Chapter Summaries

Shiraishi Yoshijo questioned Rie about Mae’s red-light district and learned that clan members had received about two hundred million from it. He visited the outer city with Right Red, uncovered the widespread slave system and resident quotas, and realized his own policies had helped create the problems; a woman then warned that she could not enter the red-light district.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Rie about Mae’s red-light district, and Rie explained that Mae had sent her and Chizuru around two hundred million to support clan members.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Rie what Oyashiro En had reported and promised to investigate before settling matters with the clan.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo and Right Red went to the outer city, where Right Red described the large slave population and the unequal rights of official and non-official residents.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that departments charged people to exceed the official-resident quota and that half the money went into his private treasury, so he blamed himself for the system.
• A scantily clad woman offered to guide Shiraishi Yoshijo and Right Red, but she said she could not enter the red-light district even after accepting their money.

Shiraishi Yoshijo investigated the red-light district and learned that his cousin Mae was Demon Butterfly, the figure who controlled it. After confronting her, he struggled with how to punish the clan members behind the operation, and the chapter ended with Mae refusing to name them and drawing him into an intimate encounter.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo paid a woman for information about the red-light district and learned that Demon Butterfly controlled it through threats and violence.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo saw a casino’s enforcers punish a suspected cheat by severing his hand, then ordered Oyashiro En to bring the Police Force to raid the district and bring Mae to him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo confronted Mae, revealed that he knew she was Demon Butterfly, and demanded an explanation for the district’s business.
• Mae said clan members had pushed her into running the operation and had taken most of its profits, while her brother’s debts had left her desperate for support.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Mae to list the clan members involved, but she refused unless he explained how he would treat them.
• Mae accused Shiraishi Yoshijo of being selfish and climbed into his lap; he did not stop her as they became intimate.

Shiraishi Yoshijo persuaded Mae to reveal the Shi-Die Clan members involved in abuses and launched a sweeping crackdown. He left the clan facing mass imprisonment and executions, while Kawaigawa Aonobu feared that further investigations could kill thousands more.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo promised Mae he would not kill her clansmen, and she agreed to give him their names after he refused to marry her openly.
• That night, the Police Force cleared the red-light district and arrested more than twenty thousand people.
• After releasing johns, prostitutes, gamblers, and drunkards, the authorities imprisoned nearly every adult member of the Shi-Die Clan.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo watched as Right Red ordered executions of criminals before the shackled Shi-Die clansmen.
• Oyashiro En objected to the executions, while Takemoto Masamasa blamed Kawaigawa Aonobu for creating the crisis.
• Kawaigawa Aonobu feared that Shiraishi Yoshijo's investigations into the country's abuses could lead to ten thousand more deaths.

Shiraishi Yoshijo punished the Shi-Die Clan for its crimes and warned its survivors to obey the law. He left Mae in charge of regulating the red-light district, giving her a chance to repair her relationship with the clan.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo ended the massacre after more than a thousand people had been killed, then condemned the Shi-Die clansmen for their corruption and lawlessness.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo knocked down Katsutaro and denounced his crimes, then Right Red sentenced hundreds of clansmen to five or ten years in prison.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo released the remaining clansmen and took Mae back to the castle, where she asked him to spare her brother.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Mae that he had spared her brother with a ten-year sentence and ordered her to manage the red-light district without allowing further crimes.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo said Anbu would protect Mae and that she could improve her relationship with the clansmen by taking better care of them.

Shiraishi Yoshijo confronted Peach Country’s slaveholding system and asked its three leaders to devise a solution, but learned that official residents’ benefits depended on exploiting unofficial residents. He considered whether a carefully guided riot might force the country to renew itself, leaving the problem unresolved.

• Anbu forces executed over a thousand criminals, crushed gangs across the outer city, and protected Mae as she resumed managing the red-light district.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that the crackdown had killed more than ten thousand people and faced criticism for sparing the real culprit and allowing Mae to continue her work.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo summoned Oyashiro En, Kawaigawa Aonobu, and Takemoto Masamasa to address the more than one hundred thousand unofficial residents effectively trapped in slavery.
• Oyashiro En and Kawaigawa Aonobu argued over their clans’ slaveholding, while Takemoto Masamasa explained that unofficial residents were exploited to fund official residents’ benefits.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo realized that increasing the number of residents through vitality trading could worsen the country’s contradictions, and considered whether a guided riot might force change.

