Chapter Summaries

Toru Yamashita entered Above the Gray Fog to seek the King and reveal his knowledge of the coming apocalypse, but found the Royal City in ruins and overrun by monsters. Cornered in an abandoned temple, he reached for a legendary Sand Gourd and demanded power as it released a torrent of sand.

• Toru Yamashita failed to enter the King's divine kingdom at first, then used a blood-drawn Three-Tomoe Sharingan to reach Above the Gray Fog.
• Toru Yamashita crossed a lifeless town and found the Royal City in ruins, with its protective torii gates absent.
• Toru Yamashita killed a red-haired aberration with Konoha Whirlwind, but a pack of monsters appeared and he discovered he could not return to reality by reciting the King's honorific name.
• Toru Yamashita fled into a collapsed temple and recognized a Sand Gourd from the organization's treasury as a powerful supernatural item.
• Toru Yamashita charged the Sand Gourd while monsters attacked him, shouted for power, and triggered a torrent of flowing sand.

After Yamanashi Inaba rescued Toru Yamashita in the divine kingdom, the King accepted him, gave him Magnet Release, and tasked him with purging cultists. Back in his cell, Toru transformed a spoon into a key, just as officers entered to search him.

• Toru Yamashita used the sand gourd to destroy a monster, but its power left him helpless as the others closed in.
• Yamanashi Inaba killed the monsters, recognized Toru as a threat, and then relayed the King's acceptance and assignment for him to purge cultists.
• The King blessed Toru with Magnet Release, and Toru returned to his detention cell with his supernatural power restored.
• Toru transformed an iron spoon into a key, then ignored a police officer who accused him of hiding the missing spoon to escape.
• The fat officer sounded the alarm, entered Toru's cell with other officers, and ordered him to face the wall for a search.

Toru Yamashita escaped from police custody using Magnet Release and learned that the Wenyi Association was active again. After meeting a believer who invited him to the group’s Dharma Assembly, he showed keen interest in attending.

• Toru Yamashita endured Officer Baba Yusuke’s false accusation and search until the detention house director ended the confrontation.
• Toru Yamashita used Magnet Release to make his police car crash into the Dotonbori River, escaped his handcuffs, and reached Naniwa Ward alone.
• Toru Yamashita saw news of the cult village massacre and heard the judge from his trial defend his death sentence on television.
• Toru Yamashita encountered a Wenyi Association believer preaching in the street and resolved to purge the cult’s leaders.
• The believer invited Toru Yamashita to the Osaka diocese’s Dharma Assembly, where the founder’s fifth holy son would appear, and Toru Yamashita eagerly agreed to attend.

Wen Zaizhong staged a fake summoning of the Lord of Mount Tai to strengthen his bid for leadership and manipulate the Wenyi Association’s followers. As he prepared to summon Toru Yamashita’s soul, the candles went out, then relit to reveal Toru Yamashita standing before the stunned crowd.

• Wen Zaizhong learned that Toru Yamashita was presumed dead and celebrated, then praised Baba Yusuke for arranging tight security at the gathering.
• Wen Zaizhong addressed the association’s followers and had them hear that Toru Yamashita’s presumed death was divine punishment.
• Wen Zaizhong pretended to be possessed by the Lord of Mount Tai, who supposedly praised him and condemned Toru Yamashita to eternal torment.
• The balding old man announced that the Lord of Mount Tai would summon Toru Yamashita’s soul, but a cold wind extinguished every candle.
• Several candles relit, revealing Toru Yamashita and leaving the crowd stunned.

Toru Yamashita attacked Wen Zaizhong during a ritual, revealed his Magnet Release powers, and killed him and the Wenyi Association officials at the Osaka parish. The simulation then followed Toru’s campaign against the association until Uchiha Senmon defeated him after he was lured out of hiding.

• Toru Yamashita appeared behind Wen Zaizhong during the ritual, and the believers mistook him for a summoned ghost.
• Toru Yamashita shot Wen Zaizhong with magnetically propelled steel balls, but an attendant shot Toru in the head.
• Toru Yamashita rose unharmed, revealed his Magnet Release powers, killed the officials with steel balls, and executed Baba Yusuke.
• Toru Yamashita escaped, while the black-haired youth used the worldline simulation to accelerate the timeline.
• Toru Yamashita destroyed Wenyi Association branches across Japan and then attacked its headquarters in Busan, prompting Japan, South Korea, and the United States to join forces against him.
• Mun Hak-ja used Toru Yamashita’s missing sister to lure him out, and Uchiha Senmon defeated him.

Toru Yamashita arrived at the mass wedding staged to lure him out, rescued his sister, and confronted Mun Hak-ja. He silenced the shamaness with an iron sand spear while South Korean forces watched from the mountain.

