Chapter Summaries

Torikaze cured Oyakashiro Tsukiyomi, who celebrated his restored health and promised the Ouyashiro Clan would repay him. After discussing how the clan should teach its painful history to younger generations, Tsukiyomi and Oyakashiro Homura agreed to introduce it gradually.

• Oyakashiro Tsukiyomi thanked Torikaze for curing him and promised the Ouyashiro Clan would help him whenever he needed it.
• Tsukiyomi discussed with Torikaze whether the clan's children should learn about their ancestors' suffering and roots in the Land of Lightning.
• Oyakashiro Homura joined them, saw his father's recovery, and promised that the Ouyashiro Clan would repay Torikaze's kindness.
• Torikaze left the father and son to talk, and Tsukiyomi told Homura that Torikaze supported teaching the clan's history.
• Tsukiyomi and Homura agreed to teach the children the clan's story gradually, so they could learn their history without being overwhelmed.

Oyakashiro Homura and Oyakashiro Tsukiyomi agreed to introduce the Ouyashiro Clan’s history to the children gradually. Meanwhile, Ran and Tomohiro led the Uzumaki Clan’s delegation to Amado’s daughter’s full-month banquet at Cloud Palace, where Ran proposed seeking a Chakra Herb to improve a future heir’s potential.

• Oyakashiro Homura suggested teaching the children their clan’s history in stages, and Oyakashiro Tsukiyomi agreed.
• Ran packed a gift for Amado’s daughter’s full-month banquet and joined Tomohiro and three young men at the clan gate.
• Tomohiro led the Uzumaki Clan’s party toward Torikaze’s World with four outfits crafted as their gift.
• Tomohiro told Ran that the banquet would be held at Cloud Palace, a palace of clouds and mist in the sky.
• Ran suggested buying a Chakra Herb from Lord Torikaze to restore a future heir’s potential and help the clan produce a powerful shinobi.

Tomohiro and Ran traveled to Konoha for Amado’s daughter’s one-month celebration, where they helped Torikaze and Amado finalize the banquet arrangements. With the Cloud Palace event nearly ready, the story left them awaiting the celebration and its lottery for access to the palace.

• Tomohiro and Ran discussed buying a Chakra Herb to help prepare a future Uzumaki heir, then led three teenagers through the portal to Torikaze’s World.
• Tomohiro’s group entered crowded Konoha after guards recognized Tomohiro and Ran, and Tomohiro warned the teenagers to speak and act carefully.
• Ran contacted Yahiko, who welcomed the visitors into the Cloud Clan Grounds and explained that Torikaze had stopped meeting the many people gathered outside.
• Torikaze and Amado briefed Tomohiro and Ran on the Cloud Palace preparations, and Ran helped Amado complete the banquet seating chart.
• Torikaze and Amado decided that only the Academy of Arts’ most capable students would perform at the banquet.
• Torikaze explained that the Cloud Palace would descend and a lottery would select which guests could ascend, while the event would be broadcast live.

Torikaze finalized the full-month celebration’s lottery for entry to Cloud Palace and discussed the Uzumaki Clan’s prospects with Ran and Tomohiro. He promised a Konoha partnership for Ran after practical training and offered to strengthen the clan’s chosen heir, leaving the clan’s broader development in its own hands.

• Torikaze said roughly twenty thousand people would be selected by lottery to enter Cloud Palace, with the draw held an hour before the celebration and livestreamed.
• Ran explained how the Uzumaki Clan was building influence and seeking partnerships, while worrying that the Land of Whirlpools might disappear without reform.
• Torikaze promised Ran one partnership with Konoha after he completed practical training, easing Ran’s concerns about his country.
• Ran and Tomohiro asked Torikaze to help the Uzumaki heirs overcome the effects of childhood malnutrition and develop their ninja abilities.
• Torikaze agreed to strengthen whichever heir the clan chose as its head, while reminding Tomohiro that the Uzumaki Clan had to resolve its own affairs.

Torikaze promised to help the Uzumaki Clan strengthen its next heir, then checked the other villages’ preparations for the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s arrival. The villages were moving ahead with their plans, and Torikaze announced that Konoha would introduce a cross-border supply transport tool within the next few years.

