Chapter Summaries

Dagon prepared to act independently while the cursed spirit who mentored him left to recruit allies and build a cursed spirit faction. Meanwhile, Sickly Ghost and Rat-Headed Man prepared to join Dagon’s operation, and Shinji tested his domain before deciding to visit Kirigakure.

• Dagon’s mentor told him to pass a test by establishing a country ruled by cursed spirits, then departed to recruit companions on another continent.
• Sickly Ghost defeated his opponent inside his domain, then returned to a village where Rat-Headed Man had fought alongside him against Kirigakure ninja.
• A rat delivered Dagon’s message that the cursed spirits should hurry to meet him and begin their operation.
• Rat-Headed Man sent his rats to devour the bodies in the village before he and Sickly Ghost departed.
• Shinji tested his domain on a special grade cursed spirit and decided to visit Kirigakure for the chance to gain cursed soul points.

Mei Terumi ordered Kirigakure’s forces to recall personnel and strengthen patrols amid fears of a coordinated cursed-spirit attack. Mutant rats carrying deadly diseases overwhelmed a patrol squad, and the swarm continued toward its next target.

• Mei Terumi learned that only about one-fifth of the recalled personnel had returned and ordered expanded patrols and heightened alert.
• Kirigakure ninjas on patrol dismissed rumors of an imminent cursed-spirit attack and complained about the village’s preparations.
• Two patrolling ninjas were bitten by rats and quickly developed severe rashes that spread among nearby responders.
• A huge swarm of disease-carrying mutant rats attacked the patrol squad, killing all ten ninjas within minutes.
• The black tide of rats surged toward its next destination.

Mei Terumi and Kirigakure defended against a disease-carrying rat swarm controlled by the Rat-Headed Man, but the rats breached the village walls and caused heavy casualties. As Hozuki Mangetsu set out to find their controller, a small figure arrived on the wall and unleashed an army of cursed spirits.

• Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s defenses and used Lava Release to melt the rats pouring toward the village.
• The Rat-Headed Man split the rat tide into scattered groups to harass Kirigakure from multiple directions.
• Ao organized layered defensive lines, but rats chewed through the village walls and overwhelmed ninja who fought them at close range.
• Ao warned that the rats carried deadly toxins after bitten Kirigakure Ninja collapsed and died.
• Hozuki Mangetsu offered to find the rat controller, but a small figure appeared on the wall and vomited out an army of cursed spirits.

Dagon unleashed a vast army of cursed spirits and disrupted Kirigakure’s Water Release attacks, but Mei Terumi’s techniques helped stabilize the battle. As Kirigakure began to counterattack, a mysterious voice addressed Ao, leaving the crisis unresolved.

• Dagon released hordes of cursed spirits, and Ao rallied Kirigakure’s forces to defend their lines.
• Dagon swallowed Mei Terumi’s Water Dragon Bullet Technique and took control of the Kirigakure ninja’s Water Release attacks.
• Ao reorganized the defense and sent Hozuki Mangetsu and ten companions to help Mei Terumi reach Dagon and find the rat controller.
• Mei Terumi used Lava Release and Boil Release techniques to destroy many cursed spirits and rats, easing pressure on Kirigakure.
• Kirigakure’s close-combat unit counterattacked as the ninjutsu unit switched to other elements, then a strange voice asked Ao if he commanded the human forces.

Sickly Ghost used his domain to trap and kill Ao and several Kirigakure fighters, throwing their forces into chaos. Mei Terumi pressed on against Dagon, whose words suggested the attack was part of a larger trial.

• Sickly Ghost activated Domain Expansion: Tomb and sealed Ao and nearby Kirigakure fighters in coffins beneath gravestones.
• Ao and his group failed to escape before the count of three, and Sickly Ghost declared that they would die from his diseases.
• Kirigakure's leaderless troops fell into panic as cursed spirits and mutated rats overwhelmed them.
• Mei Terumi chose to keep advancing toward Dagon rather than retreat, then used Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique against him.
• Dagon blocked Mei Terumi's acid with water, transformed into a larger monster, and spoke of completing a trial and following forever.

Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu fought Dagon, who trapped them in his domain and began killing Kirigakure’s forces with guaranteed-hit attacks. Outside the village, Shinji, Hidan, and Tobi ambushed the Rat-Headed Man, and Hidan prepared to fight him.

• Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu coordinated an attack on Dagon, but he transformed Mei Terumi’s Water Whip and flew above them.
• Dagon expanded Horizon of the Captivating Skandha, trapping Mei Terumi and the Kirigakure elites in a beach domain where his shikigami attacks were guaranteed to hit.
• Dagon’s Death Swarm killed one of Hozuki Mangetsu’s companions before the ninja could see the attack.
• The Rat-Headed Man left his underground hiding place to reap the battle’s spoils, but Hidan’s Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe forced him to dodge.
• Shinji and Tobi joined Hidan to surround the Rat-Headed Man, and Hidan insisted on fighting him while Shinji told Tobi to stay nearby.

Hidan and Tobi fought the Rat-Headed Man and his swarm of mutated rats. Hidan’s growing strength and fourfold damage left the Rat-Headed Man pinned to the ground and fearing for his life.

• Tobi stayed with Hidan as the Rat-Headed Man attacked, and Hidan struck the man’s head with his scythe.
• The Rat-Headed Man summoned a swarm of giant rats, which chased Tobi while Hidan fought them and grew stronger with each kill.
• The Rat-Headed Man launched a two-stage attack on Hidan, but Hidan evaded it and marked him with [Evil God Mark].
• Hidan threw the Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe, pinning the Rat-Headed Man into the ground with a fourfold damage boost.

With Ao dead and Mei Terumi missing, Chōjūrō rallied the wavering Kirigakure Ninja, who renewed their fight against the Cursed Spirits and Mutant Rats. Shinji decapitated Sickly Ghost, but the enemy’s remaining pustules burst and covered the battlefield in deadly fluids.

• Sickly Ghost emerged from his vanished domain carrying Ao’s corpse and demanded that the Kirigakure Ninja surrender.
• Chōjūrō stepped forward to promise that Mei Terumi would win and that he would avenge Ao and their fallen comrades.
• Kirigakure Ninja rallied around Chōjūrō, declared they would keep fighting until Mei Terumi returned, and clashed with the enemy again.
• Sickly Ghost spotted Shinji cutting down nearby enemies with Red Threads and tried to escape as his arm began to itch.
• Shinji used Cloak-Breaking Strike to decapitate Sickly Ghost, whose remaining pustules immediately burst and sprayed deadly fluids across the battlefield.

Shinji killed Sickly Ghost, discovered that the Special Grade Cursed Spirit had already used its domain, and gained 20,000 Cursed Soul Points and a Domain Fragment. He then unleashed his blood techniques on the battlefield, leaving the Kirigakure Ninja stunned by how quickly he slaughtered the remaining enemies.

• Sickly Ghost fled after bursting his sores, but Shinji immobilized him with Cursed Speech and burned him to death.
• The system awarded Shinji 20,000 Cursed Soul Points and a Domain Fragment for exorcising the Special Grade Cursed Spirit-Plague Insect.
• Shinji realized Sickly Ghost had already used his domain during the earlier fight and celebrated the easy windfall.
• Shinji activated his blood patterns and tore through the Cursed Spirits and Mutant Rats, while his beast patterns automatically defended him from attacks.
• Chōjūrō and the Kirigakure Ninja watched Shinji claim their finishing blows and worried he might turn on them next.

Shinji helped Kirigakure defeat the invading cursed spirits, while Mei Terumi remained trapped inside Dagon’s domain with Hozuki Mangetsu. Shinji went to investigate the warped space as Mei and Mangetsu continued fighting off Dagon’s shikigami.

• Hidan hacked the Rat-Headed Man to death, then chased Tobi after nearly attacking him.
• Shinji exorcised the last cursed spirit, ending the mutant-rat assault on Kirigakure and earning 10,000 cursed soul points from the Rat King.
• Shinji learned that Mei Terumi had disappeared into a domain and went to investigate the warped space.
• Inside Dagon’s domain, Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu used Mangetsu’s Hydrification Technique to withstand Dagon’s sure-hit shikigami and kill four of them.

Akagi Shinji invaded Dagon’s domain with his Blood-Red Doomsday, saving Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu and revealing that Kirigakure had suffered heavy casualties. He moved to confront Dagon himself, and the chapter ended as he began using Blood Manipulation against Dagon’s approaching shikigami.

• Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu struggled against Dagon’s control of the sea until a flood of blood entered the battlefield and clashed with the ocean.
• Akagi Shinji activated Blood-Red Doomsday, divided the sea with his domain, and brought Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu to safety.
• Shinji told Mei Terumi that the cursed spirits had been dealt with, but Ao and many other Kirigakure shinobi had died.
• Shinji sent Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu farther back and advanced to the boundary between his domain and Dagon’s.
• Dagon sent his shikigami charging into Shinji’s domain, and Shinji began using Blood Manipulation.

Shinji used his domain and Blood Deception to destroy Dagon’s Shikigami, but Dagon transformed and resisted the domain’s guaranteed-hit effect with a water barrier. Shinji then unveiled Blood Shadow Void and hurled the Cross Annihilation Spear at Dagon.

• Shinji snapped his fingers and destroyed Dagon’s Shikigami by controlling the blood inside them.
• Dagon summoned Giant Louse Shikigami, but Shinji burst their heads with blood spikes as they entered his domain.
• Dagon merged his Shikigami into his body, transformed into an armored sea monster, and used a film of water to block Shinji’s Blood Aura.
• Shinji covered himself with a Blood Veil, clashed weapons with Dagon, and used the force of Dagon’s counterattack to retreat.
• Shinji discarded his weapons, summoned a hundred-meter blood-red giant with Blood Shadow Void, and threw the Cross Annihilation Spear at Dagon.

Shinji fought Dagon inside his blood-sea domain and killed him at the cost of his own life. The survivors returned to the real world, where Mei Terumi mourned Shinji and Tobi arrived with Hidan tied up.

• Shinji used the Unfortunate Microphone and repeated Sleep Cursed Speech to hold Dagon still while the blood-red giant burned him from within.
• Shinji's throat burst from the strain, but Mummy's Bandages wrapped his head as Dagon's domain, Horizon of the Captivating Skandha, shattered.
• Shinji used his remaining attacks to pulverize Dagon, then died as his domain collapsed.
• Mei Terumi found Shinji dead and mourned him, while the Kirigakure ninja stood in silence and Hozuki Mangetsu sighed.
• Tobi arrived dragging a bound Hidan, and Mei Terumi told the Kirigakure ninja that the two were Akagi's companions.
• Tobi saw Shinji's body and wept over his senior's death.

Tobi and Shinji staged Shinji’s death and a resurrection ritual to win Kirigakure’s gratitude and reward, while Hidan suffered through their deception. Mei Terumi was left astonished and increasingly concerned about the Jashin Cult, and considered speaking with Hozuki Mangetsu.

• Tobi pretended to grieve Shinji and claimed he would use the Evil God Reincarnation Technique, while Hidan silently protested as Tobi stabbed him for blood.
• Tobi performed the ritual, and Shinji sat up pretending to have returned from the dead as the onlookers marveled at the technique.
• Shinji and Tobi acted out their emotional bond, and Mei Terumi promised Kirigakure would reward Shinji while Hidan begged for someone to stop his bleeding.
• Mei Terumi recalled discovering that Hozuki Mangetsu had joined the Jashin Cult and decided she should speak with him about it.

A top-hatted man and Mahito set out to find new human souls to torment, while a discarded doll transformed into a monster and was killed by Konoha ninja. At Konoha’s gate, a black-robed man searching for Shinji Naruto and Hidan Sasuke mistook the young Naruto and Sasuke for them, then realized he had been duped.

• After sensing Dagon’s death, the top-hatted man told Mahito they would attend a gathering and find new toys to reshape.
• A boy picked up Mahito’s discarded doll, which absorbed hatred and transformed into a monster obsessed with returning to Keiko and Takeo.
• Konoha ninja severed the monster’s limbs and killed it, while the boy who had picked up the doll felt it was familiar and wondered why his father had not returned.
• Kakashi took Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura out of Konoha on a low-risk C-rank mission to find a stolen treasure.
• A black-robed man arrived at Konoha’s gate asking for Naruto and Sasuke, and Naruto and Sasuke introduced themselves, prompting Kakashi to protect them.
• The man clarified that he sought sixteen- or seventeen-year-old Shinji Naruto and Hidan Sasuke, and Kakashi realized someone had misled him.

After Kirigakure survived the cursed spirit attack, Mei Terumi mourned Ao and walked with Shinji, who explained cursed spirits and jujutsu to her. She then brought him to Kirigakure’s secret research base and offered him one cursed object, leaving him eager to choose.

