Chapter Summaries

Tobi and Orochimaru escaped after clashing with Jiraiya and Tsunade in Sapporo, while Jiraiya sealed the spreading black flames. A police officer persuaded Jiraiya to consider visiting Tokyo by promising to book all of Kabukicho for him.

• Tobi urged Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru to reconcile, but Jiraiya and Tsunade declared Orochimaru their enemy.
• Tsunade attacked Tobi repeatedly, but he evaded her with a spatial technique and revealed a Sharingan before leaving with Orochimaru and Itachi.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade he would settle matters with the Akatsuki at Mount Penglai, and Tsunade departed.
• Jiraiya sealed the black flames consuming Sapporo’s ruins, identifying them as Amaterasu.
• Superintendent Shimono Tadashi invited Jiraiya to Tokyo, and Jiraiya refused until Shimono promised to book all of Kabukicho for him.

After the destruction of Sapporo City, Japan’s officials prepared for a public reckoning with the supernatural crisis while Uchiha Naruto considered forming an organization called Shadow. He recruited Yamanashi Inaba for a new mission: expose Section Chief Akagi using evidence left by Higuchi Orochi.

• Jiraiya declined the Superintendent General’s invitation to Tokyo but promised to visit after handling other matters.
• The Superintendent General and the Cabinet ordered disaster relief in Sapporo City and preparations for a national conference on the supernatural threat.
• Uchiha Naruto explained Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto’s abilities and considered building a hidden superhuman organization called Shadow.
• Yamanashi Inaba woke in the Shop Toad’s infirmary, thanked Uchiha Naruto for helping her take revenge, and asked permission to remove her Byakugan.
• Uchiha Naruto persuaded Yamanashi Inaba to devote her strength to sealing the gap between worlds and gave her a mission to report Section Chief Akagi using Higuchi Orochi’s records.

Uchiha Senmon investigated Mount Fuji with Inspector Okita, but Chief Priest Kubota knew nothing about the supernatural and collapsed after seeing the police footage. After Yamanashi Inaba called to warn that Section Chief Akagi was a spy and sent an encrypted document, Uchiha Senmon rushed back to Tokyo.

• Inspector Okita questioned Chief Priest Kubota about supernatural secrets at Sengen Taisha, but Kubota mistakenly thought the police were investigating the shrine's tax evasion.
• Inspector Okita showed Kubota videos of supernatural incidents, and Kubota fainted after realizing that supernatural powers might be real.
• Uchiha Senmon reassured Inspector Okita after the questioning went wrong, while reflecting on the stalled Mount Fuji investigation and his concerns about Tosu Hideo and Moribe Mamiya.
• Yamanashi Inaba called Uchiha Senmon and claimed that Section Chief Akagi was a spy, then hung up and sent him an encrypted document.
• After reading the document, Uchiha Senmon ordered Inspector Okita to take over the Mount Fuji work and left for Tokyo.

Uchiha Senmon confronted Section Chief Akagi with evidence that he had sold information to monsters, but Akagi defended his betrayal and revealed the Metropolitan Police Department’s secret human experiments. Akagi then claimed he knew where the monster that killed Uchiha Mikoto was, leaving Senmon facing a dangerous bargain.

• Uchiha Senmon confronted Section Chief Akagi in his apartment and showed him evidence of his dealings with monsters while holding him at gunpoint.
• Section Chief Akagi admitted that fear and Higuchi Orochi’s threats had led him to cooperate with monsters, then tried to persuade Senmon to keep quiet.
• Akagi warned that exposing him could damage the Fourth Investigation Division and revealed that the government sent people to Yokosuka Port for human experiments.
• Section Chief Akagi manipulated Senmon with claims about his own past injuries and the country’s corruption, secretly retrieving a pistol from his desk.
• Uchiha Senmon fired into the ceiling to force Akagi back into his chair, and Akagi revealed that he knew where the monster that killed Uchiha Mikoto was.

