Chapter Summaries

Might Guy barged into Senju Chen’s office demanding the same scientific special training Kakashi had received, and Senju Chen agreed while disguising it as a ceremony of science. Seeing Guy as a source of data for the Eight Gates Released Formation, Senju Chen began planning to use White Zetsu Puppets to mass-produce suicidal fighters.

• Senju Chen reviewed Amado’s scientific ninja tool manuals in his office when Might Guy kicked down the door and demanded special training.
• Might Guy accused Senju Chen of giving Kakashi private training, and Senju Chen agreed to train him as a comrade.
• Senju Chen explained that science was knowledge rather than a god, then described Kakashi’s training as a process of measuring and optimizing potential.
• Might Guy eagerly asked Senju Chen to give him special training, believing he would be bathed in the light of science.
• Senju Chen realized Guy could provide data on the Eight Gates Released Formation and considered activating the Gates through regenerating White Zetsu Puppets to create a mass-produced suicide force.

Senju Chen recruited Might Guy for life-threatening special training as part of his Eight Gates mass-production plan, then examined Kurama Yakumo and discovered her mental energy vastly exceeded what her frail body could withstand. The chapter left Chen and Amado considering how to handle Yakumo’s condition, with Amado urging them to abandon physical enhancement.

• Senju Chen warned Might Guy that the special training could put his life at risk, and Guy signed the consent form without reading it.
• Senju Chen brought Kurama Yakumo to the Hive base for a comprehensive examination, where her physical readings showed severe weakness.
• Amado scanned Yakumo’s mental energy and measured it at 12,580, more than twenty percent above Senju Chen’s peak.
• Amado called Yakumo a mental energy bomb, frightening her, and Senju Chen reassured her that she was exceptionally gifted.
• Amado concluded that Yakumo’s mental energy was eroding her fragile body and proposed abandoning any attempt to enhance it.

Amado proposed accelerating Kurama Yakumo’s spiritual transformation into a god, but Senju Chen argued that the untested plan risked her life and offered to strengthen her body first. Yakumo chose to trust Senju Chen’s plan, hoping to live like a normal child before deciding whether to pursue godhood.

• Amado told Anko and Kurenai Yuhi that Kurama Yakumo’s weakness meant her soul was breaking free of her body and proposed helping her become a god through drugs and equipment.
• Senju Chen warned that abandoning efforts to strengthen Yakumo’s body would kill her, and questioned whether she could control godlike power without more life experience.
• Amado suggested Yakumo use clones to experience life outside her sickbed, and Yakumo grew excited at the prospect of going out to play.
• Senju Chen rejected gambling Yakumo’s life on an unproven theory and proposed strengthening her body and spiritual power before letting her choose her path.
• Yakumo decided to trust Senju Chen and hoped to stand, run, attend school, and make friends before worrying about becoming a god.

Kurama Yakumo chose to pursue a stronger body so she could live an ordinary life, and Senju Chen began her treatment using the Hive’s advanced life-support equipment. The first enhancement triggered a severe reaction in Yakumo’s soul, revealing a dark-red energy within it.

• Kurama Yakumo told Senju Chen she wanted to become strong enough to go to school, make friends, and enjoy the sunshine.
• Amado accepted Senju Chen’s safer treatment approach and asked to monitor Yakumo’s mental power and physical changes throughout her enhancement.
• Senju Chen sent Kurenai Yuhi and Anko to take Yakumo to rest, then ordered Amado to prepare the S-01 life-support pod and connect the Soul Medium Tomographic Scanner.
• Yakumo entered the pod, and Amado began stage-one cellular activation and muscle fiber remodeling with T-2 Tailed Beast cell activation fluid and chakra pulses.
• The scanner detected a severe rejection response as dark-red energy expanded inside Yakumo’s soul and devoured her blue soul energy.
• Senju Chen reacted with surprise, recognizing that the dark energy was still present.

Senju Chen discovered that Ido was a separate monster of negative emotions hidden inside Kurama Yakumo and devised a plan to rebuild her body while using the entity as resistance training. The soul surgery began, but Ido awakened and attacked Yakumo’s soul as Senju Chen prepared to intervene with the Spirit Transformation Technique.

