The Main Family Elders: I Support Hinata Hyuga as Spokesperson and Main Family Head!!

Divine Vacuum Attack.

This move looked very similar to the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, but it was actually a weakened version of the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

Moreover, to prevent a scene of filial father and dutiful daughter turning into her killing her father for real, Hinata had deliberately weakened the move's power.

Even so, Hyuga Hiashi still felt the absolute terror of hovering on the brink of life and death. Every hair on his body stood on end in an instant.

At that moment, Hyuga Hiashi immediately changed techniques. His entire body spun, and countless streams of Chakra erupted from all over him, forming an enormous shield.

Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation!

Hinata's expression did not change. She continued pushing out her palm.

Boom!

The Divine Vacuum Attack erupted with devastating force. The air was torn apart, and a massive, canyon-like fissure was plowed through the training ground, exposing the dark brown, damp earth beneath.

At the same time, the shield formed by Hyuga Hiashi's Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation shattered in that instant.

Whoosh...

Hyuga Hiashi only felt an overwhelming force strike him, sending him flying backward before he crashed heavily onto the ground.

Before he could recover, Hinata had already approached with the Body Flicker Technique. She drew a kunai from the ninja tool pouch at her waist and held it against her father Hyuga Hiashi's neck.

The icy kunai against his skin immediately brought Hyuga Hiashi back to his senses. Staring at his young daughter, who wore a kimono and looked utterly harmless yet had defeated even him, a Jonin, he said in a daze, "I lost.

"My daughter Hinata, you won."

Hearing that, Hinata tilted her head and made an adorable expression. "Then, Father, what about the condition from before?"

Hyuga Hiashi remained silent for a long while before finally clenching his fist and sighing. "I agree. All the guards stationed around your residence will be withdrawn today... After all, you can even defeat me. You truly have grown up... You no longer need guards.

"However, before that, I want to ask you one question, Hinata.

"What exactly was the technique you used in that fight just now? It even broke through the Main Family's strongest defensive Nintaijutsu, the Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation?"

Hinata was slightly stunned. Then, after glancing at the crowd in the distance and Roman among them, she turned back to her father. "The Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm."

Eight... Trigrams... Vacuum Palm???

A string of question marks appeared in Hyuga Hiashi's mind.

As the head of the Hyuga Main Family, he had naturally visited the Main Family's secret chamber to study numerous secret techniques. Because he frequented it and practiced often, he had mastered most of the Hyuga Clan's secret techniques.

The Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm was one of them, and he was even highly proficient in it.

Therefore, Hyuga Hiashi knew clearly that the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm was a powerful offensive technique. It could even launch attacks through the air and strike targets more than ten meters away, but it lacked the power to break the strongest defensive secret technique, the Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation, in a single blow.

Thus, Hyuga Hiashi was certain that what Hinata had used was not the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, but another Nintaijutsu secret technique that did not belong to the Hyuga Main Family.

Wait... Could it be that during the past seven days, Hinata had stayed in that room with Roman not because she had been indulging in male charms... but because she had improved the Hyuga Clan's secret technique, the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm?!

Had she made this secret technique even more powerful?!

Upon thinking of that possibility, Hyuga Hiashi became excited and could not help asking.

Hinata was slightly stunned. Inwardly, she thought:

Divine Vacuum Attack!

It was a secret technique comprehended from the Hyuga Clan's bloodline!

Although the one who first comprehended it from the bloodline wasn't me, but Roman... Roman is, in a sense, another me, so naturally it counts as something I comprehended too!!

Thus, Hinata nodded and said the next moment, "Mm."

"Good, good, good."

Hyuga Hiashi slapped his thigh, his entire body brimming with excitement.

The frustration of being defeated by his daughter vanished completely in that instant, replaced by deep exhilaration and excitement.

The Hyuga Clan's techniques had stopped innovating since the Sengoku era. Whether Main Family or branch family, everyone had simply followed the rules.

Yet his daughter, Hinata Hyuga, had first independently comprehended methods of using Chakra to climb trees and walk on water, then created the Rasengan, and now had even improved the Hyuga Clan's Nintaijutsu.

From all this, Hyuga Hiashi could now confirm one thing in his heart: his daughter Hinata Hyuga was the most talented member of this generation of the Hyuga Clan. As for everyone else, even Neji Hyuga, the most talented youth of the branch family, was far inferior to Hinata Hyuga in talent...

Seeing Hyuga Hiashi so excited, Hinata hurriedly withdrew the hand holding the kunai and could not help frowning. "Father, don't get so excited. If my hand had trembled just now, the kunai might have cut the main artery in your neck. By then, even finding a medical ninja might have been too late!

"—In that case, I really would have become the Hyuga Clan's head ahead of schedule."

"Uh."

Hearing that, Hyuga Hiashi touched his neck and discovered that the surface skin there had already been cut open.

In other words, if he had been any more excited just now, if he had moved any more, then things might truly have gone as his daughter Hinata said. He would have died early, leaving the still-young and immature Hinata to inherit the Main Family and become the Main Family Head!!

A lingering fear arose in Hyuga Hiashi's heart—fear of death, and likewise fear that a scene of filial father and dutiful daughter would occur.

After all, even if Hinata truly inherited the position of Main Family Head that way, she would be swept up by Konoha's public opinion and branded an unfilial daughter...

Just as Hyuga Hiashi was gripped by lingering fear, the Main Family Heads nearby—having witnessed his defeat and overheard the conversation between him and Hinata Hyuga—could no longer contain their excitement:

"After entering the Hyuga Clan's secret chamber to study its hidden techniques, she improved one of them in just seven days! A genius! An unquestionable genius!"

"To improve a Hyuga Clan secret technique at such a young age... I can't even imagine how far she'll lead the Hyuga Clan once she grows up."

"I support Hinata Hyuga becoming Clan Head, becoming the one who calls the shots in the Hyuga Clan. Though she is still young, the fact that she defeated her own father at such an age... proves that she already possesses sufficient strength to become the Hyuga Main Family Head."

"Hinata Hyuga, we support you becoming Clan Head! Even if you stay in your room all the time after becoming Clan Head, that's fine. No one will monitor you!!"

"—You only need to slowly research ninjutsu!!"

At this moment, the Main Family Elders had already regarded Hinata as the only one capable of leading the Hyuga Clan to rise and stand at the pinnacle of Konoha... no, the ninja world. In their hearts, they desperately hoped she would take the position as soon as possible.

Having just recovered from his lingering fear, Hyuga Hiashi found a fresh string of question marks appearing over his head:

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