Recaps

Namikawa Yū remembered that he was in Konoha as the Third Shinobi World War approached and awakened a reincarnation panel. He added Daimyo as a possible target identity and returned home to begin reincarnation.

• Namikawa Yū recalled that Konoha's White Fang was facing rumors and that war would soon follow his suicide.
• Namikawa Yū awakened a panel showing one reincarnation and 107 reincarnation points.
• Namikawa Yū spent 100 points to add Daimyo to the available reincarnation identities.
• Namikawa Yū returned to his residence and confirmed that he would begin reincarnation.

After reincarnating as Tianzi, the young Daimyo of the Land of Ancestors, Namikawa Yū secured peace with the Land of Them and spent years transforming his impoverished country. At seventeen, he learned of a rapidly growing God Tree in the south and went to investigate it.

• Namikawa Yū awakened in a frail ten-year-old body as Tianzi, Daimyo of the Land of Ancestors, in a world without chakra or ninjas.
• Facing the threat of invasion by the Land of Them, Namikawa Yū offered tribute and proposed a marriage alliance to its Tianzi, winning the neighboring country's approval.
• Namikawa Yū recruited samurai, adopted orphans, and spent two years building a private force before launching reforms.
• Namikawa Yū abolished noble privileges, lowered fees and taxes, redistributed land, and eliminated major landowners, helping the Land of Ancestors grow prosperous.
• At seventeen, Namikawa Yū learned that a mysterious tree in the south had grown to over a hundred meters in a year and traveled there to investigate.

Namikawa Yū investigated a village’s immense God Tree, suspected it absorbed life force and Natural Energy, and ordered villagers to monitor it. After a light appeared to fall near the tree, he rode there with his attendants, where they found no meteor and encountered a mysterious woman.

• Namikawa Yū examined the God Tree and noticed the surrounding area had been stripped of plants and wild animals.
• Namikawa Yū ordered the village chief to assign twenty people to watch the tree in exchange for exemption from agricultural taxes.
• Namikawa Yū spent several days surveying the region after leaving the village.
• A strange light appeared in the night sky, and an attendant said it seemed to be near the God Tree.
• Namikawa Yū led his attendants to investigate, but they found no meteor; when a guard spotted someone, a woman emerged from the distance.

Namikawa Yū recognized the white-haired woman he encountered as Otsutsuki Kaguya, realizing he had been reincarnated in the Ninja World’s ancient past before chakra had spread. He gained her trust and invited her to come with him, leaving his inspection abandoned for the night.

• Namikawa Yū recognized the woman’s Byakugan and appearance, identified her as Otsutsuki Kaguya, and realized the world was the Ninja World before the Sage of Six Paths and the spread of chakra.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya approached Namikawa Yū, but his attendants and warriors mistook her for a threat and tried to stop her.
• Namikawa Yū calmed his guards, approached Otsutsuki Kaguya, and draped his robe over her.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya sensed chakra within Namikawa Yū and told him her name when he asked.
• Namikawa Yū invited Otsutsuki Kaguya to come with him to a safe place, and she nodded in agreement.
• Namikawa Yū abandoned his inspection, considering Otsutsuki Kaguya more important than his position as Daimyo.

Namikawa Yū courted Otsutsuki Kaguya at the Daimyo’s Residence, and their growing affection led him to propose. Kaguya accepted after asking whether he would leave with her someday, and she became his wife.

• Namikawa Yū brought Kaguya to the Daimyo’s Residence and devoted himself to winning her favor, drawing gossip from the attendants and criticism from retainers.
• Over the following month, Kaguya grew warmer toward Namikawa Yū and offered to help when she saw him troubled.
• Kaguya told Namikawa Yū he could accompany her when she eventually left, and he took her words as a sign of his importance to her.
• Half a month later, Namikawa Yū proposed to Kaguya, who accepted after asking whether he would be willing to leave with her one day.
• Kaguya became Namikawa Yū’s wife, though people outside the residence believed she was his concubine, and the elder retainers were distressed.

Namikawa Yū rejected his retainers’ objections to his relationship with Kaguya and continued expanding the Land of Ancestors. Years later, Kaguya showed him the Divine Tree Fruit but sealed it away, saying she did not want him to die because of her.

