Chapter Summaries

Shiro used Sage Art chakra to activate a White Zetsu and install steel plates in his workshop, then enhanced his magic power with the Seven-Tails' chakra and Kazuki's blood. He went to rest, unaware that Hoshigakure's destruction had made Akatsuki and Tobi famous across the Shinobi World.

• Shiro designed a magecraft formula to spread Sage Art chakra through his bedroom and isolation room, preparing Shadow Clones to contain any White Zetsu that appeared.
• A White Zetsu grew at the entrance to Shiro's bedroom, and a Shadow Clone sealed it while the others watched for more.
• Shiro used the workshop to replace the rooms' bottoms with steel plates, then stopped the magecraft and resealed the remaining Sage Art chakra.
• Shiro released the Seven-Tails' chakra and used Kazuki's blood to meet the system's requirements for enhancing his magic power.
• The system completed the enhancement without causing any outside disturbance, and Shiro returned to his bedroom to rest.
• News of Hoshigakure's destruction spread across the Shinobi World, and the major ninja villages added Tobi, Akatsuki's Jade Maiden, to their files.

After Yahiko died and Nagato’s Rinnegan awakened, Tobi intervened and rescued Nagato and Konan from Hanzo. Meanwhile, Shiro remained unaware of the changed events as his workshop neared completion.

• Jiraiya missed the chance to intervene because his Sage Art training kept him from leaving.
• Nagato fought Hanzo’s forces after Yahiko sacrificed himself, and his legs remained intact as he used the Rinnegan.
• Hanzo summoned Ibuse, but Tobi appeared, canceled the summoning, and introduced himself to Nagato as a member of Akatsuki.
• Tobi used White Zetsu’s power to take Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko’s body underground and escape.
• Hanzo suspected Tobi was connected to the Akatsuki behind Hoshigakure’s destruction and hurried back to Amegakure.
• Shiro continued working without knowing about Tobi, while his workshop and experimental area neared completion.

Shiro continued developing his workshop and planning research into Wind Release, magecraft, and Enkidu while trying to make use of his limited funds. After a mysterious dream left him with the words “This is the truth of an illusory world,” he discovered that he could project B-rank Noble Phantasms, though he did not know why.

• Shiro noted that his workshop’s biological experiment area was partly complete, but he lacked the money and equipment to finish it.
• Shiro planned to keep training in Wind Release and magecraft, whose advancement required transforming his Chakra meridians into Magic Circuits.
• Shiro considered combining Enkidu with sealing techniques to bind and seal enemies from a distance.
• Shiro dreamed again in darkness and heard the sentence, “This is the truth of an illusory world!”
• Shiro tested his new ability and successfully projected B-rank Noble Phantasms, then wondered whether the change came from the dream, EMIYA’s chant, or the system.

Shiro reviewed recent intelligence, found a Jonin-level bounty target staying at his inn, and prepared to hunt him. He followed the target while invisible but held back until he could confirm the man was not a clone.

• Shiro spent months practicing Projection Magecraft, completed most of his workshop, and watched his Chakra reserves rise to about twenty units.
• Shiro read Konoha's intelligence scroll and learned that the Wind organization had raided Yugakure and earned a bounty exceeding one hundred million ryo.
• Shiro learned that an Akatsuki member calling himself Tobi had been appearing across the Shinobi World, but decided not to pursue him.
• Shiro found a twenty-million-ryo bounty target in the latest list and recognized the Jonin-level Wind Release user as someone staying at his inn.
• Shiro projected No Face May King, turned invisible, and followed the target through the inn while trying to determine whether he was the real body.

Shiro followed a Wind Release ninja, but the ninja detected him and lured him out of town to fight. Shiro used the battle to study his opponent’s Wind Release, and the chapter ended as their Pressure Damage attacks collided.

• Shiro followed the ninja between his room and the inn, unaware that the ninja had set alarms to detect anyone watching him.
• The ninja left town, found Shiro’s trail, and led him toward a deserted area before attacking with a Wind Blade Shuriken.
• Shiro dodged the attack with Body Flicker, revealing himself as the Smiling Wind Demon, and rushed the ninja as he tried to stall and recover Chakra.
• The two clashed, and Shiro studied the ninja’s use of Wind Release before the ninja caught him off guard with Great Breakthrough.
• Shiro and the ninja formed seals for Wind Release: Pressure Damage and unleashed the attacks at each other.

