Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160708115044/@comment-5056373-20160711160432

This is freedri on an old account (my posts aren't coming through apparently, switched browsers and accounts bc I'm not sure what's causing it). I wrote up a nice analysis of the raws but now I've lost that :)

I'll just quote my blog post though, apologies for the casualness of it all. I have a picture of the Japanese but the relevant speech bubbles are 「義父上の名を汚す事なきよう」and「我ら３名とも必ずや勝利してご覧に入れます」.

"First things first: there is no explicit ‘our’ before father, so that could be ambiguous (though Gaara only addresses Shinki back after he says this?).

Next, while the kanji is sorta hard to make out, that says chichiue in furigana, which is great father. The kanji is 義父上. 義父 can mean foster father [I reblogged speculation about this 5 minutes earlier], yes, but the reading is different here than what my dictionary gives for foster father (gifu), like I said, chichiue (great father).

It [義, which I posted the jisho.org dictionary entry for] can mean honor, it can also mean ‘nonconsanguineous’ (not blood related) as a prefix.

But I also know when the kanji is used in father-in-law it is pronounced chichi as well, and adoptive parents are called the same as in laws. [I did a fact check on that and found a website confirming it.]

So idk go forth and speculate."

Being my blog I did offer my opinion: I'm waiting for Viz until I confirm anything, but imo, Shinki is his only child, and unless the writer surprises us, I tend to stick with the obvious answer: the kid is his biological son.

It's 1:30 am here so I kind of rushed this :)