Chapter Summaries

Disguised as Diyu, Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to help the Iwa Ninja and Suna Ninja end their war for three hundred million. After both leaders gathered near Kuno City, he faced the Third Kazekage, but the meeting turned confrontational before peace talks began.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo arrived at the Iwa Ninja outpost and learned from Kitsuchi that the Third Kazekage wanted a way to end the war.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to appear before the Suna Ninja, knowing the Kazekage might blame the Hana Organization for ending the war.
• Three days later, Ōnoki took Shiraishi Yoshijo to Kuno City, where the Third Kazekage arrived with more than a hundred ninja.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo introduced himself as Diyu and urged the Third Kazekage to be kind for the Suna Ninja's sake.
• The Third Kazekage insulted Shiraishi Yoshijo and challenged Ōnoki to make the first move, angering the Tsuchikage.

Ōnoki tried to persuade the Third Kazekage to enter peace talks, but Shiraishi Yoshijo and the Kazekage instead fought. Shiraishi trapped the Kazekage amid six tornadoes, while the Kazekage defended himself with a growing iron-sand sphere.

• Ōnoki argued that Konoha had engineered the conflicts between Iwagakure and Sunagakure, but the Third Kazekage challenged him to deal with Tengui and Long.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo considered how to keep Tengui and Long’s identities in the Hana Organization from being exposed, then rejected the Kazekage’s peace-talk offer.
• The Third Kazekage ordered the Suna Ninja to withdraw, and Ōnoki led the Iwagakure ninja away before Shiraishi and the Kazekage began fighting.
• The Third Kazekage attacked with iron-sand needles, but Shiraishi used earth walls and a tornado to counter him.
• Shiraishi created four Shadow Clones, surrounded the Third Kazekage with six tornadoes, and forced him to form a huge iron-sand sphere for defense.

Shiraishi Yoshijo defeated the Third Kazekage by trapping him in a massive tornado, but could not break through his Iron Sand defense. After Shiraishi left, Ōnoki and the Kazekage agreed to pursue an alliance against Konoha and discussed future military cooperation.

• The Third Kazekage's Iron Sand Sphere was caught in Shiraishi Yoshijo's tornadoes, leaving the Kazekage dizzy and vomiting inside.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo used an enormous tornado to force the Iron Sand Sphere to the ground, then mocked the bedraggled Kazekage.
• Ōnoki stopped the confrontation and ordered Shiraishi Yoshijo to clean the Kazekage, who conceded that he could not attack him further.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo left to collect his payment, and Ōnoki proposed that the Kazekage join forces with Iwagakure against the Hana Organization.
• Ōnoki offered to seek the return of Sunagakure's land and reduced war reparations in exchange for an alliance, and the Kazekage agreed to sign later.
• Ōnoki and the Kazekage discussed coordinating with Amegakure and attacking Konoha, then shook hands as their subordinates arrived.

Shiraishi Yoshijo returned to Konoha with a large payment, then went to the Land of Fire’s capital to investigate why Konoha kept finding Right Red’s hiding places. He met Mae and learned that violence had made the capital dangerously chaotic.

• The Third Kazekage grew furious over the Seven-Tails incident and supported an alliance with Ōnoki to attack Konoha.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo collected three hundred million from Kitsuchi, returned home, and gave Mie the money to distribute as monthly spending money.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo visited Right Red in the capital and learned that the Daimyo and his son Zhixiong were the only people who knew his hiding places.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo decided to investigate the Daimyo’s situation himself and teleported to Mae’s casino in the capital.
• Mae told Shiraishi Yoshijo that killings had become common in the capital and that its guards were too afraid to intervene.

Shiraishi Yoshijo discovered that the Daimyo had chained his substitute inside an empty palace, then returned to his real body and spoke with Mae. After discussing her future and her brother Katsutaro, Shiraishi left to investigate the construction site outside the capital because the Hokage had not tried to sabotage it.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo connected to his substitute and found it chained to a cross in an empty palace, while City explained that the Daimyo had ordered it restrained.
• Two samurai entered to inspect the substitute, and Shiraishi stayed still until they left before severing his connection.
• Mae tried to seduce Shiraishi, but he refused and promised to take her back from the capital within a year.
• Shiraishi warned Mae that her brother Katsutaro was harassing underage girls at an orphanage, and Mae called Shiraishi a pervert in return.
• Shiraishi told Mae he was worried about the Sannin and the Daimyo, then learned the construction site was progressing without trouble.
• Mae gave Shiraishi the contact method, and he transformed into a butterfly and vanished to inspect the construction site.

