Perhaps when night truly deepened, he would feel something different and suppress everything here.
Sure enough, when the night was quiet and still, a rustling sound came from the room next door, leaving Uchiha Hiko quite puzzled.
"What's going on? There isn't any talking, so he shouldn't be plotting anything, should he?" Uchiha Hiko found it even stranger, but he decided to keep listening.
Before long, the sound vanished completely. He slowly relaxed, feeling that he could finally go to sleep.
"No, the fact that the sound stopped is what feels most abnormal. Why can I sleep peacefully now?" At that moment, Uchiha Hiko instead began questioning himself.
He decided to turn around quietly, got up at once, and prepared to see what exactly had happened next door.
He walked to the door and prepared to knock. After three knocks—knock, knock, knock—the door still did not open.
"Second Prince, are you in there? Could you be asleep?" At first, that was what Uchiha Hiko thought. After all that tossing about, he had surely become exhausted and wanted to sleep as soon as possible.
Moreover, Uchiha Hiko had already anticipated this during the day. The Second Prince had probably expended the most stamina; he had been completely unable to withstand Uchiha Hiko and the Eldest Prince joining forces.
There was no response to the first knock. Uchiha Hiko turned and prepared to knock a second time, and that second knock completely startled the many guards.
By the time he knocked a third time, even the Eldest Prince upstairs had heard it. Yawning, he slowly came down the stairs.
"What's going on? Instead of sleeping this late at night, what are you making such a fuss about?" The Eldest Prince looked like he had a bit of morning grumpiness.
No matter what,