Recaps

Shu Shiraishi turned 3,800 Kumogakure prisoners into forced laborers to build Konoha’s industrial bases and railway, using Orochimaru’s Chakra Suppression Collars to control them. At a construction site, former Kumogakure elite Jonin Toroi struggled under a heavy cement load and was shocked when he tried to use Chakra.

• Shu rejected killing or exchanging the prisoners and ordered Kagami Uchiha to bring them back hungry for three days before Orochimaru fitted them with collars.
• Orochimaru tested a collar on a Lightning Release Jonin, whose attempt to attack triggered an electric shock that drained his Chakra and left him unconscious.
• Shu announced the Prisoner of War Labor Reform Act and sent the collared Kumogakure prisoners to work in quarries, steel mills, sewers, and construction sites without wages.
• At Konoha’s second heavy industrial base, Toroi carried 200 jin of cement across a narrow bamboo plank above a deep foundation pit.
• When Toroi tried to use Magnet Release to steady himself, his collar shocked him, forcing him to cross the plank using only his exhausted body.

Kumogakure prisoner Toroi endured brutal forced labor at Konoha’s industrial construction site, where prisoners and even Konoha clansmen were worked under threat of violence. Elsewhere, Shu Shiraishi reviewed Konoha’s soaring electricity use and realized the Raikage and generator units could no longer meet demand.

• Toroi nearly fell while carrying cement, then was whipped by a Uchiha Genin and forced to continue working.
• Toroi tried to use Magnet Release to lighten his wheelbarrow, but the seal in his iron collar shocked him unconscious.
• Toroi watched Akimichi clan members carry a massive beam under an Uchiha Jonin’s whip and realized Konoha’s own people were also being driven like laborers.
• After eighteen hours of work, Toroi returned to the barracks, exhausted and hungry, and silently wept over his humiliation and despair.
• Shu Shiraishi reviewed Konoha’s electricity report and concluded that the Raikage and generator units could no longer keep up with the village’s expanding production.

Shu Shiraishi ordered Orochimaru to capture the One-Tail by weakening Sunagakure through cheap exports and a biochemical attack rather than invading with an army. The chapter ended with the Third Kazekage facing Sunagakure’s worsening poverty and dwindling supplies.

• Orochimaru warned Shu Shiraishi that electricity shortages were disrupting production and that the Raikage was nearly drained of Chakra.
• Shu Shiraishi proposed capturing Tailed Beasts to use as continuous power sources and chose the One-Tail Shukaku in Sunagakure as the target.
• Shu Shiraishi instructed Orochimaru to deploy rigid airships, flood Sunagakure with cheap goods, and release unfinished biochemical agents to force the village to hand over Shukaku.
• Orochimaru agreed to prepare the airship force.
• The Third Kazekage reviewed Sunagakure’s reduced military budget, dwindling grain reserves, and shortages of puppet-maintenance oil as a sandstorm battered the village.

The Third Kazekage learned that Konoha’s cheap food, refined weapons, and construction jobs were drawing Sunagakure’s merchants and ninja across the border. As he ordered the border sealed and defectors executed, Chiyo revealed a new poison she intended to use against Konoha.

• An Anbu reported that Konoha was selling cheap grain, meat, and refined steel kunai at the border, prompting Sunagakure’s merchants and smiths to abandon their businesses.
• The Anbu told the Third Kazekage that Sunagakure ninja were defecting for Konoha’s food, housing, and work opportunities.
• The Third Kazekage smashed his desk and ordered the border sealed, declaring that anyone trading with Konoha would be executed as a traitor.
• Chiyo arrived and warned the Third Kazekage that hunger would drive people to trade despite threats.
• Chiyo revealed a colorless, odorless, highly potent poison she had concocted during half a month in seclusion.

With Sunagakure nearly bankrupt and its people defecting to Konoha for better pay and food, the Third Kazekage ordered Chiyo to destroy Konoha No. 1 Industrial Town with poison. Chiyo led fifty Sunagakure poison-unit elites to the factory and released a deadly gas cloud toward it.

• The Third Kazekage approved Chiyo's plan to poison Konoha's trade routes and ordered her to attack the border factory with Sunagakure's remaining elites.
• The Third Kazekage saw that Sunagakure's streets and shops were deserted as workers and ninja defected to Konoha for better conditions.
• Five days later, Chiyo and fifty poison-unit elites watched Konoha No. 1 Industrial Town from a hillside near Kikyo Mountain.
• Chiyo confirmed that the wind was blowing toward the factory and ordered her team to open their poison-gas canisters.
• Chiyo and the Sunagakure ninja released a dense cloud of deadly purple poison that rolled toward the factory grounds.

