Ada (chapter)

Code puzzles over why Boro never disposed of Ada and lays out to Bug his reasons for shielding Boro from Jigen. Bug doubts the scheme, warning that Code underestimates what Ada can do, since all Code truly grasps is her reputation for knowing everything that happens in the world. Told he cannot bend her to his will by force, Code pries open her chamber with his transformed arm, sure he can simply kill her should she resist. Across the map, Naruto and Shikamaru brief the other Kage on Code, on the portals Amado described, and on why the failed gateways suggest Code already knows of Amado's defection. Shikamaru spells out Code's aim of avenging Isshiki and raising a God Tree from a Ten-Tails. Darui vouches for Konoha yet balks at trusting Amado, and Naruto admits his own trust is only partial, extended on the strength of what the scientist has so far delivered.

Pressed by Gaara about whether Boruto or Momoshiki might grow into a second Isshiki, Naruto insists he is prepared to act as Hokage demands. Speaking privately with Amado, he learns the scientist once had a daughter, lost twelve years earlier, and is offered a drug that weakens the Byakugan. Because the Byakugan traces back to the Ōtsutsuki, Amado reasons that dulling it could stall Boruto's transformation, though he stresses the hazards and leaves the choice to Boruto alone. Meanwhile Ada wakes, brushes off Code's greeting, and dares him to make good on his threat to cut her throat. He cannot bring himself to do it. Bug explains she has already stolen Code's heart, one more of her gifts, and Ada dismisses her sight of everything everywhere as tedious, brightened only by rare oddities like Isshiki's death.

Ada details how her awareness leaps from place to place, reaching back only to the instant of her birth and never forward, so she predicted Code would seek release of his body's limiters. That requires Amado's iris scan and a voice command she does not know, and she notes the Transformation Technique cannot forge the scientific alterations to his eyes, which is why he fled to a shinobi village. She still means to kill him, hating him for stripping her of ordinary love since everyone falls under her spell whether or not they might have loved her naturally. Blood relatives and Ōtsutsuki are the only hearts beyond her reach, which explains why Kawaki and Boruto could love her freely. The chapter appeared in Boruto volume 15 under the Code's Assault arc, shares its name with the character Ada, and closes as she and Code toast their aligned ambitions.