Ch. 421Ryukōshi's realization

Toyotomi Ryukōshi questioned why the Uchiha stayed in Konoha and learned how power and reputation shaped how clans were seen. In Konoha, Uchiha Fugaku’s privileged upbringing left him estranged from ordinary Uchiha, and Toyotomi Yinglang concluded that the clan had chosen the wrong person as its future.

  • Toyotomi Ryukōshi asked Toyotomi Yinglang why the Uchiha did not leave Konoha, and his father explained that they lacked a safe destination and that Uchiha Fushan depended on Konoha for his authority.
  • Toyotomi Ryukōshi wondered why the Toyotomi Sharingan were praised while the Uchiha Sharingan were condemned, and Toyotomi Yinglang said that those with the loudest voices defined others.
  • Uchiha Fugaku trained at the center of the clan compound and asked his attendant whether the clan members were living well, but he did not press when the attendant gave a vague answer.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Fugaku had been raised among elites and had barely encountered lower-ranking Uchiha, leaving him ignorant of their needs.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang concluded that Fugaku could not become a good clan leader and that the Uchiha had chosen the wrong person as their future.

Ch. 422A good mother

In the Imperial Palace garden, Toyotomi Yinglang explained how Mikoto’s inherited eye-power genes helped Itachi and Sasuke gain the Mangekyō, then told Sakura their children would inherit the right to choose their own paths. Later, Ryukōshi described helping an injured Uchiha at the Relief Station, and Yinglang explained how the Uchiha had been led toward ruin while reassuring his son that their family would choose its own future.

  • Sakura asked Toyotomi Yinglang how Itachi and Sasuke gained the Mangekyō when Fugaku and Fushan had only three-tomoe Sharingan.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said Mikoto’s sensitive inherited eye-power genes helped Itachi awaken the Mangekyō and allowed Sasuke to withstand Itachi’s implanted eye power.
  • Sakura wondered what their children would inherit, and Toyotomi Yinglang said they would inherit the right to choose who they became.
  • In Shinobi World No. 1, Mikoto quietly sewed a garment for Itachi, unaware that her genes were shaping her sons’ futures.
  • Ryukōshi told Toyotomi Yinglang that a wounded Uchiha had come to the Relief Station after Konoha Hospital refused him care, and that the man had asked whether the Uchiha were finished.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said the Uchiha had chosen a path toward ruin and assured Ryukōshi that their family would choose its own path instead.

Ch. 423Kushina's request

Kushina asked Toyotomi Yinglang to save Uchiha Mikoto from the Uchiha Clan Massacre in Shinobi World No. 1, and he agreed because Kushina had never asked him for anything before. Mikoto remained unaware that her fate was about to change, while Kushina worried that Mikoto would resent being taken from her family.

  • Kushina asked Toyotomi Yinglang to save Uchiha Mikoto, explaining that Mikoto was her closest friend in Shinobi World No. 1 and that her lineage could produce powerful children.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang agreed to rescue Mikoto during the Uchiha Clan Massacre, on the condition that she leave her old life behind and become a woman of the Empire.
  • Kushina said Mikoto would accept because she valued survival, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained that he agreed because Kushina had never asked him for anything before.
  • In Shinobi World No. 1, Mikoto quietly sewed beneath the eaves while Itachi slept and Sasuke played, unaware that Kushina was pleading for her.
  • Kushina worried that Mikoto would hate her for taking her away from her husband and sons, but Toyotomi Yinglang reassured her that Mikoto would see it as a second life.

Ch. 424The eve of the massacre

Toyotomi Yinglang sensed that the Uchiha Clan Massacre in Shinobi World No. 1 was approaching and told Kushina that he would rescue Mikoto during the massacre. He refused to save the rest of the Uchiha, while Ryukōshi considered what it meant to choose between clan and Empire.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang sensed Uchiha Itachi hesitating over the coup and saw Sasuke practicing, unaware of the coming massacre.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Itachi had not decided yet, Mikoto knew nothing of the danger, and he would take Mikoto away on the massacre night while preserving the record of her death.
  • Ryukōshi asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would save the innocent Uchiha, and Yinglang refused, saying he would only take Mikoto because Kushina had asked.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Ryukōshi that the Empire and clan should be one, then left him to continue studying.
  • Kushina worried that Mikoto might hate her, and Toyotomi Yinglang reassured her that Mikoto would be grateful to see someone familiar.

Ch. 425The Evil God plunged the world into chaos

Evil God's inheritors established organizations across the Shinobi World and began expanding while avoiding direct clashes with the great villages. As the Zombie Gate prepared to fight Hiruzen Sarutobi's forces, the Evil God watched his two hundred thousand scattered legacies grow.

  • Corpse Demon revealed that the Zombie Gate had made thirty-seven Flying Corpses from its slain followers and invited Hiruzen Sarutobi's Anbu to attack.
  • Evil Ghost ordered the Evil Shinobi Village to strike a Land of Grass stronghold and seize resources rather than fight Konoha directly.
  • The Netherworld King chose to raid unprotected merchant ships while avoiding Konoha and Kirigakure.
  • The Witch King ordered the Evil Witch Society to absorb small ninja clans and their resources before challenging the great nations.
  • Corpse Demon put the Zombie Gate branch in Konoha's northern territory on combat readiness after learning Hiruzen Sarutobi's men had found traces of it.
  • The Evil God surveyed two hundred thousand scattered inheritors and told them to grow at their own pace.

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.
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