Recaps

Izuna took Hideki to a newly marked Inari Shrine, where he and Mokushō revealed its hidden Divine Realm. The chapter ended with Izuna and Hideki praying at the shrine, while its purpose and the reason it appeared remained unexplained.

• Izuna ignored Madara’s warning to stay home and used the System’s Shrine marker to set out, bringing Hideki along and flying through the air as Mokushō followed.
• Izuna, Hideki, and Mokushō arrived at an old Inari Shrine on a ridge outside Konoha.
• Mokushō led them through the torii, and the shrine transformed into a spacious, bright Divine Realm.
• Izuna recognized the place as a Divine Realm and joked with Mokushō about being spirited away and offered food.
• Izuna prayed at the worship hall, and Hideki copied his actions.

Izuna enlisted Mokushō to resolve a delayed Land of Whirlpools shipment and brokered a trade agreement exchanging preferential access for cooperation in sealing techniques. Hideki realized his superiors would likely accept, while Mokushō set out to investigate the border checkpoint.

• Mokushō took the offertory coins and criticized Izuna and Hideki for making vague or unsuitable wishes, but agreed to answer them as best he could.
• Izuna asked Mokushō to help resolve the Land of Whirlpools’ storage scroll order, which had been held up at a Land of Fire checkpoint.
• Izuna offered the Land of Whirlpools preferential trade rights in return for sending sealing experts to Konoha to teach or collaborate, and proposed repairing Inari Shrine as Mokushō’s part of the deal.
• Hideki objected that Lord Quhai had to approve the proposal, but he realized Quhai would likely agree and fell silent.
• Izuna told Mokushō to investigate who had obstructed the shipment before returning, and Mokushō promised to deal with the traitors.

After Senju guards at the border delayed a shipment of Sealing Jutsu products from the Land of Whirlpools out of resentment toward the Uchiha, Hashirama discovered the repeated insubordination and ordered a change to border staffing. Izuna took responsibility for placating the caravan while Tobirama prepared the Rotation Plan.

• News of Izuna's success in Kyoto stirred Senju guards at the Border Checkpoint, who feared the Uchiha were gaining influence and stopped a shipment from the Land of Whirlpools.
• Hashirama ordered the guards to release the shipment, but they later delayed other Sealing Jutsu goods with repeated paperwork objections.
• Izuna found the report about the delayed goods and showed it to Hashirama, who grew angry at his clansmen's disobedience.
• Madara warned that the incident could damage Konoha's reputation, while Hashirama told Izuna to focus on receiving the Envoys.
• Hashirama ordered Tobirama to formalize the Rotation Plan and replace the Senju guards, while Izuna offered to placate the Land of Whirlpools' caravan.

Hashirama assigned Tobirama to resolve the Senju border dispute under Konoha’s military procedures, while Izuna agreed to apologize to the Land of Whirlpools caravan afterward. The chapter ended with Hashirama drowning in paperwork and Madara keeping Izuna at home for his safety as he and Hashirama bickered.

• Izuna offered to handle the border dispute, but Hashirama chose Tobirama because the Military Police Force charter restricted who could mobilize troops.
• Hashirama explained that Tobirama could rotate the border garrison without special authorization, and Izuna agreed to visit the Land of Whirlpools caravan with Hashirama to apologize.
• Hashirama privately reasoned that sending Tobirama would give the Senju clansmen a chance to save face and keep their resentment from falling on Izuna.
• After the Memorial Service, new documents overwhelmed Hashirama, who regretted sending Tobirama away and pleaded for his return.
• Madara said he had told Izuna to stay home because someone might hurt him, then rejected Hashirama’s attempt to comfort him as Hashirama chased him around the office.

Izuna went with Wakako to the Hyuga Clan to discuss the clan’s reforms and Ren and Hinata’s marriage, but he attacked a young Main Family member who insulted Akiyuki, Kasuga, and Izuna. Madara and Hashirama arrived as Tennin demanded an explanation, leaving the cause and consequences of the brawl unresolved.