Uchiha Senmon confronted Section Chief Akagi over the Two-Faced Demon, but Akagi betrayed him and tried to kill him. After crows saved Senmon and Akagi died, Senmon awakened new eyes as a stern young man appeared.

• Uchiha Senmon forced Section Chief Akagi to explain that he had traced the Two-Faced Demon through Higuchi Orochi and classified files.
• Akagi tricked Senmon with an exploding phone, seized his gun, and admitted he planned to kill his best friend to protect himself.
• A crow blocked Akagi’s first bullet, and Senmon shot Akagi during the ensuing gunfight.
• As he died, Akagi told Senmon that the Two-Faced Demon was parasitizing a Cabinet member and warned him not to trust the Metropolitan Police Department.
• A flock of crows gathered into a stern young man as two black tomoe formed in Senmon’s eyes.

After killing Section Chief Akagi, Uchiha Senmon awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan and learned from Uchiha Itachi that he belonged to the Uchiha Clan. Itachi gave him a mysterious gift and pointed him toward Naka Shrine on Mount Fuji, leaving Senmon to pursue the clan’s secrets and seek greater power.

• Uchiha Senmon grieved over killing Section Chief Akagi, resolved to find the Two-Faced Demon without trusting the Metropolitan Police Department, and awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Senmon discovered that his new eyes let him see the currents of energy in Uchiha Itachi, who appeared in a flock of crows.
• Uchiha Itachi told Uchiha Senmon that they were clansmen and that the Uchiha Clan had a forgotten branch in the Human Realm.
• Uchiha Itachi placed a crow inside Uchiha Senmon as a gift and warned that Senmon’s current eyes were too weak to decipher the clan’s secret.
• Uchiha Itachi revealed that Naka Shrine, the Uchiha Clan’s ancestral grounds, was on Mount Fuji and said he would return if Senmon awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Uchiha Naruto learned that Uchiha Senmon had awakened a Two-Tomoe Sharingan and sent Crow One to protect him. Naruto then prepared Mount Penglai Island as a trap, where Dr. Kabuto Yakushi and a group of passengers were swept into danger by a seawater monster.

• Crow One reported that Uchiha Senmon had awakened a Two-Tomoe Sharingan, and Naruto ordered it to guard him in secret.
• Naruto used his Mangekyō Sharingan to populate Mount Penglai Island with ancient villagers and awaited visitors.
• A cruise ship spotted the uncharted island, suffered an engine breakdown, and passengers secretly rowed a lifeboat toward shore.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Hirota Tulio that Mount Penglai Island was what he had been searching for.
• A giant hand of seawater overturned the lifeboat, and a scaled figure rescued the drowning Hirota Tulio.

After Isaribi rescued the survivors from the sea, Hirota Tulio and the others learned she lived on Mount Penglai and set out for its village to seek help. The villagers’ old-fashioned lives and their fear of Isaribi as a half-demon left the group suspecting that the island was not part of the modern world they knew.

• Hirota Tulio and Antonio thanked Isaribi for rescuing them, and Hirota Tulio discovered that Dr. Kabuto Yakushi was missing.
• Isaribi told the survivors that they were on Mount Penglai and that only the Miko on the sacred peak could send outsiders away.
• The blonde woman tried to give Isaribi ointment, but Isaribi recoiled when she touched her bandaged arm and ordered the group to leave.
• Hirota Tulio and the others walked to a village, where two children called them outsiders and said they had been told not to play with half-demons like Isaribi.
• The group found the village devoid of modern conveniences, and its wary villagers hurried away from them.

Hirota Tulio and his companions fled the villagers’ hostility and returned to Isaribi’s cottage, where Kabuto Yakushi appeared with a giant octopus and exposed Isaribi as a half-demon. As Kabuto moved to investigate her connection to the Elixir of Eternal Youth, a Demon-Purifying Arrow descended from the sky.