Shiraishi Yoshijo struggled with slavery and the future of his increasingly powerful country, then told Reika he wanted to create a Kingdom of Immortality. Reika proposed an elected system to keep power circulating, and hinted that her plans also concerned their children.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Oyashiro En to arrange a beauty pageant, improve conditions for unofficial residents, and asked Shiraishi Sayo to draft laws against slavery, while warning his three officials to stop making trouble.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo reflected on how he had become like the evil dragon he once opposed, then visited Uchiha Reika and their son, Shiraishi Enxuan.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Reika the evil-dragon story and revealed his fear of death, his research into immortality, and his plan to establish a Kingdom of Immortality.
• Reika proposed elections for officials at different levels and a parliament to circulate power and involve ordinary people in governing.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo raised the need for oversight, and Reika suggested that he consider his children's futures as part of arranging the country's leadership.

Reika and Shiraishi Yoshijo discussed their relationship, the Uchiha clan’s dwindling numbers, and Shiraishi’s plans for Konoha. He gave her a ring so she could help Uchiha escape or join him, then the two resumed their intimate roleplay.

• Reika asked whether Madara had existed, and Shiraishi admitted that he had used Madara to deceive her and her brother, though Madara was still alive.
• Reika told Shiraishi that her brother and Yushiro were expecting a child and asked him not to disturb their happy life.
• Shiraishi explained that Konoha’s clans had suffered heavy losses and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of using the war to consolidate power.
• Shiraishi said he intended to make Konoha disappear, and Reika asked him to spare its people and the Uchiha.
• Shiraishi gave Reika a ring and told her to help Uchiha join him or flee Konoha, promising not to hunt them down.
• Reika brought out a collar and whip, and she and Shiraishi began their horse-themed roleplay.

Shiraishi Yoshijo spent time with Reika and their son, discussing how Reika might awaken the Rinnegan before she playfully threatened to overpower him. He then met with Right Red and prepared him to take over Oyashiro En’s underground contacts while keeping his real identity hidden.

• Reika asked whether she could awaken the Rinnegan, and Shiraishi Yoshijo explained that growing her life and spiritual energy could theoretically bring her to the Sage of Six Paths’ level.
• Reika decided to cultivate Shi-Die’s Secret Technique and joked that she would use the Rinnegan to defeat Shiraishi Yoshijo and monopolize his attention.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo promised to visit Reika every three days, and she playfully rode him until Hayaka arrived to summon him.
• Right Red told Shiraishi Yoshijo that Oyashiro En had completed the handover, and Shiraishi Yoshijo gave him two rings.
• At the research institute, Shiraishi Yoshijo created twenty substitutes disguised as Oyashiro En and instructed Right Red to meet underground leaders without revealing his real body.

Shiraishi Yoshijo tested machines that drained vitality and assigned Right Red to manage their secret use while promoting Shiraishi En to Deputy Minister. He then arranged a maid selection and began planning a city and government reform, anticipating resistance from powerful officials.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo tested a machine that drained vitality and told Right Red to secretly collect vitality while limiting each use to five years.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo tasked Right Red with sending Chongji to form an underground organization, then promoted Shiraishi En to Deputy Minister.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Hayaka and Mie to arrange a selection event and agreed that the wives would choose among the castle maids.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo divided the inner and outer city into twenty-five areas on a map and considered how Oyashiro En, Takemoto Masamasa, and Kawaigawa Aonobu might react to his reforms.

Shiraishi Yoshijo outlined Peach Country’s new elected government and a gradual plan to address slave ownership. After assigning roles to Takemoto Masamasa, Kawaigawa Aonobu, and Oyashiro En, he left them to implement the reforms while Takemoto went to visit his grandchildren.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo explained that the Anbu and Imperial Guard could overpower the Police Force, then summoned Takemoto Masamasa, Kawaigawa Aonobu, and Oyashiro En.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo proposed dividing Peach Country into twenty-five regions and establishing elected officials, fixed terms, a presidency, and a parliament.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo assigned Takemoto Masamasa and Kawaigawa Aonobu leadership roles in parliament and kept Oyashiro En in charge of General Affairs and the Ministry of Finance.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo instructed Oyashiro En to register residents and establish public criteria for unofficial residents to gain official status, using rumors and a nationwide beauty pageant to prepare the public for reform.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo argued with Takemoto Masamasa, who left the meeting to visit his grandchildren, while Oyashiro En and Kawaigawa Aonobu joked about Shiraishi Yoshijo being like a pig among a vegetable farmer’s cabbages.

