"Is this... Gentle Fist?"
As his pupils gradually contracted, Hada Ryuhiko's eyes slowly widened. Watching the two fighters below exchange blows, his gaze grew increasingly focused, and his expression gradually turned solemn.
"Gentle Fist..."
Even Anna, who was clinging to his shoulder, slowly lifted her head. Her eyes, gleaming with an indescribable light, were fixed tightly on the two people in the arena fighting in stances she had never seen before. She had even forgotten to chew the meat at her mouth.
Hmm? This really was surprising. Hyuga Hinata's fundamentals were actually not bad.
Compared to the two children, Hada Ichiba, who had already withdrawn his gaze, felt a faint surprise flicker through his heart.
Originally, he had thought Hyuga Hinata was far inferior to Neji Hyuga. Judging from their bearing, Hinata clearly had more openings in her form. But now that they were fighting, it seemed that while Hinata was still inferior to Neji—
—and the gap was quite obvious—
—it was clear that Hinata's fundamentals could not be considered poor. Her footwork, strikes, and defenses in the Gentle Fist were all precise and practiced. It was obvious that she had trained very hard.
Otherwise, Neji Hyuga would not still have been unable to find a flaw in Hinata's defense—or rather, a flaw that would let him win in a single blow.
Solid fundamentals made up for many weaknesses.
The Gentle Fist was, after all, a taijutsu that had endured for a thousand years. Combined with the chaos of the Shinobi World, the Warring States Period before the Shinobi World even came into being—a time of conflict even fiercer than the present—and the even more ancient eras before that, the Hyuga Clan, because of their Kekkei Genkai, had likely endured the tempering of countless wars and conspiracies. This fighting