Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Sanpo exposed Sarutobi Hiruzen’s role in Nawaki’s and Dan Katō’s deaths, then allocated the recovered money to Konoha’s war casualties and ninja. He left to find Tsunade and bring her back to the village.

• Uchiha Sanpo interrogated Sarutobi Hiruzen, who admitted arranging for Danzō to kill Nawaki and Dan Katō because they threatened his claim to the Hokage position.
• Konoha’s citizens denounced Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzō as traitors, while Uchiha Sanpo handed the remaining interrogation to Uchiha Ryuka.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered the recovered twenty billion ryō used for casualty pensions, overdue ninja wages, and bonuses for those who withdrew from the Sunagakure battlefield.
• Uchiha Sanpo told Uzumaki Huiyi he was leaving to find Tsunade and persuade her to return as an Advisor Elder and lead the Medical Department.
• Uchiha Sanpo departed Konoha, determined to find Tsunade.

Uchiha Sanpo found Tsunade in Tanzaku Town and persuaded her to consider returning to Konoha by promising to revive Nawaki. After revealing his interest in her and sealing her chakra, he cultivated with her and gained an Incomplete Senju Sage Body.

• Uchiha Sanpo tracked Tsunade to a hot spring inn in Tanzaku Town after learning she had lost money gambling.
• Sanpo told Tsunade that Konoha had changed, that Nawaki's and Dan Katō's deaths had been exposed, and that the village wanted her as an advisor and medical chief.
• Sanpo promised he could revive Nawaki and kissed Tsunade after telling her he wanted her to become his woman.
• Sanpo drove off Tsunade's debt collectors with a Shadow Clone and explained that the Rinnegan's Outer Path could revive the dead, though the technique carried a fatal backlash.
• Tsunade asked for one night to decide, but Sanpo sealed her chakra and cultivated with her, gaining an Incomplete Senju Sage Body.

Uchiha Sanpo and Tsunade discussed their relationship after spending the night together, and Tsunade agreed to return to Konoha with him as an Advisor Elder and head of the Medical Department. Their unresolved relationship with Uzumaki Huiyi remained an obstacle.

• Uchiha Sanpo woke after spending the previous day and night with Tsunade and gained the Intermediate Senju Sage Body.
• Tsunade teased Sanpo over breakfast, then asked what he liked about her and whether he had a girlfriend.
• Sanpo admitted that he loved both Tsunade and Uzumaki Huiyi and wanted to cherish them both.
• Tsunade challenged Sanpo to consider how he would handle the relationship, and he promised to tell Huiyi honestly without treating her feelings like a game.
• Tsunade said she would return to Konoha with Sanpo and serve as Advisor Elder and head of the Medical Department.

Uchiha Sanpo returned to Konoha with Tsunade, prompting Uzumaki Huiyi to fear he would choose Tsunade over her. Huiyi later accepted that Tsunade was special to him, and Sanpo invited her to bathe with him.

• Uchiha Sanpo teased Tsunade about becoming the Fifth Hokage as they walked toward Konoha.
• Uzumaki Huiyi rushed to greet Sanpo at the village gate, then smelled Tsunade's scent on him and asked if they were together.
• Sanpo reassured Huiyi that he would not stop wanting her, while Tsunade comforted her and then left for the Hokage Building.
• Back at home, Huiyi jokingly asked how Sanpo had won Tsunade over in only three days and admitted she worried he might like Tsunade more.
• Sanpo told Huiyi that he liked her for who she was and called Tsunade special; Huiyi told him to bathe, and he invited her to join him.

Uchiha Sanpo learned that Kakashi had killed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and he opposed Uchiha Fugaku’s plan to make Kakashi a wanted rogue ninja. The leaders agreed to announce Kakashi as a missing-nin while hiding him under another identity, and Fugaku called Sanpo to his office after the meeting.

• Uchiha Inabi told Uchiha Sanpo that Kakashi had killed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura after a banquet at the Daimyo Residence, prompting the daimyo to demand an explanation.
• Uchiha Fugaku proposed listing Hatake Kakashi as an A-rank rogue ninja, but Uchiha Sanpo objected and argued that the four clans’ defection would hurt the village regardless.
• Nara Shikaku and Hyuga Hiashi supported Sanpo’s view, and Hiashi suggested that Konoha announce Kakashi as an A-rank missing-nin while secretly giving him the identity Hatake Kakadon.
• Uchiha Fugaku accepted Hiashi’s plan, adjourned the meeting, and asked Uchiha Sanpo to come to his office.

Uchiha Sanpo explained to Uchiha Fugaku why he had ordered Kakashi to assassinate Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and Fugaku warned him to consult him before making such plans again. After Fugaku branded Kakashi an A-rank rogue ninja, the four clans appealed to the Land of Fire daimyo, who dismissed their complaints and called them burdens.