• General Park and a South Korean intelligence agent discussed using Mun Hak-ja and Toru Yamashita’s sister as bait, while the Blue House ordered them to kill him if possible.
• A lookout spotted Toru Yamashita approaching Gaya Mountain, and General Park ordered the forces to prepare for battle.
• Toru Yamashita appeared above the wedding with iron sand wings, stopped the soldiers’ gunfire, and paralyzed them with tracking iron sand feathers.
• Toru Yamashita found his sister among the newlyweds, embraced her, and promised to deal with Mun Hak-ja.
• Mun Hak-ja tried to crawl away and then begged Toru Yamashita for mercy, but he pinned her to the ground with an iron sand spear through her mouth.

Toru Yamashita defeated the insect-wielding Superhuman and held off Mineko Yuki before Uchiha Senmon arrived to recruit him into the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force. Toru refused the offer, and Uchiha Senmon prepared to take him by force.

• Toru Yamashita killed the old hag, then protected his unconscious sister from an attack by the Black man, whom he recognized as one of the future Twelve Divine Generals.
• Mineko Yuki approached Toru Yamashita and urged him to surrender while fighter jets and helicopters surrounded the venue, but he refused and fought her and the Black man.
• Toru Yamashita deflected their attacks and trapped the Black man in an iron sand coffin, then continued to pressure Mineko Yuki.
• Uchiha Senmon arrived by helicopter, stopped the fight, and told Mineko Yuki that she was no match for Toru Yamashita.
• Uchiha Senmon offered Toru Yamashita a clean slate in exchange for joining the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force, but Toru refused.
• Uchiha Senmon announced that he would take Toru Yamashita in as a guest and formed a lotus seal.

Toru Yamashita challenged Uchiha Senmon but was quickly defeated, and Yamanashi Inaba arrived to free him. Senmon then fought Inaba, who revealed a mysterious Cursed Seal of Heaven as he pressed her with overwhelming Wood Release.

• Toru Yamashita launched his Iron Sand Fist at Uchiha Senmon, but Senmon stopped it with Wood Release and bound him in branches.
• Yamanashi Inaba cut Toru free, and Senmon greeted her warmly before learning that she and Toru belonged to the same organization.
• Senmon refused to let Toru leave and urged Inaba to join the Konoha Military Police Force, but she declined.
• Senmon attacked Inaba with Deep Forest Emergence, overwhelming her with a vast forest of roots and trees.
• Yamanashi Inaba revealed a black three-tomoe mark on her neck, and its cursed markings spread across her face, shocking Uchiha Senmon.

Yamanashi Inaba used her cursed seal to fight Uchiha Senmon, then escaped with Toru Yamashita and his sister through a teleportation pillar. Senmon let them go and concealed that he could have stopped the escape, while the simulation later ended with Toru’s Magnet Release at LV3.

• Yamanashi Inaba unleashed her cursed-seal transformation and razed Senmon’s summoned forest with Wind Release.
• Senmon challenged Inaba over her power and prepared to force her to stay, but Inaba crushed a blood-red tomoe and summoned a teleportation pillar.
• Senmon and the fighter jets failed to break the pillar as Inaba, Toru, and his sister escaped through a fissure in the sky.
• Senmon arranged help for the injured Mr. Higashiyama and admitted to Mineko Yuki that his Sage Mode could have stopped the escape, but he chose to trust Inaba.
• The simulation recorded Toru’s rescue and six months of Magnet Release training, raising the ability to LV3 before the simulation ended.

Uchiha Naruto reviewed how his simulated-worldline experiments had boosted Toru Yamashita’s Magnet Release, then prepared for university with Matsudaira Chiyo and Tsunayoshi. The chapter ended with Tsunayoshi alone at home, watching television and wondering which numbered mistress Chiyo was.

• Uchiha Naruto recorded that Toru Yamashita’s implanted memories and heightened crisis had made his Magnet Release improve far more in the second simulation.
• Uchiha Naruto noted that Toru Yamashita retained the simulations’ training gains in reality but not their memories, leaving his Magnet Release close to half progress toward LV4.
• Matsudaira Chiyo called Uchiha Naruto to breakfast, teased him in a maid outfit, and helped him get ready for morning class.
• Uchiha Naruto and Matsudaira Chiyo left for university after telling Tsunayoshi to look after the apartment.
• Tsunayoshi confirmed they had gone, sat upright on the sofa, and watched television while musing about Uchiha Naruto’s love life.

Uchiha Naruto settled into life as a first-year history student at the University of Tokyo while using his public relationship with Matsudaira Chiyo to ward off wealthy women pursuing him. After trading his father’s forged autograph for Jumonji Hayato’s gratitude, Naruto heard Hayato condemn the Twelve Divine Generals for their defeats by the Taka Organization.

