Chapter Summaries

Yanbai helped Kushina through a quick and quiet delivery at Konoha Hospital, where she gave birth to Naruto. After Kushina was moved to a ward to recover, Yanbai left with Madara Uchiha.

• Yanbai and Madara Uchiha discussed the possibility of Madara merging with another version of himself before Minato Namikaze arrived to report that Kushina was about to give birth.
• Yanbai used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Madara and Minato to Konoha Hospital, then entered the delivery room with Minato.
• Yanbai reassured Kushina and instructed her to push through contractions while Tsunade assisted with the delivery.
• Kushina gave birth to a boy, and Minato slapped the newborn’s feet until Naruto began crying.
• Kushina ate porridge and was moved to a ward after the midwives confirmed she was not hemorrhaging, while Minato took Naruto to be bathed.
• Madara teased Yanbai outside the delivery room, and Yanbai turned away and walked toward the inpatient wards.

After Kushina gave birth safely, Yanbai returned to the Princess Mausoleum with Madara Uchiha, who wrestled with his feelings and tried to understand their strained relationship. Madara asked about Itachi, and Yanbai revealed that he had been his follower in another version of the Shinobi World, leaving Madara wondering what had happened between them.

• Tsunade arranged Kushina's postpartum care, Minato stayed with his wife and son, and the Tailed Beasts returned home.
• Yanbai brought Madara Uchiha back to the Princess Mausoleum, heard from the cats that Sasori remained in his workshop, and asked Shikaku Nara to bring official documents later.
• As they lay down, Madara reflected on Yanbai's refusal to marry and realized they had understood their bond and the risk of losing each other differently.
• Madara asked whether Yanbai had become bound to this world because of him, but Yanbai told him not to take on unnecessary responsibility.
• Madara asked why Uchiha Itachi wanted to become him, and Yanbai said Itachi had been his follower in another version of the Shinobi World.
• Madara wondered whether Itachi had gone through the same experiences with Yanbai, but could not finish his question.

Madara Uchiha pressed Yanbai to explain what he meant by treating him differently from Itachi, and Yanbai revealed that Itachi was jealous of Madara’s place at his side. The conversation ended with Yanbai asking whether Madara had brought him anything from his mother, leaving Madara feeling bitter despite their closeness.

• Yanbai told Madara Uchiha that he regarded Itachi like a son, unlike Madara, whom he saw as someone of his own generation.
• Madara asked what he meant by being different, and Yanbai explained that Itachi was jealous of him.
• Yanbai said Itachi had likely changed his plan to rescue him after realizing Yanbai was a woman living beside Madara.
• Madara concluded that Itachi wanted to be married to Yanbai and envied the peaceful family life Madara seemed to share with him.
• Yanbai stopped discussing Itachi and asked Madara whether his mother had asked him to bring anything, making Madara feel bitter.

Yanbai left Madara Uchiha after Madara admitted he could not bring over the gift Yanbai's mother had given him, though Madara urged Yanbai to consider Junlin as a successor. Junlin confessed that Uchiha Itachi had offered to make him Yanbai's biological child in exchange for helping free Yanbai from the god imprisoning him, and Yanbai was shocked to hear it.

• Madara Uchiha admitted he could not bring over the gift Yanbai's mother had given him, then suggested Junlin might be a suitable successor for Yanbai.
• Yanbai left Madara and used Flying Thunder God to reach the Living Room, where Junlin was waiting for him.
• Junlin told Yanbai that he had long wanted to become his true child and had awakened a Mangekyō Sharingan ability related to bloodlines, but had never used it without permission.
• Junlin explained that he valued his bond with Yanbai more than becoming his biological child and said he had refused Uchiha Itachi's invitation.
• Junlin revealed that Uchiha Itachi had offered to make him Yanbai's true child if he helped eliminate the god imprisoning Yanbai in this world.

Yanbai and Junlin discussed Junlin’s choice to help him despite Uchiha Itachi’s proposal, while Tobirama Senju’s warning about Yanbai’s curse of immortality weighed on Junlin. Yanbai then learned that Kushina’s childbirth had brought a different kind of disaster: sudden troubles caused by Orochimaru’s guns and the Land of Fire’s turbulent history.

• Junlin told Yanbai that he had rejected Uchiha Itachi’s proposal but still wanted to help him, and Yanbai encouraged him to act honestly.
• Junlin recalled Tobirama Senju’s claim that Yanbai wanted to escape the shinobi world and that immortality was a curse to him.
• Yanbai made breakfast for Junlin, who ate, said goodbye, and left for the day.
• Shikaku Nara brought Yanbai urgent intelligence and a large collection of reports about sudden incidents tied to Orochimaru’s guns.
• The chapter recounted how the Land of Fire’s education and development, its citizens’ self-defense, and hostility from other nations contributed to the Second Shinobi World War.
• Kirigakure and Kumogakure’s amphibious shinobi suffered heavy losses when ordinary fishermen along the Land of Fire’s coast captured and killed them.

