Recaps

Ruri fought an enemy who blocked his attacks with a hardened arm shield and Earth Release. After the enemy vanished behind an earthen wall, he reappeared above Ruri, and Uzuki Yugao warned Ruri to watch out.

• Ruri struck the enemy's arm shield with his cleaver, discovered it was extremely hard, and retreated.
• Ruri formed hand seals and attacked with a large fireball, but the enemy raised an earthen wall to block it.
• Uzuki Yugao worried about the enemy's reflexes as Ruri searched for him after he disappeared.
• The enemy appeared above Ruri, and Uzuki Yugao shouted a warning that he was directly overhead.

Ruri fought an enemy who had tried to ambush him, gradually gaining the upper hand as his strength continued to increase. The enemy summoned enormous, sharp rocks with a Ninjutsu, leaving Ruri wondering what the move was.

• Uzuki Yugao warned Ruri about the enemy above him, and Ruri spotted him and stepped aside.
• The enemy abandoned his planned sneak attack, transformed his shield into a stone blade, and charged Ruri.
• Ruri transformed his short blade into a large cleaver and traded blows with the enemy, gradually overpowering him.
• The enemy blasted Ruri backward, threatened to kill him, and formed hand seals to summon enormous sharp rocks from the ground.
• Ruri wondered what the unfamiliar Ninjutsu was as the enemy raised his hands and the rocks spun above his head.

Ruri faced an enemy’s barrage of sharp stones and realized that his long sword offered a better chance of survival than his heavy cleaver. Uzuki Yugao could not stand to help him, leaving Ruri to face the attack alone.

• The enemy taunted Ruri and launched a seemingly inescapable barrage of sharp stones at him.
• Uzuki Yugao tried to rise and help Ruri but discovered that her injured legs would not support her.
• Ruri saw the stones closing in and changed his weapon from a large cleaver to a long sword so he could move more nimbly.

Ruri dodged and sliced through the enemy’s rock attacks while taunting him, leaving the enemy furious and preparing a stronger assault. Uzuki Yugao watched from the sidelines as the fight escalated.

• Ruri changed his large cleaver into a lighter long blade and dodged the rocks flying at him.
• The rocks smashed through a cluster of trees, and Ruri narrowly avoided a sudden volley by chopping it apart.
• The enemy acknowledged that Ruri had lasted against him and warned that the main event was beginning.
• Ruri insulted the enemy by calling himself his grandpa, confusing the enemy and making Uzuki Yugao nearly laugh.
• The enemy grew enraged and shattered the rocks above him into tiny pieces.

Ruri used Rotation to deflect an enemy’s pebble barrage, but the pebbles eventually pierced the barrier and wounded him. He realized the stones carried chakra as the attack continued to pass through his body.

• The enemy broke the rocks overhead into fast, densely packed pebbles and launched them at Ruri.
• Uzuki Yugao worried about how Ruri would handle the attack, while Ruri said he could block the pebbles.
• Ruri used Rotation to deflect the first wave of pebbles with his Eight Trigrams Palm Barrier.
• The chakra-infused pebbles penetrated Ruri’s barrier and left wounds on his body.
• Ruri stopped spinning and discovered that three pebbles had pierced his arms and lower leg.

Ruri’s chakra-coated pebble wounds left him near the end of the pill’s effects, so he rushed to defeat the enemy before his strength faded. He struck the enemy from behind, but the enemy retaliated with a rapid barrage of punches.

• The enemy taunted Ruri after his chakra-coated pebbles pierced the Eight Trigrams Palm Barrier and wounded him.
• Ruri realized the pill’s effects were nearly gone and decided he had to finish the fight quickly.
• The enemy lowered the rocks above his head and mocked Ruri for reaching his limit.
• Ruri appeared behind the enemy and attacked with lightning-covered hands, inflicting many wounds.
• The enemy turned and threw dozens of punches at Ruri, who blocked them with his arms.

Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi finished clearing the battlefield while Ruri fought a difficult enemy, and both fighters neared their limits. Uzuki Yugao feared Ruri would be unable to hold out much longer and looked toward Kakashi’s group.

