Chapter Summaries

Shiraishi Yoshijo fled the castle to travel the shinobi world, choosing the Land of Hot Water as a possible base for his Kingdom of Immortality before visiting the Land of Iron. After observing Mifune’s swordsmanship, he took up Iaido and ended the chapter demonstrating a powerful sword strike that sheared off a mountain peak.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo escaped the women pestering him at the castle and traveled incognito to the Land of Hot Water, where he considered making it a testing ground for the Kingdom of Immortality.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo spent half a month surveying towns in the Land of Hot Water, then joined a merchant caravan to the Land of Iron.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo secretly observed the samurai training at the Land of Iron’s castle and watched Mifune display his quick-draw Iaijutsu Slash.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo summoned his Emperor's Sword and began practicing Iaido, becoming unable to resist swinging his blade.
• After a month of training, Shiraishi Yoshijo drew his sword and unleashed a blue sword aura that sliced a mountain’s peak away.

Shiraishi Yoshijo traveled through several countries and infiltrated Hozuki Castle to test his swordsmanship on prisoners. He left Heartless under a Cursed Seal and began killing the prisoners after forcing their seals to be released.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo visited Si's grave outside Takigakure and recalled how Kang had devoured Si after the Seven-Tails was recovered.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo flew into Hozuki Castle and confronted its lord, Heartless, absorbing Heartless's Fire Release attack.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo demanded prisoners to test his sword on, then knocked Heartless unconscious and planted a Cursed Seal in his brain.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo made Heartless bring four prisoners to the training ground and controlled him into releasing their prison seals.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo killed a female prisoner who flirted with him and declared that he would become an emotionless killing machine.

Shiraishi Yoshijo slaughtered Hozuki Castle’s strongest prisoners to hone his swordsmanship, then traveled to the Land of Rain and met Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan. After sharing food with Yahiko’s group, he listened as Yahiko described his dream of a peaceful world, while privately doubting that people could ever understand one another.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo killed four prisoners, then repeatedly defeated the stronger ninja Wuxin brought him, including a Kage-level expert.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Wuxin he would leave Hozuki Castle and return each year for stronger opponents before setting off for the Land of Rain.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo entered a ruined village and encountered Yahiko, Nagato, Konan, and their companions.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo introduced himself as the wandering samurai Kong and accepted food from Yahiko’s group.
• Yahiko introduced his organization and shared his dream of creating peace without power or violence, while Shiraishi Yoshijo privately dismissed the idea.

After returning from the Land of Rain, Shiraishi Yoshijo reunited with Kushina and Yuexiang, whose strained relationship with him softened after he met their newborn children. He granted Yuexiang a higher consort rank and left the chapter considering having more children.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo avoided further contact with Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, then arranged for a free doctor to appear in the Land of Rain.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo returned to Peach Country and stayed with Kushina until she gave birth to their daughter, Qing.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo visited Yuexiang and met their son, Haitai, apologizing for missing her pregnancy and delivery.
• Yuexiang said she wanted to raise Haitai quietly, but Shiraishi Yoshijo reconciled with her and promised to recognize her status.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo proposed creating the rank of Imperial Consort above Noble Consort for Yuexiang and promoted Zelan and Youmo to first-rank female officials.
• Yuexiang left with Haitai, Zelan, and Youmo, while Shiraishi Yoshijo reflected on having fifteen children and considered fathering more.

Shiraishi Yoshijo forced his children to run in the rain, with Nianze carrying little Ying and suffering the harshest punishment. After secretly restoring their strength, Shiraishi sent them home for breakfast and reflected on the challenge of raising them.

• Anna dragged Nianze out of bed, kicked him into the rain, and told him to take Ying along to run.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered the children to run twenty laps and made Nianze carry Ying for ten extra laps as punishment for misleading her.
• Shiraishi introduced Kazuhiro as his adopted son and appointed him to train the children at night.
• Nianze struggled through the run while Shiraishi moved Ying onto his shoulders, and Anna threatened Nianze with copying books if he stopped.
• Shiraishi secretly gave the exhausted children life force, then sent them home and considered the difficulties of raising a large family.

