Recaps

Madara discovered a marriage advertisement featuring him, traced it to Hōkaku, and stopped beating him after Shingetsu and others pleaded for mercy. Meanwhile, Jōnin Yuhi worked to establish a new settlement for her clan and learned someone had arrived from Konoha, though it was not Tobirama.

• Hashirama arrived to calm Madara after Hiruzen Sarutobi was nearly crushed, and Madara suspected Hōkaku had made the marriage advertisement.
• Madara found Hōkaku and beat him while Kurama and Shukaku urged him on, until Shingetsu, Hashirama, Uchiha Miki, and Inari pleaded for Hōkaku's life.
• Madara ordered Hōkaku to get rid of everything he had made, took Shingetsu away, and warned Hōkaku and Uchiha Yan not to repeat the incident.
• Jōnin Yuhi continued overseeing construction in Konoha's new territory, hoping to build a future for the Yūhi Clan there.
• A shinobi told Jōnin Yuhi that someone had arrived from Konoha, but the newcomer was not Lord Tobirama.

Madara Uchiha and Uchiha Shingetsu inspected a ruined agricultural town and learned how war had destroyed its farms, roads, and livelihoods. Shingetsu praised the shinobi’s land-clearing work but discovered that Konoha lacked workers and that the school’s lessons were overwhelmed by hunger and harsh discipline.

• Yuhi Qiang led Madara Uchiha and Uchiha Shingetsu around the ruined town while the civilian shinobi worked nearby.
• Yuhi Qiang explained that repeated wars had devastated the farmland, killed farmers and livestock, and allowed forests to swallow the fields and roads.
• Shingetsu praised the shinobi’s efficient work clearing farmland, and Yuhi Qiang asked Konoha for more workers, supplies, funding, and teachers.
• Shingetsu asked Yuhi Qiang about the school and learned that the adults struggled to learn and that even the children were difficult to teach.
• Madara Uchiha and Shingetsu watched hungry children disrupt a math lesson over imaginary apples before their teacher whipped them and threatened to withhold dinner.

Shingetsu proposed simplifying lessons and preparing a town and factory workforce, while Yuhi Qiang helped plan the settlement’s development. As Madara and Shingetsu prepared to return to Konoha, Yuhi Qiang thanked them for giving shinobi a chance to build a better life.

• Shingetsu asked how long it would take to train the local people as civilian shinobi, and Yuhi Qiang estimated at least three years.
• Shingetsu instructed Yuhi Qiang to simplify lessons around basic literacy, discipline, work, and the Chakra Extraction Technique.
• Shingetsu suggested repairing the road to Konoha, building houses, and constructing factory dormitories, but her attempt to make a wooden house produced a crooked, incomplete structure.
• Madara and Shingetsu decided to return to Konoha rather than stay overnight in the town.
• Yuhi Qiang thanked Madara and Shingetsu, saying she was happy to help rebuild the town and earn the children’s trust.

Yuhi Qiang saw Madara and Shingetsu off after Madara named the rebuilt town Pine Mountain, then Madara returned home and fought with Hōkaku over his attention to Shingetsu. That night, Shingetsu asked Hōkaku to investigate Kazuko, realizing Kazuko’s unexplained presence and knowledge might be connected to her own hidden abilities.

• Yuhi Qiang praised Madara’s choice to name the town Pine Mountain, but Madara recognized her flattery and left with Shingetsu.
• Madara returned to the clan compound, where Hōkaku admitted he was jealous of Madara’s closeness with Shingetsu.
• Madara beat Hōkaku after Hōkaku told him to find a wife and have a child of his own.
• Shingetsu slept beside Hōkaku and asked him to investigate Kazuko’s background.
• Shingetsu realized Kazuko might have been sent to her before anyone knew she possessed Wood Release, leaving her alarmed by Kazuko’s true purpose.

Shingetsu suspected Black Zetsu had sent Kazuko to infiltrate her circle, then endured a bitter medicine while Konoha expanded its civilian shinobi program and prepared for Tatsuki and Momoka’s wedding. As the Daimyō of the Land of Fire’s power collapsed, Huanhai revealed that he wanted Shingetsu alive because he believed her daughter remained under the Fire Temple’s control.

