Recaps

After a tiring day as Hokage, Hiroki spent his day off walking through Konoha with Kushina and encouraged her to study so she could one day become Hokage. Just as Kushina prepared to answer him, an enemy pulled them into the Kamui Dimension.

• Hiroki finished a long meeting and used his monthly day off to meet Kushina in Konoha's commercial district.
• Hiroki and Kushina joked about the village's new school curriculum and Orochimaru's expensive laboratory research as they walked together.
• Kushina reflected on how much Konoha had changed and how freely she could now walk despite being the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hiroki urged Kushina to learn village administration and become Konoha's first female Hokage, recalling her childhood ambition.
• As Kushina began to respond, an irresistible distortion enveloped them, and Hiroki pulled her behind him as they were dragged into the Kamui Dimension.

Hiroki and Kushina were ambushed by future Namikaze Minato and Uchiha Obito, and Kushina was killed despite Hiroki’s desperate attempts to protect her. Hiroki realized the attackers needed him alive to preserve their future and suspected they were about to alter his memories, leaving him to consider using the system’s Shutdown function.

• Future Namikaze Minato and Uchiha Obito attacked Hiroki and Kushina in the Kamui Dimension, and Hiroki’s shout briefly made them hesitate.
• Hiroki used the Rinnegan, multiple ninjutsu, and Flying Thunder God to defend Kushina, but Minato and Obito overcame his attacks and killed her.
• Hiroki suppressed his grief and noticed that Minato and Obito focused their attacks on Kushina while avoiding killing him.
• Hiroki inferred that his death could erase the future that brought Minato and Obito back, and Minato confirmed that they would not let him kill himself or return to change events.
• Hiroki realized Minato was trying to control his thoughts and memories, then looked toward the system’s unused Shutdown function.

Hiroki faced Minato and Obito, who were trying to control him, and decided to use the [Shutdown] button as his only chance to survive. Before pressing it, he renamed his system identity and tried to learn why his future self had become their enemy, but they gave him no answers.

• Hiroki realized Minato was preparing to alter his memories and control him, leaving him little time to act.
• Hiroki renamed his system identity [Sawada Hiroki (2)] as a possible backup in case shutdown reset his memories.
• Hiroki asked Minato and Obito what his future self had done and why they had returned to kill Kushina and stop him.
• Minato and Obito stayed silent, and Hiroki inferred that his future self had been extremely difficult to defeat.

After discovering that his account name had become “Sawada Hiroki (2)” and that his shutdown records were missing, Hiroki investigated whether he had died and been reset. He remained unsure who had attacked him, while Obito and Minato continued trying to break their cycle of failed attempts to kill Kushina.

• Hiroki noticed the added “(2)” in his username, concealed his alarm from Kushina, and considered whether an enemy from the future had attacked him.
• Hiroki ruled out Orochimaru, Danzo, and Madara as likely culprits, then checked the System Log and found two startup records but no shutdown records.
• Hiroki considered Deep Freeze, System Restore, and other rollback explanations, but could not determine who had attacked him or how to prepare for the next encounter.
• Minato told Obito that their latest attempt to attack Kushina had failed again, based on information his teacher had sent from the future.
• Obito and Minato decided to continue their assassination attempts and gather more information to discover why they kept failing.
• Hiroki decided to seek answers from the Hokage’s advisors, despite doubting they would know anything useful.

Namikaze Minato explained to Uchiha Obito how their failed attempt to attack Kushina had altered the timeline and why they needed to pursue a different strategy. Meanwhile, Hiroki questioned Mitokado Homura about future enemies but received no answer to the timeline mystery he was investigating.

• Namikaze Minato told Uchiha Obito that Hiroki’s unknown ability had disrupted their plan and could cause their timeline to roll back.
• Namikaze Minato and Uchiha Obito decided to travel to other countries, obstruct Hiroki’s progress, and wait five to ten years before trying to attack him again.
• Hiroki asked Mitokado Homura about enemies from the future, but Homura listed Konoha’s rival villages and potential logistical problems.
• Hiroki remained focused on the changing username and theorized that a Deep Freeze-like system had erased records across his Memory Disk.

Sawada Hiroki inspected Konoha's livestock farm and used his abilities to accelerate the pigs' growth while setting new management and subsidy terms. He then ordered Tanaka Kenta to document his requirements before moving on to the vegetable greenhouses.

