Chapter Summaries

Senju Kenya led Kato Yosuke and Zabuza Momochi into Root’s underground headquarters to audit its finances under Tsunade’s liquidation order. The auditors uncovered extensive embezzlement and illicit dealings, and Yosuke brought Kenya a preliminary financial summary.

• Kato Yosuke told Senju Kenya that Tsunade had signed a comprehensive liquidation order and that Konoha needed Root’s hidden wealth to fund its new policies.
• Senju Kenya led Zabuza Momochi and the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce team to Root’s classified repository, where two archivists tried to block their entry.
• Senju Kenya knocked the archivists unconscious and punched through the repository’s reinforced iron gates.
• Kato Yosuke sent the Chamber of Commerce auditors inside to examine Root’s ledgers, dossiers, and contracts.
• The auditors found records of diverted military funds, withheld Uchiha Clan payments, and black-market purchases, while Kato Yosuke prepared a preliminary summary for Senju Kenya.

Kenya discovered the vast fortune Danzo had amassed and ordered it seized and divided among Konoha, the Senju Clan, and the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce. After finding Danzo’s plan to assassinate clan leaders and overthrow Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kenya vowed to put him on public trial and execute him.

• Kato Yosuke reported that Danzo held 3.25 billion ryo in bank accounts, along with valuable properties, mines, weapons, and medicines.
• Kenya ordered Danzo’s physical assets transported to the Senju compound and the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce’s vaults.
• Kenya allocated funds to Konoha’s public account, village food purchases, and bonuses for the Chamber’s guards, including Zabuza.
• A guard found a secret scroll in Danzo’s hidden compartment detailing an escape route and plans to assassinate Uchiha Fugaku and Hyuga Hiashi and strip Hiruzen Sarutobi of power.
• Kenya ordered a public trial and execution for Danzo the next day.

Konoha publicly tried Shimura Danzō for embezzlement, human experimentation, and treason, and Senju Kenya ordered his execution. As Zabuza raised his sword, Danzō broke his restraints and revealed the grotesque arm he had kept hidden.

• Kato Yosuke read the charges against Danzō to the crowd and presented evidence of his crimes, prompting villagers to pelt him with debris.
• Danzō insisted that his crimes had been committed for Konoha, but Kenya rejected his excuses and ordered the execution.
• Zabuza raised his greatsword to kill Danzō, who erupted with chakra and snapped the chains binding his right arm.
• Danzō tore away the sealing bandages around his grotesque right arm as the assembled ninjas watched in horror.

Shimura Danzō exposed the Sharingan implanted in his Hashirama-cell arm and Shisui Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, revealing his thefts to Konoha. As the Wood Release cells ran wild and shattered the execution platform, Danzō challenged Senju Kenya to kneel and die.

• Shimura Danzō tore off the bandages on his right arm, exposing ten implanted Three-Tomoe Sharingan and provoking the Uchiha clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku and the Uchiha elites recognized their fallen clansmen’s eyes and drew their weapons in fury.
• Shimura Danzō revealed Shisui Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, exposing the truth behind Shisui’s death.
• Tsunade identified Hashirama Senju’s Wood Release cells in Danzō’s arm, while Hiruzen Sarutobi reacted with grief and shame.
• Shimura Danzō’s Wood Release cells went berserk, tearing up the execution platform as his chakra and ocular power overwhelmed the area.
• Shimura Danzō declared himself a god and ordered Senju Kenya to kneel and accept his death.

Senju Kenya effortlessly shattered Shimura Danzō’s combined Sharingan and Wood Release attack with one Haki-coated punch, pulverizing his body before Danzō reappeared unharmed through a strange spatial distortion. The chapter left Danzō alive again, with one Sharingan in his right arm permanently closed.

