Beyond the Limits!

Boruto swarms Deepa with clones, but the carbon user swats them aside with ease, and Sarada's aerial assault fares no better once her kunai are turned away by a ring of dark cubes. Explosive tags and lightning-charged shuriken leave the man untouched, so Boruto begs Sarada to buy time while he builds a compressed Rasengan strong enough to break through. Nearby, Konohamaru trades elemental jutsu with Victor, who justifies his cruelty by casting ordinary people as fuel for their betters. The clash draws Orochimaru out of the shadows, though he comes not to rescue anyone but to reclaim the Hashirama cells stolen from him.

Orochimaru and Victor tear at each other in a grim exchange, each severing limbs the other simply regrows, until the sannin judges Victor's regeneration flawed and guesses the man craves the chakra fruit to restore what he has lost. Deepa keeps grinding down the young trio, nearly finishing Boruto before Mitsuki arrives to pull him clear and join the fight. Even so, Deepa shrugs off their combined techniques, and Sarada, pushed to her limit while vowing to become Hokage, awakens a second tomoe in her Sharingan.

Mia reaches the facility in time to see Victor's monstrous true shape as a copied God Tree begins to bloom. Ignoring every warning, Victor approaches it, and its tendrils drag him in while Orochimaru explains that mere humans cannot survive the fruit. The sannin and his clones then burn the imitation tree away behind a barrier. Enraged by the ruin of the plant, Deepa hardens his gauntlet into diamond and resolves to kill the genin outright, sealing himself in a black-and-white shell of carbon.

The finish belongs to teamwork: Mitsuki coils his arm around Boruto's and feeds in his senjutsu chakra, Sarada adds her own, and together they overwhelm Deepa, cracking his armor and body until falling debris buries him. The exhausted squad leaves the collapsing building with Konohamaru, Mia agrees to testify on their behalf, and Orochimaru departs after noting he has already alerted Naruto, leaving Team 7 relieved to be whole again. This installment belongs to the Kara Actuation arc, opens with Starting and Growing, closes with Central, and first aired in Japan on 22 November 2020.