Chapter Summaries

After breaching Kirigakure and taking control of the Land of Water, Kenichi Amamiya considered how to govern the country while avoiding intervention from the other nations. He encountered Zabuza Momochi and Haku, who had come to confront him, and asked why they had attacked.

• Tsunade received intelligence that Kirigakure had been breached, Karatachi Yagura and the Three-Tails had died, and the capital had fallen, then called for the Elder Council.
• Kumogakure's A and Darui discussed Kirigakure's fall, and an Anbu reported that the Daimyo wanted to meet with A.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Orochimaru that he was keeping the Land of Water's Daimyo alive in case the other Daimyo formed an alliance against him, and explained his use of parasites in Genetic Modification.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Amado Sanzu to study crop improvement and gave him an Experiment Log before leaving the laboratory.
• Zabuza Momochi and Haku attacked Kenichi Amamiya in the capital, and he recognized them and asked whether they had come to avenge Kirigakure.

Kenichi Amamiya recruited Zabuza Momochi and Haku, then moved to exploit newly discovered uranium deposits and consolidate his control of the Land of Water. After subduing the Daimyo with a parasite, he chose to keep him in office for stability while preparing to change the country’s political order.

• Kenichi Amamiya offered Zabuza Momochi and Haku positions as Guards, gave them Advanced Insect Eggs, and sent them to register.
• A Shadow Clone reported finding two uranium mining sites in the Land of Water, and Kenichi Amamiya ordered mining to begin as he prepared to build a second atomic bomb.
• Kenichi Amamiya kicked the Land of Water’s Daimyo, treated his injuries, and forced insect eggs into his body to control him.
• Under the parasite’s influence, the Daimyo denied having agreements with the other Great Nations and described how he might seize territory after another nation’s destruction.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided to keep the Daimyo working to maintain stability until policies could be implemented and the public was ready for a trial.

Obito and Black Zetsu learned that Kenichi Amamiya had killed the Three-Tails and taken over the Land of Water, delaying their plan and forcing them to reconsider confronting him. At the Fire Country border, Mei Terumi accepted Konoha’s offer to join an SSS-rank mission against the force occupying her homeland.

• Black Zetsu told Obito that Kenichi Amamiya had destroyed Kirigakure, taken control of the Land of Water, and killed the Three-Tails, whose revival would take eight or nine years.
• Obito worried Kenichi might kill other Tailed Beasts and further delay the Eye of the Moon Plan, while Black Zetsu concluded that the two of them could not defeat him alone.
• Choza Akimichi and Shikaku Nara tried to recruit Mei Terumi and persuade her to stay in Konoha to seek revenge against Kenichi.
• Shikaku showed Mei an SSS-rank mission issued by the Daimyo of the Four Great Nations to eliminate the force occupying the Land of Water.
• Mei accepted Konoha’s offer and agreed to join the mission against Kenichi.

Kenichi Amamiya learned that the Four Great Nations had joined forces to send shinobi against him after he destroyed Kirigakure. With time short to build stronger weapons, he considered striking the Allied Shinobi Forces in the Land of Fire, while Tsunade prepared to let foreign shinobi gather there.

• Kenichi Amamiya lamented that he had no reliable intelligence network in the Land of Water, while his teacher reported that Iwagakure was mobilizing for a mission against him.
• Kenichi Amamiya learned that the Four Great Nations had jointly commissioned a mission to overthrow the force occupying Kirigakure, and he worried about facing their shinobi armies.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided that numbers alone would not overcome his Atomic Bombs and continued manufacturing a second bomb, though he lacked time to develop a hydrogen bomb.
• Kenichi Amamiya studied a map and considered detonating an Atomic Bomb in the Land of Fire while the Allied Shinobi Forces gathered there.
• Tsunade learned that the other villages’ shinobi would gather at designated locations under supervision, and she accepted that Konoha would have to host them near the Land of Water.

