Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Seisen defeated and killed Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage, then sealed his body in a scroll as a bargaining chip. He spared Baki and the Sunagakure jonin hiding nearby, ordered his Sternritter to capture them, and received a notice that he had gained favor.

• Rasa's gold dust shield failed against Seisen's arrow of light, leaving him mortally wounded and pinned to a rock wall.
• Rasa called himself Sunagakure's sinner and warned Seisen that other nations would regard him as a threat before Seisen killed him with the Seele Schneider.
• Seisen used the Four Symbols Storage Seal to seal Rasa's corpse in a scroll.
• Baki and more than a dozen Sunagakure jonin witnessed Rasa's death from hiding, but Seisen withdrew his gaze without attacking them.
• Hyuga Yamato and the Sternritter arrived, and Seisen ordered them to capture the Sunagakure survivors.
• A notice appeared before Seisen stating that he had turned the tide of battle by himself and received favor.

Hyuga Seisen crushed Sunagakure’s invasion force at Kikyo Mountain and uncovered a secret treaty promising the allied villages spoils from Konoha’s destruction. He left the captured troops to be sent to labor camps and ordered Sarutobi Ryoji treated well.

• Hyuga Yamato reported that 4,273 Sunagakure troops had surrendered, and Seisen ordered the captured officers separated from the ordinary soldiers and wounded.
• Seisen found a secret copy of the Treaty of Land of Whirlpools on Rasa’s corpse, revealing the allied villages’ invasion plans and promised spoils.
• Tanaka Tetsuo arrived with more than a thousand Konoha defenders and found the Sunagakure troops already subdued.
• Seisen ordered Tanaka Tetsuo to send the captives to labor reform camps to dig trenches along the Kikyo Mountain defense line.
• Seisen learned Sarutobi Ryoji was alive but unconscious and ordered that he be treated well.

Baki returned to Sunagakure with the shattered remnants of Rasa’s army and reported that the Kazekage had fallen at Kikyo Mountain. Seisen sent Konoha a report confirming Rasa’s death as Chiyo and Ebizo learned that Sunagakure’s main force had been destroyed.

• Baki ordered the surviving troops to claim Rasa had died covering their retreat and to conceal that a teenager had defeated him.
• Seisen sent an encrypted report to Konoha stating that Rasa was dead, more than five thousand enemy troops had been killed, and more than four thousand two hundred had been captured.
• Seisen used his Byakugan to look toward the Land of Wind as Baki and the survivors reached Sunagakure.
• Baki arrived at the Kazekage Building and told Chiyo and Ebizo that Rasa had fallen in battle.
• Baki revealed that the fifteen thousand troops and the Poison Sand Corps had been wiped out by a deep-blue pillar of light.

After Sunagakure's army was devastated and the Fourth Kazekage was killed, Pakura accepted responsibility for the village and ordered it to prepare for a siege. At the Konoha border camp, Hyuga Seisen reviewed the Energy Crystals his subordinates had earned and saw a notification for killing the Fourth Kazekage.

• Baki reported that most of Sunagakure's forces had been destroyed or captured, and that the Fourth Kazekage was dead.
• Chiyo and Ebizo summoned Pakura, who blamed Rasa for ignoring her warnings and leading the village into disaster.
• Chiyo and Ebizo urged Pakura to become the new Kazekage, and she accepted the burden of leading Sunagakure.
• Pakura ordered the village to abandon its border buffer zones, conceal the Kazekage's death, activate the sandstorm barrier, and defend the walls to the death.
• Hyuga Seisen checked his mindscape and found that his subordinates' actions had earned him more than 120,000 Energy Crystals, along with a notification for killing the Fourth Kazekage.

Hyuga Seisen secured a massive haul of Energy Crystals after killing Rasa, then arranged to leave the Land of Wind front for Konoha while his Shadow Clones maintained the defenses. At the Land of Earth front, Hiruzen Sarutobi learned the northwest line could fall in three days and had received no word from Seisen for three days.

• Hyuga Seisen gained ninety thousand Energy Crystals for killing Rasa, while his allies earned more than twenty thousand from their kills.
• Hyuga Seisen decided not to undergo his pureblood transformation on the front line and wrote Hiruzen Sarutobi a letter claiming severe injuries required him to return to Konoha.
• Hyuga Seisen left three Shadow Clones in charge of the defenses, then chased them through camp with a Reishi whip after they teased him about visiting Ayane.
• At the Land of Earth command post, Shikaku Nara warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Hidden Rock Village's Explosive Corps could break the northwest defensive line in three days.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that no communication had arrived from Hyuga Seisen in three days, leaving his fate uncertain.

