Recaps

Senju Chen impressed Killer B with his rap, taught him some techniques, and strengthened their friendship over ramen. After walking Killer B back to the inn, Senju Chen decided to secretly use his Illusion Space on him from a nearby building, leaving his next move poised to begin.

• Senju Chen rapped for Killer B, shocking him and prompting the system to refresh its stealable ability list.
• Killer B questioned Senju Chen about rap techniques, and Senju Chen taught him several basics while Killer B filled his notebook with notes.
• Senju Chen treated Killer B to ramen at Ichiraku, where Killer B improvised lyrics and praised Senju Chen as his best friend.
• After parting from Killer B, Senju Chen worried that continued open meetings would make Kumogakure suspicious of his interest in Eight-Tails.
• Senju Chen planned to use his one-hundred-meter Illusion Space from the Public Security Department duty room to secretly alter Killer B's perceptions at the guesthouse.

Senju Chen used Illusion Space to unsettle Killer B with a series of unexplained disturbances in his room. Killer B planned to tell his brother about the incident, while Senju Chen prepared to intensify the harassment when Killer B was alone.

• Senju Chen watched the Kumogakure inn and used Illusion Space to make Killer B’s teacup shift and spin.
• Killer B asked Eight-Tails Gyuki about the cup, but Gyuki sensed no chakra fluctuations or outside interference.
• Senju Chen made Killer B feel a cold breath on his neck and caused a cherry to appear inside the upside-down cup.
• Killer B threw away the cherry, worried Konoha might be haunted, and decided to tell his brother the next day.
• Senju Chen judged the tricks insufficient to trigger the system’s theft and planned to intensify them when Killer B was alone.

Senju Chen used strange tricks to unsettle Killer B in Konoha, causing him to doubt his memories and senses. After several inexplicable encounters, Killer B became convinced something was wrong with the village, and his distress refreshed Chen’s list of stealable abilities.

• At dawn, Senju Chen used his Mangekyō to make a steaming grilled fish appear beside Killer B’s pillow and make his reflection grin in the mirror.
• Killer B searched his room and questioned the Eight-Tails, which insisted the fish had never been there and left Killer B doubting his memories.
• Killer B wandered through Konoha and saw a wanted poster bearing his face vanish when he tried to tear it down.
• Killer B found a pink daisy in his hand, then heard a child mention a butterfly on his head before the child disappeared.
• Killer B rushed back toward the guesthouse, convinced something was wrong with Konoha, and his emotional turmoil refreshed Senju Chen’s ability list.

Killer B encountered a talking cat and a pine tree bearing apples, then became trapped in a bizarre illusion of a modern city and legendary beasts. Senju Chen watched for the system to steal a desired ability as Killer B's escalating shock triggered repeated notifications.

• Killer B heard an orange cat talk, and it called him the chosen one before disappearing over the wall.
• Killer B noticed apples growing on the courtyard's dwarf pine and wondered if he was truly chosen.
• Senju Chen used his Mangekyō's Illusion Space on Killer B to provoke stronger emotional reactions and gather abilities.
• Killer B watched a modern city rise around him, while the Eight-Tails could not determine whether the vision was real or a genjutsu.
• Killer B saw three golden dragons and the Four Divine Beasts appear in the illusory city, leaving him and the Eight-Tails speechless.

Killer B witnessed four divine beasts name him the chosen one and grant him their power before the illusory city vanished. Senju Chen stole Gyuki from B, and B later woke in a guesthouse after fainting, with Little A demanding to know what happened.

• The four divine beasts called Killer B the chosen one, urged him to inherit their power, and vanished into four streams of light that surrounded him.
• Senju Chen’s system refreshed its list of stealable abilities, and he chose Eight-Tails Gyuki, which was sealed in his inventory.
• Senju Chen noted that he had collected four Tailed Beasts and dismissed the Illusion Space.
• Killer B fainted in the courtyard and later woke after Little A splashed him with cold water.
• Little A asked Killer B why he had fallen asleep in the courtyard, while the other Kumogakure ninja watched.

Killer B described visions of giant beasts calling him the chosen one, and Little A suspected Senju Chen had secretly caused them. Senju Chen privately revealed that he had used Genjutsu to copy the Eight-Tails and planned to collect the remaining Tailed Beasts.

