Chapter Summaries

Shinji used a modified jujutsu to seal most of Isobu’s chakra in an egg while leaving him as a tiny turtle, then agreed to take him along. The chapter ended with Shinji introducing Isobu to the others as his new pet.

• Shinji stopped the jujutsu after sealing most of Isobu’s chakra in an egg, explaining that Isobu could regain his strength by breaking it.
• Isobu chose to travel with Shinji and entrusted him with the egg, which Shinji stored in his [Shadow Pocket].
• Moqian mocked tiny Isobu, who charged at her toe and was flipped onto his back before Shinji set him on his shoulder.
• Shinji asked about Isobu’s needs and was pleased to learn that the tailed beast did not need food or water.
• Shinji introduced Isobu to the others, and Tamamo Hotaru was astonished that the tiny turtle had been the huge Three-Tails.
• Tobi watched Isobu become Shinji’s pet and comforted himself that this was better than the Five Great Nations capturing him.

Shinji took Sasori’s [Regeneration Core] and left him with the group, while Deidara secretly followed, determined to rescue him. Itachi and Kisame intercepted Jiraiya and Naruto and demanded that they hand over Naruto, forcing Jiraiya to prepare to fight.

• Shinji took Sasori’s [Regeneration Core] from Tobi and said he intended to sell it, while Sasori stayed hidden inside it and waited for a chance to escape.
• After Shinji’s group left, Deidara followed them from the air, hoping to rescue Sasori and test whether Shinji shared his ideals.
• Itachi and Kisame found Jiraiya and Naruto during their training journey and confronted them.
• Naruto learned that Itachi was Sasuke’s older brother and the man Sasuke sought revenge against.
• Itachi demanded that Jiraiya leave Naruto behind, and Jiraiya told Naruto to run while he faced the two enemies.

Itachi used genjutsu to capture Naruto while Kisame held Jiraiya back. Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and badly injured Kisame, but Kisame healed by merging with Samehada and launched a water-based counterattack.

• Itachi trapped Naruto in genjutsu, knocked him unconscious, and carried him away while Kisame blocked Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya summoned Fukasaku and Shima, trapped Kisame inside the Rock Lodging Toad, and entered Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya struck Kisame with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, nearly killing him.
• Kisame merged with Samehada, healed his injuries, flooded the toad's stomach with water, and attacked Jiraiya with the Great Shark Bullet Technique.

Jiraiya defeated and captured Kisame, then exchanged him for Naruto when Itachi returned. Itachi used a crow hidden in Naruto’s pocket to trap Jiraiya in a genjutsu, leaving him exposed to the Susanoo’s attack.

• Jiraiya defeated Kisame with Sage Mode, captured him, and searched for Itachi while Fukasaku and Shima helped maintain his Sage Mode.
• Kisame refused to reveal Itachi’s location, and Jiraiya failed to follow the misleading clues.
• Itachi returned carrying unconscious Naruto and agreed to exchange him for Kisame.
• Jiraiya checked Naruto and carried him away, believing the exchange had gone smoothly.
• Itachi removed the Stone Sword from Kisame and let Samehada restore Kisame’s chakra while a crow flew from Naruto’s pocket.
• Jiraiya met the crow’s red eyes and fell into a genjutsu as Itachi’s Susanoo raised its blade to strike.

Tsunade won twenty million ryo by betting on three ones, then refused to cash out and wagered all her chips on the same result again. The second roll also showed three ones, leaving the casino in an uproar.

• Tsunade hit a twenty-to-one payout on three ones, winning twenty million ryo and alarming the dealer and casino owner.
• The casino owner promised to pay her winnings and invited her to the VIP room, but secretly planned to make her give them up.
• Tsunade saw through the owner's scheme but insisted on continuing to gamble, despite Shizune urging her to leave.
• Tsunade pushed all her chips onto three ones again, and the dealer confidently expected the dice to show one, one, and two.
• The dealer revealed three ones, and the casino erupted in shock.

