Arc 18Uchiha Fall and Ocean Defense

Itachi massacred the Uchiha clan, while Toyotomi Yinglang saved Mikoto and brought her into the Empire. After defeating Ōtsutsuki invaders on Ocean Planet, the Empire expanded its research and military forces to confront future threats and control spreading awakenings.

  • Itachi told Minato about the coup, massacred the Uchiha clan while sparing Sasuke, and took the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror before pursuing his plan to infiltrate the Jashin Cult.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang preserved Mikoto’s body and soul, revived her in another world, and subjected her to coercive service as his maid.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered population incentives and immigration, then showed Mikoto the Empire’s worlds while challenging her understanding of the Shinobi World.
  • Nagato and Yahiko fought Ōtsutsuki Fūshū and Ōtsutsuki Yashū after the invaders arrived to harvest Ocean Planet’s Chakra Fruit.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang prevented Fūshū’s escape, killed him after he consumed Yashū, and helped Mikoto stand after she admitted her fear.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang assigned research into Ōtsutsuki remains, countermeasures, and treatments while ordering preparations for future attacks.
  • Nagato and Yahiko acquired Devil Fruits, expanded Ocean Planet’s navy and monitoring network, and recruited Konan to build an air force as Kāma awakenings and mutant bloodlines spread.
Chapters 426–450 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 426The Child of Prophecy's Tacit Consent

Uchiha Itachi told Minato Namikaze he planned to massacre the Uchiha before their coup, spare Sasuke, and join the Jashin Cult as an undercover agent. The chapter ended with Fugaku unaware of Itachi’s plans and still believing the coup would succeed.

  • Itachi met Minato in a grove and revealed the Uchiha were planning a coup.
  • Itachi said he would kill the clan, spare Sasuke, and become a wanted rogue ninja to preserve the Uchiha’s reputation.
  • Itachi planned to infiltrate the Jashin Cult and investigate the Evil God inheritors, and Minato neither stopped nor endorsed his choice.
  • Minato reflected that Itachi saw the clan and the world as abstract causes rather than ordinary people.
  • Itachi asked Fugaku whether the Uchiha still had a future, and Fugaku answered that they would if the coup succeeded.

Ch. 427Lonely eyes

After Shisui’s death, Itachi reflected on the truth behind his friend’s fate and the loneliness of choosing the clan’s destruction. He decided to join the Jashin Cult to investigate the Evil God’s inheritors and use Shisui’s eye to protect the Shinobi World.

  • Itachi opened the box holding Shisui’s right eye and questioned whether the Uchiha, Konoha, or he himself were worth protecting.
  • Itachi told himself that he and Shisui had become symbols rather than seeing the people they meant to protect.
  • Minato confirmed that he knew Danzo had taken Shisui’s left eye, while Itachi said he would keep the right eye from Danzo.
  • Itachi told Minato that he would wipe out the clan so Shisui’s eye could serve a purpose.
  • Itachi decided to join the Jashin Cult, investigate the Evil God’s inheritors, and protect the Shinobi World.

Ch. 428Night of Clan Destruction

Itachi carried out the massacre of the Uchiha Clan, killing its members and his parents while believing he was protecting the clan and Konoha. He left the compound alone, shaken by his actions and uncertain whether they had been right.

  • Itachi entered the Uchiha Clan Compound and killed its residents house by house, including children and an elderly Uchiha man.
  • Fugaku and Mikoto waited in their residence without resisting as the sounds of Itachi’s killings drew closer.
  • Itachi found Fugaku and Mikoto in the study, killed Fugaku, and then killed Mikoto after she asked him to take care of Sasuke.
  • Itachi left the darkened compound with Shisui’s eye, said goodbye without looking back, and walked away.

Ch. 429The heir to the divine artifacts

After the Uchiha massacre, Itachi claimed the clan’s secret Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror and resolved to use Shisui’s eyes to fight the powerful factions he named. Toyotomi Yinglang preserved Mikoto’s body and carried it through a Dragon Vein passage to another world, while condemning the system that had made Itachi its last victim.

