Chapter Summaries

Shiro met Mizuki and her teammates while they trained during a water-cleanup mission, then used a Shadow Clone to challenge Mizuki and expose the gap in their abilities. After his clone disappeared, Shiro received its memories, leaving the reason for its eerie behavior unexplained.

• Shiro found Mizuki, Takeda Ichiro, Hikari, and their teacher Mitokado Heiichi struggling to finish their cleanup mission while training.
• Shiro introduced himself to Mizuki’s teammates and learned that Hikari specialized in a powerful ancestral sword style.
• Shiro challenged Mizuki to a ninjutsu contest, and his Wind Release scattered her Great Fireball before Heiichi blocked the attack with an Earth-Style Wall.
• Heiichi explained that Shiro had won with superior Chakra control despite being only a Shadow Clone, prompting Mizuki, Hikari, and Takeda to resume their training.
• Shiro’s Shadow Clone vanished after running out of Chakra, and the real Shiro received its memories while Heiichi wondered about the clone’s eerie smile.

After a mission at the lake, Shiro arranged a day off to accompany his mother to meet a friend, but masked attackers ambushed him on his way home. He helped the Anbu capture their leader alive and suspected Kirigakure was behind the attack.

• Shiro apologized to Minamoto no Raiko and helped Heiichi and the others clear trash from the lake.
• Shiro's mother asked him to accompany her to meet a friend, and he visited Sakumo to request a day off.
• On his way home, Shiro exposed a disguised attacker who claimed Danzo had summoned him to Anbu, then fought the group of Kirigakure ninja.
• Shiro summoned Blue Snake and used a sealing technique to stop the enemy leader from exploding, allowing the Anbu to capture him alive.
• Shiro returned home and suspected the captured attackers would be treated as rogue ninja as Konoha and Kirigakure negotiated over the incident.

Shiro received a reward from the Third Hokage for his role in stopping the Kirigakure attack, then accompanied Keiko to visit her old friend. He suspected the visit was really a blind date with Hikari, who appeared with her mother at the end of the chapter.

• Shiro returned home and practiced Reinforcement Magecraft, managing to complete about seventy percent of what he had planned.
• The Third Hokage thanked Shiro for his service, awarded him funds to buy Chakra Metal, and counted the work as a B-rank commission.
• Shiro went home with the reward and joined Keiko for a visit to her childhood friend, Madam Minamoto.
• Keiko said she wanted Shiro to meet her friend's child, and Shiro guessed the child was Hikari.
• A beautiful woman came out to greet Shiro and Keiko with Hikari.

Shiro reunited with Hikari Minamoto during a visit between their mothers and spent the day training with her, while she confessed her feelings for Uchiha Tsuki. He returned to his routine of training and missions until the Anbu summoned him and his companions for a joint mission.

• Keiko and Gardenia introduced Shiro and Hikari Minamoto, who recognized each other from a past mission, and their mothers left them to spend time together.
• Hikari took Shiro to her clan’s small training ground, where they practiced swordsmanship and helped improve each other’s skills.
• Hikari asked about Shiro and Mizuki, then admitted she liked Uchiha Tsuki, Mizuki’s older brother, and said she would not give up.
• Shiro returned home with his mother, then resumed training and taking missions to cover his expenses.
• After the Anbu sent word that Shiro and the others would carry out a joint mission, Shiro stopped taking afternoon missions and prepared his supplies for departure.

After half a month of training, Shiro improved his combat fundamentals and magecraft, while Taichi broadened his fighting style and Shikaki changed little. The Third Hokage assigned their team and three other chunin an urgent mission for Yugakure, and they set out with little intelligence to guide them.

• Shiro mastered Reinforcement Magecraft, began learning the Ainsworth Family's Replacement Magecraft, and improved his combat fundamentals.
• Taichi became more proficient with his Two-Tomoe Sharingan and added Lightning Release Nintaijutsu to his arsenal, while Shikaki remained largely unchanged.
• The Third Hokage told Shiro's team and three other chunin to investigate Yugakure's urgent matter, warning that failure was unacceptable because it was the first postwar cooperation between nations.
• At the village entrance, the seven ninja introduced themselves, and Shiro revealed that his archery could hit targets within a thousand meters.
• Shikaki read the mission scroll and decided the team should travel to Yugakure for more information, then Shiro summoned a creature to scout ahead.

