Chapter Summaries

Kenichi Amamiya abandoned his attempt to enter Kumogakure after seeing its strict inspections and devised an aerial bombing plan instead. With Sasori's help, he built a hot air balloon and parachutes, then rose above the village with Thermobaric Bombs ready.

• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori saw merchants subjected to invasive searches at Kumogakure's gate and decided to leave before the inspection reached them.
• Kenichi Amamiya used the Nirvana Temple Technique to distract nearby ninjas, and he and Sasori escaped the gate as Kumogakure's Anbu responded.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided not to infiltrate Kumogakure and planned to use a hot air balloon to approach from above.
• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori built a hot air balloon and two parachutes, then used Wind Release to rise into the sky above Kumogakure.
• Kenichi Amamiya took out the scroll containing the Thermobaric Bombs and prepared to begin the bombing operation.

Fourth Raikage A’s unease proved justified when Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori attacked Kumogakure with a Thermobaric Bomb. The blast destroyed a quarter of the village, leaving A furious and Sasori shaken by the weapon’s power.

• A ordered Kumogakure’s Sealing Squad to heighten its guard after C lost the trail of two intruding ninja.
• A spotted a silver cylinder falling toward Kumogakure, but the Sealing Barrier deflected it to the village’s left side.
• The Thermobaric Bomb exploded, wrecking part of Kumogakure and briefly leaving A and the village’s ninja unable to breathe.
• A called for a defense as the blast swept through the village, then glared at the sky when he realized the attack had come from above.
• Kenichi Amamiya watched from a hot air balloon and explained that the Sealing Barrier had blocked most of the blast’s energy.
• Sasori realized how lethal the bomb was and feared that he might have died if it had exploded near him.

Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori escaped Kumogakure after testing Kenichi’s thermobaric bomb, while reports of the attack spread across the ninja world. The rumors grew far beyond the actual damage, leaving the furious Fourth Raikage A unable to find the attackers as other villages exploited the news.

• Kenichi Amamiya decided to leave Kumogakure with Sasori, satisfied that the bomb test had succeeded despite their failure to claim a bounty.
• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori destroyed their hot-air balloon, then parachuted safely into the Land of Whirlpools.
• Intelligence about Kumogakure’s attack reached the ninja villages, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo discussed how Konoha could use the news.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha to exaggerate Kumogakure’s losses, and rumors spread that Madara Uchiha had nearly destroyed the village.
• The Fourth Raikage A raged as he searched unsuccessfully for the attackers, while Kumogakure’s furniture seller mourned his damaged shop and welcomed the Raikage’s business.

Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori returned to Akatsuki headquarters, where Kenichi reported that their attempt to recruit Jūzō Biwa had failed. He then revealed to Nagato that he and Sasori had bombed Kumogakure, leaving Nagato to consider whether they could prove it and claim a reward.

• Kenichi Amamiya met Orochimaru at Akatsuki headquarters and told him Sasori had killed Jūzō Biwa.
• Orochimaru told Kenichi to report to Nagato and said he would wait at a barbecue restaurant.
• Kenichi noticed Kakuzu leaving the headquarters looking pleased and thought about the wealth of Akatsuki's members.
• Kenichi told Nagato that recruiting Jūzō Biwa had failed and asked how Akatsuki could collect payment for Konoha's commission.
• Kenichi revealed that he and Sasori had bombed Kumogakure, shocking Nagato.
• Nagato said they could earn a substantial reward if they could prove they had bombed Kumogakure.

Kenichi Amamiya asked Nagato to arrange a bounty for attacking Konoha, then met Orochimaru for barbecue before discussing the move of their main base to the Land of Rice Fields. Orochimaru proposed a spar and offered to arrange a laboratory for Kenichi if he paid for it.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked whether he should blow up Konoha, and Nagato agreed to look into a sufficiently large bounty for him.
• Kenichi Amamiya left Nagato and joined Orochimaru at a barbecue restaurant in Amegakure, where Orochimaru grilled him beef and asked about his missions.
• After they left Amegakure, Orochimaru told Kenichi Amamiya that their main base would move to the Land of Rice Fields and that he planned to build a more complete Lab Base there.
• Orochimaru asked Kenichi Amamiya to spar, and Kenichi Amamiya realized his teacher wanted to test whether he planned to work independently.
• Orochimaru offered to have someone set up a laboratory for Kenichi Amamiya if he paid for it, and Kenichi Amamiya asked whether his teacher would sponsor him.

