When Eida rewrote reality in the Boruto manga, it changed the landscape completely. Kawaki became the hero of the story, with the Hidden Leaf thinking he was actually Naruto's son. In the process, the Konoha army thought Boruto was the person who killed the Hokage and Hinata, which led to a manhunt.
At last, more insight is being provided into the new world thanks to Boruto: Two Blue Vortex. This new chapter is exploring Kawaki's village three years later, and exactly what all these teens are up to as Boruto remains on the lam with Sasuke from the likes of Mitsuki. However, as details are provided into Eida's role in Konoha, there's a major plot hole regarding her abilities and how they're supposed to work.
Sarada and Sumire Can't Fake Being Eida's Slaves
Sarada and Sumire were the two shinobi who didn't fall under the rewrite. It allowed Sarada to convince Sasuke to flee and work with Boruto, while she'd remain at home and try to solve the mystery. When the girls sit with Eida after the time-skip, the villain's quite skeptical. She knows they're trying to get Konoha to turn on her and help Boruto rather than kill him.
It's evident from how Sarada visited Shikamaru previously and tried to get him, as the new Hokage, to remove the kill order on Boruto's head. Admittedly, the girls have no clue why they've retained their memories, but Eida doesn't like it. In fact, Eida keeps pressing them on giving up and how they need to accept what she's done. In time, everyone will accept this as the new world order, so they should as well. Tough, when Eida came to Konoha in the first place, she placed everyone under her charm. It worked on the citizens, bar Sumire and Sarada.
The fact that they lie and say they're entranced by her makes no sense, though. If they were, they wouldn't be rebelling and trying to convince the village Boruto's a hero. Yet they are, all while trying to fake how they're under Eida's spell. This is an automatic red flag and one Eida, and her kid brother, Daemon, should expose immediately. Instead, they just remain suspicious when it's obvious the teens were impervious to Eida from the start. They simply cannot hide this, so the lack of logic and coherence to the previous narrative makes everything feel disconnected and conflicted.
Sarada and Sumire's Rebellion Should Have Been Addressed
Apart from the clear signs these teens are not Eida's slaves, one has to wonder why it's been so long and why Eida's only just addressing this. Three years is a long time to just sit back and have Sumire and Sarada try to usurp her vision. Daemon's usually hot-headed so he should have acted by now. Instead, they're content to let the girls wreak havoc and interrupt their plan.
Again, this isn't what the brainwashed should be doing. These two ought to be under their thumb, mind-controlled, and acting in line. By not taking action for so long, Eida has left a massive window for them to either work with Boruto in secret, or in Sarada's case, visit Sasuke and work on a long-term plan. Given the series has Eida with her Senrigan, aka the ability to see anything in existence, one has to wonder why she hasn't locked in on Sarada and Sumire's conversation in town, or with Shikamaru. They've repeatedly spoken about breaking the established reality, so Eida should have seen and heard this with her "god's eye," and already began making contingency plans.
Even Daemon shouldn't have let this slide for three years. Granted, Shikamaru did telepathically tell them to be spies before the rewrite, so that's not something Eida can notice. But the fact Sarada and Sumire are hatching a scheme in public is evidence that is somehow being ignored. Throw in Eida also not seeing Sarada telling Sasuke to take care of Boruto when the Omnipotence rewrite occurred is painstakingly bad writing. It compounds how much the new era is trying to pack stories in, only for all these sub-arcs to feel conflated and padded.
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Has Many Odd Questions
Apart from the aforementioned issues with Eida's powers being wonky, Two Blue Vortex still hasn't accounted for other gaps. The first chapter confirms Shikamaru is curious how Kawaki could be from Konoha, yet his body's been augmented by Jigen. That requires a ton of explanation Kawaki can't cover. Eida has said people will just forget these things in time, but that feels like a lazy explanation for reality being shifted. Sarada is further curious why no one's asking about Momoshiki, when his location inside Boruto's body would pretty much solve how Naruto's real son saved the day years back. Again, the chapter discloses that these are all hazy memories folks will come to ignore in time – which is too convenient.
But, there are other points of controversy the opener should have addressed. If Eida knows Sarada and Sumire are trying to destroy her rewrite, she should tell Kawaki. He'd want to know he has traitors in the camp, so for this to be left out for three years, or for Shikamaru to not bring this up with Kawaki, is absurd. Eida knows only people with Ĺtsutsuki DNA, who were made as a Jigen bot, or her kin, are impervious, so she really should be letting Kawaki know they have invulnerable weapons among them.
Instead, it's all done for the sake of drama, but not everything's linked properly. Kawaki not taking on the rabble rousers may be addressed soon, as well as why Eida doesn't use Omnipotence a second time to see if she can get Sarada and Sumire under her spell. But until then, Two Blue Vortex raises more questions than answers, leaving fans hopeful Eida's powers will be intricately and sensibly detailed for the war to come.
