"Yes. How are your eyes adapting?"
Hearing Hirohiko's words, which carried a slight dazedness from surprise, Chiba clenched his fists tighter. After taking a shallow breath, he delivered the words he had prepared long ago.
As for Hirohiko's eyes, Chiba had omitted that part when recounting everything to Kushina and Yukina. Neither Kushina nor Yukina knew about it.
After all, it concerned the Mangekyō Sharingan. Chiba absolutely trusted Kushina and Yukina, but some things could not be spoken of simply because there was trust.
The Mangekyō Sharingan was far too sensitive. There were also perverts and ambitious men in the village who were particularly interested in the Sharingan. Chiba did not want Hirohiko to be targeted. And if Hirohiko were targeted, Nao's eyes would likely be impossible to keep. After all, he was currently imprisoned. No matter how Minato Namikaze protected him, he was still a criminal with irrefutable evidence of attacking his own clansmen. Whether it was a pervert or an ambitious man, if they chose to deal with him, he would have absolutely no power to resist.
Moreover, there were too many ways for perverts and ambitious men to exploit the situation and succeed.
Chiba could not take that risk.
Besides, Hirohiko had been unconscious when the eyes were transplanted. He did not know where they had come from. With neither Kushina nor Yukina knowing about this, he had no way of learning that the eyes had belonged to Nao.
Chiba's plan was still viable. As long as he revealed the eyes' origin, he could guide Hirohiko toward an outlet.
And as long as he found an outlet, a goal, Hirohiko's personality should not change too drastically. It could also prevent him from falling into darkness.
The difference between having an outlet and not having one was like