Hiruzen learned that Qingchuan’s outnumbered force had crushed Rasa’s army and killed the Fourth Wind Shadow, securing proof of the four villages’ alliance. He ordered the Land of Wind front’s red crosses erased, while Madara was awakened and told of Rasa’s death.

• A special-grade messenger hawk delivered a report that Qingchuan’s three thousand troops had defeated Rasa’s fifteen thousand, killing over five thousand and capturing more than four thousand.
• Hiruzen and Shikaku verified the victory with Rasa’s Wind Shadow Seal and the four-village treaty to divide the Land of Fire.
• Hiruzen ordered Shikaku to erase every red cross on the map in the direction of the Land of Wind.
• Black Zetsu forcibly awakened Madara and told him that Sunagakure had been wiped out and Rasa’s death confirmed.
• Madara dismissed Rasa’s death as unimportant.

Madara learned that Hyuga Seisen had devastated Sunagakure’s forces and wielded power that seemed to control fundamental particles beyond chakra. Fearing the threat Seisen posed and his own dwindling lifespan, Madara ordered Obito and Nagato’s plans accelerated so he could secure a successor within three years.

• Black Zetsu reported that Hyuga Seisen had destroyed most of Rasa’s army and killed Rasa in close combat without using hand seals.
• Madara learned Seisen’s blue energy blast came from controlling natural energy in a way distinct from senjutsu and recognized the danger it posed to his plans.
• Madara ordered Black Zetsu to arrange Rin’s death so Obito would witness Kakashi killing her.
• Black Zetsu reported that Hanzō suspected Yahiko’s Akatsuki and that Danzo was covertly encouraging Hanzō to eliminate it; Madara ordered them to push the conflict forward so Nagato would witness Yahiko’s death.
• Madara revealed that his body had at most three years left and ordered his agents to secure control of either Obito or Nagato while he was alive.

Black Zetsu sent White Zetsu to watch Hyuga Seisen while preparing a new plan for Obito, and Hiruzen reorganized Konoha’s front around Hyuga Go’s highly effective squad. At the chapter’s end, Ōnoki heard that the white-clad Konoha squad was troubling Hidden Rock’s advance.

• After Madara fell back into suspended death, Black Zetsu revealed his plan to revive Kaguya and ordered White Zetsu to monitor Konoha, especially Hyuga Seisen.
• Black Zetsu decided to prepare a new script for Obito Uchiha, beginning with Rin.
• Hiruzen reviewed the report that Seisen had destroyed an army of fifteen thousand and brought back the Fourth Wind Shadow’s head.
• After learning Hyuga Go’s fifteen-person squad had killed eighty-nine Hidden Rock shinobi with no losses, Hiruzen assigned them to lead Konoha’s main assault under cover from a thousand soldiers.
• Hyuga Go received the transfer order and told his fourteen teammates to change positions.
• Ōnoki heard that Hidden Rock’s advance was going well but that a white-clad Konoha squad was proving troublesome.

Hyuga Go and the Sternritter squad used their Byakugan and long-range spirit arrows to slaughter Hidden Rock Village troops through their trenches and sealed underground defenses. Ōnoki received reports of mounting losses and realized the fifteen-person squad posed a serious threat to his army.

• Ōnoki dismissed reports of fifteen Byakugan-wielding enemies and ordered the Explosive Corps to advance through the trenches.
• Hyuga Go led the Sternritter squad in a scattershot attack that killed or severely wounded dozens of Hidden Rock Village ninja in their trenches.
• The Hidden Rock commander sealed his troops inside underground fortifications, but the squad’s arrows pierced the earth and killed them below.
• Hyuga Go detected six Hidden Rock special jonin approaching underground, and two Sternritter intercepted and killed them within seconds.
• Ōnoki learned that multiple assault echelons had suffered heavy casualties and wondered what kind of unit Konoha had sent.

Hiruzen Sarutobi’s forces used the Sternritter to devastate Hidden Rock Village’s reserves and force Ōnoki to halt his attack. After learning that Hyuga Seisen had helped annihilate Sunagakure’s army, Ōnoki ordered a new unit deployed and secretly urged the Fourth Raikage to eliminate Seisen’s force.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered his troops to attack Hidden Rock Village’s central line, prompting its reserves to enter underground tunnels.
• Hyuga Go and fourteen Sternritter members fired into the tunnels, killing the trapped Hidden Rock Village shinobi.
• Ōnoki repeatedly used Dust Release against the Sternritter, but they evaded his attacks and returned fire, so he ordered Hidden Rock Village to defend.
• Ōnoki received a report that Hyuga Seisen and Konoha had annihilated Sunagakure’s army and killed Rasa, and recognized the white-clad unit as Seisen’s force.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked headquarters to transfer Hyuga Seisen and the Sternritter to the Land of Earth front and sent Seisen a letter about the Hyuga Clan.
• Ōnoki ordered the Red Stone Unit deployed and sent the Fourth Raikage a secret request to eliminate the new force.

