Recaps

Shu Shiraishi killed the daimyo’s financial envoy and announced plans to prepare the Tailed Beast Generator before the Land of Fire’s punitive army arrived. At a mass gathering in Konoha, he ordered the execution of three elders who opposed him, then declared the internal purge over and prepared to promulgate new laws.

• Shu Shiraishi told Mito Uzumaki he would finish the Sealing Jutsu modification plans in three days and described a steel cage and array to restrain the Nine-Tails.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered an S-rank summons, and more than twenty thousand Konoha villagers and ninja assembled beneath Hokage Rock.
• Kagami Uchiha’s Urban Management Brigade seized three neutral clan elders who had opposed Shu Shiraishi’s actions.
• Shu Shiraishi revealed that he had killed the daimyo’s financial envoy and his guards, then ordered the three elders executed.
• Shu Shiraishi declared the internal purge over and announced that new laws would be promulgated.

Shu Shiraishi abolished Konoha’s traditional mission system and reorganized the village into an industrial construction corps, assigning ninjas to factories, infrastructure, agriculture, and research. He ordered everyone to report to the factories at six the next morning, and the chapter ended as dawn broke over Konoha.

• Shu Shiraishi announced that the mission hall was closed and all traditional D- through S-rank missions were abolished.
• Shu condemned ninja work for nobles and daimyo, then declared that Konoha would manufacture weapons and grow its own food instead of relying on mission income and outside supplies.
• Shu renamed Konoha’s organization the National Industrial Construction Corps and assigned ninja teams to industrial work according to their Chakra natures and specialties.
• Shu finished reading the new roster as the armed Uchiha Urban Management Brigade kept the silent crowd in line.
• Shu ordered everyone to bring tools and report to the factory at six the next morning; dawn arrived as the morning mist still covered the ground.

Shu Shiraishi began construction of Konoha’s first heavy industry base by forcing thousands of ninja to build it under harsh Uchiha supervision. Hiruzen Sarutobi, reduced to a laborer, broke down in the mud and shouted at the sky.

• Shu Shiraishi shattered a granite slab and ordered construction of Heavy Industry Base No. 1 to begin.
• Earth Release ninja dug the foundation while other ninja drove pilings, fired bricks, and pumped water under the Uchiha Urban Management Brigade’s watch.
• Akimichi Chōza continued driving pilings despite his injured hands, while an exhausted Chunin was revived and sent back to work.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi dug mud barefoot as an Uchiha Genin whipped him for trying to use Chakra to ease his pain.
• Hiruzen saw Yamanaka Fūshin and Hyuga Main Family elders forced into labor, then fell to his knees and shouted at the sky.

Hiruzen Sarutobi protested being forced to do construction work, but Kagami Uchiha kicked him into a muddy foundation pit and ordered him to keep digging. Shu Shiraishi ignored Hiruzen as he inspected the newly built steelworks and told a group of Uchiha elites to set up the blast furnace.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi denounced the construction labor and urged Kagami Uchiha to join him in resisting Shu Shiraishi.
• Kagami kicked Hiruzen into a three-meter-deep muddy pit and warned him to finish digging before he could eat.
• Hiruzen saw other clan members laboring under harsh conditions, picked up his shovel, and resumed work in silence.
• Shu Shiraishi walked past Hiruzen without acknowledging him and inspected the newly built earthen kiln and its iron pipes.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the Uchiha elites in fireproof suits to set up the blast furnace.

Shu Shiraishi forced Uchiha Tai to reveal his Mangekyō Sharingan and use Amaterasu to smelt special steel for Konoha’s construction project. After the Uchiha produced a ten-ton steel slab, Shu called for Akimichi Chōza to help move it onto the foundation.

• Shu Shiraishi stopped the Uchiha elites’ Great Fireball effort when it failed to heat the kiln enough to melt the special steel.
• Shu Shiraishi confronted Uchiha Tai and threatened to gouge out his eye until Tai revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered Tai to use Amaterasu in the kiln while the other Uchiha added coal and controlled the airflow.
• The Uchiha smelted and cast a ten-meter reinforced-steel slab, but Shu Shiraishi judged the pulley system inadequate to move it.
• Shu Shiraishi called for Akimichi Chōza to come to the construction site.

