Chapter Summaries

Qian Ye convinced Danzo that the Root auxiliary unit’s refusal to obey him directly would protect it from being taken over by Hiruzen. Danzo rewarded Qian Ye with funding and equipment to expand the force, while Qian Ye kept control of the unit and its rules.

• Danzo confronted Qian Ye after the five hundred recruits ignored his orders and obeyed Qian Ye’s signal.
• Qian Ye argued that the recruits’ strict rules would prevent Hiruzen and ANBU from taking control of the unit through official authority.
• Qian Ye assured Danzo that he was loyal to Root and that the unit would follow his command through Qian Ye.
• Danzo accepted Qian Ye’s explanation, praised him, and ordered the force expanded to one thousand members.
• Danzo gave Qian Ye authorization for two million ryo and five hundred sets of equipment, then left the camp.
• Qian Ye told Pakura that Danzo’s funding was already his and that the situation in the Hidden Leaf would change before Danzo realized what had happened.

Danzo gave Qian Ye command of the Root Outer Security Force, access to three armories, and promised to secure patrol zones from Hiruzen. After Qian Ye demonstrated that his Armament Haki could withstand Orochimaru’s Kusanagi Sword, they traded Haki knowledge and Seastone for a Hashirama Cell suppression drug, until word arrived that Danzo had fought with Hiruzen over the patrol zones.

• Danzo appointed Qian Ye commander-in-chief of the Root Outer Security Force and handed him the keys to three secret armories.
• Qian Ye sent Pakura and trusted branch-family members to empty the armories, then carried Seastone to his underground training room.
• Orochimaru confronted Qian Ye about the Seastone, and Qian Ye demonstrated Armament Haki by blocking a strike from the Kusanagi Sword.
• Orochimaru traded a Hashirama Cell suppression drug for Qian Ye’s Haki theory and two boxes of Seastone.
• An ANBU summoned Qian Ye and Orochimaru to an emergency meeting and reported that Danzo had fought with Hiruzen and overturned the Hokage’s desk.

Qian Ye listened as Danzo defended the Auxiliary Brigade against Hiruzen and the advisers, then used its success to secure patrol authority over the South District. The unit remained funded, and Qian Ye headed there to distribute potions and equipment to his subordinates.

• Qian Ye secretly listened from the bell tower as Hiruzen and Mitokado Homura demanded that Danzo disband the Auxiliary Brigade or transfer its command to ANBU.
• Danzo defended Qian Ye’s code-phrase security rule and cited the Auxiliary Brigade’s capture of Hidden Cloud spies to challenge ANBU’s failures.
• Danzo refused to surrender command and demanded that the Auxiliary Brigade expand to one thousand members and take over patrols in the South District.
• Hiruzen kept the unit’s funding intact and granted it temporary patrol authority over the South District for three months.
• Qian Ye left the bell tower and headed to the South District to distribute potions from Orochimaru and equipment from the Pirate World to his trusted subordinates.

Qian Ye equipped the Sparkfire Society with Seastone hidden weapons and demonstrated how they pierced Chakra defenses before unleashing Pakura’s Scorch Release. When rogue ninja took a caravan hostage in the South District, Qian Ye ordered the Auxiliary Brigade to intervene.

• Qian Ye gathered the supplies taken from Danzo’s armories at the South District Patrol Command Post, while Pakura reported that Iron Fire Hall had delivered Seastone hidden weapons.
• Uchiha Yan and Hyuga Tianfeng tested the weapons and found that they disrupted Chakra, and Qian Ye explained their ability to pierce defenses.
• Pakura threw three Seastone Senbon through hardened Earth Release walls and detonated Scorch Release inside a stone hill, impressing the assembled clan members.
• Qian Ye distributed hidden weapons to Uchiha Yan, Hyuga Tianfeng, Nara Shan, and Akimichi Hai, who pledged support for the Sparkfire Society.
• An Auxiliary Brigade member reported that rogue ninja had taken more than thirty caravan workers hostage and blocked ANBU Squad Six with Explosive Tags.
• Qian Ye ordered three Auxiliary Brigade squads to surround the Seventh Trade Road, secure the hostages and Explosive Tags, and capture the rogue ninja if possible.

