Recaps

Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki arrived in Iwagakure seeking traces of “her” and devastated the village with their overwhelming power. Ōnoki attacked Momoshiki with Dust Release, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Opponents of Rōran’s influence secretly formed the organization Tracing the Source, while Ōnoki tacitly allowed some subordinates to contact it.
• Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki appeared above Iwagakure, and Momoshiki ordered Kinshiki to destroy the villagers and find clues to “her.”
• Iwagakure’s ninja attacked, but Momoshiki absorbed their ninjutsu and returned their power in a devastating strike that wrecked much of the village.
• Ōnoki flew at Momoshiki and fired Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.

Momoshiki and Kinshiki devastated Iwagakure while searching its archive for traces of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and the Tracing Origin Organization secretly spread footage of their attack. After Sōkyū Hatake received the warning in Rōran, he placed the country on full alert and prepared to confront them.

• Momoshiki absorbed Ōnoki’s Dust Release, leaving the Tsuchikage gravely wounded as Kurotsuchi rushed to support him.
• Kinshiki unleashed chakra weapons on Iwagakure while Momoshiki flew toward the village archive, which held a trace of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s power.
• Ōnoki retreated into the Tsuchikage Building under Kurotsuchi’s protection as Iwagakure suffered massive destruction and casualties.
• The Tracing Origin Organization sent secret footage and warnings about Momoshiki and Kinshiki to the great villages and Rōran.
• Sōkyū Hatake ordered Rōran to its highest combat readiness, summoned allies and researchers, and assigned Sara, Ayame, and Anko to secure the palace, logistics, and intelligence.

Sōkyū Hatake learned that Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki were searching for Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and waited for them at Rōran. He refused to hand Kaguya over, provoking Momoshiki’s anger.

• Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki searched ancient sites and energy nodes across the shinobi world after destroying Iwagakure.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi concluded that the Otsutsukis were seeking a key connected to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, while Sōkyū Hatake predicted they would come to Rōran.
• Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki arrived above Rōran, where Sōkyū Hatake was waiting in the desert.
• Momoshiki demanded that Sōkyū Hatake hand over Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, but Sōkyū Hatake refused and declared that Rōran would protect her.
• Momoshiki grew angry when Sōkyū Hatake openly defied him.

Sōkyū Hatake confronted Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki, defending Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and Rōran from their plans. After neutralizing Momoshiki’s gravity attack and badly wounding Kinshiki, Sōkyū faced Momoshiki’s sweeping Storm Release assault.

• Sōkyū Hatake told Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki they would have to get past him to take Kaguya Ōtsutsuki or destroy Rōran.
• Momoshiki used Banshō Ten'in to lift the dune beneath Sōkyū, but Sōkyū’s Electromagnetic Field: Absolute Domain dismantled the attack and dropped the sand.
• Kinshiki charged Sōkyū with a massive chakra axe, but Sōkyū dodged and struck him with One Hundred Million Volts: Lightning Finger, scorching his arm and staggering him.
• Momoshiki unleashed Storm Release: Storm Dragon, sending laser beams across the area around Sōkyū.

Sōkyū Hatake absorbed Momoshiki’s Storm Release and overwhelmed the Ōtsutsuki with Conqueror’s Haki and a Conqueror’s Coating punch. Momoshiki lay grievously wounded in a crater as Kinshiki attacked, and Sōkyū answered with El Thor · Mamaragan.

• Sōkyū Hatake absorbed Momoshiki’s Storm Release lasers, leaving Momoshiki shocked that the lightning strengthened his opponent.
• Momoshiki began gathering chakra for Takami-Musubi-no-Mikoto, but Sōkyū unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and knocked both Momoshiki and Kinshiki out of action.
• Sōkyū appeared beside Momoshiki and struck his chest with a Conqueror’s Coating punch, sending him crashing into a vast crater.
• Kinshiki recovered, saw Momoshiki’s battered condition, and charged Sōkyū with Futsunomitama weapons.
• Sōkyū casually swept his hand toward Kinshiki and used El Thor · Mamaragan.

Sōkyū Hatake killed Kinshiki and was about to finish Momoshiki when Momoshiki unleashed a dangerous, ancient power. Their clash left Sōkyū Hatake pushed back for the first time, and the battle continued with Momoshiki transformed.

