Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Chikage exposed the Hokage’s Office’s 500-million-ryo debt and defended the Daimyo’s control of Konoha’s supplies. Minister Asano then ordered Chikage to take over wartime logistics, leaving Hiruzen and his advisers protesting the loss of their authority.

• Hyuga Hiashi and the other clan leaders confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over shortages of weapons, rations, and medical supplies for the front lines.
• Hiruzen blamed Chikage and the Daimyo’s Internal Affairs Ministry for withholding supplies, but Chikage produced the agreement showing the Hokage’s Office owed 500 million ryo for Danzo’s sabotage.
• The clan leaders condemned Hiruzen after reading the debt agreement and realizing the village’s reserve funds had been spent on compensation.
• Minister Asano announced that the Daimyo’s Residence would advance money for supplies but would establish a wartime supply office under Chikage’s control.
• Asano ordered the Hokage’s Office to surrender the Black Iron Seal, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura objected to Chikage taking over logistics.

Chikage forced Hiruzen to surrender Konoha’s Logistics Seal and quickly equipped the clan forces for the front lines. After securing control of the village’s core defense supplies, Chikage set out with Itachi toward the Land of Waves border to confront Obito and settle the score over the Explosive Tags.

• Asano and the clan heads pressured Hiruzen to hand over the Logistics Seal, arguing that the troops needed supplies to fight the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Hiruzen surrendered the Black Iron Seal, and Chikage took it and directed the clan heads to collect supplies from Warehouse One.
• Chikage’s forces distributed Explosive Tags, Soldier Pills, weapons, and healing potions to two thousand Konoha shinobi.
• Itachi told Chikage that the troops could head for the front lines within an hour, while Chikage received the Logistics King achievement and 20,000 bonus points.
• Chikage left Yashiro and the others to oversee the supplies and went with Itachi toward the border to confront Obito near the Land of Waves.

Chikage arrived at the Land of Waves front in a carriage and stopped a Kirigakure assault with his Wood Release. Obito witnessed the display and questioned what Chikage really was.

• Chikage, Yashiro, and Itachi rode toward the eastern coastal front while Chikage earned a fivefold check-in bonus for the dangerous assignment.
• Kirigakure forces cornered wounded Konoha ninja at a medical station as Obito watched and planned to draw out Konoha's reinforcements.
• Chikage's carriage arrived between the two sides, and the Kirigakure Jonin ordered his troops to attack it.
• Chikage used Wood Release to impale the charging Kirigakure Jonin and vanguard, then told Itachi to record the damage for reimbursement.
• Obito recognized Chikage's Wood Release and wondered what he was.

Chikage used Sage Art Wood Release to defeat the genjutsu-controlled Fourth Mizukage and rout Kirigakure’s vanguard, then spotted Obito hiding nearby. Obito began to flee through Kamui, but Chikage confronted him before he could escape.

• Obito controlled Yagura with genjutsu and sent the Fourth Mizukage to attack Chikage’s convoy with Kirigakure’s vanguard.
• Yagura transformed and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Chikage blocked it with Sage Art: Wood Release: Hōbi Technique.
• Chikage summoned a Wood Dragon that restrained Yagura and drained his tailed beast chakra, leaving him unconscious.
• Kirigakure’s forces dropped their weapons and fled, while Chikage ordered Itachi to seal the captured Mizukage.
• Obito tried to escape through Kamui, but Chikage found him in the treetops and asked why he was in such a hurry to leave.

Chikage faced Obito and the Six Paths of Pain as they tried to seize Yagura, then called for reinforcements while preparing to hold them off. As the battle began, the Asura Path launched missiles at Itachi’s messenger crow.

• Chikage confronted Obito over damages and unpaid debts, and Yashiro recorded the new charges.
• Obito revealed the Six Paths of Pain, whose Deva Path demanded that Chikage hand over Yagura.
• Chikage used Sage Art: Wood Release to keep Pain from pulling Yagura away with Banshō Ten'in.
• Chikage stopped Yashiro from charging into battle and told Itachi to send a distress signal to Fugaku for armed reinforcements.
• Itachi summoned a messenger crow, and the Asura Path fired three missiles at it.

Chikage destroyed the missiles threatening the message crow, survived Obito’s surprise attack, and tried to turn Pain against Obito with a bounty offer. Pain rejected his arguments and ordered the Six Paths to attack, leaving Chikage, Itachi, and Yashiro facing their formation as reinforcements raced toward them.

