Chapter 96: How Can One Who Lives in Peace Understand War?
Yuto reached out and patted Ranmaru's head, then looked up at the stunned Hyuga Neji, his tone filled with sarcasm.
"Is the so-called freedom of the Hyuga Clan's Branch Family death?"
"If that's truly the case, it's laughable. To even see death as a form of freedom is truly pathetic."
At this point, Yuto paused slightly, a look of disdain on his face. "In my opinion, this scroll your father left you is nothing more than a display of cowardice."
Neji abruptly raised his head, looking at Yuto with fury.
Meanwhile, Hyuga Hiashi's expression had long since turned ice-cold. "You are not from the Leaf Village, are you? What is your purpose here?"
"Our purpose? We saw a talented young man and couldn't help but want to give him a hand."
Yuto shrugged, showing no intention of being evasive.
"Hmph, are you underestimating the Leaf Village and our Hyuga Clan too much!"
Hyuga Hiashi let out a cold snarl, his tone icy.
"I hold the Leaf Village in quite high regard; otherwise, I wouldn't have appeared here personally."
"However, Hyuga Clan Head, if you plan to wait for your clansmen to discover this situation and send the Anbu, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."
Yuto said with a light laugh, looking at Hyuga Hiashi.
Hyuga Hiashi was taken aback. The reason he had not yet acted was that he was waiting for the Leaf Anbu to arrive.
But now!
He looked up at his opponent, who wore a confident expression, and let out a sharp cry. "Byakugan!"
"This... this is impossible!"
Upon activating his Byakugan, Hyuga Hiashi seemed to have discovered something unbelievable.
No!
It was that child's eyes!
Hyuga Hiashi turned his head to look at Ranmaru, the killing intent in his eyes no longer concealed.
That child's ability being similar to their Byakugan was one thing, but now he not only possessed that, but also an ability that could counter their Byakugan.
No matter what, Hyuga Hiashi would never allow such a Kekkei Genkai to exist in this world!
"Regardless of who you are or what your purpose is, you cannot escape now!"
Hyuga Hiashi's body sank slightly, his tone laced with killing intent.
Boom!
Gentle Fist!
Hyuga Hiashi stomped on the ground and charged toward Ranmaru first. Not only did Ranmaru appear to be the easier of the two to defeat, but more importantly, in Hyuga Hiashi's Byakugan vision, a layer resembling a thin mist had appeared around both Ranmaru and Yuto.
Faced with this layer of mist, his Byakugan could not clearly see the tenketsu on their bodies.
Hyuga Hiashi's speed was immense. In the blink of an eye, he was already before Ranmaru.
Although he could not see the precise location of Ranmaru's tenketsu, for the Hyuga Clan, who had studied the human body's pressure points for generations, this was not a major issue.
Even without the Byakugan, Hyuga Hiashi could easily locate Ranmaru's pressure points; he just couldn't see where the chakra was weakest.
Hyuga Hiashi extended a hand, lightly and swiftly pointing toward a spot on Ranmaru's neck.
"Cursed Seal One."
Ranmaru blinked and said in a small voice.
The next moment, accompanied by a dull sound from within Ranmaru's body, his figure began to swell at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the blink of an eye, a figure over two meters tall appeared before Hyuga Hiashi.
Boom!
Ranmaru raised his exaggerated arm and violently threw a punch forward, colliding with the hand Hyuga Hiashi was pointing at him.
Hyuga Hiashi's expression changed. Ranmaru's punch was too fast; the fist wind alone made Hyuga Hiashi feel a powerful impact force.
If their hands collided, Hyuga Hiashi's hand would undoubtedly be crippled on the spot.
Chapter 96: How Can One Who Lives in Peace Understand War?
Gentle Fist Style — Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!
Hyuga Hiashi had no time to retract his hand, so he could only change his move mid-action, turning the point into a slap. At the same time, a burst of chakra erupted from his hand.
Boom!
A dull blast echoed throughout the room. The force of the collision caused Hyuga Hiashi to retreat several steps before he could stop himself.
Yuto still wore a faint smile as he lifted his leg and walked toward Hyuga Neji.
"I will not let you get near Neji!"
Hyuga Hiashi shouted, his body shifting as he charged toward Yuto.
However, just as Hyuga Hiashi moved, a stout figure already appeared in front of him.
Without a word, Ranmaru reached into his clothes, and a scroll appeared in his hand.
Poof!
As a cloud of white smoke dispersed, a uniquely shaped ninja sword appeared in Ranmaru's hand.
"Ranmaru has heard from others that you are the head of the Hyuga Clan. Since you are the clan head, you must be very strong."
Ranmaru paused here, looking at Hyuga Hiashi with a sincere gaze in his eyes.
"So, can Ranmaru kill you?"
Yuto, who was walking toward Hyuga Neji, suddenly heard Ranmaru's words and couldn't help but twitch his mouth corner.
Has Ranmaru been hanging around with guys like Zabuza for too long and been led astray?
"Very good! Very good! The Blast Sword: Scattered Splash. It seems you are from the Mist Village!"
Hyuga Hiashi's face flushed with anger. After a long moment, he managed to squeeze out a sentence.
Boom!
Hyuga Hiashi attacked directly. Ranmaru's words had already made him feel insulted!
While the two were fighting, Yuto on the other side had already walked up to Hyuga Neji.
Neji had naturally heard Hyuga Hiashi's words. With a trembling voice, he looked at Yuto and said:
"Is your Mist Village planning to start a war with the Leaf?"
Openly sowing discord between the Main and Branch Families of the Hyuga Clan, and even engaging in combat with the Hyuga Clan Head within the Leaf Village, was an act equivalent to a declaration of war.
"How can a child who lives in a world of peace possibly truly understand what war is?"
Yuto glanced at Hyuga Neji, his tone filled with killing intent.
Hyuga Neji's body instantly tensed, as if he were about to strike at any moment. He felt a terrifying pressure emanating from Yuto.
"I advise you not to make a move. Otherwise, you'll be free."
Looking at Hyuga Neji, Yuto said lightly.
Neji naturally understood what Yuto meant by "free."
"I have a scroll here as well. Are you interested in taking a look?"
Yuto took out a scroll and tossed it directly into Hyuga Neji's arms, clearly with no intention of asking.
Hyuga Neji calmed himself slightly and, without pretense, directly opened the scroll to read it.
He knew that if the young man before him wanted to kill him, he would have no way to resist in his current state.
"This scroll records what happened back then, but it is not the Leaf Village's record; it is the Hidden Cloud Village's record."
"Your father, in the end, was just a sacrifice between two villages, and even more so, a sacrifice of the Hyuga Clan."
"What your father called 'the freedom of death' is, as I just said, nothing more than a coward's act."
Yuto said casually. Regardless of Hyuga Hiashi's explanation or the scroll left by Hyuga Hizashi back then, one fact could not be denied.
That was the fact that Hyuga Hizashi was a sacrifice.
And the scroll from the Hidden Cloud Village simply recorded the secret agreement between the Leaf and the Cloud back then.
The hands holding the scroll began to tremble uncontrollably. This was not only due to anger over his father's past but also because he was alarmed by Yuto's purpose.
As a genius, Hyuga Neji was very intelligent, but at the same time, not intelligent enough.
A truly smart person would not express their anger toward the Main Family at such a major event as the Chunin Exams.
If it weren't for the fact that in this generation of the Hyuga Clan, besides Neji, there were no other genius successors, Hyuga Hiashi of the Main Family would have long since strangled this Hyuga Neji, who was full of hatred for the Main Family and also a genius, in his cradle.
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