  • Itachi entered the Uchiha secret chamber and took the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror, the clan’s final inheritance.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang preserved Mikoto’s body and soul in a sealing container, intending for her to be revived in another world.
  • Itachi said he would use Shisui’s eyes for a different purpose and revealed that his Mangekyō Sharingan had awakened.
  • Itachi named several powerful groups and resolved to try to destroy their legacies, though he knew he could not wipe them all out.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang left through the Dragon Vein passage and blamed Fushan, Fugaku, Konoha, and the system for the massacre.

Ch. 430The cost of starting a venture

Toyotomi Yinglang and Kushina helped the newly resurrected Mikoto adjust to life in the Great British Empire and explained the truth about Itachi and the Evil God Inheritors. Mikoto went to sleep as Kushina hoped she could begin a new life.

  • Kushina told Mikoto that she was alive in another world and that Toyotomi Yinglang, the Empire's emperor, had saved her.
  • Mikoto asked about Itachi, and Toyotomi Yinglang condemned his and Shisui's actions as misguided attempts to serve the Uchiha clan and the wider world.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the Evil God Inheritors were scattered across the Shinobi World and received their powers as venture capital to build territories and organizations.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said the Inheritors could not be eradicated unless the Shinobi World's social conditions changed.
  • After Mikoto fell asleep, Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Mikoto had married the wrong man and that Fugaku's weakness and Fushan's betrayal had contributed to Itachi's tragedy.
  • Kushina sat beside Mikoto's bed, held her hand, and urged her to leave the past behind and begin again.

Ch. 431The Manchu-Han Imperial Feast

Mikoto endured three days of coercive conditioning under Toyotomi Yinglang, who reduced her to a maid and asserted control over her body and daily life. After finally begging for permission to relieve herself, she accepted her powerless place in the Imperial Palace.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Mikoto that she was only his maid and that he controlled her body, time, and actions.
  • Mikoto served tea, ate lavish meals under orders, attended Toyotomi Yinglang, and endured two nights of physical distress without permission to relieve herself.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Mikoto to beg for release, and she pleaded before he allowed her to leave.
  • Mikoto returned to the side hall and agreed that her body, freedom, and choices were subject to Toyotomi Yinglang's authority.

Ch. 432Night lessons

Mikoto endured Toyotomi Yinglang’s increasingly humiliating rules in the Imperial Palace, recognizing that he controlled her duties and denied her any choices. After he used her as a table for his late-night meal, she went to bed in despair, facing a future of obedience and numbness.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Mikoto to follow the palace’s nightly rules, and she obeyed while feeling that he saw her only as a maid to be controlled.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang bound Mikoto with red cord and told her to kneel and wait until he returned.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang returned with food and placed the tray on Mikoto’s back while he ate; Mikoto silently wept and understood how completely her dignity had been stripped away.
  • Mikoto asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would always treat her this way, and he told her that, as his maid, she had no right to make choices of her own.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Mikoto to sleep and rise early for her duties, while she lay awake crying over the life and freedom she had lost.

Ch. 433Sisters' nighttime conversation

Kushina explained that Toyotomi Yinglang treated Mikoto as a maid because she had failed to help her clan or resist during its destruction, and because he disliked what he saw as uselessness and cowardice. She told Mikoto that he viewed the Shinobi World as separate from his responsibilities and urged her to discover an identity beyond her former roles.

  • Mikoto asked Kushina why Toyotomi Yinglang treated her this way, and Kushina said her behavior was not to his taste.
  • Kushina reminded Mikoto that she had not helped her clansmen or resisted when Itachi came to kill them, and said Toyotomi Yinglang disliked useless people and cowards.
  • Mikoto asked what kind of person Toyotomi Yinglang was, and Kushina described him as detached from the Shinobi World and unwilling to intervene in its suffering.
  • Mikoto said Toyotomi Yinglang had saved her by making her a maid, and Kushina said she needed to be reshaped into herself rather than remain defined by her family roles.
  • Kushina told Mikoto she did not hate Toyotomi Yinglang because he had given her a second life and the freedom to make choices, and she encouraged Mikoto to find her own identity.