Shiraishi Yoshijo taught the children Ninjutsu while Anna and Reika discussed his dark past and his gradual return to humanity. Anna explained why she accepted sharing him with the other women, and Reika watched him teach with a gentle smile.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo demonstrated Water Release: Water Colliding Wave, and Nianze struggled while Yan Xuan performed it effortlessly.
• Sanzō, Rui, and the other children took turns practicing the technique, while Reika noticed that Yan Xuan's siblings kept their distance from him.
• Reika reassured Anna that Nianze had plenty of potential and suggested having Yan Xuan help him practice.
• Reika asked Anna why she did not interfere with Shiraishi Yoshijo's relationships, and Anna described how he had become emotionally detached after joining Konoha's Anbu.
• Anna said Shiraishi Yoshijo's willingness to have children showed that he was reclaiming his humanity, and Reika watched him teach the children with a gentle smile.

Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that five-year-old Yan Xuan had awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan and tried to understand his feelings. He told Yan Xuan how he founded Peach Country, leaving the boy determined to protect it.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Hayaka that the personal female official position would rotate, and Hayaka chose to become a guard rather than have a child.
• Reika told Shiraishi Yoshijo that Yan Xuan's Sharingan had awakened, and Shiraishi realized he had neglected his son while favoring Nianze.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo visited Yan Xuan and saw his two-tomoe Sharingan, then asked whether Yan Xuan disliked him.
• Yan Xuan questioned his father's many relationships and asked about Konoha and the Uchiha clan, so Shiraishi explained the Shinobi World's history and his version of Peach Country's founding.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo carried Yan Xuan above Peach Country and told him to build its future, while Yan Xuan silently vowed to protect the country.

Shiraishi Yoshijo addressed Yan Xuan’s concerns about favoritism and fairness, then helped his children grow closer while his expanding family and clans reshaped Peach Country. He rejected calls to abolish monogamy, arguing that the policy would harm women and destabilize the country.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo reassured Yan Xuan that he loved him, then urged him to appreciate his siblings’ strengths despite their differences.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo taught his children basketball, and a year later they had grown close to one another.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo established the Royal Academy as his children and the country’s clans rapidly increased in number.
• Oyashiro En asked Shiraishi Yoshijo about calls to abolish monogamy, and he refused, citing risks to women, birth rates, and national stability.

Shiraishi Yoshijo prepared Peach Country for an approaching shinobi war and ordered a plan to seize the Land of Hot Water. He then visited the Ninja Military Academy and Konoha, where his fusion with Yoshijo showed signs of advancing toward Six Paths power.

• Right Red reported Sunagakure’s unusual activity and gave Shiraishi Yoshijo the ninja forces’ numbers across the major villages and Peach Country.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Peach Country to prepare for war and planned to capture the Land of Hot Water, eliminate its daimyo, and use the country to test the immortality machine.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo visited Kosuke at the Ninja Military Academy, discussed Konoha’s declining population and the clans’ responses, and instructed him to hide a living ball of flesh inside Shiraishi Yoshijo’s statue.
• In the Forest of Death, Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Yoshijo about their changed Chakra cloak, and Yoshijo said their fusion might reach the Six Paths level in thirty or forty years.

Shiraishi Yoshijo deduced that Tsunade might be the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki, then recruited Nara Shikazumi and arranged for the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans to leave Konoha. Their disappearance deepened Konoha’s crisis, while Sarutobi Hiruzen recognized Shiraishi’s plan and Danzo became determined to save the village at any cost.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo suspected that Tsunade was the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki after ruling out Sarutobi Hiruzen, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo met Nara Shikazumi, who told Nara Shikaku to send people with Shiraishi to see their future.
• The Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans vanished from Konoha half a month later, and an Anbu reported that about fourteen hundred people had likely defected with Shiraishi Yoshijo's help.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen dismissed the assembled leaders and realized that Shiraishi had established the academy to bring about Konoha's destruction.
• Surviving shinobi clans gathered for meetings, while Danzo resolved to stop Konoha from disappearing by any means necessary.