Chiyo’s poison-mist attack on Konoha’s industrial town failed against the factory workers’ gas masks. When the Konoha Biochemical Brigade emerged and aimed flamethrowers at her hiding place, Chiyo was left facing capture.

• Chiyo released poison mist over Konoha’s southern factory complex, but the factories continued operating without disruption.
• Chiyo led fifty Sunagakure elites toward the factory fence to investigate why the poison had failed.
• Chiyo saw Uchiha city management officers wearing gas masks and realized they were breathing safely inside the poison mist.
• An officer mocked Chiyo and her attack through the fence, while she trembled and reached for her Kunai.
• The factory siren sounded, and the Konoha Biochemical Brigade charged out in chemical suits carrying flamethrowers.
• The squad captain aimed his flamethrower at Chiyo’s hiding place and ordered his men to capture her alive.

Chiyo and the surviving Sunagakure forces fled after a deadly attack, while Hiruzen Sarutobi escaped the Black Rock Coal Mine after half a month of forced labor. He vowed to seek help from the daimyō or Iwagakure and return with an army to overthrow Shu Shiraishi.

• Chiyo ordered the Sunagakure forces to retreat from the flamethrower attack, and two stragglers were burned alive.
• Hiruzen used a wire he had fashioned to unlock his ankle shackle during the overseers’ shift change.
• Hiruzen crawled through a ventilation duct, killed a rat that bit him, and kicked open an iron grille to escape into the forest.
• Hiruzen resolved to seek troops from the daimyō or Ōnoki and return to Konoha to overthrow Shu Shiraishi.

Hiruzen Sarutobi’s escape from Black Rock Mine was exposed by Shu Shiraishi’s surveillance system, and Hiruzen was surrounded by Kagami Uchiha and the Urban Management officers. He ended the chapter trapped in the clearing, facing mechanical war dogs and a ring of drawn blades.

• A hidden surveillance camera spotted Hiruzen as he emerged from the mine’s ventilation pipe.
• Shu Shiraishi watched Hiruzen on the monitoring screens and used the loudspeakers to taunt him.
• Hiruzen panicked and fell into the mud when he recognized Shu Shiraishi’s voice.
• Kagami Uchiha emerged from the woods and confronted Hiruzen.
• Searchlights, four mechanical war dogs, and dozens of Uchiha Urban Management officers surrounded Hiruzen.

Kagami Uchiha captured Hiruzen and brought him to Konoha, where Shu Shiraishi put him on public trial before the village. After Shu showed footage of Hiruzen promising to return with an army, the crowd turned on him, leaving him broken and weeping.

• Kagami Uchiha bound Hiruzen with steel cable and ordered city enforcers to take him to Konoha.
• Two Uchiha city enforcers brought Hiruzen to the central plaza and forced him to kneel before tens of thousands of workers.
• Shu Shiraishi praised the village’s new living conditions and accused Hiruzen of planning to destroy them with help from the daimyo and other ninja villages.
• Shu showed footage of Hiruzen promising to return with a great army to save Konoha.
• The crowd cursed Hiruzen and pelted him with rotten food and trash, and he broke down weeping on the platform.

After a public trial, Shu Shiraishi forced Hiruzen to look over an industrialized Konoha and told him the village had become the Shinobi World's strongest empire without him. Hiruzen's faith in his old world collapsed, and Shu ordered him sent to the sewers to live beside Danzo.

• Workers pelted Hiruzen with rotten food during his public trial, and Shu declared the trial over.
• Uchiha urban management officers dragged Hiruzen through the Hokage building and onto its rooftop.
• Shu forced Hiruzen to look down at Konoha's illuminated roads, factories, transmission towers, and new housing.
• Shu claimed Konoha had become the strongest and richest empire without Hiruzen, his father, or the elders.
• Hiruzen lost hope and collapsed as Shu ordered the officers to send him to the sewers to keep Danzo company.

Shu Shiraishi and Orochimaru activated Konoha’s completed power grid, lighting the village and prompting widespread celebration. As Shu stood by the main switch, a poisoned wire slipped from the ventilation duct toward his neck.