• Torikaze promised Tomohiro that he would help raise the strength of the Uzumaki Clan’s chosen heir, while reminding him that the clan had to resolve its own affairs.
• Konoha announced that Torikaze would hold the Cloud Palace drawing one hour before the Full Moon Banquet, and the villagers accepted the news calmly.
• Torikaze joined Minato, the village Kage, and Mifune in the Hokage Tower to ask how their preparations were progressing.
• Ōnoki described Iwagakure’s plans for a fortified city, Mifune reported the Land of Iron’s preparations, and the other leaders outlined their own village plans.
• Torikaze warned the leaders that the Ōtsutsuki Clan would arrive in ten years and said Konoha would soon introduce a tool for transporting supplies across national borders.

Torikaze briefed the Kage on the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s expected descent and a future Konoha supply-transport tool, then prepared for the village drawing and banquet. As crowds caused disorder in Konoha, Minato gathered ninja to maintain order while Torikaze remained at the office.

• Torikaze warned the Kage that the Ōtsutsuki Clan would act in ten years and said Konoha would create a scarce tool to transport supplies across national borders.
• Torikaze told the Kage the tool would eventually serve their countries and gave them gifts prepared by Amado for his daughter’s full-month celebration.
• Torikaze instructed Minato to gather around five thousand ninja to control the crowds before the drawing of twenty thousand people from Konoha’s seventy thousand residents.
• Xinyu reported that small-scale disorder had already broken out in Konoha, then learned Minato had left to gather ninja.

Torikaze prepared a random drawing to choose Konoha residents who could attend the full-month banquet at Cloud Palace. After the Crystal Flowers stopped firing petals, a Crystal Petal unexpectedly landed in the hands of a young man who had given up hope.

• Xinyu told Torikaze that small-scale disorder had appeared in Konoha and learned Minato had already gone to gather ninja.
• Konoha residents waited anxiously as Torikaze’s drawing approached, while a young man hoped to be selected so he could visit Cloud Palace.
• Torikaze announced that the Crystal Petals could not be given away or sold, and Crystal Flowers began firing petals throughout Konoha.
• The young man failed to catch a petal while the Crystal Flowers were active, and his companions comforted him as he accepted his bad luck.
• After the Crystal Flowers vanished, a final Crystal Petal struck the young man and landed in his hands.

The Crystal Flower drawing selected twenty thousand people to visit Cloud Palace, including a boy who had given up hope. As preparations continued, Tomohiro presented Amado and An'hua's daughter Xin with three lavish outfits as a gift.

• A boy received a crystal petal just as he thought the drawing had ended, and celebrated his chance to enter Cloud Palace with his companions.
• Torikaze announced that the drawing had ended and warned everyone not to demand, seize, or buy crystal petals.
• Villagers who won petals went home to dress for their trip to Cloud Palace, while the Cloud Clan Grounds completed preparations.
• Konan delivered Kurenai's outfits for Amado and An'hua to wear during their speeches.
• Tomohiro gave Amado three gemstone- and gold-trimmed outfits for Xin, and Amado thanked him while joking that she might grow into a spendthrift.

Amado received gifts for Xin’s one-month celebration from Tomohiro, Minato Namikaze, and Ran, including jeweled outfits, a gold Longevity Lock, and a rare pearl. As the celebration approached, Amado hurried back to dress Xin, while An'hua had not yet returned.

• Tomohiro gave Xin three luxurious outfits embroidered with gold and silver thread and set with gemstones.
• Minato Namikaze arrived late after handling an urgent matter in the village and gave Xin a pure-gold Longevity Lock.
• Ran presented Amado with a huge, rare pearl from the Land of Whirlpools, which Amado decided to display on a stand.
• Amado thanked the three men and learned from Konan that it was already eleven thirty, so he hurried to change Xin into her celebration clothes.
• Amado wondered where An'hua had gone as he prepared Xin for the one-month celebration.

Amado prepared Xin and An'hua for their daughter's full-month banquet before Torikaze transported the family and other guests to Cloud Palace. Torikaze summoned the palace above Konoha and told the waiting villagers to give staff time to prepare the banquet food.

• Amado returned to his room, helped An'hua get dressed, and put one of Tomohiro's outfits on Xin.
• Torikaze transported Amado, Xin, and the other guests to Cloud Palace, where he assigned them to help organize seating.
• Torikaze appeared above Konoha and summoned Cloud Palace, which descended through the clouds.
• A Cloud Ladder extended to the ground, and Torikaze asked villagers to wait twenty minutes while staff brought up the food.
• Konoha's villagers cleared a path to the major restaurants so the staff could carry the food to Cloud Palace.