Ch. 434The tip of the iceberg

Toyotomi Yinglang brought Mikoto to Konoha to show her how the Toyotomi Clan’s Sharingan users were respected while the Uchiha remained suppressed. Mikoto came to understand that Fushan’s betrayal stemmed from his own weakness, and Yinglang told her she no longer needed to wear a mask.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang had Mikoto put on a featureless white mask and took her to Konoha with three identically dressed maids.
  • Yinglang showed Mikoto Toyotomi clan members using their Sharingan and explained that Konoha respected them for saving people.
  • Yinglang showed Mikoto the Uchiha compound and said Fushan, Fugaku, and the clan would not change the course leading to the Uchiha’s extermination.
  • On Konoha’s shopping street, Yinglang explained that the Toyotomi’s Sharingan were regarded as the “eye of god,” while the Uchiha’s were called the “evil eye,” and said Fushan’s betrayal came from his own weakness.
  • Back at the Imperial Palace, Mikoto told Yinglang she understood that the Uchiha were weak and cowardly, and he told her she no longer needed to wear her mask.

Ch. 435Nuclear-powered donkeys

Toyotomi Yinglang discussed the Empire’s need to grow its population and ranked potential immigrants by their usefulness, dismissing people from the Shinobi World as passive “nuclear-powered donkeys.” He ordered staged immigration from Ocean Planet and Mechanical Star alongside a fertility-reward policy, and left the Empire’s future focused on the stars.

  • Yutian reported that the British Continent’s population had surpassed four million, and Toyotomi Yinglang said the expanding Empire needed more people.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ranked Ocean Planet and Mechanical Star as the preferred sources of immigrants, followed by the colonies, and described the people of the Shinobi World as unfit for the Empire’s needs.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered a fertility-reward policy offering land, tax relief, education and employment priority, chakra seeds, Devil Fruits, and noble titles for larger families.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang instructed Yutian to bring in technicians and craftsmen from Ocean Planet and Mechanical Star first, in gradual stages, while postponing immigration from the Shinobi World.
  • When Yutian asked about the Empire’s future, Toyotomi Yinglang said it lay among the stars, where the Empire’s children would grow up as its masters.

Ch. 436Parasites and peace

Toyotomi Yinglang took Mikoto through the Heavenly Court and Mechanical Star, where Sasori explained how a society without ninja or Shinobi Villages had built peace through science and production. Mikoto accepted that the Shinobi system made people into tools, and she and Toyotomi Yinglang left to visit Ocean Planet.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang showed Mikoto the Heavenly Court and explained that the Empire's honored dead continued serving as gods.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang brought Mikoto to Mechanical City, where she saw its robots, workers, and growing industrial society.
  • Sasori told Toyotomi Yinglang that Mechanical Star prospered because it had no ninja or Shinobi Villages, and argued that they were parasites that consumed resources and sustained conflict.
  • Mikoto reflected on Konoha's suffering and agreed that the Shinobi World’s people had become parasites under its system.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Mikoto that the system, not the people themselves, made them tools, and affirmed that she was now her own person and part of the Empire.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang and Mikoto left Mechanical City to visit Ocean Planet.

Ch. 437Ocean World

Mikoto visited Ocean Planet with Toyotomi Yinglang and saw how its navy maintained order without shinobi or Shinobi Villages. After meeting Yahiko and Nagato, she reflected on the Shinobi World's violence and accepted that the Empire regarded her as Mikoto rather than as an Uchiha; she returned through the Void Gate without looking back.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang brought Mikoto to Navy Headquarters on Ocean Planet and explained that its navy protected island nations in exchange for fees, resources, land, or people.
  • Mikoto met Yahiko and Nagato, and she realized Nagato possessed an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan despite not belonging to the Toyotomi clan.
  • Yahiko questioned what shinobi and Shinobi Villages fought for, and Mikoto admitted that people in the Shinobi World might be born evil.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Mikoto that the Shinobi World's system had turned people into destructive tools, but that she was now simply Mikoto, an individual in the Empire.
  • Mikoto remembered the Uchiha clan's destruction and concluded that the clan's fate had been sealed by Fushan's betrayal before she followed Toyotomi Yinglang back through the Void Gate.

Ch. 438The Ōtsutsuki Descend

Ōtsutsuki Fūshū and Ōtsutsuki Yashū arrived to harvest Ocean Planet’s Chakra Fruit, but Toyotomi Yinglang refused their offer and declared that he wanted them dead. He sent Nagato and Yahiko to fight them while Mikoto watched from below.

