Recaps

Hiashi’s explanation left Konoha suspicious of Kirigakure, as Haruma intended to draw Konoha into sending infiltrators. At the Five Kage Summit, Hashirama, Madara, and the other reanimated Hokage attacked, while Obito appeared and Naruto joined the battle.

• Hiashi claimed the First Hokage had briefly regained control and struck him, prompting Tsunade to continue treating him while questioning the account.
• Itachi realized Haruma had deliberately encouraged Konoha’s suspicions so its ninja would infiltrate Kirigakure and face the consequences.
• At the summit, Tsunade warned the Five Kage about Akatsuki and invited Itachi to explain the organization’s abilities.
• Hashirama’s Wood Release erupted through the conference room, and Mei Terumi, Itachi, Gaara, and the others defended themselves.
• The Five Kage saw Hashirama, Madara, and the Second, Third, and Fourth Hokage blocking their forces, while Obito watched from above.
• Naruto and Killer B rushed from their training room toward the battle, and Naruto entered in Tailed Beast Transformation.

Haruma’s disguised real body revealed overwhelming power by destroying Ōnoki’s Dust Release and nearly killing the Five Kage, while Naruto struggled against Minato and nearly lost control of the Nine-Tails chakra. The chapter ended with Tsunade suspecting that the Obito in the sky was the true power behind Akatsuki as Shikaku watched the Kirigakure ninjas and Minato’s attacks.

• Hashirama’s giant Guanyin statue overwhelmed the Five Kage as Itachi and Shisui fought Madara, while Haruma’s clone battled the Second and Third Hokage.
• Minato fought among the allied forces, and Naruto’s six-tailed transformation began edging toward a seventh tail as he struggled with helplessness.
• Killer B slapped Naruto and warned him to steady his mind, restoring Naruto’s control.
• Ōnoki attacked the airborne Obito with Dust Release, but Haruma destroyed the technique and sent a deadly light wave toward the Five Kage, forcing them to scatter.
• Tsunade suspected the airborne Obito was the true power controlling Akatsuki, while Shikaku observed the Kirigakure ninjas and how Minato chose his targets.

Disguised as Obito, Haruma devastated the allied forces and announced that the Akatsuki would attack the five nations in six months. Afterward, he reassured the reanimated Konoha shinobi that he would spare Naruto and Konoha, while Hashirama asked him to let Madara regain control of his body.

• Haruma used a massive repulsive force to flatten the battlefield and leave the Five Kage and allied forces wounded.
• Haruma blasted Raikage A away when A charged him, then told the Five Kage that the Fourth Shinobi World War would begin in six months.
• Ōnoki stopped Tsunade from pursuing Haruma and said the Five Kage had no power to resist him.
• Haruma told Hashirama, Minato, Tobirama, and Sarutobi that he would not target Tsunade, destroy Konoha, or pursue Naruto because the Yin Nine-Tails chakra was enough to summon the Ten-Tails.
• Hashirama asked Haruma to release Madara from the seal controlling his consciousness so he could have some freedom.

Haruma rejected Hashirama’s request to control Madara and revealed that he intended to profit from the Allied Shinobi Forces’ war preparations and supplies. At the next meeting, the Five Kage agreed to bring smaller nations into the alliance, leaving the supreme commander position as the key unresolved issue.

• Haruma returned to the Land of Iron after Shisui sent a signal, then let Itachi and Mei Terumi explain that he had used the previous day’s display of strength to rally more nations.
• Itachi outlined how the six-month delay would allow the Five Great Nations to buy weapons, supplies, and other goods connected to Haruma’s business.
• Haruma explained that the war would be bloodless for him because the alliance’s single-use supplies would bring in money, and he told Mei Terumi to nominate herself as commander.
• At the next meeting, the Five Kage agreed to recruit nearby small nations and shinobi villages into the Allied Shinobi Forces after seeing Obito’s power.
• General Mifune volunteered to join the alliance, and the meeting turned to choosing its supreme commander.

Tsunade challenged Kirigakure’s bid to command the Allied Forces because so many of its shinobi had infiltrated the Akatsuki, and the Kage instead assigned command jointly to Ōnoki and A. Mei Terumi accepted the arrangement but pressed for Kirigakure to handle logistics, leaving Tsunade unable to object without seeming to exclude Kirigakure from the alliance.

• Tsunade objected to Kirigakure taking supreme command, citing the large number of its former Akatsuki infiltrators and the risk of compromised Allied Forces plans.
• Mei Terumi asked who should command instead, and Tsunade proposed that Ōnoki and A lead jointly.
• Tsunade offered to oversee the medical forces while Gaara was assigned transportation and surprise attacks.
• Mei Terumi proposed that Kirigakure manage logistics and supplies, and Ōnoki and A approved.
• Tsunade objected to Kirigakure controlling logistics and weapons preparations, but Mei Terumi accused Konoha of denying Kirigakure a meaningful role, leaving Tsunade and Shikaku without a convincing response.

Mei Terumi secured Kirigakure’s position in the Allied Shinobi Forces, and the village’s business boom helped Haruma advance to the divine path over the next six months. Konan returned with enough money for a resurrection, only to find Haruma had become an awe-inspiring figure beyond the Six Paths.

• Mei Terumi threatened to withdraw Kirigakure from the alliance, pressuring the other Kage to give her the logistics minister position.
• Ōnoki reassured Mei that Kirigakure would remain in the alliance and asked Tsunade to accept the arrangement.
• The Five Kage’s parties left the Land of Iron, and Mei Terumi and Haruma laughed as they anticipated Kirigakure’s future profits.
• After six months, Konan waited at the Rich Man Company with enough money for the first resurrection and saw Haruma emerge from another dimension.
• Haruma checked his system panel and found that his strength had reached the divine path after Kirigakure’s business expanded to serve a coalition of more than forty shinobi villages.

Haruma prepared to resurrect Nagato and Minato Namikaze after Konan and Obito requested their loved ones be brought back. Meanwhile, Hashirama and Madara faced the Allied Shinobi Forces, whose headquarters called for reinforcements after thousands of soldiers began falling within minutes.

• Haruma took Konan and Obito's scrolls and agreed to resurrect Nagato, while Obito asked him to bring Minato Namikaze and Kushina back first so Rin would suffer less when she woke.
• Haruma summoned two coffins and opened them to begin the resurrections.
• Hashirama warned Madara to hold back against the approaching Allied Shinobi Forces, while Madara remained furious that he could not escape Impure World Reincarnation's control.
• Gaara led the Surprise Attack Division toward the chakra anomaly, and Inoichi Yamanaka identified the sources as the reanimated Hashirama and Madara.
• Inoichi reported that the Surprise Attack Force was losing ten percent of its chakra signatures each minute, prompting Raikage A to rush to the battlefield and the headquarters to send reinforcements.

Madara overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces, broke free of Gaara’s sand seal with his Perfect Susanoo, and prepared to kill Gaara and the surrounding army. Hashirama’s intervention failed to stop his charge, but an unknown voice froze time just as Madara reached Gaara.

• Madara slaughtered allied ninja as the tree world trapped and drained many more of their chakra.
• Gaara used a massive sand seal to trap Madara, but Madara shattered it with his Perfect Susanoo and nearly crushed the allied forces.
• Hashirama knocked Madara’s Susanoo away and confronted him, but Madara declared he would kill the army rather than submit to Haruma.
• Madara charged toward Gaara at immense speed, and an indifferent voice said, “Space-time, freeze.”

Haruma stopped time on the battlefield, seized Madara, and brought him to the company in Kirigakure, where he threatened to humiliate him until Madara panicked. At the same time, the Allied Shinobi Forces learned that Madara had vanished, while Naruto prepared to leave his training refuge and join the war.

• Haruma froze time, grabbed Madara, and left the battlefield with Obito, Konan, Nagato, and Minato, leaving Hashirama to face the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• At headquarters, Inoichi Yamanaka reported sensing an immense chakra presence that quickly disappeared along with Madara; the allied forces had lost about sixty percent of their chakra.
• Haruma forced Madara to kneel in the Kirigakure company conference room and threatened to make him perform degrading public and sanitation duties.
• After half a year of training with Killer B, Naruto secretly prepared to escape the forbidden area with him and join the war.

The Allied Shinobi Forces struggled against Hashirama and other reanimated enemies, while Gaara concealed that the war was designed to exhaust their supplies. At Kirigakure Company's basement, Haruma oversaw Orochimaru's experiment on Kimimaro and declared that the war's ending would not change.

• Gaara urged the Allied Shinobi Forces to keep bombarding Hashirama's wooden Buddha, while Raikage A exhausted himself trying to reach Hashirama.
• After the Allied forces ran out of explosive supplies, Hashirama dispelled the Buddha and vanished without attacking them.
• Seven days later, Inoichi Yamanaka reported enemy locations as the Five Kage divided into teams to intercept them.
• Tsunade questioned Gaara about the enemy repeatedly withdrawing despite having chances to defeat the Allied forces, and Gaara pretended to share her confusion.
• Orochimaru operated on Kimimaro and implanted cells from his own body while Haruma explained that the war was meant to deplete the Allied forces' supplies.
• Haruma left the operating room, insisting that neither the fate of the reanimated bodies nor the Allied forces' resistance could change the ending he wanted.

Haruma orchestrated a year-long war to exhaust the Allied Shinobi Forces’ resources, then announced a temporary ceasefire when they ran out of money. He released Kimimaro from his illness and, at the abrupt end of the story, welcomed Otsutsuki Kaguya into his alternate space.

• Orochimaru watched Kimimaro’s wounds heal after his body fused with Haruma’s cells, and saw his strength rise beyond Kage Level.
• Haruma ordered Nagato and Obito to continue pressuring the Allied Shinobi Forces, while Sasuke and Suigetsu infiltrated their ranks, explaining that he wanted them to keep fighting and spending.
• Kimimaro thanked Haruma for curing his Kekkei Genkai Disease, and Orochimaru recognized the power of Haruma’s cells.
• The war continued for a year as Madara, Hashirama, and other reanimated fighters repeatedly overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Haruma, controlling Hashirama’s body, announced a temporary ceasefire, and the Akatsuki fighters vanished after the Allied Shinobi Forces ran out of money.
• Haruma used a specially modified White Zetsu Clone to bring Otsutsuki Kaguya into his alternate space and greeted her.