Chapter Summaries

Chairman Hyodo forced the Black Emperor Society executives to eat monster sashimi and watch human flesh feed a regenerating octopus monster. After the banquet, he prepared to unveil a special program featuring a star he said had cost three hundred million.

• Chairman Hyodo explained that the men were eating monster sashimi made possible by feeding human-flesh meatballs to the octopus monster.
• Vice Chairman Hosoda obediently ate the monster sashimi while secretly anticipating Hyodo's death and hoping to take over the Black Emperor Society.
• Hyodo's men repeatedly stunned the octopus monster, cut off its regenerating tentacles, and returned it to its tank after the banquet.
• Hosoda suspected Hyodo's wild behavior meant he would soon die, while Hyodo announced a special program for the executives.
• Hyodo revealed that the night's star had cost him three hundred million.

Chairman Hyodo forced a group of debtors into a deadly arena contest, tempting them with debt forgiveness and ten million yen to fight a beast. After the debtors armed themselves and agreed to take part, a white blur burst into the arena and killed one of them instantly.

• Chairman Hyodo brought the Black Emperor Society’s senior members to a hidden arena and ordered the debtors brought out.
• Chairman Hyodo insulted the debtors, offered to erase their debts and reward them ten million yen, and claimed they would face only one wild beast.
• The debtors argued over the danger, scrambled for scattered cash, and eventually decided to accept the contest.
• Chairman Hyodo opened the barred gate, and the debtors armed themselves with javelins.
• A white blur attacked a debtor, seized his head, and smashed it against the wall.

Debtors trapped in Chairman Hyodo’s arena tried to kill Shirojiro, a monstrous beast, but their spears failed and it began slaughtering them. Hyodo refused to let them escape, then announced that one or perhaps two of them would survive.

• Shirojiro killed a debtor and ate his heart while Chairman Hyodo urged the others to attack.
• A sharp-nosed young man rallied the debtors to throw their steel spears at Shirojiro in hopes of winning ten million yen each.
• Shirojiro’s fur hardened into spines that stopped the spears, and he killed another debtor as the rest fled.
• The debtors begged Chairman Hyodo to let them leave, but he refused and rebuked them for apologizing and kneeling.
• Chairman Hyodo offered the debtors one more chance, saying one or possibly two of them would survive.

Chairman Hyodo drove the debtors into a deadly fight by promising the last survivor a fortune, then let Shirojiro kill the winner. When Young Master Toshio was announced, a cold-eyed man arrived in his place, and Hyodo demanded to know who he was.

• Chairman Hyodo warned the debtors that only a few might survive Shirojiro and promised the last survivor ten million plus the others’ money.
• Hyodo shocked Shirojiro with its collar, then told the debtors it would soon return and offered them a final chance to act.
• The debtors attacked one another, and one bloodied man remained standing while the young man who had tried to stop them lay injured.
• Shirojiro captured and killed the survivor, and Hyodo ordered the bodies turned into feed for the octopus monster.
• A man in black announced Young Master Toshio’s arrival, but Hyodo saw an unfamiliar cold-eyed man and asked who he was.

Uchiha Naruto, disguised as Young Master Toshio and then Uchiha Itachi, slaughtered the Black Emperor Society’s armed guards at the Palace of Bliss. Chairman Hyodo faced him over the deaths in the arena as Vice Chairman Hosoda and the executives turned against him.

• Chairman Hyodo recognized that the person before him was not his grandson, but the bodyguards hesitated to act against Young Master Toshio.
• Uchiha Naruto killed two bodyguards with a kunai after Chairman Hyodo ordered them to seize him.
• The guards shot Uchiha Naruto, but his rocklike body deflected the bullets, and he revealed his Uchiha Itachi persona beneath the Akatsuki cloak.
• Uchiha Naruto killed the gunmen and remaining bodyguards, using the Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu to burn some of them to ashes.
• Chairman Hyodo pleaded that there had been a misunderstanding, but Uchiha Naruto asked what the arena’s victims had done to deserve their fate.
• Vice Chairman Hosoda and the other executives blamed Chairman Hyodo and claimed they were innocent.

Uchiha Naruto confronted Chairman Hyodo at the Black Emperor Society’s arena and demanded information about the monsters’ bases. After forcing the Society’s executives into the arena, he left Hyodo dangling above the slaughter and asked him to answer.

