Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Izumi chose Uchiha Chisen as her examiner for the Konoha Military Police Force recruitment assessment, unaware of his fearsome reputation. Chisen tracked down a suspected child-killer in Konoha’s vice district just as Izumi arrived to find him.

• Uchiha Fugaku warned Izumi that Chisen’s assessment would be harsh and dangerous after she chose him as her examiner.
• Izumi left headquarters with her assessment letter and learned from a policewoman that Chisen was feared and difficult to command.
• Chisen arrived in Konoha’s notorious entertainment district, where people panicked at the sight of the so-called Plague God.
• Chisen spotted Akiyama Jiro, whose red-name notice said he had beaten his four-year-old child to death, and stopped him from leaving.
• Izumi caught up with Chisen and asked whether he was Uchiha Chisen.

Uchiha Chisen tested Uchiha Izumi’s resolve by ordering her to interrogate a wounded man in public. Izumi learned that the man had killed his daughter and hidden her body in a dry well, while Chisen declared that obeying orders was her first lesson in enforcing justice.

• Uchiha Izumi nervously introduced herself as Chisen’s chosen assessment examiner, and he told her to survive a month without making him want to kill her.
• Chisen severed a short man’s leg and ordered Izumi to interrogate him about a child’s body within ten minutes.
• Izumi reluctantly questioned the wounded man, who denied knowing anything about a child and begged to be taken to the hospital.
• Izumi pressed a sword to the man’s neck, and he confessed that he had accidentally killed his daughter and thrown her body into a dry well.
• Chisen told Izumi that her first lesson in enforcing justice was to carry out his orders without questioning or resisting them.

Uchiha Chisen forced Izumi to drag a murderer through the streets, insisting that justice required uncompromising punishment. After the man died from blood loss, Chisen declared that even the Hokage could be an enemy of justice, while his golden finger rewarded him for killing a red-name evildoer.

• Izumi questioned the short man about where he lived, and Uchiha Chisen told her to drag him there instead of taking him to Konoha Hospital.
• Izumi dragged the wounded man behind Chisen through the streets until the man died from blood loss.
• Chisen regretted that the man had died too easily and said he had planned to execute him before his daughter's body and let Izumi try it herself.
• Izumi cited the Konoha Military Police Force's rules against punishing criminals on their own authority, but Chisen said justice included opposing the Hokage.
• Chisen's golden finger notified him that killing the red-name evildoer had increased his chakra and awarded him two Gambling Skill Experience Books.

Sarutobi Hiruzen dismissed a complaint about Uchiha Chisen’s violent enforcement, trusting that Chisen had his reasons. At a criminal’s home, Chisen showed Uchiha Izumi the murdered child and challenged her to see the killer as evil, then ordered her to bring both bodies to the Konoha Military Police Force.

• A younger Sarutobi clan member told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Uchiha Chisen had maimed a civilian and dragged him through the streets, but Hiruzen dismissed the complaint and defended Chisen.
• Izumi dragged the Short Man’s corpse to his home, where Chisen ordered her to retrieve a child’s body from a dry well.
• Izumi brought up the child’s corpse and vomited when Chisen unwrapped the quilt covering it.
• Chisen described the child’s injuries and told Izumi that her father had killed her, asking whether she still felt sorry for the man.
• Izumi admitted she was wrong, and Chisen ordered her to take both bodies to the Konoha Military Police Force and meet him at Ichiraku Ramen the next day.

Uchiha Chisen reported a child’s murder to Sarutobi Hiruzen and defended his harsh approach to justice. Back at the Konoha Military Police Force, he observed his colleagues’ possible future crimes before Uchiha Izumi returned with the victim’s body.

• Uchiha Chisen told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Akiyama Jiro had killed his four-year-old child after losing at gambling.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen urged Uchiha Chisen to rely on the Land of Fire’s laws and temper his enforcement, but Chisen insisted that only absolute justice could defeat evil.
• Uchiha Chisen left the Hokage’s Office, and Sarutobi Hiruzen recalled that he had wanted to ask Chisen about the Uchiha Clan’s growing rebellious sentiment.
• At the Konoha Military Police Force, Uchiha Chisen confirmed that Uchiha Izumi was still alive, surprising colleagues who whispered about his previous assessments.
• Uchiha Chisen saw visions of future misdeeds above his colleagues and reasoned that their futures could still change.
• Uchiha Izumi arrived, exhausted, and told Uchiha Chisen that she had brought back the child’s body.

