Ch. 26"Uchiha Itachi"

Uchiha Naruto used a Bird Clone to stage Uchiha Itachi’s clash with the Metropolitan Police Department, then returned home and considered what the encounter revealed about supernatural powers in Tokyo. He left wary of both the authorities and the organized monsters whose abilities resembled ninjutsu.

  • Uchiha Naruto dispelled Uchiha Itachi’s Bird Clone, fed the crows, and sent them to keep watch across Tokyo.
  • Uchiha Naruto found Katori-chan’s livestream blocked and saw online discussions about the abandoned-mall incident being deleted.
  • Uchiha Naruto concluded that the Metropolitan Police Department pursued his Chiriku disguise because he was the first confirmed supernatural human and the authorities wanted to control him.
  • Uchiha Naruto assessed the danger of confronting the state and decided to keep his identity concealed rather than submit to its control.
  • Uchiha Naruto considered the Tokyo King of Monsters and wondered why monsters used chakra and techniques resembling those from Naruto.

Ch. 27Six Paths Tools

Uchiha Naruto navigated his first week of high school while testing his Sharingan’s copying ability and trying to avoid attention. As the Item Shop’s Six Paths Tools caught his eye, he also worried about running out of money to feed his growing appetite.

  • Uchiha Naruto arrived at Jinguji High School and greeted a girl whose name he could not remember.
  • Tanaka Hikaru asked about Uchiha Naruto’s tennis match and urged him to join the Kyudo Club, but Uchiha Naruto decided to seek a low-key club instead.
  • Uchiha Naruto bought a single cafeteria meal, realized his remaining money would not cover his appetite, and considered finding a part-time job.
  • Uchiha Naruto used a Soldier Pill from the Item Shop and reviewed the system’s weapons, supplies, and other goods.
  • Uchiha Naruto focused on the Six Paths Tools at the top of the Item Shop.

Ch. 28Plans for a part-time job

Uchiha Naruto, short on money and hungry, delivered documents to Matsudaira Chiyo, the wealthy student who had summoned him to ask how she had fallen into the lake. He denied knowing what had dragged her underwater, and Chiyo offered to help him if he ever had trouble at school.

  • Uchiha Naruto realized he could not afford the listed items, struggled through the afternoon hungry, and planned to find a part-time job after school.
  • Kinjo Ichiro asked Uchiha Naruto to deliver an envelope to Room 501, where he discovered that the room belonged to Matsudaira Chiyo.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo revealed that she had asked Kinjo to send Uchiha Naruto and explained that her mother chaired the school's board of directors.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo asked what had dragged her into the lake, and Uchiha Naruto denied knowing while joking that it might have been a crocodile or python.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo said she had the artificial lake drained and found no large animals, then offered to help Uchiha Naruto if he ever had trouble at school.

Ch. 29Support Club

Uchiha Naruto sought Matsudaira Chiyo’s help avoiding club activities so he could work part-time, and she offered him a way to do both through her Support Club. He was tempted by a paid job at a classmate’s izakaya and received a club application form.

  • Uchiha Naruto asked Matsudaira Chiyo to help him get an exception from Jinguji’s club requirement so he could work part-time.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo explained that the school normally required board approval for students to work, then offered to bend the rules through her Support Club.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo told Uchiha Naruto that the club had a request to find help for Takasaki’s family izakaya, and that joining would let him work there as a club activity while still earning wages.
  • Uchiha Naruto learned that the job paid 1,200 yen an hour, included an evening meal, and would let him leave after school, though he had to visit the clubroom every Friday.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo handed Uchiha Naruto a club application form.

Ch. 30Kita Ward

Uchiha Naruto arrived at the Takasaki family izakaya for his first shift and met Takasaki Tsuki’s blunt younger sister, Anzu. After impressing Anzu with his knife skills, he helped the sisters prepare the restaurant to open before six.

