Chapter Summaries

Shuo learned from Obito that the dark cloud was the Ten-Tails’ true body and prepared for its descent, though he knew the village had little time. As the cloud reached Konoha, a gigantic Rinnegan appeared in the sky and laughed at the people below.

• Shuo told Sai that the cloud was absorbing chakra and ordered him to bring Obito to the hospital.
• Obito identified the cloud as the Ten-Tails’ true body and said it would descend within three days.
• Shuo left the hospital and returned seven candies to the sweet shop, promising to eat them after the fighting was over.
• Tsunade, Minato, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Obito, Rin, Gaara, his siblings, and the clan elders gathered as the cloud pressed down over Konoha.
• A vast rift opened in the sky, revealing a mountain-sized Rinnegan that laughed at the village.

Ten-Tails destroyed Konoha, and Shuo joined Obito in entering the beast to rescue Rin. After Obito awakened Rin, Ten-Tails confronted Shuo from the darkness, threatening to take his light.

• Ten-Tails emerged from the clouds and reduced Konoha to rubble as Shuo and Obito watched.
• Obito told Shuo that Rin's consciousness was inside Ten-Tails and insisted on rescuing her, so Shuo agreed to go with him.
• Shuo used Lightspeed Thinking to locate Rin's chakra sphere, while Obito's attempts to break through its barrier failed.
• Obito spoke to Rin and showed her a candy wrapper, awakening her and breaking the barrier so she could reunite with him.
• As Shuo led Obito and Rin toward the exit, Ten-Tails's Rinnegan appeared in the darkness and declared that it would take Shuo's light.

Inside the Ten-Tails, Shuo refused to surrender his light and instead poured it into the beast until its inner world collapsed. Obito escaped with Rin, while Shuo remained behind as the golden light exploded.

• Shuo encountered the Ten-Tails and casually asked it for candy before refusing its offer to trade Rin for his light.
• The Ten-Tails emerged in its true form and attacked Shuo, who met its claw with his golden light.
• The Ten-Tails began absorbing Shuo's light and claimed it belonged to him.
• Shuo released all his light into the Ten-Tails, overwhelming it as its inner world began to collapse.
• Obito ran out with Rin as Shuo's light exploded and shattered the world inside the Ten-Tails.

Rin, Sai, and Obito fought to save Shuo after the Ten-Tails poison nearly killed him, and he eventually recovered enough to wake in the makeshift shelter. Shuo warned that Pain would return as a dark cloud drew closer to the ruins.

• Rin treated Shuo while Sai pressed his chest wound, and Obito used Kamui to remove the Ten-Tails poison.
• Shuo woke briefly and ordered Obito to remove the poison beside his heart; his heart stopped, but the Medical Team carried him to the treatment station.
• Three days later, Shuo had a weak but steady heartbeat while Sai kept watch, refusing to sleep until Shuo woke.
• Shuo woke, ate the candy Sai had saved, and learned that the villages were investigating the scattered chakra and that Pain had disappeared.
• Shuo predicted that Pain would return, then noticed the approaching cloud with Sai as they settled back to rest.

Shuo repelled a nighttime probe but realized his injuries had made him slower and weaker. At dawn, Pain, Konan, and Madara Uchiha arrived over Konoha, and Madara launched an attack on Shuo.

• Shuo subdued one of the masked attackers, let him go with a warning, and told Sai the group had come to test his strength.
• Shuo admitted that he was slower and weaker than before, while Sai kept watch through the night.
• At dawn, Shuo sensed three powerful chakra sources in the approaching cloud and identified Pain among them.
• Shuo and Sai went to Konoha's entrance, where Pain and Konan descended with Madara Uchiha.
• Madara removed his mask, and as Shuo declared the battle unwinnable, Madara charged and slashed at him.

Shuo discovered that Madara had been summoned with Impure World Reincarnation and sent Sai to find the person controlling him. After Sai disrupted the summoning, Shuo agreed to join Pain and Konan in sealing the Ten-Tails’ surviving consciousness within the clouds, as something enormous began opening its eyes above them.

