Chapter Summaries

Shu Shiraishi secured the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ submission and assigned them work on Konoha’s industrial projects. As he prepared to expand production, an Anbu announced that Mito Uzumaki had arrived.

• Mito Uzumaki descended from Hokage Rock and headed toward the Hokage Building.
• Nara Rokumei, Yamanaka Fūshin, and Akimichi Chōza offered Shu Shiraishi clan assets, funds, and secret technique scrolls.
• Shu Shiraishi accepted their offerings and warned the clan leaders that those who opposed him would be sent to the crematorium.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered Chōza to work at a blast furnace site, Rokumei’s clan to plan a village-wide Chakra power grid, and Fūshin’s clan to connect the surveillance radar network.
• An Anbu announced that Mito Uzumaki had arrived at Shu Shiraishi’s office.

Mito Uzumaki visited Shu Shiraishi, praised his ruthless actions against Sarutobi Sasuke and the great clans, and offered him the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques and the Nine-Tails’ Chakra. Shu saw the seals as the key to powering Konoha’s industrial plans and welcomed the Nine-Tails as an inexhaustible generator.

• Mito Uzumaki entered Shu Shiraishi’s office and remarked on Sarutobi Sasuke’s cleanly severed head.
• Mito condemned Hashirama’s idealism and said she approved of Shu’s ruthless actions against Sarutobi Sasuke and Ino-Shika-Cho.
• Mito gave Shu a sealed scroll containing the Uzumaki Clan’s core Sealing Jutsu as an investment in his plans to transform Konoha.
• Mito offered to draw out the Nine-Tails’ Chakra for Shu’s war and expansion plans.
• Shu examined the sealing techniques and recognized them as a blueprint for storing, converting, and transmitting Chakra.
• Shu declared that the Nine-Tails’ Chakra could power his planned industrial base, leaving Mito startled by his idea of using it as a generator.

Shu Shiraishi proposed turning the Nine-Tails’ Chakra into electricity with a sealed steam-power system, and Mito agreed to help supply it. Their plans were interrupted when the daimyo’s envoy stormed the Hokage building to demand Konoha’s taxes.

• Shu Shiraishi sketched a boiler and steam-turbine system that would use the Nine-Tails’ Chakra to generate electricity and power industrial machinery.
• Shu Shiraishi designed a Chakra Pumped-Storage Array using modified sealing techniques to regulate and extract a fixed amount of the Nine-Tails’ Chakra each day.
• Mito examined the array, recognized its sealing logic, and agreed to let Shu Shiraishi draw as much Chakra as needed to help end the chaotic times.
• A crash shook the Hokage building as the daimyo’s envoy and more than thirty samurai forced their way inside.
• The envoy demanded that the newly appointed Hokage appear and accused Konoha of rebellion for being late with its taxes.

Shu Shiraishi rejected the daimyo's demand to double Konoha's taxes and declared the village independent from the Land of Fire's daimyo's office. The envoy mocked his declaration and struck his shoulder with a fan, while Shu Shiraishi's expression turned murderous.

• The daimyo's envoy arrived with samurai, shoved Konoha's Anbu against a wall, and demanded that the new Hokage meet him.
• The envoy identified himself as the daimyo's chief financial officer and demanded forty percent of Konoha's mission earnings instead of twenty percent.
• Shu Shiraishi refused the tax demand and condemned the daimyo's office for claiming credit for Konoha's land and taking money earned by its ninja.
• Shu Shiraishi declared that Konoha was severing ties with the daimyo's office, would pay no taxes, and was independent.
• The envoy laughed, struck Shu Shiraishi's shoulder with his fan, and challenged him to act against a daimyo's envoy; Shu Shiraishi's gaze turned cold.

Shu Shiraishi massacred the daimyo’s delegation after its envoy threatened him, then destroyed the envoy’s corpse and ordered Anbu to send the ashes back to the daimyo. Mito Uzumaki watched the aftermath from the second floor.

• Shu Shiraishi crushed the envoy’s wrist after the man demanded money and threatened him.
• Shu Shiraishi killed the delegation’s thirty-odd armored warriors with overwhelming physical force.
• Shu Shiraishi crushed the envoy’s head after telling him he would wait for the daimyo’s troops.
• Shu Shiraishi attached an Explosive Tag to the envoy’s corpse, blew it apart outside, and ordered Anbu to collect the ashes and return them to the daimyo.
• Shu Shiraishi noticed Mito Uzumaki watching from the second-floor stairs.

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.