Chapter Summaries

Yuya used Heavenly Secrets Calculation to learn that Kaguya was likely safe, then survived its lethal backlash with Izanagi. With a year left before the unknown energy consumed her, he began mastering chakra and prepared to learn the Rasengan.

• Yuya activated Heavenly Secrets Calculation despite its warning and saw Kaguya fighting a strange beast in snowy mountains, with a ninety percent chance of returning safely.
• Heavenly Secrets Calculation's backlash burned Yuya to death, but he had used Izanagi beforehand and returned to life, though his health was severely depleted.
• Yuya learned that Kaguya had about a year before the unknown energy consumed her and resolved to grow stronger.
• Yuya began chakra-control training by climbing trees, adjusting his technique until he reached the treetop on his third attempt.
• Yuya asked Qingyi to bring balloons and rubber balls so he could begin practicing the Rasengan.

Yuya trained until he mastered the Rasengan and improved the Gale Sword Technique, driven by his resolve to protect Princess Kaguya. To test a system prompt, he publicly rejected Qingyi by claiming he liked men, then froze when he heard a familiar voice.

• Yuya experimented with chakra rotation and disorder until he mastered the Rasengan and formed the Big Ball Rasengan.
• Yuya began sword training and innovated upon the Gale Sword Technique, raising it to Rank A.
• Yuya reflected on Princess Kaguya's danger and vowed to protect her.
• Yuya asked Qingyi to question him, then carried her into the crowded square when she confessed she liked him.
• Yuya chose the system option to say he liked men, and the crowd reacted before a familiar voice made him stiffen and weep.

Yuya reunited with Princess Kaguya, who had returned exhausted and apparently possessed by Isshiki, and defied her to gain a Sage Body. He realized she had made him a sword while she was away, then was blasted from her room again after trying to explain his earlier joke.

• Yuya heard Princess Kaguya's voice during a public gathering and rushed to her hall, gaining Observation Haki from the system along the way.
• Yuya used Observation Haki to confirm Princess Kaguya was inside, then noticed her exhaustion and sensed the God Tree and an unfamiliar presence he suspected belonged to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Yuya chose the system option to tease Princess Kaguya, tilted up her chin, and was blasted away after she called him insolent; the system rewarded him with a Sage Body.
• Princess Kaguya warned Yuya not to repeat his behavior and threw a sword beside him, which Yuya recognized as forged from cold iron she had obtained while away.
• Yuya realized Princess Kaguya may have made the sword for him, picked it up, and returned to her room to explain himself, but she blasted him out again.

Yuya left after Princess Kaguya refused to see him, then completed his sage body transformation and mastered Wind Release: Rasenshuriken. He tested its ability to take different weapon forms and began calculating how to save Princess Kaguya.

• Yuya failed to see Princess Kaguya and left to grow stronger, while she stayed behind the door and wondered why he had been acting strangely.
• Princess Kaguya found Yuya's book about a child's rebellious phase, took its advice seriously, and discovered that Yuya had written it herself.
• Yuya completed his sage body transformation, gaining greatly increased physical attributes and ninjutsu power.
• Yuya formed Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and automatically mastered the S-rank technique.
• Yuya reshaped the wind technique into several weapons, then fired an arrow that shattered a distant hill.
• Yuya began using Heavenly Secrets Calculation to work out how he could save Princess Kaguya.

Yuya used Heavenly Secrets Calculation to glimpse a mysterious girl carrying a strange beast and ordered the Starlight Pavilion to find her, believing she might help save Princess Kaguya. After visiting the pavilion and flying back to Princess Kaguya's hall, he found her waiting with an unexpected request.

• Yuya divined an image of a girl with a scepter and a strange beast, then ended the session after suffering minor backlash.
• Yuya flew to the Starlight Pavilion headquarters using Wind Release chakra, astounding the guards.
• Yuya ordered Hongyun to distribute a hundred thousand copies of his drawing and search for the girl, while telling her to handle the Heavenly Sage Dynasty envoy without him.
• Hongyun reported that the Starlight Pavilion's revenue had increased more than tenfold, and Yuya praised her work before leaving.
• Yuya returned to Princess Kaguya's hall, where she asked him to massage her legs.

Yuya massaged Princess Kaguya and saw how badly the God Tree had changed her body, promising to save her. After training and searching for the girl with many Shadow Clones, he returned to find Princess Kaguya asking him to go shopping with her.

