Recaps

Junlin told Izuna that he was his son and led him to the study to explain his birth. Meanwhile, Yanbai secretly investigated Itachi’s home, but Itachi sensed someone outside his room and quietly checked the door.

• Yanbai and Junlin secretly exchanged information in Morse code, and Junlin agreed to keep Izuna occupied.
• Yanbai left Izuna with Junlin using Flying Thunder God, and Junlin claimed Izuna was his father.
• Izuna seized Junlin and demanded an explanation, but Junlin asked him to follow him to the study.
• Yanbai went to Uchiha Fugaku’s residence and waited until Fugaku and Mikoto had gone to sleep before approaching Itachi’s room.
• Itachi quietly opened his door, sensed Yanbai outside, and closed it again after checking the hallway.

Junlin told Izuna a fabricated account of his parentage and childhood, portraying himself as Tobirama’s mistreated child and Yanbai’s son. Izuna believed the story enough to ask to meet Junlin’s brothers, while Junlin directed him to visit during the day.

• Junlin showed Izuna the paternity report and claimed Tobirama had created Junlin, Muye, and Silver Moon using somatic cells.
• Junlin implied that Yanbai was his mother and suggested Izuna would hurt her if he rejected him.
• When Izuna asked to meet Muye and Silver Moon, Junlin claimed they could meet their father, Madara, in another world through their dreams.
• Junlin invented a story about Tobirama hiding and abusing him until Yanbai became his guardian, then claimed Tobirama had apologized and treated him well now.
• Junlin told Izuna his brothers would be meeting Madara in their dreams that night and suggested visiting them during the day.

Yanbai tested whether young Itachi was the old acquaintance he remembered by speaking to him in unfamiliar languages and feigning distress. Itachi comforted him but did not reveal whether he understood, leaving Yanbai suspicious after he noticed Itachi react when he hugged Mikoto.

• Yanbai went to Itachi's room and asked through the door whether Itachi had come to save him, speaking in several unfamiliar languages.
• Itachi opened the door and tried to comfort Yanbai, but spoke only in the language of the Shinobi World.
• Yanbai hugged Itachi and sobbed more loudly until Itachi said that the embrace hurt, prompting Yanbai to let him go.
• Yanbai's cries woke Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto, who came to check on Itachi.
• Yanbai hugged Mikoto and placed a hand on her breast, while he noticed a faint unusual expression on Itachi's face.

Yanbai visited Mikoto to learn about Itachi, then returned to find that Junlin had revealed his origins to Izuna. Izuna decided to stay in the world and make up for the fatherly love Junlin had missed.

• Yanbai comforted Mikoto, listened as she described Itachi’s habits, and gave her a wooden rose containing a protective charm.
• Yanbai left Fugaku’s home and wondered whether Itachi’s behavior meant anything before deciding not to dwell on it.
• Yanbai returned to Junlin’s home and found Izuna sulking beside the sleeping Junlin.
• Izuna told Yanbai that Junlin had explained he was Izuna’s son and blamed Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation for his condition.
• Izuna changed his plans to return to the Pure Land and decided to make up for the years of fatherly love Junlin had missed.

Yanbai ate breakfast Junlin had prepared while Izuna urged him to spend more time with the child, leaving Yanbai to reflect on Junlin’s childhood and his uncertain search for a Hokage successor. After breakfast, Junlin accompanied Yanbai outside.

• Izuna kept Yanbai from leaving overnight by arguing that Junlin deserved time with him, and Junlin woke, mediated, and made breakfast.
• Junlin worried that Yanbai disliked the food, but Yanbai praised his cooking and Junlin offered to cook for him every day.
• Junlin reflected on Yanbai’s contributions to Konoha and considered why Yanbai’s four disciples were not suitable successors.
• Yanbai decided he could not yet entrust Konoha to any of his disciples and would wait for a suitable younger successor.
• Junlin accompanied Yanbai outside after breakfast.

Yanbai and Izuna reconciled over their reactions to discovering their children, and Izuna decided to stay with Junlin before helping search for the passage to the moon. As Izuna watched Junlin work, he learned how hard his son had studied and admitted that Yanbai had raised everyone’s standards for choosing a partner.