• Shu Shiraishi visited Orochimaru in the main distribution room and learned that the captive Third Raikage could supply chakra for only three more days.
• Orochimaru confirmed that the transformers throughout Konoha were connected and ready.
• Shu Shiraishi pushed down the main bronze switch, sending power through the village’s network.
• Lights and factory searchlights turned on across Konoha, and villagers cheered while Akimichi Chōza and Hyuga Branch Family surveyors watched.
• A thin, blue-sheened wire slipped through the ventilation duct and descended toward Shu Shiraishi’s unguarded neck.

Kakuzu ambushed Shu Shiraishi for a fifty-million-ryo bounty, but Shu defeated him and dragged him to Konoha’s treasury. After Shu smashed open the vault door, Kakuzu froze at the sight inside.

• Shu caught Kakuzu’s poisoned wire and yanked him out of the ventilation duct.
• Kakuzu attacked Shu with his Earth Grudge Fear tendrils and Fire Style, but Shu charged through the flames and smashed one of his hearts.
• Shu seized Kakuzu by the neck and carried him through the underground corridors toward Konoha’s treasury.
• Shu kicked down the treasury’s heavy steel door and tossed Kakuzu onto the threshold.
• Kakuzu looked inside the treasury, froze in shock, and let his remaining tendrils droop.

Shu Shiraishi revealed Konoha’s vast industrial wealth to Kakuzu and offered him the position of finance minister. Kakuzu abandoned his attempt to kill Shu and eagerly asked which ninja village’s trade routes he should cut off first.

• Kakuzu discovered a treasury filled with gold, Chakra crystal bullets, and valuable deeds.
• Shu Shiraishi explained that Konoha’s industrial exports had made the treasury’s wealth possible and that Sunagakure was nearly bankrupt.
• Shu offered Kakuzu a chance to live as Konoha’s finance minister, managing weapon prices and economic pressure across the Shinobi World.
• Kakuzu put away his tendrils, knelt beside the gold, and accepted Shu’s offer.
• Kakuzu asked Shu which ninja village’s trade routes he should cut off first.

Shu Shiraishi gave Kakuzu control of Konoha’s industrial exports, and Kakuzu used extortion, resource deals, and black-market bounties to greatly expand Konoha’s wealth and technology. As Kakuzu celebrated the enormous profits, an Anbu Ninja delivered a sealed scroll from Iwagakure.

• Shu Shiraishi ordered Kakuzu to control prices on Konoha’s industrial goods and use steel and fertilizer exports to force other villages to surrender resources and land.
• Kakuzu coerced the Land of Grass’s envoy into signing away thirty years of mining rights to two iron mines in exchange for fertilizer.
• Kakuzu posted bounties on skilled workers and technical experts from Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure, offering rewards for bringing them and their blueprints to Konoha.
• Kakuzu’s trade network brought resources and wealth into Konoha, and the village’s treasury tripled in a month.
• Kakuzu calculated the profits and celebrated, but an Anbu Ninja interrupted him with a sealed scroll bearing Iwagakure’s mark.

Shu Shiraishi rejected Iwagakure’s protest over Konoha’s blockade by wiping the letter on his muddy boot and defeating the envoy. He sent the envoy back to Ōnoki with a threat to confront him in Iwagakure.

• Kakuzu brought Shu Shiraishi a protest letter from Iwagakure demanding that Konoha resume explosives and machinery deliveries and pay compensation for the mine shutdowns.
• The Iwagakure envoy threatened that an army of ten thousand would reach the Land of Fire’s border within three days if Konoha refused.
• Shu Shiraishi tore the protest letter from the envoy and rubbed it against the sewer mud on his boot until the signatures and text were ruined.
• When the envoy attacked Shu Shiraishi with stone axes, Shu broke his thigh with a slap and sent the axes flying into the trench where Hiruzen Sarutobi was working.
• Shu Shiraishi threw the sludge-soaked letter at the envoy and warned Ōnoki that he would come to Iwagakure and break his back if another protest arrived.
• The injured envoy fled Konoha, leaving his axes behind and dragging a trail of blood and mud.

Ōnoki learned that Shu Shiraishi had desecrated Iwagakure’s protest letter and vowed to defend the mountain border, while Shu confronted the problem of attacking Iwagakure’s high ground. Shu proposed that Orochimaru build a rocket capable of striking the Tsuchikage Building from beyond the mountains, leaving Orochimaru stunned and intensely focused on the blueprint.

