"That kid from the Hyuga Clan?" Hiroki repeated, feeling baffled. "Why is he following me?"
"I don't know the exact reason." Anbu Tatsushi's voice remained flat, without a hint of emotion. "But he's been following you for a while, about two or three hundred meters. He's tracking you solely with the Byakugan's X-Ray Vision."
Hiroki stopped.
A kid from the Hyuga Branch Family was following him? Could it be a plot by the Hyuga Clan!?
Hiroki looked at Anbu Tatsushi, kneeling on one knee. He didn't want to waste time on a trivial matter like this. As everyone knew, the best way to understand someone was to ask them directly.
And if he couldn't get an answer, Hiroki considered himself at least somewhat skilled in interrogation.
"Bring him here," Hiroki said curtly.
"Yes."
Tatsushi vanished from the spot.
Almost as soon as Hiroki finished speaking, a faint cry of alarm and a brief scuffle sounded. Tatsushi reappeared, holding a terrified-looking child dressed in the clothes of the Hyuga Branch Family as if he were a chicken.
The child wore the faded clothes of the Hyuga Branch Family. His face and exposed arms bore bruises and scrapes that had yet to heal completely.
He kept his head down, not daring to look Hiroki in the eye. His hands clutched the hem of his clothes, and his body trembled slightly with nerves and fear.
Thud.
Tatsushi let go, and Hyuga Itsuki hit the ground in front of Hiroki.
The child had taken a hard fall, but he didn't have time to feel the pain. When he looked up and saw Hiroki right in front of him, he shuddered in fright, immediately lowered his head, and trembled like a leaf in the wind.
"Is something wrong?" Hiroki calmly asked, looking at the child,