Torikaze prepared Cloud Palace for a huge banquet, and villagers and guests began boarding the floating venue. Performers and visiting leaders also made their way toward the palace as excitement spread through Konoha.

• Torikaze waited until staff had carried the banquet food to Cloud Palace, then opened the Cloud Ladder to token holders.
• Torikaze widened the Cloud Ladder, and Dan Katō and the Anbu organized the crowd into ten orderly lines.
• Kaguya Zhai, Mei Terumi, and Akeibi discussed their upcoming performance at Cloud Palace and prepared to leave after the villagers boarded.
• Ōnoki, Rōsha, and Liusha admired Cloud Palace as they flew toward it, while Mifune and Karatachi Yagura climbed the ladder.

The Kage and other dignitaries arrived at Cloud Palace for a banquet, where Hashirama’s family joined them and the guests settled into the hall. Karatachi Yagura learned that Ran was training in another world and that the Land of Whirlpools might soon rise again.

• Rōsha, Liusha, Mifune, and Karatachi Yagura made their way toward Cloud Palace as crowds gathered to see it.
• Karatachi Yagura used the Body Flicker Technique to reach the palace platform ahead of Mifune, then joined Ōnoki and the others.
• Konan escorted the Kage to the best table in the grand hall.
• Hashirama, Mito, Tobirama, and Ashina entered, quieting the hall, and Hashirama urged the guests to follow the seating arrangements.
• Karatachi Yagura asked about Ashina’s grandson Ran, and Hashirama explained that Torikaze had sent him to another world to gain experience.
• Karatachi Yagura said the Land of Whirlpools was poised to rise again and considered cooperating with it.

At a gathering in Cloud Palace, the leaders discussed the Land of Whirlpools’ prospects and how peace had reduced opportunities for ninja. The conversation turned to Xin’s birthday and the need to pass powerful techniques on to the next generation.

• Karatachi Yagura discussed Ran’s prospects and said he would cooperate with the Land of Whirlpools if the chance arose.
• Ashina said Ran would have to rebuild the country step by step and that he no longer wanted to manage its affairs.
• Hiruzen and Danzo told Hashirama and Karatachi Yagura about their work supervising construction for the Land of Water.
• Hashirama argued that construction teams could provide ninja with income and a future, while Tobirama defended protecting ordinary people from bandits.
• Hashirama shifted the discussion to Xin’s birthday, and Otsutsuki praised his granddaughter’s fighting spirit.
• Ōnoki offered to teach Xin Dust Release, while Liusha worried about passing on his Iron Sand technique after his disciple developed Gold Dust control.

At Xin’s full-month celebration, Amado explained a Windcloud Clan tradition in which a child chose an object representing a future area of talent. The five objects were laid out for Xin, and the chapter ended as Amado and An'hua called for her to crawl toward them.

• Otsutsuki spoke proudly about his granddaughter’s roughhousing, and Ōnoki offered to pass Dust Release on to her.
• The clan leaders mingled at Cloud Palace before Xin’s full-month celebration officially began.
• Torikaze told Hashirama that the Administrators had handled most of the celebration’s preparations.
• Amado and An'hua welcomed their guests and explained the ceremony for predicting Xin’s future talent.
• The Administrators laid out banknotes, an ancient book, a shuriken, a paintbrush, and a wrench, and Amado and An'hua called Xin toward them.

At Xin’s Full Moon Banquet, she chose both a ninja dart and a wrench, suggesting she might follow both the ninja arts and science. The clans began presenting gifts, and Uchiha Fugaku introduced a dazzling Sunflare Stone.

• Xin ignored the money and books, grabbed a ninja dart, and delighted the gathered crowd.
• Torikaze praised Xin’s choice, and Chisato asked to teach her as a disciple.
• Xin crawled back to pick up the wrench, prompting Amado to announce that she would pursue both ninja arts and science.
• Amado told the guests that he wanted Xin to follow her own heart, then the banquet moved on to dancing and gift presentations.
• Kagami presented Xin with a Uchiha War Fan, and the Senju Clan gave her a tree seed cultivated by Hashirama.
• Uchiha Fugaku presented a dazzling Sunflare Stone and explained that it absorbed sunlight and released it in darkness.

