Recaps

Tsunade learned that Jigen had been found alive in the Land of Rice Fields and ordered Konoha to observe him secretly while seeking a joint response from the Five Kage. The Canopy Screen then showed Boruto and Shikadai reaching Sunagakure, where Temari reunited with her son.

• Shizune reported that an ANBU observer had found someone nearly identical to Jigen at a remote temple in the Land of Rice Fields.
• Tsunade ordered nearby personnel to watch Jigen from a distance without approaching or revealing themselves.
• Tsunade requested an emergency Five Kage meeting, activated Konoha's S-rank Unknown Threat Response Plan, and secretly consulted strategists.
• The Canopy Screen showed Boruto and Shikadai approaching Sunagakure and marveling at its towering, fortified walls.
• Temari rushed to Shikadai at the village gate and hugged him, relieved that he and Boruto were safe.

Boruto and Shikadai arrived in Sunagakure, where Child Emperor showed them the village’s vast industrial district and helped Boruto order a custom Kurama doll. After meeting Gaara, they learned Sasori was usually away, and Gaara sent Child Emperor to take them to Sasori’s Desert Research Base.

• Temari thanked Shinki, Yeto, and Child Emperor for helping rescue Boruto and Shikadai, then sent the boys to meet Gaara.
• Boruto asked Jackie Chan to take the still-sleeping Uchiha girl to the hospital while he and Shikadai entered Sunagakure with the others.
• Child Emperor explained that Sunagakure had become a major industrial center by processing local mineral deposits and exporting goods across the Shinobi World.
• Boruto ordered a custom two-meter Kurama doll for Himawari through Child Emperor’s tablet.
• Gaara told Boruto and Shikadai that Sasori was usually away and instructed Child Emperor to take them to Sasori’s Desert Research Base.

Boruto, Shikadai, and Child Emperor learned that the unconscious girl’s condition baffled Sunagakure’s doctors, so they carried her to Sasori’s desert research base for help. They reached the outpost and gained entry, leaving the girl’s condition unresolved.

• Gaara sent Boruto and Shikadai away with Child Emperor while he questioned Temari, Shinki, and Yeto about Sasori.
• Child Emperor explained that Sasori stayed outside Sunagakure because of his past and personal choices, and the group detoured to the hospital to check on the girl.
• Jackie Chan told Boruto, Shikadai, and Child Emperor that the girl’s vital signs were faint but stable and that doctors could neither identify the cause nor wake her.
• Child Emperor suggested Sasori examine the girl, and Boruto and Shikadai thanked Jackie Chan before saying goodbye.
• Child Emperor arranged a mobile Life-Support Pod, and the three carried the girl from the hospital toward Sasori of the Red Sands’ desert research base.
• Child Emperor passed the outpost’s security checks, and its doors opened to admit the group.

Boruto brought the sealed Uchiha girl to Sasori’s base, where Sasori examined her and concluded that she was biologically dead despite her apparent heartbeat and breathing. He explained that her Mangekyō Sharingan had preserved her consciousness and was sustaining her decaying body, but left her fate unresolved.

• Boruto, Shikadai, and Child Emperor brought the Life-Support Pod into Sasori’s mechanized base.
• Child Emperor introduced Boruto to Sasori, and Boruto asked him to examine the unconscious girl.
• Sasori scanned the girl and used a diagnostic machine to examine her.
• Sasori told Boruto that the girl was already dead, and Boruto protested that her vital signs showed otherwise.
• Sasori explained that residual energy from the girl’s Mangekyō Sharingan was preserving her consciousness and producing faint signs of life.
• Sasori reflected that time had reduced even legendary figures such as Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and the Sage of Six Paths to dust.

Sasori explained that the girl's body was failing and offered either to preserve her consciousness as a digital life or have Orochimaru transfer her soul into a cloned body. When Boruto chose a real-world resurrection, Sasori challenged his certainty that the world was real and made the laboratory disappear around him.

• Sasori said the girl had survived for centuries through her Mangekyō Sharingan, though her body could collapse at any moment.
• Sasori offered to upload her soul and consciousness into a virtual world or have Orochimaru transfer her into a cloned body, warning that the latter could damage her soul.
• Boruto chose the cloned body because he wanted the girl to live in the real world.
• Sasori asked Boruto how he could prove his world was real and described a brain receiving perfectly simulated experiences.
• Sasori snapped his fingers, and the laboratory shattered around Boruto as darkness and flowing light filled his vision.

