Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gin offered Hozuki Gengetsu, Mū, and Shamon free Transformation Devices under a pledge not to use Tailed Beast power in wars, with an exception for battles against Tailed Beasts. After Gin subdued the Two-Tails, gave Kinkaku a device, and left as “DiQi-bro,” the villages returned home and began seeking Tailed Beast Cards to create their own Knights.

• Hozuki Gengetsu, Mū, and Shamon initially rejected Gin’s Knight Pledge, then accepted after learning Knights could fight in wars against Tailed Beasts, and Gin gave each of them a Transformation Device.
• Gin rescued Ginkaku by sealing the Two-Tails into a card, sent the Seven-Tails fleeing, and gave Kinkaku a Transformation Device as well.
• Gin explained how to transform, answered questions about berserk Knights and their strength, then left after introducing himself as “DiQi-bro”; the rival village leaders immediately grew wary of one another.
• Kinkaku prevented the leaders from fighting and sent them back to their villages, while Gin’s Konoha group ended its mission and planned a leisurely return.
• Mū sought Tailed Beast Cards from Lord Shi He, Hozuki Gengetsu took a Six-Tails Card from Katsura, Kinkaku asked the First Raikage for the Eight-Tails Card, and Shamon reported Sunagakure’s predicament to Lie Dou.

Uchiha Gin visited a Ghost Soldier Squad base in the Capital City, learned that the squad had expanded into a peacekeeping and intelligence network, and then returned to the hotel with a business card that made the three women believe he had visited a red-light establishment. He ended the night restrained and facing Uchiha Hikari’s anger, still protesting his innocence.

• Uchiha Gin followed Uchiha Heita into a hidden Ghost Soldier Squad base, where the members greeted him enthusiastically and asked for his autograph.
• Uchiha Heita explained that the Ghost Soldier Squad’s Waterfall Country unit served as a Peacekeeping Force, and that the squad had bases in every country’s capital to monitor nobles and Daimyo.
• Uchiha Gin told the squad to treat its existing bases as intelligence agencies and gather dirt on the Daimyo.
• Uchiha Gin returned to the hotel after the three women had filled their Storage Scrolls with shopping, and Senju Itama accidentally knocked the Female Ninja Miserable card from his pocket.
• Uchiha Hikari, Uchiha Chiri, and Senju Itama saw the card and the Red Light District outside the window, then subdued Uchiha Gin while he tried to explain himself.

Uchiha Gin returned to Konoha and told Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Uchiha Madara about the Tailed Beast Knights he had encountered. Uchiha Madara decided he wanted to become one to defeat Hashirama Senju, but hesitated over the responsibility he owed his clan.

• Uchiha Gin returned to Konoha exhausted and recounted how Ginkaku had transformed into a Tailed Beast Knight and fought the other villages’ candidates.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju questioned the origin and danger of the Tailed Beast Knight belts, while Uchiha Gin claimed his own cards came from techniques taught by a mysterious master named Bandai.
• Tobirama Senju decided Konoha should search for the Nine-Tails and investigate Tailed Beast Knights, while Uchiha Madara asked Uchiha Gin whether becoming one could let him defeat Hashirama Senju.
• Uchiha Madara went to the Nanga River Shrine, resolved to become a Tailed Beast Knight, and then worried about pursuing the Nine-Tails while his clan expected him to become Hokage.
• Black Zetsu watched Uchiha Madara and misunderstood his conflict as resentment toward Hashirama Senju, but was baffled when Madara declared he would become a Tailed Beast Knight.

Uchiha Madara convened a clan meeting and announced that he would leave Konoha to seek new power, despite Uchiha Gin and Uchiha Izuna trying to dissuade him. He left the Uchiha clan stunned and questioning whether he was abandoning his chance to become Hokage.