• Sawada Kawa no urged Namikawa Yū to focus on governing and warned that the Lord of the Country of Pi might object to his treatment of Kaguya.
• Namikawa Yū dismissed Sawada Kawa no’s concerns while privately deciding not to change his course.
• The Land of Ancestors annexed several small countries, grew prosperous, and watched the God Tree grow larger over the following years.
• Kaguya plucked a Divine Tree Fruit and explained its power and its importance to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya sealed the fruit without eating it and told Namikawa Yū she did not want him to die because of her.

Otsutsuki Kaguya sealed away the Chakra Fruit, choosing her children with Namikawa Yū over the chance to strengthen herself. Meanwhile, the Lord of the Country of Pi ordered Zhuque to secure Kaguya, and an attack on Kaguya Palace left her guards struggling to protect her.

• Otsutsuki Kaguya hesitated to eat the Chakra Fruit, sealed it away, and cherished the twins growing in her womb.
• The Lord of the Country of Pi heard rumors about Kaguya and agreed to let Zhuque arrange for her to be offered to him.
• Namikawa Yū continued working late while Kaguya slept, unaware that smoke and fire were rising from Kaguya Palace.
• Warriors from the Land of Them stormed Kaguya Palace, and her guards fought while retreating with her.
• Kaguya's outnumbered guards struggled to resist the prepared attackers after being caught off guard.

Pregnant Kaguya was cornered by samurai from the Land of Them, who told her that Yū was dead. She consumed the Chakra Fruit and destroyed her attackers, while Namikawa Yū hurried toward her after hearing she seemed possessed by an evil spirit.

• Kaguya fought off the samurai, but pain from her pregnancy weakened her as they surrounded her.
• The samurai commander told Kaguya that Yū was dead, and she erupted in anger.
• Kaguya swallowed the Chakra Fruit and transformed into her complete Otsutsuki form.
• Kaguya used Eighty Sky God Strike to kill the surrounding samurai and Miko Mages.
• Namikawa Yū learned that Kaguya seemed possessed by an evil spirit and rushed toward her location.

Namikawa Yū reunited with Kaguya after she transformed and purged Land of Ancestors officials tied to the Land of Them. When the Land of Them demanded that he surrender Kaguya, he killed the envoy and launched an attack, leaving the two countries at war and the Land of Them at a disadvantage.

• Namikawa Yū found Kaguya amid the bloody aftermath, embraced her, and brought her back with him.
• Namikawa Yū purged over a thousand officials and retainers in the Land of Ancestors who favored or secretly served the Land of Them.
• An envoy from the Land of Them demanded that Namikawa Yū hand over Kaguya or face invasion.
• Namikawa Yū killed the retainer who urged him to surrender Kaguya and decided to break with the Land of Them.
• The army of the Land of Ancestors attacked the Land of Them, captured a border city, and began a war in which the Land of Them initially fell behind.

After Namikawa Yū conquered the continent, he and Kaguya examined the God Tree and discussed how it could produce another Chakra Fruit. Kaguya proposed sacrificing nearly everyone in the Ninja World to speed its growth, and Namikawa Yū questioned the plan.

• Lord of the Country of Pi sent an envoy with his daughter to persuade Namikawa Yū to end the war, but Namikawa Yū detained the envoy and continued the siege.
• An inside agent opened the royal capital's gates, allowing Namikawa Yū's army to capture the Daimyo and destroy the Land of Them.
• Namikawa Yū waged war across the continent for several years and unified it under the Land of Ancestors.
• Kaguya told Namikawa Yū that the God Tree's next Chakra Fruit was growing slowly because the first fruit had depleted much of the world's Natural Energy.
• Kaguya explained that she had sacrificed her original body to create the God Tree and could use life energy and chakra to help it produce another fruit.
• Kaguya proposed killing everyone in the Ninja World except those close to Namikawa Yū and using them as sacrifices, but Namikawa Yū asked what the plan would accomplish.

