Chapter Summaries

Chojuro joined the battle against VenomMyotismon, whose recovery and Dark Energy overwhelmed the fighters. Tailmon revealed that sunlight was its weakness, so the group changed tactics to hold it off until dawn, which began to appear on the eastern horizon.

• Chojuro arrived as Akainu warned that VenomMyotismon was recovering quickly and its Dark Energy was wearing them down.
• VenomMyotismon used Toxic Stream to badly injure Red-Eyes Black Dragon, but Tailmon stopped Boruto and explained that sunlight weakened Myotismon.
• Smoker proposed stalling until dawn, with Red-Eyes Black Dragon harassing the monster while Aokiji, Akainu, and Smoker defended and attacked in coordinated shifts.
• Aokiji raised ice walls, Akainu targeted VenomMyotismon with focused magma strikes, and Smoker used Boil Style steam to bind it and disperse darkness.
• VenomMyotismon repeatedly battered the defenses, but the fighters maintained a stalemate as their strength dwindled and dawn began to show on the horizon.

VenomMyotismon charged toward Kirigakure to drain its people, but Uncle opened a magical gate that began pulling him and the remaining Dark Digimon away. As the exhausted fighters struggled to push VenomMyotismon through, Ao reached Chojuro and entrusted Kirigakure to him.

• VenomMyotismon resisted Akainu, Aokiji, Smoker, and Red-Eyes Black Dragon as he charged toward Kirigakure, drawn by the village’s life force.
• Uncle summoned an Emerald Light gate that sucked away the remaining Dark Digimon and caught VenomMyotismon in its pull.
• Akainu, Aokiji, Smoker, Boruto, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and Chojuro combined their attacks to drive VenomMyotismon toward the gate.
• VenomMyotismon rooted himself inches from the gate as Uncle’s strength waned.
• Ao reached Chojuro and told him he was leaving Kirigakure in his hands.

Ao sacrificed his life by using the energy core sustaining him to blast VenomMyotismon’s Dark Energy node. Uncle closed the magic gate with VenomMyotismon caught in its frame, destroying the monster and leaving the battlefield silent beneath the rising sun.

• Ao urged Chojuro to seek counsel from Sakazuki and the others, then revealed his mechanical arm and the energy core keeping him alive.
• Ao placed the core in his cannon and fired a powerful blast at the Dark Energy node VenomMyotismon was using to resist the spell.
• VenomMyotismon’s resistance collapsed, and the green vortex dragged it toward the magic gate, but it caught the frame and became wedged there.
• Uncle stopped chanting and used the Dried Pufferfish to close the gate, cutting away the part of VenomMyotismon trapped in it.
• VenomMyotismon exploded into fragments that dissolved in the sunlight, and the exhausted survivors stood in silence.

Ao died after giving Chojuro, Sakazuki, Kuzan, Smoker, and Jade his final advice and asking them to protect Kirigakure. Chojuro organized the village’s recovery, while Uncle accepted his invitation to the Mizukage Building and Boruto said goodbye to the tired Red-Eyes Black Dragon.

• Chojuro and the others reached Ao as he lay dying, and Ao gave Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Smoker advice on how to protect Kirigakure.
• Ao asked Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Smoker to protect Jade, then entrusted Kirigakure to them and told them to support Chojuro.
• Ao peacefully died, and Chojuro, the others, Boruto, and Jade mourned him.
• Chojuro ordered Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Smoker to treat the wounded, assess losses, clear the battlefield, and restore the village’s defenses.
• Chojuro thanked Uncle for his help and invited him to the Mizukage Building, which Uncle accepted.
• Boruto thanked the Red-Eyes Black Dragon for its help and told it to go rest.

After the Canopy Screen showed Ao sacrificing himself to protect Kirigakure, Mei Terumi and Chojuro honored his loyalty and resolve. Mei urged Ao and Chojuro to protect the village in the present so that the terrible future would never come to pass.

• The Canopy Screen ended with Boruto leaving the recovering valley alongside Chojuro, Uncle, and Jade.
• Mei Terumi and Chojuro were shaken by Ao’s final sacrifice and his request that they support Chojuro and protect Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi acknowledged Ao’s suffering and praised his steadfast loyalty as the fullest expression of the Will of Water.
• Chojuro promised Ao that he would honor his trust and protect Kirigakure with him.
• Mei Terumi told Ao and Chojuro to stand together and prevent the future they had witnessed.

