Chapter Summaries

Hiroki persuaded Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo to let him help Kushina master the Nine-Tails, and Kushina agreed to confront the beast with him. Meanwhile, Ōnoki urged Raikage A to copy Konoha’s reforms and retaliate against its economic pressure.

• Hiroki argued that Konoha had to overcome the Nine-Tails to surpass Uchiha Madara, and Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo reluctantly approved his plan.
• Kushina welcomed the chance to help Hiroki and agreed to make the Nine-Tails hand over its power.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo formed a Four Violet Flames Formation as Hiroki and Kushina prepared to connect with the Nine-Tails.
• Raikage A confronted Ōnoki over Konoha’s falling grain prices and the damage its Flying Thunder God logistics network was doing to other villages.
• Ōnoki proposed that Iwagakure and Kumogakure imitate Konoha’s political and economic reforms and fight back by selling their own goods.

Sawada Hiroki offered the Nine-Tails a deal: cooperate with Kushina in exchange for occasional supervised freedom, but the fox rejected the restrictions. Hiroki challenged it to settle the matter through strength, while Kushina’s transformation suddenly intensified in the real world.

• Sawada Hiroki reminded the Nine-Tails of their previous agreement and proposed that it cooperate with Kushina in exchange for supervised chances to leave the seal.
• The Nine-Tails rejected Hiroki’s safety conditions, including chakra monitoring and a movement-limiting collar.
• Sawada Hiroki challenged the Nine-Tails to fight after they failed to reach an agreement.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen worried that the battle inside Kushina’s mental world could harm her, while Danzo argued that Hiroki’s Rinnegan should let him control the Nine-Tails.
• Kushina’s Tailed Beast transformation deepened, and chakra flesh began covering her face.

Kushina reflected on how Hiroki’s rapid reforms and knowledge had made her fear she was falling behind, so she resolved to work hard enough to stand beside him and become Hokage. When the Nine-Tails assaulted her with negative emotions, she resisted and attacked it with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.

• The Nine-Tails unleashed a massive wave of negative emotions at Kushina after she released the seal and offered Hiroki a deal to let it go.
• Kushina remembered how Hiroki’s economic reforms had transformed Konoha and how his explanations left her struggling to understand the new world around her.
• She grew anxious that she was being treated as a fragile symbol while Konoha’s ninjas adapted to Hiroki’s new system and found new roles.
• Kushina trained herself relentlessly, deciding to memorize what she could not understand and to pursue her dream of becoming Konoha’s first female Hokage.
• Kushina came to her senses behind Hiroki, declared that she would stand beside him through her own hard work, and sent eight Adamantine Attacking Chains at the Nine-Tails.

Kushina mastered the Nine-Tails’ power with Hiroki’s help, giving Konoha a new Tailed Beast-level fighter. Hiroki then announced plans to spread ninjutsu programming across the Land of Fire, while a hidden pair prepared to kill him before the change took hold.

• Kushina’s dark-red Tailed Beast transformation erupted into a golden-red chakra cloak, and she awakened as a perfect Jinchuriki.
• Kushina demonstrated her immense speed and chakra to Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō, then credited Hiroki for helping her gain control of the Nine-Tails.
• Hiroki told Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzō that Kushina’s new strength would let Konoha accelerate its reforms.
• Hiroki proposed opening the next tier of system permissions and training ninjutsu programmers to make technique development accessible throughout the Land of Fire.
• A hooded figure and a pitch-black figure discussed opposing Hiroki and decided he must be killed as soon as the pitch-black figure was born.

Orochimaru learned to use Hiroki’s Windows system and applied its programming principles to alter plants at Konoha’s biosynthesis base. After several dangerous experiments, he prepared to distribute safer seeds to help relieve famine in the Land of Fire.

• Orochimaru studied Hiroki’s Programming Manual, used programming to cast a wind blade, and realized the system could control bodily functions as well as ninjutsu.
• One month later, Tanaka Kenta and Yamada Naka visited Greenhouse Number Four and found Orochimaru experimenting with animated, modified plants.
• Orochimaru made corn grow into a giant stalk, but it exploded because he had failed to add a stopping condition.
• Orochimaru demonstrated that his modified potatoes could emerge from the soil peeled, uniform, and three times as nutritious as ordinary potatoes.
• Orochimaru announced that he would distribute safer seeds the next day and warned that planting crews would need protective suits and enough strength to fight the plants.

Konoha’s Flying Thunder God Logistics delivered produce into the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, while Sand and Stone leaders confronted the effects of Konoha’s cheap food trade. Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to steal Konoha’s agricultural technology and urged the Raikage to do the same, declaring Konoha’s expansion a war.

