Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Nan persuaded the other four Kage to avoid a real war with Amegakure and instead use the threat to extract military funds from the daimyo while profiting from Konoha arms sales. He then proposed making the Five Kage Summit a regular institution that would let shinobi shape the Ninja World's politics and economy.

• Uchiha Nan addressed the Five Kage, and the four Kage considered his new Will of Fire and the growing pressure to reform their villages.
• Musa, Ōnoki, Mizuto, and Third Raikage A agreed that they did not want to fight Amegakure and asked Uchiha Nan how to deal with the daimyo.
• Uchiha Nan suggested staging a conflict with Amegakure to demand more military funding, and the Kage planned casualties and expenses over hot pot.
• Uchiha Nan secured arms deals by proposing that Konoha and the other villages split extra funds taken from the daimyo.
• Uchiha Nan proposed making the Five Kage Summit regular and having shinobi establish rules for the Ninja World's politics, economy, and nations.

Uchiha Nan persuaded the four Kage to establish a permanent Five Kage Summit, but Ōnoki doubted the villages could change the shinobi world’s established order. Nan revealed that Konoha had made the world dependent on its genetically modified soybean seeds and could halt their supply, leaving the Kage to face the scale of his leverage.

• Uchiha Nan proposed free trade, cultural cooperation, and a permanent Five Kage Summit, which the four Kage agreed to establish in Konoha with resident diplomats.
• Ōnoki warned Uchiha Nan that the villages lacked the influence to bring daimyo and nobles to the negotiating table, and Nan said he would not use force.
• Uchiha Nan explained that soybean production had grown across the Ninja World and warned that a collapse in yields could threaten millions of livelihoods.
• Uchiha Nan revealed that Konoha had spent years selling high-yield soybean seeds and fertilizer throughout the Ninja World, while ensuring the seeds could not produce a second generation.
• Uchiha Nan showed the Kage data on countries’ soybean production and seed purchases, then warned that stopping Konoha’s seed sales could trigger a crisis.
• Uchiha Nan considered using the soybean dependency to bring the Four Great Shinobi Villages onto Konoha’s side.

Uchiha Nan persuaded the other four Kage to join Konoha in a profitable scheme targeting the daimyo, while the Five Great Ninja Villages formalized their alliance and Amegakure prepared to beg Konoha for help. Konoha left Amegakure to its fate, and Uchiha Nan returned home with the spoils from the Sky Ninja Village.

• Uchiha Nan invited Musa, Third Raikage A, Ōnoki, and Mizuto to join Konoha's plan, and all four Kage agreed despite their reservations.
• Musa, Third Raikage A, and Ōnoki explained to Mizuto that their villages needed money, and the Kage accepted that they would face the plan's consequences together.
• The Five Great Ninja Villages established a permanent Five Kage Summit in Konoha, while OdeBiao declared Kusagakure's support for Konoha.
• As the Ninja World's attention turned toward Amegakure, Hanzo of the Salamander sent a letter asking Konoha to save his village.
• Konoha declined to intervene in Amegakure's crisis, and Uchiha Nan returned to a cheering welcome with the Zero-Tails and the Sky Ninja Village's researchers and research results.

Uchiha Nan assigned Nara Shikaku more work while setting plans in motion for the Permanent Five Kage Summit and Amegakure. Later, Uchiha Makoto and Hyuga Lingyin asked him to help them overcome the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird system, and Lingyin revealed she was pregnant after dreaming of a huge eye.

• Uchiha Nan returned to the Hokage Building, joked with Nara Shikaku about overtime, and appointed Senju Touma as Konoha’s diplomat for the Permanent Five Kage Summit.
• Uchiha Nan tasked Nara Shikaku with the Soybean War plan and arranged for the villages to surround Amegakure without attacking while Kakuzu negotiated with its envoy.
• Nara Shikaku left Uchiha Nan with a mountain of documents to sign before departing.
• Uchiha Makoto and Hyuga Lingyin asked Uchiha Nan to help them marry despite the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird system, and he agreed to think of a solution.
• Hyuga Lingyin revealed that she was pregnant and said she had dreamed of encountering a huge eye.