After Ao’s farewell on the Canopy Screen, Shikamaru and Ino confronted the possibility of losing their fathers and resolved to become stronger. Shikamaru returned to planning with Shikaku, while Inoichi agreed to train Ino more intensively.

• Shikaku told Shikamaru that shinobi had to accept death and focus on protecting those who mattered through their choices.
• Shikamaru wiped his tears, regained his composure, and resumed studying the board with Shikaku.
• Ino cried in Inoichi’s arms after hearing Ao’s words, and Inoichi reassured her that the future had not happened yet.
• Ino vowed to grow strong enough to protect her teammates and fight beside her father to change the future.
• Inoichi agreed to double Ino’s training and teach her everything he knew.

After the crisis in Kirigakure, Boruto reunited with his friends and celebrated his role in defeating the monster. The captured rebel leader accused Kagura of being an accomplice, and Kagura confessed that he had concealed the rebel’s attempt to recruit him.

• Kagura hurried to Chojuro and Boruto, while Sarada and Mitsuki checked on Boruto and thanked him for saving Sarada.
• Boruto asked Sarada to help persuade Sasuke to take him as a student, then clasped hands with Damian and vowed to beat him in a future match.
• Moegi arrived and promised to report Boruto’s deeds to Naruto, then told Damian, Misaka, and Anya that Aizen would join them later.
• Kirigakure ninja brought in Hoshigaki Shichengzhen and five accomplices, and Chojuro ordered them held under guard until trial.
• Hoshigaki Shichengzhen accused Kagura of sharing the rebels’ blood, and Kagura confessed that he had concealed the recruitment attempt and asked Chojuro to punish him.

Chojuro cleared Kagura of suspicion and entrusted him with Hiramekarei, while the exchange students asked to stay in Kirigakure for Ao’s funeral. The crisis had passed, but the students remained to mourn Ao and Kagura began his new role protecting the village.

• Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki, Damian, Mikoto Misaka, Anya, and Jade defended Kagura to Chojuro.
• Chojuro gave Kagura the Twin Swords Hiramekarei and urged him to protect Kirigakure and forge his own path as Kagura Karatachi.
• Chojuro revealed that Ao had died protecting Kirigakure and stopping VenomMyotismon.
• Sarada and the other exchange students asked to attend Ao’s funeral before leaving, and Chojuro agreed.
• Chojuro assigned Kagura to help arrange Ao’s funeral and asked Jade to guide the guests, rewarding her with permission to use Samehada.

Sosuke Aizen destroyed the last remnant of VenomMyotismon and absorbed its data into a strange bead. In Kirigakure, Chojuro presided over a crowded funeral for Ao, who had died defending the village.

• Aizen found the remnant of VenomMyotismon in an alley and crushed it, dismissing its hopes of rebuilding itself.
• Aizen absorbed the remnant's dust into a translucent bead and returned toward the Mizukage Building.
• Kirigakure residents gathered in mourning for Ao's funeral at the village's cemetery for fallen heroes.
• Chojuro recounted Ao's service during the wars and his efforts to rebuild Kirigakure before his death defending it.
• Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Smoker saluted their teacher at the funeral.

The Kirigakure exchange meeting ended with Ao’s funeral, where Jade’s words eased tensions over his wartime record, and the visiting young ninja parted on friendly terms. The Canopy Screen then showed Konoha ninja fighting Jashinist Cultists with Scientific Ninja Tools.

• During Ao’s funeral, Jade reminded the mourners that people in every village had fought to protect their homes and that the present peace marked a change.
• Chojuro honored Ao’s final sacrifice and urged the younger generation to work together for a different future.
• At Kirigakure’s gate, Sarada, Mikoto Misaka, Jade, and Anya exchanged invitations, while Boruto challenged Damian and encouraged Kagura as the new bearer of Hiramekarei.
• Moegi led the Konoha and Kumogakure visitors home as Kagura and Jade saw them off.
• The Canopy Screen showed twelve Konoha ninja advancing against Jashinist Cultists whose Scientific Ninja Tools fired hand-sign-free compressed fireballs.

