Ch. 241Search Mount Fuji, scour Wakasa Bay

Uchiha Senmon reassured Tosu Hideo and arranged for him to reunite with his family before traveling to Tokyo, while the police pursued those connected to the Moribe family case. Section Chief Akagi then assigned Uchiha to lead a new search of Mount Fuji as another team scoured Wakasa Bay for Mount Penglai.

  • Uchiha Senmon told Tosu Hideo that Hoshijima Kazu had confessed to attacking Moribe Mamiya and discussed the likely sentence.
  • Uchiha Senmon gave Tosu Hideo the investigation into Moribe Reiko and her family, and Tosu asked the police to punish Reiko and her lovers.
  • Uchiha Senmon promised to seek Doctor Satomi's help for Moribe Mamiya and her younger sister, then encouraged Tosu Hideo to visit Karei Tosu and his wife despite his mutations.
  • Tosu Hideo agreed to see his family, removed his human-skin mask, and gave it to Uchiha Senmon for police research.
  • Section Chief Akagi told Uchiha Senmon that the Metropolitan Police Department would search Wakasa Bay for Mount Penglai and ordered him to lead the Mount Fuji search.

Ch. 242Version 2.0 update

After Matsudaira Chiyo left to study abroad, Uchiha Naruto became acting president of the Support Club and worried over the supernatural forces gathering around Japan. A second Crimson Moon triggered a painful change in his right eye, and a streak of lunar blood crashed into the street near him.

  • Tanaka Hikaru asked Uchiha Naruto to join the Kyudo Club and help save the Support Club, but Naruto refused.
  • Naruto considered the Metropolitan Police Department's search for Mount Penglai and worried it might uncover King at Mount Fuji before the full moon.
  • On his way home, Naruto sensed the moon's ominous presence as it turned crimson, while ordinary people watched and filmed the spectacle.
  • The Crimson Moon caused Naruto's right eye to evolve, and a game-version update appeared before the blood moon faded.
  • Naruto opened his right eye to reveal a three-bladed pinwheel Mangekyo Sharingan as a streak of lunar blood fell and blasted a crater into the street.

Ch. 243A visitor from beyond

A strange object that fell from the sky transformed into a monster and began killing people near Nakano Station. Head Constable Kawanishi rescued a lost child and fought the creature, which fled after being startled by something unseen.

  • A glowing white object from the fallen red light attached itself to a young man, consumed him, and transformed into a grayish-white monster.
  • The monster attacked the fleeing crowd, killing an office worker with its claws and corrosive mist.
  • Head Constable Kawanishi and Fujita responded to the panic, and Kawanishi went to find a housewife's missing child.
  • Kawanishi found the child behind an advertising board, but a monster emerged from behind a van and attacked them.
  • Kawanishi's bullets knocked the monster down, but it recovered and burned his shoulder with its mist.
  • The monster suddenly showed fear, abandoned its attack, and fled into an alley.

Ch. 244The turning windmill

Uchiha Naruto captured and dissected a monster born from Crimson Moon spores, then discovered the system’s upgraded features and worried that the Crimson Moon was accelerating the supernatural upheaval. After a new crisis erupted in Toshima Ward, he awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, killed the monster, and received Ninja Jewels and Boil Release.

  • Uchiha Naruto restrained a rapidly growing, bulletproof monster with the Shadow Imitation Technique and examined its regeneration and origins.
  • Uchiha Naruto reviewed the system’s 2.0 upgrades, including faster idle training, item rentals, bond points, and the ability to materialize secret realm instances.
  • Uchiha Naruto checked his skills and considered whether the Crimson Moon was making existing monsters stronger as well as granting him new ocular techniques.
  • Uchiha Naruto saw police cars and a helicopter heading toward fires in Toshima Ward and suspected more Crimson Moon monsters were running rampant.
  • Uchiha Naruto’s Sharingan transformed into a Mangekyō Sharingan, and black flames burned the restrained monster to nothing.
  • Uchiha Naruto received 150 Ninja Jewels and Boil Release LV1, then declared himself a storm driving the coming upheaval.