• Villagers surrounded Hirota Tulio and his companions, but the old chief stopped them and claimed the outsiders were human.
• The old chief said the village stood on Mount Penglai, while Hirota Tulio’s group suspected a hoax or an isolated religious community.
• Hirota Tulio and his companions rejected the chief’s offer to stay and returned to Isaribi’s cottage to seek shelter and answers.
• A giant octopus destroyed Isaribi’s cottage, seized her, and obeyed Kabuto Yakushi when he ordered it not to capture the others.
• Kabuto Yakushi tore away Isaribi’s bandages, identified her as a half-demon with a merperson parent, and began connecting her to the Elixir of Eternal Youth.
• A sacred white Demon-Purifying Arrow descended from the sky toward Kabuto Yakushi and Isaribi.

Kabuto Yakushi captured Isaribi to use her as a guide to the elixir of immortality, but a Miko’s Demon-Purifying Arrow drove him and his giant octopus away. Isaribi rescued the shipwreck survivors and led them to the village, warning that they must find the Miko before twelve two-hour periods passed or they could never leave Mount Penglai Island.

• Kabuto Yakushi used Isaribi’s blood and the Jeweled Branch of Mount Penglai to confirm she was a mermaid, then captured her as a guide to the elixir of immortality.
• A Demon-Purifying Arrow struck the sea and made Kabuto Yakushi and the giant octopus disappear, while Isaribi surfaced unharmed but revealed her fish scales.
• The foreign woman embraced Isaribi, and Hirota Tulio reassured her that the survivors were grateful she had saved them.
• Isaribi warned the group that monsters roamed the island at night and led them toward the village, explaining that the Miko had destroyed the outsider’s octopus.
• Isaribi told Hirota Tulio that she had lived on the island for three hundred years and invited him to stay, but he hesitated because he wanted to return to his life outside.
• At the village entrance, Isaribi vanished into the darkness and warned the survivors to find the Miko before twelve two-hour periods passed or they would be unable to leave.

Hirota Tulio and his companions rejected the village chief’s offer to stay on Mount Penglai and asked Isaribi to guide them to the Miko before their time to return expired. Isaribi agreed and led them into the forest, where they encountered an unknown giant snake eating the three-eyed fox monster.

• The old village chief offered Hirota Tulio and his companions a place in the village, but they chose to seek the Miko before twenty-four hours had passed.
• The chief warned them that monsters lived in the deep forest and refused to provide a guide, so Hirota Tulio and the others decided to ask Isaribi for help.
• Hirota Tulio and his companions found Isaribi by the shore, where she agreed to guide them and carried the Jeweled Branch of Mount Penglai to return to the Miko.
• Isaribi led the group along a forest path toward the shrine and warned them about a three-eyed fox monster living in a hollow tree.
• A huge multicolored snake emerged from the hollow with the fox’s tail in its mouth, leaving Isaribi bewildered.

Hirota Tulio and his companions encountered a gigantic five-colored snake, and Isaribi transformed to kill it and save them. The group chose to continue toward the sacred peak, but they soon found signs of a bloody battle in the mountain dog's territory.

• Isaribi hid in a tree as the five-colored snake attacked, then leapt down and tried to stab it, but the dagger failed to pierce its scales.
• Isaribi transformed into a half-human, half-fish creature and beheaded the snake with a single strike.
• Hirota Tulio called Isaribi an Amabie to comfort her, and the Japanese couple joined in, easing her despair somewhat.
• Isaribi warned the group that the snake was unusually large and asked whether they wanted to turn back; they voted three to one to continue without searching for Antonio.
• Isaribi led the group onward and warned them about a mountain dog, but they discovered blood and signs of battle, including a wolf's severed head hanging in a tree.

Isaribi led Hirota Tulio and the others through Mount Penglai Island’s monster-filled forest toward the shrine, where they discovered that an unknown serpent had killed the Giant Mukade. Near the shrine, the long-haired woman became possessed by a hungry ghost and attacked the group, leaving Isaribi to urge them toward the shrine maiden for help.