Shiraishi Yoshijo investigated the apparently quiet construction site and uncovered Explosive Tags hidden inside its stone bricks. He realized the site was a deadly trap, likely devised by Danzo, and narrowly avoided walking into it unaware.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo watched the construction site from above and grew suspicious because it had no ninja guards while Right Red kept escaping assassination attempts unharmed.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo weighed his strategic deadlock with the Hokage and decided to wait three months before considering how to weaken Konoha's remaining forces.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo disguised himself as a worker and overheard workers say the Daimyo had chosen heavy stone bricks over blue bricks and that people had disappeared from the site.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo sensed a faint Chakra reaction in the stone bricks, crushed one, and found two Explosive Tags hidden inside.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo realized the bricks could turn the construction site into a deadly trap and suspected Danzo had devised it.

Shiraishi Yoshijo discovered that the construction site for the Ninja Military Academy had been sabotaged and decided to find a separate foothold. While trying to seize Zhixiong, Right Red encountered the Sannin, and Shiraishi Yoshijo’s stand-in confronted them as the room was divided by Jiraiya’s flesh walls.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo found Explosive Tags hidden in the academy’s stone bricks and decided to use the site as a decoy while arranging a foothold elsewhere.
• Zhixiong told Right Red that the Daimyo was too ill to meet Shiraishi Yoshijo, and Right Red accused Zhixiong of exposing his hiding places before trying to seize him.
• Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade appeared as Zhixiong’s guards and used their overwhelming Chakra to block Right Red.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo recognized the Sannin, told Right Red to create a distraction, and revealed himself by attacking with electricity.
• Orochimaru summoned gray snakes as Jiraiya raised crimson flesh walls, splitting the room while the Sannin kept their attention on Shiraishi Yoshijo.

Shiraishi Yoshijo escaped Orochimaru’s explosive trap with Right Red and realized Konoha’s pressure campaign was meant to expose his absence and threaten the ninja clans he had left behind. The Sannin discovered he had escaped using space-time Ninjutsu and debated how far Konoha could go to preserve its position with the Daimyo.

• Orochimaru’s snakes detonated Explosive Tags in the sealed basement, and Shiraishi Yoshijo teleported himself and Right Red away.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo concluded Konoha was pressuring Right Red to lure him out of Konoha and leave the clans there vulnerable, then sent Right Red to Base Camp.
• The Sannin found no trace of Shiraishi Yoshijo’s clone or Right Red and concluded that space-time Ninjutsu had let them escape.
• Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade debated whether to control the Daimyo, but Tsunade and Jiraiya warned that discovery would destroy Konoha’s relationship with the Land of Fire.
• Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade left the basement with Zhixiong after searching it again.

Shiraishi Yoshijo met secretly with the Daimyo and warned him that the Hokage had controlled Zhixiong, then asked him to pressure Konoha. The Daimyo agreed to consider sending an inspection party, but the meeting ended with both men resentful of the other's mistrust.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Mae he suspected the Hokage had someone controlling the Daimyo's son, and Mae agreed to have her agents watch the Daimyo.
• After three days of reviewing Mae's intelligence, Shiraishi Yoshijo concluded the Daimyo had not been controlled and decided to meet him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo secretly entered the Daimyo's room and warned him that Zhixiong had been controlled by the Hokage, citing his investigation and the Sannin who had come with Zhixiong.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo gave the Daimyo instructions for removing the genjutsu from Zhixiong, letting the Daimyo's own ninja attempt the rescue.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked the Daimyo to pressure the Hokage by cutting Konoha's funding or sending an inspection party, and the Daimyo considered the proposal.
• The Daimyo challenged Shiraishi Yoshijo over occupying Konoha's southern gate, while Shiraishi Yoshijo defended his caution and privately resented the Daimyo's distrust.

Shiraishi Yoshijo persuaded the Fire Daimyo to support his research by demonstrating a technique that transferred life force, then returned to Konoha and began preparing a new foothold in Chobyakucho. He ended the chapter replenishing his vitality with hundreds of test subjects, still worried about how quickly his techniques consumed it.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo gave the Daimyo a contact ring, then demonstrated how he could transfer life force from two substitutes to make the Daimyo feel younger and lighter.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo offered to use death-row prisoners as sacrifices and test subjects, and the Daimyo agreed to provide support while demanding secrecy and limits on the research.
• After returning to Konoha, Shiraishi Yoshijo told the clan heads what he had learned in the capital and extorted nearly five hundred million ryo from them.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo chose Chobyakucho as a foothold and asked Oyashiro En to send spies there disguised as wealthy merchants to establish a temporary base.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo used the Star Absorption Technique on nearly four hundred test subjects to gain almost six hundred years of vitality, but still feared his techniques would consume it too quickly.

