Recaps

At the Five Kage Summit, Hashirama offered Konoha’s eight captured tailed beasts to the other nations in hopes of preventing war, but Tobirama announced that Konoha would sell them instead. After the other Kage left, Tobirama explained that the profits would strengthen the Senju Clan and secure Konoha’s dominance, leaving the dying Hashirama devastated.

• Hashirama told the four other Kage that Konoha would give them its eight tailed beasts to help prevent future wars.
• A, Byakuren, Reto, and Ishikawa questioned Hashirama’s offer and challenged Konoha’s motives and plans.
• Tobirama declared that Konoha would sell the tailed beasts and charge separately for sealing instruction and maintenance.
• Tobirama ended the summit, and Hashirama collapsed and confronted him after the other Kage departed.
• Tobirama argued that selling the beasts would fund the Senju Clan and help him secure Konoha’s power, while Hashirama’s peace plan would leave the village vulnerable.
• Tobirama supported the shattered Hashirama and led him out of the chamber.

In the New Capital, Yutian reported that growing numbers of tribespeople were seeking to join Great Britain, prompting the Shadow Clone "Yinglang" to redesign the kingdom’s social ranks and paths to advancement. The chapter ended with "Yinglang" looking toward Great Britain’s growth as a new order before chaos reached the Shinobi World.

• Yutian reported that new arrivals were coming to Great Britain daily and asked how they should be settled.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" created the Commoner rank above Freemen and ordered existing Freemen promoted to Commoners.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" eased routes for Slaves to become Freemen through service, work, training, and merit.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" established a Gentry rank above Citizens, with advancement based on exceptional service, family standing, or strength and loyalty.
• Yutian accepted the task of drafting the rank rules and settling newcomers through education and work assignments.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" watched the New Capital and resolved to strengthen Great Britain before chaos came to the Shinobi World.

Hashirama Senju died in the winter of Konoha’s thirteenth year, leaving the village unsettled and the Hokage succession contested. Toyotomi Yinglang shut down the push for an open selection, and Tobirama Senju took charge as the inevitable Second Hokage while Yinglang anticipated further power struggles.

• Hashirama Senju died with Mito Uzumaki, Tsunade, and Tobirama Senju at his bedside, leaving Tobirama to protect Konoha.
• Three days later, the Land of Fire’s daimyo’s court called for Konoha to select a new Hokage, turning succession into a potential contest.
• At an expanded Konoha High Command meeting, Uchiha En and other clan representatives argued that the village should consider candidates beyond Tobirama Senju.
• Toyotomi Yinglang challenged the dissenters to name a candidate with the strength, prestige, and experience to lead Konoha, leaving them unable to offer an alternative.
• Tobirama Senju declared that he would oversee Konoha’s affairs until his Second Hokage succession ceremony was arranged.
• After the meeting, Toyotomi Yinglang left the Hokage Building expecting further power struggles now that Hashirama’s restraining influence was gone.

After Hashirama's death, Tobirama consolidated power by creating secret Root and introducing rules to bring Konoha's clans, especially the Toyotomi Clan, under closer surveillance and control. He left Hiruzen and Danzo with new responsibilities as he began an era of institutions, oversight, and shadows.

• Tobirama appointed Hiruzen Jonin Commander and charged him with managing missions, promotions, and the younger generation of clan members.
• Tobirama ordered Danzo to establish Root as a secret force answering directly to him, with its first long-term mission to watch Toyotomi Yinglang and the Toyotomi Clan.
• Tobirama also ordered Root to monitor the divided Uchiha, clans close to the Toyotomi, and unusual dealings with the daimyo's household.
• Tobirama tasked Hiruzen with issuing academy regulations and creating a Village Education Inspection Office to oversee clan schools.
• Tobirama ordered new rules for reviewing and taxing strategic industries, including brewing, pharmaceutical production, and machinery manufacturing.

Black Zetsu told Madara that Hashirama had died after Konoha sold the Tailed Beasts, and that Tobirama had become Second Hokage and formed Root to target Toyotomi Yinglang. Madara took Hashirama’s death as confirmation of his own vision and continued trying to awaken the Rinnegan, unaware that the Sage of Six Paths was watching and interfering.