• Chikage intercepted and destroyed three missiles, but Obito emerged from a spatial vortex and wounded his left shoulder before retreating.
• The message crow crossed the coastal defense barrier toward Konoha, and Itachi told Chikage that reinforcements could arrive within twenty minutes.
• Chikage taunted Pain and offered to split the bounty for capturing Obito, while Yashiro listened in disbelief.
• Pain rejected Chikage’s offer, declared that money was unnecessary to a god, and vowed to kill him.
• The Six Paths of Pain formed an attack-and-defense formation as a crushing surge of chakra and killing intent engulfed the beach.

Chikage used Wood Release to hold off Pain’s forces while waiting for reinforcements, but Obito ordered Pain to unleash Shinra Tensei. The chapter ended as Chikage braced his wooden defenses for the attack.

• Animal Path summoned a multi-headed dog and a Hell Crab, and Chikage countered them with the Wood Human Technique.
• Preta Path absorbed Chikage’s lightning attack, while Yashiro used Susanoo to repel Human Path before retreating with Itachi.
• Chikage calculated that reinforcements were still ten minutes away and enclosed himself, Yagura, Yashiro, and Itachi in a Wood Release defense to stall.
• Two Anbu spies witnessed the battle and sent a warning about the mythic powers to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Obito recognized that Chikage was waiting for reinforcements and urged Deva Path Pain to finish the fight with Shinra Tensei.
• Pain raised his hands and unleashed Shinra Tensei as Chikage reinforced the wooden defenses and warned Itachi and Yashiro to hold on.

Chikage endured Pain’s Shinra Tensei, then exploited Deva Path Pain’s five-second cooldown to counter with poisonous pollen and retreat with Yagura, Yashiro, and Itachi. Obito intercepted them and threatened Chikage, who answered by calculating the damages Obito owed for the destroyed forest before Obito attacked.

• Chikage protected himself and his allies from Shinra Tensei with a wooden fortress, suffering injuries that his Senju Sage Body quickly healed.
• After Shinra Tensei ended, Chikage used the cooldown to release poisonous pollen that engulfed Pain’s Six Paths and forced them to retreat.
• Chikage carried the unconscious Yagura as he, Yashiro, and Itachi fled into the forest and took cover several hundred meters away.
• Obito appeared beside them and mocked Chikage for retreating, while Yashiro drew his sword and challenged him.
• Chikage cited the forest-destruction laws and calculated millions of ryō in damages against Obito and Pain.
• Obito angrily attacked Chikage with a black rod.

Chikage, Itachi, and Yashiro fought Obito and the Six Paths of Pain at the Land of Waves border, but their attackers steadily overwhelmed them. After Fugaku received Itachi’s emergency message, he led the Uchiha clan’s combat forces out of Konoha to reinforce them, while Chikage’s group remained trapped at the edge of a cliff.

• Obito and the Six Paths of Pain pressed Chikage, Yashiro, and Itachi with coordinated attacks and a dog that could revive after being killed.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Amaterasu on the Multi-Headed Dog, but Preta Path absorbed the flames, leaving Itachi exhausted and bleeding.
• Chikage stopped Preta Path with Explosive Tags, pulled Itachi out of danger, and restored some of his strength while the enemy regrouped.
• Fugaku received Itachi’s bloodstained message reporting the ambush, the Rinnegan, and the capture of the Fourth Mizukage, then ordered a level-one alert.
• Fugaku assembled more than two hundred Uchiha combatants, requisitioned transport wagons, and led the force toward the Land of Waves.
• At the cliff’s edge, Chikage faced the Six Paths of Pain’s renewed attack as Obito declared the fight over.

Chikage held the Akatsuki at bay by threatening to destroy Yagura’s Three-Tails seal, forcing both sides into a tense standoff. Meanwhile, Hiruzen learned of the Rinnegan and Chikage’s Wood Release but failed to rally Konoha’s major clans, and Obito began a surprise Kamui attack on Chikage’s arm.