Shiraishi Yoshijo arranged for the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans to settle in Peach Country, while Konoha's leaders faced the fallout of their defection. Tsunade rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen's plea to help Konoha and severed her ties with the village, leaving it further isolated.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo offered the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans streets in Peach Country and let their leaders serve as street chiefs.
• Reika told Shiraishi Yoshijo that Fugaku wanted to send Uchiha clan members to Peach Country, and Shiraishi agreed to let her handle it.
• Danzo ordered Orochimaru to stop his Hashirama Cells research and prepare to use the Sharingan against the Uchiha.
• A shadow entered the Hyuga compound at night as Konoha's remaining clans grew anxious after the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans defected.
• Tsunade refused Sarutobi Hiruzen's request to help Konoha intimidate its opponents and declared that she had nothing more to do with the village.

Kosuke tried to divert three Tailed Beast Balls aimed at the academy, but the third destroyed a large part of the city. Shiraishi Yoshijo recognized Tsunade as the masked attacker and pursued her after she fled.

• Kosuke sensed a Tailed Beast Ball heading for the academy and used his Chakra wings and Sanfen Guiyuan Qi (Rasengan) to redirect it into the sky.
• Kosuke diverted a second Tailed Beast Ball as academy ninjas began evacuating residents, then exhausted his Chakra and fell into Asano Yo's arms.
• Kosuke received a surge of Chakra from the Butterfly Seed and tried to stop the third Tailed Beast Ball, but it struck its side and devastated the city's eastern residential district.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo arrived too late to stop the destruction and recognized the masked attacker as Tsunade.
• Tsunade sensed Shiraishi Yoshijo, destroyed the rooftop beneath her, and fled; Shiraishi Yoshijo pursued her.

After the Academy was devastated by a Tailed Beast Ball, Kosuke and the Fire Daimyo avoided confronting Konoha, while the attacker, Tsunade, escaped and began drinking. A masked man watched her and realized that as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, she had become almost impossible to defeat.

• A Daimyo official reported that the Academy attack had killed an estimated two hundred thousand civilians, and Kosuke ordered the damage counted while promising to investigate the masked attacker.
• Yo and the elders urged Kosuke not to accuse Konoha without evidence or risk a war against the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Kosuke left the response to the Daimyo.
• Fire Daimyo Zhixiong suspected Konoha had attacked the Academy over Shiraishi Yoshijo, but decided to soothe both Konoha and the Academy rather than challenge Konoha.
• Tsunade fled the Academy, entered a tavern in a nearby town, and drank while brooding over the destruction she had caused.
• A man in an outer robe watched Tsunade from outside the tavern and concluded that her Nine-Tails powers, healing, and sensory abilities made her nearly impossible to subdue.

Shiraishi Yoshijo met Tsunade in a tavern, and they exchanged the reasons behind his faked death and her becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Their conversation turned to Tsunade’s guilt over the academy attack, and she broke down under the weight of her obligations and losses.

• Tsunade recognized Shiraishi Yoshijo and invited him into the tavern, where they shared wine and recalled their days at the Ninja Academy.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo explained that the Daimyos’ suspicions and Konoha’s political maneuvering had led him to fake his death.
• Tsunade revealed that Konoha had made her the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to prepare for a possible fight with Shiraishi Yoshijo.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked whether the Hokage had ordered the attack on the academy, and Tsunade apologized while confessing her guilt over the deaths.
• Tsunade collapsed over the table sobbing, unable to let go of her duty to Konoha and the dreams of Nawaki and Dan.

After Tsunade broke down over the lives lost in her attack on the academy, she and Shiraishi Yoshijo shared a drunken farewell before facing each other in a fight to the death. Their battle began with enhanced taijutsu, and Tsunade stunned Shiraishi by forming a small Tailed Beast Ball.

• Tsunade wept over the tens of thousands of deaths caused by her actions, and Shiraishi Yoshijo cleared the tavern so she could grieve in private.
• After hours of drinking, Tsunade told Shiraishi Yoshijo that she had once liked him and had imagined marrying him, while he admitted he had considered the match too.
• Tsunade and Shiraishi Yoshijo left the tavern together, then separated in a forest outside town to fight to the death because their opposing goals left them no choice.
• Tsunade entered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and released her Strength of a Hundred Seal, while Shiraishi Yoshijo activated his gray cloak, red steam, and purple lightning.
• Tsunade was thrown through a forest by Shiraishi Yoshijo, then formed a small Tailed Beast Ball, surprising him.

