Chapter Summaries

Kirigakure’s delegation waited in Konoha for negotiations, with Ao anxious about Senya and the village’s losses. When Senya arrived, he overwhelmed the delegation with his Chakra, leaving Ringo Ameyuri unable to move and Ao in pain.

• Genma Shiranui, Namiashi Raidō, and Iaishi confiscated the Kirigakure delegation’s swords at the gate, forcing Ringo Ameyuri to surrender Kiba while Hozuki Mangetsu handed over Hiramekarei.
• Ao reflected on Kirigakure’s losses and Genji’s demand that Mei Terumi be returned, while the delegation waited more than an hour for Konoha’s negotiator.
• Ringo Ameyuri shouted for Konoha’s negotiator to appear, alarming Ao as the meeting room doors were kicked open.
• Shizune entered first, then Senya Uchiha followed and unleashed his Chakra at Ringo Ameyuri.
• Ringo Ameyuri froze under Senya’s pressure, Hozuki Mangetsu partially turned to water, and Ao felt pain in his empty eye socket.

Senya took charge of peace negotiations with Kirigakure, unsettling Ao with his pleasant manner and sharp taunts. After Senya and Ao exchanged draft agreements, Ao rejected Konoha’s terms and threatened renewed war.

• Senya introduced himself as Konoha’s negotiator and sent Itachi to show Ringo Ameyuri around the village.
• Senya confronted Ao about Kirigakure sending an injured delegation and mocked the village’s claims of strength.
• Ao presented Kirigakure’s proposed agreement, and Senya had Shizune give him Konoha’s draft in return.
• Ao read Konoha’s terms, declared them impossible, and threatened to fight Konoha to mutual destruction.

Senya and Ao negotiated Konoha’s postwar treaty with Kirigakure, haggling over reparations, mission commissions, and tariffs. Ao accepted 1.2 billion ryo in reparations and a 15% mission share, while Senya proposed leasing land in the Land of Water for Konoha’s commercial use.

• Ao rejected Danzo’s harsh draft treaty, then read Kirigakure’s proposal and offered 500 million ryo in reparations, a 15% mission share, and a 5% tariff.
• Senya demanded at least 1.5 billion ryo in reparations and negotiated with Ao until Ao agreed to pay 1.2 billion in installments.
• Senya accepted Kirigakure’s request to lower the mission share to 15%.
• Senya offered to let Kirigakure raise tariffs to 10% and asked for land-leasing rights in the Land of Water for Konoha’s commercial activities.
• Ao listened as Senya promised that Konoha would leave armed security to Kirigakure and asked whether it could accept the land-leasing condition.

Senya persuaded Ao to accept a treaty raising tariffs on goods from the Land of Fire to 10% and leasing land for warehouses in Kirigakure. Ao agreed after Senya claimed the terms were requested by wealthy nobles, unaware that Senya had invented the explanation and Tsunade already had the Land of Fire’s daimyo and ministers aligned with her.

• Ao questioned whether the additional 5% tariff applied only to Konoha or to the entire Land of Fire, and Senya confirmed it covered the whole country.
• Ao asked why the tariffs were being raised, and Senya claimed ministers had demanded access to foreign luxury goods and places to store them.
• Hozuki Mangetsu asked what the ministers’ conditions were, and Ao reprimanded him before Senya continued.
• Ao agreed on behalf of Kirigakure and the Land of Water to the 10% tariffs and to leasing land for warehouses.
• Senya’s explanation was fabricated; Tsunade had already secured the loyalty of key ministers’ heirs and formed a united front with the daimyo.

Ao and Senya finalized a treaty that imposed reparations and mission quotas but offered Kirigakure substantial support through trade and development. Ao explained the deal to Hozuki Mangetsu and Ringo Ameyuri, leaving them convinced that Konoha’s generous terms made cooperation worthwhile.

• Tsunade and the assembled ninja secured the nobles’ compliance, while the Twelve Guardian Ninja and Konoha ninja eliminated holdouts and installed their eldest sons as successors.
• Ao and Senya spent the day negotiating trade and residency details and settled on a rough treaty draft.
• Ao reunited with Hozuki Mangetsu and Ringo Ameyuri, who had returned with Konoha food and a new kimono.
• Ao explained that the treaty would help both villages recover and maintain balance against the other great villages.
• Ao compared Kirigakure to Ringo enjoying Itachi Uchiha’s generosity, and Ringo and Hozuki Mangetsu accepted that Konoha was offering Kirigakure too much to refuse.

