Chapter Summaries

Ruri ate meat-based compressed food during a late-night snack and was surprised by how much it tasted like a home-cooked meal. As he ate, he reminisced about his college routine and the late-night snack shop he used to visit.

• Ruri took food from his backpack and settled back at his sleeping spot, wondering why he was digesting so quickly.
• Ruri opened the compressed food and tasted it, finding it delicious and similar to a home-cooked meal.
• Ruri decided he would buy more of Aunt Meiling’s compressed food after he got home.
• Ruri recalled playing on his computer for hours in college before going out to eat when he got hungry.
• Ruri remembered how much he enjoyed the late-night snack shop’s food.

Ruri reminisced about enjoying late-night barbecue and beer at his favorite eatery during college. He concluded that eating was better with friends, though he did not say what he would do next.

• Ruri recalled how late-night snacks left him happy and at ease on his walk back to the dorm.
• Ruri remembered visiting the late-night eatery on Saturday and Sunday nights for beer and barbecue.
• Ruri recalled the eatery’s grilled lamb skewers, duck intestines, and especially its chewy grilled beef tendon.
• Ruri remembered spending half an hour gnawing on beef tendon during one meal and being glad his teeth were fine afterward.
• Ruri reflected that eating barbecue and drinking beer alone was no fun and that things were better with friends.

Ruri reflected on his friendships in the Shinobi World before recalling the Three Ninja Taboos: saving mission money, avoiding alcohol before age twenty, and being wary of women. The chapter ended by connecting Kushina Uzumaki’s warning about the taboos to Jiraiya’s lecherous reputation.

• Ruri set aside thoughts of the past and considered inviting his friends to barbecue, though he lamented that children under twenty could not drink beer.
• Ruri recalled the Three Ninja Taboos, an unwritten set of rules followed by most ninja.
• The chapter explained that the first taboo urged ninja to save their mission money, a rule Naruto Uzumaki followed while supporting himself as an orphan.
• The second taboo forbade drinking alcohol before age twenty, and Naruto honored it in memory of his parents.
• Kushina Uzumaki warned Naruto about the taboo concerning women and told him to be wary of Jiraiya, whom Naruto later called the Perverted Sage.

Ruri reflected on the three ninja taboos and reasoned that avoiding women’s temptations could help a ninja succeed on missions. He decided to avoid drinking until he was twenty and noted that his surroundings left him with little interest in women.

• Ruri thought about Jiraiya’s wealth, drinking, and influence on Naruto as he ate on a branch.
• Ruri wondered why women were counted among the three ninja taboos.
• Ruri concluded that resisting lust could help a ninja avoid honey traps and complete missions successfully.
• Ruri noted that he had little interest in drinking or women, since he was surrounded by three beautiful girls.
• Ruri decided he would wait until he was twenty to drink and would avoid drinking often so it would not interfere with missions.

After eating a late-night snack on the mission, Ruri went back to sleep and reflected on how his solitary college life had shaped his habits. He remained content to live alone and avoid the complications of making friends.

• Ruri finished his late-night meal, checked that Yamato was no longer on his branch, and decided to rest until it was time to relieve him.
• Ruri fell asleep at three in the morning, planning to get up in an hour.
• Ruri remembered spending his college years studying, playing games, watching TV, and eating late-night snacks alone.
• Ruri recalled that he had lived alone for years in the world of the Hokage and saw friendship as troublesome because it meant managing relationships.

Ruri woke at four in the morning and went to take over Yamato’s watch, hoping to sleep again after Itachi woke. Near Ōkawa, he checked the area with his Byakugan for unusual chakra before approaching Yamato.

• Ruri reflected on how his friends, especially Momokusa Harukawa, had changed his outlook and how much he had grown over the past several years.
• Ruri woke at four in the morning, tired after a short sleep, and decided to relieve Yamato on watch.
• Ruri looked around the camp and found no obvious disturbance before heading toward Yamato.
• Ruri stopped a few dozen meters from Ōkawa and used his Byakugan to search nearby for unusual chakra.

While taking over the night watch from Yamato, Ruri reflected on his first years after arriving in the Hokage world. He remained alone beneath the tree, recalling how his adult mind had been trapped in a one-year-old body.

