The Shinju Ambush Konohamaru and Sarada! Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Chapter 18 Text Leaks!!
Kawaki loses to Amado and the Shinju are actually not dumb and they have been baiting Konohamaru and Sarada the whole time!

In the previous Boruto: Two Blue Vortex chapter, we see Shikamaru’s plan to appease Jura and to attack Matsuri and Ryo while their guard is down by being friendly with them since the sentient God Trees are akin to children.
These text Leaks were made courtesy of Rai, so they may not be complete
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Chapter 18 has the Shinju Matsuri on the cover page
We also received confirmation that the Volume 4 is the flashback of Boruto talking to Sasuke, which is an interesting change from the character-centric volume covers for Two Blue Vortex.
: This Flashback Boruto is in the cover of vol, 4 pic.twitter.com/JOYJdGnhGO
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The chapter begins with Sumire entering Amado’s lab as he sees Kawaki pinning Amado against the wall. Sumire screams for Kawaki as she witnesses this.
Kawaki barged into the wall to force Amado to remove the limiters and also because of Boruto’s warning in Chapter 15: “A Vibrant Life” that Amado has been monitoring Kawaki with his left eye.
Kawaki loosens his grip so that Amado could talk but this allows Amado to activate the shutdown code, like he did with Delta in Boruto Chapter 44: “Amado”.
Once Kawaki is asleep, Sumire and Amado converse.
We return to the desert outside the Sand Village and we see Sarada and Mitsuki with Ryu heading but Ryu is cautious around them.
He activates his Iron Sand ability.
We then cut to the sneak peek of Konohamaru and Matsuri talking.
After this page is a flashback of Konohamaru and Moegi, Matsuri’s source, as kids.
Guess Konohamaru has his own version of “The Last Naruto The Movie” where Naruto recalls how much Hinata expressed her love for him.
However, we realize that Matsuri and Ryu were actually pretending to be nice and vulnerable because they knew that the Leaf and Sand are after the thorn soul.
Kawaki wakes up in a room with with Amado, Sumire, and Akebi’s body and here they have a long conversation about Kawaki’s karma and Amado’s plans with it, which Kawaki refuses to cooperate with.
Back to the Konohamaru conversation, Matsuri stops blushing and begins attacking Konohamaru while on Ryu’s side, Ryu takes out his thorn soul as bait to lure Sarada’s team.
The Shinju learned about the shinobi’s true intentions because the roots underground told them.
The thorn soul floats in the air and Yodo charges towards it, allowing Ryu’s iron sand to capture her.
Sarada, Mitsuki, Araya and Yodo are all captured by the iron sand but Sarada takes out a kunai and rushes towards Yodo, who appears to be controlled by Ryu.
Suddenly, a sword slash dissipates the iron sand from all four of them and it is from Araya’s sword.
He had developed a way to counter Shinki’s Iron Sand, likely disabling the Magnet Style properties.
The chapter ends with Araya and Ryu talking.
Editor’s note (rough translation): “Will the blade that he and his friend sharpened together to make the iron sand sweep away Ryu? And what about Konohamaru, who is in a critical situation?”
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