  • Uchiha Naruto arrived early at Takasaki Izakaya and offered to help Takasaki Tsuki prepare for business.
  • Takasaki Anzu brought in groceries, criticized Naruto, and argued with Tsuki about opening while their father was hospitalized.
  • Tsuki asked Naruto to help Anzu prepare ingredients while she received a delivery from the Kirin Draft Beer Company.
  • Naruto carved onion flowers and prepared the meat with exceptional speed and skill, impressing Anzu.
  • Tsuki finished preparing the ingredients, and the sisters opened the izakaya before six.

Ch. 31Wasabi Octopus

Takasaki Tsuki and Takasaki Anzu struggled to attract customers while their father was sick, with Uchiha Naruto helping in the kitchen. After a regular praised Tsuki’s Nanban Chicken and customers began trickling in, a fisherman arrived with a lively sea bream and hoped to have it made into sashimi.

  • A young office worker left the Takasaki Izakaya after seeing its young staff, and Takasaki Anzu worried that customers would not trust them.
  • Mr. Hasegawa became the restaurant’s first customer, ordering wasabi octopus, edamame, and sake while Uchiha Naruto prepared the octopus.
  • Takasaki Tsuki served Mr. Hasegawa Nanban Chicken, which he praised as even better than her father’s cooking.
  • Customers gradually arrived, and by seven o’clock about half the restaurant’s seats were occupied.
  • Otsuka entered with a large, lively sea bream and lamented that Takasaki’s father was absent to prepare sashimi.

Ch. 32The Master's Knife

Takasaki Anzu tried to prepare a customer's sea bream sashimi but froze when the fish startled her, so Uchiha Naruto stepped in and impressed the customers with his exceptional knife skills. The angler praised the sashimi and claimed the entire plate for himself, starting a quarrel with Hasegawa.

  • Takasaki Anzu persuaded the angler to let her prepare his fresh sea bream, despite Takasaki Tsuki's doubts.
  • Takasaki Anzu became nervous at the counter, and the thrashing fish struck her and left her unable to continue.
  • Takasaki Tsuki apologized to the customers, but Uchiha Naruto offered to prepare the fish instead.
  • Uchiha Naruto swiftly cleaned, filleted, and sliced the sea bream, arranging the sashimi into a flower-shaped display.
  • The angler tasted the sashimi and praised it, then stopped Hasegawa from taking any because he wanted the whole plate.

Ch. 33Yuuji Kanbara's promotion and pay raise

Yuuji Kanbara was transferred and promoted to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Criminal Affairs Department after reporting his encounter with an evil spirit. As a meeting about two human superhumans was called, he learned more about the department’s supernatural investigations and the dispute over listing Master Chiriku as wanted.

  • After repeated interrogations and signing confidentiality agreements, Yuuji Kanbara was released, promoted to Assistant Inspector, and transferred to headquarters.
  • Uchiha Senmon gave Yuuji Kanbara food and explained that officers from the Criminal Affairs Department and Public Security Bureau would meet about two human superhumans.
  • Uchiha Senmon explained the department’s classifications for supernatural beings and described disagreements over whether Type A beings were yokai or mutated beasts.
  • Yuuji Kanbara asked why Master Chiriku had been put on the wanted list, and Uchiha Senmon said he had opposed the decision but the Public Security Bureau’s Fifth Division insisted.
  • A clerical worker summoned Uchiha Senmon to the conference room, and he told Yuuji Kanbara to attend with him.

Ch. 34035: Infighting is a local specialty-you have to try it

Yuuji Kanbara attended a meeting where the police leadership reviewed footage of the mysterious young man who rescued livestreamers from a supernatural entity. The investigation remained unsettled, with the Fourth and Fifth Divisions at odds over the case and the young man’s powers.

  • Uchiha Senmon brought Yuuji Kanbara to a crowded conference room, where Section Chief Akagi welcomed them and criticized the Fifth Division.
  • Uchiha Senmon explained that the Fourth Investigation Division and the Public Security Bureau’s Fifth Division clashed over overlapping responsibilities and competing factions.
  • The Superintendent General convened a meeting about the two recent supernatural incidents and focused discussion on the Adachi Ward livestream incident.
  • The secretary showed footage of the cloaked young man cutting a mannequin with Sword Energy, creating a huge fireball, and disappearing.
  • The secretary reported that Officer Odagiri had tried to negotiate with the young man, been attacked, and survived surgery after his arm was severed.
  • The assembled officers speculated about the young man’s swordsmanship and marveled that he could cut through bullets.