• The Iwagakure envoy returned with the protest letter smeared in filth, and Ōnoki erupted in rage when he saw Shu Shiraishi’s boot print over the official seals.
• Mu reminded Ōnoki that Shu had defeated Kumogakure’s vanguard and captured the Raikage, then advised him to seal the border and defend the mountain heights.
• Kagami Uchiha reported that Konoha’s mecha and conventional guns could not effectively attack Iwagakure’s mountain positions, so Shu went to the arsenal.
• Shu woke the exhausted Orochimaru and showed him a sketch of a tube-shaped weapon designed to fly over mountains.
• Shu ordered Orochimaru to develop a rocket with enough range to strike the Tsuchikage Building in Iwagakure, and Orochimaru stared at the design in astonishment.

Orochimaru developed and tested the first Chakra missile after Shu Shiraishi showed him how to stabilize it with movable guide plates. The missile launched but crashed short of Iwagakure, and Shu proposed using something alive as its guidance system.

• Orochimaru spent half a month designing a Chakra missile, exhausting himself until he developed a bald patch.
• Shu Shiraishi showed Orochimaru how movable nozzle guide plates could control the missile’s thrust and balance.
• Orochimaru completed the prototype, and he and Shu Shiraishi watched it launch from a bunker.
• The missile lost its direction near the mountain range and exploded in a ravine far short of Iwagakure.
• Orochimaru realized the missile needed a guidance system, and Shu Shiraishi suggested using something alive.

Shu Shiraishi seized the Aburame Clan’s queen insect and ordered Tsunade to combine it with Hashirama Cells to create a nanoscale, Chakra-sensing missile guidance system. Five days later, Tsunade installed the insect aggregate in a missile, and its target-search indicator activated.

• Shu Shiraishi ordered Orochimaru to use living creatures for missile guidance and replace the missile’s nose casing with heat-resistant glass.
• Shu and Kagami Uchiha forced Aburame Shikuroo to hand over the clan’s queen insect, and Shu ordered the Aburame Clan to work at the farm.
• Shu directed Tsunade to fuse the queen insect with Hashirama Cells and create tiny, venomous insects that could sense Chakra for missile guidance.
• After five days of experiments, Tsunade produced an aggregate of nearly invisible insects that could detect Chakra and transmit signals to the queen insect.
• Tsunade installed the insect aggregate in a missile’s sensing chamber, and Orochimaru powered it on as its target-search alarm began sounding.

Shu Shiraishi ordered Orochimaru to transform injured Inuzuka Ninja Dogs into mechanical war dogs, and Kuromaru’s successful tests thrilled the Inuzuka Clan. As the clan clamored for its own dogs to be modified, the radar station outside Konoha sounded an alarm.

• Shu Shiraishi brought Orochimaru to the Inuzuka kennels and ordered him to replace the injured dogs’ bones with titanium-alloy skeletons and equip them with mechanical weapons.
• Orochimaru and the Anbu took Kuromaru and the other injured dogs to the laboratory despite Inuzuka Gaku’s protests.
• Two days later, Orochimaru unveiled Kuromaru, whose mechanical limb, armored body, gun mount, and prosthetic eye made him a powerful weapon.
• Kuromaru demonstrated his strength by tearing through iron, firing Chakra bullets, and shattering granite, while Gaku and the Inuzuka Clan celebrated and demanded modifications for their dogs.
• The radar station five kilometers outside Konoha stopped showing its green light and began flashing a yellow alarm.

Sasori of the Red Sands broke into Konoha Heavy Industries to destroy its machinery, but his poisoned puppets could not damage a Chakra mech. The mech crushed his third-generation puppet with a single punch, leaving Sasori under a spray of debris.

• A radar operator sounded the alarm after detecting an intruder near the Konoha Heavy Industries base.
• Sasori sent his puppets into Assembly Workshop No. 3 to wreck its machinery.
• A five-meter Chakra mech emerged, and Sasori ordered his puppets to attack it.
• Sasori’s poisoned Senbon bounced off the mech’s armor without causing any damage.
• A civilian Chunin piloted the mech and smashed Sasori’s third-generation puppet, sending broken wood and dust into Sasori’s face.