• Uchiha Huoke told Uchiha Gin that the clan meeting would take place the next morning, and Senju Itama made Gin wear his old Konoha Founding outfit by denying him food.
• Uchiha Gin met Uchiha Izuna, Uchiha Lucha, and Uchiha Setsuna outside the shrine before Izuna brought him inside to meet Uchiha Madara.
• Uchiha Izuna revealed that Madara planned to leave the village to capture the Nine-Tails and gain new power, while Gin warned that this could cost Madara his Hokage candidacy.
• Uchiha Madara entered the meeting expecting to announce his departure, but the clan members celebrated the prospect of him becoming Hokage and began planning a celebration.
• With Gin's encouragement, Uchiha Madara quieted the gathering and announced that he would leave Konoha, telling the shocked clan that he was informing them rather than asking for their approval.

Uchiha Madara planned to leave Konoha to seek the Nine-Tails, but Uchiha Gin and Hashirama Senju arranged a secret mission that gave him a legitimate reason to go. After seeing his clan beg him to stay, Madara resolved to become a Tailed Beast Knight and prove himself, though his blunt dismissal of them left the clan deeply confused.

• Uchiha Madara told the Uchiha clan he was leaving, then Uchiha Gin followed him and guessed that he intended to capture the Nine-Tails.
• Hashirama Senju arrived and tried to persuade Madara to stay, while Tobirama Senju accused him of rebellion before hearing the situation.
• Uchiha Gin spotted Tobirama's proposal for a secret mission to inspect the Four Great Nations' compliance with the Peace Agreement and investigate the Tailed Beast Knight, and recommended Madara for it.
• Hashirama Senju wrote Madara a mission order, and Tobirama Senju gave him three days to decide whether to accept the secret assignment.
• Uchiha Madara found the Uchiha clan kneeling and pleading for him to stay, then resolved to become a Tailed Beast Knight and defeat Hashirama fairly.
• Uchiha Madara told the clansmen they would only delay his plans and die if they followed him, prompting Uchiha Gin to lament his poor choice of words.

Uchiha Madara left Konoha on a secret mission, leaving Uchiha Izuna to lead the Uchiha Clan while he was away. Two years later, Uchiha Izuna married Mihui Zi, but Uchiha Madara was still absent.

• Uchiha Izuna tried to persuade Uchiha Madara to stay, but Uchiha Gin told him to prepare to take over as Clan Leader.
• Uchiha Madara suppressed Uchiha Izuna with his Eternal Eyes and slipped away from the clan, then met Hashirama and Tobirama, who tasked him with a secret mission.
• Uchiha Gin saw Uchiha Madara off with a Storage Scroll and asked him to teach Iwagakure a lesson for Shi He's insults.
• After Uchiha Madara's unauthorized departure, Hashirama did not declare him a defector, and Uchiha Izuna led the clan as its members grew more reserved.
• Two years later, Uchiha Gin attended Uchiha Izuna's wedding to Mihui Zi, where Hashirama, Tobirama, and members of other clans offered congratulations despite Uchiha Madara's continued absence.

Uchiha Gin officiated Uchiha Izuna and Uchiha Mihui Zi's wedding, where a cat delivered Uchiha Madara's message to Izuna. Meanwhile, Uchiha Madara headed toward Iwagakure, Gin reunited with Uzumaki Mito, and the Senju brothers learned that Wave Country and Whirlpool Country planned to establish offices and support a school in Konoha.

• Uchiha Gin stopped Little Danzo from attacking a cat, then suggested that Tobirama Senju open a school.
• Uchiha Gin officiated Uchiha Izuna and Uchiha Mihui Zi's wedding while Uchiha Tajima watched from a disguised group of Wave Country merchants.
• A cat delivered Uchiha Madara's wedding wishes and told Uchiha Izuna to quit Little Emperor Uncle, leaving Izuna to face an angry Uchiha Mihui Zi.
• Uchiha Madara, grieving that he had missed Izuna's wedding, set off toward Iwagakure to vent his frustration.
• Uchiha Gin met Uzumaki Mito in a secret room and was bound by her golden chains after Uchiha Tajima left them alone.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju learned that Wave Country and Whirlpool Country planned to establish offices in Konoha, share Sealing Technique gradually, and donate a school.

Uchiha Madara confronted Mū and Ōnoki in Iwagakure, where Mū transformed into a Tailed Beast Knight and briefly threatened Madara before the transformation's backlash left him incapacitated. Madara spared them and left for the Land of Lightning, where the Nine-Tails was feasting on Cloud Village ninjas.

