Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Makoto taught Kazuma how to profit from the tulip craze by selling contracts for future flowers instead of growing them. Kazuma proposed mixing forged contracts into the scheme, and Makoto approved as they planned to exploit the market bubble.

• Kazuma realized that Uchiha Makoto's story about the Daimyo's tulips could spark a surge in tulip prices across the Land of Fire.
• Kazuma proposed stockpiling tulips, but Uchiha Makoto said the limited supply would make ordinary buying and selling too unprofitable.
• Uchiha Makoto proposed signing advance contracts with tulip growers and selling the future tulip orders once demand rose.
• Kazuma understood that the contracts themselves could be traded for profit and suggested making fake contracts with the Daimyo's help.
• Uchiha Makoto praised Kazuma's idea and imagined the profits from the scheme.

Uchiha Makoto tried to recruit ninja clans into Akatsuki Ninja Village, but clans weighed the risks and benefits of joining the new village. The Hyuga Clan politely rejected his invitation, leaving Makoto’s recruitment effort stalled.

• Uchiha Makoto sent Kazuma and Darkness as envoys to the Capital of the Land of Fire while he stayed at the village headquarters to recruit ninja clans.
• Ninja clans considered the advantages and risks of joining a village, as the Uchiha and Senju alliance signaled that the Ninja World was changing.
• Uchiha Makoto invited familiar clans to join Akatsuki Ninja Village, presenting it as a united community devoted to peace.
• The Hyuga Clan inspected Akatsuki Village and learned that Uchiha Makoto had left the Uchiha Clan to establish his village independently.
• The Hyuga Clan declined Makoto’s invitation for the time being, and Makoto cursed their practicality while understanding their caution.

Uchiha Makoto lamented Akatsuki Ninja Village’s recruitment troubles while turning Aqua’s medical skills into plans for the village. In the Capital of the Land of Fire, Kazuma and Darkness reached the Daimyo’s palace, where the attendant said the Daimyo would meet them shortly.

• After major clans rejected him and minor clans mocked him, Uchiha Makoto held back from retaliating and recorded the offenders’ names.
• Uchiha Makoto urged Aqua to contribute her Medical Ninjutsu and write a textbook, while planning how to use her and Megumin’s abilities for Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Kazuma and Darkness traveled to the Capital of the Land of Fire and gave a thick red envelope to a palace attendant.
• The attendant said the Daimyo had ordered him to inform him immediately when Makoto’s envoy arrived and told Kazuma to wait.

Kazuma presented Uchiha Makoto’s tulip speculation scheme to the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire and sought his support. The Daimyo was intrigued by the plan’s potential, then began considering how the resulting financial frenzy could be brought to an end.

• The Daimyo worried that Hashirama Senju’s growing Konoha would threaten the balance of power in the Ninja World.
• Kazuma told the Daimyo that Akatsuki Ninja Village’s construction was progressing well, and the Daimyo offered five hundred million ryo in additional funding.
• Kazuma asked the Daimyo to support a major business deal involving tulips and described Makoto’s plan to promote them among nobles.
• The Daimyo recognized that nobles would likely follow the tulip trend, but initially doubted it could generate extraordinary profits.
• Kazuma explained that Makoto planned to trade advance contracts with flower growers as tulip prices rose, drawing nobles and merchants into the speculation.
• The Daimyo was shocked by the scheme’s scale and considered how they would clean up after the financial game ended.

Kazuma persuaded the Daimyo to join Uchiha Makoto’s Tulip Bubble scheme by appealing to his resentment of wealthy nobles who evaded taxes. After approving the plan, the Daimyo and Kazuma turned to negotiating how they would divide the profits.

• The Daimyo hesitated over the Tulip Bubble, fearing the greedy nobles would make the scheme uncontrollable.
• Kazuma argued that the nobles who joined would be responsible for their own losses and urged the Daimyo to reclaim wealth from them.
• The Daimyo recalled how nobles had evaded taxes and falsified accounts, then agreed to the scheme.
• Kazuma and the Daimyo discussed a plan for the Daimyo to buy Tulips, spread their popularity, and help drive up prices through staged demand and repeated sales.
• Uchiha Makoto weighed the profit split and insisted the Akatsuki Ninja Village should receive at least half.

