Chapter Summaries

Kukachiyuu Tatsumaki crushed Hozuki Sakuyue’s rebellion, seized the Six-Tails Card, and appointed Hozuki Engetsu to take control of the Hozuki Clan. She gave the card to Fubuki, only to learn that Saitama had already sent her a Tailed Beast Girl transformation device.

• Genji brought evidence of Hozuki Sakuyue’s collusion with Iwagakure, and Kukachiyuu Tatsumaki confirmed she had already been monitoring the Hozuki Clan.
• Tatsumaki defeated Sakuyue, captured the Hozuki clansmen, and threatened to punish those who withheld the Six-Tails Card’s location.
• Hozuki Engetsu revealed the card’s hiding place, explained his mother’s abuse at Sakuyue’s hands, and was appointed to lead the Hozuki Clan.
• Tatsumaki’s subordinates found the Six-Tails Card, and she passed it to Fubuki after confirming it contained Saiken.
• Fubuki revealed that Saitama had sent her a Tailed Beast Girl transformation device, surprising Tatsumaki.

Uchiha Gin read Kukachiyuu Fubuki’s furious note and saw a photograph showing Fubuki’s provocative transformation, while Mito suspected him of being a pervert. After Nonō arranged for Gin to pay an inflated bill for replacement glass, Mito sent Kushina to her uncle and invited Gin to spend the evening with her.

• Minato delivered two letters to Uchiha Gin, then nearly collided with Kushina and caused her to drop her ice cream.
• Uchiha Gin read Fubuki’s report that Hozuki Sakuyue’s rebellion had been suppressed and found a note calling him a baka.
• Uchiha Gin explained that his transformation tool amplified Fubuki’s hidden desires, then saw a photograph of her transformed into a provocative, sadistic Magical Girl.
• Mito saw the photograph and called Uchiha Gin a hentai, while Gin insisted he had not chosen Fubuki’s transformed appearance.
• Nonō negotiated a replacement window for the shop, then gave Gin a receipt for one million ryo and said she would use the money to support the orphanage.
• Mito marked Kushina’s uncle’s Chakra and sent Kushina to find him before inviting Uchiha Gin to spend the evening with her.

Uchiha Gin and Fuyou devised a scheme to profit from Iwagakure’s shortages while keeping the village afloat, and Ōnoki seized on a new supply route when merchants appeared at the northern port. Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to buy everything available and seek strategic supplies, even if the ninja had to borrow the money.

• Uchiha Gin visited Fuyou and proposed lending money to Iwagakure while secretly selling it scarce daily necessities through the northern coast port.
• Uchiha Gin convinced Fuyou to later sell Iwagakure strategic supplies so the village could keep resisting Sunagakure and repay its loans.
• Ōnoki learned that Iwagakure’s land and sea routes were blocked and struggled to find a source of provisions.
• Xiao Zi reported that merchants were selling supplies at the northern port, and Ōnoki sent Anbu to contact them.
• Ōnoki bought all the available supplies and ordered the merchants asked about strategic goods.
• When told the village lacked funds, Ōnoki ordered every registered ninja to take out loans.

Uchiha Gin’s clone assessed Iwa veteran Uehara Tsuchiishi’s Tsuchigumo Forbidden Technique, Wrathful Sky, and accepted it as collateral for a hundred-million-ryo loan. As Iwagakure’s veterans borrowed heavily and the bank’s cash ran low, Uchiha Fuyuu reported that their smuggled goods had sold out, while Ōnoki praised the older generation’s contributions after seeing the loan list.

• Uehara Tsuchiishi offered his Tsuchigumo Clan secret technique as collateral after the bank rejected his medal and lack of assets.
• Uchiha Gin’s clone tested the Wrathful Sky technique, sealed its gathering Natural Energy, and confirmed it was worth a hundred million ryo.
• Uehara Tsuchiishi signed the contract, surrendered the sealed technique scroll, and received the loan.
• Iwa veterans borrowed more than ten billion ryo in one day, and Uchiha Fuyuu reported that all their goods had sold to Iwagakure.
• Ōnoki reviewed the list of borrowers, saw Uehara Tsuchiishi’s hundred-million-ryo loan, and praised the older generation of Iwagakure.

