Chapter Summaries

The Five Nations Liaison confirmed that the voice in the lunar fissure came from Kaguya, not Black Zetsu, and Kaguya claimed that all chakra belonged to her. The nations kept the convergence channels closed as Kaguya asked where Hagoromo and Hamura were, unaware that they had long since died.

• The Land of Rivers compared the lunar voice with Black Zetsu's commands and the White Vessel's responses, confirming that Kaguya's consciousness was independent of Black Zetsu.
• The Nine-Tails told Kaguya that he was Kurama, a living being rather than property, and blocked her attempt to pull his chakra through the connection.
• Gen separated the question of chakra's origins from questions of ownership and the choices and identities formed after chakra was divided.
• The Five Nations agreed not to restore the convergence channels and let each location decide whether to respond to Kaguya.
• Kaguya asked where Hagoromo and Hamura were and why they had not lifted her seal, while Black Zetsu listened beneath the sea.

Black Zetsu tried to shape Kaguya’s understanding of history while she questioned him through a fissure in the moon. The exchange exposed how he had preserved only her revival command and partial memories, and it ended with Kaguya ordering him to stop answering for her, which he refused.

• Black Zetsu told Kaguya that Hagoromo and Hamura had betrayed her and that Hagoromo had given chakra to people who should never have possessed it.
• Kaguya questioned Black Zetsu about his identity and what he had preserved, revealing that his memories began with her sealing and omitted much of her past.
• The White Vessel and Nagato identified gaps in Black Zetsu’s records, including the lack of a plan for controlling the Ten-Tails after its restoration.
• Gen blocked unverified accusations from reaching Kaguya, while the Five Nations Liaison shared confirmed evidence and Fugaku insisted that defenses remain in place.
• Black Zetsu sealed the fissure after Kaguya asked how much time had passed, but Kaguya ordered him to stop answering for her, and he refused.

Gen argued that Kaguya’s revival could be prevented by maintaining the separation of the nine tailed-beast powers rather than recreating the Sage of Six Paths’ seal. The Five Nations provisionally accepted a system of independent checks, while an ancient lunar gatekeeper appeared and questioned the White Vessel.

• Gen explained that the original containment had two layers: suppressing the Ten-Tails Husk and separating its nine powers so they would not automatically reunite.
• Itachi restored altered passages, and records confirmed that neither loosening the lunar seal nor possessing the husk alone could fully revive Kaguya.
• Gen proposed reinforcing the tailed beasts’ independent states and closing their aggregation links instead of giving one person control over all the powers.
• Nagato warned that separation would not prevent war, and Fugaku questioned whether the system could withstand a change of heart; Gen said each change would require renewed checks.
• The Five Nations provisionally accepted four categories of independent containment checks, with no single party gaining control over the others.
• A previously unseen lunar mark checked the rift, the husk, and the nine links before asking the White Vessel whether it was the seal’s holder.

The Five Nations confirmed that the lunar mark was an independent Hamura-lineage gatekeeping system, not an extension of Black Zetsu’s authority, and learned that the sealing was nearing failure. The mark produced temporary Moon Gate coordinates to seek help with repairs, leaving the Five Nations competing to be the first to enter.

• The white mark rejected false claims of authority and responded to changes in the sealing structure rather than written reports or observations of other targets.
• The mark’s records showed that black erosion had worsened alongside major chakra events, while its authority source contained no complete living consciousness.
• The White Vessel refused to claim the Moon Gate, saying it was not their gate, and the mark recorded their identity as unconfirmed.
• Kaguya’s strike activated twelve ring patterns, and the mark warned that three lunar connections were close to reversing and could trigger a false release.
• The Land of Rivers, Konan, and Fugaku rejected demands that the Five Nations treat existing channels or records as rights to the moon.
• The mark opened a narrow temporary gate and sent coordinates to the Old Temple at sea, prompting every party in the Five Nations Liaison to demand first entry.

The Five Nations agreed to test the Moon Gate with harmless equipment, but an unauthorized device let White Zetsu pass through and anchor the gate from inside. As the White Vessel demanded a confirmed way back before entering, Kaguya’s seal established a lasting connection to the outside world.

