Chapter Summaries

Tetsuhiro organized the Ten Thousand Worlds Ninja Nation’s military command and began its campaign to unify the world, while Tobirama explained how Kagaya’s family curse could be treated. Japan was conquered and the new government began reforms as forces prepared to expand into neighboring countries.

• Tetsuhiro appointed Kagaya Ubuyashiki supreme commander, organized the armies and advisers, and ordered Danzo to remain with him for training.
• Tobirama explained that the Ubuyashiki curse was a hereditary disease that physicians could treat, while Tetsuhiro’s own curse could be removed through purification.
• Kagaya accepted his command appointment and learned that his family finally had hope of escaping its curse.
• With Japan’s main forces away fighting the Meklord Army, Tetsuhiro’s allies conquered the island, toppled the emperor, and announced the Ten Thousand Worlds Ninja Nation.
• Tetsuhiro returned people’s property and ordered campaigns against landlords, traffickers, bandits, and demons as the Hashira trained in the renamed Han Realm.
• After joint forces arrived, the new government prepared to invade neighboring countries, while Genya regretted forgetting to give Tetsuhiro the Broken Flute.

Yozai’s forces conquered Yuan, Sand Country, and European Country, while Beautiful Country’s fleet was destroyed and its leaders fractured over how to respond. As international students rushed to leave, the Lecturer quietly asked Big Head whether he knew someone called Old A, who had attracted Boss Wang’s attention.

• Yozai’s allied forces defeated Yuan and Sand Country, then advanced west and invaded European Country with overwhelming military force.
• Mitsuri and the other Hashira witnessed atrocities during the campaign, and Sanemi ordered an artillery strike that destroyed a terrorist group’s forest headquarters.
• Beautiful Country’s aircraft carrier group was detected by the Dragon Radar and destroyed by Tomahawk Missiles, after which Tetsuhiro detained its diplomats and ordered Yozai to finish conquering European Country.
• Beautiful Country’s factions failed to agree on a response as international students tried to return home.
• At a relief station, the Lecturer asked Big Head whether he knew Old A, but Big Head said he did not before leaving under his new name, Big-Headed Eagle.

Kagaya’s report from occupied Florida revealed widespread corruption, homelessness, violence, and exploitation, leaving Li Tetsuhiro furious. Tetsuhiro ordered a comprehensive investigation into the Beautiful Country’s institutions and people’s living conditions.

• Kagaya reported that the Empire’s forces had defeated the Beautiful Country’s reinforcements and occupied the European Country, while preparing for an assault on the Beautiful Country.
• Kasugai Crows reported the Empire’s naval victory and advancing forces, then delivered an urgent report from Florida that shocked Kiriya, Amane, and the others.
• Li Tetsuhiro read Kagaya’s findings about Florida’s suffering and corruption, smashed his wineglass, and ordered an immediate comprehensive investigation.
• Tetsuhiro read a letter from a person identified as Old A, who described the Empire’s care for its people and asked it to rescue those suffering in the Beautiful Country.

Tetsuhiro ordered Muzan Kibutsuji, Hakuji, Gyutaro, and Daki sent to Florida’s front lines to fight the groups harming civilians. At the Miami headquarters, the Demon Slayer Corps accepted the royal order, while Jiraiya reported that Old A was a Yuan student named Alex who had contacted the Empire.

• Tetsuhiro ordered Kuwajima to keep investigating Old A and spread information about conditions in capitalist countries to the soldiers.
• Tetsuhiro ordered Muzan Kibutsuji, Hakuji, Gyutaro, and Daki deployed to the front lines under strict controls.
• Yozai Ubuyashiki instructed the forces in Miami to destroy Florida’s gangs and cult organizations and spread the intelligence among the soldiers.
• Tanjiro drew his blade when Shinnō and Orochimaru brought the sealed Muzan, Gyutaro, Daki, and Hakuji to headquarters, but Kagaya explained they had been released by royal command.
• Tanjiro and the others lowered their swords and accepted the mission to rescue civilians from Florida’s villains.
• Jiraiya reported that Old A was Alex, a twenty-two-year-old Yuan student in Seattle who had contacted the Empire after learning about its system.

Alex dealt with campus security, clashed with an arrogant young man from Nippon, and returned to his apartment to cook for his friends. As Alex's friends worried about his well-being, they waited for Silver P- to return and reveal what was happening.

• Alex reassured a university student that he was coping and agreed to cook for Professor Harvey's fishing outing.
• Alex settled the smoke alarm issue with Jesse by promising him a dish, then brushed off a young man from Nippon who accused him of bribery.
• Alex bought groceries and returned home, where he encouraged N3 with his studies and denied that anything was wrong.
• A large Black man arrived and looked forward to Alex's soy-braised pork, while Alex said they should wait for Silver P-.
• The three men waited quietly for Silver P- to return, and the chapter ended without explaining what was going on.