Uchiha Nan learned that Hyuga Lingyin was pregnant with Uchiha Makoto’s child and that the unborn baby had resonated with a giant Tenseigan. He promised to protect the couple and prepare to confront the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal system, leaving Lingyin at the Uchiha Compound for her safety.

• Hyuga Lingyin described dreaming of a golden, majestic giant eye, and Uchiha Nan suspected the unborn child’s mixed Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuga heritage had resonated with the Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Makoto panicked at the news that he would become a father, while Lingyin scolded him for their premarital pregnancy.
• Uchiha Nan told the couple to arrange a wedding within the next month or two and promised to support them.
• Lingyin worried that helping her would bring Uchiha Nan into conflict with the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal system, and Nan resolved to challenge it without massacring the clan.
• Uchiha Nan told Lingyin to move to the Uchiha Compound, and Makoto promised to stay by her side and help her through the pregnancy.

Uchiha Nan rejected a personnel expansion list dominated by Ninja Clan members and ordered Nara Shikaku to give civilian shinobi more opportunities through fair exams. On the moon, Otsutsuki Tetsuya pushed to act against Earth’s warring Ninja World, while Otsutsuki Tetsuto opposed using the Tenseigan for that purpose.

• Uchiha Nan told Nara Shikaku to favor married employees with children, then objected when he saw that Ninja Clan members made up most of the proposed hires.
• Uchiha Nan ordered Nara Shikaku to revise the list in favor of civilian shinobi, and decided that applicants should compete through examinations.
• Uchiha Nan reflected that the growing divide between civilian shinobi and Ninja Clans needed to be addressed before the next Hokage inherited the problem.
• Otsutsuki Tetsuto reported that no clan member had caused the Tenseigan’s unusual reaction, and Otsutsuki Tetsuya ordered the search to continue.
• Otsutsuki Tetsuya learned that war was still raging in the Ninja World and called for the clan to fulfill its ancestors’ supposed destiny.
• Otsutsuki Tetsuto struck the table and challenged Otsutsuki Tetsuya, insisting their ancestors had not intended the Tenseigan to be abused.

After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Nan split his attention between dates and a visit to the Underground Laboratory, where Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna were still working under his control. He gave Tobirama Zero-Tails to study, and Izuna joined Tobirama in condemning Nan’s plan to use workers’ negative emotions to produce Chakra.

• The factions in the meeting room ended their argument over the Ninja World and agreed to keep investigating the Tenseigan’s disturbance.
• Uchiha Nan used Wood Clones to spend the evening with several companions and sent another clone to check on the Underground Laboratory.
• Tobirama Senju explained that Uchiha Izuna resented being forced to work around the clock, while Izuna complained about Nan’s exploitation.
• Uchiha Nan gave Tobirama a sealed jar containing Zero-Tails and explained that it could convert negative emotions into Chakra.
• After learning Nan planned to use Zero-Tails to exploit workers’ stress, Uchiha Izuna sided with Tobirama and accused Nan of being inhuman.

Uchiha Nan assigned Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna research on Zero-Tails and Degraded Hashirama Cells while outlining Konoha’s growing power. He then asked Tobirama Senju how to dismantle the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal, and Tobirama Senju said they first needed a justifiable pretext.

• Uchiha Nan explained that he planned to make people pay to clear their negative emotions, then sell the Chakra Zero-Tails produced from them.
• Uchiha Nan gave Tobirama Senju Zero-Tails design scrolls and ordered him and Uchiha Izuna to develop a fast, compact version focused on Chakra conversion.
• Uchiha Nan said he would form a research team with Sky Ninja Village researchers and Orochimaru, and urged Tobirama Senju to finish a Degraded Hashirama Cells sample by year’s end.
• Uchiha Nan described Konoha’s growing advantage over the other villages and discussed the Soybean War, while Tobirama Senju recognized how powerful Konoha had become.
• Uchiha Nan asked Tobirama Senju for advice on destroying the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal system as part of his Kekkei Genkai Great Integration Plan.
• Tobirama Senju advised Uchiha Nan that they needed a justifiable pretext to eliminate the Caged Bird Seal.

Uchiha Nan visited Hyuga Takuma to discuss the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal and his plan to combine kekkei genkai through marriage. He gave Takuma two months to decide whether the clan would cooperate, then revealed that a Uchiha man and a Hyuga woman already had a gifted child together.

