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Summary Time: Chapter 14. Duty...well, clearly not to deliver a good story.
Cover page is Clone Jiraiya/Barbarian Hair.
Bolt wakes up in a interrogation room and is interrogated by Konohamaru. The cuffs he is bound by, were made by Madoc, prevent him from using his powers...we really only need to be inform an Ikemoto character made it, because if a none Ikemoto character made them; They would come off in a second.
OH MY GOD. THEY FINALLY SHOWED SAKURA!!! My God!!! She is badly drawn. After 13 chapters of mocking them for the fact, they refused to used the Naruto character that has to be involved story wise. They finally did... And they are clearly doing to show they don't need her because the daughter's healing is better than hers! She checking out Blond Sai while his mother Ino watches her son with a worried look.
Back to the interrogation. They are using the stupid permanent telepathy to have the elders and Madoc listen in...maybe they are using mundane technology like mic and speakers but they have relied on the telepathy hotline so much; that is it by default as far as I am concern unless stated otherwise. Moe and Nail are listening through a play by play Hime is giving with her observation power. Moe taunts Bolt about the obvious, that his lies will easily fall apart if Bolt decides to tell everyone about the perspective flip. Nail blames his actions on Bolt and apparently pragmatism prevented him from killing him while he was unconscious. As he doesn't know what the Tree people are...this shouldn't be impressive but he been such a moron that it almost is.
Bolt explains the Tree People...right, this is going to be another exposition dump chapter of information (I swear if it isn't a boring combat chapter with this manga its exposition dumps) most of you should know even just through my summaries. So unless it important, I am going to be very broad and skim through most of it. Madoc gives his guess, which is of course correct...I'm not even reading his lines because he obviously just going to be correct in his guess; as he has been anytime he has had to give a monologue explaining something. Bolt informs them, they need to defeat Tree-Jenga, as he is the leader egging the rest on. They also try to pretend he is not based of Jenga but his own original character...if that was even slightly true then, again, Ikemoto is once again bad at making differences between his characters designs to make them distinguishable. They ask how he knows this, he says he can't say for his source's safety...of course, Madoc probably already guesses its Clone Jiraiya.
They get snippy at him and ask him what happened to Naruto. Shikamaru has an internal monologue about it. Both of them know they need to keep the charade going to make sure Nail doesn't do something...even more stupid than usual if he panics about the truth coming out. Oh by the way Ibiki, Random Leaf Ninja Mook B, was here all along and he will be interrogating Bolt for more information, because he didn't find his answers satisfactory.
Shikamaru contacts Ino through telepathy hotline he also ask Ino to add Bolt to this call. Which has Ino go on a tangent about how the Mind Transmission jutsu can't be used for personal use, all conversation have to be reported, and they have already broken five different regulations...is this trying to cover up all the nonsense with this stupid constantly used Telepathy hotline? Also Shikamaru is the Hokage outside the Elders he is the highest authority in the village, I think him asking allows the regulations to be waved, and she already know something big is going on. Also, they have been using it for random conversations ever since Hime was introduce. It has become so ubiquitous in the manga that it has become as common to talk through the telepathy hotline as it is to just speak. This just feels like someone likely a new editor had enough of it and ordered them to stop using it for every conversation; like it has been for like the last 40-50 chapters. For some reason, apparently Blond Sai's injures, she refuses to do it.
Ibiki starts his interrogation by slamming Bolt's head to the table then starts beating him up...isn't he suppose to be an expert on mental torture to the point he doesn't need to do anything physical?
Shikamru puts a stop to this and suggest using Cup's "venom," to get Bolt to talk. They worry about Cups wanting to kill Bolt...sigh, but this scene will have to show he realize that Bolt is his sun. He helps Bolt escape through a snake unlocking his cuffs and send Shikamaru a message that he knows. Bolt grabs his stuff and leaves apologizing to the mooks that were looking after it.
Skipping the rest of this scene. So Salad ask Shikamaru how the interrogation went and where Bolt when Kankuro uses the telepathy hotline to inform Shikamru that Gaara and his son were both put into a tree. So I guess the new Tree person, Ryu, is Tree-Gaara. I think. He doesn't look like the actual character or have the characteristic that make him recognizable like most of Ikemoto's character designs.
Also just to remind people there are cellphones in this world since at least the Salad Gaiden and in it Shikamaru noted that it was weird that Sasuke didn't have a cellphone. Therefore implying to the point of out right stating, "everyone has a cellphone." But they keep using the telepathy hotline for everything. Hopefully this is where they start to make that less common.