Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Dave notices a cloaked man leading a frightened child and stops them. The man claims the boy is his nephew, but Dave recognizes the story as suspicious.
• When the man attacks with a knife, Madara knocks him away. Dave identifies him as a likely child trafficker, and the child introduces himself as Teuchi.
• Teuchi says he is an orphan who was taken while playing outside. He remembers a kind grandmother and a grandfather who made delicious food, but cannot recall where they lived.
• Dave invites Teuchi to live at Konoha Kindergarten and offers to help find the people he remembers. Teuchi declines the idea of becoming a ninja: he wants to make ramen like his grandfather.
• Madara interrogates the trafficker with his Sharingan. The man reveals that thousands of traffickers operate through the underground Black Market, selling abducted people to the Lands of Wind and Water. Madara and Hashirama leave to deal with the network.
• Dave brings Teuchi home and introduces him to the kindergarten’s other children. Their chaotic reactions—Kimima’s questions about money, Duy’s exuberant training, and Sakumo’s immediate challenge—leave Dave exasperated.

Character developments

• Dave shows compassion and responsibility, offering Teuchi a home and promising to search for his lost caregivers.
• Teuchi moves from fear to trust around Dave, while his desire to make ramen rather than become a ninja establishes his own priorities.
• Hashirama is shaken by Teuchi’s belief that ninjas are bad, briefly questioning what ninjas represent.
• Madara responds to the trafficking revelation with cold resolve, joining Hashirama in taking action.
• Dave’s young residents are characterized through comic exaggeration: Kimima is business-minded, Duy relentlessly enthusiastic, and Sakumo eager to test newcomers.

Significant themes

• Protection and belonging: Dave’s kindergarten becomes a refuge for a child with nowhere to go.
• The harm hidden beneath the ninja world: Teuchi’s experience and the trafficking ring challenge the heroes’ assumptions about ninja virtue.
• Choice and identity: Teuchi defines his future through his love of cooking, not the expected path of becoming a ninja.
• Comedy amid danger: The serious rescue and trafficking plot gives way to slapstick introductions at Dave’s home.

Character interactions

• Dave gently reassures Teuchi and earns his trust; Teuchi’s wish to make ramen prompts Hashirama to question the morality associated with ninjas.
• Madara and Hashirama work together to expose the trafficking operation and depart to confront it.
• At home, Dave tries to welcome Teuchi, but the children’s eccentric behavior quickly turns the introduction into chaos.

Key plot points and events

• Teuchi, an orphan who learned to cook at the orphanage, offers to make ramen for Dave and the children. His meal delights everyone, especially the ramen-loving Sakumo and the exuberant Might Duy.
• Kimima sees Teuchi’s cooking as a business opportunity and urges him to sell ramen. Dave agrees that a stall could eventually give Teuchi a way to support himself, though he cautions that Teuchi is still very young.
• The group helps Teuchi set up a ramen stall on Commercial Street. Duy volunteers with over-the-top enthusiasm, while Sakumo encourages Teuchi and keeps Kimima’s schemes in check.
• Kimima proposes wildly inflated prices and then tries to sell Teuchi his “Kaguya-Brand Bone Powder,” claiming it will dramatically improve the ramen.

Character developments

• Teuchi shows both modesty and a genuine ambition: he wants people to enjoy his ramen, and he begins to consider how selling it could make that possible.
• Dave acts as a caring guardian, supporting Teuchi’s future while protecting him from being pushed into an unrealistic business too soon.
• Kimima remains comically obsessed with money and grand schemes, imagining an empire he will inherit after Dave dies. His sales pitch suggests he is always looking for a way to profit.
• Sakumo is practical and quietly supportive, reassuring Teuchi and rejecting Kimima’s unreasonable pricing.
• Might Duy brings his usual loud, inspirational enthusiasm to the new venture.

Significant themes

• Finding a livelihood: Teuchi’s dream of sharing his cooking leads him to consider turning it into a small business.
• Community and encouragement: The children and Dave help Teuchi take his first step by setting up the stall together.
• Youthful ambition versus practicality: Kimima dreams of huge profits, while Dave and Sakumo favor a modest, realistic start.
• Comedy through contrast: Teuchi’s sincere hopes and Duy’s earnest enthusiasm clash with Kimima’s shameless profiteering.

Character interactions

• Teuchi’s ramen brings the group together, and their praise gives him confidence.
• Dave balances Kimima’s business ideas with concern for Teuchi’s age and well-being.
• Sakumo acts as Teuchi’s grounded supporter, countering Kimima’s pricing schemes.
• Duy cheers Teuchi on with exaggerated declarations of youth, while Kimima turns even the food stall into a sales opportunity.

Plot and events

• After Kimima is knocked aside by Sakumo, Sakumo and Teuchi take their ramen stall to the entrance of the Love Kidney Bar, following Dave’s instructions. Sakumo warns Teuchi that the bar is a place for “bad guys,” though he admits its owner is their teacher.
• The children set up shop and play a promotional song Dave made. Despite waiting for hours, they get no customers until four men emerge from the bar: Hashirama, Madara, Izuna, and another companion. Hungry after drinking and dancing, they sit down to order ramen.
• Teuchi is delighted to serve them, especially since two of the men previously rescued him. But before the food arrives, a group of young men claiming the area as Hyuga Clan territory confronts the stall. Their leader plants a foot on Madara’s table and grabs his hair when Madara ignores him.
• Kimima and Sakumo call Dave for help—not because Madara is in danger, they explain, but because the bully is about to be.