• Black Zetsu told Madara that Uchiha Yinglang had left the Uchiha Clan to establish the Toyotomi Clan, inspiring other clans to create their own schools.
• Black Zetsu recounted how Hashirama had offered the Tailed Beasts to the Five Kage before Tobirama turned the meeting into a sale.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Hashirama had died in Konoha’s thirteenth year, leaving Madara stunned before he dismissed his old rival’s ideals.
• Black Zetsu reported that Tobirama had become Second Hokage, tightened control over clan schools, and formed Root under Shimura Danzō to target Toyotomi Yinglang.
• Madara ordered Black Zetsu to watch Tobirama, Root, and Toyotomi Yinglang while he continued fusing with Hashirama’s cells.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched Madara’s fusion and continued his intervention without being detected.

In Konoha Year 14, Tobirama Senju ordered all registered clans to send eligible children to the Ninja Academy, with mission cuts and fines for noncompliance. The clans devised different ways to preserve their traditions and influence, while Toyotomi Yinglang treated the order as an opportunity to strengthen Toyotomi children through comparison.

• Tobirama Senju issued compulsory enrollment rules requiring clan children aged six to under twelve to attend the Ninja Academy and authorizing inspections of clan schools.
• Uchiha En rejected open resistance and planned to keep talented children in the clan while sending less favored children to school to gather intelligence.
• The Inuzuka clan head used bone lots to decide which children would stay home, attend two years, or complete all six years at school.
• Small clans planned to comply outwardly while continuing to teach their secret techniques and traditions outside school hours.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli to send every eligible child to school and use the experience to compare Academy lessons with Toyotomi instruction.

Tsume Inuzuka and Kurama Unkai left their clans to join the Toyotomi, while a surge of commoner children sought places at Konoha’s Ninja Academy. Tobirama Senju expanded enrollment to build a loyal force, as Toyotomi Yinglang weighed the divide between Konoha’s numbers and Great Britain’s focus on quality.

• Tsume Inuzuka fled the Inuzuka grounds with Haimaru and joined the Toyotomi as Tsume Toyotomi, where Yinglang assigned her to the Special Advancement Class.
• Kurama Unkai came to the Toyotomi grounds seeking a place to learn and became Unkai Toyotomi.
• Commoner families crowded the Ninja Academy registration office after hearing that enrollment and tuition were more accessible.
• Tobirama Senju ordered more teachers and classrooms, relaxed screening, reduced tuition, and created awards to recruit and train commoner ninja loyal to Konoha.
• Toyotomi Yinglang judged Tobirama’s plan as a way to build numbers without matching technology or tactics, while Great Britain advanced its weapons and steam-engine research.

Toyotomi Yinglang traveled from Konoha to his British realm and tested the limits of his Super Kage-level power, devastating a remote mountain range. He returned to Konoha before anyone noticed, keeping his strength and overseas rule secret.

• Toyotomi Yinglang used his improved Anywhere Door to reach the New Capital and absorbed his Shadow Clone's report on the realm's growing population, industry, and government.
• Yinglang traveled to a restricted mountain zone and tested his enhanced strength, speed, and Guixu, pulverizing a boulder and erasing a ridge.
• Yinglang combined Dragon Essence, qi, and Mangekyō power into an energy sphere that destroyed several square kilometers of mountains and left a vast glassy basin.
• Yinglang judged his strength and control acceptable, returned to Konoha through the Anywhere Door, and resumed reviewing documents without alerting anyone.

Toyotomi Yinglang settled on pursuing the purification and ancestral reversion of his Uchiha bloodline as his main route toward greater power, rather than relying on the Ten-Tails or the Sage of Six Paths. After obtaining and learning the Breath Concealment Technique, he prepared to move more freely under Konoha’s surveillance.

• Toyotomi Yinglang considered the known routes to Six Paths power and rejected becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki as a dangerous path that could compromise his autonomy.
• Toyotomi Yinglang developed a plan to purify his Uchiha bloodline through Yin Release and Dragon Essence, seeking an evolution rooted in his own power.
• Toyotomi Yinglang decided to pursue bloodline ancestral reversion as his primary goal while researching tailed beasts, natural energy, and other powers as supporting avenues.
• Toyotomi Yinglang obtained the simplified Breath Concealment Technique from the system during a routine draw.
• Toyotomi Yinglang mastered the technique’s basics within days and began using it to suppress his presence while continuing his public clan duties in Konoha.