Uchiha Chisen brought Izumi back to the Military Police Force and defended his harsh approach to enforcing justice before Uchiha Fugaku. Izumi learned that Chisen’s uncompromising ideals set him apart from the Uchiha, and she left worried about her future as his trainee.

• Izumi returned to the headquarters with the culprit and the victim’s body, and Chisen asked what officers should do when ordinary criminals resisted arrest.
• Chisen told Izumi that troubled times demanded forceful enforcement, even against minor wrongdoing, and brought her to Fugaku’s office.
• Izumi recounted the day’s events, and Fugaku warned Chisen that his methods worsened the village’s distrust of the Uchiha.
• Chisen rejected Fugaku’s request for restraint and insulted Itachi, leaving Fugaku angry as Chisen departed.
• Izumi realized that Fugaku’s sons were Itachi and Sasuke and worried that she had chosen a difficult examiner.

Fugaku defended Izumi’s choice to remain under Chisen’s strict training, explaining that Itachi needed her friendship after Shisui’s death. The next morning, Izumi overslept, but Chisen gave her a chance to pass her assessment and took her to work with a reminder that her lateness had delayed justice.

• Fugaku told Izumi she was Itachi’s only remaining friend and offered to assign her a different examiner, but Izumi chose to keep training under Chisen.
• Izumi awoke at nine after a night of nightmares and rushed outside in her pajamas, where she found Chisen waiting with her mother, Hazuki.
• Chisen ordered Izumi to change and report within thirty seconds, warning that she would fail her assessment if she was late again.
• Izumi leaped out of a second-floor window in her hastily donned uniform and landed in front of Chisen before the deadline.
• Chisen gave Izumi the ramen he had brought and told her to apologize for delaying justice rather than for disappointing him.

Uchiha Chisen taught Izumi about preserving her sense of justice and brought her to investigate a murdered woman found buried outside Konoha. He left the scene to Kijiro and told Izumi that patrolling the village was part of the investigation.

• Takigawa Osamu thanked Chisen for killing the men who murdered his fiancée, but Chisen refused his gift and urged him to keep living.
• Chisen warned Izumi not to let exposure to evil make her numb and cause her justice to rust.
• Kijiro reported that his children had found a woman's buried corpse, likely killed by a skilled ninja who had erased evidence.
• Chisen and Izumi followed Kijiro to the woods, where Izumi recovered the woman's body from a pit.
• Chisen sent Kijiro to fetch the Konoha Military Police Force and told Izumi to patrol Konoha with her ninja tools ready.

Uchiha Chisen investigated the Gekko Clan compound and confronted Gekko Seisui, whom his ability identified as the killer of his mother. After Chisen killed two clan shinobi who tried to stop him, Izumi followed him inside, while Gekko Hayate arrived and recognized the man who had murdered his father.

• Uchiha Chisen told Izumi that the Gekko Clan compound was the last public place to investigate before Anbu and Root.
• Two Gekko Clan shinobi confronted Chisen and accused him of killing their clan head, Gekko Yuichiro, two years earlier.
• Chisen identified Gekko Seisui as the killer of his mother and warned the two shinobi to move aside.
• Chisen killed the two shinobi when they obstructed him, then entered the compound as Izumi followed with a kunai.
• Gekko Hayate arrived at the compound, saw the two headless bodies, and recognized Uchiha Chisen as his father's murderer.

Uchiha Chisen killed Gekko Seisui after exposing him as his mother’s murderer, and gained the Transparent Release Kekkei Genkai. Gekko Hayate was left grieving as Chisen told Izumi that the Shinobi World needed a purge.

• Gekko Hayate remembered Uchiha Chisen’s earlier attack on the Gekko Clan and rushed home when Chisen returned.
• Gekko Seisui attacked Chisen and Izumi with an Earth Release jutsu, then used Transparent Release to flee.
• Chisen struck the invisible Gekko Seisui with shuriken, and Gekko Hayate called for his brother to stop running.
• An unseen attacker stabbed Gekko Seisui, and Chisen revealed that Seisui had killed their mother before executing him.
• Gekko Seisui confessed that jealousy had driven him to kill their mother, then died in Gekko Hayate’s arms.
• Chisen gained the Transparent Release Kekkei Genkai and told Izumi that the Shinobi World needed a purge.

Uchiha Chisen killed Gekko Seisui after discovering that he had murdered his mother, leaving Gekko Hayate devastated and alone. Chisen defended his killings to Sarutobi Hiruzen and declared that he would eliminate anyone who obstructed justice, even the Hokage.