Minato used Sternritter archers to slow Kumogakure’s advance by targeting its supply lines, while Hyuga Himon struggled with the Spirit Bow despite its effectiveness. After repeated attacks caused heavy disruption, Fourth Raikage A ordered slower, more cautious operations.

• Minato marked twelve firing positions on the Arrowcry Mountains map and ordered the archers to strike once before relocating.
• Hyuga Himon spotted a Kumogakure supply convoy and disabled a wagon and wounded a guard with three Spirit Bow arrows.
• Himon left the bunker after the attack, bitter that the Spirit Bow was safer and more effective than the Gentle Fist.
• Fourth Raikage A reviewed five days of attacks that had killed or wounded more than 160 guards and destroyed supplies.
• A ordered Kumogakure to move in squads of ten and transport supplies underground, accepting a slower advance.

Fire Gate’s team ambushed a Kumogakure flanking force but discovered that the Fourth Raikage had rushed toward their retreat route. At Tidecry Cape, Ryosuke exposed and eliminated four Hidden Mist infiltrators disguised as refugees, then detected multiple chakra signatures offshore.

• Fire Gate’s eight Sternritter members disrupted the Kumogakure flanking force with Scattershot and began withdrawing, but Fire Gate spotted the Fourth Raikage charging toward their escape route.
• Ryosuke used his Byakugan to identify four Hidden Mist assassins among the refugees at Tidecry Cape, including the killers of three Konoha chunin.
• Ryosuke’s Sternritter members captured and killed the four infiltrators, one of whom died by biting a poison capsule.
• Ryosuke ordered stricter surveillance and screening of new arrivals at the fishing village.
• Before dawn on the fourth day, Ryosuke detected several clusters of chakra among reefs nearly five kilometers offshore.

Ryosuke captured a Hidden Mist suicide operative and found evidence of an unknown force that had erased the man’s consciousness and planted a corrupted variant of Uzumaki sealing formulas beneath his skin. He sent the scroll to Hyuga Seisen, who returned to Konoha and began increasing his Quincy Fusion Rate.

• Ryosuke and three Sternritter members ambushed five Hidden Mist suicide operatives as they approached the shore, killing or capturing them while preventing one from releasing poison.
• Ryosuke examined the captured operative and found that his emotional and self-awareness pathways had been dulled without signs of genjutsu.
• Ryosuke discovered a bamboo tube sewn beneath the operative’s skin, containing a scroll with distorted formulas based on the Uzumaki sealing system.
• Ryosuke sent Hyuga Seisen an urgent report and enclosed the scroll for inspection.
• Hyuga Seisen returned to Konoha, checked his status, and used his Energy Crystals to begin raising his Quincy Fusion Rate.

Hyuga Seisen began a full body enhancement after raising his Fusion Rate to 100%, while Kakashi, Obito, and Rin were ambushed during a retrieval mission in the Land of Lightning. The team escaped to a cave, where Obito concluded that the mission had been used to target the three of them.

• Hyuga Seisen created Shadow Clones, raised his Fusion Rate to 100%, and began the body enhancement process.
• Kakashi, Obito, and Rin retrieved an encrypted scroll from an abandoned relay station and encountered a Kumogakure patrol on their way out.
• Obito suspected the patrol had tracked their movements, but Rin found no marks on any of them.
• The team was trapped by twelve shinobi at the valley exit, fought their way through, and escaped south with Obito wounded.
• Kakashi released Pakkun to seek help, and Obito argued that someone had arranged the mission as a trap targeting the three of them.

Obito, Kakashi, and Rin fought through a hunter-killer squad while trying to reach the Land of Fire border. As Obito’s Sharingan guided their desperate defense, the pursuers trapped them on a rocky slope, where Kakashi’s injured arm left him unable to fight normally.

• Obito, Kakashi, and Rin escaped through an underground river into Thunderclap Valley, where they found fifteen enemy shinobi waiting.
• Obito used his Sharingan to protect Kakashi during the battle and took a Lightning Release strike meant for Rin.
• The trio reached a hill, but fifteen pursuers closed in from three directions and raised an earthen wall to block their route east.
• Obito spotted an opening and led Kakashi and Rin down a loose-rock slope while the pursuers tried to encircle them.
• Obito read an enemy’s shuriken trajectories, disarmed the attacker with a precise strike, and shielded Rin from a barrage of rock bullets.
• After a rock bullet broke Obito’s ribs, Kakashi rushed forward, but Obito shoved him away and warned that his injured right hand made him vulnerable.