Namikawa Yū persuaded Kaguya to let him try another way to grow a Chakra Fruit, then spent ten years using chakra to transform production and expand the population. He showed Kaguya emerald crystals containing immense amounts of chakra and revealed he had gathered it from students at academies across the Ninja World.

• Namikawa Yū questioned whether sacrificing everyone could provide enough energy for a Chakra Fruit, and Kaguya agreed to let him try another method first.
• Namikawa Yū unified and developed the Land of Ancestors, distributing chakra seeds so people could use chakra to improve production, farming, and medical care.
• Over ten years, productivity, education, and the population of the Ninja World grew dramatically, while academies taught children to extract chakra.
• Namikawa Yū opened a wooden box in the royal palace and showed Kaguya several emerald crystals filled with immense chakra.
• Namikawa Yū said he had gathered the chakra by skimming it from students at academies across the Ninja World.

Namikawa Yū explained to Otsutsuki Kaguya how the Chakra Schools gathered vast amounts of chakra and why the system would produce even more over time. After he began coughing, Kaguya worried about his frail mortal body, and Namikawa Yū agreed to let her use Karma to extend his life.

• Namikawa Yū told Otsutsuki Kaguya that millions of students supplied chakra through school collectors and daily refinement classes.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya realized the growing supply could let the God Tree produce multiple Chakra Fruits, while Namikawa Yū explained the effort and systems needed to build the schools.
• Namikawa Yū suffered a coughing fit, and Otsutsuki Kaguya worried that his innate frailty would shorten his mortal lifespan.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya proposed planting her Karma in Namikawa Yū to transform his body and extend his life, and he agreed.

After Kaguya implanted an incomplete Karma in Namikawa Yū, she gave birth to Hagoromo and Hamura, who grew into exceptionally powerful and diligent young men. The brothers asked Namikawa Yū for permission to leave the palace and train in the wider world.

• Kaguya implanted an incomplete Karma in Namikawa Yū, whose body changed and grew younger.
• Kaguya sensed that their child would soon be born, and the following year she gave birth to twin boys named Hagoromo and Hamura.
• Namikawa Yū observed that Hagoromo lacked the Rinnegan while Hamura had inherited Kaguya's Byakugan, and Kaguya explained the different powers each son had inherited.
• The Land of Ancestors celebrated the princes' births, and over a decade the brothers grew strong through their Otsutsuki heritage, study, and hard work.
• Hagoromo and Hamura visited Namikawa Yū in the palace and asked to leave the capital to train and see the world.

Namikawa Yū allowed the grown Hagoromo Brothers to leave home and travel, believing they were ready to see the world. After bidding farewell to Kaguya, whose indifference contrasted with their father’s warmth, the brothers departed for their journey.

• Namikawa Yū told the Hagoromo Brothers they were old enough to travel and gave them permission to leave.
• The Hagoromo Brothers prepared for their journey and visited their teachers and friends to say goodbye.
• At Kaguya Palace, Hagoromo reflected on Kaguya’s extravagant use of chakra resources and her disregard for ordinary people.
• Kaguya told the Hagoromo Brothers to return once they had finished traveling, and they left without saying what they had hesitated to express.

The Hagoromo Brothers traveled across the Land of Ancestors, seeing how Namikawa Yū’s rule had transformed the country into a prosperous golden age. After months on the road, they reached the forbidden God Tree, where Hagoromo felt its power stir within him.

• The Hagoromo Brothers left Kyoto alone and traveled through prosperous villages and cultivated farmland.
• They saw academy graduates using chakra to support agriculture and learned that Namikawa Yū’s techniques had helped transform daily life.
• The brothers explored a city filled with chakra-powered devices and spent months enjoying their journey.
• After traveling across nearly half the country, the brothers reached the sacred, forbidden grounds of the God Tree.
• Hagoromo felt a change within himself as he stood before the God Tree, whose power he sensed especially strongly.

Hagoromo and Hamura saw the God Tree’s growing fruit and dreamed of Gamamaru, who warned that their mother would threaten the world. They dismissed his prophecy, but later spotted prison carts carrying prisoners toward the God Tree’s forbidden grounds.