• Shimura Danzō unleashed his Sharingan Genjutsu and Wood Release: Violent Spear Tree against Senju Kenya.
• Senju Kenya resisted Danzō’s Genjutsu and mocked his stolen eyes and Hashirama cells.
• Kenya coated his fist in Armament Haki and punched through the wooden spears and Danzō’s ocular power.
• Kenya’s punch destroyed Danzō’s mutated arm, shattered his chest, and sent his body smashing through a stone monument.
• Danzō reappeared unharmed amid a spatial distortion, while one Sharingan on his right arm turned white and closed.

Senju Kenya overwhelmed Shimura Danzō by killing him repeatedly, consuming his Izanagi resurrections one after another. After eight Sharingan went blind, Danzō staggered out for the ninth time, trembling and nearly out of lives.

• Uchiha Fugaku identified Danzō's Izanagi and condemned him for using the clan's Sharingan to survive.
• Danzō boasted that his arm gave him eleven chances to resurrect, then attacked Kenya with a storm of wind blades and poisoned kunai.
• Kenya dodged the attack and killed Danzō with a punch, triggering his first resurrection.
• Kenya intercepted Danzō's next resurrection and smashed him again, then attacked the shifting respawn point before Danzō could fully reform.
• Kenya repeatedly killed Danzō across the judgment plaza, using up eight Sharingan in thirty seconds.
• Danzō emerged for the ninth time and collapsed in terror, with only one Sharingan left.

Senju Kenya defeated Shimura Danzō’s final sealing attack and killed him, ending Root’s rule. The surviving Root ninja surrendered in the ruins of Konoha.

• Shimura Danzō used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique to try to trap Kenya and everything nearby in his corpse.
• Kenya stood his ground and shattered the expanding seal with a Haki-infused Fist Bone Meteor.
• Kenya’s punch vaporized Danzō, his Sharingan, and the Hashirama cells implanted in his arm.
• The surviving Root ninja dropped their weapons, removed their masks, and knelt in submission.

After abolishing Konoha's Council of Advisors and Elders, Tsunade ordered Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to repay their abuses by sweeping the streets. As they began their humiliating work under Zabuza's threat, Senju Kenya reviewed a new five-year strategic plan for Konoha.

• Tsunade abolished the Council of Advisors and Elders and confiscated the Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu families' illegally acquired property for their victims.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu were assigned to sweep Konoha's main road in sanitation uniforms.
• Mitokado Homura refused to work until Zabuza threatened them with his greatsword and ordered them to clean the road before dark.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu swept as civilians and Genin mocked them and celebrated their punishment.
• Kato Yosuke presented Senju Kenya with Konoha's new five-year strategic plan, and Kenya declared it was time to give the village a new engine.

Senju Kenya established Iron Fist Heavy Industries to make Konoha a monopoly supplier of industrial equipment and weapons, assigning the Senju, Uchiha, Akimichi, and Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce distinct roles. Three days later, Konoha’s new factories were operating when Might Guy arrived at the construction site.

• Tsunade and Shikaku asked Kenya how Konoha should develop after its funds and resettlement plans were secured.
• Kenya announced Iron Fist Heavy Industries and assigned the Senju to supply black iron wood, the Uchiha to smelt alloys, the Akimichi to haul and compact materials, and the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce to sell the products.
• Three days later, expanded Akimichi workers carried steel beams while Uchiha ninja fired the blast furnaces at a sprawling industrial site beside the Naka River.
• Kenya surveyed the new heavy industry beside its first stamping press when Might Guy leaped toward him.

Might Guy challenged Senju Kenya to an all-out Taijutsu showdown, calling him the greatest model for his lifelong pursuit of strength. Kenya accepted, and the two prepared to face each other beside the Naka River as a vast crowd watched.

• Might Guy and Rock Lee arrived at Kenya's construction site after completing a weighted handstand run, then praised Kenya's impact on Taijutsu.
• Might Guy challenged Kenya to a pure Taijutsu showdown in front of the workers and gathered shinobi.
• Kenya accepted Guy's challenge and called for them to fight in the clearing beside the Naka River.
• More than ten thousand spectators gathered around the clearing as Kenya and Guy took their positions.
• Guy closed his eyes, then opened them and unleashed a violent storm of chakra.

