After a gap of a month Kishimoto released the latest chapter of Naruto’s sequel manga on September 20th.
Fans witnessed boruto handcuffed behind his back using specially designed cuffs by Amado to seal off any jutsu including teleportation. The electronic cuffs were so hard that no amount of physical force could break them. Bouto who had become too strong during the timeskip to easily ward off foes like Code on his own found himself kind of paralyzed in front of his old squad leader and sensei along with head of Konoha’s intelligence division.
Boruto seemed more concerned about knowing the safety of his village and friends at first hand before beginning other conversation with interrogators. Konohamaru assured him that everybody was safe, including Himawari, Sarada and Ino-Shika-Cho trio.
Even Inojin was safe and completely healed who had got stabbed in the stomach during the fight with Jura. Well, which naruto fan can underestimate healing abilities of the 9 tailed beasts chakra? His chakra flow was still disrupted after the fight, preventing him from waking up from sleep, but Sakura was working on making the chakra flow smooth again. So there was no need to concern anybody for that matter.Boruto’s questioning started from asking about the enemies who attacked the village, and their intentions.
A little far, away Daemon was trying to bother Kawaki warning him about a scenario in which Boruto reveals everything about ‘him switching places with Kawaki using Omnipotence’ while Eida dissuaded Daemon’s words. Kawaki seemed carefree about boruto’s intentions who saw him only as a threat to the 7th hokage and his village. Kawaki only wanted him to reveal necessary details about new enemies to defeat them. Nearby, Mitsuki could be seen fallen into some thoughts .Maybe his last interaction with Boruto had some effect on his mind.
Boruto clarified some things about the Divine Tree people, explaining that all of their personalities were based on the people whom the Ten Tails had devoured. These monsters sought to devour people who were associated with their base models. He gave examples, such as Hidari (based on Sasuke), who was after Sarada, and Matsuri (based on Moegi), who was after Konohamaru, much to his surprise. Amado concluded that those monsters were mainly after information, which they gained by devouring people—a general trait of intelligent beings. Boruto agreed with this assessment. Boruto suggested that everyone focus their energy on defeating Jura, who, unlike the others, had no base model and was directly produced by the Ten Tails. He could be the main head behind their crisis. Ibiki, Konohamaru, Homura, and Koharu, unable to trust the words of a deemed traitor, became even more curious about the source of Boruto’s information, as it could all be a bunch of lies told by a prisoner. However, Boruto did not reveal anything about his source (Koji), telling the interrogators plainly that he had been asked not to reveal his identity to keep him safe from danger. Homura and Koharu warned Boruto that his death was certain, as he was a threat to the village. They could only make it painless if Boruto complied with their every condition.
Koharu even asked why he killed Lord Seventh. Boruto replied honestly that both Naruto and his wife were safe and still alive, without exposing anything about what Kawaki did to them, as requested by Lord Eighth, Shikamaru, who had decided to wait for the right time to reveal the truth.
Shikamaru was clearly seen struggling to trust Boruto due to the effect of Omnipotence. However, something inside him prevented Omnipotence from completely altering his true memory of the name ‘Boruto Uzumaki.’ He still believed that everything made sense if Boruto and Kawaki had truly switched places, and their memories had been altered.
As interrogators were getting more aggressive with their questioning, Shikamaru trying to take hold of the situation wanted to make contact with Boruto through Ino’s mind transmission jutsu. To that request, Ino declined after Shikamaru had pleded to her as a friend as Ino favored following the village’s law over breaking them for a friend’s request.
Up until now, Ibiki’s temper had reached its peak when Boruto was not ready to stop beating around the bush. Seeing Ibiki using brute force on Boruto, forced Shikamaru to give Ibiki the order to halt the interrogation process. Instead, he ordered them to use the aid of Mitsuki’s venom. Everybody was shocked and suggested that he change the plan.Konohamaru warned that Mitsuki might even kill their only source of intel in a single second, due the hate Mitsuki possessed for Boruto in his heart. To which Shikamaru was ready to take the chance.
All those of Kawaki’s side were amazed at Boruto’s resilience of not saying a word about Kawaki. Shikamaru gave a handshake to Mitsuki before he entered the room in which Boruto was being interrogated and guided him to do his duty while controlling his emotions.After entering the room,Konohamaru once again told mitsuki to control his emotions so that he did not mess up their chance of obtaining precious intel.
Before Mitsuki began, Boruto started mocking Mitsuki, which angered Mitsuki instantly and to the fear of their squad sensei, Mitsuki attacked Boruto .Ibiki was pulling Mitsuki back while Mitsuki’s snake did the job of unlocking the cuffs of Boruto secretly. Mitsuki even told Boruto the location of his stuff in his ears so that others cannot hear. To the shock of other interrogators Boruto informed the interrogator that he meant no harm to the village and the intel shared to them will be decided by him before teleportating out of the room.
While Ibiki was blaming Amado for his fake products , Konohamaru had already deduced the reality of the situation as he already knew that the four digit code was known only to him , Ibiki and Shikamaru. So he concluded that it must have been Shikamaru who gave that code to Mitsuki which he later confirmed from Mitsuki.
Shikamaru got scolded by Councillors for his inefficient decisioning which led to the escape of Boruto for which there will be real consequences to be faced from other villages.Just as trouble was bounding him , a call from Kankuro of Sand Village came which informed him about Gaara’s defeat and the devouring of Shinki by the Divine Tree. Finally we are able to see the face of newest member of Divine Tree people whose personality is revealed to be based on Gaara’s adopted son. A new name is given to him by Jura as ‘Ryu’.