Musical Chairs

Between trials, Batta is eaten up by guilt over the civilians she killed to keep herself and Fugō alive, and she pushes away Yatsume's sympathy while snapping at Shamo and at Boruto when he preaches teamwork. Kiseru stays coolly amused, warning her off any move against him with a flash of his Fire Release, only for Batta to taunt him for tipping his hand until Namua and Boruto settle the room.

To pass the wait, Yatsume asks everyone what they would do if they walked out alive. Her own wish is to finally dye her hair. Boruto wants to grow into the kind of shinobi his teacher Sasuke is, Shamo hopes to please his grandmother, and Fugō is desperate to hand a payment to a client with his company on the line. Namua claims no dream at all, and when Rokuro spots the prison mark on his arm, he admits to a violent, thieving past that left him paranoid until a priest he could not kill turned him toward an ascetic life. Batta at first refuses to talk, but Yatsume catches her saying she needs money rather than wants it.

Ōga appears and lets Kiseru choose the next game, "Pressure," which even Ōga calls the cruelest so far. When Shamo hits a switch hoping for light, the ceiling begins descending. Yatsume's lightning chains snap under the weight and Boruto's Rasengan does nothing. More switches only add whirling saws and spikes, though wall alcoves finally open where the group can shelter. Boruto douses Kiseru's dangerous flames with Water Release and notices the water draining away, proving there is empty space beneath the floor. With Batta pinpointing the floor's weakest point like a cutter scoring a diamond, Boruto strikes through it, and the sunken room gives everyone just enough clearance to survive the collapsing ceiling.

Batta finally confesses her true motive: she means to buy back the homeland that wealthy developers seized for a resort, which is why she framed the money as a need. Afterward Fugō is shown carrying not cash in his briefcase but a family photo and a canteen. Batta quietly tells Boruto that Ōga likely has another plant among them, producing a working communication device she lifted from someone who hid it rather than call for outside help, and she whispers the culprit's name. Meanwhile in Konoha, Sarada and Kawaki cross-reference the Thunder Train's passenger manifest against village files and identify one traveler with a murky background as a former Kara Outer: Kiseru.