Chapter Summaries

Tobirama rejected Danzo’s claims and attacked the thousands of shinobi threatening Konoha, while Ren and his allies joined the battle. As the Second Hokage learned that his revival sacrifice contained Natural Energy, the fighting continued.

• Danzo claimed he had acted to protect Konoha, but Tobirama called him a liar, severed his left arm, and fatally kicked him away.
• Ren confirmed the files about Hiruzen were true, and Tobirama assessed Hiruzen’s political growth before confronting the assembled clans.
• Tobirama unleashed Water Release—Water Severing Wave and Water Release—Water Wall, killing hundreds of shinobi and driving the others to fight back.
• Tsunade suggested reviving the First Hokage, but Ren said Tobirama was better suited to handle the situation and ordered Kurama Yun and Might Duy to attack.
• Ren, Kurama Yun, and Might Duy joined the battle as Tobirama sensed Natural Energy in his revived body and asked Ren what sacrifice had been used.

Ren, the Second Hokage, and their allies slaughtered the ninja attacking the Senju Clan, with the Second Hokage using Impure World Reincarnation to survive a deadly technique. The Second Hokage left Ren and the others to finish the battle and went to Konoha to confront those responsible.

• Ren countered the attackers' combined Wind and Fire Releases with black flames that engulfed hundreds of ninja.
• The Second Hokage attacked with a water tornado, while Kurama Yun and Duy also killed hundreds of the attackers.
• Several Elite Jonin trapped the Second Hokage with Earth Release, but he used Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags to kill them and regenerated afterward.
• Ren used Lightning Armor and Flying Thunder God to move among the attackers and cut them down.
• The Second Hokage praised Ren's use of Flying Thunder God, then appeared beside Nawaki and left the remaining fighters to him before departing for Konoha.
• Ren objected to being left to face the remaining ninja, but understood that the Second Hokage intended to punish those in Konoha.

Ren revealed his Sharingan and attacked the ninjas blocking his way, using his Fire God Armor and evolved Six Powers techniques to slaughter them. He prepared to continue toward Konoha with Tsunade and Nawaki, intent on confronting Hiruzen and seizing control of the village.

• Ren decided to use the Second Hokage's appearance to destroy Hiruzen and the other Konoha leaders' reputations and establish himself as the righteous side.
• Ren removed his colored contacts, revealed his Sharingan, and told Tsunade and Nawaki to deal with the ninjas before heading to Konoha.
• Ren transformed his Lightning Armor into black-flame Fire God Armor and used Burst Step to strike down a ninja.
• When the ninjas attacked with shuriken and kunai, Ren formed a Flame Dragon around himself and charged through their weapons.
• Ren crashed into the ninja crowd, and his flames burned them all away.

Ren and his allies crushed Danzo’s forces, capturing Danzo and taking the surviving ninjas as experimental subjects. Nawaki chose to kill the corrupt members of the Senju Clan and rebuild it under his leadership, leaving Tsunade shocked by his resolve.

• Ren summoned dogs to retrieve the fallen Uchiha’s eyes, then used Black Sunfall to devastate hundreds of enemy ninjas.
• Nawaki unleashed Wood Release, and Ren stopped fighting and told him to finish the wounded forces.
• Ren questioned Danzo, who refused to regret his actions, and sealed him away to claim Root and use him for research.
• Ren summoned the Dog Clan and ordered them to capture the surviving ninjas as research subjects for the Red Queen and Hiruko.
• Ren asked Tsunade and Nawaki whether to kill the corrupt Senju members, and Nawaki chose to destroy the clan’s rotten factions and rebuild it as clan head.

Ren and Tsunade arrived in Konoha as Enma condemned Hiruzen for his rule and exposed his role in plots against powerful ninja. Tobirama Senju appeared, forced Hiruzen to kneel, confirmed Enma’s accusations, and disowned him as a disciple.

• Ren sent Nawaki, Kurama Yun, Might Duy, and the Dog Clan to the Senju Clan, then used Flying Thunder God to take Tsunade to Konoha.
• At the Naruto Office, Enma fought Hiruzen and accused him of letting Konoha decline and secretly plotting against White Fang and Ren.
• Enma argued that Hiruzen had wrongly claimed credit for the Second Shinobi World War and revealed that Danzo had acted as Hiruzen’s pawn.
• Tobirama Senju arrived in the rain and commanded Hiruzen to kneel before him.
• Tobirama confirmed Enma’s accusations and told Hiruzen not to call him teacher because he had no disciple like him.

