Recaps

Yayoi tested the Kusanagi Sword’s chakra-absorbing and shockwave abilities, then traveled with Kicho to Silent Forest to retrieve a Chakra Crystal containing an embryo for a new Automated Puppet. The Chakra Tree that had sustained the crystal died after they removed it, and Yayoi planted the seed it left behind before they departed.

• Yayoi tested the Kusanagi Sword and discovered that it absorbed chakra and Ninjutsu, then released stored chakra as a powerful lightning shockwave.
• Yayoi and Kicho reached Silent Forest, where Kicho sensed violent chakra and guarded against natural Genjutsu as Yayoi led her deeper into the woods.
• Yayoi found a Chakra Crystal hidden inside a massive, leafless Chakra Tree and explained that it held the embryo for his next Automated Puppet.
• After Yayoi removed the crystal, the Chakra Tree burned away as its vitality ran out, leaving a seed behind.
• Yayoi buried the seed in fertile soil, thanked the tree, and left Silent Forest with Kicho.

Yayoi considered how to ease his paperwork burden and learned that many members of the Military Bureau were still unmarried. He decided to arrange a match between Kakuzu and one of the Land of Song daimyo’s daughters, leaving Irori doubtful about Kakuzu’s romantic interest and embarrassed by Yayoi’s account of his past.

• Yayoi wished he had the Shadow Clone Technique and planned to seek another opportunity to trade with Tobirama Senju.
• Irori told Yayoi that the Land of Song’s daimyo and his family had safely arrived in Nightview City, and Yayoi ordered the protection fee distributed among the mission’s ninja and samurai.
• Irori raised the issue of unmarried members of the Military Bureau, and Yayoi noticed that Kakuzu was nearing thirty without starting a family.
• After learning there were no suitable unmarried women among the bureau’s female ninja and samurai, Yayoi proposed showing Kakuzu photos of the Land of Song daimyo’s unmarried daughters.
• Irori questioned whether Kakuzu cared about romance, and Yayoi revealed that Kakuzu had once secretly spent a day and night at a brothel.

After his secret marriage to the three daughters of the Land of Song daimyo became public, Kakuzu returned from leave and received a diplomatic mission from Yayoi to attend the founding celebration of Uzushiogakure and explore a possible marriage alliance. The chapter ended with Kakuzu accepting the mission but declining to bring his new wives on a honeymoon because the journey could be dangerous.

• Kakuzu's colleagues teased him after news spread that he had married three sisters, and he learned that a messenger from the Intelligence Division had leaked the story.
• Kakuzu decided to confront Yuroketsu, but his colleagues told him the messenger had already volunteered for mining work in the frozen northeast.
• Kakuzu returned to Yayoi after his wedding leave, and Yayoi congratulated him on marrying all three daughters of the Land of Song daimyo.
• Yayoi assigned Kakuzu to attend the Land of Whirlpool's founding celebration and assess whether the Uzumaki Clan would consider a marriage alliance.
• Yayoi suggested Kakuzu take his three wives along as a honeymoon, but Kakuzu declined because the trip might put them in danger.

Yayoi showed Kicho the developing Chakra life-form and the Seven-Tails he had imprisoned beneath the General's Residence. The Seven-Tails offered a summoning contract in exchange for eventual freedom, and Yayoi left the proposal undecided.

• Yayoi brought Kicho to a hidden chamber and showed her a Chakra Crystal embryo designed to become his second puppet doll, an extreme taijutsu master.
• Kicho examined the embryo with her Byakugan while Yayoi explained that it would take about two years to develop fully.
• The imprisoned Seven-Tails spoke from its heavily reinforced cage, and Yayoi ordered it to recover its Chakra for his use.
• The Seven-Tails recognized that Yayoi's technique had taken more than its Chakra and proposed supplying Chakra and battle assistance in return for freedom.
• Yayoi said he would consider the Seven-Tails' offer, while the beast complained about its miserable captivity.

Yayoi and Kicho discussed the risks of contracting with the Seven-Tails before revealing Kicho’s pregnancy and preparing for the child. Later, Aoi and Rinko helped Irori process documents at the Tenshu Tower and returned exhausted but eager to continue working.

• Yayoi decided that releasing the Seven-Tails without powerful sealing techniques would be too dangerous, and he hoped Kakuzu would bring back news from the Land of Whirlpool.
• Yayoi realized Kicho was a month pregnant, told her to stop training, and discussed their hopes for their first child.
• Kicho teased Yayoi about making up for their time apart after the child was born and said her lifelong hobby was making him happy.
• Aoi and Rinko helped Irori stamp documents at the Tenshu Tower for hours, then returned to the Inner Court mentally exhausted.
• Yayoi offered to let Aoi and Rinko quit the work, but they chose to continue, and he agreed to tell Irori.

