The Fateful Moonlit Battle

Tsukiyo lashes out at Kokuri with his shadow, and Mitsuki blocks it, prompting Sarada to liken the technique to the Nara clan's Shadow Imitation. Tsukiyo explains that a full moon lets his jutsu reach its peak, and he conjures shadow duplicates of the genin capable of copying their own techniques. Evenly matched against these doubles, the young ninja try to reach Tsukiyo directly, but the shadows keep cutting them off, and Kokuri sinks into despair. When prison guards stumble onto Benga's corpse and flip on the searchlights hunting escapees, Kokuri spots the key weakness: the shadows shy away from keeping their link to the genin under the beams. He shields Boruto from an attack while the team pieces together how the jutsu works.

Using a burst of dust from Sarada's ground strike as cover, the genin drive against both their shadows and Tsukiyo at once, buying Kokuri the moment he needs to reach a searchlight and dissolve the copies. Tsukiyo answers by drawing a Shadow Sword straight out of his own shadow, a blade that holds its shape even in the light.

Mitsuki and Sarada accelerate Boruto into Tsukiyo and knock him off the cliff, and the villain drags Kokuri down with him before both plunge into the ocean. Mitsuki holds Boruto back from the treacherous currents, and Kokuri resurfaces on his own, reporting that Tsukiyo had exhausted his strength and drowned. Prison guards then appear alongside Konoha shinobi led by Sai, who reveals that Naruto grew worried after contact with Mujo was lost and coordinated with Kusagakure. Sai adds that the whole escape was needless, since Kokuri's sentence had been illegally prolonged. The group leaves Hozuki Castle, restored to Mujo's command.

The episode is part of the Mujina Bandits arc in the Boruto anime and first aired in Japan on March 8, 2020. In a closing twist, Kokuri confirms his intel at the Konoha Police Force and departs under a new name, then reveals himself at a hideout as Shojoji, the true leader of the Mujina Bandits, who had worn Tsukiyo's identity to hunt him down and vows that luck will smile on him once more.