Character developments and interactions

• Teuchi is nervous because of his earlier abduction, but gains confidence and excitement when customers arrive. He takes special care preparing food for the men who helped him.
• Sakumo is protective and reassuring toward Teuchi, though he exaggerates the bar’s dangers. His memories reveal that Dave once befriended Sakumo’s father and helped bring Sakumo away from home.
• Kimima treats Dave as both mentor and rival, eagerly adopting his advertising idea despite not understanding it. When the trouble starts, Kimima stays calm and expects justice to follow.
• Izuna recognizes Kimima and gently tells him to go home after finishing work, showing familiar concern. Kimima awkwardly calls him “Mother Izu” and introduces the stall as his friend’s.
• Madara remains unbothered by the gang’s provocation—until their leader grabs him—while Hashirama and Madara trade barbed comments about their dancing.
• The gang’s arrogance contrasts with the children’s confidence: Kimima and Sakumo expect the intruders to face consequences on Dave’s turf.

Significant themes

• Justice and comeuppance: The chapter’s title is echoed in Kimima’s confidence that bullies will eventually face consequences.
• Found family and mentorship: Dave’s influence connects the children, Sakumo’s family, and the bar’s regulars.
• Comic contrast: A modest ramen stall and its young operators are caught between rowdy bar patrons and an overconfident gang, setting up an impending reversal.

Plot points and events

• A young Hyuga grabs Madara’s hair and challenges him. Madara activates his Sharingan, and the encounter turns into a fight that leaves several people badly injured around Teuchi’s ramen stall.
• Dave arrives and learns that the stall was on land leased to the Hyuga, though he had arranged to use it that evening. Madara has already called the Hyuga clan head, who responds with extreme deference. The incident becomes a public spectacle, bringing attention to both the Hyuga’s humiliation and Ichiraku Ramen.
• Dave gives Teuchi a place on his own land to run the stall. Teuchi is pleased, while Kimima uses the business to promote his bone powder, driving off customers and irritating Teuchi.
• Half a month later, Dave and Tsukimi bring the children to the Ninja Academy’s opening day. Takayama Yulan, a civilian, is among the students; Dave arranged her enrollment and helped her family by buying their land and finding her mother factory work.
• Kimima and Yulan remain at odds, while Kagami arrives escorting Shanshan. Her family has assigned Uchiha guards to watch her—and, in effect, keep Kagami away from her.
• At the mission office, Kagami’s entourage follows him despite Shanshan already being at school. Hiruzen and Danzo eventually leave to handle the mission without him. The chapter ends with Kagami trapped on the toilet under constant surveillance, just as an ominous slurping sound prompts his Sharingan to awaken into the Mangekyō.

Character developments and interactions

• Madara responds to the Hyuga youth’s challenge with controlled menace; the clan head’s submissive reaction reinforces his formidable reputation.
• Dave acts as mediator and benefactor: he clarifies the land dispute, supports Teuchi’s business, and helps Yulan and her mother. He also teases Kagami about the guards’ real purpose.
• Kimima is both entrepreneurial and socially awkward: he promotes his product aggressively and hides from Yulan, with whom he shares a mutual, prickly dislike.
• Kagami grows increasingly exasperated as the Uchiha guards shadow him everywhere. His awkward connection to Shanshan has become a source of conflict between the clansmen and her family.
• Hiruzen and Danzo abandon the increasingly absurd situation and proceed with their mission, leaving Kagami to face the guards alone.

Significant themes

• Reputation and power: Madara’s standing is enough to make the Hyuga leadership back down, and the incident quickly becomes public gossip.
• Community and support: Dave uses his resources to help Teuchi and Yulan’s family build more stable livelihoods.
• Comedy through overprotection: The Uchiha’s extreme surveillance of Kagami turns a routine mission—and even a bathroom break—into farce.
• Young relationships under adult scrutiny: Kimima and Yulan’s strained rapport contrasts with the guards’ absurd efforts to control Kagami’s contact with Shanshan.

Key plot points and events

• Kagami tells the Uchiha elders that he awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after an unusually undignified experience involving Dave. Madara asks for the method so the clan can consider whether others might use it.
• The clan takes Kagami’s story seriously. Madara agrees to try the method, and news of it sends Sharingan-wielding Uchiha rushing to use every toilet available in their compound.
• The Uchiha rent Konoha’s public toilets for a day with Tobirama’s authorization. Their crowds, and the villagers’ desperate attempts to find alternatives, cause chaos and a flood of complaints.
• One villager is frightened by dozens of Uchiha watching him in an alley and runs off in panic. Black Zetsu reports him for offending a “professional feces collector,” and the Uchiha police arrest him.
• Tobirama orders Izuna to apologize to the villagers, compensate those affected, and restore normal order the next day.
• Black Zetsu makes a fortune collecting waste, but Nine-Tails appears and demands a share as protection money.