Ch. 35Endless arguments

Metropolitan Police Department officials debated the origins and threat of the human superhumans Chiriku and the red-eyed man, while struggling to find any trace of them. The Superintendent General withdrew Chiriku’s wanted notice, delayed issuing one for the red-eyed man, and ordered the search to continue alongside renewed inspections of Tokyo’s temples and shrines.

  • The Superintendent General told the Fourth Investigation Division and Fifth Division to find the two human superhumans, but Section Chiefs Akagi and Mori reported that database checks and public appeals had produced no leads.
  • Section Chief Mori proposed adding the red-eyed man to the wanted list, while Uchiha Senmon argued that public notices could expose supernatural beings and that officials should seek the superhumans’ cooperation.
  • Section Chief Mori insisted the Metropolitan Police Department should control the superhumans, and Uchiha Senmon urged officials to show goodwill and work with them.
  • Yuuji Kanbara described Chiriku as a good man who had withdrawn his flames to protect innocent people, though he was unsure whether cooperation was possible.
  • The Superintendent General withdrew Chiriku’s wanted notice, postponed issuing one for the red-eyed man, ordered the search to continue, and assigned the Fourth Investigation Division to inspect Tokyo’s temples and shrines.

Ch. 36Do I Look Human to You?

A monstrous Rokurokubi hunted a drunk office worker in an alley, then learned that the Metropolitan Police Department had found a genuine human superhuman. The monster ordered its followers to prepare for trouble and postpone its plan to seize Japan.

  • A drunk office worker harassed a strange woman, who revealed her monstrous face and killed him with her long neck.
  • The Rokurokubi swallowed the office worker while a wooden puppet monster named Kihara reported that the Metropolitan Police Department was selling secret intelligence.
  • Kihara told the Rokurokubi that the police had found a genuine Superhuman and sent details, including a video of a young man in black using a huge fireball.
  • The Rokurokubi ordered Kihara to transfer thirty million yen for the remaining files and said the discovery could delay its plan to free monsters by seizing the country.
  • The Rokurokubi told Kihara to notify the other monsters and move their bases to safe zones B and F.

Ch. 37The kinship daimyo

Uchiha Naruto brought the lunch Takasaki Tsuki had made and discussed Matsudaira Chiyo with Tanaka Hikaru, who became eager to join the Support Club. Naruto introduced him to Chiyo, who agreed to interview him alone, while Naruto noticed a news report about Self-Defense Forces exercises in Yamanashi Prefecture.

  • Uchiha Naruto ate Takasaki Tsuki's lunch with Tanaka Hikaru, who guessed that a girl had prepared it and praised the meatballs.
  • Uchiha Naruto asked Tanaka Hikaru about Matsudaira Chiyo, and Hikaru described her distinguished family and charitable work.
  • Uchiha Naruto told Tanaka Hikaru that Chiyo had invited him to join the Support Club, so Hikaru asked to join as well.
  • Uchiha Naruto brought Tanaka Hikaru to the clubroom, where Matsudaira Chiyo agreed to interview him after Naruto recommended his skills.
  • Uchiha Naruto waited outside and noticed a news report about Ground Self-Defense Forces exercises in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Ch. 38Military exercise

Uchiha Naruto learned that the police were escorting a monster to a Self-Defense Forces exercise in Yamanashi and watched the operation through his Summoning Crow. The red-furred bear monster escaped into the Okuchichibu Mountains as armed forces prepared to pursue it.