Shiraishi Yoshijo oversaw a large selection of female officials, used the women to spread word of institutional reforms, and crushed resistance before publicly announcing the plans. Two years later, he expanded and trained the Anbu as Peach Country stabilized, while the other nations increased funding for their ninja villages in response to the Land of Fire’s growing military strength.

• Anna selected fifty women, and Hayaka reported that 420 candidates would enter service, including fifteen daughters of officials and merchants who would serve as female officials.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that Hayaka had taken money for placing the fifteen women and arranged for a pair of twins to serve him while bathing.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo spread news of institutional reform through his consorts, while Oyashiro En denied the rumors and had the Police Force disperse protesting official residents.
• The Shide Clan, Takemoto Clan, Kawaigawa Clan, and Chinoike Clan dismissed unofficial residents, and the authorities arrested over a thousand people who stormed the imperial city, stripping them of official-resident status.
• After six months, Shiraishi Yoshijo publicly announced the reform plans and expanded the Anbu to five hundred members, implanting Butterfly Seeds and training them in forbidden techniques.
• Two years later, Shiraishi Yoshijo inspected the Anbu’s vitality machines, and Right Red reported that the Daimyos of Wind, Earth, Lightning, and Water had doubled funding for their ninja villages in response to the Land of Fire’s strength.

Shiraishi Yoshijo grew wealthy through his ties to Peach Country, Roran, and the Military Academy, while pursuing Queen Sari and secretly making advances toward Kushina. He remained determined to destroy Konoha, but the mystery of its Nine-Tails Jinchuriki stood in the way, so he planned to investigate in person.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo used the Dragon Vein to stop the Land of Wind from attacking Roran, after which Sari confessed her feelings and had a daughter, Sara, with him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo reflected that the story’s plot had diverged, then began courting Kushina after she left the castle to teach at a school.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo disguised himself as a teacher and secretly advanced his relationship with Kushina, intending to reveal his identity later.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo considered how the Military Academy’s losses in the Second Shinobi World War had delayed his plan to use its ninja against Konoha.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo remained unable to identify Konoha’s Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and decided he needed to visit Konoha to uncover the truth.

Shiraishi Yoshijo addressed the population and revenue problems facing Peach Country, approving a path for clansmen’s unofficial families to gain resident status while ordering Right Red to stop bringing people into the country. He planned to sell vitality restoration to foreign elites discreetly, wary of Madara as he continued waiting for the city to evolve.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that Right Red had found no information about the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and said he would visit Konoha to sense it himself.
• Yuan revealed that many clansmen had unofficial partners and children who could not become residents, and Right Red reported that women made up sixty-seven percent of the population.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Oyashiro En to designate streets for these families and lower residency requirements for women with children, then told Yuan to recount the clan’s population.
• Right Red reported that Peach Country’s people-smuggling income was declining and that Konoha and the Iwa Ninja were investigating population losses.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Right Red to stop bringing people into Peach Country and discreetly approach foreign elites with offers to restore their youth, while keeping the vitality process secret because Madara was watching him.

During his visit to the Ninja Military Academy, Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that years of service had left his female guards aged and near death, so he restored their vitality. He accepted their request for affection and ended the chapter enjoying their awkward dance beneath the cherry trees.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo visited the academy and reunited with Zelan and Youmo before encountering the female guard captains.
• Asano Kayo revealed her aged body, and Ishikura Ruka explained that the guards’ Butterfly Seeds had drained their vitality.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo restored Kayo’s youth and replenished Ruka’s and Fukuyama Hotaru’s life force.
• Kayo told Shiraishi Yoshijo that seven guards had died on a mission and asked him to treat the remaining guards as women rather than tools.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo replenished the life force of all thirty-nine guards and agreed to care for them.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo watched the female guards perform an awkward dance beneath the cherry trees and welcomed them around him afterward.

Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that Konoha’s Chunin Exams would take place in a month and planned to attend with candidates from the Academy and shinobi clans. He intended to use the visit to investigate the Nine-Tails and exploit Konoha’s worsening decline, beginning with contact with Danzo.