• Isaribi warned that the fox demon and mountain dog had died and suspected another intruder had reached the island.
• Isaribi guided the group through the inner sea of trees, where they shared chocolate and she admitted she would never leave Mount Penglai Island.
• The group found the Giant Mukade dead beside a blue-green snake scale, and Isaribi recognized that an unknown monster had killed it.
• After reaching the shrine’s torii gate, the long-haired woman turned ravenous and tore flesh from her boyfriend before attacking Hirota Tulio.
• Isaribi identified the long-haired woman as possessed by a hungry ghost and said only the shrine maiden could purify it.

Isaribi guided Hirota Tulio and the others to Mount Penglai’s shrine, hoping the miko would remove the mermaid blood from her body. After the miko refused, Isaribi helped Kabuto Yakushi bind her, but the miko revealed that the Elixir of Eternal Youth he sought did not exist there.

• Isaribi subdued a starving, possessed woman with chocolate and carried her toward the torii gate with Hirota Tulio and the others.
• A huge two-headed serpent attacked, swallowed Isaribi, and was cut in half by the Mount Penglai Miko’s Demon-Purifying Arrow; Isaribi emerged alive.
• The group crossed the torii gate, and the miko confirmed that the mountain’s spiritual energy had purified the woman’s possessing spirit.
• Isaribi presented the Jeweled Branch of Mount Penglai and asked the miko to turn her fully human, but the miko said she could not remove Isaribi’s mermaid blood.
• When the miko took the branch, a Binding Technique immobilized her, and Kabuto Yakushi appeared; Hirota Tulio realized Isaribi had worked with him.
• Kabuto asked the miko for the Elixir of Eternal Youth, but she opened her eyes and declared that it did not exist on Mount Penglai.

Kabuto Yakushi deceived Isaribi and tried to seize the Elixir of Eternal Youth from Hyuga Miko, who revealed her Tenseigan and drove him away with a Sealing Arrow. Hyuga Miko sent Hirota Tulio and the others toward safety by boat, but they emerged from the mist to find two warships approaching.

• Kabuto Yakushi revealed that the scroll he gave Isaribi described Living Corpse Reincarnation, and he knocked her unconscious after she attacked him.
• Kabuto Yakushi demanded the Elixir of Eternal Youth from Hyuga Miko, who said it had been taken by an ancestor of the Hyuga Clan and that the Jeweled Branch of Mount Penglai pointed away from Mount Penglai.
• Hyuga Miko awakened her Tenseigan and shot Suzuki Kimie with a Sealing Arrow, severing her summoning contract with Kabuto Yakushi.
• Kabuto Yakushi escaped with the Reverse Summoning Technique, and Hyuga Miko let Isaribi live as a shrine maid while sending Hirota Tulio and the others to a lake boat.
• Hirota Tulio and his companions sailed through the mist, where Antonio joined them by swimming to the boat, and they emerged at sea before two approaching warships.

Hirota Tulio and the rescued passengers returned from Mount Penglai Island as an American landing ship advanced to seize the island. The Sea Demon overwhelmed the warship, but Hyuga Miko destroyed it with a devastating attack as a black-haired youth explained that she had used the Tenseigan correctly.

• A Coast Guard helicopter and warships found Hirota Tulio and the others after they emerged from the fog surrounding Mount Penglai Island, which had vanished and reappeared.
• Hirota Tulio realized the landing ship was heading toward the island and suspected the Sea Demon might attack it, but he kept quiet to protect the islanders and Miss Isaribi.
• The landing ship's commander ordered his forces to approach Mount Penglai Island, but the ship stalled when the Sea Demon seized its stern.
• The sailors fired on the Sea Demon, and the Vulcan shattered its head, but it regenerated and destroyed the ship's defenses before swallowing the landing ship.
• Hyuga Miko fired a white, blazing attack from Mount Penglai Island that erased the Sea Demon, and a black-haired youth appeared beside her and praised her use of the Tenseigan.

