Chapter Summaries

After Tsukishina Teru escaped, Shimura Ken remained near death from an unknown poison, and Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Danzo’s Root had moved against the Kamiya Family. The family was brought before Konoha’s leaders, where Kamiya Hiromi began their defense.

• The thirteen search for Tsukishina Teru again but conclude that she escaped.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen visits Shimura Ken and learns from Sarutobi Biwako that the poison is destroying his cells and that only an antidote from the poisoner can save him.
• A ninja reports that Danzo sent Root to arrest the Kamiya Family, and Sarutobi Hiruzen orders them brought to the Hokage Building for questioning.
• The four Kamiya family members wait in the council hall, where Kamiya Keiyun observes Konoha’s hierarchy and the officials who arrive.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other leaders begin the tribunal, and Kamiya Hiromi declares that the family has been wronged.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō investigated whether the Kamiya Family had helped Tsukishina Teru poison Shimura Ken, while Kamiya Keiyun feared a memory search would expose him. Orochimaru stopped Yamanaka Inoichi before he could examine the remaining children, leaving Keiyun’s secrets hidden for the moment.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen questioned Kamiya Hiromi and Kamiya Sanyō, who denied knowing about Tsukishina Teru’s actions or having contact with him after he entered Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō rejected the family’s denials and demanded that Yamanaka Inoichi search their memories for evidence of collusion.
• Kamiya Keiyun panicked when Yamanaka Inoichi arrived, realizing that a memory search could reveal his secrets.
• Yamanaka Inoichi searched Kamiya Hiromi’s and Kamiya Koromo’s memories and found no connection to Tsukishina Teru or Shimura Ken’s assassination.
• As Yamanaka Inoichi prepared to search Kamiya Sanyō, Kamiya Keiyun secretly formed Hand Seals, but Orochimaru intervened and told Inoichi to stop because the searches were exhausting and could harm a child’s brain and nerves.

After Orochimaru and Danzo defended Kamiya Keiyun, Kamiya Sanyō volunteered to care for her injured fiancé, Shimura Ken, while the elders treated the Kamiya family. The family left the inquiry with Sanyō committed to the Shimura engagement, Keiyun rejected by Root, and Kamiya Hiromi already planning another marriage alliance for his son.

• Orochimaru gave Danzo a way to end the inquiry, and Sanyō volunteered to care for Shimura Ken as his fiancée.
• Danzo approved Sanyō’s offer, told her where Ken was, and rejected Keiyun from Root for his poor academy performance.
• Utatane Koharu treated Hiromi and Koromo, explained the effects of memory-reading, and urged Keiyun to work harder at the academy.
• Hiromi worried that the family would gain nothing if Ken died and Keiyun was rejected, then asked Koromo to seek a suitable bride for Keiyun.
• Keiyun decided he needed to drive Hiromi out of Konoha before his father’s matchmaking caused trouble.

Kamiya Sanyō learned to heal injuries with Chakra and began training as Sarutobi Biwako’s medical student, while Kamiya Keiyun took over intelligence work and considered his next moves. Konoha found his tunnel and tightened its barrier, leaving Keiyun focused on dealing with Kamiya Hiromi and extending the Primordial Spirit Jade Edict’s range.

• Kamiya Sanyō cared for the poisoned Shimura Ken at Konoha Hospital, where Sarutobi Biwako offered to teach her Medical Ninjutsu.
• Kamiya Keiyun discovered he had a Healing Attribute and helped Kamiya Sanyō awaken hers by healing injured fish.
• Kamiya Keiyun added Medical Ninjutsu knowledge to Kamiya Bian Que’s card, expanding his doctor-poison master’s abilities.
• Hei Bei told Kamiya Keiyun that Konoha had discovered the tunnel and that its Barrier Class was modifying the barrier.
• Kamiya Keiyun learned that Konoha had placed a three-hundred-thousand-ryo bounty on Tsukishina Teru and decided to dig his next tunnel one kilometer underground.
• Kamiya Keiyun focused on how to deal with Kamiya Hiromi and extend the Primordial Spirit Jade Edict’s one-kilometer control range.

Kakashi applied for early graduation, but Kamiya Keiyun refused to join him and learned that Obito also wanted to graduate. Keiyun investigated the Primordial Spirit Jade Edict’s range limit and concluded that he needed a way to strengthen his soul, leaving him interested in the Yamanaka Clan’s soul projection technique.

• Kakashi told Kamiya Keiyun he was applying for early graduation and invited him to graduate too, but Keiyun declined.
• After hearing Kakashi planned to graduate, Uchiha Obito angrily left to apply for graduation himself, while Nohara Rin tried to stop him.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Inuzuka Hana about Obito’s family and learned that Obito’s parents had died and his grandmother cared for him.
• Kamiya Keiyun reasoned that the Primordial Spirit Jade Edict’s one-kilometer range came from a quantum-like connection to his original body.
• Kamiya Keiyun considered strengthening his soul and wished he knew the Yamanaka Clan’s soul projection technique.