Boruto experienced a terrifying illusion of a world where his family and friends were trapped in the God Tree, then learned Sasori had been testing an immersive genjutsu device. After Boruto and Sasori agreed to prepare a way to ask the unconscious girl what she wanted, Boruto revealed the Red-Eyes Black Dragon card and raised the reason it had brought them to Sunagakure.

• Boruto saw a vision of himself cocooned in a God Tree world and watched Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi hang from its branches.
• Shikadai woke Boruto in Sasori's laboratory, where Sasori explained that the vision had been a test of his Miniature Genjutsu Resonance Device.
• Boruto suggested waking the girl's consciousness so she could choose between becoming a Digital Life and reincarnation, and Sasori agreed while warning of the risks.
• Boruto presented Sasori with his Red-Eyes Black Dragon card, and Sasori asked if their visit concerned how Boruto had summoned the dragon.

Boruto asked Sasori why he had summoned Red-Eyes Black Dragon in Kirigakure but could not summon him again. Sasori connected the card to an ancient Summoner civilization and revealed that its fall had been tied to a mysterious Savior.

• Boruto recounted how the card grew hot and a voice in his mind led him to summon Red-Eyes Black Dragon during the fight in Kirigakure.
• Sasori explained that his research into an ancient Ruins had uncovered records of Summoners who called Monsters from another world.
• Sasori said the Duel World existed independently of their world, and that Boruto had briefly opened a crack into it without forming a stable Contract.
• Boruto asked why the ancient Summoners had disappeared, and Sasori showed a mural depicting their civilization’s chaos and a figure called the Savior.

Boruto and Shikadai learned that the Millennium Items sealed ancient Sages and helped bar Monsters from the Duel World, and they suspected the Jashinist Cult planned to reopen the passage. Sasori secretly guarded the Millennium Necklace as the seals began to resonate, while Orochimaru recognized a kinship with Sasori’s obsession with overcoming time.

• Sasori explained that the Saint had driven Monsters back to the Duel World, sealed seven Sages in Millennium Items, and shut the passage between the worlds.
• Boruto remembered that Bakura had forced him to steal the Millennium Key in Iwagakure and suspected the Jashinist Cult intended to reopen the passage and release the Monsters.
• Boruto and Shikadai thanked Sasori and left the Main Laboratory with Child Emperor to consider what they had learned.
• Sasori opened a hidden safe and touched the Millennium Necklace, declaring that the chosen child had appeared and that the seals and the Evil God's shadow were stirring.
• Orochimaru watched the Canopy Screen, recalled his own fear of aging and death, and recognized Sasori as someone who understood his obsession with escaping time.

Orochimaru decided to leave the mystery of Sasuke’s Millennium Item alone while he pursued his immortality research. During Rasenshuriken training, Naruto asked Jiraiya whether their lives might be an enormous Genjutsu, leaving Jiraiya unsettled before he redirected Naruto toward training and immediate concerns.

• Orochimaru recognized the golden key Sasuke wore as a possible Millennium Item but chose not to investigate it yet.
• Naruto failed to stabilize the Rasenshuriken and took a break with an ice pop Jiraiya gave him.
• After hearing Sasori describe the Brain in a Vat on the Canopy Screen, Naruto asked whether their training and surroundings could be fake.
• Jiraiya struggled to answer Naruto’s question, then smacked him lightly and told him to focus on eating, resting, and training.
• Naruto set aside his doubts about the enormous Genjutsu and resolved to master the Rasenshuriken.

Tsunade learned that Jigen was heading toward Naruto and sent Konoha's forces and requests for allied aid to the eastern border. Jigen found Naruto and Jiraiya, impaled Jiraiya with Black Receivers, and left Naruto transforming under the Nine-Tails' influence.

• Shizune reported that Jigen had detected Konoha's surveillance and was racing toward the eastern border, near Jiraiya and Naruto.
• Tsunade ordered Konoha's Jonin, allied nations, the Barrier Team, and the Medical Team to prepare for Jigen's attack.
• Jigen appeared before Jiraiya and Naruto, declared that Naruto would become his adopted son, and demanded that Naruto call him Father.
• Jiraiya attacked Jigen with a Rasengan, but Jigen pierced him with six Black Receivers and knocked him unconscious.
• Naruto roared in grief and rage as Nine-Tails Chakra erupted from him, forming multiple tails and beginning to overwhelm his consciousness.

