Recaps

After Shinada survived his transformation, Tetsuya discussed breaking through to Six Paths level with Hashirama and Madara, then Jigen arrived with news about his future and a star map of Ōtsutsuki activity. Jigen absorbed Code, who had served another-timeline Isshiki, and offered to help Tetsuya search the universe for the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• Shinada endured the transformation until its final stage before passing out, and Tetsuya had him returned to his room after strengthening his constitution.
• Tetsuya told Hashirama and Madara they would find a way to help Hashirama reach Six Paths level and then travel beyond the Shinobi World.
• Jigen arrived and explained that he had foreseen his own death, but meeting Tetsuya had changed that future.
• Tetsuya released Code from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and Jigen welcomed him before absorbing him to replenish some of his power.
• Jigen said he had recovered about seventy percent of his strength and offered Tetsuya a star map showing where Ōtsutsuki had planted God Trees.

Tetsuya settled the Shinobi World's affairs and left Shinada in charge while he joined Izuna, Jigen, Hashirama, and Madara on a barren planet. After Hashirama and Madara destroyed another planet during their spar, Jigen revealed a star map, and Tetsuya announced that they would begin hunting the Ōtsutsuki.

• Shinada reported that the Federation had taken over the New Continent and described its assimilation, development, and exploration efforts.
• Tetsuya told Shinada he would be away and gave him a scroll containing a Shadow Clone to handle serious problems.
• Tetsuya passed through the Golden Space-Time Gate and met Izuna and Jigen on a barren planet.
• Hashirama and Madara returned from their spar, which had destroyed the planet where they fought.
• Jigen projected a star map with several marked planets, and Tetsuya announced that they would begin hunting the Ōtsutsuki.

Tetsuya and the others traveled to a star system marked on the Ōtsutsuki star chart, hoping to hunt the clan, but found their target planet lifeless after a God Tree had drained it. They left for the next planet, hoping to save it from the same fate.

• Tetsuya and the others made repeated Space-Time jumps to reach the nearest marked planet, and Jigen explained that he and Kaguya had once found the Shinobi World by following the Ōtsutsuki Clan's directions.
• Izuna suggested that everyone except Jigen enter their Six Paths Forms to disguise themselves as Ōtsutsuki before visiting the planet.
• Tetsuya sensed that the planet's natural energy was nearly depleted, and Jigen confirmed that an Ōtsutsuki had already grown a God Tree and left with its fruit.
• Tetsuya brought the group to an island formed from a collapsed mountain, where they saw the crater left by the God Tree.
• Hashirama mourned the planet's destruction, and Madara urged everyone to move on and try to save the next target planet.

Tetsuya told the group a story about a criminal sent to explore the universe, whose distant homeworld eventually recognized him as a hero and pioneer. After sharing the story beneath the rising satellites, the group resumed its journey toward the next target planet.

• As the group rested beside a green sea, Tetsuya began telling a story about a man offered a choice between execution and exploring the universe.
• Tetsuya explained that the protagonist used freezing technology to travel through space and send data back to his homeworld, while messages between them grew increasingly delayed.
• Madara compared the protagonist’s hibernation to how he had survived in the Mountain Graveyard, and confirmed that he had faked his death after his final battle.
• Tetsuya told how the protagonist learned his former lover had moved on, continued exploring, and was called a hero and pioneer by his homeworld before contact ended.
• When Hashirama asked what happened next, Tetsuya admitted he had forgotten the ending, then urged everyone to continue toward their next target planet.

Tetsuya and his group arrived at Planet 14, where its unusually weak natural energy suggested an Ōtsutsuki was still cultivating a God Tree. They sent Izuna and Hashirama to confront the enemy, then found people captured and drained by the tree.

• Tetsuya opened a gate to Planet 14 and sensed that its natural energy was weak for such a large world.
• Tetsuya concluded that a God Tree had drained the planet and that the Ōtsutsuki who planted it might still be there.
• Jigen explained that the enemy might have unfamiliar Rinnegan abilities, so Tetsuya agreed to send two fighters.
• Madara chose Izuna and Hashirama to go first, and Tetsuya opened a gate to the planet's surface.
• Tetsuya saw an enormous God Tree with people hanging from its branches, drained of their power.

Hashirama and Izuna attacked the God Tree’s Ōtsutsuki planter, Ōtsutsuki Qi, while Tetsuya, Madara, and Jigen went to inspect the tree and its fruit. The fight continued as the three reached the God Tree’s glowing treetop.