Kenichi Amamiya learned that the Four Great Nations had dispatched ninja to hunt him and considered sowing discord among their villages. He sent Kabuto Yakushi back to Konoha as a spy, while Kabuto said goodbye to Yakushi Nonō at Starting Point Orphanage; the chapter ended as Hikari greeted Kenichi and a golden giant appeared.

• Kabuto Yakushi reported that Iwagakure had sent many ninja and that Konoha had appointed Fifth Tsunade as Hokage, with Hiruzen Sarutobi leading Root.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered using disguised attacks to turn the Four Shinobi Villages against one another.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Kabuto Yakushi to return to Konoha as a spy, and Kabuto agreed after learning Root had ordered him to report back.
• Kabuto Yakushi visited Yakushi Nonō at Starting Point Orphanage and promised he would be fine before leaving on his mission.
• Kenichi Amamiya continued making an Atomic Bomb in the laboratory and sent Uchiha Shiori to deliver a letter.
• Hikari greeted Kenichi Amamiya outside the laboratory, and a golden giant appeared before him.

Kenichi Amamiya refused Hikari’s offer to help fight, explaining that her abilities could transform the Shinobi World, then turned to planning for the coming invasion by the allied forces of three villages. After consulting Minato Namikaze and Shimura Danzō about possible enemy landing sites, he returned Danzō to the Pure Land, leaving the location of the allied forces uncertain.

• Hikari demonstrated Susanoo to convince Kenichi Amamiya she could help in the war, but he told her to save her abilities for benefiting the Shinobi World.
• Kenichi Amamiya took Hikari to lunch, then returned to the laboratory to continue assembling his second Atomic Bomb.
• Uchiha Shiori told Kenichi Amamiya that Minato Namikaze had returned, and Kenichi asked Minato where the enemy allied forces might station themselves.
• Minato Namikaze identified Haibo Town as a likely staging point and described a concealed Konoha bridgehead for an attack on the Land of Water.
• Kenichi Amamiya summoned Shimura Danzō with Impure World Reincarnation, and Danzō proposed a third location that could use March’s southeasterly winds to conceal the invasion force.
• After learning that Hiruzen Sarutobi had taken over Root, Shimura Danzō laughed before Kenichi Amamiya sent him back to the Pure Land.

Kenichi Amamiya planned reconnaissance against the Allied Shinobi Forces while preparing more Atomic Bombs, as resistance to Flame Nation continued to be crushed across the Land of Water. Hozuki Suigetsu killed his uncle Hozuki Mamoru and forced the last major group of Kirigakure remnants to submit, then learned that Kenichi Amamiya was coming.

• Kenichi Amamiya assigned Minato Namikaze to scout the Secret Base and planned to investigate all three marked locations while he prepared Atomic Bombs.
• Kenichi Amamiya reflected on the growing rebellion in the Land of Water and how captured Kirigakure Ninja were being controlled with parasite eggs.
• Hozuki Suigetsu led Flame Nation shinobi to surround the Hozuki Clan remnants, and Hozuki Mamoru condemned him for betraying Kirigakure.
• Hozuki Mamoru took a pill to gain strength and charged Hozuki Suigetsu, but Suigetsu and two Mangekyo Jonin killed him with a sword and genjutsu.
• The surviving Kirigakure remnants surrendered and were taken to be injected with parasite eggs.
• Kuroki Ryuji announced that Kenichi Amamiya was coming, and Hozuki Suigetsu reacted with an inexplicable emotion.

Kenichi Amamiya investigated a rebel base with Uchiha Shiori, where Hozuki Suigetsu attacked his Shadow Clone after escaping parasite control through his liquefaction ability. Kenichi controlled Suigetsu and took him to the laboratory to investigate whether liquefaction was a Hozuki Clan trait, leaving the remaining clan members unharmed for now.

• Uchiha Shiori led Kenichi Amamiya's Shadow Clone to a swamp ruin that served as a resistance base, where Kenichi recognized Hozuki Suigetsu among the assembled ninjas.
• Hozuki Suigetsu stabbed Kenichi's Shadow Clone, and Uchiha Shiori restrained him and ordered other Hozuki men imprisoned while bringing the women and children to her.
• Kenichi examined Suigetsu and discovered that he had escaped the parasite's control by liquefying his body and expelling the parasite.
• Kenichi used his Mangekyō Sharingan to control Suigetsu and told Uchiha Shiori not to let such an incident happen again.
• Kenichi refused to punish the other Hozuki Clan members and brought Suigetsu to the laboratory to investigate whether the clan shared his liquefaction ability.

