Recaps

Konoha and Obito uncovered how Black Zetsu altered Madara’s records and manipulated the events surrounding Rin’s death, while separating each person’s responsibility. The arc ended with Obito considering a guarded treatment for his Heart Restriction as Danzo proposed a plan to deceive and capture him.

• Shikaku’s investigation traced Obito’s rescue to a hidden room beneath Kannabi Bridge, where records suggested Madara had selected him as a candidate.
• Kakashi confronted the Masked Man about Konoha’s failure to search for Obito and his later crimes, and the Masked Man preserved Madara’s original record as evidence.
• Konoha verified that Madara had ordered Obito’s abandonment to be concealed, then discovered that a Heart Restriction prevented them from tracing its source or removing it safely.
• Konoha and Kirigakure’s investigators found that White Zetsu had helped direct Kakashi toward Rin and that Black Zetsu had altered the orders and records around her death.
• Fugaku, Shikaku, and their teams proved that Black Zetsu had layered changes onto the Uchiha Stone Tablet, distorting its warnings and the Moon’s Eye Plan.
• Obito resisted Black Zetsu’s Heart Restriction and refused its order to kill the witnesses, then vowed to investigate Madara again.
• Konoha identified Black Zetsu’s role in altering Madara’s translation and developed a guarded treatment plan that required Obito to open his other dimension.
• The Masked Man accepted some safeguards for treatment but rejected full disarmament, while Danzo proposed using Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami to make him believe he had consented and capture him.

Obito broke Black Zetsu’s control and helped expose how it had manipulated Madara, Nagato, and the Akatsuki. As the White Vessel awakened and resisted its ancient authority, the nations halted revival-linked operations, but Black Zetsu activated a second cocoon beneath the sea.

• Obito authorized the removal of Black Zetsu’s control line, tore it from his heart with Kakashi, and remained free of its commands as most of Black Zetsu was sealed away.
• Obito’s evidence and Konan’s recovered orders led Nagato to suspend Akatsuki’s Tailed Beast operations and investigate Black Zetsu’s influence on the Demonic Statue and the stone inscriptions.
• Black Zetsu escaped through an unrecorded seam and awakened the White Vessel at the Seven Stone Islands, where the Vessel resisted its commands and protected stranded sailors.
• Gen’s team found signs that Black Zetsu had altered the records of the Sage of Six Paths, and the Nine-Tails confirmed that the black shadow had been present since the Sage divided the Ten-Tails’ power.
• The Five Great Nations’ teams approached the islands amid manipulated suspicions, but the White Vessel defied Black Zetsu, resisted the awakening array, and rejected attempts to seize or forcibly move it.
• Nagato and the Recorder linked the Old Temple to the Demonic Statue, while Black Zetsu’s attack on the Vessel revealed that its revival target was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Konoha, the Land of Rain, Obito, and the nations halted or sealed revival-linked nodes, lowering the reported revival probability, but Black Zetsu activated a second Stone Cocoon beneath the sea and a pale chakra eye appeared.

The Five Nations and their allies prevented Kaguya’s forced revival, secured Ri’s independent identity, and learned more about the tailed beasts’ choices and the lunar seal. Black Zetsu broke from Kaguya and began building a pseudo-Ten-Tails, which targeted the Uchiha Stone Tablet’s final layer.

• Gen and the teams limited chakra use as the solitary eye tracked the tailed beasts, while its projection copied techniques and sent beams toward their sealing connections.
• Black Zetsu’s forged consent seals failed, and the anonymous occupants who refused reunification asked for aid without revealing their location.
• Konan coordinated a limited operation to draw the pale light into the Demonic Statue, but its hidden authorization linked the statue to Kamui and trapped Obito with the projection.
• Shisui stopped Black Zetsu’s forged all-out assault order, and Itachi found that black chakra had altered the Uchiha memorial text about Kaguya.
• The White Vessel refused to be sacrificed to the Backup Stone Cocoon, but Black Zetsu opened a lunar fissure where Kaguya’s eye appeared, and the teams shut down the revival routes while the fissure remained open.
• The White Vessel named herself Ri, entered the Moon Gate, and cut the spatial anchors as Kaguya tried to overwrite her, and the Five Nations verified Ri’s separate consciousness and divided responsibility for closing the lunar rings.
• Hagoromo’s echo confirmed the tailed beasts’ separate identities, and Kaguya stopped pulling at their chakra before Black Zetsu severed his direct command link to her.
• Black Zetsu absorbed White Zetsu and Backup Stone Cocoon fragments to form a pseudo-Ten-Tails, while the nations guarded their records and the system warned that the core had targeted the Uchiha Stone Tablet’s final layer.

Gen, the Uchiha, and their allies exposed Black Zetsu’s manipulation, dismantled his remaining authorities, and sealed him while keeping responsibility tied to verifiable evidence. With Kaguya’s channel limited and the tailed beasts’ consent protected, the System opened a new stage for testing an order without a predetermined future.

• Fugaku limited access to the stone tablet, while Itachi and independent examiners verified altered passages and the Uchiha defended their records from Black Zetsu’s roots.
• Nagato severed the pseudo-Ten-Tails’ fourth authority, and Obito returned under restrictions to provide evidence about Madara, Black Zetsu, and the Nine-Tails attack.
• Gen and the other recorders distributed evidence across four sites, defeated Black Zetsu’s archive purge, and formally withdrew the accusation of collective Uchiha control.
• The living world established separate consent rules for the tailed beasts, while Konan, Gen, and Nagato isolated the Demonic Statue’s nine interfaces against Black Zetsu’s remnant.
• The Third Hokage revoked the old order against the Uchiha, severing Black Zetsu’s final real-world anchor and allowing Kaguya to review limited evidence and sever her pulls on the Ten-Tails Husk.
• Black Zetsu escaped through the old wartime command network, but the Five Nations imposed limited pursuit rules and tracked him to Madara’s hideout, where they uncovered evidence that Madara had doubted the tablet’s age.
• Gen sealed Black Zetsu inside the secret chamber after rejecting forged orders and resisting possession, and the Five Nations later layered seals on him while preserving each party’s responsibility.
• Konoha delivered the retraction of the collective accusation against the Uchiha, Kaguya chose silence, and the System confirmed that several fates had changed before opening a new stage for Gen.