Code

Boruto endures an interview about his part in saving the village, itching for it to end. In Amado's workshop, Katasuke and Sumire assist as he services Kawaki and walks through how he rebuilt the boy's arm, revealing that Sumire had volunteered for the task. Kawaki checks on Boruto at the Hokage Rock, where the two weigh what they now know. Kawaki floats a grim theory: if Boruto branded another person with a Kama, that person could host a resurrected Momoshiki instead of Boruto, and he nominates Code as the sacrifice. Boruto recoils at the idea of using someone else.

Amado briefs Naruto and Shikamaru on Code, the sole surviving Kara Inner, who was set to oversee the Ten-Tails. With no reliable path to that dimension left, the group learns Code can reach it through means beyond space-time ninjutsu. Amado warns that Code is unusual: he let his body be weakened so as not to overshadow Jigen, worshipped the Otsutsuki as gods, and envies Kawaki's standing as a true vessel.

Code reaches a facility run by Boro's cult, and when the guards bar him he slaughters them by conjuring and bursting from black claw-marks before walking inside. Amado admits he once built cyborgs stronger than Jigen but scrapped them on Jigen's orders, fashioning Koji Kashin in their place, and fears Code will come to strip the limiters from his body once he learns Isshiki has fallen. Naruto pushes for a Five Kage Summit to share what they have. Boruto, aware his father no longer carries Kurama, resolves to train harder. Inside the facility Code greets the Outer named Bug, reports the deaths of Jigen and Boro, and asks after Ada. Bug, unable to refuse, leads him to a containment unit holding Ada, described as one who knows everything in the world.

The chapter shares its name with the character it spotlights and opens the Code's Assault arc. It ran in V Jump and was collected in the fifteenth volume, with a Japanese release in May 2021. Viz retained the title Code.