Chapter Summaries

Kakuzu fought Mako after Satoru transformed her into a powerful red monster, while Fire God tried to bring her back. The children escaped with Sarutobi Sasuke, but Mako’s malice overwhelmed her again, and Fire God and Kakuzu joined forces to subdue her as Uchiha Gin watched from the shadows.

• Kakuzu used the Absorb Queen card to transform and attack Mako, but Satoru covered her in crimson keratin and turned her into a red monster.
• Mako wounded Kakuzu with her claws, and Chomei warned him that her malice could only be sealed; Kakuzu instead held her off while Hiruzen and the other children rescued Sarutobi Sasuke.
• Kakuzu gathered the Gold Bricks, but he stopped to help Fire God awaken Mako, and their interruption caused Satoru to regain control and strike them both.
• Fire God explained Mako’s unusual physical strength and offered Kakuzu 35 million to help subdue her, naming himself as payment; Kakuzu agreed and joined the fight.
• Uchiha Gin watched from the shadows and realized that Mako might be turned into a transformation item.

Uchiha Gin arrived in a small town while searching for his missing blanket and found Kakuzu and Fire God fighting a red monster. The monster, Satoru, overpowered them as Fire God tried to reach Mako, and the chapter ended with Kakuzu holding him back while Satoru’s strength continued to grow.

• Uchiha Gin used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach Kagami Uchiha’s location and sensed several familiar people and a powerful malicious presence in the town.
• Uchiha Gin entered the Shadow Realm, where Kaguya Wang Liang cleared its negative effects and gave him a Driver, allowing him to transform into the Wang Liang Knight.
• Uchiha Gin watched Kakuzu and Fire God fight a red monster that he suspected could become a Knight transformation item.
• The monster battered Fire God and injured Kakuzu, who retreated briefly before resolving to defend Fire God and the townspeople.
• Satoru revealed that she had been sealed in the Box of Paradise and grew stronger by absorbing the town’s fear and despair.
• Satoru overwhelmed Kakuzu, and Kakuzu restrained Fire God as he tried to reach Mako.

Uchiha Gin arrived on the battlefield, recovered Kakuzu’s stolen gold, healed Fire God, and stopped Satoru from killing him. As Satoru transformed and attacked, Gin swallowed it with a black mouth, then learned Fire God had a secret technique that could kill Mako.

• Uchiha Madara prepared to enter the battle, but Uchiha Gin appeared first, and Kakuzu nervously returned the gold he had taken from a child.
• Uchiha Gin healed the nearly dead Fire God, then knocked Satoru away when it attacked him from behind.
• Kakuzu explained that Fire God and Mako had fled after Mako began eating people, and Uchiha Gin condemned Fire God for allowing it.
• Mako briefly regained control, but Satoru tried to stab Fire God; Uchiha Gin stopped the attack and confronted Satoru.
• Satoru transformed into a beast and charged Uchiha Gin, who swallowed it with a black mouth that opened in the ground.
• Fire God told Uchiha Gin he could use the Heavenly Prison Technique to completely kill Mako.

Fire God tried to destroy Satoru with the Great Fire Heavenly Prison Technique, but Uchiha Gin intervened, killed the monster, and captured it in a new card called Alpha. Mako survived, and Gin ordered her and Fire God to spend their lives protecting the town they had harmed.

• Fire God escaped prison and explained that he had once placed the Heavenly Prison Technique on Mako to suppress her rampage.
• Fire God used the Great Fire Heavenly Prison Technique against Satoru, and Mako briefly regained control to beg him to kill her.
• Uchiha Gin stopped Fire God, overpowered Satoru, and destroyed it with a Rider Kick.
• Uchiha Gin absorbed Satoru's remains into a blank card and named the new card Alpha.
• Mako woke up alive, and Fire God apologized to Uchiha Gin, who ordered the pair to protect Nozama for the rest of their lives.

Uchiha Gin gave Mako a knight’s card and Transformation Device, then gave Uchiha Madara a Nine-Tails Card before returning to Konoha. His teleportation landed him in Uchiha Hikari’s room, where she trapped him.

