Chapter Summaries

Shiraishi Yoshijo met the Raikage at the Land of Lightning border to demand two billion in compensation, but their negotiations turned into a fight. Shiraishi Yoshijo transported the Raikage to the Land of Rain and left to seize his men as hostages, leaving the Raikage rushing toward the battlefield where their forces were stationed.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo and the Raikage met between their armies, and Shiraishi Yoshijo warned Kosuke to be ready to retreat if talks failed.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo demanded two billion in compensation, but the Raikage rejected his terms and attacked him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo used a Butterfly Clone and the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport the Raikage to a lake in the Land of Rain.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told the Raikage he would take his subordinates hostage to collect compensation, then vanished.
• The Raikage hurried after Shiraishi Yoshijo and arrived at the battlefield where Sunagakure, Amegakure, and Konoha were fighting.

Shiraishi Yoshijo trapped Kumogakure’s army in a barrier and captured most of its ninja alive, then used cursed seals to turn some prisoners into intelligence sources. Three days later, the bloodied Raikage returned to the Land of Lightning border, and Shiraishi greeted him before negotiations with the Daimyo’s officials.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo filled the sky with poisonous butterflies and sealed the five thousand Kumogakure ninja inside a barrier, knocking most of them unconscious while keeping them alive.
• After five hours, Kosuke’s troops pursued the remaining Cloud Ninja as they fled, but more than sixty escaped.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered the captives locked up and placed cursed seals on over a dozen jonin and more than a hundred chunin, erasing part of their memories.
• Three days later, the Raikage arrived at the camp covered in blood, and Shiraishi Yoshijo greeted him as the Daimyo’s officials waited to meet with him.

Shiraishi Yoshijo forced the Raikage to accept a costly settlement, then returned to the Land of Fire as the Second Shinobi World War spiraled out of control. After the Daimyo rewarded him and regained his youth, Shiraishi advised him to conceal the change, while the Daimyo reveled in his renewed vigor.

• The Raikage withdrew from the battlefield after most of his troops were captured, then agreed to negotiate with Shiraishi Yoshijo.
• The Land of Lightning agreed to pay 1.5 billion in compensation over five years, and Shiraishi arranged for the Cloud Ninja prisoners to be released.
• The Raikage asked Shiraishi to remove his Flying Thunder God formula and proposed attacking the Land of Wind, but Shiraishi refused to join the war.
• The Land of Lightning, Land of Wind, Land of Rain, and other villages entered the widening conflict, while Kirigakure attacked Konoha and the Second Shinobi World War spiraled out of control.
• The Daimyo praised Shiraishi, gave him one billion ryo, and had his vitality restored until his hair turned black and he looked to be in his forties.
• Shiraishi advised the Daimyo to hide his rejuvenation, and the Daimyo celebrated his renewed strength with two maids.

Shiraishi Yoshijo arranged for the new women sent by the clan heads, entrusted Yuexiang with household finances and academy negotiations, and returned to Taoyuan Village with five clansmen. He found his women absorbed in games before spending time with Mie, Aya, and Kaoru.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo accepted 120 women sent by the clan heads and told Kosuke to have them arrange the conversion of his palace into a castle without expecting him to pay.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo gave Yuexiang five hundred million to manage the household finances and asked her to negotiate with the clan heads on his behalf.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo left a clone with Zelan and Youmo, instructed them to keep Yuexiang unaware of it, and told them and the other women to contact him if anything happened.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo met Mae in the capital and returned to Taoyuan Village a day later with five clansmen.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo found Anna, Kawadome, Rie, and Chizuru playing mahjong, then discovered Mie, Aya, and Kaoru playing cards.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo carried Mie, Aya, and Kaoru to the bed and spent time with them.

Shiraishi Yoshijo struggled with Anna’s suggestion that they have children, then learned that the Uchiha siblings had tried to escape Taoyuan Village. He intercepted them at sea and brought them back under guard, while Uchiha Reika secured a promise to speak with him.

• Anna asked Shiraishi Yoshijo to consider having children before their wedding, but he worried he was unfit to raise them.
• Chizuru told Shiraishi Yoshijo that Oyashiro En was looking for him, and Oyashiro En reported that the Uchiha siblings had gone missing.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo used the city to locate the siblings’ discarded rings on the seabed, then sensed their boat offshore.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo confronted Uchiha Meitaku and Uchiha Reika at sea, warned them they could not escape, and stopped Meitaku from destroying his Mangekyo when Reika caught his hand.
• Uchiha Reika agreed to return and asked to speak with Shiraishi Yoshijo, who accepted before ordering the siblings arrested.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo had the siblings’ Chakra sealed and shackled, and they were taken back to Taoyuan Village.