Might Guy challenged Senju Kenya with the Eight Gates Released Formation, but Kenya stood firm against his Morning Peacock barrage using only Armament Haki. Guy opened the Seventh Gate and formed an enormous air-made white tiger, leaving the clash poised to escalate.

• Might Guy opened the first six gates and launched Morning Peacock at Senju Kenya.
• Kenya blocked the flaming barrage with Armament Haki without moving or being injured.
• Guy landed, saw Kenya was unharmed, and opened the Seventh Gate.
• Guy’s blue vapor shook the land and drove back the Naka River as he formed an enormous white tiger from compressed air.

Might Guy unleashed the Seventh Gate’s Daytime Tiger against Senju Kenya, who answered with Fist Bone: Shockwave and smashed through the attack. Kenya caught the exhausted Guy, who stared up at him in stunned silence.

• Might Guy opened the Seventh Gate and fired the enormous Daytime Tiger at Kenya.
• Kenya compressed the air with his Haki-coated fist and unleashed Fist Bone: Shockwave.
• Kenya’s shockwave shattered the Daytime Tiger and forced Guy’s Seventh Gate closed.
• Guy spat blood and flew backward, but Kenya caught him with Geppo before he struck the rubble.
• Guy looked up at Kenya and froze in astonishment.

Kenya effortlessly endured Might Guy’s Seventh Gate and Daytime Tiger, then fed and advised the injured Guy while Konoha celebrated their Taijutsu battle. Watching from a distant cliff, Kakashi accepted Kenya’s overwhelming strength and quietly returned to reading Icha Icha Paradise.

• Might Guy collapsed after opening the Seventh Gate and was astonished that Kenya had taken his Daytime Tiger without injury or even sweating.
• Rock Lee rushed to Guy, but Kenya stopped their emotional reunion by stuffing a roasted sea beast leg into Guy’s mouth.
• Kenya told Guy to strengthen his body rather than rely on the Eight Gates, while the meat’s life energy rapidly repaired Guy’s muscles.
• Tens of thousands of Konoha spectators cheered Kenya and Guy along the banks of the Naka River.
• Kakashi watched Kenya from a distant cliff, put away his doubts, and began reading Icha Icha Paradise.

Kakashi tried to quietly read Icha Icha Paradise while Guy’s battle stirred excitement below, but Kenya caught him and forced him to train. The clifftop’s joking mood ended when Kato Yosuke arrived with an urgent report of trouble at the daimyo’s residence.

• Kakashi ignored Asuma, Kurenai, and Genma’s criticism as he read Icha Icha Paradise and defended his refusal to compete.
• Kenya slapped Kakashi, confiscated his signed first edition, and ordered him to complete two thousand weighted squats under Asuma’s supervision.
• Kakashi began squatting with a hundred-kilogram dumbbell while Asuma counted and mocked him.
• Kato Yosuke arrived with an urgent sealed document and told Kenya that serious trouble had arisen at the daimyo’s residence.

Senju Kenya received a decree from the Land of Fire's daimyo accusing him of treason, demanding Iron Fist Heavy Industries, freezing Konoha's funding, and ordering him to kneel and beg forgiveness. Rejecting Shikaku Nara's advice to compromise, Kenya set out for the daimyo's court to confront the daimyo.

• Kato Yosuke told Senju Kenya that nobles had accused him of ruling Konoha and threatening the daimyo's authority.
• Senju Kenya read the daimyo's decree demanding control of Iron Fist Heavy Industries, freezing Konoha's funding, and ordering him to appear at court within three days.
• Tsunade crushed the decree and angrily condemned the daimyo for ignoring Konoha's sacrifices and withholding its military funding.
• Shikaku Nara warned that defying the daimyo could isolate Konoha and suggested a political compromise.
• Senju Kenya rejected compromise, challenged the daimyo's claim to rule, and ordered everyone to go to the daimyo's court.

Kenya dismissed Tsunade and Shikaku’s plans for a military coup and prepared to visit the daimyo with a colossal black ironwood beam as his “gift.” He carried the thousand-ton pillar toward the capital, leaving Konoha’s workers and ninja stunned.