Shu Shiraishi used the Akimichi Clan’s Multi-Size Technique to speed construction at Konoha Heavy Industry Base. With Factory No. 1’s steel framework taking shape, he ordered an Anbu to bring Orochimaru from the orphanage to a temporary laboratory.

• Shu Shiraishi ordered Akimichi Chōza to carry a massive steel plate to the foundation, and Chōza used the Super Multi-Size Technique to lift and place it by hand.
• Shu commanded the Akimichi clansmen to enlarge themselves and build Factory No. 1’s steel framework before nightfall.
• Kagami Uchiha and the city management officers drove the Akimichi clansmen back to work, and the giants quickly hauled steel beams and machinery into place.
• Shu observed that Factory No. 1’s framework was nearly ready and said the project still needed technical talent.
• Shu ordered a cat-masked Anbu to bring Orochimaru from the village orphanage to Temporary Laboratory No. 1, by force if necessary.

Shu Shiraishi showed Orochimaru blueprints for a Chakra-powered engine and machine gun, convincing him that machinery could overcome the fragility of the human body. Orochimaru rushed off to build a prototype, and the story left off at the testing ground three days later.

• Shu Shiraishi summoned Orochimaru and challenged his belief that human life was too fragile to have meaning.
• Shu Shiraishi showed Orochimaru blueprints for a Chakra internal combustion engine and a Chakra heavy machine gun.
• Shu Shiraishi explained how the machines could turn Chakra into mechanical power and give ordinary civilians overwhelming firepower.
• Orochimaru embraced Shu Shiraishi's industrial vision, knelt before him, and requested materials, assistants, and a machine-tool workshop.
• Shu Shiraishi authorized Orochimaru to use Konoha's resources, and Orochimaru ran off to make a prototype within three days.
• Three days later, the story moved to the open-air testing ground outside machine-tool workshop No. 1.

Orochimaru presented Shu Shiraishi with a Chakra heavy machine gun, and Shu demonstrated its overwhelming firepower by destroying an Earth Style barrier and shaving down a hill. After warning that its recoil would injure ordinary ninja, Shu decided to strengthen its users and ordered Anbu to bring Tsunade to him, even by force.

• Orochimaru unveiled the crude Chakra heavy machine gun, built with an Inverted Four Symbols Seal power furnace and crystal ammunition fitted with miniature Explosive Tags.
• Shu Shiraishi fired a hundred-round burst, blasting through the Earth Style Wall and tearing apart trees and the top of a nearby hill.
• The gun’s recoil injured Shu’s shoulder, and he warned that an ordinary Genin could have their collarbone shattered and arm torn off by a burst.
• Shu decided that if the machine could not be changed, its users would have to be strengthened to withstand it.
• Shu learned that Tsunade was resting after her fear of blood flared up and ordered Anbu to bring her from the medical tent, even if they had to tie her up.

Shu Shiraishi forced Tsunade to confront her fear of blood and ordered her to develop a Hashirama Cells-based agent to strengthen people for industrial weapons. Tsunade began studying the cells, while an Anbu caught a white-haired boy spying through the laboratory window.

• Two Anbu dragged Tsunade from the medical tent to Shu Shiraishi's laboratory.
• Shu Shiraishi cut a Kumogakure prisoner and forced Tsunade to look at the blood.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered Tsunade to develop a biochemical agent from Hashirama Senju's cells to strengthen human bodies for heavy machinery.
• Tsunade examined Orochimaru's cell-fusion slides and began considering how to suppress the Hashirama Cells' devouring behavior.
• An Anbu caught a white-haired boy with red face paint spying through the laboratory window.

Shu Shiraishi caught Jiraiya peeping at Tsunade and forced him to write industrial propaganda in a locked room. After assigning Tsunade and Orochimaru their work, Shu met Hatake Sakumo, who returned from clearing a bandit camp with his White Fang Short Sword badly damaged.