After Senya and Ao finalized a contract to open trade between Konoha and Kirigakure, Senya told Mei Terumi she could return home, while Kisame revealed he wanted to stay in Konoha. Senya offered Kisame a role as Kirigakure's Village Envoy in Konoha.

• Senya and Ao agreed to a contract opening the doors of Kirigakure and the Land of Water to goods from Konoha and the Land of Fire.
• At a barbecue, Senya noticed Ringo Ameyuri seemed interested in Itachi and considered asking Itachi about a possible marriage.
• Mei Terumi told Senya she missed Kirigakure, and he said she could return with the others the next day.
• Mei Terumi kissed Senya in her excitement, then apologized as they both fell silent.
• Kisame asked to stay in Konoha and explained that he no longer cared about Kirigakure after being forced to kill his comrades.
• Senya offered Kisame the position of Kirigakure's Village Envoy in Konoha.

Senya established Kisame as Kirigakure’s Village Envoy in Konoha, and Mei Terumi approved the arrangement before returning to Kirigakure. As she departed, she gave Senya a handmade hair ribbon, leaving him unaware of its romantic significance.

• Senya proposed that Kisame remain in Konoha as Kirigakure’s Village Envoy and explained rules for children and couples from different villages.
• Mei Terumi and Kisame arrived at Konoha’s gates, where Senya removed their Chakra seals, and Mei instructed Kisame to manage future Kirigakure visitors.
• Mei Terumi sent the other ninja ahead and pulled Senya into nearby woods to give him a handmade ribbon for his hair.
• Senya commented that the ribbon felt uncomfortable, while Mei Terumi blushed and hurried back to her group.

Senya explained a plan for Konoha and Kirigakure to wage a commercial and cultural war by selling superior products in the Land of Water. The meeting ended with Jiraiya beginning to grasp how much larger the Land of Fire's population was than Konoha's.

• Senya gathered Konoha's clan heads and department leaders and presented a blackboard plan for a war with Kirigakure.
• Jiraiya mistook Senya's plan for a military conflict until Orochimaru urged him to read the board and Senya explained the idea of a commercial and cultural war.
• Senya used the example of better, equally priced Explosive Tags to show how Konoha's products could win customers in Kirigakure.
• Jiraiya argued that people in the Land of Water would prefer to buy local goods, but Senya said commoners prioritized price and quality over village loyalty.
• Orochimaru reminded Jiraiya that the Land of Fire had millions or tens of millions of people, far more than Konoha's roughly one hundred thousand, leaving Jiraiya stunned.

Senya explained that poverty and war stemmed from layers of oppression, challenging Jiraiya’s faith in the Child of Prophecy and outlining a goal of peace through economic and cultural influence. After Jiraiya left in despair, Akimichi Choza admitted that most of the group had not understood Senya’s explanation, so Senya prepared to start again.

• Senya argued that civilians were poor because of oppression, and Hyuga Hiashi described how villages, daimyō, and powerful clans exploited people beneath them.
• Jiraiya recalled his belief in the Child of Prophecy, then left the meeting shaken and said he needed to cook for Naruto.
• Senya told the group that ending oppression and ensuring everyone could meet their basic needs was necessary for peace in the Shinobi World.
• Akimichi Choza asked how commercial war and cultural infiltration connected to world peace, revealing that most attendees had not understood Senya.
• Senya realized he needed to reorganize his explanation and teach the group again.

After a long meeting about changing the Shinobi World's outlook, Senya reassured Tsunade that people would not change their minds in a single afternoon. The next morning, he promoted Tenzo to deputy director of Konoha's Foreign Trade Department, renamed him Yamato, and had him use Wood Release to build six wooden buildings.

• Senya and Tsunade discussed how difficult it was to change people's thinking, then drank together with Shizune.
• Senya won the Wuwang Rock Pudding from Tsunade, teased her about its name, and the two spent the night together.
• The next morning, Senya told Tenzo he was leaving the Anbu and becoming deputy director of Konoha's Foreign Trade Department.
• Senya gave Tenzo the name Yamato and reassured him that he could use Wood Release openly, attributing it to the Konoha Institute of Ninjutsu Science.
• Yamato used Wood Release—Linked Pillar Houses Technique to raise six luxurious wooden buildings on a cleared plot of land.