Kenichi Amamiya and Orochimaru traveled toward the Land of Rice Fields as Kenichi worried about the cost of his research. After Orochimaru warned him about Kumogakure’s enormous bounty and offered to teach him ninjutsu, Kenichi asked to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Kenichi Amamiya wondered whether Orochimaru planned to establish a hidden village in the Land of Rice Fields, and Orochimaru said he had no such plan for now.
• Orochimaru asked Kenichi whether he had caused the destruction in Kumogakure, and Kenichi admitted that he had researched Heaven’s Punishment.
• Orochimaru told Kenichi that Kumogakure had placed a three-hundred-million-ryo bounty on his head.
• Orochimaru offered to teach Kenichi ninjutsu, but warned him that the Flying Thunder God Technique required exceptional talent.
• Kenichi insisted that he wanted to try learning the Flying Thunder God Technique so he could study space-time ninjutsu and develop a way to create portals.

Kenichi Amamiya traveled with Orochimaru to the Land of Rice Fields, where Orochimaru revealed a small underground laboratory and demonstrated his handmade facial-recognition system while wearing Yuki’s face. Kenichi asked about Hajun Shin’s condition and the laboratory’s cost, but the chapter left both questions unanswered.

• Kenichi Amamiya declined to study Flying Thunder God for now because he wanted to focus on developing a Chakra-powered Thermobaric Bomb.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Orochimaru about Hajun Shin’s condition as they arrived in the troubled Land of Rice Fields.
• Orochimaru removed his face and revealed Yuki’s appearance, explaining that he had entered her data into a facial-recognition system built into a tree.
• Orochimaru opened the entrance to his underground laboratory, and Kenichi Amamiya admired its compact facilities and considered making a room blast-proof.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked how much the laboratory had cost, and Orochimaru paused to think while still wearing Yuki’s face.

Kenichi Amamiya planned three ways to improve his Thermobaric Bombs while arranging a modest laboratory, but spending his savings left him broke. He sought ways to fund his research and asked Orochimaru about Kakuzu’s money, only to learn that Kakuzu guarded it closely.

• Kenichi Amamiya considered improving his Thermobaric Bombs by combining them with Chakra, breaking barriers, and preventing interception.
• Orochimaru gave Kenichi Amamiya a book about barriers, and they agreed to build a smaller laboratory with only the equipment he needed.
• Kenichi Amamiya spent all his savings on the laboratory and worried he could not afford materials for more Thermobaric Explosives.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered seeking money from Gato or Kakuzu and asked Orochimaru where Kakuzu kept his savings.
• Orochimaru said he did not know where Kakuzu kept his money and recalled that Kakuzu had once taken work midway through a trip to pay for expenses.

Kenichi Amamiya followed Orochimaru’s advice on getting research funding and prepared to reproduce his Thermobaric Bomb for Konoha. While waiting for materials, he began investigating whether Chakra could improve crop seeds and put his Shadow Clones to work on the research.

• Kenichi Amamiya considered how difficult it would be to get money from Kakuzu, and Orochimaru advised him to seek a bounty from Konoha or propose research for funding.
• Nagato told Kenichi that Konoha wanted proof of the attack at the main battlefield in the Land of Frost before paying a large bounty.
• Kenichi asked Orochimaru to buy materials for another Thermobaric Bomb and began researching Hybrid Rice while he waited for them.
• Kenichi decided to test whether Chakra, especially Yang Release, could affect crop seeds and their genes.
• Kenichi Amamiya used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and assigned his clones to research Chakra’s effects on Crop Seeds.

Kenichi Amamiya investigated ways to accelerate rice cultivation and realized he could use Impure World Reincarnation to make the First contribute his Wood Release to agricultural research. After assembling a Thermobaric Bomb with Orochimaru’s materials, he set off with Sasori to the Land of Frost to aid Konoha.

• Kenichi Amamiya and his shadow clones tested rice seeds and concluded that Yang Release Chakra could not safely accelerate plant growth, so they began selecting and cultivating superior seeds.
• Kenichi Amamiya realized he could reanimate the First with Impure World Reincarnation and ask him to use Wood Release for science, but Orochimaru interrupted him with the requested materials.
• Kenichi Amamiya and his shadow clones assembled a Thermobaric Bomb and stored it safely inside his Sealing Scroll.
• Kenichi Amamiya contacted Nagato and set off for the Land of Frost with Sasori, planning to use a hot air balloon and Sasori’s Magnet Release to drop the bomb.

Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori prepared to test the Thermobaric Bomb against Kumogakure, while Orochimaru was ordered to join an Akatsuki mission in the Land of Frost. Orochimaru left with Kakuzu and several new members, and Kenichi set out hoping to measure the bomb’s lethality on the battlefield.

• Kenichi Amamiya arrived to find Sasori laughing about Konoha’s desperation as the Fourth Raikage A and B entered the fight, and introduced Orochimaru as his teacher, who wanted to observe the Thermobaric Bomb’s detonation.
• Deva Path Pain ordered Orochimaru and North to take a war mission for Konoha, assigning several subordinate members and Kakuzu to accompany them.
• Nagato offered Orochimaru a chance to study an object he coveted, and Orochimaru accepted before departing with Kakuzu and the other ninja.
• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori set out for the Land of Frost, where Kenichi hoped to record the Thermobaric Bomb’s open-terrain lethality against Kumogakure’s forces and possibly the A-B Duo.

Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori traveled by hot air balloon toward the battlefield in the Land of Frost, discussing Sasori’s idea of turning himself into an AI. Kenichi then used Wind Release to carry them onward as Sasori wondered about building a Sky Base.

• Kenichi Amamiya suggested that Sasori could become an AI himself instead of relying on other people’s loyalty.
• Sasori considered controlling his puppets directly by receiving his brainwaves through installed devices.
• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori made a hot air balloon and flew toward the Land of Frost.
• Sasori praised the hot air balloon’s practicality, while Kenichi Amamiya warned that widespread aviation would transform warfare.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough to fly toward the battlefield, and Sasori asked whether they could build a Sky Base.

Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori discussed building a Sky Base before spotting Kumogakure’s main force from their hot air balloon. As Kenichi prepared to attack with a Thermobaric Bomb, A’s scouts detected them and A called on B to transform.

• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori discussed the challenges of lifting and concealing a Sky Base with hot air balloons.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Wind Release to speed their balloon toward the battlefield, and Sasori identified Kumogakure’s main force with a telescope.
• Kenichi Amamiya took out a Thermobaric Bomb and had Sasori accelerate it with Magnet Release.
• A learned that Kumogakure’s observation unit had spotted a suspicious object overhead and prepared to counterattack.
• A called to B, who began to emerge as a gigantic monster.

Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Kenichi Amamiya, who countered it with a powerful lightning attack. The blast destroyed the bomb but left the Eight-Tails blocking its path, while a mysterious black object sped toward Killer B.

• Kakashi warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Eight-Tails had appeared on Kumogakure’s side of the battlefield.
• Hiruzen, Danzo, Nagato, Orochimaru, and others watched as the Eight-Tails gathered a Tailed Beast Bomb aimed at the sky.
• Kenichi Amamiya realized Killer B had spotted him and called for Sasori to drop the bomb in seven seconds before jumping toward the incoming attack.
• Kenichi entered Sage Mode, combined lightning chakra in his hands, and struck the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb with a powerful blast.
• The Tailed Beast Bomb vanished, the Eight-Tails blocked the resulting pillar of light, and a black object shot toward Killer B.

Kenichi Amamiya’s thermobaric bomb devastated the battlefield, badly injuring Gyūki and many Kumogakure and Konoha shinobi. The blast left the other fighters stunned, while Orochimaru’s damaged face revealed her appearance to Kakuzu.

• Kenichi Amamiya escaped the blast’s center with his parachute and Wind Release as the thermobaric bomb exploded.
• The blast burned and crushed Gyūki, while Killer B shielded Fourth Raikage A with his tails.
• The shockwave and heat killed nearby Genin, injured many other shinobi, and briefly silenced the battlefield.
• Third recognized the attack as the work of a Kage-level expert, while Nagato and Orochimaru watched the explosion.
• The shockwave damaged Orochimaru’s new facial skin, exposing her golden hair and feminine appearance to a shocked Kakuzu.