Shiraishi Yoshijo fought Tsunade, who overwhelmed him with her chakra, varied Ninjutsu, and brutal close-range attacks. After he exploited her hemophobia to escape, Tsunade manifested a giant fox of evil chakra and turned on him in a bloodthirsty rage.

• Tsunade revealed that she had learned the Rasengan and attacked Shiraishi Yoshijo with the Tailed Beast Ball and chakra hands.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo used Flying Thunder God formulas on butterflies, redirected a Tailed Beast Ball, and fired Five-Wheel Spears, but Tsunade blocked them with the Four Red Yang Formation.
• Tsunade grabbed Shiraishi Yoshijo with Earth Release, battered him into a vast crater, and stopped when she saw him bleeding.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo struck Tsunade while her hemophobia froze her, then struggled to treat his broken bones and internal bleeding.
• Tsunade rose as immense evil chakra formed a giant fox behind her, then faced Shiraishi Yoshijo with a bloodthirsty expression.

Shiraishi Yoshijo discovered that blood triggered Tsunade’s Nine-Tails-fueled rampage and subdued her with a sea of poisonous flowers. Tsunade asked him to kill her, but he refused, knocked her unconscious, and disappeared with her before Konoha Anbu arrived.

• Tsunade rampaged after seeing blood, and Shiraishi Yoshijo escaped while observing her destruction from a distance.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo used summoned butterflies and a flower secret technique to bind Tsunade, drain her chakra, and bring her back to consciousness.
• Tsunade accepted defeat and said she wanted to die after losing her will to live and her connection to Konoha.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo refused to kill Tsunade, knocked her unconscious, and vanished with her.
• Konoha Anbu arrived and examined the traces of the battle.

After abducting Tsunade, Shiraishi Yoshijo tried to find a way to extract the Nine-Tails, but her seal and Adamantine Sealing Chains thwarted him. He drugged Tsunade and left her realizing what he had done, while his plan to weaken the seal remained unresolved.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen heard that the Jinchuriki had devastated the Academy and fought an unknown opponent in a southern battle, and he worried that Tsunade had been killed.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo discovered that Tsunade's seal was protected by Adamantine Sealing Chains and suspected that a key was needed to undo it.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo placed a Cursed Seal on Tsunade and controlled her after she refused to reveal how to break her seal.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo concluded that making Tsunade bear a child could weaken the seal, then secretly gave her medicinal powder.
• Tsunade attacked Shiraishi Yoshijo after waking, but he restrained and struck her before she realized he had drugged her.

After defeating Tsunade, Shiraishi Yoshijo told her he intended to free her from being a Jinchuriki after their child was born, and used the Star Absorption Technique to reassure her she would survive. He showed her Peach Country, leaving Tsunade stunned by the prosperous city he had built and the scale of the nation he hoped to make.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo stopped striking Tsunade and told her to let go of her burdens before carrying her to bed.
• Afterward, Tsunade accused Shiraishi Yoshijo of wanting the Nine-Tails, and he said he planned to free it after their child was born.
• Tsunade warned that losing a Tailed Beast would kill her, so Shiraishi Yoshijo used the Star Absorption Technique to heal her and promised she would survive.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo invited Tsunade to look outside and revealed that the city around them was in Peach Country, which he had built over more than ten years.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo said Peach Country had over 1.6 million people, many brought from lands devastated by war, and Tsunade fell silent.

Shiraishi Yoshijo showed Tsunade Peach Country and explained that he intended to make it powerful enough to prevent wars, but she challenged his claims of seeking peace and condemned his past actions. He defended his methods by accusing Konoha of benefiting from Danzo’s abuses, and the chapter ended with Tsunade warning that other nations would eventually retaliate against Peach Country.

• Tsunade reflected on the suffering of war and the civilians Shiraishi Yoshijo had helped before he carried her to see Peach Country.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo showed Tsunade the crowded streets and explained that his statue housed the country’s administrative offices and his private villa.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo said he wanted to make Peach Country powerful enough to bring nations to negotiations and reduce wars.
• Tsunade called his peaceful ambitions hypocritical, and Shiraishi Yoshijo argued that peace required sacrifice and that Konoha also used ruthless methods.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo blamed Konoha and Danzo for the village’s darkness, while Tsunade warned that other nations would eventually condemn and attack Peach Country.