• Uchiha Gin recognized Senju blood in Mako, gave her a card and Transformation Device, and healed Fire God after rejecting his request to become a knight.
• Fire God and Mako promised to settle in town and protect it, while Fire God resolved to eliminate the Kusagakure extremists who had placed a bounty on him.
• Uchiha Gin left Kakuzu to teach Mako the knightly code, and Uchiha Madara watched him before deciding to challenge him after dealing with Hashirama.
• Uchiha Madara asked Uchiha Gin to help him become a Tailed Beast Knight, and Uchiha Gin gave him a Nine-Tails Card but no Transformation Device.
• Uchiha Gin returned to Konoha and accidentally teleported into Uchiha Hikari’s room, where she revealed she had been waiting with his pillow.

Sarutobi Sasuke’s team prepared to return to Konoha after learning that Hunter Knight Sword had defeated the ghost, while Fire God and Mako settled in Nozama as its night watchman and his wife. On the road, Uchiha Madara questioned Nine-Tails about the chakra in a Tailed Beast Card, and Nine-Tails began explaining how it had lost its dignity in the Land of Lightning.

• Hiruzen, Kagami Uchiha, and the other children recovered from their mission failure as Sarutobi Sasuke confirmed Hunter Knight Sword had eliminated the ghost and prepared the team to leave Nozama.
• Kakuzu, posing as Hunter Knight Sword, convinced the mayor he had defeated the ghost and collected the eighty-thousand-ryo reward.
• Fire God and Mako found the mayor’s night-watchman recruitment notice, and Fire God accepted the job after assuring the former mayor that ghosts did not frighten him.
• Hiruzen and Kagami Uchiha wondered whether the couple they had seen at the restaurant looked familiar, but Danzo persuaded them to dismiss the thought as the team headed back to Konoha.
• Uchiha Madara showed Nine-Tails a Tailed Beast Card containing its chakra, and Nine-Tails admitted it recognized the chakra after Madara promised to buy it a roast chicken.
• Nine-Tails tearfully claimed it had lost the dignity of being a male beast in the Land of Lightning.

Uchiha Madara opened Uchiha Gin’s Storage Scroll, found a golden pyramid and a briefcase containing an item he valued above its Gold Bricks, then used the scroll to gather roast chickens for the Nine-Tails. After the Nine-Tails ate, Madara defeated and sealed it with the Tailed Beast Card, capturing the last Tailed Beast.

• Uchiha Madara wrapped up the Tailed Beast Card, opened Uchiha Gin’s Storage Scroll, and discovered a pyramid made of Gold Bricks with a silver briefcase at its peak.
• Uchiha Madara opened the briefcase, found a familiar item he had long wanted, and thanked Uchiha Gin.
• Uchiha Madara tried to buy roast chickens for the Nine-Tails, but the restaurant owner mistook his request for an order of women; Madara used genjutsu to make the owner gather actual roast chickens.
• Uchiha Madara released the stored chickens for the hungry Nine-Tails, which ate its fill while Madara prepared the Tailed Beast Card.
• The Nine-Tails refused to become a Tailed Beast Knight, so Uchiha Madara subdued it with Susanoo and Sharingan genjutsu, then sealed it inside the card.

Uchiha Gin fought a one-eyed Uchiha who resembled Obito, but the system rewarded him with a fragment of the niche Thousand Years of Death skill instead of a Mangekyo ability. After treating Sarutobi Sasuke’s hungry team to barbecue, Gin’s village heard Sasuke’s account of the failed Nozama mission and the powerful Tailed Beast Knight, while the Senju brothers considered Kusagakure’s involvement.

• Uchiha Gin defeated the one-eyed Uchiha NPC, suspected he was Obito, and received another Thousand Years of Death skill fragment.
• Uchiha Gin met Sarutobi Sasuke and his exhausted team, then took the children for barbecue to celebrate their safe return.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju argued over their workload and Uchiha Madara’s absence before Sarutobi Sasuke reported the failed Nozama mission.
• Sarutobi Sasuke described the demon, the Grass Country rogue ninja, and the Tailed Beast Knight, prompting Tobirama Senju to suspect the missing Takigakure rogue ninja was Hunter Knight Sword.
• Tobirama Senju condemned Kusagakure’s actions, while Hashirama Senju warned him against dangerous research and agreed to pay for barbecue.
• At Da Lang Barbecue Restaurant, the children fought over the meat, and Uchiha Gin asked Kagami Uchiha for clues about a recent robbery at his house.

