Chapter Summaries

Ruri battled a powerful enemy whose strength initially overwhelmed him, then used lightning to injure him. Ruri charged again with Lightning Blade, intending to finish the fight.

• Ruri blocked the enemy’s powerful strike and realized the enemy’s strength was unusually great.
• The enemy shrugged off Ruri’s ordinary attacks and taunted him for barely feeling them.
• Ruri covered his hands in lightning and rapidly struck the enemy, leaving wounds across his body.
• Ruri said he would end the fight quickly, charged with Lightning Blade, and warned the enemy to prepare to die.

Ruri faced a powerful enemy who blocked his lightning attack with Earth Release, confirming Ruri’s suspicion that the man had taken banned drugs. Ruri decided to use two Ninjutsu moves together to defeat him.

• Ruri attacked the powerfully built enemy with a lightning-covered hand, but the enemy blocked it with earth-covered arms.
• Ruri retreated and suspected that the enemy’s strength came from banned drugs.
• The enemy taunted Ruri and claimed they were on different levels, while Ruri warned him not to celebrate yet.
• Ruri decided to rely on Ninjutsu and planned to combine two moves he believed would kill the enemy.

Ruri gathered chakra and launched two fireballs at his powerful enemy, intending to immobilize him before finishing him off. The fireballs stuck to the enemy’s lower legs, but the fight’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Ruri told the enemy he had found a way to defeat him and promised he would die soon.
• Ruri gathered dense chakra in his palms while planning to pin the enemy down and strike with Eight Trigrams Palm: Two Hundred and Fifty-Six Palms.
• Ruri formed two large fireballs and hurled them at the enemy.
• The enemy tried to dodge, but the fireballs struck and stuck to his lower legs.

Ruri trapped the enemy's legs in unusually sturdy ice, but the enemy remained confident that Ruri could not defeat him. Ruri realized his opponent was underestimating him and resolved to teach him a lesson.

• The enemy noticed that the flames on his legs gave off no heat and mocked Ruri's attack.
• When the enemy tried to approach Ruri, the flames froze into blocks of ice that pinned his legs in place.
• The enemy failed to break free and questioned how the ice could be so strong.
• The enemy challenged Ruri to attack, claiming he could not be defeated even while immobilized.
• Ruri recognized that the enemy trusted his own strength and decided to teach him a lesson.

Ruri trapped a boastful enemy in an Eight Trigrams Palm Barrier and defeated him with two hundred and fifty-six strikes. Meanwhile, Kakashi and the others continued fighting elsewhere, with more than half their enemies dead and no one on their side killed.

• Ruri challenged the enemy, who insisted he could withstand any attack without moving.
• Ruri put away his weapon, charged the enemy, and formed an Eight Trigrams Palm Barrier around them.
• The enemy felt intense pressure inside the barrier and panicked.
• Ruri struck the enemy two hundred and fifty-six times, silencing him with a brief cry.
• Ruri taunted the fallen enemy while Kakashi and the others kept fighting in separate locations.

Ruri continued fighting the enemy ninjas, killing them easily despite wishing for a greater challenge. As he stood over another fallen opponent, two or three enemies crept up behind him, believing they could launch a successful sneak attack.

• Ruri killed an enemy with his Eight Trigrams Palm sequence and reflected that the man had died because he underestimated him.
• Ruri hurried to find more opponents, frustrated that the enemies he encountered were too weak to challenge him.
• Ruri sneaked behind an enemy and stabbed him through the heart before the man realized he was there.
• Two or three enemies quietly approached Ruri, convinced he had not noticed them and that their sneak attack would succeed.

Ruri used a Shadow Clone to trick three enemies into striking it, then appeared among them and taunted them. The enemies realized too late that Ruri had outmaneuvered them, and one collapsed in fear.

• Ruri noticed three enemies approaching and decided to let them believe they had caught him by surprise.
• Ruri substituted a Shadow Clone for himself and watched from the side as the enemies raised their blades.
• The three enemies struck the Shadow Clone, which vanished in a cloud of white mist.
• Ruri appeared behind one enemy and asked whether he had enjoyed his brief sense of accomplishment.
• Ruri appeared behind another enemy, taunted him about the Shadow Clone, and frightened him into collapsing.