Shiraishi Yoshijo questioned Uchiha Reika about escaping and learned she had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, which she offered in exchange for her brother’s safety. After discovering she had secretly exchanged intelligence with Uchiha Fugaku, Shiraishi Yoshijo warned her that any leak about Taoyuan Village would void their deal and left to investigate.

• Uchiha Reika asked Shiraishi Yoshijo to spare her and her brother, but he refused and planned to force her Mangekyō Sharingan to awaken.
• Uchiha Reika revealed she had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and offered its power in exchange for her brother’s safety and a peaceful life.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo confirmed her Mangekyō Sharingan had an illusion-type ocular technique, then resealed her Chakra and agreed to her terms in exchange for information about her informant.
• Uchiha Reika admitted that Uchiha Fugaku had passed her information through summoning cats, but claimed she had shared only intelligence about Tengui and Long and the attack on the Iwa Ninja.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo warned Uchiha Reika that any leak about Taoyuan Village would void their deal, then ordered the Anbu to take her away and left for Konoha.

Shiraishi Yoshijo returned to Konoha, visited Shiraishi Eizawa’s grave, and warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that the village’s power would shift after the war. He then confronted Uchiha Fugaku at the front, threatened him over Uchiha Reika, and disappeared.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo copied the Shide Clan names from Konoha’s Memorial Stone, visited Shiraishi Eizawa’s grave, and recovered the clothes buried there.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi met Shiraishi Yoshijo at the grave and offered reconciliation, but Shiraishi Yoshijo warned him to watch himself and predicted no one would restrain him after the war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reflected on Konoha’s worsening casualties and the danger that the war would destroy the village’s clans.
• After a battle on the Land of Fire’s southern border, Uchiha Fugaku returned to his tent having lost more than half of the Uchiha clansmen he had brought.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo attacked Uchiha Fugaku, who evaded the strike and used Fire Release; Shiraishi Yoshijo absorbed the fireball and threatened to kill the unit if they intervened.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo named Uchiha Reika and warned Uchiha Fugaku to keep her intelligence buried before vanishing.

Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru discussed war, peace, and their hopes for the future before killing intruders. Meanwhile, Uchiha Reika offered to sacrifice her happiness to protect her brother, and Shiraishi Yoshijo weighed whether to let her keep the Eternal Mangekyo.

• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru argued over whether war would ever end and what they would do afterward.
• Jiraiya said he would search for a savior, while Tsunade said she might travel and see the world.
• Jiraiya extinguished the bonfire when footsteps approached, and the Three Sannin killed the intruders.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo replaced Uchiha Meitaku's eyes with Three Tomoe Sharingan and offered the pair to Uchiha Reika as a gesture of sincerity.
• Uchiha Reika offered her body in exchange for keeping the Eternal Mangekyo, explaining that she wanted to protect her brother and help him abandon revenge.
• Uchiha Reika asked Shiraishi Yoshijo to replace her brother's Three Tomoe Sharingan with ordinary eyes, and he considered whether she might awaken the Rinnegan.

Shiraishi Yoshijo accepted Uchiha Reika’s offer to safeguard the Eternal Mangekyo and made her his subordinate, then operated on her, Yushiro, and Uchiha Meitaku. After a long night in the laboratory, Tsuna stopped him from going to bed.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo rejected Uchiha Reika’s self-sacrificing attitude but accepted her proposal, and she agreed to call him Master.
• Uchiha Reika asked Shiraishi Yoshijo to save Yushiro, and he arranged an Anbu identity for Reika before bringing both women to his laboratory.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo transplanted Uchiha Meitaku’s Mangekyo into Uchiha Reika and replaced Uchiha Meitaku’s eyes with Sharingan taken from substitutes.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo removed Yushiro’s Three Tomoe Sharingan, replaced them with ordinary eyes, and restored her condition by transferring life force from test subjects.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo treated Uchiha Meitaku’s organ failure with a transplant and blood transfusion, finishing the procedures around midnight.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo found Aisha and Tsuna to arrange a night watch, but Tsuna reminded him that he had not visited them in a long time.

As the war drained Konoha’s forces, Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to pressure Shiraishi Yoshijo into joining the battlefield. Shiraishi remained at the Ninja Military Academy, where he learned to use Uchiha Reika’s newly awakened Eternal Mangekyo abilities.