Character developments and interactions

• Kagami unexpectedly becomes the Uchiha clan’s model for awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, despite Madara having previously dismissed him as weak.
• Madara treats Kagami’s account as a potentially useful clan technique and agrees to test it, while Izuna is initially astonished but supports his brother’s decision.
• Dave dismisses Kagami’s method as bizarre and insists that he will protect Tsukimi instead of making her suffer to awaken the Mangekyō. Tsukimi is shocked by Kagami’s story.
• Tobirama and Izuna clash over the public disruption, though Izuna points out that the Uchiha had permission to use the toilets.
• Black Zetsu and Nine-Tails end the chapter in a comic standoff: Zetsu is protective of his earnings and dreams of buying his mother a present, while Nine-Tails wants its cut.

Significant themes

• The chapter parodies the Uchiha’s pursuit of power by reducing a legendary eye technique to an absurd, bodily ordeal.
• It contrasts clan enthusiasm with the inconvenience imposed on ordinary villagers, showing how a clan’s private ambitions can disrupt public life.
• The humor depends on escalating misunderstandings, bureaucratic authorization and complaints, and the characters’ complete seriousness about an outrageous situation.

Plot and key events

• Little Nine-Tails steals the money Black Zetsu had saved for a gift for his mother. Zetsu secretly has more money, but someone catches him boasting to himself; afterward, he records the theft as a grudge and returns to work at a septic tank.
• At the Uchiha training ground, Izuna asks Kagami to demonstrate his Mangekyō Sharingan. Kagami’s right-eye genjutsu traps its victim in an imagined world where they are restrained and force-fed feces for three days. Izuna is so traumatized that he vomits uncontrollably.
• Kagami flees, but Izuna later tracks him down at an Internet café and beats him badly enough to leave him hospitalized. Dave learns the details of Kagami’s abilities through online chat and tells Izuna where Kagami is.
• Kagami’s left eye can make everything a target has ever found beautiful seem hateful and disgusting for a year, though Kagami can use it only once every three years.
• The next day, Dave visits both injured men in the hospital. Hashirama and Tobirama arrive too. Tobirama teases Izuna, then eats a banana; its appearance triggers Izuna’s trauma, and he starts vomiting again.

Character developments and interactions

• Kagami reveals that his Mangekyō abilities reflect an angry, disturbing state of mind. He is timid when demonstrating them but uses the right eye’s power on Izuna, then tries to hide at the café.
• Izuna suffers the effects of Kagami’s genjutsu, retaliates violently, and remains vulnerable to reminders of the experience.
• Dave acts friendly toward Kagami in chat but secretly gives Izuna his location. He recognizes that Kagami’s abilities resemble those associated with Shisui.
• Tobirama mocks Izuna’s defeat, while Madara prioritizes caring for his brother. Hashirama accompanies Tobirama to visit them.
• Black Zetsu remains resentful of Nine-Tails and keeps a running list of future grudges.

Significant themes

• Cruelty and revenge: Kagami’s grotesque genjutsu provokes a violent reprisal, while Zetsu nurses a petty grudge.
• The mind shaping power: Kagami’s Mangekyō abilities reflect intense emotions and can alter how victims experience reality.
• Comedy through escalation: The characters’ feuds and trauma repeatedly turn ordinary encounters—especially the banana—into absurd crises.

Key events

• Half a month after his injuries, Kagami is discharged and loudly declares himself “reborn.” He promptly joins Hiruzen and Danzo on a relentless run of missions, earning a fearsome reputation: opponents are said to suffer psychological breakdowns, retire, or worse.
• Kagami’s reputation takes the ridiculous form of the nickname “Uchiha Terrifying Feces.” He suspects Dave started it, though Dave never admits it. Hiruzen and Danzo find the name hilarious.
• Kagami threatens to demonstrate the “power” behind his epithet, but Izuna appears and jokingly volunteers to accompany him on missions. Dave predicts Kagami will soon need another hospital bed.
• The prediction comes true. On their mission, Izuna uses the Second Hokage’s forbidden technique, Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, unleashing a hundred million tags. Kagami survives only by activating Susanoo, but is badly injured and hospitalized again.
• While Dave feeds the injured Kagami a banana, Kagami curses whoever invented the technique. Dave reveals that the inventor is the Second Hokage—and then tells Kagami he has already sent him Kagami’s exact words. The Second Hokage plans to visit after Kagami is discharged.

Character developments and interactions

• Kagami is exuberant and ambitious after recovering, but his swagger gives way to pain and panic when Izuna’s “care” lands him back in the hospital. Even injured, he cannot resist making threats—until he learns who invented the technique.
• Dave acts as a mischievous instigator, likely responsible for Kagami’s humiliating nickname, and enjoys teasing him. His final “good Samaritan” gesture is to pass Kagami’s insult along to its target.
• Hiruzen and Danzo share in the joke, with Hiruzen laughing openly and Danzo smiling fondly.
• Izuna presents himself as a protective clan elder, but his mission escort results in Kagami being caught in an enormous explosion.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays comic exaggeration against Kagami’s genuinely dangerous reputation, turning his victories and injuries into absurd spectacle.
• Teasing and camaraderie shape the group’s relationships: Kagami is routinely mocked, while the others treat his dramatic reactions as entertainment.
• Irony drives the ending: Kagami threatens the technique’s inventor without knowing who it is, and Dave ensures the Second Hokage hears him.

