Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Nan used Konoha’s intelligence and Anbu to foil a plot by the Land of Fire’s officials to assassinate the daimyo, then helped the Industrial Faction gain influence at court. Later, he visited Tobirama Senju, discussed capturing Black Zetsu and striking Kumogakure, and saw Tobirama’s new low-cost explosive.

• Uchiha Nan told Nara Shikaku about the officials’ assassination plot and ordered Konoha to protect the daimyo while handing evidence to the Industrial Faction.
• Konoha’s Anbu rescued the daimyo from Lake Shikotsu, arrested the conspirators, and exposed the plot to install the second young master as ruler.
• The daimyo stripped his son of his status and accepted the Industrial Faction’s call to punish the traitors, giving the faction a larger share of power at court.
• Uchiha Nan visited Tobirama Senju’s laboratory, pressed him about his unfinished technique to capture Black Zetsu, and discussed taking revenge on Kumogakure.
• Tobirama Senju showed Uchiha Nan an explosive that cost less than Explosive Tags and could mostly be made by ordinary people.

Uchiha Nan showed Tobirama Senju his new grenades and discussed developing guns, then revealed Sky Ninja Village’s secret plans and the growing threats from several smaller villages. He planned to defeat Sky Ninja Village and take its technology, including Zero-Tails, while Tobirama questioned the value of an artificial tailed beast.

• Tobirama Senju showed Uchiha Nan grenades that ordinary people could use without Chakra, and Nan praised his work.
• Uchiha Nan asked about guns, and Tobirama explained that mass production required machine tools possessed by Sky Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Nan agreed to seize Sky Ninja Village’s technology and told Tobirama about its aerial forces, its secret Zero-Tails project, and the rising power of Amegakure, En'yo Village, and Takigakure.
• Uchiha Nan and Tobirama Senju argued over Konoha’s leadership and whether Hiruzen Sarutobi was a good choice for Hokage.
• Uchiha Nan said Sky Ninja Village had to be defeated before it could attack Konoha, and he asked Tobirama to help complete Zero-Tails’ technology.
• Tobirama Senju questioned why they should care about Zero-Tails when Konoha already had the Nine-Tails.

Uchiha Nan planned to exploit Zero-Tails technology to turn villagers’ negative emotions into Chakra and electricity, then agreed that Tobirama would solve its technical problems. At a high-level meeting, Nan unveiled cheap, Chakra-free grenades and landmines, and Konoha’s leaders rushed to invest in a factory to challenge the Explosive Tag market.

• Uchiha Nan proposed using Zero-Tails technology in mental sauna rooms that would absorb workers’ negative emotions, generate Chakra, and keep them productive.
• Tobirama Senju agreed to work on Zero-Tails’ technical problems after Nan suggested falsely crediting him with the technology and Tobirama objected.
• Uchiha Nan considered how to justify an attack on Sky Ninja Village so Konoha could seize its research and develop the mental sauna project.
• At a high-level meeting, Uchiha Nan listened as Konoha’s leaders argued over budgets, with Orochimaru joining the disputes over railway funding.
• Uchiha Nan introduced inexpensive grenades and landmines that required no Chakra and could replace Explosive Tags.
• Konoha’s clan leaders and officials offered to invest as Uchiha Nan announced plans to build a factory and dominate the Explosive Tag market.

Uchiha Nan steered Konoha’s leaders away from an immediate war with Sky Ninja Village while preparing to attack it after a future clash. Two months later, Konoha crashed the Explosive Tag market with cheap hand grenades, devastating small ninja villages, and Uchiha Nan planned to offer them loans that would bring Konoha’s companies into their villages.

• Uchiha Nan watched Konoha’s leaders fight over arms-business shares until they settled the divisions through taijutsu duels.
• Uchiha Nan presented intelligence on Sky Ninja Village and urged its destruction, but the leaders argued that Amegakure posed the greater threat and rejected an immediate war.
• Uchiha Nan warned that he would destroy Sky Ninja Village if it ever caused even one Konoha ninja’s death.
• Nara Shikaku reported that Konoha had inflated Explosive Tag prices, sold its stock, and then crashed the market by unveiling cheaper hand grenades.
• An unknown small-village ninja attacked at the launch event and was killed, while the hand-grenade orders and falling Explosive Tag prices left several villages in financial crisis.
• Uchiha Nan learned that En'yo Village faced a broken cash flow and ordered Nara Shikaku to offer struggling villages high-interest loans with conditions granting Konoha companies access to their markets.

