Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yūto, a transmigrator hoping to die spectacularly for a large payout, saw the Uchiha Clan’s coup talk as his chance. He urged the clan to rebel, but the meeting fell silent, leaving him with no immediate path to danger.

• Yūto narrowly avoided being struck by lightning while fishing and reflected on the compensation he would receive if he died accidentally.
• At the Konoha Military Police Force meeting, the Uchiha Great Elder argued with Fugaku that the village was sidelining the Uchiha and called for a coup.
• Several Uchiha hardliners supported the Great Elder, and Yūto became eager to join a rebellion where he could die in battle.
• Yūto climbed onto the table and urged the clan to launch a coup that night, citing alleged discrimination in rice prices.
• The room fell silent, and Yūto realized the Uchiha were unwilling to act on their coup rhetoric.

After Yūto called for a coup, Fugaku and the grand elder each mistook his motives and tried to win him over. Yūto remained focused on getting himself killed, while Fugaku tasked Shisui with training and guiding him.

• Fugaku decided Yūto had provoked the hawks to curb their talk of a coup, while the grand elder concluded Yūto was a hawk hidden among the doves.
• After the meeting, Fugaku praised Yūto, then the grand elder visited him at home and offered him tea.
• Yūto told the grand elder that the Ninja Academy distracted Uchiha children with romance and weakened the clan, prompting the elder to curse Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• When Yūto asked when they would begin the coup, the grand elder changed the subject, offered to introduce his granddaughter, and left him a ninjutsu scroll.
• Fugaku told Shisui Uchiha that Yūto was a devoted comrade, then asked Shisui to strengthen and guide him; Shisui agreed.

Yūto mistook Shisui’s patrol assignment for an assassination plot and eagerly went with him into the Northwest Forest, hoping to die. When they encountered a spy, Yūto fought recklessly to get killed but accidentally defeated him, leaving his hoped-for insurance payout out of reach.

• Yūto believed Fugaku had sent Shisui to assassinate him and welcomed their patrol assignment in the Northwest Forest as an opportunity to die.
• Shisui threw a kunai at a hidden spy, but Yūto deflected it and then dodged Shisui’s warning about the spy’s wind attack.
• Yūto attacked the wounded spy and fought him while Shisui prepared to intervene.
• Yūto pressed the spy to kill him before Shisui could help, but the spy carelessly let Yūto cut his neck and died.

Yūto hoped Shisui would carry out Fugaku’s assassination order after Yūto’s fight with a spy, but Shisui instead took the body away and later vowed to protect him. Yūto left the hospital frustrated that Shisui’s devotion kept thwarting his attempts to get himself killed.

• Yūto asked Shisui whether he had another mission, hoping he would assassinate him, but Shisui carried off the spy’s body and left.
• Yūto went to Konoha Hospital, where Yakushi Nonō bandaged his wounds and accepted his fabricated story about his father.
• Shisui hurried to the hospital to check on Yūto, but Yūto’s hopes of facing another enemy were disappointed.
• Nonō scolded Shisui for leaving Yūto injured while remaining unharmed, and Shisui vowed to protect Yūto for the rest of his life.
• Yūto protested that he did not want Shisui’s protection, while Nonō decided to visit that night to change his bandages.

Yūto returned home injured and was visited by Tsukimi, who cooked him dinner before leaving in a huff after he dismissed their relationship. Nonō arrived to change his bandages, and Yūto brushed off her concern with one of his familiar excuses.

• Yūto came home from patrol and found Tsukimi waiting, then explained that a spy had injured him.
• Tsukimi offered to train Yūto, but he put her off and accepted her offer to cook dinner instead.
• While reading, Yūto thought of getting himself killed by gathering material like Jiraiya, then ate Tsukimi's meal.
• Nonō arrived to change Yūto's bandages and teased him and Tsukimi about being a couple.
• Yūto told Nonō that he was only a child after she urged him to take care of himself, and she flicked his forehead.

Yūto lamented his failed attempts to die while Fugaku sought help handling a surge of spies in Konoha. Fugaku assigned Tsukimi to Yūto and Shisui’s squad, leaving Tsukimi worried about working alongside Yūto.