• Mei Terumi gathered Ao’s remains at the hospital and covered him with a white sheet.
• Mei Terumi took Shinji for a walk in the rain and asked what cursed spirits were.
• Shinji explained how cursed spirits arose from negative emotions, described domains, and named his power cursed energy and jujutsu.
• Mei Terumi brought Shinji to Kirigakure’s top-secret research base and offered him one cursed object of his choice.

Shinji toured Kirigakure’s research base and explained cursed spirits to its researchers, whose experiments gave him new ideas about cursed objects. The chapter left him impressed when a researcher switched to studying the possibility of reproduction between humans and cursed spirits.

• Mei Terumi brought Shinji to Kirigakure’s clean, busy research base and introduced him as an expert on cursed spirits.
• Shinji observed researchers experimenting with cursed spirit transplantation, including a spirit that produced garlic chives, and studying cursed spirit reproduction.
• A researcher explained her theory that preserving and repeatedly using a cursed spirit’s important body parts could help them form cursed objects after death.
• Shinji recognized the merit of the researcher’s theory and considered how cursed energy and intact body parts might help cultivate cursed objects.
• Shinji explained what he knew about cursed spirits, inspiring many researchers to develop new ideas and eager research plans.
• A young researcher changed his topic to the possibility of reproduction between humans and cursed spirits, and Shinji praised his ambition.

Shinji chose a Cursed Object from Kirigakure’s hidden collection and decided to test whether it could produce an endless supply of blood. Mei Terumi also let him keep Kubikiribōchō, though it would officially remain Kirigakure’s property.

• Mei Terumi led Shinji to Kirigakure’s Cursed Object vault, where he inspected the stored items and asked to see those with unidentified effects.
• Shinji examined the Crystal Heart, rejected it because it gradually erased the user’s memories, and dismissed the next few objects as useless or too risky.
• Shinji discovered that the Thirsty One’s Stomach could endlessly produce a liquid after being filled with it for seven consecutive days, and chose it in hopes of producing blood.
• Mei Terumi promised to send him the remaining Cursed Objects and explained that she could not give Kirigakure’s interests away without limits.
• Mei Terumi allowed Shinji to take Kubikiribōchō while it nominally remained Kirigakure’s property, then refused when he asked to borrow more Ninja Blades.

While recovering in Kirigakure, Shinji suffered a streak of misfortune after using the Unfortunate Microphone, then struck a jackpot by drawing a unique Six Eyes (Eye of the Heavens) Modification Scroll. He learned its demanding requirements and began planning how to meet them, then used another ten-pull to obtain the fragments needed for new rewards.

• Mei Terumi made Shinji an External Consultant and gave him five Cursed Objects, including the Crystal Heart, and Shinji began spending his accumulated cursed soul points on draws.
• Shinji’s unlucky draws and a chain of accidents culminated in his house collapsing, a boulder nearly hitting him, and bird droppings pelting him while he used Chōjūrō as a shield.
• Mei Terumi received a report listing Shinji’s string of bizarre mishaps and laughed at his misfortune, while Shinji waited for his bad luck to pass.
• Shinji resumed drawing after a day and obtained the unique Six Eyes (Eye of the Heavens) Modification Scroll, which required 200,000 cursed soul points, eyes from five Special Grade Cursed Spirits, and all seven Chakra natures.
• Shinji planned to recover usable eyes from the three Special Grade Cursed Spirits Kirigakure had collected and to obtain Yin and Yang Release, then spent another 10,000 cursed soul points on a ten-pull.
• Shinji received the fragments he needed, combined them into scrolls, and used a Random Innate Jujutsu Scroll.

Shinji acquired and mastered the Ratio Technique, adding a close-combat option to his abilities and selling most of his unused cursed objects. After obtaining the Rat King's Eyeball from Kirigakure, he told Mei Terumi he would leave the next day, despite her offer to help expand the Jashin Cult.

• Shinji gained the Ratio Technique and used a Jujutsu Enhancement Scroll to learn how to apply its weak-point strikes accurately.
• Shinji sorted his possessions and sold unused cursed objects, gaining twelve thousand Cursed Soul Points.
• Mei Terumi arranged for Shinji to receive the Rat King's Eyeball from the remains held by Kirigakure.
• Shinji told Mei Terumi that he and his group would leave the next day and declined her offer to help expand the Jashin Cult.
• Mei Terumi stopped trying to persuade Shinji and asked him for one last favor.