Recaps

Wang Hao questioned Luffy about his feelings for women and men after Dragon warned him that Luffy’s orientation might be “twisted,” then assigned Ain to educate him. Zoro delivered a letter from his master Koushirou, and Wang Hao recognized a secret Revolutionary Army sign, realizing Koushirou was one of their own.

• Wang Hao told Dragon that he suspected Luffy’s sexual orientation had become twisted, and Dragon urged him to discipline Luffy without killing him.
• Wang Hao explained to Luffy that Dragon had kept his distance to protect him, then questioned him about Nami, Robin, Sanji, and Zoro.
• Luffy said he felt closer to Sanji and Zoro and described the women’s breasts as slightly larger chest muscles, alarming the women and unsettling Sanji and Zoro.
• Wang Hao assigned Ain to show Luffy information about pirates and teach him Haki and Magnetic Field Martial Dao.
• Zoro gave Wang Hao a letter from his master, Koushirou, and Wang Hao recognized its secret Revolutionary Army sign and found traces of his Cultivation Method in Zoro.

As the Navy and Whitebeard prepared for the execution war, Sengoku and his officers realized the World Government was using the crisis to weaken the Navy. Wang Hao kept Ace’s fate from Luffy and continued trying to reform him, while the World Government secretly assembled the Seven Warlords for the coming battle.

• Whitebeard and his crew vowed to sail to Navy Headquarters and rescue Ace despite recognizing the execution as a trap.
• Sengoku discussed the Navy’s strained relationship with the Five Elders and struggled to find a successor because Kizaru, Akainu, and Aokiji refused the fleet admiral position.
• Tsuru raised the possibility of asking Z to return, but Garp refused to leave the Navy before the battle, despite his grief over Ace.
• The World Government secretly summoned the Seven Warlords and appointed Blackbeard Marshall Teach and another figure to replace Crocodile and Jinbe.
• Wang Hao agreed to keep Ace’s situation from Luffy and learned from Ain that Luffy had begun mastering Haki and Magnetic Field Martial Dao and had stopped declaring he would become Pirate King.

On Ace’s execution day, Wang Hao arrived at Navy headquarters and argued that Ace’s choices and the hidden forces behind the war had brought him to the platform. After identifying Red-Haired Shanks as the one who had steered Ace toward piracy, Wang Hao warned that Shanks would appear, then left Garp and the Navy preparing for the battle.

• Wang Hao descended onto the execution platform and told Ace that his mother and Roger had wanted him to choose a different life.
• Wang Hao said the World Government was using Ace’s execution to weaken the Navy and asked who had told Ace that Roger was his father.
• Wang Hao identified Red-Haired Shanks from Ace’s memories, and Garp reacted with fury when he learned Shanks had influenced both Ace and Luffy.
• Wang Hao warned Sengoku that Shanks would come to the battle and told Garp not to interfere when one of his adopted sons arrived.
• Ace realized Wang Hao meant Whitebeard, and Garp joked about making Whitebeard call him father before his hairpiece slipped and revealed his bald forehead.

Wang Hao attacked Weevil and Buckin at Marine Headquarters over the deaths of Z’s students, triggering a battle with the Warlords and CP experts. He revealed his Magnetic Field Martial Dao to defend himself and counterattack as Sengoku watched from the execution platform.

• The Seven Warlords arrived at Marine Headquarters aboard World Government ships, and Hawk Eyes sensed Wang Hao’s overwhelming swordsmanship.
• Wang Hao recognized Weevil and Buckin, charged them, and sent Weevil flying with a single blow.
• Steel Bone Kong blocked Wang Hao and ordered the Warlords and CP experts to stop him, while Hancock and Doflamingo attacked with intent to kill.
• Buckin was crushed when Weevil crashed into the ship, and her death drove Weevil berserk as the other Warlords and ten admiral-level CP experts joined the attack.
• Wang Hao redirected the attackers’ blows, leaving Gecko Moria unable to fight, then pretended to be gravely wounded after Weevil forced him back.
• Wang Hao formed a Magnetic Field shield and struck at the attackers with Magnetic Field Power, while Sengoku recognized the new martial art.

Wang Hao fought off the gathered forces at Marine Headquarters as the World Government revealed its plan to destroy the Navy and the Four Emperors' crews arrived. The battle escalated when Weevil's body proved to contain Seastone Superalloy, and Whitebeard arrived aboard the Moby Dick.