• Uchiha Itachi urged Kakashi to eliminate the remaining enemies so they could help Ruri.
• Kakashi agreed that Ruri’s opponent was troublesome, and Uchiha Itachi hurried back into the fight.
• Ruri and his enemy, both wounded and exhausted, exchanged taunts about their strength and the drug sustaining the enemy.
• Ruri charged at the enemy, who drew his weapon and attacked him.
• Uzuki Yugao worried that Ruri had reached his limit and checked on Kakashi’s side of the battle.

After Kakashi's group defeated the remaining enemies, Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato hurried to help Ruri fight a powerful woman. Ruri and the enemy continued their fierce battle as his reinforcements approached.

• Uchiha Itachi asked Kakashi to help Ruri after the group finished off the remaining enemies.
• Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato set out for Ruri while their teammates stayed behind to clean up the battlefield.
• Uzuki Yugao saw the three approaching and hoped their arrival would improve Ruri's chances.
• The enemy taunted Ruri for looking exhausted, but Ruri struck her and kicked her away.
• The enemy stopped herself and laughed as the fight continued.

Ruri and the last enemy wounded each other in a final clash, leaving both badly hurt. Uzuki Yugao treated Ruri while he insisted he could keep fighting, and he ended the chapter by raising his middle finger at the enemy.

• Ruri and the enemy charged past each other, each striking the other with a weapon.
• The enemy dropped to his knees with a serious arm wound, while Ruri suffered a deep wound in his abdomen and spat blood.
• Uzuki Yugao ran to Ruri, examined his wound, and warned him that he could not keep fighting.
• Uzuki Yugao had Ruri lie with his head on her lap and began treating his wound.
• Ruri told Uzuki Yugao he could still fight, then raised his middle finger at the injured enemy.

Ruri and Uzuki Yugao held off an enemy until Kakashi and his two companions arrived. Ruri left the fight to Kakashi’s group as Uchiha Itachi told the enemy that all his teammates had been killed.

• The enemy threatened Ruri, who taunted him about his fallen teammates.
• Uzuki Yugao told Ruri to rest and stay still while Kakashi and the others approached.
• Kakashi arrived with two companions and told Ruri and Uzuki Yugao to rest while they dealt with the enemy.
• Ruri wished Kakashi luck, and Kakashi’s group turned to face the enemy.
• Uchiha Itachi confirmed that they had killed all the enemy’s teammates, and the enemy laughed at how easily they had fallen.

Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato fought an enemy who outmatched them, until he used his power over the earth to trap Kakashi and Yamato. Uchiha Itachi escaped the rising earth, leaving his teammates encased.

• The enemy mocked Kakashi and his teammates, then charged at them with overwhelming speed.
• Kakashi confronted the enemy, and Uchiha Itachi and Yamato joined the fight beside him.
• The enemy blocked all three of their attacks and announced that he would show them his true strength.
• The enemy pressed his palms together and sent the earth around them shooting upward.
• Uchiha Itachi leaped clear, while Kakashi and Yamato were tightly encased in earth.

Uchiha Itachi tried to free Kakashi and Yamato from an earthen sphere while Ruri consulted Ring Butler Zero about their enemy’s dangerous drug. Ruri learned the enemy would die when the drug wore off in twenty minutes and prepared to recover before stalling him.

• Uchiha Itachi heard Kakashi confirm that he and Yamato were trapped but unharmed, then tried to break open the earthen sphere.
• Ruri entered the Ring and complained to Ring Butler Zero that he could not defeat the enemy, even after taking medicine.
• Ring Butler Zero explained that the enemy had taken two pills of dangerous banned drugs and would die when their effects wore off.
• Ring Butler Zero estimated that the enemy could last no more than twenty minutes, so Ruri planned to recover his strength and stall him.

Ruri learned that his accumulated experience could let him break through and increase his strength, but Ring Butler Zero said he first had to recover from his serious injuries. Ruri asked how long his recovery would take, leaving the breakthrough on hold.

