Chapter Summaries

In Konoha Year 49, Uchiha Jin joined the Uchiha Military Police Force after the Third Shinobi World War and was made a squad leader without probation. When Uchiha Fugaku asked why he had refused the Third Hokage’s Anbu invitation, Jin answered that being an Uchiha was reason enough and left.

• Uchiha Military Police Force members discussed the two young geniuses joining the force, especially Shisui Uchiha and Uchiha Jin.
• Uchiha Fugaku introduced the new recruits and explained the police force’s duties and authority.
• Uchiha Fugaku offered Uchiha Jin a direct appointment as a full police officer and squad leader, and Jin accepted without showing much reaction.
• Uchiha Fugaku asked why Uchiha Jin had refused the Anbu invitation from the Third Hokage.
• Uchiha Jin said being an Uchiha was reason enough, then left Fugaku’s office.

Uchiha Jin activated his long-awaited system after joining the Konoha Military Police Force, selected two squad members, and began patrolling the southern shopping street. He saw villagers fear the Uchiha and heard them complain about the force’s reputation.

• Uchiha Jin learned that daily patrols would earn him five Justice Points and inspected the system shop’s costly items.
• Uchiha Jin chose Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi as his squad members and took them on patrol.
• Uchiha Jin’s squad entered the southern shopping street, where villagers fell silent and parted for them.
• Uchiha Jin heard villagers complain that the Uchiha frightened the village and jailed people, even for domestic violence.

Uchiha Jin confronted villagers gossiping about the Uchiha, then completed his patrol by arresting two men who fought in a tavern. His reward granted him a title that let him see people’s sins as colored bars, which he planned to use to find criminals.

• Uchiha Jin warned villagers that slandering the Uchiha could lead to their arrest and told Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi to treat such slander as enemy espionage.
• Uchiha Jin continued patrolling the shopping street with Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi while the fat cat ate candied hawthorn.
• A villager reported a fight at a tavern, and Uchiha Jin had Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi take the two drunken fighters into custody.
• The two men settled their dispute and agreed to compensate the tavern owner, earning Uchiha Jin ten Justice Points and the Clear-Sighted title.
• Uchiha Jin equipped the title and saw colored health bars above people, identifying Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi as pale yellow and deciding to watch for red bars.

Hiruzen Sarutobi weighed Minato Namikaze’s merits as his successor while considering Uchiha Jin’s clan loyalty and ordering him watched. Shimura Danzō demanded Shisui Uchiha for Root, then left to try recruiting Jin instead.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi considered Minato Namikaze the leading candidate for Fourth Hokage because of his wartime achievements, popularity, and Will of Fire.
• An Anbu reported that Uchiha Jin had defended his clan’s reputation, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to continue monitoring him.
• Shimura Danzō demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi hand Shisui Uchiha over to Root, but Hiruzen refused and insisted the Anbu was best for Shisui.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shimura Danzō he could try recruiting Uchiha Jin, and Danzō left confident he would succeed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the shadows to continue monitoring Uchiha Jin.

Uchiha Jin returned home to his mother, Uchiha Kazuna, and little sister, Uchiha Izumi, and warned Izumi to keep her distance from Itachi. After dinner, he trained Izumi and reflected on Obito’s future attack on Konoha and his own plans for awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Uchiha Jin went home with the hungry black cat and reunited with Uchiha Izumi, who had started school and was placed in the same class as Itachi.
• Uchiha Jin warned Uchiha Izumi that Itachi was not a good person and told her not to spend much time with him.
• Uchiha Kazuna served dinner, cut the black cat’s food in half, and warned him against sneaking extra food by threatening to have him neutered.
• Uchiha Jin told Uchiha Kazuna and Uchiha Izumi that he had joined the Konoha Military Police Force as a full member and squad leader, and promised to enforce the law impartially.
• Uchiha Jin trained Uchiha Izumi after dinner and thought about Obito’s coming attack on Konoha and how his own thoughts might shape his future Mangekyō Sharingan abilities.

Uchiha Jin investigated the murder of a family of three and used his ability to spot a red sin value above a suspicious onlooker. The system declared his mission complete, though the suspected killer had not yet been confronted or arrested.