Kazuma secured the Daimyo’s agreement to split the Tulip operation’s profits equally with Uchiha Makoto, then led a rapid campaign to buy tulips across the Land of Fire and neighboring countries. After stockpiling enough flowers before the market fully reacted, he told Darkness to prepare the Daimyo for the next phase.

• Kazuma insisted that the Daimyo accept a fifty-fifty profit split, invoking Uchiha Makoto’s firm stance and the threat of Hashirama Senju’s growing influence.
• The Daimyo reluctantly agreed to the split and left in anger, while Kazuma was relieved that the negotiation had gone smoothly.
• The Tulip Bubble Operation began, and the Daimyo provided money and manpower despite his displeasure with Uchiha Makoto.
• Kazuma and his team rushed across the Land of Fire and nearby countries, using Shadow Clones and Ration Pills to buy tulips before the market caught on.
• After filling warehouses with tulips and keeping the price increase to less than double, Kazuma told Darkness to ask the Daimyo to prepare for the next phase.

The Daimyo’s enthusiasm for Tulips sparked a craze among the Land of Fire’s nobles, while Tobirama Senju planned to strengthen Konoha and bring more clans into the village. As the Sarutobi and Shimura Clans prepared to relocate, Tobirama arranged for Hiruzen and Danzo to deliver another letter to the Daimyo.

• The Daimyo praised Tulips at a banquet, prompting the nobles to compete over their collections and spreading the flower’s popularity across the Ninja World.
• Tobirama Senju reflected on Hashirama Senju’s absences and planned to weaken Uchiha Madara’s influence over the Uchiha Clan while strengthening their loyalty to Konoha.
• Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura told Tobirama that their clans would soon move to Konoha and asked for help funding bulk purchases of supplies.
• Tobirama agreed to provide funds and learned that the clans would pass through the Land of Fire’s capital, giving him a chance to send another letter to the Daimyo.
• Sasuke Sarutobi volunteered Hiruzen to deliver the letter, and Shima Shimura added that Danzo could go too.

Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura brought Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura to meet Tobirama Senju, hoping he would take them as students and strengthen their clans’ standing in Konoha. Tobirama agreed to test the boys after their trip to the Land of Fire and arranged for them to handle a large supply purchase, secretly planning to use the savings for research equipment.

• Sasuke Sarutobi introduced Hiruzen Sarutobi to Tobirama Senju and explained his hope that Hiruzen would become Tobirama’s student.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura volunteered to deliver a letter to the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire while traveling there to purchase supplies.
• Tobirama Senju discussed their Fire Release and Wind Release skills, identified flaws in their understanding, and agreed to test them after they returned.
• Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura asked Tobirama Senju to take their sons as students, and he said he would do so if they earned his approval.
• Tobirama Senju assigned the boys to handle the clans’ and village’s supply purchases, hoping to use the expected discount savings to buy research instruments.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo left Konoha hoping to earn Tobirama Senju’s recognition, while Uchiha Makoto’s tulip scheme drove a speculative boom across the Land of Fire. The Daimyo and Kazuma prepared to profit further as wealthy merchants joined the market and prices continued to rise.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo argued over which of them would become Tobirama Senju’s disciple first before Sasuke Sarutobi ordered them to set off.
• Nobles crowded tulip shops across the Land of Fire, drawn by the flowers’ prestige and the Daimyo’s public enthusiasm for them.
• Kazuma secretly pushed tulip prices higher as wealthy merchants poured money into the booming market.
• Kazuma told the Daimyo they had earned nearly 1.3 billion ryō after selling only a third of their stock.
• The Daimyo confirmed that the flower growers’ contracts were signed, and Kazuma said they would wait for prices to approach their peak before making their next move.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo delivered Tobirama Senju’s letter to the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, who feared Konoha’s growing strength and its implied threat. Meanwhile, Uchiha Makoto watched Akatsuki Ninja Village’s prosperity rise as its funding increased.

• Sarutobi Sasuke and Shima Shimura left the Capital of the Land of Fire after assigning Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo to deliver Tobirama Senju’s letter and purchase supplies.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo met the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire and told him their clans had decided to join Konoha.
• The Feudal Lord read Tobirama Senju’s letter, interpreted its mention of Hashirama Senju as a threat, and considered asking Uchiha Makoto for help.
• The Feudal Lord invited Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo to a banquet, and they accepted.
• Uchiha Makoto heard system notifications that increased Akatsuki Ninja Village’s prosperity after its funding rose.