• Ying told Shiraishi Yoshijo that the Chunin Exams were the Academy’s only chance to visit Konoha openly and would likely be held in a month.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that the Academy lacked enough trained geniuses, so he ordered Ying to have Kosuke select candidates from the shinobi clans.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo considered Konoha’s loss of funding, population, and influential shinobi, and judged that the village was becoming increasingly vulnerable.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo planned to visit Konoha’s shinobi clans to rebuild ties and recruit them with offers of profit.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo decided to contact Danzo in Konoha and provoke the conflict between Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Shiraishi Yoshijo toured the academy, discovered how its staff treated students, and learned that the ninja clans had grown wealthy but lacked combat-ready members. He proposed a monthly Ninja All-Star Tournament, then asked Kosuke how many elders Yuexiang had won over, leaving Kosuke silent.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo toured the academy with Liu Huan, complained about the cafeteria's prices, and watched staff members beat a student after a sparring session.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo questioned Kosuke about the academy's rules, and Kosuke explained that the Daimyo allowed students to be beaten or crippled for breaking them.
• Kosuke told Shiraishi Yoshijo that the clans could gather five thousand ninjas, but only about three thousand had genuine combat ability and few children wanted to become ninjas.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo proposed holding a monthly Ninja All-Star Tournament with large prizes and betting pools to encourage competition and raise money.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Kosuke how many members of the Council of Elders Yuexiang had won over, and Kosuke fell silent.

Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered the academy’s leaders to accommodate new shinobi clans, demanded female shinobi, and set out for Konoha to attend the Chunin Exams. On the road, attackers ambushed his group, and he crushed an underground Earth Release ninja while protecting the genin.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Kosuke to avoid obstructing new clans joining the academy and ordered him to build a statue.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo demanded female shinobi; after Kosuke sent twenty hostile women, Shiraishi sent them away, then implanted Butterfly Seeds and Cursed Seals in ten crying young women.
• A month later, Shiraishi Yoshijo departed for Konoha with Liu Huan, Kayo, Kosuke, and ten genin who would enter the Chunin Exams.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo rejected Liu Huan’s flying puppet and led the group on foot, saying he expected Konoha to be an interesting journey.
• After the group left a town, attackers launched explosive shuriken and an Earth Release attack; Shiraishi stopped Liu Huan and Kayo from intervening, crushed the underground ninja, and raised earthen walls to block the shuriken.

Shiraishi Yoshijo returned to Konoha with a group of genin after crushing an assassination attempt and confronting the village’s leaders at the gates. Sarutobi Hiruzen allowed him into the village, while the leaders suspected he possessed a technique for eternal life and discussed how to kill him.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo crushed a dozen sword-wielding assassins between giant stone hands as the genin watched in awe.
• Konoha Anbu identified themselves and escorted Shiraishi Yoshijo and his group toward the village.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo mocked Sarutobi Hiruzen and silenced Utatane Koharu with his killing intent at Konoha’s gates.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen welcomed Shiraishi Yoshijo into Konoha after he openly said he had come to visit old acquaintances.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura suspected Shiraishi Yoshijo had a technique granting eternal life and discussed killing him.

Danzo planned to exploit Shiraishi Yoshijo’s weakness to kill him, while Shiraishi arrived in Konoha for the Chunin Exams and faced the villagers’ hostility. After settling into his former home, Shiraishi went out to visit Danzo.

• Danzo asked Hiruzen for files on Konoha’s female ninja and raised the possibility that Shiraishi had come for the Nine-Tails, but Hiruzen insisted it was safe.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo’s group was jeered and pelted by hostile villagers until Konoha Anbu cleared a path for them.
• Jiraiya watched Shiraishi pass and told Minato that Shiraishi was a complicated former friend, while Minato discussed his students Kakashi, Obito, and Rin.
• Shiraishi returned to his old mansion, thanked the Hokage for arranging it, and settled the genin children in.
• Shiraishi left with Liu Huan under Anbu escort, wearing a mask to avoid another disturbance, and headed to visit Danzo.

Shiraishi Yoshijo visited Danzo and tried to recruit him by claiming the Daimyo wanted Konoha gone, while secretly using the meeting to sow distrust in the village. Danzo was summoned by Hiruzen, and Shiraishi Yoshijo left intending to use the resulting unease to approach other clan heads.

• Danzo initially refused to meet Shiraishi Yoshijo, but Shiraishi Yoshijo forced his way into Root Base Camp.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo offered Danzo power at the Ninja Military Academy and claimed the Daimyo wanted Konoha to disappear.
• Danzo considered the offer but remained unwilling to abandon Konoha, then became alarmed by Shiraishi Yoshijo's claims about the Daimyo.
• A Root ninja told Danzo that Hiruzen had summoned him, and Danzo suspected Shiraishi Yoshijo had arranged the meeting to worsen their rift.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo revealed that he had fabricated much of his story to make Konoha's leaders anxious and planned to use the tension to contact other clan heads.