Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 74 Direct

Mitsuki didn't move. He looked at Boruto, then at the Fabricants behind him—beings who, like him, had been "made" rather than born. For the first time, Boruto saw a flicker of doubt in his friend. Mitsuki wasn't running away; he was searching for his own will, trying to see if he was a person or just a tool for someone else’s ambition.

In the hidden labs of Orochimaru, the air was thick with the scent of ozone and sterilized steel. Mitsuki—the boy who had always been a shadow following Boruto’s sun—had vanished, leaving behind only a cryptic message and a trail of questions that led toward the Land of Earth. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 74

Boruto stood in the dust, his hand still outstretched. He hadn't brought Mitsuki home, but he had seen the truth: Mitsuki was hurting, lost in a crisis of identity that no Rasengan could solve. Mitsuki didn't move