• Sawada Hiroki ordered Tanaka Kenta to bring the livestock farm's manager and questioned Yamada Naka about the farm's problems and Konoha's supply routes.
• Hiroki used the Byakugan on his neck to read Yamada Naka's thoughts and learned that the Four-Tails' destruction had damaged the farm and that its pigs normally took about 190 days to reach market weight.
• Hiroki entered the pigsty, ordered better conditions and reliable feed, and told Tanaka Kenta to record his requirements in a report.
• As Hiroki walked through the pens, the pigs began eating eagerly, and he estimated they could reach market weight in sixty to ninety days.
• Hiroki promised Yamada Naka fifty percent of the farm's income for two years, with his future share depending on his contribution, then headed toward the vegetable greenhouses with Tanaka Kenta.

Hiroki confronted the jonin over their disorganization and demanded support or opposition to his becoming Hokage, then declared himself the Fourth Hokage when no one openly objected. In an unknown place, future Minato and Obito realized history had changed and wondered whether Hiroki had discovered their time-space travel.

• Hiroki told Tanaka Kenta to protect the livestock and said he would soon become the Fourth Hokage.
• At the jonin meeting, Hiroki rebuked the gathered ninja for arriving unprepared, while Hiashi, Fugaku, and Ruzan privately assessed his behavior.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen questioned Hiroki about his dissatisfaction, and Hiroki admitted he was unhappy with the meeting's efficiency.
• Hiroki cited his logistics plan and the threat of an unknown enemy, then demanded that the jonin openly say whether they supported his becoming Hokage.
• When no one voiced opposition, Hiroki declared himself the Fourth Hokage.
• Future Minato told Obito that history had changed again and suspected Hiroki might have realized they could travel through time and space.

After being confirmed as Hokage, Hiroki analyzed the shinobi who might threaten him in the future and focused on countering Minato and Obito’s space-time ninjutsu. He tested a Flying Thunder God passage using modified mice and ordered Orochimaru to research ways to disrupt the technique, while considering how to use a mark on Minato to detect his future self.

• Hiroki listed and assessed possible future enemies, identifying Minato, Obito, Shisui, and Kabuto as the greatest threats.
• Hiroki concluded that Minato and Obito’s space-time ninjutsu posed his most urgent challenge and headed to the laboratory’s biological cultivation area to test an idea.
• Orochimaru appeared in the laboratory, and Hiroki used modified white mice to demonstrate a stable Flying Thunder God passage between them.
• Hiroki ordered Orochimaru to study the mice’s spatial distortions, the technique’s limits, ways to interfere with space-time ninjutsu, and the motion sickness caused by jumps.
• Hiroki considered combining Fuinjutsu with Flying Thunder God and using a mark on Minato to detect whether Minato’s future self had arrived in the present.

Sawada Hiroki questioned Minato about what might turn them into enemies and planted Flying Thunder God markers on him as safeguards. Hiroki then sensed a second beacon far away, suggesting that a future Minato had erased the visible mark and might have caused Hiroki’s earlier shutdown.

• Sawada Hiroki summoned Minato and asked what he hoped to achieve as a ninja, then promised him the role of Sixth Hokage in a unified Shinobi World.
• Minato said he might oppose Hiroki if the village or its people were threatened, and urged him to pursue unification slowly and peacefully.
• Hiroki secretly implanted a beacon in Minato and placed a visible Flying Thunder God mark on his shoulder as an apparent means of rescuing him.
• Hiroki sensed the implanted beacon at a distant location but no longer sensed the shoulder mark on the Minato before him.
• Hiroki concluded that a future Minato had erased the mark and might have been responsible for his previous shutdown, and he reacted with anger and confusion.

After Minato revealed that his future self would betray Hiroki, Hiroki hid his alarm and decided to prepare a trap to capture and interrogate him. He began designing a specialized sealing ninjutsu, leaving the chapter with Hiroki and three Shadow Clones writing its code.

• Hiroki concealed his reaction to Minato’s confession and sent him away with a Dragon Mark to learn.
• After Minato left, Hiroki considered what might cause his future self to betray him but found too few clues to reach a conclusion.
• Hiroki decided to capture future Minato alive and began planning a space-time sealing ninjutsu.
• Hiroki and three Shadow Clones specified perception, prediction, automatic triggering, and sealing modules for the technique.
• Hiroki and his three Shadow Clones began writing the ninjutsu code together.

Hiroki spent eleven months developing a ninjutsu designed to detect and counter Namikaze Minato’s Flying Thunder God, building its code and recognition system with Shadow Clones. He finally emerged from the laboratory with the technique complete and prepared to test it against Minato.