• The Five Nations rejected unilateral entry and approved the Land of Rivers Maritime Guild’s limited equipment tests while secretly preparing their own contingencies.
• The reflector and pulley revealed light and gravity inside the gate, but the scored plate returned as broken rope wrapped in white tissue.
• The Five Nations discovered that an unauthorized device assembled from retired parts from several nations had carried White Zetsu through the Moon Gate.
• White Zetsu used four Space Spikes to anchor the gate from within, while the Five Nations cut the pulley rope and abandoned their equipment to keep the entrance from widening.
• The White Vessel asked whether it could return before entering, and the gate’s warning confirmed that the unauthorized device had fixed the Moon Gate’s outside coordinates.

The White Vessel chose the name Ri to establish a return path through the Moon Gate and set limits on the Five Nations’ authority over her. She entered the moon to close the spatial anchors and refused Kaguya’s claim to her body.

• The Recorder explained that a self-chosen name could serve as Ri’s return marker, and she named herself Ri, passing the gatekeeper mark’s verification.
• Ri refused joint custody of her name verification and agreed to return under observation, with her consciousness and memories protected from interference.
• Ri entered the Moon Gate and reached the lunar seal, where she used a fragment of a scored slab to locate and cut the first two spatial anchors.
• Ri identified herself by name as she snapped the first anchor and pulled the second from the White Zetsu tissue.
• Kaguya noticed Ri and demanded her body, but Ri declared that she was Ri, not Kaguya’s body, and continued closing the anchors.

Kaguya tried to overwrite Ri’s memories, but Ri resisted and evidence from her body, actions, and Gatekeeper Mark confirmed that she was an independent consciousness. As Ri continued closing the Moon Gate, Black Zetsu destroyed its consent verification and poured Kaguya’s chakra toward reality.

• Kaguya entered Ri through their shared cellular origin, while the Five Nations debated closing the return passage and Gen kept it open according to their agreement.
• Ri used the pain from her shoulder wound and memories of her choices to resist Kaguya’s overwrite and assert her name.
• The Medical Team, Land of Rivers records, and Gatekeeper Mark supplied evidence that Ri’s later experiences had formed an independent consciousness, and three outside medical ninjas confirmed the findings.
• Fugaku argued that Ri’s name must be recognized before restrictions were considered, while Nagato said recognition did not grant her control of the Demonic Statue or Moon Gate.
• Ri kicked the third Space Spike into a pit and extinguished its pillar, while Black Zetsu destroyed the Gatekeeper Mark’s consent verification layer.
• The system recorded Ri’s independent fate branch and marked forced overwriting as consciousness erasure, as Kaguya’s chakra surged through the Moon Gate toward reality.

Black Zetsu forced Kaguya’s chakra to attack three locations while Ri severed the Moon Gate’s spatial anchor, and Kaguya began questioning Black Zetsu after seeing memories he had hidden. Obito transmitted an authenticated clue from the collapsing Kamui Layer: the original lunar sealing route had been altered.

• Black Zetsu split Kaguya’s chakra into attacks on the Old Temple at sea, the Land of Rain, and Konoha, while teams in each location defended separately and prevented the projections from gathering chakra.
• Nagato and Konan dispersed the fourth authorization around the Demonic Statue, and Fugaku’s forces in Konoha resisted a false Nine-Tails alarm without opening the seal.
• Ri divided her eye-pattern authorization into three layers, refused both Kaguya and Black Zetsu, and snapped the last spatial anchor, weakening all three leaks.
• Kaguya saw fragments of the blocked voices and questioned Black Zetsu, who severed the language layer and drove the projections into indiscriminate attacks.
• Konan verified twelve pulses from Kakashi’s left eye against Obito’s earlier records, and the final signal revealed that the seal was altered.

The three parties verified that the original Lunar Surface path transmitted refusal checks rather than opening a passage, while Black Zetsu tried and failed to forge a rescue signal. Kaguya locked onto Obito in the collapsing Kamui Layer as he split the remaining path across three stone surfaces.