• Shuo recognized Madara’s Impure World Reincarnation and located the controller in a cave three kilometers east of the village.
• Shuo sent Sai to the cave while he stayed behind to face Madara, despite his dwindling strength and reopened wound.
• Pain revealed that the Ten-Tails’ consciousness survived its shell’s destruction and that Shuo’s light could help seal it.
• Sai found and dealt with the controller, causing Madara’s summoned body to crumble away.
• Shuo agreed to help Pain and Konan seal the Ten-Tails in exchange for Pain leaving Konoha alone, and the three flew toward the dark clouds.
• Sai watched them depart as the clouds shook and an enormous being opened its eyes within them.

Shuo entered the clouds and found the Ten-Tails’ consciousness draining Pain and Konan, but after freeing them he encountered Kaguya Otsutsuki, who claimed his light was hers. The clouds dispersed, and Shuo warned Sai that they were in serious trouble while Obito watched from Hokage Rock and said that “she” had awakened.

• Shuo entered the darkness inside the clouds and saw the Ten-Tails’ eye holding Pain and Konan in black tentacles that drained their chakra.
• Shuo used a blade of golden light to free Pain and Konan, then confronted the enormous eye.
• The eye became a woman who identified herself as Kaguya Otsutsuki and said Shuo’s light was hers, temporarily lent to him until her return.
• Kaguya vanished, and Shuo rushed out of the clouds after they dispersed.
• Sai asked Shuo what had happened, and Shuo warned him that they had gotten themselves into serious trouble.
• Obito watched from Hokage Rock and murmured that she had awakened.

After Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s projection appeared and claimed Shuo’s light, the survivors prepared for her possible return while Shuo recovered and salvaged keepsakes from Konoha’s ruins. The chapter ended with Obito troubled by a future choice as something stirred on the moon.

• Shuo told Tsunade and the others that Kaguya had touched him and said his light belonged to her, and Obito explained that she had appeared through a projection while her real body remained sealed on the moon.
• Tsunade put Konoha on wartime footing, ordered contact with Kumogakure and Iwagakure, sent Jiraiya to research Kaguya, and asked Gaara to watch Sunagakure’s border while Shuo recovered.
• Shuo asked what it meant that he was the one someone had chosen, but nobody could answer him.
• Shuo and Sai dug through the ruined sweet shop and recovered two intact blue-and-white plates; the proprietress then gave Shuo three saved orange candies.
• Obito watched Shuo leave, questioned what he might have to choose one day, and the full moon seemed to stir as if an eye were opening.

Shuo brought a plate to Tsunade and asked her to find the name of the shopkeeper who had died in Konoha’s destruction. On the way back, Kaguya appeared as a thought, named the shopkeeper Miyoko, and told Shuo that his life and light belonged to her and would return to her when he died.

• Shuo showed Tsunade the plate and candy wrapper the shopkeeper had given him, explaining that he wanted to know her name; Tsunade agreed to check the records.
• Minato asked whether anyone would remember Shuo if he died, and Shuo said Sai would; Sai silently stood beside him.
• Shuo asked Sai if he would remember him, and Sai said he obviously would.
• At the ruins of the general store, Kaguya appeared and told Shuo that he was the one she had chosen and that his light would return to her when he died.
• Kaguya revealed that the shopkeeper’s name was Miyoko, then vanished; Shuo noticed a faint golden glow in his palm and said her words seemed true.
• As Shuo and Sai returned to sleep, a thin black shadow appeared along the moon’s edge.

Shuo learned that Kaguya was emerging from a crack in the moon’s seal and that he was prophesied to oppose her with light, possibly at the cost of his life. With the moon nearing Konoha and the crack widening, Tsunade ordered everyone to prepare for the confrontation.

• Shuo and Sai saw that the moon remained huge in the daylight and hurried to the temporary Hokage Building.
• Tsunade told the gathered ninja that Kaguya was crawling out through a crack in the moon’s seal.
• Obito revealed a prophecy that gave Konoha at most three days and named Shuo as the one who would oppose Kaguya with light.
• Obito told Shuo the prophecy said he might die, and Tsunade ordered everyone to prepare while Shuo focused on recovering.
• Shuo returned to the shelter with Sai and joked that Sai should eat his candy if he died, while Kaguya’s eye watched them from the widening crack.