• Amado identified the dark red entity inside Kurama Yakumo as a separate personality made of negative emotions and proposed extracting it from her soul.
• Senju Chen soothed Yakumo with his mental energy, rejected extraction until it could be guaranteed safe, and ordered Amado to use her soul to repair her body while making the monster a pressure source.
• Amado began the procedure by injecting T-2 Tailed Beast cell activation fluid into Yakumo’s life-support pod.
• Senju Chen’s team stimulated Ido, which erupted into scarlet tendrils and began tearing at Yakumo’s soul as her vital signs plummeted.
• Senju Chen closed his eyes and began using the Spirit Transformation Technique.

Senju Chen completed Kurama Yakumo’s treatment by restraining Ido and using its spiritual energy to help rebuild her body. Yakumo awoke healthy but physically weak, and Chen planned rehabilitation training for her at an experimental base in the Land of Waterfalls.

• Senju Chen subdued Ido and forced it to supply spiritual energy for Yakumo’s recovery.
• Amado observed the treatment as Ido tempered Yakumo’s newly reconstructed body under Chen’s control.
• After a day and a night, Yakumo awoke with healthy vital signs, and Senju Chen confirmed that her illness had been cured.
• Yakumo tried to stand but collapsed, so Senju Chen and Amado explained that her body needed gradual physical rehabilitation.
• Senju Chen planned for Yakumo and Might Guy to join the Public Security Department’s second batch of trainees at the Land of Waterfalls experimental base.

Senju Chen’s Medical Department publicly demonstrated Limb Regeneration, restoring injured Konoha ninjas and turning the hospital into a celebration of the village’s heroes. Tsunade recognized the treatment’s strategic impact, while Senju Chen anticipated that it would give Konoha a formidable advantage in future wars.

• Sarutobi Hazuki appeared in Konoha with his restored left arm, confirming that Senju Chen’s Medical Department could regrow lost limbs.
• The Medical Department began batch surgeries, and Iwata walked out on restored legs to cheers from the crowd.
• Misaki and other disabled ninjas emerged with their limbs restored as villagers celebrated their sacrifices and welcomed them back.
• Tsunade thanked Senju Chen for bringing hope to Konoha, and Senju Chen said the Medical Department was only the beginning.
• Senju Chen explained that Limb Regeneration could let Konoha’s ninjas return to battle after recovering, boosting their morale and frightening enemy villages.

Tsunade understood Senju Chen’s plan to make Konoha a medical sanctuary and embraced him in gratitude. Senju Chen then proposed reforming the Ninja Academy so science would be taught alongside ninjutsu and taijutsu, leaving Tsunade stunned by his vision for Konoha’s future.

• Tsunade realized Senju Chen’s medical initiatives could make Konoha a source of peace and embraced him, overwhelmed by gratitude and emotion.
• Senju Chen comforted Tsunade, and she thanked him before promising to support his next plan.
• Senju Chen said Konoha needed to accelerate its mastery of new technologies and proposed reforming the Ninja Academy.
• Tsunade warned that the Third, the elders, Jonin, and clans would oppose changing the Academy.
• Senju Chen explained that he wanted students to learn science alongside ninjutsu and taijutsu, preparing them to use both traditional techniques and advanced tools.
• Tsunade was stunned by Senju Chen’s vision of future ninjas wielding weapons such as Gatling guns and using scientific support.

Senju Chen persuaded Tsunade to support his plan to modernize Konoha’s ninja education and revealed that he had already prepared a detailed curriculum, textbooks, and teachers. The next day, villagers celebrated him for restoring injured ninja, and he arrived at the Uchiha Clan Compound to an enthusiastic welcome.

• Tsunade agreed to help Senju Chen bring his educational reforms before the Council of Elders, despite expected resistance.
• Senju Chen showed Tsunade a detailed five-year curriculum and said Amado had prepared textbooks and he had selected the first teachers.
• Konoha’s villagers greeted Senju Chen with fervent gratitude as he walked through the village.
• Asakawa Kenji, a former Anbu captain whose leg Chen had restored, thanked him with his family and pledged his loyalty.
• Uchiha clan members stopped their activities and warmly welcomed Senju Chen to their compound.

Senju Chen recruited the Uchiha Clan to lead his radical reform of the Ninja Academy, promising them an advantage in the coming era of Scientific Ninja Tools. After Fugaku pledged the clan’s support, Naruto and Sasuke arrived, and Chen gave them a mysterious device.

