Chapter Summaries

Shiro studied Wind Release theory as he planned to develop a wind-based Destructo Disc, while continuing his magecraft research. The next morning, he asked his parents to manage the medicinal field the Hokage had awarded him, but learned it held little available cash and had trouble selling its stock.

• Shiro reviewed a Wind Release scroll and studied changes in form to prepare for developing a wind disk inspired by Krillin's Destructo Disc.
• Shiro focused his magecraft studies on Magic Crest implantation and Reinforcement Magecraft, then trained until the evening and went to sleep.
• Shiro gave Makoto the medicinal field's account book and asked him to check how much money could be used for training.
• Makoto found that only fifty thousand ryō was available because the field had substantial inventory, high storage costs, and weak sales prospects.
• Shiro told Makoto he would consider ways to improve the field's yield and find buyers, and Keiko offered to help manage it.

After agreeing to let Keiko visit his medicinal field, Shiro went to the Uchiha grounds to seek their expertise in exchange for Cloud Village's Lightning Release Nintaijutsu. Taichi agreed to help him approach the Uchiha higher-ups, leaving the trade to be discussed.

• Keiko asked Shiro to show her the medicinal field, and Shiro agreed to take her later.
• Shiro went to the Uchiha clan grounds, planning to offer Lightning Release Nintaijutsu for medicinal-field know-how.
• Taichi's father praised Shiro and urged him to defeat Taichi so Taichi would stop relying too much on the Sharingan.
• Shiro offered Taichi the Lightning Release Nintaijutsu scroll in exchange for medicinal-field technology.
• Taichi agreed to take Shiro to ask the Uchiha higher-ups about the deal.

Shiro and Taichi visited the Uchiha Fourth Elder, where Shiro traded the Cloud Village’s Lightning Release Nintaijutsu for techniques on managing medicinal fields and offered the Emiya Clan’s loyalty. The Fourth Elder agreed to the exchange but avoided a formal alliance, leaving Shiro with Uchiha support without fully binding either clan.

• Taichi told Shiro that his father had opposed his interest in the Sharingan since childhood, though Taichi now valued the eyes and would not give them up.
• Shiro and Taichi arrived at the Fourth Elder’s residence, where they met Mizuki, Uchiha Yue, and Mizuki’s father.
• Shiro proposed trading the Cloud Village’s Lightning Release Nintaijutsu for the Uchiha’s medicinal-field management techniques.
• Shiro offered the Emiya Clan’s loyalty, and the Fourth Elder accepted the deal while declining formal ceremonies.
• Shiro recognized that Sakumo’s reputation had helped secure the agreement and that both sides had reasons to keep the alliance informal.

Shiro explained how he met Mizuki and the Uchiha family, then left with Taichi, who reaffirmed his resolve to train his Sharingan. Shiro struggled to sell his medicinal herbs, while Keiko and Gardenia discussed helping their children and managing Shiro’s medicinal field.

• Shiro explained that he had met Mizuki by chance, helped her, and later met the Fourth Elder and his family at her graduation exam.
• Shiro gave Taichi a scroll of Lightning Release Nintaijutsu before leaving the Uchiha grounds.
• Taichi told his father he would keep training his Sharingan and would advance it through his own effort rather than letting it evolve on its own.
• Shiro searched Konoha’s pharmacies for a buyer for his medicinal herbs but could not find anyone who would take the full stock.
• Keiko and Gardenia discussed their children’s training and goals, and Gardenia suggested Keiko help Shiro manage the medicinal field’s accounts.

Keiko arranged for the Minamoto family to buy the medicinal herbs from Shiro’s field, while Shiro trained in Wind Release nature transformation and negotiated for influence over the village’s Hawk plan. He left the meeting with Chief Steward Aoki seeking the Emiya Family’s leading authority in the plan in exchange for selling the herbs at market price.

• Aunt Gardenia offered to connect Keiko with the Minamoto family so they could purchase the medicinal herbs, easing the burden of the unsold stock.
• Shiro began studying Wind Release nature transformation, planning to learn the Rasengan from Minato once Minato developed it.
• Shiro gave Keiko the medicinal field technology he had obtained from the Uchiha and explained that their trade formed part of an alliance.
• Keiko told Shiro that Aunt Gardenia had arranged a meeting with Chief Steward Aoki, who managed the Minamoto family pharmacy.
• Chief Steward Aoki offered one million ryo for the herbs, but Shiro proposed selling them for six hundred thousand ryo at market price in exchange for help securing the Emiya Family’s leading authority over the Hawk plan.