• Kakashi, Konan, Nagato, and the Land of Rivers assembled three separate records and discovered that Black Zetsu had reversed and deleted the path’s refusal function.
• Gen ordered a cautious, no-load test, and the three parties made the Seventh Ring add a closure line without opening or transmitting chakra.
• A second test by different observers confirmed that the path recognized refusal but did not treat silence as consent.
• Black Zetsu sent Kakashi a forged rescue signal, but Kakashi detected the missing pause and refused to open a gate.
• Kaguya locked onto Obito inside the collapsing Kamui Layer, and Obito split the remaining path across three stone surfaces.

Kaguya and Black Zetsu damaged the lunar seals from within, while Ri and Obito independently closed the seventh and eighth rings. The divided repair plan took shape as Hagoromo’s final chakra echo awakened within the Gatekeeper Mark.

• Kaguya and Black Zetsu fought over the original path in the Kamui Dimension, and Obito distributed verifiable route fragments to Kakashi, Konan, and the Land of Rivers.
• Ri answered the Gatekeeper Mark with her name and memories, then closed the seventh ring within the limits of her authority.
• Gen and Konan helped establish a plan dividing responsibility for the twelve seals, with no party able to open another party’s ring.
• Fugaku requested that the Uchiha receive no custodial authority over the Kamui paths, and the restriction was added to the shared conditions.
• Obito received the question of whether to close the eighth ring and answered yes, cutting off Kaguya’s hand and Black Zetsu’s one-way exit.
• Hagoromo’s final chakra echo awakened in the lunar sealing, prompting the Nine-Tails to recognize it as the Old Man.

Hagoromo's echo confirmed that he had given the nine tailed beasts separate names so they could exist and respond as independent lives, not as power awaiting reunification. After Black Zetsu tried to silence him, Kaguya heard the beasts answer to their names and questioned why her chakra responded to someone else's names.

• Hagoromo's echo called each tailed beast by name and, through the Neutral Liaison Station, confirmed their separate existence without bypassing the seals or demanding testimony.
• Nine-Tails questioned how much of Hagoromo remained and whether he would stay to control them; Hagoromo said he would dissipate after delivering his message and explained that the names marked nine lives able to refuse and change independently.
• The Land of Rivers compared Hagoromo's account with the Maritime Ruins, whose carvings and records supported the claim that the beasts had been named and allowed to choose different destinations.
• Gen rejected the proposal to make Hagoromo's judgment a supreme sealing directive, and Hagoromo said he had given the beasts names, not given them to later generations.
• Black Zetsu attacked Hagoromo's echo on the Lunar Surface, but Ri closed the passage; Kaguya heard Shukaku, Matatabi, and Kurama respond to their names and asked why her chakra answered to someone else's names.

Ri arranged for Kaguya to hear carefully screened sounds and fragments from the Tailed Beasts, showing that they had formed distinct memories since their separation. Black Zetsu attacked Ri and then severed his direct subordination to Kaguya, leaving both of them unable to control the other through their shared origin.

• Gen established separate consent checks and chakra-free transmissions for the Tailed Beasts’ memories, while Shukaku and Chōmei withheld theirs.
• Ri opened and closed a narrow sound-only passage for each approved memory as Black Zetsu tried to interrupt the transmissions.
• Kaguya heard fragments that revealed the Tailed Beasts had developed different experiences and attitudes, and she questioned Black Zetsu’s claim that they were errors of her power.
• Black Zetsu attacked Ri’s memory layer, but she distributed her verification memories across separate ring patterns and preserved her identity.
• Hagoromo’s echo showed Kaguya that the nine names had endured for centuries, prompting her to command Black Zetsu to stop erasing them.
• Black Zetsu refused and severed his direct subordination to Kaguya, sacrificing their direct command link and his easiest route to replenish chakra.

Kaguya acknowledged that the Nine Tailed Beasts had memories of their own and stopped forcibly pulling their power, but she still sought her husk and did not promise to abandon revival. Black Zetsu began forming an independent core from the White Zetsu Network, creating a new threat as Kaguya gave no response.

• Kaguya acknowledged that the Nine Tailed Beasts had memories she did not, while Nine-Tails maintained its refusal to undo the sealing.
• Gen rejected proposals to lower alerts, supply Kaguya with chakra, or use her against Black Zetsu, and Fugaku supported continued containment.
• Kaguya voluntarily stopped all nine forced pulls on the tailed beasts, lowering the recorded probability of revival from eight percent to five percent.
• Kaguya told Ri that Ri's body was made from her power, but Ri closed the voice channel without reaching an agreement.
• Ri stayed on the lunar surface to safeguard the return verification, while the present world maintained its containment measures.
• Black Zetsu redirected White Zetsu and fragments of the Backup Stone Cocoon underground, formed an independent core, and demanded that all White Zetsu obey him.

