Recaps

Yanbai revealed that he had been born with Madara Uchiha’s memories, and Madara came to understand their connection and why Yanbai had protected and cared for him. Madara then explained the truth behind Old Grandmother’s system experiments and the rules for gifts.

• Yanbai shared his memories and past with Madara Uchiha, who fainted after being overwhelmed by what he saw.
• Madara Uchiha accepted that he and Yanbai were distinct virtual programs shaped by different lives, and thanked Yanbai for staying by his side.
• Madara Uchiha explained that Yanbai’s mother had given him a technique to retrace the past and had hinted at the truth about their relationship.
• Madara Uchiha told Yanbai what he had learned from Black Zetsu about Old Grandmother’s role as administrator of the worlds she created.
• Madara Uchiha recounted how a player had merged his mother’s consciousness into a system, inspiring Old Grandmother to experiment with human souls and establish the rules for gifts.

Yanbai learned from Madara Uchiha that his broken system needed a supreme-stage Gift bearer to sacrifice themselves, and that Madara had become a possible replacement system. They suspected Sasori’s puppet might be a vessel, leaving Yanbai determined to keep Sasori close.

• Madara Uchiha explained that a supreme Gift bearer could sacrifice everything and become a system exclusive to one person.
• Madara Uchiha revealed that Yanbai’s system backend had shattered and that he had become another possibility for restoring Yanbai’s authority.
• Madara Uchiha said that repairing Yanbai’s system required a supreme Gift bearer to offer themselves as a sacrifice.
• Yanbai recalled that Sasori had asked whether Madara had said the words associated with a sacrifice, and suspected Sasori’s Extremely Humanlike Humanoid Puppet had become a vessel.
• Yanbai and Madara Uchiha decided to keep Sasori from leaving when his contract expired.
• After leaving Yanbai’s Dōjutsu illusion, Madara Uchiha ate while Yanbai drank, concealing their private discussion from Old Grandmother.

Junlin returned to his lonely home and found Uchiha Itachi waiting to discuss his proposal that Junlin become Yanbai’s real child. Junlin refused, explaining that love already made him Yanbai’s child, and Itachi left the conversation facing Junlin’s view of family.

• Junlin returned to his house, where reminders of Yanbai filled every room, and reflected on how fear of Madara kept him from visiting his mother freely.
• Uchiha Itachi emerged from the shadows and asked Junlin to reconsider his proposal.
• Junlin served Itachi tea and reaffirmed that his answer was no, despite how much Yanbai meant to him.
• Itachi said he had expected Junlin to want to become Yanbai’s real child, but Junlin argued that family did not depend on blood ties.
• Junlin told Itachi that love made him Yanbai’s child already, so he did not need to pursue the proposal.

Madara Uchiha tried to prove that he and Yanbai were the same person by comparing their abilities and personalities, but his disastrous cooking only led to another argument. The chapter ended with Yanbai and Madara Uchiha fighting in the kitchen while Muye and Silver Moon watched.

• Madara Uchiha took over the cooking, and Muye and Silver Moon returned home to test his strange dishes for poison.
• Madara Uchiha questioned whether he and Yanbai were truly the same person after reviewing Black Zetsu's memories and doubting their reliability.
• Madara Uchiha complained that Yanbai was better than him at everything, while Yanbai criticized his awful cooking.
• Madara Uchiha suggested that he and Yanbai should get married, and Yanbai responded by starting a fight with him in the kitchen.
• Muye and Silver Moon listened to the commotion and agreed that their parents seemed closer than before.

Madara Uchiha used a discussion about cellular change and identity to argue that he and Yanbai understood each other well, then insisted Yanbai should marry him. After Yanbai rejected him, Sasori watched them from his workshop and spoke to his puppet as though it were Kaguya.

• Madara Uchiha asked Yanbai whether the biology lessons about cells and aging were factual, then questioned whether a person remained the same as their cells changed.
• Madara Uchiha compared his independent identity with that of another Madara Uchiha from Black Zetsu's memories, explaining that their different experiences and souls made them separate individuals.
• Yanbai and Madara Uchiha agreed that they understood each other's thoughts, but Yanbai refused Madara Uchiha's marriage proposal and threatened to drown him in a septic tank.
• Sasori and the Raiden Shogun watched Yanbai and Madara Uchiha from the workshop before Sasori closed the door.
• Sasori hugged the humanoid puppet and called it Kaguya, saying it felt warm and had a beating heart.