Ch. 245Winds rose in Hokkaido

Yamanashi Inaba prepared to hunt the docile evil spirit Type B-16 in Sapporo, while the blood moon stirred the cursed seal and the lingering White-Scaled Snake Demon within her. As people began leaping from the mall’s thirteenth floor, she faced the crisis at her target’s location.

  • Yamanashi Inaba cared for the Chakra Samurai Sword Uchiha Naruto had given her and resolved to kill Type B-16 within their one-month agreement.
  • After the blood moon, Yamanashi Inaba’s sealed cursed mark flared with pain, and she heard the White-Scaled Snake Demon whisper as its face appeared in a reflection.
  • Yamanashi Inaba ate roasted sweet potatoes while watching the mall where Type B-16 haunted the thirteenth floor and waited for a chance to enter unnoticed.
  • A pane of glass fell from the thirteenth floor, and an employee plunged to their death as people nearby began jumping from the building one after another.

Ch. 246The supernatural incident in Sapporo City

A supernatural incident at a Sapporo shopping center left people dead and dozens trapped on its sealed thirteenth floor, where the Evil Spirit Type B-16 was rampaging. As the police struggled to respond, Yamanashi Inaba rescued a mother and baby who fell from a window, then raced into the building.

  • People jumped from the shopping center’s thirteenth floor, and a black-suited man was dragged inside before his dried-out corpse was thrown onto the street.
  • Director Maeno and Superintendent Shimono Tadashi arrived with the police and learned that dozens of people might be trapped upstairs with Type B-16.
  • Shimono Tadashi suspected the Evil Spirit’s rampage was connected to the previous night’s blood moon and warned that the riot squad might be powerless against it.
  • A mother holding her baby jumped from the thirteenth floor as police and bystanders watched helplessly.
  • Yamanashi Inaba caught the mother and baby, handed them to a police officer, and sped into the shopping center.

Ch. 247Sly Mind Affect Technique

Yamanashi Inaba became trapped in Type B-16’s looping stairwell Genjutsu, then found the Evil Spirit and fought it while trying to save survivors. After she cut Type B-16 apart, a hidden appendage drained her, and the seal containing Higuchi Orochi broke, leaving its power unleashed.

  • Yamanashi Inaba used her Byakugan to see through the looping stairwell and entered the thirteenth floor, while Uchiha Naruto arrived and recognized the Genjutsu.
  • Uchiha Naruto suspected Type B-16 had grown more dangerous after the Crimson Moon and entered the darkness to deal with Higuchi Orochi inside Yamanashi Inaba’s Cursed Seal.
  • Yamanashi Inaba found dead victims and survivors, used her Byakugan to locate Type B-16, and rushed to confront it.
  • Yamanashi Inaba severed Type B-16’s tongue to save a black-suited surveillance team member, then dodged its attack and cut the Evil Spirit into four pieces.
  • A hidden appendage bound Yamanashi Inaba and drained her strength as Higuchi Orochi urged her to release its power.
  • The Evil Sealing Method collapsed, and Higuchi Orochi’s seal was released.

Ch. 248The prelude to the age of the supernatural

Yamanashi Inaba destroyed the ghost infant with a powerful Curse Mark Stage Two slash, but Higuchi Orochi resurrected from her Cursed Seal and captured her. As Higuchi Orochi tried to take her Byakugan, Uchiha Itachi appeared and severed its hand.

  • Yamanashi Inaba escaped the Evil Spirit’s restraints, entered Curse Mark Stage Two, and destroyed the ghost infant with Cloud Radiance, saving most of the survivors on the thirteenth floor.
  • Higuchi Orochi emerged from Yamanashi Inaba’s neck after the Cursed Seal and her remaining stamina and chakra were exhausted.
  • Higuchi Orochi restrained Yamanashi Inaba, declared that the age of the supernatural was beginning, and demanded to know about the two Superhumans with Sharingan.
  • Higuchi Orochi tried to gouge out Yamanashi Inaba’s Byakugan, but Uchiha Itachi appeared and severed its hand with a kunai.

