Chapter Summaries

Konoha’s new leadership assigned Danzo an unexpected department, prompting alarm from Shimura Shinji, while Kagami questioned why Danzo had been entrusted with selecting and training Tailed Beast Knights. Uchiha Gin explained that the Tailed Beast Cards and Drivers were being used to make rival factions clash, leaving Kagami uncertain about the plan.

• Hiruzen reprimanded Danzo over the Shimura Clan’s control of D-Rank Missions as the other leaders arrived and reacted to Danzo’s stench.
• Hiruzen and Kagami Uchiha opened Konoha’s first high-level meeting, where the elders received departmental duties and the Senju and Uchiha began withdrawing from village politics.
• Hiruzen and Kagami assigned Danzo authority over the department that selected and trained Tailed Beast Knights, shocking him and puzzling Shimura Kenichi.
• Shimura Shinji examined Danzo’s proposal and warned that Hiruzen was pushing the Shimura Clan into the center of a storm.
• Kagami asked Uchiha Gin why Danzo had been given control of the Tailed Beast Knight department, and Uchiha Gin said the Tailed Beast Cards and Drivers could make the factions fight over them.

Senju Hi Shin learned that Konoha was publicly recruiting a new Nine-Tailed Knight after the Shimura Clan failed to find a suitable candidate. When Uzumaki Mito announced that she also intended to apply, Hi Shin hurried off to register before Mito could reach the Nine-Tails.

• Senju Hi Shin grew angry at Hiruzen’s reforms and decided the Tailed Beast Knight System must not fall into the wrong hands.
• Danzo’s Shimura Clan tested its members against the Nine-Tailed Card, but each candidate collapsed under the Nine-Tails’ aura.
• Danzo announced a village-wide recruitment after the Shimura Clan failed to find a suitable Dunamis User and the system’s existence became public.
• Villagers gathered to read the recruitment notice, while Senju Hi Shin considered paying the two-million-ryo application fee.
• Uzumaki Mito recognized Senju Hi Shin as White Hair’s daughter and said she planned to try for the Nine-Tailed Knight’s power.
• Senju Hi Shin feared Mito might overcome the Nine-Tails with her sealing techniques, so she hurried away to register.

Hiruzen and Danzo turned the Tailed Beast Knight recruitment into a lucrative venture, while Kagami forced Danzo to pay thirty percent in taxes. At the Uchiha meeting, Izuna rejected the radicals’ demand to join the recruitment and announced he would leave Konoha for a long-term assignment in Wave Country, placing Elder Lyucha in charge.

• Hiruzen first protested Danzo’s two-million-ryo registration fee, then agreed to endorse the recruitment after learning nearly a thousand people had already paid.
• Hiruzen and Danzo split the proceeds, but Kagami required Danzo to pay thirty percent in taxes.
• Danzo reviewed the list of 3,144 applicants and noticed that no Uchiha Clan Members had registered.
• Uchiha Setsuna and other radicals demanded that Izuna let them participate, but Izuna said the Tailed Beast Knight System belonged to the village and frightened them with his Mangekyo.
• Izuna announced he had accepted a Uchiha Trading Company assignment in Wave Country and told Elder Lyucha to manage clan affairs while he was away.

Uchiha Izuna appointed Uchiha Lucha Chief Elder and punished Uchiha Setsuna by assigning him to clean the prison for a year. As Uchiha Lucha and Uchiha Huoke gathered with Uchiha Gin and the others for a celebratory dinner, Huoke’s grief over Erlang’s death and the group’s plans to leave Konoha lingered in the background.

• Uchiha Izuna appointed Uchiha Lucha Chief Elder and ordered Uchiha Setsuna to clean the prison for a year after he objected.
• Uchiha Lucha and Uchiha Huoke agreed to celebrate at Da Lang Barbecue Restaurant, and Huoke mourned Erlang while blaming himself for failing to protect his belongings.
• Uchiha Huoke’s Shadow Clone invited Uchiha Gin and his household to dinner, and Uchiha Dairou prepared for Gin’s arrival.
• Uchiha Gin agreed to bring Senju Itama and Xiao Guang, while Wang Liang took lollipops from him through a black hole and joined the outing.
• Uchiha Hikari and Senju Itama came downstairs in yukata, and Uchiha Gin admired their outfits before they headed out.