Kakuzu proposed a marriage alliance between the Land of Night and the Uzumaki Clan, and Uzumaki Ashina brought the offer before the clan elders. They agreed to pursue an engagement with Shumei’s granddaughter Hisana, leaving the alliance dependent on preparing her for a marriage in the future.

• Kakuzu told Uzumaki Ashina that Oda Yayoi wanted a marriage alliance with the Uzumaki Clan, while Ashina wondered whether the Land of Night also wanted Sealing Jutsu to seal the Seven-Tails.
• Ashina convened the Uzumaki elders, who discussed Yayoi’s power and the advantages of gaining support from the Land of Night.
• The elders generally supported an alliance, but most had no daughters or granddaughters of suitable age and status.
• Ashina proposed an engagement to Hisana, Shumei’s sixteen-year-old granddaughter, with marriage to follow in two or three years.
• Ashina asked Shumei to prepare Hisana for the engagement, explaining that the alliance could help the Land of Whirlpool develop.

Uzumaki Hisana, a lazy but gifted shrine maiden, learned that the Uzumaki Clan planned to marry her to the shogun of the Land of Night. She was less concerned about leaving the shrine than whether the shogun was rich.

• Hisana complained about shrine duties and irreverently questioned the legend of the Uzumaki Great Wisdom King, so Chief Priest Uzumaki Dōmei struck her with a fan.
• Dōmei challenged Hisana to recite the legend backward after she pretended to admire hearing it again, but Uzumaki Shumei arrived before she could answer.
• Shumei told Hisana and Dōmei that the clan had agreed to form a marriage alliance with the shogun of the Land of Night.
• Hisana panicked at the thought of being driven from the shrine, then learned she was to marry the shogun.
• Shumei and Dōmei offered to refuse the marriage if Hisana opposed it, but she asked whether the shogun was rich.

Yayoi learned that the Hyuga Clan had joined Konoha and discussed the clan’s politics with Kicho, then received the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Art: Seven-Star Seal. He began training to master it so he could suppress the Seven-Tails without creating a Jinchūriki.

• Yayoi told Kicho that the Hyuga Clan had joined Konoha after Hashirama Senju visited them three times, and she explained that her father, Hyuga Hideto, hoped to use her ties to the Land of Night to preserve his standing.
• Yayoi and Kicho discussed Uzumaki Hisana, the proposed bride, and imagined her as a tall, imposing girl after hearing that she could eat an enormous amount.
• After sending Kicho back to rest, Yayoi went to the training ground and studied the Sealing Art: Seven-Star Seal scroll Kakuzu had brought from the Uzumaki Clan.
• Yayoi recognized that he could potentially cast the seal alone because he possessed all seven chakra attributes, though his limited mastery of chakra nature transformations would weaken it.
• Yayoi decided that the seal suited his goal of controlling the Seven-Tails without creating a Jinchūriki, and he estimated that he could learn it within two months.

Yayoi arranged for the Uzumaki Clan to help build the Land of Night’s medical system, while he began writing training materials to develop its puppet masters. The chapter ended with Yayoi returning to his official duties after Aoi and Rinko praised his work.

• Uzumaki Ashina discussed the clan’s financial strain and reviewed Yayoi’s unconventional Life-Saving Rebirth Technique with the elders.
• Uzumaki Kano volunteered to lead medical ninjas to the Land of Night and help train its medical personnel.
• Yayoi reflected on the Land of Night’s understaffed Medical Division and wrote puppet-master training materials emphasizing taijutsu and coordination with puppets.
• Hyuga Aoi and Hyuga Rinko praised Yayoi’s teaching materials, and Aoi explained that Irori had gone to the Intelligence Division to handle important intelligence.
• Yayoi had Aoi put the scroll away and returned to his official duties.

Yayoi welcomed the Hoshigaki Clan into the Land of Night, agreeing to observe them for three months before completing their incorporation. After Hoshigaki Kairyu presented a sealed gift, Yayoi uncovered the legendary blade Samehada and recognized it.