As the moon’s seal neared breaking, Shuo saw a mysterious light that only he could perceive and spent the final day with Sai and the others awaiting the crisis. Kaguya’s hand emerged from the moon and fixed on Shuo before retreating, while she called him “my light” as he went to sleep.

• Shuo woke to a flickering light in his palm that Sai could not see, and learned the seal would break the following night.
• Shuo and Sai went to the Hokage Building, where Tsunade and the others gathered beneath the enormous, cracking moon; Shuo gave Tsunade a candy for comfort.
• Shuo searched the burned sweet shop ruins, found two shards of the porcelain plate, and said goodbye to the woman who had given him candy.
• On the way back, Kaguya’s pale hand emerged from the moon and pointed at Shuo before withdrawing after their eyes met.
• Shuo told Sai that he might not return the next day, and Sai insisted he come back to eat his own candy.
• Kaguya watched Shuo sleeping in the shack and called him “my light” as the moon drew closer.

Shuo discovered that Kaguya had marked his palm with a Rinnegan that was draining his life, leaving him at most three days to live. As Kaguya began emerging from the moon, Shuo prepared to face her and paid a quiet farewell to the candy shop owner he had lost.

• Shuo showed Sai the purple eye in his palm, but Sai could not see it.
• At the Hokage Building, Tsunade and the others saw Kaguya’s mark, and Pain warned Shuo that its black line would reach his heart and kill him within three days.
• Shuo said he would settle things with Kaguya within the same three-day span, and Sai gave him candy to save for his return.
• Shuo visited the ruins of the sweet shop, remembered the woman who had given him candy, and said goodbye before going to fight.
• Shuo gave the emerging Kaguya the middle finger as her face appeared through the widening crack in the moon.

On the eve of Kaguya’s emergence, Shuo told the gathered Five Kage and allied ninja that his light could last for only one fight and that he would confront her alone by striking the eye in the sky. He returned to the shelter to rest with Sai as the sky darkened, unaware that the mark on his hand held a secret beyond its threat to his life.

• Shuo told Sai that the spreading mark would reach his heart around the same time the next day, while Sai urged him to show more concern.
• Tsunade assembled ninja from the Five Great Villages and said Kaguya would emerge that night, leaving them with no plan but to fight.
• Shuo told the Five Kage that his light would last for one fight and identified Kaguya’s eye as the place to strike because her true body was behind it.
• Shuo said he would go up alone, explaining that the others would be killed and that Kaguya’s mark meant he could not escape her.
• Shuo went to the shelter to sleep, and Sai later brought rice balls as Kaguya’s face remained fixed on him in the darkening sky.

Kaguya emerged from the moon and descended on Konoha, while Shuo prepared to use the light in his palm to stop her. After she landed and demanded the light back, Shuo activated it against her, leaving both of them vanished in a burst of light.

• Shuo woke to find Kaguya revealed in the sky, and he and Sai went to the Hokage Building as the village fell into chaos.
• Shuo told the Five Kage and the assembled fighters that he needed Kaguya to land before he could concentrate the light into one strike.
• Tsunade sent the others to hold the front lines, while Shuo gave Sai an orange candy wrapper and waited for Kaguya to land.
• Kaguya landed among the ruins, killing dozens of people, then called Shuo to her and demanded that he return her light.
• Shuo ate his last candy and let Kaguya's black light strike his palm, triggering an explosion of white light that swallowed them both.
• Sai waited amid the silence and pleaded for Shuo to return, while Shuo's fate remained unknown.

After the light vanished, Tsunade found Shuo without a pulse or breath, and her medical chakra could not stay in his body. Kaguya left after discovering Shuo’s light had lodged inside her, while Shuo later sat up, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Sai found Shuo’s cold hand in the darkness and held it as Tsunade arrived with a torch.
• Tsunade found Shuo unconscious with no pulse, heartbeat, or breath, and tried unsuccessfully to heal him.
• Kaguya discovered a speck of Shuo’s light rooted inside her, then vanished as the moon disappeared and daylight returned.
• Obito asked Tsunade why Kaguya had left, and Tsunade said Shuo’s light was turning against her.
• Sai remained beside Shuo, who slowly sat up while Sai stood silently in the doorway.