Toyotomi Yinglang traveled to Rōran and accepted the Dragon Vein from Queen Sasha, stabilizing it and gaining the ability to cross into parallel worlds. He left a Dragon Vein Clone in Rōran and sent his true body into a peaceful parallel world to explore.

• Toyotomi Yinglang secretly left Konoha and traveled across the desert to Rōran after hearing reports of the Dragon Vein.
• Queen Sasha explained that the Dragon Vein was growing unstable and offered Yinglang its power so he could guide Rōran toward a new future.
• Yinglang accepted the offering and promised to protect Rōran while allowing Sasha to remain queen and govern the kingdom.
• Yinglang absorbed and refined the Dragon Vein's energy, stabilizing its flow and gaining the ability to cross into parallel worlds.
• Yinglang created a Dragon Vein Clone to remain in Rōran, then projected his true body into a peaceful parallel world.

The author reflected on Toyotomi Yinglang’s rise from an Uchiha orphan to a powerful figure who established Great Britain and gained the ability to travel between parallel worlds. The chapter explained the protagonist’s power system and ambitions, leaving the story poised to continue beyond volume one.

• The author recounted Yinglang’s major milestones, including breaking from the Uchiha, founding the Toyotomi Clan, and building Great Britain overseas.
• The author explained that the Myriad Worlds Lottery System gave Yinglang an advantage, while Dragon Essence, chakra, the Sharingan, and Dragon Vein Power served different purposes.
• The author described the Speed Ninja Pill as a strategic deterrent and explained Yinglang’s reasoning for letting ninja trade lifespan for temporary strength.
• The author said Yinglang founded Great Britain because Konoha’s political landscape offered no room to make new rules, and explained the name as a reference to the empire on which the sun never sets.

Toyotomi Yinglang arrived in Shinobi World No. 1 and encountered Naruto Uzumaki’s squad fighting Mukade/Anrokuzan’s puppet ninja in Rōran. He overwhelmed and captured Naruto, but a Dragon Vein eruption and approaching space-time markers prompted him to release Naruto and head toward the energy’s source.

• Toyotomi Yinglang crossed into Shinobi World No. 1 and secretly observed Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Yamato, and Sai fighting puppet ninja in Rōran.
• Toyotomi Yinglang confronted Naruto, used his speed and Mangekyō abilities to destroy Naruto’s shadow clones and nullify his Rasengan, then seized him by the throat.
• Sakura Haruno, Yamato, and Sai tried to intervene, but the puppet ninja and Toyotomi Yinglang’s pressure held them back.
• The Dragon Vein erupted, and Toyotomi Yinglang sensed its power resonating with his own as space-time markers approached.
• Toyotomi Yinglang released Naruto, who was caught by Sakura and Yamato, then rushed toward the Dragon Vein’s pillar of light.
• Yamato stopped Naruto from pursuing Toyotomi Yinglang and urged the squad to stabilize the Dragon Vein and complete their mission.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Naruto Uzumaki and his team had been displaced to a parallel world in Year 40 of Konoha, then accused Konoha of destroying the Uchiha to avoid repaying its debts to the clan. Naruto rejected the accusation and asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would help this world’s Uchiha, but Toyotomi Yinglang refused and left him stunned.

• After the Dragon Vein’s energy subsided, Naruto Uzumaki demanded to know who Toyotomi Yinglang was and why he had attacked them.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that Naruto, Sakura Haruno, Yamato, and Sai had crossed into a parallel world more than twenty years in the past, while Minato Namikaze secretly listened nearby.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said that Konoha’s leaders had concentrated power among the Senju faction and treated other clans as vassals, and he called Tobirama Senju innately evil.
• Toyotomi Yinglang claimed that Konoha had destroyed the Uchiha because it could not repay the clan for its contributions and sacrifices, shocking Naruto and unsettling Minato.
• Naruto asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would help the Uchiha in this world, but Toyotomi Yinglang refused and told Naruto not to display his loyalty to Konoha before him.