Chiyo ordered Sunagakure to tighten its economic pressure on Iwagakure while worrying about Rasa’s health and giving him the One-Tail Card to try. Meanwhile, Ebizo misunderstood rumors about his son and stormed out to confront him, then met the white-haired butcher Ling Lingqi, whose knife skills captivated the red-haired Rasa.

• Chiyo ordered higher mission subsidies and efforts to poach Earth Country clients, while Ebizo warned that Rasa’s intensive work was damaging his health.
• Chiyo gave Ebizo the One-Tail Card for Rasa to try, then told him rumors claimed his son was romantically involved with a male butcher.
• Ebizo visited his daughter-in-law and infant grandson Sasori, then headed to Wenxi Butcher Shop after learning his son was there.
• At the market, Ling Lingqi impressed customers with his precise knife work while Rasa waited in line and requested a large bone stripped of meat.
• Rasa praised Ling Lingqi’s skill and asked his name, and Ling Lingqi introduced himself as a pig butcher.

Hatake Sakumo, disguised as the butcher Ling Lingqi, was mistaken for a romantic rival when Ebizo caught his son holding his hand. Chiyo cleared up the misunderstanding and learned that the red-haired youth wanted Sakumo’s knife skills for his Life Puppet.

• The red-haired youth grabbed Hatake Sakumo’s hand and urged him to quit selling pork and come with him, praising his skill at cleaning bones.
• Ebizo arrived and accused his son of pursuing Sakumo, while Sakumo feared his undercover identity had been exposed.
• The red-haired youth summoned the Phantom Strange Eight, and Ebizo prepared to summon Sunagakure’s strongest puppet before Chiyo intervened.
• Chiyo scolded Ebizo for interfering in his grown son’s life, then recognized that Sakumo resembled an old acquaintance.
• Chiyo explained that her intelligence report had mistaken the youth’s time spent waiting in line for time spent with Sakumo, and the youth clarified that he wanted Sakumo’s knife skills to complete his Life Puppet.

Hatake Sakumo resisted a red-haired young man’s offer to help develop a Puppet Core, but accepted several million ryo after receiving a new Root mission to infiltrate Sunagakure’s upper ranks. He met with Dan Katō and Might Duy, who described their undercover jobs and the intelligence they could gather through them.

• The red-haired young man tried to recruit Hatake Sakumo to craft a Puppet Core, but Hatake refused and invented a tragic story about needing to support his future bride.
• The red-haired young man gave Hatake Sakumo a thick envelope of several million ryo, and Hatake took it home before wrestling with his conscience.
• Hatake Sakumo received a Root message ordering him to infiltrate Sunagakure’s inner ranks and gain the trust of its upper echelon.
• Hatake Sakumo decided the money could support his new mission and quickly hid it in his treasury.
• Dan Katō and Might Duy visited Hatake Sakumo to discuss the new mission and their undercover work.
• Might Duy said he earned ten thousand ryo a month as a dojo sparring partner and used the job to collect intelligence from Wind Country nobles.

Dan Katō and Might Duy began infiltrating Sunagakure through local contacts, while Hatake Sakumo joined the red-haired young man’s Puppet Research Institute and started making components for a legendary self-aware puppet. The red-haired young man began recounting how the Second Hokage encountered such a puppet, while Uchiha Gin’s attempt to maintain his own puppets ended with Sister Wang calling him a pervert.

