At that moment, a Hyuga Main Family shinobi hurried over and reported, "Lord Gensuke, there's a problem in the archives!"
"The archives?"
Hyuga Gensuke's expression changed dramatically. He looked even more panicked than he had when he heard the alarm at Hinata's residence.
He stood up and headed for the archives without saying a word.
The archives held more than a thousand years of Hyuga clan history, including the scroll containing the Caged Bird Seal. If that scroll were stolen...
The lives of the Branch Family shinobi branded with the Caged Bird Seal would fall into someone else's hands.
The Hyuga clan's centuries-old Main and Branch Family System would collapse in an instant.
Before long, Hyuga Gensuke arrived at the archive vault.
"Byakugan, activate!"
He activated his Byakugan and carefully surveyed the vault.
Hyuga Gensuke's expression eased, and he let out a breath of relief.
The cabinet storing the scroll containing the Caged Bird Seal had not been damaged, and the scroll was still there.
The archive vault was spacious, about the size of two living rooms.
Hyuga Gensuke opened the cabinet and examined the Caged Bird Seal scroll closely. A Sealing Technique had been placed on it; only successive clan heads and a handful of senior Main Family members could undo it.
He saw that someone had triggered the Sealing Technique on the scroll.
But the thief clearly wasn't skilled in Sealing Techniques and had failed to open it.
After a brief moment of thought, Hyuga Gensuke began inspecting the rest of the vault.
None of the advanced scrolls collected by the Hyuga clan had been touched, but someone had opened the cabinet containing the clan's history.
Hyuga Gensuke went over and searched through the histories one by one, his expression growing more serious.
He discovered that one history