• Yūto recalled five failed attempts to claim compensation by dying and wished a Shinobi World War would break out.
• Fugaku reviewed a report showing that spies discovered by patrols had risen to dozens of times the usual number and worried about the spies still hidden in Konoha.
• Fugaku chose Shisui and Yūto to help capture spies, then considered adding Tsukimi to their squad after she arrived to join the Military Police Force.
• Tsukimi accepted Fugaku’s appointment to Yūto and Shisui’s squad, despite resenting Yūto and worrying that their strained relationship would make work difficult.
• Tsukimi left the Military Police Force and blamed her grandfather for sending her there instead of letting her earn money through missions.

Tsukimi learned that her grandfather expected her to influence her new squadmates and help restore the Uchiha clan, so she visited Yūto to clear the air about their argument. Yūto barely remembered the incident and dismissed her apology, leaving Tsukimi frustrated.

• Tsukimi's grandfather saw her appointment letter and urged her to get along with Yūto and Shisui, hoping she would shift Shisui toward the Uchiha Hawk Faction.
• Tsukimi spent a sleepless night worrying about her squad and decided to speak with Yūto the next morning.
• Yūto stayed home recovering from injuries and secretly wrote an adult novel, hiding his drafts when someone knocked.
• Tsukimi visited Yūto, intending to discuss their squad assignment and apologize for losing her temper.
• Yūto said he had already heard about the squad and had forgotten their argument, leaving Tsukimi privately furious.

Yūto, Shisui, and Tsukimi set an ambush for Kumogakure spies outside Konoha, but the experienced leader Oroi detected the trap and ordered a retreat. Yūto attacked with his Great Fireball Technique to stop the spies from escaping.

• Shisui briefed Yūto and Tsukimi on the mission to ambush three to five spies meeting in a valley outside Konoha.
• Yūto chose a hiding spot close to the valley, hoping a jonin spy would kill him, while Tsukimi worried he was too exposed.
• Oroi led the spies into the valley and noticed that the birds had gone quiet, realizing Konoha ninja had set an ambush.
• Oroi shouted for the spies to retreat, and Yūto leaped from hiding and fired a Great Fireball at them.

Yūto and his teammates ambushed Kumogakure spies in a valley, where he fought elite Chunin Kakui and narrowly survived a point-blank Great Fireball. The chapter left Yūto surrounded by three spies as he eagerly challenged them to kill him.

• Yūto used the Great Fireball Technique to block the valley exit, and Shisui and Tsukimi attacked the Kumogakure spies from hiding.
• Oroi sent Kakui and the other spies after Yūto and Tsukimi while he charged at Shisui.
• Yūto fought Kakui with taijutsu, but Kakui numbed his leg with Lightning Release and knocked him down.
• Yūto unleashed a point-blank Great Fireball that blasted Kakui away, while Tsukimi was wounded and held back by the other spies.
• Kakui regrouped with two spies and surrounded Yūto, who rose amid the smoke and dared them to kill him.

Shisui struggled against Oroi while Yūto and Tsukimi faced the Kumogakure spies, and Yūto deliberately took a blade through his chest to save Tsukimi. As Kakui moved in to finish them, a blond young man appeared beside a marked kunai, while the bloodied Yūto collapsed, expecting to return to Blue Star.

• Shisui realized Yūto and Tsukimi were in danger but could not break through Oroi’s Lightning Release blockade.
• Yūto knocked Tsukimi out of the way of an attack, took a blade through his chest, and killed the spy who stabbed him.
• Shisui used his Phantom Body Flicker Technique to escape Oroi’s genjutsu counter and rush toward Yūto.
• Oroi caught Shisui and held him in place while ordering Kakui and the other spies to kill Yūto and Tsukimi.
• Yūto stood in front of the exhausted Tsukimi and challenged Kakui before collapsing from blood loss.
• A special-seal kunai landed on the battlefield, and a blond young man appeared beside it.

