The Hyuga Clan's Rebel!

"Young Master Fuyuki, is this really alright? If the Clan Head finds out you're skipping class again, I'm afraid..."

A maid dressed in a kimono, with black hair reaching her waist and pure white eyes, spoke with a troubled expression.

"I wouldn't dare skip Father's taijutsu class, but I certainly have the guts to skip etiquette class—and plenty of it, too!"

Hyuga Fuyuki walked ahead, looking completely unbothered as he led the maid away from the dreadfully boring Main Branch courtyard and out onto the street. "We're a ninja clan, so why learn noble etiquette? The Clan Head must just be bored out of his mind."

As a ninja clan, the Hyuga family did nothing of substance, focusing only on appearances, prestige, and family honor.

Look at the Uchiha on the next street over; their Three-Tomoe Sharingan had already evolved into the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, while the Byakugan remained stagnant, and the only thing that could rival the Rinnegan, the Tenseigan, wasn't even awakened by one of their own!

Fuyuki was quite disappointed in the Hyuga clan. Especially after transmigrating into the family and observing them for five years, his evaluation of them could be summed up in four words: lacking any drive!

They relied on a single set of Gentle Fist Technique until the end; no one in the clan bothered to learn ninjutsu, practicing only that!

The Byakugan was clearly a critical-hit aimbot; they should have been using Lightning Release ninjutsu to snipe enemies from eight hundred miles away!

And what about the Eight Inner Gates? Didn't the Gentle Fist allow for striking acupoints? Learn the Eight Inner Gates! Use the special chakra of the Gentle Fist to strike open one's own Eight Gates and activate a cheat code for invincibility!

There were so many things to complain about regarding the Hyuga clan that Fuyuki couldn't even be bothered to list them all.

Therefore, Fuyuki was resistant to all the lessons arranged by his cheap father in this life.

Although it wasn't difficult to reach the level of a Jonin by practicing the family's Gentle Fist, as a transmigrator who knew the future, he didn't want to find out if his forehead could withstand a Tailed Beast Bomb from the Ten-Tails.

Passing through the bustling streets and climbing the Hokage Rock, Fuyuki brought the maid to the Konoha Back Mountain, preparing to begin his daily magic training.

As a transmigrator, Fuyuki had been born with a Book Invisible to Outsiders.

It recorded a vast amount of summoning magic, with the magic originating from the Whirling Demon Society of the Terra Demon World—an organization that gave Fuyuki a headache just hearing the name.

This was because the organization came from a game, and the Summoner class in that game, upon awakening, was called Eclipse, but blind players and those who skipped compulsory education always read the two characters for Eclipse as Moon Worm.

Fuyuki was an Eclipse player, and until he quit the game, he had the title of Moon Worm hanging over his head.

He should have changed his class to Battle Mage back then, entering the dungeon to Lash and Circle Dance Stick the Emperor players into eternal rest.

"Elemental Summoning Technique: Lesser Fire Spirit!"

Following Fuyuki's low chant, a pillar of flame suddenly erupted from his palm. As the flames dissipated, a ball of fire appeared in his hand, its round, chubby face featuring eyes and a mouth that looked like a child's doodle.

The Elemental Summoning Technique was a summoning spell, but this magic should really be called the Elemental Fusion Technique.

Because the essence of this magic was to highly condense chakra of the same attribute and inject Yang-release chakra to shape the elemental spirit, allowing it to truly exist in the real world until the chakra was exhausted.

This modified version of the summoning technique wasn't difficult, and Fuyuki wasn't practicing it for the sake of the summoning itself.

What he was practicing was the Spirit Binding Technique. A Lesser Spirit formed purely from condensed chakra had no consciousness or thoughts; it would only stand there stupidly. To drive a Lesser Elemental Spirit to act autonomously, one had to coordinate it with the Spirit Binding Technique.

The so-called Spirit Binding Technique was actually somewhat similar to the Chakra Black Rods of Pain, using Yin-release chakra to create a vessel that carried the caster's will, bestowing it upon the mindless summon to make it truly come alive.