• Vice Chairman Hosoda and the Black Emperor Society executives denounced Chairman Hyodo, but Hyodo accused them of sharing responsibility for the Society’s cruel spectacles.
• Uchiha Naruto shattered the bulletproof glass, confronted Hyodo, and demanded details about the monsters’ bases, including where Shirojiro had come from.
• Shirojiro attacked the Society members, but Uchiha Naruto used his Sharingan to order him back into the arena.
• Uchiha Naruto kicked the executives into the arena, where Shirojiro killed more than half of them as Hyodo watched from above.
• Uchiha Naruto pushed Hyodo’s wheelchair to the edge of the stands and demanded answers, but Hyodo remained silent.

Uchiha Naruto forced Chairman Hyodo to reveal how he had acquired the monsters and learned that a masked dealer calling himself Bishop had sold them to him. Hyodo also disclosed that Bishop could survive gunfire and had killed two of his bodyguards.

• Shirojiro killed Vice Chairman Hosoda while Uchiha Naruto held Chairman Hyodo over the arena’s edge.
• Uchiha Naruto threatened to drop Hyodo, who offered information about Higuchi Orochi and the monster-buying channel in exchange for his life.
• Hyodo explained that a mysterious dealer called Bishop had sold him two monsters this year for 130 million and 300 million.
• Hyodo said Bishop wore a cloak and Noh mask, contacted him using his private phone number, and showed a small octopus monster to his men.
• Hyodo revealed that Bishop killed two armed bodyguards after they attacked him, and bullets had no effect on him.

Uchiha Naruto interrogated Chairman Hyodo about Higuchi Orochi's organization and exposed his plan to sacrifice his grandson for immortality. Chairman Hyodo awoke young in the past, on the day his family hosted General Harrington, and realized the event that had ruined his family was about to happen again.

• Chairman Hyodo offered information about Higuchi Orochi's organization and his fortune in exchange for his life.
• Uchiha Naruto learned that Chairman Hyodo had agreed to sacrifice his grandson for the Technique of Eternal Youth and Immortality, then dropped him from the arena stands.
• Chairman Hyodo awoke in his family mansion with his youthful body restored and his legs working again.
• Chairman Hyodo recognized his parents and wife and learned that it was the twentieth year of Showa.
• Chairman Hyodo realized General Harrington was due to visit that day, when the Hyodo Family had offered his mother and wife to the occupying forces.

Uchiha Naruto drove Chairman Hyodo into senility with Sharingan genjutsu and learned that Tokyo’s remaining monsters were hidden in an underground shelter. He tried to use Hyodo to lure out Bishop, but discovered the monster dealer had already raided the shelter and dismissed Higuchi Orochi as a threat.

• Uchiha Naruto tormented Chairman Hyodo with repeated nightmares until the old man became senile.
• Uchiha Naruto extracted the underground shelter’s coordinates and learned that it held twenty to thirty monsters.
• Shirojiro killed himself at Uchiha Naruto’s command, earning him thirty Ninja Jewels and the Wild Lion's Mane Technique.
• Uchiha Naruto controlled Chairman Hyodo into calling Bishop, hoping to arrange a meeting and lure the monster dealer out.
• Bishop revealed that he had already learned the shelter’s location, was taking its monsters, and believed Higuchi Orochi was out of contact and too weak to threaten him.

Uchiha Naruto discovered that Bishop had taken the monsters from Orochi’s shelter and pursued one of the two groups with help from Tsunayoshi. He caught up with a container truck in Saitama Prefecture and attacked it with a Great Fireball Technique.

• Bishop refused Chairman Hyodo’s offer and took the monsters from Orochi’s shelter, declaring that power mattered more than money.
• Uchiha Naruto destroyed the arena with Earth Release and Fire Style techniques, then his shadow clone vanished and sent its memories to his real body.
• Uchiha Naruto left the Uchiha Residence and found the shelter abandoned, then summoned Tsunayoshi to track the monsters.
• Tsunayoshi detected that the monsters had been split into two groups, so Uchiha Naruto chose to pursue one trail first.
• Uchiha Naruto and Tsunayoshi followed the scent for over a hundred kilometers into Saitama Prefecture and found a container truck.
• Uchiha Naruto fired a Great Fireball Technique at the truck’s cab.

Uchiha Naruto stopped Bishop’s truck and fought the masked monster, whose body was made of black tentacles. After defeating Bishop’s apparent form, Naruto discovered Kakuzu’s real body hidden inside the container and struck it with a Water Severing Wave.

