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The strongest villain has finally arrived, and let’s just say that Boruto isn’t taking any chances. We got to see Uzuhiko once again in all its glory, but sadly, it wasn’t enough. Jura has a way to counter it, which is very interesting—and we’re going to get to that, of course. But first, we’re going to start from the top.

So, the person on the cover for Boruto Two Blue Vortex Chapter 22 is Boruto himself, and the title is Jura. The chapter picks up with a Thorn Soul Bulb hovering above the battlefield. Mitsuki tells Araya that he will handle the Claw Grimes and that Araya should take the bulb straight to Shinki. That’s when Jura pops up on the battlefield using the claw mark on said Claw Grimes, which causes Mitsuki to start panicking. He then notes that Jura matches the description of the Divine Tree boss known as Jura.

But Araya wonders what he’s doing here since he doesn’t seem interested in the Thorn Soul Bulb. That’s because, instead of going after the bulb itself, Jura flies up into the sky, seemingly looking for someone. This, of course, is very perplexing, given the fact that the Thorn Soul Bulb will start to rot if they don’t use it very quickly. So Jura’s indifference to the bulb implies that he doesn’t care if Ryu perishes—or that something else is a higher priority.

What’s also interesting is that he seemingly looks at Sarada—not Mitsuki, not Araya, but specifically Sarada—for some reason. I believe this ties into Jura’s entire philosophy as it pertains to love. And people don’t realize this, but he was watching the entire time—not just the Matsuri fight, but also through the eyes of Ryu. It’s possible that he’s also able to hear what people are saying as well. If that is true, Jura knows there’s some deep connection between Sarada and Boruto, based on her conversation with Yodo. So I think we might see a case where Jura leverages this against Boruto to get what he wants from him—not to kill him, because Jura doesn’t need help to do that, as we’re going to learn later on—but to get the information he wants, which Boruto obviously isn’t going to give up.

Now then, we skip over to Boruto speaking to Konohamaru, and it appears that Matsuri is out for the count. It seems like the damage done by cutting her into tiny pieces was enough to turn her into a Thorn Soul Bulb. So, you don’t need to vaporize the Shinju totally, as was done to Hidai—you just need to do significant damage to them.

Now, Mr. Konohamaru—the next Hokage, you know—is surprised by Boruto’s prowess, being able to cut up Matsuri instantly without much difficulty. But Boruto tells him that she was pretty beat up. “Okay, this isn’t just me flaunting my palm, not that strong. She was just a tad bit weakened.” Although, this might be Boruto being a bit modest, it could also be the case that it’s true and he might have had trouble with a full-power Matsuri. I guess we’ll never know.

But Matsuri’s Thorn Soul starts to form. You see the dust particles coming together—but that’s when something happens. It seems like some shot was fired and a hole appears behind them. Boruto tells him it’s a miniature Bijuu Bomb sniper shot. Now, of course, this refers to Jura’s ability to fire off his Bijuu Bomb from a very long distance. But Jura isn’t Steph Curry, so hitting the target from that distance isn’t that easy, as he himself points out.

He then flies off toward Konohamaru. Boruto tells him he needs to take the bulb and leave. But, of course, Konohamaru being Konohamaru—what can I say?—he’s not listening to Boruto Uzumaki. He keeps questioning what Boruto tells him and is being stubborn. He says something interesting—it seems kind of simple, doesn’t seem like it means much—but he doesn’t get to finish what he’s about to say. I’m not sure if it’s him wrestling with the idea that Boruto might be one of the good guys, or maybe he was going to say something else. I’m not sure. But I do think it makes more sense that he was going to say something good about Boruto, at least.

But it’s too late—Jura is already here. He fires one of his Bijuu Bombs and blows up the entire area. But, of course, Boruto is able to grab him and fly off before, you know, he’s killed. Boruto then throws him to the ground, and he finally realizes what’s going on. His brain starts to work again, and he runs off with the Thorn Soul in the opposite direction of Jura. Even so, it’s in an open area, so it’s not like he can hide from him. Jura does see him, but before he can do anything—if he was going to do anything—Boruto teleports behind him and slams him in the back with a direct hit from his Rasengan.