• Shingetsu considered Tobirama, the Daimyō, and Black Zetsu as possible masterminds behind Kazuko’s infiltration, then recovered from her daze and fought against taking Tōka’s bitter medicine.
• Tobirama used many shadow clones to manage Konoha’s work and introduced Shingetsu’s simplified textbook, while civilian shinobi trained under harsh discipline and developed practical civilian ninjutsu.
• Shingetsu accepted Momoka and Tatsuki’s invitation to be a bridesmaid and went shopping with Tōka for wedding gifts.
• The Daimyō of the Land of Fire raged over Konoha’s growing power, the disappearance of the samurai he had hired, and the Land of Iron’s declaration of neutrality.
• Huanhai refused to help the Daimyō, told his disciple to leave Kazuko undercover, and revealed that he wanted Shingetsu to survive because he believed her daughter was still in the Fire Temple’s hands.

Black Zetsu altered a coded Fire Temple message to make Kazuko target Uchiha Shingetsu, hoping to provoke Shingetsu into betrayal and hatred. Meanwhile, Momoka and Tatsuki celebrated their wedding in Konoha and announced that they were expecting a child.

• Huanhai ordered a coded message telling Kazuko to remain undercover, but Black Zetsu intercepted the sutra and changed its message to "Kill Uchiha Shingetsu!"
• Black Zetsu planned to use Kazuko's apparent betrayal to drive Shingetsu into darkness, while ensuring she stayed alive as Mother's vessel.
• Tobirama organized a grand wedding for Momoka and Tatsuki beneath Hokage Rock, where guests from Konoha and other villages gathered to celebrate.
• Shingetsu scattered flowers for the newlyweds, and Madara shoved Kagami aside after he tucked a flower into her hair.
• Momoka and Tatsuki announced to Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara, Auntie Sweet, and Shingetsu that they were going to be parents, and Hashirama celebrated becoming a grandfather.

At Tatsuki and Momoka’s wedding, Hashirama delightedly announced that he would soon be a grandfather while the guests celebrated and Shingetsu enjoyed the cake. Later, the chapter shifted to the Uchiha Clan’s thriving farmland, where Kazuko decoded a message from Black Zetsu ordering her to kill Uchiha Shingetsu.

• Hashirama repeatedly announced his impending grandfatherhood, while Tobirama began planning for the baby and Madara grew irritated.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Academy children joined Madara’s table, devoured the food, and drew Tobirama’s mockery of Madara’s teaching.
• Tatsuki and Momoka kissed, cut their wedding cake, and shared it with the guests, while Uchiha Yan packed away leftovers to take home.
• After the wedding, Madara held the sleeping Shingetsu and felt melancholy as Tobirama took the drunken Hashirama away.
• Kazuko discussed the farmland and her missing daughter with Xiao You, then decoded Black Zetsu’s scripture message: “Kill Uchiha Shingetsu!”

Kazuko faced the order to kill Shingetsu while fearing that Huanhai would discard her and harm her daughter. After Shingetsu learned Kazuko’s past and heard her confession, Kazuko explained that Shingetsu’s dream had given her a reason to live.

• Kazuko deciphered Huanhai’s order to kill Shingetsu, feared losing her daughter, and took out the poison she had brought from the Fire Temple.
• Hōkaku showed Shingetsu reports revealing that Huanhai had ruined Kazuko’s family after her father exposed the Fire Temple’s exploitation of farmers, and Shingetsu asked to speak with Kazuko.
• Kazuko told Shingetsu that Huanhai’s followers had killed her husband and son, threatened her daughter, and forced her to infiltrate Konoha.
• Kazuko admitted she had once wanted to die, but said Shingetsu’s dream of a world where everyone could eat their fill had restored her hope.

Kazuko confessed her betrayal to Shingetsu and died after revealing that a thousand-year-old monster lurked behind the Fire Temple. In response to the attack on Shingetsu, Konoha prepared to destroy the Fire Temple and confront the daimyo, while Tobirama threatened to march on the capital.