Shiro’s team encountered a powerful fighter near the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Hot Water, and Shiro recognized him as Kakuzu and kept the group out of danger. At the battle site, Taichi revealed that he had awakened a Two-Tomoe Sharingan, overturning Uchiha Yue’s expectations.

• Shiro tried to talk with Uchiha Yue about his younger sister, but Yue dismissed him.
• Near the border, Shiro detected a fight ahead, and Nakamura raised an earth pillar so Shiro could observe it from above.
• Shiro recognized Kakuzu’s Earth Grudge Fear killing his opponent and warned the team not to approach until Kakuzu had left.
• The team reached the battle site and confirmed Shiro’s account, impressing Taichi and provoking Uchiha Yue.
• Taichi opened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan, surprising Yue and ruining his plans.

Shiro and the Konoha team arrived in Yugakure to investigate the Jashin Cult, whose members reportedly did not fear death. Seeing the cult’s emblem reminded Shiro of Hidan’s ritual and its curse-type ninjutsu, while Shikaki identified possible stronghold locations for Gray Snake to scout.

• Uchiha Yue provoked Shiro to gain his team an advantage before the joint mission, but Nakamura mediated and Taichi explained the unspoken competition between teams.
• Taichi told Shiro that Uchiha Yue had been trying to seize initiative, and Shiro said he did not take the provocation to heart.
• Three days later, Nakamura led the team into Yugakure and firmly rebuked the local mission representative for questioning Konoha’s choice of personnel.
• The Yugakure representative said the Jashin Cult moved between locations and its members seemed not to fear death, while Shikaki used their activity sites to identify possible strongholds.
• Shiro sent Gray Snake to scout Shikaki’s suspected locations, then recognized the cult emblem as the pattern for Hidan’s Jashin Ritual and recalled that the cult used curse-type ninjutsu.

Shiro searched Yugakure's market for rare materials to make his Magic Crest, then joined the team investigating three suspicious locations. Shikaki and Nakamura lured out and restrained two attackers at an abandoned basement.

• Shiro warned Shikaki and Nakamura that he knew little about curse-type ninjutsu, and they agreed to rest until Gray Snake gathered intelligence.
• Shiro searched Yugakure's market for substitutes for the remaining Magic Crest materials but found nothing.
• Gray Snake reported people at three locations, so Shikaki assigned Shiro, Isshin, and Toyota to investigate while he and Nakamura checked another site.
• Shiro watched one location from a mountaintop while Toyota and Isshin used sensory ninjutsu and insects to scout their targets.
• Shikaki and Nakamura visited a suspicious abandoned basement and pretended to investigate until attackers revealed themselves.
• Shikaki trapped one attacker with Shadow Possession Jutsu, Nakamura restrained another with Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique, and Nakamura began sealing his opponent.

Nakamura and Shikaki captured Yugakure ninja who warned them not to interfere, while Shiro investigated a nearby stronghold and confirmed it was only a bandit hideout. After comparing their findings, the group suspected Yugakure insiders had misled them about the Jashin Cult and planned to attack two strongholds the next day.

• Nakamura and Shikaki identified their captives as Yugakure ninja and kept them under guard rather than risk starting a war.
• Shiro infiltrated a stronghold under an Invisible Cloak, confirmed it held ordinary bandits, and returned after recording its location.
• Shiro used Human Repelling Magecraft to help conceal the captives, and the groups compared reports about two suspicious locations.
• Taichi's group reported that one hideout held ordinary bandits with strange behavior, while Yue and Toyota found many ninja and a chakra reaction stronger than a jonin's.
• Shikaki concluded that people in Yugakure had likely set them up and that the Jashin Cult's traces had been deliberately erased.
• Shikaki ordered the mission team to attack both strongholds the next day, assigning Shiro, Yue, and Taichi to the location with more ninja.

Shiro and his team attacked a fortified enemy stronghold, where he used the Blood Maiden Noble Phantasm to amplify his Wind Release and smash the city wall. As a powerful enemy approached, Shiro withdrew with Blue Snake while Taichi and Uchiha Yue prepared to fight it.