• Steel Bone Kong admitted that the World Government had arranged for the Four Emperors' crews to attack Marine Headquarters and intended to eliminate everyone there.
• Sengoku sent Garp to face the Red Hair Pirates, assigned Akainu and Aokiji to meet the Beasts and Big Mom Pirates, and kept Kizaru in reserve.
• Wang Hao defeated Blackbeard and sent Snake Princess Hancock flying, then shattered Weevil's blade with a punch.
• Wang Hao pulled a Seastone Superalloy rib from Weevil's intangible body, prompting the vice admirals to suspect that Weevil was a product of World Government experiments.
• Whitebeard surfaced aboard the Moby Dick after calming the seawater, and his crew prepared for the approaching battle.

Wang Hao broke through his limit and destroyed the continent Golden Lion sent toward Marine Headquarters, revealing overwhelming power as the navy began its plan to trap the pirate crews on a frozen sea. The Four Emperors’ forces moved toward the main battlefield while their fighters struggled to hold back Garp and Aokiji Kuzan.

• Steel Bone Kong offered Wang Hao a place with the World Government, but Wang Hao recalled the deaths of his family and students and rejected the offer.
• Wang Hao broke through his limit, transformed with golden hair, and unleashed a Kamehameha Wave that annihilated most of Golden Lion’s flying continent.
• Ace warned Whitebeard that the battle was a trap and urged him and his crew to leave, while Sengoku ordered Kizaru to begin the navy’s plan.
• Kizaru signaled Aokiji Kuzan, who froze the sea for more than a million li and trapped the pirate crews on a vast glacier.
• Charlotte Lingling and Red-Haired Shanks headed toward the main battlefield as their crews fought to hold back Aokiji Kuzan and Garp.

Wang Hao unleashed Red Lotus Karmic Fire on Mary Geoise, then posed as a Cancer Gold Saint serving the Galactic River God to intimidate the Five Elders and probe them about Imu. After leaving the Holy Land, he searched the surrounding space for Uranus but found nothing, and hoped his fabricated story would keep the World Government occupied.

• Red Lotus Karmic Fire spread through Mary Geoise, causing people touched by it to collapse in agony while the Five Elders watched from outside.
• Wang Hao appeared behind the Five Elders and claimed he had come to capture a wicked villain who stole the Galactic River God's treasure.
• Wang Hao bluffed that Athena's Twelve Gold Saints now served the River God and that the fire had ignited spontaneously because Mary Geoise was steeped in sin.
• The Five Elders backed down because they feared Wang Hao's strength and could not call on Imu, who was unable to act.
• Wang Hao warned the Five Elders that other Gold Saints would arrive, then flew beyond the planet's atmosphere.
• Wang Hao searched space for Uranus but found no trace of it, and decided his invented story would keep Imu and the Five Elders occupied.

Wang Hao defeated Golden Lion and faced the Four Emperors and Steel Bone Kong as the battle for Marine Headquarters intensified. Kaido and Big Mom joined the plan to kill him, while Whitebeard charged to rescue Ace and Hancock refused to ally with the World Government forces, leaving Wang Hao confronting four powerful opponents.

• Wang Hao broke Golden Lion’s limbs, knocked him unconscious, and threw him to the Marines to be cuffed.
• Wang Hao accused Red-Haired Shanks of secretly dealing with the Five Elders, making Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom wary of him.
• Steel Bone Kong offered Whitebeard Ace’s release and promised Kaido and Big Mom cultivation methods if they helped kill Wang Hao; Kaido and Big Mom accepted, but Whitebeard refused and charged toward the execution platform to rescue Ace.
• Kizaru confronted Whitebeard, while Marco was intercepted by Momousagi Gion and other Marines whose strength had grown through Wang Hao’s instruction.
• Steel Bone Kong invited Snake Princess Hancock to join them, but she refused, declaring her grudge against Wang Hao personal and rejecting the World Government’s allies.
• Wang Hao faced Steel Bone Kong and the three other opponents, declaring that they would die.

Whitebeard launched a desperate assault on Marine Headquarters while Wang Hao overwhelmed the Four Emperors and their allies. The World Government secretly extracted Red-Haired Shanks, Charlotte Lingling, and Kaido, while the captured Whitebeard Pirates faced execution.