• Kazuko told Shingetsu she had betrayed her from the beginning, refused to let Shingetsu save her from poison, and died after warning her about a monster behind the Fire Temple.
• Shingetsu told Kazuko that her daughter was alive, though she knew the child had died of hunger years earlier.
• Madara Uchiha and the Uchiha Clan mobilized for battle after learning that Shingetsu had been attacked.
• Tobirama Senju threatened the daimyo's envoy with a march on the capital unless the daimyo stopped undermining Konoha.
• Tobirama authorized funding, equipment, Anbu, and combat shinobi to prepare for an assault on the Fire Temple.

As Konoha mobilized to avenge Kazuko, Shingetsu joined Madara Uchiha’s army in its march against the Fire Temple. The army reached the temple, where Shingetsu destroyed its supposedly impenetrable Sealing Iron Wall with her Sharingan.

• Shingetsu helped Uchiha Hōkaku prepare supplies as Konoha assembled a large force to attack the Fire Temple.
• Madara Uchiha led the Uchiha army toward the Fire Temple, and Hayato and Yota joined after awakening Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
• The Fire Temple’s abbot, Huanhai, reassured the monks that the Sealing Iron Wall would keep the attackers out.
• Madara ordered Shingetsu to destroy the barrier, and she used her Sharingan to make the gate, statues, and Sealing Iron Wall crumble.

Shingetsu and Madara led the Uchiha assault on the Fire Temple, defeated its defenders, and uncovered evidence of a hidden mastermind behind its wealth. Huanhai died when genjutsu triggered a Cursed Seal, and a messenger reported that Hashirama and Lord Tobirama had captured the Daimyō's Estate.

• Shingetsu used her eyes to break the Fire Temple's Sealing Iron Wall, and Madara led the Uchiha army inside.
• Huanhai confronted Madara, but Madara defeated him and his Thousand-Armed Guanyin with Susanoo; Shingetsu stopped Madara from killing him because he might know the Fire Temple's secrets.
• The Uchiha killed monks who resisted and seized the temple's treasure, land registers, and debt contracts, but Shingetsu realized most of the Fire Temple's wealth was missing.
• Searchers found the bodies of Huanhai's trusted disciples, and Shingetsu accused him of gathering wealth for a hidden monster who had lived for over a thousand years.
• Huanhai stayed silent as the Uchiha killed the remaining monks, then died when genjutsu triggered a Cursed Seal during interrogation.
• An armored Combat Shinobi reported that Hashirama and Lord Tobirama had captured the Daimyō's Estate.

Hashirama and Tobirama led Konoha’s shinobi army into the Capital and confronted the Daimyō over his rule and the oppression of the people. After the Daimyō’s outburst destroyed Hashirama’s hopes for a peaceful resolution, Hashirama unleashed Wood Release, and the chapter ended with the Tenshukaku burning and Tobirama demanding to know who had started the fire.

• Hashirama used Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique to frighten the city’s defenders into fleeing while Konoha’s shinobi took control of the Capital.
• Hashirama warned the shinobi not to harm civilians or take their belongings, while Tobirama urged him to advance on the Tenshukaku.
• Tobirama and Hashirama confronted the Daimyō, whose attendants demanded that they withdraw and blamed shinobi for the country’s troubles.
• Hashirama challenged the Daimyō over his failure to govern and his exploitation of the people, and the Daimyō angrily blamed shinobi for his problems.
• After the Daimyō declared himself the supreme authority, Hashirama stopped Tobirama from drawing his sword and unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Hashirama and Tobirama emerged from the forest-covered ruins of the Tenshukaku as it burned, and Tobirama demanded to know which shinobi had started the fire.

After the former Daimyō died and the palace burned, Tobirama used the chaos to install the Daimyō’s youngest son as the new ruler and bring him under Konoha’s control. Konoha announced a story blaming Heir Muneshito for the deaths and dismissing reports of its own attacks as false rumors.