Sasori’s devotion to Yanbai faded as the living puppet Kaguya became the focus of his affection, and he promised to stay with her. Meanwhile, Yanbai served Muye and Silver Moon a meal of bizarre dishes, and Silver Moon tried to steer the next family dinner toward fish.

• Sasori recalled how he had wanted to make a puppet with Yanbai’s face but feared Konoha’s careful accounting would expose him taking materials.
• The Raiden Shogun puppet began moving and speaking, identifying herself as Kaguya, and Sasori grew closer to her each day.
• Kaguya asked what she meant to Sasori, and he told her she was the best person and promised to go wherever she wanted.
• Yanbai served Muye and Silver Moon unusual dishes, including pig-brain dessert soup, sheep bile soup, and roasted animal testicles.
• Muye asked Madara Uchiha what they had done wrong, while Silver Moon asked Yanbai to make a whole fish feast for the postponed family dinner.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha argued over Madara’s cooking and Yanbai’s refusal to accept his advances, while Madara urged him to hand the Hokage’s duties to Junlin. They then discussed the nearly invincible Old Woman and whether it was safe to leave her alone in the workshop.

• Silver Moon asked for Yanbai’s cooking, and Madara Uchiha teased her and Muye about rejecting their father’s food.
• Yanbai promised to cook for the children starting the next day, and Muye and Silver Moon reluctantly ate the meal before fleeing.
• Yanbai told Madara to stop pressuring him and help ease his workload, while Madara argued that he cared only about Yanbai and proposed that Junlin become Hokage.
• Madara suggested sending Junlin to Yanbai’s Dōjutsu World to study before taking over the Hokage position.
• Madara looked toward the workshop and asked Yanbai whether it was safe to leave the Old Woman alone, recalling her ability to survive and take over players’ bodies.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha discussed the dangers posed by the Old Woman and the nature of the gifts she was studying. Yanbai suspected she intended to experiment on Sasori, a child starved of love who could be easily deceived.

• Madara Uchiha warned Yanbai that the Old Woman could endanger Sasori, but Yanbai argued that confronting her might drive her into hiding.
• Yanbai reflected on how Rena and Uchiha Itachi had responded to his gifts according to their own desires, making it difficult to cultivate recipients.
• Yanbai explained to Madara Uchiha that gifts evolved through love and required recipients to develop over time.
• Yanbai suspected the Old Woman was studying the power of love and might decide to conduct her own experiments because their progress was too slow.
• Yanbai and Madara Uchiha concluded that Sasori could be an easy target for the Old Woman's experiments.

Yanbai debated whether to intervene in the Old Woman’s relationship with Sasori, and Madara Uchiha argued that Sasori’s own belief and happiness mattered more than outsiders’ judgment. Yanbai chose to watch rather than interfere, then secretly observed Sasori with a Humanoid Puppet through a screen, where the puppet appeared to look directly at him.

• Madara Uchiha told Yanbai that Sasori’s happiness could be real to him even if others regarded his relationship with the Old Woman as a lie.
• Yanbai decided not to force his way into Sasori’s workshop and instead prepared thick bedding for him.
• Sasori refused to let Yanbai enter his workshop and brought the bedding inside only after Yanbai had left.
• Yanbai used the bedding to create a small opening in the workshop’s Sealing barrier and watched through a crystal screen with Madara Uchiha.
• The screen showed Sasori trembling with his head in a Humanoid Puppet’s lap as she stroked his hair and sang eerily while staring toward the screen.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha confronted the Old Woman, who arrived in a puppet after apparently sensing that Zetsu had been sealed. Yanbai rejected the future she had planned for him and asked his Great-Grandmother to let him choose his own path, but her response remained uncertain.

• Yanbai stopped watching the puppet’s eerie performance as someone began knocking at the bedroom door.
• Madara Uchiha opened the door and found the purple-robed puppet possessed by the Old Woman, who praised Yanbai for sealing Zetsu.
• Madara Uchiha accused the Old Woman of causing Yanbai’s suffering and summoned the surrounding ghosts.
• Yanbai appeared beside Madara Uchiha and told the Old Woman he wanted to follow his own wishes instead of the future she had designed.
• Yanbai asked his Great-Grandmother to let him pass as the puppet raised its hands again.