At the Daimyo’s banquet, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō discovered that Tulips had become wildly valuable, challenging their ideas about wealth and how it could be earned. They left the conversation eyeing the flower market as a possible source of profit.

• The Daimyo hosted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō at a banquet while planning to discuss Konoha’s funding with Uchiha Makoto.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō devoured several tables of food as the nobles socialized around them.
• A noble displayed a red-and-white Tulip he had bought for five million ryō, drawing admiration from the other guests.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō were stunned to hear that Tulips were worth tens of millions of ryō and that speculators were making huge profits.
• Shimura Danzō pinched Hiruzen Sarutobi to check whether he was dreaming, then suggested that Tulips could be an easy way to make money.

Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Shimura Danzō’s proposal to investigate the lucrative tulip business, insisting they focus on their supply-purchasing mission. The next day, they haggled over Ration Pill materials, and Danzo fumed about how easily merchants could make money.

• Shimura Danzō urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to explore the tulip business so they could earn money and impress Senju Tobirama, but Hiruzen refused.
• Danzo angrily told Hiruzen he would regret rejecting the idea, and the two barely spoke for the rest of the evening.
• The next morning, Hiruzen and Danzo went together to buy raw materials for Ration Pills.
• A shopkeeper quoted an inflated price, and Danzo drew a shuriken while accusing him of swindling them.
• Hiruzen and Danzo haggled repeatedly but left without buying the materials, and Danzo complained that merchants made money more easily than ninja.

Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi struggled to procure Ration Pills, then argued over whether Danzō should invest in tulips. After splitting up, Danzō visited the booming Tulip Trading Market and decided to buy despite the steep price, leaving his purchase about to begin.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō spent the morning haggling with merchants and bought Ration Pills at a higher-than-expected price.
• At lunch, Danzō overheard people praising tulip speculation, while Hiruzen warned him not to risk money on the trade.
• After lunch, Danzō persuaded Hiruzen to split up, then went alone to the Tulip Trading Market.
• Danzō saw investors and speculators celebrating the market and concluded that tulips were thriving across the Ninja World.
• A merchant quoted a starting price of one million ryō, and the people in line mocked Danzō as he hesitated.
• Remembering Hiruzen's doubts, Danzō insisted he had the money and agreed to buy for one million ryō.

Shimura Danzō impulsively spent a million ryō on tulips and paid to store them at the Tulip Exchange. Anxious after leaving, he returned to the market, where the price charts and fellow speculators reassured him.

• Shimura Danzō bought a million ryō worth of tulips and arranged for the Tulip Exchange to store them.
• Shimura Danzō left the exchange but became so anxious about his purchase that he abandoned his purchasing mission and returned.
• A trader directed Shimura Danzō to a room with free tea and a blackboard displaying tulip prices and trends.
• Shimura Danzō studied the rising price chart, called the market healthy, and joined the speculators discussing their profits.

Shimura Danzō hid his Tulip investment from Hiruzen Sarutobi and spent a sleepless night worrying about it. When Tulip rose by thirty percent the next morning, Danzō learned that other investors had made far more by going all-in.

• Shimura Danzō told Hiruzen Sarutobi that his afternoon of bargaining had gone poorly, then avoided Hiruzen’s attempts to discuss bargaining over dinner and back at their lodging.
• Shimura Danzō worried about his one-million-ryo Tulip investment while Hiruzen Sarutobi slept, and dreamed first of losing everything and then of gaining Tobirama Senju’s praise.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi taught Shimura Danzō a bargaining trick over breakfast, but Danzō hurried to the Tulip Trading Market after they parted.
• Shimura Danzō saw that Tulip had risen by thirty percent and realized he had gained three hundred thousand ryo.
• Other investors told Shimura Danzō that many had made millions or more, and one explained that going all-in was a kind of wisdom.