• Ruri surveyed the area and found no enemies nearby, then relieved Yamato from watch.
• Yamato told Ruri that only small animals had caused minor disturbances and returned to camp to rest.
• Ruri sat beneath a large tree to keep watch and admitted he was sleepy.
• Ruri thought about spending eight years in the Hokage world and remembered being unable to express himself as a one-year-old despite understanding everything.
• Ruri imagined that people would have thought him crazy or tried to experiment on him if they had learned he had transmigrated.

Ruri reflected on his arrival in the Shinobi World and the mysterious Ring that had given him powerful abilities. He recalled that the Ring had recently upgraded and provided him with an intelligent assistant.

• Ruri thought that Konoha's peaceful children did not understand the pain of losing loved ones or the harm war could bring.
• Ruri remembered arriving in the Shinobi World as a weak child before obtaining the Ring and its powerful abilities.
• Ruri wondered when the Ring had appeared and why he had not known about it in his original world.
• Ruri recalled that the Ring had upgraded a few days earlier, improving its interior scenery and adding a virtual intelligent assistant.
• Ruri felt pleased to have the assistant, which reminded him of the intelligent assistants he had used in college.

Ruri heard a creature rustling in the grass and prepared for an attack. He discovered it was a large wild boar, which turned to face him as he taunted it.

• Ruri reminisced beneath a tree about his past life and his old iPhone.
• Ruri heard a rustling in a nearby clump of grass and drew a Kunai.
• Ruri activated his Byakugan and detected a sizable creature with concentrated chakra in the grass.
• Ruri circled the grass, parted it, and discovered a large wild boar.
• The wild boar darted behind Ruri and prepared to charge, while Ruri taunted it.

Ruri killed a wild boar that charged at him and prepared its carcass for the group’s meals. He planned to butcher it in the morning and cook a filling breakfast for everyone.

• The wild boar charged at Ruri, and he dodged its first attack.
• When the boar charged again, Ruri rushed toward it and stabbed its artery with his Kunai.
• The boar collapsed and died, and Ruri decided it would provide breakfast and food for the next few days.
• Ruri wiped his Kunai clean, dragged the carcass aside, and began removing its hair and dirt.

Ruri cleaned a wild boar he had killed, unaware that its blood was drawing fierce beasts from the forest. He sensed the animals surrounding him and prepared to fight them before continuing his work.

• Ruri cleaned the boar's carcass and joked about its strength and possible reincarnation.
• Ruri noticed the boar's foul stench as scarlet-eyed beasts gathered around him, drawn by its blood.
• Ruri sensed the danger, activated his Byakugan, and surveyed the fierce animals surrounding him.
• Ruri said he would fight off every beast before returning to clean the boar.

Ruri confronted a group of beasts that emerged from the bushes to claim the wild boar carcass. He appeared behind their largest beast without being noticed and prepared to kill it.

• Ruri drew a kunai and challenged the animals gathered near the wild boar carcass.
• The beasts emerged from the bushes and fixed their attention on the carcass and Ruri.
• One of the larger beasts growled at Ruri, who decided to kill the group.
• Ruri appeared behind the larger beast, which remained unaware and focused on the carcass.
• Ruri mocked the beast's intelligence and raised his kunai to end its life.

Ruri confronted a powerful beast with a huge reserve of chakra and decided to tame it as a summoned beast rather than kill it. The beast attacked him, leaving Ruri dodging while still hoping to capture it alive.

• The beast sensed Ruri's killing intent and turned to face him as he prepared to attack with a kunai.
• Ruri threw his kunai, but the beast dodged it at the last moment.
• Ruri activated his Byakugan and discovered that the beast possessed an enormous amount of chakra.
• Ruri decided to tame the beast and make it his summoned beast instead of killing it.
• The beast lunged at Ruri, and he dodged while thinking that he still wanted to tame it.

The chapter explained Summoning Beasts’ combat, sensory, and support roles, their growth and training, and the conditions for forming contracts. It ended by beginning an explanation of where Summoning Beasts lived, describing low-level beasts as wild creatures captured or modified in the Shinobi World.