Shiraishi Yoshijo harvested the vitality of an entire city in the Land of Grass to prepare for his coming battle with Konoha, but discovered that draining so many people could make him lose control. City explained that he needed time to digest the vitality and that his growing power still fell short of Six Paths level, leaving him further down the path toward becoming inhuman.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo left Konoha, trapped a city in the Land of Grass with a barrier, and drained the vitality of everyone inside.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo realized he had been unable to stop draining people and worried that the pleasure could turn him into a mindless monster.
• City told Shiraishi Yoshijo that he had absorbed more vitality than his body could safely hold and needed time to digest it.
• City said Shiraishi Yoshijo's cells could surpass Hashirama Cells after digesting the vitality, but warned that his spiritual power was too weak for Six Paths level.
• Castle explained that it needed to absorb more Butterfly Seeds to grow strong enough to help Shiraishi Yoshijo reach Six Paths level, and Shiraishi Yoshijo recognized how inhuman his path had become.

Shiraishi Yoshijo mastered the Flying Thunder God in the mountains while considering how to counter large-scale attacks. In Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen learned the civil war was unavoidable, that Shiraishi had falsified casualty reports, and that the front was in crisis, so he sought Uchiha reinforcements.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo created a butterfly-shaped Flying Thunder God mark and began researching Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder to redirect large-scale attacks.
• Kagami Uchiha told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Shiraishi could use space-time Ninjutsu, that the Daimyo had sent an envoy, and that civil war could not be avoided.
• Tsunade urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to speak with Orochimaru, but Hiruzen refused until Orochimaru admitted his mistake.
• An Anbu reported that Shiraishi had submitted mostly disguised civilian bodies as Konoha casualties and that Shi-Die had not been found in Amegakure.
• The Anbu reported that Sakumo needed reinforcements and Danzo had been exposed and pursued by Hanzo; Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Shinnosuke to rescue Danzo and decided to ask the Uchiha for aid.

Uchiha Fugaku led a large force out of Konoha, while Hiruzen Sarutobi considered weakening the village’s powerful clans. Danzo returned from a failed mission in the Land of Rain, and his clash with Hiruzen ended their alliance on bitter terms as Konoha faced mounting crises.

• Uchiha Fugaku led two thousand ninja out of Konoha after Hiruzen Sarutobi promised the Uchiha mission quotas, village authority, and a possible Hokage nomination.
• Danzo fled Hanzo’s encirclement in the Land of Rain, met up with Shinnosuke, and retreated to Konoha after a bloody fight.
• Danzo told Hiruzen that the Suna Ninja had entered the Land of Rain battlefield and suspected the Iwa Ninja would follow.
• Hiruzen revealed that the Daimyo’s envoy had been killed by a bombing in Konoha and that the Daimyo had sent him an accusatory letter.
• Danzo and Hiruzen argued over their failures and responsibility for Konoha’s troubles, then parted on bad terms.
• The lights in Konoha’s Administrative Department stayed on all night.

After completing Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder, Shiraishi Yoshijo reviewed intelligence and realized Nara Shikazumi may have subtly warned him about Explosive Tags hidden at the Ninja Military Academy construction site. He weighed Konoha’s growing external threats against Sarutobi Hiruzen’s likely decision to focus on suppressing his rebellion.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo completed Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder, returned to Konoha, and reviewed intelligence after resting.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo suspected Nara Shikazumi had arranged the delayed sabotage at the academy site to alert him to Danzo’s hidden Explosive Tags, and decided to meet him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned construction at Chobyakucho was progressing quickly and could soon let him leave before the military academy was completed.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo read that the daimyo had cut Konoha’s funding, Kumogakure’s envoys were coming, and Suna Ninja had joined the fighting in the Land of Rain.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo reasoned that Sarutobi Hiruzen would prioritize suppressing his rebellion over confronting the external ninja forces, since the rebellion threatened Hiruzen and his clan more directly.

Shiraishi Yoshijo studied the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags and plotted to blame Danzo for his forbidden jutsu and past attacks so he could use them openly. After dinner, he spent the night with Tsuna and then Mie, who demanded that he take responsibility for the women he had drawn close to and sleep in her room.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo studied the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags and considered making Danzo take the blame for his stolen jutsu and the capture of the Seven-Tails.
• Mie found Shiraishi Yoshijo smiling over his plans and teased him before calling him to dinner.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo went to the bathroom with Tsuna, and Mie confronted them when they came out; Tsuna fled after Mie scolded her.
• Mie told Shiraishi Yoshijo to take responsibility for the women he had drawn close to and ordered him to sleep in her room.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo spent the night with Mie, who fell asleep holding him.

Shiraishi Yoshijo met privately with Nara Shikazumi, who questioned his plan to establish a Ninja Military Academy and warned that it would bring widespread death. Their argument revealed Yoshijo’s bitterness toward Konoha and its Will of Fire, while Shikazumi hinted that he wanted to discuss why he remained tied to the village.