Minato arrived in the valley and swiftly killed the Kumogakure spies while Tsukimi awakened her Three Tomoe Sharingan beside the gravely wounded Yūto. Rin could not stop Yūto’s bleeding, so Minato transported him and Rin to Konoha Hospital, leaving Obito and Kakashi shaken by Yūto’s sacrifice.

• Minato defeated Kakui and the two remaining spies with his speed and Rasengan, while Tsukimi awakened her third tomoe as she held Yūto.
• Shisui used genjutsu to escape Oroi’s grasp and killed him with a kunai through the heart.
• Kakashi, Obito, and Rin arrived; Rin began treating Yūto’s penetrating wound as Tsukimi pleaded with her to save him.
• Rin struggled to stop the bleeding, so Minato used Flying Thunder God to take her and Yūto to Konoha Hospital.
• Tsukimi told Obito that Yūto had been wounded protecting her, and Obito and Kakashi reacted to his sacrifice.

After Minato brought the gravely wounded Yūto to Konoha Hospital, Nonō saved him, and he woke with a newly awakened two-tomoe Sharingan. Tsukimi stayed by his bedside, where Yūto learned she had found his novel drafts and then complained about Nonō’s cooking.

• Minato and Rin rushed Yūto into Konoha Hospital, where Nonō took over his treatment and saved him.
• Yūto woke with a two-tomoe Sharingan and found Tsukimi waiting beside him.
• Tsukimi cried with relief, warned Yūto not to risk himself again, and told him she had discovered his novel drafts.
• Tsukimi urged Yūto to call her by her name, and Nonō arrived with a meal for them to share.
• Yūto criticized Nonō’s cooking, and Nonō angrily apologized for the food not suiting him.

After recovering in the hospital, Yūto endured Nonō’s warnings and an awkward bathroom encounter with Tsukimi. Once discharged, he asked Nonō whether she was returning to the orphanage, planning to visit the children.

• Nonō urged Yūto to take care of himself and reminded him that the orphanage children missed him.
• Yūto persuaded Tsukimi to eat Nonō’s cooking, then Tsukimi left to buy him food.
• Yūto got out of bed to use the bathroom, and Tsukimi returned and accidentally walked in on him.
• Tsukimi entered the bathroom to help Yūto, leaving them both embarrassed.
• Several days later, Yūto was discharged after Nonō lectured him again, then asked if she was going back to the orphanage.

Shisui left the Konoha Military Police Force to train on the battlefield as war with Kumogakure threatened, while the Elder decided to take Yūto as his student. Shisui told Yūto he might be sent to war, then accompanied him to the orphanage and wondered about the side of him he had never known.

• Shisui asked Fugaku to let him leave the squad and go to the battlefield, and Fugaku agreed, noting that the Uchiha Clan might soon join the fighting.
• After hearing Tsukimi's account of the valley battle, the Elder decided to come out of retirement and teach Yūto.
• Shisui went to the hospital to see Yūto, learned he had been discharged, and found him outside his home.
• Shisui told Yūto that Kumogakure was provoking Konoha and that he had requested Yūto's promotion to Chunin; Yūto eagerly anticipated going to war.
• Yūto said he was going to visit the orphanage, and Shisui joined him, surprised by his concern for the children.

Yūto and Shisui delivered food to the Orphanage, where Yūto confronted Danzo as he pressured Nonō to work for him. After Danzo left, Yūto explained his hostility by spreading a sexual rumor about him.

• Yūto bought rice, flour, and cooking oil at the Uchiha Clan's general store, and Shisui helped him carry the food to the Orphanage.
• Yūto and Shisui found Danzo pressuring Nonō while the children hid behind the nuns.
• Yūto insulted Danzo and mocked him for visiting the Orphanage without making a donation.
• Danzo left after warning Shisui to recognize Konoha's true pillar, and Nonō and Shisui urged Yūto not to provoke him.
• Yūto told Nonō and Shisui that Danzo liked very young girls, spreading a sexual rumor to explain why he would not be nice to Danzo.

Yūto planted doubts in Nonō and Shisui about Danzo’s motives, then visited the Orphanage with Shisui. Back home, the Uchiha Elder ordered Yūto to begin training under him, threatening to make him stronger and further complicate his plans to die.

