Recaps

White Elephant’s president watched his army advance into Rabbit Nation, but the command center lost contact with the front as nuclear strikes devastated the country. After learning that Delhi had also been hit, the president collapsed.

• White Elephant’s president and his generals watched their forces advance, expecting to seize territory from Rabbit Nation.
• The frontline feeds cut out, and technicians reported that a nuclear strike had wiped out the advancing forces.
• Satellite images showed nuclear strikes had devastated Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and other major cities.
• White Elephant’s president demanded to know why the attacks had gone undetected as tremors shook the underground command center and knocked out its power.
• A technician began to report that Delhi had been struck, and White Elephant’s president collapsed.

After seeing satellite images of the destruction across White Elephant Country, its president conceded defeat, while other world leaders recognized they could not match Rabbit Nation. Rabbit Nation demanded that more than forty countries send their presidents to Upper Capital for ceasefire talks or face saturation strikes.

• White Elephant's president woke in the underground command center and ordered technicians to show satellite images of Delhi and the country's other cities.
• The images revealed nuclear destruction across White Elephant Country, and its president told the room to contact Rabbit Nation and concede defeat.
• Bear Nation's president, the Gallic Rooster's president, and John Bull's prime minister confronted evidence that Rabbit Nation had suffered no losses and could strike them without restraint.
• More than forty governments sent ceasefire requests to Rabbit Nation's Foreign Ministry.
• Rabbit Nation replied that each country's president had to arrive in Upper Capital before a deadline for face-to-face talks or Rabbit Nation would attack all its strategic targets.

After Rabbit Nation announced that all forty-three countries involved in the war had surrendered and requested a ceasefire, Li Bing and his family celebrated the end of the threat. Across the country, people embraced, shared their relief online, and set off fireworks.

• Li Bing agreed with his wife that they would leave the provincial capital for the countryside the next day to protect their daughter.
• The News Simulcast announced that all forty-three countries involved in military operations had declared defeat and requested a ceasefire.
• Li Bing embraced his wife and daughter as they celebrated the news that the war was over.
• People across Rabbit Nation shared their relief online, gathered with their families, and set off firecrackers and fireworks.
• Li Bing opened the window with his daughter and said they could finally sleep well.

More than forty visiting leaders were left sweating beneath a flimsy sunshade with boiling water while Rabbit Nation gave President Wu Qiqi and its strategic partners lavish airport receptions. After four hours, the ceremonies ended and the visitors watched the staff pack up, expecting at last to be taken somewhere cool.

• More than forty heads of state and government waited on plastic stools beneath a hot sunshade, drinking scalding water while ambulances stood by.
• President Wu Qiqi arrived and received a red-carpet welcome, military band, honor guard, and motorcade as he noticed the leaders’ miserable reception.
• Rabbit Nation welcomed its strategic partners and Camel economic partners with the same lavish ceremony while the other leaders continued waiting.
• The leaders removed their jackets as the heat wore them down, and nearby ambulances remained ready to assist.
• At two o’clock, officials and students packed away the red carpet and left, while the leaders watched the volunteers and expected air-conditioning.

More than forty heads of state were left to find their own way from the airport after Rabbit Nation volunteers removed their shade and departed. As they rode a packed subway to the Upper Capital Great Hall, residents filmed and mocked them, and Tianyi left the command center to attend the event.

• A volunteer left the heads of state a meeting address and subway map, then the volunteers removed the shade and drove away.
• John Bull's prime minister protested Rabbit Nation's treatment of its guests, but Bear Nation's president urged the leaders to exchange money and head to the terminal.
• Tianyi laughed at the leaders' ordeal, then Commander Tian told him the higher-ups had requested his attendance, and Tianyi vanished after forming a hand seal.
• News that the heads of state were taking the subway drew crowds of residents to stations along their route.
• The heads of state stood in packed subway carriages as passengers filmed and mocked them, spreading the scenes around the world.

Tianyi entered a tense treaty meeting after the heads of state rejected Rabbit Nation’s sweeping terms, which would subordinate their countries across military, political, economic, and cultural affairs. The Prime Minister of John Bull recognized Tianyi and reacted with fear.