Shiro fought a Wind Release opponent to learn his techniques and discovered how to form hand seals discreetly during combat. When the opponent used a drug that gave him Sage Art Chakra, Shiro suspected Orochimaru was behind it and summoned a message before deciding how to handle him.

• Shiro clashed with his opponent’s Pressure Damage, then engaged him in close combat to study his skills and steal techniques.
• Shiro learned that the opponent had concealed hand seals in small movements and practiced splitting his own seals during their fight.
• The opponent realized Shiro was using him for practice but could not break away, and his Wind Release attacks failed against Shiro’s sturdy blue-glowing kunai.
• The opponent crushed a special-effect drug hidden in his tooth, gaining a surge of strength and Sage Art Chakra that sent Shiro flying.
• Shiro recognized the drug’s mutated traits as likely connected to Orochimaru, chose not to kill the man, and performed Summoning Jutsu as chains rattled nearby.

Shiro captured a ninja empowered by Sage Art Chakra and learned that the Eternal Snake Church had sold him a special medicine. After Gray Snake contacted Orochimaru, Shiro prepared to meet with him, seeing a possible opportunity to trade knowledge about immortality.

• Shiro used Enkidu to bind the ninja, then sealed away his Sage Art Chakra with the Evil Sealing Method.
• Shiro questioned the subdued ninja with Suggestion Magecraft and learned that he had bought the medicine from the Eternal Snake Church on the Black Market.
• Shiro concluded that Orochimaru had likely established the church as a magecraft foundation and realized Orochimaru's pursuit of immortality could lead to a useful trade.
• Gray Snake contacted Orochimaru, and Shiro coordinated with Gray Snake to summon him through one of his snakes.

Shiro traded Orochimaru magecraft for information about a potential intelligence operative, then turned to deal with the defeated ninja who had used Sage Art Chakra. The chapter left Shiro preparing to collect the ninja and use the intelligence channels he claimed to know.

• Shiro contacted Orochimaru after encountering a ninja whose Sage Art Chakra seemed connected to him, and Orochimaru told Shiro to kill the man if he wished.
• Shiro offered Orochimaru magecraft that could extend life by changing bodies in exchange for information about intelligence gathering.
• Orochimaru shared information about a person who could communicate with and summon birds, and promised to provide a training plan.
• Shiro and Orochimaru exchanged scrolls, and Shiro learned that the magecraft's precise attribute was uncertain.
• Shiro turned to the recovered ninja, who begged for his life and offered money and knowledge of intelligence channels.

Shiro followed Orochimaru’s intelligence to the Land of Birds to find Azu, a boy with unusual abilities who could summon and communicate with birds. He learned that Azu and his younger sister had been driven from their village, and planned to recruit him by offering food and lodging.

• Shiro killed his target, collected his mission vouchers, and reviewed Orochimaru’s notes about Azu.
• Shiro traveled to the Land of Birds and questioned villagers, eventually finding an old trail that Azu had left in the forest.
• Shiro tracked Azu through several villages and learned that Azu’s younger sister had an abnormal condition that caused her body to rot.
• Shiro discovered that the siblings had been driven from their village because of their abilities and that Azu still stole enough food to support both of them.
• Shiro concluded that Azu’s concern for his sister made him easier to recruit and planned to offer them food and lodging.

Shiro tracked down Azu, a boy with innate contract-type Mystic Eyes, and brought him away from villagers who were attacking him. Shiro suspected the eyes and Orochimaru’s ability to use magecraft meant the Type-Moon world’s Counter Force was trying to annex the Shinobi World.

• Shiro extracted memories from a bully to learn what the missing villagers looked like, then sent snakes from Ryūchi Cave to watch nearby towns and villages.
• After two days, a snake reported finding a boy resembling Shiro’s portrait in a southern village, and Shiro rushed there on Flying Bird.
• Shiro stopped the villagers from attacking Azu and persuaded him to leave with him, while Azu soothed his hawk and agreed for his little sister’s sake.
• As they walked, Shiro identified Azu’s eyes as innate contract-type Mystic Eyes and considered whether the system’s destruction and Orochimaru’s magecraft pointed to the Counter Force annexing the Shinobi World.