• Bored at home, Izuna decided to visit Wakako and use her status to support talks with the Hyuga Clan about Ren and Hinata’s marriage.
• Wakako enthusiastically agreed to accompany Izuna, and they set out for the Hyuga Clan Compound with her attendants.
• Izuna and Wakako discussed the Caged Bird Seal reforms and the marriage proposal with Tennin, who admitted that the Main Family resisted changing the seal.
• A young Hyuga insulted Akiyuki, Kasuga, and Izuna in the corridor, so Izuna stormed out of the Meeting Room and beat him.
• Madara and Hashirama arrived to find Izuna holding the injured youth, while Tennin demanded to know what had happened.

Izuna beat the Hyuga youth who had insulted him, secured Tennin’s agreement to address the Caged Bird Seal, and settled the terms of Hinata and Ren’s engagement. Tennin punished the youth’s family and began elevating the Branch Family, while Tobirama led a newly assembled squad toward the border.

• Izuna beat the Main Family youth, pressured Tennin to cooperate on the Caged Bird Seal, and arranged Hinata and Ren’s engagement ceremony for three days later.
• Tennin stripped the youth of Main Family status, confined him permanently, and barred his family from the Main Family for three generations; Wakako predicted he would die before long.
• Tennin confronted Hyuga Shin'ei and his son, then stripped Shin'ei of his Elder position and demoted his family to the Branch Family.
• Tennin appointed Hyuga Masayoshi as Elder, marking a shift toward equality between the Main and Branch Families.
• Tobirama led a newly assembled squad toward the border through the night.

Tobirama replaced the Senju guards at the border and reprimanded them for detaining a Land of Whirlpools caravan to obstruct the Uchiha, ordering Tetsutake to apologize to Mito. During the caravan’s return journey, a mysterious man used vines and a Genjutsu to abduct Senju clansmen, including Senju Akira, and asked him to help identify whoever had spread rumors that led to the man’s death.

• Tobirama slapped Tetsutake for detaining Mito’s people, ordered the Senju personnel replaced, and rebuked the clan members for trying to protect Hashirama through underhanded tactics.
• Tobirama ordered Tetsutake to return to Konoha and apologize to Mito after the handover, and the Senju group escorted the delayed caravan away from the checkpoint.
• On the journey, Tetsutake let the young Senju complain about the Uchiha and Tobirama, while several men left camp one after another and disappeared into the woods.
• A mysterious man bound Tetsutake with vines and silenced him as the rest of the camp failed to notice that five Senju were missing.
• Senju Akira wandered through a forest under the man’s influence, became bound by vines, and heard him demand help finding the person whose rumors had caused his death.

Tobirama returned to Konoha and discovered that Izuna had caused a string of diplomatic and administrative upheavals while he was away. After dealing with the stranded Envoys, Tobirama confronted Izuna, who remained cheerful and unconcerned about the trouble he had caused.

• Tobirama found that Izuna’s supposed waterfall site was only an open plain and realized Izuna had fabricated the map for the Power Plant plan.
• Tobirama read reports that Izuna had forced the Hyuga Clan to agree to remove the Caged Bird Seal and set Hinata and Ren’s engagement banquet, and that Ōnoki had become Madara’s disciple.
• Tobirama learned that Izuna had sent the Envoys from the Four Nations on Konoha’s High-Altitude Zipline and arranged for them to land safely and receive Condolence Gifts.
• Tobirama heard that the Land of Whirlpools wanted a technical cooperation agreement and a joint Sealing Jutsu Research Laboratory project because Izuna had shown them a path forward.
• Tobirama found Izuna playing combat training games with the children and asked why he had left the Envoys on the Zipline, but Izuna said they were safe and needed no supervision.

Izuna explained that Lady Wakako’s idea led to Ōnoki becoming Madara’s disciple, then recounted how he spent the day playing truth or dare with Konoha’s children, Wakako, and Madara’s Shadow Clone. The game ended with Ōnoki asking Izuna how he knew so many strange things and Izuna declaring himself the “Konoha God of Wacky Ideas.”