Sai and the Konoha ninja fought the Jashinist Cultists until Dagon emerged and attacked them with a flood and a school of monstrous fish. Sasuke arrived, destroyed the fish, and closed in on Dagon, declaring that he would die.

• Sai unleashed thirty-seven ink beasts that shattered the Jashinist Cultists' formation, but Dagon flooded the valley and dissolved the beasts.
• Dagon emerged from a cave, admitted the cult had attacked the Peace Tour, and sent a school of monstrous fish against the Konoha ninja.
• Sasuke Uchiha arrived on a giant eagle and destroyed the fish with a slash of his blade.
• Dagon tried to blame the Peace Tour attack on Longqi and offered compensation, but Sasuke walked toward him and said he would die.
• Sasuke vanished and thrust his blade toward Dagon's heart.

Dagon trapped Sasuke Uchiha in his Domain Expansion and unleashed endless sea beasts, but Sasuke’s Amaterasu began consuming the Domain and weakening Dagon. Dagon sacrificed himself to summon the Ananta Serpent, which swallowed Sasuke’s flames and the space around him, forcing Sasuke to escape with Amenotejikara.

• Dagon used Domain Expansion: Horizon of the Captivating Skandha to transport Sasuke into a vast, blood-red sea and summon waves of monstrous sea creatures.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu, spreading black flames across the sea and destroying the beasts while burning away Dagon’s power.
• Dagon realized the flames could consume his Domain, so he sacrificed himself to summon the Ananta Serpent.
• The Ananta Serpent swallowed the flames, seawater, air, light, and the space where Sasuke had stood.
• Sasuke used Amenotejikara to reappear behind and beside the serpent’s head.

Sasuke killed the Ananta Serpent and defeated Dagon, causing Dagon’s domain to collapse. He then ordered Sai and the Konoha ninja to kill every surviving Jashinist, and they cleared the valley.

• Sasuke summoned Perfect Susanoo and fought the Ananta Serpent as it coiled around him.
• Sasuke used Kagutsuchi to drive Amaterasu spears into the serpent’s wounds, then cut off its head with Susanoo’s sword.
• Dagon’s domain collapsed, and Sasuke killed the weakened Dagon after dismissing his threat about Hidan.
• Sai joined Sasuke, and Sasuke ordered the Konoha ninja to leave no Jashinists alive.
• The Konoha ninja slaughtered the remaining Jashinists and began clearing the camp.

Sasuke ordered Sai to kill the Jashinist Cult’s women and children, then reconsidered after realizing his words echoed Shimura Danzō’s, leaving the captives’ fate to standard procedures. In Amegakure, Pain and Konan discussed the future cult’s powerful members and the mysterious force behind them.

• Sai reported the cultists’ casualties, seized tools and documents, and the discovery of seventy-two women and children at the base.
• Sasuke ordered the captives killed, but his reasoning reminded him of Shimura Danzō’s claim that atrocities were for Konoha, so he told Sai to follow standard procedures.
• Sai ordered the captives isolated and questioned, the women and children assessed and placed, and all cult-related items destroyed.
• Pain questioned why the future Shinobi World contained so many powerful entities aligned with the Jashinist Cult.
• Konan suggested the cult’s cohesion came from its Evil God, whose influence might involve a fundamental or taboo power beyond their understanding.

Konan warned Pain that Amegakure could become a target for hatred after the Fourth Shinobi World War, despite Naruto Uzumaki’s efforts to establish peace. The Canopy Screen then showed Hidan learning that Sasuke Uchiha had destroyed the Southern Diocese and killed Bishop Dagon.

• Konan told Pain that Amegakure’s location and weakness could make it a target for factions seeking revenge after the war.
• Pain considered how little his power could guarantee Amegakure a lasting peace.
• The Canopy Screen showed Hidan leading a ritual beneath the mountains while a White-Clothed Man silently cleaned a crimson blade.
• A Jashinist Cultist interrupted the ritual to report that Konoha Ninja had destroyed the Southern Diocese and killed Bishop Dagon and 127 cultists.
• Hidan reacted with fury and disbelief before the cultist revealed that Sasuke Uchiha had killed Dagon.