• Matsudaira Chiyo escorted Uchiha Naruto to the University of Tokyo, kissed his cheek, and left while looking forward to their date.
• Uchiha Naruto attended class and declined Suruga’s invitation to her younger brother’s birthday party, with Jumonji Hayato inventing a fishing trip as an excuse.
• Uchiha Naruto recalled that he and Matsudaira Chiyo had agreed to pose as a couple to deter women seeking him because of his looks and his father’s status.
• Uchiha Naruto gave Jumonji Hayato a forged Uchiha Senmon autograph, and Hayato excitedly offered him a new Ferrari in return.
• Uchiha Naruto asked which other Superhuman Hayato liked, and Hayato disparaged the Twelve Divine Generals for losing twice to the Taka Organization.

Uchiha Naruto attended Professor Nagayama’s packed folklore class, where students learned about supernatural powers and the Taka Organization’s possible designation as an international terrorist group. That night, Naruto reflected on the Crimson Moon’s absence and his plans for Taka before a fox-eared girl emerged from his shadow.

• Uchiha Naruto and Jumonji Hayato attended Professor Nagayama’s crowded lecture on supernatural folklore and the limits of hand seals.
• Professor Nagayama explained several ways people became Superhumans and said the New York summit would consider designating Taka an international terrorist organization.
• Uchiha Naruto declined Jumonji Hayato’s invitation after class and went to Kyudo Club activities.
• Uchiha Naruto wondered whether his close connection to the Crimson Moon explained why no Crimson Moon Incident had occurred in three years.
• Uchiha Naruto reflected on sheltering Taka and using its struggles with the Twelve Divine Generals to pressure the Japanese government’s Superhumans.
• A fox-eared girl in a black school uniform emerged from Naruto’s shadow as Tsunayoshi pretended to sleep.

Hagoromo Shiranui reported on a secret-realm battle and the investigation into natural energy beneath Japan’s cities, then Uchiha Naruto removed the excess natural energy causing her fox features. After Naruto went to study the report, Hagoromo found another woman’s hair in the sofa and reacted with jealous anger.

• Hagoromo Shiranui told Uchiha Naruto that Toru Yamashita was fighting Tosu Hideo in the Forest of Death secret realm, with a sixty-percent chance of winning.
• Hagoromo Shiranui gave Uchiha Naruto the findings on natural-energy concentrations beneath major cities, with only Hokkaido left uninvestigated.
• Uchiha Naruto drew the unbalanced natural energy from Hagoromo Shiranui’s Cursed Seal of Heaven, making her fox ears disappear, and told her to stop the Hokkaido investigation.
• After Uchiha Naruto went to read the report, Hagoromo Shiranui found several black hairs in the sofa and unleashed shadow arms to search the apartment.
• Hagoromo Shiranui grew jealous and briefly lost control of her cursed seal before calming down and throwing the hairs away, while Tsunayoshi cowered nearby.

Uchiha Naruto planned to build city-scale sensory barriers using natural energy and considered how to turn the shadow ninjas summoned by his new Kage-level recruitment ability into a fighting force. After drafting a plan for a careful pilot program, he chose Kobe as its stage.

• Uchiha Naruto reviewed Yui Shiranui’s reports on natural energy beneath Japanese cities and planned to link city barriers into a nationwide sensory network.
• He connected the crimson moon’s appearances to his own activity and decided to prepare for its return while avoiding the use of his true body’s power.
• Uchiha Naruto examined the shadow ninjas created by his new recruitment ability and realized their memories and combat experience could make them powerful fighters if given vessels.
• He considered the risks of possessing ordinary people and decided to test a gentler approach in one city, using natural energy to sustain the shadow ninjas.
• Uchiha Naruto drafted a story and identities for the pilot program, then threw a kunai at his map and selected Kobe.

Teruzo Kurogane, a poor and isolated high school student, found a photograph of his beloved teacher, Arisa, and later tried to protect her from two thugs. He was beaten and pinned to the ground as a strange red light flickered from a pattern on his hand.

• Teruzo watched Gao Xiang being bullied by three judo club members and secretly kept a photograph of Teacher Arisa that Gao Xiang had dropped.
• Teruzo bought discounted groceries and encountered Teacher Arisa running near Kobe Bridge.
• Two thugs cornered Arisa and threatened her, while she signaled Teruzo to leave.
• Teruzo ordered the thugs to let Arisa go, dodged one man's grab, and landed a kick and punch.
• The larger thug caught Teruzo, punched him in the abdomen, slammed him to the ground, and pinned his head beneath a foot as a red light flickered on Teruzo's hand.