Ruri taunted three enemies after evading them with a Shadow Clone, then waited as they charged and surrounded him. He was left puzzled that only three of them had attacked.

• Ruri appeared before the three enemies and mocked them for failing to detect his Shadow Clone.
• The enemies grew angry at Ruri's taunts, and one called for them to attack together.
• The three enemies drew their weapons and positioned themselves in front of Ruri and on either side.
• Ruri wondered why the enemies had not brought a fourth attacker to surround him from behind.

Uzuki Yugao’s enemies targeted her because they thought she would be easy to defeat, but she killed them with her shadow clones and swordsmanship. The chapter left Ruri facing three other enemies.

• Ruri told the three enemies surrounding him that their attacks would not work against him.
• Four or five enemies surrounded Uzuki Yugao, assuming she was an easy target because she was a girl.
• Uzuki Yugao created three shadow clones with Shadow Clone: Blade Slash.
• Uzuki Yugao and her clones charged the enemies and killed them with their swordsmanship.

Uzuki Yugao and Kakashi's group defeated their nearby enemies while Ruri faced three attackers alone. As the trio leaped at him, Ruri wondered why his enemies kept using the same attack.

• Uzuki Yugao killed four or five enemies, and her Shadow Clones disappeared.
• Uzuki Yugao saw Kakashi and the others defeating their opponents and felt reassured.
• Kakashi's group finished off their enemies, leaving fewer than fifteen opponents on the battlefield while Ruri's group remained unharmed.
• Three enemies threatened Ruri, but he told them they would be the ones to die.
• The three enemies charged at Ruri and leaped up to swing their weapons down, and Ruri remarked that his enemies always attacked that way.

Ruri used Eight Trigrams Palm: Heavenly Spin to repel three enemies and disrupt their chakra. The enemies survived but lost the ability to use ninjutsu for a short time, while Ruri realized that even thirty percent of his strength had caused severe damage.

• Ruri activated Eight Trigrams Palm: Heavenly Spin as the three enemies attacked him.
• Ruri's barrier sent all three enemies flying and disrupted the chakra inside them.
• The three enemies crashed to the ground, spat blood, and became unable to use ninjutsu for a short time.
• Ruri noted that using fifty percent of his strength might have killed them.

Ruri intimidated three defeated enemies by claiming he planned to torture them, while secretly hoping they would flee and reveal the Enemy Main Force's location. He remained committed to keeping up the exhausting act rather than killing them quickly.

• Ruri approached the three enemies and dismissed their claims that he had cheated, saying he had earned his strength through hard work.
• One enemy accused Ruri of disorienting their chakra and asked why he had not killed them.
• Ruri claimed he was sparing them so he could torture them, shocking the enemies and prompting them to call him vile and demonic.
• Ruri thought that he was only pretending because he needed to learn where the Enemy Main Force was, and expected the frightened enemies to flee.

Ruri sent Shadow Clones to tell Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, Yamato, and Uzuki Yugao that he had dealt with his enemies, prompting them to finish off their own opponents. He then confronted the last three enemies and threatened to torture them, leaving them terrified.

• Ruri created four Shadow Clones and sent them to Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, Yamato, and Uzuki Yugao with word that he had handled his enemies.
• Kakashi and the others turned back to their opponents and quickly defeated them.
• Uzuki Yugao and Uchiha Itachi guessed that Ruri had spared his enemies so he could frighten them into seeking their main force.
• Ruri approached the last three enemies and asked whether they had anything to say before they died.
• One enemy called Ruri a demon, and Ruri threatened to torture them as he laughed.

Ruri pretended to frighten three enemies so they would retreat and lead Kakashi’s team to their main force. Kakashi revealed that hidden teammates were ready to follow them once they fled.