Konoha’s explosive-tag business left rival villages struggling, while Uchiha Nan prepared to capture Black Zetsu and assigned Tobirama Senju a new task involving Moryo’s soul fragment. The chapter ended with Tobirama denying that he coveted the Sharingan after Uchiha Nan teased him.

• Kagero Ninja Village’s leader signed Konoha’s harsh loan agreement, while Musa and Ōnoki worried over Konoha’s profits and their own villages’ finances.
• Third Raikage A chose to reinvest Kumogakure’s Ponzi scheme profits in hopes of surpassing Konoha’s budget.
• Uchiha Nan showed Tobirama Senju a sealing technique designed to capture Black Zetsu and challenged him to learn it.
• Uchiha Nan gave Tobirama Senju a fragment of Moryo’s soul and tasked him with controlling Moryo’s regenerating puppet army.
• Uchiha Nan frightened Moryo’s fragment with his Mangekyō Sharingan, then teased Tobirama Senju about envying the Sharingan and challenged him to face Uchiha Madara.
• Tobirama Senju denied coveting the Sharingan, and Uchiha Nan watched him argue with amusement.

Uchiha Nan recruited Tobirama Senju to investigate Moryo’s stone puppets for railway labor and warned him about the growing divide between Konoha’s shinobi clans and civilian shinobi. The chapter ended with Tobirama Senju learning that the Otsutsuki Clan would invade and demanding answers, while Uchiha Nan ordered him to follow instructions.

• Orochimaru returned to the laboratory, and Tobirama Senju threatened to supervise his training after Uchiha Nan mocked his harsh teaching.
• Uchiha Nan asked Tobirama Senju to investigate Moryo’s stone puppets as a way to supply workers for Orochimaru’s railway project.
• Uchiha Nan warned Tobirama Senju that civilian shinobi were increasing in number and that tensions with the shinobi clans would threaten Konoha’s stability.
• Tobirama Senju blamed the Uchiha Clan for Hashirama Senju’s death, and Uchiha Nan challenged him over Uchiha Madara’s departure from Konoha.
• Uchiha Nan rejected Tobirama Senju’s plan for shinobi clans to intermarry with civilians, then revealed that the Otsutsuki Clan would invade the Ninja World.
• Tobirama Senju demanded to know what else Uchiha Nan was hiding, and Uchiha Nan dismissed his objections and ordered him to follow instructions.

Uchiha Nan warned Tobirama Senju that the Otsutsuki Clan would invade decades later, but admitted he had no sure way to stop them. He then outlined plans to strengthen Konoha, resolve current threats, and give civilian ninja career paths beyond missions.

• Uchiha Nan told Tobirama Senju that even Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara together would be no match for the Otsutsuki Clan, whose invasion was at least forty or fifty years away.
• Tobirama Senju demanded to know how Uchiha Nan would defend against the Otsutsuki Clan, and Uchiha Nan admitted he had no definite solution while promising to keep strengthening Konoha.
• Uchiha Nan described encouraging intermarriage among Kekkei Genkai Clans and explained that he was expanding Konoha’s resources and preparing to use Moryo’s puppet soldiers as laborers.
• Uchiha Nan proposed separating military and civil administration, assigning functional-type civilian ninja to Konoha companies, and promoting Orochimaru as proof that hard work could lead to success.

Uchiha Nan reviewed Konoha’s plans for Ninja Academy graduates and discussed the future of Sunagakure and Uzumaki exchange students. After learning that many Uzumaki students were dating Konoha shinobi, he promised to help them stay in Konoha and marry, framing their relationships as proof of the clans’ friendship.

• Nara Shikaku presented Uchiha Nan with graduation assignments and internship plans, and Nan approved the proposal for placing functional-class graduates in Konoha companies.
• Shikaku reported that Sunagakure exchange students had criticized their village’s training system, and Nan discussed keeping ties with Tu Sha after he returned home.
• Nan learned that the Uzumaki students would graduate and return to Whirlpool Island, then asked them whether they were dating anyone.
• The Uzumaki students revealed that many had Konoha partners, and a red-haired girl tearfully asked to stay with Uchiha Nohara.
• Nan promised to negotiate with the relevant clan heads and offered marriage benefits, including housing and gifts, to Uzumaki members who married into Konoha’s kekkei genkai clans.

