I'm sorry, Yukina, but I have to get to the bottom of this.
Looking at Yukina's hollow, bewildered eyes, Chiba clenched his teeth slightly. For the first time, he realized how difficult it was to harden his heart. In the brief span of ten-odd seconds, he had wanted three or four times to tell Yukina to forget what he had just said.
This silence felt like a kind of torment.
But torment was torment. Chiba knew he absolutely could not relent here. He had to make Yukina tell him about the problem with her eyes herself. Only then could he help her better.
What he needed to do now was not merely learn about what had happened over the past six months. Besides, Minato Namikaze's account had only given him two-dimensional information, letting him understand the course of events from a single plane.
He also needed to understand this matter as fully and three-dimensionally as possible, including everything he could learn from every person involved.
And now, Yukina was one of those involved—she was even a victim.
If he had not returned, then not knowing was one thing. But now he was back, and he knew.
He knew about Yukina's unfair treatment. He knew that she could no longer see. No matter what, he had to change this situation and cure her eyes.
At any cost! Understanding the Hyuga Clan incident was to resolve the issue of Yukina's unfair treatment, while asking about her eyes was to solve her blindness. He had to understand how Yukina had gone blind before he could prescribe the right treatment.
Moreover, too much had happened over the past six months. Combined with the fact that Minato Namikaze was already the Fourth Hokage, he did not have much time to spend leisurely.
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