Uchiha Madara returned to Konoha, gave Uchiha Gin two upgrade buckles for his Knight System, and reunited with Hashirama Senju. After Hashirama won back his gambling money and learned Madara had captured the Nine-Tails in a Tailed Beast Card, Madara challenged him to a long-awaited battle.

• Uchiha Gin learned that Uchiha Kagami had received his missing blankets from Sister Guang and gave Kagami a Storage Scroll full of money.
• Uchiha Madara returned and showed Uchiha Gin his Gray Box and two buckles, which Gin explained could enhance the Knight System.
• Uchiha Gin urged Madara to report to Hashirama Senju and clear up the Uchiha clan’s suspicions, but Madara said he would do so after defeating Hashirama.
• Hashirama Senju borrowed ten thousand ryo from Uchiha Madara, won a large sum at the Gambling House, and repaid the loan.
• Uchiha Madara told Hashirama Senju that he had captured the Nine-Tails and showed him its Tailed Beast Card.
• Uchiha Madara challenged Hashirama Senju to fight, and Hashirama accepted.

Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju fought a sparring match, escalating from weapons and Wood Release to the Nine-Tails clad in Susanoo. Madara’s water-skipping Tailed Beast Ball traveled across the sea and returned to strike him and the Nine-Tails, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Uchiha Madara summoned the Nine-Tails and subdued it with Mangekyo genjutsu while Hashirama Senju destroyed its Wood Dragon.
• Hashirama Senju brought out the Wood Man, and Uchiha Madara wrapped the Nine-Tails in Susanoo to withstand a Tailed Beast Ball reflected back at them.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara moved their fight to the coast after Madara’s blades cut through Hashirama’s Hotei Technique and damaged the surrounding terrain.
• Uchiha Madara launched a bladed Tailed Beast Ball across the sea, and it passed Hashirama Senju despite his attempt to deflect it with five Rashomon gates.
• The Tailed Beast Ball returned from across the sea and struck the Nine-Tails in the face, blasting it and Uchiha Madara hundreds of meters away.

Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju continued their battle, with Hashirama unleashing Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands and Madara countering with a hidden Mangekyo technique. After Hashirama captured the Nine-Tails, Madara revealed a Driver and prepared to transform into the Nine-Tailed Knight.

• Uchiha Tajima used Susanoo and Uchiha Reflection to absorb and return the Armored Tailed Beast Ball, saving Wave Country from destruction.
• Hashirama Senju summoned Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, and its countless fists overwhelmed the Nine-Tails and shattered most of its Susanoo armor.
• Hashirama Senju captured the Nine-Tails and tried to control it, but Uchiha Madara used Kotoamatsukami: Radiance to destroy the Wooden Arhat and its Wood Dragon.
• Hashirama Senju proposed a draw, but Uchiha Madara refused and revealed that he had a final trump card.
• Uchiha Madara recalled the Nine-Tails into its Tailed Beast Card, opened a silver briefcase, and fastened a Tailed Beast Knight Driver around his waist.
• Uchiha Madara inserted the Nine-Tailed Card into the Driver and announced his transformation.

Uchiha Madara first transformed into a weak Fox Knight and was beaten by Hashirama Senju until he equipped a Fire Release Buckle and fought back. After their finishing attacks left Madara badly injured, a mysterious Black Blue Buckle appeared and began transforming him as Uchiha Gin watched in alarm.

• Uchiha Madara transformed into a plain black Fox Knight, but his empty Driver left him unable to match Hashirama Senju, who pummeled him while Uchiha Gin watched.
• Uchiha Gin realized Madara had not equipped any Buckles, and Madara used a Fire Release Buckle to gain fiery armor and overpower Hashirama Senju.
• Hashirama Senju revealed his full Sage Art Super Strength Fist, and the two fighters' finishing blows collided, leaving Madara with a shattered forearm.
• A mysterious voice offered Madara power, and the discarded blank Buckle transformed into an ominous Black Blue Buckle that clouded his mind.
• Madara removed his red Buckle, split the Black Blue Buckle, and inserted its halves into his Driver as Uchiha Gin watched in shock.