• Whitebeard shattered the ice beneath Marine Headquarters, and the Marines fought the Whitebeard Pirates with superior Cultivation Methods as Wang Hao dominated the airborne battle.
• Wang Hao defeated Steel Bone Kong and smashed Kaido into the ice, while Charlotte Lingling fled and Red-Haired Shanks began vanishing through the World Government's intervention.
• Wang Hao pursued Charlotte Lingling, but she vanished before he could catch her; he returned to find Kaido gone and discussed the World Government's possible experiments and control with Sengoku.
• Kizaru and Whitebeard fought fiercely until Wang Hao and Sengoku stopped them, and Whitebeard conceded defeat after Marco and the surviving pirates were captured.
• Wang Hao urged Sengoku to execute Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates, arguing that the Marines could not spare them after their losses.

Imu ordered the World Government to search for outsiders and a divine treasure, then gave the Five Elders thousands of Divine Seeds as they prepared to relocate from the ruined Holy Land Mary Geoise. Wang Hao brought resurrected versions of Ace and Whitebeard’s group to the Marines, leaving Garp to care for Alice and Sengoku to find work for Guan Yu Yunchang and her adopted children.

• Imu crushed the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, ordered a search for suspicious outsiders and their divine treasure, and gave the Five Elders over ten thousand Divine Seeds.
• The Five Elders decided to move the World Government to Reverse Mountain while rebuilding their forces and avoiding another clash with the Marines.
• Garp submitted his resignation as Sengoku and Tsuru mourned Ace and considered the Marines’ losses and uncertain future.
• Wang Hao introduced Alice, a new female body inhabited by Ace’s preserved soul, and left her in Garp’s care.
• Wang Hao introduced Guan Yu Yunchang and the adopted children resurrected from Whitebeard and others, asking Sengoku to give them work.

After the World Government replaced the Marines with pirate-led New Marines, Wang Hao proposed forming an Air Force to uphold justice and establish its headquarters at the ruined Holy Land Mary Geoise. Three months later, he brought the New Noah and its Sky Island continents to the site, where Enel arrived after carrying the ship there with his Rumble-Rumble Fruit power.

• Sengoku and the other Marines reacted furiously to the newspaper report that Shanks, Kaido, Charlotte Lingling, and Weevil had joined the New Marines’ leadership, while Wang Hao noted that the World Government was relocating to Reverse Mountain.
• Wang Hao proposed forming an Air Force, and Sengoku and the others agreed to establish its headquarters at the former site of Holy Land Mary Geoise.
• Wang Hao and the Marines set out for the ruins; Kizaru sent transfer orders to the branches, while Dragon led the Revolutionary Army in liberating islands and arranging cooperation with the Air Force.
• Three months later, Wang Hao arrived at the ruins as the World Tree carried the New Noah and the Sky Island continents toward them; Binz strengthened the tree’s roots so it could take hold in the mountain range.
• Enel appeared and reported that he had brought the New Noah intact, having used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability and the World Tree’s magnetic field to move it.

Luffy reunited his companions, received approval to establish the Adventurers' Guild, and set out to become the King of Navigation as Wang Hao prepared for war against Imu. Wang Hao also learned that Sengoku planned to marry Guan Yu Yunchang, while he and Lieutenant General Tsuru anticipated trouble if she recovered her erased memories.

• Luffy announced that he would establish the Adventurers' Guild and become the first King of Navigation, and Garp vouched for his plan.
• Wang Hao approved the guild and gave Luffy the document, and Luffy left with Nami, Zoro, Alice, and the others to resume their adventure.
• Wang Hao explained that the universe's will was near being consumed by Imu, so he needed to move quickly against the World Government.
• Garp told Wang Hao that Luffy and Alice would marry in five years and revealed that Sengoku planned to marry Guan Yu Yunchang on the same day.
• Wang Hao explained that Guan Yu Yunchang might recover Whitebeard's erased memories by using Observation Haki to look into her past, and Lieutenant General Tsuru joined him in anticipating the fallout.

Wang Hao prepared for the final battle against the World Government, explaining to Vice Admiral Tsuru how he had engineered the navy’s break from the World Government. He launched a surprise attack on the World Government’s stronghold and confronted Imu, interrupting his attempt to refine the universe’s origin.

