Chapter Summaries

Rin chose to receive an eye transplant from Tsunade, determined to live well for Kakashi and Obito. Outside the operating room, Rinto met Mikoto and young Itachi, declined her dinner invitation, and left Konoha for matters in Sunagakure.

• Rin remembered her mother's hardships and Obito's and Kakashi's sacrifices, then confirmed to Tsunade that she wanted the transplant.
• Tsunade instructed Shizune to prepare anesthesia and begin the operation.
• Mikoto introduced herself to Rinto as Fugaku's wife and presented their son, Itachi, who called Rinto Grandpa.
• Mikoto told Rinto that Fugaku was gathering support to become Uchiha Clan Head and invited him to dinner.
• Rinto declined because he had matters in Sunagakure, joked with Itachi, and left the hospital.

Fugaku taught Itachi that strength gave people freedom, then reassured himself that Rinto would protect his family if his ambitions failed. Meanwhile, Rin recovered from successful eye surgery, and Rinto anticipated her becoming the Second Hokage of Amegakure.

• Fugaku told Itachi a twisted version of Snow White's story and taught him that a bigger fist meant a louder voice.
• Itachi repeated Rinto's promise to beat up Fugaku if Fugaku hit him, prompting Fugaku to explain that Rinto would protect their family if needed.
• Shizune brought Rin out of surgery, where doctors found no obvious rejection of her new eye tissue or Sharingan.
• Rinto watched the night sky and hoped Rin would become the Second Hokage of Amegakure.

Rinto, disguised as Kaza, brought Tsunade to a Sunagakure wedding while using his position in the Municipal Department to build influence and weaken the Fourth Kazekage’s authority. He continued networking among the village’s powerful officials as his scheme to control Sunagakure’s finances remained in place.

• Rinto reassured an irritated Tsunade that attending the Sunagakure wedding counted as a vacation.
• Rinto, posing as Minister Kaza, exchanged greetings with Group Leader Kubo, who praised his role in reducing the village’s water fees.
• Kubo explained Kaza’s background to a curious girl, who remained more impressed by powerful ninja than by administrative skill.
• Rinto had taken over Sunagakure’s neglected Municipal Department and used a profitable waterworks project to draw capable, ruthless figures into its eighteen seats.
• Rinto used the department’s profits to cultivate influential connections and hollow out the Fourth Kazekage’s authority while Sunagakure struggled with a lack of funding.

Rinto attended the Eighteen Seats Conference and proposed a municipal metallurgical plant that would refine the Fourth Kazekage’s gold dust into pure gold. After the members fought over the project’s nine profit shares, Kubo reported that his Food Faction had secured most of them.

• Rinto postponed the Eighteen Seats Conference, declined to meet Yura, and told Taida to watch for changes among the Seats.
• Rinto proposed buying the Fourth Kazekage’s gold dust above market price, refining it into pure gold, and giving himself one of the ten shares.
• After Rinto left the conference room, the eighteen members fought over the remaining nine shares.
• Kubo’s Food Faction allied with the Mineral Faction and defeated Sandworm Old Man’s Power Faction, securing seven shares.
• Kubo reported the allocation to Rinto, who approved the outcome and noted that nobody had died.

Yura took over the Municipal Department after Rinto left, then dismantled the Eighteen Seats and their distribution system. The factories shut down, jobs and essential supplies became scarce, and Sunagakure faced soaring prices as Amegakure raised its water fees.

• Yura delivered the Fourth Kazekage's order promoting Rinto to an unspecified upper rank, and Rinto retired from the Municipal Department.
• Yura ordered Taida to the intelligence processing unit and took the folder Taida had been carrying.
• Yura abolished the Eighteen Seats, replaced much of the department's staff, and overturned Rinto's policies.
• The Eighteen Seats reclaimed their factory investments, closing businesses and disrupting jobs, water, electricity, and food supplies.
• The Fourth Kazekage planned to raise export prices in negotiations with Amegakure, whose representative demanded higher water fees and payment within three days.

Rasa struggled to contain Sunagakure’s worsening financial and political crisis, then ordered Baki to restore the Municipal Department after Yura was murdered. The Eighteen Seats regrouped around Kaza’s planned tea factory, while Old Sandworm worried that the Power Faction would be left without a profitable enterprise.