Toyotomi Yinglang overwhelmed Minato Namikaze’s team in Rōran, killing Aburame Shibi and leaving Chōza Akimichi near death as Minato fled with Kakashi Hatake. Yinglang captured Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sai, then disappeared with them into the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran Ancient City.

• Minato Namikaze tried to rescue Naruto Uzumaki with Flying Thunder God, but Toyotomi Yinglang intercepted him and wounded him with Dragon Roar Wind.
• Yamato attacked Yinglang with Wood Release, but Yinglang shredded his vines and gravely wounded him; Chōza Akimichi and Aburame Shibi then joined the fight.
• Yinglang unleashed Storm Release: Jagged Spiral Flying Blades, killing Aburame Shibi, critically wounding Chōza Akimichi, and injuring Minato Namikaze, Kakashi Hatake, Yamato, Sakura Haruno, and Sai.
• Minato Namikaze fled with Kakashi Hatake, leaving Chōza Akimichi behind, while Toyotomi Yinglang stayed to seize the otherworldly captives.
• Sakura Haruno activated the Strength of a Hundred Technique and attacked Yinglang, but he broke her wrist and knocked her unconscious.
• Toyotomi Yinglang bound Sakura Haruno and Sai, picked up Naruto Uzumaki, and vanished with all three into a Dragon Vein halo beneath Rōran.

Toyotomi Yinglang accepted Sai and Sakura Haruno as captives and potential servants, then agreed to Sara’s offer to place Rōran under his command. He left Sara governing the city while he consolidated his hold over the Dragon Vein and planned his next move against Anrokuzan.

• Sai offered to serve Toyotomi Yinglang and argued that his Root knowledge and Sakura Haruno’s medical skills made them valuable, while Sakura resisted surrendering.
• Toyotomi Yinglang spared Sai, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Uzumaki for now, ordering Sai to treat their wounds and report everything he knew.
• Toyotomi Yinglang stabilized the Dragon Vein’s array, opening a hidden door through which Sara, Queen of Roran, entered.
• Sara offered Rōran’s submission in exchange for Toyotomi Yinglang’s protection and his promise to defeat Anrokuzan.
• Toyotomi Yinglang marked Sara with Dragon Vein power, kept her as queen, and ordered her to calm the people and suppress news of the captives.
• Toyotomi Yinglang continued absorbing the Dragon Vein’s energy as Minato Namikaze fled across the desert with the young Kakashi.

Toyotomi Yinglang extracted most of Naruto Uzumaki’s Nine-Tails chakra and Asura quality, then sent Sai to infiltrate Shimura Danzō’s Root and stoke conflict within Konoha. After Sai left with Naruto, Yinglang killed Anrokuzan and secured Rōran, leaving Sakura Haruno under his control as he awaited the consequences of his schemes.

• Toyotomi Yinglang extracted a small amount of Nine-Tails chakra and more than ninety-nine percent of Naruto Uzumaki’s Asura quality, weakening Naruto’s potential and influence.
• Toyotomi Yinglang planted protective memory-altering seals on Sai and ordered him to take Naruto to Konoha, join Shimura Danzō, and secretly inflame conflict with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Sai left Rōran carrying the unconscious Naruto, while Toyotomi Yinglang kept Sakura Haruno behind for another purpose.
• Toyotomi Yinglang confronted Anrokuzan and destroyed his puppet army, killed him, and returned his stolen Dragon Vein power to its source.
• Toyotomi Yinglang returned to the Dragon Vein’s core and prepared to watch Konoha’s internal conflict unfold from his secured base in Rōran.

Toyotomi Yinglang implanted Sakura Haruno with a chakra seed that bound her to him and forced her into his service. After gaining a Warhammer 40,000 gene-seed and planning a serum-based superhuman program, he set out for the Land of Wind to establish a base near Sunagakure.

• Toyotomi Yinglang considered Sunagakure a suitable place to build an underground force and conduct experiments, then decided Sakura Haruno was too useful to kill.
• Toyotomi Yinglang implanted a modified chakra seed in Sakura Haruno, strengthening her while placing her life, power, and thoughts under his influence.
• Toyotomi Yinglang made Sakura Haruno his maid and assigned her chores, medical assistance, and work recording experiments; she submitted under his control.
• Toyotomi Yinglang received a gene-seed containing blueprints for nineteen Space Marine modification procedures and devised a staged gene-serum enhancement program.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Sakura Haruno to change into travel clothes and used the Dragon Vein to teleport them to a secluded valley in the Land of Wind.