Shiro accepted that he could not control the Hawk Plan and focused on training and securing a greater share of its profits. After six months of preparation, he underwent Magic Crest implantation, and the system completed the dangerous assimilation as Sakumo rushed him to the hospital.

• Aoki rejected Shiro's request to lead the Hawk Plan and agreed to inform the Minamoto family head about cooperation.
• Shiro reconsidered his ambitions, decided to negotiate for more profit instead, and concentrated on training.
• Over the next six months, Shiro improved his mental cultivation and magecraft and gathered the materials needed for a Magic Crest.
• Shiro began implanting the crest with Sakumo, Kushina, Minato, and Tsunade present to help if anything went wrong.
• Shiro used the system to accelerate the crest's assimilation, endured intense pain, and completed the process without a serious complication.
• Sakumo carried the unconscious Shiro to the hospital while Tsunade reassured the others that he would be fine.

Shiro recovered in the hospital and explained the Magic Crest’s abilities to Sakumo, Kushina, and Minato while keeping one of its secrets to himself. He secretly studied the Crest and made Mana Crystals during his stay, then discovered their slow production was caused by the Leyline.

• Shiro woke in the hospital, where Keiko told him to rest after he had been unconscious for one night.
• Shiro showed Sakumo his Magic Crest and explained that it strengthened his secret arts, stored Chakra, and optimized itself as he mastered those arts.
• Kushina hugged Shiro in relief and scolded him for taking such a dangerous risk, while Minato asked about the Magic Crest.
• Shiro told them about the Crest’s abilities but concealed that it let him briefly project Noble Phantasms beyond his current limit, which could help him train in Baji Quan.
• Shiro stayed in the hospital as instructed, secretly studied the Magic Crest, and projected Rule Breaker each night to make Mana Crystals.
• Shiro compared his Mana Crystal production with a trip to Ryūchi Cave and realized that the Leyline affected how quickly they formed.

Over the half year after returning from Yugakure, nine-year-old Shiro and his allies strengthened their skills while Kakashi and Might Guy entered the academy, shifting the village’s attention away from Shiro. The chapter ended when an Anbu summoned Shiro to the Hokage for a mission.

• Shiro moved Mana Crystal production to Ryūchi Cave and trained in Baji Quan, weapons, archery, ninjutsu, and magecraft, while his genjutsu resistance improved.
• Taichi grew strong enough to overwhelm chunin with Lightning Release Nintaijutsu, while Nakamura mastered Earth Release and developed a lightning attribute.
• Kakashi and Might Guy entered the academy, and Sakumo recognized Might Guy’s potential despite not meeting him as he had in the original work.
• The village’s attention shifted from Shiro to Kakashi, and Danzo stopped observing Shiro after Shiro reduced his contact with the Uchiha.
• An Anbu appeared after Shiro’s Baji Quan training and ordered him to report to the Hokage for a mission.

Shiro and Nakamura’s squad joined Heiichi Squad for a Land of Demons mission to investigate a dangerous unknown monster. After reviewing the limited intelligence and introducing themselves, the squads began preparing to cooperate.

• Shiro and the other summoned ninja arrived at the Hokage’s office, where the Third Hokage assigned Nakamura Squad to lead and Heiichi Squad to assist on a Land of Demons commission.
• The Third Hokage warned both squads that the monster’s strength and nature were unknown, then gave Nakamura the commission scroll.
• Nakamura led the squads to Training Ground Three, where Shikaki studied the mission intelligence and the ninja introduced their abilities.
• Shiro surprised Heiichi Squad by calling himself an archer, and the others noted that nearly everyone specialized in Lightning Release.
• Hikari and Shiro explained that they were close because their mothers were friends, and Shikaki redirected the group to discuss the mission.

Taichi’s team set out for the Land of Demons to investigate numerous monsters that could reassemble after being destroyed. Shiro prepared scouting equipment and altered ninja tools for the mission while planning to use a powerful Noble Phantasm against Moryo.

• Shikaki explained that the enemy monsters could recover from being smashed apart, and the team would need to scout their unclear numbers and rely on trapping and restraint.
• Nakamura led the team out of the village after Shiro summoned Giant Bird No. 2, which he said he had repaired.
• While flying, Shiro recalled that Moryo was the real threat and searched for a C-rank Noble Phantasm with strong attack power, then prepared more Noble Phantasms to detonate.
• Shiro used alchemy to modify spare ninja tools as Taichi’s teammates, Mizuki, and Minamoto no Raiko watched and handed him their equipment.
• Nakamura reminded Shiro to finish the modifications before they reached the Land of Demons so he could recover his Chakra, and Shiro hurried while complaining.