Tsunade and the leaders of the Four Great Nations prepared to investigate the force that destroyed Kirigakure, while Mei Terumi revealed a secret route into the Land of Water. Kenichi Amamiya learned where the Allied Shinobi Forces were camped and planned to bring the coming war to the Land of Fire, though he faced a shortage of troops to govern the Land of Water.

• Tsunade worried that the force occupying the Land of Water had destroyed Kirigakure and subdued the Three-Tails without leaving any spies alive to report what happened.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Chiyo, Kitsuchi, Darui, and Mei Terumi discussed how to enter the Land of Water, and Mei described an abandoned Anbu base with secret passages near Kirigakure.
• Black-clad shinobi observed the Four Great Nations' camp and sent its location to Kenichi Amamiya.
• Kenichi learned that the Allied Shinobi Forces had gathered at the location Shimura Danzō predicted, while Minato Namikaze reported that the secret base appeared clear.
• Kenichi prepared to act against the Allied Shinobi Forces and considered a plan involving the Uchiha Clan, but worried that he lacked enough shinobi to secure the Land of Water.

Kenichi Amamiya prepared to infiltrate the Allied Shinobi Forces and use his devastating weapon, while Obito and Black Zetsu realized he had arrived and moved to expose him. In Magatama Village, Mikoto gave Itachi her blessing to leave on a dangerous mission, and Sasuke watched his brother go.

• Kenichi Amamiya, Minato Namikaze, and Shimura Danzō located the Allied Shinobi Forces and prepared to approach under cover of darkness.
• Kenichi planned to infiltrate the camp, detonate his weapon, and have Minato and Danzō distract the forces if needed.
• Obito and Black Zetsu discussed the threat of Kenichi's weapon, then Black Zetsu sensed someone near the Allied Shinobi Forces and went to investigate.
• Sasuke asked Itachi when Shisui and the others would return, and Itachi explained that the Uchiha Clan had sent capable members on a mission.
• Mikoto encouraged Itachi to go on the dangerous mission, and he left home while Sasuke watched in fear.

Kenichi Amamiya abandoned an infiltration plan after Obito’s fire attack put the Allied Shinobi Forces on alert, then prepared a black High Altitude Hot Air Balloon to carry an Atomic Bomb above the camp. While testing a new way to use his Mangekyō Sharingan to detect Black Zetsu, he witnessed another fire attack and Minato Namikaze rushed toward its source.

• Obito’s Fire Dragon Jutsu alerted the Allied Shinobi Forces, and Kenichi Amamiya suspected Black Zetsu had discovered their arrival.
• Kenichi Amamiya rejected Shimura Danzō’s proposal to impersonate a squad and withdrew with Minato Namikaze and Shimura Danzō.
• Kenichi Amamiya made a black High Altitude Hot Air Balloon, tested it with a Shadow Clone, and found it could fly about two hundred meters higher than his previous balloons.
• Kenichi Amamiya analyzed a Metasequoia with his Mangekyō Sharingan, hoping to filter familiar compositions from future scans and detect Black Zetsu.
• Another group of fire dragons attacked the camp, and Minato Namikaze charged toward the place where the jutsu had been cast.

Minato Namikaze confronted Obito in the forest, but Obito escaped before he could be captured. Meanwhile, the Allied Shinobi Forces evacuated after spotting a balloon, only for Kenichi Amamiya’s atomic bomb to devastate their encampment; Obito resolved to build an army powerful enough to oppose him.