Shiro recruited Azu and promised to help his younger sister, Ayue, whose illness stemmed from conflicting magecraft systems. After examining her, Shiro found a way to stabilize her condition and discovered she also had golden Mystic Eyes.

• Shiro hired Azu to handle intelligence work and told him they would first retrieve his younger sister and then train.
• Shiro offered to find a cure for Ayue, and Azu thanked him before they continued to her hiding place.
• Shiro and Azu picked up Ayue without incident and took her by giant bird to Shiro's workshop.
• Shiro examined Ayue and found that conflicting Magic Circuits and Chakra pathways had damaged her body and changed her Origin to decay.
• Shiro realized he could stabilize Ayue using his research and discovered that she possessed golden Mystic Eyes.

After half a year in the Underground World, Shiro had trained Ayue and Azu while advancing his research and building a reputation through missions. The chapter ended with Ayue bringing the dust-covered Shiro a cup of water after another experiment.

• Azu and Ayue continued studying and training in the Underground World, where Shiro had treated Ayue’s illness and taught her magecraft.
• Shiro tested Ayue’s powerful stopping-type Mystic Eyes and taught her reinforcement, curse, and barrier magecraft.
• Azu expanded his intelligence network across River Country, Rain Country, and parts of Wind Country and Fire Country.
• Shiro’s chakra reserves reached one hundred adult Kakashis, and his successful missions made him known as the Smiling Wind Demon.
• Shiro paused his unsuccessful Destructo Disc development and continued experimenting with magecraft in the Second Experimental Zone.
• Ayue brought Shiro water as he emerged from the Second Experimental Zone covered in dust, and he rubbed a dirty mark onto her face.

Shiro received bounty intelligence and considered taking on the dangerous Kameda Jiro, but decided to hunt other targets first to improve his ninja skills. Ayue had begun to show signs of recovering her liveliness, while Shiro still needed to build his fieldcraft before pursuing the strongest target.

• Shiro reassured Ayue after she asked whether she had done something wrong, then accepted Azu's scroll of bounty targets.
• Azu identified Kurama Senwai and the highly dangerous Kameda Jiro, whose bounty was fifty million ryo, among the targets.
• Shiro left the workshop and decided to deal with the other bounty targets first so he could practice reconnaissance, infiltration, and related skills.
• Ayue relaxed after Shiro departed, then climbed onto a stool and began reading the scroll while Azu returned to studying magecraft.

Shiro continued honing his ninja combat skills while tracking the remaining targets, and he killed Kurama Senwai after seeing through his concealment and surviving his ambush. The chapter ended with Kurama Senwai dying after failing to detonate the Explosive Tags he had revealed.

• Shiro used Azu’s marked sparrow to locate Kurama Senwai, pushing the bird until it died from exhaustion.
• Shiro confronted Kurama Senwai and briefly mistook their encounter for a shared past before realizing he had been speaking to a Shadow Clone.
• Kurama Senwai killed Shiro’s Shadow Clone, but Shiro struck from concealment with Mumyo Sandan-zuki and pierced Kurama Senwai’s heart.
• Kurama Senwai exposed burning Explosive Tags and claimed Shiro would one day suffer the village’s darkness, but Shiro calmly invoked Ring of the Beautiful Princess as Kurama Senwai collapsed.

Shiro reflected on Konoha’s growing darkness, then rested while waiting for Azu to locate Kameda Jiro. After comparing his abilities with Heroic Spirit Emiya, he decided to use Heroic Spirit Synchronization cautiously to strengthen his weaker skills without losing himself.

• Shiro sealed Kurama Senwai’s corpse and went to an inn to rest and study while awaiting Azu’s information about Kameda Jiro.
• Shiro considered Konoha’s troubles and blamed the Third Hokage’s indecision for allowing Danzo’s influence to grow.
• Shiro compared his status with Heroic Spirit Emiya’s and found that his attributes were stronger, but his skills and projection were weaker.
• Shiro decided to activate Heroic Spirit Synchronization to improve his skills while limiting the risk of being assimilated by Emiya.
• Shiro planned to pursue his ally-of-justice goals after dealing with Kameda Jiro, confident he could handle the upcoming fight with his current abilities.