• Rasa complained to Karura that Amegakure was raising the unpaid water bill, gold dust prices had collapsed, and Yura had gutted the Municipal Department.
• An Anbu told Rasa that Yura had been blown to pieces at the municipal office and that the clues pointed to the Eighteen Seats, sending Rasa into a furious rush to the scene.
• Rasa ordered Baki to restore the Eighteen Seats and reinstate the fired Municipal Department staff within a week.
• Kubo told the Eighteen Seats that he and two others planned to leave and work independently, then admitted that Kaza intended to start a tea factory.
• The Eighteen Seats argued over whether tea belonged to the Food Faction or a new Daily Necessities Faction, while Old Sandworm worried the Power Faction could not separate electricity from the village or profit without Kaza.

Rasa faced growing pressure to restore Kaza, so he sent an Anbu squad to find him and bring him back. Kaza refused the summons without an order from the Sand Clan's clan head, leaving the Anbu to report his refusal to Rasa.

• Sandworm and the Power Faction urged Rasa to restore Kaza as Minister of the Municipal Affairs Department, blaming Yura and Baki for the loss of tax revenue and neglected services.
• Rasa agreed to send someone to invite Kaza back, then ordered an Anbu squad to search for him.
• Three days later, the Anbu found Rinto at a casino in an oasis, gambling with Tsunade and several bodyguards.
• The lead Anbu told Kaza that the Fourth Generation had summoned him, but Kaza demanded an order from the Sand Clan's clan head and refused to return without one.
• The lead Anbu sent Viper and two others back to report Kaza's refusal to Rasa.

After Sunagakure suffered a month without water and electricity, Rinto returned to the Municipal Department and negotiated with Rasa to resume its work. He convened the Eighteen Seats, prepared to reclaim control, and planned to hand Sunagakure the Wind Power Generation Company.

• Rasa struggled to manage the village's affairs and dig for gold dust while Sunagakure's villagers endured shortages after Rinto's resignation.
• Rinto returned after twenty-one days, had the Anbu restore his office, and went to work without restarting the department's operations.
• Rasa and the village elders asked Rinto to convene the Eighteen Seats Conference, and Rinto agreed to retire in five years if Baki could learn from him.
• Rasa assigned Baki to follow and protect Rinto, while Rinto told Taida to prepare the Eighteen Seats and warned that he might have to fight.
• Rinto planned to hand the Wind Power Generation Company to Sunagakure and entered the conference room, where the members welcomed him back to power.

Rinto proposed making sea buckthorn tea and led the Eighteen Seats through a meeting to divide the remaining shares. Baki witnessed the members’ ruthless infighting, while the chapter ended with the candidates chosen and the author announcing a break and discussing the next volumes.

• Rinto proposed a health-promoting sea buckthorn tea and assigned Taida one share for contributing to the idea.
• Baki insisted he had to monitor the Eighteen Seats, but they ignored him and began choosing candidates through factional confrontations and fights.
• Taida told Baki how the meetings worked, opened the doors, and let the Medical Ninjas treat the injured members.
• Rinto returned and learned that the members had chosen the remaining candidates along with Leaf Handle.
• Kubo and Leaf Handle argued after the meeting, while the author thanked readers, announced a break, and explained that Volumes Seven and Eight would have connected plotlines.

Rinto visited Honma to discuss buying Iron Sand and learned that Honma’s missing nephew was named Rinto, the son of the Third Kazekage. After seeing the portrait, Rinto realized that the Third Kazekage was his previous self’s father and Sasori had killed him.

• Rinto met Honma at his home to negotiate over a small supply of Iron Sand.
• Honma told Rinto that his brother had suspected his missing son of masterminding the Great Pig Iron Calamity.
• Honma explained that his nephew Rinto had inherited Magnet Release and disappeared at age six during the chaos of Shukaku’s rampage.
• Rinto recognized that the missing boy’s age and disappearance matched his own past life.
• Honma showed Rinto a portrait, and Rinto recognized the Third Kazekage as his previous self’s father and Sasori as his father’s killer.