• Uchiha Naruto used an Earth Spear punch to overturn Bishop’s container truck before the vehicle reached a gas station.
• Bishop emerged from the wreckage, and Uchiha Naruto attacked after his Sharingan illusions failed to affect him.
• Bishop’s body transformed into a tentacled monster, and Uchiha Naruto blasted it with Fire Style: Searing Migraine.
• Black tendrils erupted from the container and pierced what appeared to be Uchiha Naruto, but he revealed it was a Body Replacement Technique.
• Uchiha Naruto appeared in front of the container and pierced it with Water Release: Water Severing Wave.

Uchiha Naruto fought Bishop, exposing the secrets behind his sorcery and destroying two of his elemental clones, but Bishop still had more hearts and cocoons to sustain him. Before Uchiha Naruto could finish the fight, a blood-red moon triggered a terrifying change in his Sharingan.

• Uchiha Naruto cut open Bishop’s shipping container and found Bishop’s real body among black cocoons and tentacles.
• Bishop attacked with a wind blade, but Uchiha Naruto blocked it and destroyed his Earth Release clone after it charged him.
• Bishop extracted a heart from a cocoon and gained a lightning attack, which struck Uchiha Naruto and left him numb.
• Uchiha Naruto deduced that Bishop stole monsters’ hearts to extend his life and prepared a wide-ranging Fire Style attack.
• The moon turned blood red, Uchiha Naruto’s eyes began bleeding, and the three black tomoe in his Sharingan stretched toward his pupils.

A blood-red full moon transformed Bishop into a rampaging Earth Grudge Fear monster and forced Uchiha Naruto’s Mangekyo Sharingan to awaken. The monster remained a threat near Saitama Prefecture as the system patch finished downloading and revealed a new Kagutsuchi skill.

• Uchiha Naruto recoiled from the moon’s whispers as Bishop transformed into a gigantic, regenerating Earth Grudge Fear monster.
• The monster slaughtered people at a gas station and headed toward the urban area of Saitama Prefecture, resisting Uchiha Naruto’s fire attacks.
• Uchiha Naruto blocked the monster from reaching an approaching ambulance with Uchiha Flame Formation and told the medical staff to leave.
• Uchiha Naruto’s right eye awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, while a nurse said the moon looked like an ordinary white sliver to her.
• Uchiha Naruto received the system’s completed patch notification and found Kagutsuchi beneath his LV3 Sharingan skill.

Uchiha Naruto discovered that the crimson moon had granted him Kagutsuchi without awakening his Mangekyo Sharingan. He used it to destroy Bishop's Earth Grudge Fear monster, earned rewards, and found that the technique severely strained his right eye.

• Uchiha Naruto examined Kagutsuchi and the incomplete ocular techniques on his system interface and concluded that Kagutsuchi had been loaded into his right eye from the crimson moon.
• Bishop's Earth Grudge Fear monster failed to breach the Uchiha Flame Formation and changed direction while the medical staff abandoned their ambulance and fled.
• Uchiha Naruto withdrew the barrier, rose into the air, and used Kagutsuchi to shape his Fire Style flames into a giant bow and arrow.
• Uchiha Naruto fired the flaming arrow through the monster and shattered the hearts at its core, killing it in a massive explosion.
• Uchiha Naruto received Ninja Jewel ×500 and Earth Grudge Fear LV1 as rewards.
• Uchiha Naruto's right eye bled from the strain, and he decided to reserve Mangekyo Sharingan-level techniques as trump cards.

After using Kagutsuchi, Uchiha Naruto worried that the Crimson Moon was strengthening monsters across Japan. At Yokosuka Port, researchers discovered that Doctor Satomi’s power could control a paralyzed human test subject, just as the secret laboratory’s Omega Class Type A began rioting.

• Uchiha Naruto recovered from using Kagutsuchi and decided he would need to use Mangekyō Sharingan techniques sparingly until his skill reached LV4.
• Uchiha Naruto questioned whether the Crimson Moon was affecting monsters throughout Japan after Bishop had become powerful enough to trouble him.
• At Yokosuka Port, Doctor Satomi used his superpower to move volunteer No. 127, whose bones had been altered in a human experiment.
• General William and Section Chief Mori discussed hiding the experiment’s true purpose from Doctor Satomi and revealed that No. 127 had been drugged to erase her memories.
• The secret laboratory shook, and a report announced that the Omega Class Type A held on the lowest level had started a riot.

