Here, all the members of the Hyuga Clan Main Family had gathered.
"Soji, your grandfather is waiting for you. Go in." Clan Head Hyuga Ryusuke gently patted Soji on the shoulder, then left with the other Main House members.
"Father, Elder Kumokawa really..." Hyuga Hiashi looked at his father and spoke hesitantly.
"Ah." Clan Head Hyuga Ryusuke sighed but said little else.
Then, led by Hyuga Ryusuke, the Main House members gathered here filed out of Soji's residence one by one.
They all understood that Hyuga Kumokawa's remaining time was meant for Soji.
Thus, they tactfully did not stay any longer.
With the Main House members gone, the Branch House members naturally would not be so tactless.
In the blink of an eye, with Soji's return, all the Hyuga Clan members gathered at the house had left. Only Soji and the servants who had always served his family remained.
Seeing that everyone had left, Soji raised a trembling hand and tried to slide open the door.
Yet at that moment, the door seemed to weigh a thousand tons.
Just as Soji was still hesitating in fear, a sound came from inside the room.
"Soji is back, isn't he? Cough, cough."
That cough instantly shattered Soji's wavering resolve.
"Grandfather! I'm back! How are you?"
The moment he entered the room, Soji cried out anxiously.
An old man lay on the tatami mats.
His hair was entirely white, his face gaunt and withered. Age spots covered his cheeks, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his hands had no flesh left on them, as though they were nothing but skin wrapped around bone.
This man was Soji's grandfather, Hyuga Kumokawa.
At the sight of him, tears instantly began streaming down Soji's face uncontrollably.
The last time the two had met had been