• Hagoromo and Hamura visited the God Tree and saw a fruit growing atop its crown.
• That night, the brothers met Gamamaru in a genjutsu, and he named them the world’s chosen saviors.
• Gamamaru warned that Kaguya would become the threat to the world, but Hagoromo and Hamura challenged his claims.
• Gamamaru said destiny would reveal the truth, then the genjutsu shattered and the brothers returned to reality.
• While patrolling near the God Tree, Hagoromo and Hamura saw prison carts transporting prisoners toward the central forbidden grounds.

Hagoromo and Hamura discovered that prisoners were being sacrificed to the God Tree, which drained their life force. After confronting the samurai in charge, they learned that even children were condemned because their families had rebelled, leaving them to face the practice’s brutal justification.

• Hagoromo and Hamura followed prisoner wagons into the God Tree’s sacred grounds and found a temple where the prisoners were called sacrifices.
• A samurai used the God Tree to drain several prisoners’ life force, leaving them withered corpses.
• Hagoromo and Hamura rushed out of hiding, and the samurai recognized them and stopped resisting.
• Hagoromo demanded to know why citizens were being sacrificed, and the samurai said they were convicted of grave crimes.
• Hagoromo questioned the presence of two children, and the samurai explained that their families had been condemned for past rebellions.
• Hagoromo and Hamura checked the records and saw that the children had been sentenced along with their families, but they still pitied them.

Hagoromo and his brother stopped sacrifices and were appointed to oversee criminals, but they discovered every region had a rising quota of people to offer to the God Tree. The chapter left Hagoromo questioning why Namikawa Yū was sending so many living people into the tree.

• Hagoromo ordered the samurai to release the children scheduled to be sacrificed to the God Tree.
• The Hagoromo Brothers repeatedly intervened to rescue people from sacrifices until Namikawa Yū summoned them.
• Namikawa Yū appointed the Hagoromo Brothers commanders responsible for managing criminals throughout the Land of Ancestors.
• The brothers changed the judicial system and reduced crime, but the number of sacrifices did not fall.
• The Hagoromo Brothers investigated and discovered that every region had to meet an annual sacrifice quota that increased over time.
• Hagoromo stood beneath the God Tree and wondered what Namikawa Yū hoped to accomplish by sending living people into it.

The Toad Sage warned Hagoromo and Hamura that Kaguya’s God Tree was draining the world’s Natural Energy and could eventually destroy it. Hagoromo confirmed the danger after using Toad Oil to sense Natural Energy, and Hamura questioned why Namikawa Yū had allowed the tree to remain.

• The Toad Sage told Hagoromo and Hamura that Kaguya had planted the God Tree and that its consumption of life and Natural Energy could destroy the world.
• The Toad Sage gave Hagoromo Toad Oil, and Hagoromo used it to sense Natural Energy despite Hamura’s concern.
• Hagoromo’s chakra combined with Natural Energy and produced a powerful strike that pierced a small hill.
• Hagoromo sensed that the God Tree was draining the Ninja World’s Natural Energy and learned from the Toad Sage that exhausting it could trigger worldwide disasters and collapse.
• Hamura asked why Namikawa Yū had left the God Tree alone and arranged for sacrifices if it could destroy the world.

Hagoromo and Hamura returned to the capital after the Toad Sage warned that Namikawa Yū might be controlled by Otsutsuki Kaguya. They found their father calm and apparently himself, then he welcomed them back and asked about their discoveries.

• The Toad Sage praised Namikawa Yū's rule but warned that the God Tree threatened the world's natural energy, and suggested Kaguya might have beguiled him.
• Hagoromo and Hamura suspected Kaguya could be controlling their father and agreed to return to learn the truth.
• The Toad Sage offered to help the brothers and invited them to Mount Myōboku to train in senjutsu; Hagoromo agreed to consider it.
• Hagoromo and Hamura returned to the capital and sensed Namikawa Yū with natural energy and the Byakugan, finding no sign that he was controlled.
• Namikawa Yū greeted his sons while watering flowers and asked whether they had returned with new discoveries to share.

Namikawa Yū explained the God Tree’s need for chakra, life force, and natural energy to Hagoromo and Hamura, who worried that Kaguya would keep pursuing Chakra Fruits after the first one formed. He said they might have to stop their mother, leaving them astonished that he would not necessarily side with her.