• Uchiha Jin accepted Uchiha Fugaku's case and received a mission to find the killer within three days.
• Uchiha Jin examined the victims and crime scene, finding that the family had been killed with a sharp blade and the wife had been assaulted.
• Uchiha Jin and his squad questioned neighbors and recent customers, but the five ninja customers all had yellow sin values.
• Uchiha Jin noticed a young man watching the noodle shop who had a red sin value and suspected he was the killer.
• The system marked the mission complete and awarded Uchiha Jin the title "Eye of Judgment."

Uchiha Jin used his new Eye of Judgment title to identify Sarutobi Shotaro as the murderer of a family and chose to make him confess. He arrested Shotaro without presenting evidence, and the chapter ended when Hiruzen Sarutobi learned the suspect was his nephew.

• Uchiha Jin equipped Eye of Judgment and saw descriptions of people's misdeeds, including Sarutobi Shotaro's murder of three family members.
• Uchiha Jin chose the system option to make Sarutobi Shotaro confess and earn one hundred justice points.
• Uchiha Jin announced that he had found the murderer and ordered Uchiha Xi and Uchiha Xuan to restrain Sarutobi Shotaro.
• Sarutobi Shotaro protested that his uncle would punish the officers, while onlookers questioned the arrest and an Anbu went to inform Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that the man Uchiha Jin had arrested was his nephew, Sarutobi Shotaro.

Uchiha Jin used his Sharingan to interrogate Sarutobi Shōtarō, who had murdered a family after assaulting the Proprietress. Hiruzen Sarutobi demanded to know who had ordered the arrest, and Jin said Shōtarō had committed a crime.

• Uchiha Jin accused Sarutobi Shōtarō of assaulting the Proprietress and murdering her family, then used genjutsu to invade his memories.
• Uchiha Fugaku entered the Interrogation Room and found Sarutobi Shōtarō convulsing and foaming at the mouth.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Sarutobi Elder arrived with Anbu and Sarutobi clan members, and Fugaku stepped in front of Jin.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi demanded to know who had ordered Jin to arrest and torture Shōtarō.
• Uchiha Jin denied receiving instructions and said he had arrested Shōtarō because he had committed a crime.

Uchiha Jin revealed that Sarutobi Shōtarō had murdered a family of three, defending his decision to arrest and interrogate him despite having no evidence at first. Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to defuse the dispute, but Jin blocked the Sarutobi clan from taking Shōtarō away and disclosed the murder.

• Uchiha Jin said Sarutobi Shōtarō had committed a crime and explained that he used genjutsu to search Shōtarō's memories after he refused to confess.
• Uchiha Jin claimed his eyes could see evil and said his intuition had proven correct, while the Sarutobi grand elder accused the Uchiha of enforcing the law without evidence.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi criticized Jin's use of torture but advised him to rely on evidence in future cases, and the Sarutobi clan prepared to take Shōtarō home.
• Uchiha Jin blocked the Sarutobi clan from leaving with Shōtarō and revealed that Shōtarō had killed a family of three three days earlier.

Uchiha Jin accused Sarutobi Shōtarō of murdering a family of three after seeing the crime in his memories through genjutsu. Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Sarutobi grand elder tried to dismiss the evidence and settle the matter with compensation, but Jin insisted his Three-Tomoe Sharingan could not be wrong.

• Uchiha Jin said he had seen Sarutobi Shōtarō murder a family of three in his memories, and the Sarutobi grand elder furiously denied the accusation.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi dismissed the other Sarutobi and Anbu from the Interrogation Room and told Jin that unauthorized torture and genjutsu did not provide valid evidence.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi suggested Jin's assumptions could have altered Shōtarō's memories, and the Sarutobi grand elder offered ten million ryo to compensate the Uchiha Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Fugaku accepted the payment as a way to end the matter, but Uchiha Jin stopped them from leaving and revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Jin declared that his eyes could not be wrong and reaffirmed that Sarutobi Shōtarō had killed the family.

Uchiha Jin insisted that Sarutobi Shōtarō be executed for murder despite Hiruzen Sarutobi’s attempts to negotiate, while Uchiha Fugaku backed Jin. Hiruzen ultimately accepted that he could not override the village’s laws, and the Sarutobi Elder pleaded with him to save his son.