• Princess Kaguya asked Yuya to massage her legs, and he did so while she relaxed and fell asleep.
• Yuya discovered bark-like changes spreading across Princess Kaguya’s body, finished the massage, laid her down, and promised to save her.
• Yuya received three basic techniques and used his comprehension to derive Shadow Clone Technique and Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
• Yuya trained with Shadow Clones, learned several powerful ninjutsu, and improved his taijutsu through combat.
• Yuya sent clones across neighboring countries to search for a girl, but found no confirmed matches and stopped the search as evening approached.
• Yuya returned to the palace, where Princess Kaguya asked him to come shopping with her.

Yuya and Princess Kaguya went out together to celebrate the Fireworks Festival, with Kaguya wearing a white gauze dress. They visited a claw-machine shop, where Yuya began trying to rescue a doll.

• Princess Kaguya invited Yuya to go shopping, and Yuya fetched masks for their outing.
• Princess Kaguya changed into a white gauze dress, and Yuya praised her beauty to complete a system mission and gain a growth point.
• Yuya and Princess Kaguya left without their attendants and walked through the lantern-lit, masked crowds of the festival.
• Princess Kaguya stopped at the Rescue the Dolls shop, where they saw that customers had been unable to win any plush toys.
• Yuya exchanged money for coins and started trying the claw machine after Princess Kaguya declined to play.

Princess Kaguya discovered an unexpected talent for winning every toy in the claw machine arcade, while Yuya secretly orchestrated the scene to give her an ordinary experience from her previous life. After she left with a pile of toys, Yuya’s hidden operation continued, with a fireworks display prepared just for her.

• Princess Kaguya accepted a little girl’s token and unexpectedly won a stuffed toy, drawing cheers from the arcade.
• Encouraged by Yuya and the little girl, Princess Kaguya won more toys and gave some to them.
• Princess Kaguya cleared the claw machines, received a gift from the sales assistant, and left with Yuya carrying most of the toys.
• After Princess Kaguya left, the little girl transformed into Yuya, and the other arcade visitors vanished, revealing that they had been part of his plan.
• Yuya’s rabbit-masked subordinate reported that the operation was ready, including the fireworks prepared exclusively for Princess Kaguya.

Yuya arranged a masked fireworks festival and attractions to give Princess Kaguya a comfortable date without drawing attention to her. They entered a haunted house holding hands, where a sudden ghostly face appeared and Kaguya crushed Yuya’s hand in fear.

• Yuya used Shadow Clones, masks, and redirected crowds to keep Princess Kaguya from attracting attention during their date.
• Princess Kaguya won plush toys at a claw machine and received two Adventure House tickets.
• Princess Kaguya mistook the fake monster entrance for a real threat and formed a Truth-Seeking Orb before Yuya stopped her.
• Princess Kaguya hesitated at the haunted house entrance, so Yuya took her hand and led her inside.
• A ghostly face appeared beside the path, and Princess Kaguya tightened her grip on Yuya’s hand until a bone cracked.

Yuya and Princess Kaguya went through the Adventure House, where her fear gave way to confidence as she chased down its costumed monsters and collected their props. Afterward, she turned down the hot pot buffet and chose to visit a bar, leaving Yuya unprepared for their next stop.

• Yuya led Princess Kaguya into the Adventure House and received the ocular technique Amaterasu as his reward.
• A prop grabbed Princess Kaguya, and she unleashed her chakra, destroying it and the surrounding ghost props before clinging to Yuya.
• Princess Kaguya activated her Byakugan, took Yuya's hand, and led him through the haunted house.
• After monsters fled and dropped their props, Princess Kaguya chased them down and collected all six.
• Princess Kaguya left with a gift, declined the hot pot buffet voucher, and pointed out a bar she wanted to visit.

Yuya took Princess Kaguya to a newly opened bar, where she drank cocktails and beer until she became drunk. She confessed that she feared Yuya found her annoying and asked whether he liked her, and Yuya quietly said he did.

• Princess Kaguya chose to enter the bar with Yuya and sat at the counter to watch the bartender mix their drinks.
• Princess Kaguya enjoyed two low-alcohol cocktails, then insisted on trying beer despite Yuya's warnings.
• Princess Kaguya used Universal Pull to bring over a case of beer and drank while leaning against Yuya.
• Princess Kaguya drunkenly recalled how close they had been when Yuya was younger and asked him not to find her annoying.
• Princess Kaguya asked whether she was pretty and whether Yuya liked her, and Yuya answered that he did.