Uchiha Gin wondered whether the people from the original timeline would still be born after his interference, then stayed in Konoha with Uchiha Hikari and Senju Itama. Their rivalry over him intensified when Uzumaki Mito appeared and clashed with Senju Itama, while Uchiha Hikari trapped Mito in a Tsukuyomi illusion.

• Uchiha Gin met with Uchiha Huoke and Uchiha Lucha, learned that Uchiha Lucha’s granddaughter was named Mikoto, and was briefly handcuffed after asking whether she had a marriage arrangement.
• Uchiha Dairou thanked Uchiha Gin for helping Uchiha Erlang, then said he planned to leave Konoha and return to his family.
• Uchiha Hikari asked why Uchiha Gin remained in Konoha, and he explained that he wanted to see whether the people from the original timeline would still appear.
• Uchiha Hikari and Senju Itama argued over staying by Uchiha Gin’s side until Uzumaki Mito embraced him from behind.
• Senju Itama attacked Uzumaki Mito, who blocked her Strength of a Hundred Fist, while Uchiha Hikari cast Mito into a Tsukuyomi illusion filled with Uchiha Hikaris.

Uzumaki Mito challenged Uchiha Hikari in Tsukuyomi Space, then visited Uchiha Gin to ask about becoming a Tailed Beast Knight. Gin let her proceed with the assessment and explained Konoha’s safeguards, revealing a speed limiter for the Knight’s Driver.

• Uzumaki Mito used the Great Angel Staff’s immense Chakra to destabilize Uchiha Hikari’s Tsukuyomi Space, and Hikari conceded the sparring match.
• After they returned to reality, Uzumaki Mito followed Uchiha Gin home and told him she had registered to become a Tailed Beast Knight.
• Uzumaki Mito asked Uchiha Gin for advice on taming a Tailed Beast Card, and he agreed to let her take the assessment after explaining that he was worried about her safety.
• Uzumaki Mito questioned how Konoha would prevent a powerful Knight from turning against the village, and Uchiha Gin revealed a speed limiter made for the Driver.

Uchiha Gin sold Danzo a Tailed Beast limiter and instructions before leaving him with the bill for an expensive dessert feast. The next day, Danzo organized the recruitment examination, while Uchiha Izuna appeared and Kagami revealed that Izuna would soon leave Konoha for a long-term mission in Wave Country.

• Uchiha Gin told Danzo to end their teacher-disciple relationship, then charged him one hundred million ryo to demonstrate how to use the limiter.
• Uchiha Gin disappeared after teaching Danzo a simple sequence, and Danzo learned he had to pay five hundred thousand ryo for the desserts Gin had ordered and packed.
• Danzo presented an ugly statue containing a small amount of Nine-Tails' chakra as a screening tool for the recruitment examination in the Death Forest.
• Uchiha Izuna arrived to observe the examination and said he wanted to see who had inherited his elder brother's power.
• Kagami Uchiha revealed that Izuna would soon leave for a long-term mission in Wave Country, and Hiruzen and Danzo insisted the village would pay for him to remain there.

Uchiha Gin and Uchiha Izuna watched applicants face Danzo’s Nine-Tails statue, which tested their resistance to its malice. Senju Hi Shin and Uzumaki Mito passed easily, and Gin spotted Guang-senpai and Itama among the applicants as the chapter ended.

• Uchiha Gin joined Uchiha Izuna’s group after getting a free ticket to the crowded examination.
• Danzo began the examination with a Nine-Tails statue that knocked out ordinary applicants who tried to pass.
• A Senju Clan Jonin became the first applicant to endure the statue’s malice and enter the passage.
• Senju Hi Shin passed the statue without difficulty, followed by Uzumaki Mito, prompting Hiruzen to challenge Danzo over her participation.
• Uchiha Gin spotted Guang-senpai and Itama among the applicants and asked whether they had mistaken the examination line for the popcorn line.