Ren appeared before Tobirama and Hiruzen, revealed his Uchiha heritage, and explained that he had planned the confrontation because Konoha’s leaders had tried to control him. Tobirama rejected Hiruzen’s attempt to blame Ren, while Hiruzen was left shaken and silent.

• Tobirama confronted Hiruzen over the decline of the clans he had supported, and Enma used a jade tablet to summon Ren and Tsunade.
• Tobirama sensed Madara’s Chakra within Ren, and Ren explained that he was Uchiha and had worn away the will of the Indra Chakra within him.
• Hiruzen accused Ren of plotting to destroy Konoha, but Tobirama attacked him and dismissed the accusation.
• Ren told Hiruzen that Konoha’s leaders had tried to turn him into a pawn, and he revealed that the plan was meant to make them pay for trying to control him.
• Tobirama showed approval of Ren’s strength, while Hiruzen realized the consequences of his actions and fell silent.

Tobirama mobilized his loyal forces to purge the clans involved in Konoha’s crisis, rejecting Hiruzen’s pleas to spare them. He ordered Ren to face Hiruzen, and their battle began with Ren launching a lightning-fast attack.

• Tobirama’s former ANBU and hidden operatives gathered, revealing that most of Konoha’s fighting forces remained loyal to him.
• Tobirama ordered the older generations of the Uchiha and Hyuga Clans, most of the Sarutobi Clan, and members of other involved clans to be purged.
• Hiruzen pleaded with Tobirama to stop the slaughter, then prepared to fight when Tobirama refused.
• Tobirama assigned Hiruzen to Ren and challenged Ren to prove he was strong enough to become Tsunade’s husband.
• Ren attacked Hiruzen with Shave and a lightning-charged Finger Pistol, while Hiruzen countered with the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique.

Ren revealed that he had trapped Hiruzen in Emotion Genjutsu, controlling his emotions during their battle. Hiruzen survived Ren’s strike with Earth Substitute, but Ren threatened to kill him, and Hiruzen responded by creating four shadow clones.

• Hiruzen used Earth Release and Fire Release attacks against Ren, but Ren remained unharmed.
• Ren’s Thunder strike pierced Hiruzen’s Petrification, and Hiruzen escaped by turning into mud with Earth Substitute.
• Hiruzen realized the battle had been an illusion and asked how Ren’s genjutsu had gone unnoticed.
• Ren explained that his Emotion Genjutsu controlled Hiruzen’s emotions and drew him into the illusion.
• Ren threatened to kill Hiruzen, who formed four Shadow Clones.

Ren summoned the restored Soul Hall to withstand Hiruzen’s five-element attack, then drew on its Heavenly Flames to unleash a devastating Fire Release. His fire overwhelmed Hiruzen’s defenses and began melting Hokage Rock as the chapter ended.

• Five Hiruzens combined Wind, Earth, Water, Lightning, and Fire Release into a single attack against Ren.
• Ren summoned the Soul Hall, which endured the combined ninjutsu without taking damage.
• The Soul Hall’s Heavenly Flames surged through Ren, and he used them to create a massive black Fire Dragon.
• Hiruzen’s five Water Release techniques failed to extinguish the Fire Dragon, which charged toward him.
• Ren’s flames melted the ground and buildings and began melting Hokage Rock.

Ren survived Hiruzen’s ambush and resisted the Reaper Death Seal, then used the Soul Hall’s Soul Chain to bind Hiruzen’s soul and reach for the Death God. The chain began coiling around the Death God as Hiruzen found himself unable to resist.

• Ren emerged from the Soul Hall and searched the lava for Hiruzen, who suddenly burst out from beneath the rock and attacked him.
• Ren used Lightning Armor, but Hiruzen’s Earth Clone vanished as the real Hiruzen appeared behind him and cast the Reaper Death Seal.
• Hiruzen tried to pull Ren’s soul out, but Ren’s Sharingan and the Trash Station’s power drew his soul back into his body.
• Ren summoned the Soul Hall’s black Soul Chain, which guarded him before binding Hiruzen’s soul and coiling toward the Death God.