• Mū failed to communicate with the Five-Tails, and Ōnoki reported that Shi He had failed again to capture the Four-Tails.
• Uchiha Madara entered Iwagakure's secret chambers, reprimanded Mū and Ōnoki, and destroyed the chambers with his Susanoo.
• Mū transformed into a Tailed Beast Knight, shattered Madara's Susanoo fist with Horn Break, and then collapsed from the transformation's backlash.
• Ōnoki protected Mū, and Madara spared them on the condition that they keep his visit secret.
• Madara left Iwagakure and flew toward the Land of Lightning while searching for the Nine-Tails.
• The Nine-Tails ate a Cloud Village ninja in a canyon and welcomed the approaching group as more food.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku confronted the rampaging Nine-Tails, but their Tailed Beast Cards transformed them into powerful Knights and the battle ended with the Nine-Tails swallowing them. The Nine-Tails was left grieving over losing its manhood, while the brothers’ fate remained unknown.

• First Raikage A sent Kinkaku and Ginkaku to subdue the Nine-Tails, and promised to consider them for Raikage Candidate positions if they succeeded.
• First Raikage A appointed Little A as the Second Raikage and arranged to remain as an advisor.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku found that the Nine-Tails had killed the rest of their squad and entered the gorge to confront it.
• Their Tailed Beast Cards flew into their Transformation Devices, turning Ginkaku into the Two-Tails Knight and Kinkaku into the Eight-Tails Knight.
• The brothers wounded the Nine-Tails, and Ginkaku severed its manhood before the beast fired a barrage of Tailed Beast Balls.
• The Nine-Tails swallowed Kinkaku and Ginkaku whole, then mourned its lost manhood as the brothers’ fate remained unknown.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku survived being swallowed by the Nine-Tails by eating its Chakra from within, then escaped and reunited with the Second Raikage. The Nine-Tails fled to the Fire Country, still wounded and vowing revenge.

• The Tailed Beast Cards protected Kinkaku and Ginkaku inside the Nine-Tails, where Gyūki and Matatabi urged them to consume and refine the beast’s Chakra.
• After two weeks of eating the Nine-Tails from within, Kinkaku and Ginkaku were expelled when it forced them out of its stomach.
• The Second Raikage arrived and attacked the Nine-Tails, then joyfully embraced Kinkaku and Ginkaku after discovering they were alive.
• The First Raikage joined the fight and injured the Nine-Tails, which fled toward the Fire Country after dodging the Raikages’ attacks.
• Kinkaku grieved that he had missed his chance to become the Second Raikage, but the Raikages encouraged him and Ginkaku to aim for the Third Hokage instead.
• The Nine-Tails discovered its wound could not heal and swore revenge over its severed kun.

Uchiha Izuna and Uchiha Mihui Zi welcomed a son, whose name Uchiha Gin changed from Fugaku to Fuyuu. After learning the news, Uchiha Madara captured the Nine-Tails with his Mangekyo genjutsu and headed back to Konoha with it under his control.

• Uchiha Izuna anxiously waited outside the operating room while Uchiha Gin learned that Uchiha Mihui Zi and her baby were safe.
• Uchiha Izuna and Uchiha Mihui Zi named their son Fugaku, but Uchiha Gin spilled milk and then used a dirty towel on Izuna before persuading them to rename the baby Fuyuu.
• Uchiha Tajima celebrated becoming a grandfather, while Uchiha Madara received the news about Izuna's newborn son and set out to capture the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Madara confronted the Nine-Tails, subdued it with Susanoo, and controlled it with Mangekyo genjutsu.
• Uchiha Madara rode the controlled Nine-Tails toward Konoha, while the fox feared being taken back to the territory of its old enemy.

Uchiha Madara stopped in a town to find food and encountered Kakuzu, who tried to sell him a loan. After learning the town's ghosts abducted and ate people, Madara discovered Konoha's mission team was already investigating the disappearances, including Sarutobi Sasuke and the children he was escorting.

