So that was it...
So that was why Father had me protect Yukina: to keep the resentment from building up to a certain point before...
And why he had me personally execute her...
It was to make the branch family grateful to the main family...
Then... then that meant Yukina... Yukina...
No! No, that couldn't be possible. How could it be like this?
How could Father use such a vicious scheme to make Yukina, an eleven- or twelve-year-old girl, bear the hatred of the entire clan?
This... this manipulation of people's hearts...
Chiba's words undoubtedly stirred up monstrous waves in Hyuga Hiashi's heart. He could not imagine that his father had done something so sinister, using an eleven-year-old girl and sacrificing his own blood relative to preserve the stability of the main family.
At that moment, Hyuga Hiashi's body began to tremble slightly.
No! This was not the time to think about that, not the time to consider whether it was vicious or not.
Taki Chiba! The important thing now was Taki Chiba! Since Taki Chiba knew about this, then as Yukina's close friend, he! Taki Chiba! I wasn't wrong about the look in his eyes back then!
It was hatred! He hated us!
The next second, he abruptly raised his head, his eyes filled with alarm as he looked at Chiba across from him.
But when he looked over, he still saw only a young man wearing a harmless smile, without the hatred he had imagined.
It was as if what he had just said was not something concerning his close friend's reputation and even life, but some insignificant matter.
At this moment, the only change was that the young man slowly extended both hands. In them were two scrolls.
Taki Chiba, the acting Hokage assistant, had handed him