Recaps

Senju Chen, Anko, Yamato, and Jiraiya explored the Land of Rain, where Jiraiya learned that Senju Chen owned hundreds of Food Is Heaven restaurants. After visiting a busy branch and continuing through the market, the group stopped at a hot spring establishment, catching Jiraiya’s attention.

• Jiraiya joined Senju Chen, Anko, and Yamato on their shopping trip through the rainy streets.
• Anko bought snacks from several stalls while Senju Chen carried the bags and Jiraiya searched the crowd for women caught in the rain.
• Anko led the group to a packed Food Is Heaven branch and ordered its signature dishes, while Jiraiya asked about the restaurant business.
• Senju Chen revealed that Food Is Heaven had a few hundred branches across the Shinobi World, and Anko praised his own cooking over the branch’s version.
• After leaving the restaurant, the group continued along the dining street until Jiraiya spotted the Moon-Viewing Bath and his eyes changed.

Senju Chen, Jiraiya, and Yamato visited a hot spring bathhouse, where Jiraiya tried to spy on the women’s bath and was caught. Mei Terumi and Anko attacked him, leaving him bruised and snake-bitten as Senju Chen offered him sake.

• Senju Chen agreed to relax at a hot spring bathhouse with Jiraiya, Anko, and Yamato.
• Jiraiya refused to enter the men’s bath and used ninja tools to eavesdrop on the women next door.
• Anko recognized Mei Terumi and Rin Nohara in the women’s bath, and Mei teased Anko with suggestive advice about men.
• Jiraiya climbed the bamboo wall to peek, but Mei Terumi struck him with a Water Dragon Bullet while Anko attacked him with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands.
• Jiraiya fell into the men’s bath injured, and Senju Chen gave him a towel and poured him sake.

Senju Chen explained how his economic plan could protect the Land of Rain and rejected Jiraiya’s suggestion that he become Hokage. Jiraiya remembered Minato and praised Chen’s ruthless political instincts before asking how Naruto was doing.

• Senju Chen described using tax exemptions, exchange vouchers, and a bank to bind other countries’ interests to the Land of Rain.
• Jiraiya asked whether Senju Chen would succeed Tsunade as Hokage, but Senju Chen said he wanted a comfortable life instead.
• Jiraiya admitted he was unsuited to politics and remembered Minato as the person best suited to lead Konoha.
• Jiraiya recalled Minato’s work developing the Rasengan and his devotion to protecting the village.
• Jiraiya called Senju Chen more ruthless than Minato and said Konoha needed someone like him.
• Senju Chen told Jiraiya that Naruto was doing well, though he often skipped class with Sasuke.

Senju Chen entrusted Naruto’s care to Jiraiya before Jiraiya left the village, then turned down Mei Terumi’s request for a private meeting that night. Later, while Senju Chen slipped out during heavy rain, Anko discovered his clone and tried to find out where he had gone.

• Senju Chen asked Jiraiya to approve teaching Naruto the Rasengan if Naruto graduated from the Ninja Academy with excellent grades, and promised to care for Naruto while Jiraiya was away.
• Mei Terumi teased Jiraiya about his fall and embarrassed Anko with a suggestive story before asking Senju Chen to discuss Kirigakure’s situation in private; he declined for that night.
• On the third night after the banquet, Senju Chen left a clone in his room with instructions to pretend he was asleep and read Jiraiya’s book if Anko arrived.
• Anko came to bring Senju Chen sesame dumplings, realized the supposed Senju Chen was a clone, and dragged it toward the door to demand the original’s whereabouts.
• The clone played dumb and finally babbled, “Goo goo ga ga...”

Senju Chen met Mei Terumi to negotiate Kirigakure’s role in a new sea trade route through the Land of Rain, then spoke with Nagato about the political story they had presented to Iwagakure. The chapter ended with Nagato reflecting on his teacher’s visit and Chen pointing out how much of Nagato’s account had been true.