  • A rift opened above Navy Headquarters, and Ōtsutsuki Fūshū and Ōtsutsuki Yashū emerged, announcing their plan to harvest Ocean Planet’s Chakra Fruit.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang identified the visitors as members of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family and Cadet Family, then immobilized Yashū with a single look.
  • Fūshū offered to share the Chakra Fruit, while Yashū explained that harvesting it weakened the planet and its people for thousands of years.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang rejected Fūshū’s offer and said he wanted both Ōtsutsuki dead.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang called on Nagato and Yahiko to fight Fūshū and Yashū, promising to help if they could not win.
  • Mikoto watched Nagato and Yahiko prepare for battle and reflected on how she had spent her life waiting rather than fighting.

Ch. 439Shadows and Samsara

Nagato unleashed his shadow army and fought Ōtsutsuki Fūshū, whose overwhelming speed and strength quickly destroyed the servants and forced Nagato to rely on future sight and evasive techniques. Nagato strengthened his defenses with Monarch Domain and Susanoo armor, then continued trading teleporting attacks with Fūshū as Mikoto watched in terror; the battle remained unresolved.

  • Nagato summoned three thousand Elite Jonin-strength shadow servants and ordered them to surround and kill Ōtsutsuki Fūshū.
  • Fūshū shattered the shadow servants with his punches, then used his speed and teleportation to attack Nagato, who evaded with future sight and Shadow Instantaneous Movement.
  • Nagato activated Monarch Domain, strengthening his shadow servants and suppressing Fūshū’s dōjutsu and chakra.
  • Nagato formed a Perfect Susanoo, compressed it into armor, and withstood Fūshū’s blows while counterattacking with the Shadow Devouring Sword and Space Slash.
  • Nagato and Fūshū continued exchanging teleporting attacks across Navy Headquarters as Mikoto crouched nearby, frightened by their power.

Ch. 440Strong acid and the Byakugan

Yahiko fought Ōtsutsuki Yashū at Navy Headquarters, using acid rain and advanced Color of Armament and Observation to injure him despite his powerful regeneration. Yashū recovered and prepared to fight seriously, while Yahiko stood ready to continue until his teacher or Nagato ended the battle.

  • Yahiko used Corrosion Release: Strong Acid Rain, but Yashū let the acid corrode his body and regenerated instantly.
  • Yahiko used advanced future sight to predict Yashū’s teleportation and struck him with the Reincarnation Prison-Suppressing Staff.
  • Yashū crashed into a stone pillar with broken ribs and injured organs, then rapidly healed and questioned how long Yahiko could keep fighting.
  • Yahiko declared he could fight long enough for Yashū to die, and Yashū began to take the battle seriously.
  • Yahiko braced himself in the thinning acid rain, determined to keep fighting and refusing to kneel.

Ch. 441The authority of the Rinnegan

Nagato fought Ōtsutsuki Fūshū above Navy Headquarters, but Fūshū’s Rinnegan abilities overwhelmed his defenses and nearly exhausted his strength. Nagato escaped a devastating windstorm and waited for Fūshū to emerge, refusing to yield while the battle continued.

  • Ōtsutsuki Fūshū used Wind Realm: Time Reversal to rewind his own attack and punch through Nagato’s Susanoo, stopping his heart briefly and badly injuring him.
  • Fūshū unleashed Heavenly Wind: Myriad Blossoms and Heavenly Falling Windstorm, forcing Nagato to escape with Shadow Body Undying at great cost to his eye power and chakra.
  • Fūshū opened a Yomi: Wind Crossing passage and vanished into it, moving unseen through space.
  • Nagato kept his Color of Observation active and held the Shadow Devouring Sword ready, waiting for Fūshū to attack without exposing an opening.

Ch. 442Space Seal

Toyotomi Yinglang sealed space so Nagato could wound Ōtsutsuki Fūshū with Shadow Devouring Slash, forcing Fūshū and Yashū to retreat. After witnessing the Empire’s fighters stand against the Ōtsutsuki, Mikoto asked Toyotomi Yinglang to help her become stronger.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang warned Nagato that Fūshū’s Time Reversal had limits, and Nagato prepared to strike with Shadow Devouring Slash.
  • Fūshū tried to escape through Wind Passage, but Toyotomi Yinglang sealed the space and prevented him from crossing through.
  • Nagato struck Fūshū’s soul with Shadow Devouring Slash, leaving him with an incurable wound and unable to continue fighting.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang called a halt to Yahiko and Yashū’s exhausted fight, and Fūshū admitted defeat before leaving with Yashū.
  • Mikoto reflected on how she had spent her life waiting for others to act, then told Toyotomi Yinglang that she wanted to become stronger.

