"Hanabi, you're too naive. Don't let a stranger's false kindness deceive you—no matter what he says, he can't explain why those Rain Ninja appeared at our Hyuga Clan estate!"
As the situation grew increasingly wrong, Hyuga Hiashi began to panic. Halfway through speaking to Hanabi, afraid that Shirozumi would refute him again, he turned toward Shirozumi and pointed at him with a trembling hand.
"And the day before yesterday, you came to the Hyuga Clan estate. You saw Hanabi training alone and said, 'Why is there no one here?' After I caught you, you asked some inexplicable question before changing the subject and leaving!"
"That happened too?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned and looked at Shirozumi.
"Oh? Then Clan Head Hiashi, could you repeat to your Hokage what I asked?"
Shirozumi remained calm.
The calmer Shirozumi was, the more uneasy Hyuga Hiashi became.
Hearing Shirozumi say that, Hiashi racked his brains and recalled the question, yet he could not find anything suspicious about it.
Meeting the Third Hokage's gaze, he could only comply.
"Yesterday, he asked me what I would do if I encountered someone who had been left outside and was born with the Byakugan.
I said that person could be brought back into the Hyuga Branch Family."
"What's the problem with that?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Shirozumi again.
"Is that child still alive?"
Instead of answering, Shirozumi cast a "sorrowful" gaze toward the armless White Zetsu nearby.
The armless White Zetsu sliced open its abdomen with a finger and pulled out a little White Zetsu with a Byakugan.
"Th-this is?!"
Both Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hyuga Hiashi were startled.
"That's right. During the Third Shinobi World War, one of them had a relationship with a man from the Hyuga Clan.
Because they cultivated a secret technique, and due to the chaos