• Senju Chen visited Mei Terumi and Rin Nohara, and Mei teased him about Anko before asking him to take her shopping someday.
• Senju Chen promised to go shopping with Mei once the Mizukage position was freed up.
• Senju Chen proposed that Kirigakure handle the sea transfer and escort services for a Land of Rain trade route, with fees routed through a joint chamber of commerce and a new bank.
• Senju Chen told Nagato that Iwagakure had accepted the claim that Konoha’s plans for the Land of Rain had spanned twenty years and cultivated the Akatsuki leader.
• Nagato told Senju Chen that his teacher had visited and that he had lied to him, and Senju Chen explained that Nagato had withheld only who had supplied the Akatsuki.

The delegations from Iwagakure, Sunagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure left the Land of Rain after signing agreements that tied their trade and ninja work to Rain’s growing network. As the Konoha delegation traveled home, Senju Chen learned that suspected Iwagakure operatives were scouting Food Is Heaven branches and recognized that his commercial and institutional network could give him an intelligence advantage.

• Kakuzu charged merchants service fees at the Land of Rain’s gates while the foreign delegations departed after signing trade and escort agreements.
• Tsuchiishi regretted Iwagakure’s ore transit deal because it could make the Land of Earth dependent on Rain’s roads, while the Sunagakure captain weighed the mission work gained against the loss of independence.
• Mei Terumi signed Kirigakure’s maritime agreement with payments linked to the Rainwater Chamber of Commerce, and Senju Chen acknowledged her before she left.
• The Konoha delegation traveled home by carriage as Senju Chen advised Jiraiya to give his novel’s protagonist believable training, setbacks, and costs before granting him greater power.
• Senju Chen read Maruboshi Kosuke’s report that suspected Iwagakure operatives were scouting Food Is Heaven branches, then considered how his expanding network could gather intelligence across the Shinobi World.

Konan quietly showed Senju Chen the paper umbrella she had folded for him, and he offered her a wooden tag that could be exchanged for a day together. Senju Chen then advised Nagato and Yahiko on using diplomacy and trade to secure the Land of Rain’s position among the great villages.

• Konan asked Senju Chen about visiting the hot springs with Mitaraishi Anko, and Nagato revealed she had spent three days folding a paper umbrella for him.
• Senju Chen offered Konan a wooden locker tag as an IOU for a day of shopping, and she gave him the Chakra Paper umbrella and said his Flying Thunder God Kunai was enough.
• After Nagato left to find Yahiko, Senju Chen rejoined them and said they should let the four great villages believe Konoha supported the Land of Rain.
• Senju Chen advised Nagato to offer Iwagakure discounted freight for ore, hire Sunagakure ninja for caravan work, and negotiate combined land and sea transport with Kumogakure.
• Senju Chen told Nagato to handle Kirigakure normally but route every account through a bank and record all transactions clearly.

Senju Chen reviewed reports on Konoha’s growing production of Scientific Ninja Tools, the rehabilitation of injured shinobi, and the progress of its academy and experimental base. He planned to give Kurama Yakumo several possible paths for her future, leaving her eventual choice to her.

• Senju Chen and his group saw recruitment notices and Scientific Ninja Tool posters as they traveled toward Konoha.
• Senju Chen read that the Medical Department had restored mobility to 367 people, including 127 shinobi once considered unfit for missions.
• Senju Chen reviewed the Experimental Class results, where Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha studied together and Sasuke excelled in converting chakra into electricity.
• Senju Chen received an update that the White Zetsu Puppet project had entered field testing, while Nagato stayed at the base and cooperated in studying his Rinnegan.
• Senju Chen considered combining Sasori’s and Orochimaru’s training for Kurama Yakumo with the Perfect Clone Ritual, but decided she would choose her own future.

After returning to Konoha, Senju Chen sought to study Sage Mode so he could prepare for future threats and protect more people. He met Naruto and Sasuke after school, where Sasuke tattled about Naruto’s unfinished lab report.