Ch. 443Devouring the fruit

Toyotomi Yinglang rejected Ōtsutsuki Fūshū’s attempt to negotiate and watched as Fūshū devoured Ōtsutsuki Yashū to gain his abilities. After Nagato and Yahiko withdrew, Yinglang confronted the empowered Fūshū, and the two prepared to fight above Navy Headquarters.

  • Ōtsutsuki Fūshū proposed leaving the planet, but Toyotomi Yinglang refused and demanded his death.
  • Ōtsutsuki Fūshū ordered Ōtsutsuki Yashū to turn into a Chakra Fruit, then ate it and absorbed Yashū’s abilities.
  • Nagato and Yahiko prepared to keep fighting, but Toyotomi Yinglang told them to stand down and took over.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang walked through the air to face Ōtsutsuki Fūshū, who accepted that he would have to fight.
  • Mikoto watched the two confront each other, waiting to see Yinglang kill a member of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family.

Ch. 444Genesis Sky Gale

Toyotomi Yinglang defeated Ōtsutsuki Fūshū after Fūshū reshaped the battlefield with Genesis Sky Gale and Yinglang overpowered his world with the Heavenly Court. Yinglang returned to the rooftop, leaving Mikoto shaken by the knowledge that her master could kill an Ōtsutsuki.

  • Ōtsutsuki Fūshū reshaped the area around Navy Headquarters into a mountain range under a purple sky with Genesis Sky Gale.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang opened a rift to the Heavenly Court and used its golden light to overwrite Fūshū’s reshaped world.
  • Ōtsutsuki Fūshū unleashed Heavenly Falling Windstorm, but Toyotomi Yinglang ended the jutsu with Immortal Mangekyō: Guixu.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang stopped time, destroyed Fūshū’s soul with Guixu, and killed him.
  • Genesis Sky Gale collapsed, the sea and Navy Headquarters returned, and Toyotomi Yinglang went back to the rooftop while Mikoto remained kneeling in shock.

Ch. 445Looting the Corpse

After the battle at Navy Headquarters, Nagato took the Rinnegan from Ōtsutsuki Fūshū’s corpse while Yahiko directed soldiers repairing the damage. Toyotomi Yinglang helped Mikoto stand, and she faced the sea on her own feet.

  • Nagato examined the Rinnegan he removed from Ōtsutsuki Fūshū’s corpse.
  • Yahiko ordered navy soldiers to repair the eastern wall and clear the plaza.
  • Mikoto reflected on the difference between the Empire’s people, who stood against gods, and the people of the Shinobi World, who knelt and waited to die.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang asked Mikoto why she was still kneeling, and she admitted she was afraid to stand up.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang offered his hand, and Mikoto took it and stood without falling.

Ch. 446The changes on Ocean Planet

Toyotomi Yinglang and the Empire’s leaders discussed the death of Ōtsutsuki Fūshū and the threat posed by the Ōtsutsuki clan. After learning that residual Ōtsutsuki energy had awakened Karma abilities and mutated bloodlines across Ocean Planet, they planned to expand the navy and monitor those affected.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang told the gathered leaders that he, Nagato, and Yahiko had killed the Ōtsutsuki alien Fūshū on Ocean Planet.
  • Kaguya explained that studying Fūshū’s remains could advance the Empire’s cultivation system, and Sasori proposed researching them to develop fourth-tier Origin Warriors.
  • Yahiko called for techniques and weapons designed to counter Ōtsutsuki abilities, while Yutian reported that some Ocean Planet inhabitants had awakened strange powers.
  • Kaguya explained that residual Karma and bloodline factors had spread across Ocean Planet, creating dangerous Karma awakenings and safer but weaker mutated bloodlines.
  • Yahiko urged Nagato to establish order on Ocean Planet, and Nagato ordered the navy expanded to fifty thousand personnel, the fleet increased to two hundred warships, and monitoring stations set up.