Qian Ye’s Auxiliary Management Unit rescued hostages from the rogue ninja Vulture and asserted control over the South District, while ANBU withdrew. Just as Qian Ye praised Hyuga Tianfeng and Uchiha Yan, Zhao Hai sent a distress signal through the Cross-Border Brothers Mutual Aid Group.

• Vulture demanded five million ryo and threatened to detonate Explosive Tags attached to more than thirty hostages, while ANBU could not find a safe way to attack.
• Qian Ye arrived with the Auxiliary Management Unit and ordered Hyuga Tianfeng to identify Vulture’s chakra pathways; Tianfeng pierced Vulture’s shield and disrupted his chakra with Seastone Senbon.
• Uchiha Yan used Geppo to reach Vulture and beheaded him before he could detonate the tags, and the Auxiliary Management Unit freed the hostages.
• Qian Ye claimed responsibility for South District security, ordered Vulture’s corpse displayed, and forced the ANBU squad captain to withdraw.
• Qian Ye praised Tianfeng and Yan for the rescue, then received a flashing distress alert from Zhao Hai.

Qian Ye received Zhao Hai’s plea for help as Douglas Bullet attacked him on a deserted island. Zhao Hai fought back with his Storm Dragon powers, but Bullet fused with the island’s debris into a giant armored form and demanded Qian Ye open a channel to help.

• Qian Ye assigned Uchiha Yan and Hyuga Tianfeng to manage the South District, then checked the Mutual Aid Group chat.
• Zhao Hai explained that Headquarters had made him famous for capturing Golden Lion, drawing Bullet’s attention and prompting the pirate to attack his warship.
• Zhao Hai lured Bullet onto an uninhabited island to protect his Marines and shared footage of their fight with Qian Ye.
• Zhao Hai activated his Storm Dragon Fruit and clashed with Bullet, but his attacks barely hurt the powerful fighter.
• Bullet used the Fusion Fruit to combine rocks, soil, and steel wreckage into a giant armored body.
• Zhao Hai asked Qian Ye to open his Lv4 Bidirectional Channel and help restrain Bullet.

Qian Ye crossed into the Pirate World and joined Zhao Hai in fighting Bullet, whose awakened power let him control a giant fused from metal, ships, and rock. Qian Ye knocked the giant to one knee, but Bullet repaired it and renewed his attack.

• Qian Ye opened a two-way passage and crossed from Hidden Leaf to the deserted island where Zhao Hai was battling Bullet.
• Qian Ye stomped Bullet's giant on the head and forced it to one knee, then mocked its strength and Zhao Hai's inability to defeat it.
• Bullet struck at Qian Ye with the giant's left hand, but Qian Ye dodged with kinetic energy and Geppo before landing beside Zhao Hai.
• Bullet repaired the giant's damaged head, threatened to kill both men, and advanced on them as Qian Ye and Zhao Hai joked about making him kneel.

Qian Ye and Zhao Hai battled Bullet after he abandoned his giant fusion form for a heavily armored body. Their teamwork began to wear down his armor, and Qian Ye prepared a combined finishing move with his Seastone Black Blade.

• Bullet compressed the giant’s iron and granite into black Haki-coated armor and charged Zhao Hai.
• Bullet struck Zhao Hai hard, then attacked Qian Ye, who absorbed much of the impact with his Kinetic Energy Fruit and countered with a stronger punch.
• Qian Ye directed Zhao Hai to attack from the side while he held Bullet’s attention.
• Qian Ye endured Bullet’s blows as Zhao Hai struck a gap in his neck armor with a lightning-charged slash.
• Bullet repaired the damaged armor with more iron and charged again, while Qian Ye readied his sword and called for a combined ultimate move.