• Hiroki divided the ninjutsu project among Shadow Clones, assigning them perception, trajectory prediction, trigger, and lockdown modules.
• Shadow Clone One worked on matching chakra features in Byakugan observations of Namikaze Minato, while Shadow Clone Two built a basic trajectory model.
• Shadow Clone Three combined parts of Adamantine Attacking Chains, Shadow Imitation Technique, and Mind Disruption Technique into a coordinated lockdown module.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Hiroki had remained in Orochimaru’s laboratory since his inauguration, while clan leaders worried about the absent Fourth Hokage and rumors spread through Konoha.
• After eleven months of coding and debugging, Hiroki left the laboratory with his ninjutsu complete and looked toward the northern Flying Thunder God beacon, intending to challenge Minato.

Hiroki emerged from eleven months of seclusion and convinced Konoha’s leaders that he had been studying policy and preparing reforms. He then ambushed the future Minato in the north, but Obito intervened, and the confrontation continued with Minato demanding to know how Hiroki had anticipated them.

• Hiroki appeared at the Hokage Building in ceremonial robes and told Konoha’s leaders he had spent eleven months studying its records and drafting a future development plan.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the gathered jonin examined Hiroki’s detailed plan, while Hiroki arranged for them to focus on its review and implementation.
• Hiroki visited the Memorial Stone, spoke with Kushina, and left a Shadow Clone behind before teleporting to the future Minato’s location in the north.
• Hiroki surprised Minato in the cave and used sealing techniques to immobilize him, but Obito attacked with Kamui and forced Hiroki to teleport away.
• Minato reappeared beside Obito and accused Hiroki of knowing the future; Hiroki answered, “You guess,” and flashed forward to attack again.

Hiroki used an automated Hunter System and a combination of ninjutsu to overpower Minato and Obito, countering their space-time techniques with the Rinnegan's Banshō Ten'in. He teleported away with the future Minato, leaving Obito to return to the future and learn how the timeline had changed.

• Hiroki's Hunter System tracked Minato's Flying Thunder God jumps and struck him and Obito with Vacuum Sphere, shadow restraints, and Kushina's Adamantine Attacking Chains.
• Obito tried to rescue Minato with Kamui, but Hiroki used Banshō Ten'in to distort space-time and disrupt the technique.
• Minato explained that gravity was a manifestation of space-time distortion, while Obito struggled to understand the physics behind Hiroki's counterattack.
• Obito launched Kamui Shuriken, but Hiroki redirected them with Banshō Ten'in as he continued holding Minato in place.
• Minato urged Obito to kill him rather than let him reveal future knowledge, but Obito's attempt to use Kamui on both Minato and Hiroki failed.
• Hiroki escaped with the future Minato using Flying Thunder God, and Obito decided to return to the future to find out what had changed.

Hiroki captured a future Minato and tried to access his memories, but found that Minato’s mind had been irreversibly formatted. A message from a future disciple warned Hiroki that a plan would be completed in five years, leaving him uncertain about the enemy’s identity and the purpose of Minato’s capture.

• Hiroki brought the unconscious future Minato to a hidden chamber underground to interrogate him in secret.
• Hiroki connected to Minato’s mind and discovered that his memories and knowledge had been completely deleted.
• Hiroki found a note in Minato’s recycle bin addressed to Sawada Hiroki, warning that its writer would complete a plan in five years.
• Hiroki suspected that Minato had been used as a messenger and that the note was meant to manipulate his choices and anchor the future.
• Hiroki discovered another strange file in Minato’s mind.

Hiroki uncovered a massive encrypted file disguised as a shortcut in Minato’s mind and opened a video left by his future self. The footage revealed that future Minato faced Kabuto Yakushi, with Black Zetsu lurking behind him.

• Hiroki recognized the Steam shortcut and suspected his future self had hidden a message inside it.
• Hiroki used a Shadow Clone to decrypt and extract the 2.7GB file, then launched its contents.
• Hiroki found a new video titled [Your Enemy] in the Steam-like interface and played it.
• Hiroki saw the footage from Minato’s perspective as Minato confronted a young man who identified himself as Kabuto Yakushi.
• Hiroki spotted Black Zetsu standing in the shadows behind Kabuto.

Hiroki watched a vision of Kabuto defeating Minato with an automated ninjutsu system and joining forces with Black Zetsu. He concluded the message might be a ploy to steer him away from the newly born Kabuto, and prepared to oppose their plan over the next five years.