• Wang Hao dismissed the World Government’s smears and told Vice Admiral Tsuru that he had used the navy’s doubts about its justice to make it independent.
• Wang Hao assigned Sengoku and the others to fight the World Government while he went after Imu.
• Wang Hao destroyed the World Government’s new holy land and Reverse Mountain with a Kamehameha Wave, killing many gathered leaders as the Five Elders and Red Hair escaped.
• Wang Hao entered Imu’s hidden space, followed by Snake Princess Hancock, and blasted Imu’s palace while Imu was refining the universe’s origin.
• Imu emerged furious, and Wang Hao taunted him over the attack that had delayed his ascension by a hundred years.

Wang Hao fought Imu, who abandoned the universe's origin power and learned from their battle, while Snake Princess Hancock began merging with the escaped power. Elsewhere, Sengoku's forces reached Reverse Mountain, and Luffy's crew opened Roger's legacy on the Final Island, revealing the Gate of Heaven and a familiar figure.

• Imu attacked Wang Hao with the power of death, but Wang Hao absorbed it and struck back, shattering Imu's shield with his ultimate Haki.
• Imu released the universe's origin will to use his full strength, while the escaped will attached itself to Snake Princess Hancock and helped her grow stronger.
• Wang Hao let Imu learn his techniques during their prolonged fight, and the two grew stronger as their battle settled into a stalemate.
• Sengoku and the others advanced to Reverse Mountain, where Red-Haired Shanks and the Five Elders made a desperate last stand while waiting for Imu.
• Luffy and his crew reached the Final Island and opened Roger's legacy, revealing the Gate of Heaven; Red-Haired Shanks recognized it, and a figure appeared before it, shocking Garp and the others.

Pirate King Roger appeared as a phantom before the Gate of Heaven and learned that his son Ace had died and been resurrected as Alice, who was engaged to Luffy. As Roger struggled to understand the world’s strange changes, Garp’s insults provoked Kakarot into attacking him.

• Tsuru, Blackbeard, and Shanks reacted warily as Roger appeared, and Roger praised Luffy for inheriting the Will of D and Shanks for carrying out his plan.
• Luffy introduced Alice and invited Roger and Shanks to their wedding, explaining that he had abandoned his Pirate King dream to become King of Navigation and build the Adventurers' Guild.
• Garp explained that Ace had died and returned as Alice, then warned Roger not to disrupt Alice and Luffy’s wedding.
• Roger noticed Guan Yu Yunchang’s pregnancy and learned that she was Whitebeard, while Garp explained that Golden Lion had been resurrected as Kakarot and was living with Sakazuki.
• Garp angrily rejected Roger’s suspicion that he liked men, and Kakarot drew her swords and launched a cross-shaped Sword Qi slash at him.

Luffy and the others opened the Gate of Heaven to confront Imu, but found the Room of Flowers devastated and Imu already crippled by Wang Hao. Wang Hao revealed that he and Hancock had fought for thousands of years and that Hancock was nearing a breakthrough.

• Roger explained that the Clan of D could open the Gate of Heaven and that Imu had taken over the Creator God's sleeping place.
• Luffy used his Heavenly God Form and Perfect Haki to open the Gate of Heaven, then entered the spatial passage as the vanguard.
• Garp, Dragon, Shanks, the Five Elders, and others followed Luffy into Heaven, while Guan Yu Yunchang entered despite Sengoku trying to stop her.
• Shanks and the Five Elders found the Room of Flowers reduced to an apocalyptic ruin, and Wang Hao crashed out of a spatial storm with broken teeth.
• Luffy asked where Imu was, and Wang Hao pointed to the crippled Imu hanging from Garp's hand.
• Wang Hao revealed that Hancock had taken Imu's Cosmic Will origin and was now close to breaking through to the Shattering Realm.

Wang Hao transformed Roger and the other pirates into women, then left the Heavenly Kingdom Room of Flowers to face Snake Princess Hancock on a desolate planet. Hancock attacked with power from the universe’s origin, but Wang Hao survived the destruction of his head and seized her, beginning to drain and study her power.

• Wang Hao revived Roger in a female body named Loli, erased most of his memories, and entrusted him to Garp.
• Wang Hao used his power to turn Red-Haired Shanks, Blackbeard Marshall Teach, and the others into women before leaving the Heavenly Kingdom Room of Flowers with Imu.
• A figure emerged from the spatial storm after the group departed, and Wang Hao later met Snake Princess Hancock on a desolate planet one light-year away.
• Hancock attacked Wang Hao with a strike that petrified his head, then shattered it, believing she had killed him.
• Wang Hao survived with his War God's Body, grabbed Hancock by the neck, and forcibly drained her power while studying her Shattering Realm abilities and the universe’s origin.