Madara Uchiha attacked Old Woman’s consciousness, which possessed a purple-clad puppet, and destroyed the puppet despite her taunts and evasive powers. As her voice faded, Sasori approached the room in a dazed state.

• Madara Uchiha used Banshō Ten'in to pull the purple-clad puppet toward him, then brutally smashed her head and accused Old Woman of lying.
• Old Woman taunted Madara Uchiha about gaining Wood Release and the Rinnegan through Yanbai’s blood, while strange sealing markings appeared across the room.
• Old Woman escaped Madara Uchiha’s grasp and evaded his attacks as he threatened her and unleashed Susanoo.
• Madara Uchiha used the Flower of Thorns to bind and crush the puppet until it broke into fragments, though Old Woman’s consciousness survived.
• Sasori approached the room in his pajamas, looking hollow-eyed and lost.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha witnessed the Old Woman return in the form of Sasori’s beloved Kaguya, after Sasori grieved over the puppet’s destruction. She revealed herself as Qian Wanming, the creator god of the Shinobi World, and explained that she had manipulated Madara and used the ordeal to develop Sasori’s emotions.

• Sasori mourned Kaguya’s shattered puppet remains, while Yanbai struggled to endure his grief.
• A white-robed stranger entered, swelled and burst, revealing the living purple-clad woman who resembled the destroyed puppet.
• Sasori joyfully embraced the woman, who promised she would never perish as long as he loved her.
• Yanbai realized the Old Woman had returned in the form Sasori loved and chose not to expose her deception.
• Madara Uchiha confronted the Old Woman as she prepared to leave with a sleeping Sasori.
• The Old Woman introduced herself as Qian Wanming, creator god of the Shinobi World, and admitted she had stirred Madara’s emotions and made Sasori’s feelings more complete.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha faced the Old Woman’s overwhelming power, and she left with Sasori after giving Yanbai her clothes. Later, Sasori asked Kaguya to make him immortal like her, and she said she did not know how, prompting him to offer to teach her.

• Madara Uchiha attacked the Old Woman, who crushed him against a wall and unleashed a blast that Yanbai blocked.
• Yanbai asked the Old Woman for clothes, and she dressed him in Sasori’s pajamas after explaining that she could become anything in the world outside her family.
• The Old Woman carried Sasori to his private Workshop, while Yanbai repaired the Master Bedroom and Madara Uchiha insisted he would never give up fighting fate.
• Sasori woke beside Kaguya and asked whether she would share his lifetime, then worried she would be alone after his death.
• Sasori asked Kaguya to turn him into a being like her, and when she said she did not know how, he offered to teach her.

Yanbai dreamed of Sasori’s final moments and confessed his uncertainty about leaving the Shinobi World, along with the bonds that kept him attached to it. Sasori urged him to keep moving forward, then disappeared as the dream ended, and Yanbai found the workshop empty.

• Yanbai witnessed Sasori’s dream of being transformed into a puppet while he spoke lovingly to Kaguya.
• Yanbai told Sasori he wanted to leave the Shinobi World but felt bound to his family, and hoped to revive people from the past.
• Sasori encouraged Yanbai to face the unknown future and said he wanted to become an important member of Yanbai’s family.
• Sasori’s figure crumbled as the dream gave way to reality, and Yanbai realized the Old Woman had come to save him because he had stayed in the world too long.
• Yanbai rushed into the workshop and found neither Sasori nor the Old Woman, though the smell of blood remained.

Junlin told Uchiha Itachi that the Akatsuki was in disarray and that a new leader planned to stir trouble in the Land of Water. Madara Uchiha arrived and confronted Itachi over his attempt to make him leave Yanbai, ending the chapter as Madara’s laughter filled the hall and crimson spread through his eyes.

• Junlin shared what he knew about the Akatsuki’s new leadership while eating breakfast with Uchiha Itachi.
• Uchiha Itachi reflected that Yanbai’s power had deterred the shinobi world and pushed it toward technological progress.
• Madara Uchiha arrived from the Princess Mausoleum and accused Uchiha Itachi of calling Yanbai to take his place.
• Uchiha Itachi argued that Madara needed to abandon his selfish motives and sacrifice everything to rescue Yanbai from this world.
• Madara Uchiha laughed and asked why he should let Yanbai leave as crimson spread through his eyes.

Madara Uchiha revealed that he had only pretended to help Yanbai escape because he wanted to remain with him, and he opposed the retainers choosing Yanbai’s future for him. Junlin understood Madara’s selfish desire to keep Yanbai while still prioritizing Yanbai’s wishes.

