Going Too Far

"You despicable bastard!"

Hyuga Tokuma was furious.

The villagers pointing and gesturing around him, along with the whispered discussions ringing in his ears, made his face burn. An unprecedented sense of humiliation engulfed him.

In Konoha, the Uchiha Clan and the Hyuga Clan were considered longtime rivals.

Sparring matches between the two sides were common, but a Hyuga Clan Jonin suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of an Uchiha Clan Jonin in public, on a busy street with people coming and going, was a first for the village.

In fact, among Jonin, the average strength of Uchiha Clan Jonin was greater than that of Hyuga Clan Jonin. This was no secret among the village's upper ranks.

After all, every Uchiha capable of awakening the Sharingan possessed talent far above average, and those who successfully awakened the Three Tomoe Sharingan were practically Jonin without needing to undergo an examination.

By comparison, because everyone in the Hyuga Clan could activate the Byakugan, their number of awakened clan members far surpassed that of the Uchiha Clan. However, in terms of individual strength, they still fell short of the Uchiha.

At the same rank, in a one-on-one fight.

The win-loss ratio between the Hyuga Clan and the Uchiha Clan generally fell somewhere between two-to-eight and three-to-seven. In other words, out of ten matches, the Hyuga Clan could only win two or three, while they would usually lose the remaining seven or eight.

Thus, Hyuga Tokuma's defeat at Uchiha Shinji's hands was not particularly surprising in the eyes of Konoha's Jonin.

But ordinary villagers did not know this. They had only heard that the Uchiha Clan and Hyuga Clan were the village's two great bloodline noble clans famed for their ocular techniques. Now, seeing a Hyuga Clan Jonin so easily defeated by an Uchiha