• Uchiha Nan asked Tobirama Senju to remove and improve the Caged Bird Seal, but Tobirama said he had failed to break it during the Warring States period and admitted that his research subject had died.
• Uchiha Nan visited Hyuga Takuma and asked whether his future children with Asuka would receive the Caged Bird Seal; Takuma said he had persuaded the Main Family’s elders to make an exception.
• Uchiha Nan revealed his knowledge of the Hyuga Clan’s lunar ancestry and the Tenseigan, then explained that the Caged Bird Seal obstructed his Kekkei Genkai Great Integration plan.
• Hyuga Takuma said he could not decide immediately, and Uchiha Nan gave him no more than two months to consider whether the clan would cooperate.
• Uchiha Nan told Hyuga Takuma that a young man from his clan and a Hyuga woman already had a child, whom he described as exceptionally gifted.

Uchiha Nan warned Hyuga Takuma that the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal could not remain unchanged, and Takuma resolved to push for change while recruiting Hyuga Asuka to secure the clan’s future. Nan then took a break to survey Konoha’s booming growth and considered how education and research could shape its future.

• Uchiha Nan urged Hyuga Takuma to make the right choice about the Caged Bird Seal, and Takuma recognized that the Main Family’s resistance might force him to oppose his own relatives.
• Takuma supported Nan’s plan to exempt the children of Hyuga who married into designated Kekkei Genkai Clans from receiving the Caged Bird Seal, and he told himself it was time for change.
• Takuma advised Hyuga Asuka to win over Uchiha Nan through bold romantic tactics and urged her to have children for the clan’s future.
• Uchiha Nan declared himself on vacation and toured Konoha, observing its crowded streets, railways, factories, expanding population, and growing districts.
• From Hokage Rock, Uchiha Nan reflected on Konoha’s expanding Ninja Academy and his hopes for graduates to strengthen industry, science, and the study of ninjutsu.

Uchiha Nan’s vacation turned into a night with Hyuga Asuka after she drugged his wine, while Hyuga Takuma prepared the Hyuga Clan’s Main Family for Uchiha Nan’s Kekkei Genkai Great Integration Plan. The chapter ended with the elders rejecting the plan over its threat to the Caged Bird Seal.

• During his vacation, Uchiha Nan heard exaggerated stories claiming he had killed a Kumogakure spy several kilometers away with a stone.
• Hyuga Asuka drugged Uchiha Nan’s wine, and they spent the night together; the next morning, Uchiha Nan accepted their relationship and continued flirting with her.
• Hyuga Takuma convened the Hyuga Clan’s Main Family to explain that Uchiha Nan wanted the four Kekkei Genkai Clans to intermarry and strengthen their ties.
• Hyuga Takuma told the elders that the Uchiha Clan, Senju Clan, and Uzumaki clan had agreed to participate, leaving only the Hyuga Clan undecided.
• The Hyuga elders angrily refused the plan, fearing that it would undermine the Caged Bird Seal and their authority.

Hyuga Takuma warned the Hyuga Main Family that they could not defeat Uchiha Nan and would have to consider abolishing the Caged Bird Seal. After ending the divided meeting, he planned to persuade the most resistant elders, while Hyuga Asuka told Uchiha Nan she would take the Uchiha name.

• Hyuga Takuma silenced Main Family members who demanded that Uchiha Nan kneel and apologize, then explained that the Hyuga Clan lacked the strength and unity to oppose him.
• Hyuga Takuma pointed out that the Branch Family would likely support Uchiha Nan if he sought to abolish the Caged Bird Seal, and that the Main Family could not defeat him.
• The Main Family argued over whether to resist, but Hyuga Takuma admitted he could not beat Uchiha Nan and urged them to accept the dignified way out he had offered.
• Hyuga Takuma ended the meeting without a final decision, gave the Main Family two months to consider Uchiha Nan's plan, and noted the elders who resisted most fiercely.
• At the Hokage Residence, Uchiha Nan discussed his Kekkei Genkai Great Integration Plan with Hyuga Asuka, who said she would take the Uchiha name in the future.

