Mitsuki… Mitsuki…
Mitsuki! Mitsuki!
Mitsuki!
You're still a child right now, so you may not understand yet…
But I know you'll eventually see it!
You need to stop Orochimaru!
Mitsuki, he's trying to deceive you because you're still a child!
Come to me.
Hey! Mitsuki!
Mitsuki…
Mitsuki!
Now…
Since I'm just a kid…
…all that doesn't really matter to me.
As for anything to do with me, I'll decide for myself!
So even I…can dream…
The Hardest Rock in the World
Huh?! You've never had a dream before this?
No.
You really are strange, you know that?
So… What am I supposed to choose?
It doesn't mean anything unless you make the choice.
For once, you said you wanted to eat something.
That's why we're keeping you company.
Hey, can you hurry up and decide?
I've been waiting, you know?
So you're having the same thing I am?
I want what you want.
Can you not smile like that when you say stuff like that?
You're so honest, Mitsuki.
Don't you ever feel like rebelling?
Rebelling?
Yeah, like when you just want to go against your parent?
I guess I don't ever feel like that.
Hey!
Hey, you're late,
you—?
Inojin, your shoulder…
Sorry, can we not talk about it.
Listen… This one's a masterpiece.
Yesterday, we had a mission at a poultry farm.
Hey, look!
An egg! I wonder if it was just laid?
An omelet or sunny-side up?
You gonna eat it, Chubs?!
What?
This egg's…
And the chick totally bonded with him.
Man, what's going on?!
It's imprinting.
What's that?
When a chick hatches out of its egg,
he thinks the first thing he sees is his parent.
And a bonding takes place.
And that's called the "imprinting effect."
The first thing it sees gets imprinted in his heart…
That's interesting, huh?
Isn't that nice, Daddy Inojin!
Give me a break!
Come on now…
We're helping with security for the Five Kage Summit today.
Eat up and let's get to work!
Yeah, yeah…
By all rights,
we should have reconvened right after Momoshiki's attack,
but it got pushed back. So I apologize for that.
All the villages experienced chaos.
The Otsutsuki Clan is the main agenda, right?
Considering the importance of the topic,
we've asked the previous Kage to join us.
Let's not stand on ceremony.
Shall I peel one for you?
Oh, thank you.
Where's Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki?
About that…
We were together until we entered Hidden Leaf Village, but…
But when I realized—
So the legendary Ohnoki has gone senile too?
Knowing Ohnoki, he's probably blown up a building or two by now.
I guess it can't be helped.
He's probably sightseeing somewhere.
Well, I'll send someone to go look for him.
So can we start, Kurotsuchi?
Yeah, please do.
Seriously, that old geezer!
Stay on your toes.
Yeah, but we're only keeping watch.
Mitsuki, got any interesting stories that'll wake me up?
Maybe this isn't interesting, but can I ask you something?
Huh?
Have you ever felt uneasy
that maybe your thoughts weren't your own, Boruto?
What kind of question is that all of a sudden?
Earlier, that chick thought Inojin was its parent.
Maybe it's more accurate to say it was forced to believe that?
Like it's caught in a genjutsu that it can't break out of.
If so, then maybe this feeling of wanting to be with you guys…
Maybe I'm being made to feel this way…
That's just the feeling I got.
Listen, we're not chicks.
There's no way you've been imprinted, okay?
I see…
You're right.
What about you, Boruto? Got any fun stories?
Hmm…
Oh yeah…
My dad gave me a strange quiz yesterday.
Lord Seventh did?
What's the hardest rock in the world?
The hardest rock in the world…?
Are you saying,
the Great Stone Faces are carved out of it?
That's not what I mean…
But it's like a treasure to shinobi.
Do you know what that is, Boruto?
Hmm…
It's gotta be a diamond, huh?
There's no way the answer's that simple.
I guess not.
Damn it…
Now that I remembered his question, it's really bugging me.
Hey, let me see it.
I wonder if something happened?
I dunno.
I'll go and ask.
Hey, you know…
You should try to listen more seriously to Mitsuki's troubles.
I do listen!
If you keep taking things so lightly, he might stop liking you.
That'll never happen.
We're actually really good friends!
Yeah sure, you'll regret it one day.
This man seems to be lost in the village.
So, they want us to help look for him.
Ohnoki of the Land of Earth…?
Hey, isn't this theThird Lord Tsuchikage?
Hey, perfect timing!
Huh? What is?
Lord Tsuchikage is from the Hidden Stone Village.
In other words, he's an expert on rocks, right?
He's got to know what the hardest rock in the world is!
So he's over a hundred years old…
Even if he is the Third Tsuchikage,
finding a frail old man like him should be easy.
Don't you guys even know?
He's known as Ohnoki the Fence-Sitter,
but he's famous as a hero's hero in the shinobi world.
This man's Particle Release Jutsu is a super-rare Kekkei Touta.
Hmm…
This old man, huh?
Oh…
Hey!
What's the big idea?! Give it back!
This drawing…
doesn't look like me at all!
Could you be…Mr. Ohnoki?
You're Boruto Uzumaki, aren't you?
How do you know my name?
I've had my fair share of looking after Naruto.
And you're Sarada of the Uchiha Clan, right?
And you are…um…
I'm Mitsuki.
I see.
They've been looking for you, Mr. Ohnoki.
You have to return to the Five Kage Summit…
I don't want to!
I want no part of that boring meeting!
You say that, but…
If you insist on taking me back…
I'll turn you all into dust with my Particle Style…
Owwww…
That's the Particle Style?
No way…
Just being touched by the Particle Style
is supposed to make you disintegrate to an atomic level.
