Is that so...
So that was why he wanted me to accept this scroll.
This Sealing Jutsu might not be gripping the Hyuga Clan by the throat. Instead, it might be giving the Hyuga Clan an opportunity.
Simply using it differently could produce such vastly different results.
As expected, Lord Chiba was extraordinary.
Watching Neji Hyuga stare wide-eyed ahead, Hyuga Hiashi gradually calmed down. From his nephew's eyes, he could see that hatred fading away. He had handled it very well.
Today, he had cast aside his dignity twice, making two requests in the humblest manner possible—manners utterly unfitting for the head of the Hyuga Clan, and ones that might bring considerable consequences. Without question, he had gained the greatest blessing the Hyuga Clan could hope for at this stage.
To be honest, there were some things he occasionally thought back on. Whenever he did, he felt regret, almost always sighing in remorse.
For example, he had branded Neji Hyuga with the Caged Bird Seal too soon.
Yes, Hyuga Hiashi had always deeply regretted it. He had never expected the gap between them to be so enormous.
The difference in talent between his daughter and his younger brother's son was simply too great.
There was no comparison at all.
It was not that he had no faith in his daughter. Rather, she was not suited to the current Hyuga Clan, nor to this era.
She could not bear the weight of the entire Hyuga Clan.
Yet his younger brother's son had displayed a talent from childhood that sometimes made even him tremble from the bottom of his heart.
From then on, he had sighed more than once that this was the aptitude an heir of the Hyuga Clan ought to possess.
But the Caged Bird Seal had already been branded