Chapter Summaries

Ryosuke spent three years watching an alternate universe form and collapse, gaining no Progress Bar rewards but sensing the existence of Rules. He returned to the Ninja World and reunited with Hinata, who had become a relaxed clan head and was babysitting Seisai and Souji’s children.

• Ryosuke watched a sun form in the alternate universe, then saw it explode and the world fall back into darkness.
• After three years of doing nothing, Ryosuke confirmed that the Progress Bar had not advanced and sensed the Rules for the first time.
• Ryosuke returned to the Ninja World and headed to the Land of Rain’s coast, where the Hyūga were on vacation.
• Hinata greeted Ryosuke and explained that the clan’s mature system let her rest while she babysat Seisai and Souji’s children.
• Hinata told Ryosuke that Seisai and Souji had married, retired from the front lines, and were busy with logistics amid a renewed war.

Hinata told Ryosuke how the Hyūga had expanded across many worlds, and they decided to have children together. Six months into Hinata’s pregnancy with twins Hyuga Yuichi and Hyuga Mai, the unborn children had already awakened the Tenseigan and could hear and understand conversations.

• Hinata explained that the Hyūga had brought thirteen more worlds under their control and showed Ryosuke her Dying Will Flame ring; she gave him a Cloud Ring.
• Hinata described how she had stepped back from managing the family and become a principal, and she and Ryosuke decided to have a child.
• Ryosuke and Hinata conceived twins, naming the boy Hyuga Yuichi and the girl Hyuga Mai, and chose for Hinata to complete the full ten-month pregnancy.
• The Hyūga reacted to the pregnancy as the future birth of heirs, while the original clansmen celebrated and leaders across the worlds worried about the children’s future choices.
• Six months later, Hanabi visited Hinata in the Ninja World and asked to train the twins, but Hinata said Ryosuke would guide their early education.
• Hanabi discovered the twins could see her from Hinata’s womb, and Hinata explained that they had awakened their Tenseigan and could hear and understand what people said.

At Hyuga Yuichi and Hyuga Mai’s hundred-day banquet, the Hyūga displayed their influence across twenty-three worlds, prompting factions in the Ninja World to pledge allegiance. Later, Reborn reported that the Hyūga had found the world where Boros once lived, and Ryosuke prepared to face Saitama.

• Ryosuke and Hinata dressed their unusually mature, floating infants, Yuichi and Mai, for their hundred-day banquet, and Ryosuke warned them not to obsess over fate.
• Representatives from the Hyūga’s twenty-three worlds attended the banquet and saw Yuichi and Mai’s extraordinary strength and development.
• One week after the banquet, factions across the Ninja World pledged allegiance to the Hyūga and joined the World Alliance.
• Reborn told Ryosuke that the Twenty-Fifth World’s Space-Time Gate led to the world he had been searching for, where Saitama lived.
• Ryosuke considered how to confront Saitama, while Reborn offered the expansion plan’s military supplies and personnel for his use.

After Yuichi spoke arrogantly to Hyuga Hiashi, Ryosuke showed the children their grandfather training alone and taught them not to use their strength to belittle others. Later, Hinata questioned Ryosuke’s lesson and asked about the dangerous world he had found, while he said he would investigate it after the children’s training stabilized.

• At dinner, Yuichi claimed he could defeat Hyuga Hiashi, and Hinata reprimanded him until he apologized to his grandfather.
• After the meal, Ryosuke took Yuichi and Mai to the Training Ground, where they saw Hyuga Hiashi practicing alone.
• Ryosuke explained that their greater strength did not give them the right to look down on their grandfather, and the children left without disturbing him.
• That night, Hinata guessed why Ryosuke had shown the children Hyuga Hiashi training and complained that it had cost him his dignity.
• Hinata asked Ryosuke about the dangerous world he had found, and he said he would go there once the children’s training progress had stabilized.

Ryosuke traveled to Z City to meet Saitama and arrange the sparring match he had long wanted. Saitama accepted, but Ryosuke admitted he was not yet confident he could defeat him and asked to talk before they fought.

• Ryosuke visited the Hero Association and asked for information about Saitama and Charanko.
• Ryosuke read Saitama's sparse record and Charanko's martial arts profile over lunch.
• Ryosuke traveled to Saitama's home, revealed his true appearance, and asked him for a sparring match.
• Saitama accepted Ryosuke's commission after hearing that they both felt lonely without a worthy opponent.
• Ryosuke offered to prepare a meal and talk first, admitting he was not confident he could defeat Saitama.

