Recaps

Konoha's submarines destroyed Kirigakure's fleet, and Shu Shiraishi oversaw construction of a massive Chakra aircraft carrier. The carrier's power problem remained unresolved after Orochimaru reported that the Third Raikage had died from being drained of Chakra.

• Konoha's submarines sank every Kirigakure warship, killing Second Mizukage Gengetsu Hozuki and leaving the East Sea Trench littered with wreckage and bodies.
• Several days later, Shu Shiraishi surveyed Konoha's shipbuilding base, where workers and ninja were assembling a three-hundred-meter Chakra aircraft carrier.
• Orochimaru reported that the carrier was on schedule to launch after another half month of hull welding, but its weight exceeded the power of its four Chakra turbines.
• Orochimaru said Konoha lacked the Chakra needed to power the carrier's reactors and batteries because the Nine-Tails' Chakra was already committed elsewhere.
• Orochimaru told Shu Shiraishi that the Third Raikage had died after two months of intensive blood draws and continuous Chakra extraction.

After the Third Raikage died from being drained of Chakra to power an aircraft carrier, Shu Shiraishi ordered Orochimaru to capture the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchūriki as replacement power sources. Aburame Shikuroo’s airships captured Roshi and Han with venomous insects, poison gas, missiles, and electric nets, then carried them toward Konoha.

• Shu Shiraishi learned that the Third Raikage had died after two months of supplying Chakra to the aircraft carrier’s power room.
• Shu ordered Aburame Shikuroo to use airships and Nano-Sized Venomous Insects to capture Roshi and Han alive or bring back their corpses.
• Roshi left Iwagakure, while Han followed under Ōnoki’s orders to bring him back to the village.
• Shikuroo’s airships released venomous insects and paralyzing gas, then fired guided missiles at Roshi and Han.
• Roshi and Han’s Tailed Beast Chakra began to emerge, but electric nets knocked them unconscious.
• The airships hoisted Roshi and Han in the nets and carried them toward Konoha.

Shu Shiraishi and Orochimaru drained the Chakra of Roshi and Han to power Konoha’s grid and a shipyard aircraft carrier. The system reached full power, while Four-Tails and Five-Tails remained bound and screaming.

• Aburame Shikuroo delivered the captured Roshi and Han to Shu Shiraishi and collected his reward.
• Orochimaru and the sealing ninjas strapped Roshi and Han to racks and activated the Four Symbols Inversion Array.
• Son Gokū and Kokuō struggled against chains as their Chakra was forcibly sucked through the sealing pipes.
• Orochimaru increased the suction, and the conversion furnace transformed the Tailed Beast Chakra into electricity for the shipyard and Konoha’s grid.
• Orochimaru reported that Four-Tails and Five-Tails could power the aircraft carrier at full load for two months, and Shu Shiraishi declared full power.

Shu Shiraishi’s industrial expansion turned Konoha into a nonstop manufacturing and export powerhouse. Kakuzu reported that Konoha’s monthly GDP surpassed the combined economies of the four great nations and the Land of Fire’s daimyō, just as foul smoke poured into Shu’s office.

• Shu Shiraishi and the Sealing Squad harnessed the tailed beasts’ chakra to power Konoha’s generators, lighting the village and its industrial district.
• A month later, Konoha’s factories ran around the clock, producing weapons and goods that Akimichi Chōza and other workers assembled for export.
• Konoha’s cheap products overwhelmed neighboring markets, and smugglers traded silver and gold for weapons and supplies.
• Kakuzu rushed to Shu Shiraishi’s office with the financial ledgers and reported that Konoha’s GDP exceeded the combined wealth of the four great nations and the Land of Fire’s daimyō.
• Thick, sulfurous smoke blew through the office window, cutting off Kakuzu’s laughter and making him cough.

Shu Shiraishi rejected Orochimaru’s proposal to reduce industrial output and ordered Konoha to pipe its toxic smoke and wastewater into the Land of Wind. The pipeline opened near Sunagakure, where the Third Kazekage and Granny Chiyo watched poisonous smoke and corrosive wastewater erupt across the dunes.