• Killer B told Little A that he and the Eight-Tails had seen a sky split open, glowing buildings, and four giant beasts that called him the chosen one.
• Little A considered possible explanations and grew concerned that Konoha could influence Killer B without detection.
• Killer B said he had fought Senju Chen the previous day, leading Little A to order an investigation into Senju Chen and forbid Killer B from seeing him again.
• Senju Chen recalled that his Genjutsu had shocked Killer B and that his system had copied the Eight-Tails.
• Senju Chen said five Tailed Beasts remained and planned to leave Konoha after the Kumogakure delegation departed to find the other Jinchūriki.

Little A investigated reports of a giant golden beast seen in Konoha and found that the sightings challenged his belief that Senju Chen had caused Killer B’s strange visions. He visited the hot spring district to question an eyewitness, who said he had been present when the beast appeared.

• A plainclothes ninja told Little A that Senju Chen’s movements could not be accounted for between one thirty and four thirty the previous afternoon.
• The ninja reported that more than a hundred people had seen a giant golden, horned, whiskered, clawed snake appear in a square before the Kumogakure delegation arrived.
• Little A considered whether the beast was a genuine unknown phenomenon or a Genjutsu beyond Konoha’s known capabilities, and told the ninja not to inform Killer B.
• Little A went to the hot spring district with two plainclothes ninjas to investigate the square where the beast had appeared.
• At a teahouse beside the square, Little A asked the owner about the incident, and the owner said he had been there when it happened.

Little A investigated reports of a golden serpent appearing over Konoha and found that more than a hundred people shared similar memories. After discussing the reports with Killer B, he concluded they should leave Konoha immediately to protect him, though he still suspected Konoha and Senju Chen.

• Little A questioned witnesses in the hot spring district, who described a huge golden serpent that vanished without a trace and left them with a lingering sense of awe.
• Little A weighed whether the serpent and Killer B’s visions were genjutsu or an unknown phenomenon, then recognized how much he had underestimated Konoha’s strength and capabilities.
• Killer B told Little A that the detailed visions of the city and four beasts had felt real, and that Little Eight believed no known genjutsu could create them.
• Little A told Killer B about the witnesses who had seen the golden serpent, and Killer B excitedly took this as proof that he was the chosen one.
• Little A decided their priority was to protect Killer B and leave Konoha for Kumogakure as soon as possible.

Little A ordered the Kumogakure delegation to withdraw from Konoha, and Senju Chen saw them off with a box of tea. After they left, Chen reviewed how Konoha had controlled what the delegation learned, leaving Kumogakure with an impression of Konoha’s growing strength but no access to its core technologies.

• Little A ordered the delegation to leave in two groups, sending Anyue and the investigators ahead to reduce the risk on the road.
• Senju Chen met the delegation at its gate the next morning and gave Little A a box of Konoha tea to take to the Third Raikage.
• Senju Chen promised Killer B more rap tricks, and Little A dragged B away as the delegation departed Konoha.
• Senju Chen reviewed Public Security Department reports detailing the delegation’s movements and wrote that their observations had stayed within controllable limits.
• Senju Chen concluded that Kumogakure had seen only information Konoha intended to reveal, not its core technologies.

Senju Chen reviewed the four tailed beasts sealed in his system inventory while his Puppet Clone advanced through the second stage of Ryūchi Cave Senjutsu training. Another clone practiced at Mount Myōboku, where Sage Fukasaku corrected his control as petrification began.

• Senju Chen saw that the Three-Tails, Nine-Tails, Six-Tails, and Eight-Tails were sealed in his system inventory and reflected that Kumogakure had delivered the Eight-Tails to him.
• The White Snake Sage told Senju Chen's Puppet Clone that he had passed the perception stage and began training him to let natural energy merge with chakra.
• Natural energy surged through the clone, scales spread to his wrists, and the White Snake Sage noted that the Ten-Tails Tree's cells were compatible with natural energy.
• At Mount Myōboku, Senju Chen's other clone used toad oil to sense natural energy while Sage Fukasaku instructed him to keep his perception within ten meters.
• The clone's left shoulder began to petrify after he extended his perception too far, and Sage Fukasaku struck it with an iron rod to stop the process before ordering him to try again.

Senju Chen’s clones advanced in the three Sage Lands, but the Ryūchi Cave training went out of control when the Ten-Tails Tree cells absorbed natural energy too quickly. As the clone began turning into a snake, he searched for a way to stop the transformation without destroying his progress.

