"How is your body?"
Hiashi Hyuga slid open the shoji door and approached He-El, dressed in traditional aristocratic attire steeped in the Hyuga Clan's style. Every word and movement of his carried the old-fashioned rigidity of a great noble house.
He-El's head hurt even more.
As the part of He-El's trinity that belonged to Neji Hyuga, Neji believed the Main Family had driven his father to death. He hated the Hyuga Main Family, especially the clan head.
At the same time, he clung to a pessimistic fatalism, obsessed with talk of destiny and grieving over the position he had been born into.
Of course, a four-year-old child had not yet reached the point of embracing pessimistic fatalism, obsessing over destiny, and lamenting his own position.
To reach that point, Neji Hyuga would have needed to live alone in the Hyuga Clan for some time before coming to understand and contemplate it himself.
But He-El was Neji Hyuga. Neji Hyuga's thoughts instantly absorbed He-El's thoughts, allowing him to look down upon the Hyuga Clan's Main Family-Branch Family system and its Caged Bird Seal. His mindset utterly loathed yet could not break free from the Main Family's practice of using the Caged Bird Seal to control the branch family. He was truly a bird in a cage, and the sorrow was unbearable.
Thus, the part of his thinking shaped by Neji Hyuga hated every single person in the Hyuga Main Family to the core. The manifestation of that was—He-El felt as though his head were about to split apart.
This pain was nothing to He-El, but it constantly disturbed his consciousness, which made it unbearable.
"Please leave!" He-El raised his head. Most of his childish face was covered in bulging veins, especially around his pupils, where the skin protruded hideously. A faint