• Uchiha Jin identified Sarutobi Shōtarō as the murderer, and Uchiha Fugaku supported Jin’s judgment with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked what price would secure Shōtarō’s release, but Jin refused to let a murderer go free.
• Jin accused Hiruzen of shielding a criminal and cited the village’s rules requiring execution for a ninja who killed a civilian.
• Hiruzen fell silent and accepted that Shōtarō was doomed under the village’s laws.
• The Sarutobi Elder knelt before Hiruzen and begged him to save Shōtarō, his only son.

Uchiha Jin insisted that Sarutobi Shōtarō be executed for murdering a civilian family, despite pressure from Hiruzen Sarutobi. Hiruzen received the Uchiha's execution request, while the Sarutobi grand elder begged him to find a way to spare his son.

• Sarutobi Shōtarō begged Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Sarutobi grand elder to save him, but Uchiha Fugaku told Hiruzen not to interfere with the Uchiha Law Enforcement's handling of the case.
• Uchiha Jin dragged Sarutobi Shōtarō to a cell, and Hiruzen Sarutobi left with the distraught Sarutobi grand elder.
• Uchiha Fugaku asked Uchiha Jin why he wanted Shōtarō dead, and Jin said the village's laws required the death penalty for murdering civilians.
• Uchiha Fugaku wrote an execution request for Sarutobi Shōtarō and sent it to Hiruzen Sarutobi for approval.
• The Sarutobi grand elder begged Hiruzen Sarutobi not to sign the request and pleaded with him to find a way to keep Shōtarō alive.

Uchiha Jin faced pressure from the clan and the Hokage over his insistence that Sarutobi Shōtarō be executed. At a clan meeting in Naka Shrine, Jin rejected an infiltration mission that would spare Shōtarō and send him away from Konoha.

• News of Jin's refusal to spare Sarutobi Shōtarō divided the Uchiha between hardliners who supported him and moderates who feared angering the Hokage.
• Uchiha Kazuna worried about the danger Jin faced, while Jin reassured her that he was carrying out his law enforcement duties impartially.
• Uchiha Tekka escorted Jin to a clan meeting and pledged the hardliners' support for his demand that a murderer pay with his life.
• At Naka Shrine, Uchiha Fugaku presented Jin with an infiltration mission document intended to spare Sarutobi Shōtarō from execution.
• Jin read the document, tossed it onto the table, and refused the mission.

Uchiha Jin clashed with the Pro-Peace Faction elders over how to punish Sarutobi Shōtarō, arguing that the Uchiha’s submission to Konoha had not stopped the village’s suppression. The clan voted to accept the Hokage’s proposal, and Jin left with the Hawk Faction.

• Uchiha Jin rejected the elders’ proposal to send Sarutobi Shōtarō on a spy mission and demanded that he be executed for his crime.
• Uchiha Jin insulted the grand elder and condemned the Pro-Peace Faction for groveling before Konoha’s leaders.
• Uchiha Jin argued that the village continued to suppress the clan despite its members enforcing the law impartially.
• Uchiha Fugaku called for a vote, and fourteen clan members supported the Hokage’s proposal, ten supported executing Sarutobi Shōtarō, and six abstained.
• Uchiha Jin left the meeting room, followed by the second elder and the Hawk Faction.

Hiruzen Sarutobi arranged for Sarutobi Shōtarō to leave Konoha as a spy instead of facing execution, while Uchiha Jin’s elders encouraged him to act as he pleased. Hiruzen then learned Jin had left the village and realized he might be pursuing Shōtarō.

• Shisui Uchiha reported that the Uchiha clan had accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s proposal, and Hiruzen praised him while asking him to defend Jin.
• The Second Elder and Fourth Elder gave Uchiha Jin a ninjutsu scroll and promised to support and groom him as the next clan head.
• Uchiha Fugaku released Sarutobi Shōtarō from jail, and Shōtarō accepted an undercover assignment before leaving Konoha with Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Sarutobi Elder watching.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked where Jin was, then learned from an Anbu that Jin had left the village on a C-rank escort mission.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi realized Jin was likely pursuing Shōtarō and ordered people to leave the village with him.

Sarutobi Shōtarō left Konoha believing his uncle had arranged a safe assignment for him, but Uchiha Jin intercepted him and moved to execute him for murdering civilians. Jin stabbed Shōtarō just as Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others arrived and ordered him to stop.