Yuya sang for the drunken Princess Kaguya, who confessed that she feared dying and becoming a monster before falling asleep in his arms. He carried her to a boat on the river, where fireworks lit the sky and she woke to admire their beauty.

• Yuya sang a sorrowful song for Princess Kaguya, who listened and hummed along.
• Princess Kaguya kissed Yuya, cried that she did not want to die, and rapidly withered as her body changed.
• Yuya held Princess Kaguya until she fell asleep, then carried her from the bar through the streets and to a waiting boat.
• Yuya sat with Princess Kaguya at the bow as the boat drifted along the river and fireworks began to fill the sky.
• The fireworks' light made the markings on Princess Kaguya's body recede, and she woke and murmured that they were beautiful.

As Princess Kaguya withdrew from everyone and Yuya’s search for the missing girl consumed his life, he trained in the forest and developed a vastly enhanced Sage Mode. He gained several kekkei genkai and wondered whether his new perception could locate the girl.

• Princess Kaguya shut herself away as the countdown to her complete consumption continued, while Yuya sent out more searchers and clones.
• Yuya entered a state of deep meditation in the Back Mountain and comprehended Mount Myōboku · Sage Mode.
• Yuya perfected the technique into a new Sage Mode with hundredfold attributes, perception, and senjutsu chakra production.
• Yuya tested his power with Sage Art · Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan and comprehended Wood Release, Ice Release, Lava Release, and Boil Release.
• Yuya considered whether his newfound power could help him calculate where the missing girl was.

Yuya used Heavenly Secrets Calculation to learn that the mysterious girl would emerge from another dimension at a weak point in space on Earth, then hurried there to wait. When Princess Kaguya’s condition worsened, he returned to find her disfigured and fading, and gently held her as she asked him to play chess.

• Yuya’s divinations revealed a strange book in a ruin, the girl in another dimension, and her eventual emergence at a specific place on Earth.
• Yuya’s Sage Mode affected the surrounding vegetation, and he comprehended Wood Clone and Wood Dragon Technique, sending clones out to search while riding a Wood Dragon toward the girl’s arrival point.
• Yuya found a weak spot in space and waited there, but the girl did not appear before dusk, so he left a clone to keep watch and returned to Princess Kaguya.
• Yuya learned from his clone’s memories that Princess Kaguya had destroyed her room and grown weaker after driving the clone away.
• Yuya found Princess Kaguya sitting amid the wreckage with half her face covered in tree-bark creases, and he lifted her into his arms when she asked him to play chess.

While Princess Kaguya rested, Yuya learned through a clone that Abe Kiyuki had been found. Kiyuki, newly arrived from the Wind-Snow Realm, got trapped with an unpaid bill at a pavilion before Yuya appeared before her.

• Yuya carried Princess Kaguya to the side hall, played gomoku with her, and later watched over her as she fell asleep.
• A message from a dispersed clone told Yuya that Abe Kiyuki had been found.
• Kiyuki, the sole heir and head of the Abe Family, traveled to the outside world with her shikigami Little White to seek the branch family lineage.
• Kiyuki was lured into a pavilion, ate a meal after being promised it was free, and learned she was expected to pay.
• Yuya arrived at the pavilion and told Kiyuki he had been searching the whole world for her.

Yuya interrogated Abe Kiyuki about ruins and a strange book, learning that her ancestor Abe Seimei had sealed the God Tree and that his notes were buried in the Wind-Snow Realm. He realized that Onmyōji were part of the world’s native supernatural history, and Kiyuki offered to guide him to the ruins if he agreed to three conditions.

• Yuya questioned Abe Kiyuki about a ruined structure and a book, using his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to make her reveal what she knew.
• Abe Kiyuki said the ruins belonged to her ancestor, Abe Seimei, and that the book contained his notes.
• Yuya asked whether Onmyōji knew purification or healing spells, and Kiyuki told him those were not their strengths.
• Abe Kiyuki recounted how Abe Seimei and other Onmyōji sealed the God Tree after the Ōtsutsuki planted its seed, then moved to the Wind-Snow Realm to preserve their tradition.
• Yuya reconsidered the world’s history and concluded that Onmyōji were among its native supernatural forces.
• Abe Kiyuki offered to take Yuya to the ruins in the Wind-Snow Realm if he agreed to three things.