• Senju Chen learned that Amado would remain in Konoha for at least half a month and considered pursuing research into Sage Mode and natural energy.
• Senju Chen asked Jiraiya to help him research natural energy, but Jiraiya warned him about its dangers and refused to let him experiment on Mount Myōboku’s toads.
• Senju Chen said he wanted to learn Sage Mode so fewer people would die in the future, easing Jiraiya’s anger.
• Senju Chen encountered Naruto and Sasuke after school and learned that Sasuke ranked first, Sakura Haruno second, and Naruto third in their exam.
• Naruto told Senju Chen he wanted to learn about Scientific Ninja Tools, but Sasuke tattled that Naruto had not finished his lab report.

Senju Chen disciplined Naruto and Sasuke equally before walking through a Konoha transformed by his industrial and political plans. He reflected on his growing influence across several countries and his accumulated powers, while Jiraiya noticed he was scheming again.

• Senju Chen ordered Naruto and Sasuke to redo their homework after Sasuke had rewritten Naruto's report, then promised to show them something new once they finished.
• Anko left to deliver local specialties to Kurenai and Shizune, while Jiraiya joined Senju Chen on the way to the Hokage Building and Yamato followed with a storage scroll.
• Senju Chen passed the Konoha Joint Factory recruitment notice and noted that the village's factory, the Hive, and the Ninja Academy's Experimental Class formed a growing production and training network.
• Senju Chen reviewed his influence over the Land of Fire, the Land of Water, and the Land of Rain, as well as his seven filled skill slots and three sealed Tailed Beasts.
• Jiraiya asked Senju Chen what he was thinking about and accused him of plotting to screw someone over.

Senju Chen returned from the Land of Rain and faced the Council of Elders’ objections over his actions there. He countered that the other great nations had responded by canceling operations against Konoha, leaving Elder Homura confronted with evidence that Chen’s approach had reduced the threat.

• Senju Chen returned to Konoha and reunited with Tsunade, who questioned him about his trip and teased him about a friend who had given him an umbrella.
• Tsunade demanded Jiraiya’s overdue mission report, and Senju Chen defended Jiraiya’s help in the Land of Rain.
• Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Shikaku Nara entered the Hokage’s office, where Homura accused Senju Chen of exceeding his authority and making Konoha appear to control the Land of Rain.
• Senju Chen laid out intelligence showing that Sunagakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure had canceled or suspended operations and expanded trade with Konoha.
• Senju Chen told Homura that the four great nations had canceled seven operations targeting Konoha and its surrounding areas over the past ten days.

Senju Chen revealed that a fragment from the attempted sabotage at Eagle Claw Gorge came from Konoha’s Joint Factory, proving someone inside the village had helped arrange a war with Iwagakure. Tsunade authorized Chen to investigate, and the suspicious requisition led to Root.

• Senju Chen explained that Konoha’s apparent strategic mastery came from others misunderstanding its real capabilities, then revealed a metal fragment recovered at Eagle Claw Gorge.
• Senju Chen identified the fragment as a component from the Joint Factory and said the saboteur had known confidential demolition details held by the Public Security Department and the Anbu verification office.
• Senju Chen argued that someone inside Konoha had tried to provoke war with Iwagakure, and Shikaku Nara advised against leaving the investigation to the Anbu.
• Tsunade authorized the Public Security Department to investigate and gave Senju Chen access to relevant personnel files and requisition records.
• Senju Chen reported that one of 1,200 component requisitions bore a canceled seal number, and revealed that the canceled numbers belonged to Root.

Senju Chen uncovered seven hidden identities tied to Root, prompting Tsunade to order an investigation into who was behind them. Later, he told Tsunade that he had secretly supported Nagato and his companions in the Land of Rain since the Third Shinobi World War, leaving her to wonder what else he had kept from her.