  • Uchiha Naruto discovered that police vehicles had left Tokyo for Yamanashi and directed his Summoning Crow to follow them.
  • Uchiha Naruto learned that Tanaka Hikaru had failed his interview, then told Matsudaira Chiyo that the Takasaki Family Izakaya had been barely half full.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo considered changing the Takasaki Izakaya's business approach, menu, and suppliers.
  • Section Chief Mori brought a red-furred bear monster to Major General Muto's military exercise in the Okuchichibu Mountains.
  • The Self-Defense Forces opened the monster's cage, and the red-furred bear monster fled into the mountains.

Ch. 39040: Artillery bombardment

During a Self-Defense Forces exercise, helicopters drove a red-furred bear monster into an artillery target zone, where Type 16 Maneuver Combat Vehicles bombarded it. The tracking signal vanished, and Section Chief Mori believed the monster had been destroyed as he celebrated the military’s power.

  • Muto Shōho worried that the red-furred bear monster might escape, but Section Chief Mori said its tracking chip and dissolving capsule would ensure it could be found or killed.
  • Three attack helicopters set fire to the forest and used door guns to herd the red-furred bear monster westward.
  • The helicopters drove the monster to a barren hill beside an abandoned wooden villa, then reported its location to command.
  • Type 16 Maneuver Combat Vehicles fired repeated artillery barrages at the hill, leveling it and causing the tracking signal to disappear.
  • Muto Shōho and Section Chief Mori assumed the monster had been destroyed, and Mori praised the Self-Defense Forces’ military strength.

Ch. 40SWTO

Uchiha Naruto considered how to survive against modern weapons and resolved to grow stronger, then studied at school before returning to work at the Takasaki Izakaya. The Takasaki sisters offered to provide his lunches, and he joined them in preparing the restaurant for opening.

  • Uchiha Naruto watched the aftermath of an artillery strike and judged that modern weapons could outmatch his current ninjutsu, while planning to rely on stealth and mobility.
  • Uchiha Naruto worried about his vulnerability to bullets and wished he could acquire powerful healing and survival abilities from monsters.
  • After school, Uchiha Naruto went to the library to study for the upcoming monthly test and rejected the idea of using a crow clone to copy classmates' answers.
  • Uchiha Naruto returned the washed bento box to Takasaki Tsuki, who offered to provide his lunches as well as his evening meal, and he accepted.
  • Uchiha Naruto ate dinner with the Takasaki sisters, changed into his work uniform, and helped prepare the izakaya for opening.

Ch. 41The True Faith Society

Uchiha Naruto helped Takasaki Tsuki restore sashimi to the izakaya’s menu and began teaching Takasaki Anzu his knife skills. After closing, a young monk tried to recruit the sisters into the True Faith Society, but Anzu drove him away, and Naruto discarded his pamphlet.

  • Takasaki Tsuki reopened the izakaya’s sashimi menu with Uchiha Naruto preparing the fish.
  • Hasegawa praised Naruto’s sashimi and ordered Junmai Ginjo Jikon to go with it.
  • Naruto agreed to teach Takasaki Anzu his knife skills, and she asked to call him her teacher.
  • A young monk visited the closed izakaya and introduced the True Faith Society and its Twin-Body Buddha.
  • Takasaki Tsuki refused the monk’s invitation, and Takasaki Anzu chased him out with a kitchen knife.
  • Naruto read the monk’s pamphlet, mocked its doctrine, and threw it away.

Ch. 42Skeleton swimming

Uchiha Naruto prepared exceptional cherry salmon sashimi for Matsudaira Chiyo at the Takasaki Izakaya, while Chiyo investigated the shop in disguise. A commotion at the entrance interrupted their meal when a man claimed he should inherit the shop.

  • Uchiha Naruto accepted Matsudaira Chiyo’s ride to the Takasaki Izakaya, where she disguised herself and asked him not to acknowledge her.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo arrived at the izakaya with the Black-Suited Woman and ordered Uchiha Naruto to prepare cherry salmon and grind fresh wasabi.
  • Uchiha Naruto expertly sliced the salmon and demonstrated skeleton swimming at Matsudaira Chiyo’s request before ending the fish’s suffering and giving its bones to Takasaki Anzu for soup.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo praised Uchiha Naruto’s knife skills and suggested they could help revive the shop, but he said he planned to leave after Mrs. Takasaki came home from the hospital.
  • A man burst into the izakaya and insisted that, as his father’s eldest son, he should inherit the shop.