• Irori told Yayoi that the Hoshigaki Clan had left the Land of Water because of discrimination and feared joining Kirigakure.
• Yayoi agreed to receive the Hoshigaki Clan and required a three-month observation period before incorporating them.
• Hoshigaki Kairyu presented a scroll and explained that the clan had sixty-one ninjas, including five Jonin, and over four hundred non-ninja members.
• Aoi and Rinko guessed what the scroll contained, and Yayoi unsealed it to reveal a massive bandage-wrapped blade.
• Yayoi recognized the blade as Samehada and wondered whether its arrival would leave Hidden Mist Village with only six of its Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

Uzumaki Kano arrived in the Land of Night and saw its prosperity before agreeing to help Yayoi establish a medical system. After leaving the Medical Division in Kano’s hands, Yayoi went to the underground levels to practice sealing jutsu on the Seven-Tails.

• Uzumaki Kano and his delegation arrived in Nightview City, where the capital’s development impressed them.
• Yayoi welcomed Uzumaki Kano, discussed history and culture with him, and hosted a banquet for the visiting Uzumaki Clan ninja.
• Yayoi brought Uzumaki Kano and two Uzumaki ninja to the Medical Division, where Kano saw its lack of trained medical ninja.
• Yayoi assigned Keika to assist Kano with the Medical Division, and Kano agreed to help train medical ninja using the Uzumaki Clan’s methods.
• Yayoi left the Medical Division and practiced the Seven-Star Seal on the Seven-Tails until he was exhausted.

Yayoi traveled to Konoha for Hashirama Senju’s alliance summit and met Mu and young Ōnoki on the way. The four took shelter in an abandoned temple, where an unknown figure with scarlet eyes appeared.

• Yayoi decided to attend Hashirama Senju’s summit and left the Land of Night with Kakuzu, leaving Irori behind to care for Kicho and the capital.
• At the Land of Fire’s border, Yayoi and Kakuzu encountered Mu and Ōnoki, who were also traveling to Konoha as representatives of the Land of Earth.
• Yayoi invited Mu and Ōnoki to travel with them, and the four headed toward Hidden Leaf Village together.
• After nightfall, Yayoi led the group to an abandoned temple to rest.
• Mu sensed someone inside the temple, and a scarlet-eyed figure emerged and addressed the group.

Madara Uchiha confronted the delegates who had come to Konoha for an alliance meeting and demanded their countries surrender. Mu and Yayoi chose to fight him, leaving the group facing Madara’s Susanoo.

• Madara interrupted Yayoi and attacked Ōnoki with a sword strike, but Mu pulled him to safety and was wounded.
• Madara revealed his Susanoo and demanded that the delegates submit letters of surrender on behalf of their countries.
• Ōnoki refused to surrender, and Mu declared that he would challenge Madara to test whether he truly stood at the pinnacle of the shinobi world.
• Madara asked Yayoi and Kakuzu to choose, and Yayoi summoned Irori before announcing that they would fight at full strength.
• Irori prepared to battle alongside Yayoi as Madara welcomed the five opponents and invited them to dance.

Irori, Mu, Yayoi, and Kakuzu attacked Madara with coordinated techniques, but his Susanoo endured their assaults and unleashed devastating sword waves. As Madara’s Susanoo grew into a complete giant, Yayoi and Irori remained ready to fight despite their injuries.

• Irori bombarded Madara’s Susanoo with ice weapons and froze it inside a massive block, but Madara shattered the ice with four sword waves that devastated the surrounding land.
• Mu warned Ōnoki to retreat, then joined Yayoi and Kakuzu in attacking Madara as Irori countered his Great Fire Annihilation with a Water Release technique.
• Mu tried to hit Madara with Dust Release, but Madara evaded the attack; Yayoi then directed Irori to slow Madara’s Susanoo with freezing vapor.
• Irori’s freezing vapor hindered the Susanoo, but Madara swept out a powerful sword wave that knocked Mu from the sky and tore apart the landscape.
• Madara’s Susanoo became a towering, four-armed giant, and he praised the group for making him use it to this extent.
• Yayoi entered Chakra Armament Mode and began regenerating from a severe chest wound while Irori stood ready to fight, her chakra body repairing an abdominal cut.

Yayoi survived Madara’s assault, and Madara praised his seal-less Medical Ninjutsu before withdrawing when Tobirama appeared. Yayoi healed Mu’s nearly fatal injuries, and the group headed for a Senju outpost while Tobirama grew wary of Irori and Yayoi.