Ryosuke questioned Saitama about his training, then used his Tenseigan to examine him and found no obvious source for his strength. He arranged a spar to uncover Saitama’s secret, and the chapter ended as Saitama prepared a serious punch.

• Ryosuke asked how Saitama had gained his power, and Saitama described his daily exercise routine and lack of air conditioning.
• Ryosuke examined Saitama with the Tenseigan and found that his body appeared almost ordinary, leaving him shocked.
• Ryosuke asked Saitama to spar, then accelerated the planet’s rotation to turn night into day so they could fight immediately.
• In a barren stretch of sand, Saitama struck Ryosuke with an ordinary punch, shattering his arms, but Ryosuke quickly regenerated and sensed that Saitama had invoked the Rules.
• Ryosuke asked to withstand Saitama’s next punch with all his strength, and Saitama readied a serious punch.

Hyuga Ryosuke let Saitama's serious punch reduce him to scattered flesh so he could study the Rules behind Saitama's power and try to close the gap between them. After a month of training alone, Ryosuke learned to modify Rules well enough to make a stone float like a cloud while keeping its stone appearance.

• Hyuga Ryosuke endured Saitama's serious punch, which blasted his body into scattered flesh, and told Saitama that he would recover.
• Hyuga Ryosuke stayed in the wasteland to study the Rules suppressing his regeneration, while Saitama waited beside him until night.
• Hyuga Ryosuke told Saitama he was trying to close the gap between them and achieve an evenly matched fight, prompting Saitama to start exercising too.
• Saitama eventually left after a week, while Hyuga Ryosuke continued training alone for a month and learned to modify Rules.
• Hyuga Ryosuke replaced a stone's internal Rules with those of a cloud, making it float while retaining its stone appearance.

After mastering more of the Rules, Ryosuke returned to the Ninja World to reassure his family and discovered that its Rules resembled those of Saitama’s world. He reunited with Hinata and their children, deciding that guiding them mattered more than immediately pursuing further knowledge of Rules.

• Ryosuke used the power of Rules to create a human body and clothes, but recognized that altering living beings remained difficult because of their complex Threads of Fate.
• He returned from Saitama’s world to the Ninja World, where he noticed similarities between the Rules of the two worlds and wanted to visit other worlds to investigate.
• Ryosuke returned to the Hyūga main residence and reunited with Hinata, their children, Hanabi, and Hyuga Hiashi.
• After learning that the children had been secretly eating protected wild boars, Ryosuke moved three into the courtyard and approved a family feast.
• Ryosuke explained to Hinata that they should guide the children’s desires and teach them to control those desires rather than simply suppressing them.

After Yuichi and Mai ate the rare wild boars to extinction, Ryosuke and Hinata used the loss to teach them moderation and gave them a new goal: finding the world the boars came from. Ryosuke left home after promising to return monthly, then began analyzing the Rules of Daigo's world and opened gates to study the other worlds under Hyūga control.

• Yuichi and Mai regretted eating all the rare wild boars after searching for similar beasts for a month and a half without success.
• Hinata and Ryosuke lectured the children about self-control, and Ryosuke revealed that finding the boars' original world might lead them to more or better ingredients.
• Ryosuke and Hinata discussed his departure, his promised monthly visits, and Hinata's plan to take Yuichi and Mai to other worlds.
• After breakfast, Ryosuke left the Ninja World despite the children's tears and traveled to Daigo's world.
• Ryosuke quickly gained about 1% control over Daigo's world's Rules and concluded that foundational similarities between worlds could speed up his mastery.
• Ryosuke opened Space-Time Gates to examine the Rules of every world under the Hyūga's control.

After two years of studying the rules, Ryosuke returned to Saitama’s world to explain what he had discovered and challenge him. Their conversation revealed an unsettling change in Saitama, and the chapter ended as he followed Ryosuke into the sky with newfound control of his power.