• Madara Uchiha told Uchiha Itachi that he never intended to let Yanbai leave the Shinobi World because he feared losing him.
• Madara Uchiha said the retainers had been abandoned by Yanbai and warned Uchiha Itachi that becoming Yanbai’s exclusive system would cost him control over his own fate.
• Uchiha Itachi created an Armor-Piercing Sword and attacked Madara Uchiha from behind, but the weapon could not reach him.
• Madara Uchiha seized the sword, reduced it to scrap, and argued that people should fight for what they want and choose their own paths.
• Junlin asked whether Madara Uchiha feared Mother would turn against him, then reflected that he understood Madara’s desire to keep Yanbai while caring most about Yanbai’s happiness.

Madara Uchiha explained to Uchiha Itachi that Yanbai had gradually distanced his Retainers so they could live independently, and described his own view of love as a deliberate choice rather than dependence. He said he would cherish the time he had with Yanbai, but declared that this was neither the right time nor the right place.

• Uchiha Itachi thanked Junlin but told him to stay out of the conflict, and Junlin decided not to intervene.
• Madara Uchiha recounted how Yanbai had taken in Shisui Uchiha and other Retainers, then left them behind in a peaceful world while continuing his travels.
• Madara Uchiha argued that Yanbai was using time and ordinary life to help his Retainers become independent, which Uchiha Itachi recognized as a possible form of abandonment.
• Madara Uchiha explained that he saw love as a conscious act that allowed him to accept Yanbai and himself without depending on Yanbai to meet his needs.
• Madara Uchiha said he would cherish his remaining time with Yanbai and die at the fitting moment, then declared that the present was neither the right time nor the right place.

A purple-clad woman claiming to be Yanbai’s great-grandmother visited Muye and Silver Moon in the forest, while Cherry Ink defended them from her advances. She revealed that a personal system was made from a human who sacrificed body and soul for a god, leaving the children shocked and Yanbai’s system still unexplained.

• Cherry Ink stood between the Purple-Clad Woman and Muye and Silver Moon, refusing to let her approach them.
• The Purple-Clad Woman said she was Yanbai’s great-grandmother and tried to persuade Cherry Ink to join her family.
• She explained that she had come to make Yanbai his own system so he could leave the world freely.
• The Purple-Clad Woman revealed that Madara Uchiha had learned the truth about the material used for Yanbai’s system but had not told the children.
• She told Muye, Silver Moon, and Cherry Ink that a system was a human who devoted body and soul to a god, citing the systems of Baiying, Baijing, and Gao Jing.

The woman in purple revealed that she was the central system of the Ten Thousand Worlds and could not become Yanbai's system without endangering everyone. Before she could explain further, Madara Uchiha attacked, and the chapter ended with him advancing in a seemingly crazed state.

• The woman in purple explained that few people had the resolve to sacrifice everything for Yanbai, and Silver Moon realized she had already become a system.
• The woman in purple said she was the central system of the Ten Thousand Worlds and could not undergo the ritual without risking the worlds and everyone in them.
• Muye tackled Silver Moon and Cherry Ink aside just before a devastating attack tore through the forest and killed many small animals.
• The woman in purple recognized the attacker as Madara Uchiha and destroyed the debris he sent flying at her.
• Madara Uchiha approached with bloodred eyes, deflected the woman's incoming strikes, and advanced with a strange black aura surrounding him.

Madara Uchiha fought the Purple-Clad Woman, who recognized that he sought power rather than Yanbai and tested the power Wakatsuki had given him. The battle escalated with her overwhelming techniques, but Madara struck her for the first time, and she declared that she wanted his body as an offering.

• The Purple-Clad Woman beckoned Madara Uchiha into a fierce fight while Muye and Silver Moon recovered from being thrown away.
• Cherry Ink fled down a dark path, and Silver Moon chased after him while Muye stayed behind to watch the battle.
• The Purple-Clad Woman said Madara Uchiha sought power rather than Yanbai and asked whether his power came from Wakatsuki.
• The Purple-Clad Woman unleashed Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, shattering Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo, and then attacked with Moon Rush.
• Madara Uchiha dodged the radiant web and struck the Purple-Clad Woman with Susanoo, surprising her.
• The Purple-Clad Woman said she regretted choosing Sasori over Madara Uchiha and demanded his body as an offering.