The present world and Kaguya established strict limits for a temporary voice channel, but neither Ri’s identity nor the Ten-Tails Husk’s custody was resolved. As the channel closed, Black Zetsu began forcibly combining White Zetsu and stolen remnants into a core under his sole control.

• The first limited conversation let Kaguya agree to stop pulling at the jinchūriki and tailed beasts for now, while Nagato refused to surrender the Demonic Statue and Ri closed the channel after Kaguya only said she heard her name.
• Gen argued that dialogue could provide evidence but could not replace containment, while the Land of Rivers recorded no shared long-term agreement.
• Fugaku strengthened security around Uchiha records, and Itachi separately sealed the ritual inscription and tampered tablet sections while keeping a public duplicate outside the clan.
• Nagato entered the Land of Rain’s position on the Demonic Statue into the public record, maintaining that past Akatsuki actions were not forgiven and the lunar sealing could not be removed.
• Black Zetsu absorbed Backup Stone Cocoon fragments, tore out part of the Demonic Statue’s fourth authorization, and merged hundreds of White Zetsu into a core bearing his own control mark.

Black Zetsu formed a pseudo-Ten-Tails core from White Zetsu, old orders, and remnants of his past alterations, then targeted the Uchiha Stone Tablet as an anchor. The chapter left Konoha’s defenders guarding the tablet’s final layer as the core locked onto it.

• Black Zetsu built a pseudo-Ten-Tails core that gathered old black connections across the Shinobi World and began devouring his past alterations.
• The Land of Rivers preserved evidence of forged seals as their black chakra was drained, while Itachi had the Paper Craftsman secure the ritual inscription’s scrape marks.
• Nagato repelled black roots from the Demonic Statue, and Konan separately sealed the severed tissue; Ri closed the seventh ring pattern and kept unauthorized fragments outside the Moon Gate.
• The System Screen identified the core’s missing Tailed Beast chakra, stable eye power, and reality-writing anchor, while Black Zetsu erased hesitation in White Zetsu bodies before merging them.
• Fugaku kept the altered layer of the Uchiha Stone Tablet publicly disclosed, and Konoha’s forces evacuated witnesses and guarded the shrine as white roots converged on it.
• The System warned that Black Zetsu’s pseudo-Ten-Tails had locked onto the tablet’s final layer as its next target.

Fugaku made four altered passages on the Uchiha stone tablet public under limited, independently verified disclosure, while assigning responsibility across Black Zetsu, Madara, Obito, and the Uchiha. Black Zetsu attacked the shrine and targeted those able to read the tablet, as the Pseudo-Ten-Tails invoked the fourth authorization to make the Rinnegan its next core.

• Fugaku chose limited disclosure, and the clan recorded the arguments, risks, and conditions for expanding access to the stone tablet.
• Itachi and independent examiners verified the locations of four altered passages, while retaining uncertainty about one boundary and documenting each method's findings.
• Fugaku's public summary assigned separate responsibility to Black Zetsu, Madara, Obito, and the Uchiha, and he rejected demands to reveal an alleged fifth layer without evidence.
• Black Zetsu's white roots broke through the shrine floor, and the Uchiha, Anbu, craftsmen, and Land of Rivers recorder protected people and evidence along separate routes.
• Black Zetsu tried to pull Itachi into reading the final layer, but Itachi dictated what he saw, withdrew beyond its reach, and stopped before further damage to his eyes.
• As the roots began sinking the shrine, the Uchiha took turns guarding without concentrating their Sharingan; the Pseudo-Ten-Tails invoked the fourth authorization, drawing power from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in the Land of Rain.

Nagato severed the Rinnegan’s connection to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s fourth authority, weakening Black Zetsu’s plan while permanently sacrificing several controls. The Konoha evacuation succeeded, and a verified path opened for Obito, though his return still awaited approval.