• The Prime Minister of John Bull rejected the treaty, and the President of Bear Nation argued that its terms would strip signatories of independent decision-making.
• More than forty heads of state protested while three Rabbit Nation diplomats remained silent.
• The assembled leaders reviewed clauses requiring disarmament, political alignment, economic concessions, and cultural changes under Rabbit Nation’s supervision.
• Tianyi entered the conference room in uniform and fixed his gaze on the Prime Minister of John Bull.
• The Prime Minister of John Bull recognized Tianyi and exclaimed in fear.

Tianyi forced the assembled leaders to confront the Rabbit Nation’s demands, then demonstrated his power by cutting a vast fissure through the John Bull Nation. Terrified, the John Bull prime minister and the other leaders signed the document.

• Tianyi entered the conference room, overwhelmed the John Bull prime minister and the Bear Nation president with his chakra, and demanded that the leaders sign or face destruction.
• When the leaders doubted his threat, Tianyi disappeared from the conference room.
• A Rabbit Nation diplomat displayed a live satellite feed showing Tianyi standing on the Nine-Tails above the John Bull Nation.
• The John Bull prime minister begged to sign as Tianyi formed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but the beam carved a vast rift across the island.
• The leaders gathered around the document and signed their names without further objection.

Tianyi brought the imprisoned Uchiha Madara out of his heavily secured cell to show him the history of their world, hoping it would reveal a path to true peace. They began watching a historical film, while a white figure slipped past outside the room.

• Tianyi entered Madara’s cell and said he wanted to show him the world’s history.
• Madara followed Tianyi from the cell, asking whether Tianyi feared he would break free; Tianyi said the seal was temporary and Madara was no match for him without the Rinnegan.
• Tianyi brought Madara to a soundproof screening room, where a technician started a historical film.
• A white figure flashed past outside the screening room as Tianyi and Madara settled in to watch.

Tianyi explained to Uchiha Madara how lasting peace could come from unifying the Ninja World through shared laws, language, trade, and institutions rather than force or genjutsu. Convinced by Tianyi’s argument, Madara agreed to witness a new Ninja World.

• Madara watched footage of the continent’s history and compared its early unification with his and Hashirama Senju’s founding of the Land of Fire.
• Tianyi explained that the Ninja World lacked a shared national framework and that its divided systems made war between the Five Great Nations inevitable.
• Tianyi described how strength first imposed unification in his homeland, while common writing, roads, measures, education, and trade gradually made its people one nation.
• Tianyi argued that Madara’s Eye of the Moon Plan avoided conflict by trapping people in genjutsu, while real peace required changing everyday life and integrating the Ninja World over decades.
• Madara admitted that Tianyi’s account had changed his understanding of peace and said Tianyi had convinced him.
• Tianyi invited Madara to witness a whole new Ninja World.

Tianyi and Uchiha Madara staged Madara’s escape from the Upper Capital base to lure Black Zetsu into a trap. With Black Zetsu pinned by Yin-Yang Release spears, Tianyi revealed his supposed identity as Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s third son and asked if he was right.

• At the portal, Uchiha Madara realized Black Zetsu had manipulated him for decades, and Tianyi proposed staging a show before they returned to the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Madara escaped the base under attack, using dust and Wood Release Shadow Clones to mislead the drones and missiles.
• After Madara hid underground, Black Zetsu emerged from White Zetsu and told him to possess White Zetsu so they could escape.
• Uchiha Madara and Tianyi trapped Black Zetsu with Yin-Yang Release Metal Spears, preventing him from fleeing underground.
• Tianyi identified Black Zetsu as Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s third son and named Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Hamura Ōtsutsuki as his brothers.

Hyuga Tianyi defeated and captured Black Zetsu, then explained Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s history and offered to free her in exchange for her cooperation against the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Black Zetsu agreed, while Uchiha Madara learned that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was still alive in the Ninja World.

• Black Zetsu stopped struggling after Tianyi revealed that Hamura Ōtsutsuki had told him about Black Zetsu’s secrets.
• Tianyi told Black Zetsu that Kaguya had betrayed Isshiki to protect Earth, then criticized her plan to create an army of White Zetsu.
• Madara asked when the powerful Ōtsutsuki would arrive, and Tianyi told him that Isshiki was already hiding in the Ninja World and left him as Madara’s opponent.
• Tianyi promised to free Kaguya and offered her peaceful life if she cooperated against her fellow Ōtsutsuki.
• Black Zetsu agreed to persuade Kaguya to cooperate, and White Zetsu asked whether his mother pooped.