• Sōkyū Hatake obliterated Kinshiki with a storm of lightning and left Momoshiki wounded in a crater.
• Sōkyū Hatake detected strange markings and a spatial fluctuation as he prepared to strike Momoshiki with the Spear of the End Thunder Lance.
• Momoshiki broke open a seal and transformed, releasing a chaotic power that alarms around Rōran City registered as surpassing previous energy readings.
• Orochimaru observed Momoshiki’s transformation through monitoring equipment and expressed excitement about the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s power.
• Momoshiki knocked Sōkyū Hatake’s lightning spear off course, charged him, and forced him backward with a powerful punch.

Sōkyū Hatake revealed that Momoshiki had spent the entire battle fighting his clone, while the real Sōkyū watched from a Thunder Throne above. As Sōkyū prepared to end the fight, Momoshiki was left overwhelmed by humiliation and despair, his rage turning toward destruction.

• Sōkyū Hatake traded blows with Momoshiki and let him believe his strength and varied attacks were driving Sōkyū back.
• Momoshiki struck Sōkyū into the ground and prepared a dark spear to finish him, but the hole below was empty.
• Sōkyū appeared on a Thunder Throne above the battlefield and revealed that Momoshiki had fought his clone.
• Momoshiki broke down in disbelief as Sōkyū declared the show over and intensified his overwhelming pressure.
• Momoshiki's pride and defenses collapsed, and his bloodshot eyes filled with madness and the urge to destroy everything.

Sōkyū Hatake stopped Momoshiki Otsutsuki from self-destructing, sealed away his powers, and ordered him taken to Orochimaru-sensei and Mayuri Kurotsuchi for examination. Afterward, Sōkyū wondered whether Momoshiki and Kinshiki were the only guests from the cosmos and vanished into the sky.

• Momoshiki Otsutsuki tried to destroy himself and the surrounding area in a final act of vengeance.
• Sōkyū Hatake formed a thunder cage that suppressed Momoshiki’s explosive energy and trapped him.
• Sōkyū bound Momoshiki with dark purple thunder shackles, severing his power and leaving him helpless.
• Sōkyū ordered his subordinates to take Momoshiki to Orochimaru-sensei and Mayuri Kurotsuchi to learn everything in his head and about those behind him.
• Sōkyū wondered whether Momoshiki and Kinshiki were the only guests from the cosmos, then disappeared into the sky.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Orochimaru examined the imprisoned Momoshiki Otsutsuki in Rōran’s secret laboratory, treating his body and powers as research material. Sara watched with Sōkyū Hatake and asked whether Momoshiki came from the same place as Kaguya.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Orochimaru studied Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s biology, energy circuits, eyes, and suppressed Kāma mark.
• Momoshiki Otsutsuki raged at being treated as a specimen, but Mayuri and Orochimaru dismissed his threats and promised to analyze him thoroughly.
• Sara and Sōkyū Hatake appeared in the observation area above the laboratory.
• Sara asked Sōkyū whether Momoshiki was an Otsutsuki from the same place as Kaguya.

Sōkyū Hatake and Sara discussed studying Momoshiki Otsutsuki to understand the Otsutsuki, while Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi examined him. In Rōran, Ōnoki asked Sōkyū Hatake for extensive aid to rebuild Iwagakure and save its survivors, offering to negotiate any terms Iwagakure could bear.

• Sōkyū Hatake told Sara that he had kept Kaguya unaware of Momoshiki and said Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi would study their captive.
• Sara worried that more Otsutsuki might attack, and Sōkyū Hatake explained that understanding their power and weaknesses was the priority.
• Sōkyū Hatake and Sara left the laboratory to meet Ōnoki in Sōkū Tower.
• Sōkyū Hatake told Ōnoki that Momoshiki had been captured and Kinshiki executed, and Ōnoki thanked him for securing some justice.
• Ōnoki described Iwagakure’s devastation and asked Rōran for funding, technology, supplies, land, and shelter for the survivors.
• Ōnoki offered to discuss any terms Iwagakure could afford, and Sōkyū Hatake silently considered his request.

Sōkyū Hatake offered Iwagakure reconstruction aid in exchange for extensive control over its rebuilding, resources, military, and finances. Ōnoki accepted the terms, leaving Iwagakure alive but dependent on Rōran as Sōkyū prepared to begin the reconstruction.