• Shiro, Taichi, and Uchiha Yue delayed their attack until the next day so the enemy would leave traces they could follow.
• Shiro and the others reached a massive stone wall, and Shiro asked Taichi and Uchiha Yue to raise the ground before deploying his new ninjutsu.
• Shiro projected the Blood Maiden and used Wind Release: Thousand-Faced Wind, destroying the wall and defeating more than half of the enemy forces at the cost of exhausting his Chakra and painfully straining his Magic Circuits.
• A towering enemy approached, so Shiro took a Military Ration Pill, summoned Blue Snake, and withdrew while Taichi and Uchiha Yue prepared to face it with their Sharingan and sword techniques.

Shikaki’s team captured cultists and gathered intelligence at a Jashin Cult stronghold, while Taichi and Yue fought a huge black brute. The chapter ended as Taichi charged up electricity after his blade barely hurt the brute.

• Shikaki, Toyota, and Isshin attacked the stronghold while Nakamura investigated its buildings.
• Nakamura overheard a Jashin Cult member and a Yugakure Ninja discussing Konoha’s attack, then captured them with shadow clones and a sealing technique.
• Nakamura killed the Yugakure Ninja, marked his forehead protector, and left a summoned tiger to guard the captives.
• Shikaki’s group defeated the cultists and found information before it could be destroyed.
• Taichi slashed the big black brute, then dodged away and gathered Chakra as electricity surged around him.

Shiro and his allies defeated the Jashin Cult’s forces, captured three survivors, and returned to Yugakure to gather intelligence. As Shiro considered learning Broken Phantasm, Taichi used his Sharingan to break the captives’ resistance and begin extracting their information.

• Shiro recognized that the slow but immensely tough enemy was a defective brute and decided to practice Broken Phantasm for a powerful single-target attack.
• Taichi and Uchiha Yue finished off the remaining enemies while Shiro was distracted by thoughts of Broken Phantasm.
• Shiro had Blue Snake help Taichi and the others clear the battlefield, and the group worked until evening despite help from Shikaki and the others.
• Shiro and his allies returned to Yugakure with three captives, planning to complete their mission without pursuing the remnants.
• Shikaki, Nakamura, Toyota, and the others organized the intelligence while Shiro and Isshin recorded the captives’ confessions alongside Taichi and Yue.
• When the captives resisted questioning, Shiro released Taichi’s Sharingan, and genjutsu proved effective against the cultists.

Shiro and his team uncovered the enemy headquarters’ false location and prepared to attack the real one. They found signs of concealment in a stone wall beside a waterfall, suggesting the headquarters was hidden there.

• Shiro treated his strained Magic Circuits and researched using Broken Phantasms in the next battle.
• Shikaki concluded that the location confessed by the captured enemies was fake and identified a likely headquarters site.
• Nakamura ordered the team to prepare for battle and complete the mission, while Shiro prepared Noble Phantasms and equipment.
• Shiro and the others set out early, using dolls to disguise their departure, and reached the area Shikaki had identified.
• Shiro’s Clairvoyance detected something unusual in a stone wall, and Taichi and Yue found traces of Earth Release and recently removed genjutsu.

Shiro and the Konoha team breached the hidden stone wall and pushed into the facility, where they discovered a pit full of deliberately slaughtered captives. After confronting the guards blocking their path, Shiro and his companions began fighting their way deeper inside.

• Shiro projected blades into the stone wall and detonated them, startling himself with the explosion and alerting the enemy.
• Nakamura led the team inside while Lord Kazama ordered Kawada to hold off the Konoha jonin.
• Shiro summoned Blue Snake to hold back the guards as the team advanced toward the facility’s documents.
• Shiro and the others found a purpose-built corpse pit filled with people of all ages, and Shiro urged them to hurry after the fleeing enemy.
• The team charged a group of blockers, and Shiro engaged one opponent while Yue took on the strongest fighter.

Shiro and his allies fought through the enemies and horrors inside the facility while Nakamura captured the people in its conference room. After Nakamura confirmed the documents were enough to complete the mission, Shiro began to punish the captives.

• Shiro defeated a man who had tried to use a syringe, while Taichi, Yue, and the Dragon Tooth Soldiers dealt with the other attackers.
• Toyota warned the group about modified villagers with unusually persistent vitality, so Shiro trapped them with Noble Phantasms and Taichi sealed them inside an Earth-Style Wall before they were incinerated.
• Nakamura used a Shadow Clone to surprise Chuancheng, knocked him unconscious, and captured the people remaining in the conference room.
• Nakamura showed Shiro and the others the gathered documents and said they were enough to turn in the mission.
• Shiro took Military Ration Pills, summoned a Magic Spear, and approached the captives, intent on making them suffer.