Uchiha Hikari, Senju Itama, and Uchiha Chiri sneaked into the Tailed Beast Knight recruitment and joined the final contestants, where Uzumaki Mito confronted them. After Senju Kenta was overwhelmed by the Nine-Tails Card, Senju Hi Shin contacted the Nine-Tails and agreed to partner with it, but the card was seized by two women before he could reach it.

• Uchiha Hikari used genjutsu to sneak herself, Senju Itama, and Uchiha Chiri into the recruitment without paying, and Uchiha Gin later discovered they had not spent any money.
• Uchiha Hikari and Senju Itama confronted Uzumaki Mito at the examination grounds, while Senju Itama warned Uchiha Chiri about Mito’s relationship with Uchiha Gin.
• Danzo announced that the remaining contestants had passed the first test, and Senju Kenta was overwhelmed by the Nine-Tails Card’s malice when he tried to take it.
• A Yamanaka Clan Member and nearly half the other contestants forfeited after seeing Senju Kenta’s injuries, while Uchiha Hikari and Uzumaki Mito argued over who would approach the card first.
• Senju Hi Shin contacted the Nine-Tails inside the card and secured its agreement to fight alongside him, but the Nine-Tails then realized two women were holding the card at once.

Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari fought over the Nine-Tailed Card while Senju Hi Shin tried to seize it, only to be stopped by Senju Itama. The card began cracking under the two women’s strength, and Nine-Tails pleaded with them to stop as Mito proposed changing the contest.

• Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari both grabbed the Nine-Tailed Card and tested their strength against each other.
• Senju Hi Shin tried to sneak toward the card, but Senju Itama intercepted her and warned her to stay out of the fight.
• Senju Hi Shin used Flying Thunder God to evade Itama and attacked her, but Itama blocked the blow and prepared to fight back.
• Mito and Hikari continued pulling on the card until Nine-Tails warned them that its sealed space was cracking.
• Mito recognized the Four Symbols Seals on the card and suggested that she and Hikari change how they competed, but Hikari refused to let go.

Senju Hi Shin outwitted Senju Itama in the examination arena, while Uchiha Gin traded stolen snacks for information with the newly graduated children. The chapter ended as Senju Hi Shin faced Uchiha Gin’s student, unsure whether she was another enemy.

• Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari struggled over the Nine-Tailed Card while the Nine-Tails screamed in pain.
• Senju Hi Shin pretended to be injured, then used a Shadow Clone to send Senju Itama out of the arena and take her place in the stands.
• Senju Itama borrowed an Uchiha Clan Member’s ticket, and he awakened a third tomoe after she left with it.
• Uchiha Gin stole popcorn from Jiraiya and revealed that some of the children might become the Hokage’s disciples.
• Senju Hi Shin turned and found a purple-haired girl behind her, then asked whether she was an enemy too.

Uchiha Chiri fought Senju Hi Shin before turning her lightning technique on the ninja clan members sent into the exam by Hiruzen and Danzo. She unleashed Kirin, leaving a huge scorched pit and the others’ fate unclear.

• Uchiha Chiri attacked Senju Hi Shin, suspecting she was secretly close to Gin-sensei, and beat her back as Kagami Uchiha’s reassurance that Chiri would show restraint proved wrong.
• Danzo and Hiruzen decided the ninja clan members had to join the fight, and Hiruzen sent Anbu to order them into action.
• The ninja clan members charged at Uchiha Chiri and Senju Hi Shin, prompting Chiri to take to the sky with her lightning-infused blade.
• Uchiha Chiri summoned a lightning beast with Kirin, which swallowed the incoming attacks and struck the ninja clan members.
• F6 watched the blast leave a massive pit, and Kagami Uchiha identified the technique as Kirin, an S-rank Lightning Release Forbidden Technique.

Senju Hi Shin defeated Uchiha Chiri with the Flying Thunder God Technique, then rushed to the platform where Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari were fighting over the Nine-Tailed Card. Her slash split the cracked card—and the Nine-Tails’ source Chakra—into two, while Uchiha Gin realized his sealing work may have caused the accident.