Uchiha Naruto cleared a secret-realm dungeon, examined the purple Tenseigan’s growing power, and prepared to draw in King and the monsters inside Mount Fuji as the full moon approached. The next day, he witnessed Japan’s worsening unrest, with looters striking Ginza and crowds demanding answers from the government over the Sapporo battle.

• Uchiha Naruto destroyed the landing ship and the Sea Demon with the purple Tenseigan, then found medicinal herbs and Fish-Man Transformation Surgery among the dungeon rewards.
• Uchiha Naruto assessed the purple Tenseigan’s long-range capabilities and concluded that its evolution could strengthen his attacks against distant targets.
• Uchiha Naruto decided the approaching full moon was the time to move against King and the monsters inside Mount Fuji, while continuing his Tale of the Bamboo Cutter-inspired plan.
• Uchiha Naruto traveled to Ginza the next day and saw masked thugs rob a luxury watch shop as passersby called the police.
• Uchiha Naruto used a crow’s vision to observe massive protests outside the Prime Minister’s Official Residence, where demonstrators demanded the truth about Sapporo and criticized the government’s silence.

At Senso-ji, Yuuji Kanbara reluctantly trained as a lay Buddhist in exchange for a promised promotion, despite doubting his spiritual ability. During meditation, he rose into a vision above the clouds, where a towering awakened being warned him of an approaching calamity and pointed him toward an object at Senso-ji that could protect the world.

• Yuuji Kanbara continued Buddhist training at Senso-ji after the Metropolitan Police Department assigned him there and promised him a promotion.
• Yuuji Kanbara fell asleep during morning practice and found himself floating above the clouds.
• Yuuji Kanbara feared he had died and shouted in protest at being separated from his daughter and life.
• A towering awakened being appeared in radiant Buddhist light and told Yuuji Kanbara that evil spirits would emerge during the Year of Demonic Encounters.
• The awakened being said an object left at Senso-ji could shelter living beings and told Yuuji Kanbara where to find it.

After a mysterious divine being directed Yuuji Kanbara to Senso-ji, the temple’s falling lantern triggered a miraculous healing of worshippers. A police excavation then uncovered a massive stone Buddha’s foot beneath the grounds.

• Yuuji Kanbara woke from a dream in which a divine being told him an object at Senso-ji could shelter all living beings, and he hurried to investigate.
• Yuuji Kanbara and a novice monk struggled through the packed Nakamise Shopping Street to reach the Thunder and Wind Gods Gate.
• The enormous lantern fell gently to the ground, and golden lotuses briefly appeared as injured and ill worshippers were healed.
• Several hours later, the Metropolitan Police Department sealed Senso-ji and excavated beneath the fallen lantern.
• The excavation team uncovered a huge bluish-gray stone Buddha’s foot five or six meters underground.

Yuuji Kanbara confirmed that the nameless deity could be contacted through offerings at the stone Buddha, while the Metropolitan Police Department remained wary of the unearthly being. After Kanbara was promoted to inspector, Superintendent Matsuura received a notice that Akatsuki planned to take the Buddha's Stone Bowl.

• The Metropolitan Police Department uncovered a huge stone Buddha beneath Senso-ji, and Superintendent Matsuura found that its stone matched the Buddha's Stone Bowl.
• The abbot recalled a prophecy about the stone Buddha's single eye and feared its discovery was a terrible portent.
• Yuuji Kanbara confirmed that sacrificing monsters to the stone Buddha would let them communicate with the nameless deity and receive his protection.
• Superintendent Matsuura told Kanbara that his Senso-ji training had ended and he had been promoted to inspector, then revealed that Uchiha Senmon had been suspended pending investigation.
• Superintendent Matsuura received an advance notice from Akatsuki declaring that they would take the Buddha's Stone Bowl the next day.