"Father, you don't seem very satisfied with Sister's ranking?"
Among the spectators, a pretty little girl of six or seven in a kimono suddenly looked up and asked the middle-aged man beside her.
The father and daughter were Hyuga Hiashi and Hanabi Hyuga.
Today, Hiashi had set aside all clan affairs to attend Hinata's graduation ceremony.
Hiashi was actually a very strange person.
He clearly cared deeply about Hinata, yet in daily life, he never showed it. Instead, he deliberately acted harshly toward her.
However, perhaps only Soji and Hizashi knew that behind the scenes, Hiashi had been quietly watching over Hinata and doing many things for her.
Leaving aside the distant past, Hiashi had clearly decided to let Hanabi inherit the Main House Clan Head line, yet despite pressure from the elders of the other branches, he simply refused to have the Caged Bird Curse Mark carved onto Hinata.
And the excuse Hiashi used was incredibly flimsy: he still needed to consider which of the two sisters would inherit the Main House Clan Head line.
But anyone with eyes could tell that Hiashi was just stalling for time.
He stalled today until tomorrow, tomorrow until the day after, and kept dragging it out like that for years.
Together with Soji, the Hyuga Clan's second most important figure, tacitly allowing it, neither Hinata nor Hanabi had been branded with the Caged Bird Curse Mark over time.
Of course, Hiashi had kept all of this from Hinata.
It was clear from this that he truly cared about Hinata; he simply never showed it.
Faced with Hanabi's question, Hiashi shook his head expressionlessly.
"It's not dissatisfaction. I simply think that if your sister changed her personality a little, she might do even better!"
After thinking for a moment, Hiashi answered his younger