• Hiroki saw Kabuto use a precise ninjutsu matrix to counter Minato's attacks and defeat him in an underground space-time-restricted chamber.
• Kabuto declared that he intended to rewrite the world and make everyone's thoughts identical, while Black Zetsu watched.
• Hiroki recognized Kabuto's combat system as similar to his own and reasoned that Kabuto might be a gifted programmer rather than someone who had stolen his technology.
• Hiroki inferred that the five-year warning referred to the time when Yakushi Kabuto would be born, and suspected the enemy planned to guide him toward the future shown in the vision.
• Hiroki resolved to treat the coming years as a game across time and space against Kabuto.

Alone and powerless in the war-torn Land of Water, Nagato was rescued from bullies by Black Zetsu, who convinced him that chakra caused the world’s suffering. Nagato accepted Black Zetsu’s offer to inherit the Sage of Six Paths’ will and join a trial to reclaim all chakra.

• Children from the Land of Water cornered Nagato and beat him for his red hair, taking his bread.
• Black Zetsu emerged from Nagato’s shadow and incapacitated the children with black spikes.
• Black Zetsu claimed to be the Sage of Six Paths’ will and told Nagato that chakra caused wars and suffering.
• Black Zetsu offered Nagato the chance to inherit the Sage’s will and reclaim all chakra from the world.
• Nagato accepted Black Zetsu’s outstretched hand and agreed to take part in the trial.

Hiroki took Kushina out to see the fields she missed, where witnessing a struggling farming couple inspired him to use ninjutsu to help them and renew his commitment to transform the world. After Hiroki gave Kushina the chance to make her confession properly, she told him she liked him, and he agreed to be with her.

• Hiroki took Kushina for a walk outside Konoha, and she happily explored the countryside and remembered the wheat fields of the Land of Whirlpools.
• Kushina prepared to confess to Hiroki but stopped when she saw an elderly farmer struggling to work drought-hardened soil.
• Hiroki used Earth Release: Earth Flow River and Water Release: Mist Technique to till and water the couple’s field, frightening them into thinking he was an immortal seeking payment.
• Hiroki told Kushina he wanted to use ninja abilities to improve ordinary people’s lives, and Kushina thanked him as her feelings for him grew stronger.
• Hiroki teased Kushina about the confession he had overheard, then gave her the ceremony she wanted, and she confessed that she liked him.
• Hiroki accepted Kushina’s confession, and they agreed to pursue their dream together.

Hiroki proposed using ninjutsu to expand food production, then confronted the costs, farmer unemployment, and noble ownership of farmland. He called for Konoha to requisition nobles’ land and said he had separate plans for displaced farmers as the jonin prepared to discuss implementation.

• On the way back, Kushina told Hiroki she would study Fuinjutsu and village administration so she could help him, and Hiroki agreed to help her confront the Nine-Tails.
• Hiroki ordered Tatsushi to summon the jonin, department heads, advisory elders, and clan heads to the Hokage’s office.
• Hiroki proposed creating a Department of Agriculture that would use ninjutsu to increase food production and sell surplus crops abroad to fund ninja salaries.
• Torifu Akimichi questioned whether the village could afford the plan, while Nara Ruzan warned that mechanized farming could leave tens of thousands of farmers jobless.
• Aburame Torune pointed out that nobles owned most farmland and could claim the profits or raise rents, making land ownership the plan’s central obstacle.
• Hiroki proposed requisitioning all noble-owned land in the Land of Fire for Konoha, and the jonin agreed to discuss how to carry it out.

At the Daimyo's Mansion, Senju Tokuma and the nobles reacted furiously to Sawada Hiroki's plan to requisition their cultivated land, then organized a campaign to block it. Fujiwara Kagemitsu feared Hiroki would ignore their political maneuvers and left to investigate Konoha and distance himself from the nobles.

• Senju Tokuma and the nobles mocked Sawada Hiroki, assuming his visit to the capital would be an appeal for money.
• Senju Kenji delivered Konoha's report, which revealed that Sawada Hiroki intended to requisition all cultivated land owned by nobles across the Land of Fire.
• Senju Tokuma ordered Senju Kenji, Senju Ryosuke, and the nobles to attack Hiroki through newspaper coverage, merchant protests, and a joint impeachment petition.
• Fujiwara Kagemitsu warned that Hiroki might ignore political rules and use shinobi force against the nobles, but Senju Tokuma dismissed his concerns.
• Fujiwara Kagemitsu left the reception hall to go to Konoha and learn Hiroki's intentions while separating himself from the nobles' opposition.