• Madara recognized Yayoi’s Medical Ninjutsu as comparable to Hashirama’s, and Yayoi revealed he had witnessed Madara’s earlier battle in the Land of Night.
• Madara ended the fight and vanished, confirming Yayoi’s suspicion that he had been a Shadow Clone.
• Tobirama appeared, and Yayoi stopped Ōnoki from straining himself before treating Mu’s severe wounds.
• Yayoi healed Mu, while Irori helped Kakuzu out from beneath the rubble.
• Tobirama led Yayoi, Ōnoki, Mu, and Kakuzu toward a Senju outpost, and Yayoi sent Irori back to the Land of Night.
• Tobirama considered Irori’s abilities and concluded that she might be a Tailed Beast in human form, marking Yayoi as someone to watch closely.

Mu woke after Yayoi saved him from Madara’s attack and learned that his Dustless Haze Barrier had failed because Madara’s Sharingan could see chakra pathways. The revelation left Mu reflecting on the vast gap between the strongest ninjas as he recovered in Yayoi’s courtyard.

• Ōnoki told the recovering Mu how Yayoi had treated him and what had happened after he lost consciousness.
• Mu went with Ōnoki to thank Yayoi and explained that Madara had seen through his stealth technique before he could react.
• Tobirama and Yayoi realized Mu had never fought an Uchiha and explained that the Sharingan’s Insight Eye had exposed his chakra pathways.
• Mu understood why Madara had found him, then remarked that the pinnacle of ninjas seemed impossibly far away, dampening Yayoi’s and Tobirama’s moods.

After Madara Uchiha’s attack derailed the summit, Yayoi judged that the nations would not start a war while Konoha held the power to prevent one. He reassured Irori and the citizens of the Land of Night with a public notice focused on daily life, leaving the people feeling devoted to their General.

• The summit collapsed after Madara’s Shadow Clones intercepted delegations from many nations, while the First Raikage was badly injured by Madara’s real body.
• Yayoi explained that the nations would not go to war unless Konoha allowed it, and he doubted Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha could reconcile.
• Irori asked whether the Land of Night should strengthen its border defenses, but Yayoi said they would be useless and told her to reassure the citizens.
• Irori broadcast a notice about the weather, prices, repairs, jobs, and other domestic matters, without mentioning the international crisis.
• Citizens praised Irori’s voice and were moved that Yayoi’s government remained focused on their welfare.

Yayoi judged that Konoha’s decision to remain inactive after the failed talks was a way to avoid provoking the other nations, and he continued normal diplomacy and trade with it. At the General’s Residence, he trained to improve Chakra Armament Mode while limiting its strain on his body, confident that his health and longevity would outlast the older generation.

• Yayoi decided to maintain normal relations and trade with Konoha while other countries remained wary after the talks broke down.
• Yayoi trained in Chakra Armament Mode by striking a massive chakra-alloy steel cube, but his blows only dented and cracked it.
• Yayoi concluded that he needed to concentrate his attacks to penetrate Susanoo’s Chakra Armor and strengthen his physique to withstand the mode’s strain.
• Yayoi released Chakra Armament Mode after three hours, noting that his stamina and muscles had reached their limits and that Shadow Clone training could damage his body.
• Yayoi reflected that ninja exhausted themselves through war and overuse of chakra, and believed his healthy, long-lived body would let him outlast the older generation.

Kicho gave birth to a healthy son with the Byakugan, securing Yayoi’s direct heir and strengthening Kicho’s standing in the Land of Night. Later, Yayoi reassured Irori that the newborn would not diminish his love for her.

• Yayoi waited anxiously outside the delivery room while Kicho labored, then learned that mother and son were safe.
• Yayoi held his sleeping newborn son, and Aoi said the baby had opened his eyes and inherited Kicho’s Byakugan.
• Yayoi ordered Aoi to announce the birth and escorted Rinko and the child to the Inner Court.
• Yayoi left the child’s name undecided and went to the Tenshu Tower’s observation deck, where he found Irori alone.
• Yayoi embraced Irori and reassured her that she was precious to him despite his love for Kicho, Aoi, Rinko, and his son.

Yayoi’s heir brought congratulations from across the region, including valuable Chakra materials from Hashirama and Mu. As Konoha debated Yayoi’s intentions, he considered forging a new personal weapon and returned home to see his child.

• News of Yayoi’s heir spread across the Land of Night and baffled other nations because Yayoi continued cooperating with Konoha without strengthening his defenses.
• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed Yayoi’s perceptiveness and agreed that Konoha should send a congratulatory gift in thanks for the Land of Night’s support.
• Hashirama sent Yayoi a Chakra Crystal, while Mu sent red Chakra Metal as gifts for the heir.
• Yayoi examined the gifts and considered combining Mu’s metal with his stored Kusanagi Sword to forge a stronger personal weapon.
• Yayoi put away the gifts, ended work early to visit his child, and noticed Irori had become more radiant and assertive.

