Cliff Notes for Boruto Chapter 14
Boruto wakes up in the interrogation chamber with Konohamaru and Ibiki. They've put jutsu sealing cuffs on him so he can't teleport away. We see Inojin is doing okay. Himawari healed him almost perfectly with zero medical school training. I hope she gets to be Sakura's apprentice, but that's probably anime-episode material.
Meanwhile, Daemon taunts Kawaki about what he's going to do if Boruto tells the truth about Omnipotence. Kawaki says he'll kill Boruto if that happens. He'll also kill Boruto if he stays quiet. Kawaki's solution to every problem is fratricide.
Boruto is doing an exposition speedrun about the Ten Tails and their goals. He claims Naruto and Hinata are still alive, and Konoha's elders threaten to kill him for lying.
Ibiki then tries to torture the truth out of Boruto by punching him. You'd think a city ninja government with mind readers and shape shifters would have more sophisticated means of extracting intel.
Shikamaru watches the interrogation unfold. He knows he has to save Boruto, but not specifically why. Omnipotence really does give people goldfish memories I guess.
He asks Ino to do him a favor and patch him in to Boruto. Ino, who is standing over her comatose son's body, says she's not going to play telephone with a terrorist anymore.
So Shikamaru calls in Mitsuki, with the excuse that snake venom is more painful than punching. He slips Mitsuki the secret passcode for Boruto's cuffs. Mitsuki rushes in and pretends to attack Boruto, and one of his snakes boops the passcode into the cuffs with his little snake snout. Boruto then teleports to safety.
Everybody then turns around and yells at Shikamaru for his 'mistake'. Mitsuki is immediately forgiven because nobody expected him to be emotionally stable. A short while later, Shikamaru gets a call from his brother in law. Kankuro says "Hey, sorry to bother you, but Gaara and his son Shinki both got that 'tree affliction'. Do you mind sending one of your protagonists over to help us out? I don't want to be like you and end up a placeholder Kazekage for the next three years."
We then get introduced to Shinki's tree clone, Ryu. And he's already wearing a spiky goth uniform with an ab window like all his tree friends. Good for him.














