Recaps

After five years in Konoha as an ordinary student, Liumu received the Strongest Template System and drew the Saitama template. Four hours later, he discovered he had gone bald as Kakashi and Might Guy arrived at Hokage Rock.

• Liumu lamented that he had spent five years in Konoha without a cheat ability while Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, and Obito Uchiha advanced at the Ninja Academy.
• The Strongest Template System connected, generated a Time House, activated the Fate Roulette, and gave Liumu a beginner's gift pack with one draw.
• Liumu used the roulette and drew a card depicting Saitama from One-Punch Man, which merged into his body.
• Four hours later, Might Guy and Kakashi found Liumu on Hokage Rock after their race across the village.
• Kakashi noticed Liumu had no hair, and Liumu realized he had gone bald.

After gaining the Saitama template, Liumu accepted Might Guy’s challenge and revealed how effortlessly he could counter Guy’s taijutsu. He ended the fight with the Thousand Years of Death and left Guy and Kakashi reconsidering Liumu’s strength and training.

• Liumu saw that his talent score was only fifty-nine and reflected on why learning ninjutsu had been difficult.
• Might Guy discovered the rubble Liumu had made at Hokage Rock and challenged him to a fight, while Kakashi agreed to keep watch.
• Liumu blocked all of Guy’s rapid attacks without moving, leaving Guy exhausted and questioning his training.
• Liumu vanished behind Guy and used the Thousand Years of Death, leaving Guy clutching his backside in pain.
• As Kakashi helped Guy down the mountain, Kakashi warned him not to pry into Liumu’s training secrets.

Liumu discovered that the Time House could stop time outside, though opening it required system mission rewards. The next morning, Might Guy visited him to ask about his strength, and Liumu gave him a simple daily training routine.

• Liumu explored the Time House and learned that time outside stopped while he was inside, but he needed mission rewards to obtain its keys.
• After staying up late investigating the system, Liumu was visited by Might Guy, who wanted to race to school on their hands.
• Guy asked about Liumu's parents, and Liumu explained that he would not take Guy as a student because they were classmates.
• Liumu agreed to help Guy learn how he trained and prescribed one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred squats, and a ten-kilometer run every day.

Liumu helped Rin Nohara with her homework before unexpectedly displaying overwhelming strength in the Academy’s shuriken assessment. He earned a perfect score and left his classmates wondering how he had become so skilled.

• Rin Nohara asked Liumu to explain a homework question, and he showed her where the relevant hand seals appeared in the textbook.
• Rin wished Liumu luck in the practical combat assessment, and Liumu decided to show off his newfound abilities.
• Obito Uchiha threw a shuriken and earned three points.
• Liumu accidentally pierced the target’s center and shattered it with his shuriken.
• The Chunin teacher awarded Liumu ten points, and Liumu jokingly told Rin and Kurenai Yuhi that looks accounted for ninety parts of success.

During a combat assessment, Obito challenged Liumu to a fair duel because he was jealous of Liumu’s closeness with Rin. A system mission then ordered Liumu to graduate and become a Genin within seven days, but he resisted the idea before swiftly dodging Obito’s opening attack and preparing a humiliating counter.

• Rin noticed that Liumu’s hairstyle looked different, and Liumu claimed he had not washed his hair.
• Obito challenged Liumu to a duel, driven by jealousy over Liumu’s closeness with Rin, and Liumu accepted.
• After Might Guy defeated Choji Akimichi, the teacher called Liumu and Obito to fight, and the system assigned Liumu a mission to become a Genin within seven days.
• Liumu rejected the idea of graduating and taking village missions, then dodged Obito’s punch by moving to a tree branch.
• Liumu returned to the field and appeared in front of Obito, using the Konoha Secret Technique: Thousand Years of Death.

Hiruzen recognized Liumu’s remarkable speed as taijutsu rather than the Body Flicker Technique, then met with Jiraiya to discuss the Child of Prophecy. Jiraiya summoned Liumu to question him about his speed, but remained doubtful that a five-year-old could match the Body Flicker Technique with taijutsu alone.