• Tsunade and Shikaku began planning an armed takeover of the daimyo’s estate, but Kenya told them he meant to reason with the daimyo without an army.
• Kenya led Tsunade, Shikaku, Kakashi, and others to Iron Fist Heavy Industries’ storage base and revealed a hundred-meter black ironwood beam.
• Kenya lifted the thousand-ton beam onto his shoulder using Armament Haki and immense strength.
• Kenya called for Zabuza and Haku to follow him, then set off toward the Land of Fire’s capital to visit the daimyo’s estate.

Senju Kenya charged into the Land of Fire’s capital carrying a hundred-meter blackwood pillar and demolished the daimyo’s palace defenses. He entered the throne hall and demonstrated his strength by snapping a pillar apart before the terrified daimyo.

• Kenya raced toward the daimyo’s palace with Zabuza Momochi and Haku struggling to keep up behind him.
• The palace guards fired heavy crossbow bolts at Kenya, but he crushed them with the blackwood beam and smashed through the White Tiger Gate.
• Kenya bulldozed through the palace grounds, scattering the samurai and destroying the structures in his path.
• Kenya planted the pillar in the plaza outside the throne hall, frightening the daimyo into falling from his throne.
• Kenya stepped into the hall and demonstrated snapping a pillar apart with his bare hands before the daimyo.

Kenya confronted the Land of Fire's daimyo over his decrees against Konoha and Iron Fist Heavy Industries. He snapped a massive black iron wood pillar with his bare hands, leaving the terrified daimyo to concede that Kenya would call the shots in Konoha.

• Kenya knocked out the daimyo's two retainer Jonin with Conqueror's Haki and rescued the daimyo from choking on a grape.
• Kenya questioned the daimyo about decrees accusing him of crimes and withholding Konoha's military funding, and the daimyo blamed the nobles who had fled Konoha.
• Kenya led the daimyo outside to inspect a hundred-meter black iron wood beam he had brought as a product test.
• Kenya used his strength and Armament Haki to snap the five-meter-thick beam in two, then smashed its upper half into the audience hall's marble steps.
• The daimyo wet himself and told Kenya that he would call the shots in Konoha.

Kenya forced the Land of Fire’s daimyo to accept a treaty granting the Senju Empire control over Konoha, tripling Konoha’s military funding, and directing infrastructure contracts to Iron Fist Heavy Industries. After the daimyo signed, Kenya eyed the imperial storehouses, suggesting he planned to claim more supplies.

• The daimyo blamed the pro-war officials for the decree against Konoha and begged Kenya to spare him.
• Kenya presented the daimyo with a treaty recognizing Senju rule over Konoha, tripling its military funding, and requiring the daimyo’s office to buy black iron wood from Iron Fist Heavy Industries.
• Kenya crushed granite to demonstrate his strength, and the frightened daimyo signed the treaty in blood and stamped it with the Nine Dragons Seal of State.
• The daimyo declared that Kenya would call the shots in Konoha, and Kenya took the treaty.
• Kenya looked toward the imperial household storehouses in the rear gardens as he prepared to claim more building materials.

Senju Kenya extorted the Land of Fire daimyo for treasures, five hundred million ryo, and doubled military funding, then returned to Konoha to celebrate. Meanwhile, Kakuzu and Hidan emerged near the border, setting the next threat in motion.

• Kenya invoked the treaty with the daimyo to demand sponsorship for Iron Fist Heavy Industries.
• The daimyo took Kenya into the imperial treasury, where Kenya claimed five hundred million ryo in gold certificates and selected rare treasures and medicinal herbs.
• Zabuza Momochi and Haku escorted the loaded treasure carriages out of the daimyo’s estate while the daimyo and his officials saw Kenya off.
• Tsunade and Konoha’s leaders prepared for the possibility that Kenya had killed the daimyo, but Kenya returned with the treasures and announced the daimyo had doubled military funding.
• Kakuzu and Hidan emerged from the shadows near the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers.