Chapter Summaries

Kenichi Amamiya continued observing the three successful Eternal Mangekyō test subjects while considering the risks of using the transplant himself. He questioned Amado Sanzu about a mysterious recruiter, suspected Jigen might be hiding beneath Flame Nation's capital, and saw an experimental engine built by Amado Sanzu and Orochimaru.

• Kenichi Amamiya recorded that Test Subject Number One showed no problems after half a month and decided to keep observing the three subjects before attempting his own transplant.
• Kenichi Amamiya wondered whether Amado Sanzu had been a character in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, then ordered Uchiha Shiori to announce a broad recruitment drive for the Yan Nation Academy of Sciences.
• Kenichi Amamiya learned that Amado Sanzu had once refused an offer from another man, but Amado's description convinced him the recruiter was not Jigen.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected Jigen might have built a new base beneath Flame Nation's capital and wished for a device to detect him.
• Amado Sanzu showed Kenichi Amamiya a large working engine that he and Orochimaru had built in the laboratory.

Kenichi Amamiya considered how science and technology could shape the Shinobi World before joining Orochimaru and Amado Sanzu to improve the engine. At an orphanage in Haibo City, Kabuto Yakushi and Yamanaka Fu reflected on their new lives, and Kabuto welcomed a couple seeking to adopt a child.

• Kenichi Amamiya discussed the experimental engine with Amado Sanzu and contemplated trains, scientific progress, and possible futures for the Shinobi World.
• Orochimaru arrived with Uchiha Hikari, urged Kenichi to focus on the engine, and joined him and Amado in researching improvements.
• At the orphanage in Haibo City, Kabuto Yakushi received news from Yamanaka Fu that the government had increased orphanage benefits and subsidies.
• Kabuto and Yamanaka Fu discussed how their lives had changed, and Fu explained that seeing hope across Flame Nation had made him leave Root and its past behind.
• Kabuto welcomed a middle-aged couple to the orphanage after they asked about adopting a child.

Kenichi Amamiya visited Hidan in Orochimaru’s laboratory and learned that his body had been reassembled, but his brain showed no activity. After Amado Sanzu examined Hidan’s immortality and Orochimaru discussed the gods behind it, Kenichi tried using a parasite to revive Hidan so he could test Hidan’s ability against Jigen.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked Orochimaru where Hidan was and brought Amado Sanzu to see him in the laboratory.
• Orochimaru explained that Hidan’s brainwaves had stopped and that stimulation, including genjutsu, had failed to wake him.
• Amado Sanzu read Orochimaru’s experiment notes, examined Hidan, and confirmed that Hidan could not be killed by ordinary injury.
• Kenichi suggested that the Sage of Six Paths might have subdued the gods worshipped by Hidan and associated with the Reaper Death Seal.
• Kenichi injected Hidan with a parasite to try to restore his consciousness and test whether Hidan’s ritual technique could be used against Jigen.

Kenichi Amamiya took the brain-dead Hidan for further experiments, then left the capital to address Sasori’s lingering grief over Chiyo. In his absence, Mei Terumi reconsidered her opposition to the new nation, while Uchiha Shiori revised a danger assessment to Observation Pending.

• Amado Sanzu and Orochimaru decided they had no further use for Hidan, so Kenichi Amamiya took him to test whether a parasite could restore his brain activity.
• Kenichi decided to resolve Sasori’s feelings about Chiyo’s death and learned Sasori had gone to the former location of Sunagakure.
• Kenichi boarded an airship for Sunagakure, leaving Hidan’s experiment for later and intending to expose troublemakers in the capital during his absence.
• Mei Terumi asked Ōnoki and A whether they would resist the new nation, but both told her they had accepted its rule and the peace it brought.
• Mei Terumi accepted that she might have to let go and focus on caring for former residents of the Land of Water.
• Uchiha Shiori changed a danger rating on an evaluation form to Observation Pending.

Hidan woke from a long, tortured state with amnesia, then recovered memories of Kenichi Amamiya and discovered that parasites had made his body kneel to Kenichi. Kenichi recruited Hidan to try using his blood-based curse against Jigen once they obtained fresh blood.

• Hidan awoke disoriented and felt an unexplained attachment to Kenichi Amamiya, who was standing beside him.
• Kenichi asked Hidan whether he remembered him, and Hidan recalled that Kenichi had defeated him and handed him over to a Madman who tortured him.
• Hidan attacked Kenichi but found his body forced to kneel; he could not contact the Evil God and eventually calmed down enough to ask what Kenichi wanted.
• Kenichi asked about the restrictions on Hidan's curse, and Hidan explained that he needed the target's fresh blood.
• Kenichi told Hidan to stand by and use his curse on Jigen if they obtained his blood, and Hidan agreed.

Kenichi Amamiya successfully awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan by transplanting his clone’s Mangekyō eyes. He then considered ways to accelerate his Rinnegan awakening, leaving with a theory that mastering and fusing all Chakra nature transformations might grant him the Six Paths power he needed.

• Kenichi Amamiya confirmed that an earlier Eternal Mangekyō experiment had remained stable even as its clone aged and died.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Shadow Clones to awaken Mangekyō Sharingan in his adolescent clone, removed its eyes, and destroyed the clone.
• Kenichi Amamiya underwent a successful eye transplant and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, ending his risk of blindness from Mangekyō use.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered Madara Uchiha’s and Sasuke Uchiha’s paths to the Rinnegan and concluded that waiting for his own awakening might take too long.
• Kenichi Amamiya recalled that Sasuke Uchiha’s Rinnegan was connected to the Sage of Six Paths and considered researching Six Paths power instead of continuing his antimatter-particle research.
• Kenichi Amamiya theorized that fusing Chakra of all nature transformations could produce Six Paths power and accelerate his Rinnegan awakening.

Kenichi Amamiya reasoned that Jigen was likely hiding beneath the capital, and Black Zetsu hurried off to investigate. Meanwhile, Kushina Uzumaki told Minato Namikaze that she was pregnant, leaving him overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a father again.

• Kenichi Amamiya teased Black Zetsu about his search for Jigen, then asked where an arrogant man like Jigen would choose to hide.
• Black Zetsu realized Jigen might be hiding beneath the capital, and Kenichi Amamiya confirmed his suspicion.
• Black Zetsu left in a hurry to investigate while Kenichi Amamiya considered how to deal with Jigen if the capital were at risk.
• Sasuke Uchiha visited Naruto, and Kushina Uzumaki welcomed him warmly and served him breakfast.
• Kushina Uzumaki handed Minato Namikaze his bento and told him she was expecting another child, making him excited to be a father again.

Kenichi and Black Zetsu discovered that Jigen’s base was beneath Flame Nation’s capital and planned to confront him with revived Kage. Kenichi also suspected Jigen was the Otsutsuki whom Kaguya had betrayed, while he considered how to protect the capital and deal with its political opponents.

• Black Zetsu and Kenichi discussed Jigen’s location and his overwhelming strength, weighing the risks of confronting him.
• Kenichi suspected Jigen was the injured Otsutsuki whom Kaguya had ambushed and kept his theory from Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu proposed that he and Kenichi’s main body join forces, and Kenichi recommended reviving powerful ninja with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Kenichi and Black Zetsu agreed to gather the remains of the Kage, and Black Zetsu left to prepare them.
• Kenichi worried that Jigen could use the capital’s residents as shields and considered using Flame Nation’s political opponents as laboratory materials.

Kenichi Amamiya decided to end the influence of the former Daimyo families after their descendants began demanding privileges and tax revenue. He approved a plan to execute the descendants, punish their collaborators according to their crimes, and transfer the families’ property to the government.

• Kenichi Amamiya ordered Uchiha Shiori to summon Ōnoki, Nagato, and A to discuss the former Daimyos and their descendants.
• Kenichi Amamiya teased Nagato about marrying Konan while the officials gathered for the meeting.
• Ōnoki explained that some shinobi and others still served the former Daimyos despite their loss of status and wealth.
• Nagato, Ōnoki, and A proposed executing all Daimyo descendants and punishing those connected to them according to their involvement and other crimes.
• Kenichi Amamiya approved the plan and ordered the Daimyo families’ property confiscated, with their businesses placed under local government control.

After the Flame Nation arrested the former daimyo, Kenichi Amamiya spared a few who had peacefully severed ties with their families and turned his attention to Nagato and Konan. He helped reveal their mutual feelings, and the chapter ended with Nagato asking Konan to date him and her quietly agreeing.

• Kenichi Amamiya ordered Ōnoki to monitor former daimyo relatives who had cut ties with their families and spare them unless they attempted to restore the old regime.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Nagato when he would confess to Konan, and Nagato admitted he was unsure whether she liked him romantically.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Konan if she liked Nagato, then told her that Nagato liked her too.
• Kenichi Amamiya returned to Nagato and told him Konan shared his feelings.
• Konan invited Nagato to eat with her, and Nagato asked her to date him; Konan softly agreed.

Kenichi considered how Madara might try to reclaim Nagato’s Rinnegan to fight Jigen, so he took Nagato’s blood to prepare a clone for experiments. After encouraging Nagato to marry Konan, Kenichi headed to his laboratory, determined to eliminate Jigen and eventually deal with Madara and Black Zetsu.

• Kenichi learned that Nagato and Konan had confessed to each other and worried that Madara would come for Nagato’s Rinnegan to strengthen himself against Jigen.
• Kenichi planned to draw Nagato’s blood and test genetic programming on a clone before making any changes to Nagato’s body.
• Kenichi found Nagato grinning on a park bench, explained that he needed blood for an experiment, and drew a sample with Nagato’s consent.
• Kenichi asked when Nagato and Konan would marry, and Nagato admitted that he had never thought about marriage and children before.
• Kenichi left for his laboratory with Nagato’s blood and resolved to kill Jigen for the time needed to develop his technology, while also planning to deal with Madara and Black Zetsu.

Kenichi Amamiya prepared Nagato’s clone and considered his research into nuclear weapons and the Rinnegan. He traveled to the Land of Rain to study the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but his ocular technique revealed only a small part of its plant-like skin before exhausting him.

• Uchiha Shiori told Kenichi Amamiya that Sakura Haruno lived with her parents in the capital, and he wondered how Naruto and Sasuke would grow up in the peaceful Shinobi World.
• Kenichi Amamiya put Nagato’s blood into the Cloning Machine and reviewed his plans to study nuclear physics and find a way to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Kenichi Amamiya reasoned that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, as the God Tree’s shell, might help him understand Six Paths Chakra, so he traveled to the Land of Rain.
• Kenichi Amamiya used his Mangekyo to deconstruct the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path but managed to examine only the skin on one hand before his eyes began to ache.
• Kenichi Amamiya discovered that the statue’s skin resembled plant matter and decided he would have to continue studying it gradually.

Kenichi Amamiya studied the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and began developing a plan to create a Yang Seal by storing Chakra throughout his body. After Black Zetsu left with Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s remains in Kenichi’s hands, Kenichi considered using clones and Izanagi to safely test whether this could lead to Six Paths Mode.

• Kenichi told Black Zetsu he was studying the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while considering how its Chakra pathways might help him develop Six Paths Mode.
• Black Zetsu offered Kenichi the remains of Kinkaku and Ginkaku, and Kenichi accepted them for possible Impure World Reincarnation.
• After Black Zetsu left, Kenichi studied Tsunade’s notes and tried compressing and storing Chakra in cells, but found the Yin Seal’s method did not suit his goal.
• Kenichi considered storing Chakra in every cell of his body and decided to make clones with Izanagi so he could test the dangerous idea safely.
• Kenichi planned to store versatile Six Paths Chakra throughout his body and investigate the threshold between Chakra nature transformations.

Kenichi Amamiya investigated how Chakra attributes might share an underlying form, hoping to develop Origin Chakra and eventually master Six Paths Mode. In Rain City, he found Sasori running a Puppet House with lifelike puppets of his family, and Sasori said he would still help Kenichi if needed.

• Kenichi used his Mangekyō Sharingan to examine and record the shapes of Chakra with different attributes, but he could not find their common ground.
• Kenichi decided to study Tailed Beast Chakra, considering the Nine-Tails Chakra fragment he had saved and rejecting the idea of asking the Sage of Six Paths for help.
• Kenichi entered Rain City and found Sasori sitting in his Puppet House.
• Kenichi tried to address the tension over Chiyo's death, but Sasori said he did not blame him.
• Kenichi saw puppets modeled after Sasori's parents and Chiyo, and Sasori said he planned to keep the shop open while still helping Kenichi when needed.

Kenichi Amamiya considered how to address poverty and uneven development across the Flame Nation, then traveled to Sunagakure's abandoned site to test whether his Wood Release could make the desert habitable. He left a vast new forest under a steady rain, while recognizing that further work would be needed to sustain it.

• Kenichi Amamiya reflected on Sasori's withdrawal from his former life and decided not to press him for help.
• While eating in Rain City, Kenichi Amamiya planned policies to support small towns, improve infrastructure, and increase agricultural production.
• Kenichi Amamiya recorded the need to improve crop and livestock yields for Uchiha Shiori to address with recruited experts.
• Kenichi Amamiya flew to Sunagakure's Old Site and found the abandoned village largely buried by sand.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Sage Art: Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to cover part of the desert with trees, then created clouds and rain to water the new forest.

Kenichi Amamiya observed a Wood Release forest he had planted in the Land of Wind and considered what it would take to make the desert habitable. While monitoring the forest, he experimented with viewing and erasing the minute components of Chakra, ending with one kind of Light Spot remaining.