• Uchiha Madara ran out of money at a restaurant, angered the owner when he refused an unwanted advance, and left without eating.
• Kakuzu approached Uchiha Madara as a bounty hunter and loan shark, but Madara trapped him in a Sharingan genjutsu before Kakuzu broke free and recalled Chomei's warning about the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Madara learned that ghosts abducted people after dark and followed an elderly former mayor home to hear about the town's history and missing victims.
• The former mayor told Uchiha Madara that the town had hired a Konoha team to investigate, and Madara learned Sarutobi Sasuke was leading it with several children.
• Sarutobi Sasuke questioned Hiruzen and the other children about their investigation, and Kagami Uchiha revealed that the earlier missing ninja had been named Fire God.

Sarutobi Sasuke sent Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, Kagami Uchiha, and the other young shinobi to watch for the ghost haunting the town while Uchiha Madara learned about a missing Grass Country ninja called Fire God. As the ghost approached, Fire God confronted it to save an orphaned boy, and the chapter ended with Hiruzen’s team waiting at the town gate and sharing Kagami’s snacks.

• Sarutobi Sasuke split the young shinobi into groups to watch the town gates and secretly sent two monkeys to keep an eye on them.
• Uchiha Madara questioned the former town mayor, who recounted how Fire God had vanished while confronting the ghost after saving an orphaned boy.
• Fire God appeared to confront the pale female ghost as it threatened the boy, but the mayor later said both the ninja and the boy had disappeared.
• Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and Kagami Uchiha kept watch near the town gate, where Hiruzen blamed Danzō for a hungry stomach growl before Kagami offered them snacks.

Sarutobi Sasuke learned that Kusagakure was hunting Fire God and Mako, a man-eating experimental subject, while Fire God and Mako found Hiruzen’s group. Kagami Uchiha and Hiruzen intervened as Mako reached for the sleeping Shimura Danzō, leaving the two sides facing off.

• Fire God and Mako emerged from their graveyard cave, and Mako murmured hungrily about eating.
• Sarutobi Sasuke overheard Kusagakure ninja searching for Fire God, captured one, and learned that Fire God had stolen Mako, a dangerous experimental subject.
• Fire God appeared at the abandoned house and let Mako devour the captive Kusagakure ninja.
• Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and Kagami Uchiha kept watch near town, where Kagami shared heated blankets and Danzō eventually fell asleep.
• Fire God and Mako approached the sleeping Danzō, but a Little Monkey distracted Mako with a banana peel before Fire God sent it away.
• Kagami attacked Mako with shuriken while Hiruzen pulled Danzō to safety, and Danzō woke up protesting that he had thought Hiruzen was his brother.

Hiruzen, Danzo, and Kagami fought Fire God and Mako, but the two overwhelmed them until Danzo’s Butt Release techniques briefly turned the tide. Just as Fire God’s Great Fireball threatened to kill them, a glowing blanket absorbed the flames, leaving everyone baffled.

• Mako pulled a shuriken from her unwounded chest as Fire God trapped Hiruzen, Danzo, and Kagami with Demon Lanterns and stopped their signal flare.
• Hiruzen and Danzo attacked Fire God while Kagami supported them, but Fire God revealed he had faked his defeat and badly injured Hiruzen.
• Mako seized Danzo and tore away his pants, but Danzo enlarged his buttocks and reflected Fire God’s Hair Breaking Palm with Butt Return.
• Kagami awakened his Sharingan and fought alongside Hiruzen, but Fire God defeated them and prepared to burn all three with a Great Fireball.
• A glowing blanket absorbed Fire God’s Great Fireball, while Uchiha Gin wondered where the Banshee Veil he had hung in his yard had gone.

Fire God fought off the Kusagakure squad sent to capture him while Hiruzen, Danzo, and Kagami Uchiha repeatedly tried to escape. As Mako devoured the defeated ninja, Fire God told the children how he and Mako had been taken in by a clan twenty years earlier, ending with young Fire God offering himself to protect her.