Might Duy saw alarming reports claiming Hiroki’s reforms would displace farmers, while Hiroki explained a plan to employ them in a Land of Fire Construction Corps and finance public works through grain exports. He proposed killing nobles who opposed the reforms to obtain initial funds, just as Fujiwara Kagemitsu arrived to request an audience.

• Might Duy read newspaper headlines accusing Hiroki of threatening farmers and worried about the Hokage’s reputation.
• Tatsushi delivered reports of public panic, a merchants’ protest, and the Daimyo’s demand for an explanation to Hiroki’s office.
• Hiroki proposed a Construction Corps that would employ displaced farmers and create long-term A-rank missions for Konoha’s ninja.
• Hiroki explained that ninjutsu-driven grain production and Flying Thunder God trade could fund the corps and the country’s infrastructure.
• When Torune asked where the plan’s initial funds would come from, Hiroki suggested killing opposing nobles and taking their wealth.
• An Anbu ninja announced that Fujiwara Kagemitsu had arrived seeking an audience with Hiroki.

Fujiwara Kagemitsu arrived in Konoha and discovered that the Fourth Hokage had used Flying Thunder God Logistics to lower the cost of food and make the village economically independent. Convinced Konoha was preparing to rebel against the Land of Fire Daimyo's Mansion, he rushed to meet the Hokage and switch sides before the banquet.

• Fujiwara Kagemitsu inspected Konoha's unchanged streets and noticed residents carrying plentiful, affordable food.
• Fujiwara Kagemitsu questioned an older woman, who explained that the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Logistics delivered farm goods directly into the village.
• Fujiwara Kagemitsu concluded that Konoha had secured the people's support and economic independence, and suspected the ninja were planning a rebellion.
• Fujiwara Kagemitsu ordered his driver to take him to the Hokage Building so he could join the Hokage's side before the banquet.

Uchiha Yoshihiro and former tenant farmer Tanaka Kenichi benefited from Konoha’s construction program, which brought workers steady wages and their children access to education. As the program expanded faster than Konoha could train instructors, Hiroki considered directly implanting skills and decided it was time to address the Nine-Tails problem.

• Uchiha Yoshihiro recalled how his family and clan had mocked his Construction Corps assignment until his first paycheck let him buy an expensive tachi and silence their doubts.
• Yoshihiro finished work on the highway and used the construction site’s teleportation array to return home.
• Tanaka Kenichi celebrated his construction bonus with his family and learned that his son Koyū was studying chakra refinement at school.
• Kushina told Hiroki that Konoha lacked enough instructors to meet the growing demand across the Land of Fire.
• Hiroki considered implanting skills directly and concluded that it was time to deal with the Nine-Tails problem.

Senju Tokuma fled the Land of Fire with the young daimyo and a convoy of riches, pursued and manipulated by Sawada Hiroki’s Anbu. As the convoy neared the border, the Anbu received orders to return to Konoha, where Hiroki was preparing a new plan involving Tailed Beasts and ninjutsu.

• Senju Tokuma ordered the exhausted convoy onward and beat an old farmer who offered help, then forced the others to free a carriage stuck in the mud.
• Senju Tokuma recalled how Sawada Hiroki had taken control of the Land of Fire, forced the daimyo to abdicate, and eliminated nobles and anyone who sheltered the fleeing group.
• Senju Tokuma threw gold coins at the hungry young daimyo and urged the convoy to reach the border and escape into the Land of Rain.
• Anbu watching the convoy received orders to return to Konoha and defend its security, while discussing Hiroki’s new plan concerning Tailed Beasts and ninjutsu.

Hiroki’s Anbu eliminated Senju Tokuma and the remaining nobles and followers opposing Konoha, then reported back to the Hokage’s office. Hiroki rejected Danzō’s suggestion of an immediate foreign war and announced that Kushina would take complete control of the Nine-Tails.

• Anbu killed Senju Tokuma, the daimyo’s child, and their attendants, then sealed the bodies and valuables in a scroll.
• A black figure emerged after the Anbu departed, worried that their casual use of space-time ninjutsu would delay its plans, and went underground to seek a target capable of opposing Hiroki.
• Tatsushi delivered the mission report and sealing scroll to Hiroki, who summoned Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō.
• Danzō praised Hiroki for eliminating the nobles and daimyō, while Hiruzen remained troubled but acknowledged he was no longer Hokage.
• Hiroki said Konoha should recover rather than start a war and declared that Kushina would completely take control of the Nine-Tails.