• An Anbu dragged Jiraiya into the laboratory, where Shu accused him of peeping at Tsunade and threatened to cut off his leg.
• Jiraiya admitted he had wanted to look at Tsunade and offered his writing skills to avoid punishment.
• Shu ordered Jiraiya locked in a windowless room and made him write ten thousand characters daily praising Konoha Heavy Industries and Shu.
• Jiraiya began writing under the Anbu's watch while Tsunade continued studying Hashirama Cells.
• Shu left the laboratory and encountered Hatake Sakumo, who reported clearing a bandit camp and knelt before him with a battered White Fang Short Sword.

Shu Shiraishi showed Hatake Sakumo a High-Frequency Vibration Blade that cut through a thick steel ingot, then ordered him to use it against the samurai causing trouble along the Land of Fire’s border. Sakumo accepted the weapon and set out to kill the remaining rebels.

• Hatake Sakumo apologized to Shu Shiraishi for his damaged heirloom sword, and Shu told him to follow.
• Shu took Sakumo to a workshop and demonstrated the High-Frequency Vibration Blade by slicing through a half-meter-thick steel ingot.
• Sakumo burned his fingertip on the hot cut surface and was stunned by the blade’s cutting power.
• Shu gave Sakumo the vibration blade and ordered him to find and kill the samurai resisting Konoha.
• Sakumo accepted the order and left the armory with the new weapon.

Hatake Sakumo used a high-frequency vibrating blade to destroy a bandit camp of wandering samurai, then presented their heads to Shu Shiraishi in Konoha. An explosion at the Taijutsu training ground interrupted their meeting, and Shu rushed to investigate.

• Hatake Sakumo and five Anbu confronted more than a hundred samurai at a border stronghold, where Sakumo activated his vibrating blade and killed the bald leader.
• Sakumo cut through the samurai’s weapons and armor, killed many of them, and stopped as the survivors fled.
• Sakumo ordered the Anbu to finish the wounded and reported that 312 samurai had been beheaded and the daimyo’s provisions burned.
• Sakumo and the Anbu brought the samurai heads to Shu Shiraishi’s office, where Shu praised the mission and the new Konoha Heavy Industries weapons brand.
• A powerful explosion shook the Hokage Building, and Shu Shiraishi saw a dust cloud rising from the Taijutsu training ground before heading there to investigate.

Shu Shiraishi backed Might Duy’s Eight Gates training with unlimited medicine and food, enabling him to shatter three steel plates with the Sixth Gate. He declared Konoha’s industrial war machine ready and looked toward the southern labor camp, where the remnants of the old era awaited.

• Shu Shiraishi stopped Chunin from mocking Might Duy and learned that Duy had devised the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered unlimited recovery medicine, nutrient solution, and high-protein meals for Duy, then injected him with a Hashirama Cells repair solution.
• Duy opened the first six gates and used Morning Peacock to destroy three ten-centimeter-thick steel plates.
• Duy thanked Shu Shiraishi and swore to serve him, while Shu Shiraishi said battles awaited him.
• Shu Shiraishi declared Konoha’s industrial war machine ready and turned his gaze toward the labor camp south of the village.

Shimura Danzō was forced to haul sewage in Konoha’s sewers, while Hiruzen Sarutobi mined coal at the Black Rock Mine. As both former leaders suffered under their punishment, a powerful creation was nearing completion in Konoha’s Laboratory Number One.

• An Uchiha city enforcement officer whipped Shimura Danzō for working too slowly, and Danzō fainted in the sewage.
• The officer dragged Danzō out of the cesspool and ordered him to fill two buckets or go without dinner.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi mined coal in ankle-deep water while an overseer demanded he work faster.
• Hiruzen wept as he thought of Konoha, then watched his meal spill into the coal water and returned to mining under threat of more hunger.
• In Konoha’s Laboratory Number One, an ultimate creation was about to be born.

Shu Shiraishi stopped six spies sent by the daimyo’s residence and Konoha hardliners from sabotaging the laboratory, then ordered them burned in blast furnace No. 1. He joined Orochimaru at Prototype No. 1 as Orochimaru switched on its main power.

• Six spies and two Konoha hardliners entered core laboratory No. 1 to destroy the blueprints and the machine beneath the black canvas.
• Shu Shiraishi dropped from the catwalk, overpowered the attackers, and demanded to know whether the daimyo had sent them.
• Shu Shiraishi declared that anyone who objected would be sent to the crematorium and ordered Kagami Uchiha and four officers to burn all six surviving attackers.
• Shu Shiraishi asked Orochimaru about preparations for Prototype No. 1.
• Orochimaru pressed the prototype’s red main power switch.