Tsunade won over four hundred million ryo at the casino, then feared her luck meant someone close to her was in danger and remembered standing Jiraiya up. That night, Deidara attacked Shinji’s group to steal Sasori’s Regeneration Core, trapping Sasuke amid explosives and a giant centipede.

• Tsunade won over four hundred million ryo, left without collecting it, and the casino owner ordered Nikolai to come inside with him.
• Tsunade remembered giving Jiraiya her crystal pendant and missing their planned drinks, then grew anxious that he was in trouble.
• Deidara found Sasori’s Regeneration Core beside Shinji’s group and planted explosive spiders, birds, and a centipede around their camp.
• Deidara dropped explosive bombs on the group, but Shinji, Hidan, Tobi, Sasuke, and Tamamo Hotaru avoided casualties.
• Sasuke faced explosive spiders, a giant centipede, and explosive birds closing in from every direction.

Sasuke awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and manifested the first stage of Susanoo while facing danger. After Shinji praised him, Sasuke’s chakra and ocular power gave out, and he collapsed.

• Shinji started to intervene when Sasuke faced mortal danger but stopped after Sasuke awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Sasuke’s survival instinct raised a purple barrier, and he endured a series of explosions.
• Sasuke emerged protected by the first stage of Susanoo, which greatly increased his strength.
• Shinji praised Sasuke, who celebrated unleashing the power before his Mangekyō Sharingan deactivated and he collapsed.

Shinji let Deidara go for the moment and asked him to explain why he had ambushed them. Deidara said he had only wanted to retrieve Sasori’s remains, while Shinji concluded that Deidara had held back because he was tempted by the offer to join their organization.

• Shinji pulled Deidara to his feet and said the organization would give him time to decide whether to join.
• Shinji asked Deidara to explain his earlier ambush.
• Deidara said he had caused chaos to retrieve Big Brother Sasori’s remains and claimed he could have killed them with his strongest artwork.
• Shinji reasoned that Deidara’s use of weak bombs showed his offer had already tempted him.

Deidara and Sasori recovered Sasori’s puppets and reaffirmed their loyalty to each other over the Akatsuki. Tsunade found Jiraiya’s necklace and reached Mount Myōboku, where she went to treat his serious injuries.

• Deidara retrieved Sasori and his damaged puppets from the lake, and Sasori explained that he could replace a Human Puppet’s components as long as its core survived.
• Deidara refused to let Sasori take sole responsibility for their failed mission and joked about defecting, while Sasori revealed through his reaction that he would leave the Akatsuki with Deidara.
• Tsunade found Jiraiya’s necklace near signs of a fierce battle and learned from Toad Kōsuke that Jiraiya had escaped to Mount Myōboku with Naruto but remained unconscious and badly injured.
• Toad Kōsuke returned with Gourd Toad, who smuggled Tsunade and Shizune to Mount Myōboku despite their lack of a summoning contract.
• Shima led Tsunade to the unconscious Jiraiya and entrusted his care to her.

Mr. Enemy and his group visited Hudi in a village temple to recruit him into their organization. Hudi agreed with their goal but insisted the strongest should rule the Cursed Spirits, revealing that he intended to claim power himself.

• Shanhu led Mr. Enemy, Mahito, Saibote, and Nana the Snow Woman to a village where Hudi lived.
• The group entered Hudi's temple, where his immense presence intimidated Nana the Snow Woman and the others.
• Hudi insulted Shanhu and the other Cursed Spirits, but Mr. Enemy kept the meeting peaceful.
• Mr. Enemy invited Hudi to join his organization and explained its plan to overthrow humanity and let Cursed Spirits rule.
• Hudi agreed, then asked who would rule the Cursed Spirits and declared that the strongest should lead.

Hudi agreed to join Mr. Enemy’s organization only after challenging his claim to leadership, and the two proposed competing to see who could destroy a country first. Their first exchange revealed Hudi’s overwhelming strength and his ability to recover instantly from Mr. Enemy’s Annihilation Cursed Technique: Guixu.