• The chapter categorized Summoning Beasts as combat, sensory, or support types and gave examples such as Gamabunta, Pakkun, and Katsuyu.
• It described Pakkun’s tracking and intelligence skills, along with Katsuyu’s ability to provide healing through her summoner’s chakra.
• It explained that Summoning Beasts could grow and learn Ninjutsu, citing Gamatatsu’s growth and mastery of Water Release.
• It gave examples of contract conditions, including Naruto’s bet with Gamabunta, Tenten’s failed attempt to contract Teacher Kaido’s turtle, and Manda’s demand for a hundred people from Orochimaru.
• The chapter stated that summoning required a contract and a price, but a contract did not guarantee that a Summoning Beast would serve its master.
• It began discussing where Summoning Beasts lived, describing low-level ones as wild beasts captured or modified within the Shinobi World.

Ruri explained the different kinds of Summoning Beasts as he fought a powerful beast, then persuaded it to consider becoming his Summoning Beast. The beast stopped attacking and appeared willing to follow him, though Ruri still needed to offer something as the price of a contract.

• Ruri described temporary and high-level Summoning Beasts, including the Sannin's summons and their separate homes.
• Ruri declared that he would either kill the beast or make it his Summoning Beast.
• Ruri praised the beast's strength and promised it food and training if it joined him.
• The beast slowed its attacks and stopped fighting as Ruri explained that a contract required a price.
• Ruri approached the beast and asked whether it wanted to become his Summoning Beast.

Ruri persuaded a sabertooth tiger to become his Summoning Beast and promised to keep it fed. After it agreed, he killed nearby beasts for it and went to clean the wild boar.

• Ruri approached the sabertooth tiger and tried to pet it, but withdrew when it growled at him.
• The sabertooth tiger circled Ruri, then sat down to listen to him.
• Ruri asked the sabertooth tiger to become his Summoning Beast, and it nodded in agreement.
• Ruri killed several nearby beasts with his short blade and brought their corpses to the sabertooth tiger.
• Ruri told the sabertooth tiger to enjoy its meal while he cleaned the wild boar.

Ruri fed the starving sabertooth tiger and prepared the wild boar he had caught earlier. He considered the tiger’s unusually large chakra and the strength it could gain if it signed a contract with him.

• Ruri set animal carcasses before the sabertooth tiger, which began eating ravenously.
• Ruri told the tiger to eat slowly and promised to feed it every day if it stayed with him.
• After the tiger nodded, Ruri went to clean the wild boar carcass.
• Ruri reflected that the sabertooth tiger had more chakra than an ordinary wild beast and could eventually reach jonin level if it contracted with him.

Ruri explained the principles and types of the Summoning Technique while cleaning a huge wild boar, noting that he had never signed a contract with a Summoning Beast before. The chapter left him still working on the carcass, with the process of signing the contract yet to come.

• Ruri said he did not know how to sign a Summoning Beast contract and continued cleaning the enormous wild boar.
• Ruri described blood summoning as a blood-pact-based Space-Time Ninjutsu that transported creatures from the real world.
• Ruri explained that blood summoning used blood as a medium and the shared hand seals of boar, dog, bird, monkey, and ram.
• Ruri said the amount of chakra used determined the level of creature transported by the summoning technique.
• Ruri described Impure World Reincarnation as a non-blood summoning that used a living human sacrifice to anchor and control a dead person's soul.

Ruri finished cleaning the wild boar and convinced the sabertooth tiger to become his Summoning Beast. He carried the boar back toward camp with the tiger following, drawn by the promise of regular food.

• Ruri approached the sabertooth tiger, calmed it, and told it he wanted it as his Summoning Beast.
• The sabertooth tiger nodded as if it understood Ruri and agreed to wait while he prepared the boar carcass.
• Ruri tied the boar carcass to a wooden pole, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and set off for camp.
• The sabertooth tiger followed Ruri because staying with him meant it would have meat and would no longer go hungry.

Ruri returned to camp with a wild boar and searched the dark forest for vegetables while the others slept. He finally found and gathered a patch of mushrooms to serve with the meat.

• Ruri brought the wild boar back to camp while Kakashi and the others slept.
• Ruri decided to make soup from the ribs and roast the rest of the boar later.
• The sabertooth tiger stayed beside the carcass to protect it from other animals.
• Ruri searched near camp for vegetables but struggled to find any in the dark.
• Ruri spotted and harvested a patch of mushrooms to go with the meat.