• Hagoromo and Hamura asked Namikawa Yū about the God Tree’s origins and needs.
• Namikawa Yū explained that the God Tree required chakra and life force, and that livestock had begun replacing human sacrifices.
• Hagoromo warned that the God Tree’s continued growth could exhaust the world’s natural energy.
• Hagoromo questioned whether Kaguya would stop after obtaining a Chakra Fruit, and Hamura shared his concern.
• Namikawa Yū told the brothers they might need to stop Kaguya, and they were surprised he did not seem committed to siding with her.

Namikawa Yū encouraged Hagoromo and Hamura to pursue their own goals while assuring them they could always return home, and Kaguya watched them leave without speaking to them. After discussing the brothers’ potential, Namikawa Yū suffered a severe Karma backlash, and Kaguya worried that he needed the second Chakra Fruit before his body failed.

• Namikawa Yū told Hagoromo and Hamura to follow their own paths and remember to visit home, and the brothers left respectfully.
• Kaguya watched the brothers depart with her Byakugan, while Namikawa Yū urged her to speak to them because she missed them.
• Namikawa Yū argued that Hagoromo and Hamura could grow strong enough to surprise Kaguya, but Kaguya remained certain they could not defeat her.
• Namikawa Yū began coughing as Karma markings spread over his body, and Kaguya worried that the backlash was overwhelming his weak body.
• Kaguya considered how the second Chakra Fruit could awaken Namikawa Yū’s Otsutsuki constitution and save him, but Namikawa Yū told her not to overthink it.

Namikawa Yū learned that he had about ten years left in this world before the reincarnation panel’s fifty-year limit put his original body at risk, and he resolved to make the most of his remaining time. Meanwhile, the Hagoromo Brothers trained in Senjutsu as the Land of Ancestors prospered but suffered escalating disasters, and they eventually stood before the God Tree.

• Namikawa Yū learned that he could return to this world in the future by spending many points to open a connection between the worlds, and decided to use his remaining time to gain as much as possible.
• The Hagoromo Brothers told the Toad Sage that Namikawa Yū supported their efforts, then chose to learn Senjutsu so they could grow strong enough to stop Otsutsuki Kaguya if necessary.
• The Hagoromo Brothers went to Mount Myōboku, quickly mastered its Senjutsu, and began training with it.
• Over several years, the Land of Ancestors reduced its reliance on human sacrifices and grew more prosperous, while increasingly frequent natural disasters caused heavy losses.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki appeared before the God Tree as its growing absorption of natural energy drove worsening disasters.

After nine years away, Hagoromo and Hamura returned to the capital with their families, hoping to persuade Kaguya to slow the God Tree’s extraction of natural energy before it destroyed the world. Namikawa Yū welcomed them and met Hagoromo’s young sons, Indra and Asura, whose contrasting traits were already evident.

• Hagoromo and Hamura decided to return and urge Kaguya to slow the God Tree’s extraction because the world was nearing its limit.
• The brothers returned to the prosperous capital and reflected on how Namikawa Yū’s rule had improved people’s lives.
• Hagoromo and Hamura brought their wives and children home, including Hagoromo’s sons Indra and Asura.
• Namikawa Yū welcomed the returning family and observed Indra’s three-tomoe Sharingan and pure chakra.

Namikawa Yū questioned Hagoromo’s preference for Asura and urged him not to treat his sons differently. When Indra and Asura said they wanted to become kings, Namikawa Yū granted each a vast island to rule, leaving them with the chance to put their ambitions to the test.

• Namikawa Yū observed Indra and Asura and considered their different talents and personalities.
• Hagoromo admitted that he preferred Asura, and Namikawa Yū warned him that favoring one son could cause trouble between the brothers.
• Namikawa Yū introduced Indra and Asura to their grandmother, Otsutsuki Kaguya, whose chakra aura frightened them until she calmed it.
• Asura told Namikawa Yū that he and Indra wanted to become kings and lead their subjects to better lives.
• Namikawa Yū granted the Island of the Black Tortoise and the Island of the Dragon to Indra and Asura to rule as their own domains.