Recaps

Mei Terumi confronted Funato Daika in the Funato palace and killed him with her Lava Release and Boil Release techniques. As she prepared to leave, Daika’s apparent corpse spoke and re-formed, revealing that he was still alive.

• Funato Daika identified himself as the Funato Clan’s fourth head and mocked Mei Terumi for being Kirigakure’s acting village leader.
• Mei Terumi attacked with Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique, and Funato Daika used a water wall to try to stop the corrosive liquid.
• Mei Terumi closed in and used Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique, dissolving Funato Daika’s body.
• Mei Terumi confirmed Daika appeared dead and headed for the palace doors, still wary of a trap.
• Funato Daika’s blood-like remains spoke, swelled, and re-formed into his body, shocking Mei Terumi.

Mei Terumi discovered that Funato Daika could absorb water to heal and strengthen himself, so she tricked him into absorbing water while she and her clones escaped and prepared a sealing barrier. The chapter ended with Funato Daika trapped inside the Three-Way Seal and Mei Terumi explaining how she had outwitted him.

• Funato Daika survived Mei Terumi's attacks and grew stronger by absorbing the water they produced.
• Mei Terumi recalled the Funato Clan legend that its leader could regenerate and strengthen himself by absorbing moisture.
• Mei Terumi flooded the palace with water, using scrolls for most of it while she and two shadow clones slipped outside.
• Funato Daika discovered that Mei Terumi had vanished and found himself trapped inside a green Three-Way Seal surrounding the palace.
• Mei Terumi revealed that she had faked her exhaustion and used the water as cover to set up the barrier.

Mei Terumi trapped Funato Daika as Chōjūrō and the Kirigakure forces defeated the Funato ninjas. Daika was left in despair, urging Black Mist and Arami to avenge him.

• Mei Terumi tightened the barrier around Funato Daika, who failed to break out and called for his daughter Aoton to save him.
• Ao revealed that Aoton lay wounded and near death at his feet.
• Chōjūrō arrived with the remaining Kirigakure troops and told Mei that they had killed every Funato ninja on the shore.
• The Kirigakure ninja praised Chōjūrō for defeating three Funato Senior Elites, while he credited Hiramekarei for his victory.
• Funato Daika mourned the destruction of his clan's foundation and called on Black Mist and Arami to avenge him.

Mei Terumi’s forces secured Wave Island and confined the undying Funato Daika while arranging a way to transport and permanently contain him. Ao took charge after Mei Terumi exhausted herself, and the Kirigakure forces waited for a vacuum tank from the village.

• Mei Terumi explained that Funato Daika could only be restrained by sealing because moisture let him restore his body, and Ao proposed trapping him in a sealed vacuum cage.
• Mei Terumi ordered a transparent vacuum tank made and assigned twelve jonin to rotate in maintaining the barrier around Funato Daika.
• Mei Terumi, exhausted, left Ao in charge and told him to spare the Funato Clan’s widows and bring them back to Kirigakure.
• Ao ordered searches of Wave Island, learned that Funato Qingning had died, and sent her body for examination by the Corpse Disposal Unit.
• The Kirigakure forces confined nearly a thousand Funato Clan widows aboard ships, cleared Wave Island, and waited for the village to send the vacuum tank.

Ao discovered that Funato Daika had died inside the barrier, then hurried to the shore after an attack overturned Kirigakure’s fleet. A giant pufferfish attacked the exhausted ninja, and Mei Terumi restrained it with Water Release: Multiple Water Binding.

• Ao went to the island to watch over Funato Daika and found him motionless inside the barrier.
• Ao used his Byakugan and discovered that Funato Daika had no chakra flow or signs of life.
• Ao ordered the ninja to keep the barrier guarded and rushed to the shore after hearing a crash.
• A giant pufferfish emerged from the sea and smashed Kirigakure’s warships while the exhausted ninja struggled to fight it.
• Mei Terumi used Water Release: Multiple Water Binding to trap the pufferfish.

Mei Terumi subdued the giant pufferfish, but Funato Aopon revived and used it to rescue the Funato women and devastate Kirigakure's exhausted forces. After the pufferfish escaped, Ao reported that Funato Daika had died, leaving Mei convinced the Funato Clan concealed a deeper mystery.

• Mei Terumi used Multiple Water Binding to restrain the giant pufferfish, but the Funato women escaped from their wrecked ship.
• Funato Aopon surfaced alive and called the pufferfish, which swallowed the women and escaped Kirigakure's attempt to surround them.
• The pufferfish fired poisonous steel needles, killing many Kirigakure ninja, while Chōjūrō shielded Mei Terumi with Hiramekarei.
• Mei Terumi stopped the exhausted ninja from pursuing the pufferfish and ordered them to tend to the wounded and clear the battlefield.
• Ao returned and confirmed Funato Aopon had truly died before somehow reviving, then told Mei Terumi that Funato Daika was dead inside the barrier.
• Mei Terumi ordered Ao to keep the barrier intact and bring Funato Daika's body back to Kirigakure, then waited for reinforcements and a vacuum glass tank.

Funato Aopon became the Funato Clan’s new leader after her father sacrificed himself to revive her, and she led the clan’s widows north to search for her missing brothers. As the women planned to rebuild without men, they explained to Aopon how children were conceived, leaving her stunned.

• Funato Aopon told the widows that her father had given his life to bring her back and pass on his powers, and they accepted her as their new clan leader.
• Aopon vowed to take the women to the Land of Sea to look for Funato Arumi and Black Mist, and to find a new home and gather information if the brothers were gone.
• Aopon promised to provide for the widows and restore the Funato Clan, declaring that women could lead it to greatness without men.
• The women pointed out that the clan would need men to have children, and Aopon learned about reproduction through their explanation and demonstrations.

Uchiha Xia Yu inspected Dalang Island and discovered its expensive lodgings disguised a bed-sharing service. He tried the arrangement, then left praising the city’s hospitality.

• Uchiha Xia Yu toured Dalang Island with Hai Xing and Hai Shen and found the village poor and dominated by fishing businesses.
• Hai Xing led Uchiha Xia Yu to a street of pink-lit lodgings and claimed the women outside offered a room-sharing service to people who could not afford the fees.
• Hai Xing and Hai Shen invited Uchiha Xia Yu to meet women from the Land of Rice Fields, and he agreed to try the service while claiming them for himself.
• Uchiha Xia Yu spent half a day at the lodging, then came downstairs dressed and praised the city’s civility and the value of its rooms.

Xia Yu learned that Hai Dan had arranged a marriage between the former Daimyo and Mei Terumi in exchange for islands, and he decided to turn the alliance in his own favor. In Kirigakure, Mei Terumi angrily refused the marriage plan, while the village elders pressed her to accept it for the village’s benefit.

• Hai Xing gave Xia Yu a secret letter from Hai Dan describing Kirigakure’s victory over the Funato Clan and a planned marriage alliance between Mei Terumi and the former Daimyo.
• Hai Xing and Hai Shen feared Kirigakure would support the former Daimyo against Xia Yu, but Xia Yu suspected the village leaders were exploiting the Land of Sea’s crisis.
• Xia Yu decided to accept the marriage alliance but make Mei Terumi marry him, the new Daimyo, instead.
• Kirigakure’s senior officials told Mei Terumi that she was expected to marry the Land of Sea’s Daimyo in exchange for Mother Island and Taro Island.
• Mei Terumi refused, while the advisors argued that the marriage would benefit Kirigakure and could later be ended.

The Daimyo of the Land of Water arranged for Mei Terumi to marry the Daimyo of the Land of Sea in exchange for two islands, and Kirigakure pressured Mei Terumi to accept. Mei Terumi refused and threatened to resign as Fifth Mizukage, but the Land of Water’s Daimyo arrived to speak with her.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Water persuaded the Daimyo of the Land of Sea to promise Demon Island and Mother Island in exchange for Mei Terumi, though Hai Dan convinced him to wait until the wedding to sign the transfer.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water notified Kirigakure of the marriage alliance, and Mei Terumi firmly rejected it during a meeting with the senior officials and Advisors.
• Ao argued that the Land of Water could take the Land of Sea by force, but an elder warned that the other great nations might intervene unless Kirigakure had a legitimate pretext.
• Mei Terumi threatened to give up her position as Fifth Mizukage and placed her hat on the table.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water entered the meeting and asked Mei Terumi to hear him out before deciding.

