Reunion with Mitsuki

A stranger who calls himself Kokuyo squares off against Boruto, Sarada, and Shikadai, who realise he has already downed several shinobi. Determined to push through to Mitsuki, the genin engage, only to be caught off guard by the speed of Kokuyo and his artificial Akuta. Boruto screens Shikadai's technique behind shadow clones, yet Kokuyo slips past and picks off the last clone with a thrown tonfa. Boasting that raw power, not ninjutsu, is his strength, he presses the trio hard until a combined effort lets Boruto crush an Akuta with a Rasengan.

When Kokuyo outpaces even Sarada's Sharingan and triggers a rockslide, Chocho and Inojin arrive, having doubled back after finding fallen Leaf shinobi, and Chocho buries the enemy under a boulder. Shikadai stays behind with the two to handle Kokuyo and sends Boruto and Sarada onward. Elsewhere Sekiei leaves Mitsuki under Akuta guard and moves to intercept the pair, hurling an explosive butterfly of clay whose secret Sarada quickly reads. Boruto summons Garaga, but the great serpent flings him off and refuses to fight for him.

As the others struggle to seal the relentless Kokuyo, Boruto insists to Sekiei that he and Mitsuki are friends, admitting the claim is his own to make and treating it as reason enough to chase after him. Garaga finally intervenes to shield Boruto and turns his fury on Sekiei, who suddenly weakens, but Boruto's opening strike is blocked by Mitsuki himself. Mitsuki tends to Sekiei, restates his choice to side with the Iwagakure shinobi, and answers Boruto's offer of his forehead protector with a bolt of Snake Lightning. Judging Mitsuki loyal and Boruto not worth finishing, Kokuyo departs with them as Boruto cries out and collapses. The episode is part of the anime-original Mitsuki's Disappearance Arc.