Wang Hao broke through to the Shattering Realm through dual cultivation with Snake Princess Hancock and prepared to fight the Eye of Heavenly Mandate. He trapped Hancock and Sengoku’s group within the Gold Cloth array, then made Imu the Heavenly Mandate’s host, but Imu’s power continued to rise beyond expectations.

• Snake Princess Hancock detonated her spatial necklace, but Wang Hao endured the spatial storm and completed his breakthrough to the Ninth Tier of the Celestial Person Realm.
• The spatial storm shattered Wang Hao’s internal storage space and revealed the twelve Gold Cloths and the Snake God Bell; Hancock demanded to know how he had obtained them.
• Wang Hao told Hancock that the River God was only a passerby, then flew to face the Eye of Heavenly Mandate and used the Gold Cloths to keep Hancock safe.
• Wang Hao redirected Sengoku and the others’ spatial passage to Hancock’s protected area, then brought the crippled Imu before the Eye of Heavenly Mandate as a potential host.
• The Eye of Heavenly Mandate merged with Imu, whose power rapidly reached the Shattering Realm Peak and continued growing, prompting Wang Hao to warn Xiao Mengmeng that something was wrong.

Wang Hao fought Imu as the Heavenly Mandate’s power surged, while Vice Admiral Tsuru and the others told Snake Princess Hancock about Wang Hao’s tragic past and mistakenly interpreted his actions toward her as love. Unwilling to accept their explanation, Hancock began turning herself to stone to force Wang Hao to come and answer her.

• Xiao Mengmeng warned Wang Hao that the Heavenly Mandate was nearing completion, and Wang Hao attacked Imu with the upgraded Shameless Greatsword.
• Imu unleashed more of the Heavenly Dao’s power and fought Wang Hao to a standstill, while Sengoku, Vice Admiral Tsuru, Garp, and the others arrived at Hancock’s formation.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru and Sengoku recognized Hancock’s resemblance to Xueli, Z’s murdered wife, and Tsuru recounted what she knew of Z’s past.
• Hancock realized that Z had secretly helped Amazon Lily prosper, while Tsuru believed Hancock had taken Xueli’s place in Z’s heart.
• Hancock rejected the explanation, struck her chest, and began turning herself to stone so that Wang Hao would come to her.

Wang Hao gained a Tear of True Love from Snake Princess Hancock and used it to break through to a realm above the Heaven Realm, matching Imu. He equipped Hancock with a Goddess Cloth and bound her within a formation before preparing to face Imu.

• Imu overwhelmed Wang Hao after reaching a realm beyond the Heaven Realm, while the universe’s rejection weakened Wang Hao and an energy beam pierced his heart.
• Wang Hao learned from Xiao Mengmeng that Hancock’s petrification had severed their cause and effect, then used time reversal to restore her.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru explained that Hancock had turned herself to stone after learning about Xueli, and Wang Hao admitted that he had not treated Hancock as Xueli’s substitute.
• Hancock wept and punched Wang Hao, allowing him to obtain a Tear of True Love and break through to Imu’s realm.
• Wang Hao gave Hancock a Wisdom and War Goddess Cloth, linked it to the twelve Gold Cloths to restrain her, and began a tremendous transformation.

Wang Hao sacrificed himself to destroy Imu and the Heavenly Mandate, then returned to the Primordial Main World as Snake Princess Hancock took over his Air Force and prepared to pursue him. In the Naruto Universe, Tsunade returned to the Leaf with Six Fists to demand the truth about the past from Hiruzen Sarutobi.

• Wang Hao transformed the divine sword into his final attack and annihilated Imu and the Heavenly Mandate, then was expelled from the universe and returned to the Primordial Main World.
• Snake Princess Hancock learned that Wang Hao had deceived her, vowed to find him, claimed leadership of the Air Force, and distributed the twelve Gold Cloths to its members.
• Jiraiya asked Tsunade to return to the Leaf, and she agreed on the condition that Hiruzen Sarutobi reveal the whole truth about what happened in the past.
• Six Fists opened a spatial passage to the Leaf, where the First and Second Hokage appeared to welcome Tsunade.
• Tsunade rejected the Hokage's attempt to sway her and warned that she would destroy the Leaf if Hiruzen failed to satisfy her.

