"Shouldn't they be stepping up at a time like this to ease Konoha's burden?"
After Orochimaru finished speaking, the atmosphere in the conference room turned strange...
Everyone naturally knew which "certain ninja clan" Orochimaru meant.
For a moment, quite a few gazes drifted toward Hyuga Jisuke and Hyuga Shiyan, who sat stiffly to one side...
Only two of the Hyuga Clan's Jonin were currently in the village.
Hyuga Jisuke, in particular-as the head of the Hyuga Clan's Main Family, he would never go to the battlefield.
At first glance, the proposal seemed very favorable to the Hyuga Clan. It effectively handed the medical field over to them as well, meaning even greater investment in their training and more resources directed their way in the future.
At least, it would benefit ninety-nine percent of the Hyuga Clan. The problem was...
Hyuga Jisuke was the only one who had any say in the Hyuga Clan. The other ninety-nine percent were nothing but household slaves!
Would Hyuga Jisuke want to see that happen?
He had confidence in the "caged bird." Whether the Branch Family learned Medical Ninjutsu or not, they could never overturn the established order. But... the rest of Konoha didn't have the "caged bird"!
What if every member of the Hyuga Branch Family had, on average, three comrades whose lives they had saved? Then, in just a few years, a motion forcing the Hyuga Clan to change its rules would probably be brought before the Jonin council.
Even now, some teammates of Branch Family members were unhappy with the Hyuga Clan's rules.
But scattered discontent like that was a minor matter. They only had to make it clear that even if the Hyuga clan member said nothing himself, any dissatisfaction expressed by his teammates would lead to the clan forcibly breaking