Chapter Summaries

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.

Shinki, Yeto, and Shikadai found themselves trapped in a sealed prison guarded by Jonin, until Child Emperor fought his way in and freed them. He began explaining that their minds were trapped in a virtual reality or massive Genjutsu Barrier, while their real bodies were likely unconscious.

• Shinki examined the barred cell door and sensed that his Chakra was being suppressed, while Yeto detected at least a dozen Jonin-level guards and a powerful seal locking down the entire cell.
• Shikadai urged the others to stay calm and learn where they were, but an explosion above them sent the guards rushing into battle.
• Yeto sensed the guards' numbers rapidly dwindling, though she could not detect the attacker’s Chakra as the fighting moved toward their corridor.
• Child Emperor arrived with a mechanical backpack and rotary guns, then used powered saws to cut through the sealed iron bars and free Shinki, Yeto, and Shikadai.
• Child Emperor told them their minds were trapped in a virtual reality or massive Genjutsu Barrier and that their real bodies were probably unconscious.

Child Emperor explained that the group was trapped in a virtual game and had to find Boruto and defeat the final boss to return to their bodies. As they searched the prison for Boruto, an unknown fighter destroyed Child Emperor’s scout robots, and the group found him examining the wreckage.

• Child Emperor told Shikadai, Shinki, and Yeto that Boruto was the game’s protagonist and that they needed to find him and defeat the final boss.
• Child Emperor explained that strong belief might grant powers in the virtual world, but Shinki and Yeto failed to summon their abilities.
• Child Emperor used his scout robots to track Boruto deeper into the prison.
• The scout robots’ signals vanished, and Child Emperor concluded that a fast and powerful fighter had destroyed them.
• Shikadai, Shinki, Yeto, and Child Emperor found a figure crushing a scout robot and examining it while wondering about its chakra-less design.

Child Emperor revealed that the Jackie Chan they encountered had been overwritten by the prison world's rules and warned that they had to defeat him to reach Boruto. As the group prepared to fight, Uchiha Jackie Chan suddenly attacked Child Emperor.

• Shikadai recognized Jackie Chan, but Child Emperor identified the Sharingan in his eyes as proof that the man had been alienated into a prison-area guard.
• Child Emperor explained that they needed to defeat Jackie Chan, while Boruto's death in the virtual world could doom the extraction plan and the people involved.
• Shikadai, Shinki, and Yeto struggled with the thought of fighting their former ally, then accepted the need to protect Boruto and clear the obstacle.
• Child Emperor assigned the group roles for the battle, with Shikadai stalling Jackie Chan, Shinki and Yeto seeking openings, and Child Emperor providing support.
• Uchiha Jackie Chan rushed the group and launched a powerful side kick at Child Emperor.

Jackie Chan fought Shikadai, Yeto, Shinki, and Child Emperor, overpowering their coordinated attacks with Susanoo and Amaterasu. Shikadai briefly stirred a flicker of confusion in Jackie Chan, but Child Emperor explained that the world's rules had overwritten his consciousness.

• Yeto shielded Child Emperor from Jackie Chan's kick, then restrained Jackie Chan with Nen while Shikadai bound him with Shadow Imitation Technique.
• Shinki attacked with Iron Sand Drizzle, but Jackie Chan awakened Susanoo to block the spikes and used Amaterasu against Child Emperor.
• Shinki shielded Child Emperor with iron sand and severed his Chakra connection before Amaterasu could spread further.
• Jackie Chan broke Yeto's Nen restraint and Shikadai's shadow technique, leaving both unable to fight.
• Shikadai called out to Jackie Chan, briefly prompting confusion before the Sharingan's cold glow returned.
• Child Emperor injected Shikadai and Yeto with medicine and explained that the world's rules had overwritten Jackie Chan's consciousness.

Child Emperor used Hellhound to hold Jackie Chan back while the others reached Boruto’s cell and freed him. Boruto offered Nameless a chance to escape with them, but she refused, insisting that her fate was to fight for the Uchiha.

• Child Emperor assembled Hellhound, which attacked Jackie Chan and briefly pinned him down.
• Child Emperor, Shikadai, Shinki, and Yeto hurried toward the prison’s lower levels while Hellhound fought Jackie Chan.
• Boruto heard the battle and called out to Shikadai, whose group cut open his cell door and freed him.
• Boruto saw Nameless in the corner and held out his hand, asking her to come with them.
• Nameless refused and said she was destined to fight for the Uchiha, but Boruto rejected her claim that fate decided her path.