• Tobirama questioned Izuna about the Hyuga wedding arrangements and Ōnoki becoming Madara’s disciple, and Izuna said Lady Wakako had set the latter in motion.
• Wakako asked Izuna to guide her around Konoha, and Madara sent a Shadow Clone to keep watch as they went to the Training Ground.
• Izuna introduced the children to truth or dare, and Wakako joined the game while Madara’s Shadow Clone watched.
• The children and Wakako completed silly truths and dares, including Ren confessing to a tree and Wakako imitating Cheshire Cat.
• Ōnoki drew the Daimyo card and asked Izuna how he knew so many strange things, and Izuna called himself the Konoha God of Wacky Ideas.
• Madara’s Shadow Clone defended Izuna, then smacked Takuma on the head when he called Madara biased.

During a card game, Madara accepted Ōnoki as his disciple, while Izuna and Tobirama discussed the Land of Whirlpools’ peril and its offer to cooperate with Konoha on sealing techniques. The chapter ended with Tobirama realizing Izuna’s warning had brought the two nations into a closer alliance.

• Wakako ordered Madara to take card number three as his disciple, and Ōnoki eagerly asked to be accepted.
• Madara agreed to teach Ōnoki and told him to come to the Training Ground at five the next morning.
• Tobirama asked Izuna why the Land of Whirlpools had requested a meeting and proposed long-term technical cooperation.
• Izuna explained that he had warned Hideki that the Land of Whirlpools’ monopoly on Sealing Jutsu could make it a target.
• Tobirama reasoned that the Land of Whirlpools was endangered because it was a nation ruled by Ninja, and recognized that Izuna had brought it and Konoha into the same boat.

Izuna proposed a reciprocal exchange-student agreement that would let Konoha and the Land of Whirlpools share training while protecting the Uzumaki Clan’s control over its core sealing techniques. The Land of Whirlpools’ Major Counselor considered whether to accept Izuna’s offer as a dignified way to strengthen and protect his country.

• Izuna explained the exchange-student idea to Tobirama, who agreed to draft regulations while teasing Izuna about his work habits.
• After five Senju died in an attack on the road, Tobirama sent condolences as Konoha continued talks with the Land of Whirlpools’ delegation.
• Izuna learned the delegation had moved to Konoha’s Hot Spring District and eagerly looked forward to visiting after the negotiations.
• At their meeting, Izuna offered the Major Counselor either a conventional alliance that would make the Land of Whirlpools a vassal state or a reciprocal exchange program without political or military conditions.
• Izuna presented terms for each country to train the other’s students, share research, and protect the Land of Whirlpools’ core sealing formulas.
• The Major Counselor remained silent as he weighed Izuna’s offer and wondered why Izuna wanted to strengthen the Land of Whirlpools.

Izuna reflected on Konoha’s role as a shelter and on how its people had come to trust its leaders, while a returning Senju force found the village—and its admiration for Madara—almost unrecognizable. Tetsugaku ended the chapter stunned by his clansmen praising Madara as a capable, caring leader.

• Izuna sent the Four Nations’ envoys home with Konoha’s draft exchange plan, while Ōnoki returned to the Land of Earth with a sword from his new master, Madara.
• Ren and Hinata held a small engagement ceremony, and Izuna recognized that Hashirama had built Konoha as a refuge where children and adults could live safely.
• Izuna considered how he and the other leaders had gradually earned the villagers’ willing trust through their actions and policies.
• Tetsugaku returned to Konoha with his fellow Senju and found its busy, cheerful streets unfamiliar after six months at the border.
• At a tavern, Tetsugaku overheard ninja from several clans praising Madara’s battlefield skill, mission decisions, and concern for their safety.
• Tetsugaku gripped his cup in disbelief as Senju Shin'ichirō and the others spoke warmly of Madara.

Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara, and Izuna set out from Konoha on a diplomatic journey to the Land of Whirlpools. They reached the Land of Hot Water by boat, where Tobirama had arranged to meet a minister from the Land of Whirlpools.

• Mito Uzumaki wrote to her father about her life in Konoha and explained why she could not accompany him.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara, and Izuna left Konoha after Tobirama made Hashirama cut down his oversized luggage.
• The group crossed the Fire Country and reached the sea, where Izuna revealed his wings and flew above the water.
• Tobirama said they would meet a minister from the Land of Whirlpools in the Land of Hot Water, and the four boarded the last boat there.
• Madara learned that merchant ships had recently been detained near the Land of Whirlpools, while Tobirama gathered information about the Land of Hot Water.
• The group arrived at the Land of Hot Water, and Madara woke Izuna, who had slept through most of the boat journey.

Jotaro Uzumaki reflected on the growing pressure against the Land of Whirlpools as he welcomed Hashirama Senju, Tobirama, Madara Uchiha, and Uchiha Izuna to Hot Spring Street. The group settled into a secluded inn before their planned visit and talks about cooperation, while Izuna failed to pitch his Exchange Student Plan.

• Jotaro Uzumaki considered how the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning were probing and economically isolating the Land of Whirlpools.
• Jotaro met Hashirama Senju, Tobirama, Madara Uchiha, and Uchiha Izuna on Hot Spring Street and welcomed them on behalf of the Land of Whirlpools.
• Hashirama told Jotaro that Konoha had come to visit Mito's family and discuss future cooperation.
• Jotaro escorted the four to a private hot spring inn and left them there before the formal welcoming banquet.
• Izuna complained that he had been unable to explain his improved Exchange Student Plan to Jotaro.
• Tobirama reasoned that Jotaro had kept his distance to avoid attracting scrutiny from other countries, and Madara assigned the group their rooms.

Hashirama, Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama relaxed at an open-air hot spring, where Hashirama noticed unexplained scars on Izuna that Izuna could not remember acquiring. Izuna later tried making hot spring eggs and shared chilled milk with the others before they sat beneath the inn’s eaves.

• Hashirama noticed that Izuna's shoulders, arms, and back were covered in scars, but Izuna called them old scars and Madara told the others that Izuna had no memories.
• The four discussed marriage, and Madara explained that he had taken Ōnoki as his disciple partly for political reasons and intended to train him responsibly.
• Drowsy in the hot spring, Izuna summoned a Shadow Clone to fetch eggs and chilled milk, then tried cooking an egg in the pool.
• Izuna found the egg oddly cooked, ate it with soy sauce, and complained that the iced milk tasted unpleasant alongside it.
• After the bath, Hashirama persuaded Tobirama to try chilled milk, but Tobirama dismissed it as nothing special and Izuna teased him for having no taste.

Izuna overheard a merchant explain that the Land of Lightning had blocked sea routes and was confiscating goods from the Land of Whirlpools, leaving Yanzhen to realize his country was in grave danger. Izuna concluded that the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Jutsu and the nobles’ fear of Ninja autonomy had made the Land of Whirlpools a target.

• Izuna wandered Hot Spring Street after finishing his documents and noticed Madara and Hashirama moving toward the border.
• Izuna overheard Yanzhen, an Uzumaki Clan member, discussing the difficulty of selling sealing scrolls with Luotai.
• A sea merchant told Luotai that the Land of Lightning had closed coastal routes and was confiscating goods bearing the Uzumaki Clan’s crest.
• Yanzhen realized the Land of Whirlpools was in serious trouble, while Izuna inferred that political leaders were targeting it to curb Ninja independence.
• Izuna pulled Yanzhen away after deciding he had learned enough.

Izuna warned Enma that the Land of Whirlpools was in danger and invited him to travel there, while Mokushō’s sudden appearance made the warning seem real. As Hashirama and Madara discussed Izuna’s strange changes, Izuna took Enma to an izakaya, where a striking stranger spoke to him about the sake.

