"Hyuga Sho..."
Yūhi Kurenai called out Hyuga Sho's name.
"There seems to be a slight problem with the fetus in your womb."
With his Byakugan, Hyuga Sho saw the problem in Yūhi Kurenai's abdomen at a glance.
"You..."
Yūhi Kurenai had no doubt about Hyuga Sho's insight.
She had known ever since she was a child, back when she spent time with Hyuga Sho.
The reason the Hyuga Clan could marry close relatives without producing deformed children.
It wasn't that there were none.
Rather, when such defects first appeared, the Byakugan detected them, and the children were removed.
It was a convenient yet cruel ability.
"I'm sorry about Asuma."
Hyuga Sho's words once again struck a nerve in Yūhi Kurenai.
"But people have to look forward."
He said it.
"You know about Uzuki Yugao's situation too, right?"
Uzuki Yugao had recently become eccentric and erratic, and many people believed that something was wrong with her mind.
The reappearance of Gekko Hayate—the Impure World Reincarnation.
It hadn't brought her happiness.
Only endless pain.
So...
Yūhi Kurenai had never planned to have Asuma undergo Impure World Reincarnation.
The dead... were dead.
They would never return.
That was the norm, the natural order of the human world.
"As former classmates, I'd like to think we aren't enemies."
Hyuga Sho walked behind Yūhi Kurenai and looked at her sitting in the recliner.
"..."
Yūhi Kurenai said nothing.
Although Hyuga Sho was portrayed as extremely evil by the outside world, he had never harmed his classmates or companions.
What happened with Gekko Hayate had only been a misunderstanding.
"Do you remember when you helped me train my resistance to Genjutsu?"
Hyuga Sho brought up a scene from when they were five years old.
"You... still remember..." Yūhi Kurenai's voice was somewhat stiff.
"Let's not talk