BORUTO'S SEARCH FOR THE GHOST AND BORUTO VS THE MASKED MAN! Boruto, Shikadai and Mitsuki continue trying to hunt down the mysterious shadow figure AKA ghost that keeps possessing innocent people but they keep missing their chance and the amount of victims only increases and every single victim has had their chakra extracted at least to some extent. Shino assigns all of the students work placements for some experience and Boruto, Shikadai and Mitsuki work as mailmen. Despite work getting in the way, Boruto is extremely determined to track down the shadow figure before his own father catches it. Sumire, one of Boruto's classmates, gets injured after a disaster strikes in the place she was working in caused by the shadow figure. Everyone visits Sumire in the hospital and Boruto apologises to her for not being there. Meanwhile, Sai makes a theory that the shadow figure might be someone from Danzo's foundation and was using Hashirama's cells to gather chakra from their victims. Boruto gets help from the other students to be at all areas of the village to track down the shadow figure. In the end, Boruto's boss gets possessed by the shadow figure and Boruto finally goes face to face with the man who has been controlling the shadow figure the whole time. The masked man makes Boruto's boss attack the others but both Boruto and Iwabe punch their boss to release the shadow figure. The shadow figure disappears.
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