• Uchiha Chiri incapacitated the Ninja Clan Alliance members with a precise Kirin, then lost interest in fighting Senju Hi Shin when her Flying Thunder God Slash caught her attention.
• Senju Hi Shin used the Flying Thunder God Technique to send Uchiha Chiri away and return to the stands, where Uchiha Gin explained that Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari were locked in a chakra contest over the Nine-Tailed Card.
• Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari agreed to release the card together after noticing a crack, but Senju Hi Shin charged in and slashed it along the crack.
• The Nine-Tails’ source Chakra was split in two by the Death God inside the card, and the Nine-Tails screamed that it had been split apart.
• Uchiha Gin recalled that he had used an Eight Trigrams Sealing Style instead of stacking the final Four Symbols Seals and wondered whether he had made a mistake.

Senju Hi Shin’s strike split the Nine-Tailed Card, but its seals restored it and divided the Nine-Tails into two smaller copies. Uchiha Gin then found himself in a strange space with Otsutsuki Hamura, who told him to thank his Great Uncle for saving him from the Death God.

• Uchiha Gin scolded Jiraiya about hand signs while reassuring Senju Itama that the damaged Tailed Beast Card could recover.
• Senju Hi Shin’s strike split the Nine-Tailed Card, and Uzumaki Mito noticed its Cursed Script as Nine-Tailed Chakra began spilling out.
• Hiruzen refused Kagami Uchiha’s suggestion to call on Lord Izuna, while Kagami revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and warned that he would watch Hiruzen.
• The card’s Four Symbols Seals pulled the escaping Chakra back in, and the damaged card repaired itself into two cards, each containing a smaller Nine-Tails.
• Senju Itama rested Uchiha Gin’s head on her lap while he appeared to sleep, then Uchiha Gin awoke in a strange space and met Otsutsuki Hamura.
• Otsutsuki Hamura told Uchiha Gin that his Great Uncle had helped him deal with the Death God and saved his life.

Uchiha Gin met Hagoromo in the pale yellow space and learned that the Reaper Death Seal had targeted Kurama through his Ninja Tool card. Their reunion turned into a tense exchange over ancestry and etiquette, until Wang Liang appeared and made both Otsutsuki brothers kneel; Gin ended the chapter by giving Hagoromo a Massage Chair as a meeting gift.

• Hagoromo confronted Uchiha Gin about using the Reaper Death Seal, while Otsutsuki Hamura’s fabricated history enraged Hagoromo.
• Hagoromo explained that an outside force had triggered the seal in Gin’s Ninja Tool card, causing the Death God to target Kurama, and said he had intervened to save Gin.
• Hamura urged Gin to bow to Hagoromo, but Hagoromo’s Rinnegan pressure made Gin’s Sharingan transform into Mangekyo before Gin opened a gate to the Shadow Realm.
• Wang Liang stepped through the gate, and Hagoromo and Hamura immediately fell to their knees before her.
• Hagoromo called Wang Liang “Mother Hen” to conceal their relationship, and Gin gave him a new Massage Chair as a meeting gift.

Uchiha Gin met Hagoromo and Hamura in the Pure Land, where Hagoromo warned him about Jigen, an Otsutsuki who threatened the human world. Gin agreed to hunt Jigen but received only Hagoromo’s knowledge instead of a power-up, while Madara decided to return to Konoha.

• Kaguya broke into the Pure Land to rescue Gin, made Hamura accept Gin’s greeting gift, and then scolded Gin for watering down her lemonade.
• Hagoromo reminded Gin that Hamura had given him control of the Giant Tenseigan and that Hagoromo had given him the Ten-Grasp Sword.
• Hagoromo asked Gin to find and eliminate Jigen, explaining that Jigen was an Otsutsuki who had arrived with Kaguya and had captured Ashura’s reincarnation.
• Madara learned that Hiruzen had become Hokage, Kagami had taken office, and Izuna had gone to sea, then ordered Black Zetsu to help him return to Konoha.
• Hagoromo declined to give Gin a power-up but offered to pass on his accumulated knowledge, prompting Gin to joke that he would rather find a powerful rich woman, and Kaguya agreed.