Qian Ye and Zhao Hai defeated Bullet, then persuaded him to sign a Cross-Border Contract by showing him images of powerful beings from another world. With Bullet recruited, Qian Ye opened a portal to take him to Konoha.

• Zhao Hai distracted Bullet with lightning attacks, allowing Qian Ye to break his armor and send him crashing into a cliff.
• Bullet rose from the rubble badly injured, but Qian Ye told him he wanted to recruit him rather than kill him.
• Qian Ye showed Bullet footage of powerful beings from another world and offered him a chance to challenge them in exchange for following his strategic commands.
• Bullet accepted the Cross-Border Contract, and the group confirmed that his recruitment increased the channel's carrying capacity and locked onto cross-border coordinates.
• Qian Ye opened a portal to Konoha and stepped through with Bullet, while Zhao Hai watched them leave.

Qian Ye brought the formidable Bullet to Konoha, where his arrival alarmed both the Hokage and Root. After Bullet hurled two ANBU agents into the street, Qian Ye identified Root shinobi hiding nearby and waited for their leader to appear.

• Bullet arrived at the South District command center with Qian Ye, frightened Uchiha Yan, and demanded a huge supply of meat.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent the ANBU Second Squad to investigate Bullet, while Shimura Danzō dispatched Root’s Kō-class Squad to capture the suspected weapon.
• Bullet noticed two ANBU agents spying from the roof and leaped up to overpower them, shrugging off an Earth Release attack.
• Bullet threw both injured ANBU agents onto the main street, where Uchiha Yan worried that the Hokage would hold them accountable.
• Bullet sensed Root shinobi waiting in an alley, but Qian Ye told him to wait for the real culprit to appear.

Qian Ye’s giant ally Bullet confronted Danzo after the elder arrived with Root, rejecting his offer to join Root and overpowering his guards. Qian Ye stepped in as Bullet’s overwhelming presence forced Danzo to retreat.

• Qian Ye refused to move the two ANBU Bullet had beaten and ordered signs posted beside them.
• Danzo emerged with Root and accused Qian Ye of bringing an unknown threat into Konoha.
• Bullet insulted Danzo, then knocked aside two Root guards whose swords could not cut him.
• Danzo offered Bullet money, secret techniques, and status in exchange for serving Root, but Bullet mocked and rejected him.
• Bullet unleashed an intimidating force that incapacitated several Root ninja and made Danzo step back.
• Qian Ye came down the steps and told Bullet to calm down.

Qian Ye used Bullet’s strength to force Danzo to supply the South District with training resources, then watched Bullet put the Auxiliary Management Unit through punishing conditioning. The unit’s training continued as its members began to grow stronger.

• Bullet withdrew his killing aura, and Qian Ye told Danzo that the mercenary could be kept calm if Root supplied High-Grade Tonic Herbs and three thousand Special Explosive Tags.
• Danzo agreed to send two thousand Explosive Tags and twenty crates of herbs before dawn, with the remaining thousand tags conditional on seeing the Auxiliary Management Unit’s results.
• After Danzo left, Bullet questioned why Qian Ye had negotiated instead of fighting, and Qian Ye explained that Danzo could provide resources and shield them from the Hokage Building.
• Bullet led the Auxiliary Management Unit through weighted runs, then ordered the members to eat Sea Beast Jerky before continuing their training.
• Uchiha Yan told Qian Ye that Bullet’s harsh methods were working, and Qian Ye urged him to eat and build up his body.

Qian Ye defied Uchiha Fugaku’s attempt to reclaim young clan members from the South District and persuaded him that the Sparkfire Society offered the Uchiha a better future. Fugaku agreed to let the youths stay, provide supplies and a secret scroll, and Qian Ye ended by planning how to fund his next steps.