An entry-level magic that actually involved the use of Yin-Yang Release—it had nearly scared Fuyuki silly when he first discovered it.

From the moment he obtained the Whirling Demon Summoning Book, Fuyuki had been studying its mysteries. By the time he was three and the clan elders taught him how to use chakra, he transitioned from theoretical research to practical drills. It wasn't until this year, at age five, that Fuyuki could barely be considered to have entered the door of a Summoner.

Five years! A full five years! No one knew how he had survived these five years!

At one year old, he drank milk, slept, and played with his toes!

At two years old, he crawled all over the street.

After Fuyuki summoned the Lesser Fire Spirit, he closed his eyes and began to condense Yin-release chakra, preparing to master the Spirit Binding Technique as quickly as possible so that he could advance his Whirling Demon Summoning Technique into the abyss of the Magic Path.

The maid, Hyuga Natsumi, stood to the side, veins bulging around her eye sockets as she activated her Byakugan, guarding against any unexpected situations. Although her current position was as Young Master Fuyuki's personal maid, her strength, by ninja standards, was that of a veteran Chunin!

Although Young Master Hyuga Fuyuki didn't have the best reputation in the Hyuga clan, as the only boy among the twins, his chances of inheriting the Main Branch were far higher than those of his older sister, Hinata.

This opportunity to serve as a personal maid wasn't something just any Hyuga clan member could get; it was a form of recognition from the Hyuga clan toward Hyuga Natsumi.

However, Hyuga Natsumi felt that Young Master Fuyuki's chances of inheriting the Main Branch were rather slim, because the young master usually didn't care for the ancestral craft of Gentle Fist, spending all his time practicing some unknown summoning art.

Especially when the young master said in front of the Clan Head, "Strength is temporary, but being cool is for a lifetime. How could the Gentle Fist be cooler than the colorful and flashy ninjutsu!"

At that time, the expression on Hyuga Hiashi's face was like a rainbow in the sky. If the elders hadn't collectively held back the panting Clan Head, Young Master Fuyuki's legs might have been beaten into a twenty-percent-off supermarket clearance deal!

A pair of twins: the older sister had a soft personality and insufficient strength to inherit the Main Branch, while the older brother had a flamboyant personality and talent, but simply didn't like the Gentle Fist.

Even now, the Clan Head hadn't been able to make up his mind about which child should serve as the successor. Perhaps, it might be the third child born to the Clan Head this year???

In any case, among the Hyuga clan's outer circles, the betting amount on Hyuga Hanabi was increasing rapidly, preparing to catch up with the twins.

"Ding-a-ling."

A sound of metal clashing rang out, causing Hyuga Natsumi, who had been distracted while on guard, to snap back to reality. In the 359-degree vision of her Byakugan, a pure black metal chain grew from the palm of Young Master Fuyuki, who was sitting cross-legged, and slowly extended toward the motionless ball of fire-attribute chakra.

Hyuga Natsumi was shocked, unable to understand how the young master could use the Uzumaki Clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains.

But she didn't dare disturb Young Master Fuyuki, so she could only push her chakra to the limit, expanding the range of her Byakugan's long-distance vision. If she sensed anything wrong, she would immediately take Young Master Fuyuki and flee the forest back to the village.

There was a reason for her being so vigilant; two years ago, the Hyuga clan had suffered a scandal where a thief had actually infiltrated the prestigious Byakugan clan, nearly reaching the core area of the Hyuga compound!

This had led the Hyuga clan to strengthen their security and form a clan compound patrol team.

As for why they didn't keep their Byakugan active twenty-four hours a day?

Who didn't have female relatives, and who didn't have the occasional tragedy of a domestic dispute? Any Hyuga clan member who kept their Byakugan open all the time would likely be treated like a plague god and swept out of the compound, or beaten up by fellow clansmen with snake-skin bags the next day.