Shiro tracked Kameda Jiro to a village outside Amegakure and attacked him before he could meet the Akatsuki. The fight continued as Kameda countered Shiro's techniques with Hidden Mist, while Shiro answered with Dark Foggy Metropolis.

• Shiro followed Azu's intelligence relays and discovered Kameda Jiro had stopped in a village near Amegakure to consider joining the Akatsuki.
• Shiro spotted traces of an Explosive Tag formation in the village and used No Face May King to set it off as Kameda prepared to signal the Akatsuki.
• Kameda escaped the explosion with the Body Flicker Technique and recognized Shiro as the Smiling Wind Demon.
• Shiro attacked with Shadow Clones and several Wind Release techniques, but Kameda used Water Formation Wall and Hidden Mist Technique to counter him.
• Shiro filled the area with smog using Dark Foggy Metropolis.

Shiro used the Dark Foggy Metropolis to locate Kameda and battled him inside the fog while Tobi and Toshiki Inoshita watched. Kameda’s body was being corroded by the fog as the fight intensified.

• Shiro explained how the Dark Foggy Metropolis helped him detect enemies, conceal himself, and damage those caught in its fog.
• Shiro tracked Kameda through the fog, and Kameda realized he had been found and challenged him.
• Kameda attacked Shiro with the Hidden Mist Assassination Technique, but Shiro blocked and countered his strikes.
• Tobi and Toshiki Inoshita watched the fight, and Tobi said they would recruit whichever combatant proved stronger.
• Kameda noticed that the fog was corroding his body, and his attacks grew sharper as the battle intensified.

Shiro struggled against Kameda Jiro’s mist clones while concealing his identity, then revealed Gae Bolg as his prepared trump card. Kameda charged into the spear’s attack, and the chapter ended as Shiro unleashed it.

• Shiro kept fighting Kameda Jiro with kunai, hiding his familiar Noble Phantasms while Dark Foggy Metropolis continued to damage Kameda.
• Kameda Jiro used Hidden Mist Assassination Technique: Ten Shadow Kill to create ten mist clones and overwhelm Shiro with coordinated attacks.
• Shiro relied on Mind's Eye to evade fatal blows, then compressed the mist and vanished to hide his position.
• Kameda Jiro found Shiro and charged when Shiro appeared holding the crimson spear Gae Bolg.
• Shiro invoked Gae Bolg, whose causality-reversing effect was described as making its heart-piercing strike unavoidable.

Shiro killed Kameda Ichijo with his Noble Phantasm, then faced Tobi and Toshiki Inoshita, who invited him to join Akatsuki. Tobi urged Shiro to visit Amegakure, but Shiro distrusted him and prepared to flee as he questioned why Akatsuki wanted him.

• Shiro thrust his spear into Kameda Ichijo despite Kameda switching places with his Mist Clone, then pulled it free and killed him.
• Shiro sensed two people approaching and recognized Tobi and Toshiki Inoshita when they arrived.
• Shiro gave Tobi the name Wangquan Fugui and identified both visitors as Akatsuki members.
• Tobi invited Shiro to join Akatsuki and offered to take him to Amegakure, but Shiro called it a trap.
• Shiro gathered his strength to escape and asked Tobi why he was so intent on recruiting him.

Shiro left the Akatsuki without joining and planned to gather allies to attack their stronghold in the Land of Rain, capture Tobi, and rescue a Uzumaki clansman. He reached one of his sub-bases and began searching for White Zetsu, while intending to bring Ayue along to the coming battle.

• Shiro concealed himself in Dark Foggy Metropolis and departed after Tobi and Jingxia invited him to join the Akatsuki.
• Jingxia assumed Shiro would eventually join because he was a Konoha rogue ninja, but Shiro planned to capture Akatsuki members instead.
• Shiro decided to gather allies and attack the Land of Rain stronghold, hoping to capture Tobi while keeping Nagato's Rinnegan safe.
• Shiro planned to bring Ayue to the battle, relying on her increasingly powerful Mystic Eyes and the Mystic Eye Killers he had made to suppress them.
• Shiro arrived at his sub-base in the Land of Rain and analyzed the ground to detect nearby White Zetsu.