• Minato Namikaze recognized Obito as the masked man who had attacked Konoha and attacked him with a Rasengan, but Obito escaped after immobilizing him.
• Kitsuchi, Chiyo, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Darui, Jiraiya, and Mei Terumi debated whether the earlier blast was a warning and whether the Allied Shinobi Forces should evacuate.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi received reports of a flying hot air balloon, prompting the Allied Shinobi Forces to raise defenses and evacuate their camp.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and other ninja attacked a rapidly descending object, but it exploded into an atomic blast that shattered the defenses and ravaged the encampment.
• Obito and Black Zetsu witnessed the explosion, and Obito decided to gather the remains of powerful fighters to create an army capable of defeating Kenichi Amamiya.

An atomic bomb devastated the forest, and Hiruzen Sarutobi died after using his chakra to shield Konoha’s shinobi. As the survivors gathered and rival villages withheld their accusations, Kenichi Amamiya decided to descend from his airship and inspect the blast site.

• Jiraiya carried the badly injured Hiruzen Sarutobi and other surviving Konoha shinobi away from the radioactive blast zone.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Shikaku Nara to count the casualties and seek Tsunade’s aid, then recalled his life and died beside Jiraiya and Shikaku.
• Jiraiya promised to burn a copy of his next book for Hiruzen Sarutobi as Konoha’s survivors gathered around their fallen Hokage.
• Mei Terumi mourned the destruction, while Kitsuchi and Darui abandoned their demand for answers after seeing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s body and the furious Konoha shinobi.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided to inspect the devastation and jumped from the airship, followed by Minato Namikaze and Shimura Danzō.

Kenichi Amamiya attacked the gathered ninja with Minato Namikaze and Shimura Danzō, then used a new Sage Art to raise the dead across the battlefield and Konoha’s encampment. Jiraiya answered with Goemon, but Kenichi emerged in a Wood Golem, while Tsunade watched the giant rise from an approaching airship.

• Darui proposed bringing Killer B to reinforce the gathered ninja, but Kenichi Amamiya appeared with two masked allies and warned that Killer B might already be approaching.
• Shimura Danzō engaged Kitsuchi, while Minato Namikaze used Flying Thunder God to attack Darui and Mei Terumi, revealing himself to Jiraiya through his Rasengan.
• Jiraiya recognized that Kenichi Amamiya had used Impure World Reincarnation to bring back Minato Namikaze, then attacked Kenichi as he completed a new technique.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Sage Art! Slaying Yama! to raise dead ninja and animal remains, causing the revived dead to attack the living at the encampment and across the battlefield.
• Jiraiya unleashed Sage Art! Goemon, but Kenichi emerged from the flames inside a Wood Golem as Tsunade watched from an airship.

Kenichi Amamiya’s Wood Golem overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces until Mei Terumi and Jiraiya damaged it, while Tsunade confronted the resurrected Shimura Danzō. Kenichi withdrew as Ōnoki discovered evidence of a plot to pit the villages against one another.

• Kenichi Amamiya used the Wood Golem Technique to attack Jiraiya and Kitsuchi, while Shimura Danzō’s regeneration revealed his identity to Kitsuchi.
• Tsunade arrived, protected the injured Kitsuchi, and confronted Shimura Danzō over fighting against Konoha.
• Mei Terumi and Darui coordinated against Minato Namikaze, and Mei’s Lava Release helped Jiraiya corrode and immobilize the wood golem.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided to retreat from the battlefield, judging that his chakra was nearly exhausted and that continuing risked a joint attack by the Four Great Ninja Villages.
• Ōnoki pursued disguised shinobi who escaped after using genjutsu, then received a Kumogakure forehead protector that suggested someone was framing the villages against one another.

Tsunade and Jiraiya dealt with Hiruzen Sarutobi’s reanimated body and concealed their suspicion that Kenichi Amamiya was Heavenly Demon as tensions with Iwagakure mounted. Meanwhile, Kenichi considered new weapons and biological agents, leaving the story with him contemplating whether disease could make him a necromancer in the Shinobi World.