Uchiha Nan persuaded Mito Uzumaki to help arrange for Uzumaki clansmen to remain in Konoha, then visited Tobirama Senju to review his research on Moryo and plan an ambush against Black Zetsu. The chapter left Uchiha Nan preparing to approach the Miko of the Land of Demons for Moryo's complete power while Tobirama refined the ambush plan.

• Uchiha Nan told Mito Uzumaki that many Uzumaki clansmen wanted to stay in Konoha, and he persuaded her to negotiate with Uzumaki Ash on their behalf.
• Mito Uzumaki agreed to handle the matter, while Uchiha Nan insisted that Uzumaki Ash should ask Konoha to let the clansmen stay.
• Uchiha Nan showed Tobirama Senju that he had learned the sealing jutsu, and Tobirama criticized his progress.
• Tobirama Senju revealed that he had used the Miko's chakra and Uchiha Nan's Mangekyō Sharingan to put a fragment of Moryo to sleep and steal its power.
• Uchiha Nan said he would deal with the Miko to obtain complete Moryo, then asked Tobirama Senju to help plan an ambush against Black Zetsu.

Black Zetsu recounted his plan to free his mother and his hope that Uchiha Nan could replace Uchiha Madara, but Uchiha Nan trapped and captured him. At the Underground Laboratory, Uchiha Nan brought Black Zetsu to Tobirama Senju and found Tobirama scolding Orochimaru over his workload.

• Black Zetsu explained how he had manipulated Indra and Asura's reincarnations, but Uchiha Madara's obsession with games and other pursuits had derailed the plan to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Black Zetsu chose Uchiha Nan as a possible replacement and secretly followed him, hoping to guide him into killing Uchiha Madara and taking his eyes.
• Uchiha Nan's clones trapped Black Zetsu in a sealing barrier, and Amaterasu helped him compress Black Zetsu into a small box.
• Uchiha Nan recognized Black Zetsu and the Otsutsuki name, frightening Black Zetsu before he carried it to the Underground Laboratory.
• Uchiha Nan entered the laboratory and found Tobirama Senju berating Orochimaru, then challenged Tobirama over how much work he assigned him.

Uchiha Nan brought Black Zetsu to Tobirama Senju, who secured it in a specially made sealing prison. Nan then proposed that Black Zetsu cooperate with him against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, leaving their alliance undecided.

• Uchiha Nan and Tobirama Senju argued over Orochimaru's workload, then jokingly agreed to use Impure World Reincarnation on Orochimaru after his death.
• Tobirama Senju promised to teach Orochimaru his improved Flying Thunder God, but he and Uchiha Nan still planned for Orochimaru to join Tobirama in the afterlife, leaving Orochimaru horrified.
• Uchiha Nan showed Tobirama Senju the sealed Black Zetsu, and Tobirama's taunts about its mother enraged it until it nearly broke free.
• Tobirama Senju transferred Black Zetsu into a Seal Space that trapped it even after it broke the crimson sealing box.
• Uchiha Nan offered Black Zetsu a chance to cooperate against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, but Black Zetsu had not yet answered.

Uchiha Nan claimed to be the Sage of Six Paths’ reincarnation and used Black Zetsu’s devotion to his mother to win his cooperation. Black Zetsu accepted Uchiha Nan as his big brother after Uchiha Nan agreed to save Kaguya Otsutsuki.

• Tobirama Senju provoked Black Zetsu while Uchiha Nan tried to calm him and began questioning him.
• Uchiha Nan claimed he was the Sage of Six Paths’ reincarnation, and Black Zetsu erupted with hatred over the Sage sealing his mother.
• Uchiha Nan revealed that he knew Black Zetsu had altered the stone tablet and manipulated Indra and Asura’s feud.
• Black Zetsu accused Uchiha Nan of capturing him to prevent him from rescuing his mother, but Uchiha Nan said he was willing to save her.
• Uchiha Nan argued that he was himself despite inheriting the Sage of Six Paths’ Chakra, then promised to correct his predecessor’s mistakes.
• Black Zetsu called Uchiha Nan his big brother after Uchiha Nan agreed to save his mother.