Shimura Danzō hid the 300,000 ryō he earned through the Tulip business from Hiruzen Sarutobi while becoming tempted to invest more. In the Capital, Uchiha Makoto assessed Tobirama Senju’s letter, and the Daimyo asked him to deal with Hashirama Senju, prompting Makoto’s inward outrage.

• The people at the Tulip trading market encouraged Shimura Danzō to seize opportunities and go all-in, and he fantasized about making millions while deciding not to risk his clan’s and village’s money yet.
• Shimura Danzō left the market without telling Hiruzen Sarutobi about his 300,000 ryō profit and falsely claimed his purchasing mission had gone as usual.
• Shimura Danzō distracted Hiruzen Sarutobi by offering to treat him to a meal.
• Uchiha Makoto read Tobirama Senju’s letter and concluded that Konoha’s negotiations with the Daimyo could be delayed while he kept the Daimyo suspicious of Hashirama Senju.
• The Daimyo asked Uchiha Makoto to handle Hashirama Senju because he did not want to meet the dangerous ninja himself, and Makoto silently resented the request.

Uchiha Makoto took charge of handling Hashirama Senju’s possible visit while preparing to intensify the Tulip scheme, and Shimura Danzo’s speculation profits distracted him from his supply mission. The chapter ended with Danzo revealing to Hiruzen Sarutobi that he had made fifty million taels, leaving Hiruzen stunned.

• Uchiha Makoto assured the daimyo that he would receive Hashirama Senju and discussed the next steps of the Tulip plan.
• A week later, Tulip prices surged, and Shimura Danzo’s investment of diverted clan procurement funds had grown to fifty million taels in profit.
• Shimura Danzo continued speculating and neglected his supply procurement, convinced that Tulip prices would keep rising.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi followed Danzo to the Tulip market and confronted him about abandoning the procurement mission.
• Shimura Danzo admitted he had been investing in Tulips and offered to bring Hiruzen along to make a fortune.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi guessed that Danzo had earned fifty million taels and reacted with shock.

Shimura Danzō flaunted his fifty million ryo in Tulip-trading profits to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who feared it would help Danzō win Tobirama Senju’s favor. Danzō agreed to teach Hiruzen the trade and urged him to invest seventy million ryo, leaving Hiruzen wavering but persuaded by Danzō’s confidence.

• Shimura Danzō told Hiruzen Sarutobi he had earned fifty million ryo and teased him about his earlier doubts about the Tulip business.
• Danzō treated Hiruzen to an extravagant meal while Hiruzen worried that Danzō’s wealth would impress Tobirama Senju and help him become Tobirama’s disciple.
• Hiruzen asked Danzō to teach him about Tulip trading, and Danzō agreed.
• Danzō advised Hiruzen to invest seventy million ryo, arguing that Tulip prices were still low and traders should buy more when prices fell.
• Hiruzen hesitated at the enormous investment but listened as Danzō urged him to go all-in during a major plunge.

Uchiha Makoto and the Daimyo introduced tulip contract trading, driving prices to a final frenzy while Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi poured in their remaining funds. After they went all-in, tulip prices plunged, leaving them trapped as bagholders.

• Shimura Danzō persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to invest seventy million ryō in tulips, and Hiruzen soon celebrated the returns.
• Uchiha Makoto told Kazuma to launch contract trading as merchants and nobles poured money into the tulip market.
• Tulip contracts drew in more investors, and Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi calculated that they had made over three hundred million.
• Shimura Danzō persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to invest all their remaining funds in tulip contracts while Uchiha Makoto and the Daimyo sold their holdings.
• Three days after Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi went all-in, a young ninja mistook a tulip for an onion and ate it, and tulip prices plunged three times overnight.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō lost most of Tobirama Senju’s funds by gambling on tulip contracts, and their fathers brought them back to Konoha after liquidating what remained. Tobirama learned that the procurement money and planned equipment were gone and furiously berated them.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi panicked over the falling tulip prices and pressed Shimura Danzō for a solution as their losses mounted.
• Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura arrived to check on the procurement mission and discovered that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō had spent the funds on tulip contracts.
• Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura beat their sons, sold their contracts, and recovered only a little over two hundred million ryō and a small amount of supplies.
• Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura brought Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō back to Konoha to face Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju learned that the five hundred million ryō and the planned experimental equipment were gone, then shouted at the two men for wasting the money.