• Izuna apologized to Yanbai for getting emotional and offered to help find the passage to the moon after spending a few more days with Junlin.
• Yanbai brought Sasori breakfast made by Junlin and explained that he had stayed at his son’s home.
• Yanbai returned to work while Izuna visited Junlin and watched him manage his duties.
• Junlin told Izuna that Tobirama had pushed him through schoolwork early, so he skipped grades and had few friends his own age.
• Izuna admitted that he and others had lost interest in potential partners after comparing them to Yanbai.

Junlin explained to Izuna how Yanbai had shaped people’s romantic standards and recalled how Lady Mito had loved and cared for Yanbai. Izuna decided to help Yanbai resolve the matter on the moon, while Rin Nohara nervously faced the crowd at the Hot Springs Bathhouse.

• Junlin reasoned that Yanbai’s beauty, strength, kindness, and wealth had made people’s expectations for partners difficult to meet.
• Izuna said Yanbai understood people’s desires and was liked by both men and women, and Junlin agreed that even Lady Mito had loved Yanbai.
• Junlin told Izuna how Lady Mito had visited Yanbai, received his visits and cooking in her old age, and died in his arms.
• Izuna felt that Yanbai had left a trail of heartache but also pitied his loneliness, and decided to help him settle the matter on the moon.
• Rin Nohara arrived at the Hot Springs Bathhouse, recognized that her father was watching nearby, and stayed alert because she could not escape.

At the bathhouse retreat, Rin Nohara’s anxiety made her misread her classmates’ friendly efforts to include her as a threat. After the girls planned a group game and said they would invite Obito Uchiha, Rin resolved to hide after dinner.

• Rin Nohara paced anxiously in the waiting room while Kurenai Yuhi and the other girls watched her, knowing Jiraiya had asked them to look after her.
• Obito Uchiha deliberately bumped into Rin, but she recoiled, apologized, and ran away; Might Guy and Asuma Sarutobi teased Obito afterward.
• Kurenai Yuhi and the girls caught up with Rin and invited her to join them for games after dinner.
• Kurenai said they could invite Obito, prompting Rin to imagine the girls wanted to watch her and Obito together.
• Rin decided she had to find somewhere to hide after dinner.

Rin Nohara hid in the men's restroom to avoid being taken back to camp, where Obito Uchiha discovered her and helped her leave before anyone else noticed. Their classmates then misunderstood Rin's accidental collision with Obito as a romantic encounter, leaving her desperately trying to explain.

• Rin Nohara chose a stall in the men's restroom as a hiding place and hid when she heard Might Guy and Asuma Sarutobi enter.
• Obito Uchiha tried to open Rin's unlocked stall, so she opened the door and startled him.
• Obito Uchiha covered for Rin, then took her hand and led her out after Might Guy and Asuma Sarutobi left.
• Rin Nohara crashed into Obito Uchiha when he stopped to ask why she had been hiding, and they fell to the ground.
• Might Guy, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, and other classmates mistook the fall for a romantic moment, while Rin pleaded for them not to leave.

After Rin Nohara struggled with the social pressure and misunderstanding during her school trip, Jiraiya sought Yanbai’s advice on her upbringing and the Ninja Academy. Yanbai agreed to recommend more practical training and announced that he would personally teach each class every month.

• Jiraiya learned that Rin Nohara had avoided the crowded students, entered the men’s restroom, and failed to use her techniques or explain the misunderstanding when caught.
• Jiraiya left Rin Nohara to rest at the resort and went to Konoha to ask Yanbai for advice.
• Jiraiya told Yanbai that the Ninja Academy’s focus on theory was weakening students’ practical instincts.
• Yanbai agreed to suggest more practical lessons and said he would personally teach one practical lesson to every Ninja Academy class each month.
• Jiraiya worried that the children would not endure Yanbai’s demanding training.

Yanbai turned his boredom into a plan to teach practical classes at the Konoha Ninja Academy, using his dōjutsu to create immersive training worlds. He persuaded Obito Uchiha to test the course, and the chapter ended with Yanbai presenting him an agreement to sign.