• Itachi, Yugao, and Yamato discussed Ruri’s act and hoped it would drive the three enemies back to their main force.
• Kakashi joined them and said he trusted Ruri to know when to stop, while the others watched Ruri perform.
• Ruri wondered whether he had scared the three enemies enough to make them flee and seek their main force.
• Yugao asked whether Kakashi’s withdrawn teammates were hidden nearby to track the enemies if they retreated.
• Kakashi confirmed that the teammates were in position and would follow the three enemies to locate their main force.

Ruri taunted the three surviving enemies while Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Uzuki Yugao watched, hoping they would reveal the location of their hidden main force. The enemies realized their opponents did not know about the main force and decided they needed to survive and warn it.

• Uchiha Itachi told Uzuki Yugao that the three enemies were their last chance to locate the main force, as long as Ruri did not frighten them off.
• Kakashi reasoned that the enemy main force was likely hiding far away in a well-concealed place, and the group turned to watch Ruri.
• The three enemies stood up, and Ruri mocked them and boasted about his strength and his village’s many geniuses.
• Ruri taunted the enemies that their force of fifty had nearly finished the fight, while the three enemies quietly agreed to stay alive and warn their main force.

Ruri tried to trick three enemy survivors into believing his group thought their main force numbered only fifty, hoping they would flee and lead them to it. Kakashi’s team waited for the enemies to escape so they could follow, while the three enemies prepared to look for a chance to warn their main force.

• One enemy said the three survivors had to escape and warn their main force, believing their enemies thought only fifty soldiers remained.
• Ruri recognized that the three enemies had taken his bait and believed his group knew there were only fifty of them.
• Uchiha Itachi asked Kakashi what Ruri meant, and Kakashi explained that the remark was meant to make the enemies confident enough to return to their main force.
• Kakashi told his three teammates to follow the enemies once they escaped and locate their main force.
• One enemy urged his teammates to find a chance to escape and warn their main force.

Ruri realized that one enemy was distracting him while the other two prepared to escape and alert their main force. After discovering that the two had become substitutes, he sent a Shadow Clone to Kakashi.

• The three enemies spread out after agreeing on a plan, and one challenged Ruri to fight them all.
• Ruri noticed the front enemy subtly signaling his teammates and guessed they intended to escape and warn their main force.
• Ruri pretended to believe the enemy's claim that they would fight to the death.
• Ruri used his Byakugan and discovered that the two enemies behind the front one were substitutes.
• Ruri created a Shadow Clone and sent it to Kakashi.

Kakashi and his team searched for the two enemies after Ruri warned them that the enemies had escaped using substitutes. Kakashi’s group found their trail and followed them, while Ruri stayed behind to face an enemy who expected reinforcements to turn the fight around.

• Ruri’s Shadow Clone warned Kakashi that the enemies had escaped using substitutes, then disappeared.
• Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi gathered their teammates and searched the area for the enemies’ trail.
• Kakashi’s group found the trail and followed the two enemies in silence.
• Ruri decided to focus on defeating the enemy in front of him.
• Kakashi taunted the enemy, who remained confident that his teammates would return with their main force.

Ruri defeated the last enemy after realizing he had understood Ruri’s plan too late, then killed the two substitutes. The battlefield was cleared of the three enemies.

• The last enemy declared that he and his companions would fight Ruri even if it cost them their lives.
• Ruri charged the enemy with two Rasengan, then revealed that he wanted to face the enemy’s main force rather than keep fighting him.
• The enemy understood Ruri’s intention too late and accepted his fate, and Ruri killed him with the Rasengan.
• Ruri turned to the two substitutes and killed them with his short blade, revealing them as pieces of wood.

Ruri rested beneath a tree after defeating an enemy, trusting Kakashi and the others to locate the enemy's main force. As he waited, he reflected on how different and less convenient life in the Hokage World was compared with his old world.

• Ruri noticed the defeated enemy's eyes were still open and joked that he had died without knowing his main force would help him.
• Ruri wondered how Kakashi and the others were doing and said he believed they would find the two enemies and uncover the enemy's main force.
• Ruri decided not to search for Kakashi and the others, walked to a nearby tree, and sat down to rest before the next fight.
• While resting, Ruri thought about the Hokage World's lack of vehicles and entertainment compared with his old world.