At Xin’s full-month celebration, clans and guests presented her with gifts, including a rare Sunflare Stone and an exquisitely crafted Glass Tree. Amado and An'hua thanked everyone, and Amado promised to tell Xin about each gift when she grew up.

• Hashirama’s tree seed was presented as the Senju Clan’s gift, and Uchiha Fugaku gave Xin a Sunflare Stone that could store and release sunlight.
• Torikaze told Minato he had never seen a Sunflare Stone and remarked that the world held many mysteries.
• Oyakashiro Homura presented a lifelike glass tree made by his clan’s artisans, and An'hua thanked him for the gift and its blessing for Xin.
• Villagers and other guests gave Xin food, fruit, dresses, and toys, while Amado sincerely thanked each giver.
• Amado said Xin was too young to respond to everyone’s kindness and promised that they would tell her where every gift came from when she grew up.

Amado’s guests gave Xin gifts at her one-month celebration before the Konoha Art Academy’s students performed. As the Minazuki siblings impressed the audience, Torikaze explained the Academy’s celebrity project, while Mifune began to grasp its purpose.

• Amado thanked the guests for their gifts to Xin and invited everyone to enjoy the food and the Academy of Arts performances.
• The first group of students sang and danced, quieting the hall as the guests watched and ate.
• The Minazuki siblings performed, with the elder sister dancing and the younger brother playing the flute.
• Karatachi Yagura praised the siblings, while Torikaze explained the business potential of the celebrity project to Ōnoki and Mifune.
• Torikaze noted that most selected performers came from the Land of Water and that Akeibi was Konoha’s strongest local student; the three girls were next to perform.

At the Konoha Art Academy showcase, students from the Land of Water impressed the audience, and the final performers included Akeibi, Kaguya Zhai, and Mei Terumi. Mei’s performance drew attention to her standing as the Terumi Clan’s future Mizukage candidate, while the Kage learned more about Akeibi’s recovery and her connection to Amado from Another World.

• Karatachi Yagura praised the Land of Water students’ performances, and Torikaze reflected on how the academy could help develop future artists and stars.
• The Yuki Clan siblings finished their performance to thunderous applause, strengthening their prospects and Kirigakure’s reputation.
• Amado introduced Akeibi, Kaguya Zhai, and Mei Terumi as the final performers, and the three girls overcame their nerves as they took the stage.
• Villagers discussed Akeibi’s talent and celebrated Mei, while her father defended her against a man who disparaged her performance.
• The Mizukage praised Mei, and Torikaze said she ranked among the top three students in her class.
• Minato explained that Akeibi was Sanzu Amado’s niece, brought back from Another World after suffering a terminal illness, prompting the Kage to marvel at Amado’s abilities.

Mei Terumi, Kaguya Zhai, and their classmate impressed the guests with their performance at Amado’s daughter’s full-month celebration. As the celebration entered its final stage, Torikaze told the Kage that Konoha’s supply-transportation tool would take at least two years to become operational.

• Minato explained that Kaguya Zhai was a girl from another world who had recovered from a terminal illness and was among the top students in her class.
• Mei Terumi, Kaguya Zhai, and their classmate performed a chorus that earned louder applause than the previous group.
• The Kage discussed the qualities needed to become a star, while Karatachi Yagura privately dismissed their skepticism about the plan.
• Amado announced that the formal celebration had ended and invited the guests to enjoy food and socialize.
• Torikaze isolated his table with a Sealing Technique and told the Kage that Konoha’s supply-transportation tool would take at least two years to be ready.

At the Full Moon Banquet, Torikaze agreed to show the Kage Konoha’s unfinished supply-transportation tool in two days. As the celebration ended, Hashirama discussed Nawaki’s wedding with Torikaze, while Ashina urged Ran to lead the Land of Whirlpools toward revival.

• The Kage asked Torikaze about Konoha’s transportation tool, and he said it would take at least two years to become operational and agreed to show them a completed section in two days.
• Torikaze lowered Cloud Palace and its Cloud Ladder as guests began leaving and photographing the view.
• Hashirama said he was leaving and reminded Torikaze to help choose a venue for Nawaki’s wedding; Torikaze agreed to take responsibility as Nawaki’s shishou.
• Ashina told Ran that the Land of Whirlpools’ revival depended on him, and Ran vowed to lead his people toward prosperity.