"I hope you understand. This is a necessary precaution."
Kyosuke was generous with his trust, but he was also accustomed to assuming the worst of others.
Help Yayoi Hyuga?
No problem.
Spend fifteen thousand points?
That was fine too, as long as she had value.
But he would not trust her completely. A single pledge of loyalty was nowhere near enough. If they were to cooperate in earnest, he needed control over whether the girl lived or died.
Over three days, Kyosuke thoroughly mastered the workings of the Caged Bird Cursed Seal and soon helped Yayoi Hyuga lift that curse.
He also accomplished two other things.
First, he asked Mito Uzumaki to seal the Ōtsutsuki cells and use the Eight Trigrams Seal to disguise them as the Caged Bird Seal.
Second, he would place a new curse on the girl, one that would not affect her Byakugan but would let him take her life at any time.
Yayoi Hyuga was clever. She knew this was the only way the boy would truly trust her.
"This is the price of freedom," the girl said.
He placed the Cursed Seal on her wrist, adding a Flying Thunder God Mark to its formula.
Once everything was done, Kyosuke took a second set of documents from inside his clothes.
"Cell transplantation techniques. Master these, and you might be able to get rid of the stuff on your face completely."
"Of course, I personally wouldn't recommend doing that."
Only the two of them were present, so Kyosuke did not conceal the existence of the Tenseigan.
Only after hearing his explanation did the girl learn that the cells causing her such agony had actually come from her clan's ancestor thousands of years ago.
When she heard that the Tenseigan could give her the strength to slaughter