• Yanbai’s efficiency at work left him bored, so he expanded Konoha’s food culture by introducing new vegetables that became popular across the Land of Fire.
• Yanbai used his influence over the Konoha Ninja Academy to create practical classes for both shinobi and regular students, tailored to their future roles.
• Yanbai designed a graduation course in which genjutsu would make students experience years of hardship within a forty-five-minute class, with repeated reincarnation after death.
• Yanbai approached Obito Uchiha and said the course could help Rin Nohara overcome her social anxiety and communicate with her friends.
• Obito agreed to be the first tester, and Yanbai handed him an agreement to read and sign before the lesson began.

Muye and Silver Moon suspected that a rose-scented relative of their mother was in their father's other world, while discussing whether their mother should be allowed to leave. Meanwhile, Obito Uchiha endured Granny Hokage's simulated trial of a brutal war and could no longer tell whether it was a dream or reality.

• Muye read Junlin's letter saying their mother planned to teach the Ninja Academy graduates and wondered whether someone in their father's world was impersonating her.
• Silver Moon suggested the rose scent belonged to one of their mother's relatives and reminded Muye that their mother wanted to leave, though Muye did not want her to go.
• After graduation camp, Granny Hokage used her Dōjutsu to put Obito Uchiha through a vivid simulation of war.
• Obito Uchiha witnessed children sent to battle and horrific battlefield deaths in a world where Konoha Shinobi Village was poor and lacked enough Explosive Tags.
• Obito Uchiha used his knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry to make land mines and survive, determined to grow stronger for Rin's sake.

Obito helped an injured Rin during their rain-soaked mission and challenged Kakashi’s belief that missions mattered more than comrades. After Rin admitted how badly she hurt, Obito carried her onward to search for medicinal herbs, with Kakashi following.

• Rin collapsed in pain, and Obito stopped to check on her while Kakashi urged them to keep moving.
• Obito told Kakashi that he considered Kakashi’s father a hero and defended his choice to save his comrades.
• Obito found no visible wound and suspected Rin’s pain might be menstrual cramps, but Rin initially denied anything was wrong.
• Rin admitted that the pain was so severe she wanted to cry, and Obito carried her while searching for pain-relieving herbs.
• Kakashi recovered from his surprise and chased after Obito and Rin.

Madara Uchiha met Yae Miko, Yanbai’s mother in this world, after following her invitation to the Grand Narukami Shrine. He told her Yanbai was imprisoned and asked her to find Yanbai’s Incarnation, then unexpectedly asked for Yanbai’s hand in marriage; Yae Miko asked him to explain their history.

• Madara Uchiha arrived at the Grand Narukami Shrine after receiving a letter that mentioned Yanbai.
• Yae Miko recognized Madara as one of Yanbai’s dependents and learned that Yanbai was imprisoned in another world.
• Yae Miko identified herself as Yanbai’s mother and introduced herself by her name in this world, Yae Miko.
• Madara apologized for failing to protect Yanbai, asked Yae Miko to find his Incarnation, and requested Yanbai’s hand in marriage.
• Yae Miko was startled by Madara’s proposal and asked him to recount everything that had happened between him and Yanbai.

Yae Miko listened as Madara Uchiha recounted his past with Yanbai, then explained that their worlds were game worlds overseen by her family. Madara was left struggling with the possibility that his life had been written for him.

• Yae Miko told Madara Uchiha she would respect his privacy and let him describe his memories himself.
• Madara Uchiha recounted his experiences with Yanbai, and Yae Miko learned how Yanbai had shown him other worlds and taught him through games.
• Yae Miko asked whether Yanbai had played computer and mobile games with Madara, who said he had often been flagged for cheating because of his high combo damage.
• Yae Miko explained that the Shinobi World and Genshin World were game worlds, with her family acting as administrators from a higher dimension.
• Madara Uchiha wondered whether he was merely a character living out a scripted story, but Yae Miko said his will was his own.

Yae Miko explained to Madara Uchiha how Yanbai’s dōjutsu had altered their destinies and revealed that her family included people who had married an NPC, a virus, and a program. Meanwhile, Obito Uchiha grew hardened by repeated battlefield deaths and resets, then followed the Zetsus’ scheme to meet Grandpa Madara.