• Hiruzen told Minato that Liumu had achieved his speed through taijutsu, not ninjutsu, and praised the Academy students’ talent.
• Hiruzen learned that Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru had returned, then asked Jiraiya to meet him at the Hokage Office.
• Jiraiya told Hiruzen that he believed he had found the Child of Prophecy and explained why he trusted the boy.
• Liumu was called from class to meet Jiraiya, who asked whether he had matched the Body Flicker Technique with taijutsu.
• Liumu modestly downplayed his speed, and Jiraiya doubted the report.

Jiraiya tested Liumu at the Valley of the End, and Liumu demolished Madara Uchiha's stone statue with a flurry of punches, convincing Jiraiya to take him traveling. The pair fled Konoha that night, while Hiruzen Sarutobi anticipated the Uchiha Clan's anger over the destroyed statue.

• Jiraiya told Liumu that passing his test would let him graduate early, and promised to take him traveling if he became his disciple.
• Jiraiya demonstrated a chakra shuriken and challenged Liumu to shatter a stone within three days before leaving to visit the hot springs.
• Liumu appeared atop Madara Uchiha's statue and destroyed it with consecutive punches, astonishing Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya and Liumu slipped out of Konoha at midnight, and Jiraiya urged Liumu to run after he realized the statue's importance.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told two elders that Jiraiya and Liumu had already left the village and doubted the Uchiha Clan would act against Konoha during the turmoil.

In the Land of Rain, Liumu and Jiraiya were ambushed, but Liumu knocked out the attacker with ease. While Jiraiya investigated, Liumu realized his genin mission required a forehead protector, and Jiraiya introduced him to Gamabunta and explained the meaning of his “oil” protector; the chapter ended with Gamabunta returning to Mount Myōboku.

• Liumu and Jiraiya took shelter from the rain while traveling through the Land of Rain to find Jiraiya’s former students.
• A black-clad attacker rushed at Liumu, who struck him unconscious and kicked him while scolding him for the ambush.
• Jiraiya searched the attacker and found no forehead protector or identifying marks, prompting Liumu to realize his system’s genin mission required a forehead protector.
• Liumu asked why Jiraiya wore a protector marked with “oil,” and Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta from Mount Myōboku.
• Jiraiya explained that the “oil” mark represented Mount Myōboku and said Liumu might become its next summoner if he could sense sage energy.
• Gamabunta complained about Liumu’s rudeness, then vanished in a cloud of smoke after Jiraiya finished speaking with him.

Jiraiya and Liumu went to the abandoned wooden house where Jiraiya had once met Nagato and the others, and Liumu became an official Konoha Genin. While Jiraiya began training him, Liumu used his new Fate Roulette draw and received the Taotie template as a summonable divine beast.

• Jiraiya and Liumu found a Konoha Forehead Protector and a dusty paper crane in the wooden house, but Jiraiya decided to stay there rather than search for Nagato and the others.
• Jiraiya fastened the Forehead Protector around Liumu's arm, warned him to protect Konoha, and urged him to retain his human conscience as a ninja.
• Liumu officially became a Genin and received an additional Fate Roulette draw from the system.
• Jiraiya began teaching Liumu the Clone Technique, but Liumu repeatedly failed while Jiraiya fell asleep nearby.
• Liumu used the draw and received the Taotie template, which the system identified as a summonable divine beast.

Liumu summoned Taotie, who gave him the power to devour before leaving because his presence threatened to destroy the world. After setting out with Jiraiya, Liumu asked about Hanzo of the Salamander as they neared the Land of Rain.

• Liumu summoned Taotie, whose immense pressure overwhelmed him and whose arrival began destabilizing space-time.
• Taotie said he could not help Liumu, but gave him the power to devour before dissipating.
• Liumu meditated on Taotie's gift, which could help address his weakness to genjutsu.
• Jiraiya received a secret scroll from a summoned frog, read it, and burned it while reflecting on his former students.
• Jiraiya woke Liumu the next morning and took him on the road for further training.
• As they neared the Land of Rain, Liumu asked Jiraiya about Hanzo, and Jiraiya described his strength and poison.

Liumu realized Danzo had arranged for Hanzō to ambush the Akatsuki and rushed to stop Yahiko’s death. He saved Konan by striking down Hanzō, then faced Hanzō’s poisonous salamander, Ibuse.