Shiro and his squad reached the Land of Demons, where he spotted a hidden barrier and attacked the puppet army with a transformed Noble Phantasm. The puppets rapidly reassembled, and the squad climbed to observe their numbers and seek a way to locate their cores.

• Shiro saw a purple barrier around the city, and Taichi used his Sharingan to confirm it.
• Shiro dodged an attack from the puppet army, reshaped a longsword into an arrow, and detonated it over the enemy camp.
• Shiro and the others saw the damaged puppets rapidly gather themselves back together.
• Nakamura rejected sending a Dragon Tooth Soldier down, and Shikaki asked Shiro to survey the enemy's distribution from above.
• Mizuki questioned Shiro's many secret arts, and Heiichi reminded her that a ninja's secrets should be respected.
• Taichi told the group that Shiro had recreated lost ancestral secret arts from old texts.

Shiro and the Konoha team arrived in the Land of Demons and joined the other villages’ ninja at the palace to discuss how to deal with the enemy puppets. Nakamura proposed using Nara calculations to locate them, but first the priestess had to confirm whether their formation had changed.

• Shikaki and Shiro finished recording the enemy’s distribution, then flew with the others through the purple barrier and landed in the city.
• The Konoha team presented its mission scroll to the guards and was escorted to the palace by the captain of the miko’s guard.
• The miko welcomed the Konoha ninja and led them to a conference room where teams from the other villages, including Rasa and Kitsuchi, were waiting.
• Nakamura proposed using the Nara clan’s calculations to determine the enemy’s position from the puppet distribution.
• Nakamura asked whether the enemy’s formation had changed, and everyone turned to the priestess for her answer.

Shiro and the other villages learned that the immortal Moryo could only be sealed by a shrine maiden sacrificing her life, then prepared to defend the southern side while the shrine maiden made preparations. The battle began the next day, and Shiro and Taichi supported Minamoto no Raiko as she struggled against the puppet soldiers.

• The shrine maiden explained that Moryo was an immortal monster whose sealing required her life, and Shiro asked whether another way could spare her and her child.
• The leaders discussed Moryo’s terracotta puppet soldiers and divided up defensive duties, assigning the five villages to defend the southern side while Mizuki’s team served as the main force.
• Shiro prepared to test Territory Creation, but the next day’s battle left him too busy covering Minamoto no Raiko to set it up.
• Shiro corrected Minamoto no Raiko when she tried to fight puppets by cutting off their heads, and Taichi cut one apart as she returned to the battle.
• Taichi saw Minamoto no Raiko tiring and called out to Shiro.

Shiro and Taichi fought the regenerating puppets while the allied villages joined the battle, and Mizuki returned after awakening her Sharingan. The teams switched places, with Taichi offering to explain the Sharingan to Mizuki and Shiro leaving the reason for her awakening unexplained.

• Shiro projected Explosive Tag arrows and detonated them among the puppets, impressing Rasa and the other villages with his accuracy.
• Taichi and Shiro charged into battle together, rapidly cutting apart the puppets as Minamoto no Raiko watched.
• Rasa joined the fight with Magnet Release, while Kitsuchi stayed back to guide the recovering ninjas and the villages competed to keep pace.
• Nakamura called Shiro and Taichi back when Mizuki and the others had recovered, and Shiro noticed Mizuki's newly awakened Sharingan.
• Taichi told Mizuki to close her Sharingan and promised to explain it later, then Nakamura sent the three recovered ninjas back into battle.
• Shiro spoke with Shikaki, who said he was best suited to immobilizing a dozen puppets rather than fighting them directly.

After receiving criticism for their battlefield performance, Mizuki and Hikari watched Shiro use a projected Heroic Spirit's swordsmanship to recreate and improve Hikari's techniques. Shiro demonstrated the moves, leaving Hikari to study the flaws he had identified.

• Heiichi criticized Takeda for relying on taijutsu and wasting Chakra on powerful ninjutsu against the Autonomous Puppets.
• Nakamura told Mizuki that her ninjutsu choices, failure to borrow force, and poor battlefield awareness had hurt her performance.
• Taichi took Mizuki aside to discuss the Sharingan, while Shiro agreed to assess Hikari's swordsmanship.
• Shiro projected Monohoshizao and drew on Sasaki Kojiro's experience to learn Hikari's secret sword style and refine it.
• Shiro recreated Hikari's battlefield sword moves and asked her how many flaws she had spotted.