Ch. 447The thousand-year gap

Kaguya explained why the Ōtsutsuki had not come to the Shinobi World and warned that they would eventually arrive, possibly in forces stronger than any they had faced. Toyotomi Yinglang assigned the Empire’s leaders to prepare defenses and research, while Mikoto wondered whether Konoha’s Will of Fire could protect it.

  • Kaguya told Toyotomi Yinglang and the others that a thousand years was brief by Ōtsutsuki standards and that the clan would eventually come.
  • Kaguya explained that Ōtsutsuki missions usually involved a Main Family member and a Cadet Family member, but a perceived threat could prompt the stronger Branch Family to act.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Nagato and Yahiko to expand the navy and monitor Kāma Awakened people and mutant bloodlines.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang assigned Sasori to study Ōtsutsuki Fūshū’s body and Rinnegan, Yutian to develop a space-time-disrupting barrier, and Kaguya to document Ōtsutsuki knowledge.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang tasked Tsunade and Sakura Haruno with developing treatment for rule-based damage and designated Kushina as a research specimen.
  • After the meeting, Mikoto reflected on the Empire’s preparations and wondered whether Konoha’s Will of Fire could withstand the Ōtsutsuki.

Ch. 448The Heavenly Court's gift

In the Heavenly Court, Nagato and Yahiko each chose and ate a Devil Fruit to address weaknesses revealed in their battles. They left with new counters for Fengshou’s spatial travel and Yashū’s regeneration.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang allowed Nagato and Yahiko to each take one Devil Fruit and warned them to choose what they needed.
  • Nagato chose the Door-Door Devil Fruit for spatial mobility and demonstrated opening a door to Navy Headquarters and returning.
  • Yahiko chose the Explosive Devil Fruit to overcome Yashū’s regeneration and showed that an ordinary punch could unleash a powerful explosion.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Nagato could close spatial doors to block Fengshou’s Yomi: Wind Crossing.
  • Nagato and Yahiko opened a door to Navy Headquarters and stepped through together.

Ch. 449Mass recruitment

Kaguya explained that Ocean Planet’s natives had awakened chakra because the deaths of Fengshou and Yashū saturated the planet with Ōtsutsuki energy, while the Sage of Six Paths had been consuming the chakra of the dead in the Shinobi World. Yahiko and Nagato began expanding the Empire’s forces and organizing a planetwide search and registration effort to keep Ocean Planet from descending into clan warfare.

  • Nagato told Yahiko that Ocean Planet’s natives had begun awakening chakra, and Kaguya explained how Ōtsutsuki energy had transformed them.
  • Kaguya revealed that the Sage of Six Paths had been taking the chakra of dead shinobi, preventing it from returning to the Shinobi World.
  • Yahiko and Nagato ordered the navy expanded to two hundred thousand personnel and a thousand warships, with observation stations and registration across every inhabited island.
  • Kaguya proposed transferring Mechanical God Cult followers from Mechanical Star to staff the stations, and Yahiko agreed.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang warned that Ocean Planet could become an age of warring states unless the Empire established order, and Yahiko and Nagato accepted the task.
  • Watching warships depart, Yahiko and Nagato pledged to serve as the Empire’s fists.

Ch. 450A golden age or a warring states era?

Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan planned an air force and network of bases to extend the Empire’s control across Ocean Planet and prevent its growing population of awakened fighters from plunging into war. Konan took command of the air force and departed to begin its expansion, while Nagato and Yahiko continued organizing observation stations.

  • Nagato and Yahiko reviewed Ocean Planet’s growing ranks of Kāma Awakened and mutant bloodline inheritors and warned that isolated communities could eventually form rival clans and nations.
  • Nagato and Yahiko called Konan to lead the air force, and Konan proposed building a network of bases to support aircraft patrols and strikes across the islands.
  • Konan, Nagato, and Yahiko planned three air bases, discussed monitoring local awakened and pirates, and approved expanding the air force to at least two hundred aircraft with personnel recruited from across the Empire.
  • Nagato and Yahiko concluded that the Empire’s strength would preserve order and safeguard Ocean Planet’s golden age.
  • Konan received the first aircraft and prepared to take command of the air force, while Nagato and Yahiko returned to organizing observation stations.
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