• Liumu calculated that Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan were nearing their fateful encounter with Hanzō, and Jiraiya gave him Toad Wu in case he needed help.
• After five days in the Land of Rain, Liumu learned Hanzō had already set out and traced the ambush to Danzo’s conspiracy.
• Hanzō captured Konan and forced Yahiko to choose between her life and killing himself with Nagato’s shuriken.
• Liumu knocked the shuriken away, punched Hanzō, and caught Konan as she fell.
• Ibuse released poisonous mist at Liumu, but Liumu killed it with a Normal Punch and emerged from the mist unharmed.

After defeating Hanzō and saving Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, Liumu declined to join Akatsuki and spent the night with Konan. He traveled toward the Land of Fire to meet Jiraiya, but noticed Danzo’s people watching him in a village along the way.

• Liumu introduced himself to Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan as Jiraiya’s five-year-old Konoha student and told them how he and Jiraiya had come looking for them.
• Yahiko and Nagato invited Liumu to join Akatsuki, but he declined, warning that the Land of Rain faced threats beyond Hanzō.
• Liumu insisted he was too young and frightened to sleep alone, so Konan took him into her room for the night.
• Guided by Toad Wu, Liumu reached a village in the Land of Grass and recognized the building where Jiraiya was staying.
• Toad Wu warned Liumu that six people in two squads were following him, but Liumu ignored them and ordered ramen.

Liumu met Kakashi in the woods, refused his invitation to take the Chunin Exams, and learned that Root was watching him. After secretly reading Jiraiya’s book, Liumu asked Jiraiya to test his chakra nature and discovered it was fire release.

• Kakashi’s group withdrew after recognizing Liumu and learning the Third Hokage had warned them not to provoke Root.
• Liumu met Kakashi near the village and refused his invitation to return for the Chunin Exams.
• Liumu warned Kakashi that the people of the Land of Rain wanted peace, and Kakashi warned him that Root was watching him.
• Liumu secretly read Jiraiya’s Make-Out Paradise and decided to ask Jiraiya about his ninjutsu potential.
• Jiraiya tested Liumu’s chakra nature, and a pale blue flame revealed that it was fire release.

Jiraiya confronted Root agents sent by Danzo to accuse Liumu of betraying Konoha and take him away. Liumu defeated them and demonstrated that he could absorb ninjutsu, then left with Jiraiya for Fei She.

• Jiraiya demanded that Root's watchers reveal themselves, and a masked agent said Root suspected Liumu of betraying the village.
• Jiraiya refused to let Root take Liumu and accused Danzo of targeting him as well.
• Liumu struck the masked agent unconscious and invited the remaining Root members to attack.
• Liumu absorbed the ninjutsu directed at him, then knocked every Root member unconscious.
• Liumu and Jiraiya headed toward Fei She, while Jiraiya wondered whether Liumu was the Child of Hope.

Danzo investigated whether Liumu had intervened in the Land of Rain, while Minato Namikaze heard Kakashi’s report and learned of Liumu’s strength. A year later, Jiraiya and Liumu traveled together, and Liumu continued training while refusing to learn the Summoning Technique.

• Danzo questioned whether Jiraiya’s disciple Liumu had acted in the Land of Rain and ordered Root to keep investigating Jiraiya.
• Kakashi told Minato Namikaze that he and Jiraiya had encountered Liumu in the Land of Rain, and praised Liumu’s abilities.
• Minato Namikaze and Konoha’s leadership considered Jiraiya and Liumu’s appearance in the Land of Rain, while Hiruzen Sarutobi began suspecting the truth about the Child of Hope.
• A year later, Jiraiya and Liumu cooked fish together in the Land of Fire and joked about their time traveling through the resource-poor Land of Wind.
• Liumu continued learning chakra control and Fire Release, but refused Jiraiya’s offer to teach him the Summoning Technique.

Liumu returned to Konoha with Jiraiya and learned from Kurenai Yuhi about changes in the village before the Chunin Exams. After encountering Uchiha Fugaku, he reflected on the Uchiha Clan’s growing conflict with Konoha and the events that might lie ahead.