After returning from vacation, Uchiha Nan heard Nara Shikaku report how Konoha’s growing influence was reshaping the other great villages and drawing defectors. The chapter ended with Konoha struggling to screen the increasing number of foreign ninja seeking to join.

• Uchiha Nan returned to the Hokage Building, used shadow clones to process documents, and heard Nara Shikaku report that his wife was pregnant again.
• Nara Shikaku described how the Four Great Shinobi Villages were changing course after Konoha’s withdrawal from the Five Kage Alliance, with each village pursuing reforms and preparing to deal with its own nobles.
• Sunagakure’s Third Kazekage, Musa, yielded to pressure from village officials, ninja, and villagers who wanted to keep relying on Konoha, then sent Auntie Chiyo as an envoy.
• Third Raikage A began rebuilding Kumogakure with Konoha’s construction company, Ōnoki turned Iwagakure’s reforms toward the Land of Earth’s nobles, and Mizuto planned to use Kirigakure’s Kekkei Genkai clans against Amegakure.
• Nara Shikaku reported that small-faction ninja and defectors from the great villages were seeking Konoha’s Green Cards, leaving Konoha short of staff to review their applications.

Uchiha Nan told Nara Shikaku to strengthen Konoha’s recruitment propaganda and pitched a patriotic action film to attract talent. He assigned Shikaku to organize the movie while Konoha’s growing labor needs, stricter residency rules, and tax system remained central to its expansion.

• Uchiha Nan told Nara Shikaku to raise Konoha Green Card standards and use propaganda, movies, and television to draw skilled defectors and workers to Konoha.
• Uchiha Nan described a film about Uchiha Lengfeng rescuing Konoha villagers and merchants from a civil war, with both sides backing down when they saw his Konoha forehead protector.
• Uchiha Nan named the film Konoha Wolf Warrior, planned to write its outline, and chose an Uchiha actor for the lead role.
• Uchiha Nan threatened to send jonin after anyone who made Konoha’s forehead protector look powerless, and Nara Shikaku agreed the script was compelling.
• Uchiha Nan ordered Nara Shikaku to arrange the director, locations, and promotion, and Shikaku reluctantly accepted the assignment.
• Uchiha Nan explained that Konoha relied on migrant labor and tax revenue, while acquiring official residency had become harder as the village grew wealthier and its systems improved.

Uchiha Nan pressured Nara Shikaku to send his son to the Hokage Office as an unpaid intern and potential replacement, then learned Hatake Sakumo was marrying and promised to officiate. Kakuzu planned to serve as Sakumo’s best man and bodyguard, while unsuccessfully trying to become his future son’s godfather.

• Uchiha Nan told Nara Shikaku to bring his son to the Hokage Office as an unpaid intern so he could be trained to take over his father’s work.
• Hatake Sakumo entered with Kakuzu, and Uchiha Nan learned Sakumo’s blind date had succeeded and he was getting married.
• Hatake Sakumo said Kakuzu was his best man and bodyguard, and Uchiha Nan promised to attend and officiate the wedding.
• Kakuzu asked to be godfather to Sakumo’s future son, but Sakumo firmly refused and accused Kakuzu of wanting to corrupt the boy with money.
• Uchiha Nan encouraged Sakumo to accept Kakuzu for the sake of his wealth, but Sakumo and Kakuzu continued arguing over the godfather request.

Uchiha Nan refused to let Kakuzu become Kakashi’s godfather, then the Hyuga Main Family plotted to resist his plan to abolish the Caged Bird Seal. The Main Family settled on mobilizing Branch Family members for a protest at the Hokage Building two days later.

• Uchiha Nan suggested that Kakuzu and the man he called Whitey wait until the child was born and let the child decide, but they left still arguing.
• Uchiha Nan summoned a staff member for chocolate ice cream, then returned to his paperwork.
• Hyuga Takuma failed to persuade most of the Hyuga Main Family to support Uchiha Nan’s Kekkei Genkai Great Integration Plan.
• Hyuga Main Family members condemned Hyuga Takuma as a traitor and turned their attention to opposing Uchiha Nan.
• The Hyuga Elder proposed gathering Branch Family members to surround the Hokage Building and protest, and the Main Family approved Operation Konoha Spring for two days later.