My back… My back…
Here you go!
It's working!
Okay now, just be good and…
By the way, old man…
What is it?
Hey, Boruto!
Do you know what the hardest rock in the world is?
What? You don't even know that?
So you know?!
C'mon, tell me!
Hmm, what should I do?
Please! I'll do anything!
Oh? Well then…
Instead of taking me into custody,
if you show me around the village…
Then I'll consider telling you.
Seriously?!
Boruto!
You should heed the request of an old man whose days are limited.
If you're okay with it, Boruto, I don't mind.
C'mon, Mitsuki, not you too?
All right!
I'll show you around!
DUMPLINGS
Are you sure it's all right?
To ditch the Five Kage Summit?
They're probably talking nonsense anyway.
EARTH WATER FIRE WIND LIGHTNING There was one more person…
calling himself an Otsutsuki, right?
Yeah, the one with the fishing rod.
We should dispatch a subjugation force immediately.
Sasuke's gone after him.
It would be unwise to act in haste.
Aside from those three…
we should assume there are others in the Otsutsuki Clan.
Maybe we shouldn't be assembled like this,
making dull conversation?
That's exactly the reason why it's essential that we assemble.
You peel so carefully.
I have a thing about stuff like this.
How can you be so calm?
We could be attacked at any moment!
According to the intel from Sasuke, the Otsutsuki Clan's ability
to move through dimensions requires enormous energy.
It's safe to assume
we have a little more time before they can attack again—
How can you be so easygoing?
Just eat it peel and all! It's full of nutrients!
I have a delicate nature, you see…
Hey!
Can we stop trivializing the situation at hand?!
What's the point of panicking right now?
When you have as much experience as we do,
we don't jump at every little thing.
Another bad dream like Kaguya's attack,
is enough to make anyone nervous.
But nothing is gained by being unsettled.
I-I'm not unsettled!
But you…and even Ohnoki, have no sense of the danger!
Speaking of which…
Grandpa Ohnoki always used to say…
We have the "strongest thing in the world."
I can't even see what's in front of us.
Don't complain.
You must always heed the words of an old man
whose days are limited, to the very end.
You keep saying that!
Hey, is this geezer really a legendary shinobi?
SAFETY FIRST
Hey, let's start heading back.
Okay, okay!
It's dangerous!
Particle Style…
Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!
Hey!
What's that?!
Just now, that was…
the Particle Style…
Awesome!
That was super amazing, y'know!
Huh?
Hey, old man! Old man!
Grandpa!
Grandpa Ohnoki! Wake up!
C'mon, Grandpa Ohnoki!
Oh… Kozuchi…
You're alive!
I thought you'd…
Old man…
You okay?
Forgive me…
Yeah…
But that Particle Style was awesome!
Sorry we were so suspicious.
Don't worry about it.
By the way…
Hmm?
Earlier…I could have sworn you said Kozuchi…
Yes…
Kozuchi is my grandchild.
He was…very smart.
Did he die?
He was just about your age.
Well, it's all in the past.
Even if the Five Great Nations have a strong union…
sometimes you cannot protect a life.
That is reality.
Now then!
You have all been very good to me…
I guess I should give you the answer to your question…
What's he doing?
Who knows?
Now choose, which of these is the world's hardest rock.
One of these is it?
Do you know the answer?
Hmm?
None of them seem very special.
Hmm…
Could it be this one?
I pick this!
And you, Mitsuki?
I'm good.
Then the two of you… You're sure?
– Y-Yeah! – Yeah!
Both of you are…
wrong.
I knew it!
I figured it was that one.
This one…is wrong too.
– Huh?! – Huh?!
The hardest rock in the world is…
The bedrock you have inside you…
Huh?
No matter what the adversity, your bedrock never shatters.
Your will is the bedrock that is the hardest "rock" in the world.
That's the answer.
So that's it. Now I get it.
It goes for you all too…
No matter what hardship or sorrow you encounter from now,
never discard your bedrock, your will.
Right!
The world's hardest "rock," huh…
Well, I knew that from the beginning.
Well, that's a lie!
Well, I did know!
You didn't even have a clue!
Say that again!
Humph!
Just a minute!
Hey, Boruto!
It seems your bedrock is a bit shaky.
It's very complicated… This thing called will.
It's something that you don't acquire without sacrifice.
You need to have faith to get it.
Obtaining a will…
But how do I make sure that it's really my own will?
That is a difficult question…
Just…
Just?
If you keep hitting a wall, and you keep clinging to it…
Then perhaps… that's your true will.
It's gotta be like I figured out the answer myself…
So don't say anything to my dad.
Don't say anything?
Why, I gave that quiz to Naruto myself.
No kidding, really?
Damn it, Dad!
He acted like he came up with the question himself.
I had fun sightseeing, thanks to you all.
If you are ever in the Land of Earth, come and visit me.
Well, that's only if I'm still alive.
Okay, anyway…
We'll escort you to the Hokage's Offices…
Before that, I want to eat another stick of dumplings.
After all, I'm…
…an old man whose days are limited, right?
So it was just a trick question…
We wasted our time thinking so hard about it, right, Mitsuki?
Really?
I thought it was a good answer.
AN
The Five Kage Summit is over.
You think we'll be relieved from guard duty today?
I hope so.
So Mitsuki lived here…
Did you know, Boruto?
I heard he lived alone, but…
We never heard him talk
about his parents or his home village, did we?
Yeah…
Even though we were always together…
Next time on Boruto Naruto Next Generations:
"Mitsuki's Will"
I guess we really didn't know everything about Mitsuki…
MITSUKI'S WILL