"Cooperation?"
Hearing Chiba's helpless yet dissatisfied words, Hyuga Yukyō was taken aback at first. Then his eyes widened slightly, and his gaze suddenly shifted to the two iron boxes. Seeming to have thought of something, he said, "Sealing Jutsu... password lock... Barrier Jutsu... could it be?"
"That's right. Even the letters given to us separately probably meant the same thing: he wanted us to cooperate."
At this, Chiba's lips twitched slightly as he confirmed it.
"You mean the lock combination is in the letters?"
Having heard Chiba mention the letters, Hyuga Yukyō quickly understood and spoke up.
"Isn't that obvious?"
Chiba replied irritably, though he withdrew his gaze and looked toward the two dark iron boxes.
Hyuga Yukyō did not refute him. Like Chiba, he shifted his gaze to the two dark iron boxes.
Sealing Jutsu, password lock, Barrier Jutsu...
They respectively represented what Chiba excelled at, what Hyuga Yukyō excelled at, and a password that could only be hidden within the letters.
There was no doubt that Hyuga Shinsuke wanted them to stand united and cooperate with each other from now on.
As for what they were supposed to cooperate on, Hyuga Shinsuke had not said, and neither did they know. It could basically be understood as this: no matter what they encountered in the future, they were to work together wholeheartedly and trust one another.
No matter what was hidden inside the two dark iron boxes, the two of them now understood that this was Hyuga Shinsuke's silent last will.
He was telling them to set aside their differences and face the future hand in hand.
However, this silent final instruction was something both of them found extremely unpleasant.
For Chiba, Hyuga Yukyō had once tried to kill him. Though he had chosen to let it go, the