Mei Terumi agreed to a marriage alliance with the Daimyo of the Land of Sea in exchange for territory and military support for Kirigakure. As their fleet arrived at Taro Island for the wedding, Hai Dan discovered that the island was celebrating rather than occupied by the Funato Pirates.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Water pleaded with Mei Terumi to accept the marriage alliance, and she agreed to help Kirigakure and the nation recover.
• The Daimyo promised Kirigakure control of Demon Island and Mother Island and a tripled annual military budget.
• The next morning, the Land of Water's forces sailed north with Mei Terumi, both Daimyo, Hai Dan, and Kirigakure's elders and advisors.
• The villagers of Taro Island prepared for Xia Yu's wedding to Uzumaki Honoka, while Mei Terumi endured the attention of her future husband, the Daimyo of the Land of Sea.
• As the fleet approached Taro Island, fireworks lit the sky, and Hai Dan realized Hai Xing and Hai Shen had received his letter and the wedding preparations were underway.
• Hai Dan and the others wondered where the Funato Pirates were.

The Land of Sea's Daimyo returned with Kirigakure's fleet and found his subjects celebrating a wedding instead of reporting a Funato invasion. At his mansion, he discovered an unfamiliar couple in wedding clothes and recognized them as the pair who had dealt with Mother Island's monster.

• The Land of Water's Daimyo accused the Land of Sea's Daimyo of inventing the Funato invasion to arrange a wedding with Mei Terumi.
• Hai Dan found villagers preparing for the Daimyo's wedding, but they ignored him and refused to explain what had happened.
• The Land of Sea's Daimyo mistook the villagers for disguised Funato pirates, but Ao confirmed they were ordinary people and warned Mei Terumi about two powerful chakra sources nearby.
• The group reached the Daimyo Mansion, where villagers celebrated a wedding and praised a couple standing on the balcony.
• The Land of Sea's Daimyo confronted the couple and recognized them as the two people who had dealt with Mother Island's monster.

Xia Yu was acclaimed as the new Daimyo of the Land of Sea while the returning former Daimyo was rejected by his people. The Daimyo of the Land of Water learned that Kirigakure had previously conducted secret research on Mother Island, prompting Mei Terumi to confront the elders.

• The villagers declared Xia Yu the true Daimyo, and Hai Xing and Hai Shen explained that he had saved the Land of Sea from the Funato Pirates while the former Daimyo had fled.
• Hai Dan urged the former Daimyo to use Kirigakure’s interest in the islands to regain power, and the former Daimyo offered the Daimyo of the Land of Water all three islands in exchange for help.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water ignored the former Daimyo and asked Mei Terumi and the Kirigakure Ninja about Xia Yu and the red-haired woman beside him.
• Ao and an elderly Kirigakure advisor identified the woman as Uzumaki Honoka and revealed that the Fourth Mizukage had sent researchers and mutated summoning beasts to Mother Island.
• Mei Terumi questioned the elders about their motives for arranging her marriage, and they averted their gazes without answering.

Xia Yu demonstrated his strength to the Land of Water’s Daimyo and secured recognition as an equal ruler and potential ally. The Daimyo agreed to end tribute payments and repay ten years’ worth of tribute, while Xia Yu prepared to present a second condition.

• Xia Yu unleashed three enormous fire dragons, forcing Mei Terumi and Kirigakure’s ninja to combine their Water Formation Walls to hold them back.
• The Land of Water’s Daimyo accepted Xia Yu’s strength and rejected the former Land of Sea Daimyo’s plea to reclaim his country.
• After the villagers celebrated Xia Yu’s victory, the Land of Water’s Daimyo proposed an equal alliance and handed the former Daimyo and Hai Dan over to Xia Yu’s guards.
• Xia Yu agreed to the alliance and demanded ten years of tribute be returned to the people of the Land of Sea, which the Daimyo accepted.

Xia Yu secured the Land of Water’s agreement to refund ten years of tribute and send fifty ninja to teach his people, while planning to establish a Hidden Village in the Land of Sea. He then proposed that the Land of Water’s Daimyo and Mei Terumi marry alongside him and Uzumaki Honoka, leaving Mei Terumi’s response uncertain.

• Xia Yu asked the Land of Water’s Daimyo to refund ten years of tribute and send fifty ninja to the Land of Sea to teach ninjutsu.
• Mei Terumi agreed to provide the ninja, hoping to gather intelligence on Xia Yu openly.
• The Land of Water’s Daimyo accepted Xia Yu’s conditions and declared that the two lands would become allies without signing a pact.
• Xia Yu invited the Daimyo to his wedding and suggested that he marry Mei Terumi at the same time.
• The Daimyo, worried that refusing could undo his efforts to secure the alliance, asked Mei Terumi if they should marry.

Mei Terumi agreed to marry Xia Yu while secretly planning with the Land of Water's Daimyo to use a divorce demand as a pretext for Kirigakure to seize the Land of Sea. She ordered the ninja to prepare for war the next morning, then spoke with Chōjūrō before changing for the wedding.

• Mei Terumi accepted Xia Yu's marriage proposal and told the Land of Water's Daimyo she would return to the ship to change.
• Mei Terumi told the Kirigakure ninja that she and the Land of Water's Daimyo had planned to demand a divorce and use the resulting breach of agreement to justify invading the Land of Sea.
• Mei Terumi ordered Ao to divide the ninja into four teams to occupy Mother Island, Demon Island, and Jiro Island, while the remaining team stayed on Dalang Island with her.
• Mei Terumi said Xia Yu would likely reject the divorce demand and that Kirigakure would seize the Land of Sea after he broke the Alliance Pact.
• Chōjūrō told Mei Terumi he had noticed her sacrifices as Mizukage and vowed to protect her, and Mei Terumi went to change into her wedding dress.

Xia Yu waited at the Daimyo Mansion for Mei Terumi, only for the wedding to surprise everyone with a third bride: Orochimaru in the form of a woman. Xia Yu offered Orochimaru Funato Clan prisoners as experimental subjects in exchange for marrying him, leaving her response unresolved.

• Xia Yu told the Daimyo of the Land of Water and Uzumaki Honoka that he had thousands of wives, astonishing the Daimyo.
• Mei Terumi arrived in a wedding dress, and Hai Xing prepared to begin the ceremony before Xia Yu said another bride was still coming.
• Orochimaru appeared, revealed a female form, and drew alarm from the Kirigakure ninja when Mei Terumi recognized her as the legendary Sannin.
• Mei Terumi congratulated Orochimaru on her recent appointment as the Fifth Mizukage, and Orochimaru said she knew through her intelligence network.
• Xia Yu offered Orochimaru Funato Clan prisoners, including a pureblood with gills, if she agreed to marry him.

Xia Yu persuaded Orochimaru to marry him by promising her the Funato pirates as research subjects, and the unusual wedding went ahead alongside his marriages to Uzumaki Honoka and Mei Terumi. After the guests left, Xia Yu headed back with his two other wives, while Orochimaru vanished to collect prisoners.

• Xia Yu announced that the Funato pirates were Orochimaru’s betrothal gifts, then revealed her pregnancy to the watching crowd.
• Xia Yu persuaded Orochimaru to marry him by appealing to her interest in studying the Funato and their Pureblood, and she agreed on the condition that she would not wear a wedding dress.
• Hai Xing ordered a larger bed prepared for the bridal chamber as the wedding began with Uzumaki Honoka, Mei Terumi, and Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru took a wedding photo and left to collect prisoners, refusing Xia Yu’s offer of the prison keys and brushing off his question about consummating the marriage.
• After the Land of Water’s Daimyo and other guests departed, Xia Yu invited Uzumaki Honoka and Mei Terumi back to their room for the night.

Xia Yu kissed Mei Terumi while she tried to avoid intimacy, as Kirigakure’s leaders secretly prepared to attack the Land of Sea. After Ao received alarming intelligence about Xia Yu, the Daimyo of the Land of Water canceled the planned surprise attack.

• Mei Terumi said she was unwell, but Xia Yu kissed her after asking her to call him her husband.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water revealed that he was not drunk and summoned Kirigakure’s senior officials.
• Ao explained that Mei Terumi planned to seek a divorce and provoke Xia Yu into dissolving the alliance, giving Kirigakure a pretext to attack the Land of Sea and other islands.
• Ao and Chōjūrō said they would keep Orochimaru occupied while Kirigakure’s forces confronted Xia Yu.
• A Kirigakure ninja brought Ao intelligence on Xia Yu, and the report shocked Ao and the Daimyo of the Land of Water.
• After reading the report, the Daimyo of the Land of Water canceled the surprise attack planned for the next day.

After learning Xia Yu was an Uchiha from Konoha, the Land of Water’s Daimyo canceled Kirigakure’s planned surprise attack and ordered the troops to withdraw. That night, as Mei Terumi fumed over Xia Yu and Uzumaki Honoka through the thin walls, Ao appeared outside her window with a message.