• Izuna opened a Space-Time Gate, and Hashirama struck the resting Ōtsutsuki before Izuna moved him to the other side of the planet.
• Ōtsutsuki Qi introduced himself and used repulsive force against Hashirama and Izuna, but Izuna’s Truth-Seeking Orbs pierced his defense.
• Tetsuya, Madara, and Jigen discussed Ōtsutsuki abilities and agreed to inspect the God Tree’s fruit while the battle continued.
• Tetsuya cut open a cocoon and found a dead creature transformed into something like White Zetsu, and Jigen explained that the God Tree had consumed the planet’s inhabitants.
• Tetsuya, Madara, and Jigen flew toward the God Tree’s summit and sensed powerful energy and white light coming from its treetop.

Tetsuya allowed Jigen, Madara, and the others to share the powerful God Tree Fruit, saying he had no use for it. Meanwhile, Izuna and Hashirama discovered how to counter Shiki Ōtsutsuki’s Spirit Transformation and pressed their attack.

• Tetsuya examined the God Tree Fruit while Madara and Jigen held back, waiting for his approval to take it.
• Jigen asked for a share, and Tetsuya offered the fruit to the four of them, insisting it was useless to him.
• Izuna and Hashirama identified Shiki Ōtsutsuki’s Spirit Transformation and worked out its weaknesses.
• Izuna pierced Shiki with a Truth-Seeking Orb blade, and Hashirama struck him while transformed into Shiki and using Spirit Transformation.
• Shiki dropped his spirit form to dodge Hashirama’s next attack, leaving himself vulnerable as Hashirama and Izuna struck him together.

Tetsuya and the others captured Shiki Ōtsutsuki and examined the God Tree Fruit, while Jigen explained why its power stirred a desire to evolve. After learning that he did not know how to refine the fruit into pills, Tetsuya spent his remaining balance on Husky as the group waited for his plan.

• Hashirama and Izuna defeated Shiki Ōtsutsuki, and Tetsuya sealed him inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• Tetsuya took Hashirama and Izuna to the God Tree Fruit, where they felt a powerful urge to devour it.
• Jigen explained that the urge came from life’s instinct to evolve and described how the Ōtsutsuki Clan refined fruits into pills.
• Jigen admitted he did not know how to make the pills, and Madara urged the group to divide and absorb the fruit.
• Tetsuya paused to consider what to do, then called Husky and spent his remaining balance.

Tetsuya proposed refining the God Tree Fruit into pills, and the others agreed to guard him while he tried. As he began refining, he uprooted the God Tree and added Ōtsutsuki Qi from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, leaving Jigen terrified he would be turned into a pill next.

• Tetsuya told Madara, Hashirama, Izuna, and Jigen that he could use alchemy to turn the God Tree Fruit into pills, and they agreed to let him try.
• Tetsuya summoned a Pill Furnace, activated Sage Mode, and asked the others to guard the area while he refined.
• Tetsuya added medicinal ingredients to the furnace, then uprooted the entire God Tree to preserve the fruit's effects.
• Tetsuya dumped the contents of the Box of Ultimate Bliss, including Ōtsutsuki Qi, into the furnace, and Jigen feared Tetsuya would refine him into a pill next.

Tetsuya refined the God Tree Fruit into four pills, which Jigen, Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama absorbed to restore and strengthen themselves. The group decided to return to the Shinobi World before pursuing Tetsuya’s plan to hunt Ōtsutsuki Shiki’s counterparts in parallel worlds.

• After an unknown amount of time, Tetsuya finished refining the God Tree Fruit into four pills, and its released energy fell as nourishing rain that began restoring the drained land.
• Tetsuya gave one pill each to Jigen, Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama, who absorbed their medicinal power.
• Jigen confirmed that his damaged essence had been restored, while Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama reported feeling greatly strengthened.
• Tetsuya proposed refining future God Tree Fruits into pills instead of eating them directly, and the others agreed.
• Tetsuya decided the group would return to the Shinobi World, then hunt Ōtsutsuki Shiki’s counterparts in parallel worlds.

Tetsuya planned to return to the Shinobi World, gather God Trees and fruits across timelines, and raise fighters to hunt the Ōtsutsuki. Unable to reach the Shinobi World directly, he used Hidan’s connection in the New World and arrived through a Golden Portal during a Jashin Cult sermon.

• Tetsuya decided to return to the Shinobi World and cultivate fighters by harvesting God Trees and fruits across different timelines.
• Tetsuya and Izuna joined their spatial powers, but found the Shinobi World’s coordinates too hazy to reach directly.
• Tetsuya located Hidan through the evil god space, finding him preaching to the Indigenous People of the New World.
• Hidan explained why Jashin kept the name of the Evil God, and the believers praised Jashin.
• Tetsuya, Madara, and Izuna emerged from a Golden Portal in the church, and Hidan and the believers hailed Tetsuya as Lord Jashin.