• Orochimaru told Shu Shiraishi that pollution from Konoha’s factories was sickening civilians, poisoning the South River, and overwhelming waste disposal.
• Shu Shiraishi refused to shut down the blast furnaces and ordered the Sarutobi Clan to build an underground pipeline that would discharge the waste in the Land of Wind.
• Sarutobi Clan ninjas dug the pipeline while Uchiha ninjas lined it with ceramic, and Akimichi Clan members and Wind Release ninjas forced Konoha’s smoke and wastewater into it.
• The Third Kazekage and Granny Chiyo surveyed a clear day in Sunagakure as a rumbling began beneath the eastern dunes.
• The pipeline burst through a dune outside Sunagakure, releasing thick poisonous smoke and corrosive green wastewater that darkened the sand.

A sewage pipe from Shu Shiraishi’s factories in Konoha poured toxic waste and fumes over Sunagakure, and the Third Kazekage failed to stop it with Iron Sand. As he ordered an attack on the factories, several silver-white aircraft burst through the smoke above the village.

• Toxic wastewater and fumes from the pipe spread through Sunagakure, choking residents and darkening the sky.
• The Third Kazekage and Granny Chiyo recognized the pollution as waste from Shu Shiraishi’s factories in Konoha.
• The Third Kazekage used Iron Sand to seal the pipe, but the concentrated acid dissolved his barrier and damaged his wing.
• The Third Kazekage ordered Chiyo to launch explosive-tagged flying puppets toward Konoha and destroy Shu Shiraishi’s factories.
• A turbine blast tore open the smoke, and several silver-white aircraft streaked over Sunagakure.

Shu Shiraishi sent Konoha’s first Chakra fighter jets on a test mission to Sunagakure, where Uchiha Shinya led an attack on the Kazekage. The Third Kazekage countered by launching a barrage of Iron Sand spears at the aircraft.

• Orochimaru showed Shu Shiraishi the completed Chakra fighter jet, powered by the Four-Tails’ and Five-Tails’ Chakra, and Shu ordered a full-load test flight to Sunagakure.
• Three fighter jets appeared above Sunagakure and tore open the poison smoke as the Third Kazekage and Chiyo watched.
• Uchiha Shinya led the formation down toward the Kazekage building and armed the lead aircraft’s Chakra autocannon, locking its sights on the Third Kazekage.
• Chiyo urged the Third Kazekage to bring down the aircraft, and he gathered Iron Sand into dozens of massive spears.
• The Third Kazekage thrust the Iron Sand spears upward toward the fighter jets.

Shinya and the other pilots crushed Sunagakure’s defenses from the air, leaving the Third Kazekage and Chiyo surrounded by devastation. Back in Konoha, Shu Shiraishi told Hiruko that they had secured the sky and asked about progress on the ground.

• Shinya evaded the Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand spears and activated an electromagnetic pulse coating that repelled the Kazekage’s attempt to seize the fighters.
• The Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand fell across Sunagakure, killing civilians and shinobi, and Chiyo launched hundreds of explosive flying puppets at the fighters.
• Shinya and the other pilots destroyed the puppet swarm with their Chakra cannons, leaving Chiyo to admit that Sunagakure’s air superiority was gone.
• The fighters performed a barrel roll, dropped pink smoke canisters over the village, and flew away.
• In Konoha’s underground laboratory, Shu Shiraishi watched the fighters return and asked Hiruko about progress on the ground.

Shu Shiraishi inspected Hiruko’s successful Chimera experiments and ordered him to expand production, but questioned how the chakra-less beasts could be controlled in battle. Orochimaru arrived with news that his experiment with Dan Katō had yielded a breakthrough in command and communication.

• Hiruko reported that his synthetic beast fused bear muscles, hawk flight organs, and snake scales using nerve cells taken from thirty Kumogakure prisoners, and that it required no Chakra.
• Hiruko said one production line could make five hundred beasts a month, and Shu tripled his funding and demanded a thousand finished beasts by the next month.
• Hiruko broke down in gratitude and pledged his life to Shu, while a beast in the tank awoke and clawed at the glass.
• Shu questioned how the mindless beasts could be directed remotely without endangering Konoha’s forces.
• Orochimaru emerged from the shadows and told Shu that his experiment with Dan Katō had made a breakthrough in command and communication.

Dan Katō demonstrated a prototype that used his Spirit Transformation Technique to transmit sounds instantly across vast distances, giving Shu Shiraishi a new way to coordinate Konoha's forces. Shu ordered Orochimaru to have the Craftsmen's Department miniaturize the machine into a handheld device within one week.

• Dan Katō explained how Orochimaru's machine converted his soul frequency into a quantum entanglement signal for instant communication.
• Dan used the prototype to let Shu Shiraishi hear miners at the Black Rock Coal Mine and workers at Shipyard No. 3.
• Shu recognized the prototype's military value but criticized its size and lack of portability.
• Shu ordered Orochimaru to involve the Craftsmen's Department and produce a handheld terminal within one week.