• Chikage used Yagura as a shield and threatened to detonate the Three-Tails’ seal if the Akatsuki attacked or tried to pull him away.
• Obito and Deva Path Pain halted their assault, and Chikage demanded compensation while the two sides formed a temporary stalemate.
• Hiruzen received a report that the Rinnegan and Wood Release had appeared at the Land of Waves border and that Chikage had captured Yagura.
• Hiruzen ordered a wartime council and an expeditionary force, but Konoha’s clan heads refused to leave their business, leaving him unable to mobilize the village’s forces.
• Hiruzen ordered the report suppressed and sent Anbu scouts to monitor the border.
• Obito used Kamui to begin reaching for Chikage’s arm as Chikage continued holding Yagura.

Chikage resisted Obito’s genjutsu and struck him, but Obito and the Six Paths of Pain prepared to escalate their attack. Fugaku and the Uchiha main force arrived, revealing five Mangekyō Sharingan users and five Susanoo as they confronted Obito and Pain.

• Obito ambushed Chikage with genjutsu, but Chikage’s Senju Sage Body dispelled it, and Chikage punched Obito through his mask.
• Obito threatened to destroy the cliff and everyone on it, but signal flares and approaching troops announced the arrival of the Uchiha Clan’s main force.
• Fugaku, Inabi, Tekka, and Shisui joined Chikage, and Fugaku challenged Obito for attacking a Konoha Military Police deputy captain and seizing a prisoner.
• Fugaku, Inabi, Tekka, Shisui, and Yashiro revealed their Mangekyō Sharingan, shocking Obito with five Mangekyō users at once.
• The five Uchiha formed five towering Susanoo, while Chikage declared that the Konoha Military Police Force was carrying out compulsory liquidation against Obito.
• Pain rose into the air and declared that he would get serious against the Uchiha’s revealed power.

Chikage and the Uchiha reinforcements repelled Pain's attacks with coordinated Susanoo fire and taijutsu, then Fugaku and Yashiro drove Deva Path Pain back with a combined strike. Nagato suffered the impact through his chakra receivers, while Obito realized the Uchiha force could defeat him if he stayed to fight.

• Asura Path fired homing missiles and Animal Path summoned beasts, but Inabi and Tekka's Susanoo destroyed them with a barrage of Yasaka Magatama.
• Shisui used taijutsu and his sword to knock back Preta Path before he could drain the Susanoo's chakra.
• Fugaku and Yashiro attacked Deva Path Pain with their Susanoo blades, and Pain's Shinra Tensei blocked the strikes but sent him flying backward.
• Nagato coughed up blood after the blades' impact traveled through his chakra receivers, and Konan rushed to support him.
• Obito assessed the five Susanoo and Chikage's strength, then concluded that staying to fight could cost him his life.

Chikage and the Uchiha forces repelled Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain and forced Obito to retreat, while keeping the captured Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura. After the battle, Chikage secured a promise of triple travel allowances, and the system announced that he had changed the Uchiha Clan’s fate and unlocked the Light of Dawn achievement.

• Nagato rejected Obito’s demand to use Planetary Devastation, explaining that the technique would take too long and risk exhausting him against Chikage’s forces.
• Deva Path Pain ordered a retreat, and the Six Paths of Pain escaped toward Amegakure while Obito stayed behind to threaten Chikage and Fugaku.
• Chikage demanded five million two hundred thousand ryo in landscaping compensation, and Obito fled through Kamui without paying.
• After confirming the enemy’s departure, Chikage and the Uchiha forces dismissed their Susanoo and discussed whether to pursue the retreating enemies.
• Chikage told the exhausted Uchiha officers they had earned triple travel allowances, while the system announced his Light of Dawn achievement for changing the Uchiha Clan’s fate.

After Chikage’s team defeated the Land of Water’s invasion and captured Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura, the news revealed the Uchiha’s overwhelming strength and political influence. Chikage returned to Konoha displaying Yagura as a detained offender, prompting the major clan heads to prepare gifts and visit him.

• Chikage received 30,000 check-in points for the campaign, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and his advisers learned that five Uchiha had awakened Mangekyō Sharingan and that Chikage’s team had captured Karatachi Yagura.
• Hiruzen explained that the Uchiha held substantial political and financial power, and Chikage told Fugaku he planned to bill the Hokage’s Office and the Daimyo’s Internal Affairs Ministry for the campaign’s expenses.
• Chikage’s carriages returned to Konoha, where he had the chained Karatachi Yagura displayed outside the Konoha Military Police Force Building with a sign declaring him detained for public order violations.
• Hyuga Hiashi ordered his clan to prepare gifts and decided to visit Chikage, while Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Choza Akimichi also arranged a visit with lavish offerings.
• The heads of Konoha’s major Shinobi Clans sent carriages of precious gifts toward the Uchiha Compound.