After returning from the New Continent, Tetsuya learned that Hidan had become a Jashin Cult leader and asked Shinada for a report on the Shinobi World. He heard that Sasuke had married an indigenous woman from the New Continent, leaving him free of the relationships others had expected for him.

• Tetsuya found Hidan preaching to New Continent followers with a Jashin Cult gospel written by Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan, and told him not to kill people indiscriminately or cause trouble.
• Tetsuya and his companions returned to the President's Residence, where Jigen went home to digest his gains and the others returned to their rooms.
• Tetsuya summoned Shinada and learned he had been away from the Shinobi World for almost two years.
• Shinada reported that Naruto Uzumaki had resigned as Sixth Hokage to join the Frontline Combat Unit, and Kakashi Hatake had become the Seventh Hokage.
• Shinada reported that Sasuke had married an indigenous woman he met during the Uchiha Clan's campaign across the New Continent, and Tetsuya concluded Sasuke was free of the fate others had planned for him.

After returning from space, Tetsuya explained to Kaguya how he and his companions hunted Ōtsutsuki and refined a God Tree, its fruit, and its planter into pills. Kaguya persuaded him to take her on the next hunt, then arranged to stay at his residence until it happened.

• Tetsuya spent seven days lounging at home until Kaguya entered his messy room.
• Kaguya told Tetsuya that Hagoromo had learned he went into space to hunt Ōtsutsuki after meeting Isshiki.
• Tetsuya explained that the group found a ripe, high-quality God Tree Fruit and refined it, the God Tree, and its Ōtsutsuki planter into pills.
• Kaguya complained that Tetsuya had forgotten she was his business partner, and he promised to bring her on the next hunt.
• Kaguya announced she would live at Tetsuya’s residence until the next hunt, and Tetsuya told Shinada to arrange a courtyard for her.

Tetsuya, Izuna, and Madara learned that Hashirama was scolding Tobirama for creating an artificial human from his own template, supposedly to preserve the Senju bloodline. After Hashirama beat Tobirama for disregarding life, Tobirama revealed that he had considered giving the artificial human Hashirama’s Wood Release, prompting Hashirama to suspect that he had used his cells.

• Tetsuya arrived at Hashirama’s courtyard and learned from Izuna that Tobirama had created an artificial human from his own template.
• Hashirama scolded Tobirama for claiming the Senju bloodline was dying out and for disregarding life with his experiments.
• Hashirama chased Tobirama around the courtyard and beat him until Tobirama admitted he had acted recklessly and disregarded life.
• Tetsuya asked whether Tobirama’s artificial human had a special kekkei genkai, and Madara and Izuna feared he had given it the Sharingan.
• Tobirama dismissed the Sharingan and said he would have chosen Hashirama’s Wood Release instead, leading Hashirama to demand to know whether Tobirama had used his cells.

Hashirama learned that Tobirama had created an artificial child with a natural sage body and insisted on seeing him, while Tetsuya and the others traveled to the rapidly advancing Research Department. They reunited with Orochimaru and Kimimaro, who said the child had been missing Tobirama.

• Tobirama explained that Hashirama's cells were too dangerous for cloning and that his artificial child was an ordinary clone modeled after himself with a natural sage body.
• Hashirama scolded Tobirama for keeping the child in a laboratory, and Tetsuya stopped him from beating his brother further.
• Tetsuya opened a Space-Time Gate to the Research Department, where he marveled at its flying vehicles and heard about plans to develop new lands and terraform the moon.
• Orochimaru and Kimimaro greeted Tetsuya and the others as they arrived at the Research Department.
• Tobirama asked why Orochimaru had not greeted him, and Orochimaru replied that the child had missed him.

Tetsuya and the others visited Orochimaru’s research facility to see the artificially cultivated children, who were being raised alongside staff members’ children in a kindergarten. Hashirama met Tobirama’s child, but his delight turned to fury when the boy said his name was Nineteen, or Type Two Number Nineteen.

• Orochimaru led Tetsuya, Hashirama, and Tobirama through his research facility to a kindergarten where cultivated children played with researchers’ children.
• Orochimaru explained that researchers could bring their children to the facility and that the cultivated children had adoptive parents among the staff.
• Orochimaru introduced his son Mitsuki, who greeted the visitors and received candy from Hashirama.
• Orochimaru pointed out Tobirama’s child, and the shy boy ran to Tobirama before Hashirama coaxed him over with candy.
• The boy introduced himself as Nineteen, or Type Two Number Nineteen, and Hashirama directed killing intent at Tobirama for giving him a serial-number name.