• Katsuyu told the Shikkotsu Forest clone that its life-energy absorption was unusually fast and explained that the forest’s senjutsu focused on life.
• Senju Chen reviewed how the three Sage Lands’ paths differed and recalled the Great Toad Sage’s unfinished words about them reaching the same destination.
• The Mount Myōboku clone improved its control after repeated blows from Sage Fukasaku, while the Shikkotsu Forest clone steadily accumulated life energy.
• At Ryūchi Cave, the White Snake Sage told the clone to open its pathways and absorb natural energy at the maximum rate.
• The Ten-Tails Tree cells absorbed natural energy uncontrollably, causing scales to spread across the clone’s right arm as its fingers began fusing into a snake’s form.
• The clone considered suppressing the energy or closing its pathways, but feared both options would fail or ruin the training.

Senju Chen controlled the flow of Natural Energy into his body by creating a mental valve, impressing the White Snake Sage. She revealed that Ryūchi Cave’s ultimate cultivation method was Snake Sage Unity, a realm only she and Katsuyu had reached.

• Senju Chen used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to create a mental valve that slowed Natural Energy and caused the scales on his clone’s arm to recede.
• The White Snake Sage explained that no one in a thousand years had controlled Natural Energy’s flow this way because ordinary mental power could not withstand it.
• The White Snake Sage changed her training plan and told Senju Chen that Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode was not its most perfect form.
• The White Snake Sage revealed that Snake Sage Unity meant becoming one with Natural Energy, but said human bodies and the Sage’s mark imposed a limit on how much energy they could use.
• The White Snake Sage said she and Katsuyu were the only beings to have reached the higher realm, and that even the Sage of Six Paths had fallen short.

Senju Chen learned that the White Snake Sage had carved a message on the back of the Snake Cave Abyss tablet and refined a method for controlling natural energy during Sage Mode training. He decided to pursue the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and used a finished physical enhancement potion as his excuse to leave Konoha, while Tsunade questioned the potion's effects and side effects.

• The White Snake Sage told Senju Chen's clone to enter the Snake Cave Abyss alive if he wanted to read what she had carved on the tablet's back.
• Senju Chen's clone used a mental valve to control the flow of natural energy, successfully stabilizing his Sage Mode training.
• Senju Chen considered how the three Sage Lands' paths might converge and resolved to learn more about the tablet and the Snake Cave Abyss.
• Senju Chen reviewed intelligence on the remaining jinchūriki and chose to pursue the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki near the Land of Waterfalls.
• Senju Chen told Tsunade he planned to retrieve a completed physical enhancement potion, claiming it could raise a chunin's physical abilities to jonin level.
• Tsunade asked about side effects, and Senju Chen explained that repeated use caused resistance and strain on the chakra system; Tsunade was surprised it could be used repeatedly.

Senju Chen prepared to leave on a secret mission to collect five Tailed Beasts, while Tsunade, Anko, and Shizune each showed their concern for his safety. He left determined to gain enough power to protect the people he cared about from future threats.

• Senju Chen told Tsunade he would personally collect a secret formula and production process, then promised to travel alone and stay safe.
• Anko and Kurenai Yuhi confronted Senju Chen about his upcoming trip, and he promised to take them on his next mission instead.
• Anko gave Senju Chen food for the road, and he invited her and Kurenai Yuhi to stay for dinner.
• Shizune packed Senju Chen's supplies for his departure, and he thanked her by ruffling her hair.
• Senju Chen reflected on the care he had received and set his sights on collecting the One-Tail, Two-Tails, Four-Tails, Five-Tails, and Seven-Tails to protect his loved ones from future threats.

Senju Chen returned to the experimental base and reviewed its production and training progress. He found Might Guy instructing puppet operators and Kurama Yakumo controlling seven puppets at once, then continued his inspection of the base.

• Senju Chen entered the base and learned from Hiraga that production of the latest Eight Gates Released Formation puppets was limited by Might Guy’s compatibility calibrations.
• Senju Chen watched Might Guy train twelve operators, praised his work, and left him to continue instructing them.
• Senju Chen visited Kurama Yakumo and saw her control seven White Zetsu Puppets at once, including one that served him tea.
• Kurama Yakumo told Senju Chen that she had reached the milestone the previous week and that Sasori and Orochimaru had praised her progress.