• After investigating Xia Yu, Ao revealed that Xia Yu was an Uchiha from Konoha, alarming the Daimyo of the Land of Water and Kirigakure’s leaders.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water called off the surprise attack, ordered Kirigakure to meet Xia Yu’s demands, and told Ao to inform Mei Terumi and withdraw the troops.
• Mei Terumi lay awake next door, irritated by Xia Yu and Uzumaki Honoka’s wedding-night noises, and wondered whether she was jealous.
• Mei Terumi heard someone outside her window and called out, and Ao identified himself from within the mist.

Ao told Mei Terumi that the Daimyo had canceled the plan to kill Xia Yu after learning of his strength and Uchiha origins. As Mei Terumi lay awake, intrigued by Xia Yu and unsettled by their marriage, he knocked on her door and called himself her husband.

• Ao sneaked into Mei Terumi’s room and informed her that the Daimyo had canceled tomorrow’s plan.
• Mei Terumi agreed that Kirigakure could not yet challenge Konoha and ordered Ao to leave before Xia Yu noticed him.
• Ao offered Mei Terumi paper earplugs, but she declined and listened to Xia Yu and his wife next door.
• Mei Terumi reflected on her inexperience with romance and grew interested in Xia Yu, who would no longer die by her hand the next day.
• After the noises next door stopped, Xia Yu knocked on Mei Terumi’s door and asked if she was still awake because of the noise.

On their wedding night, Xia Yu entered Mei Terumi’s room with a key and tried to rest beside her, while she insisted she did not accept him as her husband. Mei Terumi demanded a divorce, and Xia Yu threatened to use force, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xia Yu visited Mei Terumi’s room late at night and left after she warned him not to force his way inside.
• Mei Terumi listened through the wall, then Xia Yu returned and unlocked her door with a key.
• Xia Yu offered Mei Terumi hot water and lay down on her bed, asking her to massage his back.
• Mei Terumi said she did not recognize Xia Yu as her husband and demanded a divorce.
• Xia Yu refused to agree to a divorce and threatened to use force.

Xia Yu used the Heart-to-Heart Technique on Mei Terumi after she rejected his advances, and she became eager to be with him. The next morning, Mei Terumi returned to the harbor, where a female elder suspected she had become Xia Yu’s wife.

• Mei Terumi mistook Xia Yu’s promise to get rough for a challenge, but he clarified that he meant intimacy rather than a fight.
• Xia Yu used the Heart-to-Heart Technique on Mei Terumi, and she threw herself into his arms.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water and the Kirigakure ninja waited at the harbor, wondering why Mei Terumi had not returned.
• Chōjūrō rushed toward the Daimyo Mansion to find Mei Terumi, but encountered her on the way back.
• Mei Terumi returned to the harbor with Chōjūrō, and a female elder concluded that she looked like a young wife after her wedding night.

Mei Terumi returned to Kirigakure without divorcing Xia Yu, believing their marriage would help protect the village. Three days later, Funato Aopon arrived at the Land of Sea port with giant pufferfish to kill Xia Yu and avenge her brother.

• Mei Terumi told the Land of Water's Daimyo and the Kirigakure ninja that she had chosen not to divorce Xia Yu and would remain in Kirigakure.
• The Land of Water's Daimyo left for home, privately vowing to make Xia Yu pay for slighting him.
• Hai Xing warned Xia Yu that giant pufferfish were approaching the port, and Hai Shen reported that their owner was a young, pureblood Funato woman.
• Funato Aopon learned that Xia Yu had killed her brother and other clan members, then came to the port with her inherited immortality and threatened to kill him.

Xia Yu confronted Funato Aopon as she sought revenge for her brothers, but the Yingying Beast emerged from seclusion and joined the battle. The Yingying Beast devoured the giant pufferfish and ate Aopon’s Chakra arrow, leaving Aopon stunned.

• Xia Yu met Funato Aopon and explained that her brothers had attacked the Land of Sea first, but Aopon insisted on revenge and ordered her pufferfish to attack him.
• The sea shook as the Yingying Beast awakened on Mother Island, and Xia Yu summoned her to face the pufferfish.
• The Yingying Beast ate several pufferfish while their bites failed to pierce her skin.
• Funato Aopon fired a Chakra arrow at the Yingying Beast, who caught it in her mouth, used it to pick her teeth, and ate it.