• Ruri realized that stalling the drug-enhanced enemy would not work unless he found a way to increase his strength.
• Ring Butler Zero told Ruri that he had accumulated enough experience to make a breakthrough.
• Ruri asked why Ring Butler Zero had not informed him sooner, and Ring Butler Zero apologized and promised to report important news immediately.
• Ring Butler Zero warned Ruri that his injuries made a breakthrough too dangerous until he recovered.
• Ruri asked how long it would take to heal.

Ring Butler Zero gave Ruri medicine and told him to rest in the Ring so his body outside could recover. Ruri took the medicine and settled into a hammock, determined to heal quickly so he could save Kakashi and the others.

• Ring Butler Zero gave Ruri medicine and explained that resting in the Ring would help his body outside recover faster.
• Ruri asked for water, swallowed the medicine, and said he needed to recover so he could save Kakashi and the others.
• Ring Butler Zero created two trees and a hammock for Ruri.
• Ruri reminisced about lying in a hammock during college, and Ring Butler Zero urged him to rest.
• Ring Butler Zero floated aside and closed his eyes while Ruri rested.

Ruri rested in the Ring’s hammock while Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato fought the powerful enemy outside. The three struggled to hold him off, leaving Ruri to return later and stall until the enemy’s drug wore off.

• Ruri climbed into the hammock, rested, and planned to return to the real world after recovering.
• Uchiha Itachi, Kakashi, and Yamato escaped the earthen wall and continued fighting the enemy.
• Uchiha Itachi complained to Kakashi that the enemy was unusually strong despite apparently taking the same Banned Drugs as others.
• Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi wondered why the enemy was so powerful, since even Ruri had lost to him.

Uzuki Yugao told Kakashi and the others that the enemy had taken two banned drugs, while Ruri began healing as he rested. Kakashi’s group prepared to hold the enemy off until Ruri woke, unaware that the enemy’s body was nearing its limit.

• Uzuki Yugao joined Kakashi and the others and explained that the enemy’s two banned drugs had made him unusually strong.
• Uzuki Yugao assured Uchiha Itachi that Ruri’s wounds were already healing, and Yamato warned Kakashi that the enemy was too strong for them.
• Kakashi told the group to hold the enemy off until Ruri woke, and they agreed.
• The enemy approached Kakashi’s group, mocked their defiance, and secretly realized he had to finish them before his body gave out.

Kakashi and his teammates attacked the enemy to buy time until Ruri woke up, but the enemy revealed a technique that strengthened his arm and deflected Kakashi’s Lightning Blade. The fight continued with the enemy still threatening to finish them before Ruri awakened.

• Kakashi told Uchiha Itachi, Uzuki Yugao, and Yamato to hold out until Ruri woke up and said the enemy looked close to his limit.
• Kakashi led the team in a charge against the enemy, while the enemy resolved to use his remaining strength to defeat them quickly.
• Kakashi struck with Lightning Blade, but the enemy used Earth Release Petrification to harden his arm and deflect the attack.
• The enemy told Kakashi he had simply strengthened part of his body.

Kakashi and the other three attacked an enemy who could harden his entire body, but their weapons could not hurt him and his punches overwhelmed them. Kakashi urged the injured group to keep fighting until Ruri woke up.

• Kakashi warned that the enemy’s ability to reinforce his body would make the fight difficult, and the enemy claimed the four had no chance of beating him.
• Uchiha Itachi challenged the enemy, and Kakashi and the other three attacked him together.
• The enemy hardened his entire body, shrugged off their weapon strikes, and punched all four of them away.
• Uchiha Itachi told Kakashi they were no match for the enemy, but Kakashi insisted they hold him off until Ruri woke up.

Kakashi and the others realized their enemy was weakening as his drug wore off, so they focused on keeping him occupied until time ran out. While Ruri recovered from his injuries, the four fighters struggled to survive the remaining minutes of the enemy’s drug.

• Uchiha Itachi noticed that the enemy had grown weaker and suggested they hold him back until his drug wore off.
• Kakashi told Uchiha Itachi and the others to stall rather than try to kill the enemy.
• Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and the other two attacked together to keep the enemy from killing anyone.
• Ruri continued recovering, with his wounds nearly healed and his strength returning.
• Kakashi warned his teammates to stay alive as the enemy had less than ten minutes before his drug wore off.