Toyotomi Yinglang arrived in the Land of Wind, defeated and subjugated the Third Kazekage, and claimed control of Sunagakure. He recruited the young Sasori as his student, promising to teach him a new path for puppetry and keep him from becoming a Human Puppet.

• Toyotomi Yinglang tracked the Third Kazekage in the desert and overwhelmed him with his abilities.
• Toyotomi Yinglang implanted suggestions and a fear brand in the Third Kazekage, who submitted and agreed to take him to Sunagakure.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the Third Kazekage to summon village leaders and bring him Sasori for a personal assessment.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered to train Sasori, recognized his desire for eternity, and warned him against turning himself into a Human Puppet.
• Sasori accepted Toyotomi Yinglang as his teacher, while Sakura Haruno recognized him as the future rogue ninja and wondered what Yinglang planned for Sunagakure.

Sai convinced Shimura Danzō that he came from a parallel world, earned the codename Ink Crow, and handed over an unconscious Naruto Uzumaki. Meanwhile, Toyotomi Yinglang continued developing a basic gene serum in Sunagakure, with Sakura Haruno and Sasori assisting.

• Sai told Shimura Danzō a fabricated account of another world's history, portraying Danzō as the decisive hero who suppressed the Uchiha rebellion and was later betrayed by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Danzō believed Sai's account, denounced Hiruzen, and accepted Sai's praise of him as Konoha's rightful future Hokage.
• Sai presented the unconscious Naruto Uzumaki as an otherworldly Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Danzō ordered him taken to safe house A-3 under heavy guard.
• Danzō named Sai Ink Crow, made him a Root member, and ordered him to compile a detailed report about the other world.
• Toyotomi Yinglang worked with Sakura Haruno and Sasori in Sunagakure to refine a basic gene serum intended to enhance physical abilities.
• Yinglang instructed Sasori to simplify a chakra stabilization rune and told Sakura to record an experiment on giant desert monitor lizard tendon tissue.

Danzo used the war and Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation to obtain knowledge from the dead, then accepted Sai’s plan to secretly enlist Iwagakure against Sunagakure in exchange for future rights to occupied lands. As Danzo’s envoy prepared to contact Ōnoki, Sasori noticed unusual movements on the border and suspected Konoha was making a new move.

• Danzo praised the techniques and knowledge extracted from summoned dead and argued that battlefield deaths justified conscripting sacrifices for further research.
• Sai proposed secretly approaching Iwagakure to pressure Sunagakure, offering it future interests in the Lands of Birds and Bears.
• Danzo approved the plan and ordered Sai to send a trusted envoy to Ōnoki while keeping the negotiations from Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze.
• Sasori received reports of unusual troop movements along the border and wondered whether Iwagakure or Konoha was behind them as he developed a new Gene Serum.

Toyotomi Yinglang demonstrated that the first-generation gene serum had transformed thirteen Sand ninja into Elite Jonin-level warriors and greatly extended their expected lifespans. Sunagakure’s elites, including Chiyo, pledged themselves to his cause, and Toyotomi established the Reform Army under his direct command.

• Toyotomi Yinglang and Scorpion oversaw tests showing that the thirteen serum subjects had exceptional strength, speed, endurance, recovery, and resistance, with a projected lifespan of around 120 years.
• Scorpion reported the results, prompting Sunagakure’s gathered ninja and officials to clamor for the serum.
• Chiyo watched the demonstration and decided that serving Toyotomi Yinglang could be the right choice for Sunagakure’s future, while Sakura Haruno privately worried about Scorpion’s fate in her original world.
• Iron Sand Wood and the other twelve subjects swore loyalty to Toyotomi Yinglang and Scorpion, and Chiyo and many of the watching elites knelt as well.
• Toyotomi Yinglang founded the Sunagakure Reform Army, named the thirteen warriors the First Special Operations Unit, code name “Bedrock,” and ordered Scorpion and Sakura to continue their work.