Alex and his companions struggled to keep up with the growing Gundam investigation while Alex followed Jesse’s advice and repeatedly ambushed the Nippon students. After Alex helped Jesse’s sick sons, Jesse trusted him more, and the Nippon students eventually became too frightened to show themselves.

• Old A, Little Black Bro, Old Black, and Silver P- reached an agreement after discussing Old A’s bold suggestions.
• As the European Country’s defenses collapsed and the investigation uncovered more Gundams, Alex and his companions used brute force to dismantle them and estimate when they had died.
• Jesse advised Alex to keep beating the Nippon students until they feared him, warned him to stay away from Penny, and later asked Alex for medicine to save his sons.
• Alex gave Jesse’s sons medicine and visited the family with Old Black, earning Jesse’s trust.
• Alex, Old Black, Silver P-, and their companions ambushed the Nippon students repeatedly with baseball bats until the students stopped showing themselves.

Alex earned a position as a forensic assistant at the Medical Examination Bureau, where he began reviewing records in hopes of finding intelligence. Meanwhile, Silver P- learned his family had made plans without him and longed for the freedom of his old dorm life.

• Alex helped Bell impress Professor Harvey and his guests with a staged fishing trip and his cooking, then told Bell about his financial troubles and being doxxed.
• Professor Harvey gave Alex a recommendation letter, and Bell helped him join the Medical Examination Bureau as a forensic assistant.
• Alex was assigned to organize records, while Bell warned a hostile colleague not to bully him.
• Silver P- learned that powerful figures were considering surrendering to the Empire and that his family was preparing an escape without telling him.
• Silver P- recalled his former dorm life, then turned toward his younger brother with a sudden idea.

Alex was captured by Gang leader Jack after Little Black Bro's younger brother exposed him, but an Empire swordsman suddenly entered the gang's hideout. Alex asked the swordsman to rescue him so he could report a crime.

• Boss Wang ordered his men to find Old A within three days for exposing crimes online.
• Silver P- and his youngest sister allied to gather evidence against powerful families and report it to the Empire.
• Little Black Bro told Alex that his younger brother had joined the Black Scorpion Gang and gave Alex the evidence he had collected.
• After reports of the Empire's advance into Florida, Alex set out for the state but was taken by an armed driver to the Black Scorpion Gang's hideout.
• Gang leader Jack confronted Alex about his activism, while Alex argued that protecting commoners mattered.
• A Nippon swordsman entered the hideout, dodged the gang members' gunfire, and defeated the driver; Alex recognized him as someone from the Empire and asked him to help report a crime.

Murata and his teammates rescued Alex, captured Jack’s gang, and secured evidence of the crimes. As the Empire’s forces and demons advanced across the Beautiful Country, cults and religious groups tried to resist, but Gyutaro and Daki began converting their attackers into demons.

• Murata stopped Alex from killing Jack’s men, disarmed Little Black Brother, and spared him after Alex explained his connection to the boy.
• Murata’s teammates arrived and subdued the attackers, then the Hidden Corps escorted the evidence while investigators and demon slayers mobilized.
• Invaders attacked the Beautiful Country from several directions, and desperate news reports urged religious groups to join the resistance.
• The Blood-Worshipping Cult and Esoteric Buddhists failed to affect Gyutaro, while the Church-Defending Knights charged at him and Daki.
• The cultists opened fire on their own allies, and Daki turned a knight into a demon who attacked the others.
• Gyutaro and Daki began their mission to convert the people opposing them.

Zhen Zhong attended a cult’s bloody baptism ritual, but a strange boy interrupted and turned the cultists against each other. As Zhen Zhong escaped, the boy noticed the mutilated girl was still alive and offered her a chance for revenge.

• Zhen Zhong arrived at his landlord’s villa and joined more than forty cultists for a ritual sacrifice.
• The cardinal and the cultists mutilated a little girl and collected her blood for the baptism.
• A boy in a suit and top hat entered, transformed Tony into a monster, and then attacked the cultists with drops of his own blood.
• The cultists shot the boy, but he regenerated and turned more of them into monsters, while Zhen Zhong fled through a secret passage.
• The cardinal let Zhen Zhong escape, then fought the monsters as the boy revealed that a surprise awaited Zhen Zhong upstairs.
• The boy found the still-living girl on the altar and asked if she wanted revenge.