Plot and events

• During class, Yulan retaliates against Kimima for earlier bullying by claiming most of their shared desk. Kimima complains to the teacher, but instead of answering the lesson question, he demands that Yulan be removed. The teacher sends him out.
• Kimima tries to bribe the teacher with a thousand ryo, hoping to buy a day of peace. The teacher rejects the attempt and orders him to bring a guardian after class.
• Kakuzu comes to the school. When the teacher explains that Kimima tried to bribe him to bully another student, Kakuzu appears outraged—but his real objection is that Kimima wasted so much money. He scolds the boy for failing to bargain and for not handling the problem himself.
• Kakuzu and Kimima are left waiting outside the office for another guardian. Kimima calls Dave, who arrives annoyed. Dave finds Sakumo waiting at school so he can walk home with Kimima, and promises to deal with both Kimima and Kakuzu later.

Character developments and interactions

• Kimima shows entitlement and a readiness to use money to get his way, but also imitates Kakuzu’s mannerisms and has absorbed his cost-conscious approach.
• Yulan confidently gets revenge on Kimima by taking over their desk space.
• Kakuzu reveals that his moral concern is secondary to his concern about wasted money; his lesson to Kimima is essentially to bargain harder or act independently.
• The teacher tries to correct Kimima’s behavior, but is stunned when Kakuzu focuses on the cost of the bribe rather than its ethics.
• Sakumo remains patient and considerate, waiting to accompany Kimima home. Dave recognizes Sakumo’s good behavior but is exasperated by Kimima and Kakuzu.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses comedy to contrast schoolroom discipline with the family’s money-centered values.
• It highlights how children imitate the adults around them: Kimima copies Kakuzu’s behavior and speech.
• The gap between good intentions and practical consequences drives the humor, especially as the teacher’s attempt to teach ethics becomes a lecture about bargaining.

Key events

• Dave walks home with Kakuzu, Kimima, and Sakumo. He docks Kakuzu’s share of the month’s profits and orders Kimima to hand over his money, intimidating both into silence.
• Sakumo and Kimima head to Teuchi’s busy food stall to help. Sakumo asks Dave whether Kagami’s notorious title, “Uchiha Terrifying Feces,” is really Kagami’s.
• Sakumo explains that he worries future missions might earn him an equally humiliating nickname—“Hatake Terrorist.” He and Kimima walk on, dwelling on the possibility.
• At the Internet Cafe, Kagami—newly discharged from the hospital—gathers Danzo, Dave, Hiruzen, and Torifu for a five-person ranked match in the new season of Shinobi World Alliance.
• Kagami instantly locks in Dave as his character, provoking an angry outburst from the group. But when Kagami reveals his Mangekyō Sharingan, everyone quickly backs down and resumes the game.
• In a separate match, Madara boasts about his Hashirama ranking. A random player reveals a higher Land of Fire ranking, prompting Madara to check the newly expanded leaderboard. Though he is only 105th in the region, he becomes eager to climb to number one.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave acts as an imposing, financially strict guardian, but also joins the others’ gaming plans. His resemblance to Tobirama is emphasized.
• Sakumo is anxious about the lasting consequences of embarrassing titles and seeks reassurance from Dave. Kimima shares his concern, though his private fantasy of someday retaliating against Dave remains.
• Kagami is fearless—or reckless—enough to pick Dave in a ranked game, and his Mangekyō quickly silences the group’s complaints.
• Madara shifts from boasting about local success to treating the wider regional leaderboard as a new challenge.

Significant themes

• Reputation and ridicule: The game’s comic titles worry Sakumo and define Kagami’s public image.
• Competition and ambition: New regional rankings transform the game into a larger contest, especially for Madara.
• Power and intimidation: Dave’s authority and Kagami’s Sharingan both make others quickly yield.
• Gaming as social life: The game links characters across the village and now across the Land of Fire.

Key plot points and events

• In a team game against F4, Madara picks Tobirama for jungle and Kakuzu for mid, while Kagami struggles badly in top lane, reaching 0/15.
• Dave orders Kagami to switch to mid and focus on farming, then seed both jungles with mushrooms. Madara blunders into the traps while low on health and is killed, recognizing the familiar tactic.
• The next day, Kagami is back in the hospital. He boasts to Shanshan that he is a powerful ninja injured in a fight, though the others know the truth. Shanshan then asks whether he is the infamous “Uchiha Terrifying Feces,” wiping the smile from his face.
• On the way to buy Kagami fruit, Dave is warned by the Nine-Tails that the fruit seller intends harm. The seller is a low-level bounty hunter who mistakes Dave for Tobirama and attempts an assassination. Dave exposes the ruse and kills him.
• Afterward, Dave tells the Nine-Tails that something has happened in the village.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave shows tactical ingenuity and a knack for turning Kagami’s poor play into an effective trap. He also remains calm and observant when he senses the fruit seller’s threat.
• Kagami remains boastful and oblivious: he follows Dave’s instructions without realizing he is playing against F4, then invents a heroic explanation for his latest hospital stay.
• Madara is an intimidating opponent, but Kagami’s mushrooms catch him off guard.
• Shanshan admires Kagami, while the adults silently enjoy seeing his boasting punctured.
• The bounty hunter’s overconfidence leads him to target Dave, whom he mistakes for Tobirama; Dave quickly turns the attempted attack against him.