Kakashi and the others fought to stall the enemy while Ruri woke inside the Ring and asked Ring Butler Zero to level him up. Ruri completed the upgrade and opened his eyes, with the battle still unfolding outside.

• Kakashi and the others attacked the enemy again to buy time until the drug wore off.
• Ruri woke inside the Ring, rested, and worried about how Kakashi and the others were faring.
• Ruri shook Ring Butler Zero awake and asked him to level him up before the others were killed.
• Ring Butler Zero placed a Little Gold Dot against Ruri's forehead and merged it into his brain.
• After waiting about ten minutes inside the Ring, Ruri finished leveling up and asked Ring Butler Zero if it was really done.

Ruri received a partial upgrade from Ring Butler Zero, recovered from his wounds, and returned to the fight. He took over from the exhausted Kakashi and his teammates, planning to hold the enemy off until the drug wore off and killed him.

• Ring Butler Zero told Ruri his upgrade was only halfway complete and promised to finish it after the mission.
• Ruri tested his increased strength, left the Ring's space, and found that his wounds had nearly healed.
• Ruri saw that Kakashi and the others were exhausted and stepped in as the enemy taunted them.
• Ruri stopped Kakashi from charging and told him to rest while he took over.
• Ruri explained that the enemy would die when his drug wore off, and Kakashi agreed to leave the fight to him.

Ruri stayed behind to face the enemy after Kakashi, Uzuki Yugao, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato withdrew to rest. He attacked the enemy while waiting for the drug to wear off, leaving the fight ongoing with five minutes remaining.

• Kakashi and the others left Ruri to handle the enemy, and Uzuki Yugao, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato wished him well.
• Ruri promised to return safely and told his companions to rest while he confronted the enemy.
• Ruri told the enemy he had nearly recovered and intended to settle their earlier fight.
• Ruri vanished and struck the enemy in the chest with a huge Rasengan, surprising him with his speed.
• Ruri realized the enemy had five minutes left before the drug killed him and sent him flying with an expanding Rasengan.

After breaking through, Ruri fought the enemy on more equal terms and pushed forward as their remaining time dwindled. He struck the enemy with Lightning Blade-infused Kunai, leaving him crying out in pain.

• The enemy questioned Ruri about his sudden increase in strength, and Ruri said the enemy had helped him unlock his potential.
• The enemy vowed to kill Ruri and charged at him, but Ruri blocked his attacks and mocked their reduced force.
• The enemy enlarged and strengthened his right hand to hammer Ruri, but Ruri dodged the attack.
• Ruri thought there were less than four minutes left, then charged in with two Lightning Blade-infused Kunai and slashed the enemy, making him cry out from the damage and electric shocks.

Ruri fought the enemy while relying on the drug’s weakening effects to stall until he could wear him down. Kakashi, Uzuki Yugao, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato recovered enough to watch the battle, and Kakashi reassured Yugao that Ruri only needed to keep the enemy occupied.

• Ruri retreated after injuring the enemy and realized the drug was nearing its time limit, making this his best chance to attack.
• The enemy charged Ruri, determined to kill him before the drug wore off, and they clashed in a fierce battle.
• Uzuki Yugao checked on Kakashi, who said Ruri had arrived in time to save them.
• After checking on Uchiha Itachi and Yamato, Uzuki Yugao worried that Ruri might lose.
• Kakashi reassured Uzuki Yugao that Ruri could wear the enemy down by stalling for time.

Ruri stalled the enemy as the effects of his banned drugs began to wear off. Realizing he was near death, the enemy decided to take Ruri down with him.

• Uzuki Yugao urged Ruri to avoid a direct clash and stall for time.
• Ruri taunted the enemy, who rose and denied being afraid despite his drugs nearing their limit.
• Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Uzuki Yugao recognized that the enemy’s strength came from banned drugs and that he was close to his limit.
• Uchiha Itachi said the team needed to train harder after being left in such a sorry state.
• The enemy accepted that he would soon die and fixed his gaze on Ruri, resolving to take him down too.