Recaps

Kabuto Yakushi arrived in Kumogakure with Anya under the cover of a father and daughter settling down, while continuing his plan to marry Yor. He spotted Ran Mouri with her boyfriend Shinichi Kudo, then left them behind as they headed toward an amusement park.

• Kabuto Yakushi chose Yor as his primary marriage target and kept Ran Mouri's file as a backup.
• Konoha spies supplied Kabuto Yakushi and Anya with documents and belongings during their train journey, making Loid Forger's cover story convincing.
• Kabuto Yakushi and Anya arrived in Kumogakure, where Anya said she wanted to live in a castle.
• Kabuto Yakushi recognized Ran Mouri and Shinichi Kudo as a close couple, confirming his choice to pursue Yor instead.
• Ran Mouri teased Shinichi Kudo about his Odd Jobs Shop, and Shinichi suggested they visit a crowded amusement park.

At Kumogakure Amusement Park, Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri recovered a woman’s stolen wallet, but Ran refused Shinichi’s attempt to pursue a connection with the Misaka Family. Later, Shinichi spotted someone unexpected in a restaurant as he headed to the restroom.

• A woman discovered her wallet was missing, and Shinichi deduced that a man in a gray coat had stolen it.
• The thief used the Body Flicker Technique to flee, but Ran intercepted and knocked him unconscious, allowing Shinichi to return the wallet.
• Shinichi recognized the woman’s Misaka Family card and tried to accept her invitation, but Ran dragged him away, wary of danger.
• After spending the day at the amusement park, Shinichi and Ran had dinner at a themed restaurant.
• On his way to the restroom, Shinichi glimpsed someone unexpected in a quiet booth.

Shinichi Kudo followed Demiurge from an amusement park and discovered that he was secretly helping plan to ignite the Fifth Shinobi World War. After Mayuri Kurotsuchi noticed Shinichi spying, Demiurge appeared in his path.

• Shinichi noticed Demiurge react to a false clock chime and hurried after him, leaving Ran Mouri behind.
• Shinichi followed Demiurge through Kumogakure to an abandoned Training Ground, where Demiurge met Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Mayuri asked about the secret plan to start the Fifth Shinobi World War, and Demiurge said it was nearly ready pending Iwagakure's request for aid.
• Mayuri spotted Shinichi hiding in the rubble, and Demiurge revealed that he had known Shinichi was following him.
• Shinichi tried to flee, but Demiurge appeared in front of him and blocked his escape.

Shinichi Kudo survived Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s failed rejuvenation experiment but woke in the body of a young boy. At the Raikage Building, Yor startled her coworkers by suddenly declaring that she was married.

• Shinichi Kudo tried to escape Mayuri Kurotsuchi with a smoke bomb, but Mayuri captured him and kept Demiurge from killing him so he could use him as a test subject.
• Mayuri forced Shinichi to swallow his Rejuvenation Elixir, and Shinichi convulsed before appearing to die as Mayuri left him behind.
• About an hour later, Shinichi woke up in a child’s body and stared in shock at his reflection.
• Ran Mouri gave Yor a gift at the office, and a colleague teased Yor about finding a boyfriend.
• Yor suddenly told her stunned coworkers that she was married.

After Yor claimed she was married, Samui ordered her to bring her husband for a security screening and assigned her to assassinate a corrupt official. The next day, Kabuto took Anya shopping and unexpectedly met Yor, who confronted him for staring.

• Ran Mouri and her coworkers congratulated Yor on her supposed marriage and planned a party where she would bring her husband.
• Samui told Yor to bring her husband for a political and security screening, then ordered her to kill a corrupt medical logistics official.
• Yor infiltrated the official's mansion, killed him and his guards, and identified herself as the Thorn Princess.
• Kabuto took Anya to a clothing store and spotted Yor, his target, while planning how to approach her.
• Yor noticed Kabuto repeatedly looking at her and asked him whether he needed something.

Kabuto Yakushi and Yor agreed to pose as each other’s spouse after Anya helped bring them together. The Canopy Screen’s broadcast ended with Fourth Raikage A furious and disbelieving over how easily the Konoha spy had won Yor’s cooperation.