• The four great villages continued fighting across the Land of Rain and other fronts as casualties mounted and the Land of Rain neared collapse.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisers reviewed Konoha’s depleted forces and discussed withdrawing from the Land of Rain to focus on Kirigakure.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that the Daimyo had agreed to send Shiraishi Yoshijo to war, but Shiraishi kept avoiding him and the Ninja Military Academy’s first students remained under observation.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered his advisers to keep sending gifts and enlist clan leaders to pressure Shiraishi Yoshijo into joining the war.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo stayed with Uchiha Reika after her Mangekyo fusion and drew out her abilities, Xuanpi and Power of False Adornment.

Shiraishi Yoshijo reassured Uchiha Reika about her secret cooperation and their relationship while Taoyuan Village rapidly developed into a city. As he prepared to found Peach Country and become emperor, he discussed his plans for world order with Reika, who remained devoted to him.

• Uchiha Reika told Shiraishi Yoshijo that Uchiha Meitaku believed her after she showed him the Eternal Mangekyo and described its abilities.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo promised not to abandon Reika if her brother discovered the truth, and Reika resolved to pursue happiness with him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo surveyed Taoyuan Village’s growth and said he would soon found Peach Country and ascend the throne.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo designed his imperial robes and crown while Reika watched enviously.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Reika he intended to make Peach Country a world power that could restrain war, and explained his view of peace, violence, and human nature.

Shiraishi Yoshijo accepted Yodoyuki as a political consort, and Anna established ranks for women in the castle. On September 15, Shiraishi Yoshijo and Anna led the village parade, while Uchiha Meitaku glimpsed a woman he thought was Reika and was left troubled.

• Oyashiro En brought Yodoyuki to Shiraishi Yoshijo, who accepted her to maintain balance among the village’s leaders.
• Anna proposed making herself empress and establishing ranks for the women in the castle, and Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed.
• On September 15, Shiraishi Yoshijo and Anna led the parade with the women of the castle, Chizuru, Right Red, and the guards.
• The parade float traveled from the castle through the village to the statue, where Kawaigawa Aonobu, Takemoto Masamasa, and Oyashiro En waited.
• Uchiha Meitaku thought he saw Reika on the parade float, chased after it, and returned home unsettled.

Shiraishi Yoshijo declared Peach Country founded and celebrated with its officials and citizens. After the festivities, Yuexiang told him the Land of Fire wanted him to join the war in the Land of Rain, and he refused, saying he would send those demanding war to the battlefield.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo honored the dead at the memorial before proclaiming Peach Country and himself its eternal emperor.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo, Kawaigawa Aonobu, Takemoto Masamasa, Oyashiro En, and Shiraishi Sayo gave speeches, then officials celebrated atop the statue and watched fireworks.
• After the three-day festivities, Shiraishi Yoshijo returned to the academy palace and discussed his wedding with Yuexiang.
• Yuexiang told Shiraishi Yoshijo that her father wanted him to go to the Land of Rain because the Land of Fire was in trouble.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo refused to fight for the Land of Fire without sharing its power and said he would send the people urging war to die on the battlefield.

Shiraishi Yoshijo refused to fight on the battlefield, instead sending a thousand Academy troops with Daimyo funding, and later took control of the Komatsugawa clan after heavy losses. As Madara sought a successor and ordered protection for a family in the Land of Rain, Shiraishi remained safely at the Academy.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo rebuffed Zhixiong’s appeal to defend the Land of Fire and told the Daimyo he would send a thousand troops to support Konoha for five hundred million.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo gave three hundred million in war funds to the clan heads and ordered those who had requested battle to go fight.
• Five days later, a thousand Academy troops departed, and three months later only half had survived; the Ishikura and Komatsugawa clan heads had died.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo installed Kosuke as Komatsugawa clan head, and Kosuke later became engaged to the former clan head’s thirteen-year-old daughter.
• Madara learned that Shiraishi Yoshijo had stayed away from the battlefield and ordered Zetsu to observe the Uchiha clan for possible successors.
• Madara ordered Zetsu to protect the family in the Land of Rain from the Hana Organization.

Shiraishi Yoshijo welcomed his first son, Nianze, and soon became the father of twelve children while juggling family life in Peach Country. Three years later, as the Shinobi World War neared its end, he learned that White Fang of Konoha had died by suicide, and the Land of Rain had surrendered amid Hanzo’s declining power.

• On his twenty-fourth birthday, Shiraishi Yoshijo delivered Anna’s baby himself, and they named their son Shiraishi Nianze.
• Kawadome gave birth a month later, and within a year Shiraishi Yoshijo had twelve children with five boys and seven girls.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo grew overwhelmed caring for the children while Anna, Chizuru, Yodoyuki, and Kawadome played mahjong and gossiped about his relationships.
• While Shiraishi Yoshijo was with Hayaka, a message arrived that White Fang of Konoha had committed suicide.
• Three years later, the Land of Rain surrendered, and Hanzo faced public resentment, assassination attempts, and isolation as the war neared its end.