Orochimaru activated the first-generation Chakra Mecha and watched it pass its strength and defense tests. The machine remained operational and undamaged after smashing through Triple Rashomon and withstanding five Fire Style attacks.

• Orochimaru activated the Chakra Mecha, and a civilian Chunin climbed into its cockpit and connected the Chakra-draining probes.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the mecha to break through Triple Rashomon, and its powered fist smashed through all three gates and a reinforced concrete wall.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered a defense test, and five Uchiha city guards struck the mecha with Great Fireball Techniques.
• The flames faded without damaging the mecha's armor, and the scientists, engineers, and guards stared at the machine in silence.

Orochimaru and the engineers celebrated as the first heavy mech smashed through Konoha’s defenses, and Orochimaru came to regard Shu Shiraishi as a god. Shu ordered the machine mass-produced and planned to unleash it against the other four shinobi villages.

• The mech survived Fire Style attacks and smashed through Triple Rashomon and a thick bronze gate, prompting the workshop crew to erupt in celebration.
• Orochimaru burned his hands on the mech’s armor as he felt its reactor vibrate, then watched the civilian Chunin pilot climb out and struggle to catch his breath.
• Orochimaru recalled the brutal months of development and concluded that the mech let ordinary civilians wield power beyond shinobi clans and ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru knelt before Shu Shiraishi and declared him a god who would lead them to ascension.
• Shu assessed the first-generation mech’s flaws, ordered it mass-produced, and said the other four shinobi villages would experience a dimensionality-reduction strike.

Half a month after Shu Shiraishi ordered a dimensionality reduction strike, Konoha’s No. 1 Arsenal was producing Maxim heavy machine guns and Chakra armor-piercing rounds on a massive scale. An air raid alarm suddenly sounded across Konoha, interrupting Shu Shiraishi’s inspection and leaving the source of the threat unknown.

• Orochimaru excitedly recorded the mecha’s hydraulic data as Shu Shiraishi left.
• At Konoha’s No. 1 Arsenal, Uchiha Jōkan rejected a gun barrel for being two millimeters out of tolerance.
• Shu Shiraishi learned that the arsenal had stored 320 Maxim heavy machine guns and two million Chakra armor-piercing rounds in half a month.
• Shu Shiraishi inspected a newly assembled Maxim heavy machine gun and tested its charging handle.
• An air raid alarm blared across Konoha, and Shu Shiraishi turned toward the factory entrance as the workers stopped in alarm.

Shu Shiraishi ordered Konoha to meet Kumogakure’s invading army with three hundred Maxim heavy machine guns and ten Chakra mechs instead of conventional troops. The Third Raikage reached a line of empty trenches and mocked Konoha’s defenses, unaware of the weapons waiting for him.

• Yamanaka Fūshin reported that the Third Raikage was leading five thousand Kumogakure elites into the Land of Fire.
• Shu rejected the Jonin’s plan for close combat and ordered Kagami Uchiha’s Heavy Machine Gun Battalion and Orochimaru’s ten mech prototypes to the first line of defense.
• Kagami mobilized more than three hundred Uchiha to load Maxim guns and Chakra crystal bullets onto carts.
• Orochimaru powered up ten Chakra mechs, which marched out through Konoha toward the border.
• The Third Raikage and Dodai found a few apparently empty trenches and the Raikage mocked Konoha’s defenses.

Kagami Uchiha and Orochimaru prepared Konoha’s trenches and Chakra mechs to face a 5,000-strong Kumogakure army. The Third Raikage dismissed the quiet defenses and ordered his forces to charge toward them.

• Konoha Genin manned 300 Chakra Maxim heavy machine guns in the trenches while Kagami Uchiha held the signal flag.
• Orochimaru led ten mass-produced Chakra mechs out from behind the windbreak trees, powered by civilian Chunin pilots.
• The Third Raikage felt the ground shake and Dodai warned him that Konoha’s silence might conceal an ambush.
• The Third Raikage activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and ordered the Kumogakure army to charge.
• Five thousand Kumogakure ninja surged across the plain toward Konoha’s trenches.