Kamiya Keiyun confronted Kamiya Hiromi over his dangerous schemes and warned him to change his ways. Hiromi decided to leave Konoha with Kamiya Koromo for Waseda Castle, while Keiyun continued developing his chakra relay idea.

• Kamiya Keiyun beat Kamiya Hiromi and warned him that his marriage schemes and public behavior could put the family in danger.
• Kamiya Sanyō treated Hiromi's injuries and later encouraged Keiyun as he explained the limits of his wooden True Sight Guardian and his plans for chakra relays.
• Kamiya Hiromi told Keiyun he had decided to leave the village and help his uncle in Waseda Castle.
• Kamiya Keiyun explained that Waseda Castle was safe and that Hiromi's departure would let the family stop worrying about him.
• On October 3rd, Kamiya Hiromi and Kamiya Koromo completed their paperwork and hired a ninja squad for a B-rank mission to escort them out of the village.

Kamiya Keiyun brought perfume to Orochimaru and proposed a business partnership, explaining its enormous earning potential and the high costs of research. Orochimaru reshaped the ownership plan to protect the business from political and clan pressures, then prepared to take Keiyun to meet the Yamanaka Clan head.

• Kamiya Keiyun gave the white snake jerky and visited Orochimaru with bottles of perfume.
• Kamiya Keiyun explained that perfume could become a vast business and described the expenses of experiments, volunteers, mice, and microscopes.
• Kamiya Keiyun proposed a 60-20-20 stake split among himself, Orochimaru, and the Yamanaka Clan.
• Orochimaru revised the arrangement so Kamiya Keiyun would receive 15%, the Three Legendary Sannin 60%, and the Yamanaka, Akimichi, and Nara Clans 25%.
• Orochimaru explained that the Sannin and the Ino-Shika-Cho Clan could shield the business from village and clan pressure.
• Orochimaru told Kamiya Keiyun to get ready to meet the head of the Yamanaka Clan.

Kamiya Keiyun and Orochimaru presented perfume to the Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi clan heads, who recognized its commercial potential after testing it with their families. They signed a partnership contract to launch Dream Butterfly Cosmetics, though Kamiya Keiyun’s ownership was kept off the official paperwork for protection.

• Orochimaru brought Kamiya Keiyun to the Yamanaka residence, where they met Yamanaka Inoichi and the Nara and Akimichi clan heads.
• Kamiya Keiyun presented fifteen perfumes and explained that they were intended for women, prompting the clan heads to test them with their families.
• Kamiya Keiyun thanked Yamanaka Inoichi for showing mercy during an earlier official matter and credited Yamanaka Ayase’s flowers for inspiring the perfumes.
• The clan heads returned after their families eagerly used all the perfume bottles, and Orochimaru proposed developing other cosmetics as well.
• The four parties signed a contract establishing Dream Butterfly Cosmetics, with the Three Legendary Sannin and the Ino-Shika-Cho clans investing and dividing the shares while Kamiya Keiyun’s stake remained unofficial.

Kamiya Keiyun discussed the poison Paraquat with Orochimaru, then presented six fundamental questions about Chakra and ninjutsu. Orochimaru was shaken by the questions and began investigating them, seeing Kamiya Keiyun’s curiosity as a path toward truth.

• Kamiya Keiyun explained that Paraquat could safely clear weeds and improve food production, though swallowing it was fatal, and Orochimaru considered its possible benefits and risks.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Orochimaru about his training and introduced questions about the nature of Chakra, talking Ninja Beasts, and the Transformation Technique.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked how Chakra produced color, enabled spatial transfer, and generated gravity and repulsion, prompting Orochimaru to stop the discussion and think.
• After Kamiya Keiyun left, Orochimaru wrote down the six questions and reflected on whether the answers to basic ninjutsu held the truths he sought.

After realizing that the alien invasion might arrive before the world was ready, Kamiya Keiyun decided to unify the world and prepare it himself. He enlisted Kamiya Sanyō and began planning an underground headquarters for the Cloud Leaf Society beneath Konoha.

• Kamiya Keiyun reflected on how little he could rely on his assumptions about the future and resolved to take control of the world’s preparations.
• Kamiya Sanyō supported Kamiya Keiyun’s plan to unify the world, and he asked her to train as a medical ninja who could rally others.
• Kamiya Keiyun and his companions discussed building a two-floor, hexagonal headquarters one kilometer beneath Konoha, connected to Kiso County by an underground passage.
• Kamiya Keiyun explained that Kamiya Ishiku would build the headquarters while a tiny relay clone let him work underground as Kamiya Keiyun attended classes aboveground.