• Yūto warned Nonō that Danzo might be targeting the Orphanage, making her and Shisui question Danzo’s motives.
• Yūto brought rice and candy to the Orphanage, where the children welcomed him and shyly gathered around Shisui.
• Shisui watched Yūto interact freely with the children and reflected on his own divided loyalties between the Uchiha clan and the village.
• Yūto returned home and found the Elder waiting with tea, who scolded him for recklessly risking his life.
• The Elder ordered Yūto to meet him at Naka Shrine at five the next morning for training, leaving Yūto worried that becoming stronger would thwart his plans to die.

At Naka Shrine, the Elder began Yūto’s special training with a brutal fight and taught him that his poor chakra control was wasting his strength. Yūto nearly landed a punch after trying to conserve chakra, but he was kicked away again and decided he was done with training.

• The Elder attacked Yūto with battlefield techniques and warned that he would break his ribs because Yūto did not know the Substitution Technique.
• Yūto took a blow to get close and tried to use the Great Fireball Technique, but the Elder interrupted it with a punch to his chin.
• The Elder explained that Yūto wasted chakra during taijutsu and dodges, then set a test: Yūto had to punch at his original speed using half as much chakra.
• Yūto tried to strike the Elder, who counterattacked without dodging and repeatedly kicked him away.
• Yūto finally brushed the Elder’s collar with his knuckles, but the Elder pointed out that Yūto had lost control of his chakra again, and Yūto gave up on training.

During brutal training with the Elder, Yūto awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan and achieved precise chakra control. Tsukimi brought him lunch and cared for him, but the Elder ended his break and ordered him back to training.

• The Elder used fire and Genjutsu to force Yūto to continue training after he tried to quit.
• Yūto pretended to surrender, then attacked the Elder in anger and landed a powerful punch with precise chakra control.
• The Elder noticed that Yūto had awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan, leaving Yūto shocked and worried about his future.
• Tsukimi arrived with lunch, scolded the Elder for overworking Yūto, and fed him while he recovered.
• After Tsukimi finished feeding Yūto, the Elder told him his break was over and ordered him to resume training.

Yūto trained with the Elder in fire techniques and combat, eventually exploiting a habitual opening to land a glancing hit before collapsing from exhaustion. The Elder recognized that Yūto had spotted a flaw in his fighting habits.

• Tsukimi objected when the Elder insisted Yūto continue training, but Yūto agreed to switch from taijutsu.
• The Elder demonstrated the Phoenix Flower Claw Crimson Technique, and Yūto copied its hand seals and performed the jutsu after seeing them once.
• Yūto repeatedly tried to combine fireballs, shuriken, and taijutsu, while the Elder dodged and criticized his attacks.
• After noticing the Elder's right shoulder dipped when he dodged, Yūto used a hidden shuriken to graze the Elder's cuff with a flaming strike.
• Yūto collapsed from exhaustion in Tsukimi's arms, and the Elder remarked that he had seen through a combat habit developed over decades.

The Elder made Yūto his apprentice after carrying him home, while Fugaku mistakenly believed Yūto had joined the Hawk Faction to influence it. As war loomed, Hiruzen approved Yūto’s Chunin promotion and sent him to the Kumogakure front with Minato’s Special Operations Squad, where Yūto welcomed the chance to get himself killed.

• The Elder carried the exhausted Yūto home and told Fugaku that Yūto was now his apprentice.
• Fugaku left, believing Yūto had become the Elder’s apprentice to influence the Hawk Faction, and the Elder dragged Tsukimi away from Yūto’s home.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Minato Namikaze to the Land of Tō border, deployed Orochimaru’s forces near the Land of Grass, and called up Chunin-ranked shinobi.
• After hearing reports of Yūto’s bravery, Hiruzen approved his Chunin promotion and assigned him to Minato’s Special Operations Squad on the Kumogakure front.
• Minato told Yūto to leave for the front immediately, and Yūto pretended he wanted to protect Konoha while secretly hoping to die in battle.