Significant themes

• Comic irony and humiliation: Kagami’s self-image as a great warrior contrasts with his repeated defeats and injuries.
• Overconfidence and misjudgment: The bounty hunter underestimates his target, just as Kagami remains unaware of the situation around him.
• Cunning over strength: Dave wins through planning, traps, and sharp observation rather than straightforward confrontation.

Plot points

• Dave’s public explanation for killing someone calms the villagers, though Tobirama has to stop some fans from desecrating the body. The black market has resurfaced despite Madara and Hashirama previously clearing it out, suggesting someone is supporting it.
• On Hokage Rock, Tsukimi worries that her troublesome younger brother, Kagami, keeps provoking their father and the Hokage. Dave reassures her and proposes giving her father, the Second Elder, another occupation; learning he is healthy, he decides to contact Kakuzu.
• Izuna spots Dave and Tsukimi cuddling on Hokage Rock. He and Tobirama abandon their planned gaming session and go on an extraordinary number of blind dates instead.
• Dave and Tsukimi head into the village for ramen. At a street stall, they encounter Black Zetsu and the Nine-Tails arguing over a rabbit-ear headband. Dave ignores Zetsu’s plea for help, buys two headbands, and gives one to Tsukimi. The stallholder explains that Dave’s company provides generous work benefits and that his low rents have helped local vendors.
• Dave and Tsukimi leave happily together. The disappointed Zetsu and Nine-Tails lose their appetite, then return to gaming.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave is affectionate and playful with Tsukimi, while also showing concern for her family. His economic support of workers and shopkeepers has earned him strong local goodwill.
• Tsukimi is protective of her father and frustrated by Kagami’s behavior, but trusts Dave’s judgment and enjoys their romantic time together.
• Izuna and Tobirama share a comic reaction to Dave and Tsukimi’s public affection, turning their frustration into a marathon blind-date outing.
• Black Zetsu and the Nine-Tails briefly clash over the headband, then find themselves sidelined by Dave and Tsukimi’s flirtation.

Significant themes

• Romance and humor: Dave and Tsukimi’s tender outing contrasts with the chapter’s absurd side jokes.
• Family responsibility: Tsukimi worries about both her father and her unruly brother; Dave tries to ease her concerns.
• Community goodwill and influence: Dave’s business practices have improved the livelihoods of workers and vendors, strengthening his standing among villagers.
• Ongoing instability: The black market’s rapid return hints at a larger, unresolved force operating behind the scenes.

Key plot points and events

• Dave and Tsukimi visit Teuchi’s ramen stall and learn that Sakumo has gone off with a girl, while Duy has been sent for more training after breaking dishes at work.
• After lunch, Dave visits Kakuzu at the Internet Cafe and gives him a new job, though its details are not revealed.
• Tsukimi persuades her reluctant father, Uchiha Changjiang, to join a travel group organized by Dave and Kakuzu. At first he refuses, but joins enthusiastically when Tsukimi suggests she can cancel the trip.
• Dave arrives as the tour’s driver in a newly built, oversized Tour Bus, designed by Orochiroku. Kakuzu immediately sees a business opportunity in selling vehicles.

Character developments and interactions

• Changjiang shifts from wary, stubborn retirement to eager anticipation of travel, framing the trip as a chance to broaden his horizons and recover from years of warfare.
• Tsukimi shows care for her father by arranging an outing, and is pleased when he finally agrees.
• Dave continues to combine personal relationships with entrepreneurial schemes, arranging the tour and spotting possible vehicle sales.
• Kakuzu remains relentlessly profit-minded: even while organizing the group, he focuses on the bus’s cost and potential returns.
• Black Zetsu helps manage the elderly travelers, though he is resentful about being made to assist.
• Sakumo and Duy’s absence adds comic evidence that Dave’s friends are unreliable business partners, even as he remains fond of them.

Significant themes

• Retirement and renewal: Changjiang is encouraged to step beyond the village and find fresh experiences after a life shaped by conflict.
• Business-minded ingenuity: Dave and Kakuzu turn travel and new technology into potential commercial ventures.
• Affection beneath teasing: Dave’s jokes about his friends and Tsukimi’s gentle coaxing reveal close, supportive relationships.
• Comedy through contrast: The grand claims of the travel agency and the enormous bus clash humorously with the group’s ordinary, money-focused concerns.

Plot points and events

• The elderly passengers board Dave’s tour bus, excited by the unfamiliar vehicle. The Second Uchiha Elder claims a seat at the back and joins Changjiang, who is surrounded by the aunties. Disabled Old Man feels miserable by comparison, stuck between the money-obsessed Tour Guide and the village dung collector.
• As Dave drives slowly through the Land of Fire, a pair of bandits spot the bus and decide the elderly passengers will make an easy target.
• The bandit leader blocks the road. Dave stops, but Kakuzu signals that the man poses no real threat. Dave opens the bus door and lets him approach.
• While trying to show off, the bandit leader accidentally stabs himself in the thigh. He boards anyway and threatens Dave, who introduces himself as the fabricated “Kagami Uchiha.”
• The bandit doubts the claim, so Dave puts on a prop and, with Black Zetsu’s help, reveals a pair of feces-shaped Mangekyō Sharingan—matching the ridiculous rumor Dave himself spread.
• The bandit recognizes “Kagami” and panics, but regains his nerve when his underling arrives with several hundred bandits. He boasts that they can overwhelm Dave and his group.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave remains playful and deceptive, turning the bandit’s challenge into a joke and using his own absurd reputation to intimidate him.
• The bandit leader is boastful but inept: he wounds himself while posing, yet persists in acting tough. Fear of Dave briefly unsettles him before reinforcements restore his confidence.
• Black Zetsu reluctantly helps Dave after being offered extra payment; their exchange suggests a transactional, familiar relationship.
• Kakuzu calmly assesses the threat and reassures Dave with a dismissive gesture.
• Disabled Old Man feels increasingly isolated and envious as he compares his situation with Changjiang’s popularity among the aunties.

