Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-945885-20180601125915

Early leaked pages and summaries are floating around now, so here we go.

Cover: https://i.imgur.com/hr0tUgC.jpg

Most noteworthy stuff:


 * We've now officially moved from the Ao Arc into the Kawaki Arc.
 * The female Kara Inner with the I tattooed on her forehead is named デルタ = Delta or Deruta (Deruta *is* an uncommon Japanese name). I would suggest using Delta for now, but switching to Deruta if that's what Viz uses, because they usually know what's up with names.
 * Jigen and Delta are having a fancy meal; Jigen seems to be in love with her. Delta is impatient about the Vessel's recovery, kicks and destroys the table, and then Jigen clenches his fist and resets the table and everything on it back to the way it was. Another Genjutsu room, or some other power?
 * Back in the forest, Boruto's karma resonates with Kawaki's as he approaches, causing pain to shoot through their hands. Kawaki stirs.
 * Kawaki is having a dream of his childhood. His biological father was an abusive drunk who called him worthless ("empty") and beat him. He sold Kawaki to Jigen for a hefty sum..
 * We see Jigen without the hood. He's got a mohawk/ponytail combo hairstyle, and could give Orochimaru a run for his money in a creepy glare contest. Jigen says he's Kawaki's father now and reaches out to him.
 * Kawaki awakens as Team 7 approaches and goes on the defensive; they quickly retreat. Kawaki cloaks himself in a sphere of chakra that blasts a crater into the ground around him. He thinks that they're with Kara and are trying to capture him. Nearby, Delta meets with Kashin Koji, who is angry because he said he'd handle it himself. She said she brought one of the Outers with her. Brief discussion on both fronts about Boruto also having the Karma.
 * As Kawaki and Team 7 are about to face off, Delta's Outer appears and attacks Kawaki. His name is 我婁 = Garō. He's a huge man wearing a gas mask; he's missing his lower jaw and seems to have prosthetic pincer claws for hands. It seems that he disliked Ao and has a grudge against Kawaki because Kawaki is the reason he lost his jaw.
 * Kawaki dashes behind Garō and prepares to attack, partially transforming his right arm and hand into a large sickle-like blade. This attack looks remarkably similar to Jugo's partial Sage Transformation, in particular his "Destroying Axe Fist". The chapter ends with them clashing and Kawaki taunting Garō.

Given his father's violent outbursts and his apparent Sage Transformation ability, there seems to be a strong possibility that Kawaki is actually from Jūgo's Clan -- assuming that the flashback is accurate and he hasn't been experimented on.

This also seems to introduce a role reversal in the hero / rival dynamic versus Naruto and Sasuke, as we now have the hero with a mental/spiritual ability, and the rival with the physical ability.  