• Ryosuke returned to Z City and found that his Progress Bar could not speed up his mastery of the world’s rules.
• Ryosuke visited Saitama and asked whether he understood the source of his strength, but Saitama accepted his training routine without question.
• Ryosuke told Saitama that the world’s rules amplified his attacks and offered to take him to another world, where his overwhelming strength might disappear.
• Saitama shifted into an emotionless state, and Ryosuke’s Tenseigan could no longer perceive him normally.
• Saitama challenged Ryosuke to defeat him in this world, then flew after him into the sky.

Ryosuke fought Saitama, whose body was being controlled by a self-aware manifestation of the world's Rules. After using power borrowed from other worlds to counterbalance the Rules, Ryosuke gained the ability to injure Saitama and left him badly beaten, while explaining how he had made their fight more even.

• Ryosuke opened more than twenty Space-Time Gates and attacked Saitama, but the world's Rules blocked his strength while Saitama's punch shattered his body.
• Ryosuke recognized that Saitama was not himself but a self-aware manifestation of the world's Rules, and the two exchanged repeated punches as Ryosuke continually recovered.
• Saitama grew impatient with Ryosuke's inability to fight back and questioned whether he could learn to use the Rules through their clashes.
• Ryosuke struck Saitama hard enough to make him feel pain and break his hand, then overwhelmed him with successive attacks.
• Ryosuke stopped after leaving Saitama severely injured and explained that he had used the Rules of other worlds to counterbalance this world's Rules and create a fairer battlefield.

Ryosuke defeated the consciousness that had been controlling Saitama by disrupting the world’s Rules, then learned why it had chosen Saitama and why it sought defeat. After Ryosuke recovered a memory of where he went after dying and departed, Saitama regained control of his body but lost the borrowed strength.

• Ryosuke explained that he had drawn Rules from more than twenty worlds into this one, disrupting its Rules and suppressing Saitama’s power until he could defeat him.
• Ryosuke and Saitama vanished to an uninhabited island before the Hero Association representatives could reach them.
• Saitama told Ryosuke that he had possessed the original Saitama hoping to experience human emotions, but his influence had instead drained Saitama’s emotions and driven them both to seek defeat.
• Ryosuke remembered where he had gone after dying and told Saitama to reclaim his life before leaving the world.
• Saitama regained control of his body and discovered that the consciousness and its strength were gone, though Ryosuke had left him knowledge about cultivation.

Ryosuke’s memories of his lives as Boros and an ordinary human fully awakened, revealing how he had become a Heavenly Sacred and engineered his own reincarnation as Ryosuke. After expelling the consciousness from Saitama, he learned that Saitama had been reborn as Kusuo Saiki, while Ryosuke gained the ability to control the timelines of worlds.

• Saitama resolved to regain his lost strength through his own efforts.
• The consciousness Ryosuke expelled from Saitama awoke as a newborn named Kusuo Saiki.
• Ryosuke realized that all the dead from the myriad worlds entered the Underworld, where the Heavenly Sacred enforced living rules.
• Ryosuke remembered that Boros had mastered rules, fought the Heavenly Sacred, and arranged his own reincarnation after being defeated.
• Ryosuke recognized that his fabricated memories, world-travel passages, and opportunities for growth had all been created by Boros.
• Ryosuke manifested crystal-like prisms and demonstrated that he could change the timelines of the worlds he had visited.

After regaining all his memories and mastering the Rules, Ryosuke realized the Netherworld’s summons threatened his ability to remain close to his family. He showed Hinata that he could reshape entire worlds and timelines, leaving her horrified when his changes erased the Hyūga’s presence from Daigo’s world.

• Ryosuke remembered his past as Boros and received the Netherworld’s summons, but suppressed it while struggling with the thought of leaving his family.
• Hinata brought Ryosuke food in the study, and they reminisced about their family’s old meetings before he told her his growing strength had brought him into contact with greater things.
• Ryosuke showed Hinata crystal-like worlds and demonstrated his control by revealing events in Daigo Madoka’s world, including Tiga and Dyna confronting Gylstan.
• Ryosuke rewound and altered Daigo’s world, fixing its Rules and removing every trace of the Hyūga from its history.
• Hinata entered the world through a Space-Time Gate and discovered that its people no longer remembered the Hyūga, with Daigo Madoka asking who she was.

Ryosuke showed Hinata how he could alter timelines and explained that he had been summoned to serve as an enforcer in the Netherworld, a role that might separate him from his family. Hinata urged him to go and face the unknown, reminding him that the Hyūga and their children stood behind him, and Ryosuke accepted that he still had a family to protect.