• Dan Katō disguised himself as a ninja from the Land of Birds and sought missions and sand ninja teammates, while Might Duy worked to earn the trust of his dojo instructor.
• Hatake Sakumo met the red-haired young man at his closed stall and agreed to join his organization rather than leave Sunagakure.
• Hatake Sakumo settled into the Puppet Research Institute, used his pig-slaughtering knife to cut through hard metal, and began making components from expensive materials.
• The red-haired young man told Hatake Sakumo about Angel Heart, a core for a self-aware puppet, and began recounting the Second Hokage’s encounter with a mysterious puppet-maker in Rōran.
• Uchiha Gin spilled oil on Zuo Ling while maintaining her, then inspected her power furnace as You Ling led Sister Wang to catch him in the act.

Uchiha Gin maintained Wang Liang’s puppets, noticed signs that Wang Liang had developed Yin-Yang Release, and set off for the Rain Country with Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Chiri. The trip’s important mission was to treat Brother Zhou Xuan’s seriously ill great-grandson, who had just turned one.

• Uchiha Gin refilled Yeye and Orianne with engine oil while Wang Liang demanded candy and fed on the Chakra Pills.
• Uchiha Gin suspected Wang Liang’s Yin-Yang Release had caused the puppets’ increasingly human behavior, then left the Shadow Realm and packed for the trip.
• Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Chiri joined Uchiha Gin at the village meeting point, and the three departed for the Rain Country.
• The Konoha Police Force gatekeeper waved the group through without checking their travel permits and joked that the force would gladly fund Uchiha Gin’s defection.
• Uchiha Gin told Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Chiri that they were traveling to treat Brother Zhou Xuan’s seriously ill one-year-old great-grandson.

Masahiko and Myoko sought help for their mysteriously feverish son Nagato from the Goddess Doctor outside Amegakure, whose treatments depended on gambling. After Masahiko lost twice, the Goddess Doctor offered another chance through her own daughter.

• Masahiko and Myoko took Nagato to the Goddess Doctor after Amegakure's physicians failed to treat his persistent fever and strange wakefulness.
• The Goddess Doctor made Masahiko gamble for Nagato's treatment, and he lost their card game.
• The Goddess Doctor sent Masahiko to gamble with her daughter, who played dice with him.
• Masahiko rolled two points and lost again, but the daughter offered to call her own daughter.

Tsunade treated Nagato after winning a long gambling match against Whirlpool Masahiko, though the family doubted her diagnosis of overnutrition and left. Meanwhile, Uchiha Gin arrived in the Rain Country with Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Chiri, and the chapter ended with a local family fleeing as he tried to ask them for directions to Amegakure.

• The young Goddess Doctor won several rounds of Battle the Daimyo against Whirlpool Masahiko, then persuaded her great-grandmother to examine his infant son.
• The Goddess Doctor diagnosed Nagato with overnutrition caused by excessive Life Energy, but Whirlpool Masahiko and Myōshi doubted her and left without treatment.
• The elderly Goddess Doctor revealed herself as Tsunade, who had been undercover in the Rain Country and had mastered the Shadow Seal Technique.
• Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Hikari, and Uchiha Chiri entered the Rain Country and learned that their contact, Orochimaru, was busy livestreaming himself dancing for donations.
• Uchiha Gin sensed a local family approaching and went to ask them for directions, but Whirlpool Masahiko grabbed Myōshi and Nagato and ran away.

Uchiha Gin and his companions traveled through the Rain Country with a couple heading to Amegakure, where he met the infant Konan and learned that natural disasters had recently increased. After reaching Amegakure, Gin gave the unnamed baby a chakra-enhancing gift and invited her to visit him in Konoha when she grew up.

• Uchiha Gin caught the couple's falling baby after they mistook him for a bandit, and the couple later apologized for their misunderstanding.
• The couple agreed to guide Gin and his companions to Amegakure, while Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Chiri took turns holding the baby, whom Gin called Konan.
• The Purple-haired Woman said that volcanic eruptions had recently joined the Rain Country's frequent natural disasters, prompting Gin to suspect a familiar cause.
• Uchiha Hikari learned that the baby had not yet been named, and Gin claimed he had misspoken because of his age.
• After a day's journey, the group reached Amegakure, where Gin gave the sleeping baby a Tear of the Goddess and told her parents she could come to Konoha when she wanted to see the world.

