Chapter Summaries

Goten detected Black Zetsu spying on Konoha from thirty kilometers away and blasted the forest where he was hiding, though Black Zetsu escaped underground. As the group relaxed, Yamato’s chest markings flared blue, and Trunks realized his receiving end had switched to the crystal’s frequency.

• Goten used Ki Sensing to find Black Zetsu hiding in a tree thirty kilometers northeast of Konoha.
• Goten fired a tiny Ki Blast at Black Zetsu’s location, evaporating the tree and the surrounding ground, but Black Zetsu escaped underground.
• The black eye spying through the doorway burst into a puddle and flowed back through the gap.
• Yamato’s chest markings suddenly blazed with blue light, and he clutched his throat as the light filled the Ramen Shop.
• Trunks warned Goten that Yamato’s receiving end had switched from the doorway’s dark red frequency to the crystal’s blue-light frequency.

Yamato’s crystal overload injured Hinata, and Goten carried her upstairs to treat her with his ki. Tsunade stripped Homura and Koharu of their authority after Trunks subdued their Anbu escort, while the others waited downstairs.

• Yamato absorbed too much blue energy from the crystal, and Goten forced the overload back into his channels.
• A strand of blue energy struck Hinata’s eyes, overloading her Byakugan channels; Sakura said she needed Goten’s ki and close contact to recover.
• Homura and Koharu arrived with Anbu to seize Yamato and the crystal, but Trunks pinned them all down with his ki pressure.
• Tsunade revoked the advisers’ authority over the Stone Gate incident and ordered them out of the Ramen Shop.
• Goten carried Hinata upstairs to treat her, ordering Trunks to guard the door and the others to stay below.

Goten used close-contact ki guidance to stabilize Hinata’s Byakugan and awaken a blue-gold enhancement that let her see ten kilometers. Yamato also recovered and reached Kage Level, but he sensed a heartbeat on the southeastern seabed synchronizing with his body, leaving the group facing a new mystery.

• Goten carried Hinata upstairs and used his ki to suppress the dangerous energy surging through her Byakugan.
• After an hour, Hinata emerged with Goten and discovered she could see ten kilometers and perceive details beneath Hokage Rock.
• Tsunade confirmed that Yamato’s impurities were gone, his Hashirama cells had stabilized, and his toughness had reached the Kage Level threshold.
• Yamato sensed a heartbeat on the southeastern seabed synchronizing with the frequency inside his body.

Nagato suspended the Nine-Tails plan after Black Zetsu described Trunks’s overwhelming power. In Konoha, Yamato sensed a gigantic black creature heading straight for the village, and Trunks and Goten prepared to face it as the western sky darkened.

• Black Zetsu reported that Trunks had erased a forest with a flick of his finger, and Nagato ordered the Akatsuki to avoid Konoha and put the Nine-Tails plan on hold.
• Yamato sensed that the Undersea Door’s lock had cracked and confirmed that a single creature, ten times larger than the Nine-Tails, had emerged.
• Yamato tracked the creature’s straight course toward Konoha, while Shikaku estimated it would reach the village in less than half a day.
• Trunks and Goten welcomed the chance to fight the approaching monster, while Tsunade ordered Yamato to continue reporting.
• Yamato reported that the creature was five hundred kilometers away and smashing through mountains, as dark clouds swept over Konoha and Teuchi urged Goten to finish his ramen.

Goten flirted with the women at the Ramen Shop before leaving with Trunks to confront the advancing monster. The chapter ended with Yamato sensing two golden auras racing toward the creature, which was still moving toward Konoha.

• Goten exchanged flirtatious farewells with Ayame, Tsunade, Hinata, Ino, Sakura, and Temari before preparing to leave.
• Hinata used her evolved Byakugan to locate the enormous black creature and warned Goten that it was approaching Konoha.
• Trunks urged Goten to stop delaying as the creature drew closer, and Goten promised to return for his noodles.
• Goten and Trunks flew southeast on golden auras without using hand seals or chakra, leaving nearby Anbu baffled.
• Yamato sensed two powerful presences racing toward the monster and described them as suns.

Goten and Trunks intercepted the enormous beast charging toward Konoha and easily overcame its attack. Goten prepared to strike as the terrified beast tried to retreat.