Rinto realized that the source of his immortality belonged to Jashin and began plotting how to use his identity against Sunagakure. Meanwhile, Rasa investigated the Municipal Department and its Eighteen Seats, then decided to secure a place for his allies and bring Taida onto his side.

• Rinto left Honma's house with the Third Kazekage's Iron Sand relic, then pieced together how Jashin's seed had made his body immortal and given rise to another consciousness.
• Maki reported to Rasa that the Municipal Department's businesses and the Eighteen Seats were stabilizing Sunagakure, and Rasa told him to join the organization rather than oppose it.
• Rasa reflected on how the village's senior officials and the Municipal Department limited his authority, then ordered an Anbu agent to investigate the Eighteen Seats and replace one of its members.
• Yashamaru brought Rasa detailed intelligence about the forces backing the Eighteen Seats, leaving Rasa alarmed by their influence across the village.
• Rasa resolved to place Yashamaru and Maki among the Eighteen Seats and turn Taida to his side.

Taida studied Kaza’s leadership and imagined rising to power in Sunagakure’s Municipal Affairs Department. In Amegakure, Rinto and Kagami spoke with five-year-old Shisui, who vowed to save the Uchiha Clan.

• Taida reviewed his notes on Kaza and admired how Kaza maintained authority through clever management and fairness.
• Taida wrote down lessons from Kaza and fantasized about becoming Minister of the Municipal Affairs Department.
• Kagami brought Shisui to the guardhouse, where Rinto greeted them and asked the boy about his abilities.
• Shisui said he could use Adamantine Sealing Chains and Fire Release: Great Fireball, and that he had not awakened his eyes.
• Shisui said he wanted to save the Uchiha Clan and described his visit to Konoha, where he had met a modest boy he liked.
• Kagami felt proud of Shisui and thought he would become the Uchiha Clan’s savior.

Kagami taught Shisui the principles of being a gatekeeper and gave the lesson a strange interpretation of the Will of Rain, leaving Rinto exasperated. Back in Sunagakure, Rinto called the Eighteen Seats to an unscheduled meeting, and its members gathered amid bickering.

• Kagami taught Shisui to observe visitors, conserve his strength, act decisively, judge people by the danger they posed to the village, and grow strong.
• Kagami told Shisui to remember the Will of Rain, and Shisui vowed to merge into the sea and destroy the dam.
• Rinto left Amegakure, returned to Sunagakure in disguise, and told Baki to summon the Eighteen Seats for a meeting.
• Leaf Handle and Kubo argued about their past relationship while the other members watched, and they entered the conference room with the group.

Rinto proposed starting a newspaper to the Eighteen Seats and gave them three days to consider it, while Baki reported the meeting to Rasa. Rinto then visited Rasa and appeared to invite him into a plan to replace members of the Eighteen Seats, leaving Rasa eager to take part.

• Rinto introduced his newspaper idea to the Eighteen Seats and scheduled a decision meeting for three days later.
• Baki listened outside the conference room, then decided to report Rinto’s proposal to Rasa.
• Rasa realized Rinto might be giving him a chance to enter the game and influence the newspaper plan.
• Rinto arrived at Rasa’s office and proposed replacing restless members of the Eighteen Seats.
• Rasa agreed that Rinto could replace them and asked him to identify who would take their places.

Rinto laid out his plan to gradually weaken Rasa while keeping him in power, as Rin sought advice from Uchiha Fugaku about awakening her transplanted Sharingan. Fugaku explained the usual way Uchiha awakened their eyes and described Rinto’s more radical method, leaving Rin with principles to consider.

• Rinto planned to pressure Rasa carefully, strip away some of his authority, and draw him into the Eighteen Seats Conference.
• Rin asked Rinto’s clone how to awaken her Sharingan, and he directed her to Uchiha Fugaku.
• Rin visited Fugaku’s home and told him Rinto had given her a transplanted pair of Sharingan.
• Fugaku reassured Rin about the eyes’ origins and said Rinto had helped him awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Fugaku explained that strong emotional stimulation, often the loss of love, could awaken the Sharingan, while Rinto’s method avoided bereavement but risked making its user unstable.