And as if Boruto simply poked him with his pinky finger, Jura seems totally unfazed. He does, of course, obey the laws of physics, but he doesn’t seem to be damaged. He then reacts to him and fires off a Bijuu Bomb at near point-blank range. Boruto teleports using FTG once again, appears behind him, and then swipes at him using his sword. Jura blocks the attack with a single finger—as if it were nothing—which surprises Boruto.

Jura then notes that flying right in is very impressive, and goes on to say that it’s a bad habit. But fighting a strong opponent like Boruto makes his heart dance with joy.

We then skip over to Eida and Kashin Koji having a conversation. Eida tells him that it seems as if Boruto is holding his own quite well. Does he really have no chance against Jura? Kashin Koji then says yes, he doesn’t. That’s right. There’s no way he can win with the current sequence of events.

Eida then says that he’s in a pinch—he needs to teleport away. But Kashin Koji then says something interesting. He says that he can’t, even if he wants to. He goes on to note that long-distance Flying Raijin is very tricky. Boruto’s teleportation depends on him sensing chakra-marked objects, and these are harder to detect the farther away they are—even more so while facing a superior opponent who’s about to get him. So pretty much all he’s saying is that Boruto needs to really focus to teleport to something that’s far away. And because he can’t really focus on doing that—since he’s in an active fight—it’s going to be hard for him to teleport away from the battlefield. He can teleport to the objects that are on the battlefield, but not to get away from Jura, which makes sense.

He also then goes into the entire love thing once again, which Jura also mentions. He says that that’s not all. If Boruto flies away right now, he puts the others in danger. And of course, Jura would retrieve the bulbs of Matsuri and Ryu. So, Boruto is thinking that he needs to keep Jura engaged until Konohamaru, Sarada, and the others can get to somewhere safe.

So without a doubt, Boruto is done for—at least according to Kashin Koji. But of course, Kashin Koji hasn’t read Shonen before, so we obviously know more than he does.

Now, Jura then flexes on Boruto, saying, “I believe you know this already, Otsutsuki Boruto, but I have come here to kill you because, starting with the thorn soul bulbs, for whatever reason, you seem to know way too much about us Divine Trees. How you happen to be so knowledgeable about us, given our recent emergence, is a huge question to me. Is your intel source the accomplice who is aiding you?”

“You don’t intend to answer?” Boruto then notes to himself that it seems that Rasengan didn’t do too much damage, so he needs to pull out the Uzuhiko.

Jura then says, “Well then, the next question is out of pure curiosity—what is love? My current opinion is that it’s a concept that can be a fatal weakness for you humans. A flaw that is a side effect of being highly intelligent. Take you, for example. I suspect you know how minuscule your chance of winning against me is, and yet you still came here to save your friends. In other words, love has lured you here to your place of death.”

Which, I mentioned in the prior article, shows that Jura is obviously watching Boruto to see if he’s also susceptible to the weakness that is love. And I also pointed out that I don’t think he sees Boruto as human because he refers to him as Otsutsuki. But in this panel right here, he does say “you human.” So clearly, you know, I’m reading too much into him calling him Otsutsuki. So, I was wrong about that.

Now, Jura tries to capture Boruto using Wood Release, but Boruto dodges it by flying up into the sky. However, Jura spawns more behind him using the column of rocks that surrounds him. Boruto then chops off a piece of it, but then Jura spawns more wood from the piece of wood Boruto just cut off—from the wood that spawned from the column.

Anyways, Boruto realizes that he can’t get a chance to put his feet on the ground to charge his Uzuhiko, which is a requirement to use the ability. Boruto then gets hit by another piece of wood, which causes him to lose handle of his katana. He then falls to the ground, and Jura impales him using Wood Release once again, and Boruto starts to cough up blood.

Now, there are two ways to interpret what just happened. One way is to say that Boruto allowed himself to get hit—which is why I said “in that case”—because he realizes that he can’t get the time to do it himself to charge Uzuhiko. So, he feels like if he allows himself to get captured by the Wood Release, that would give him time to charge it. And this somewhat reminded me of when Naruto used this tactic to absorb more nature energy when Pain held on to him. And even when he couldn’t land his Rasengan on Kabuto, so he allowed him to stab him and grabbed onto him to then, of course, land his Rasengan.