Hashirama renamed Tobirama’s son Nineteen as Senju Yūki, then scolded Tobirama for giving the child a number instead of a proper name. A week later, Tetsuya continued surveying Shinobi Worlds to choose a starting point for hunting Ōtsutsuki Qi.

• Hashirama offered to give Nineteen a new name, and the child happily accepted the name Senju Yūki.
• Tobirama refused to let Hashirama take Yūki home, explaining that Yūki was better off staying with his friends and caregivers.
• Madara decided to encourage the Uchiha Clan to have more children, while Izuna mocked Tobirama for naming his son after a test subject number.
• Hashirama dragged Tobirama away for a private talk, and Tetsuya, Madara, and Izuna went to the Tea House, where they found Kaguya.
• A week later, Tetsuya visited the Shinobi Worlds of Konoha’s founding era and Young Hagoromo, then considered which world to use as the starting point for hunting Ōtsutsuki Qi.

Tetsuya planned an Ōtsutsuki hunt in the Shinobi World of over a thousand years ago, but Husky reported trouble in the Demon Slayer World. Tetsuya postponed the hunt and decided to deal with the demons first, asking Izuna to accompany him.

• Tetsuya explained that traveling to the Shinobi World of over a thousand years ago would make the star map more accurate and described how Kaguya and Jigen could join later through a portal.
• Kaguya asked how they would divide the spoils, and Tetsuya promised everyone a share of the pills he refined.
• Husky alerted Tetsuya that something had happened in the Demon Slayer World, so Tetsuya postponed the hunt and dismissed the meeting.
• Jigen gave Tetsuya five copies of the star map, and Izuna and Madara stayed behind to ask what had happened.
• Tetsuya told Izuna that the Demon King had ambushed and defeated Izuna's clone after it fought Upper Rank One.
• Tetsuya decided to return to the Demon Slayer World to resolve the crisis and asked Izuna to go with him; Izuna agreed.

Tetsuya and Izuna left the Shinobi World and returned to the Demon Slayer World, where they caught up on their clones’ memories. Izuna revealed that Kokushibo had once been a Demon Slayer and had become enraged when he realized he could not match their strength.

• Tetsuya told Madara he could not bring him to another world, then instructed Shinada to seek help from Madara or Hashirama if trouble arose.
• Tetsuya and Izuna entered the Demon Slayer World through a golden Space-Time Gate and reunited with their worker clones in a Tokyo izakaya.
• Tetsuya learned that Sabito had become the Ice Hashira after developing Ice Breathing and slaying a Twelve Kizuki, while Giyu had become the Water Hashira.
• Tetsuya learned that his demon-slaying clone had also become a Hashira, though the worker clone did not know its title.
• Izuna told Tetsuya that Kokushibo had admitted he was once a Demon Slayer and had turned into a demon to gain power.
• Izuna recounted that Kokushibo attacked his clone, became enraged when he realized he was outmatched, and questioned why they possessed such great strength.

Tetsuya learned that Muzan feared he might reconstruct Sun Breathing and had targeted Izuna for that reason. After Tetsuya’s Demon-Slaying Clone returned and shared two years of memories, Tetsuya discovered he had become the Illusion Hashira by using Genjutsu on teammates before instantly killing demons.

• Izuna told Tetsuya that Muzan had mentioned Sun Breathing and tried to kill him to prevent him from reconstructing it.
• Tetsuya explained that Muzan was difficult to find and decided to wait for his Demon-Slaying Clone to arrive with information.
• Tetsuya’s Demon-Slaying Clone appeared, and Tetsuya received the clone’s memories from the past two years.
• Tetsuya learned that he had become the Illusion Hashira because he used Genjutsu on nearby teammates before quickly killing demons.
• Izuna laughed that casting Genjutsu on teammates to slack off suited Tetsuya.

Tetsuya and Izuna headed to the Hashira meeting, where the Demon Slayer Corps was preparing to judge Tanjiro for protecting Nezuko. The Hashira debated Tanjiro’s fate as Tetsuya and Izuna approached the headquarters.