Kagami Uchiha ordered Konoha’s gunners to fire their Chakra Maxim heavy machine guns at the charging Kumogakure army. The guns annihilated the thousand-ninja vanguard in one second, leaving the Third Raikage stunned as the remaining forces fell into chaos.

• Kagami Uchiha raised and swung the red flag, ordering the Konoha gunners to fire.
• More than a hundred Chakra Maxim heavy machine guns opened fire on the approaching Kumogakure vanguard.
• The machine-gun barrage killed the thousand-ninja vanguard, tearing through shields, Lightning Release Armor, and Earth-Style Walls.
• The remaining Kumogakure troops tried to stop but collided and trampled one another in confusion.
• The Third Raikage stared at the destroyed vanguard and struggled to understand the iron weapons facing his army.

The Third Raikage charged Konoha’s trench through machine-gun fire, intent on destroying the weapons with his One-Finger Nukite. As he leapt toward the defenders, ten Chakra Mechas emerged behind the trench and fixed their sights on him.

• The Third Raikage confronted Dodai about the fire-spitting iron tubes, then threw him into the mud and declared he would attack the Konoha position.
• The Third Raikage activated his Lightning Release Armor and charged toward the trench while Dodai failed to stop him.
• Kagami Uchiha spotted the charging Raikage and ordered Konoha’s machine gunners to concentrate their fire on him.
• The machine guns battered the Third Raikage’s armor as he pressed forward, then he leapt toward the trench with his One-Finger Nukite raised.
• Ten Chakra Mechas emerged from the forest behind the trench and locked their red eyes on the airborne Third Raikage.

The Third Raikage failed to pierce Orochimaru’s steel mechs and was hurled across the battlefield by one of them. As he prepared to attack again, a dark figure crashed into the battlefield from above.

• The Third Raikage struck a mech with One-Finger Nukite, denting its armor without piercing it.
• A civilian Chunin controlled the mech to punch the Third Raikage, sending him crashing into the plain and badly injuring his left arm.
• Orochimaru taunted the Third Raikage over a loudspeaker, declaring that industrial machinery had changed the times.
• The Third Raikage tried to disable the mechs with Lightning Release, but their insulation and grounding wires rendered it ineffective.
• The Third Raikage prepared to charge again, but a dark figure descended with a sonic boom and crashed into the battlefield.

Shu Shiraishi used his high-frequency vibration blade to cut through the Third Raikage’s Lightning Release Armor and incapacitated him. He ordered the medical team to keep the Raikage alive so he could be used as a power source for the newly installed No. 1 reactor.

• Shu Shiraishi entered the crater and told Orochimaru that he had come to capture the Raikage alive.
• The Third Raikage charged Shu Shiraishi with his One-Finger Nukite, but Shu activated his high-frequency vibration blade and severed the Raikage’s right arm and shoulder.
• Shu broke the Raikage’s left knee and pinned him in the mud beneath his boot.
• The Konoha Ninja watched in shock as the Kumogakure soldiers lost the will to fight, and Orochimaru rushed to inspect the Raikage as experimental material.
• Shu ordered the medical team to stop the Raikage’s bleeding and have him taken back, explaining that his Lightning Release physique could power the No. 1 reactor.

Shu Shiraishi led Konoha to victory over Kumogakure, capturing the Raikage and thousands of soldiers with no Konoha casualties. After proclaiming the power of industry, he rejected Shikahei Nara’s suggestion to kill the prisoners, leaving their fate unresolved.

• The Raikage lost an arm and was captured as the surviving Kumogakure troops watched their army collapse and flee.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered Kagami Uchiha to pursue the retreating soldiers and break their legs, and Konoha’s machine guns and mecha overwhelmed them.
• Konoha captured more than thirty-eight hundred Kumogakure soldiers, while its own forces suffered no casualties.
• Shu Shiraishi declared that industry had surpassed traditional ninja warfare, and Kagami Uchiha and the gunners hailed Konoha Heavy Industries as invincible.
• Shikahei Nara warned that Konoha lacked food for the prisoners and asked whether they should be killed, but Shu Shiraishi called that wasteful.