Yayoi visited his newborn son, then reunited with Kicho after her recovery from childbirth. After spending eighteen hours together, they emerged the next afternoon, leaving Aoi and Rinko flustered by Kicho’s newfound allure.

• Yayoi saw that his son had inherited Kicho’s Byakugan and had a robust physique that suggested he would possess a large chakra reserve.
• Yayoi joined Kicho in the bedroom, where she served him food and revealed that she had developed a hand-seal-less Water Release.
• Yayoi and Kicho stayed in the master bedroom for eighteen hours, while Aoi and Rinko waited outside with their imaginations running wild.
• Aoi and Rinko entered to find Yayoi and Kicho fully dressed and the room neat, though Kicho’s appearance left them stunned.
• Kicho teased Yayoi about her Water Release, and he escaped to work while she remained behind.

Yayoi inspected Zero and the growing second Puppet Lifeform, Yaya, while Irori eagerly anticipated her younger sister’s birth. He also checked the Seven-Tails, confirmed its Chakra would recover to about seventy percent by next year, and reinforced its seal before promising to form a summoning contract and release it.

• Yayoi reviewed the intelligence reports and inspected Zero, considering how to upgrade its intelligence and expand the Ghost Puppets’ range.
• Yayoi and Irori visited Yaya’s cultivation tank, where Irori was delighted when the developing Puppet Lifeform responded to her.
• Yayoi explained that Yaya was designed as a powerful close-range attacker and could become a trusted younger sister to Irori.
• The Seven-Tails remarked on the living quality of Yayoi’s Chakra and wondered whether he might be the Child of Prophecy before dismissing the idea.
• Yayoi estimated that the Seven-Tails would recover about seventy percent of its Chakra by next year and reaffirmed that he would form a summoning contract and release it.
• Yayoi attached a Seven-Star Seal talisman to the Seven-Tails’ horn, keeping it tightly restrained against any possible escape.

Kicho returned to training after giving birth and used her refined Active Chakra to develop a devastating new Gentle Fist technique. After Aoi summoned her for dinner, Kicho read a letter from her father, Hyuga Hideto, asking for help in the Hyuga Clan, and sent a reply.

• Kicho practiced the Living Chakra Technique and used Active Chakra to unleash a powerful new Gentle Fist attack that devastated the training ground.
• Aoi found Kicho amid the wreckage and called her to dinner; Kicho told her to bring food to the hot springs and summon her husband there.
• Aoi told Kicho that Lord Hideto had sent a letter, and Kicho joked about forgetting who he was before reading it.
• Kicho learned that Hyuga Hideto wanted the Land of Night's help to regain influence in the Hyuga Clan and dismissed him as an old-fashioned man who only thought of himself.
• Kicho wrote a reply on the letter and asked Aoi to have it sent back.

Hyuga Hideto tried to seize control of the Radical Faction by arguing that the clan was being treated too weakly and by invoking his daughter Kicho’s influence in the Land of Night. The meeting ended with Hideto fainting after reading Kicho’s blunt request that he stop writing to her, while the other elders laughed and called for medical ninja.

• Hideto attended the Radical Faction meeting and urged the Hyuga to demand greater status and resources from Konoha’s other clans.
• A trusted Jonin delivered Kicho’s reply, and Hideto claimed his daughter would use the Land of Night’s power to support his faction.
• Hideto opened Kicho’s letter and read that she did not want him to write again because her husband might misunderstand.
• Hideto spat blood and collapsed, while the elders read the letter, laughed, and summoned medical ninja to treat him.

Yayoi watched his four-month-old son Oda Doichi display astonishing growth and strength before meeting Mu and Ōnoki on official business. He provided Mu with intelligence on Konoha and discussed the Sharingan, suggesting Mu consult Tobirama Senju.

• Yayoi and his family marveled at Oda Doichi’s unusual size and strength, while Kicho photographed his antics.
• Yayoi left his family and received Mu and Ōnoki at Tenshu Tower.
• Mu asked what Konoha was planning, and Yayoi explained that Konoha had remained focused on development while the other nations grew uneasy after Madara Uchiha’s actions.
• Yayoi gave Mu intelligence on Konoha, which Mu took back for the Tsuchikage and the Daimyo of the Land of Earth to assess.
• Mu asked Yayoi about the Sharingan, and Yayoi recommended Tobirama Senju as a better source of systematic knowledge.