• Hudi accepted Mr. Enemy’s offer to join his organization but demanded leadership, while Mr. Enemy challenged whether Hudi was truly the stronger one.
• Hudi’s laughter and anger destroyed the temple and nearly wiped out the village, prompting Mr. Enemy to propose a contest to determine who was strongest without a direct fight to the death.
• Hudi rejected the proposal until Mr. Enemy agreed to prove his strength, then smashed him into the ground with a blow from his spiked club.
• Mr. Enemy recovered and fired Annihilation Cursed Technique: Guixu at Hudi, whose body disintegrated but regenerated immediately despite the technique’s normally irreversible damage.

Hudi agreed to wager against Mr. Enemy over who would lead their group, with the Land of Earth as their target. Meanwhile, Shinji received the strange eye from Deidara and Sasori, moved closer to activating the Six Eyes, and set out to find the last treasure on his map in the Land of Earth.

• Hudi took Mr. Enemy’s Jujutsu without injury, then agreed to wager on their fight and chose the Land of Earth as their target.
• Konan gave Deidara a test tube containing an unusual eye and ordered him and Sasori to capture the Five-Tails Jinchuriki when he returned to the Land of Earth.
• Deidara and Sasori left the eye at the Underground Bounty Station for Demon God Akagi to collect, and Shinji retrieved it two days later.
• Shinji fed the eye to his scroll, fulfilling the second condition for activating the Six Eyes, and planned to seek treasure in the Land of Earth to earn the remaining Cursed Soul Points.
• Tamamo Hotaru imagined a tragic backstory for Shinji and began writing a screenplay about him, planning to cast Kazahana Koyuki as its protagonist.

Shinji found a minigame at a graveyard that required his group to defend Athena’s statue against ten waves of enemies. He tricked Hidan, Tobi, and Sasuke into competing for Jashin’s blessing while he collected the wave rewards, and the team faced a three-minute timer between attacks.

• Shinji followed the Treasure Map to a graveyard, where it transformed into a statue and triggered the Guard Athena minigame.
• The first wave of corpses crawled out of the ground and attacked the statue, but Shinji’s group quickly destroyed them.
• Shinji claimed the statue was an incarnation of Lord Jashin and promised a blessing to whoever contributed most, motivating Hidan, Tobi, and Sasuke to fight harder.
• The second wave brought Man-Eating Flowers, which Tobi and Sasuke burned while Hidan angrily competed with them.
• The group defeated the third wave of venomous snakes, and Shinji realized a new wave began every three minutes whether or not the previous enemies were gone.

Shinji and his allies fought through waves of increasingly powerful enemies as they tried to protect Athena’s statue. When seventy Elite Ninja overwhelmed them, Shinji used Cursed Speech to kill the most dangerous foes and began turning the battle around.

• Shinji and his allies defeated seventy Chunin, while Shinji shielded Athena’s statue from their attacks with the Hexagonal Blood Crystal.
• Tamamo Hotaru transformed into the Moonlight Fox King, Sasuke activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Hidan fought with the Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe as the Chunin pressed them.
• Before the Chunin were defeated, seventy Elite Ninja appeared, many wielding Kekkei Genkai, secret techniques, or the Eight Gates.
• An enemy using the Eight Gates badly wounded Hidan, Tamamo Hotaru was knocked out of her fox form, and Tobi slipped away as the battle fell into chaos.
• Shinji used Cursed Speech to kill the Eight Gates user and then targeted the Elite Ninja with dangerous Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques.

Shinji defeated the elite ninja attacking the group and prevented them from destroying Athena's statue. After the battle, he treated the wounded and prepared to continue the game, while Tobi wondered what reward Lord Jashin would give them.