• Black Zetsu followed the destructive beast underground and believed its size would let it crush Goten and Trunks.
• Goten and Trunks arrived above the beast, and Trunks kicked its massive black energy sphere apart with his slipper.
• The beast felt fear for the first time and tried to retreat toward the Undersea Stone Gate.
• Goten warned the beast it would not escape and formed a speck of golden light at his fingertip.

Goten destroyed the giant beast and its hidden observer before returning to Konoha, where the Lock Fragment he recovered activated alongside the Diamond-Shaped Crystal. Their projection showed the Undersea Door’s rings shrinking in a countdown, leaving Goten facing an imminent threat.

• Goten erased the giant beast with a Minimalist Kamehameha and recovered a Lock Fragment from the Undersea Door.
• Goten detected and disintegrated the White Zetsu Clone hiding underground, then flew back to Konoha with Trunks.
• Yamato reported that the beast’s signal had vanished completely just before Goten and Trunks returned to the Ramen Shop.
• Goten showed Tsunade and Shikaku the Lock Fragment, which matched the frequency of the door beneath Konoha.
• The fragment and the Diamond-Shaped Crystal connected and projected five shrinking rings, which Trunks identified as a countdown.

As the Underground Door’s Sealing Barrier began to fail, Goten brushed off the threat and left with Tsunade to deal with Konoha’s problems before heading underground the next day. Behind the nearly opened Stone Gate, a barbed black finger pushed into the gap as something inside began to stir.

• Yamato warned that the Underground Door’s changing fluctuations would overwhelm the seal before sunrise, while Trunks and Goten remained unconcerned.
• Ino, Sakura, Hinata, and Temari argued over who would receive Goten’s attention, until Tsunade dragged him away to decipher classified documents.
• Root Anbu probed toward the Dark Blue Crystal outside the Ramen Shop, and Goten killed them with a fraction of his Ki pressure.
• The crystal’s hum shattered one of the five Rings as Yamato reported that the force behind the door had breached the first Sealing Barrier and was absorbing Konoha’s Natural Energy.
• Goten pocketed the crystal, kissed Ayame, and flew off with Tsunade, saying he would go underground and deal with the threat the next day.
• A barbed black finger forced its way into the Stone Gate’s narrow gap as a greedy voice murmured from the darkness.

Goten defended Tsunade from Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and their Root ninja, then prepared to investigate a disturbance beneath Konoha. The Diamond-Shaped Crystal turned red, and a fissure split Hokage Rock as something underground shifted.

• Goten and Tsunade were interrupted in the Hokage office by Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and over a dozen Root ninja demanding the crystal and Tsunade's removal.
• Goten used his Ki to shatter the Root ninja's blades and pin them down, then sent them and the two advisers flying out the window.
• Tsunade drew Goten back toward her, but the Diamond-Shaped Crystal suddenly glowed blood red and two more ceiling rings shattered.
• A deep crack shook the Hokage Building, and a black fissure split Hokage Rock from its peak downward.
• Goten pocketed the crystal, told Tsunade to wait, and left to deal with the disturbance underground.

As the Undersea Door’s seal failed and black vapor began erasing life around Konoha, Goten plunged into the abyss beneath Hokage Rock to confront whatever was emerging. The countdown reached zero, and a huge black-energy hand rose from the fissure, announcing its arrival.

• Yamato, Trunks, and Shikaku reported that the Undersea Door’s lock, the Stone Gate defenses, and the final barrier had failed.
• Goten suppressed the crystal with four layers of Ki, but the entity inside tried to invade his mind and called him a perfect host.
• Hokage Rock collapsed as black vapor spread from the abyss, erasing everything it touched, while Goten’s golden aura burned it away.
• Goten told Trunks to protect his family and plunged into the abyss to confront the entity.
• The countdown reached zero, and an enormous hand of black energy climbed from the fissure as its owner declared that it had come to a fresh world of flesh and blood.

Goten fought the Crimson One-Eyed Being in the Abyss, whose ability to absorb energy and erase whatever it touched made it dangerous to confront directly. After the creature knocked Goten back and threatened the village above, Goten prepared a concentrated strike while Trunks, Tsunade, and Ayame watched from the ruins.

• Goten shattered the giant black hand, but the scattered substance absorbed his ki and rapidly rebuilt itself.
• The Crimson One-Eyed Being explained that stronger attacks made it recover faster, and its dark vapor erased the rock it touched.
• Goten raised a ki barrier against the creature's tentacles, then held back his power to keep the collapsing underground from damaging Konoha.
• The Crimson One-Eyed Being struck Goten's barrier hard enough to push him back half a step, prompting Goten to enter a serious fighting stance and prepare a Dimensionality Reduction Strike.
• At the ruined Hokage Building, Yamato collapsed under the pressure while Tsunade and Ayame watched the Abyss, and Trunks reassured them that Goten became more fired up as he fought.