Tianyi showed Uchiha Madara and Zetsu Rabbit Nation’s development plan for the Ninja World and took them to inspect projects already underway. Convinced the plans could bring peace, Madara agreed to return to the Ninja World with Tianyi and end the age of chaos.

• Tianyi brought Uchiha Madara, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu to the underground base in Upper Capital.
• Commander Tian presented the development plan, and a technician explained how ninjutsu could support infrastructure, logistics, agriculture, industry, energy, healthcare, urban management, culture, and education.
• Tianyi and Commander Tian took Madara and Zetsu to inspect a bridge construction site, a power station, and flood-control and rescue work.
• Madara compared the report with the projects on-site and grew convinced that its plans were already being realized.
• Madara asked Tianyi to return with him to the Ninja World and declared that they must end the age of chaos because the people needed them.

Jiraiya opposed Konoha’s plan to take advantage of the Hidden Mist Village, but Tsunade and Hiruzen rejected his objections. Tianyi arrived with Uchiha Madara, stopped Jiraiya’s attack, and announced that Konoha would unite the entire Ninja World.

• Jiraiya urged Tsunade to abandon Tianyi’s plan, citing the Will of Fire and the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy, but Tsunade defended Tianyi and Konoha’s course.
• Hiruzen told Jiraiya he had crossed the line and reminded him that he had not worn Konoha’s forehead protector in a long time.
• Tianyi entered the office with Uchiha Madara, prompting Tsunade, Hiruzen, and the Anbu to prepare for a fight.
• Jiraiya attacked Tianyi, who stopped him and sent him to the Land of Whirlpools before returning to the office.
• Tianyi told Hiruzen to gather Konoha’s higher-ups because they were going to unify the entire Ninja World.

Tianyi briefed Konoha’s leaders on the history behind the war, including Black Zetsu’s scheme and the reincarnations of Indra and Asura. He revealed that Uchiha Madara was present in the conference room, prompting the Uchiha leaders to prepare for battle.

• Tianyi used a projector to tell Konoha’s High Command that Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s third son was manipulating events behind the war.
• Tianyi identified Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki as the Sage of Six Paths and presented evidence about Kaguya, her sons, Black Zetsu’s plan, and the reincarnations of Indra and Asura.
• Tsunade questioned Tianyi about the source and meaning of the intelligence, and Tianyi confirmed her understanding.
• Tianyi revealed that Uchiha Madara was sitting at the back of the conference room.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Shisui activated their Mangekyō Sharingan as the other leaders prepared for battle, while Tsunade and the Third Hokage urged them to stay calm.

Tianyi revealed that the Leaf Village would unite the Ninja World to confront the Ōtsutsuki Clan and unseal Kaguya. Meanwhile, Jiraiya sought guidance from the Great Toad Sage, who sent him into a vision where he encountered a mysterious white figure.

• Uchiha Madara said he wanted to prove Hashirama Senju wrong and find a worthy opponent, and he agreed that Tianyi could satisfy both goals.
• Tianyi told the meeting that an Ōtsutsuki who arrived with Kaguya was still alive and that the Leaf Village would unite the Ninja World to defeat him and unseal Kaguya.
• Jiraiya left the Land of Whirlpools and used Reverse Summoning to travel to Mount Myōboku.
• The Great Toad Sage told Jiraiya that a prophecy foretold war, the unification of the Ninja World, and the return of the Asura, then sent him into a vision.
• Jiraiya found himself in a boundless void, saw a white figure marked with nine tomoe, and asked who he was.

