This spar with Hyuga Mami was only the first step.
Next.
Hyuga Sho began doing all sorts of things again and again.
He became even more brazen.
He treated the Main Family's orders as if they were nothing but wind blowing past his ears.
"Ha? Sorry, what did you say, Main Family? The wind's too loud. I can't hear you very well."
Hyuga Sho wore an honest, simple smile.
But his fangs had already emerged from the shadows.
Paying lip service while acting against orders, using excessive force during spars, refusing to obey commands...
He did all of it.
Over the course of the next week, he went through the entire list.
Anyone with eyes could see it.
Hyuga Sho was becoming increasingly defiant, and his way of doing things had undergone a drastic change.
Within the Main Family, in Hyuga Hiashi's room.
"Elder, that Hyuga Sho..."
Hyuga Hiashi's expression was tense.
Over the past week, everything Hyuga Sho had done had reached the ears of this man in charge through the reports of various clan members.
Hyuga Hiashi was not stupid.
Right away.
He came up with two possibilities.
1. Hyuga Sho had merely been biding his time all along.
He had never been a good person from the beginning.
His scheming ran incredibly deep.
It had lasted for so many years that it was frightening.
Thinking about it carefully.
If they traced things back to the beginning.
It should have started when Hyuga Sho was five years old, when the Caged Bird Seal burned away one of his Byakugan, leaving the other with a range of only five hundred meters.
Perhaps he had begun to resent the Main Family from that moment onward.
But...
If a five-year-old child could have schemed so deeply, how terrifying would that