Orochimaru, Dan Katō, and Konoha’s workers completed the Shinobi world’s first mobile Chakra terminal after seven days of exhausting work. Shu Shiraishi tested it by calling Kagami Uchiha at the East Sea shipyard, then asked Yamanaka Fūshin how far his intelligence monitoring network had progressed.

• Orochimaru and Dan Katō oversaw a week of intense production, with Konoha’s craftsmen building a mobile terminal and recording Dan’s soul wavelength.
• Orochimaru presented the heavy black mobile phone to Shu Shiraishi, explaining that its miniaturized Four Symbols Inversion Array could communicate across the Shinobi world.
• Shu Shiraishi called Kagami Uchiha at the East Sea shipyard, confirmed the aircraft carrier’s progress, and told him to get any needed materials from Kakuzu.
• Kagami Uchiha realized the phone could deliver the Hokage’s voice across great distances more reliably than Ninja Hawks.
• Shu Shiraishi turned to Yamanaka Fūshin, who was wearing a large wired headset, and asked how far the intelligence monitoring network had progressed.

Yamanaka Fūshin reported that the Yamanaka Clan had connected its Mind Body Switch Technique to Konoha’s mobile-phone Chakra base station network, creating a listening system capable of intercepting communications and detecting emotional disturbances across the Shinobi World. He offered Shu Shiraishi a headset to hear an intercepted encrypted call between Ōnoki and Kumogakure’s acting Raikage.

• Fūshin told Shu Shiraishi that 120 Yamanaka clan members were operating the network in shifts and that it could decode Chakra signals from other villages.
• Fūshin described the network’s reach, including Chiyo’s complaints in Sunagakure and the location and distress of Kirigakure remnants led by Karatachi Yagura.
• Fūshin explained that the system could detect emotional Chakra fluctuations, recounting how an Iwagakure Chunin killed his captain after developing killing intent.
• Shu Shiraishi doubled the Yamanaka Clan’s funding and promised the highest casualty compensation for those who died in the control room.
• Fūshin brought Shu Shiraishi a headset carrying an intercepted encrypted conversation between Ōnoki and Kumogakure’s acting Raikage, and Shu put it on to listen.

Shu Shiraishi intercepted Ōnoki and Dodai planning a strike on Konoha’s supply hub and ordered a trap for their forces. Before he could expand communications equipment across the front, Yamanaka Fūshin detected a hidden, sinister Chakra fluctuation near Konoha’s edge, coming from a sewer cesspit.

• Shu Shiraishi listened as Ōnoki and Dodai arranged for five hundred troops to attack Konoha’s number two supply hub through an abandoned mining area.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered a Jonin-led Uchiha team to deploy three hundred heavy mechs and trap the mining area’s exits before midnight.
• Shu Shiraishi told Yamanaka Fūshin to have Orochimaru’s production line equip frontline commanders with mobile phones.
• Yamanaka Fūshin detected an unregistered Chakra fluctuation inside Konoha and traced it to a cesspit in the sewers near the village’s edge.

Shu Shiraishi learned that a chakra disturbance was coming from the sewers and went to investigate as Shimura Danzō struggled to break his seal with Shisui Uchiha’s eye. Danzō awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and cast Kotoamatsukami on a Chakra Mecha guard, hoping to make it obey him.

• Yamanaka Fūshin detected a chakra fluctuation in the sewers, and Shu Shiraishi set out to see what was happening.
• Shimura Danzō, forced to clean the sewers with his chakra sealed, tore off the bandages covering his stolen Sharingan.
• Danzō used his hatred to force chakra through the seal and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan in Shisui Uchiha’s eye.
• A Chakra Mecha guard arrived to investigate the disturbance, and Danzō decided to use Kotoamatsukami to control it.
• Danzō cast Kotoamatsukami on the mecha and commanded it to kneel and serve him.

Danzo used Kotoamatsukami on Shu Shiraishi’s mech guard, but the genjutsu failed because the machine had no biological brain. After the guard kicked Danzo into the sewage, Shu Shiraishi arrived and aimed a Chakra pistol at him.