• Ryosuke demonstrated how timelines and parallel worlds could change, and Hinata saw that he could alter the Rules of their world.
• Hinata feared that Ryosuke’s power made her life and memories vulnerable, but he embraced her and acknowledged the gulf separating him from everyone else.
• Ryosuke explained that he had to take the Netherworld enforcer’s position or risk being replaced, and he was unsure whether he could return.
• Hinata told Ryosuke to face the Netherworld and reminded him that she, the Hyūga, and their two children would support him.
• Ryosuke regained resolve when Hinata reminded him that he was the father of two children.

Ryosuke left his family to face a danger he could not explain, while Hinata secretly inherited control of the worlds and waited for his return. Years later, after Yuichi and Mai had grown powerful and the Hyuga Clan had weathered turmoil, Ryosuke appeared beside Hinata again.

• Ryosuke told Hinata, their children, Hanabi, and Hyuga Hiashi that he was leaving on a dangerous mission, then departed despite Yuichi and Mai begging him to stay.
• Hyuga Hiashi ordered the family to conceal Ryosuke's departure, while Hinata urged him to accept the clan's life-extending treasures and help protect the family.
• Hinata received control of thirty-seven worlds' Space-Time Gates, and the family kept Ryosuke's absence secret as she raised Yuichi and Mai.
• Yuichi and Mai gained the Tenseigan, surpassed powerful figures including Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Madara Uchiha, and later suppressed unrest within the Hyuga Clan.
• Hinata watched the growing number of Space-Time Gates as a sign that Ryosuke remained alive, until he appeared in the courtyard and asked her to cut him some watermelon.

After years of illness and isolation in a new world, Orochimaru began his first day of work at Suzuran High School, where the disorderly campus and aggressive students unsettled him. The principal welcomed him and confirmed his martial arts background, leaving Orochimaru unsure what kind of teaching job he had taken.

• Orochimaru woke to Suigetsu, Jugo, and Tayuya preparing for the day, while Tayuya announced she would leave on a business trip the next day.
• Orochimaru reflected on how he and his former companions had lost their powers after entering this world and gradually settled into peaceful lives together.
• Orochimaru followed his phone map to Suzuran High School and found its deserted, wrecked campus before students began arriving.
• Orochimaru recognized that many Suzuran students were accustomed to fighting and waited outside the principal's office until the principal arrived.
• The principal brought Orochimaru into his office and asked whether he had learned martial arts, prompting Orochimaru to wonder whether the job was really a biology teaching position.

Orochimaru began teaching Class Three at Suzuran High School, where his intimidating display quickly subdued the unruly freshmen. He left the class unexpectedly absorbed in his detailed lesson on the human heart.

• At the opening ceremony, Orochimaru watched the freshmen spar and quietly observed the teachers around him.
• Orochimaru entered Class Three as its homeroom and biology teacher, and a student mocked him.
• Orochimaru hurled chalk with enough force to shove the student's desk backward, silencing the class.
• Orochimaru recited the school rules, then told students they could skip class but had to sit properly if they attended.
• Orochimaru drew a detailed diagram of the human body and explained the heart's functions, illnesses, and vulnerability in a fight.
• Kirishima Hiromi and the other freshmen listened attentively and returned to their chairs.

Orochimaru discovered that Suzuran’s students used factions to secure their futures and encountered Tamao’s group on the rooftop. After spending the afternoon teaching his unusually attentive class, he learned that the man whose leg he had struck was Genji Takiya, who wanted to reach the top of Suzuran.

• Orochimaru ate lunch on the rooftop, where Tamao and his group confronted him for occupying their territory.
• Tamao explained that Suzuran’s teachers represented factions that offered students prospects after graduation, and Orochimaru said he had no faction and had come to take it easy.
• Orochimaru struck Genji Takiya when Genji nearly kicked over his lunch, then went to the principal’s office and slept through the lunch break.
• Orochimaru taught his first-year class, drove away disruptive students with chalk, and answered only a few of his students’ questions about fighting and training.
• Orochimaru overheard news about faction negotiations and learned that the man whose leg he had struck was Genji Takiya, who had altered the rooftop wall to claim Suzuran’s peak.