Fugaku reflected on the Uchiha Clan’s growing exclusion in Konoha before realizing his own powerful connections eased his worries. Rinto brought Danzo to Sunagakure, revealed how he had risen to the center of its power, and left Danzo wondering why he had been summoned.

• Fugaku worried that Konoha’s villagers excluded the Uchiha and that the clan elders wanted to reclaim Kakashi’s Sharingan.
• Fugaku remembered his influential connections and became cheerful about his standing.
• Danzo, pleased with his renewed health and Minato Namikaze’s likely selection as Fourth Hokage, agreed to go to Sunagakure after a Rinto clone summoned him.
• Rinto welcomed Danzo to Kaza’s luxurious home and explained how he had gained influence in Sunagakure over three years.
• Danzo admired Rinto’s political maneuvering and asked why Rinto had called him there.

Rinto recruited Danzo to help manipulate Sunagakure from behind the scenes and explained how class resentment could be turned into a movement against its ruling elite. Danzo embraced the plan, both frightened and thrilled by Rinto’s ruthless understanding of human nature.

• Rinto offered Danzo the chance to sideline the Fourth Kazekage and secretly control Sunagakure, and Danzo eagerly agreed to join him.
• Danzo asked to transfer Root members to Sunagakure as informants, and Rinto limited the number to three while urging him to learn to read people himself.
• Rinto instructed Danzo to unite Sunagakure’s lower classes with promises of advancement and use their growing resentment to challenge the village’s upper class.
• Danzo warned that Sunagakure’s leaders could use their military power to divide the movement, but Rinto argued that resentment and social pressure would keep it growing.
• Danzo grasped that Rinto intended to create opportunities and fuel people’s ambitions until they fought their way upward, and he recognized the terrifying reach of Rinto’s manipulation.

Rinto left Danzo in charge of Sunagakure and returned to Amegakure, where he read a grim new book about Yahiko and Nagato and laughed at the thought of Madara being summoned with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. He then went to see Mei Terumi while considering candidates for the Second Hokage.

• Danzo embraced Rinto’s suggestion that he become a behind-the-scenes mastermind, and Rinto left him to handle Sunagakure’s affairs before returning to Amegakure with Tsunade.
• Rinto read Konan’s new book, which depicted Yahiko turned into a puppet and Nagato drained by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Rinto imagined Madara dangling from the statue’s white tube and laughed, unaware that Madara had acted while White Zetsu watched him in Sunagakure.
• Rinto asked Rie where Mei Terumi was, and Rie said Mei had been training nonstop since their visit to Kirigakure.
• Rinto headed for the training grounds and considered Rin Nohara and Uchiha Shisui as candidates for the Second Hokage.

Rinto brought Mei Terumi to Kirigakure so she could return to the village and clear her parents’ names, then discovered a White Zetsu trying to escape underground. The chapter ended with Rinto capturing it in an alley.

• Rinto found Mei Terumi training and carried her out to tour Kirigakure despite her protests.
• Mei Terumi told Rinto she planned to clear her parents’ names, secretly funnel Kirigakure’s talent and money to Amegakure, and care for him in his old age.
• Rinto asked Genji to let Mei Terumi return to Kirigakure, and Genji agreed to arrange her entry.
• Rinto sensed a pale creature burrowing underground, chased it into an alley, and pulled a White Zetsu from the ground.

Rinto named the White Zetsu clone A-Jie and comforted Mei Terumi as she prepared to leave for a new home. He then visited Madara Uchiha’s underground base, where A-Jie was interrogating White Zetsu clones about farting, and refused Obito’s request to take him to Konoha.

• Rinto teased the White Zetsu clone following him in Kirigakure, then let it go and named it A-Jie.
• Rinto found Mei Terumi waiting at Genji’s residence and reassured her that he would support her as she left for her new home.
• At Madara Uchiha’s underground base, A-Jie and two companions interrogated a White Zetsu clone about what farting felt like while Madara and Obito watched.
• Rinto arrived at the base and greeted Madara as A-Jie reported that the interrogation had only just begun.
• Obito recognized Rinto, asked whether Rin was well, and begged him for a ride to Konoha.
• Rinto declined Obito’s request and left him to recover, while noting that Madara’s plan would bring tragedy regardless of who carried it out.