Teuchi revealed a terrifying power when he confronted Jigen to protect Naruto, trapping them both in his Infinite Void. Naruto was freed from Jigen’s restraints, but the confrontation remained unresolved inside the strange domain.

• Jigen pinned Naruto with Black Receivers and weakened his connection to Kurama, then ordered him to come along.
• Teuchi arrived with ramen and asked Jigen to release Naruto in exchange for a bowl.
• Jigen sensed something like a void in Teuchi and attacked him with Black Receivers, but an invisible barrier stopped them.
• Teuchi revealed his azure eyes and activated Domain Expansion: Infinite Void, transporting himself, Jigen, and Naruto into a vast blue space.
• Naruto found his restraints gone and his connection to Kurama restored, then asked Teuchi where they were.

Teuchi trapped Jigen in the Infinite Void and stopped Naruto from attacking him, then agreed to save the injured Jiraiya. He made Naruto promise to keep his power and the night’s events secret, while urging him to follow his own path and hold on to his dream.

• Jigen remained frozen in Teuchi’s Infinite Void, unable to act as its overwhelming information flooded his mind.
• Naruto tried to attack Jigen, but Teuchi stopped him and explained that Jigen’s slight twitch was only a faint instinctive resistance.
• Naruto praised Teuchi’s strength and asked him to save the badly injured Jiraiya, and Teuchi agreed on the condition that Naruto keep everything about the night secret.
• Teuchi told Naruto that power brought troubles and responsibilities, and explained why he chose to remain a ramen shop owner.
• Naruto promised not to reveal what had happened and affirmed that he would keep pursuing his dream of becoming the Seventh Hokage.

Teuchi defeated Jigen, healed Jiraiya, and left Naruto to explain his recovery. The next day, the Canopy Screen showed Boruto questioning whether his world was real, while Shikadai urged him not to dwell on it.

• Teuchi sealed Jigen inside his sleeve, released the domain, and returned with Naruto to the forest clearing.
• Teuchi used the Horse Talisman to heal Jiraiya and reminded Naruto of their agreement before vanishing.
• Naruto woke Jiraiya and claimed he had only been having a nightmare, leaving Jiraiya bewildered.
• The next day, the Canopy Screen showed Boruto worrying that he and his world might be part of the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Shikadai slapped Boruto on the back and asked whether it mattered if their world was real or fake.

After Shikadai helped Boruto accept that their feelings and bonds mattered even if their world was an illusion, the three headed to Sunagakure’s shopping street. There, Child Emperor challenged Shikadai to shogi, and their evenly matched game began.

• Shikadai argued that Boruto’s feelings, memories, and bonds were meaningful regardless of whether the world was real, helping Boruto shake off his doubts.
• Boruto said he was hungry and eager to return to Aunt Temari’s cooking, and Child Emperor offered to show the others around Sunagakure.
• The three reached a bustling shopping street filled with local shops, merchants, and travelers.
• Shikadai spotted a game parlor and revealed his interest in shogi, prompting Child Emperor to challenge him to a match.
• Shikadai and Child Emperor began playing with a finely made Sand Shinobi-style shogi set, and their opening moves produced an evenly matched game.

Shikadai and Child Emperor faced off in a slow, evenly matched shogi game while Boruto left to explore Sunagakure. After Yeto angrily sent him away from a music store, Boruto spotted Jackie Chan bargaining at an antiques stall.

• Shikadai told Boruto that Child Emperor was a worthy opponent and asked him to explore while the game continued.
• Boruto wandered through Sunagakure and found Yeto browsing albums at a music store.
• Boruto enthusiastically recommended music to Yeto, who snapped at him to stop bothering her and go away.
• Boruto left the music store and later spotted Jackie Chan bargaining with a stall owner over a dusty metal badge.

Boruto watched Jackie Chan bargain for an old Hyuga badge and learned about the abolished Main Family and Branch Family system. Jackie’s story about a rare Main Family badge reminded Boruto that he had once played with similar badges in Hyuga Hiashi’s room and lost one.

