Chapter Summaries

Xia Yu unleashed a Water Dragon Bullet so enormous that it dwarfed Funato Arumi’s sea dragon, then stopped before it drained the Land of Sea’s freshwater. After Funato Arumi died in the collapsing water dragon, Hai Xing interpreted Xia Yu’s earlier talk of strengthening the country through population as a plan to produce descendants for the future.

• As Funato Arumi’s sea dragon charged toward Taro Island, Hai Xing rallied the frightened villagers to believe in Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu used Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique and gathered an immense amount of seawater into a towering dragon.
• Hai Xing warned Xia Yu that continuing would drain the Land of Sea’s inland freshwater, and Xia Yu stopped after realizing he had used only thirty percent of his chakra.
• Funato Arumi tried to attack Xia Yu, but his sea dragon had already been absorbed; Xia Yu’s water dragon crashed down on him and killed him.
• The villagers praised Xia Yu, and Hai Xing claimed that strengthening the country meant giving Xia Yu descendants whose bloodline could empower future generations.

Hai Xing persuaded the Land of Sea’s young women and men to support Xia Yu taking local wives so he could strengthen the nation and the Uchiha bloodline. Meanwhile, Xia Yu failed to question Funato Kuromu about the Funato Clan’s hideout and decided to find someone else to investigate.

• Hai Xing urged the young women to pursue Xia Yu, claiming he already had multiple wives and wanted to help the Uchiha Clan flourish.
• Hai Xing asked the young men to accept Xia Yu taking more wives for the Land of Sea’s future, and they agreed.
• Xia Yu asked Funato Kuromu to reveal the location of the Funato Clan’s hideout after his eldest brother’s death.
• Funato Kuromu was too terrified to respond coherently, while the bald pirates crawled away from Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu gave up questioning the pirates and decided to find someone else to investigate the hideout.

After defeating the pirates in the Land of Sea, Xia Yu settled into the Daimyo Mansion while Hai Xing promised to help him build up the Uchiha population. Meanwhile, Funato Daika learned that Kirigakure was advancing on his base, and the chapter ended with Mei Terumi warning Ao to stop disrupting the operation meeting.

• Xia Yu sent the captured pirates to prison, then accepted Hai Xing's offer to prioritize finding women to bear children and strengthen the Uchiha bloodline.
• At the Funato Clan's base, Funato Daika grew anxious over the silence from Funato Arumi and the forces sent to the Land of Sea, but Funato Aopon persuaded him not to leave the base.
• Scouts reported that Kirigakure was bringing warships toward Wave Island, while they had found no trace of Funato Arumi or the other forces in the Land of Sea.
• Funato Daika ordered his clan to confront Kirigakure and leave no survivors.
• Aboard Kirigakure's fleet, Ao challenged the Land of Sea's daimyo over abandoning the villagers, and Mei Terumi threatened him for disrupting the meeting.

Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s fleet toward Wave Island to attack the Funato Clan’s base and establish herself as the Fifth Mizukage. Ao sensed powerful defenders waiting on shore, and Chōjūrō vowed to fight for Mei despite his fear.

• Mei Terumi comforted the nervous Chōjūrō, while Ao complained that she spoiled him.
• Mei rebuked Ao for bringing up Kirigakure’s Bloody Mist past and shifted the meeting to the attack plan.
• Mei explained that Wave Island was the Funato Clan’s main base and said she needed to win the war to earn support for her leadership.
• Ao sensed that the Funato defenders were gathering along the shore and identified five powerful chakra signatures, including one equal to Mei’s.
• Mei said she would face the Funato leader and left the other enemies to her allies.
• Chōjūrō, despite trembling with fear, promised to kill the defenders and then help Mei.

Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s assault on Wave Island and made her way to the Funato Clan leader’s palace while Chojuro fought the ambushers and Ao faced Funato Aopon. After trading barbs with Aopon, Mei entered the palace to confront her father.

• The Land of Sea's Daimyo lusted after Mei Terumi, and Hai Dan proposed arranging their marriage after the war; Ao rebuked the pair for whispering during the battle briefing.
• As Kirigakure's fleet neared Wave Island, Funato currents attacked the ships, and Mei Terumi ordered the ninja to abandon them and charge across the water.
• Funato clanspeople ambushed the advancing force, and Chojuro used Hiramekarei to clear a path while Mei Terumi continued toward the island.
• Ao sensed the strongest chakra at the island's peak, and Mei Terumi reached the palace, where Funato Aopon challenged her and claimed Ao as her opponent.
• Mei Terumi revealed that Ao was not actually blind in one eye, then entered the palace as Ao stayed outside to face Funato Aopon.

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.