• Sōkyū Hatake offered Rōran’s funding, technology, supplies, and workers to rebuild Iwagakure, then laid out conditions that would give Rōran control over its reconstruction standards and mineral resources.
• Sōkyū required Iwagakure to adopt Rōran’s shinobi training and security systems, submit its next Tsuchikage to review, and pledge tax revenue and land-use rights as loan collateral.
• Ōnoki weighed the harsh conditions against the suffering of Iwagakure’s survivors and agreed to them on behalf of the village.
• Sōkyū instructed Ayame to prepare the aid agreement and reconstruction plan and send relief supplies and engineering crews within seventy-two hours.
• Ōnoki left the reception room, while Sōkyū watched Rōran and reflected on the village’s expanding influence and the threats ahead.

The Five Great Villages and other powers reacted to Iwagakure's reconstruction under Rōran's control, largely choosing silence and continued cooperation. Sōkyū Hatake continued Rōran's plans as the wider shinobi world grew more cautious and compliant.

• Minato Namikaze and Shikaku Nara judged the agreement a warning to Konoha and ordered investigations into the Tracing Origin Organization while limiting their public response.
• Kakashi Hatake rejected the idea that family ties would shield Kumogakure, ordered continued cooperation with Rōran, and sent Ōnoki a private message of sympathy and support.
• Rin Nohara kept Kirigakure's policies unchanged and arranged food and medical supplies for Iwagakure through Rōran.
• Pakura approved of Iwagakure's dependence on Rōran and sent crop seeds, Engineering Puppets, and training invitations to aid its reconstruction.
• Smaller nations and underground groups halted covert activities and adopted a cautious, compliant stance as Sōkyū Hatake continued Rōran's administrative work.

Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi analyzed Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s blood and uncovered encoded information that assembled into a star chart. The chart showed Earth as the site of Kaguya’s first arrival and revealed a distant, obscured hub connected to a marker matching a signal from Momoshiki’s Kāma.

• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi spent six months studying Momoshiki Otsutsuki and collecting his pale golden blood.
• Orochimaru detected regular genetic fragments that might encode coordinates, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi ordered more intensive scans.
• During a scan, the blood glowed and its information dust gathered, causing the fragments to decode into a three-dimensional star chart.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi identified Earth on the chart as the planet where Kaguya had first arrived.
• They found a blurred central hub at the ends of powerful routes and a marker whose signal matched one decoded from Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s Kāma.

Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi decoded a star chart and contact signals from Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s blood, revealing clues to the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s activity and a possible central hub. Sōkyū Hatake ordered the information sealed and launched research and surveillance projects to uncover the clan’s secrets and watch the stars.

• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi discovered that Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s blood contained a star chart, routes, and communication signals.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi urgently summoned Sōkyū Hatake and showed him the decoded chart.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi identified a point that might mark the planet where Kaguya arrived, while Orochimaru pointed out a heavily encrypted region that might be an important Ōtsutsuki hub.
• Sōkyū Hatake ordered the chart and research records sealed in the Void Vault under the Causality Shielding Protocol.
• Sōkyū Hatake directed Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi to extract more intelligence from Momoshiki, locate the chart’s coordinates, monitor matching signals, and launch the Deep Space Watch Project.

Sōkyū Hatake told Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi that they needed more Otsutsuki samples to verify Momoshiki’s star chart and revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and Urashiki Otsutsuki might also be in the shinobi world. The chapter ended with Sōkyū directing them to search for secretive organizations that could be helping Isshiki recover.

• Sōkyū Hatake, Orochimaru, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi discussed the star chart’s uncertain reliability and the need for more Otsutsuki information.
• Sōkyū Hatake revealed his suspicion that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had survived Kaguya’s betrayal and remained hidden while recovering.
• Sōkyū Hatake told Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi that Urashiki Otsutsuki might have secretly joined Momoshiki and Kinshiki’s mission.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi urged them to find Isshiki and Urashiki, while Orochimaru warned that both would be difficult to locate.
• Sōkyū Hatake ordered them to investigate secretive, long-established forces with unusual interest in life energy or ancient relics.

Sōkyū Hatake ordered Rōran to covertly investigate Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and Urashiki, and the search uncovered Kara’s hidden leader, Jigen, and signs of Urashiki watching the Shinobi World. With the evidence assembled, Sōkyū Hatake made a decision.

• Sōkyū Hatake told Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi to investigate leads connected to Jigen, monitor possible Urashiki sightings, and trace both Otsutsuki through causal information signals.
• Over the following weeks, Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi linked Kara to a mysterious Lord Jigen and found evidence that ancient natural-energy sites had been drained.
• The tracing project detected an ancient, dormant Otsutsuki presence pointing toward a snowy northern region and an old monastic stronghold, suggesting Isshiki was hidden as Jigen.
• Mitaraishi Anko collected reports of strange surveillance and energy disturbances near Killer B, Isobu, chakra hot springs, and the Hyuga Clan’s training grounds.
• Rōran’s intelligence indicated that Urashiki was active across the Shinobi World and evading efforts to pinpoint him.
• Sōkyū Hatake reviewed the intelligence on the top floor of Sōkū Tower and made his decision.

Sōkyū Hatake set out to find the hidden Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, but reports of Urashiki Otsutsuki observing jinchūriki led him to track the scout’s movements. He suspected Takigakure’s Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was Urashiki’s next target.

• Sōkyū Hatake traveled north to confront the hidden Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, taking only essential equipment and Orochimaru’s gifts.
• A classified report revealed that Urashiki Otsutsuki had been spotted near Sunagakure, where Shukaku’s chakra had briefly stirred.
• Sōkyū Hatake ordered Anko to gather reports of unusual sightings and chakra disturbances, and the data traced Urashiki’s apparent scouting of tailed-beast chakra sources.
• Sōkyū Hatake concluded that Urashiki was assessing the tailed beasts and identified Takigakure’s Seven-Tails Jinchuriki as a likely next target.
• Sōkyū Hatake found faint spatial fluctuations near Takigakure from the past week that resembled the traces recorded near Sunagakure.

Sōkyū Hatake prepared a trap near Takigakure, where the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki Shira lived, and sent a Lightning Illusion Clone to watch over her. On the clone’s seventh day of surveillance, detectors sensed Urashiki Otsutsuki’s spatial signature and an attempt to siphon Shira’s chakra.

• Sōkyū Hatake ordered Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi to create devices that could disrupt spatial movement and chakra theft.
• Sōkyū Hatake created a Lightning Illusion Clone and sent it to monitor Shira and lure Urashiki into a prepared trap.
• The original Sōkyū Hatake hid in a cave and linked his awareness to the clone’s surveillance network around Takigakure.
• The Lightning Illusion Clone tracked Shira’s routines and secretly placed detectors near the places she visited.
• On the clone’s seventh day of surveillance, the detectors registered Urashiki’s spatial signature and an attempt to drain Shira’s chakra.

Sōkyū Hatake’s clone ambushed Urashiki as he tried to steal chakra from Shira, disrupting his escape through space. Sōkyū’s original body arrived and trapped Urashiki beneath a massive lightning net.

• Thunder Illusion detected Urashiki hiding in another dimension and sent Sōkyū Hatake’s original body a warning while activating spatial jamming traps.
• Thunder Illusion’s Lightning Spear severed Urashiki’s chakra fishing line after hidden detectors briefly disrupted his space-time ninjutsu.
• Urashiki tried to flee through a larger spatial portal while Thunder Illusion blocked his path and protected Shira.
• Sōkyū Hatake’s original body arrived, compressed the surrounding space, and formed a vast lightning net around Urashiki.

Sōkyū Hatake trapped Urashiki Otsutsuki’s hiding place with a Thunder net, but Urashiki escaped and attacked with his Chakra Fishing Rod. The chapter ended with Sōkyū’s electromagnetic shield resisting the fishing lines as Urashiki realized his opponent’s power was unlike Chakra.

• Sōkyū Hatake sealed the sky with a Thunder net that disrupted Urashiki Otsutsuki’s spatial abilities.
• Sōkyū contracted the net to capture Urashiki, but Urashiki escaped with Yomotsu Hirasaka: Void Escape.
• Urashiki reappeared in the sky and Sōkyū deduced that his spatial movement had limits and a delay between uses.
• Urashiki attacked Sōkyū with his Chakra Fishing Rod, sending invisible lines to steal his Chakra.
• Sōkyū’s electromagnetic shield resisted the fishing lines and began eroding them, prompting him to ask Urashiki if he had had enough fun.