• Nara Shikazumi finished a shogi match with Shikaku, then gave his seat to the visiting Shiraishi Yoshijo.
• Shikazumi played shogi with Yoshijo and easily defeated him before asking whether he knew about the Ninja Military Academy.
• Shikazumi warned that establishing the academy would devastate Konoha and bring death to the Land of Fire, while Yoshijo argued that people accepted others’ suffering to protect their own lives.
• Shikazumi invoked Yoshijo’s Konoha relatives and their sacrifices, prompting Yoshijo to condemn their deaths as foolish and blame Konoha for the suffering of his family.
• Shikazumi admitted he thought poorly of the Hokage but said it was easy to join Konoha and hard to leave, leaving Yoshijo speechless.

Nara Shikazumi deduced that Shiraishi Yoshijo led the Hana Organization and urged him to seize the Hokage position, offering clan support. Shiraishi rejected the offer and exposed Shikazumi’s self-serving strategy, leaving Shikazumi unable to understand why Shiraishi wanted to destroy Konoha rather than rule it.

• Nara Shikazumi proposed that Shiraishi Yoshijo replace the Third Hokage, praising his leadership, strength, and influence.
• Nara Shikazumi reasoned that Shiraishi was Diyu, leader of the Hana Organization, based on Diyu’s five elemental abilities, Konoha-style techniques, and immense Chakra.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo admitted Nara Shikazumi’s guess was correct but denied wanting to become Hokage, explaining that Konoha was not where he belonged.
• Nara Shikazumi offered to help Shiraishi overthrow the Third Hokage, saying he prioritized his clan’s survival over personal loyalty.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo pointed out that Nara Shikazumi aimed to benefit whichever side won and expected Shiraishi’s organization to weaken after his eventual death.
• Nara Shikazumi concluded that Shiraishi intended to destroy Konoha completely, but could not understand why he would abandon the Hokage position.

Shiraishi Yoshijo explained that his revenge targeted Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama’s legacy, and urged Shikazumi Nara to consider where his clan should stand as Konoha’s power weakened. Afterward, Shiraishi Yoshijo traced a leak about the Ninja Military Academy to a likely Mangekyo Sharingan user and realized Hiruzen Sarutobi was preparing to destroy his forces.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Shikazumi Nara that he wanted to destroy Konoha to erase the Senju brothers’ legacy, not to avenge himself on its people.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Shikazumi Nara to consider the Nara clan’s future role in bringing down Konoha, but Shikazumi Nara withheld his decision.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo returned home and wondered how Shikazumi Nara had learned about the Ninja Military Academy.
• Cheng told Shiraishi Yoshijo that a Mangekyo Sharingan had likely concealed Zhixiong’s control from Right Red.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo suspected Kagami Uchiha of leaking the intelligence and realized Hiruzen Sarutobi planned to spare no expense in wiping out his forces.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo concluded that he needed to weaken Hiruzen Sarutobi before the coming conflict.

Shiraishi Yoshijo suspected Kumogakure’s envoys had come to Konoha with ulterior motives and used their arrival to pressure the Hokage faction. After the envoys reached the south gate, Shiraishi received a secret letter from the Raikage asking for his help with an undisclosed mission in exchange for protection.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo considered how to pressure Konoha without starting a war too early and decided to wait before acting against Hatake Sakumo.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo suspected the Raikage’s plan to renew Kumogakure’s alliance with Konoha was not genuine and decided the envoys’ deaths could provoke a war.
• When Kumogakure’s envoys avoided the main street and headed for the south gate, Shiraishi Yoshijo summoned the ninja clan heads and went to welcome them.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo greeted the envoy leader, Dikai, and intimidated him after Dikai insulted the Hokage.
• Dikai confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo about Konoha’s welcome before Anbu escorted the envoys away.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo read and burned a secret letter in which the Raikage asked him to help the envoys with an unnamed mission and offered him protection.

Shiraishi Yoshijo helped Dikai’s Kumogakure envoys obtain a map of Konoha, then discovered their plan to abduct Uzumaki Kushina and decided to help them while sabotaging their escape. He also learned that Zetsu had approached the Hana Organization and ordered Oyashiro En to keep him as paid staff rather than a core member; Shiraishi then left Konoha to find and kill the Cloud Ninja waiting outside to receive Kushina.

• After an attack on the Kumogakure envoys’ residence, Dikai avoided Hiruzen Sarutobi’s attempts to renew the alliance treaty, and Shiraishi Yoshijo secretly gave Dikai a map of Konoha.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo realized Dikai was scouting Uzumaki Kushina and concluded the Cloud Ninja intended to abduct her, a plan he chose to assist because it could hurt Konoha.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo contacted Oyashiro En, who told him that Zetsu had asked to join the Hana Organization as a core member.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Oyashiro En to hire Zetsu as paid staff while withholding the organization’s intelligence from him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo left Konoha to find and kill the Cloud Ninja waiting outside the village to receive Uzumaki Kushina.