Boruto persuaded Nameless to reject her life as an Uchiha weapon and take his hand, but Jackie Chan confronted the group and demanded that she return to the clan. Nameless trembled under the pressure of his words as the group faced the Uchiha warrior in the corridor.

• Boruto denounced the Uchiha clan for imprisoning Nameless and urged her to choose a life of her own.
• Nameless seized Boruto's hand, and he pulled her out of the shadows as Shikadai agreed to lead the group onward.
• Yeto caught the severed head of Child Emperor's Hellhound robot before it struck the group.
• Jackie Chan emerged from the corridor, having defeated the robot, and demanded to know why Nameless had sided with outsiders.
• Jackie Chan ordered Nameless to honor her Uchiha identity, and she trembled under the pressure of his demand.

Boruto defended Nameless from Jackie Chan’s accusations, while Child Emperor identified Jackie Chan as a Kage-level Taijutsu fighter and tried to stop his approach. As Jackie Chan advanced through a barrage of bullets, Child Emperor handed Shikadai a box of Scientific Ninja Tools and ordered him to protect Boruto and escape.

• Boruto stood between Jackie Chan and Nameless, rejecting the accusation that she had betrayed her clan and declaring her his companion.
• Child Emperor analyzed the combat data and warned that Jackie Chan’s Sharingan-assisted Taijutsu was at least Kage level.
• Child Emperor fired his Metal Gatling Storm, but Jackie Chan dodged and deflected the bullets as he moved closer.
• Child Emperor stopped firing and gave Shikadai a box of unfinished Scientific Ninja Tools, ordering him to protect Boruto and get him out.

Child Emperor used the Wind Eagle Armor to hold off Jackie Chan while Boruto and the others escaped the prison, which collapsed with Child Emperor still inside. The Canopy Screen then showed Jackie Chan deflecting gunfire, prompting Might Guy to tell Lee that opening the sixth Eight Gate and undergoing intensive training could bring his physical abilities close to Jackie Chan’s.

• Child Emperor fused with the Wind Eagle Armor and charged Jackie Chan, telling Boruto and the others to escape.
• Child Emperor and Jackie Chan traded blows in the prison corridor as the clash damaged its walls.
• Shikadai, Shinki, Yeto, and Boruto escaped through a stone door, and the prison collapsed behind them with Child Emperor inside.
• Boruto cried out for Child Emperor at the rubble, but the Canopy Screen went dark without showing what had happened to him.
• At Konoha’s Third Training Ground, Lee and Might Guy watched Jackie Chan deflect Gatling fire on the Canopy Screen.
• Might Guy told Lee that training to open the sixth Eight Gate could bring his physical abilities close to Jackie Chan’s.

Guy explained to Lee how technique and strength formed different paths in Taijutsu, inspiring Lee to train harder. At Ichiraku, Naruto thanked Teuchi for an unspecified favor and rushed off excitedly, while Jiraiya briefed Tsunade about the border incident.

• Guy explained that the fighter on the Canopy Screen relied on precise technique, experience, and control, unlike the Eight Gates' explosive strength.
• Guy told Lee that overcoming such a fighter would require opening at least the seventh gate or developing a better balance between strength and technique.
• Lee asked Guy to train him harder, and they doubled their workout with fifty laps of upside-down frog jumps around Konoha.
• Naruto watched Boruto encourage Nameless on the Canopy Screen, and Teuchi recalled Naruto's childhood dream of becoming Hokage.
• Naruto thanked Teuchi for helping him before, mistook Teuchi's offer of help for agreement to an unstated request, and hurried out of Ichiraku.
• Jiraiya gave Tsunade a detailed account of the border incident inside the soundproofed Hokage's Office.

Jiraiya told Tsunade that Jigen had incapacitated him and that someone had secretly restored him and erased the evidence. Tsunade decided to conceal the incident and prepare Konoha for future threats, while the Canopy Screen showed a group of Uchiha warriors ambushing Boruto’s group.

• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Jigen had appeared while pursuing Naruto, defeated him effortlessly, and left him unharmed after an unknown person intervened.
• Tsunade decided not to investigate the unknown guardian and ordered the encounter classified as a secret known only to her and Jiraiya.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya to keep quiet and watch Naruto while Konoha used the Canopy Screen’s warnings to prepare for future dangers.
• The next day, the Canopy Screen showed Yeto blocking poisoned kunai with a Psychic Barrier as dozens of Uchiha warriors appeared among the trees and targeted Boruto’s group, especially Nameless.