Ch. 43Tattoos

Matsudaira Chiyo stopped Takasaki Tsuki’s estranged half brother from extorting the Takasaki sisters, exposing his fake yakuza tattoos and having Ah Xiu take him away. A week later, Uchiha Naruto spotted the blond punk hiding with the young monk and watching the izakaya.

  • The blond punk forced his way into the Takasaki Izakaya, shoved Takasaki Tsuki down, and demanded money from the sisters.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo ordered Ah Xiu to restrain the punk after Takasaki Anzu explained he had been disowned for injuring an elderly person during a burglary.
  • When the punk claimed ties to the Iijima Family, Matsudaira Chiyo poured near-boiling water over his tattoo and exposed it as temporary ink.
  • Matsudaira Chiyo had Ah Xiu take the punk away, and he did not return to harass the sisters during the following week.
  • Uchiha Naruto noticed that Takasaki Tsuki’s lunchbox dishes had grown mediocre, then saw the blond punk hiding with the young monk and pointing toward the izakaya.

Ch. 44Bound for the Sanzu River

Uchiha Naruto's crow followed the blond thug as he joined Yoshio Inokuchi and the Iijima Family in a plot to kidnap twin schoolgirls for the True Faith Society. The crow took control of the van driver, sending the yakuza plunging into the Arakawa River.

  • A crow watched the blond thug meet a young monk, who gave him money before they parted.
  • The blond thug took a set of izakaya keys to Yoshio Inokuchi and asked to join the Iijima Family, but Inokuchi sent him away.
  • Yoshio Inokuchi and the other yakuza discussed the True Faith Society's plan to kidnap twin schoolgirls and prepared their van and equipment.
  • A crow with scarlet eyes appeared in the van and seemed to control Ito as he sped toward the Arakawa River Bridge.
  • Ito drove the van through the bridge's guardrail, plunging himself and the yakuza into the river.

Ch. 45The Beginning of the Mount Bukō Incident

Uchiha Naruto investigated the True Faith Society after learning that it planned to kidnap the Takasaki sisters for a sacrifice, and he went to see whether its leader truly possessed supernatural powers. At the society’s headquarters on Mount Bukō, the leader demonstrated an apparently real golden Buddhist palm before hundreds of followers.

  • Uchiha Naruto discovered that his left Sharingan had advanced to three tomoe through the system and worried that the True Faith Society’s leader might be a human Superhuman.
  • Uchiha Naruto took time off from school, disguised himself, and searched online for information about the True Faith Society and its headquarters.
  • Monk Kimura waited for the Takasaki twins while Senior Brother Ida arrived with another pair of twin children and boasted that the leader would grant him supernatural powers.
  • Hundreds of followers gathered at the True Faith Society’s Mount Bukō compound for the evening service.
  • The leader appeared in a purple kasaya, leaped from a tower, and used a golden Buddhist palm to lower himself safely to the ground.

Ch. 46This humble monk likes it too

The True Faith Society's Master used supernatural power to reinforce his followers' devotion, but his power appeared to act against his will when he killed a government agent. As the society prepared a sacrifice, a mysterious bamboo-hatted monk arrived and fought its guards.

  • The Master proclaimed himself the Twin-Body Buddha's Good Body and crushed believers who tried to leave the True Faith Society.
  • The Master seized an undercover agent from the Metropolitan Police Department, but his golden palm crushed the man after he offered government protection.
  • The Master slapped Senior Brother Ida, learned the female twins were missing, and ordered the sacrifice to begin without waiting for them.
  • Monk Kimura waited anxiously at the society's headquarters, then confronted a bamboo-hatted monk who had come to discuss Buddhist teachings.
  • The burly monk attacked the visitor with a staff, but the bamboo-hatted monk caught it and drove the attacker's head into his torso.