Yanbai wandered Konoha in grief until Cherry Ink brought word that Madara Uchiha was fighting the Purple-Clad Woman. As Madara unleashed a catastrophic technique, Muye tried to reach him, and a dark shadow covered the Land of Fire.

• Yanbai searched for the Old Woman and Sasori, then wandered Konoha feeling isolated until Cherry Ink and Silver Moon told him his family was fighting.
• The Purple-Clad Woman used Black Zetsu to bind the berserk Madara Uchiha and accused him of loving himself more than Yanbai.
• Muye sensed the forest and its creatures wailing as Madara forced his hands free and began forming a technique.
• The Purple-Clad Woman identified Madara's technique as Tengai Shinsei, and Muye rushed to stop him, pleading with him to protect his family.
• Living creatures throughout the Land of Fire collapsed as a dark shadow covered the land, and a blue giant reached toward it.

Yanbai caught and hurled away a falling star that threatened Konoha, then ordered emergency preparations across the Land of Fire. He traced the tremors to Madara Uchiha and the Old Woman, with Silver Moon following behind him.

• Konoha's residents recognized Yanbai's power as he caught the falling star and threw it toward the sea beyond the Land of Fire.
• Yanbai dispelled his Susanoo and told Shikaku Nara to evacuate villagers, prepare food and water, and keep people away from the forest.
• Shikaku Nara and the Anbu began organizing evacuations, while Didi Beast-Ride spread an alert throughout the Land of Fire.
• Yanbai reached the place where Madara Uchiha and the Old Woman were confronting each other, followed by Silver Moon.

After Cherry Ink sacrificed itself to repair Yanbai’s system, Yanbai and Silver Moon reached a vast abyss and discovered that Kaguya had transported their targets to another dimension with Amenominaka. Inside that dimension, Madara Uchiha and Muye tried to identify their surroundings as a mysterious voice approached.

• Cherry Ink collapsed and scattered after Yanbai failed to stop its sacrifice, and Silver Moon followed Yanbai toward their destination.
• Forest animals and birds warned Yanbai and Silver Moon of danger as they ran toward an enormous abyss created by a great battle.
• Yanbai recognized Kaguya’s Amenominaka and told Silver Moon that the others had been transported to another dimension, then asked him to wait while Cherry Ink’s sacrifice rebuilt the system.
• In a snowy dimension, Madara Uchiha regained his senses and questioned where he was while Muye identified the place as Amenominaka.
• White downy matter drifted around Madara Uchiha and Muye as the voice of the Purple-Clad Woman emerged from the mist.

Muye watched as the Purple-Clad Woman explained how she had turned people from different timelines into systems, then fought Madara Uchiha with Black Zetsu. Madara realized he had to stop and seal her to protect Yanbai, but the Purple-Clad Woman remained confident because the Server made her immortal.

• The Purple-Clad Woman named the people she had turned into systems, including Sasori, Rena, Hexiang, Leizi, Konan, and Yahiko, and described their abilities.
• The Purple-Clad Woman revealed that she had hypnotized Rena into becoming the Housekeeper System after Rena betrayed Yanbai.
• Madara Uchiha confronted the Purple-Clad Woman, who challenged him to battle as black liquid surged toward his Susanoo.
• Madara Uchiha fought back and realized he had to seal the Purple-Clad Woman to keep Yanbai's future from remaining under her control.
• The Purple-Clad Woman continued attacking Madara Uchiha and declared that the Server made her immortal.

Madara Uchiha fought the Purple-Clad Woman as she tested strange paid items on him, and his Wood Release engulfed the frozen landscape in deadly vines. After hearing Sasori’s lingering voice and learning how the woman had made him an undying puppet, Madara charged her again, despite her ability to sense and predict her opponents’ movements.

• The Purple-Clad Woman tested a succession of strange items on Madara Uchiha, including a puppet resembling Sasori.
• Madara unleashed Yanbai’s Wood Release, and giant vines consumed the battlefield while Muye watched from inside a protective barrier.
• Muye heard Sasori’s voice describing his pain and his wish to reconcile with Yanbai and Madara for the sake of their family.
• The Purple-Clad Woman said Sasori would remain with her forever as an undying, indestructible masterpiece, and Madara condemned her for trampling on Sasori’s love.
• Madara charged the Purple-Clad Woman, who could sense consciousness and predict movements through the energy field of the Ten Thousand Worlds.