Chikage secured investment commitments from Konoha's major clans by offering them a share of the Land of Water's reparations, then faced an Anbu squad sent to claim the Fourth Mizukage. He refused to release Yagura and publicly demanded that the Hokage Building repay its overdue debt.

• Hyuga Hiashi, Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka visited Chikage with gifts and asked about the border battle and the Uchiha's Susanoo.
• Chikage presented a joint defense investment agreement promising the clans protection and shares of the Land of Water's reparations, and the clan heads pledged funds and signed it.
• Inabi told Chikage that an Anbu squad had arrived under orders from the Third Hokage to take custody of the Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura.
• Yashiro told the Anbu that the Daimyo's Internal Affairs Ministry had jurisdiction over Yagura and that they needed authorization from Minister Asano to take him.
• Chikage addressed South Street through a megaphone, demanded payment for the Mizukage, and announced that the Hokage Building still owed four hundred million ryo plus twenty-four million in late fees.

Chikage rejected Konoha Anbu’s attempt to reclaim the captured Mizukage and demanded payment of Konoha’s debts. Days later, Mei Terumi arrived to ransom Yagura, and Chikage set the price at 1.5 billion ryo, leaving negotiations over the terms unresolved.

• Chikage drove off the Anbu and threatened to seize the Hokage’s office furniture unless Hiruzen paid 400 million ryo by morning.
• In Kirigakure, the Terumi Clan head and an elder called for a high-level mission to ransom the captured Yagura before the Three-Tails inside him could be endangered.
• Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s delegation to the South Street Special Economic Zone, where she saw Yagura chained up on public display.
• Chikage rejected Mei’s appeal to hand Yagura over and demanded two billion ryo in war damages, threatening to sell Yagura and extract the Three-Tails if Kirigakure refused.
• Mei offered one billion ryo, but Minister Asano and Chikage countered with 1.5 billion, requiring 500 million up front and the rest in annual payments over three years.

Chikage forced Mei Terumi to accept a trade agreement and a 1.5 billion ryo ransom for Yagura, then divided the first payment among the Daimyo’s treasury, allied clans, and the Konoha Military Police Force. Hiruzen learned that the Hokage’s Office had been excluded and, furious, ordered his direct staff assembled.

• Chikage made Mei Terumi sign a tariff-free trade agreement giving the South Street Special Economic Zone priority over the Land of Water’s seafood, ores, and merchant trade.
• Mei Terumi agreed to pay 1.5 billion ryo, with the first 500 million due within three days, and Chikage sent Yagura back to the underground death prison.
• Chikage allocated the first installment among the Daimyo’s Private Treasury, the investing clans, and the Konoha Military Police Force, while Minister Asano endorsed the arrangement.
• An Anbu deputy commander reported the deal and the clans’ defense offices moving to South Street to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who erupted in anger and nearly collapsed.
• Hiruzen recovered and ordered his direct staff assembled to receive urgent instructions.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha after Hiruzen summoned him over a supposed crisis, only to find the village thriving while Uchiha Chikage had stripped the Hokage's Office of authority and money. Hiruzen complained about Chikage's debts and dealings with the Land of Water, but Jiraiya wondered whether any of it truly counted as a disaster.

• Hiruzen sent a messenger to the Land of Hot Water and ordered Jiraiya to return to Konoha immediately.
• Jiraiya left his hot spring town and raced back after reading Hiruzen's urgent message about a village disaster.
• Jiraiya reached Konoha and found peaceful streets, prosperous shops, and gatekeepers offering a discount in the South Street Special Economic Zone.
• Jiraiya confronted Hiruzen, who blamed Uchiha Chikage for taking control of military supplies and demanding repayment of a four-hundred-million-ryo debt.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura told Jiraiya that Chikage had publicly threatened to seize the Hokage's Office furniture over the debt.
• Hiruzen told Jiraiya that Chikage had captured Karatachi Yagura, displayed him at South Street, and extorted one and a half billion ryo from the Land of Water; Jiraiya questioned whether this was really a disaster.