Shuo revived after Miyoko fed him one of the candies she had saved for him, but he revealed that the light he had left inside Kaguya would continue to torment her. As Shuo rested in the shelter, Kaguya approached Konoha, intent on reclaiming what she had lost.

• Miyoko gave the apparently lifeless Shuo a candy, and he woke, calling it bitter before admitting it was sweet.
• Shuo told Pain that he had given his light to Kaguya but left a burning piece of it inside her to torment her.
• Sai helped Shuo back to the shelter, where Shuo asked him to bury two broken plates from the sweets shop.
• That night, Kaguya's cloud drew close to Konoha, and she vowed to take back what belonged to her while the light inside her continued to hurt her.

Shuo recovered enough to leave the shelter with Nagato and Sai, and buried the broken plates from the sweet shop. As Kaguya’s approaching cloud drew nearer, Shuo and the others prepared to face her return.

• Shuo learned that Nagato was still nearby because he wanted to ask about the light Shuo had left inside Kaguya, and Nagato revealed that Kaguya was his mother.
• Shuo told Nagato the light would keep Kaguya in pain but would not kill her, then decided to bury the two broken plates from the sweet shop.
• Shuo and Sai buried the plates beneath a stone, and Nagato gave Shuo an intact plate he had found in the general store’s ruins.
• Shuo sensed Kaguya’s cloud approaching, and Nagato said she would likely come to force the light out of herself.
• Kaguya watched Shuo from within the cloud as the light continued to torment her, while Tsunade, Minato, Obito, Rin, Kakashi, Pain, and Konan gathered near Shuo.

Shuo saw Kaguya watching him from the shed and found that a faint light had returned to his palm. He used it to drive her cloud away, then collapsed; after waking, he and the others faced uncertainty over whether Kaguya had escaped or was preparing another attack.

• Shuo woke after dreaming of light and saw Kaguya's eye in the shed roof, while a small light reappeared in his palm.
• At dawn, Kaguya's cloud reached Konoha with three eyes, and Nagato explained that she had grown stronger by absorbing the world's energy and Shuo's light.
• Shuo decided to fight Kaguya despite having only a little light, and he walked into the clearing as Sai warned him and then let him go.
• Shuo sent his light toward the cloud, where it scattered into countless specks; Kaguya screamed, and the cloud and her three eyes disappeared.
• Shuo collapsed into Sai's arms, and a severed hand with a pale purple eye fell from the sky; after waking later, Shuo found everyone watching it, unsure whether Kaguya had fled or would strike again.

After Shuo’s remaining light destroyed Kaguya’s body, her severed hand came to life and asked him to restore it. Shuo took her into the shelter and decided to keep her after she showed she liked candy, while she quietly murmured “Mom” beneath the moon.

• The severed hand moved, spoke to Shuo, and explained that his light had blown apart her body, leaving only the hand.
• Shuo refused to kill Kaguya and invited her to follow him, then brought her to the shelter with Sai.
• Shuo told Sai he would let Kaguya recover or leave on her own, but the hand asked for candy and swallowed it through the eye in her palm.
• After seeing Kaguya enjoy the candy, Shuo changed his mind and decided to keep her.
• That night, Kaguya stared at the moon and whispered “Mom,” while Shuo slept and Sai watched her.

Shuo named the surviving hand fragment of Kaguya Hand Princess and brought her to the grave of the woman who had given him candy. Their quiet outing ended when another Kaguya fragment appeared in a black cloud and found them.

• Shuo told Sai that the hand was part of Kaguya, then gave her the name Hand Princess after she asked for his name.
• Shuo placed candy on the grave of the woman who had once given him candy, and Hand Princess offered a tear for her.
• Shuo, Sai, and Hand Princess spotted a black cloud filled with reaching white hands, and Hand Princess recognized another piece of her mother inside it.
• Hand Princess explained that Kaguya had been blown into many pieces, and the hands in the cloud turned toward her and Shuo.
• A hostile voice from the cloud said it had found them as Shuo, Sai, and Hand Princess braced for its approach.