Ch. 249Living Corpse Reincarnation

Superintendent Shimono Tadashi identified the hooded Superhuman as Yamanashi Inaba and prepared the Hokkaido Police Riot Squad to approach her. Before he could act, Uchiha Itachi fought the resurrected Higuchi Orochi, whose strange knowledge and madness led to an attack that trapped Itachi in the Living Corpse Reincarnation dimension.

  • Superintendent Shimono Tadashi learned that the girl who saved the mother and child was Yamanashi Inaba, the orphaned daughter of former police officers, and expected to recruit her.
  • Superintendent Shimono Tadashi ordered the riot squad not to fire and prepared to negotiate with Yamanashi Inaba.
  • Uchiha Itachi struck Higuchi Orochi through a building and confronted it after it regenerated its severed arm.
  • Higuchi Orochi revealed that the Crimson Moon had told it about the Sharingan, then behaved erratically and detonated itself.
  • Uchiha Itachi found himself trapped in the Living Corpse Reincarnation dimension as Higuchi Orochi declared that it wanted his eyes.

Ch. 250The Quasi-Kage Level Yamata no Orochi

Uchiha Itachi defeated Higuchi Orochi’s attempt to trap him, but Orochi transformed into a seven-headed serpent and rampaged through Sapporo City. Itachi unleashed his Mangekyō Sharingan and began crushing the monster, ending the chapter as he prepared to show Orochi a godlike power.

  • Uchiha Itachi broke free of Higuchi Orochi’s alternate space and burned away Orochi’s snake attack.
  • Higuchi Orochi used the Eight Branches Technique to transform into a giant seven-headed serpent and destroy the office building.
  • Yamata no Orochi rampaged through Sapporo City, killing civilians and riot police with its bites and poisonous mist.
  • Uchiha Itachi attacked the serpent with Fire Style, destroying four heads before Orochi regenerated one and blasted apart the mall.
  • Uchiha Itachi activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and formed a massive skeletal arm that seized and crushed one of Yamata no Orochi’s heads.

Ch. 251Divine power, Susanoo!

Superintendent Shimono Tadashi watched Yamata no Orochi devastate Sapporo and learned that Uchiha Itachi was fighting it as the Self-Defense Forces prepared to intervene. Itachi’s Susanoo initially struggled against the serpent’s regenerating heads, but he began transforming it into a stronger form as the battle continued.

  • Superintendent Shimono Tadashi reported that Hokkaido Police Director Maeno had been killed and requested military reinforcements against Yamata no Orochi.
  • Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department told Shimono that fighters from the Northern Air Self-Defense Forces had departed and asked him to guide their attack.
  • Uchiha Itachi used Susanoo to crush and tear off Yamata no Orochi’s heads while Higuchi Orochi resisted with regeneration and escaped Itachi’s genjutsu.
  • Yamata no Orochi trapped Susanoo’s single arm and battered it until its ribs cracked and Itachi was driven underground.
  • Uchiha Itachi announced Susanoo’s name and expanded it with an arm, a spine, neck bones, and a skull, invoking Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto against Yamata no Orochi.

Ch. 252Myth reborn

Uchiha Itachi summoned Susanoo and brutally defeated Yamata no Orochi in Sapporo City, while Japanese and American officials watched the battle unfold. The officials began considering how to respond to the supernatural crisis, and Professor Nagayama speculated that the skeletal giant was a Gashadokuro.

  • Uchiha Itachi expanded Susanoo, tore two of Yamata no Orochi's necks free, and smashed the serpent, destroying half its body.
  • Superintendent Shimono Tadashi and people across Sapporo watched the giant battle, while officials in Tokyo interrupted their meeting to view satellite footage.
  • Prince Fumihito of Akishino pointed out that the serpent had seven heads, and General Woodman wondered whether it could be Satan.
  • The ministers ordered fighters from Chitose Air Base to head toward Sapporo, but Susanoo defeated Yamata no Orochi before they arrived.
  • Professor Nagayama told the officials that he suspected the skeletal giant was a Gashadokuro formed from battlefield bones.