• Kabuto Yakushi complimented Yor, and she unexpectedly asked him to marry her.
• Anya came out in a red dress and called Kabuto her father, prompting Yor to assume he was married and pull away.
• Anya pretended to cry about being motherless, and Kabuto claimed his wife had died when Anya was born.
• Yor asked Kabuto to pose as her husband at a weekend gathering, and he asked her to pose as Anya’s mother for school formalities.
• Yor gave Kabuto the gathering’s details and hurried out of the store, while Anya celebrated their new family plan.
• After the Canopy Screen’s broadcast ended, Fourth Raikage A smashed his desk and raged at Yor’s quick agreement to help the spy.

Fourth Raikage A ordered surveillance of elite ninja relationships, while Mei Terumi reflected on her own marriage anxieties after watching Yor’s proposal. Kabuto Yakushi recognized Nine Nether’s possible role in stirring wars across the Shinobi World, and the Canopy Screen showed him leaving Anya at home before heading to work.

• Fourth Raikage A ordered Samui to draft regulations monitoring Jonin and higher-ranked ninja’s marriages and relationships.
• Mei Terumi identified with Yor’s fear of growing older unmarried and considered giving her own marriage some thought.
• Kabuto Yakushi condemned Konoha for sending Anya on a dangerous spying mission as a child.
• Kabuto connected Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Demiurge to Nine Nether and suspected the organization was provoking wars to pursue a hidden goal.
• The next morning, Kabuto told Anya to stay home while he went to complete his employment paperwork and handle other work.

Kabuto Yakushi met his new handler, Ino Yamanaka, at a hidden Konoha intelligence base in Kumogakure and accepted a weekend assignment to exchange intelligence at the Third Library. In the real world, Ino saw the Canopy Screen reveal her future role as a spy chief and cried out in despair.

• Anya promised Kabuto she would stay home and behave while he went on a dangerous mission.
• Kabuto completed his hospital duties, then used a flower shop to reach a secret underground base.
• Ino Yamanaka introduced herself as Kabuto’s direct contact and superior in Kumogakure.
• Ino described how Kumogakure’s counterintelligence had made Konoha’s operations difficult and asked Kabuto to handle an urgent assignment.
• Kabuto accepted the task of leaving a disguised intelligence device and retrieving another at the Third Library that weekend.
• The Canopy Screen showed the real-world Ino her future as a spy chief, and she dropped her flower shears and wailed.

Ino accepted that her future role as a spy leader would serve Konoha, though she mourned her dream of opening a flower shop. Meanwhile, shrunken Shinichi Kudo encountered Professor Agasa and proved his identity, leaving Agasa shocked by his transformation.

• Inoichi reassured Ino that her future intelligence mission reflected the Yamanaka Clan’s importance and duty to Konoha.
• Ino accepted her responsibility and headed to the library to study espionage, still lamenting that she would not open a flower shop in Kumogakure.
• Shinichi returned to his Odd Jobs Shop, examined his shrunken body, and fell asleep in fear and confusion.
• Professor Agasa entered the shop the next morning, and Conan revealed that he was Shinichi Kudo, shrunk by Demiurge and Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Shinichi answered Agasa’s questions about their private memories and secret device, convincing him that he was really Shinichi.

Conan Edogawa adopted a new identity and enrolled at the Ninja Academy to investigate Demiurge’s conspiracy, but a murder at the Library gave him an immediate chance to use his detective skills. He accused a Library employee of killing the Librarian and claimed he had proof.

• Professor Agasa warned Shinichi Kudo that accusing Demiurge without evidence or standing could get them killed, then arranged for him to become Conan Edogawa and attend the Ninja Academy.
• Conan agreed to investigate the conspiracy by getting close to important figures, including Damian, Raikage Darui’s second son.
• Conan went to the Library to research his transformation, while Kabuto Yakushi arrived to complete a delivery for Ino Yamanaka.
• The Librarian was found murdered with a Kunai in his chest, and the guards sealed the Library and held nearby visitors for questioning.
• Conan identified a grim-faced man in a staff uniform as the killer and told the guards that he had proof.

Conan exposed a Jashinist Cultist who had murdered a librarian, but the killer died by poison before he could be questioned. Conan learned the cult might target the adult Kabuto Yakushi, while Yor arrived at a party alone after Kabuto failed to meet her.

