Chapter Summaries

Wuye destroyed Otsutsuki Clan by collapsing the dark world and absorbed the pure energy left behind, hoping to find fragments of his loved ones’ souls. In the soul space, he recovered Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha’s souls, whose strange dream memories left Hashirama distressed.

• Wuye explained how his repeated trips through time had let him weaken Otsutsuki Clan and open the dark world to nature.
• Wuye revealed that Otsutsuki Clan was a virus of nature and that he was nature’s antibody, then assimilated Otsutsuki Clan into nature.
• Wuye entered the pure energy to search for soul fragments, discovering a space where Otsutsuki Clan souls could regenerate endlessly.
• Wuye found and gathered Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha’s soul fragments from a series of bizarre dream worlds.
• Hashirama Senju saw the preserved dream memories and lamented that he had let Mito down.

Wuye recovered the scattered souls of the women he loved, using the Thousand-Pulling Stone to separate the shared soul of Hinata, Hanabi, Hyuga Kaguya, and Kaguya Otsutsuki into four. He restored all nine women, who immediately surrounded him, leaving Kushina and the others watching in disbelief.

• Wuye found Kushina's scattered soul fragments by reliving her memories and used the Thousand-Pulling Stone to gather them into her true soul.
• Wuye recovered the souls of Temari, Terumi Mei, Konan, and Tsunade by searching through their shared memories.
• Wuye separated the shared soul of Hinata, Hanabi, Hyuga Kaguya, and Kaguya Otsutsuki by identifying their distinct dream memories, then strengthened all four souls with the white mist.
• Wuye's appearance and power changed as he emerged from the soul space, and he restored all nine women to their bodies.
• Kaguya, Kaguya Otsutsuki, Hinata, and Hanabi each crowded around Wuye while Kushina and the others reacted to them competing for his attention.

Wuye reunited with Kaguya and the others, returned to a ruined Naruto World, and began arranging its recovery. When he went to retrieve Mikoto, he found only her Mangekyo Sharingan and learned she had sacrificed herself to return the power of time to him, asking him to find her again.

• Kaguya explained that she and the others could now exist separately, and Wuye brought them back to the Naruto World.
• Wuye found the world devastated, freed everyone from the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and sent Madara Uchiha and the others into reincarnation.
• Wuye asked Minato Namikaze and the others to restore order while he went to retrieve Mikoto.
• Wuye found Mikoto missing and discovered her Mangekyo Sharingan pattern, which carried the power of time into him.
• Mikoto told Wuye that she had received the world's favor, returned the power of time to him, and asked him to find her again.

Wuye traveled back to the time three years after the first Dragon Vein incident and found Mikoto living in the Hyuga Estate. Reunited, they decided to spend the next three years together, while Mikoto sensed that Wuye was hiding deep sorrow.

• Wuye traveled through time to three years after the first Dragon Vein incident, fearing that he might have lost Mikoto forever.
• Wuye entered the Hyuga Estate and found Mikoto beneath a cherry tree.
• Mikoto took Wuye's hand, and they agreed to live together there for three years.
• Wuye carried Mikoto to a cherry tree and kissed her after she noticed the sadness in his eyes.
• Mikoto recalled first seeing Wuye return from the battlefield and how the Great Elder had helped her get close to him.

Wuye and Mikoto traveled through the past together, visiting familiar places and enjoying their time before Mikoto asked him to protect all living beings when he became the new world's god. After three years, Wuye chose to return them to three years earlier rather than go back to their original time.

• Wuye and Mikoto visited the past Kushina, then spent three months playfully visiting places where Tsunade, Konan, and Kaguya lived.
• Mikoto asked Wuye to travel beyond Konoha, and the two explored the other lands and villages together.
• While they stood near Ōnoki in the Land of Earth, Mikoto asked Wuye to promise that he would take responsibility for all living beings and never harm them when he became the new world's god.
• Wuye promised Mikoto, and they continued traveling together for three years.
• Mikoto asked whether they should go back, but Wuye said they would return to three years earlier instead.

Wuye returned to the future after spending his final year with Mikoto, only to discover that she had vanished from every timeline. As he demanded answers from time and space, he saw Mikoto’s memory of agreeing to have her existence erased in exchange for ensuring his survival and success, and learned that she had been granted only one thousand years with him.

• Wuye traveled through countless worlds with Mikoto across hundreds of three-year periods, then returned to the past for one final year with her.
• Mikoto asked Wuye to return to the future, and she faded away as he promised to find her again.
• Wuye searched across worlds and timelines for Mikoto, while his anguish unleashed storms and echoed through the lives of countless beings.
• Wuye commanded time and space to reveal a memory of Mikoto making a pact to bear the power of time so he could survive and succeed.
• Mikoto accepted that her existence would be erased in exchange for one thousand years with Wuye, and asked time and space to keep the pact secret from him.
• The memory showed Mikoto’s existence vanishing across every timeline after Wuye returned to the future, leaving her unable to return.

The narrator froze his loved ones and trapped time and space in an endless loop, hoping to force it to restore Mikoto’s existence and memories. After ages of searching and ruling the world, he found Mikoto smiling amid a sea of cherry blossoms as time and space surrendered.

• The narrator froze his sisters and the others at the end of time and space, then tied time and space into an endless loop to preserve souls and demand Mikoto’s return.
• He let the world and its living beings continue forward, judging souls after death and enforcing peace while searching the changing worlds for Mikoto.
• As eras passed, the narrator became increasingly godlike, but he still could not find Mikoto and remained locked in a struggle with time and space.
• A hum stopped the cyclical world, and the narrator found a vast sea of cherry blossoms at the end of time.
• Time and space surrendered, and Mikoto appeared at the center of the blossoms, smiling at the narrator.

Wuye reunited with the women he loved in a peaceful modern world and told them how much the world had changed while they were away. He brought them to meet a young Grandma Mito and showed her the flourishing age her wish had helped inspire.

• Hanabi and Terumi Mei explored the Hokage suite, while Wuye explained to Temari that the changed world had unfolded over countless cycles.
• Wuye comforted Mikoto, then gathered with Kaguya, his sister, and the others as they asked him to explain what had happened since the final great war.
• The women shared stories about familiar people living new lives, and Wuye showed them Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, Kakashi, and others on a giant screen.
• Kushina recognized Grandma Mito as a young interstellar traveler, and Wuye transported everyone to the top of his divine statue with her.
• Wuye reassured Grandma Mito and told her that the flourishing age had come true as fireworks filled the sky.

The narrator recounted the end of his three-year relationship with Little Devil, whose ideals and emotional needs had become incompatible with his more practical outlook. After leaving their apartment and spending a night alone at a Hi Inn, he woke to begin his first day after the breakup still grieving but resolved to move on.

• The narrator returned to the apartment, confirmed Little Devil still wanted to break up, and packed his belongings while she followed him.
• He told Little Devil to live well, blocked her number, deleted their chat and Alipay contact, and left without looking back until the door shut.
• He checked into a Hi Inn, cried over their shared memories, briefly unblocked Little Devil's calls, then blocked her again without calling.
• After sleeping, he checked out and ate a disappointing breakfast at FamilyMart, where he listened to “Annual Rings” before walking away.