• Senju Chen explained that seven identity numbers had been canceled years after Shimura Danzō died, and their files had been hidden by altering a storage-box number.
• Senju Chen said the seven people had never appeared on Root or Anbu rosters, and that the Anbu officer who approved the cancellations had since died.
• Jiraiya recalled a similar pattern of dead witnesses from Orochimaru's secret laboratories, and Senju Chen said the seven had used Root as cover rather than being remnants of Danzō's faction.
• Tsunade ordered an investigation to discover what the seven people wanted and who was behind them.
• At home, Senju Chen told Tsunade he had supported Nagato and his companions with supplies and intelligence since the Third Shinobi World War, using his own money and disguising the shipments as Iwagakure goods.
• Tsunade realized Konoha had not funded the Land of Rain's ties to the village and asked Senju Chen how many other things he had kept from her.

Senju Chen led an investigation into forged records tied to stolen equipment and discovered evidence of a long-hidden infiltrator in Konoha. After Uchiha Itachi found a strange moving substance in the seal paste, Senju Chen recognized it as a mark left by Black Zetsu and ordered it sealed away.

• Senju Chen launched Operation Snow Sweeping and assigned Shisui to check duty records while Uchiha Itachi examined the receipt ledger and seal.
• Shisui found eleven duty rosters signed by Manami on days when Manami was away from Konoha or attending a meeting.
• Uchiha Itachi found that page ninety-one had been inserted later and bore a genuine seal belonging to a number canceled five years earlier.
• Yamato found foreign soil in the archive box, and Senju Chen, Shisui, and Uchiha Itachi concluded that a long-term sleeper agent with Earth Release had manipulated Konoha's paperwork.
• Uchiha Itachi revealed that the seal paste contained a black substance that moved on its own, and Senju Chen recognized it as a mark left by Black Zetsu and ordered it sealed away.

Senju Chen received the system’s rewards for changing the Uchiha Clan’s fate and fused hundreds of Uchiha bloodlines. He awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and began testing its greatly enhanced vision.

• The system credited Senju Chen with saving 615 Uchiha Clan members and awarded him an extra skill slot, Uchiha bloodlines, and fire-release techniques.
• The system unlocked bloodline fusion and revealed that combining the 427 Uchiha bloodlines could give Senju Chen the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan without blindness.
• Senju Chen chose to fuse the bloodlines and endured intense pain as the transformation took effect.
• Senju Chen examined his reflection and saw that his eyes had become the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Senju Chen tested his new eyes and found that he could perceive minute details in living things and analyze chakra far more precisely.

Senju Chen discovered that his left-eye ocular technique created a gray space where time moved faster and changes to objects could affect reality. After testing its time ratio and chakra cost, he began an experiment to see whether the ability worked on living creatures.

• Senju Chen activated his left eye and entered a gray space where he could create objects and taste imagined wine.
• He spent about a minute breaking a stone lantern in the space, then found the same damage in the courtyard after only a second had passed outside.
• Senju Chen replicated the courtyard in the space and concluded that the technique accelerated time and could synchronize changes with reality.
• He estimated that the technique consumed chakra according to time spent and the scale of its effects on reality.
• Senju Chen placed an ant on his finger and activated his left eye to test the technique on a living creature.

Senju Chen tested his left eye’s time-altering genjutsu space and discovered that actions and deaths inside it affected reality, though its range was only fifteen meters. After Tsunade and Shizune returned, he revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and explained his left eye’s ability, while his right eye remained a mystery.

• Senju Chen tested the genjutsu space on an ant and confirmed that its movements inside carried over into reality.
• Senju Chen considered using the space as a time prison, recognized its fifteen-meter range as a limitation, and planned to combine it with other techniques to prevent escape.
• Senju Chen activated his right eye but saw no effect before Tsunade and Shizune returned and questioned him about a broken stone lantern.
• Tsunade noticed dried blood at the corner of Senju Chen’s eye, treated it, and warned him about the risks of overusing his Sharingan.
• Senju Chen showed Tsunade and Shizune his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and said his left eye created a space where one minute passed for every second outside.
• Tsunade identified the ability as a space-time dōjutsu and told Senju Chen to test his right eye while she watched.

