Chapter Summaries

Sōkyū Hatake shared a lavish dinner and a peaceful hot spring evening with Sara, Ayame, and Anko. Sara told him how he had transformed Rōran and her life, and the chapter left them holding hands as she confessed her feelings.

• Sōkyū Hatake served Sara, Ayame, and Anko an elaborate meal, and they praised his cooking.
• The four enjoyed a cheerful dinner before moving to the open-air hot spring.
• Sara, Ayame, and Anko relaxed beneath the stars, and Anko asked Sōkyū Hatake to cook for their next vacation.
• Sara took Sōkyū Hatake's hand and recalled how Rōran had changed from a struggling city-state into the center of the world.
• Sara told Sōkyū Hatake that he had given her strength and safety and had changed her feelings.

Sōkyū Hatake reassured Sara and quietly showed affection to Ayame and Anko as they shared a peaceful evening in a hot spring. After they returned to their annex bedroom, Anko claimed space on the single bed, leaving Ayame uncertain where to sleep.

• Sōkyū Hatake told Sara that she deserved her place as Rōran's Queen, and Sara leaned against his shoulder.
• Sōkyū Hatake clasped Ayame's hand beneath the water, and Ayame shyly returned his affection.
• Anko pointed out the stars, and Sōkyū Hatake pulled her into his embrace as the four shared a quiet moment in the hot spring.
• When the water cooled, Sara suggested they leave and try the Morning Mist Bath and explore the hot spring town the next day.
• The four returned to their master bedroom, where Anko claimed space on the single bed and Ayame hesitated beside it.

Sōkyū Hatake and the three women shared a peaceful night at the inn before spending the next day enjoying hot springs and browsing Yunomachi. They set aside their official duties for the rest of their short holiday.

• Sōkyū Hatake held Ayame's hand, embraced Sara, and clasped Anko's hand as they fell asleep together.
• Sōkyū Hatake woke early and visited Asagiri no Yu alone before returning to the annex.
• After breakfast, Sōkyū Hatake proposed another hot spring visit and a trip to Yunomachi, and everyone agreed.
• The group browsed the town's shops, with Sara admiring lacquerware, Ayame exploring local ingredients, and Anko sampling snacks.
• Sōkyū Hatake arranged for Rōran staff to send their purchases back to Rōran, and the four spent the next two days relaxing together.

After returning to Rōran, Sōkyū Hatake reviewed the Great Nations’ economic dependence and emerging resistance, then convened a summit to push deeper integration under Rōran’s leadership. The chapter ended with him presenting proposals for a monetary union, shared infrastructure, research cooperation, and coordinated resource management.

• Sōkyū Hatake returned to Rōran as Sara, Ayame, and Anko resumed their government, research, and intelligence duties.
• An assistant reported that Konoha’s clans were pursuing limited economic autonomy, Kumogakure was divided over dependence on Rōran, Ōnoki was bargaining for greater benefits, Kirigakure remained unusually quiet, and Sunagakure faced fragile growth and growing reliance on loans.
• Sōkyū Hatake ordered the second phase of the Deep Blue Bond Initiative and invited the Five Great Nations and major trading partners to an economic summit.
• Sōkyū Hatake sent the Kage private invitations saying Rōran’s new tea was ready and that he awaited them to discuss their plans.
• At the summit, Sōkyū Hatake presented Deep Blue Bond 2.0, proposing a Rōran Yuan-centered settlement system, worldwide infrastructure links, shared research, and coordinated resource management.

Sōkyū Hatake secured the Rōran Accords and launched deep blue nexus 2.0, tightening Rōran’s economic influence over the other nations. After strengthening Rōran’s internal systems, he turned his attention to shaping culture and thought.

• Sōkyū Hatake presented deep blue nexus 2.0, and Minato Namikaze, Ōnoki, Kakashi Hatake, Pakura, and Rin Nohara agreed to participate despite recognizing Rōran’s coercive leverage.
• Rōran specialists led negotiations, and the nations signed the Rōran Accords, officially launching the plan.
• Sōkyū Hatake met privately with each Kage, warning Minato about Konoha’s maneuvering, exposing Iwagakure’s hidden mineral veins to Ōnoki, and discussing Kumogakure’s defenses and internal dissent with Kakashi.
• Sōkyū Hatake directed Ayame to develop agricultural biotechnology, Anko to expand intelligence gathering, and Sara to strengthen social welfare, while assigning military research to Mayuri Kurotsuchi and life-and-soul research to Orochimaru.
• From Sōkū Tower, Sōkyū Hatake reflected on Rōran’s growing control through economic dependence and decided that culture and thought should be his next focus.

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.