• Liumu returned to Konoha with Jiraiya, who left him with his backpack and hurried off to seek inspiration.
• Liumu recalled that the system had ordered him to return, take the Chunin Exams, and become a Chunin in exchange for a Fate Roulette spin and five Time House uses.
• Liumu reunited with Kurenai Yuhi, who told him about Konoha’s heightened alert, their classmates’ progress, and the upcoming Chunin Exams.
• Liumu asked Kurenai Yuhi about Kakashi and heard that Might Guy might know where to find him.
• Liumu reached the Uchiha police force headquarters and was told by Uchiha Fugaku to go home before curfew.
• Liumu considered the Uchiha Clan’s growing resentment toward Konoha’s leadership and concluded that Itachi’s birth and the clan’s destruction were still years away.

Liumu confronted Uchiha Izumi, who had followed him into the forest to challenge him, and easily defeated her in their fight. As Liumu tried to leave, Uchiha Izumi launched another Great Fireball Technique at his back.

• Liumu detected someone following him and waited in the Konoha Village-Guarding Forest.
• Uchiha Izumi revealed her three-tomoe Sharingan and said she had come to challenge Liumu.
• Uchiha Izumi attacked with a kunai and Great Fireball Technique, but Liumu emerged unharmed.
• Uchiha Izumi slashed at Liumu with her sword, and he bit the blade in two before striking her between the legs.
• Liumu apologized and started to leave, but Uchiha Izumi angrily fired another Great Fireball Technique at his back.

Might Duy interrupted Liumu and Uchiha Izumi’s fight, and Liumu left Izumi unconscious while denying that they had been fighting. After realizing genjutsu could exploit a weakness in his strength, Liumu went looking for Jiraiya the next day but ran into Rin Nohara outside the baths.

• Might Duy rescued Liumu from Uchiha Izumi’s Great Fireball Technique and questioned them about their fight.
• Liumu claimed he and Izumi had only been sparring, then left Izumi unconscious and vanished.
• Back home, Liumu worried that Izumi’s Three Tomoe Sharingan genjutsu could have defeated him and decided to ask Jiraiya how to break genjutsu.
• Liumu watched Might Duy push Might Guy through a four-hundred-lap run, then left to find Jiraiya.
• Outside a shop marked “Baths,” Liumu encountered Rin Nohara, who asked when he had returned to the village.

Liumu accompanied Rin Nohara to buy a birthday present for Obito, and Rin secretly bought him a ninja dart as a graduation gift. Near the Uchiha Clan compound, an Uchiha clansman accused Liumu of attacking his younger brother, but Liumu knocked him unconscious before he could finish forming hand seals.

• Rin Nohara told Liumu she was buying a birthday present for Obito, and Liumu decided to join her.
• After Liumu struggled to afford a ninja tool, Rin bought him a ninja dart and gave it to him as a graduation present.
• Rin and Liumu headed toward the Uchiha Clan compound, where a clansman recognized Liumu and accused him of destroying the Uchiha stone statue.
• Liumu claimed his name was Shisui, but Rin identified him as Liumu, and the clansman accused him of ambushing Uchiha Izumi.
• The Uchiha clansman revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and began forming hand seals, but Liumu punched him unconscious.

Liumu attended Obito's birthday gathering, where Uchiha En arrived with police force members to take him away. Liumu challenged the Uchiha and knocked down the first attacker, inviting the rest to fight him together.

• Liumu and Rin arrived at Obito's home and joined his birthday gathering with their former classmates.
• Rin gave Obito a ribbon-tied Shuriken as a birthday present, while Liumu felt awkward among the classmates.
• Uchiha En entered with other Uchiha Clan members and ordered them to take Liumu away.
• Obito tried to stop the Uchiha, but Uchiha En shoved him aside and demanded that Liumu come quietly.
• Liumu provoked the Uchiha, and they activated their Sharingan before a short, chubby man attacked him.
• Liumu dodged the man's punch, struck him in the abdomen with his knee, and told the others to attack together.

Liumu fought off the Uchiha Police Force after they tried to seize him over Madara Uchiha’s statue, but Uchiha Fugaku arrived and ended the confrontation. Fugaku protected Liumu and later warned Uchiha En that the boy’s strength and killing intent far exceeded what he had shown.

