Chapter Summaries

Shimura Danzō met Black Zetsu, who offered him Sharingan and Wood Release power in exchange for cooperation. Danzō agreed to target the Uchiha on the Kirigakure battlefield as Black Zetsu promised him control of Konoha and a new world order.

• Shisui Uchiha and the other Uchiha left after their patrol encounter, intent on hunting anyone coveting their eyes.
• Shimura Danzō raged in a Root safe house over his house arrest and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s decision to compromise with Sunagakure.
• Black Zetsu appeared and offered Danzō power, while Hiruko brought bottles containing a Sharingan and Hashirama Cells.
• Black Zetsu demonstrated Wood Release by killing a Root guard with Cutting Sprigs, convincing Danzō the offered power was real.
• Danzō accepted cooperation in capturing Tailed Beasts and agreed to target the Uchiha on the Kirigakure battlefield.
• Black Zetsu promised that Danzō could rule Konoha and the Shinobi World in a new order.

Shimura Danzō recalled how envy of the Sharingan and regret over failing to volunteer for a deadly mission had driven his pursuit of power. In the safe house, he ordered Hiruko to transplant the two powers Black Zetsu had left, threatening him with the Cursed Seal if anything went wrong.

• Shimura Danzō remembered seeing Hashirama Senju demonstrate Wood Release as a child and yearning for the power he witnessed in Kagami Uchiha's Sharingan.
• Shimura Danzō recalled freezing when Tobirama Senju asked for a volunteer to cover the retreat, while Hiruzen Sarutobi stepped forward and became the Third Hokage after Tobirama's death.
• Shimura Danzō blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi's leadership for Konoha's weakness and decided he needed more power to protect the village and prove himself right.
• Shimura Danzō questioned Hiruko about joining Dawn and breaking free of his control, and Hiruko showed that his Cursed Seals remained intact.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Hiruko to transplant the two powers into him and warned that the Cursed Seal would destroy Hiruko's heart if anything happened to him.

Mukai confronted Isobu at the Three-Tails’ pool and used his repulsion, attraction, and high-voltage electricity to overpower the enraged beast. By the chapter’s end, Mukai’s million-volt attack had broken through Isobu’s armor, leaving him convulsing and close to death.

• Mukai brought Shukaku to Isobu’s pool and asked him to summon the Three-Tails, then help persuade him to accept a contract.
• Shukaku blasted the pool with air bullets, provoking Isobu to erupt from the water and attack him.
• Mukai stopped Isobu’s tail strike with repulsion, then used a charged metal rod to interrupt the Tailed Beast Bomb and shock Isobu.
• Mukai evaded Isobu’s water attacks while targeting gaps in his shell with precise lightning strikes, leaving Kisame Hoshigaki astonished.
• Mukai unleashed a million volts through Isobu’s armor, causing the Three-Tails to convulse in agony and struggle to escape.

Mukai subdued Three-Tails Isobu, bound him to a Summoning Contract, and recruited Kisame Hoshigaki before returning to the Land of Wind border fortress with Konoha’s forbidden techniques. After hearing that Konoha’s forces were suffering heavy losses, Mukai prepared to launch a counterattack and end the Third Shinobi World War.

• Mukai entered Isobu’s consciousness and forced him to submit and sign a Summoning Contract.
• Mukai had Kisame sign the contract with Isobu, then flew back toward the Land of Wind with Kisame and Miru.
• Ao and the Mist Ninja searched the area, failed to notice Isobu, and planned to send troops to support the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• At the border fortress, Mukai gave Komushi the Scroll of Seals to analyze and introduced Kisame to Tsunade as he explained that he had copied Konoha’s forbidden techniques.
• Tsunade told Mukai that Orochimaru and Jiraiya had suffered heavy losses while their teacher avoided the battlefield.
• With Konan, Sasori, Pakura, Nagato, and the younger fighters gathered, Mukai announced that they would counterattack and bring the Third Shinobi World War to an end.

Mukai led a force equipped with new mecha toward the Land of Wind border to bring the war to an end, while on the Land of Grass battlefield Roshi’s Lava Release overwhelmed Konoha’s forces. Minato used Gamabunta’s water attacks and the mist they created to get past Roshi’s defenses and strike at his eye.

• Mukai rallied Pakura’s, Shisō’s, and Chiyo’s mecha-equipped forces and declared that they would end the Third Shinobi World War.
• Ōnoki wounded Orochimaru with Dust Release and kept him occupied while Konoha’s ninja fought the other Iwagakure attackers.
• Roshi entered the battlefield in Four-Tails transformation and used Lava Release: Flower-Fruit Mountain to devastate Konoha’s front line.
• Minato attacked Roshi with Flying Thunder God but was forced back as Roshi’s lava armor and spreading magma narrowed his escape routes.
• Minato summoned Gamabunta, who exchanged water attacks with Roshi and filled the battlefield with steam.
• Minato used the mist to teleport close to Roshi and thrust a specially shaped Kunai toward his eye.

Roshi completed his transformation into the Four-Tails Son Gokū, forcing Minato Namikaze and Gamabunta to fight defensively as Iwagakure forces closed in. Minato disrupted Iwagakure’s attack with Flying Thunder God, but Son Gokū launched another assault as Konoha began retreating.

• Roshi’s Chakra erupted into the complete Four-Tails transformation, and Son Gokū attacked Minato Namikaze and Gamabunta with magma.
• Iwagakure ninja reshaped the battlefield to restrict Konoha’s movement while Ōnoki kept Orochimaru occupied.
• Minato used Flying Thunder God to attack Iwagakure’s forces, and Orochimaru stopped Ōnoki from intervening.
• Minato redirected Son Gokū’s Lava Earth Dragon Bullet toward the Iwagakure position with Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder.
• Son Gokū hardened his lava armor, and Minato ordered Konoha to retreat to the third defensive line.
• Son Gokū leaped above the Konoha position and brought his clasped hands down toward it.

Mukai and Kisame arrived to help Minato’s forces withstand the Four-Tails’ magma assault, while Sasori and Konan went to assist Orochimaru. Sasori linked his Sword God Mecha to Hatake Sakumo’s fighting intelligence and launched a sword attack against Ōnoki.

• Mukai used his War God Mecha’s repulsive force to knock the Four-Tails back, and Kisame shielded Konoha’s position with a Water Formation Wall.
• Mukai threw the wounded Kakashi, Obito, and Rin out of the mecha, then sent Sasori and Konan to help Orochimaru.
• Kisame flooded the Four-Tails’ lava lake with Super Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
• Sasori deployed five Chakra Metal blades and synchronized them with Hatake Sakumo’s intelligence, forming the five opening stances of Hatake Swordsmanship.
• Sasori teleported toward Ōnoki, and Hatake Sakumo’s Haze Stance Windward Slash flashed before the Tsuchikage.

Five White Fang Ninja Blades attacked Ōnoki with Hatake Sakumo’s sword techniques, forcing him to interrupt his Dust Release and defend himself against their coordinated assault. Ōnoki remained trapped in battle with the blades as they continued pressing their attack.

• Ōnoki dodged a slash from one of five White Fang Ninja Blades and recognized them as Hatake Sakumo’s weapons.
• The five blades attacked Ōnoki with coordinated sword techniques, and he summoned a stone giant to block them.
• The blades broke through Ōnoki’s stone defenses and forced him to use Dust Release.
• Three blades delayed the Dust Release with a net of lightning while two others struck at Ōnoki’s hands, making him interrupt the technique.
• The five blades resumed their relentless assault, and Ōnoki used the Mountain Earth Technique.

Ōnoki was overwhelmed by five Hatake Sakumos and fell after one blade struck him with a technique that triggered Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags. Meanwhile, Kisame restrained the Four-Tails with water, and Mukai used the War God Mecha to make its Tailed Beast Bomb explode in its mouth and slam it to the ground.

• Ōnoki struggled against five incorporeal Hatake Sakumos, whose blades countered his attacks and wore down his defenses.
• One Hatake Sakumo blade pierced Ōnoki’s rock armor, disrupted his Chakra, and attached a paper crane bearing Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags to his chest.
• Kitsuchi caught Ōnoki as he fell, while the five blades protected Sasori and Konan from Iwagakure’s attacks.
• Kisame flooded the rift with water and bound the Four-Tails with the Water Prison Shark Dance Technique.
• Mukai struck the Four-Tails with the War God Mecha’s repulsive force, causing its Tailed Beast Bomb to explode in its mouth and knocking it onto the ground.

Mukai and Kisame overwhelmed the Four-Tails with the War God Mecha’s electromagnetic weapons and Water Release, leaving him barely alive. Mukai summoned Shukaku to seal the defeated beast and take him away.

• Mukai struck the Four-Tails’ front limb with an electromagnetic railgun, and the Four-Tails retaliated with lava attacks.
• Kisame extinguished the Four-Tails’ magma eruption and trapped him in a water prison while Mukai detonated a supercapacitor inside it.
• Mukai ordered Komushi to fire five storage scrolls’ worth of steel projectiles from the mecha’s electromagnetic cannons, nearly killing the Four-Tails.
• Kisame withdrew his Water Release and watched in shock as the Four-Tails lay crippled and helpless.
• Mukai summoned Shukaku and ordered him to seal the Four-Tails and drag him away.

Shukaku sealed Roshi and the Four-Tails, leaving Iwagakure defeated and prompting Ōnoki to request a ceasefire. Mukai rejected the offer and demanded Iwagakure's surrender instead.

• Shukaku used the Sand Waterfall Seal to trap the Four-Tails in a sealed sand pyramid until his presence vanished.
• Mukai warned the Iwa Ninja that he would kill them all if they continued resisting, and Kitsuchi urged Ōnoki to keep fighting.
• Ōnoki recognized that Iwagakure could not win and ordered a ceasefire, then approached Mukai with Kitsuchi to negotiate.
• Ōnoki requested that Mukai remove Konan's Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags and offered to return to prewar borders and negotiate compensation.
• Mukai refused a ceasefire and told Ōnoki that Iwagakure had no choice but to surrender.

Mukai forced Ōnoki to accept Iwagakure’s unconditional surrender and postwar terms after defeating Kitsuchi and demonstrating control over the battlefield. He then revealed that he expected the Raikage to surrender as well and sent Minato and Orochimaru to the other battlefield.

• Mukai repelled Kitsuchi’s attack and warned him not to endanger Ōnoki, whose explosive tag remained in place.
• Mukai struck and paralyzed Ōnoki, then demanded Iwagakure disarm, submit to supervision, surrender key jutsu records, and face war-crimes investigations.
• Mukai rejected Kitsuchi’s protest and challenged Ōnoki to answer for the ordinary people harmed by Iwagakure’s invasion.
• Mukai said Tsunade, Pakura, and Sunagakure’s elites were supporting the Land of Rice Fields battlefield, where Kumogakure faced defeat.
• Ōnoki accepted Iwagakure’s surrender, and Mukai told him to wait for the Raikage before finalizing the postwar order.
• Mukai sent Minato to take Orochimaru to the other battlefield, saying the class reunion was missing someone.

Jiraiya faced the Third Raikage and the young Two-Tails Jinchūriki Yugito Nii alone on the Land of Rice Fields battlefield. As the fight intensified, he summoned Gamaken and Gamahiro to help, but the Raikage charged through his burning-oil attack with a deadly strike aimed at Jiraiya’s heart.

• The Third Raikage confronted Jiraiya, who had entered Sage Mode while the injured Orochimaru and Minato were away from the battlefield.
• The Raikage’s lightning-enhanced attacks overwhelmed Jiraiya’s defenses, and Jiraiya was injured while refusing to use the precious explosive ninja tools.
• Yugito began losing control of the Two-Tails’ chakra and attacked Jiraiya with blue flame spheres as the Raikage pressed his assault.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamaken and Gamahiro, assigning Gamaken to occupy Yugito while Gamahiro helped protect him from the Raikage.
• Jiraiya and the Toad Sages unleashed Sage Art: Goemon, but the Raikage charged through the burning oil and thrust a One-Finger Nukite toward Jiraiya’s heart.

Jiraiya and the Third Raikage both suffered serious injuries, while Yugito began losing control of the Two-Tails. Minato, Orochimaru, and Tsunade arrived to support Jiraiya, and the reunited Konoha Sannin summoned their giant allies to face the Raikage.

• Jiraiya and Gamahiro struck the Third Raikage with swords and Water Release, but Gamahiro vanished after taking Hell Stab for Jiraiya.
• Yugito’s Two-Tails cloak grew to two tails as Gamaken kept her attacks in check, and the Third Raikage prepared another Nukite strike against Jiraiya.
• Minato arrived with Orochimaru and Tsunade; Orochimaru raised Triple Rashomon, and Tsunade’s armored punch sent the Third Raikage flying.
• Minato told Jiraiya that Iwagakure’s forces had collapsed, while Tsunade gave Jiraiya Mukai’s combat armor and said she would compete for Hokage.
• Orochimaru warned that Yugito was going berserk and the Eight-Tails was approaching, so Tsunade called for the Sannin to fight together.
• Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade summoned Gamabunta, Manda, and Katsuyu as Gamabunta readied his sword against the Third Raikage.

The reunited Konoha Sannin faced the Third Raikage, the Eight-Tails, and the rampaging Two-Tails, with Tsunade wearing Mukai’s Strength of a Hundred Battle Armor. Tsunade struck down the Third Raikage in a direct clash, leaving him injured and stunned as the battle continued.

• Manda and Gamabunta traded insults until Katsuyu urged them to focus on their opponents.
• The Konoha Sannin reunited to confront the Third Raikage, Killer B and Gyuki, and the rampaging Matatabi.
• Tsunade revealed her custom Strength of a Hundred Battle Armor and declared that Konoha would end the war.
• Gyuki attacked with Tailed Beast Eight Twists, while Jiraiya used Sage Art: Goemon and Katsuyu transmitted Chakra to Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru launched Billion All-Creation Snake Bite at Matatabi, but the Third Raikage intercepted him with Lightning Release: Exploding Fist.
• Tsunade punched the Third Raikage, sending him flying and leaving him injured and shocked by her strength.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru fought the rampaging tailed beasts while Pakura joined the battle against the Two-Tails, Matatabi. Pakura used precise flame control to extinguish and destabilize Matatabi’s fire, leaving the beast collapsed on the ground.

• Tsunade and the Third Raikage clashed at close range, and their battle sent the Two-Tails flying when she approached.
• Jiraiya slowed the Eight-Tails with Sage Art: Goemon, while Gamabunta attacked and Jiraiya’s Hair Needle Senbon forced the beast to defend itself.
• Orochimaru and Manda evaded Matatabi’s attacks until she unleashed Rat Tail Ball: Barrage, and Pakura arrived to intercept the fireballs.
• Pakura manipulated the temperature and flow of Matatabi’s flames, making her fireball dissipate and extinguishing the flames on one of her tails.
• Pakura used Scorch Release: Flame Catalysis to cause extreme temperature changes in Matatabi’s body, weakening her until she collapsed.

Pakura captured Yugito and led her forces to flank Kumogakure while Tsunade and Minato fought the Raikage brothers. Tsunade knocked the Third Raikage unconscious, and Minato defeated A with a high-voltage trap.

• Pakura spared Yugito, ordered her guarded, and led the Death God Mecha Legion to flank the main Kumogakure forces.
• Orochimaru and Jiraiya helped Tsunade send the Eight-Tails flying, and Tsunade charged the Third Raikage with her Strength of a Hundred Mecha.
• Minato blocked A from reaching the main battlefield and used Flying Thunder God Kunai and metal threads to surround him with a Chakra Metal net.
• Minato detonated three supercapacitors, sending a high-voltage discharge through A and leaving him collapsed and spasming.
• Tsunade struck the Third Raikage into the ground and left him gravely injured and unconscious.

Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to restore Shimura Danzō’s authority as criticism of his leadership spread and Tsunade’s reputation grew. Danzō revealed that he had orchestrated the rumors and was conspiring with Black Zetsu and White Zetsu to seize control of Konoha.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura warned Hiruzen that Tsunade’s growing prestige and rumors criticizing his wartime decisions threatened his rule, and urged him to use Danzō’s abilities.
• Hiruzen decided that Danzō had reflected long enough and lifted the restrictions on him so he could serve Konoha.
• Danzō’s Root operatives reported that rumors praising Tsunade and condemning Hiruzen had spread among ninja and civilians, and Danzō ordered them to intensify the campaign.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu told Danzō that their hidden lord would help him become Hokage in return for a share of the Tailed Beasts’ chakra.
• A Root ninja informed Danzō that Hiruzen had lifted his restrictions and ordered him to silence the village’s dissenting voices, prompting Danzō to laugh.

Tsunade returned to Konoha as a celebrated hero, and public support for her as the next Hokage alarmed Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders. While Hiruzen told Danzo to temper the public reaction, Danzo secretly ordered Root to intensify it and undermine Hiruzen.

• Tsunade entered Konoha in a triumphant procession as crowds chanted for her to become Hokage, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders welcomed her without offering a reward.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru discussed Mukai's plan to credit Tsunade with the Allied Shinobi Forces' victories, and Minato Namikaze noticed Uchiha Fugaku and other Uchiha watching her.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Tsunade's support was spreading among civilians and clans, and Hiruzen said she was not ready to become Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi instructed Danzo to guide public opinion carefully and prevent the village from falling into chaos, while the elders urged him not to repeat the treatment of Hatake Sakumo.
• Danzo rejected Hiruzen's approach and ordered Root to spread Tsunade's achievements, blame Hiruzen's conservatism for Konoha's losses, and stir up young factions in the clans.

Mukai returned to Sunagakure for his inauguration as the Fourth Kazekage after overseeing construction at the Land of Earth border. He declared a new era of peace, scientific progress, and an end to the old ninja-village and noble systems, leaving his ambitious vision before the villagers.

• Tsunade complained to Kushina and Minato that Mukai had anticipated the rumors and left her to handle them, then asked Dan to contact him about Kushina’s mecha.
• Mukai directed youths from the Land of Earth to level land and build waterways, then received word from an Anbu messenger that his inauguration was ready.
• Mukai used Flying Thunder God to return to Sunagakure, discussed Sasori’s training and the purpose of their mecha, and met with Chiyo, Ebizo, and Konan.
• Chiyo praised Mukai and urged him to rely on the country behind him as he prepared to face the villagers.
• Mukai took the Fourth Kazekage’s hat and promised Sunagakure a future free of war, exploitation, and the old ninja-village system.