Shiro used Kazikli Bey to kill the researchers and guards, but the strain of projecting too many Noble Phantasms caused him to collapse. Taichi and the others completed their mission and returned to Yugakure with Shiro, while the people behind the failed plan were left unable to retaliate.

• Shiro summoned Kazikli Bey and impaled the researchers and guards, whose sins made the Noble Phantasm’s torture more painful.
• Shiro realized his exhilaration was out of character, then fainted from exhaustion; Taichi caught him and Toyota found no serious injury.
• Shikaki guessed that Shiro had suffered the side effects of using his technique twice, while Nakamura urged the group to finish the mission and return quickly.
• Shiro’s projections had flooded his mind with the combat experience and memories of more than a dozen Noble Phantasms, and the system protected him from dying or losing his sanity.
• Taichi and the others gathered the remaining information, killed nearby mountain bandits, and returned to Yugakure with Shiro.
• The people in Yugakure realized Nakamura’s group had likely completed the mission, and lamented that their plan had failed and they could not retaliate against Shiro.

Shiro woke from visions of Heroic Spirits repeatedly dying in battle and realized the secret technique had nearly killed him. Though still mentally drained, he decided to leave for the village that night and resolved to improve his mental cultivation before using Broken Phantasm again.

• Shiro dreamed of soldiers and commanders who died in battle or through betrayal, ending with Vlad the Impaler and his impaled soldiers.
• Shiro woke screaming after three days unconscious, and Taichi and the others came to check on him.
• Shiro told Taichi the secret technique had caused the visions and asked about their completed mission and return to the village.
• Shiro insisted they leave that night because their mission had offended Yugakure, and Shikaki agreed to organize their departure.
• Alone, Shiro realized the system had saved him from the mental strain of experiencing repeated deaths and resolved to strengthen his mind through the Meditation Method.

Shiro and his companions escaped Yugakure and used his summoned Giant Bird No. 2 to return to Konoha. After arriving, Shiro headed home with Taichi while Nakamura handled their mission record.

• Shiro and the others escaped Yugakure by disrupting nearby ninja's senses and hiding in the forest.
• After resting, Shiro summoned Giant Bird No. 2 and explained that it was a handmade puppet from his family's secret arts.
• Shikaki worried that the documents they had handed to Yugakure could help its monsters and reignite the war, while Shiro doubted the village would keep them.
• Shiro spent the flight resting, meditating, and studying as the others trained, and they reached Konoha three days later.
• Shiro thanked Taichi for accompanying him home, and Taichi left after telling him to take care.

Shiro returned home exhausted after using a secret technique, and his family and friends gathered to care for him. After Sakumo advised him to deepen his understanding of Wind Release and set a goal of independently developing an A-rank technique before age sixteen, Shiro received three scrolls to study.

• Shiro returned home injured and exhausted, reassured Keiko, and went to sleep after asking the system to seal away memories from his projection.
• Makoto invited Jiro's family, Sakumo, Kakashi, Kushina, and Minato to visit Shiro and cheer Keiko up.
• Shiro woke in the evening, accepted medicine and gifts from his visitors, and ate dinner with them.
• Sakumo questioned Shiro about his understanding of Wind Release and judged that his knowledge was capable but still superficial.
• Sakumo set Shiro the goal of developing an A-rank Wind Release technique before turning sixteen and gave him three scrolls to study.

Shiro set out to train after deciding to develop his own ninjutsu and improve his mental state, but first checked on the medicinal fields he had inherited and discovered they had been neglected. He left with the field’s production records for his father to review and began training at Hokage Rock, starting with Wind Release before meditation and magecraft.

• Sakumo encouraged Shiro to develop his own ninjutsu so the village would recognize his talent and provide more mission opportunities.
• Shiro slept in, then decided to visit his medicinal fields to see whether they could earn him money.
• Shiro found the medicinal field overrun with weeds and learned that it had been neglected because other clans’ fields supplied the village’s needs.
• Shiro took a copy of the field’s production records, intending to leave the bookkeeping to his father.
• Shiro went to Hokage Rock and began training with Wind Release before meditating and studying magecraft.