• Yae Miko told Madara Uchiha that Yanbai had taken their consciousnesses to other worlds and that their experiences there had been real to them.
• Madara Uchiha wondered if he could marry Yanbai, and Yae Miko described her daughters’ unusual marriages and her son Gao Jing’s wife, a program she had created.
• Yae Miko explained that Yanbai needed to awaken in a world with divine authority to regain control and asked Madara Uchiha if he could help her meet him.
• Madara Uchiha said he had not seen Yanbai since Yanbai became Hokage, then offered to introduce Yae Miko to the artificial children Tobirama had created from his and Madara’s cells.
• Obito Uchiha became a capable shinobi after dying and resetting through the battlefield timeline, but realized war had made it difficult to return to his former life.
• Obito Uchiha played along with Black Zetsu and White Zetsu’s scheme and met Grandpa Madara, who had no wife.

Obito Uchiha met this world's Madara Uchiha and pitied him for not having a wife, then offered to tell him a story. Elsewhere, Yae Miko and the children learned Yanbai was trapped in his Virtual World and discussed a possible way to help him.

• Obito Uchiha recognized the elderly Madara Uchiha and reflected on how different this world was without Hokage Grandma.
• Madara Uchiha questioned how Obito knew him, but Obito avoided answering and then told him it was sad he had no wife.
• Obito offered to tell Madara a story, leaving Madara and Black Zetsu confused by his behavior.
• Yae Miko told the children that Yanbai was trapped in the Virtual World because the Old Woman's Cross-Dressing System had bugs.
• Baiying suggested lending Yanbai their account, but said it was dead in that world and would need to be resurrected first.

Obito Uchiha used his Sharingan to show the elderly Madara an imagined parallel world where the Uchiha prospered and a woman called Hokage Grandma shaped Konoha. Madara became intrigued by the woman and asked to meet her.

• Obito Uchiha showed the elderly Madara visions of a prosperous Konoha and explained that he came from a parallel world.
• Obito Uchiha described a history in which Uchiha Izuna became the Second Hokage and Hokage Grandma established Konoha's systems and fulfilled Madara's childhood dreams.
• The elderly Madara questioned Obito Uchiha about Izuna, Tobirama Senju, and Hokage Grandma, while suspecting the story was made up.
• Obito Uchiha told Madara that Hokage Grandma had spent her life with him but never married him, then joked that he looked old enough to be her grandfather.
• The elderly Madara asked Obito Uchiha whether he could meet Hokage Grandma, and Obito Uchiha smiled meaningfully.

Madara Uchiha brought Muye and Silver Moon to meet Yae Miko, who was with Yanbai’s younger siblings in their incarnations. Meanwhile, Obito Uchiha tried to earn the elderly Madara’s trust by revealing that the clan’s stone tablet was fake and offering to explain the Eye of the Moon plan.

• Madara Uchiha returned to Yae Miko’s chamber with the spirit forms of Muye and Silver Moon and found Yanbai’s younger sister and brother there in their incarnations.
• Yae Miko introduced the children to their relatives, who privately discussed whether the children could safely exist in the Shinobi World and feared Old Woman might take or kill them.
• Obito Uchiha explained that he had to survive to age eighty in the simulated world to complete the Practical Class, or endure repeated deaths until its two-thousand-year limit ended.
• Obito Uchiha told the elderly Madara that the stone tablet at the Uchiha clan shrine was fake, attributing the claim to Hokage Grandma.
• Obito Uchiha offered to reveal details of the Eye of the Moon plan so the elderly Madara could judge whether he or Black Zetsu was lying.

After dying repeatedly in the Practical Class, Obito Uchiha changed his approach, learned from Madara, and explored the Shinobi World before completing the course. He thanked Yanbai afterward, and Sasori asked to try the Practical Class too.

• Obito Uchiha woke at the save point again, cursed Madara, and decided to listen and learn from him instead of overwhelming him with revelations.
• Obito Uchiha studied Sealing Jutsu under Madara, then had Black Zetsu and White Zetsu gather forbidden techniques, sealing jutsu, and ninjutsu before sealing Black Zetsu away.
• Obito Uchiha traveled beyond Konoha, practiced the collected techniques, earned money, and learned through firsthand experience in the Shinobi World.
• Obito Uchiha completed the Practical Class, thanked Yanbai, and said he understood why she had refused to marry Madara.
• Sasori asked Yanbai if he could try the Practical Class, and Yanbai agreed on the condition that he sign the agreement.