Uchiha Madara transformed into the Black Fox Knight, but Indra took control of his body and fought Hashirama Senju. Indra learned that Madara and Hashirama were close friends, then faced Hashirama’s Wood Human Technique while Madara sought help from Nine-Tails inside his consciousness.

• Black Zetsu’s mental suggestion activated Indra’s Chakra in the Buckle, and Indra took over Uchiha Madara’s body.
• Indra defeated Hashirama Senju in battle and questioned him about his relationship with Madara.
• Black Zetsu realized Indra had awakened and fled underground toward Konoha.
• Hashirama told Indra that Madara was his closest friend, while Indra revealed the answer to the imprisoned Madara.
• Madara asked Nine-Tails to help him escape, as Hashirama used Kōan Entering the City with Helping Hands and then summoned his Wood Human Technique against Indra.

Indra overwhelmed Hashirama Senju with his Susanoo, while the Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura worried about Indra’s return and Kaguya briefly enjoyed Uchiha Gin’s food. After Hashirama Senju failed to remove the Black Fox Belt Buckle, Indra entered Uchiha Madara’s consciousness and defeated him, but Madara’s gray Driver appeared as Indra claimed Hashirama was dead.

• Indra summoned an enormous Susanoo and battered Hashirama Senju’s Wood Men while Hashirama struggled to gather enough Natural Energy to fight back.
• The Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura discussed Indra’s awakening and worried that no one could stop him, while the Sage predicted Kaguya might soon break out of prison.
• Uchiha Gin watched Indra torment Hashirama Senju, served Kaguya lemonade and grilled chicken wings, then decided to intervene before Hashirama was killed.
• Hashirama Senju tried to remove the Black Fox Belt Buckle to free Uchiha Madara, but Indra struck him down and prepared to kill him.
• Indra was pulled into Uchiha Madara’s consciousness, where he knocked down the Nine-Tails and defeated Madara in combat.
• Indra told Uchiha Madara that Hashirama Senju was already dead, and a gray Driver appeared around Madara’s waist amid sudden flames.

Uchiha Madara used the Nine-Tails Card to transform into Geats IX and defeated Indra in the sea of consciousness, regaining control of his body and saving Hashirama Senju. Indra then resurfaced and struck Hashirama, leaving Madara’s armor caught between their competing forms.

• Uchiha Gin’s attempt to summon Wang Liang failed when Kaguya returned his trash through the Shadow Realm and told him not to bother her.
• Uchiha Madara called on the Nine-Tails and used the Tailed Beast Card to transform into the red-and-white Geats IX.
• Uchiha Madara fought Indra in the sea of consciousness, and the Nine-Tails replenished his Chakra when Indra began to overpower him.
• Uchiha Madara defeated Indra and regained control of his body, allowing him to reach Hashirama Senju before Indra’s sword could strike.
• Indra suddenly regained influence, blasted Hashirama Senju into a rock, and resumed fighting Uchiha Madara for control of the armor.

Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju fought Indra after he took control of Madara’s body, and Uchiha Gin’s Equipment Card let Madara become a sword that Hashirama wielded. They defeated Indra and restored Madara to his body, but the Nine-Tails remained terrified that Indra would retaliate.

• Indra overpowered Uchiha Madara in their struggle for control, took over the Fox Knight, and blasted Hashirama Senju away.
• Uchiha Madara became a white-and-red longsword, and Hashirama Senju used it to fight Indra as Madara urged him on.
• Uchiha Gin watched from a distant mountain and noted that his Equipment Card had worked as Indra began to run out of Chakra.
• Indra tried to provoke Hashirama Senju into killing Madara, but Hashirama’s strike shattered the Nine-Tailed Belt Buckle and ended Indra’s control.
• Hashirama Senju caught the unconscious Uchiha Madara, who returned to his body, and the two rested while discussing their fight.
• The Nine-Tails begged Uchiha Madara to kill it rather than leave it near Indra, but Madara said he would find it again after it was reborn.