Senju Chen explored his left eye’s space with Tsunade and Shizune, discovering that it could alter reality and manipulate people’s perceptions and movements. Tsunade outlined its uses for combat, assassination, and training, while Shizune raised the possibility of separating enemies from allies inside the space.

• Senju Chen showed Tsunade and Shizune that his ocular space could change its surroundings, then pranked Shizune by dropping her into a hot spring.
• Tsunade realized Senju Chen could manipulate movements and perception within the space, and Shizune confirmed he could disrupt her hand seals without her noticing.
• Tsunade explained how the ability could hinder enemies, trap or kill them, and help Senju Chen approach targets unseen.
• Tsunade suggested Senju Chen could train and simulate battles inside the space, where an hour passed for every minute outside.
• Shizune asked whether Senju Chen could bring enemies into the space while leaving allies outside, and Senju Chen decided to test it.

Senju Chen tested his Mangekyō’s ability to pull selected targets into a space-time dimension, then examined his system’s newly unlocked fusion function. He successfully fused his reaction nerves with Lightning Body Tempering, gaining enhanced physical reactions and the ability to absorb some lightning attacks.

• Senju Chen selectively pulled Tsunade into his ocular jutsu space while leaving Shizune outside, and Tsunade explained its tactical uses.
• Senju Chen asked whether genjutsu users could see through the space and whether his right eye had another ability, but Tsunade said he would need to experiment and wait for it to awaken.
• After returning to his room, Senju Chen reviewed the system’s fusion rules and considered how fusion could combine abilities and free skill slots.
• Senju Chen fused top-level reaction nerves with Lightning Body Tempering after the system showed 75% compatibility.
• The fusion succeeded, giving Senju Chen faster neural reactions, enhanced physical abilities, faint lightning chakra in his meridians, and the ability to absorb some lightning attacks.

Senju Chen fused the First Wood Release Bloodline with the Uzumaki Clan Bloodline, greatly increasing his chakra and gaining enhanced recovery and vitality. He left the risky fusion of soul mutation and the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan for later and considered using his tailed beasts to create the Ten-Tails.

• Senju Chen named his fused lightning ability the thunder god bloodline.
• Senju Chen fused the First Wood Release Bloodline with the Uzumaki Clan Bloodline and named the resulting ability the wood god bloodline.
• Senju Chen checked fusion compatibility and decided not to combine soul mutation with the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan yet.
• Senju Chen confirmed that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path could not participate in standard fusion and chose to keep Earth Grudge Fear separate.
• Senju Chen reorganized his abilities, gaining three empty slots as the thunder god bloodline became a passive ability.
• Senju Chen considered collecting all nine tailed beasts and fusing them to create the Ten-Tails, with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as a backup method.

Senju Chen visited Uchiha Fugaku’s home and gave Naruto and Sasuke experimental Bouncing Flight Shoes, which they tested in the courtyard. He and Fugaku discussed the Medical Department’s mechanical prostheses and Scientific Ninja Tools before Chen asked how the Konoha Military Police Force was doing.

• Senju Chen arrived at Uchiha Fugaku’s residence carrying gifts and found Naruto and Sasuke arguing over their experiment reports.
• Senju Chen gave Naruto and Sasuke Bouncing Flight Shoes developed by the Research and Development Department.
• Naruto’s first attempt sent him flying into the bushes, while Sasuke hovered and landed safely; Naruto then tried again with less chakra.
• Senju Chen and Uchiha Fugaku moved to the reception room and discussed the popularity and uses of mechanical prostheses.
• Uchiha Fugaku praised Scientific Ninja Tools, and Senju Chen offered to send him a set.
• Senju Chen asked Uchiha Fugaku how things had been going with the Konoha Military Police Force.