• Conan used blood spatter, Red Clay on the suspect’s shoes, and a key to expose the librarian’s killer.
• The suspect tried to flee, but Kabuto Yakushi tripped him; the man then killed himself with a poison capsule and named the Jashinist Cult.
• The Kumogakure Military Police Force investigated and released Conan and Kabuto, and Kabuto hurried away to meet Yor.
• Conan told Professor Agasa what happened, and Agasa said the cult would likely focus on Kabuto rather than Conan because Hidan did not sacrifice children.
• Yor waited past their appointed time, then went to her coworker’s party alone, where coworkers asked where her husband was.

Loid Forger arrived at Yor's party and pretended to be her husband, helping her coworkers believe their story. Afterward, Yor proposed they marry for mutual convenience, but masked attackers ambushed them before Kabuto Yakushi could answer.

• Loid Forger arrived at the party and introduced himself as Yor's husband, a psychiatrist.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Yor's coworkers that he and Yor had met when she sought treatment at his clinic in the Land of Lightning.
• After the party, Yor proposed a practical marriage so she could deflect scrutiny and help Loid with Anya's screening.
• Yor and Kabuto sensed an ambush and dodged attacks from more than a dozen masked assailants wielding Scientific Ninja Tools.
• Yor knocked down several attackers and kicked away a bomber, while Kabuto disarmed another assailant carrying a sphere filled with cloudy liquid.

Kabuto Yakushi proposed to Yor during an attack by Jashinist Cultists, and Yor accepted before he drove them back with an acid bomb. After the Canopy Screen showed the future attack in Kumogakure, Fourth Raikage A demanded answers about how the cultists had evaded the village's security, and Samui explained that their ideology could spread beyond the reach of surveillance.

• Kabuto Yakushi proposed to Yor with a bomb ring, and she accepted while they were under fire.
• Kabuto Yakushi threw an acid bomb at the Jashinist Cultists, then told Yor they were his patients and research subjects.
• Yor revealed that she had arranged to backdate their marriage registration and asked Kabuto Yakushi to accompany her to the Review Department.
• The Canopy Screen's broadcast ended, and Fourth Raikage A angrily questioned Darui and Samui about the cultists' presence in future Kumogakure.
• Samui explained that even rigorous reviews could not prevent dangerous beliefs from quietly spreading among villagers.

Fourth Raikage A ordered Kumogakure to keep monitoring Hidan rather than risk provoking the unknown Evil God behind him. In the Canopy Screen’s broadcast, Yor joined Kabuto Yakushi and Anya’s cover family, and their review at the Raikage Building went smoothly.

• Samui warned Fourth Raikage A that Hidan’s immortality and the future’s inability to eradicate him suggested the Evil God posed a threat beyond their understanding.
• Fourth Raikage A ordered more informants to investigate Hidan and forbade anyone from attacking without his command.
• Yor agreed to live separately from Kabuto Yakushi while maintaining the appearance of a shared bedroom, and the family set out to complete her review and Anya’s school registration.
• Anya asked Yor for a hug, but Yor’s fear of accidentally hurting her made Anya change her mind.
• The review personnel accepted the forged identities and birth record, stamped Yor’s paperwork, and approved the review.

Anya took the Kumogakure Ninja Academy entrance exam, relying on her mind-reading ability after finding that the other children were just as confused as she was. She copied answers from Conan Edogawa’s thoughts and left the exam feeling confident, though the result was not revealed.

• Kabuto and Yor enrolled Anya in the Ninja Academy and took a family portrait with her.
• Kabuto considered stealing the exam questions but gave up after Anya confidently promised she would pass.
• Anya arrived at the exam hall and panicked when she saw the difficult questions and read the anxious thoughts of the other children.
• Anya found Conan Edogawa thinking confidently through the exam and copied his answers while deliberately making some mistakes.
• Anya left the exam and told Kabuto and Yor that she had succeeded.

Kabuto prepared his family for Anya’s school interview, then learned that Konoha’s intelligence network could not provide information on Damian, leaving him to find an opportunity himself. After warning Ino Yamanaka about the Jashinist Cult, he left to focus on the mission, while the chapter ended with Asuma and Shikamaru facing Kakuzu in a forest.

