Arc 8Chapters 176–192
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Shin'un warned his family and Yūichi about an airborne illness and received the Second Hokage’s Chakra Sensing Technique from an Anbu messenger. After sensing a large number of chakra fluctuations near Konoha Hospital, he headed out, but Anbu forces imposed a village-wide lockdown and ordered him home.
On his third day back in Konoha, Shin'un realized his mother showed symptoms like those of the spreading illness and decided to seek Tsunade at Konoha Hospital. The Anbu blocked his way and threatened to brand him a missing-nin, so Shin'un unleashed his chakra and gave them one final warning.
Shin'un fought through Konoha’s deserted streets and discovered monsters attacking the village and pouring out of Konoha Hospital. Believing Tsunade was inside, he blasted the monsters at the hospital entrance with Lightning Release: Lightning Pillar, leaving a crater in the plaza.
Shin'un reached Konoha Hospital and learned that the Anbu defending it were infected and that the monsters could revive in new forms unless their bodies were destroyed at once. As he prepared to enter and retrieve Tsunade, Suzume learned that more than a hundred chakra signatures were approaching from across Konoha, including one from the Hokage Building.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s clans gathered at the hospital, where Suzume explained that an invisible virus had spread throughout the village and caused the strange illness. The assembled ninja learned that most healthy adults could fight it off, though prolonged exposure or bad luck could still lead to infection.
Suzume explained that the ninja gathered outside Konoha Hospital were already infected and would eventually transform, while Hiruzen Sarutobi warned that they could not return home without spreading the virus. She revealed that powerful infected ninja had become monsters inside the hospital, making a rescue attempt dangerous, and left the gathered ninja facing the threat within.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shin'un entered Konoha Hospital's third basement to find Tsunade and White Fang after White Fang's chakra could no longer be sensed. They encountered a square filled with powerful humanoid monsters and prepared to fight their way toward Tsunade's isolation room.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shin'un fought their way through the monsters in Konoha Hospital while searching for Tsunade. Shin'un spotted a monster using the Nara Clan's Shadow Imitation Technique as the battle continued.
Shin'un and Hiruzen Sarutobi fought their way through the monsters on Konoha Hospital’s third underground level and reached Tsunade’s isolation room. When they opened it, a powerful attacker struck Hiruzen, and Shin'un recognized the figure emerging from the darkness as Tsunade, whose face now had several extra pairs of eyes.
Shin'un found that Tsunade and Hatake Sakumo had become monsters in Konoha Hospital’s underground levels and fought to survive their attacks. As the battle shook the building, the hospital began to collapse, alarming Suzume and the ninja outside.
Suzume ordered an isolating barrier around Konoha Hospital to contain the infection while Hirakawa Shin'un fought underground. After a massive lightning technique exposed the ruins, Shin'un emerged wounded and Tsunade attacked him as a monster.
After Tsunade regenerated from Lightning Pillar’s devastating blast, Shin'un’s injuries and the virus began impairing his senses and mind. As Tsunade tore into him, he finished forming one-handed seals and unleashed another Lightning Pillar at her forehead.
After Hirakawa Shin'un and Tsunade seemingly killed each other, Shin'un transformed into a powerful lightning monster. As it attacked Konoha’s defenders, it raced toward Suzume and reached for her head.
Suzume and Fugaku Uchiha hesitated to kill the frozen Hirakawa Shin'un after the Hyuga clan head detected his original chakra signature, suggesting he had regained his reason. Elsewhere, Shin'un regained consciousness in a boundless dark space, noticed a faint light, and then found himself glowing.
After dying and drifting through darkness, Shin'un emerged into an ocean of spheres and discovered that the Skill Editor had regained its power. He concluded that the spheres represented stories or worlds and that the enormous solid sphere above them was his former real world.
Shin'un loaded [Bloodline Essence], which sent him racing back toward his body in Konoha. As he descended toward the ruined hospital, he saw a strange lightning-based monster and suspected it was his transformed body.
Shin'un recovered his reason and strength after becoming a monster, then recounted how he survived the viral outbreak, rose to become Hokage, and fought the threats that destroyed the Shinobi World. After a sinkhole sent him back to Earth, he reunited with Otsutsuki Kaguya and eventually became lord of a world formed from the merging of all worlds.