• Sanpo admitted to Fugaku that he had ordered Kakashi to kill Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura and had opposed Fugaku to protect Kakashi.
• Sanpo explained that the killings and the four clans’ departure were meant to restore Konoha’s strength, discourage betrayal, and undermine the daimyo’s influence.
• Fugaku ended the discussion and told Sanpo to inform him before carrying out similar plans in the future.
• Fugaku ordered Kakashi listed as an A-rank rogue ninja and wanted throughout the shinobi world.
• The four clans’ representatives asked the Land of Fire daimyo to punish Konoha over the deaths, but he dismissed their complaints and told them not to act like deadweight.

Uchiha Sanpo used Matsui Shikone as a sacrifice to summon Hashirama Senju with Impure World Reincarnation, then showed him evidence of abuses committed by Konoha’s leaders and clans. Enraged by the deaths of children, the Senju clan’s decline, and the Uzumaki clan’s destruction, Hashirama declared that Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Sarutobi, Shimura, Utatane, and Mito clans deserved to die.

• Uchiha Sanpo used genjutsu to immobilize Matsui Shikone and injected him with Hashirama Cells, causing his chakra to surge as his body began to collapse.
• Uchiha Sanpo performed Impure World Reincarnation, and Hashirama Senju emerged in a body wearing Warring States-era armor.
• Uchiha Sanpo handed Hashirama documents detailing the actions of Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura.
• Hashirama read about the destruction of the Uzumaki clan, the decline of the Senju clan, Nawaki’s death, child casualties, and Root’s experiments on children.
• Uchiha Sanpo told Hashirama he could verify the reports by asking around Konoha, and Hashirama declared the four clans and Sarutobi Hiruzen deserved to die.

Uchiha Sanpo showed Hashirama Senju records proving the four clans had taken vast sums of Konoha’s money when they left, then outlined plans to recover it without provoking war. Hashirama agreed to infiltrate the Daimyo Residence, and Sanpo began explaining how the clans were positioned there.

• Uchiha Sanpo showed Hashirama Senju the four clans’ property records and explained that Sarutobi Hiruzen had taken billions of ryō in embezzled funds.
• Uchiha Sanpo showed Hashirama a casualty register proving Konoha had been too weakened after the Third Shinobi World War to stop the clans from leaving by force.
• Uchiha Sanpo presented plans for a cloning center, a cultural school, an orphanage, and a nursing home, and said the stolen wealth could fund them.
• Hashirama Senju saw Tsunade outside the window and learned from Uchiha Sanpo that she had returned to Konoha and become its Advisor Elder and Medical Department head.
• Hashirama Senju demanded to go to the Daimyo Residence, but Uchiha Sanpo warned that a direct attack could trigger war and proposed a covert infiltration to recover the money.
• Uchiha Sanpo explained that the daimyo had placed the four clans in the east, south, west, and north corners of the Daimyo Residence.

Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Sanpo disguised themselves as samurai and raided the Mito, Shimura, and Utatane estates to seize the clans’ wealth. They began attacking the Sarutobi Clan, where Sarutobi Hiruzen watched in fear and demanded to know who they were.

• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Sanpo planned to raid the four clans’ estates in the Daimyo Residence and disguised themselves as masked samurai.
• Hashirama Senju disabled the Mito Clan’s barrier, and the pair used shadow clones to overwhelm its ninja and force Mito Hirota and Mito Hiroki to surrender their wealth.
• The pair’s shadow clones defeated all 586 Shimura Clan ninja in ten minutes.
• More than a thousand shadow clones overran the Utatane Clan’s 830 ninja.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Sanpo attacked the Sarutobi Clan, and Sarutobi Hiruzen retreated in fear as his ninja were knocked down or sent flying.

Hashirama Senju's shadow clones overwhelmed Sarutobi Hiruzen, while Uchiha Sanpo collected the stolen wealth and escaped with Hashirama. The daimyo blamed the four ninja clans for their defeat and cut their stipends in half, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen to explain the enemy's power.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned Monkey King Enma and used the Adamantine Ruyi Staff to defend himself against Hashirama Senju's shadow clones.
• The shadow clones collapsed the ground beneath Sarutobi Hiruzen, then destroyed his staff by hurling stone lions at it.
• Two shadow clones beat Sarutobi Hiruzen unconscious as Uchiha Sanpo watched, and resistance from the Sarutobi Clan faded.
• Uchiha Sanpo and Hashirama Senju collected 39.14 billion ryo in cash and Sarutobi Hiruzen's gold and silver, then left the Daimyo Residence.
• The daimyo scolded the four clan heads and halved their stipends, prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen to describe the attackers' strength and their ability to create 1,000 copies.