In Amegakure, Uchiha Gin and his companions found young Tsunade, who had been hiding from gambling-house debt collectors with the Shadow Seal Technique. They reunited over barbecue, where Tsunade revealed that her body had changed dramatically since they last met, leaving Gin spitting out his milk.

• Young Tsunade tricked a one-eyed gambling-house thug into paying her ten thousand ryo for information, then sent him and his men searching in the wrong direction.
• Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Hikari, and Uchiha Chiri watched Tsunade before Gin followed her and confiscated the money she had scammed.
• Tsunade reunited with Gin, Hikari, and Chiri, praised the Shadow Seal Technique, and agreed to lead them to a barbecue restaurant after her stomach growled.
• Tsunade ordered an extravagant meal, but Gin added a vegetarian children's set and sweetened milk, then stopped her from taking meat from the adults' grill.
• When Gin doubted that Tsunade had grown much since their last meeting, she claimed one day apart felt like three cup sizes apart and rapidly transformed into her adult form, making Gin spit out his milk.

Uchiha Gin learned that Tsunade had encountered Whirlpool Masahiko and a child with unusual life energy, while confirming signs of a battle involving Divine Tree Humans in Rain Country. After Tsunade parted from Gin’s group, she escaped a gang of debt collectors in her shrunken form but collided with a cold, hooded stranger.

• The Boss Lady brought grilled meat to Uchiha Gin’s table, and Gin realized her young son was Yahiko.
• Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Chiri interrogated Tsunade about her changed appearance, but Gin stopped them from threatening her.
• Tsunade revealed that she had won four times at the Gambling House and had treated Whirlpool Masahiko’s son, whom she believed had unusual Whirlpool Clan potential.
• Tsunade told Gin that Jiraiya had found apparent battle traces near a volcanic eruption site, leading Gin to suspect Divine Tree Humans were in Rain Country.
• Gin promised Tsunade a feast in Konoha and left with his companions, while Tsunade was surrounded by debt collectors and escaped by shrinking.
• Tsunade bumped into a hooded stranger whose companions called him Number Four, and he dismissed her as an unfamiliar child.

Tsunade followed four mysterious black-robed figures and agreed to help them find Whirlpool Masahiko, while Uchiha Gin tracked Masahiko to a shrine where his family sought an exorcism for Nagato. The chapter ended with Uchiha Gin arriving and asking whether he was their last hope.

• Tsunade followed the four black-robed figures, who discovered their mission target was Whirlpool Masahiko but had lost his location and most of the information about him.
• Number Four gave Tsunade gemstones and asked her to help find Whirlpool Masahiko, and she agreed.
• Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Hikari, and Uchiha Chiri found Masahiko's shop closed and learned from a neighboring shopkeeper that Masahiko had gone to a shrine for an exorcism.
• Whirlpool Masahiko and Whirlpool Myoko anxiously waited as a Priestess performed an exorcism on their crying son, Nagato.
• Uchiha Gin and the two women arrived at the shrine, and Gin asked Masahiko if he had called this his last hope.

Uchiha Gin arrived at Hakurei Shrine to treat Nagato, where he met apprentice shrine maiden Miroku and learned that her Master was Hakurei Reimu. Reimu's attempt to remove the mysterious force affecting Nagato failed, and she mistook Gin for an intruder before he emerged unharmed and confronted her.

• Uchiha Gin tried to break the barrier around the shrine hall, but Miroku headbutted him to stop him from disturbing her Master's ritual.
• Uchiha Gin apologized with donuts, learned that Miroku was Reimu's apprentice, and realized her Master was Hakurei Reimu.
• Inside the shrine hall, Reimu failed to seal the mysterious force affecting Nagato and worried about returning the rice she had been paid.
• Reimu heard someone enter, attacked the approaching figure with her Fantasy Seal, and believed the blast had defeated the intruder.
• Uchiha Gin appeared behind Reimu, caught her Exorcism Rod, and praised her shrine maiden outfit while nearly commenting on her armpits.