• Baki and twelve Sand Ninja ambushed a young Konoha delivery ninja, but the ninja used a Flying Thunder God Mouse to escape with his crate of tomatoes and left a notice raising Sunagakure’s delivery price.
• Ōnoki watched Inuzuka Daisuke sell self-peeling potatoes cheaply in Iwagakure’s underground market and recognized the transport mouse as a Flying Thunder God Mouse.
• Ōnoki tried to seize the potato barrel, but Inuzuka Daisuke escaped with the mouse, leaving potatoes scattered on the ground.
• Ōnoki ordered Kitsuchi to bring the potatoes to the Intelligence Analysis Division for study and commanded Iwagakure’s spies to steal Konoha’s seeds and agricultural technology.
• Ōnoki ordered the border blockade to continue and the confiscated food to be distributed free to locals, then sent a warning to the Raikage to steal Konoha’s technology before its expansion threatened the great nations.

Nagato witnessed Konoha’s influence over the Land of Water and listened as Black Zetsu framed its aid as economic exploitation that weakened other nations. Convinced that Konoha had to be resisted, Nagato prepared to find Kabuto and gather strength, but the Dragon Vein passage closed almost immediately.

• In Kumogakure, the Third Raikage learned that his researchers still could not reproduce Konoha’s self-peeling potato technology.
• Nagato entered the divided Land of Water and saw civilians driven into Iwagakure’s mines and crowds seeking work in Konoha’s zone.
• Nagato watched Konoha screen applicants and use Genjutsu to send a rejected worker toward the Iwagakure zone.
• Black Zetsu argued that Konoha’s cheap food and jobs drew capable people away and left the Land of Water dependent on Konoha.
• Nagato accepted that he had to resist Konoha, and Black Zetsu told him to find Kabuto and gather strength.
• Nagato invoked the Dragon Vein to depart, but a space-time seal shut the passage almost at once, leaving a solitary figure behind.

Konoha launched Konoha’s World, a block-building application connected to its Grand Barrier, and Yuan Liang and Aoki discovered that approved virtual constructions could be materialized in reality. As they realized the technology could transform how ninjutsu was used, Nagato breached Konoha’s barrier and prepared to unleash Super Shinra Tensei.

• Hiroki ordered the Konoha Grand Barrier activated, and Konoha’s first application, Konoha’s World, opened for public testing.
• Yuan Liang and Aoki entered the virtual Konoha, where they gathered blocks and built a crude house in the forest.
• Yuan Liang submitted their structure as a terrain modification request, and the Hokage’s Office approved it pending payment.
• Yuan Liang and Aoki paid the required fees and watched the virtual house materialize in the real Forest No. 16.
• Yuan Liang realized the application could let users call upon ninjutsu through the chakra network without learning to perform it themselves.
• Nagato passed through Konoha’s new barrier, appeared above the village, and began Super Shinra Tensei.

Nagato attacked Konoha with the Rinnegan, but Hiroki used the village-wide chakra network and barrier to repel his assault and counterattack. While the battle occupied Hiroki, Kabuto infiltrated the barrier’s control room and reached Konoha’s internet server.

• Nagato unleashed Super Shinra Tensei on Konoha, and the village’s automatic defense system grew a vast forest to absorb the force.
• Hiroki identified the attacker as Nagato and used Konoha’s barrier, powered by the residents’ chakra, to block his missiles and counter his Chibaku Tensei.
• Hiroki’s counterattack overwhelmed Nagato’s weapons and sent the clash’s destructive force toward an uninhabited area outside Konoha.
• Kabuto took advantage of Hiroki’s focus on Nagato, killed the Root guards in his path, and opened the Great Barrier’s gate using his knowledge of its password and vulnerabilities.
• Kabuto entered the control room and reached the crystal server connecting Hiroki to Konoha’s ninja.

Hiroki battled Nagato above Konoha, but Yakushi Kabuto severed the great barrier’s power supply and left Hiroki fighting on his own. Hiroki opened the Gate of Opening as Kushina sensed his danger and rushed to help.

• Hiroki and Nagato traded powerful Shinra Tensei attacks while Hiroki used the barrier’s chakra to control the forest and defend Konoha.
• Nagato absorbed Hiroki’s repulsive force with Banshō Ten’in and continued attacking as Hiroki’s chakra supply suddenly stopped.
• Hiroki spotted Kabuto at the barrier core in Root, where Kabuto had severed its connection with a Chakra Scalpel.
• Nagato launched Chibaku Tensei while Hiroki realized he had only minutes of chakra left and needed to end the fight or restore the barrier.
• Hiroki opened the Gate of Opening to boost his power, and Kushina sensed the battle, transformed with the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and rushed toward him.