Uchiha Sanpo dismissed Hashirama Senju after they discussed rebuilding Konoha, then returned home and persuaded Uzumaki Huiyi to learn medical ninjutsu from Tsunade. Their cultivation unexpectedly advanced Huiyi’s Uzumaki Sage Body, leaving her stronger and Sanpo eager to continue.

• Uchiha Sanpo told Hashirama Senju he would summon him again after rebuilding Konoha, and Hashirama’s reincarnation body dispersed into scraps of paper.
• Uchiha Sanpo sent a shadow clone to handle Military Police Force affairs and returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound for breakfast.
• Uchiha Sanpo proposed that Uzumaki Huiyi study medical ninjutsu and the Yin Seal with Tsunade, and Huiyi agreed to go with him.
• Uchiha Sanpo and Uzumaki Huiyi cultivated together, causing Huiyi’s Sage Body to advance to Advanced Uzumaki Sage Body.
• Uzumaki Huiyi noticed her chakra reserves and physical strength had increased, while Uchiha Sanpo continued cultivating with her.

Uchiha Sanpo brought Terumi Mei and Uzumaki Huiyi to Tsunade and paid her to teach them the Yin Seal. Tsunade accepted after Sanpo connected the lessons to their plan to revive Nawaki and urged her to invest in property and the Cloning Center.

• Terumi Mei complained that Uchiha Sanpo and Uzumaki Huiyi had eaten without her and demanded more spending money after admitting she had spent five hundred thousand ryō in a few days.
• Uchiha Sanpo took Terumi Mei and Uzumaki Huiyi to meet Tsunade at an izakaya and asked her to teach them the Yin Seal.
• Tsunade refused at first, saying the S-rank sealing technique would take too long to teach.
• Uchiha Sanpo offered Tsunade a scroll containing one hundred and sixty million ryo as tuition and urged her to buy back her ancestral home and invest in Konoha property.
• Uchiha Sanpo reminded Tsunade that the two billion ryo for the Cloning Center had arrived and linked the project to reviving Nawaki.
• Tsunade accepted the scroll and told Uchiha Sanpo to meet her at the Konoha Inn at eight that evening.

Uchiha Sanpo left Tsunade at the izakaya, then visited her at the Konoha Inn and reconciled with her. After they spent the night together, her affection reached 100%, and he reviewed his improved abilities and progress toward awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Tsunade drank alone at the izakaya and lamented being Sanpo's secret girlfriend while hoping to revive Nawaki.
• Uchiha Sanpo left with Uzumaki Huiyi and Terumi Mei, gave Terumi Mei 500,000 ryo, and went to the Military Police Force.
• Sanpo used a shadow clone to handle the office's paperwork, then went to Tsunade's room with roses.
• Tsunade confronted Sanpo about his other girlfriends and her jealousy, and he reassured her that he had spent money to help revive Nawaki.
• Sanpo and Tsunade reconciled and spent the night together, raising her affection to 100% and improving his Senju Sage Body and chakra.
• Sanpo checked his system status and estimated that he was about sixty days from awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Sanpo visited Tsunade at her home, kissed her, and declared that she was his woman after Jiraiya interrupted them. The two men agreed to fight in a public match the following Sunday, while Jiraiya left after hearing Sanpo and Tsunade together again.

• Uchiha Sanpo arrived at Tsunade's residence and kissed her while she was arranging her room.
• Jiraiya spotted them through the window, fell from the windowsill, and objected to Sanpo's relationship with Tsunade.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya her private affairs were none of his business, and Sanpo challenged him to a match to raise money for Konoha.
• Jiraiya accepted the match and stormed away as Sanpo shut the window.
• Tsunade asked whether Sanpo had provoked Jiraiya on purpose, then warned Sanpo that Jiraiya could still hear them.
• Jiraiya overheard them from outside, struck a tree in frustration, and used the Body Flicker Technique to leave.

After a drunken night with Ishihara Mafuyu, Jiraiya fled in embarrassment, while Uchiha Sanpo proposed a public competition with him to draw wealthy spectators and revive Konoha’s economy. Sanpo then used the system to consider three new fusion techniques, but had not chosen one by the chapter’s end.

• Jiraiya drank heavily at a brothel, lamented that the woman he liked had been taken by another man, and passed out.
• Jiraiya woke naked beside Ishihara Mafuyu, panicked, and rushed out after she teased him about their past and the previous night.
• At a meeting, Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Sanpo described Konoha’s postwar economic and population decline, and Sanpo proposed holding a competition with Jiraiya.
• Uchiha Sanpo said Jiraiya had returned to the village and agreed to the competition, and he predicted the Daimyo of the Land of Fire would attend.
• Uchiha Sanpo asked the system to fuse his mastered skills, received three A-rank technique options, and considered which one to choose.