Jiraiya met Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, who explained that Hyuga Tianyi’s plans for unifying the Ninja World could provoke war and asked Jiraiya to take on a task. Hagoromo showed Jiraiya an image of his mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

• Jiraiya asked the old man who he was, and Hagoromo identified himself as the Sage of Six Paths and founder of Ninshū.
• Hagoromo told Jiraiya that portions of Kurama’s and the other tailed beasts’ souls had gone to another world, and that Hyuga Tianyi was connected to the changes threatening the Ninja World.
• Hagoromo warned that Hyuga Tianyi’s plans to unite the regions under one language and system would provoke resistance and war, especially since Indra’s reincarnation had joined his side.
• Hagoromo told Jiraiya that Gamamaru had identified him as the guide for Asura’s reincarnation, but that he was too weak to influence events without help.
• Hagoromo lowered his staff into the void and revealed an image of his mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

Jiraiya gained the Sage of Six Paths' power and resolved to stop Hyuga Tianyi's scheme, while Konoha prepared for war. Tianyi and Uchiha Fugaku discussed a painful plan to awaken Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan.

• The Sage of Six Paths disappeared after telling Jiraiya that love could bring peace, and Jiraiya returned from the spiritual world with a sun mark on his palm.
• Jiraiya told the Great Toad Sage that he had met the Sage of Six Paths, then began training to master his new power and vowed to stop Hyuga Tianyi.
• At Konoha's war council, White Zetsu provided intelligence, and Uchiha Madara sensed a familiar but unremembered power awakening within him.
• Several days later, Konoha began mobilizing its ninja and supplies for war.
• Above Hokage Rock, Uchiha Fugaku agreed to Tianyi's plan for Itachi, despite fearing the pain required to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Kakashi begged Tianyi to spare Obito, and Tianyi agreed to delay Obito’s death so he could be used in a coming plan. In Konoha’s prison, Tianyi confronted Obito with his crimes while Rin listened, and Obito recognized her voice.

• Kakashi knelt before Tianyi and pleaded for Obito’s life.
• Tianyi agreed to spare Obito for now, telling Kakashi he would repay Obito’s crimes, then revealed to Fugaku that Obito still had to die for their plan.
• Tianyi and Rin visited Obito in prison, where Uchiha guards watched over the chained, blinded prisoner.
• Tianyi recounted Obito’s past and condemned him for attacking Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Konoha.
• Rin cried out in shock as she learned what Obito had done, and Obito turned toward her voice and demanded to know who was there.

Tianyi confronted Obito with Rin’s knowledge of his crimes and offered him a chance to die fighting for the Leaf Village, which Obito accepted. The next morning, Tsunade addressed Konoha’s assembled ninja and declared that the village would end the era of war, as the crowd rallied behind her.

• Tianyi used Impure World Reincarnation to let Obito hear Rin, then told him Kakashi had pleaded for his life and Rin had asked whether he was all right.
• Tianyi explained that Rin knew about Obito’s crimes and offered him the chance to give his life for the village; Obito agreed.
• The next morning, Tsunade addressed thousands of assembled ninja in Konoha and vowed to bring lasting peace to the Ninja World.
• Tsunade declared, “Leaf Village will triumph!” and the crowd echoed her cry.

Itachi prepared to leave for the war, shared a tender farewell with Sasuke, and learned Mikoto planned to take Sasuke and Kushina Uzumaki to the Capital of the Land of Fire. He then joined his team at the assembly point and departed on a reconnaissance mission ahead of the main force.

• Itachi packed his ninja equipment and told Mikoto he was going to see Sasuke before leaving for the war.
• Itachi lifted Sasuke so he could reach for a dragonfly, promised to play with him after the war, and said it should be the last war.
• Mikoto told Itachi she and Sasuke would travel to the Capital of the Land of Fire for a fashion show, where they would meet Kushina Uzumaki.
• Itachi said goodbye to Mikoto and Sasuke, then went to the western assembly point in Leaf Village.
• Itachi received a reconnaissance mission to clear obstacles for the main force and wait at the coastline, then set out with several squads.

Itachi, Inuzuka Hana, and Kabuto Yakushi encountered repeated bandit and rogue ninja attacks while traveling through the Land of Fire. They suspected the attackers were deliberately delaying Leaf Village forces to conceal something and continued onward, planning to capture the next interceptors for questioning.