After Sasuke Uchiha devastated the Jashinist Cult over the Peace Tour incident, Hidan raged and called for war, but Doma warned him against fighting Konoha. Hidan ordered an attack on Gaara and offered the role of Vice Leader and the secret of immortality as rewards, and a shadowed figure finally volunteered.

• A cultist told Hidan that Sasuke Uchiha had attacked the Southern Diocese to avenge the Peace Tour incident.
• Hidan swore revenge on Sasuke Uchiha and ordered the Jashinist Cult to prepare for war.
• Doma urged Hidan not to start an all-out war with Konoha, citing its powerful defenders and the threat posed by Kumogakure and Nine Nether.
• Hidan ordered one of the black-robed figures to assassinate Gaara in Sunagakure, but no one volunteered because of the danger.
• Hidan offered the successful assassin the position of Vice Leader and the secret of immortality, and a shadowed figure rose to answer him.

Urashiki accepted Hidan’s mission to face Sasori, while Hidan declared that the power of Lord Celestial would shatter Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha’s world. The Canopy Screen then opened a chat for Pure Land residents, where the dead discussed the future and their former lives.

• Urashiki revealed himself as a puppet and agreed to take on the mission, hoping to test his skills against Sasori.
• Hidan promised Urashiki the position of Vice Leader and the secrets of the Jashinist Cult if he returned successfully.
• Doma warned Hidan that Urashiki might have ambitions beyond becoming Vice Leader, but Hidan trusted Lord Celestial’s power to overcome them.
• Hidan prayed for war and declared that Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha’s order would collapse before a true god.
• Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju, and Hiruzen Sarutobi joined the Pure Land chat and reacted to the future, while Tsunade told Hiruzen that Danzo was in a vegetative state.

With Anya away in Kirigakure, Kabuto prepared a candlelit dinner for Yor, hoping to bring genuine warmth to their pretend family. Yor arrived flustered by her coworkers’ teasing about a romantic kiss, and the wine left her even more overwhelmed as Kabuto leaned closer to check on her.

• A month after the previous chat, Kabuto worried about Anya’s trip and decided to prepare a candlelit dinner for Yor.
• Ran Mouri and Yor’s coworkers teased Yor about a romantic kiss with Kabuto, leaving her embarrassed and distracted.
• Kabuto welcomed Yor home to a carefully prepared dinner and toasted Anya’s exchange in Kirigakure.
• Yor drained her wine, became flushed and unsteady, and Kabuto leaned closer to see if she was all right.

Yor accidentally struck Kabuto Yakushi with a lightning-charged punch after he leaned close, knocking him unconscious. After waking, Kabuto reassured her and concealed his ability to use medical ninjutsu, leaving him to treat his injury without revealing his true identity.

• Yor panicked when Kabuto Yakushi leaned close and reflexively punched him in the eye with lightning-charged force.
• Yor found Kabuto unconscious and apologized as she watched over him until he woke with his head in her lap.
• Kabuto assessed his injury, reassured Yor, and concluded that alcohol made her strength dangerously hard to control.
• Kabuto sent Yor to rest, then considered using medical ninjutsu but stopped to protect his Loid Forger identity.

Yor woke worried about the injury she had caused Loid, but he left for an emergency hospital appointment with a suspicious patient. There, Kabuto Yakushi met Gintoki Sakata, a supposedly traumatized samurai whose relaxed manner concealed a formidable presence.

• Yor rushed to check Loid's injured eye and blamed herself, while Loid assured her it was a minor accident.
• Kabuto Yakushi received a call about Gintoki Sakata, who claimed to be a samurai hero with severe psychological trauma and requested Loid by name.
• Kabuto Yakushi left home for the hospital, telling Yor not to worry about his eye.
• At the hospital, Kabuto Yakushi read Gintoki Sakata's registration form and entered his soundproof consultation room.
• Gintoki Sakata greeted Kabuto Yakushi from the sofa, and Kabuto sensed that the seemingly lazy samurai was dangerous.