• Liumu taunted the Uchiha Police Force, then slapped away a member’s ninjutsu and sent him flying.
• Uchiha En ordered his men to capture Liumu and planned to fabricate charges against him.
• Liumu gathered killing intent and prepared to attack the surrounding Uchiha members before Uchiha Fugaku intervened.
• Uchiha Fugaku stopped the fight, praised Liumu’s skill, and escorted him back to the village without holding him responsible for destroying Madara Uchiha’s statue.
• Uchiha Fugaku told Uchiha En that Liumu had graduated at five, trained under Jiraiya, and possessed a chilling killing intent.

Liumu received a brief good-luck message from Jiraiya before leaving with Kakashi and Suiguang for the Chunin Exams in the Land of Lightning. As their team traveled north, they grew acquainted, and Kakashi studied their route while the identity of their watchful Jonin leader remained unknown.

• Toad Wu told Liumu that Jiraiya was training at Mount Myōboku and delivered his good-luck letter for the Chunin Exams.
• Liumu and Kakashi received cheers from their former classmates before joining Suiguang as teammates.
• Suiguang introduced her earth-release skin-hardening ability, Kakashi recognized her, and the three agreed to do their best in the exams.
• During a rest on Emerald Mist Mountain, Suiguang shared oversized rice balls, and Kakashi estimated they would enter the Land of Lightning in three days.
• Suiguang asked about their stern Jonin leader, but neither Liumu nor Kakashi recognized him.

Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang arrived in Kumogakure for the Chunin Exams and discussed their abilities and concerns about working as a new team. That night, Liumu encountered a boy with a huge tail in the mountains, and the boy attacked him while he was lost.

• Suiguang told Liumu and Kakashi that Shinku Yuhi was a Chunin instructor, and Kakashi said he had heard that Shinku was very strong.
• A greeted the Konoha party at the Land of Lightning border and escorted them to Kumogakure, accompanied by a blonde Cloud Ninja who scolded him for being reckless.
• After arriving in Kumogakure, Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang discussed the three stages of the Chunin Exams and shared their abilities.
• Suiguang worried that the newly formed squad would struggle, but Liumu reassured her and left the room.
• At midnight, Liumu approached a boy bathing by a waterfall, and the boy’s huge tail struck him into the riverbed before Liumu called out that he had been lost.

Liumu encountered Killer B in Kumogakure, tested his strength, and absorbed a Tailed Beast Bomb before leaving to avoid drawing attention. He returned to his team, and two days later the Chunin Exams began under the Third Raikage, A.

• Liumu was ambushed by Killer B and recognized him when he activated his red chakra cloak and grew additional tails.
• Liumu dodged Killer B's attacks, punched him away, and absorbed the Tailed Beast Bomb with Taotie's Gluttony.
• Liumu ended the fight and left before Killer B's unusual chakra could attract Kumogakure's attention.
• Liumu returned to the Konoha lodgings, where Suiguang and Kakashi were waiting, and the team spent the next two days reviewing for the Chunin Exams.
• A, the Third Raikage, announced the start of the Chunin Exams at Cloud Shadow Ninja Academy, prompting cheers from the crowd.

Liumu finished the Chunin Exam theory test early, then deliberately planted wrong answers for other candidates to copy before correcting his own paper. He left the exam laughing with Suiguang and Kakashi, and they arrived at Thunder Warrior Valley as a Kumogakure ninja began explaining the second exam.

• Liumu answered the theory questions, then noticed candidates using ninjutsu and other tricks to cheat.
• After a Suna ninja's puppet appeared beside him, Liumu realized candidates might copy his paper and deliberately changed many correct answers to wrong ones.
• Liumu loudly claimed he would get full marks and went to sleep, prompting other candidates to copy his altered answers.
• After the exam, the Suna ninja told Liumu that he had copied the answers and spotted the mistake in the war date, while many others had copied too.
• Liumu revealed to himself that he had changed his answers back before time ran out, then laughed as he met Suiguang and Kakashi.
• Liumu, Suiguang, and Kakashi went to Thunder Warrior Valley, where a Kumogakure ninja began explaining the second exam.