When He-El woke up, it was already the next day.
He-El's consciousness had taken over the clone consciousness that had been filled with resentment and unwillingness in One Piece, awakening his past life for him.
But no matter what kind of past life it had been, it was still He-El, so it did not matter.
"Neji Hyuga?" He-El sat up from the tasteful wooden bed. The forehead beneath the Caged Bird Seal and his brows were tightly furrowed as tearing pain relentlessly assaulted his brain.
It felt as if someone had pulled every nerve in his brain to its limit, or as if someone were constantly sawing through it with an electric saw. It hurt terribly, so much that his little face turned pale.
He-El inherited the life of this four-year-old Neji Hyuga.
From the moment he was born, to every time Hizashi Hyuga taught Neji Hyuga the Gentle Fist, every complicated look Hizashi Hyuga gave Hinata Hyuga and himself, taking him to have the Caged Bird Seal carved onto him, telling him of his duty to protect Hinata, seeing the moments when Hizashi Hyuga revealed killing intent toward Hinata Hyuga, the moments when Hiashi Hyuga used the Caged Bird Seal to torture him until he wished he were dead, the moments when he vaguely understood certain things, and finally... Hizashi Hyuga's death.
This young Neji Hyuga's life had contained much dissatisfaction, and all of it surged into He-El, who had received Neji Hyuga's body.
"This guy... I am Neji Hyuga. I'll seek justice from the Hyuga Clan and Konoha for you and your father." He-El's brows were tightly drawn, his face pale, as he kept pressing into his temples with his fingers. He felt unbearably awful.
Part of the discomfort came from Neji Hyuga's four years of childish life