• Kabuto reassured Anya after she passed the written exam and began planning interview practice with her and Yor.
• Kabuto told Ino Yamanaka that Anya had scored 87 and qualified, and reported that the family had rehearsed likely interview scenarios.
• Ino Yamanaka explained that Kumogakure’s counterintelligence and Raikage Darui’s security prevented them from gathering information on Damian, so Kabuto would need to assess him himself.
• Kabuto warned Ino Yamanaka that he might have offended members of the Jashinist Cult, and she promised to watch for related activity.
• Ino Yamanaka prioritized Operation Owl and reassigned Kabuto’s other tasks as he left to prepare for the interview.
• Asuma and Shikamaru stood watch in a forest as Kakuzu faced them.

Asuma and Shikamaru negotiated a deal with Kakuzu to buy Explosive Tags for Konoha at a twenty-percent price increase. On his way back, Kakuzu encountered Hidan, who asked him to supply the Jashinist Cult on credit.

• Asuma showed Kakuzu the money while Shikamaru inspected the Explosive Tags and confirmed they were genuine.
• Kakuzu demanded a thirty-percent price increase, but Shikamaru negotiated it down to twenty percent in exchange for Konoha receiving priority for three months.
• Kakuzu accepted the deal, took the money, and left Asuma and Shikamaru to return to Konoha with the Explosive Tags.
• Kakuzu counted his earnings as he headed toward his hideout, then Hidan and two Jashinist Cultists blocked his path.
• Kakuzu offered Hidan a twenty-percent discount on Explosive Tags, but Hidan asked to put the purchase on the cult's tab.

Kakuzu drove Hidan away after rejecting his request for credit, while the Jashinist Cultists plotted to kidnap Yor and Anya to force Loid Forger into their ritual. The Canopy Screen then showed Yor and Anya meeting Conan at a clothing store, where Yor asked why he was shopping alone.

• Kakuzu realized Hidan’s cult might be behind his future bankruptcy, refused to lend him money, and attacked Hidan and two cultists with Fire Release.
• Hidan threatened that Kakuzu would regret rejecting the cult, but Kakuzu dismissed him and went home with his money unharmed.
• Jashinist Cultists in Kumogakure planned to hire a Jonin-level fugitive to kidnap Yor and Anya so they could lure Doctor Forger to their sacrificial altar.
• Yor took Anya to a children’s clothing store while Kabuto Yakushi went on a mission, and Anya recognized Conan as the boy who had helped her during the exam.
• Yor asked Conan why he was getting fitted for clothes alone, and Conan said his parents were busy and he lived nearby.

Anya was kidnapped by Fujiwara Ransetsu, a Jonin, but Yor knocked him out with one punch and rescued her. Anya asked Yor to train her, while Conan began to suspect Yor was far stronger than she seemed.

• Anya tried to get Conan to reveal his secret, but Fujiwara Ransetsu emerged from a utility pole and grabbed her.
• Conan recognized Fujiwara Ransetsu and attacked him, but the Jonin caught his kick while two Jashinist Cultists blocked Conan's path.
• Yor appeared behind Fujiwara Ransetsu, struck him with one punch, and knocked him unconscious.
• The Jashinist Cultists dropped Anya and Conan and fled, while Conan said he had called the Military Police Force.
• Anya asked Yor to train her, and Yor agreed to begin when they got home.
• Conan watched Yor leave and wondered how ordinary she really was.

After Anya was nearly kidnapped, Kabuto Yakushi resolved to find and destroy the Jashinist Cult’s hideout. At the Kumogakure Ninja Academy entrance interviews, A approved of the Forger family’s respect for the village’s history and assigned Aizen to teach the incoming students.

• Anya told Kabuto Yakushi that kidnappers had tried to take her and that Yor had driven them off.
• Kabuto Yakushi suspected the Jashinist Cult and decided to contact his commander for intelligence so he could eliminate the threat.
• Kabuto Yakushi, Yor, and Anya arrived at the Ninja Academy, where Kabuto Yakushi sensed concealed observers and realized the interview had already begun.
• A judged the arriving families from a building overlooking the plaza, rejecting children he considered unruly or timid.
• The Forger family bowed to the past Raikage portraits, earning A’s approval and a check mark in his notebook.
• A asked Aizen to become the incoming students’ homeroom teacher, and Aizen accepted before leaving to prepare for the interviews.