• Tobirama and the Ninja Army found Heir Muneshito setting fire to the palace, and Muneshito declared himself Daimyō after learning his father was dead.
• Muneshito tripped and caught fire, dying in the blaze as Tobirama watched before using Water Release to extinguish the flames.
• Hashirama rescued people from the palace, while the shinobi bound the Daimyō’s children and ministers and took control of the survivors and wealth.
• Tobirama chose the Daimyō’s youngest son as the new ruler and planned to use him as a scapegoat.
• The next morning, Konoha claimed Muneshito had killed the former Daimyō and attacked the Fire Temple, while describing allegations of Konoha’s own assaults and rebellion as fabricated rumors.

Konoha used the young Daimyō’s authority to suppress rebels and claim official titles, land, and money, shocking the shinobi world. Shingetsu and Tobirama then struggled to turn Konoha’s military victory into effective rule over the Land of Fire.

• Konoha arrested people who spread rumors against it, branding them rebels and claiming to defend the young Daimyō.
• The young Daimyō rewarded Konoha with billions in cash, extensive lands, and official posts, naming Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju generals, Tobirama and Hōkaku stewards, and Shingetsu a princess.
• News of Konoha’s actions spread across the shinobi world, and the four Kage marveled at its boldness while the nobles and other Daimyō feared for their power and safety.
• Madara Uchiha celebrated Hashirama Senju’s abandonment of the one-village, one-nation idea after Hashirama personally killed the Daimyō.
• Shingetsu and Tobirama faced a shortage of staff, money, and administrative experience as they tried to reform and govern the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama urged Shingetsu to learn the Shadow Clone Technique to help with the workload, but she fled, while reports from Konoha’s territories revealed widespread administrative problems.

Konoha’s seizure of power inspired the other great shinobi villages to pursue their own Daimyō, while the people of the Land of Fire welcomed Konoha’s rule. Shingetsu found Hashirama questioning the village system he had built, and he concluded that Madara had been right about his naivety.

• The people welcomed Konoha’s shinobi as they suppressed bandits and nobles, and Shingetsu judged that Konoha’s rule compared favorably with the Daimyō’s.
• Shamon brought Sunagakure’s congratulations and exchange students to Konoha while seeking support for a coup in the Land of Wind; Kumogakure and Iwagakure also sent young people to the Ninja Academy.
• Raikage A abducted the Daimyō of the Land of Lightning, but a rival claimant appeared, forcing him to return to the capital and slaughter most of the court nobles.
• Konoha celebrated Madara and Shingetsu’s new titles as General and Princess while Hashirama sat alone in the Hokage Building.
• Shingetsu explained that countries would have little use for large numbers of shinobi, and Hashirama concluded that this would lead to wars between countries.
• Hashirama bitterly admitted that Madara had been right and that he had been far too naive.

After hearing Hashirama admit his mistakes, Madara took him and Shingetsu to the Naka River to revisit their childhood stone-skipping spot. Their contest and conversation helped Hashirama recover his spirits, and the friends ended the night grilling fish and sharing wine.

• Madara heard Hashirama confess that he had been wrong and found him exhausted and dejected in the Hokage Building.
• Madara led Hashirama and Shingetsu to the Naka River and challenged Hashirama to skip stones.
• Madara reminded Hashirama of their shared dream, and Hashirama realized Konoha was still moving toward it.
• Hashirama cheered after throwing a stone across the river, while Madara helped Shingetsu practice.
• Hashirama caught fish with stones, and he and Madara grilled them before sharing wine.

Tobirama’s attempt to make Hashirama, Madara, and Shingetsu work ended with Madara burning the Hokage office documents, while Konoha welcomed exchange students who crowded around Shingetsu and suffered Madara’s brutal training. At Pine Mountain Town, the new factory received its first laborers, who were cleaned, clothed, fed, and settled in before training began the next day.