Sasori’s Third Kazekage puppet was destroyed by a Chakra-powered mech, and he became obsessed with its machinery even as Konoha officers captured him. Shu Shiraishi presented him with technical diagrams, leaving Sasori staring at a possible path toward understanding the mech.

• The mech’s punch shattered Sasori’s Third Kazekage puppet and snapped his Chakra Threads, while Sasori admired the steel machine.
• Uchiha urban management officers stormed the workshop, subdued Sasori, chained him, and seized his poison and puppet scrolls.
• While pinned to the floor, Sasori fixated on the mech’s gears and muttered about its track and drive-shaft torque.
• Shu Shiraishi arrived and ordered the officers to stop pressing Sasori down, though they left him chained.
• Shu Shiraishi dropped diagrams of gears, hydraulic circuits, and Chakra power-conversion formulas beside Sasori’s face.

Sasori became obsessed with Shu Shiraishi’s mechanical diagrams and defected from Sunagakure to join Konoha Heavy Industries Group. After Sasori rushed to inspect the Chakra mech, an Anbu Ninja arrived with a waterlogged scroll for Shu Shiraishi.

• Sasori recognized the power of the Chakra-powered piston and gear designs on a parchment that had fallen into the muddy water.
• Sasori begged Shu Shiraishi for the mech’s blueprints and promised to do anything, even kill the Kazekage.
• Shu Shiraishi freed Sasori, who slashed the hourglass symbol on his Sunagakure Forehead Protector and threw it away.
• Sasori grabbed tools and goggles, then hurried into the hangar to climb the blue-gray Chakra mech.
• An Anbu Ninja entered the workshop and presented Shu Shiraishi with a waterlogged scroll that smelled of seawater and seaweed.

Shu Shiraishi learned that Hozuki Gengetsu was leading a Kirigakure fleet to attack Konoha’s eastern supply port, and he prepared Konoha’s secret chakra-powered submarines to intercept them. The floodgate opened, revealing three enormous steel vessels as they were launched into the seawater.

• An Anbu messenger delivered Shu Shiraishi an intelligence report that Hozuki Gengetsu planned to attack Konoha’s eastern port with over a thousand men and 120 warships.
• Shu Shiraishi burned the report and went to the underground dock to find Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru explained that Konoha’s three submarines had thick manganese-steel hulls, stealth coating, chakra-powered engines, and high-explosive torpedoes.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered that the Kirigakure force be left on the seabed and pressed the dock’s launch button.
• The waterproof floodgate opened, seawater flooded the dry dock, and the canvas fell away to reveal three black steel submarines.

Shu Shiraishi’s three Chakra submarines attacked Kirigakure’s fleet with torpedoes, sinking its ships and killing many of its ninja. Hozuki Gengetsu survived the destruction of his flagship but stood alone on the water, unable to see the enemy.

• Shu Shiraishi and Orochimaru watched as three Chakra submarines launched from the dock and submerged.
• Gengetsu led Kirigakure’s fleet toward Konoha’s coast and ordered his forces to attack the port and its Chakra ore warehouses.
• A Hyuga observer detected Kirigakure’s fleet, and the submarine crews fired eighteen torpedoes at its ships.
• The torpedoes destroyed ships across the fleet, while electrical currents in the water killed many Kirigakure ninja who jumped overboard.
• The submarines launched another salvo, which broke apart Gengetsu’s flagship and sank more ships.
• Gengetsu landed on the surface of the water and watched his fleet sink without ever seeing the attackers.

Hozuki Gengetsu's fleet was destroyed by Konoha submarines, whose steel hulls withstood Kirigakure's Water Release and Gengetsu's strongest attack. As Gengetsu ordered a retreat, a submarine-mounted machine gun opened fire on the survivors.

• Gengetsu summoned the Giant Clam and used its mist to conceal himself and the surviving Kirigakure ninjas.
• A Byakugan operator detected the survivors, and three Konoha submarines surfaced and surrounded the Giant Clam.
• A naval gun destroyed the Giant Clam with one shot, dispelling the mist.
• Kirigakure ninjas struck Submarine No. 1 with Water Dragon Bullets, but its hull remained undamaged.
• Gengetsu used Steaming Danger Tyranny against the submarine, leaving only a small scorch mark, then ordered his forces to retreat.
• A Konoha Anbu fired a Maxim heavy machine gun at the fleeing Kirigakure survivors, killing many in the water.