"I know you have an opportunity to leave the village on a mission right now. And for this mission, you'll be the captain. With your current reputation in the village, taking me out with you wouldn't take much effort at all, would it?"
Watching the change in Chiba's expression, Hyuga Yukyō's eyes flickered with both hope and gravity as he pressed his advantage.
However, after he finished speaking, Chiba's gaze remained fixed on the paper, and his expression gradually darkened.
"Are you sure the contents of this paper are reliable?"
Only after quite some time did Chiba look up and speak slowly and cautiously.
"This is Lord Shinsuke's last words, discovered inside the box. I don't know whether everything in it is true, but I believe Lord Shinsuke would never joke about his own daughter in his final words."
Hyuga Yukyō answered truthfully.
This sheet was one of the two papers Hyuga Shinsuke had left him, but it had not come from the box. Rather, he had accidentally found it inside a necklace Hyuga Shinsuke had given him after inviting him to the estate for a meal between teacher and student the day before the incident. Hyuga Shinsuke had said it was a keepsake left by his father.
Although Hyuga Yukyō had lied to Chiba by saying it had come from the box, it was indeed Hyuga Shinsuke's final words and could not have been forged.
As for the note in the box, Hyuga Yukyō would never let Chiba see it.
How could someone like this possibly die?
Thinking of this, Hyuga Yukyō still found it hard to believe as he watched Chiba.
A man like him had escaped an encirclement of five thousand people and had even killed a thousand of them. The title Thousand Man Slayer was probably