Themes and tone

• The chapter uses absurdist comedy, especially the bandit’s self-inflicted injury and the crude Sharingan rumor.
• It plays with deception and reputation: Dave weaponizes a fabricated identity and a ridiculous legend.
• There is a contrast between the passengers’ peaceful sightseeing and the bandits’ attempted robbery, setting up an impending confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Dave and Black Zetsu step off the bus to confront bandits led by Jijibo, a former Chunin who boasts of his “Pig Hero” title and threatens the passengers.
• Dave mocks Jijibo’s name, then presents himself as the infamous Kagami Uchiha, using his unusual Mangekyō Sharingan and reputation to frighten the bandits.
• Dave and Black Zetsu carry out an elaborate gag: Black Zetsu throws a bucket of feces over the bandits while Dave whips up a cloud of dust. The disgusted gang collapses into vomiting and chaos.
• Jijibo summons his powerful wild boar, but a disabled elderly passenger insists on joining the fight. After Kakuzu carries him off the bus—prompted by a payment—the old man uses Earth Release walls to halt the boar and a Fireball Technique to defeat it.
• With his gang beaten, Jijibo asks Dave to spare his men. Dave instead offers the whole group work as delivery staff for the Love Kidney Company in Konoha, suggesting the boar could help with deliveries.

Character developments

• Dave shifts from playful mockery to theatrical intimidation, then treats the defeated bandits pragmatically, offering them a way out of banditry.
• Jijibo goes from boastful confidence to humiliation and defeat, but shows concern for his followers by asking that they be allowed to leave.
• The disabled old man reveals that he was once a Jonin and is still capable in combat, despite his age and disability. He is eager to protect Dave, though Dave knows he does not need rescuing.
• Kakuzu remains motivated by money: the old man’s offer quickly persuades him to help.
• Black Zetsu supports Dave’s scheme by providing and scattering the bucket’s contents.

Character interactions

• Dave and Jijibo trade taunts, with Dave undermining the bandit chief’s fearsome self-image before invoking his own exaggerated reputation.
• The old man mistakenly believes Dave is in danger and insists on helping; Dave reluctantly lets him take the spotlight.
• Kakuzu carries the old man off the bus after being paid, while Uchiha Changjiang remains unaware of the confrontation, chatting with the other passengers.
• After the battle, Jijibo appeals for his men, and Dave redirects the defeated gang toward employment.

Significant themes

• Comic reversal: A feared bandit gang is defeated less by conventional force than by an absurd, disgusting prank.
• Bravado versus reality: Jijibo’s intimidating title and numbers prove useless against Dave’s theatrics and the old man’s skill.
• Rehabilitation over revenge: Dave’s final offer turns the bandits’ defeat into a chance to become workers rather than continuing as criminals.

Key plot points and events

• Jijibo and his surviving bandits are persuaded by Dave’s stories of Konoha’s generous allowances and easy work. They agree to wash up before going there, though Jijibo’s thoughts about accidentally tasting the filth they were covered in make him vomit on the road.
• During the bus ride, Kakuzu asks Dave about his Sharingan. Dave reveals they are colored contact lenses and offers to sell Kakuzu a pair. Kakuzu is startled to learn they are popular in Konoha and declines.
• Black Zetsu explains that, without chakra, he carries a bucket of excrement for protection. Kakuzu pities him, misreading his quiet sadness as evidence of hardship.
• Uchiha Changjiang is displaced by passengers who admire the disabled old man’s heroic fight. The old man’s dismissive look leaves Changjiang seething.
• Kakuzu contacts Orochiroku about producing smaller tour buses. Orochiroku says metal supplies are scarce, so Kakuzu directs him to buy materials through the Black Market, where he expects better prices.
• The group arrives safely in the Land of Hot Water, a country that depends on visitors and hot-spring tourism. Dave intimidates the parking attendant into accepting the enormous bus as a carriage and threatens the country with accountability if it is lost.
• At the inn, the owner cannot decide whether Black Zetsu belongs in the men’s or women’s bath. He resolves the problem by digging a small pool behind the inn and labeling it “Pet-Only Hot Spring Pool.” Black Zetsu is enraged.