Senju Chen reassured Fugaku about the Military Police Force’s expansion and addressed the Uchiha Clan’s fear that their growing power would lead to persecution. He revealed that he carried both Senju and Uchiha blood, leaving Fugaku stunned as Chen began explaining his parents’ past.

• Fugaku told Senju Chen that the Military Police Force had reached its manpower limit and would need recruits to expand beyond the Land of Fire.
• Fugaku admitted that Uchiha elders feared Chen would eventually suppress the clan if it became too powerful, and described their lingering fear of another massacre.
• Senju Chen thanked Fugaku for speaking honestly and said he trusted the Uchiha because he considered them his own.
• Senju Chen revealed his Sharingan and told Fugaku that Uchiha blood ran through his veins alongside his Senju heritage.
• Senju Chen explained that his father was Senju and his mother was an Uchiha who had lived away from the clan, and that they had fled the village after falling in love during the war.

Senju Chen revealed to Uchiha Fugaku that he possessed Uchiha blood and asked him to keep it secret, reassuring Fugaku that the clan would not be marginalized. Chen outlined an expansion plan for the Konoha Military Police Force, and Fugaku later urged the elders to support it while withholding the reason for his confidence in Chen.

• Senju Chen told Uchiha Fugaku that he had hidden his Sharingan while resolving the conflict between his bloodlines, and asked him to keep the secret confidential.
• Fugaku swore to protect Chen’s secret and expressed complete trust in him after learning that Chen was an Uchiha.
• Chen set out a three-step plan to establish permanent posts across the Land of Fire, extend the force into neighboring small nations through cooperation, and eventually reach toward the Five Great Nations.
• Chen instructed Fugaku to recruit and train newcomers carefully, delegate authority as the force grew, and ensure the Uchiha would not be marginalized while Chen was there.
• After Chen left, Fugaku told the Uchiha elders about the force’s development plan and asked for their full support, while assuring them Chen would not turn against the clan without revealing the secret behind his certainty.

Senju Chen discussed Naruto’s upbringing and his plans for expanding the Konoha Military Police Force with Tsunade, who worried about resistance from other villages and Konoha’s elders. The chapter ended with Senju Chen asking Tsunade about Shikkotsu Forest.

• Senju Chen returned home and found Tsunade drinking sake after a frustrating meeting with the village’s advisers and clan heads.
• Senju Chen told Tsunade that Naruto was thriving at Fugaku’s residence, prompting Tsunade to remember Minato and Kushina and wonder whether their deaths could have been prevented.
• Tsunade praised Senju Chen’s decision to raise Naruto with the Uchiha and acknowledged his growing influence and the support he had secured from the Uchiha Clan.
• Senju Chen proposed expanding the Konoha Military Police Force into neighboring small nations through voluntary joint-defense agreements, and Tsunade warned that other villages and the elders could resist.
• Senju Chen reassured Tsunade that the plan was feasible, then asked her about Shikkotsu Forest.

Senju Chen asked Tsunade about training in Shikkotsu Forest, and she explained its deadly cost and revealed that its Senjutsu had contributed to Hashirama Senju’s early death. Though Tsunade begged him not to risk himself, Senju Chen remained interested in the Katsuyu Sage’s perfect-clone ability and promised only to think it over.

• Senju Chen told Tsunade he wanted to practice Senjutsu in Shikkotsu Forest, but she immediately refused.
• Tsunade explained that Shikkotsu Forest’s Senjutsu consumed life force and cellular vitality, and that failure could turn a practitioner into a puddle of flesh.
• Tsunade revealed that Hashirama Senju had practiced there and that the drain from Senjutsu had contributed to his early death.
• Tsunade described the Katsuyu Sage as a single being whose clones shared information, and said Tobirama Senju had imitated her ability when developing the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
• Senju Chen hid his intention to steal the Katsuyu Sage’s ability and told Tsunade he would think carefully about her warning.
• Tsunade held Senju Chen by the shoulders and pleaded with him not to risk his life, saying she could not lose him too.