Yuya used Heavenly Secrets Calculation to locate the surviving Onmyōji branch family and discovered it was connected to the Saintess of the Heavenly Sage Dynasty. He took Abe Kiyuki toward the dynasty, while the system offered him choices involving the Deep Blue Crystal and its reward, the Yin-Yang Pearl.

• Abe Kiyuki asked Yuya to find her Onmyōji relatives and the Yin-Yang Pearl, and to give her lots of money; Yuya refused the money and gave them three days before they would go to the Wind-Snow Realm.
• Yuya used Heavenly Secrets Calculation to determine the branch family's location while Abe Kiyuki questioned his methods and called him an incubus.
• Yuya summoned a Wood Dragon and carried Abe Kiyuki and her fox into the sky.
• The system offered Yuya three ways to obtain the Deep Blue Crystal, including storming the Heavenly Sage Dynasty and abducting its Saintess.
• Yuya calculated that the Saintess was tied to the surviving Onmyōji branch family and that the Deep Blue Crystal was the Yin-Yang Pearl, then decided to storm the dynasty.

Yuya brought Ambe Kiyuki to meet the Heavenly Sage Dynasty’s Saintess, who revealed that she was a lingering soul rather than an Onmyōji. She explained that the branch lineage had sacrificed generations to suppress the God Tree and told Ambe Kiyuki that the Onmyōji had ended with her death three years earlier.

• Yuya’s Wood Dragon descended on the Heavenly Sage Dynasty’s great hall and carried off the Saintess, alarming the guards.
• Yuya brought Ambe Kiyuki to the palace and said the Saintess wanted to see her.
• The Saintess recognized Ambe Kiyuki as an Onmyōji, but Ambe Kiyuki was startled when the woman denied being one.
• The Saintess explained that her power came from her mother and that her lineage had sacrificed itself to suppress the God Tree.
• The Saintess revealed that she had died three years earlier, leaving behind a wisp of her soul to protect her nation, and told Ambe Kiyuki that times had changed.

On the journey back from the Heavenly Sage Dynasty, Yuya studied the Flying Thunder God Formula and found that his constitution could not sense spatial nodes. He redesigned the formula into a new SS-rank Space-Time Ninjutsu, Instant, and used it to teleport himself and Abe Kiyuki to a country on the way to the Wind-Snow Realm.

• Yuya received the Flying Thunder God Technique as a mission reward and studied its formula aboard the Wood Dragon.
• Yuya discovered that he could not activate the technique because he lacked the constitution needed to sense spatial nodes.
• Yuya modified the formula until ordinary ninja could use it with a one-second startup delay, but he remained dissatisfied with its combat usefulness.
• Yuya abandoned the Flying Thunder God approach and created the SS-rank Space-Time Ninjutsu, Instant, which let him teleport to places within his sensory range or connected to his chakra.
• Yuya teleported back beside Abe Kiyuki, dispelled the Wood Dragon, and took them both to a country as he prepared to head for the Wind-Snow Realm and see Princess Kaguya.

Yuya chose to enter the Vassal Country Ranking Battle to obtain the Yin-Yang Pearl, gaining Tsukuyomi while delaying his journey to the Wind-Snow Realm after calculating its deadly risks. As he spent time with Princess Kaguya, he secretly impressed the literary competition with a painting and poem, leaving onlookers convinced the Crown Prince loved a man.

• Yuya brought Abe Kiyuki and her fox to the Land of Ancestors, then left Abe Kiyuki at the Starlight Pavilion.
• Yuya used Heavenly Secrets Calculation and learned that the trip to the Wind-Snow Realm carried a sixty percent chance of death, with the greatest danger inside Abe Seimei's ruins.
• Yuya chose to follow the rules and compete for the Yin-Yang Pearl, earning the eye technique Tsukuyomi.
• Yuya stayed with Princess Kaguya and entertained her with fantastical stories while the Vassal Country Ranking Battle began.
• Yuya appeared in the final minute of the painting contest and created a scene of a couple watching fireworks from a boat, astounding the spectators.
• Yuya returned for the poetry contest and wrote a poem about longing for a beloved, prompting spectators to assume the Crown Prince loved a man.