Ren captured Hiruzen in the Soul Hall, then faced Tobirama, who initially threatened him over his Uchiha ties. Ren’s maternal grandfather arrived and revealed his past debt to Tobirama, ending the confrontation and hinting that Ren alone could restore their clan.

• Ren bound Hiruzen with soul chains and sent him into the Soul Hall, then returned the hall to Beast King Mountain.
• Tobirama praised Ren’s abilities but threatened him after learning his grandfather had followed Madara, while holding Tsunade restrained.
• Ren’s maternal grandfather appeared, identified Ren as his grandson, and persuaded Tobirama to let the matter go.
• Ren learned that his grandfather had once sacrificed his ninja status and Chakra to trap Tobirama with an Emotion Genjutsu, leaving Tobirama indebted to him.
• Tobirama asked whether Ren was the last descendant of their clan, and Ren’s grandfather said he was and could restore its glory.

Ren took control of the forces left behind by Tobirama and directed the purge and handling of the clans implicated in the rebellion. With the struggle for power decided, Ren headed to the Hyuga Clan and learned that Orochimaru had taken more than a dozen Senju corpses.

• A bloodied messenger told Tobirama that the rebellion's leaders had been killed, but more than sixty percent of Konoha's ninja clans were implicated.
• Nawaki confessed that he had killed more than half of his clansmen with Wood Release, and Tobirama told him to accept what he had done.
• Tobirama gave Tsunade the list of implicated people, and Tsunade passed it to Ren, who ordered their arrests, assignment to ANBU, or transfer to Root.
• Ren sent Tsunade home to rest and left with Might Duy and Kurama Yun after Shikaku and the others arrived to help with the cleanup.
• Ren said he was going to visit the Hyuga Clan, then learned from Kurama Yun that Orochimaru had taken more than a dozen bodies from the Senju Clan.

Ren imposed new terms on the Hyuga Clan after its leaders were killed for their role in the attempted massacre. The Hyuga were left to obey his order, while Madara secretly planned to approach Ren in the future.

• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu discussed how Ren's victory had strengthened his control over Konoha, while Madara worried that the village would grow more powerful.
• Madara ordered Black Zetsu and White Zetsu to keep approaching Ren and offer help when his Mangekyō Sharingan awakened.
• Ren arrived at the Hyuga Clan grounds and confronted its surviving members, whose clan head and elders had been killed.
• Ren decreed that those with lesser involvement would become branch family members, limited the main family to ten people, and demanded the Caged Bird sealing jutsu.
• Ren rejected a Hyuga man's attempt to negotiate, noticed Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi, and left the clan in grief and indignation.

Ren forced the Hyuga Clan to accept his terms, then divided the Uchiha Clan by taking its children and young women into his own faction. He left Fugaku in charge of the remaining adults and ordered the clans’ foundations confiscated as he continued through Konoha.

• The Hyuga Clan submitted to Ren’s terms because it could not resist him, Might Duy, and Kurama Yun.
• Ren entered the Uchiha compound and learned that Fugaku’s father and the clan elders had been killed; Fugaku said his father had ordered the clan to pledge loyalty to Ren.
• Several Uchiha elders rejected Ren, so he ordered them killed and took the children under six and women under twenty to form a new Uchiha clan under his command.
• Fugaku accepted Ren’s division of the clan, reasoning that the children might grow up safely under Ren’s protection.
• Ren ordered his subordinates to confiscate every clan’s accumulated records and resources, then assigned Kurama Yun and Duy to settle and train the Uchiha children.

Ren took control of Konoha after the massacre, with Tsunade becoming Hokage and Ren overseeing the village’s military. As Konoha stabilized under their rule, Ren prepared its clans for the coming Third Shinobi World War.

• Ren met Orochimaru on Hokage Rock and told him to keep researching and restrain Jiraiya, killing him if necessary.
• Nawaki told Ren that the Second Hokage had returned to the Pure Land and left Tsunade as Hokage, with Ren in charge of Konoha’s military.
• Tsunade struggled with Hokage duties, so Ren and Konan handled documents with help from Shikaku and Inoichi.
• Ren absorbed confiscated clan wealth, while the clans reorganized under new leaders and the Uchiha police force was abolished.
• Konoha recovered from the upheaval, while the other great shinobi villages were shocked by Ren’s sudden rise to power.