• Uchiha Chisen told Gekko Hayate that Gekko Seisui had killed their mother, leaving Hayate grieving and unsure whether to seek revenge.
• News spread that Chisen had killed Seisui and two Gekko Clan members, and Chisen entered Sarutobi Hiruzen's office to explain that Seisui had resisted arrest.
• Uchiha Izumi recounted how Seisui had murdered his mother, and Hiruzen accepted that Chisen had correctly judged him guilty.
• Hiruzen challenged Chisen for killing two men who had obstructed him, but Chisen said they had chosen to side with evil and were no longer innocent.
• Hiruzen asked whether Chisen's loyalty lay with the village majority or justice, and Chisen answered that he served justice and would never betray it.
• Hiruzen compared Chisen to Itachi and said both loved the village, and Chisen objected that insulting people was wrong.

Sarutobi Hiruzen forbade Shimura Danzō from targeting Uchiha Chisen, while Uchiha Fugaku worried that Chisen’s actions were pushing the clan closer to conflict with Konoha. As Chisen walked through the village with Izumi, his reputation frightened criminals into surrendering before he caught a blond child fleeing a man with a rolling pin.

• Shimura Danzō argued that Uchiha Chisen was dangerous, but Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered him not to touch Chisen and threatened to disband Root.
• Uchiha Fugaku learned that Chisen had gone after another shinobi clan and worried that the Uchiha were nearing a point of no return with the village.
• Several Uchiha pressured Fugaku to devise a comprehensive Konoha Coup Plan.
• Uchiha Chisen’s arrival frightened a thief into surrendering and made arguing villagers reconcile and a litterer pick up his trash.
• A blond child fled a man wielding a rolling pin, causing chaos in the street, until Chisen lifted the child into the air.

Uchiha Chisen caught Naruto after a prank and insisted on punishing him under Konoha law, drawing the attention of an Anbu observer and then Shimura Danzō. The confrontation was still unfolding as Danzō arrived, accusing the Uchiha Clan of plotting something.

• Naruto replaced the bun shop's wheat flour with protein powder, and Uchiha Chisen caught him while he was being chased by the owner.
• Chisen told the bun shop owner to seek compensation from the Hokage, then threatened to send Naruto to prison for three months.
• An Anbu observer rushed in to take Naruto away, but Chisen swung him out of reach and identified him as Yamanaka Yoshinobu.
• Yoshinobu questioned Chisen's authority to enforce the law on Naruto, but backed down when Chisen stood his ground.
• Shimura Danzō arrived, shouting accusations at Chisen and demanding to know what the Uchiha Clan was plotting.

Uchiha Chisen confronted Shimura Danzō after Danzō accused him of abducting Naruto and conspiring against Konoha. When Root attacked, Chisen revealed his Lava Release and lunged at Danzō, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Shimura Danzō saw Uchiha Chisen holding Naruto and accused him of seizing the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and plotting against Konoha.
• Uchiha Chisen said he had caught Naruto committing an offense and warned Root not to obstruct the police force.
• An Anbu ninja sent a messenger pigeon to alert the Hokage as Danzō declared he would eliminate Chisen.
• Two Root ninjas attacked Chisen while Danzō thrust at him with a kunai.
• Uchiha Chisen used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Lava Release to melt an attacker’s sword, then thrust a magma-coated arm toward Danzō’s head.

Uchiha Chisen battled Danzo and Root with his explosive Lava Release, while the Hokage learned of the clash and rushed to stop it. The fight continued as Chisen's magma body healed a deep wound from a Wind Style attack.

• Danzo evaded Chisen's magma strike but lost his left ear, while Izumi and the Anbu carrying Naruto fled from the danger.
• Chisen unleashed Lava Style: Great Eruption, overwhelming two Root Ninja's Water Style and burning one of them in a massive crater.
• Danzo ordered his guards to protect him as Chisen landed on the magma, and Danzo hesitated over revealing his Sharingan.
• The Ninja Pigeon alerted Sarutobi Hiruzen that Chisen and Danzo were fighting near Naruto, so Hiruzen summoned Kakashi and three Anbu squads to intervene.
• A Wind Style: Wind Blade Technique cut through a Root Ninja and wounded Chisen, but his flowing magma filled the gash as Danzo questioned the nature of his Lava Release.

Danzo fought Uchiha Chisen in the streets, using Water Style to counter his Lava Release before surviving a devastating magma attack with Izanagi. Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived with three Anbu squads and confronted Danzo, who accused Chisen of trying to control the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and destroy Konoha.

