and the last teammate surrendered while the leader gave up fighting.
• Kawaki Aoba accused the leader of fabricating a reason to ambush Uchiha Wind and test Konoha’s border defenses.
• The Sunagakure leader defended the probing as preparation for an inevitable war, while Kawaki Aoba argued that ninja should protect peace.
• Kawaki Aoba demanded information about the mission and other Sunagakure ninja along the border, but the leader refused and condemned his teammate for surrendering.
• Kawaki Aoba warned that he would send the uncooperative leader to Konoha’s Interrogation Department.