After being beaten while trying to protect Ms. Arisa, Teruzo Kurogane returned home consumed by jealousy and despair, then woke to find his injuries nearly healed. He discovered a weeping ghost with bushy eyebrows in his living room, who praised his youth.

• Teruzo Kurogane was badly beaten by a brute while defending Ms. Arisa, but a strange warm current helped him get back to his feet.
• Noro arrived, defeated the brute, and escorted Ms. Arisa, leaving Teruzo Kurogane jealous and humiliated.
• Teruzo Kurogane went home, treated his injuries with his father's medicinal liquor, and broke down crying over his weakness and his father's death.
• Teruzo Kurogane woke the next morning with most of his injuries healed and noticed a crimson mark on his right hand.
• Teruzo Kurogane followed the sound of crying into the living room and found a ghost with extraordinarily bushy eyebrows praising his youth.

Teruzo learned that the ghost haunting him, Might Guy, came from the Heavenly Realm and wanted to fight his eternal rival again. At school, Nishikawa and the judo club accused Gao Xiang of secretly photographing Arisa Ito and beat him until Teruzo finally intervened.

• Teruzo saw the red Cursed Seal on his hand and encountered the thick-browed ghost again, who introduced himself as Might Guy.
• At school, Guy explained that he came from the Heavenly Realm and had descended into Kobe to fulfill his wish of fighting his eternal rival.
• Teruzo dismissed Guy's Taijutsu and martial arts, while worrying that reporting him to the government could expose Teruzo to secret experiments.
• Nishikawa and two judo club members blocked the classroom exits and accused a student of secretly photographing Arisa Ito.
• Nishikawa searched Gao Xiang's belongings, demanded his phone passcode, and beat him as the class watched.
• Teruzo shouted for Nishikawa to stop beating Gao Xiang.

Teruzo Kurogane defeated Nishikawa and his two judo club companions after stepping in to stop them bullying Gao Xiang. After discovering Teacher Arisa planned to date Noro, Teruzo was heartbroken and rejected Might Guy, but upperclassmen from the judo club were waiting for him after class.

• Teruzo Kurogane confronted Nishikawa's trio for bullying Gao Xiang, then knocked all three boys down in a fight.
• Teruzo Kurogane ran to the athletic field and questioned Might Guy about the strength he had shown, then drank tap water to ease his hunger.
• Teruzo Kurogane overheard Teacher Arisa tell Noro that they could start dating after he graduated, and he hid his heartbreak from Might Guy.
• Teruzo Kurogane told Might Guy to leave, and Might Guy vanished as the red Cursed Seal on Teruzo's hand faded.
• Teruzo Kurogane returned to class, where his classmates whispered about his victory and Nishikawa's trio and Gao Xiang were absent.
• After class, several judo club upperclassmen blocked the back door and ordered Teruzo Kurogane to come with them.

Teruzo Kurogane went to the judo club to confront Nishikawa, but Captain Noro stopped the fight, invited Teruzo to join the club, and challenged him to spar. Teruzo fainted from hunger, and Noro later suspected he was hiding his strength and planned to kill him at home that night.

• Teruzo entered the judo hall despite his exhaustion, and Nishikawa urged the judo club members to attack him.
• Captain Noro arrived, called Teruzo his guest, made Nishikawa and his classmates apologize, and invited Teruzo to join the club.
• Teruzo rejected Noro's invitation but agreed to spar with him, then collapsed from low blood sugar before they could fight.
• Noro learned that Teruzo was receiving glucose in the infirmary and concealed his own interest in a death game between Superhumans.
• Noro wondered whether Teruzo had pretended to faint to avoid revealing his abilities, then told his unseen lord that he had found Teruzo's home address and proposed killing him that night.

Teruzo Kurogane was lured into a trap by Senior Noro, who revealed his cruelty and attacked him alongside Zabuza. When Teruzo called on Mr. Might Guy, Guy appeared to protect him and faced Zabuza.

• Teruzo Kurogane accepted that Teacher Arisa would never love him and crossed Kobe Bridge through thick fog.
• Senior Noro attacked Teruzo and revealed a Cursed Seal similar to the one on Teruzo’s hand.
• Senior Noro provoked Teruzo with a photograph and confessed that he had staged the earlier attacks and manipulated Teacher Arisa.
• Zabuza appeared and ordered Senior Noro to question Teruzo, who refused to answer despite being beaten.
• Teruzo called on Mr. Might Guy, and the Cursed Seal appeared as Guy arrived and drove Senior Noro back.
• Zabuza identified himself as the Demon, and Might Guy finally recognized him as a member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist killed by Kakashi.