Toyotomi Yinglang judged that Danzo’s accusations alone would not overcome Hiruzen Sarutobi’s support in Konoha, so he used Sai to give Danzo a plan targeting wartime losses and unequal resource allocation. Danzo began gathering clans and evidence for a broader challenge to Hiruzen, while Yinglang waited for Konoha’s internal divisions to deepen.

• Toyotomi Yinglang concluded that Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and other influential figures could help Hiruzen Sarutobi survive Danzo’s accusations.
• Toyotomi Yinglang sent Sai a plan to rally clans harmed by wartime losses and alleged Sarutobi favoritism.
• Sai proposed that Danzo expose disparities in mission assignments, casualties, and resource allocation to win support from resentful clans.
• Sai suggested demanding an investigation and forcing Hiruzen Sarutobi to send his clan’s preserved forces to the front lines.
• Danzo praised the scheme and ordered Sai to compile lists of aggrieved clans and evidence of possible irregularities.
• Toyotomi Yinglang withdrew his control of Sai and waited for Konoha’s conflict to worsen as Sunagakure’s genetic stock solution and armor development advanced.

Danzo implanted a coercive seal in Naruto and planned to use clan discontent and the Fire Daimyo’s backing to claim the Hokage position. In Sunagakure, Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the village to seize control of the Wind Daimyo and turn the nation’s resources into military power.

• Danzo drove seven sealing spikes into Naruto, suppressing the Nine-Tails chakra and establishing a hidden control link.
• Sai gave Danzo a list of disaffected clans and proposed seeking the Fire Daimyo’s support to remove Hiruzen and appoint Danzo Hokage.
• Danzo embraced Sai’s plan and decided to visit the daimyo in secret, promising Sai the Hokage’s assistant position.
• Toyotomi Yinglang announced that Sunagakure would take control of the Wind Daimyo, prompting Chiyo to warn that the move could provoke the other great nations.
• Toyotomi ordered the Third Kazekage to lead the Bedrock squad and thirty serum-tested ninja on a secret mission to seize the daimyo and his key retainers.
• Toyotomi instructed Sunagakure’s leaders to prepare for an influx of resources and to build a force of at least five thousand new-model ninja within a year.

Sunagakure seized control of the Land of Wind’s resources while Toyotomi Yinglang caught Sakura Haruno trying to steal Gene Serum and forced her to choose among three boxes. Sakura won a tube of serum, while Toyotomi Yinglang treated the encounter as an investment and watched the storm gathering in Konoha.

• Sunagakure ninja took over the Daimyo’s Residence, humiliated the Daimyo, and began transferring supplies, personnel records, and finances to the village.
• Sakura Haruno secretly approached the laboratory safe to steal Gene Serum, but Toyotomi Yinglang caught her before she opened it.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered Sakura Haruno a choice among three boxes, claiming they held serum, liquor, or women’s underwear and describing punishments for the latter two outcomes.
• Sakura Haruno chose the middle box and found Gene Serum; Toyotomi Yinglang gave it to her and warned her that stealing had a price.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that the other boxes also held serum and said he hoped his gift would help Sakura Haruno grow, while he watched the storm gathering over Konoha.

The Fire Daimyo and his ministers read Danzo’s intelligence accusing Hiruzen Sarutobi of secretly building power and plotting against the state. The daimyo stripped Hiruzen of his titles and appointed Shimura Danzō Hokage, authorizing him to eliminate Sarutobi’s supporters as Konoha descended toward conflict.

• The daimyo angrily presented Danzo’s scroll to his ministers, who read reports of the Sarutobi Clan’s hidden Chunin force, political studies, covert movements, and wartime gains.
• The ministers condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi as a traitor and urged the daimyo to support Danzo against the Sarutobi Clan.
• The daimyo issued an edict stripping Hiruzen Sarutobi of his Hokage position and titles and appointing Shimura Danzō as the new Hokage.
• The daimyo ordered the edict proclaimed publicly and sent Danzo a secret letter authorizing extraordinary measures against Sarutobi’s adherents.
• In the Land of Wind’s desert, an unnamed man sensed the upheaval around Konoha and smiled, saying that the wind was rising.