Ch. 47Taking life to protect life, severing karma, not people

A bamboo-hatted monk slaughtered the True Faith Society’s guards and forced his way toward the leader’s sacrifice ceremony. He left Kimura enthralled and dead, while the Twinborn remained tied up for the ritual.

  • The bamboo-hatted monk killed the gatekeepers and dozens of armed monks with his staff and fireballs as heavy rain fell.
  • At the central courtyard, the leader prepared to sacrifice the Twinborn and sent Brother Ida to investigate the commotion.
  • Kimura told Brother Ida that a monk had wiped out the Guardian Team, and Brother Ida rallied the Purification Team to stop him.
  • Brother Ida and Kimura confronted the bamboo-hatted monk in the corridor with guns, but the other monks lowered their weapons and let him pass.
  • The bamboo-hatted monk said he was going to meet the leader, told Kimura he need not follow, and Kimura shot himself beneath the chin.

Ch. 48A Discussion of Buddhist Teachings

Uchiha Naruto, disguised as Chiriku, confronted the True Faith Society’s cult leader after the leader’s attempted sacrifice was stopped by rain. He shot his way through the cult’s followers and pursued the leader into the worship hall, where gunfire exposed a strange green eye inside the Wisdom King statue.

  • The cult leader ordered a couple to set fire to their sons, but both parents refused and were bound by the monks.
  • Rain extinguished the fire, and the cult leader sent monks to fetch oil before heading for shelter.
  • Uchiha Naruto, disguised as Chiriku, confronted the cult leader and was attacked with a giant golden Buddha palm.
  • Uchiha Naruto shot the cult leader in the shoulder, stunned the followers, set fleeing monks ablaze, and freed the bound couple.
  • The cult leader hid beneath the Wisdom King statue and called for a wrathful manifestation, but Uchiha Naruto’s bullets struck the statue and revealed a swiveling green eye.

Ch. 49Ashina-Style Buddhism

Uchiha Naruto confronted the Twin-Body Buddha, a monster that had helped the True Faith Society's leader fake supernatural powers. After the monster killed the leader, Naruto used Sharingan-controlled monks to attack it, but the Twin-Body Buddha protected itself with golden light and slaughtered them.

  • The Twin-Body Buddha revealed himself inside the Wisdom King statue and crushed the cult leader for secretly stealing money and becoming useless.
  • Uchiha Naruto recognized the monster as the source of the True Faith Society's supposed miracles and learned it had ties to the Tokyo King of Monsters.
  • The Twin-Body Buddha charged Naruto, who used his Sharingan to command armed monks to fire hunting shotguns at it.
  • The Twin-Body Buddha endured the gunfire by surrounding himself with golden Buddhist light and smashed the remaining monks to pulp.
  • The Twin-Body Buddha picked up a Franchi SPAS-12 and cursed the Metropolitan Police Department for letting the cult leader obtain it.

Ch. 50Sage Body

Uchiha Naruto fought the Twin-Body Buddha, whose golden shield deflected bullets, explosives, and his kunai. After Naruto shattered the shield with a Great Fireball, the injured monster looked up at a scarlet full moon with three spinning tomoe.

  • The Twin-Body Buddha healed its shotgun wounds by devouring corpses and bragged to Uchiha Naruto about eating people.
  • The Twin-Body Buddha identified Naruto’s Makarov PM pistol and claimed its Golden Bell Shield could withstand bullets.
  • Uchiha Naruto tossed his empty pistol aside, and Senior Brother Ida charged the monster with explosives strapped to his body.
  • The Twin-Body Buddha survived the explosion and attacked Naruto with golden palms, but Naruto evaded its blows and broke a kunai against its shield.
  • Uchiha Naruto struck the Twin-Body Buddha’s shield with a Great Fireball, shattering it and setting the monster ablaze.
  • The Twin-Body Buddha rolled across the floor to extinguish the flames, then saw a scarlet full moon with three black tomoe rising inside the worship hall.
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