"I say, Second Prince, why are you always following Uchiha Gen around? You have none of the bearing of a second prince at all." Hinata Hinata teased him.
"What do you know? This is called striking later to gain the upper hand. By following Uchiha Hiko now, I can learn more from him." At least his reasoning made a little sense.
"But haven't you considered that you hold great power too? You are clearly far above Uchiha Hiko." That was what Hinata Hinata thought, though she did not tell the Second Prince the specifics, only leaving him with the feeling that something was definitely wrong.
"How could that be? In terms of seniority, Uchiha Hiko should be my Teacher. Without him, my Human Heads would have fallen long ago." The Second Prince would never forget the kindness these people had shown him. Some things simply had to be this way.
No matter what his status became, he had made up his mind that he would always bow and scrape before Uchiha Hiko. Likewise, even if he became powerful, he could not forget any of this.
The Eldest Prince's respect for Uchiha Hiko also affected the Second Prince beside him. Though he possessed boundless power, he could not bring himself to be ruthless toward Uchiha Hiko.
"We have considered everything so thoroughly because we have gone through this many times before." The village chief explained the earlier events, hoping Uchiha Hiko would gradually come to understand them.
Every success was built upon all kinds of mistakes, and their previous failures had also taught them what they should do.
Just as Uchiha Hiko had become the Teacher of both the Second Prince and the Eldest Prince, perhaps because he had experienced too much, he could sum up certain lessons and keep them