• Tobirama ordered Hashirama, Madara, and Shingetsu to work, but Madara’s Fire Dragon destroyed Tobirama’s Shadow Clones, documents, and part of the building.
• Exchange students from several hidden villages arrived at Konoha’s Ninja Academy, where Shingetsu tied up those who crowded around her with Wood Release.
• Madara beat the exchange students who had approached or challenged Shingetsu during their first practical combat class.
• Yuhi Qiang welcomed the first factory workers to Pine Mountain Town, registered them, and assigned them to dormitory groups.
• Yuhi Qiang arranged for the workers to bathe, change into work clothes, and eat hot meals before their formal training began the following day.

Konoha’s open education and compulsory schooling astonished transfer students, especially the Kirigakure Trio, who had fled a deadly graduation policy. Shingetsu then brought Kurama and Shukaku to school, where the Sunagakure Trio realized the cute animals adored by the students were the Nine-Tails and One-Tail.

• Factory workers began literacy, operating-procedure, and Chakra Extraction Technique lessons under harsh shinobi supervision.
• Transfer students discovered Konoha’s ninjutsu library and learned that compulsory education barred child labor, early graduation, and sending children to war.
• Chiyo asked Shingetsu why she remained a student, and Shingetsu explained Konoha’s education rules.
• The Kirigakure Trio reflected on the brutal graduation policy awaiting their village and vowed to grow strong enough to change it.
• Shingetsu secretly brought Kurama and Shukaku to the academy, where students eagerly fed and petted them.
• Sandstorm recognized Shukaku as the One-Tail and suspected that Kurama was the Nine-Tails, leaving the Sunagakure Trio horrified.

Madara Uchiha found the academy in chaos and punished the students, Shingetsu, and Hashirama before sending the class to the Forest of Death for combat training. There, Inari's scheme put Shingetsu to sleep, leaving Madara furious as he watched from outside the forest.

• Madara returned to find the classroom wrecked and threw Kurama and Shukaku away before beating the students unconscious, including the Sunagakure Trio.
• Shingetsu tried to escape through a window, but Hashirama shielded her and got beaten by Madara.
• Madara took the revived students to the Forest of Death for an outdoor combat exercise, where they feared facing Shingetsu.
• Inari persuaded the students to build a cozy cottage as a trap, and Shingetsu entered and fell asleep in its bed.
• Inari and Miki marked the cottage as a place to avoid while Hashirama watched through the surveillance system and Madara grew furious at Shingetsu.

The students fought a village free-for-all in the Forest of Death while Shingetsu slept through the chaos in her cabin. After the battle ended with Shiring Aburame as the overlooked victor, Madara woke Shingetsu, who tried to escape punishment by calling for Uncle Hashirama.

• The students moved their fight away from Shingetsu’s cabin, then teamed up to defeat Ōnoki and Scorched Earth before turning on one another by village.
• Konoha’s students overwhelmed the other villages, and the exhausted survivors left the Forest of Death until only Kagami, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Miki, Inari, and Shiring Aburame remained.
• Kagami fought Hiruzen Sarutobi one-on-one and revealed his Two-Tomoe Sharingan, but both eventually collapsed, leaving Shiring Aburame as the winner.
• Madara woke Shingetsu late at night and confronted her for oversleeping, so she screamed for Uncle Hashirama to save her.

Madara, Hashirama, and Shingetsu tried to evade Tobirama’s overtime demands, but he forced them back to the Hokage Building. When Tobirama asked them to choose a site for their shogunates, Shingetsu proposed looking beyond the Land of Fire and unfolded a map of the entire Shinobi World.

• Madara doubled Shingetsu’s training after she fell asleep, and Hashirama tried to shield her from punishment before both were beaten.
• Madara, Hashirama, and Shingetsu attempted to escape Tobirama’s overtime summons, but his Shadow Clones cornered them throughout Konoha.
• Tobirama threatened to resign, compelling the three to return to the Hokage Building with him.
• Instead of paperwork, Tobirama presented a Land of Fire map and told the shoguns and princess to choose territories for their shogunates.
• Shingetsu dismissed the Land of Fire map and unveiled a map of the Shinobi World, suggesting they consider the wider world.

Madara, Hashirama, Tobirama, and Shingetsu chose small countries for their shogunates, with Hashirama selecting the Land of Rain and Madara the Land of Grass. Shingetsu's choice was the Land of Whirlpools, where Mito planned to take power and offered the country as Shingetsu's fief in return for her support and protection.