Character developments and interactions

• Jijibo is eager to abandon bandit life for the comforts Dave describes, but his toughness gives way to a comic bout of nausea.
• Dave remains boastful and opportunistic, selling the illusion of a Sharingan and using his intimidating reputation to secure parking.
• Kakuzu combines business sense with blunt curiosity: he investigates the contacts, pities Black Zetsu, and plans to expand the bus enterprise through cheaper materials.
• Uchiha Changjiang is deeply sensitive to disrespect and becomes resentful after losing the attention of the women—and being looked down on—despite his history as a fighter.
• Black Zetsu is practical about protecting himself without chakra, but the innkeeper’s humiliating solution pushes him to the brink of violence.
• Orochiroku is willing to pursue Kakuzu’s commercial plans, though material shortages make the project difficult.

Significant themes

• Comedy through absurdity and humiliation: filthy bandits, fake Sharingan contacts, an enormous “carriage,” and Black Zetsu’s designated pet pool all turn serious ninja-world conventions into farce.
• Commerce and opportunism: characters treat everything—from eye contacts to buses and travel—as a business opportunity.
• Status and recognition: Changjiang’s anger shows how strongly he values respect, while the inn’s treatment of Black Zetsu reduces him to an awkward category rather than acknowledging his personhood.

Key plot points and events

• During a trip organized by Kakuzu, Uchiha Changjiang and wheelchair-bound Maruboshi Ohta quarrel in the bathhouse after Changjiang insults Ohta. Dave glimpses their ensuing scuffle but pretends not to have seen it.
• The two elderly men become travel companions in the worst way: Changjiang takes over pushing Ohta’s wheelchair and repeatedly sends him tumbling. After half a month of sightseeing, Changjiang returns unharmed while Ohta is bandaged. Ohta’s son complains to Kakuzu, but Ohta insists on traveling again to get even with Changjiang.
• Kakuzu hands the travel agency over to Black Zetsu.
• Dave returns to Konoha and learns that the newly sold cars have caused chaos. Madara and Hashirama, neither trained to drive, have repeatedly crashed cars; Madara even flattened a mountain with his Gundam after Hashirama mocked him.
• On Dave’s advice, Tobirama introduces age and licensing requirements, with jail time for unlicensed driving. Madara and Hashirama are brought to driving school, where Kakuzu becomes their instructor. Madara scoffs at the rules, while Hashirama eagerly takes notes—until he realizes Kakuzu’s first instruction is simply to pay the course fee.

Character developments and interactions

• Changjiang and Ohta’s rivalry becomes an ongoing, petty feud; Ohta’s determination to travel again is now driven by revenge.
• Dave stays discreet during the bathhouse fight and later offers Tobirama a practical solution to the driving crisis.
• Tobirama prioritizes public order over a warm reunion, immediately confronting Dave about the car-related chaos.
• Madara’s pride clashes with his younger brother’s insistence that he learn to drive; Hashirama, by contrast, approaches the course earnestly.
• Kakuzu moves from managing the elderly travelers to teaching the village’s most troublesome drivers, despite feeling intimidated by his students.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses slapstick and absurdity to turn feuds, aging, and reckless behavior into comedy.
• It contrasts stubborn pride with responsibility: Ohta refuses to give up his grudge, while Madara resists basic rules even when his recklessness endangers others.
• New technology brings disorder when introduced without proper training, prompting regulation and instruction.

Key plot points and events

• Kakuzu’s “lesson” is brief: he hands out booklets and dismisses the class, prompting Hashirama to admire his cool exit while Madara fumes over the wasted fee.
• Jijibo and his bandits ask Orochiroku for work. On Dave’s instructions, they are tasked with breeding more than two hundred obedient, rideable pigs.
• The pigs soon get loose in Konoha. One steals pastries from Little Nine-Tails, who gives chase, while residents pursue another pig. The animals evade capture, and the resulting collisions and chaos spread through the village.
• A pig knocks Black Zetsu into a cesspit. He rushes to the Hokage’s office to confront Tobirama, but ends up hospitalized and sentenced to clean Konoha for a week.

Character developments and interactions

• Hashirama remains easily distracted, daydreaming about Kakuzu’s glamorous lifestyle; Madara reacts with irritation and contempt.
• Jijibo and his bandits are relieved to finally have a job and eagerly accept the pig-breeding assignment.
• Little Nine-Tails is beloved by villagers for his generosity and willingness to protect others, making the pastry theft especially infuriating to him.
• Black Zetsu is left humiliated and despairing, lamenting that he only wants to earn money for a gift for his mother.

Significant themes

• Comic absurdity: A mundane breeding assignment spirals into village-wide mayhem.
• Status and reversal: Little Nine-Tails, normally a feared beast, is popular, while Black Zetsu’s attempt to assert himself ends in further punishment.
• Misfortune and injustice: Black Zetsu sees his string of humiliations as inexplicable cruelty, providing the chapter’s bleakly comic ending.

Key events

• Tobirama reprimands Jijibo and the others after their piglets escape and disrupt the village. He orders them to apologize to affected villagers and pay compensation.
• Izuna reports that Hashirama is still studying for his driving test, while Madara has passed the theory portion but is stuck on reverse parking.
• Tobirama learns that Kagami’s infamous antics have caused panic in several neighboring countries, which have demanded compensation and issued a notice banning dogs and Uchiha Kagami. Rather than apologize, Tobirama threatens to send Kagami back to them.
• Kagami returns from a mission with Danzo and Hiruzen. Tobirama and Izuna wait outside the closed village gate; Danzo and Hiruzen realize Kagami is the real target and discreetly distance themselves.
• Mistaking Tobirama’s attention for a friendly welcome, Kagami says he needs rest. Tobirama promptly beats him badly enough to send him to the hospital. The gate guard obeys Tobirama’s order to keep the gate shut, even as Kagami screams outside.