• Tetsuya explained that the Hashira meeting would address Nezuko and the Corps’ plans after Izuna’s apparent defeat, then suggested surprising the Hashira with Izuna’s return.
• Tetsuya planned to meet Tanjiro and use events around him or the Twelve Kizuki to draw Muzan out.
• At headquarters, Tanjiro lay bound before the ten assembled Hashira, while Giyu asked Sabito why Izuna and Tetsuya had not arrived.
• Shinobu Kocho announced that Tanjiro would stand trial, but Kyojuro Rengoku and Tengen Uzui called for Tanjiro and Nezuko to be beheaded.
• Obanai Iguro argued that Giyu should also face consequences for protecting Tanjiro and Nezuko, and Shinobu began questioning Tanjiro about bringing a demon on missions.

Tanjiro defended Nezuko before the Hashira, and Kagaya Ubuyashiki explained why he had approved her place in the Demon Slayer Corps. The Hashira remained divided, but Kagaya urged them to consider Nezuko’s value in the fight against Muzan.

• Shinobu Kocho questioned Tanjiro about traveling with Nezuko, while Sanemi Shinazugawa stabbed Nezuko through her box.
• Tanjiro charged Sanemi with a rocket headbutt and guarded Nezuko as the Hashira reacted.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki arrived and revealed he had approved Tanjiro and Nezuko’s arrangement, though most Hashira opposed it.
• Kagaya’s child read Sakonji Urokodaki’s letter, which vowed that Urokodaki, Sabito, Giyu, and Tanjiro would commit seppuku if Nezuko ate a human.
• Kagaya acknowledged the risks but noted Nezuko had gone two years without eating anyone, then argued that her connection to Muzan could help the Corps defeat him.

Sanemi Shinazugawa tested Nezuko’s restraint, and her refusal to attack him persuaded Kagaya Ubuyashiki to let her remain with Tanjiro. The meeting then turned to Izuna’s reported death, but Izuna arrived with Tetsuya, alive and well, as the Hashira gathered to discuss the worsening situation.

• Sanemi Shinazugawa cut his arm and exposed Nezuko to his blood, but Nezuko resisted her instincts and turned away from him.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki accepted that Nezuko would not attack humans and told Tanjiro to defeat one of the Twelve Kizuki to win the Corps’ trust.
• Shinobu Kocho offered to treat the injured Tanjiro at the Butterfly Mansion, and Kagaya Ubuyashiki announced the loss of the Mirror Hashira, Izuna.
• Tetsuya arrived with Izuna, shocking the Hashira, Giyu, and Sabito, who had believed Izuna had fallen after fighting Kokushibo and Kibutsuji Muzan.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki and the Hashira welcomed Izuna back, and the meeting began with all twelve Hashira assembled.

After Izuna shared what he knew about Kokushibo and Muzan, the Hashira meeting ended without a clear plan beyond increasing patrols. Kagaya suspected Tetsuya and Izuna were extraordinary and pinned his hopes on them, while Muzan remained unconcerned, believing his greatest threat was already dead.

• Izuna told the Hashira what he knew about Kokushibo and Muzan, and they agreed to increase patrols and search for demons.
• After Sabito and Giyu returned to demon hunting, Kagaya thanked Tetsuya and Izuna for helping the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Kagaya told Kiriya that Tetsuya and Izuna were special, while Tetsuya later explained to Izuna that Kagaya had likely noticed their unusual identities.
• Tetsuya and Izuna joked that they were a ferry carrying the Demon Slayer Corps to safety as they headed toward the Butterfly Mansion.
• Muzan learned that the Hashira had met but dismissed the development, believing he had already killed the man most likely to recreate Sun Breathing.

Muzan eased his pursuit of the Demon Slayer Corps after learning that the swordsman who might recreate Sun Breathing had died, while Tetsuya and Izuna left the Butterfly Mansion and began trying to reverse-engineer the First Breathing Style. After Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke received orders to investigate the Mugen Train, Tetsuya and Izuna joined them, and Tetsuya offered to explain the connection between Fire Breathing and Flame Breathing.

• Muzan stopped pressing his demons to relentlessly pursue the Demon Slayer Corps after the likely successor to Sun Breathing had died.
• Tetsuya and Izuna left the Butterfly Mansion, discussed reverse-engineering the First Breathing Style, and departed to wander.
• Tanjiro recovered and completed his training, then asked Shinobu Kocho about Hinokami Kagura; she suggested he consult Kyojuro Rengoku about Flame Breathing.
• A Kasugai Crow ordered Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke to investigate the Mugen Train and meet Kyojuro Rengoku after more than forty people went missing.
• Tetsuya and Izuna met the trio on the road and joined them on their way to the Mugen Train.
• Tetsuya asked Tanjiro about his search for Flame Breathing and offered to explain its relationship to Fire Breathing.