• Kenichi Amamiya inspected the forest and reasoned that its roots could stabilize the sand, though shinobi would need to maintain it through the desert’s droughts.
• By the third day, the trees remained healthy, the sand had firmed, and thorny plants had begun to grow; Kenichi Amamiya also found no new clues to Primordial Chakra.
• After five rainless days, the heat had evaporated a small lake, convincing Kenichi Amamiya that transforming the Land of Wind would require many shinobi and sustained work.
• On the sixth day, Kenichi Amamiya theorized that Chakra might contain atoms he could study to find a common element.
• Kenichi Amamiya used his Mangekyo to examine Fire Release Chakra, then erased different kinds of tiny Light Spots until only one kind remained.

Kenichi Amamiya tested a faint milky-white Chakra that could perform multiple nature transformations and began compressing it into his cells. He arranged to harvest Chakra from a hundred ninjas and use Samehada as a container, while starting construction on a town in the Land of Wind.

• Kenichi Amamiya found that his milky-white Chakra could perform Water Release, Wood Release, Wind Release, and other tested natures, and produced a trace of sinister lightning with Yin Release.
• Kenichi Amamiya compressed the Chakra into cells throughout his body and asked Uchiha Shiori to send him an eye containing Izanagi in case the experiment went wrong.
• Kenichi Amamiya studied a Sealing Barrier diagram and arranged for Uchiha Shiori to send a logistics team and one hundred ninjas so he could test extracting Chakra for compression.
• Kenichi Amamiya ordered architects and designers to build a small town as a settlement for rangers and future desert restoration in the Land of Wind.
• Kenichi Amamiya placed the hundred ninjas inside the Sealing Barrier and directed their extracted Chakra into a cloned Samehada, but found the extraction too slow to keep pace with his recovery.

After four months of refining Primordial Chakra, Kenichi Amamiya discovered that his body was changing in ways that might lead to Six Paths Mode. Black Zetsu returned with the remains Kenichi needed for Impure World Reincarnation, and Kenichi began preparing to revive powerful ninja to face Jigen.

• Kenichi Amamiya spent four months refining Chakra while helping restore the forest, and he noticed his skin paling and his metabolism slowing.
• Kenichi Amamiya concluded that filling his cells with Primordial Chakra might let him enter Six Paths Mode and speed up awakening the Rinnegan.
• Black Zetsu brought Kenichi Amamiya the gathered remains of powerful figures, including bones that Kenichi suspected belonged to Rasa and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided to include Jiraiya and Tsunade in the battle against Jigen and prepared their remains for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Black Zetsu to provide White Zetsu sacrifices and considered luring Jigen away from New Capital City to avoid damage and casualties.

Kenichi Amamiya revived Jiraiya and Tsunade through Impure World Reincarnation and asked them to help preserve peace in the Shinobi World. As Black Zetsu weighed how to fight Jigen, Jiraiya guessed that the threat to peace had come from the sky.

• Kenichi Amamiya questioned Black Zetsu about when he would pursue Jigen, and Black Zetsu admitted he was unsure whether Madara Uchiha could defeat him.
• Kenichi Amamiya warned that reviving Madara Uchiha and restoring his Rinnegan could be risky, while Black Zetsu considered consulting Madara Uchiha before acting.
• Black Zetsu left Kenichi Amamiya with the White Zetsu, and Kenichi Amamiya finished preparing Jiraiya and Tsunade as Impure World Reincarnation Bodies.
• Tsunade attacked Kenichi Amamiya, but he stopped her by bringing up the possibility of giving Nawaki a complete life and asking her to work for peace.
• Jiraiya asked Kenichi Amamiya what he wanted them to do, then wondered whether enemies had come from the sky.

Kenichi Amamiya told Jiraiya and Tsunade that Madara Uchiha had been nearly killed by a hidden enemy, then traced that enemy’s possible identity to an ancient account of gods and the God Tree. Black Zetsu secretly listened, became convinced the enemy might be tied to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and left to check his plans.

• Kenichi Amamiya summoned Jiraiya and Tsunade with Impure World Reincarnation and warned them that a powerful enemy had defeated Madara Uchiha.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade saw the prepared corpses and skeletons and questioned Kenichi Amamiya about the threat.
• Kenichi Amamiya recounted an ancient book’s account of the Progenitor of Chakra, the Sage of Six Paths, and a god who had disappeared.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected the hidden enemy was the missing god who had come to the world for the God Tree.
• Black Zetsu secretly listened, feared the enemy could disrupt Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s resurrection, and left to inspect his contingencies.