Kushina rushed to help Hiroki, but Nagato deflected her Tailed Beast Bomb as Konoha’s chakra network and Grand Barrier went down. Hiroki sent her to Root, where she confronted Kabuto; after Kabuto revealed his Flying Thunder God and Autonomous Counterattack abilities, Kushina prepared to break through his defenses head-on.

• Kushina fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Nagato, but he deflected it with Shinra Tensei as Konoha’s chakra network suddenly shut down.
• Hiroki warned Kushina that a gray-haired man with glasses had sabotaged the Grand Barrier’s central hub in Root and urged her to investigate.
• Kushina charged into Root and attacked Kabuto, who revealed his plan to use the chakra network to control people and capture the Nine-Tails.
• Kabuto used Flying Thunder God to attack Kushina and wounded her with a Chakra Scalpel despite her chakra chains.
• Kushina recognized Kabuto’s Autonomous Counterattack and coiled her chains around herself to prepare a direct breakthrough.

Hiroki reconsidered Kabuto’s claim that the future guaranteed his victory and devised a way to exploit the uncertainty of timelines. As his chakra ran low against Nagato, he prepared to risk using a hidden backdoor in Kabuto’s system, but his sudden disappearance shocked Kabuto.

• Kushina used Flying Thunder God marks placed by her chains to attack Kabuto, but his Autonomous Counterattack System stopped her.
• Kabuto explained that information from his successful future reached his present self, making Hiroki’s efforts seem unable to change the outcome.
• Hiroki reasoned that he could preserve the appearance of causality while secretly changing the winner, then outlined a plan to defeat and control Kabuto and Nagato in the future.
• As Hiroki weakened against Nagato, he considered teleporting to Kushina and using a hidden system backdoor to breach Kabuto’s Firewall, despite leaving the Third and Danzo to face Pain.
• Just as Nagato prepared to finish him, Hiroki vanished, and Kabuto stared in shock toward the battlefield in the sky.

Might Duy remembered how Sawada Hiroki had given him a dignified life and chose to risk everything to protect the Hokage and Konoha. He opened the Eight Inner Gates and charged toward the battlefield, where he saw the Fourth Hokage suppressed.

• Might Duy recalled his life as a mocked genin and how work with Flying Thunder God Logistics had let him support Might Guy.
• A porter-squad leader and other companions tried to stop Might Duy from rushing toward the battle, warning that he would die and leave Guy without a father.
• Might Duy brushed them aside and told Guy that youth meant stepping forward to protect what mattered.
• Might Duy opened the first seven gates and charged toward the battlefield.
• Might Duy saw the enemy and the suppressed Fourth Hokage, then opened the Eighth Gate, the Gate of Death.

Might Duy opened the Eight Inner Gates and overwhelmed Nagato with powerful physical attacks, while Hiroki left the aerial battle to confront Kabuto beside Kushina. The chapter ended with Kushina and Hiroki fighting Kabuto underground as Nagato tried to stall Duy with summoned creatures.

• Might Duy opened the Eight Inner Gates and struck Nagato so powerfully that Nagato’s chakra absorption failed and his breastbone shattered.
• Nagato healed himself, blasted Duy away with Super Shinra Tensei, and summoned creatures while hiding in a chameleon to outlast him.
• Hiroki used Flying Thunder God to teleport to Kushina, shocking Kabuto, who questioned whether Duy had come from the future.
• Hiroki restrained Kabuto’s Impure World Reincarnation coffins with chains, and Kabuto transformed into a scaled, horned form.
• Kabuto charged Kushina and Hiroki with Inorganic Reincarnation, and Kushina joined the underground fight with her chains.

Hiroki exploited a hidden vulnerability in Kabuto’s Chakra-Driven System and sent a malicious message that shut down Kabuto while he maintained Sage Mode. The cave’s stone attack collapsed, leaving Kabuto motionless as Kushina and Hiroki survived.

• Kabuto used Inorganic Reincarnation to make the cave’s stone walls and ground attack Hiroki and Kushina.
• Hiroki accessed Kabuto’s system and found that it still used the underlying architecture Hiroki had created.
• Hiroki sent a gibberish urgent message through a vulnerable connection port to trigger a system crash.
• Kabuto’s mind froze while balancing natural energy, and his body forcibly shut down.
• Kushina watched Kabuto fall motionless as his chakra-dependent stone attack collapsed around them.