Wolverine awakened and rampaged through the Yokosuka Port research base, alarming the other Type A beings and forcing General William to oversee the emergency response. It reached the Sector D isolation door, survived its strongest charge without breaking through, then began an unseen new attack.

• General William ordered the scientists escorted aboveground and took Section Chief Mori to the command center.
• Wolverine broke out of its containment chamber and smashed through the base’s corridors despite the emergency barriers.
• Staff reported that the other Type A beings were trembling in fear, while Wolverine moved toward Sector D.
• Wolverine’s bone armor grew into its strongest attack form, and it charged the 2,000-millimeter isolation door, denting but not breaking it.
• Wolverine lowered its head as a thick white spine extended through its flesh, revealing an attack the staff had never seen before.

Wolverine escaped into Sector D using a powerful bone spear, but General William’s nerve gas subdued it before it could cause further damage. The laboratory planned to advance the Wolverine Project with Doctor Satomi’s help and seek more young volunteers from U.S. prisons.

• Wolverine formed a spiral bone spear from its spine, pierced the partition wall, and escaped into Sector D.
• General William ordered nerve gas released through the sealed sector, and Wolverine collapsed from the gas.
• The research director explained that Wolverine was the laboratory’s only Omega Class Type A and the Superhero Project’s most promising subject.
• General William asked whether Doctor Satomi’s power could advance the Wolverine Project, and the project director said it might reach the third stage.
• The project director said the experiments needed volunteers aged ten to fifteen, and General William realized U.S. prisoners would not meet the ideal age range.

General William ordered Section Chief Mori to find Japanese volunteers for the Wolverine Project as Volunteer 127 showed promising bone growth and approached the stage when mana might emerge. The laboratory then received word that Itachi was fighting an unidentified monster after a massive explosion in Saitama Prefecture.

• General William decided to make Japan contribute volunteers and pressured Section Chief Mori to find suitable subjects.
• Section Chief Mori reluctantly accepted the order, while General William prayed and then went to inspect the experiment’s progress.
• The project director reported that Volunteer 127 had gained 5.9 kilograms, developed unusually stable bones, and passed the second stage, though no mana had appeared.
• General William ordered the laboratory to speed up the experiments, hoping to create super-soldiers with Wolverine’s powers.
• A laboratory guard informed Section Chief Mori that Itachi had been seen fighting an unidentified monster after an explosion in Saitama Prefecture.

Uchiha Senmon and Section Chief Akagi inspected the devastated Saitama blast site and discussed the government’s efforts to conceal Superhuman incidents. Akagi announced his retirement and recommended Senmon to succeed him, while Senmon revealed that he had devoted himself to the police to find the monster who killed Mikoto.

• Uchiha Senmon and Section Chief Akagi visited the blast site, where Akagi explained that the Metropolitan Police Department was presenting the explosion as a tanker-truck accident.
• Akagi said Itachi’s power would alarm the government regardless of his good deeds, and Senmon argued that Itachi had shown no malice toward humanity.
• Akagi told Senmon that he had applied for medical retirement and recommended him as the next Section Chief of the Fourth Investigation Division.
• Akagi asked Senmon about his family, and Senmon admitted he could not remember which school his child attended.
• Senmon said he had thrown himself into work to find a lead on the monster that killed Mikoto, and Akagi kept his response to himself.

Section Chief Akagi and Uchiha Senmon investigated the devastated site of a massive explosion, where they found no surviving clues and learned that a monster nest had been uncovered in an underground shelter. The investigation pointed to Chairman Hyodo of the Black Emperor Society, but he had already been found dead, and an emergency meeting was called.

• Section Chief Akagi showed Uchiha Senmon dashcam photographs of the explosion site and the enormous Earth Grudge Fear monster, which Senmon compared to a Cthulhu-style creature.
• Section Chief Akagi reported that the explosion and fire had erased the evidence, leaving investigators unable to determine how many people had died or find traces of Itachi.
• Section Chief Akagi told Senmon that two stolen container trucks had been traced to a company whose owner was murdered, and that one truck had been abandoned near Aokigahara.
• Investigators found that both trucks had spent time near an underground shelter, where they discovered extensive damage and signs that large numbers of monsters had lived there.
• Section Chief Akagi revealed that Chairman Hyodo of the Black Emperor Society owned the company that controlled the shelter, then said Hyodo had been found dead in Chiba Prefecture.
• Section Chief Akagi told Senmon that the Superintendent General had ordered an emergency meeting, and they hurried back to headquarters.