Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180207105402/@comment-30241447-20180209004603

Gilgamesh85 wrote: Yes, he surely is. But then again, they were not intended to fight him (in-story), it just "happened" that the mission became more dangerous than expected. The same thing happened with the bridge-mission they did some episode ago: there shouldn't have been a ninja fight, so they gave the mission to a group of genin, but thing got worse than expected. And that's how it should be because, as Gagua said, the main protagonist have to do something.

Now we have a similar example, in a way: from an "upper-rank ninja" perspective, the genin should not engage the Byakuya Gang, but story-wise they will have to

The catch? How exactly will their parents (especially Boruto's) react when the genin willingly went against mission orders?

Other than that, I like Shikadai's attitude of being slightly neutral on this matter and I would like to see how this arc will turn out. This is just my prediction, but Shikadai will most definitely be a key factor in the story of this arc.