Goten unlocked his advanced Super Saiyan form and destroyed the black creature, but his power tore open rifts in the world. As the creature began recovering by absorbing void energy, Goten decided to take it away from Konoha to fight.

• Goten transformed into his advanced Super Saiyan form and obliterated the creature's black body.
• The scarlet core fled, and Goten's power caused spatial cracks to spread across the sky above Konoha.
• Trunks warned Goten that pushing his power further could destroy the planet and urged him to fuse, but Goten refused to risk harming the people he loved.
• The scarlet core absorbed energy from the void rifts, rebuilt its body, and vowed to devour every world.
• Goten told Trunks to protect the others and announced he was taking the creature elsewhere to fight.
• Trunks cursed Goten and threatened to drag him back from Other World if he died.

Goten destroyed the Crimson One-Eyed Being, but it reformed and surged back from the underground Abyss. With the Void Storm threatening Konoha, Goten prepared to lure it into a spatial rift, leaving his wives and Trunks behind to face the danger alone.

• Goten blasted the Crimson One-Eyed Being apart with a point-blank Super Kamehameha, and its crimson eye vowed it would be reborn before shattering.
• Goten emerged from the Abyss, where Ayame, Tsunade, Hinata, Ino, Sakura, and Temari gathered around him and reacted to his injuries.
• Goten told his wives that the world could not withstand another fight and that he had to take the enemy into a spatial rift.
• Tsunade, Ino, Sakura, and Hinata pleaded with Goten to stay, while he asked Trunks to protect them and Teuchi promised to save him a bowl of ramen.
• The Crimson One-Eyed Being reappeared from underground, and Goten pushed his family behind a wall of Ki before setting off to fight it.

Goten forced the resurrected black entity toward the spatial rift, and Trunks followed him into the void. Hinata, Ayame, Temari, Sakura, and Ino then chose to pursue them, while Tsunade stayed behind to protect Konoha.

• Goten seized the black entity’s core and drove it toward the largest spatial rift, despite its tentacles corroding his ki and body.
• As the ki wall shattered and Goten was swallowed by the rift, Trunks launched after him and vanished into the darkness.
• Hinata stopped crying, asked Tsunade to care for Teuchi, and flew into the rift with Ayame, who had received her father’s blessing to go.
• Temari plunged into the rift, abandoning her ledger as the void’s suction tore it away.
• Sakura and Ino joined hands and rose into the rift, following Goten after declaring that they were coming to him.

As Konoha’s rifts began to close, Tsunade, Shizune, Anko, and Tenten joined the others who had gone into the darkness, leaving Jiraiya and the villagers behind. The Naruto world healed its sky, and Naruto remained in Konoha with Teuchi as the ramen shop kept its lights on.

• Tsunade gave Jiraiya authority as Acting Hokage, threw off her Kage's Ceremonial Robe, and entered the rift.
• Shizune arrived with Tonton and followed Tsunade into the closing rift.
• Teuchi stayed in the Ramen Shop, expecting those who left to return and eat.
• Naruto arrived with Anko and Tenten, but they stopped him from entering the rift and told him to guard the village.
• Anko and Tenten went into the rift just before it closed, and the Naruto world's sky and ground began to repair themselves.
• Naruto sat among the ruins as Teuchi brought him the folded Kage's Ceremonial Robe and offered to make him ramen.

Jiraiya took over as Sixth Hokage and Naruto vowed to protect the village while helping rebuild it. Meanwhile, Karin fled Akatsuki pursuers, escaped through a spatial rift, and landed in Goten’s arms in a new world.

• Jiraiya handled Konoha’s reconstruction paperwork as the unwilling Sixth Hokage after Tsunade left.
• Naruto kept a charred Ichiraku plank and vowed to guard the village’s towers and crystal for Goten.
• Karin used her Mind's Eye of the Kagura but found that Akatsuki had sealed off every escape route while hunting her for her chakra.
• Karin leapt through a golden spatial rift just before Akatsuki’s explosive tags detonated, leaving her pursuers unable to find her.
• Karin fell through the rift into another world, where Goten caught her and greeted her as a redheaded secretary.