• Danzo poured his remaining Chakra into Kotoamatsukami and ordered the mech guard to kneel and accept him as its master.
• The mech guard scanned Danzo, detected no biological brain waves, classified him as trash, and ignored the genjutsu.
• The mech guard kicked Danzo into the sewer wall and the wastewater, breaking his ribs and leaving him choking in the filth.
• Shu Shiraishi entered the lit sewer with two Anbu Ninjas and found Danzo clinging to a pipe in the water.
• Danzo demanded to know why Kotoamatsukami had failed, but Shu Shiraishi gave no explanation and aimed a Chakra pistol at his forehead.

Shu Shiraishi shot and killed Danzo before he could use Kotoamatsukami, then ordered Orochimaru to adapt the recovered eye into a surveillance tool for interrogations. At a construction site, Hiruzen saw Danzo’s mutilated corpse being dragged past and froze in shock.

• Shu Shiraishi shot Danzo in the forehead, killing him before he could activate Kotoamatsukami.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the mech guard to retrieve Danzo’s body and gouge out his right eye.
• Orochimaru proposed connecting the Kotoamatsukami eye to the central surveillance network as a probe for reading prisoners’ brains, and Shu Shiraishi ordered it installed within three days.
• Shu Shiraishi left the sewer for a construction site where Hiruzen Sarutobi was doing forced labor in heavy shackles.
• Hiruzen recognized Danzo’s mangled corpse as the mech dragged it past, dropped his bricks, and stood shaking in shock.

Hiruzen watched Danzo’s corpse dragged through Konoha’s brutal construction site and lost his will to resist, accepting his place as a laborer. Shu Shiraishi ignored him as Orochimaru arrived with chemical plant data about the first stage’s ultimate weapon.

• Hiruzen saw Danzo’s mutilated corpse being dragged away and witnessed a Hyuga laborer whipped for stumbling.
• Hiruzen realized Konoha had become a merciless steel empire, broke down crying, and then resumed carrying bricks.
• Shu Shiraishi walked past Hiruzen without acknowledging him.
• Orochimaru brought Shu Shiraishi a sealed envelope containing chemical plant data and announced that the first stage’s ultimate weapon was ready.

Shu Shiraishi inspected Orochimaru’s Chakra Nuclear Fission Weapon, a bomb capable of destroying a major nation, in an underground laboratory. After Shu questioned how anyone could launch it without being killed, Orochimaru revealed that Tsunade had solved the problem.

• Orochimaru explained that the bomb would trigger a chain reaction by colliding the Four-Tails’ Lava Release with the Five-Tails’ Boil Release.
• Shu Shiraishi asked about the weapon’s power, and Orochimaru said it could wipe the Land of Wind off the map.
• Orochimaru took Shu Shiraishi three hundred meters underground to inspect the bomb and its chakra-sealed casing.
• Shu Shiraishi warned that radiation, heat, and a severed Chakra signal made remote or conventional launching impossible, then asked who would ignite it.
• Orochimaru pointed to a small lead door and said Tsunade had already solved the launch problem.

Tsunade demonstrated a concentrated regenerative enzyme derived from Hashirama's cells, but warned that only an exceptionally durable body could survive it. Shu Shiraishi said he had a candidate and called for Might Duy.

• Tsunade revealed that she had purified Hashirama's cells into a powerful regenerative enzyme and healed a deep cut on her hand with it.
• Orochimaru praised Shu Shiraishi and declared science the true power of the Shinobi World.
• Tsunade warned that the enzyme would cause an ordinary person’s cells and organs to grow uncontrollably, so the human igniter needed an unusually tough body and Chakra pathways.
• Shu Shiraishi used the intercom to summon Might Duy to the basement.

Shu Shiraishi and Tsunade tested a cloning recovery enzyme on Might Duy, whose body endured violent cellular changes and emerged stronger with rapid regeneration. With the experiment successful, Shu ordered Duy to open the Eight Gates and demonstrate his new limits.

• Might Duy reported to Shu Shiraishi in the underground laboratory and obeyed his order to lie on the operating table.
• Tsunade injected Duy with the green recovery enzyme while Orochimaru monitored his vital signs.
• Duy endured extreme pain as his cells rapidly multiplied, his wounds repeatedly healed, and his body adapted to the cloned cells.
• Orochimaru confirmed that the enzyme had fused with Duy's muscles without producing Wood Release branches.
• Duy recovered with a powerful body that emitted red steam, and Shu Shiraishi ordered him to open the Eight Gates and test his strength.

Might Duy opened the Gate of Death without dying because the First's cloned cell serum continually regenerated his body. After Duy demonstrated his immense strength and pledged himself to Shu Shiraishi, Shu ordered Orochimaru to mount the railgun and prepare a test firing.