Shikaku Nara warned Yanbai that armed disputes between villages and rising crime were threatening the Land of Fire, with possible foreign involvement. Yanbai gave him detailed measures for a gun ban and urged vigilance against the Four Great Nations.

• Shikaku Nara explained how the Land of Fire’s armed population and growing conflicts between villages had created a serious law-enforcement problem.
• Shikaku Nara suspected the Four Great Shinobi Villages were involved in some sudden clashes, but said the fighters were Land of Fire civilians.
• Yanbai gave Shikaku Nara a dossier for the Seven-Tails to deliver to the Daimyo, containing procedures for a ban on firearms and other dangerous weapons.
• Yanbai ordered Shikaku Nara to oversee the ban’s rollout, prepare for its adverse effects, and assign capable people to supervise enforcement.
• Yanbai warned that the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth would seek a chance to return, and said the Land of Fire must teach future generations never to forget national grievances.

Yanbai managed his Hokage duties and delegated work to the ghosts and animals of the Mountain Wilderness. Madara Uchiha asked to return to the Genshin World, then told Yanbai he would rather part while they were happy and live on in Yanbai’s memories; Yanbai slowly opened his eyes.

• Yanbai and his clones quickly sorted the files, while Shikaku Nara finished compiling the incident report and left to implement Yanbai’s decrees.
• Yanbai assigned the ghosts to maintain the Princess Mausoleum and the animals to gather intelligence across the shinobi world.
• Yanbai returned to his room to rest and found Madara Uchiha waiting on the bed.
• Madara Uchiha asked Yanbai to send him back to the Genshin World so he could retrieve what Yanbai’s mother had given him or follow their original plan.
• Madara Uchiha said he wanted to part from Yanbai while they were happy and live forever in Yanbai’s memories, and Yanbai slowly opened his eyes.

Yanbai wondered why Old Grandmother had trapped him in this world and why his system could not be repaired, while Sasori prepared for his contract to end. The chapter ended with Sasori secretly embracing a purple-haired Humanoid Puppet and telling it that Yanbai would not agree to something.

• Yanbai used his uncanny eyes to make Madara Uchiha fall asleep, then pondered Old Grandmother’s motives and the broken system.
• Sasori told Yanbai that his contract was nearly over and described the thirty-six new puppet designs he had drawn.
• Sasori asked whether Madara Uchiha had said anything about Yanbai sending him off with all his longing, but Yanbai did not understand the question.
• Sasori asked Yanbai to arrange his return to Sunagakure when his work was finished, then went to his private workshop.
• Inside the sealed workshop, Sasori embraced a purple-haired Humanoid Puppet and murmured that Yanbai would not agree because he was a good person.

Madara revealed that he had pretended to return willingly in order to lure Black Zetsu into a trap, and imprisoned him in an illusory world. Meanwhile, Yanbai grew suspicious of what had happened in Sasori’s workshop and considered secretly breaching its barrier to investigate.

• Black Zetsu entered Madara’s room, spoke to him, and found that Yanbai’s bone walls had trapped him inside.
• Madara rose from the bed and used a desert-like illusion to restrain Black Zetsu, who realized Madara’s story to Yanbai had been a lie.
• Madara transported Black Zetsu into his own world and welcomed him there before returning to bed.
• Yanbai ate alone, packed food, and pondered Sasori’s cryptic remarks and time spent with lifelike puppets.
• Yanbai stopped outside Sasori’s workshop and decided to quietly tear open part of its barrier to peek inside.

Madara Uchiha used a technique on Black Zetsu to uncover the truth behind Yanbai's plans, then escaped the sealed space when Yanbai returned. He demanded entry to Yanbai's dōjutsu illusion and, once inside, challenged Yanbai to get the information from him.

• Madara Uchiha used his past-seeing technique on Black Zetsu and learned that Yanbai had sent him to another world.
• Black Zetsu's filial piety ability failed to affect Madara Uchiha, who had reincarnated as Cyno and sealed Black Zetsu inside his body.
• A pitch-black sphere spread across the sealed space, and Madara Uchiha vanished as darkness swallowed Black Zetsu.
• Yanbai woke Madara Uchiha by calling his name, and Madara seized him and demanded to be let into his dōjutsu illusion.
• Madara Uchiha surveyed Yanbai's flower-filled illusion and said he had learned Old Grandmother's intentions from Black Zetsu.
• Madara Uchiha asked Yanbai how he planned to get the information out of him.

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.