Nara Clan Compound.
Meeting room.
"My father..."
"Where is Hizashi Hyuga?"
Neji Hyuga stepped forward.
His pale white eyes were filled with undisguised coldness.
The moment he spoke.
The atmosphere in the meeting room immediately became extremely strange.
Shikaku Nara, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza looked at one another.
The three middle-aged men felt their minds buzzing.
What had they just heard?
Father?
Hizashi Hyuga?
Akimichi Choza could not help wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
Yamanaka Inoichi's eyes widened as he stared fixedly at the Byakugan boy before him.
In their world.
Hizashi Hyuga indeed had a son named Neji Hyuga.
But that child was not even ten years old yet!
The boy before them, however, was tall and slender, with a terrifying presence.
Most importantly, his forehead was completely smooth, without the Caged Bird seal that marked the Branch Family!
"You..."
"Are you really Neji Hyuga?"
Yamanaka Inoichi's voice was dry.
Neji Hyuga could not be bothered with such nonsense.
The veins around his eyes suddenly bulged.
A terrifying Chakra pressure instantly blanketed the entire meeting room.
"Answer me."
"I already used my Byakugan to scan all of Konoha."
"There is no trace of my father's Chakra in the Hyuga Compound."
"Where is he?"
Neji Hyuga's tone was ice-cold.
He knew his father's Chakra signature very well.
Yet in this so-called Parallel World, he could no longer find his father.
Not only that.
When he had surveyed Konoha with his Byakugan earlier.
He had also seen those members of the Hyuga Branch Family within the Hyuga Compound.
Every one of them bore the ugly Caged Bird seal on their foreheads!
Even the Branch Family members' eyes carried a sickening numbness and despair.
For Neji Hyuga, who had grown accustomed to equality, it made him feel physically ill.