• Izuna told Enma that several countries might target the Land of Whirlpools and offered to take him there.
• Enma saw Mokushō appear unnoticed by passersby and was shaken by the impossible sight.
• Hashirama worried that Izuna’s changed behavior could affect Konoha, and Madara admitted Izuna had seemed like his dead brother before returning to normal.
• Izuna took Enma to an izakaya, ordered sake, and explained what cocktails were.
• A handsome man at a nearby table asked Izuna whether Sakura Drunk impressed him.

Uchiha Izuna and Uzumaki Enma met Ise Haruto, a rebellious heir who had built a successful liquor business, and Izuna persuaded him to move his birthday banquet to the Summer Evening Bar. Haruto welcomed them to his estate as his only guests, while his strained relationship with his mother and troubles with his business remained unresolved.

• Ise Haruto introduced himself to Uchiha Izuna and Uzumaki Enma, invited them to his home, and Izuna agreed after learning he had a battle results screen.
• An attendant found Haruto and tried to bring him back to his birthday banquet, but Haruto refused and said he would rather escape by boat than inherit the family business.
• Izuna challenged Haruto to stop running away and proposed moving the celebration to the Summer Evening Bar, where guests could choose to join them.
• Haruto agreed to Izuna's plan and recounted how he left home at fifteen, became a merchant, and built a network of liquor shops despite his mother's disapproval.
• Haruto explained that shipping disruptions, thefts, and spoiled liquor had recently hurt his business, and Izuna inferred that his mother had arranged the banquet to pressure him into returning.
• Haruto led Izuna and Enma into the Summer Evening Bar courtyard and welcomed them as his only guests.

Tobirama learned that Wakako had stayed in Konoha and heard her proposals to hire Guardian Ninja, exchange Hinata Rei for Princess Mariko, and betroth Mariko to Senju Yūki. Meanwhile, Izuna helped Haruto turn his sparsely attended birthday gathering into an uninvited banquet, leaving Enshin astonished.

• Tobirama returned to Konoha and learned from Rokuhiko that Wakako had remained in the village after the Daimyo departed.
• Tobirama visited Wakako, who asked him to arrange Guardian Ninja, take Hinata Rei to Kyoto in exchange for Princess Mariko, and convey her proposal to betroth Mariko to Senju Yūki.
• Tobirama tasked Raisuke with preparing Guardian Ninja candidates and planned to deliver Wakako's proposals to Hashirama.
• Izuna rejected Haruto's plan to drink quietly and led Haruto and Enshin to a restaurant hosting a private banquet.
• Izuna talked his way into the banquet by pretending to know a guest, and Haruto joined in by offering to pay for the wine.

At Haruto’s birthday celebration, Izuna’s performance lifted the banquet’s mood, while Haruto protected Enma from guests wary of his Uzumaki heritage. Izuna drew attention to Enma’s sealing and barrier skills, turning the merchants’ suspicion into eager interest in hiring him.

• The Ise mistress ordered her attendants to search for Haruto after he vanished from his birthday banquet, but they could not find him.
• Haruto attended the merchants’ association president’s banquet, where Izuna sang and played the biwa and Enma quietly drank in a corner.
• When guards tried to remove Enma because he was an uninvited red-haired Uzumaki, Haruto declared him a guest and persuaded the president to let him stay.
• After Izuna introduced himself, the president recognized him as a prominent Konoha diplomat and hastily offered him special treatment.
• Izuna praised Enma’s sealing and barrier abilities until Enma described the Uzumaki Clan’s techniques, prompting Haruto to ask about protecting his wine cellar.
• The merchants, who had shunned Enma earlier, crowded around him to discuss hiring him to secure their warehouses and homes.

Enma handled the merchants seeking his sealing services while Izuna discussed peace and family troubles with Haruto and the Chamber of Commerce President. When Haruto’s mother confronted him at the banquet and ordered him home, he fled by ship, leaping away with Ninja Footwork.