• Might Duy opened all Eight Gates, and the cloned cell serum repeatedly repaired the damage from the Gate of Death.
• Duy punched through a half-meter-thick manganese steel plate and tore a deep trench through the basement wall.
• Duy realized he had survived and thanked Shu Shiraishi for giving him the medicine, pledging to serve as Shu's weapon.
• Shu Shiraishi approached Duy through the scorching red steam and praised him for being able to escort the launch site.
• Shu ordered Orochimaru to mount the railgun and prepare for a test firing.

Konoha prepared a chakra-powered railgun to test-fire a nuclear bomb, draining the Tailed Beasts’ chakra and relying on Might Duy to brace the weapon against its recoil. Shu Shiraishi selected an uninhabited island as the target, and the railgun stood ready to fire.

• Orochimaru activated the railgun, splitting open the mountain behind Konoha and diverting the village’s heavy-industry power supply toward the weapon.
• The power system drained Roshi’s Four-Tails chakra and Han’s Five-Tails chakra to generate electricity, leaving both men gravely weakened.
• The crew lifted the fifty-ton Chakra nuclear bomb from its liquid nitrogen pool and loaded it into the railgun’s firing chamber.
• Might Duy opened the Gate of Death and used his body to brace the railgun’s base against the expected heat and recoil.
• Shu Shiraishi joined Orochimaru at the command console as the capacitors charged and the weapon’s oppressive pressure spread through Konoha and the surrounding wilderness.
• Shu Shiraishi chose an uninhabited island beyond the Land of Fire’s eastern coast and locked its coordinates as the target.

Shu Shiraishi ordered the railgun to fire a nuclear bomb at an uninhabited island in the eastern sea, unleashing a blast that devastated windows across Konoha and sent shock waves through distant villages. The observers watched the island on a live feed as the mental radar registered an extreme energy surge, just before the image lit up.

• Shu Shiraishi confirmed the target coordinates and ordered the Anbu fire-control operative to launch the railgun at an uninhabited island two hundred nautical miles away.
• The Anbu operative pressed the launch button, and Might Duy braced against the recoil as the railgun fired the nuclear bomb at ten times the speed of sound.
• The launch’s thunderous report shattered windows and injured residents across Konoha, while the shock wave rattled sensory equipment in Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• Yamanaka Fūshin and the Yamanaka Clan watched the island feed and energy curve in the Hokage Building’s control room as the curve abruptly surged past its highest mark.
• Orochimaru and Shu Shiraishi watched the island feed brighten, while Ōnoki, Dodai, and the other observers stared at the image in alarm.

Shu Shiraishi’s test firing erased an island and terrified the leaders of the Shinobi World, who saw the blast’s devastation through their intelligence networks. He used the shared chakra-frequency channel to announce that the age of armed village conflicts was over and declare the beginning of a centralized era.

• The test blast vaporized an uninhabited island, destroyed the ocean probe’s camera, and raised a colossal mushroom cloud and tsunami.
• Orochimaru switched to a high-altitude weather balloon feed, revealing the blast’s crater, boiling seas, and chakra-charged cloud.
• Ōnoki, Dodai, and Granny Chiyo witnessed evidence of the explosion and feared their villages could not survive such a weapon.
• Shu Shiraishi asked Orochimaru to confirm the frequency, then broadcast his voice across chakra-frequency devices throughout the Shinobi World.
• Shu Shiraishi declared that armed conflicts between village chiefs were over and that the age of great centralization had begun.

After Shu Shiraishi’s nuclear attack erased an island in the eastern sea, Iwagakure and Kumogakure abandoned plans to resist while Konoha’s opposition submitted to his power. Envoys from the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth arrived with surrender letters, and Shu said they could avoid being bombed only by giving up their countries’ sovereignty.

• Ōnoki canceled Iwagakure’s sabotage operation and ordered his troops to retreat from the Land of Hot Water’s border.
• Dodai realized Kumogakure could not withstand Shu Shiraishi’s nuclear weapon and saw its plans for resistance as futile.
• Hyūga Tensō, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Nara Rokumei submitted to Shu’s rule as Konoha’s workers resumed building the village’s war machine.
• Orochimaru told Shu that Konoha had only one nuclear bomb ready, with another possible in half a month.
• An Anbu shinobi reported that envoys from the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth had arrived at Konoha’s gate with surrender letters.
• Shu agreed to spare the two countries only if they traded away their sovereignty.