• Senju Chen praised Fugaku and Mikoto, then announced that he would reform the Ninja Academy with courses in science and Scientific Ninja Tools.
• Fugaku worried that Chen’s plan would provoke the village’s clans by weakening traditional Ninjutsu and their inherited advantages.
• Senju Chen offered the Uchiha the chance to lead the new education system, and Fugaku agreed that the clan would stand by him.
• Naruto and Sasuke returned from school, met Senju Chen, and listened as Naruto praised his healing work.
• Senju Chen handed Naruto a palm-sized black device as a first-meeting gift, and Sasuke leaned closer to inspect it.

Senju Chen introduced Naruto and Sasuke to a game console that taught scientific principles and chakra interactions through play, leaving Uchiha Fugaku alarmed by the scale of its educational impact. Naruto explored the chakra-matching game as the demonstration continued.

• Senju Chen showed Naruto, Sasuke, and Uchiha Fugaku a game console and invited Naruto to try its shuriken-throwing game.
• Naruto missed repeatedly, while Sasuke quickly hit a target and then struggled to clear a wall on the next level.
• Senju Chen explained gravity and projectile motion through the game’s help animations, and Sasuke used the lesson to hit the target.
• Uchiha Fugaku realized the console was teaching children scientific thinking and feared how it could transform their abilities.
• Senju Chen showed the chakra-matching game, where Naruto tested how elements enhanced or countered one another.

Senju Chen caught Naruto Uzumaki following him and gently asked why he had come. Naruto asked whether Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto were his birth parents, and the chapter ended as he recalled learning that his real parents were Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.

• Senju Chen noticed Naruto Uzumaki following him and led him on a winding walk past shops before stopping at Training Ground Three.
• Senju Chen teased Naruto about his clumsy pursuit, then softened when Naruto grew tearful and asked what he wanted.
• Naruto asked Senju Chen whether Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto were his birth parents.
• Naruto recalled Fugaku and Mikoto telling him that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were his parents and had died protecting the village during the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Mikoto had held Naruto and promised that she would always be his mother and the Uchiha residence would always be his home.

Senju Chen explained to Naruto why he had placed him with the Fugaku family, reassuring him that it was to give him a loving home and protect him from loneliness. Naruto accepted that he had not been abandoned and asked Chen to tell him more about his parents.

• Naruto told Senju Chen that he knew Fugaku and Mikoto were his adoptive parents and asked whether his birth parents were heroes.
• Senju Chen described Minato Namikaze as a gentle, powerful ninja and Kushina Uzumaki as his older sister and teacher, saying they had loved Naruto deeply.
• Naruto asked why Chen had not raised him, and Chen explained that he had been too young to provide a mother's love or a father's care.
• Chen said he had chosen the Fugaku family because Mikoto and Fugaku could give Naruto a happy childhood and protection, and called Sasuke an extra gift who could grow up with him.
• Naruto realized Chen had not rejected him, cried with relief in his arms, and asked to hear more about his parents.

Senju Chen told Naruto stories about his parents and demonstrated Minato’s Rasengan, inspiring Naruto to promise he would excel at the Ninja Academy. Naruto’s determination triggered Senju Chen’s system to offer Kurama, sealed within him, as a theft option.

• Naruto asked Senju Chen to tell him about his parents, and Chen recalled Kushina’s fiery temper and Minato’s devotion to her.
• Senju Chen described Minato’s hard work and showed Naruto the Rasengan, which Minato had created.
• Naruto eagerly asked to learn the Rasengan, and Senju Chen made it conditional on Naruto earning excellent marks in every Ninja Academy subject.
• Naruto vowed to become the top student, learn the Rasengan, and surpass his father and the Hokage.
• Naruto’s determination triggered a system notification offering Senju Chen Kurama, sealed within Naruto, along with two other options.

Senju Chen discovered that his system could copy the Nine-Tails from Naruto and stored the new Tailed Beast without fusing it. He then demonstrated the Flying Thunder God Technique to Naruto and promised to teach it to him after he graduated from the Ninja Academy.

• Senju Chen selected the system option to obtain the Nine-Tails sealed inside Naruto and stored it in his system space.
• Senju Chen reviewed the bloodlines, abilities, and rewards he had gained through the system, including Isobu and the new Nine-Tails.
• Senju Chen asked Naruto if he wanted to see his father’s Flying Thunder God Technique and gave him a marked three-pronged kunai to hold.
• Senju Chen teleported with Naruto to a mountain peak overlooking Konoha and explained how the Flying Thunder God Technique worked.
• Senju Chen promised to teach Naruto the technique after he graduated from the Ninja Academy.