• Itachi, Inuzuka Hana, and Kabuto Yakushi crossed the forest, fighting three groups of bandits and surviving an attack by rogue ninja.
• At a stream, Itachi and Kabuto recognized that the attacks were unusual because the Land of Fire’s road network was meant to keep bandits and rogue ninja away.
• Kabuto and Itachi concluded that the trained attackers were staging scattered interceptions to delay their team rather than kill them, possibly to conceal an objective.
• Itachi decided not to send a signal flare and planned to use his Sharingan to control the next interceptors while Kabuto kept them alive.
• The three resumed their journey in formation, watching for attackers and waiting until they entered Itachi’s Sharingan range.

Uchiha Itachi, Kabuto, and Inuzuka Hana were ambushed by Hidden Mist Village ninja in the forest, and Itachi learned that multiple hidden villages had infiltrated the Land of Fire to target attendees of a fashion show in the capital. He realized his mother and Sasuke were in danger and suspected a high-ranking insider in Leaf Village.

• Hidden Mist Village ninja attacked Itachi, Kabuto, and Inuzuka Hana with explosives, fog, kunai, and a Great Waterfall Technique.
• Kabuto summoned snakes to search through the flooded area, and Haimaru detected a moving attacker.
• Itachi pursued and captured one attacker, but returned to find Kabuto and Inuzuka Hana wounded and the remaining enemies gone.
• Itachi treated his teammates, moved them to shelter, and questioned the captive with genjutsu.
• The captive revealed that Hidden Mist Village, Hidden Sand Village, Hidden Cloud Village, and Hidden Stone Village had infiltrated the Land of Fire to ambush clan leaders and noblewomen attending a fashion show.
• Itachi realized his mother and Sasuke were in danger and concluded that a high-ranking insider in Leaf Village had enabled the infiltration.

Itachi suspected a traitor had compromised the patrol system and received no response to his signal, so he left a message and headed for the Capital of the Land of Fire. In Sunagakure, Rasa and the village leadership debated the Leaf Village’s invasion, and Rasa proposed abandoning the village to fight across the desert in smaller units.

• Itachi concluded that someone had bypassed or shut down the patrol checkpoints and that his master had not answered his signal.
• Itachi set traps, left Kabuto a scroll with intelligence, and sent a Shadow Clone to conceal itself before departing for the Capital of the Land of Fire.
• Chiyo told the Hidden Sand officials that the Leaf Village had orchestrated Akatsuki’s attacks and was pursuing a war of annihilation.
• The elders voiced doubts about Sunagakure’s ability to withstand the Leaf forces, and Rasa silenced them by breaking a piece off the table.
• Rasa rejected defending Sunagakure or meeting the Leaf forces in open battle and proposed dividing into smaller units to wage a war of attrition across the desert.

Jiraiya gathered news in a border-town tavern and learned that the Leaf Village had absorbed the Hidden Cloud Village, the Hidden Mist Village, and Iwagakure, while moving against Sunagakure. Alarmed by Hyuga Tianyi’s rapid expansion and its consequences, he vanished from the tavern after thanking the merchants.

• Jiraiya entered a coastal town in the Land of Whirlpools and listened to travelers discuss the Leaf Village’s declaration of war on the four great nations.
• Jiraiya bought drinks for two merchants in exchange for information about the unrest across the Ninja World.
• The merchants told Jiraiya that the Hidden Cloud Village, the Hidden Mist Village, and Iwagakure had been absorbed into special administrative regions run by Leaf Village officials.
• The merchants said Orochimaru the Cold Lord, Hatake Sakumo, Minato Namikaze, and Uchiha Fugaku had been sent to Sunagakure.
• Jiraiya worried that Hyuga Tianyi’s ambitions would cause more deaths, paid the merchants, and vanished, leaving them to realize he was a shinobi.

Uchiha Itachi learned that the Uchiha convoy had been ambushed near Tajima Town and that Mother and Sasuke had been captured. At the scene, he pieced together how the attackers struck and lost his composure as dark chakra surged around him.

• An Uchiha convoy passed through Tajima Town heading toward the capital, and a few minutes later an explosion sounded to the southeast.
• A merchant reported that the convoy had been ambushed and that a mother and son had been taken away.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived in town and questioned a worker, who told him the attack had happened about five li southeast around noon.
• Itachi inspected the overturned carriage and identified evidence of multiple attackers using several elemental techniques to capture Mother and Sasuke alive.
• Itachi's Sharingan glowed as dark chakra erupted from his body, and madness appeared in his eyes.