Hinata: The World Was the One at Fault!

"Good, Lord Hinata! You've got plenty of spirit!"

"Lord Hinata, put even more power into your next punch!"

"Lord Hinata, as long as you follow my instruction and work hard to train your body and technique, I guarantee you'll become as powerful as the clan head, Hiashi Hyuga!"

Hinata Hyuga was a shy young girl, the heir to the Hyuga Main Family, one of Konoha's great clans, and the possessor of an exceptionally talented Byakugan.

However, among her peers, her strength had never reached the highest level.

At that moment, she was practicing Taijutsu at a training ground, accompanied by a Chunin from her clan named Hideo Hyuga.

The village had many missions, and the Jonin were often away on assignments. Hiashi Hyuga, the clan head, also had plenty of matters to attend to.

So, much of the time, the task of training the younger generation fell to the clan's Chunin.

Hideo Hyuga had a lean, fit build and a crew cut. Though he was a Chunin, he carried himself with great confidence, and looked full of energy!

Hinata, for her part, was doing her best to meet Hideo's demands.

But watching this training method made Kazeka... furious!

That was right, furious.

"Relying on a brain no better than a paramecium's and still thinking you can teach students—you're just leading them astray...

What's even more pathetic is that Hiashi Hyuga actually entrusted his own descendant to this guy. Looks like his judgment isn't much better!"

"Hey, Kazeka! You actually said what you were thinking out loud. There's a limit to how much you can look down on people!"

Kazeka wasn't speaking quietly, and clearly wasn't trying to keep Hideo from hearing. Hideo knew Kazeka was a strange one and hadn't wanted to pay him any mind, but Kazeka's words were just too insulting!

"You're still studying at the Ninja Academy. You have no right to judge me, a Chunin!"

"To judge someone's insight based on a crude ninja ranking system... As expected, your brainpower only goes so far. Your level of insight is so pitiful it makes me want to cry..."

Faced with Hideo's angry expression, Kazeka didn't back down. Instead, he stepped closer, then leaned against a tree.

"You're relying on sheer enthusiasm to train. Then, once you get worked up, your movements start to fall apart, and you don't even think to correct them.

What's even harder to watch is that you've got the entire focus of the training wrong!"

"I'm teaching Lord Hinata the most standard Taijutsu training method in the Hyuga Clan.

My skills are the most solid, which is exactly why Hiashi asked me to teach Lady Hinata..."

Hideo Hyuga was so incensed by Kazeka's words that he laughed.

"You're a member of the Hyuga Clan. Even if your brain stopped working properly because of the experiments, could you really have forgotten this?"

"Taijutsu training itself isn't the problem. The key is to practice it alongside the Byakugan.

Just look at Hinata. The focus has clearly shifted toward Taijutsu. She's gone completely off track!"

Kazeka yawned.

"If you don't have the Byakugan, you train your body. If you do have the Byakugan, you still only train your body. Then what's the point of having the Byakugan?

Has your brain really been tossed into the sewer?"

"Do you think our Byakugan is like the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan, something that needs to be upgraded step by step?"

Hideo glared fiercely at Kazeka.

"Unlike theirs, our Byakugan is already at its peak from birth. The rest is just a matter of steady effort. There's no need to spend any more thought on it!"

"That's why someone like you is so utterly second-rate..."

Kazeka couldn't be bothered to keep talking to him. He simply turned his gaze to Hinata.

"Hinata, I imagine you're tired of training like this too, aren't you?

You clearly have incredible talent and work hard at your training, yet this is all you have to show for it!"

"Ah... Th-this..."

Hinata was already a shy girl, and when Kazeka fixed her with such an intense stare, she immediately began to stammer.

With her timid manner and adorable, flushed face, she looked just like a little figurine at a loss for what to do.

"B-but all the tr-training I've done before was like this!"

"Then that proves they were all wrong!"

Kazeka walked toward Hinata step by step, carrying a faint, unusual fragrance as he moved.

"You have exceptional talent, and the clan has devoted plenty of resources and instruction to you. Yet your strength is still only on par with your peers.

That can only mean their brains aren't good enough to teach you.

As the future clan head, being mediocre means failure for you!"

Kazeka stopped in front of Hinata and stared intently at her as she fell silent.

"Come to my Laboratory. With my surgery and my experiments, I'll bring your talent to its full potential and give you truly powerful strength!"

"I knew it, Kazeka! I knew you were up to no good!"

Before Hinata could say anything, Hideo was already shocked.

He knew what Kazeka's Laboratory was like.

"Not one person who's gone into your Laboratory has come out in one piece. They either lose an arm or have a monster transplanted into them.

You once drugged the most evil murderer in the death-row prison and dragged him into your Laboratory. When he came out, his entire personality had changed. He was like a little girl who'd been violated over and over!

Every one of your test subjects would be better off dead. Your place is nothing but a Mad Scientist's lab..."

As he said this, Hideo couldn't help swallowing. Then he glared angrily at Kazeka.

"Lady Hinata belongs to the Main Family. She's someone we'd protect with our lives. How dare you say something like that!"

"Different people have different physiques, so of course the experiments would be different.

Besides, Hinata belongs to the Main Family. I'll take special care of her!"

Kazeka waved Hideo away dismissively, then turned back to Hinata.

"Don't you want strength beyond that of an ordinary person?

Don't you want the kind of strength that will earn the clan head's recognition?

Wouldn't it be thrilling to hear the clan head say, 'I'm sorry. My instruction was the problem all along!'?

Hinata, think carefully about it. How can you possibly train properly when you're surrounded by these lowlifes?"

"That's enough!"

Watching Kazeka grow more and more brazen, Hideo finally couldn't take it anymore.

"You Mad Scientist, who does nothing but manipulate people! I won't let you lay a hand on Lady Hinata!"

Hideo stirred up his Chakra, ready to use his Chunin strength to shut Kazeka up at once.

But just then, Hinata suddenly appeared behind Kazeka.

She drove a fist hard into Hideo's abdomen.

"Boom!"

With a deafening crash, Hinata's punch sent Hideo flying!

After pushing aside the enormous tree trunk that had fallen on him, Hideo stared at Hinata in astonishment and suddenly realized something.

The formerly shy and timid Hinata seemed like a completely different person. She stared at Hideo with a cold expression, as if he were garbage.

"So I really can unleash this kind of strength. It really was your incompetence that caused all those problems with my training..."

Hinata clenched her fists.

"Just as I thought, I wasn't the one who was wrong. The world was!"