Yakumo updated Senju Chen on her rapid progress in ninjutsu and puppet skills, while Senju Chen visited Yahiko and discussed Akatsuki’s operations and Nagato’s workload. The chapter left Yahiko preparing to return to the forefront once the Land of Rain had stabilized further.

• Yakumo told Senju Chen she had mastered basic Fire and Water Release techniques, learned new skills from Sasori and Orochimaru, and could repair puppets.
• Senju Chen advised Yakumo to focus on making each puppet effective rather than simply increasing the number she could control.
• Yahiko told Senju Chen that the Land of Rain was stable for now and that Akatsuki had found no trace of the Masked Man.
• Yahiko reported that Nagato spent at least fourteen hours a day controlling puppets through the Soul Conversion Device, so Senju Chen ordered a recovery potion and set a twelve-hour limit.
• Yahiko shared his plans to cook for Nagato and Konan, while Senju Chen considered how irreplaceable Yahiko would be when he returned to Akatsuki’s forefront.

Senju Chen told Orochimaru that puppet clones were training in Sage Mode at all Three Great Sage Lands, leaving Orochimaru eager to return to Ryūchi Cave. Chen then sought intelligence on the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, Fū, who had recently been spotted near the border of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Grass.

• Senju Chen told Orochimaru that his puppet clones were training in Sage Mode at Ryūchi Cave, Mount Myōboku, and Shikkotsu Forest.
• Orochimaru marveled that the clones let Chen risk Sage Mode training without endangering his original body, though failed clones still drained his mental energy.
• Orochimaru said he would speak to the White Snake Sage himself and prepared to return to Ryūchi Cave.
• Senju Chen went to the intelligence center and asked Hiraga for the latest information on the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hiraga gave Chen a report identifying Fū as a fourteen-year-old missing-nin from Takigakure who had been spotted near an abandoned mine while evading pursuit.

Senju Chen tracked down the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki Fū, who was hiding from Takigakure in an abandoned mine, and slowly earned her trust by leaving her food and water. On the sixth day, Fū thanked him as he left, though they had not yet spoken further.

• Hiraga told Senju Chen that Takigakure's pursuit team had failed to capture the fourteen-year-old Fū, and Senju Chen decided to take her in.
• Senju Chen sensed Fū's tailed beast chakra in an abandoned mine and left food and water at the entrance before waiting nearby.
• Fū cautiously took the supplies and ate after going three days without food, while wondering whether Senju Chen had set a trap.
• Senju Chen left food and water for Fū each day, and she gradually became less wary of him.
• On the sixth day, Senju Chen sat outside the mine with his back to Fū, and she picked up the bundle and quietly thanked him.
• Senju Chen nodded and left, while Fū watched him go with reddened eyes.

Senju Chen continued bringing food to Fū while secretly using his Mangekyō to create strange sensations in the mine. Fū began to trust him slightly, but the nighttime haunting escalated when a glowing blue flower appeared above her.

• On the seventh day, Fū asked Senju Chen who he was, and he introduced himself as a man from the Land of Fire before leaving without asking her name.
• Senju Chen settled within range of the mine and planned to gradually use Illusion Space to unsettle Fū without frightening her into fleeing.
• That night, Fū saw a pebble roll in circles and smelled flowers, but Chōmei sensed no unusual presence and dismissed her concerns.
• On the eighth day, Senju Chen brought Fū an apple, and she thanked him for it while wondering what he wanted from her.
• That night, Fū saw a pale blue light form the shape of a flower on the mine's ceiling and called out to Chōmei.

Senju Chen used Illusion Space to create strange but comforting apparitions for Fū, gradually easing her fear and wariness. After Fū asked him to bring salt and reacted warmly to a paper bird made of light, Chen decided to continue his gradual approach, which he called psychological counseling.

• Fū watched a pale blue flower appear in the mine and found that its presence eased her fear, while Chōmei could detect no chakra or interference.
• On the ninth day, Fū met Senju Chen at the cave entrance and asked him to bring salt the next day; he agreed.
• Chen used Illusion Space to make a paper bird appear before Fū, fly around the mine, and dissolve into warm lights.
• Chōmei confirmed that the apparition showed no hostility, while Fū relaxed as the lights touched her.
• Chen saw that Fū's emotional response had refreshed the list of stealable abilities, but he chose to wait and keep creating gentle, eerie apparitions.