Uchiha Nan made Black Zetsu his obedient little brother and discussed ways to rescue Kaguya Otsutsuki, while Tobirama Senju resisted being dragged into their plans. The chapter ended with Black Zetsu offering Uchiha Nan some of the 268 White Zetsu it had left.

• Uchiha Nan ordered Tobirama Senju to release Black Zetsu from the sealing cage, and the two prisoners traded insults until Uchiha Nan silenced them.
• Black Zetsu asked when they would rescue Kaguya Otsutsuki, and Uchiha Nan said he lacked the Six Paths power needed to save her directly.
• Uchiha Nan proposed destroying the moon seal as a backup plan, and Black Zetsu agreed while Tobirama Senju challenged how they would reach the moon.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Sky Ninja Village was building a flying fortress and that it had preserved 268 White Zetsu from Kaguya Otsutsuki's army.
• Black Zetsu offered to assign some of its White Zetsu to Uchiha Nan, who eagerly considered using them.

Uchiha Nan recruited Black Zetsu and his White Zetsu intelligence network to serve Konoha by claiming they would help rescue Kaguya Otsutsuki. He explained Kaguya's history to Tobirama Senju, who devised a wildly inaccurate theory that her sons had betrayed her over the Ninja World's hidden treasure.

• Uchiha Nan accepted Black Zetsu's White Zetsu and assigned him to coordinate intelligence gathering for Konoha under the codename Agarwood.
• Tobirama Senju questioned Uchiha Nan about Black Zetsu's mother and whether Nan truly intended to rescue her.
• Uchiha Nan told Tobirama that Kaguya Otsutsuki had come to the Ninja World, borne Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki, and been sealed on the moon after fighting them.
• Tobirama Senju guessed that Kaguya had been a victim of her sons, who had turned against her over the Ninja World's hidden treasure.
• Uchiha Nan mocked Tobirama's theory and told him to work hard if he wanted to learn more, then left him alone in the Underground Laboratory.

Hanzo of the Salamander overthrew the Land of Rain’s nobles and renamed the country the Land of Shinobi, while Konoha backed Amegakure’s action and prepared for the unrest it would cause. Sunagakure’s Musa refused to attack Amegakure without Konoha’s lead and demanded more funding, leaving the Land of Wind’s daimyo to accept the demand while still ordering Sunagakure to deploy.

• Hanzo of the Salamander led Amegakure in public trials and a purge of the Land of Rain’s nobles, seized their wealth and industries, and renamed the country the Land of Shinobi.
• Uchiha Nan refused the Land of Fire daimyo’s demand to stop broadcasting Amegakure’s trials and ordered Nara Shikaku to prepare for war.
• The Land of Fire’s daimyo and nobles backed down, increased Konoha’s funding, and eased resistance to Konoha’s expansion and railway projects.
• Musa convened Sunagakure’s leaders, refused to send troops against Amegakure without Konoha’s lead, and demanded increased funding from the Land of Wind’s daimyo.
• The Land of Wind daimyo accepted Musa’s funding demand after his minister warned him against provoking Sunagakure, but ordered the village to attack Amegakure.

The daimyo of the Five Great Nations ordered their shinobi villages to destroy Amegakure, but Ōnoki, Third Raikage A, and Mizuto all delayed committing their forces. Uchiha Nan watched the villages wait each other out and wondered who Konoha could sell weapons to if no one went to war.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Earth paid Iwagakure generously, and Ōnoki agreed to target Amegakure while insisting that other villages join the campaign.
• Third Raikage A persuaded Kumogakure to wait for the other villages, then invested half the new funding in Blue Sky Plan Co., Ltd.
• Mizuto delayed Kirigakure's expedition, citing its unstable Kekkei Genkai Clans and the need to observe the other villages first.
• A week later, Konoha, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure had all received calls to action, but none had deployed troops.
• Uchiha Nan looked over the letters at the Hokage Building and complained that Konoha had no one to sell arms to if the villages refused to fight.