• Sarutobi Shōtarō left Konoha, planning to enjoy his assignment in the Land of Hot Water and take revenge on Uchiha Jin someday.
• Uchiha Jin confronted Shōtarō on the road and declared that he would enforce the law despite Shōtarō's appointment as a spy.
• Jin cut Shōtarō's appointment letter in two and invoked his authority as a Jonin and member of the Konoha Military Police Force to execute him.
• Shōtarō attacked Jin with a kunai, but Jin dodged and severed Shōtarō's right hand before laying his tachi against his neck.
• Shōtarō begged for his life and offered to agree to any condition, but Jin demanded that he pay for his crimes.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived with Anbu, Uchiha Fugaku, and the Konoha Military Police Force and shouted for Jin to stop, but Jin's blade pierced Shōtarō.

Uchiha Jin killed Sarutobi Shōtarō for murdering civilians, then defended his actions by citing the laws of the previous Hokage. Hiruzen Sarutobi could find no legal grounds to punish him and let him leave, while the Sarutobi Elder vowed revenge.

• Uchiha Jin slit Sarutobi Shōtarō's throat, and the medical ninja failed to save him.
• The Sarutobi Elder mourned his son and demanded that Jin be punished, while Hiruzen Sarutobi challenged Jin for killing his nephew.
• Jin cited the Second Hokage's decree authorizing jōnin or Anbu to kill a ninja who massacred civilians in the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi acknowledged that Jin had broken no law and allowed him to go, despite the Sarutobi Elder's protests.
• Jin nodded to Uchiha Fugaku and left with the black cat as the Sarutobi Elder watched him with murderous intent.

After Uchiha Jin executed Sarutobi Shōtarō under village law, the Sarutobi grand elder vowed revenge while the Uchiha clan split over Jin’s actions. The grand elder challenged Jin to a duel in the Forest of Death, and Jin left to meet him as Uchiha Kazuna watched anxiously.

• Uchiha Jin received justice points and unlocked the Judgment Aura after killing Sarutobi Shōtarō.
• The Sarutobi grand elder mourned his son and swore to kill Uchiha Jin, while Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to intervene.
• The Uchiha Pro-Peace Faction condemned Jin’s actions, while the Hawk Faction defended him, and elders prevented the dispute from becoming a fight.
• Uchiha Jin waited for the Sarutobi grand elder, expecting him to seek revenge for Shōtarō’s death.
• The Sarutobi grand elder challenged Uchiha Jin to a fight to the death in the Forest of Death and left using the Body Flicker Technique.
• Uchiha Jin followed the grand elder without changing clothes, and Uchiha Kazuna watched him leave with concern.

Uchiha Jin killed the Sarutobi grand elder after defeating him in battle, while acknowledging that the elder’s desire to avenge his son was understandable. Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered that his sister-in-law had taken her own life and donated her money to the victims and the village, leaving him wondering where Jin stood.

• The Sarutobi grand elder attacked Uchiha Jin in Training Ground 44, seeking revenge for Sarutobi Shōtarō.
• Uchiha Jin wounded the elder, then trapped him in a Sharingan illusion and fatally stabbed him when he believed he had won.
• As he died, the Sarutobi grand elder admitted Shōtarō’s crimes and asked Jin to leave his body in the forest.
• Anbu retrieved the elder’s body for burial, and Hiruzen Sarutobi went to tell his sister-in-law of the death.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi found his sister-in-law dead by suicide and read her letter directing that part of her money go to the victims’ relatives and the rest to the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi bowed to her body and wondered where Uchiha Jin stood.

Uchiha Jin patrolled Konoha after killing Sarutobi Shōtarō, then refused Hiruzen Sarutobi’s renewed offer to join the Anbu. He declared that he preferred enforcing the law and bringing the village’s criminals to justice, leaving Hiruzen and Shisui stunned.

• Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi greeted Uchiha Jin at the Military Police Force, while other Uchiha clansmen feared or admired him after Sarutobi Shōtarō’s death.
• Uchiha Jin took Xuan and Xi on patrol, and the frightened villagers fell silent when they saw him.
• An Anbu summoned Uchiha Jin to the Hokage’s Office, prompting Xuan and Xi to hurry to alert the clan head.
• Uchiha Jin saw Shisui Uchiha kneeling before Hiruzen Sarutobi and refused Hiruzen’s offer to join the Anbu.
• Uchiha Jin told Hiruzen and Shisui that he preferred catching criminals and delivering justice to victims.