• Enma recovered from the merchants’ rush, set prices and payment terms for his sealing work, and recorded their orders while Haruto helped him.
• Izuna told the Chamber of Commerce President a tragic shipwreck story, prompting Haruto to reflect on his troubles and Enma to ask why Izuna supported the Land of Whirlpools.
• Izuna said he supported peace because he liked it, and the President toasted him for speaking plainly.
• Haruto’s mother arrived and demanded that he return home for his birthday banquet, but he said he hated living under her control and refused to leave with her.
• Izuna identified himself as a Konoha diplomat and tried to stop the family argument, but Haruto’s mother ordered her attendants to seize her son.
• Haruto escaped through the rear courtyard using Ninja Footwork, and Enma urged the stunned guests to chase after him.

Tobirama followed a chaotic crowd toward the shore and discovered Hashirama and Madara at its center, while Mokushō entered the Yuhara Pleasure Quarter and disrupted Masato’s gambling. Masato recognized Mokushō as a suspicious stranger and ordered a covert guard to follow Luotai.

• Tobirama returned to Hot Spring Street, saw Izuna chasing a young man, and followed the growing crowd toward the shore.
• Mokushō transformed into a young man and entered a gambling house in the Yuhara Pleasure Quarter.
• Luotai told Masato that everything was in place and asked him to spare a friend; Masato agreed to let the friend leave and ordered a covert guard to follow Luotai.
• Masato’s bet on an odd roll lost when the dice showed an even result, and he spotted Mokushō winning chips nearby.
• Mokushō smiled at Masato from across the gambling hall, and Masato watched him with suspicion.

Luotai fled after learning Masato planned to eliminate him, but his attempt to escape with his mother ended with Masato’s wounded dark guard confronting him. Meanwhile, Mokushō introduced himself to Masato as Inari and vanished after sensing a believer nearby.

• Luotai evaded pursuit through Yuhara Pleasure Quarter and blundered into the oiran’s room, where the dark guard fought the debt collector and Luotai escaped.
• Masato invited Mokushō to join his gang, but Mokushō refused and gave his name as Inari before Masato left on urgent business.
• Mokushō sensed one of his believers nearby and disappeared from the gambling den.
• Luotai hurried home to flee with his mother, feared she had been taken, then found her returning from Inari Shrine unharmed.
• As Luotai tried to lead his mother away, Masato’s wounded dark guard appeared at the alley entrance and confronted him.

Mokushō used a Five-yen Coin to turn Luotai’s fate, allowing Luotai to kill the shadow guard and escape with his mother. Masato then lost property and money in a dispute at Tamamoya, learned his guard was dead, and ordered his men to find Inari.

• Luotai stood his ground against the shadow guard to protect his mother, and Mokushō tossed a Five-yen Coin to alter the guard’s strike so Luotai killed him.
• Luotai fled the alley with his mother while Mokushō realized he had failed to make himself less noticeable.
• Masato learned his shadow guard had caused trouble at Tamamoya and went there to apologize to Tamamo-no-Mae.
• Hiroyama demanded Rōchōya and Seikōbō as compensation, and Masato agreed to give Rōchōya, three shops, and separate compensation.
• Masato learned that Luotai had escaped and his shadow guard was dead, then ordered his subordinates to find Inari.

Tamamo-no-Mae and Hiroyama discussed Masato’s threat, while Tamaro recovered from his injury. Later, Mokushō rescued an elderly woman and followed her home to Hiroyama’s estate, where Luotai arrived seeking protection from Masato.

• Hiroyama warned Tamamo-no-Mae to be careful and said he would handle the trouble with Masato.
• Tamamo-no-Mae treated Tamaro’s injured wrist, and they argued about his marriage prospects.
• Mokushō rescued an elderly woman trapped beneath a handcart and accompanied her to her home.
• Mokushō discovered that the woman was Hiroyama’s mother and that her home was Hiroyama’s estate.
• Luotai arrived with his mother, begged Hiroyama for protection, and offered to reveal Masato’s schemes.