• Uchiha Yashiro reported that overlooked Uchiha youths had grown stronger under Qian Ye and took six elite officers to bring Uchiha Yan back by force.
• Bullet defeated Yashiro and the officers when they tried to seize Yan in the South District.
• Uchiha Fugaku confronted Qian Ye, who argued that the Police Force role left the Uchiha vulnerable and revealed his knowledge of the Mangekyō Sharingan and the Naka Shrine tablet.
• Qian Ye offered the Sparkfire Society as a new path for Uchiha youths, and Fugaku agreed to let them remain while requesting updates on their training and assignments.
• Fugaku gave Qian Ye a Fire Release secret technique scroll and Chakra Conduction notes, and promised that the Uchiha would supply thirty percent of the South District’s daily materials.
• After Fugaku left, Qian Ye planned to collect two thousand first and have Danzo provide the remaining thousand.

The Lightning-Water Allied Forces overwhelmed the Hidden Leaf’s eastern front, leaving Minato Namikaze and Orochimaru trapped and in urgent need of reinforcements. With few forces available, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Qian Ye to mobilize the South District unit, leaving Qian Ye poised to enter the battle.

• Dodai, A, and the Hidden Mist commander planned a surprise assault on the Hidden Leaf’s eastern forces, sending the A-B Combo and Seven Ninja Swordsmen against them.
• A wounded ANBU officer delivered Minato Namikaze’s report that the Land of Hot Water’s defenses had fallen, Orochimaru had been wounded, and the main force was trapped in Blackwater Marsh.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s advisers and Danzo argued over reinforcements, while Danzo refused to commit Root or the Police Force.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi chose Qian Ye’s South District Auxiliary Management Unit as the village’s most intact deployable force, despite the advisers’ concerns and Danzo’s hidden hopes that Qian Ye would be killed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the first ANBU squad to summon Qian Ye to the Hokage Building within fifteen minutes, and Qian Ye smiled as he sensed the order coming.

Qian Ye defied the Hokage’s urgent order to muster the South District Auxiliary Brigade for a dangerous rescue mission. He refused the conscription in Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office, leaving the senior leaders facing his open rejection.

• An ANBU captain delivered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s order, but Qian Ye refused to leave and stopped the ANBU from entering the restricted courtyard with Bullet’s help.
• Qian Ye warned the ANBU that entering the courtyard without authorization would make them spies, then ordered them to wait outside.
• Qian Ye and Bullet went to the Hokage Building, where Hiruzen Sarutobi described the crisis on the Eastern Front and asked them to rescue Orochimaru and Minato.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi promoted the South District Auxiliary Brigade to a Special Wartime Corps and ordered Qian Ye to lead it to the Land of Hot Water.
• Qian Ye refused the conscription order, arguing that his brigade could not face the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Hidden Cloud’s Lightning Release experts.

Qian Ye refused to send the South District force to the front without autonomy, supplies, and compensation, forcing Hiruzen Sarutobi to accept his terms after Bullet overwhelmed the ANBU. With the South District upgraded into the Konoha Seventh Special Guerrilla Corps and promised forty million ryo and supplies, Qian Ye prepared to mobilize his troops.

• Qian Ye rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s wartime order and demanded independent command, forty million ryo, weapons, medicine, and support forging seastone.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi surrounded Qian Ye and Bullet with ANBU and threatened to treat refusal as desertion.
• Bullet unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out two ANBU and forcing the others to their knees.
• Shimura Danzō backed Qian Ye’s demands, pressuring Hiruzen Sarutobi to concede.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi authorized the Konoha Seventh Special Guerrilla Corps and promised forty million ryo, explosive tags, medicine, and blacksmiths.
• Qian Ye left with Bullet and ordered him to assemble the Uchiha and Hyuga clans for the march.