Uchiha Gin paid Hakurei Reimu a gold brick before discovering that Nagato’s illness came from a mark bearing Jigen’s aura, while Reimu’s prophecy showed Gin dying despite his presence alive. In Amegakure, Number Four stopped Number One from extracting Tsunade’s memories, but an unknown attacker struck him and revealed his face.

• Uchiha Gin gave Hakurei Reimu a gold brick worth about one million ryo, and she introduced herself before asking how he had broken her barrier.
• Uchiha Gin demonstrated his Unsealing Spell and examined Nagato, finding Jigen’s aura within a mark in the infant’s palm.
• Hakurei Reimu used her inherited power and saw a prophecy of Uchiha Gin dying, but he dismissed the prediction and took Nagato with him.
• Number One proposed extracting Tsunade’s memories, but Number Four refused and told her she would not be harmed.
• An indigo projectile struck Number Four and knocked off his hood; he dispelled his memory-searching technique and urged Tsunade to run.

Tsunade discovered four Hashirama clones and pursued them after two familiar figures drove them from Amegakure. At an old Rider battle stage, Number One transformed into a powerful Black War God and fought Uchiha Madara, while Uchiha Izuna engaged Number Two and Number Three.

• Tsunade mistook Number Four for her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, before two cloaked figures accused the clones of taking her hostage.
• Number Four ordered the clones to move the fight away from civilians, and Tsunade sent Shadow Clones to alert Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Uchiha Gin while she followed them.
• The clones and their pursuers reached an old Rider battle stage, where Uchiha Madara revealed himself alongside Uchiha Izuna.
• Number One absorbed Shukaku's Hoard and transformed into the Black War God, then challenged Madara, who transformed into Decade and attacked him.
• Madara began fighting Number One, while Izuna transformed into Diend and attacked Number Two and Number Three with blue energy bullets.

Tsunade investigated the explosion at Rampage Island and discovered Uchiha Izuna fighting the Number Three Clone while Senju Hi Shin’s Nine-Tailed Knight was with him. Elsewhere, Uchiha Madara defeated Number One and confronted Number Four, just as Tsunade rushed in and called for her grandfather’s help.

• Tsunade found the Rain ninja guarding Rampage Island injured and drained of Chakra, then entered the island and encountered two figures claiming to be the Three-Tails Knight.
• Tsunade recognized Uchiha Izuna and saw the Two-Tails Knight and Senju Hi Shin’s Nine-Tailed Knight with him, then fled after Izuna spotted her.
• Number Three absorbed Number Two’s power, transformed into a combined Two-Tails and Three-Tails form, and killed the summoned Two-Tails Knight before Uchiha Izuna prepared to fight him.
• Uchiha Madara defeated Number One and challenged Number Four, who asked how Madara had found the group but refused to surrender.
• Tsunade ran toward Number Four, shouting that her little aunt had refused to pay hush money and was trying to silence her.

Number Four protected Tsunade while fighting the Nine-Tailed Knight and Uchiha Madara, and Tsunade struggled to understand who was real. After Number One attacked Tsunade, Number Four killed him, and Tsunade survived thanks to the Backhand Secret Scroll Gin-grandpa had given her.

• Tsunade mistook Number Four for her grandfather and hid behind him as Uchiha Madara warned her that he was dangerous.
• Number Four transformed into the Four-Tails Knight, defeated the Nine-Tailed Knight, and repeatedly shielded Tsunade.
• Uchiha Madara fought Number Four, shattered his arm armor, and prepared to continue the battle after Number Four refused to back down.
• Number One recovered from his injuries and attacked Tsunade, but a misty barrier from her graduation gift blocked his strike.
• Number Four killed Number One for attacking Tsunade and threatening to take his power, while Tsunade realized the Backhand Secret Scroll had saved her.