Kamiya Keiyun met the Ino-Shika-Cho children sent to befriend him and turned Sarutobi Asuma’s confrontation into a game of Ninja Game. He challenged Nara Shikadai to consider how to unify the ninja world, leaving Shikadai troubled by the question and Keiyun’s ambition.

• Nara Shikadai explained that the clan heads had asked him, Akimichi Nanfu, and Yamanaka Kan to interact more with Kamiya Keiyun, and Keiyun went to speak with Sarutobi Asuma.
• Asuma invited Keiyun to play Ninja Game, and Keiyun persuaded Obito to take his place by claiming the game would impress girls.
• Keiyun sat with Nara Shikadai, asked about the ninja world’s situation, and challenged him to figure out how to unify it.
• Nara Shikadai was left pondering Keiyun’s question and his unusually broad ambitions.

Kamiya Keiyun pursued advanced language study while openly discussing his ambition to unify the ninja world and bring lasting peace. After borrowing books from Umino Iruka, he began translating literature at home and said writing could help awaken people to his cause.

• Kamiya Keiyun told Inuzuka Hana that unifying the ninja world could end recurring wars, though she worried about the lives a war of unification would cost.
• Kamiya Keiyun opened Five Hundred Characters for Beginners during class, then told Umino Iruka he had already mastered it and asked to borrow advanced books and a dictionary.
• Umino Iruka lent Kamiya Keiyun the Land of Fire Dictionary and several books on writing, knowledge, history, and family teachings.
• Kamiya Keiyun studied at home and translated a passage from Zhu Ziqing, explaining to Sanyō that writing could help awaken people who might support unification.
• Sanyō wondered who Zhu Ziqing was and considered whether the name was another alias Kamiya Keiyun had invented.

Kamiya Keiyun completed The Hive and reunited with Uzumaki Kagura in Kiso County, where he recruited her into the Cloud Leaf Society. He explained the organization’s ambitions and planned its next steps, including securing the land near the hidden passage and recruiting an Orphanage Director.

• Kamiya Keiyun visited The Hive after its completion and inspected its underground levels and passages, which emerged through a hollow tree near Kiso County.
• Uzumaki Kagura found Kamiya Keiyun and embraced him, relieved that he had returned safely after a month without news.
• Kamiya Keiyun learned that Kagura was living in a courtyard with Harutako and told her he planned to return to Konoha.
• Kamiya Keiyun invited Kagura to join the Cloud Leaf Society, and she accepted without hesitation.
• Kamiya Keiyun explained the Society’s goals and took Kagura flying so she could see the curve of the world.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Kagura to buy the land near the passage and said they would seek talent through an Orphanage Director; he also asked her to call Harutako in for something he wanted to try.

Kamiya Keiyun invited Yakushi Nonō to join the Cloud Leaf Society, persuading her with its goal of uniting the world and ending war to reduce the number of orphans. Nonō was tempted but asked three questions about Konoha, the society’s chances of success, and her role before deciding.

• Kamiya Keiyun revealed his identity to Nonō, who deduced that he had arranged Shimura Ken’s poisoning and that Tsukishina Teru was a false identity.
• Kamiya Keiyun defended his actions against the Shimura Clan and explained that he had founded the Cloud Leaf Society to unite the world and bring peace.
• Nonō warned that uniting the ninja world meant facing roughly one hundred thousand ninja, but Kamiya Keiyun argued that they could make allies by recruiting people who shared their ideals.
• Nonō admitted she was tempted to join, then asked Kamiya Keiyun how he planned to deal with Konoha, what gave him confidence they could unite the world, and what she would be expected to do.

Kamiya Keiyun tried to recruit Yakushi Nonō into the Cloud Leaf Society, offering her a leadership role and a vision of a fair world. After learning she served in Root and was bound by Danzo’s Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal, he heard Uzumaki Kagura suggest she might know a way around it.

• Kamiya Keiyun described his plans for a fair society and argued that his talent would let him surpass the First Hokage.
• Kamiya Keiyun offered Yakushi Nonō the role of Education Department head and began teaching Shinwa the Chakra Refining Technique.
• Yakushi Nonō revealed that she was a Root intelligence officer, so Kamiya Keiyun proposed using her position to expand the Cloud Leaf Society’s influence and gather intelligence.
• Yakushi Nonō explained that Danzo’s Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal prevented Root members from revealing critical information and inflicted severe pain.
• Uzumaki Kagura said she might have a way to deal with the seal.

Uzumaki Kagura proposed contacting Uzumaki Kushina to obtain the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing inheritance, while Yakushi Nonō revealed Kushina’s importance and the destructive power she might wield. Kamiya Keiyun decided to recruit Kushina, but Shinwa interrupted by announcing that he had extracted Chakra.