Darui saw that the future Fourth Raikage had lost an arm but remained cheerful about his retirement as a Ninja Academy principal. In the interview, Anya praised Naruto Uzumaki for protecting peace, then faced a pointed question about whether she would sacrifice Kumogakure’s interests for peace.

• Darui noticed the future Fourth Raikage’s metal left arm on the Canopy Screen, and A dismissed the loss as minor compared with surviving the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• A said he looked forward to becoming a Ninja Academy principal after retiring, and Darui agreed that it sounded good.
• Kabuto Yakushi, Yor, and Anya answered the interviewers’ questions about fitting into Kumogakure and raising Anya.
• Anya said she admired Naruto Uzumaki because he protected peace in the Shinobi World, easing Kabuto Yakushi’s worries.
• Tengjiyunwen challenged Anya to choose between peace and Kumogakure’s interests, leaving Kabuto Yakushi and Yor tense as everyone awaited her answer.

Kabuto Yakushi lost his temper after Tengjiyunwen bullied Anya during her Kumogakure Ninja Academy interview. He carried her out with Yor, accepting that the family had failed the interview.

• Tengjiyunwen pressured Anya with a question about putting Kumogakure's interests above peace, and she could not answer.
• Kabuto Yakushi and Aizen asked Tengjiyunwen to give Anya a different question, but he accused them of disloyalty.
• Tengjiyunwen continued mocking Anya until she broke down crying, stirring painful memories of Kabuto Yakushi's childhood in Root.
• Kabuto Yakushi slammed his fist into the table, condemned the academy's treatment of Anya, and carried her out with Yor following.
• Tengjiyunwen declared the family unqualified, while Aizen called for the next interview; Loid held Anya and felt no regret.

After Anya’s Ninja Academy interview went badly, Kabuto reassured her while privately concluding that Operation Owl had failed, and Ino ordered him to wait for further instructions. At the Raikage Building, Ran rallied Yor’s colleagues, who resolved to use their connections to investigate the interviewer and help Anya.

• On the way home, Kabuto comforted Anya and praised her wish for peace, while privately deciding the mission was hopeless and that he needed to get her back to Konoha.
• Anya heard Kabuto’s grim thoughts, shut herself in her room, and refused to watch Spy Bondman.
• Kabuto reported the failed interview to Ino, who told him to stay with Anya and wait for new orders from Konoha.
• Yor told Ran how the interviewer had treated Anya, and Ran grew angry and called on their coworkers to help.
• Yor’s colleagues offered to contact their connections at the Ninja Academy and education department to seek help for Anya.

Yor received support from her colleagues after her child was mistreated during a Kumogakure Ninja Academy interview, while the Canopy Screen provoked reactions from the Raikage and Team 7. The chapter ended with a Sunagakure convoy carrying sand gold traveling through the Land of Fire, its guards unaware of any danger.

• Yor’s colleagues rallied to help her, and Samui allowed them to continue despite the secretary’s concern that they were breaking the rules.
• Fourth Raikage A learned that the interviewer Tengjiyunwen was a Kumogakure Chunin, struggled to justify punishing him, and smashed his desk in anger.
• Naruto Uzumaki condemned Tengjiyunwen after seeing the interview, while Sasuke Uchiha noted that the man was currently in Kumogakure and then withdrew into his thoughts.
• A Sunagakure convoy carrying three carts of sand gold traveled through the Land of Fire as its captain warned the guards to stay alert and the others dismissed his concerns.

Uzuki Yugao slaughtered a Sand Ninja squad with her gravity-defying powers. Meanwhile, Ran Mouri told Yor that Anya was first on the Alternate Admissions List, and Yor returned home to find Kabuto Yakushi reading the Kumogakure Daily.

• Uzuki Yugao ambushed the Sand Ninja squad with falling boulders and killed the Jonin using her unseen force and floating sword.
• Ran Mouri told Yor that Anya was first on the Alternate Admissions List and was nearly guaranteed a place if an opening appeared.
• Yor thanked Ran Mouri and blurted out that she would kill anyone who threatened her, then awkwardly corrected herself.
• Yor returned home and found Kabuto Yakushi sitting on the sofa with the Kumogakure Daily.