Yanbai heard Yae Miko’s story about a severed Tree Spirit branch growing into a separate continuation and understood her attempt to spare both him and Madara Uchiha; he asked to meet her. He then told Muye and Silver Moon about his former world, and their conversation ended with Silver Moon questioning whether Yanbai was Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

• Silver Moon and Muye told Yanbai Yae Miko’s story about a gardener who planted a severed Tree Spirit branch that grew into a new, separate Tree Spirit.
• Yanbai understood that his mother pitied Madara Uchiha but did not want him pressured into returning Madara’s love, and he asked to meet her.
• Muye asked Yanbai about his past, so he described how the gods of his former world had worked together to prevent its destruction.
• Silver Moon and Muye reflected on how people abandoned their gods when those gods lost power, and considered what might happen if Yanbai weakened.
• Muye asked whether Yanbai was Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and Silver Moon pointed out that the big-headed girl who spent time with them was already Rukkhadevata’s reincarnation.

Muye and Silver Moon feared Yanbai might disappear like Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, while Yanbai privately considered Mother’s plan to escape his confinement by vanishing from that world. Sasori then emerged from the lounge hungry and insisted Yanbai accompany him without looking or listening.

• Muye and Silver Moon connected Yanbai’s stories about the gods and the tree spirit to Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and worried that Yanbai might vanish.
• Yanbai declined to answer their questions, and Silver Moon asked him to consider his children before making any decisions.
• After the children left, Yanbai reflected on Mother’s plan to create an AI copy of himself and let him disappear from that world, but remembered Muye saying Father was sad.
• Sasori cautiously asked Yanbai for food and repeatedly insisted that Yanbai not peek into his room or bathroom.
• Yanbai waited outside the bathroom while Sasori used it, then accompanied him to eat after Sasori worried he might peek.

After graduating Shinobi students beat up Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, Yanbai identified them as the victims of the students’ practical class. He explained the class’s setting and compensated the four, who accepted the explanation and let the matter go.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu visited Yanbai after being attacked in restrooms by masked assailants who recited slogans at them.
• Shimura Danzō recounted the attacks and asked Yanbai for help finding the perpetrators.
• Yanbai recognized the attackers as graduating Shinobi students acting out their anger from a practical class set during the Third Great Ninja War.
• Yanbai apologized and explained that Hiruzen Sarutobi had been Hokage and the other three had been Hokage Advisors in the class’s virtual world.
• Yanbai gave the four compensation for emotional distress, and they accepted the explanation and dropped the matter.

Asuma Sarutobi was brought before Hiruzen Sarutobi as the student who had attacked him during Yanbai’s illusion-based practical class. Asuma explained that the students’ anger came from experiences shaped by Hiruzen’s and the other elders’ choices in the illusion, and he had stepped forward to help them process it; before he could explain further, he was caught.

• After hearing Hiruzen Sarutobi demand to know who had beaten him, Yanbai warned him that he might regret finding out and sent Shikaku Nara to bring in the culprit.
• Shikaku Nara returned with Asuma Sarutobi, and Hiruzen Sarutobi was shocked to learn that his own son had attacked him.
• Asuma Sarutobi said the illusion’s events had followed the elders’ personalities and that he had not believed Yanbai had simply smeared them.
• Asuma Sarutobi apologized to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other three elders, accepted responsibility, and urged them to experience the illusion themselves.
• Asuma Sarutobi explained that he had stepped forward because many students still resented the elders after enduring the illusion, but he was caught before he could tell his father more.

After Asuma Sarutobi settled the compensation dispute, Yanbai turned Izuna’s request to find the moon’s Transfer Station into a mission for the graduating class. Meanwhile, the anomalous Uchiha Itachi was confronted by reborn Uchiha students and realized Yanbai might be testing him.

• Asuma Sarutobi agreed to repay Yanbai for the compensation Yanbai had paid, and Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura left.
• Shikaku Nara told Yanbai that Lord Izuna wanted Hyuga branch family members to help find the Transfer Station to the moon.
• Yanbai ordered Shikaku Nara to post Izuna’s request as a mission for this year’s graduating Shinobi class, with ten spots available.
• Uchiha Mikoto left Itachi on a public bench while she queued to buy daifuku.
• Several older Uchiha students surrounded Itachi, and he identified them as reborn people with anomalous memories and danger levels above Kage Level.
• Itachi realized Yanbai’s retaliation had reached him and suspected Yanbai was testing him.