A month had passed since Mirai began that research. In the Great Elder's room, a man knelt before him. The Great Elder looked at him and frowned slightly. "Thirty-Seventh, what are you doing here? Didn't you retire long ago?"
The Thirty-Seventh Elder ranked so far down that he was clearly an elder without any real authority. Yet as he knelt before the Great Elder like a child who had done something wrong, something about it seemed rather strange.
"Big Brother... my granddaughter..." The Thirty-Seventh Elder's body trembled as he trailed off, unable to continue.
The Great Elder frowned, setting aside the brush he had been using to review documents. "Go on."
"My granddaughter entered Mirai Uchiha's room." After taking a deep breath, the Thirty-Seventh Elder finally spoke.
"What? Your granddaughter..." The Great Elder had initially assumed that the Thirty-Seventh Elder meant his granddaughter had entered Mirai's room because she had fallen for him and that he was now trying to distance himself from the matter. But when he recalled what had happened before, his expression became rather meaningful. "You mean Mirai Uchiha openly laid hands on someone from the main family?"
"Yes." The Thirty-Seventh Elder took a deep breath and nodded heavily.
The Great Elder narrowed his eyes as he looked at his younger brother. To be fair, although the Thirty-Seventh Elder had once belonged to his faction, they had never been particularly close. After all, he had little regard for useless people. "Thirty-Seventh, do you know? If I wanted to win Mirai over today, I could easily charge you with inciting the main family to conduct inhumane experiments. But I'm in a good mood today. What reward do you want? After all, you've already sent your own granddaughter down a road of no return."
A hint of delight appeared