Senya assigned Yamato more work, then asked Orochimaru to investigate the Dragon Vein before Senya left Konoha to use its power to obtain the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. He later visited Shizune at the research institute, where their teasing turned intimate.

• Senya gave Yamato a special Ration Pill and tasked him with furnishing and landscaping the six houses.
• Senya told Orochimaru he planned to seek the Dragon Vein in the Land of Wind and handed him scrolls to study and deliver to Kurenai.
• Senya explained that he wanted the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to fully wield his Uchiha powers and pursue the Rinnegan, despite already using Wood Release and Susanoo.
• Senya visited Shizune in her laboratory, and they flirted before becoming intimate.

As Konoha’s new trade department began exporting medicine to Kirigakure, Senya told Tsunade that his Mangekyō Sharingan was damaging his sight and that he would leave to seek a cure. After a tearful misunderstanding and an explanation involving the Dragon Vein, Senya prepared to depart, while secretly intending to use its power to investigate strange memories.

• Nara Shikaku brought a convoy of common medicinal herbs to the Foreign Trade Department, where Yūhi Kurenai reviewed large-scale trade documents.
• Senya told Tsunade that his Mangekyō Sharingan had badly damaged his eyesight and that he planned to leave Konoha to restore it.
• Tsunade feared Senya intended to die alone, but he explained that he would seek the Dragon Vein and use its space-time power to reverse the damage.
• Senya privately resolved to use the Dragon Vein to explore memories from his previous life, which he kept secret from Tsunade.
• Tsunade spent the day with Senya before he departed, and she privately hoped she might become pregnant.
• Senya went to Kageyama the next morning, took one last look at Konoha, and prepared to set out.

Senya crossed into the Land of Rain and concealed himself from Nagato’s Rain Tiger At Will Technique. Konan rushed to investigate, believing the sensed presence might be her long-lost Masked Brother, but arrived after Senya had left.

• Senya traveled through the Land of Fire, questioned merchants about trade with Kirigakure, and continued toward the Land of Rain.
• Senya detected Chakra in the rain and used Word Spirit—Concealment to hide his presence.
• Nagato sensed a powerful Chakra near the Land of Rain’s western border and intensified his Rain Tiger At Will Technique, but lost track of Senya.
• Konan connected Nagato’s report to her memories of Masked Brother and flew toward the border despite Nagato’s warning.
• Konan reached the place after Senya had departed and collapsed in the rain, overwhelmed by her disappointment and longing.

Konan returned to the tower after searching for the mysterious person, then reread her diary and remembered her years with Jiraiya, Yahiko, and Nagato. The diary ended with her hope that the person she called Masked Brother would return and marry her and Sister Xiaoguang.

• Konan returned to Nagato and said she had found no suspicious people, then went to her room to rest.
• Konan reread diary entries recalling her separation from Masked Brother and Sister Xiaoguang and her years training under Jiraiya with Yahiko and Nagato.
• Konan wrote that she distrusted the white-masked man and feared his influence over Nagato.
• Konan recorded how Hanzō and Danzo's scheme killed Yahiko and crippled Nagato, after which Nagato pursued a plan to hunt the tailed beasts.
• Konan recalled sensing a mysterious person at the Land of Rain's border and wrote that she hoped Masked Brother would return to marry her and Sister Xiaoguang.

Senya reached the ruins of Rōran and struggled to dismantle the layered seals Minato had placed on the Dragon Vein. Exhausted after four days and three nights studying the Four Symbols Seal, Senya fell asleep, while Qianyue began vibrating in sync with the Dragon Vein Chakra.

• Senya followed the map to Rōran’s ruins, sensed an oasis nearby, and entered the tower at the site’s center.
• Senya found Minato’s Flying Thunder God Kunai and discovered that the Dragon Vein was protected by four intricate layers of seals.
• Senya used his Mangekyō Sharingan to release the Five Elements Seal and used Qianyue to break the Three-Party Seal.
• Senya struggled to find a way through the Four Symbols Seal, which had no recorded key, and spent four days and three nights studying it.
• Exhausted, Senya summoned Qianyue to guard him and fell asleep as the blade began vibrating in sync with the Dragon Vein Chakra.