Obito and Kakashi fought to protect Rin as the cave collapsed, and Obito was buried beneath the rubble. Minato rescued Kakashi and Rin from the pursuing Hidden Rock Village ninjas, but Kakashi insisted that Obito was still inside.

• Obito forced Kakashi and Rin toward safety as the cave ceiling began to collapse, then was pinned beneath a boulder.
• Kakashi clawed at the rubble to reach Obito, but stopped when three chunin approached and attacked them.
• Kakashi killed the three chunin and dragged Rin out of the cave, where more Hidden Rock Village pursuers confronted him.
• Minato arrived with Flying Thunder God and defeated the remaining pursuers in fourteen seconds.
• Minato found Rin alive and asked Kakashi where she was, but Kakashi told him Obito was still inside.

Minato confirmed that Obito appeared dead beneath the rubble, but chose to rescue Kakashi and Rin as the cave collapsed. Beneath the debris, White Zetsu discovered that Obito's heart was still beating faintly.

• Minato broke apart the Stone Tablet and found no pulse or breath from Obito, but left the remaining rubble when the cave began collapsing and enemies approached.
• Minato used Flying Thunder God to carry Kakashi and Rin out of the cave just before it collapsed.
• Kakashi trembled in silence after arriving in the forest, and Rin woke and cried when she realized Obito was missing.
• Minato told Kakashi and Rin they had to leave, while Obito remained buried beneath hundreds of tons of rubble.
• White Zetsu emerged from the ground and heard Obito's heart beat twice, confirming that he was still alive.

Black Zetsu reviewed how Hyuga Seisen’s reputation had stalled the allied armies’ advances and examined the revised plan to awaken Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan. He sent White Zetsu to monitor Seisen closely while Obito continued to recover in his cocoon.

• Black Zetsu saw that Seisen’s white-clad archers had halted Ōnoki’s advance, forced Pakura to withdraw Sunagakure’s forces, and slowed A’s army.
• Black Zetsu assessed Obito’s injuries and noted that his body needed at least three more months to recover before the plan could proceed.
• Black Zetsu gave White Zetsu a revised plan to make Obito witness Nohara Rin’s death at Hatake Kakashi’s hands.
• Black Zetsu instructed White Zetsu to postpone the plan if Seisen was within two hundred kilometers of the battlefield and to report Seisen’s movements every six hours.

Hiashi discovered that Seisen had used the main family’s archive to develop techniques behind Gentle Fist, and that his branch-family unit, the Sternritter, had become a powerful force in the war. He confronted Seisen’s clones at his home and asked what was going on with the Sternritter.

• Hiashi read reports of the Sternritter’s precise strikes in the Land of Earth and its capture of thousands of Sunagakure prisoners using Spirit Bows.
• Hiashi checked the archive’s loan register and saw that Seisen had borrowed books on spiritual energy, meridians, and sealing techniques, but no Gentle Fist manuals.
• Hiashi realized Seisen had guided him into appointing him as the branch-family Gentle Fist instructor to serve Seisen’s own plans.
• Hiashi saw branch-family children imitating Seisen’s bow technique and learned from Hyuga Kaze that Seisen had returned injured and shut himself away.
• Hiashi found three of Seisen’s Shadow Clones guarding his room, sensed a faint chakra inside, and asked what was going on with the Sternritter.

Hiashi confronted Hyuga Kaze’s Shadow Clones over their training of the branch family, then left unsettled by their claim that the Sternritter followed the Hyuga Clan. After three months of unconsciousness, Hyuga Seisen completed his Pureblood Quincy awakening and discovered his transformed body could sense and gather reishi automatically.

• Hiashi questioned Hyuga Kaze’s Shadow Clones about their teaching, and they said they had taught Gentle Fist alongside other combat methods that helped the Sternritter achieve zero casualties.
• Hiashi asked whose orders the Sternritter followed, and a Shadow Clone replied that they followed the Hyuga Clan before Hiashi left without looking back.
• Hiashi recalled fearing that Hyuga Kaze’s blade would wound him and reflected that removing the Caged Bird would have brought unimaginable consequences.
• Hyuga Seisen’s fusion reached 100 percent, completing his Pureblood Quincy awakening and reconstructing his body with greatly enhanced physical abilities.
• Seisen woke after three months and sensed the reishi throughout the room without effort.
• Seisen found that reishi gathered above his palm on its own and dispersed when he withdrew his hand.