Chapter Summaries

Shingetsu awakened her Three-Tomoe Sharingan and used its new Illusion-Breaking Eye to erase Shukaku’s attack, while Tobirama moved to fulfill Konoha’s promise to Sunagakure. The Daimyō of the Land of Wind decided to placate Konoha with gifts while pressuring the Daimyō of the Land of Fire to rein it in.

• Shingetsu revealed her Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and Madara and Hōkaku rushed to celebrate her achievement.
• Shukaku attacked Shingetsu with a Drilling Air Bullet, but her Illusion-Breaking Eye perceived its death lines and erased the ninjutsu.
• Kurama pinned and beat Shukaku until Shingetsu separated them and held the subdued tailed beast.
• Shamon recognized Kurama as the Nine-Tails and offered Sunagakure’s mineral resources to Konoha, while Tobirama set off to keep Konoha’s promise.
• The Daimyō of the Land of Wind ordered gifts of mines and treasure for Konoha, then directed his Guardian Ninja to alert the other great nations and write to the Daimyō of the Land of Fire.

Shingetsu transformed the desert near Sunagakure into an oasis, and Konoha’s delegation returned home with gifts and mineral rights from the Wind Daimyō. As Konoha enjoyed a period of peace, the Fire Daimyō turned to Huanhai for help, and the monk revealed that he had an agent inside Konoha.

• Shingetsu created a vast oasis with Wood Release, earning Shamon’s heartfelt promise of an alliance with Konoha.
• Shingetsu fell asleep in Madara’s arms, and Konoha’s delegation left Sunagakure after Shamon began building its waterworks.
• The Wind Daimyō’s Guardian Ninja presented Tobirama with gifts, a map to five gold mines, and a caravan of camels; Tobirama accepted the gifts while delaying any agreement to cooperate.
• Madara and Hōkaku hurried ahead, leaving Tobirama to bring the camels home, and Tobirama collapsed from exhaustion after returning to Konoha.
• Konoha prospered during a period of peace, while the Fire Daimyō vented his anger at court until Huanhai stopped him by revealing that he had an agent inside Konoha.

After returning from Sunagakure, Shingetsu rested while Kurama and Shukaku went out exploring Konoha. Madara resumed his harsh rule at the Ninja Academy and took Shingetsu to handle village affairs, leaving Hōkaku jealous and receptive to Uchiha Yan’s scheme to find Madara a wife.

• Shingetsu recovered from her desert trip with a long sleep while Kurama and Shukaku sneaked out to explore Konoha.
• Shukaku resisted being petted until a child tempted him with meatballs and grilled fish.
• Madara returned to the Ninja Academy, punished Hashirama and the students, and sent Shingetsu with him to the Hokage Building to address Konoha’s problems.
• Hōkaku found Shingetsu’s bed empty, waited for her to return, and went out drinking when she did not come home.
• Uchiha Yan approached the jealous Hōkaku and proposed finding Madara a wife so he would focus on his own child instead of Shingetsu.

Uchiha Yan and Uchiha Hōkaku secretly arranged marriage posters for Madara while Shingetsu and the Senju brothers discussed Konoha’s expansion into the Land of Fire. Shingetsu proposed disguising Konoha’s takeover of noble territories as a response to rogue shinobi attacks.

• Uchiha Yan persuaded Uchiha Hōkaku to help find Madara a wife, and they decided to post marriage notices around Konoha without revealing their own names.
• Shingetsu reviewed intelligence showing that the Daimyō’s harsh taxes and currency requirements were driving farmers toward rebellion and banditry.
• Shingetsu studied Tobirama’s map of noble territories near Konoha and suggested appointing local civilian shinobi as officials.
• Tobirama sent subordinates to find suitable local shinobi, while Madara eagerly anticipated conquering the Land of Fire.
• Shingetsu proposed claiming that rogue shinobi had killed the nobles so Konoha could take over their territories under the pretext of restoring order.

Sunagakure gained an oasis while Konoha expanded its control over the Land of Fire through land reform, education, and construction. Meanwhile, Madara discovered that someone had circulated a marriage-seeking poster about him and demanded to know who was responsible.

• Sunagakure used puppets and Civilian Shinobi to transport water to its new oasis, while Shamon planned to investigate the strange weather by demolishing the border mountains.
• Konoha shinobi killed bandits targeting nobles near Konoha, took over their lands, and distributed farmland and necessities to commoners.
• Civilian Shinobi built roads and schools and forced adults and children to study literacy and the Chakra Extraction Technique.
• Madara noticed villagers and students secretly laughing at him, then received a strange flower basket from Yakushi Chinatsu and the girls at the Ninja Academy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi teased Madara about being single and showed him a poster advertising Madara as seeking a partner.
• Madara tore up the poster, seized Hiruzen, and demanded to know who had made it.

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.