Uchiha Sanpo tested his newly fused Seraph form, then advanced his Senju Sage Body after cultivating with Tsunade. At the gambling house, he placed a 200-million-ryo bet on himself to win his upcoming match against Jiraiya.

• Uchiha Sanpo activated Seraph form at the edge of the Forest of Death, flew into the clouds, and used his Flame Spear to unleash three fire dragons that blasted a crater into a distant cliff.
• After two days with Tsunade, Uchiha Sanpo rejected her offer to bet on his match and revealed that his shadow clone had already placed a 200-million-ryo bet on him.
• Uchiha Sanpo completed a cultivation session with Tsunade, upgraded to Advanced Senju Sage Body, and felt his Three-Tomoe Sharingan beginning to throb.
• At the Konoha gambling house, Terumi Mei bet 450,000 ryo on Jiraiya, while Uzumaki Huiyi bet 1,000,000 ryo on Uchiha Sanpo.
• Uchiha Sanpo arrived at the betting counter and wagered 200 million ryo on himself to win.

Sarutobi Asuma faced hostility in Konoha and tried to reconnect with Yuhi Kurenai, but she rejected him. After he assaulted Hikawa Hideaki, the Uchiha Military Police arrested him, and Hideaki vowed revenge against the Sarutobi Clan.

• Villagers insulted Asuma, Yuhi Shinku threatened him, and an innkeeper refused to give him a room because of his clan.
• Asuma found Kurenai at a flower shop, but she rejected him and blamed his departure to serve the daimyo.
• Asuma grabbed Kurenai's wrist, and Hikawa Hideaki intervened to stop him.
• Asuma punched Hideaki, who crashed into a fruit stall and suffered serious injuries.
• Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Inabi arrested Asuma, while Hyuga Homura treated Hideaki, who vowed to make the Sarutobi Clan pay.

Konoha was overwhelmed by a surge of visitors ahead of a competition, forcing Uchiha Fugaku to impose entry controls and arrange temporary lodging. After Sarutobi Asuma injured a noble, Uchiha Sanpo ordered him kept in custody despite Fugaku's request to release him.

• Yamanaka Kenta and the Military Police struggled to control the crowds, and Uchiha Inabi stopped a noble from breaking Konoha's rules at Ichiraku Ramen.
• Uchiha Fugaku confronted Kurama Amakumo over the exhausted budget as officials reported that tens of thousands of visitors had overwhelmed Konoha's capacity.
• Uchiha Sanpo proposed suspending civilian entry, setting up temporary residential zones, and using limited tickets for competition-day access, and Uchiha Fugaku approved the plan.
• Uchiha Tekka reported that Sarutobi Asuma had injured Hikawa Hideaki and been arrested, while Uchiha Inabi said Fugaku had ordered Asuma released.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered Asuma locked in the dungeon and told Fugaku that the Daimyo's delegation could spare one of its twenty-four members.

Uchiha clansmen complained that their Military Police Force wages were overdue and their clan benefits had been cut, blaming the village’s depleted treasury. Uchiha Sanpo agreed to lend money to subordinates in urgent need, warning them to save it rather than squander it.

• Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Tekka, and Uchiha Yakumi discussed the overdue wages and learned that Fugaku had used Uchiha funds to cover Anbu pay.
• Uchiha Inabi and other clansmen voiced their financial hardships and blamed Sarutobi Hiruzen and the village’s senior officials.
• The clansmen suggested borrowing money from Minister Sanfeng, and Uchiha Tekka said Sanfeng was loyal and would likely help them.
• Uchiha Sanpo arrived at the training grounds and asked the gathered clansmen why they were not training.
• Uchiha Sanpo agreed to lend money to clansmen with urgent needs and urged them to save it.

Uchiha Sanpo and Jiraiya fought a spectacular battle at the Valley of the End while the Daimyo looked down on Konoha and mocked its appearance. Jiraiya summoned three giant toads to gang up on Sanpo, and the battle continued amid the spectators’ cheers and alarm.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire surveyed Konoha from Hokage Rock, insulted the village, and declared he would build a statue of himself larger than those of Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju.
• Uchiha Sanpo and Jiraiya began their battle at the Valley of the End, each creating seventy-two shadow clones and unleashing a barrage of Fire Release techniques.
• Jiraiya dispelled his clones and summoned Gamabunta, whose Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique Sanpo countered with Majestic Destroyer Flame and Gust Wave.
• Jiraiya attacked Sanpo with Wild Lion's Mane Technique, but Sanpo substituted a log and blew away the mist with Great Breakthrough.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamaken and Gamahiro, joining Gamabunta in a three-toad assault that battered the battlefield as spectators watched in alarm.