• Uzumaki Kagura explained that Uzumaki Kushina had taken the Uzumaki Clan’s inheritance to Konoha and could recognize Kagura by her Chakra imprint.
• Yakushi Nonō revealed that Kushina was closely guarded because she might inherit Uzumaki Mito’s abilities, and that Mito had once destroyed a Sky Ninja Village fortress with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kamiya Keiyun considered Kushina’s potential power and decided she must be brought into the organization.
• Shinwa announced that he had extracted Chakra, shocking Yakushi Nonō.

Kamiya Keiyun demonstrated that he could help people with weak Chakra talent refine Chakra and explained his revolutionary plans to Yakushi Nonō. Convinced by his ideas and vision, Yakushi Nonō joined the Cloud Leaf Society.

• Yakushi Nonō discovered that Shinwa had refined Chakra despite having very weak talent, and Kamiya Keiyun explained that his ability could make anyone with even slight potential succeed.
• Yakushi Nonō realized Kamiya Keiyun could train vast numbers of ordinary people and asked about his plans for uniting the world.
• Kamiya Keiyun condemned nobles and factory owners, proposed protections for workers, and argued that the existing system perpetuated poverty and orphanhood.
• Kamiya Keiyun argued that nobles provoked wars by using missions to pit ninja villages against one another, and Yakushi Nonō acknowledged that such conflicts had happened repeatedly.
• Yakushi Nonō accepted Kamiya Keiyun's invitation and joined the Cloud Leaf Society, while Uzumaki Kagura and Shinwa applauded.

Kamiya Keiyun shared his invented ninjutsu with Yakushi Nonō and Uzumaki Kagura, prompting Yakushi Nonō to suggest rules for organizing and teaching the society’s knowledge. He hinted that his scrolls helped people learn faster, and Yakushi Nonō mistook that ability for a Kekkei Genkai.

• Kamiya Keiyun gave Yakushi Nonō and Uzumaki Kagura scrolls listing his techniques, then considered using a hidden Sky Fortress and albatrosses to distribute newspapers.
• Yakushi Nonō studied the techniques and recognized their value, especially for training and intelligence work.
• Yakushi Nonō offered to record the Medical Ninjutsu she knew and proposed grading techniques and requiring contributions for access.
• Kamiya Keiyun said his scrolls helped people master knowledge more quickly, and Yakushi Nonō asked whether the effect was his Kekkei Genkai.
• Kamiya Keiyun blinked and asked Yakushi Nonō what a Kekkei Genkai was.

Kamiya Keiyun assigned Yakushi Nonō to expand the Cloud Leaf Society’s influence inside Root and sent her to investigate the Sky Ninja Village, while Uzumaki Kagura began training under him. Nonō returned to Konoha and persuaded Danzo to appoint her a B-Rank Intelligence Officer with her own team, setting her on a path toward greater authority in Root.

• Kamiya Keiyun told Yakushi Nonō to recruit Root members, build the society’s intelligence network, gather ninjutsu, and search for the Sky Ninja descendants or the Sky Fortress.
• Kamiya Keiyun told Uzumaki Kagura to strengthen herself and study literature before learning ninjutsu, and said the society would later take over rescuing orphans.
• Kamiya Keiyun defended his decision to trust Nonō, and Uzumaki Kagura promised to stand by him even if everyone else betrayed him.
• Yakushi Nonō returned to Konoha with Shinwa, settled him in, and went to meet Danzo at Root.
• Yakushi Nonō asked Danzo to make her Root Deputy Minister and argued that Root’s resources would let her rescue many more orphans.
• Danzo appointed Yakushi Nonō a B-Rank Intelligence Officer and gave her an Intelligence Team, while suggesting she might eventually become Root Deputy Minister.

Kamiya Keiyun brought Uzumaki Kagura to Konoha and introduced her to Kamiya Sanyō before checking the village’s intelligence with Hei Bei and Ruri. He tasked Hei Bei with secretly investigating Uzumaki Kushina, while learning that Nara Shikadai had been absent from school for several days.

• Kamiya Keiyun bought twenty mu of land in Kiso County for agricultural experiments and arranged for Harutako to hire workers to fence it off.
• Kamiya Keiyun returned to Konoha with Uzumaki Kagura and introduced her to Kamiya Sanyō, who began chatting with her.
• Hei Bei reported that Hatake Kakashi had become a genin and that Hatake Sakumo had left the village on a mission with three companions.
• Kamiya Keiyun refused to give Hei Bei more rat subordinates and ordered him to discreetly learn Uzumaki Kushina’s address, routines, personality, and preferences.
• Ruri said nothing unusual had happened at school and told Kamiya Keiyun that Nara Shikadai had been absent for several days.