Shiro struggled with the mental strain of borrowing Kojiro’s thought patterns, then recovered enough to join his team in fighting puppets. After supplies dwindled, the ninja village representatives pressed the Shrine Maiden for a timeline, and she promised the sealing ritual would be ready after one more day.

• Shiro meditated through the night to ease the mental pressure caused by borrowing Kojiro’s thought patterns, then fell asleep and woke with numb legs.
• Taichi helped Shiro out of his room, prompting Mizuki to tease him and Hikari to apologize for worrying him.
• Shiro explained to Heiichi that he had learned the secret sword from Teacher Sakumo and had used a secret technique to speed up his thinking.
• Shiro and the others fought puppets for another day, while Mizuki and the other inexperienced ninjas showed clear improvement.
• On the third night, Nakamura and the other village representatives confronted the Shrine Maiden about the sealing preparations, and she promised they would be ready after one more day.

Shiro volunteered to eliminate the puppets guarding Moryo so the villages would continue helping the Shrine Maiden. He hoped his magecraft could change the fate of the Shrine Maiden, and began preparing his attack at the northern wall.

• After four days of training, Mizuki and her teammates had improved enough to be close to Chunin promotion, and their team had earned the village a good reputation.
• The Shrine Maiden showed the village leaders Moryo's location, but the leaders doubted they could escort her through the recovering puppets without suffering heavy losses.
• Shiro offered to destroy all the puppets at once, and the other villages agreed to wait and withdraw if he failed.
• Shiro explained to Taichi that he had prepared the technique for a year, then reached the northern wall and activated the Magic Crest on his right forearm.
• Shiro shouted, "Feel Brother Earth's sack of rice!" and began his attack by spreading his hands and declaring, "Projection, begin!"

Shiro used a vast number of Explosive Tags to reveal Moryo, but the blasts barely injured the monster and the Jonin’s attacks also stalled. When the Shrine Maiden prepared to sacrifice herself, Shiro learned she could seal Moryo without dying if its body was destroyed and headed toward the battlefield to help.

• Shiro covered the puppets with a hundred million Explosive Tags and detonated them, setting the area outside the city wall ablaze.
• Moryo emerged with only minor burns, and Nakamura sent the Shrine Maiden and Shiro to remain behind while the Jonin attacked.
• Nakamura, Heiichi, and the other Jonin found Moryo nearly as powerful as the Eight-Tails, and their attacks failed to make meaningful progress.
• The Shrine Maiden started toward the battlefield, saying she was ready to face her fate.
• Shiro asked whether she could seal Moryo without sacrificing herself if its physical body was destroyed, gave Taichi a scroll and his blood, and began charging his Magic Crest as he advanced.

The Shrine Maiden trusted Shiro after realizing her death-prophecy ability had shown her his past, suggesting he had escaped his foretold death. Shiro reached the battlefield with his Magic Crest charged and summoned Clarent, preparing to unleash its power against Moryo.

• The Shrine Maiden followed Shiro because she sensed he meant to help her and discovered that her vision of him showed the past rather than his future death.
• Shiro slowly advanced toward the battlefield, charging and activating his Magic Crest while using Clairvoyance to watch the fight.
• Nakamura and the other Kirigakure ninja agreed to trap Moryo while Shiro prepared to use a secret technique.
• Moryo mocked the ninja and called for the Shrine Maiden, but Shiro challenged him and used Projection to summon Clarent.

Shiro used Clarent Blood Arthur to destroy Moryo, then collapsed from exhaustion and woke after a day of rest. Black Zetsu observed the battle and became interested in the Emiya Clan.

• Shiro unleashed Clarent Blood Arthur and poured the Magic Crest’s remaining energy into the attack, destroying Moryo and leaving a vast ravine.
• Shiro collapsed, and Nakamura confirmed he had fainted from exhaustion before taking him back to the city with Heiichi.
• Taichi and the others learned Shiro had launched the attack, while Rasa decided not to face him until he found a way to counter it.
• Black Zetsu watched from hiding, dismissed Moryo’s failure, and decided to investigate the Emiya Clan.
• Shiro woke after sleeping for a day and joked with Taichi, who had been watching over him.