• Tsunade subdued her reanimated teacher, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and agreed with Jiraiya to keep Kenichi Amamiya’s identity as Heavenly Demon secret.
• An intelligence report revealed that the Tsuchikage had accused Konoha of starting the Fourth Great Ninja War, while Tsunade suspected Kenichi had attacked Kirigakure and the allied forces.
• Kenichi canceled Impure World Reincarnation, left the battlefield, and considered how to strengthen his arsenal after using one of his limited Atomic Bombs.
• Kenichi considered hydrogen bombs, then recalled anthrax and other pathogens as possible weapons before worrying that a plague combined with Slaying Yama could turn him into a necromancer.

Kenichi Amamiya searched Konoha Hospital for a highly contagious, lethal pathogen that might serve his research. He found a promising case involving Hyuga Hanaki and planned to take a blood sample, though its method of transmission remained uncertain.

• Kenichi Amamiya went to Konoha Hospital and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to control Shizune into showing him records of patients with incurable diseases.
• Kenichi Amamiya rejected several cases, including Feolga Syndrome and an unidentified immune disorder, because they did not match his desired traits.
• Kenichi Amamiya found Hyuga Hanaki, a Jonin dying from the fast-acting Nano Virus, and asked Shizune about its symptoms and transmission.
• Kenichi Amamiya sent a Shadow Clone to examine Hyuga Hanaki and reviewed its report, which showed a high fever, severe dehydration, thickened blood, and breathing difficulty.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected the Nano Virus might spread through bodily fluids and planned to take some of Hyuga Hanaki's clotted blood for experiments.

Kenichi Amamiya tested whether Hyuga Hanaki’s Nano Virus could spread through infected blood and watched it kill a Genin in under eight hours. As he began testing other transmission routes and studying tissue samples, Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed the fallout from the attack on Iwagakure and the strained relations among the villages.

• Kenichi Amamiya injected Hyuga Hanaki’s blood into a same-blood-type Genin and observed him for signs of infection.
• The Genin developed a fever, organ failure, and increasingly thick blood before dying seven hours and fifty-three minutes after the injection, despite Shizune’s treatment.
• Kenichi Amamiya concluded that the virus did not spread through the air and tested bodily-fluid and fecal-oral transmission on other Genin.
• Kenichi Amamiya collected tissue samples and sent a Shadow Clone to examine them in the laboratory while planning to use the Land of Snow as his research base.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya that Kumogakure had softened its stance and Sunagakure remained displeased after she treated their wounded.
• Jiraiya warned that Iwagakure might retaliate over the attack blamed on Konoha, while Tsunade insisted the village had been framed.

Kenichi Amamiya’s Shadow Clone investigated the incurable Nano Disease and left Konoha with patient bodies and samples for further study. At Sasori’s base, Kenichi recruited him for his plans and asked him to build a realistic puppet modeled on Rin Nohara to torment Obito.

• Kenichi Amamiya’s Shadow Clone found that the Nano Disease caused widespread cell coagulation but revealed no detectable pathogen, then took patient bodies and samples out of Konoha.
• Sasori showed Kenichi Amamiya Unit-01, a heavily armored but bulky mech he had built, and said Deidara was testing a bomber.
• Kenichi told Sasori that his plan had begun and admitted that he had destroyed Kirigakure.
• Kenichi asked Sasori to make a realistic female puppet modeled on Rin Nohara so he could provoke Obito, and Sasori agreed.
• Kenichi considered using One’s Own Life Reincarnation to bring Rin back in front of Obito and drive him into a fury.

Kenichi Amamiya had Sasori make life-sized Rin Nohara dolls to provoke Obito and test whether they could be sold across the shinobi villages. After hiring Deidara and inspecting Sasori’s first doll, Kenichi planned to take the products to the other villages.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked Sasori to produce hundreds of Rin Nohara dolls for sale and paid him double his quoted price.
• Deidara crashed his experimental flying machine in an explosion, then agreed to work for Kenichi Amamiya.
• Kenichi Amamiya hinted that he would show Deidara an Atomic Bomb on the battlefield, exciting the young artist.
• Sasori presented a lifelike Rin Nohara doll, and Kenichi Amamiya approved it as the model for mass production.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Sasori to make more dolls so he could test the market in other shinobi villages.