Old Zhen tried to escape the villa while monstrous residents hunted him through its corridors. After shooting Willy and finding a key and two magazines, he saw Willy regenerate as Dominic and other monsters closed in.

• Old Zhen escaped the secret passage and hid in a storage room when he heard a monster approaching.
• Dominic found Old Zhen in a cabinet, but Old Zhen stabbed him in the eye with an iron nail and fled.
• Old Zhen encountered Willy eating human remains and grabbed a nearby submachine gun.
• Old Zhen shot Willy, searched the bodies, and found a key and two magazines.
• Willy began regenerating as Dominic and several other monsters charged toward Old Zhen.

Old Zhen fought through the villa’s monsters and escaped into a secret passage, then reached its hidden exit. He emerged into the moonlit wilderness, only to be terrified by what he saw.

• Old Zhen shot Domi and Willy in the head, discovering that destroying their heads stopped them from regenerating.
• Outnumbered by monsters in the dining hall, Old Zhen ran upstairs and collapsed the staircase to delay his pursuers.
• Old Zhen entered the secret passage through the study’s hidden bookcase and continued onward despite fearing the monsters could track him.
• Old Zhen searched the internet and called his contacts, learning that European Country had fallen and Beautiful Country was surrounded as reports of monsters spread.
• After running for about half an hour, Old Zhen climbed a ladder, opened a hatch, and emerged into the moonlit wilderness.
• Old Zhen nearly died of fright when he saw what was outside.

Muzan cornered Zhen Zhong in the wilderness, where Zhen Zhong chose to shoot himself rather than become a demon, but Muzan refused to let him die. Meanwhile, Alex reunited with Little Black Bro, who blamed his little brother for betraying Alex and beat him.

• Muzan intercepted Zhen Zhong on the highway and revealed that he had tracked him through the demons’ memories.
• Zhen Zhong shot Muzan in the head, but Muzan regenerated and caught up with him.
• Zhen Zhong admitted he had wanted to die since the Landlord took him to the villa, then shot himself in the temple.
• Muzan declared that he would not let Zhen Zhong die and would make him atone alongside him.
• Old A tried calling Zhen Zhong after finishing his questioning, but Zhen Zhong did not answer.
• Little Black Bro reunited with Alex, accused his little brother of betraying him, and beat the boy while Alex and Maruboshi left.

Professor Harvey agreed to help the Empire after describing the Beautiful Country’s corruption, while Alex and the others recruited local contacts and gathered intelligence. Yozai launched a sweeping campaign across the occupied states, and Florida was transformed amid raids, purges, and a wave of bizarre criminal cases.

• Hatake Sakumo persuaded Professor Harvey to support the Empire, and Harvey revealed the country’s deep social and financial problems.
• Alex met with local contacts, the Black Scorpion Gang surrendered, and Jack disclosed the Lecturer’s order to capture Alex and Boss Wang’s existence.
• Kagami Uchiha and Yūhi Shikin volunteered to investigate, while intelligence flowed to Yozai and enabled targeted attacks across the states.
• Tanjiro’s team raided gang hideouts, Gyutaro and Daki destroyed cult compounds, and Muzan headed alone to Washington.
• Yozai ordered officials purged, criminals prosecuted, illegal sects outlawed, and housing built for the homeless; Florida underwent a sweeping cleanup.
• Florida’s law enforcement officers faced a series of bizarre cases, including the notorious Florida Four Heavenly Kings.

The Beautiful Country's leaders divided over whether to resist or surrender, while the Rockefeller Patriarch secretly allied with the Empire and helped shape a defense that sacrificed soldiers and civilians. The Empire launched its assault on the Georgia trench line, and after its revived swordsmen broke through, the defenders fired mustard gas shells at Tengen and Muichiro.

• The Rockefeller Patriarch gave the Empire the trench maps, gas-depot coordinates, and radio frequencies in exchange for protecting his family's businesses and status.
• The House of Representatives approved a plan to withdraw most defenders into the cities and force illegal immigrants to fight, and the Blond President ordered it carried out.
• Mifune Hisashi and Shamon led their armies into battle after receiving Yozai's orders from the Kasugai Crows.
• Kanae Kocho, Sabito, Makomo, and Masachika Jono broke through the trench defenses as puppets, tanks, aircraft, and drones attacked the Beautiful Country's forces.
• A Beautiful Country general ordered mustard gas shells fired, and Tengen and Muichiro leaped up to meet them with Sound Breathing and Mist Breathing.

The Empire overwhelmed the Beautiful Country’s Iron Fortress Line while its commanders coordinated assaults, hostage rescues, and internal operations. After the defenders surrendered, Kagaya ordered the army to rest before continuing north toward Washington.