So, it seems that that’s what Boruto did here, which is a very costly tactic because it does require you to get held by your enemy or get hurt to some degree. And it could have also resulted in Boruto literally getting killed if he was impaled in a vital organ or something. So, it’s like a last resort sort of tactic.

Then you have the second interpretation, which is that Boruto was going to use some secret technique, and he just didn’t get to use it because he was then hit by the wood—which is also possible, very plausible—though I do think the first one, you know, makes more sense and that is likely what happened.

Now, Jura then looks at Boruto’s sword, and Boruto tells him that that’s a precious object he borrowed from his master. If he does anything to it, he’ll face a fate worse than death—which I would like to see what that fate is. That would be pretty cool. But of course, Boruto is just trying to buy time to give himself some amount of time to charge. He is trying to, you know, chat up Jura.

Now, Jura then picks up the item and says, “So yet again, you shall come to suffer thanks to love.” He then seems like he’s about to break it and says, “How about this? Simply tell me where your accomplice is, and this blade can retain its original form. Although either way, I will still be killing you afterwards.”

And of course, this goes back to what I said earlier. If Jura is willing to threaten to break a sword that Boruto got from his master to then threaten him to get the information that he needs, why wouldn’t he also threaten to kill someone Boruto cares about? For example, Sarada. So, I think that’s going to happen soon. I want you to be prepared. Okay, I’m not sure if she’s going to die—I’m not saying that—but it’s a high probability that he does do something to Sarada. I guess we’ll see.

And also, typically in most known forms of fiction, when there’s time travel and change in the future and all that stuff, and predestined fates, when a character is destined to die at a certain point in the timeline and they somehow subvert fate itself, fate normally takes someone else as a replacement. So, it might seem a tad bit cliché, but it might happen. I guess we’ll see. Maybe it’s Mitsuki. Who knows?

Now, Boruto then tells Jura that he might be right about love being a flaw and a weakness of humans. But—and this is my opinion—that is precisely why he will never be more than just trees.

That’s when Boruto activates Uzuhiko, breaking free from the wood release that surrounds or encases him. He then activates Flying Raijin, teleporting behind Jura because, of course, Jura has his sword, and his sword is also imbued with his chakra to teleport toward. So, Boruto teleports behind him, then lands Uzuhiko directly in Jura’s back—or his behind.

Jura once again obeys the laws of physics and gets knocked away, but he doesn’t seem to be in pain. He recovers from the attack pretty easily, but he seems to be affected by the status effect of Uzuhiko, which causes one to experience a severe case of vertigo. Jura then touches his chest and says, “This power…” and that’s when it seems like he was able to dispel the ability.

Boruto is then, of course, shocked by this, and Jura says, “I see. It seems to follow principles similar to my Bijuu bombs—hence I was able to nullify it.” Boruto says, “Damn, it doesn’t work on him,” and that’s where the chapter ends.

Now, this part is really interesting, but I think there’s a very simple explanation behind it, and that could be the fact that Minato created the Rasengan itself using the principles of the Bijuu bomb. So, Jura could simply sense that the power coursing within his body was following a similar principle to that of his Bijuu bombs and was able to apply his knowledge of that onto the ability to negate it.

Though there might be something else going on here, because I do wonder if the Bijuu bombs themselves were created using the principle of the planet’s rotation—because that is the energy that the Ten Tails feeds on, right? So, it should understand that instinctively. So, since Uzuhiko also uses that energy—that power—because the rotation that causes vertigo is the planet’s rotation, Jura would be able to negate it because the Bijuu bombs follow that concept.

And I always wondered why, when the Tailed Beasts use a Bijuu bomb—even Naruto in four-tailed state—they always seem to suck in energy from the atmosphere. I don’t know if you, reader, always noticed that. When the blue and the black and the red bubbles pull towards it, it’s like they’re taking energy from the atmosphere itself. And maybe that is the same rotational energy that Boruto is absorbing into Uzuhiko.

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