As other shinobi villages expanded their military strength, Ren strengthened Konoha’s defenses and planned to use confiscated clan wealth to improve the village and its shinobi. After Shikaku briefed him on the rising tensions, Ren laid out reforms and summoned Might Duy and Kurama Yun.

• The Third Raikage died, and A succeeded him as the Fourth Raikage and began expanding Kumogakure’s military.
• Ren reinforced Konoha’s borders as other villages built up their forces, causing their immediate ambitions to fade.
• Shikaku asked how to use the wealth seized from clans, and Ren directed him to fund construction, shinobi benefits, and medical training.
• Shikaku reported military expansion in Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and the Sand Ninja Village, while Kirigakure remained difficult to monitor.
• Ren ordered reforms to the Ninja Academy, shinobi training, and the exchange of confiscated clan ninjutsu, then summoned Might Duy and Kurama Yun.

Ren reassigned Might Duy to train Konoha’s Genin while Kurama Yun continued strengthening Root, then prepared to attend White Fang’s child’s full-month celebration. At the Trash Station, Ren discovered that the latest shipment included Demon Oars’s enormous corpse from the One Piece World.

• Ren told Kurama Yun to keep training Root and let its members see blood so the organization could grow stronger.
• Ren reassigned Might Duy from the ANBU handover to teaching Konoha’s Genin taijutsu, while reserving the ANBU position for White Fang.
• Konan told Ren that White Fang’s child had been born a month earlier and invited him to the full-month celebration that evening.
• Ren connected to the Trash Station and watched stones, wood chips, and debris pour from its vortex.
• Ren recognized the enormous corpse that emerged as Demon Oars from the One Piece World.

Ren received Demon Oars and several unexpected objects from the Trash Station, including Den Den Mushi and Yubashiri, and began preparing to use the communication snails in the coming Third Shinobi World War. The chapter ended as he spotted a strange human-shaped shadow trying to escape.

• Ren summoned Demon Oars onto a plaza at Beast King Mountain, ordered his workers to search the new trash, and had the giant corpse left in place and frozen because they could not lift it.
• Papillons found several Den Den Mushi, and Ren ordered the Sheepdogs to care for them and see whether they could grow stronger and reproduce.
• A Papillon found a rotten broken blade that Ren identified as likely being Yubashiri, and he sent it with a Bully Dog for study.
• Ren noticed that Moria's Shadow Zombies had no shadows, then saw a strange human-shaped shadow trying to flee.

Ren investigated a shadow from Moria’s ability that had appeared in the Naruto World, then brought Demon Oars’s flesh to Hiruko’s laboratory for study. Hiruko began examining the powerful cells, eager to use the Chimera Technique to absorb them.

• A shadow from Moria’s ability became a motionless sphere, which Ren stored in his Amethyst Ring after discovering he could not eat it.
• Ren ordered Red Queen to study Demon Oars’s body and had the Bully Dog preserve it after removing a portion of flesh for Hiruko.
• Ren traveled from Beast King Mountain to Hiruko’s laboratory in Konoha using Flying Thunder God.
• Ren found Hiruko conducting experiments with White Zetsu Cells on prisoners, turning one test subject into a wooden block.
• Ren gave Hiruko Demon Oars’s flesh, and Hiruko praised its cells as exceptionally powerful and naturally evolved.

Ren observed Hiruko’s dangerous transformation after he absorbed Demon Oars’s genes, then listened as Hiruko and the Red Queen theorized about White Zetsu Cells and the God Tree’s need for chakra and vitality. He ordered further research into Kekkei Genkai and left Demon Oars’s preserved flesh for study.

• Hiruko absorbed Demon Oars’s flesh and began growing rapidly as his cells expanded, nearly causing his body to crack apart.
• Ren ordered Hiruko to stop, and Hiruko used his Chimera Technique to shed the transformation before explaining that Demon Oars’s genes overwhelmed human cells.
• Hiruko and the Red Queen discussed how White Zetsu Cells could devour chakra and vitality, and proposed that the God Tree used a world’s life as nourishment.
• Ren told Hiruko and the Red Queen to continue their research and investigate the Kekkei Genkai sent by Yagura.
• Ren left the laboratory, considered the power Demon Oars’s flesh might grant, and chose not to inject it into himself.