• Hashirama worried that establishing shogunates in small countries would cause turmoil, but Shingetsu argued that ordinary people cared most about living well, and the group agreed to target strategically valuable neighboring lands.
• Hashirama chose the Land of Rain, and Madara chose the Land of Grass for its fertile plains and agricultural resources.
• Shingetsu pointed to the Land of Whirlpools as her choice.
• Mito told Shingetsu that Uzumaki Ashina had arranged another marriage for her, so she planned to return home and become head of the Uzumaki Clan and daimyō of the Land of Whirlpools.
• Mito revealed that a clansman had been abducted and that her family had accepted his supposed drowning, convincing her that the Land of Whirlpools needed closer ties to Konoha.
• Mito pledged herself to Shingetsu and offered to make the Land of Whirlpools her fief in exchange for Shingetsu's support.

Princess Mito seized control of the Uzumaki Clan and the Land of Whirlpools, while Shingetsu began organizing her new fief and asked Tobirama to build ships. Tobirama apologized to Shingetsu, reflected on the losses caused by the old order, and revealed that he regretted not overthrowing the daimyō and nobles sooner.

• Princess Mito returned to the Land of Whirlpools after bidding farewell to Konoha, and she declared that the friendship between the Uzumaki Clan and Konoha would last forever.
• Princess Mito sealed the Uzumaki clansmen's chakra, defeated them, and took control of the Uzumaki Clan and the Land of Whirlpools.
• Shingetsu began preparing to establish her fief, considered the region's resources and shipping potential, and asked Tobirama to build ships.
• Tobirama agreed to build ships for Shingetsu in exchange for her processing a stack of documents, then told her he owed her an apology.
• Shingetsu told Tobirama to apologize to Madara first, and Tobirama reflected on his past with Izuna and the people lost to war.
• Tobirama told Shingetsu he did not regret killing Izuna, but his greatest regret was not eliminating the daimyō and nobles sooner and letting shinobi seize power.

Shingetsu thanked Tobirama for his praise by demanding food, then joined Madara at the Ninja Academy, where she observed the students’ chaotic routines and caught Uchiha Kazuma selling dolls of her and others. Kazuma revealed he had hired workers to produce them, leaving Shingetsu astonished by his unexpected business enterprise.

• Tobirama thanked Shingetsu for her contributions to Konoha, and she immediately asked him to make her several dishes before he sent her away with her documents.
• Hōzuki Oborozuki begged Shimura Danzō to let him copy his homework, while Kagami Uchiha and Hiruzen Sarutobi argued over who had won their last practical exercise.
• Madara caught Hōzuki Oborozuki with unfinished homework, dragged him to the Training Ground, and beat him unconscious before beginning class.
• Madara struck Shingetsu with chalk when she grew distracted during the lesson, but spared her from the harsher punishment he had given Oborozuki.
• After class, Shingetsu caught Uchiha Kazuma selling dolls of her and discovered that he had also made Madara and Hashirama dolls.
• Shingetsu questioned Uchiha Kazuma about the dolls, and he confessed that he had rented a house and hired people to produce them.

Shingetsu persuaded Uchiha Kazuma to turn his doll shop into a trading-card business, then joined Chinatsu, Madara, and Hashirama for dinner at the Orphanage. After helping gather ingredients and watching Chinatsu cook a spicy offal soup, Shingetsu tried it and found it far too hot.

• Shingetsu took hush money from Uchiha Kazuma, demanded his shop, and proposed selling collectible Konoha Cards.
• Yakushi Chinatsu invited Shingetsu to dinner at the Orphanage, and Hashirama persuaded Madara to come along.
• At the Orphanage, Shingetsu helped Chinatsu and the children gather wild vegetables before they went to the market for groceries.
• Madara bought extra meat, while Hashirama carried the heavy groceries back to the Orphanage.
• Chinatsu and the children prepared a spicy offal soup, and Shingetsu burst into tears after tasting it.