Uchiha Gin received Hagoromo’s power in the Pure Land and returned to the exam, where he found a tomoe mark on his palm. Kaguya revealed the threat of Isshiki and future Otsutsuki arrivals, while the brothers refused to release her true body; Gin ended by considering how to upgrade his card-game equipment.

• Hagoromo gave Uchiha Gin an orb containing his knowledge and sent him back to the human world.
• Kaguya stayed behind and confronted Hagoromo and Hamura, asking them to release her true body so she could help Gin fight Isshiki.
• Kaguya told the brothers about Otsutsuki Shibai, Isshiki, and the approaching danger of new Otsutsuki from the Mother Planet.
• Hagoromo and Hamura refused to release Kaguya, and she said she was content with her current life despite the threats.
• Uchiha Gin woke up in the exam arena as Uchiha Chiri and Senju Itama tugged at his hair, and he noticed a tomoe mark from Hagoromo’s orb on his palm.
• Uchiha Gin watched two girls face off with Nine-Tailed Cards and wondered whether to create a new compatible Driver.

Hiruzen and Danzo watched as the assessment continued after the Nine-Tailed Card split into two, leaving Senju Hi Shin, Uchiha Hikari, and Uzumaki Mito competing for the cards. Senju Hi Shin outmaneuvered Uchiha Hikari with a Flying Thunder God trick, but Uchiha Hikari began activating her Mangekyo before Uzumaki Mito taunted her.

• Hiruzen told Danzo to prepare the Driver, believing Uchiha Hikari and Uzumaki Mito would soon defeat Senju Hi Shin.
• Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari each took a Tailed Beast Card, while Senju Hi Shin challenged them for a chance to become a Tailed Beast Knight.
• Uchiha Hikari immobilized Senju Hi Shin with her Dojutsu Power, but Senju Hi Shin hurt herself to break free and healed with Medical Ninjutsu.
• Senju Hi Shin used Water Release to hide a Flying Thunder God Seal in the water, then appeared beside Uchiha Hikari and held a blade to her neck.
• Uchiha Hikari began activating her Mangekyo as Senju Hi Shin demanded the Nine-Tailed Card, and Uzumaki Mito mocked Uchiha Hikari from behind.

Uzumaki Mito defeated Senju Hi Shin with Adamantine Chains after Hi Shin refused to stand aside, then released her once the punishment had run its course. Meanwhile, Jiraiya began writing erotic literature, and Uchiha Gin praised his talent and sought the rights to his future works.

• Uzumaki Mito appeared during Senju Hi Shin and Uchiha Hikari's confrontation and ordered Hi Shin to step aside so she could speak with Hikari.
• Senju Hi Shin refused to back down, so Uzumaki Mito bound and gagged her with Adamantine Chains, draining her Chakra and suspending her on the platform.
• Jiraiya was inspired by Hi Shin's defeat and began writing an erotic story, while Hiruko and Uchiha Gin read over his work.
• Uchiha Gin praised Jiraiya as a future literary talent and proposed securing the copyright to his future works, which Jiraiya eagerly accepted.
• Uzumaki Mito released Senju Hi Shin, who fell and coughed as the chains withdrew, while Senju Taohua told Tsunade she could hear the details when she was older.

Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Hikari turned the Tailed Beast Knight Exam into a contest of Nine-Tails control, bringing a summoned Nine-Tails into the arena. Mito resisted Hikari’s attack and drew the beast’s power into her own cloak, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Uzumaki Mito sealed Senju Hi Shin with a Four Symbols Seal, then challenged Uchiha Hikari to compete using the exam’s Tailed Beast Cards.
• Uchiha Hikari activated her hidden Karma and controlled the Nine-Tails without a Driver, alarming the spectators and prompting civilians to flee.
• Uchiha Gin urged Uchiha Izuna to watch the Nine-Tails’ eyes while Jiraiya, Hiruko, Orochimaru, Might Duy, Hatake Sakumo, and Dan Katō stood their ground.
• Uchiha Hikari ordered the Nine-Tails to strike Uzumaki Mito, but Mito caught its claw with her Chakra Cloak and Strength of a Hundred.
• Uzumaki Mito bound the Nine-Tails through its card with Golden Chains and absorbed its Chakra, turning her cloak gold.