• Shinji used enemy ninjutsu against the elite ninja, then unleashed his domain to kill most of them after they switched their attacks to Athena's statue.
• Tobi defeated the last surviving enemy, and Shinji finished it with the Kubikiribōchō.
• Shinji found Moqian still guarding the statue, Hidan and Tamamo Hotaru badly wounded, and Sasuke unconscious from overusing his ocular power and chakra.
• Shinji treated Hidan and Tamamo Hotaru and planned to warn Sasuke against straining his eyes again.
• Tobi searched Athena's statue for a reward from Lord Jashin, but found nothing special.

After Shinji claimed the Fate Coin for clearing the Athena game, he used his accumulated resources to modify his eyes into the Six Eyes (Eye of the Heavens). He wondered whether the coin could help him obtain Limitless, leaving Tobi and the others stunned by Shinji’s new eyes.

• Hidan and Tamamo Hotaru tried touching Athena’s statue, but nothing happened until Shinji touched it and received the Fate Coin.
• Shinji examined the coin’s wish-granting rules and noted that the game had given him enough cursed soul points to meet the Six Eyes Scroll’s requirements.
• Shinji secretly used the scroll, enduring five minutes of intense pain as his eyes were modified.
• Shinji discovered that the Six Eyes gave him extensive vision and precise perception, and that they were a prerequisite for Limitless.
• Shinji wondered whether the Fate Coin could help him obtain Limitless, then opened his new galaxy-like eyes and astonished everyone.

Shinji decided not to use the [Fate Coin] to obtain [Limitless] directly, instead saving it to choose a Jujutsu technique when he next had a chance to gain one. He considered drawing for fragments or raising Tobi's Bond Points, but both routes looked difficult.

• Shinji decided that wishing for [Limitless] directly with the [Fate Coin] had too little chance of success.
• Shinji planned to use the [Fate Coin] to select a Jujutsu technique the next time he obtained one.
• Shinji noted that combining technique fragments would cost at least fifty thousand Cursed Soul Points, while he had only ten thousand left.
• Shinji considered raising Tobi's Bond Points above a hundred, but found them extremely difficult to grind.

Tamamo Hotaru regretted missing out on Shinji's powerful vision abilities but felt relieved that she had survived. The chapter ended with Hidan wondering whether Shinji's eyes would still work if he gouged them out.

• Tamamo Hotaru regretted missing the chance to obtain Shinji's vision abilities, then reminded herself she had nearly lost her life.
• Tamamo Hotaru covered herself when she met Shinji's gaze, and Shinji told her she could not hide from him if he wanted to look.
• Tamamo Hotaru reasoned that Shinji would have acted long ago if he meant her harm, then stopped covering herself.
• Shinji asked Hidan what he was thinking, and Hidan said he wondered whether Shinji's eyes would still work if he gouged them out.

Shinji entrusted the [Sharingan Wraith Soul] to Tobi, who accepted the task after Shinji warned him about its effects. Tobi felt the soul’s intense negative emotions as soon as he held it.

• Shinji pressed Tobi to take responsibility for the [Sharingan Wraith Soul], mentioning Hidan as an alternative.
• Tobi agreed and insisted he was reliable, and Shinji handed him the [Sharingan Wraith Soul].
• Tobi was surprised by the powerful negative emotions radiating from the soul.

Deidara and Sasori ambushed Han, but the explosion drove the Five-Tails Kokuō into a berserk state instead of incapacitating him. As Deidara prepared another attack, Hudi arrived and dismissed Kokuō as unimpressive.

• Deidara attacked Han with poisoned puppets and a C3 No. 18 explosive, but Han transformed into Kokuō and survived the blast.
• Kokuō smashed Deidara's Clay Bird and sent him hurtling toward the ground, where Sasori caught him with iron sand.
• Sasori concluded that Han had lost control and released Kokuō, who was acting on instinct rather than attacking them deliberately.
• Deidara prepared another lump of explosive clay to attack Kokuō again.
• Hudi arrived after noticing the battle and remarked that the Tailed Beast did not look special beyond its size.