• Sarutobi Sasuke disguised himself as a Kusagakure ninja and joined the squad searching for Fire God.
• Hiruzen, Danzo, and Kagami Uchiha dodged Fire God's attacks, while Mako shielded him from poisoned kunai and blocked the children's escape.
• The Kusagakure captain tried to lure Fire God back with a promise that the village could cure Mako, but Fire God killed two ninja and defeated the captain in battle.
• Mako consumed the captain and the fallen Kusagakure ninja, while Fire God intercepted Hiruzen, Danzo, and Kagami as they tried to flee.
• Fire God introduced himself and explained that the Grass Fruit organization had transformed Mako, then agreed to tell the children their story after Kagami offered him snacks.
• Fire God began recounting how he and Mako were taken in as orphans by a ninja clan twenty years earlier, and young Fire God offered himself to the Divine Lord to protect Mako.

Fire God learned that the Grass Country elders planned to feed orphans to the Box of Paradise, and he rushed to rescue Mako from the ceremony. The chapter ended as he burst through the dome and attacked the guard holding her.

• Fire God asked the Elder when Mako could leave the Chakra Training Camp, and the Elder sent someone to investigate the box's progress.
• The Elder learned the Box of Paradise needed more Chakra, then ordered the ceremony to begin and had young orphans enter the box.
• Mako realized the ceremony would kill her and searched for an escape, but the guards caught her as the box remained unsatisfied.
• The Elder ordered Mako to be sacrificed, and Fire God crashed through the dome to strike the guard holding her.

Fire God tried to save Mako from being sacrificed to the Box of Paradise, but Mako emerged from it transformed into a ravenous monster. Years later, after the Elder’s death and Mako’s escape, Fire God reached a town in Fire Country and offered to take a mission to find her.

• Fire God killed the guards and confronted the Elder, who used the Heavenly Prison Technique to disable him and demanded that he enter the Box of Paradise in Mako’s place.
• Mako knocked Fire God down and sacrificed herself, but soon returned from the Box of Paradise as a black-mist-wielding monster that attacked the Elder and the arriving combatants.
• Fire God’s familiar touch briefly calmed Mako, and the Elder imprisoned them separately, using Fire God to help restrain her while researching her hunger and powers.
• A coup killed the Elder, Mako escaped after devouring the prison inmates, and Fire God later escaped when the new Grass ninja leader relaxed security.
• Fire God traveled across Grass Country and reached a town in Fire Country, where he introduced himself to the mayor and asked to take a mission amid rumors of a man-eating demon.

Fire God held Hiruzen, Kagami Uchiha, and Shimura Danzō captive while Mako defeated Sarutobi Sasuke, who had come to rescue them. As Uchiha Madara prepared to intervene, Kakuzu appeared in Seven-Tailed Knight armor to claim Fire God’s bounty.

• Fire God questioned the children about whether they would die for their teacher, then spared them because Kagami Uchiha’s uncle had taught him to fight back, though he tied them up to keep them quiet.
• A disguised Grass ninja revealed himself as Sarutobi Sasuke and attacked Mako, but she shrugged off his techniques and knocked him unconscious despite his summoning Monkey God as the Adamantine Staff.
• Uchiha Madara watched from a rooftop, noted Kagami Uchiha’s newly awakened Sharingan, and began forming Susanoo before another figure interrupted his entrance.
• Kakuzu appeared in Seven-Tailed Knight armor, identified Fire God as a rogue ninja with a 35-million-ryo bounty, and introduced himself as the Hunter Knight Sword.

Kakuzu fought Fire God and then Mako, whose body was overtaken by the Black Mist called Satoru, and considered abandoning the 35-million-ryo bounty. He agreed to help save Hiruzen’s father after Kagami Uchiha offered him a staggering pile of gold bricks as New Year money, leaving Kakuzu stunned by Kagami’s explanation of the gift.

• Kakuzu endured Fire God’s Hair Breaking Palm without injury, then defeated him in a sword fight and sent him flying beside Mako.
• Mako attacked Kakuzu, and Chomei identified the Black Mist consuming her as Satoru, malice sealed within the Box of Paradise.
• Chomei urged Kakuzu to retreat, but Hiruzen and the others pleaded with him to save Hiruzen’s father, and Kakuzu refused to work for free.
• Mako charged again, and Kakuzu freed the children while preparing to draw her away; Hiruzen offered 10,000 ryo, but Kakuzu rejected it.
• Kagami Uchiha produced brick after brick of gold as payment, and Kakuzu learned Kagami was an Uchiha who called the gold his New Year money.