Ch. 253An upheaval unseen in two thousand years

Japanese officials debated the identity of Akatsuki’s skeletal giant and how to respond to the destruction in Sapporo City, while Major General Woodman pushed for a military strike against Itachi. The Prime Minister backed Woodman’s position, and the 201st Tactical Fighter Squadron prepared to attack.

  • Professor Nagayama identified the skeletal giant as Gashadokuro, but Prince Fumihito of Akishino dismissed the idea that it could have subdued Yamata no Orochi.
  • The officials discussed disclosing supernatural incidents and organizing relief for the more than one hundred thousand people affected in Sapporo City.
  • Prince Fumihito of Akishino claimed Hokkaido’s residents were Ainu and said their deaths did not matter, prompting discomfort among the officials.
  • Major General Woodman demanded that the fighter formation attack Itachi, while the Superintendent General argued that Itachi had not acted viciously and might leave on his own.
  • The defense minister received the Prime Minister’s order to follow Woodman’s plan, and Woodman announced that the 201st Tactical Fighter Squadron would strike upon reaching Sapporo City.

Ch. 254F-15J fighter formation vs. Susanoo

Uchiha Naruto battled the regenerating Yamata no Orochi with Susanoo until F-15J fighters arrived and launched a missile attack. As the damaged Susanoo came under relentless fire, Naruto spent his Ninja Jewels to bring his Sharingan to the brink of awakening.

  • Uchiha Naruto used Susanoo to cut Yamata no Orochi apart, but the serpent regenerated seven diseased heads and continued attacking.
  • Uchiha Naruto prepared to use Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyō technique when twenty-four F-15J fighters arrived over Sapporo City.
  • Air Self-Defense Force control ordered the fighters to attack both monsters with medium-range missiles, and the first wave blasted apart much of Yamata no Orochi's body while cracking Susanoo.
  • The fighters kept firing from beyond Susanoo's reach, and several missiles struck Naruto, leaving him wounded as Susanoo developed more cracks.
  • Uchiha Naruto decided to end the fight and invested all his Ninja Jewels in his Sharingan, bringing it to 999/1000.

Ch. 255Yasaka Magatama

Uchiha Naruto awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan during the battle in Sapporo and used its power to transform Susanoo into its second form. He left the Air Self-Defense Force’s 201st Tactical Fighter Squadron destroyed, with only a few pilots surviving by ejecting.

  • Uchiha Naruto’s Sharingan advanced to Mangekyō, and Uchiha Itachi’s first-form Susanoo dissolved as the pilots and officials celebrated.
  • The control tower ordered the F-15J formation to keep attacking, but Uchiha Naruto restored Susanoo and expanded it into its second form, unharmed by the missiles.
  • Uchiha Naruto used Yasaka Magatama to shoot down F-15Js twenty-five and twenty kilometers away.
  • The remaining F-15Js disobeyed orders to close in and tried to flee, so Uchiha Naruto struck them with volleys of Yasaka Magatama.
  • The 201st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 2nd Air Wing, lost all twenty-four F-15Js, though a few pilots ejected in time.

Ch. 256Amaterasu

Uchiha Naruto awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, destroyed the attacking F-15J formation, and defeated Yamata no Orochi with Susanoo. As Orochi’s remains gathered into a regenerating mass of flesh, Naruto unleashed Amaterasu.

  • Uchiha Naruto watched as Susanoo destroyed the Air Self-Defense Force’s twenty-four F-15Js, sparing the pilots who ejected.
  • Major General Woodman demanded stronger attacks, but officials in Tokyo argued over the risks as a thunderstorm made further air operations unsuitable.
  • Yamata no Orochi regenerated while Uchiha Naruto mastered his new Mangekyō Sharingan power and advanced with Susanoo.
  • Yamata no Orochi fired a massive chakra projectile, and Susanoo caught it and hurled it through the storm clouds.
  • Uchiha Naruto struck Yamata no Orochi with Susanoo, shattering its body, but its remains reformed into a huge mass of flesh.
  • Uchiha Naruto activated Amaterasu against the regenerating mass.