Qian Ye secured supplies from Hiruzen Sarutobi and tricked Shimura Danzō into providing even more by promising to help him seize control of the Eastern Front. He equipped and led more than eight hundred South District fighters out of Konoha toward the battlefield at Blackwater Marsh.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi reorganized the South District Auxiliary Brigade into the Special Mobile Legion and approved its highest-level supplies.
• Shimura Danzō urged Qian Ye to let Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze weaken each other, and Qian Ye pretended to support Danzo’s ambitions for the Eastern Front.
• Qian Ye used Danzo’s Blacksteel Token to take ten thousand Explosive Tags and twenty crates of Advanced Military Ration Pills from Root’s storeroom.
• Qian Ye distributed equipment and supplies to the Auxiliary Management Unit Members, and Uchiha Yan demonstrated his strength by smashing a thick stone slab with his fist.
• Qian Ye led more than eight hundred armored fighters, with Bullet at his side, out of Konoha and toward the Land of Hot Water.

Qian Ye and Bullet arrived to rescue the stranded Konoha remnants, and the Seventh Special Guerrilla Corps wiped out most of the pursuing Kirigakure ANBU. After learning that Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze were in danger in Blackwater Marsh, Qian Ye prepared to confront the approaching enemy forces.

• The Konoha remnant squad was surrounded by Kirigakure ANBU, and its captain prepared to die rather than be captured.
• Bullet crashed into the forest from above and destroyed the Kirigakure jonin’s Water Dragon Bullet with one punch.
• Qian Ye arrived with eight hundred members of the Konoha Seventh Special Guerrilla Corps and ordered Uchiha Yan and Tianfeng to kill the ANBU, leaving two alive.
• The Corps slaughtered all but two Kirigakure ANBU, and Qian Ye gave the wounded Konoha captain medicine before questioning him.
• The captain reported that Orochimaru had been driven into Blackwater Marsh and Minato Namikaze was under attack from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and the A-B Combo.
• Bullet sensed powerful enemies approaching, and Qian Ye drew his Seastone blade and readied his men for battle.

Qian Ye led the Auxiliary Management Unit to rescue Orochimaru at Blackwater Marsh, where Biwa Juzo and Kirigakure forces had slaughtered Konoha troops. The mist ambush failed when Uchiha Yan and dozens of muscular Uchiha revealed their Three-Tomoe Sharingan and attacked, while Bullet moved to seize Biwa Juzo’s Kubikiribōchō.

• Biwa Juzo taunted the fallen Konoha ninja and vowed to turn Blackwater Marsh into a mass grave.
• Qian Ye arrived with Bullet and more than eight hundred armored Auxiliary Management Unit members, then ordered them to clear out the Kirigakure force quickly.
• Biwa Juzo attacked and ordered his men to use the Hidden Mist Technique and Silent Killing Technique.
• Qian Ye called on Uchiha Yan, who revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan alongside sixty Uchiha and exposed the hidden Kirigakure assassins.
• Uchiha Yan and the other Uchiha bruisers attacked the Kirigakure ninja, while Bullet reached for the Kubikiribōchō in Biwa Juzo’s grip.

Biwa Juzo led his Kirigakure forces against Qian Ye’s brigade, but Bullet snapped the Kubikiribōchō with his bare hands and the armored fighters overwhelmed the Hidden Mist troops. Qian Ye let Biwa Juzo escape toward the marsh’s heart so he would draw the Lightning-Water Allied Forces’ leaders together.

• Biwa Juzo attacked Qian Ye, but Bullet blocked the Kubikiribōchō with his bare arm and chipped its edge.
• Bullet caught and broke the Kubikiribōchō, shocking Biwa Juzo and the watching Kirigakure ANBU.
• Qian Ye dismissed the sword as ordinary iron and ordered Bullet to finish the fight before they lost time searching for Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Yan and Hyuga Tianfeng led the brigade’s fighters in a close-range assault that routed the Kirigakure troops.
• Biwa Juzo ordered a retreat toward the heart of Blackwater Marsh to regroup with the A-B Combo and the other Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Qian Ye refused to pursue Biwa Juzo, intending to let him gather the Lightning-Water Allied Forces’ leaders in one place.