• Jackie Chan bought a worn badge from a Sunagakure stall owner for thirty thousand after bargaining it down from thirty million.
• Jackie Chan identified the badge as a Warring States-era Hyuga Branch Family badge bearing the Caged Bird mark.
• Jackie Chan explained that the Hyuga abolished the Caged Bird system after the Fourth Shinobi World War, and Boruto felt relieved that the custom had ended.
• Jackie Chan said a rare Main Family badge had sold on the Black Market for over thirty million, prompting Boruto to remember playing with badges at Hyuga Hiashi’s home as a child.
• Boruto recalled accidentally flicking one of Hiashi’s badges over a wall, while Hiashi had told him the loss was unimportant.

Boruto learned from Jackie Chan that the Hyuga Main House crests he had once used as marbles could be priceless, then reunited with Shikadai and Child Emperor after their chess match. As the three headed to a welcome dinner in Sunagakure, the rescued Uchiha girl remained under care in Sasori’s Desert Research Base.

• Jackie Chan explained antique values to Boruto, who realized that one of the Hyuga crests he had lost as a child might have been worth thirty million ryo or more.
• Jackie told Boruto that artifacts from before the Warring States Period could hold secrets and powers, making them valuable beyond money and likely to attract competing factions.
• Boruto said goodbye to Jackie and returned to the chess parlor, where Shikadai and Child Emperor reported that they had each won one game.
• Child Emperor told Boruto that the Kazekage and Teacher Kankuro had arranged a dinner to welcome them, and the three left for the Kazekage Building.
• At the Desert Research Base, the rescued Uchiha girl lay in a Life-Support Pod inside Sasori of the Red Sands’ main laboratory.

Sasori awakened an Uchiha girl with an unknown Mangekyō ability, but Urashiki arrived and used his Soul Fishing rod to seize her dormant power. Urashiki revealed he planned to direct her Yachihoko ability against Sasori’s existence.

• Sasori activated the girl’s awakening program, and her Mangekyō Sharingan opened before she slipped back into a stable sleep.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki entered the laboratory through a Space Rift and confronted Sasori.
• Sasori’s hidden weapons targeted Urashiki, but Urashiki hooked the sleeping girl and pulled at her crimson energy.
• Urashiki explained that the girl’s Yachihoko ability could impose what she recognized as true on another person.
• Urashiki said he would use his Kāma power and Soul Fishing rod to direct Yachihoko against Sasori’s very existence.

Urashiki used the Uchiha girl’s Mangekyō Sharingan to compromise Sasori’s core and spread a scarlet wave that put Sunagakure and Jackie Chan into a deep stupor. As Urashiki prepared to take Gaara’s head for Hidan, a maintenance robot unexpectedly confronted him and revealed that it knew about the Jashinist Cult.

• Urashiki used the Fishing Rod to trigger an intrusion into Sasori’s core, disabling the puppet and the Research Base’s systems.
• Urashiki cast Yachihoko: Heart Realm Descent, sending a scarlet wave through the base and across Sunagakure.
• Gaara, Temari, Boruto, Shikadai, and the others in the banquet hall received Yachihoko marks and fell unconscious.
• The wave spread across Sunagakure, putting its villagers and shinobi into a deep stupor, and also knocked Jackie Chan unconscious in his vehicle.
• Urashiki prepared to return to Sunagakure to take Gaara’s head and report to Hidan.
• A maintenance robot rose to block Urashiki and said that the Jashinist Cult was behind the attack.

Urashiki escaped the collapsing base after the revived robot overwhelmed his mind, while Sasori's last message entrusted the future to Boruto Uzumaki. Watching the vision, Chiyo accepted that she could not control Sasori's future choices and hoped he and Sunagakure would survive the coming calamity.

• The revived maintenance robot used its control over information to invade Urashiki's consciousness, marking him with Yachihoko and overpowering him.
• Urashiki opened an unstable Space Rift and escaped before the robot collapsed and the base fell silent.
• Sasori's remaining consciousness sent a final message naming Boruto Uzumaki as the one responsible for what came next.
• Chiyo watched the Canopy Screen and reflected on Sunagakure's past failures toward Sasori and the distance between him and the village.
• Chiyo acknowledged Sasori's extraordinary puppet-and-technology skills and left the future to Gaara and the younger generation.
• Chiyo hoped Sasori and Sunagakure would survive the approaching calamity.