Thunder Illusion Sōkyū Hatake cornered Urashiki Otsutsuki with electromagnetic and lightning techniques, but Urashiki escaped by sacrificing his fish basket and using a forbidden technique to transfer himself onto another branch of causality. Sōkyū watched his escape with interest, leaving Urashiki’s fate unresolved.

• Urashiki Otsutsuki evaded Sōkyū Hatake’s electromagnetic attack and tried to seize Shira as a weak point.
• A protective device placed on Shira shocked Urashiki’s fishing rod and disrupted his ambush.
• Sōkyū formed a lightning vortex that trapped Urashiki and scrambled the space needed for Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Urashiki unleashed his stored chakra fish in the Hundred Fish Feast, but Sōkyū’s vortex endured and began drawing him in again.
• Urashiki sacrificed his fish basket to activate Fate-Reversing Transfer and vanished from the lightning chain.
• Sōkyū remarked that Urashiki had escaped in an unusual way.

Sōkyū Hatake tracked down and captured the wounded Urashiki Otsutsuki after sealing his powers with Thunder Shackles. He left with Urashiki as a specimen for Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi, then turned his attention to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

• Sōkyū Hatake ordered Thunder Illusion to return Shira to Takigakure and continue sealing off the area.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki tried to escape and hide, but Sōkyū Hatake found him behind a cliff and trapped him in an electromagnetic barrier.
• Sōkyū Hatake revealed that he had planted a physical lightning mark on Urashiki’s hand, allowing him to track Urashiki despite Fate-Reversing Transfer.
• Sōkyū Hatake bound Urashiki with Thunder Shackles, suppressing his chakra, Rinnegan, and forbidden techniques.
• Sōkyū Hatake took Urashiki away to become a laboratory specimen alongside Momoshiki and declared that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was next.

Urashiki Otsutsuki was brought to Rōran’s underground laboratory and found Momoshiki Otsutsuki imprisoned and broken. After Urashiki mocked him, Momoshiki warned that the laboratory would soon teach him why their situation was hopeless, and Urashiki was restrained in a neighboring container.

• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi celebrated the research potential of Momoshiki Otsutsuki, Urashiki Otsutsuki, and the damaged Fish Basket.
• Sōkyū Hatake left the laboratory while Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi continued discussing their research.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki was shoved into the laboratory and saw Momoshiki Otsutsuki bound and staring vacantly in a neighboring container.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki mocked Momoshiki Otsutsuki, who warned him that he would understand their predicament after spending time in the laboratory.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki was locked in a container and restrained again as Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi welcomed him.

Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi scanned Urashiki Otsutsuki and prepared to test his abilities in their Rōran laboratory. As Urashiki was restrained for a painful experiment, Momoshiki Otsutsuki told him that they were all specimens.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi welcomed Urashiki Otsutsuki as a research subject and began scanning him.
• The scan revealed Urashiki Otsutsuki's distinctive spatial abilities, chakra theft, damaged Fish Basket, and signs of repeated forbidden technique use.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi discussed how Urashiki Otsutsuki's abilities and survival methods differed from Momoshiki Otsutsuki's.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi prepared a thought ripple detector to read Urashiki Otsutsuki's surface thoughts and amplify his pain.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki called to Momoshiki Otsutsuki for help, but Momoshiki said they were all specimens as the headpiece pierced Urashiki's scalp.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki later learned that Orochimaru's and Mayuri Kurotsuchi's research methods were far crueler than he had imagined.

Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi tortured Urashiki Otsutsuki to map his energy circuits and reverse engineer the Fish Basket, then tricked him into voluntarily activating it to collect data. They left Urashiki enraged and further restrained while considering how to make him activate his Kāma next.

• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi implanted probes in Urashiki Otsutsuki and mapped the energy circuits linking his Byakugan to spatial perception.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri dismantled the Fish Basket and tested its runes on Urashiki, discovering that it could extract and store chakra.
• Orochimaru persuaded Urashiki to activate the Fish Basket by promising to consider loosening his restraints and allowing outside communication.
• Urashiki activated the Fish Basket, giving Orochimaru and Mayuri data on spatial folding and chakra storage, but Orochimaru tightened his Thunder Shackles instead of freeing him.
• Momoshiki Otsutsuki briefly watched Urashiki's struggle before closing his eyes, while Mayuri and Orochimaru discussed using false hope to make Urashiki activate his Kāma.