As Konoha reclaimed its territory, Hatake Sakumo’s battlefield success made him a candidate for Hokage, but political scheming and the village’s silence over a failed mission drove him to suicide. Shiraishi Yoshijo reflected on Sakumo’s convictions, then spent the spring with Hayaka, who discussed her rank and place in his household.

• The alliance of the three countries collapsed, and Konoha reclaimed its lost territory as Hatake Sakumo became renowned as the White Fang of Konoha.
• The Daimyo sent Hatake Sakumo a medal and a monetary reward, while Danzo worked to widen the rift between him and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• After Hatake Sakumo chose to save his comrades instead of completing a top-secret mission, Hiruzen Sarutobi stayed silent, and Sakumo came to believe he threatened the village’s stability.
• Hatake Sakumo took his own life, and Shiraishi Yoshijo admired his extreme devotion to Konoha while judging his convictions foolish.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo spent time with Hayaka, learned she was a second-rank female official, and told her Anna could promote her to first rank.

After completing the Star Absorption Technique, Shiraishi Yoshijo tested it and began developing a machine to extract life force. The machine proved painfully damaging and inefficient, leaving him considering whether people could use the technique instead.

• Half a year after Anna gave birth to a girl named Ying, Shiraishi Yoshijo spent nearly a year completing the Star Absorption Technique with the research institute staff.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo tested the technique on a subject and learned from Cheng that it could absorb up to twenty years of life force, with recovery taking years.
• Cheng advised Shiraishi Yoshijo to collaborate with Lady Mei and use Chakra Metal to build a life-force extraction machine, but he decided to continue experimenting before approaching her.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo had the research staff build a machine and found that its Chakra Metal needles badly injured subjects while wasting most of the extracted life force.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo considered inscribing the Star Absorption Technique formula onto another person so they could activate it by injecting Chakra.

Shiraishi Yoshijo proposed a business with Mei to sell life force, with poor people supplying it and the wealthy buying it. They agreed to split the proceeds sixty-forty, and Shiraishi planned to modify his machine for Mei to operate.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo abandoned using artificial humans and brought his life-force machine to Butterfly Habitat Valley to discuss a deal with Mei.
• Shiraishi proposed selling life force from the poor to wealthy customers, and Mei agreed to join him.
• Mei examined the machine and said she could remotely control more than a thousand modified machines despite her seal.
• Mei told Shiraishi that Chongji, a former test subject he had forgotten, was still alive and ate much of the food sent to the valley.
• Mei asked for half the proceeds, but Shiraishi negotiated until they agreed to a sixty-forty split.

Shiraishi Yoshijo freed Chongji from Butterfly Habitat Valley, brought him into Peach Country, and ordered Right Red to arrange his papers and housing. After learning Chongji had hidden killing intent, Shiraishi dismissed Right Red’s concerns and summoned Oyashiro En, while a family story ended with Nianze being spanked and Kushina scolded.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo found Chongji still alive after seven years of eating and planted a Butterfly Seed in him before taking him out of Butterfly Habitat Valley.
• Shiraishi introduced Chongji to the institute staff, then ordered Right Red to get him identification and a residence in Peach Country.
• Right Red warned Chongji about the emperor’s supreme authority and confronted his killing intent; Chongji dropped his foolish act and invoked Shiraishi’s order to get his paperwork processed.
• Right Red told Shiraishi that Chongji had ulterior motives, but Shiraishi dismissed the concern and asked him to bring Oyashiro En.
• Shiraishi spanked Nianze after the boy suggested he marry Little Red Riding Hood, and Anna joined in before comforting him.
• After Shiraishi left to meet Oyashiro En, Anna scolded Kushina for telling Nianze that Shiraishi liked pretty girls.

Shiraishi Yoshijo met with Oyashiro En to discuss the country’s growth and Mae’s criminal red-light district. He decided to investigate the district himself, leaving Oyashiro En to hand the underground organizations over to Right Red.

• Oyashiro En proposed a selection pageant, and Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to attend.
• Oyashiro En reported the country’s population, finances, military, island expansion problems, and plans for foreign trade.
• Oyashiro En explained that Mae’s red-light district was controlled by thugs, sheltered criminals, and had resisted Police Force raids.
• Oyashiro En said Mae’s connections to Rie, Chizuru, and the Shide Clan had protected the district from government action.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Oyashiro En to hand the underground organizations to Right Red and said he would investigate Mae’s district himself.