Hashirama Senju carried a gravely wounded Uchiha Madara back to Konoha, where Hashirama donated blood to save him. Tobirama Senju went to fetch Uchiha Gin but landed in a pigpen, leaving the village residents to mistake him for someone attacking the sows.

• Hashirama Senju discovered that Uchiha Madara’s waist wound was still bleeding and carried him toward Konoha while the Nine-Tails waited inside Madara’s consciousness.
• Tobirama Senju found Hashirama Senju and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take him and Uchiha Madara to Konoha Hospital.
• Doctors treated Hashirama Senju’s damaged meridians and warned that Uchiha Madara would die without an immediate blood transfusion.
• Hashirama Senju revealed that he and Uchiha Madara shared a blood type, donated blood, and brought Madara out of danger.
• Tobirama Senju tried to teleport to Uchiha Gin but appeared in a pigpen and fell among the sows, prompting someone to report an attack to the Uchiha Security Force.

Tobirama Senju sought Uchiha Gin after Uchiha Madara returned badly injured, and Hashirama Senju recounted how Madara became a Nine-Tailed Knight and fought a mysterious Black Fox Knight. Madara woke and explained that DiQi-bro had given him the Nine-Tailed Card, while Gin began to share a guess about the Black Fox Knight’s identity after demanding iced red tea.

• Tobirama Senju escaped a pigsty after a sealing trap briefly stopped his Chakra, then went to Uchiha Gin’s House and urgently summoned Gin.
• At Konoha Hospital, Hashirama Senju told Uchiha Gin and Tobirama Senju that Uchiha Madara had transformed into the Nine-Tailed Knight, fought the Black Fox Knight, and turned into a sword before being rescued.
• Tobirama Senju questioned Gin about Madara’s Transformation Device and Tailed Beast Card, and Gin said he had given Madara the device but did not know where the Nine-Tailed Card came from.
• Uchiha Madara woke, revealed that DiQi-bro had given him the card in Nozama, and described how DiQi-bro defeated a man-eating demon and made it into a card.
• Uchiha Gin explained that conscious Chakra could be made into cards or items, and Uchiha Madara said his remaining consciousness had become light particles before he rescued Hashirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju asked Gin for his thoughts on the Black Fox Knight, and Gin offered an unverified guess in exchange for iced red tea before rejecting Tobirama’s room-temperature bottle.

Uchiha Gin blamed the Black Fox Knight’s possession of Uchiha Madara on chakra embedded in the Uchiha Clan’s ancestral stone tablet. After Hashirama Senju restored Madara’s reputation and appointed him Hokage Assistant, the chapter ended with Konoha’s clan leaders speculating that Madara might become Hokage.

• Uchiha Gin theorized that the Black Fox Knight was chakra and consciousness left on the ancestral stone tablet by a past Uchiha Clan Member, and Uchiha Madara recalled feeling watched while meditating there.
• Uchiha Madara said he would apologize to the Uchiha Clan, and Hashirama Senju promised to announce his return and clear up the misunderstanding about his departure.
• Uchiha Gin woke after Senju Itama struck him and learned that Hashirama Senju had publicly revealed Madara’s mission and appointed him Hokage Assistant.
• Sarutobi Sasuke and the Ninja Clan Alliance discussed Madara’s return, while the Nara Clan Leader suggested that Madara was close to becoming Hokage.

Uchiha Madara returned to Konoha, reunited with the Uchiha Clan, and revealed that he had become a Nine-Tailed Knight. After defeating Uchiha Izuna in a spar, he asked Uchiha Gin for advice on his new Hokage responsibilities, prompting Gin to volunteer for prison work again.

• Uchiha Madara returned to the Uchiha Clan and apologized to his clansmen, who knelt in response.
• Uchiha Madara told Uchiha Izuna that he had become a Tailed Beast Knight and revealed his Nine-Tails Driver.
• Uchiha Izuna learned that Uchiha Gin had known about Madara's mission all along and lamented being left out.
• Uchiha Gin visited the brothers, discussed Madara's Driver, and watched Madara defeat Izuna in under three minutes.
• Uchiha Madara asked Uchiha Gin for advice on his Hokage authority, and Gin eagerly requested reinstatement as a prison guard.