Awakening

An earlier memory shows a frail Kawaki moving through a Kara compound under the watch of Garo, a handler he dreads. The boy has survived losing his arms only because Kara fitted him with replacements, and Garo marvels that the process left him whole. When Kawaki says he wants out, Garo turns cruel, reminding him that no family waits beyond the walls. As Garo readies to hurt him, the boy's Kama flares to life and badly wounds the man, while Amado hails the experiment a triumph and Koji looks on in silence.

In the present, Delta grows impatient as Jigen calmly eats, uneasy that Koji has yet to bring back the vessel. Jigen recreates the meal he overturns and insists the vessel will come to them, allowing Delta to check on the mission so long as she defers to Koji. She enlists Garo and heads for the Land of Fire. Meanwhile the Konoha shinobi realise the wounded boy carries the same Kama as Boruto, both of whom feel the seal ache at the same moment.

Kawaki jolts awake reliving the day his father handed him to Jigen, energy exploding outward as he demands to know whether the group are Kara hunters. Konohamaru names them as leaf shinobi, but Kawaki refuses to trust them, especially once he spots Boruto's matching mark. Garo then bursts in to reclaim the vessel, confirming for the shinobi that Kawaki is what Kara wants, and the two begin trading blows and insults.

This Boruto entry adapts chapter 24 and belongs to the Kawaki Arc. It fills in the origin of the boy's Kama and his fear of Kara, while positioning Delta, Garo, Koji, and Jigen as the forces closing in on him. The shared pain felt by Kawaki and Boruto foreshadows the bond and rivalry that will grow between them.