Uchiha Nan refused Amegakure’s request for a military alliance but agreed to trade with it, securing Konoha’s commercial advantage while the Ninja World turned against Hanzo. Amegakure’s envoy signed Konoha’s cooperation agreements and left with a deal in place.

• Nara Shikaku told Uchiha Nan that Amegakure’s envoy had arrived, and Nan agreed to meet him.
• Amegakure’s envoy asked Nan to join forces with Hanzo to overthrow the daimyo and nobles and fight the other shinobi villages, but Nan refused to risk Konoha’s security.
• Nan warned the envoy that economic sanctions threatened Amegakure’s food supply, then offered to trade with it under Konoha’s terms.
• Nan sent the envoy with Nara Shikaku to sign Konoha’s commercial cooperation agreements.
• The envoy read and signed the agreements, stamping them with Hanzo of the Salamander’s seal.

The Four Great Shinobi Villages mobilized against Amegakure while Konoha profited from selling supplies and secretly supported Hanzo of the Salamander. After Uchiha Madara questioned Konoha’s strategy, Uchiha Nan reminded him of his neglected factory duties, prompting Madara to leave for work instead of playing games.

• The daimyo pressured the Four Great Shinobi Villages to attack Amegakure, while Uchiha Nan ignored the Land of Fire daimyo’s orders and Konoha continued selling equipment to the villages.
• The Four Great Shinobi Villages sent armies toward the Land of Rain as Hanzo of the Salamander rallied Amegakure’s forces and called for shinobi to overthrow the daimyo and nobles.
• Konoha circulated Hanzo’s speeches, drawing shinobi from across the Ninja World to join Amegakure, while Uchiha Nan celebrated Konoha’s soaring sales and ordered factory workers to earn triple overtime pay.
• Uchiha Madara joined Uchiha Nan and Uchiha Hikari for dinner, then watched Hanzo’s speech and questioned Uchiha Nan about Konoha’s support for Amegakure.
• Uchiha Nan pointed out that Uchiha Madara had neglected his factory-director duties, and Madara left to work overtime rather than play games.

Uchiha Nan prepared to profit from the brewing war between Amegakure and the four great villages while discussing Kakuzu’s scheme with Nara Shikaku. Uzumaki Ash revealed that his clan overwhelmingly wanted to join Konoha and hinted that the looming war should bring the two sides even closer.

• Uchiha Nan told Nara Shikaku that Konoha should let the other villages fight, sell supplies to both sides, and have Kusagakure support Amegakure if needed.
• Uchiha Nan revealed that Kakuzu’s Ponzi scheme was nearing its final harvest and that Iwagakure would be left as a scapegoat.
• Uzumaki Ash met with Uchiha Nan, explained how Uzumaki clansmen who had returned to Whirlpool Island wanted to merge with Konoha, and thanked Konoha for caring for them.
• Uzumaki Ash described the clan’s history of refusing Hashirama Senju’s invitation and said the Uzumaki clan had now voted overwhelmingly to join Konoha.
• Uzumaki Ash said Konoha and the Uzumaki clan should stand together as the Second Shinobi World War approached, then waited for Uchiha Nan’s response.

Uchiha Nan welcomed the Uzumaki clan into Konoha, where Uzumaki Ash fought for shares in the village’s industries. As the conflict over Amegakure escalated, Hatake Sakumo and Kakuzu packed up their Ponzi scheme and fled, leaving its investors to discover the company’s branches had closed.

• Uchiha Nan invited the Uzumaki clan to join Konoha, and Uzumaki Ash accepted on the clan’s behalf.
• Konoha’s leaders unanimously approved the Uzumaki clan’s accession, then negotiated its settlement and shares in village industries.
• Uzumaki Ash fought Konoha clansmen in a boxing match to secure shares before Mito Uzumaki persuaded him to stop after Hyuga Takuma knocked him unconscious.
• Sunagakure’s attack on Amegakure failed in the rain, while daimyo-backed bounties and propaganda intensified violence between shinobi and ordinary people.
• Hatake Sakumo and Kakuzu packed their valuables, arranged for cleanup shinobi to handle their pursuers, and left their base in the Land of Lightning.
• The Ponzi scheme’s core members closed their branches under the pretense of holding a company meeting, and their investors began to realize something was wrong.