Qianyue absorbed the Dragon Vein’s Chakra while Senya slept, and the power transformed her from a blade into a girl. Senya woke to find Qianyue in human form, leaving him confused about whether he was still dreaming.

• Qianyue absorbed the Dragon Vein’s Chakra and destroyed the Flying Thunder God Kunai while Senya remained unconscious.
• Qianyue pierced the altar’s central stone and continued absorbing the Dragon Vein, while Anrokuzan, trapped within it, feared her and tried to protect the Chakra.
• After a day and a night, Senya woke and found a large black egg floating nearby, which he realized was Qianyue.
• The egg cracked and burst, revealing a small girl who wore a black dress formed from its fragments.
• Qianyue looked at Senya and wondered why he seemed so large, while Senya wondered if he was dreaming because his blade had become a sword girl.

Senya absorbed the Dragon Vein’s remaining Chakra, which restored memories of his three lives and revealed Qianyue’s origin as his life-bound magic artifact. As his Mangekyo began evolving, Anrokuzan appeared within the Dragon Vein and asked Senya to form an alliance.

• Qianyue admitted she had absorbed half the Dragon Vein’s Chakra, then returned to the seal on Senya’s hand and left him to absorb the rest.
• Senya began draining the remaining Chakra while Anrokuzan sensed the Dragon Vein weakening and plotted to ally with Senya before seeking revenge.
• Senya suppressed the violent Dragon Vein Chakra with his Mangekyō Sharingan and used it to break through a seal containing his hidden memories.
• Senya remembered his past lives, his agreement with Asura and Indra, and that Qianyue was his life-bound magic artifact from his first life.
• As Senya’s Mangekyo grew saturated and began evolving, Anrokuzan appeared before him and asked him to form an alliance.

Senya agreed to help Anrokuzan use the Dragon Vein, but Anrokuzan secretly sent them into the past while planning to exploit Senya. The purple beam stirred the great villages and Akatsuki into action, and Senya arrived in a dim place facing a blond-haired boy.

• Anrokuzan claimed he had been sealed in the Dragon Vein after Konoha rogue ninja threatened Roran, and asked Senya to help rewrite the kingdom’s history.
• Senya offered his Chakra to power the Dragon Vein, and Anrokuzan entered it as a purple beam shot into the sky.
• Tsunade, Rasa, the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Nagato each saw the beam and moved to claim its power or investigate it.
• Anrokuzan secretly manipulated the Dragon Vein to send Senya into the past, believing he could use Senya to further his ambitions.
• Senya wondered whether he could absorb the Dragon Vein’s past power, then found himself facing a blond-haired boy.

Senya and Naruto were transported by the Dragon Vein to ancient Rōran, where they met Queen Sarah and learned that Minister Anrokuzan had summoned Senya as a guard for her ceremony. The chapter ended with Senya meeting Anrokuzan and Sarah at the palace while Sarah kept their earlier encounter secret.

• Senya confirmed that Naruto came from the Shippuden timeline and teased him about not recognizing Senya or the Uchiha clan.
• Senya and Naruto followed Sarah’s singing, stopped her from leaving, and learned she was the Queen of Rōran.
• Senya concluded that the Dragon Vein had sent them to ancient Rōran, and he and Naruto set off separately to investigate and find Naruto’s companions.
• Senya explored Rōran’s buildings, then infiltrated the palace and found Sarah with Minister Anrokuzan.
• Anrokuzan introduced Senya as a Konoha guard for Sarah’s ceremony, and Sarah concealed that Senya had caught and spanked her earlier.

Senya questioned Anrokuzan about Rōran’s empty streets, saw through his fabricated story about Mukade, and left him to prepare for the ceremony. Meanwhile, Senya watched Naruto battle the puppet army until masked allies rescued him, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Sarah left the hall to change for the ceremony, leaving Senya alone with Anrokuzan.
• Senya asked why Rōran had so few residents, and Anrokuzan blamed Mukade and claimed the people were hiding underground.
• Senya pretended to accept Anrokuzan’s explanation and left using the Body Flicker Technique, while Anrokuzan resolved to strengthen the Dragon Vein’s defenses and turn Senya against Konoha.
• Senya found Naruto fighting puppets and criticized his tactics as Naruto struggled against their attack.
• A blond man in an owl-faced mask rescued Naruto, and a red-haired, burly man crushed several puppets with the Partial Expansion Jutsu and Insect Ball.