Tsunade learned that Tobirama had plotted against the Kato Clan to obtain its Spirit Transformation Technique, but Orochi Hime challenged that account and arrived with Senju Nawaki, alive and grown. The chapter left Tsunade and the others waiting for Orochi Hime to explain what she meant.

• Tsunade read Hiruzen's scroll and confronted Tobirama about secretly joining forces with the Hyuga Lineage against the Kato Clan.
• Tobirama admitted he had sought the Kato Clan's Spirit Transformation Technique to develop a way to revive Hashirama and protect the Leaf from Madara Uchiha.
• Orochi Hime appeared through a Space Divine Ability, followed by Senju Nawaki, whom Tsunade joyfully recognized and embraced.
• Nawaki introduced Orochi Hime as his wife and revealed she was pregnant with their thirteenth child, while Tsunade recognized her as Orochimaru but kept quiet.
• Nawaki used his God Tree power to create a comfortable seat and blanket for Orochi Hime, impressing the gathered Leaf ninjas.
• Tsunade asked Orochi Hime what she had meant by calling Tobirama's account nonsense.

Tsunade confronted Hiruzen over Dan Kato’s role in the Land of Whirlpools incident, prompting Danzō to come before the gathered shinobi. Sasuke tried to kill Danzō but was stopped by Itachi and Shisui, while Danzō defended his empire and his plan to unify the ninja world.

• Tsunade demanded that Hiruzen explain what he knew about Dan Kato, and Hiruzen admitted he only knew what Danzō’s scroll had recorded.
• Tsunade ordered Six Fists to bring Danzō, who crossed the spatial passage with his guards Liuyue Ying, Itachi Uchiha, and Shisui Uchiha.
• Sasuke attacked Danzō, but a masked guard broke Sasuke’s sword and wounded him before Danzō identified the guard as Itachi.
• Itachi and Shisui told Sasuke he did not know the truth behind the Uchiha Clan’s extermination, while Nawaki recalled Danzō’s nickname, the Leaf’s King of Blame.
• Danzō criticized Hiruzen for breaking his promise and argued that the ninja village system had failed, so unification was necessary to end war.
• Hashirama urged Danzō to stop, warning that his plan had already caused too many deaths.

Danzō Shimura defended his campaign for great unification by contrasting its casualties with the devastation of the Great Ninja Wars, while Itachi Uchiha revealed the Leaf’s role in the Uchiha clan’s downfall. The chapter left Hiruzen Sarutobi exposed over his use of Nawaki’s organs and Shisui’s eyes, but he refused to surrender the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Danzō Shimura challenged Hashirama Senju’s vision of peace with casualty figures from the Great Ninja Wars, then argued that great unification could secure long periods of peace for future generations.
• Tobirama Senju warned that Danzō’s system could also decay, but Danzō answered that lasting peace was unrealistic and that unification could still buy future generations time to improve it.
• Itachi Uchiha told Sasuke Uchiha that the Leaf’s politics and distrust of the Uchiha had led to the clan’s exclusion, conflict, and eventual destruction.
• Orochi Hime accused Itachi Uchiha of withholding the full truth, and Senju Nawaki confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi after sensing his transplanted organs inside Hiruzen’s body.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi blamed Danzō Shimura for the transplant, and Danzō accepted responsibility while turning the accusation back on his former ally.
• Shisui Uchiha demanded his eyes back, Hashirama Senju condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi for taking them, and Hiruzen insisted he had acted for the Leaf and would not surrender the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Jiraiya learned that Nagato and Konan had been betrayed by the Leaf and left in mechanical and puppet bodies, while Hiruzen admitted the deception had been done for the Leaf’s sake. After Orochi Hime explained how the Leaf had eliminated powerful people to protect its leaders, Sasuke severed his ties with the village and walked away.

• Danzō’s guards arrived, and Jiraiya joyfully embraced Nagato and Konan before discovering their transformed bodies.
• Konan and Nagato told Jiraiya that a Root agent had lured them into a trap using a forged letter, and Hiruzen defended the betrayal as necessary for the Leaf.
• Orochi Hime said the Leaf had repeatedly targeted powerful people, including the Senju, Sakumo Hatake, Shisui, and the Uchiha Clan, to protect the Hokage’s authority.
• Sasuke rejected Naruto’s attempt to comfort him, destroyed his Leaf forehead protector, and declared that he was cutting all ties with the village.
• Itachi followed Sasuke out, while Naruto realized their bond had been severed and Tsunade questioned whether Hiruzen had acted for the Leaf’s sake before.