Chapter Summaries

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.

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.