Rough draft: konohamaru gets overwhelmed taking on ao and/or trying to allow team 7 to escape, they’ll not listen and try to save konohamaru, they’ll get some licks(I’m thinking mitsuki), and then ao will go into a monologue of sorts, giving us the readers a glimpse of the real state of the shinobi world as well as how he survived, and a small hint at Kara’s true ambition, at which point he’ll probably then say “and now it’s time I show you my real power” or something to that effect and BAM! Tune in to next issue lol