• Chiyo and the puppet forces smashed through the Renault FT tanks as the other Demon Slayers fought across the battlefield and Kanao’s team treated the wounded.
• Yozai ordered Giyu to rescue civilians and destroy a mustard gas depot, while Shinobu Kocho and Tengen took the southern route toward the enemy headquarters.
• Hiruzen reported that Tsunade and others had gained control of industry elites, while Sanemi, Gyutaro, and his sister purged gangs and cults in Nevada.
• The Empire captured the defensive line, and Tengen and Shinobu reached an abandoned frontline headquarters, where the remaining defenders surrendered.
• Kagaya reported the victory to His Majesty and ordered the army to rest for a day before advancing toward Washington, while requiring surrendered soldiers and civilians to be protected.

The Empire’s forces encountered American troops using civilians as human shields, so Hiruzen, Dawn, and Toneri incapacitated the civilians and cleared a path for the attack. After the Empire captured North Carolina and Virginia, Yuan Li broadcast images of civilian deaths and accused named Americans of collaborating with the enemy, leaving public anger rising as Washington faced imminent danger.

• Kyojuro reported the enemy’s use of coerced civilians as human shields, and Yozai sent Hiruzen, Dawn, and Toneri to the front.
• Dawn’s genjutsu knocked the civilians unconscious, and Hiruzen used Earth Release to lower them into a vast pit before Mifune ordered the Empire’s troops to attack.
• Muichiro and Inosuke led the Hidden Corps through a residential complex, defeating the soldiers and killing the major and his guards on the rooftop.
• The Empire’s forces captured North Carolina and Virginia as its four armies advanced toward Washington.
• Yuan Li broadcast images of dead civilians and accused Americans including Alex, Silver P-, and Professor Harvey of collaborating with the enemy, prompting FBI warrants and calls to resist the invasion.

Tetsuhiro ordered Muzan to punish people in the Beautiful Country, and Little Muzan lured Donut into an abandoned factory where Upper Rank One dragged him into the darkness. The chapter ended with Upper Rank Two restraining Upper Rank One from targeting an old man, while Donut’s cries for help faded away.

• Tetsuhiro became enraged by the slander and crimes tied to the Beautiful Country, ordered Kuwajima to find Yuan Li and her associates, and sent dark energy to Muzan.
• Danzo told Tetsuhiro that Muzan was in Washington, and Tetsuhiro ordered him to kill the foreigners.
• Donut chased a boy he believed was a spy into an abandoned factory, where the boy revealed himself as Little Muzan.
• Little Muzan broke Donut’s hand and handed him over to Upper Rank One, who dragged him into the factory despite his enhancement agent.
• Upper Rank Two stopped Upper Rank One from approaching a frightened old man, reminding her that Lord Muzan’s goal came first.
• Upper Rank One dragged Donut deeper into the darkness as he screamed for the president to save him.

Jiraiya uncovered a conspiracy to frame the Empire and captured the people behind it. Tetsuhiro broadcast their confessions worldwide, then announced that he would subject the Beautiful Country to divine punishment, leaving audiences stunned.

• Orochimaru and Shinnō watched Muzan recover and discussed how thoroughly the Demon King had been subdued.
• Jiraiya forced Boss Wang to cooperate, captured Yuan Li, and learned that Yuan intellectuals and the SAC had fabricated evidence against the Empire.
• Jiraiya summoned a giant toad to attack SAC Headquarters and captured the mastermind behind the smear campaign.
• The Empire's hackers seized the Beautiful Country's broadcast channels, and Tetsuhiro showed the world confessions from Yuan Li, Boss Wang, and the SAC director.
• Tetsuhiro promoted the Empire's public welfare policies, declared that the Beautiful Country would face divine punishment, and switched the broadcast to the front-line battlefield.

After the American military unleashed poison gas and nuclear bombs, Obelisk the Tormentor appeared on the battlefield and saved the Allied forces and civilians. The enemy’s final defense collapsed, and the chapter ended with mass surrender and a surge of religious fervor.

• The American military released nerve gas and biological agents, killing thousands before Kagaya ordered the attack halted and civilians evacuated.
• Ten bombers dropped hydrogen bombs, and the troops tried to stop them while Hiruzen opened an Earth Release fissure to shelter everyone.
• As Little Boy fell, Tetsuhiro activated a card that summoned Obelisk the Tormentor onto the battlefield.
• Obelisk caught the nuclear bomb, hurled it into the Atlantic Ocean, and punched back the resulting waves before destroying hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles.
• Kagaya ordered the troops to advance, and the enemy soldiers surrendered as religious fervor spread among civilians and believers.