The war between Kumogakure and Konoha ended after Heavenly Demon’s attack caused massive casualties and earned him a 700-million-ryo bounty. Kenichi Amamiya collected his reward from Akatsuki and asked Zetsu for information about the Sky Ninja Village, while Jiraiya set out to search for the Child of Prophecy.

• Heavenly Demon’s attack killed or injured more than a thousand Kumogakure ninjas, gravely wounded Killer B, and forced Konoha to abandon its pursuit after A defeated a Ninja Unit.
• Kumogakure announced a 700-million-ryo bounty on Heavenly Demon, whose identity remained unknown as rumors spread that Orochimaru was a golden-haired woman.
• Jiraiya dismissed the rumor about Orochimaru, then left to search for the Child of Prophecy after hearing the Great Toad Sage’s vision of a beam of light destroying the continent.
• Nagato handed Kenichi Amamiya his share of Konoha’s mission payment, and Kenichi received six hundred million ryo after the organization’s deduction.
• Kenichi Amamiya questioned Zetsu about his hostility and learned that Zetsu had been gathering intelligence when the Thermobaric Bomb killed a White Zetsu body.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Zetsu about the Sky Ninja Village, and Zetsu offered to provide information in exchange for payment.

Kenichi Amamiya bought Zetsu’s intelligence about the surviving Sky Ninja Village and its rumored weapon, Ancor Vantian. He shared the lead with Sasori, who agreed to investigate later, then turned his attention to what he could do while his Teacher was away.

• Kenichi paid Zetsu thirty million ryo for information about the Sky Ninja Village.
• Kenichi learned that Konoha had destroyed the village during the Second Great Ninja War and that some survivors planned revenge using a rumored flying city called Ancor Vantian.
• Kenichi gave Sasori fifty million ryo as a reward and showed him Zetsu’s intelligence.
• Sasori agreed to investigate Ancor after finishing his work on Unit-01, while Kenichi took leave to research Hybrid Rice.
• Kenichi realized his Teacher was still away on a mission and excitedly considered what he could do in the meantime.

Kenichi Amamiya returned to Orochimaru's laboratory and headed to a black market near the Land of Rice Fields to buy materials for Thermobaric Bombs. He gave a shopkeeper his materials list and learned the store recommended payment through Golden Yuan Loan.

• Kenichi Amamiya found the laboratory quiet without Orochimaru and decided to clean it after their hurried departure.
• Kenichi realized he had used up his Thermobaric Bomb materials and set out to buy more at a black market near the Land of Rice Fields.
• Kenichi explored the market, where rogue ninjas traded weapons, supplies, bounties, and suspicious ninjutsu scrolls.
• Kenichi noticed a scroll labeled Matter Transformation but avoided inspecting or buying it because market sellers could use tricks to frame customers.
• Kenichi took his materials list to a general store, and the young woman behind the counter said they had everything and recommended Golden Yuan Loan.

Kenichi Amamiya bought supplies in the Black Market and killed two sisters who tried to poison him, then captured their accomplice as a potential sacrifice for the First's Impure World Reincarnation. As he left, he encountered Jiraiya.

• Kenichi Amamiya rejected the Black Market's Golden Yuan Loan and paid in full for his supplies.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered robbing the loan shop but decided he could earn money by taking war bounties instead.
• Two ragged sisters tried to lure Kenichi Amamiya close with poisoned syringes, and he killed them with Birdsong.
• Kenichi Amamiya knocked out the merchant chasing the sisters and dragged him away to use as a Living Sacrifice.
• Kenichi Amamiya saw Jiraiya approaching as he left the Black Market.

Kenichi Amamiya encountered Jiraiya at the Black Market and became interested when Jiraiya offered to show him a manuscript. He discovered that Jiraiya’s new story was based on Orochimaru and asked Jiraiya what it was.

• Kenichi Amamiya tried to leave with a man he was carrying, but Jiraiya approached him and asked who the man was.
• Kenichi Amamiya called the man war spoils, and Jiraiya initially headed toward the Black Market before turning back to ask about bookstores.
• Jiraiya told Kenichi Amamiya he hoped to sell his new book for travel money and offered him the first part of its manuscript.
• Kenichi Amamiya expected the manuscript to be Icha Icha Paradise, but found it was titled “The Story I Had to Tell About Orohime” and featured a character based on Orochimaru.
• Kenichi Amamiya read the story’s descriptions and asked Jiraiya what the manuscript was.