Neji and Hinata watched the Canopy Screen reveal Hiashi's gentler future relationship with Boruto before Hiashi summoned them to discuss Urashiki and a hidden truth about the Hyuga clan. He began explaining why the Byakugan had endured alongside the Sharingan and Senju, but the chapter ended before he revealed the answer.

• Neji was shocked to see future Hiashi calmly accept Boruto losing a treasured Hyuga heirloom and remarked that Boruto had an easier life than Naruto.
• Hinata blushed at the future scenes of her family with Naruto and Boruto as Hyuga clan members watched her with curiosity and envy.
• A clan member summoned Neji and Hinata to meet Hiashi in the inner chamber.
• Hiashi asked what they thought of Urashiki and whether he was connected to the Hyuga clan or the Byakugan's source.
• Hiashi raised the disparity between the Byakugan and the Mangekyō Sharingan and began to disclose a secret known to few Hyuga.

Hyuga Hiashi revealed that the Byakugan could evolve into the Tenseigan and tasked Hinata and Neji with exploring their bloodline potential. The Canopy Screen then showed Boruto waking in a sealed stone prison with no clear memory of how he got there.

• Hyuga Hiashi told Neji and Hinata that ancient records named the Byakugan’s higher form the Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Hiashi explained that its awakening might depend on bloodline strength and could be related to the Caged Bird system.
• Hyuga Hiashi assigned Neji and Hinata to explore and temper their bloodline powers, and they accepted.
• The Canopy Screen showed Boruto waking on a stone slab inside a talisman-covered prison cell.
• Boruto recalled eating at the Kazekage Building and fighting Child Emperor before a flash of red light, then noticed an unfamiliar object on his chest as a voice called to him.

Boruto learned from Sasori that Sunagakure’s people were trapped in an illusory world and that defeating its ultimate rule-maker could save them. After Sasori’s hologram vanished, Boruto resolved to escape his cell and search for a way forward.

• Boruto activated a Digivice prototype and saw Sasori’s unstable hologram appear.
• Sasori told Boruto that Urashiki had trapped Sunagakure’s inhabitants in an illusory world and that their bodies would die if they remained there.
• Sasori said Boruto had to find and defeat the world’s ultimate rule-maker, then his hologram disappeared before explaining what Child Emperor would do.
• Boruto tried to revive the device, hid it in his clothes, and decided to escape the cell.
• Boruto inspected the cell’s iron door, walls, Talismans, and high air vent for a way out.

Boruto met Nameless in a sealed prison beneath the Uchiha compound and learned that she was imprisoned as a weapon during the Uchiha-Senju war. After Nameless healed his burned arms with her Mangekyō Sharingan, Boruto challenged her belief that being used and surviving was fortunate, leaving her to face his words.

• Boruto found Nameless in the prison beneath the Uchiha compound and tried to break out through the iron door.
• The Heavenly Prison Seal burned Boruto's arms, and Nameless warned him that resisting it could leave his hands useless.
• Nameless's Mangekyō Sharingan awakened and healed Boruto's arms with its strange power.
• Nameless explained that the Uchiha imprisoned her because her ability made her useful as a weapon in the war against the Senju Clan.
• Boruto realized he might have landed in the Warring States Period and condemned the way Nameless was treated.
• Boruto told Nameless that people should live freely and protect those they care about, not be used and discarded as tools.

Boruto and Nameless were imprisoned and sentenced to be sacrificed, while Boruto struggled to understand why a man with Uncle Jackie’s face treated him as a stranger. Shikadai, Shinki, and Yeto woke in another cell and wondered where Boruto and Child Emperor were.

• Jackie Chan called Boruto a Hyuga spy and said he and Nameless would be sacrificed the next morning.
• Jackie Chan left the prisoners two bowls of rice, and Boruto gave one to Nameless before forcing himself to eat his own.
• Nameless savored the rice while Boruto’s words about freedom and the sun stirred something within her.
• Shikadai woke in another cell, followed by Shinki and Yeto, and the three discovered they had been taken prisoner.
• Shikadai asked where Boruto and Child Emperor were and struggled to recall how they had ended up there.