• Danzo’s Wind Style attacks failed to penetrate Uchiha Chisen’s Lava Release, so Danzo suspected Water Style was the kekkei genkai’s weakness.
• Danzo raised a Water Formation Wall against Chisen’s Lava Globs, but Chisen shattered it with Great Eruption and engulfed Danzo in magma.
• Danzo used Izanagi to undo his death, sacrificing one transplanted Sharingan as his body re-formed.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived with Kakashi and three Anbu squads and demanded to know why Danzo had devastated a Konoha street.
• Danzo denied trying to destroy Konoha and accused Uchiha Chisen of attempting to control the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and recreate the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.

Sarutobi Hiruzen intervened when Uchiha Chisen confronted Danzo over Root’s attempt to take Naruto, then learned Naruto had only played a prank and Danzo had acted on suspicion. Chisen insisted Naruto should face strict punishment and challenged Hiruzen over sparing him.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped Uchiha Chisen from attacking Danzo and asked them to explain what had happened.
• Danzo accused Chisen of trying to control the Nine-Tails, while Chisen said he had acted because Root obstructed justice by taking Naruto.
• Naruto told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he had played a prank and believed he had broken the law.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen blamed Danzo for starting the conflict, and Danzo stormed away after arguing over his dead guards.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen promised to address Root’s conduct and offered to pay for the damage, but asked Chisen to drop the idea of imprisoning Naruto.
• Uchiha Chisen argued that Naruto needed strict punishment and asked whether Sarutobi Hiruzen would obstruct Justice Execution too.

Uchiha Chisen confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen over protecting Naruto and Shimura Danzō, then left with Naruto despite the Hokage’s objections. Hiruzen let Chisen go and headed with Kakashi and an Anbu squad to the Root Base.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen tried to persuade Uchiha Chisen not to imprison Naruto, but Chisen accused him of shielding Naruto and Shimura Danzō.
• Uchiha Chisen revealed that Danzō had used the Sharingan technique Izanagi, prompting Hiruzen to suspect Danzō had stolen Sharingan from Uchiha ninja, including Shisui.
• Uchiha Chisen declared that he would eradicate Root and left with Naruto after telling Hiruzen, “You can try, Third.”
• Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped an Anbu ninja from attacking Chisen and said that further interference could turn the conflict into a fight between Chisen and himself.
• Kakashi asked Hiruzen about his plan for the Jinchuriki, and Hiruzen ordered Kakashi to handle the aftermath while the others accompanied him to the Root Base.

After Uchiha Chisen’s clash with the Hokage and Root devastated a street, he tested Uchiha Izumi’s understanding of absolute justice while carrying Naruto away. He declared that the Hokage was an enemy of justice and turned his attention to the rewards for killing three red-name criminals.

• Kakashi surveyed the magma-scarred street and the bodies of two Root ninjas, then let Izumi follow Chisen without intervening.
• Naruto apologized and pleaded with Chisen as Chisen carried him away from the ruined street.
• Izumi caught up with Chisen and explained that tolerating even minor evil could let it grow into something worse.
• Chisen tested Izumi’s views on his confrontation with the Hokage and taught her that absolute justice required absolute power.
• Chisen told Izumi he would purge evil, including the Hokage, and said politicians treated justice as optional.
• Chisen considered the rewards for killing three red-name criminals, counting Danzo despite Danzo having survived with Izanagi.

Uchiha Chisen returned to Konoha Military Police Force headquarters after gaining new abilities from killing Danzo’s men, then brought the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Naruto, before Uchiha Fugaku. Fugaku struggled to decide what to do as Chisen warned that anyone who obstructed his justice would become his enemy.

• Uchiha Chisen gained Wind Release Chakra Nature, Shadow Imitation Technique, and Water Colliding Wave Technique after killing three red-name villains.
• A Konoha Military Police Force member reported that Gekko Hayate accepted the handling of the Gekko Clan matricide case and requested that its details remain private.
• Uchiha Chisen entered Fugaku’s office with Izumi and brought Uzumaki Naruto, whom he had arrested for disturbing the peace and disrupting businesses.
• Chisen told Fugaku that Danzo’s Root Ninja had obstructed the arrest, that he had killed two and a half of them, and that the Hokage had intervened to protect Danzo and Naruto.
• Fugaku hesitated over whether to imprison Naruto, and Chisen warned that he would treat Fugaku as an enemy if Fugaku shielded Naruto or obstructed justice.