The Public Security Department's second advanced training team left Konoha, while Senju Chen went to a meeting about reforming the Ninja Academy. He challenged the Third Hokage and the two advisory elders to explain why Konoha should treat scientific tools differently from Sunagakure's puppetry, leaving the debate unresolved.

• Might Guy led the second advanced training team out of Konoha, with Kurama Yakumo traveling alongside Kurenai Yuhi and Anko.
• Senju Chen left the send-off and went to the Hokage Building after Tsunade told him that Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisory elders were waiting.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu argued that teaching science and scientific ninja tools at the Ninja Academy would undermine Konoha's traditions.
• Senju Chen compared Konoha's proposed curriculum to the early study of puppetry in Sunagakure, arguing that both were combat systems requiring childhood training.
• When Mitokado Homura insisted the two cases were different, Senju Chen demanded to know how.

Senju Chen persuaded Konoha’s elders to approve a one-year experimental class teaching scientific knowledge and Ninja tools at the Academy. Afterward, Hiruzen Sarutobi challenged Chen’s motives, and Chen defended his ambition as a way to make the Will of Fire bring victory without tragic sacrifices.

• Senju Chen argued that Konoha should educate children in scientific disciplines and Ninja tools to develop talent beyond Amado.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders approved a one-year experimental class, with courses to end if its results did not surpass regular classes.
• Tsunade and Senju Chen left the meeting, and Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped them in the corridor to question whether Chen’s reforms served the Will of Fire or his ambition.
• Senju Chen admitted his ambition was to prevent Konoha’s Ninja from trading their lives for pyrrhic victories.
• Senju Chen asked whether the Will of Fire was better served by children dying alongside their enemies or by defeating them and returning home safely.

Senju Chen’s vision of the Will of Fire left Hiruzen Sarutobi speechless, and Chen moved ahead with reforms to introduce science classes at the Ninja Academy. As Konoha debated the change and spies struggled to judge its importance, they decided to wait for the students’ exam results before reporting it.

• Senju Chen told Hiruzen Sarutobi that his ambition was the Will of Fire, then left with Tsunade.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi remained alone in the corridor, realizing that the old era was ending.
• The Hokage’s Office and Ninja Academy announced science experimental classes, new courses, and an entrance examination open to students from every year.
• Konoha’s residents split into conservative opponents, cautious supporters, and devoted admirers of Senju Chen.
• Three spies in a Konoha basement debated whether to report the reforms and chose to wait for the children’s exam results.

Shikaku Nara advised the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans to remain publicly neutral while they watched Senju Chen’s science reform unfold. Meanwhile, Tatekura Gento rallied traditional weapons and supply makers to petition against the reform, leaving resistance to it taking shape.

• Chōza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka asked Shikaku Nara why their clans had received no warning about the experimental science class.
• Inoichi reported that Public Security Department personnel would teach the class, Senju Chen had written its materials, and Amado was a special lecturer.
• Shikaku said Senju Chen’s influence, strengthened by limb regeneration, made opposition too risky and too difficult to understand.
• Shikaku told the three clans to let interested members sign up, avoid taking a public position, and wait for events to develop.
• Tatekura Gento blamed Senju Chen’s science lessons and inventions for threatening his clan’s weapons business and the livelihoods of other traditional makers.
• Tatekura Gento ordered a meeting with weapons merchants and seal makers so they could join forces and petition at the Hokage Building.

Uchiha Fugaku committed his clan to supporting Senju Chen’s science reforms, while Hyuga Hiashi and other clan representatives visited Chen to question the new Ninja Academy course. Chen answered their concerns by revealing a globe that displayed a remarkably realistic live view of Konoha.

• Fugaku told the Uchiha elders that the clan needed an opportunity to break the village’s political stalemate and ordered them to support Chen’s experimental science class.
• Fugaku ordered every Uchiha child of eligible age to register for the entrance examination and established a clan tutoring group under his supervision.
• Hyuga Hiashi arrived at Senju Chen’s residence with representatives of the Aburame and Inuzuka clans to ask about the science course.
• Chen welcomed the visitors and had Yamato bring out a crystal globe, then activated it to reveal a detailed moving view of Konoha.
• The visiting clan representatives stared in shock as the globe showed the village streets and Hokage Rock.