Uchiha Nan learned that Hyuga Main Family hardliners planned to rally the Hyuga Clan against his effort to abolish the Caged Bird Seal, and he prepared a forceful response. The chapter ended with the Hyuga Elder imprisoning Hyuga Takuma and committing to lead a protest at the Hokage Building the next day.

• Hyuga Tsuyoshi warned Uchiha Nan that Hyuga Main Family hardliners planned to confine Hyuga Takuma and rally the clan and villagers against the Hokage.
• Uchiha Nan told Hyuga Tsuyoshi he would punish the protest's ringleaders and spare those who abandoned their opposition.
• Uchiha Nan briefed Nara Shikaku, Senju Touma, and Uchiha Tomita on his plan to abolish the Caged Bird Seal and ordered the Konoha Security Force and Anbu to suppress the planned protest.
• Uchiha Nan assigned his aides to address the Hyuga Branch Family and manage public opinion around the conflict.
• The Hyuga Elder confined Hyuga Takuma and declared that he would lead the Hyuga Clan in a protest and surround the Hokage Building the next day.

Uchiha Nan prepared an article portraying Neji Hyuga as a gifted, impoverished branch-family ninja who died pursuing freedom from the Caged Bird Seal. After reading it, Uchiha Tomita, Nara Shikaku, and Senju Touma feared it would expose the Hyuga Main Family to public outrage, while Uchiha Nan planned to spread the fabricated story throughout Konoha.

• Uchiha Nan ordered Nara Shikaku and Senju Touma to circulate his article about Neji Hyuga before sunset.
• The article recounted Neji Hyuga's talent, poverty, kindness toward his sister Hinata Hyuga, and explanation of the Caged Bird Seal and his father's death.
• The article described Neji Hyuga's ideal of pursuing freedom, his research into breaking the seal, and his death after the Hyuga Main Family discovered his work.
• The article concluded that Neji Hyuga's epitaph should be "Bird That Broke Free!"
• Uchiha Tomita, Nara Shikaku, and Senju Touma worried that the article's accusations would bring public fury and make them answer for the Hyuga Main Family's alleged abuses.
• Uchiha Nan approved of their reaction and anticipated that publishing the fabricated article would provoke outrage in Konoha.

Uchiha Nan ordered a fabricated story about Neji Hyuga to be spread across Konoha, turning residents against the Hyuga Main Family. The Hyuga elders discovered the story was invented but pressed ahead with their plan to surround the Hokage Building the next day.

• Uchiha Tomita described his anger at the Hyuga Main Family after reading the story, and Uchiha Nan explained how the article could sway public opinion.
• Senju Touma questioned the story’s truth, but Uchiha Nan said Konoha’s media channels could make it seem real and ordered it distributed by sunset.
• Konoha residents read and discussed the article, condemning the Hyuga Main Family and believing Uchiha Nan would intervene.
• The Hyuga Elder learned that Neji Hyuga did not exist and ordered the clan to proceed with its planned march on the Hokage Building.
• The Hyuga Main Family detained branch family members who had seen the article and planned another meeting to convince them it was fabricated.

The Hyuga Clan marched to the Hokage Building to protest Uchiha Nan’s order abolishing the Caged Bird Seal, but Nan confronted them and turned the Branch Family against the Main Family. The Main Family began disarming as the Branch Family cheered for the Hokage, leaving the clan’s old hierarchy on the verge of collapse.

• Hyuga Elder led the armed Hyuga Clan through Konoha to protest the alleged threat to the Byakugan, and Uchiha Nan watched from the Hokage Building.
• Uchiha Tomita’s Anbu surrounded the clan, and Nan publicly ordered the Hyuga to abolish the Caged Bird Seal and the distinction between Main and Branch Families.
• Hyuga Elder rejected Nan’s order and prepared to use the Caged Bird Seal against the Branch Family, while Nan challenged him over whether the Hyuga Branch ninja belonged to the clan or Konoha.
• A Branch Family member attacked a Main Family member, and Nan warned the Main Family that any retaliation would count as treason.
• Nan ordered the Hyuga to discard their weapons and armor, and both Branch and Main Family members began disarming.