• Nagato acknowledged that Madara had transplanted the Rinnegan into him but refused to let its origin dictate his judgment or authorize Black Zetsu’s plan.
• Konan evacuated the residents above the Land of Rain Underground Space, and Nagato shut down four Rinnegan control projections at the cost of permanent damage and lost abilities.
• Nagato applied the Interruption Seal before Black Zetsu’s chain reached the fourth authority, severing the connection and lowering the pseudo-Ten-Tails core’s integrity from twenty-three percent to eighteen percent.
• Fugaku evacuated the Uchiha clan members and secured the External Recorders and Public Documents before leaving the sinking Konoha Shrine with two Konoha Military Police Force shinobi.
• Ri shut down the Black Circuit on the Lunar Surface’s seventh ring, while Black Zetsu accelerated its devouring of White Zetsu after losing the Rinnegan Stabilizing Anchor.
• A verified Original Lunar Surface Path opened from Kakashi’s left eye, giving the unmasked Obito a limited chance to return pending the Three-Party Verification Seal.

Obito returned from Kamui under his own name and accepted temporary restrictions while submitting evidence about Black Zetsu’s alterations and the Night of the Nine-Tails. The Nine-Tails agreed to verify three limited facts, leaving Obito poised to face a direct witness to his actions.

• The three parties inspected Obito as he crossed into the physical world, recorded his identity as Obito Uchiha, and imposed temporary restrictions while making clear that no judgment or reconciliation had occurred.
• Obito submitted projections reconstructing the twelve paths, records of Madara’s use of the fourth authority, and a technical account linking Black Zetsu’s altered route to the Night of the Nine-Tails.
• Obito listed which actions had occurred under the heart restriction and which were voluntary, including entering Konoha and controlling the Nine-Tails.
• Fugaku asked that Obito’s identity, actions, and clan orders be recorded separately, while Konoha’s old spatial coordinates matched Obito’s evidence.
• The Nine-Tails agreed to verify only three facts under strict conditions, and Obito prepared to face the witness without a mask or anyone speaking for him.

The Nine-Tails’ limited testimony and records from several lands established that Obito alone had controlled the Nine-Tails, while Madara, Black Zetsu, and Konoha’s safeguards held separate responsibilities. The Uchiha clan’s collective guilt was withdrawn from the record, but Black Zetsu then began erasing evidence as the pseudo-Ten-Tails core neared collapse.

• The Nine-Tails corrected the recorded direction of Obito’s spatial arrival, confirmed that one eye had controlled him, and recalled a strand of black chakra nearby without identifying it as Black Zetsu.
• Gen recorded four parallel categories of responsibility for Obito’s actions, Madara’s preparations, Black Zetsu’s manipulation, and Konoha’s oversight failures.
• The combined evidence showed Obito had acted alone with his Sharingan and found no proof that the Uchiha clan, Fugaku, or the Konoha Military Police Force had participated in the attack.
• Fugaku demanded that the correction reach every department, and Obito insisted that Black Zetsu’s actions not be attributed to him or his own actions to the clan.
• After the Nine-Tails shut down the transmission line, Black Zetsu began reclaiming traces across the evidence records in a full-domain archive purge.

Gen and the four sites severed Black Zetsu’s pseudo-ten-tails core from its main control routes, while the Uchiha formally rejected collective blame for the Nine-Tails attack and the Moon’s Eye Plan. Black Zetsu survived underground, and Kaguya demanded that the present world decide how to handle her will.

• Gen split the records among four sites and separated names, actions, times, and locations so Black Zetsu could not erase the links assigning responsibility.
• Black Zetsu attacked the archive custodians, but Shisui severed the roots and let independent checks preserve the evidence without deciding whose memories were true.
• Gen identified conflicting commands inside the pseudo-ten-tails core, while Shisui, Itachi, and the other sites blocked Black Zetsu from restoring its control routes.
• The four sites’ simultaneous rejection caused the White Tree to split apart, leaving Black Zetsu alive but unable to seize the Shinobi World’s old authorities through the core.
• Fugaku accepted the Uchiha’s responsibility for their own past actions but rejected collective blame for the Nine-Tails attack and the Moon’s Eye Plan, and the accusation of collective control was formally withdrawn.
• Kaguya used the Lunar Surface Limited Voice Channel to ask how the present world would handle her will.