Ch. 257Mangekyō Sharingan, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto

Uchiha Naruto used Amaterasu to burn down Yamata no Orochi’s corrupted flesh and extracted Higuchi Orochi’s memories, but Higuchi escaped through the sewers. Yamanashi Inaba found and killed him, and Uchiha Naruto prepared to use Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto to end the crisis in Sapporo City.

  • Uchiha Naruto burned Yamata no Orochi’s mass of flesh with Amaterasu, then used Kagutsuchi to save Higuchi Orochi and read his memories.
  • Uchiha Naruto learned that Higuchi Orochi had infiltrated the Metropolitan Police Department, knew other great monsters, and had originated from spores scattered by the Crimson Moon.
  • Higuchi Orochi shed his corrupted body and escaped into Sapporo City’s sewers, planning to hide and grow stronger.
  • Yamanashi Inaba tracked Higuchi Orochi through the sewers and cut him apart with her katana.
  • Uchiha Naruto stopped Yamanashi Inaba from continuing to strike Higuchi Orochi, confirmed the kill, and she fainted from exhaustion.
  • Uchiha Naruto announced that he would use his Mangekyō Dojutsu, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, to bring Sapporo City’s festival to a close.

Ch. 258Princess Tsunade

Uchiha Naruto used his Mangekyō Sharingan to create a blank-slate Tsunade Servant and planned to use her and the other Sannin to bolster the authorities as supernatural incidents became public. In Sapporo, Orochimaru joined Uchiha Itachi amid the ruins, and the Superintendent General tried to decipher their conversation about Yamata no Orochi.

  • Uchiha Naruto summoned a Tsunade Servant with Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto and explained that he could weave independent actors from his impressions.
  • Uchiha Naruto decided to use the Sannin to help steady public sentiment and strengthen the Metropolitan Police Department after the destruction of Sapporo City.
  • Officials in Tokyo argued over how to respond to Uchiha Itachi as his Susanoo remained amid the ruins.
  • Orochimaru appeared beside Uchiha Itachi, alarming the Superintendent General and the other officials.
  • The Superintendent General moved drones closer to listen and read lips as Orochimaru spoke to Itachi about Yamata no Orochi and the Dragon's Neck Jewel.

Ch. 259Jiraiya of the Sannin

Uchiha Itachi and Orochimaru recovered the Dragon's Neck Jewel after defeating Yamata no Orochi, but Jiraiya arrived to stop them. The chapter ended as Jiraiya and Gamahiro attacked the two Akatsuki members with an oil-and-fire technique.

  • Uchiha Itachi took the Dragon's Neck Jewel from the flames and refused to let Orochimaru claim it, saying it was needed to break Mount Penglai's thousand-year seal.
  • Orochimaru emerged from Susanoo's crushing blow and taunted Uchiha Itachi about Sasuke, then urged him to leave with the jewel and report to their leader.
  • Jiraiya arrived atop the giant frog Gamahiro and confronted Uchiha Itachi and Orochimaru, declaring that he would kill them and prevent the danger posed by Itachi's eyes.
  • Uchiha Itachi declined Orochimaru's offer to join forces, while Jiraiya and Gamahiro unleashed Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet.

Ch. 260Tobi: Please, do me a favor

Jiraiya and Tsunade joined forces against Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi after Tsunade rescued Jiraiya and struck both enemies with her immense strength. As the battle threatened to resume, a masked Akatsuki member appeared and asked them to stop.

  • Jiraiya dismissed Gamahiro after Itachi's Amaterasu began consuming the toad summon and the surrounding flames.
  • Orochimaru emerged from underground, trapped Jiraiya, and prepared to stab him, but Itachi attacked them both with Susanoo.
  • Tsunade appeared, punched Susanoo away, and shattered the ground to expose Orochimaru before striking him.
  • Jiraiya and Tsunade faced Orochimaru and Itachi together, while Itachi showed no sign of cooperating with Orochimaru.
  • A masked man in an Akatsuki cloak floated above the battlefield and asked everyone to call off the fight.
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