Might Duy used the Eight Inner Gates to defeat Nagato after Hiroki returned with the unconscious Kabuto and Konoha’s barrier was restored. Duy’s life burned out after his final attack, leaving Hiroki and the others calling out to him as he fell.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen trapped the splitting hellhounds in earth and sealed them inside hardened ceramic so Might Duy could pursue Nagato.
• Nagato struggled to maintain his techniques as his chakra ran low, then realized Konoha’s barrier had been restored.
• Hiroki returned with the unconscious Kabuto and confirmed that the barrier problem had been dealt with.
• Might Duy saw Hiroki’s return, renewed his resolve, and charged at Nagato with his remaining strength.
• Nagato’s Shinra Tensei came too late, and Might Duy struck his head with a fatal punch.
• Might Duy’s Eight Inner Gates power faded as he fell, giving Hiroki a thumbs-up and shouting that this was his youth.

Hiroki honored Might Duy with a solemn burial, and months later Konoha’s prosperity and reforms shaped Teuchi’s decision to settle there and establish Ichiraku Ramen. The chapter ended with the village introducing a new education system that offered children specialized paths beyond traditional ninja service.

• Hiroki placed a wreath and Might Duy’s forehead protector on the Memorial Stone, then bowed as the assembled villagers followed his example.
• Teuchi returned to Konoha, saw how Flying Thunder God Logistics had made ingredients inexpensive, and decided to open Ichiraku Ramen.
• Umino Ikkaku defended the Hokage’s plan to expand ninja education into middle schools, high schools, and universities with specialized programs.
• A teacher explained the new school system to Class 1 of the third grade, outlining logistics training, further education, research, and traditional ninja certification.

Kakashi chose philosophy electives in the Fourth Hokage’s new tracking system, hoping to understand why ninjas lived and what their new society was meant to become. Hatake Sakumo supported his decision and encouraged him to pursue a path beyond killing.

• Kakashi reviewed the tracking handbook after the village and his father refused to let him take missions at age five.
• Kakashi considered the available electives and circled a course in the Humanities and Social Philosophy Department.
• Kakashi told Sakumo that his talent would let him enter the Anbu even without studying combat electives.
• Sakumo signed Kakashi’s form and urged him to follow his own path and explore what Sakumo had never seen.
• Sakumo offered to cook dinner, and Kakashi objected when he learned it would be river fish.

Years after Konoha’s modernization, newly graduated Itachi Uchiha visited the Konoha Electric Power Company hoping to meet Kakashi and ask about his career and the Will of Fire. Kakashi challenged him to question what books said and find his own answers, leaving Itachi pondering how to think like the Hokage while considering his own identity.

• Black Zetsu and his companion accepted that they could not stop Sawada Hiroki from reviving Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Konoha expanded and modernized, building an airport and railways while Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God network transported construction materials.
• Seven-year-old Itachi visited the Konoha Electric Power Company to meet Kakashi, but learned that Kakashi was developing electrical and welding techniques at a substation.
• Itachi met Kakashi after work and asked why he had joined the power company and what the Will of Fire meant.
• Kakashi explained that philosophy encouraged people to doubt what they read and seek their own answers, then urged Itachi to think like the Hokage while considering how his identity differed.
• Itachi watched Kakashi leave and wondered what distinguished him from the Hokage.

Itachi visited the Uchiha Police Force headquarters with Fugaku and saw how Minato Namikaze’s reforms were changing the clan’s role and finances. Itachi proposed that the Uchiha voluntarily leave the patrol force and apply their abilities to new public-service work, leaving Fugaku to consider whether the clan would accept such a change.

• Fugaku took Itachi to the Police Force headquarters, where Yashiro protested an order requiring officers to pass a basic circuit repair exam.
• Itachi overheard young Uchiha discussing Shisui’s lucrative work and considering leaving the patrol force for better-paying jobs.
• Inabi showed Fugaku a budget that cut regular funding by forty percent while directing a larger subsidy toward technology and public services.
• Itachi explained that the Hokage wanted village stability and that the Uchiha’s monopoly over the Police Force conflicted with the village’s development.
• Fugaku praised Itachi for understanding the changes of the times and urged him to find a future acceptable to both Konoha and the Uchiha.
• Itachi suggested that the Uchiha give up the patrol force and use their Sharingan in fields such as medical ninjutsu and electrical work, prompting Fugaku to consider the idea.