Character developments and interactions

• Tobirama shows his short temper and rigid sense of authority, but also his willingness to use the Hokage’s power to punish Kagami—and protect the village’s reputation in his own absurd way.
• Kagami remains cheerfully oblivious to danger, interpreting Tobirama’s ominous welcome as recognition of his growing strength. His confidence collapses into desperate cries for help.
• Izuna acts as Tobirama’s practical, weary counterpart: he reports the latest troubles, anticipates Kagami’s fate, and arranges for the hospital to collect him.
• Danzo and Hiruzen quickly recognize that Tobirama’s anger is aimed at Kagami and avoid getting caught up in it.
• The gate guard follows Tobirama’s command literally, while the nurses and doctor wait on the other side, adding to the scene’s darkly comic absurdity.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses slapstick and irony to portray village leadership as an endless stream of ridiculous crises.
• Kagami’s oblivious optimism contrasts with everyone else’s fear and understanding of the danger.
• Loyalty and obedience to authority are taken to absurd extremes, as the guard refuses to open the gate despite Kagami’s screams.

Key plot points and events

• Kagami is hospitalized again, bandaged after being attacked by people who mistook him for someone using his name to scam others. He angrily insists he has not visited the places where the scams occurred.
• Hiruzen watches a young nurse treat Kagami, then pretends he was only checking that she inserted the IV correctly. Dave privately worries about Black Zetsu, who has recently endured a string of bizarre misfortunes.
• Kagami identifies the nurse as Biwako Sarutobi. Hiruzen becomes excited and asks his friends to help him win her over.
• Dave, Danzo, and Kagami tease Hiruzen by arguing that he is neither especially handsome nor stronger or more important than they are. Hiruzen concedes that their claims have some truth and retreats to a corner, feeling picked on.

Character developments

• Kagami remains fiery and frustrated by his repeated hospital stays, but contributes the information that sparks Hiruzen’s romantic interest.
• Hiruzen reveals a shy, earnest side beneath his boastfulness: he has a crush on Biwako and seeks his friends’ help. His confidence quickly crumbles under their teasing.
• Dave drives the scene with sarcastic humor and enjoys puncturing Hiruzen’s self-importance.
• Danzo mostly observes, though he joins the group’s blunt verdict and is himself lightly stung by Dave’s assessment.
• Black Zetsu, absent from the scene, is the target of Dave’s sympathetic—and darkly comic—concern.

Significant themes

• Friendship through teasing: The friends’ candid mockery is presented as familiar, if rather merciless, banter.
• Pride versus reality: Hiruzen boasts about his looks, strength, and clan position, only to recognize that his companions may surpass him in each area.
• Fate and absurd misfortune: Kagami’s mistaken-identity beating and Black Zetsu’s escalating bad luck add a comic sense of unfair, random suffering.

Character interactions

• Hiruzen’s interest in Biwako prompts Kagami to share what he knows, while Dave and the others react with skepticism.
• Dave challenges Hiruzen’s claims one by one; Danzo and Kagami join in, turning the conversation into a coordinated roast.
• The scene ends with Hiruzen sulking after his friends’ teasing, while Dave’s concern for Black Zetsu supplies a parallel comic aside.

Plot and key events

• Hiruzen asks his friends Dave, Kagami, and Zang for help winning over Biwako. Dave proposes engineering a chance for Hiruzen to speak with her alone and get her contact information.
• The group decides to use Kagami as the pretext: they force-feed him a bottle of something, then Hiruzen reports that Kagami tried to kill himself and is seriously ill.
• At the hospital, Biwako is moved by Hiruzen’s apparent concern for his childhood friend. Hiruzen pretends to break down crying, and Biwako comforts him and gives him her QQ contact so he can ask for updates.
• Hiruzen celebrates his success. After learning from Biwako’s social-media posts that she likes medical ninjutsu, he decides to ask an uncle to teach him about it.
• Meanwhile, Kagami undergoes stomach and intestinal procedures in the emergency room and bitterly curses his friends.

Character developments and interactions

• Hiruzen is eager and calculating in pursuit of Biwako, using feigned distress to gain her sympathy and contact details. His romantic infatuation makes him oblivious to the harm done to Kagami.
• Dave acts as Hiruzen’s scheming dating adviser, coaching him through the plan and praising his performance.
• Zang helps carry out the prank and remains unconcerned while Kagami is treated.
• Kagami is the unwilling victim of their scheme; his confusion and suffering provide the chapter’s darkly comic punchline.
• Biwako, a new nurse, mistakes Hiruzen’s staged grief for genuine friendship and responds compassionately.

Significant themes

• Manipulation disguised as romance: Hiruzen treats a medical emergency as an opportunity to get closer to Biwako.
• Friendship and betrayal: The friends’ banter and teamwork come at Kagami’s expense.
• Comic contrast: Hiruzen’s lovestruck excitement clashes with Kagami’s severe, miserable ordeal and Biwako’s sincere concern.