Hozuki Sengetsu had witnessed the huge commotion that had just erupted in the Hyuga Clan from his hiding place nearby, including the sight of Hyuga Hiashi rushing toward the Hokage Office soon afterward.
"Tsk!"
He clicked his tongue. "Looks like that Araki brat killed someone important too? Too bad he was from the branch family... It would've been better if it had been this guy."
Whether it was to deliberately flaunt their difference from the branch family or for some other reason, the Hyuga main family generally did not wear their forehead protectors on their foreheads. They strutted around all day with their smooth, shiny bald foreheads exposed, as if intentionally provoking the branch family members.
Hmm...
He could not assume the worst of them.
Perhaps they deliberately exposed their main-family status to draw fire for the branch family.
Yes, that had to be it.
They did it to protect the branch family members, using themselves as bait.
What touching family devotion!
That was why Hozuki Sengetsu had recognized Hyuga Hiashi's main-family identity at a glance, and he had been tempted at the time.
However, the face that bore an eighty or ninety percent resemblance to Hizashi Hyuga's had successfully dissuaded him.
"Since they're brothers, their strength should be about the same. It probably wouldn't be easy to take him out without a sound..."
After all, Hizashi Hyuga had used Rotation to block one strike of his Hiramekarei: Release, earning Hozuki Sengetsu's full recognition of his strength.
"Still, it's good that he left. As I recall, Hyuga children are only branded with the Caged Bird Cursed Seal once they reach a certain age. Those who haven't been branded yet are the best targets."
The Hyuga branch family members were not branded with the Caged Bird Cursed Seal at birth. They