Senju Chen continued staging harmless illusions to provoke Fū’s curiosity and emotional fluctuations, while Fū and Chōmei tried to understand the unexplained events. Fū began to suspect that someone was playing with her, and Senju Chen planned a bigger evening show.

• Senju Chen planned a day of tricks and brought Fū salt and apples with her food bundle.
• Fū stayed at the mine entrance, told Senju Chen her name, and found the rice balls arranged into a smiley face.
• Senju Chen made Fū see her reflection stick its tongue out in the stream, but Chōmei detected no cause.
• Chōmei pointed out that the strange events had caused Fū no harm and seemed to be playing with her.
• Senju Chen saw Fū’s emotional fluctuations refresh the list of stealable abilities and considered making the evening show bigger.

Fū read mysterious messages on the mine wall that made her feel cared for, while Chōmei warned that whoever created them had power beyond his understanding. Senju Chen secretly stole Chōmei and decided to keep bringing Fū food and continue his strange visits, leaving her beginning to feel at home in the mine.

• Words appeared on the mine wall asking Fū if the apple was tasty and reminding her to sleep early, then wishing her good night.
• Fū asked Chōmei who had written the messages, and he said their unknown creator seemed to be taking care of her.
• Senju Chen saw that Fū's emotional reaction had refreshed the list of stealable abilities and successfully stole the Seven-Tails, Chōmei.
• Senju Chen noted that he had collected five tailed beasts and decided to keep bringing Fū food because she might be valuable beyond the Seven-Tails.
• Fū eventually fell asleep dreaming of warm points of light, while the mine began to feel like home to her.

Senju Chen arrived at the mine and found Takigakure ninja trying to capture Fū, who was wounded and defending the place. As the sealing formation failed to restrain her transformation, Fū went berserk and killed the scar-faced captain, while the surviving ninja fled.

• Senju Chen sensed hostile chakra at the mine and rushed there, finding Fū surrounded by more than a dozen Takigakure ninja.
• The scar-faced captain ordered Fū to surrender and return to the village as its Seven-Tails vessel, but she insisted she was not a vessel.
• Fū lost control and transformed, breaking through the sealing formation and collapsing the mine.
• Fū fired tailed beast bombs and chakra spikes at the Takigakure ninja, killing several and injuring the scar-faced captain.
• Fū killed the scar-faced captain by piercing his throat, and the remaining Takigakure ninja panicked and ran.

Fū lost control after the destruction of the mine that had brought her comfort, transforming into the fully manifested Seven-Tails Chōmei. Senju Chen restrained her and reached her in her consciousness, where he revealed that he had been the one leaving her food and flowers; Fū agreed to go with him and asked to see the glowing flowers once more.

• Fū destroyed the Takigakure ninja with a Tailed Beast Bomb, then saw that the mine had been buried by the battle.
• Fū transformed into the fully manifested Seven-Tails Chōmei and tried to fly away, but Senju Chen blocked her path.
• Senju Chen used Flying Thunder God to evade Chōmei's attacks, then disrupted her sense of direction with Illusory Dream Space.
• Senju Chen restrained Seven-Tails Chōmei with Adamantine Summoning Wood and Adamantine Sealing Chains, draining her chakra and calming her with gentle mental power.
• Senju Chen told Fū he had left her food and made the flowers in the mine, and Fū agreed to go with him after asking to see the glowing flowers again.

Senju Chen subdued the Seven-Tails and asked Fū to come with him, revealing that he wanted both the Tailed Beast and her. Meanwhile, Obito investigated a mysterious Three-Tails Jinchūriki, and Black Zetsu hid his suspicion that she was Rin Nohara.

• Senju Chen freed Fū after subduing Seven-Tails Chōmei and rested while recovering his chakra.
• Fū woke and confronted Senju Chen about his food, the mine, and his motives; he admitted he had wanted her Tailed Beast and then asked her to come with him.
• Obito questioned Black Zetsu about Minazuki Yuki, the Three-Tails Jinchūriki, and ordered him to investigate Kirisame Ryo.
• Black Zetsu concealed his belief that Minazuki Yuki was Rin Nohara and decided he had to act before Obito learned she was alive.